I like. Ted will be going on wacky misadventures once I muster up the gumption to make a thread, so Vyers can totally drop in for a visit during that. (rounding up any willing NPCs in Everglade, and trying to get them into Nova City or Attleton for a refugee march or something)

As for how brutal, hmm...it /is/ the arena, so he wouldn't lose anything by dying, but even so, the thought of even murder by sport performed on him by a friend is pretty traumatic. The way I see it going in my head is that he initially accepts Vyers demands (well maybe he's just fronting because he needs to discuss something), then gets blindsided. He gets injured, making escape impossible. Just as the coup de grace threatens, Laharl steps in and then things get crazy.