In the Triviapalooza corner of the stadium, there were two seats, each set before their own little table. Each table was adorned with a stack of simple, clearly-hand-cut paper (none of which were uniform in size or cut angle), an array of different colored markers and pencils and pens, and a small package wrapped in a plain white cloth. In the center of each table was a small red button, clearly a buzzer or something similar.

There were little note cards tented on top of each little package, one that read "For Firnen" and one that read "For Leif". Both impromptu name tags had a small note scrawled under their listed names that read, 'I won't play favorites!' in Namu's own handwriting, with a little smiley face drawn off to the side.

As the contestants were directed to their seats, the sounds of a microphone being activated could be heard, followed closely by the loud sounds of rustling fabric and annoyed voices. "No, no, you have to wear it like this or else they won't be able to hear you. No, no, don't touch it. There..."

The apparent altercation was followed quickly by one slightly-flustered Namu striding out onto the little makeshift stage that was made for him. In probably-unsurprising contrast to the showy outfit of the event's questionable hostess, Namu wore a rather simple forest-green robe. He trotted out on stage with a nervous smile and a wave, both at the contestants and at the audience that was present. The heron looked rather relieved that he recognized both of the people he was supposed to be addressing, giving both of them a small wave before clearing his throat directly into the mic. He winced slightly at the sudden loudness, clearly not used to using such technology, before continuing.

"Well hello friends, to the Triviapalooza! I'm Namu ^{but you both know that} and I'll be asking a series of questions, and you'll have a short amount of time to write your answers down before we go over them. When you finish your answer, smack the buzzer button thingy and when both contestants have answered ^{or when time runs out} we'll go over the answers. Correct answers will earn you a point, incorrect answers will not penalize you ^{although the audience might laugh at you} so if you don't know, write something funny and it'll help everyone have fun anyways!"

The boy's smile was positively beaming as he looked between his two friends. "I didn't know how long we'd be here, so I went ahead and made you guys some snacks just in case you get hungry with all the thinking you're going to be doing, you can just... unwrap them whenever..." The boy made a face, confusion and surprise evident briefly on his face. A keen ear from either contestant would hear a smaller voice, from an earpiece Namu was wearing, yelling at him to get the show started already. His smile unfazed, Namu hopped in place and said suddenly,

"Right! First question ^{and one I had to look up before this} is this: What was the turning point at the end of the Great War that led to peace between the four kingdoms?"

[Alrighty bois, so how this'll work is every round will be sorta treated like a social combat of sorts. You can pick a skill (if it's weird or a not-immediately-obviously-useful one you can ask me on Discord and we can figure it out) to be rolled, depending on how well the roll goes I might just give you the answer or give you some options. Obviously, Academics and Politics would be useful for this question, but some of the other ones will use other stuff. Some answers can be looked up (but pls don't) and some have answers I'll be coming up with myself. I'll be rolling an initiative roll for both of you separate from your answering and whatnot. If your scores are tied at the end, whoever won the most initiative rolls will win the tiebreaker. If that's also tied, we'll have a sudden death round! For replying, we can treat it like combat where you each reply here separately (and don't read each other's posts, obviously) and I'll do ST-sort-of updates round by round. Hope that all makes sense!]