Your mate challenges you to a game of CF. The rules are you have two weeks (imagine you're on holidays) to roll a character, hero it and then fight each other to the death. You have no idea who or what your mate has rolled, nor do they know who you are. It will be revealed on the day.
The arena will be a random safe (no hostile mobs, tribbies, etc) area with wilderness and civilized rooms and no healer. You're not allowed to leave said area till one of you is dead.
During said two weeks you can practice, gather gear, collect preps, join a cabal, collect edge points, whatever.
What do you roll, how do you spend those two weeks and why? This purely hypothetical, I'm just bored and curious.