>How exactly does challenging a slave owner for their slave work, under the slave codes in place here? Are they obligated to accept such a challenge? Who determines what that challenge is?
>A challenge must be made by someone who is demonstrably able to accept the responsibility of owning a slave. An unemployed hobo living under a bridge would not be able to make a 'legal' challenge, as he or she would not be able to care for it. It wasn't common for someone in your position, and your age, to challenge for a slave as you did, but you are gainfully employed and have a consistant shelter, so your challenge stood.
>The challenge must also take the form of a competition that both parties must be able to compete in. Challenging a one-legged owner to an ass kicking contest, for example, would be right out.
>The owner is not actually obligated to accept the challenge, save for the obligation of honor and pride. Virtually no Oni could refuse a challenge they had a chance of winning, and if one ever did, they'd be a laughingstock everywhere they went. They'd be branded a coward, and that label is one of the worst of all labels an Oni could ever be saddled with.
>There's no definitive ruling on which side gets to decide the nature of the competition once the challenge has been accepted. In your case, Konngara challenged you to tennis because she wanted to beat you at your own game, but you could as easily have made the challenge yourself, provided you named something the both of you had a fair chance of winning.
>"Oh, hmm. It's a thought."
>"But, let's leave that aside for a moment." Reisen says. "What happens to these Champions if we stop them? Like, if you could hold them the way you held Louise?"
