DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 05/12/2008 Duedate: 05/24/2008
TOBIR ARENA
DM-14 TURN-593
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
GINKOR
THE DOGHOUSE (188)
(14-4515) [16-11-0,109]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
MOLYNEUX KNIGHT
OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) CHESS PIECES (464)
(14-3921) [29-20-0,113] (14-4551) [1-0-0,11]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
ECHANOSARAH WESTON
THE DOGHOUSE (188) OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
(14-4490) [19-17-0,99] (14-4137) [14-10-2,84]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. THE DOGHOUSE (188) 48
2. ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) 28 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
3. CHESS PIECES (464) 11 Unchartered Team
4. OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) -8
CHESS PIECES (464)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 0*CHESS PIECES (464) 1 0 0 100 1/ 2 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) 10 3 1
2/ 1 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) 283 188 22 60.1 2/ 3 THE DOGHOUSE (188) 9 6 0
3/ 2 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) 291 227 19 56.2 3/ 1 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) 7 8 1
4/ 3 THE DOGHOUSE (188) 523 608 9 46.2 4/ 0*CHESS PIECES (464) 1 0 0
'*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn
(###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
+ ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ The Andorian Succession #5 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
Zorpunt:
Lenpro watched the last of the gladiators leave, clearing the common room of the
Krill Cavalry guildhouse for his conference with Fandil. They were probably decent
people, but he didn't know them, and the situation did not incline him to trust any
stranger.
"It will be fine," Fandil said. "They won't go blabbing about our presence, and
they won't hear anything that matters, anyway." He gestured, and a faint shimmer
sprang up, form a hemisphere in the room, enclosing the two of them. "This will
ensure that there are no eavesdroppers."
After a moment, Lenpro shrugged. "Okay, it's what we've got to work with,
anyway. Where do we start, then?"
"With the king, I think. No one's heard seen him in... two or three years, at
least, I think?"
Lenpro nodded. "At least."
"Nor heard anything that constitutes persuasive evidence that he is still alive,
still functional, and concerned with his job."
Lenpro nodded again, impatiently. "I know all that. You know all that--"
"Just making sure we both know that we both know," Fandil said. "Assumptions
are the shifting sands under faulty planning. All the information we can gather
indicates that the king has spent the past several years on the Isle, never leaving
it. Anything official coming out of Andor is signed by Herlas d'Arenju, styling
himself 'First Minister to the King'. He is said to be Fratsfan, but he isn't listed
in the Fratsfan Register of Noble Houses and Scions."
"Does that matter? That he isn't a nobleman?"
"I don't suppose so, in itself. But I would like to find some indication of his
background, somewhere. At this point," Fandil said, suddenly exasperated, "I can't
even prove that he's Fratsfan!"
"Or that he's ill-intentioned," Lenpro added, scowling. "He could just be
really stupid when it comes to running a government."
"Or the front man for a committee," Fandil agreed.
Lenpro nodded but brushed the issue aside. "Same thing. That isn't one of the
core questions. Later, it might be important, but first," he paused to make sure he
had Fandil's full attention, "the first question is, Do we believe that the true and
proper king of Andoria is doing his proper job?"
The two managers locked eyes over the scarred table. "No," they said
simultaneously.
"Okay, second question, is there anything we can do to bring the king back to
the point of doing that job?" He waved one hand casually. "Setting aside the matter
of whether or not we can get at the king. IF we can reach the king, do we believe he
can be gotten back on the job?"
A silence. A long silence. The clock against the guildhouse wall ticked,
chimed, struck the hour, ticked on. Finally Fandil sighed. "No," he said again.
"Not according to the little I've heard."
Lenpro nodded again. "Third question: Does the king have recognized heirs?"
"No. No one that any person has seen or heard of in years. The rumors..." the
old mage shrugged, "they're said to have vanished from the Isle, probably into some
other dimension. Regardless, they're gone."
"Right, so we're talking about establishing a new royal line, or trying for some
other form of government, but at the least, we're talking a rebellion."
"If there's effectively no king--"
"There's a bureaucracy, inefficient and corrupt as it is, which is the
acknowledged legal channel of government," Lenpro said. "You think they're going to
smile and say, 'Oh, what a good idea, we're behind you all the way!'? I don't.
They'll fight."
"No army to speak of."
"Plenty of assassins, though."
"I don't think one of the, ah, non-royal types of government would work in
Andoria at this time," Fandil said. "I've seen them elsewhere, and people have to be
prepared before they can accept such an order and make it work. But king-making...
that's tricky."
Lenpro smiled, for the first time since the meeting had begun. "We've got a
perfect candidate ready to hand," he said. "The Fratsfan Emperor Alonj."
The Isle of the Eye:
"I will never eat fish again," Senator Sedalia muttered from under the cover of
the tarp.
"You won't need to," Gissanniah whispered back. "You're going to have as much
trouble getting that smell out of your mustache as I will getting it of my hair."
Sedalia's hand went automatically to his mustache, and he sighed. It was limp
and untidy, in need of a wash, a trim, and fresh waxing. "It's a sacrifice," he
agreed, "but a senator does what he must for his constituents." He sighed
theatrically, teasing a smile out of his companion. It was part of his duty, after
all, to keep her spirits up. "How much longer will we have to lie here waiting, I
wonder?"
Gissanniah raised her head just enough to peer through a crack in the side of
the cart. "I don't see our driver anywhere," she said after a moment. "At least, he
isn't on this side of the cart."
Both gladiators listened for a moment to the sound of voices. Too far away for
them to make out the words, their driver was talking to... someone. Not guards, this
was no checkpoint, but someone. Stung by a sudden surmise, Sedalia glanced across at
his companion. Gissanniah was looking toward him, eyes widening with the same
thought.
"He's betraying us," Sedalia said, certainty crystallizing as he said the words.
"He promised he wouldn't tell any of the guards--"
"He said nothing about not telling other people... who might carry word to the
guards. Out, of here, now! Your side is probably the less observed."
"Right." Gissanniah twitched up the tarp, peered out, then slid through the
smallest possible opening. "Clear right now," she said.
The senator followed. Good so far. The sides of the cart were so high that
whoever was talking on the other side could not see them, and it was only thirty feet
to the edge of the woods. Sedalia didn't know why Lady Sheila had decreed that most
of the Isle was to be left wooded, but he was glad of it now. The two of them walked
quietly on a straight line from the cart to the trees. No one tried to stop them,
called out, no one appeared at all.
Once they were under cover, Sedalia stopped and looked back. "That was too
easy," he said.
Zorpunt:
"Alonj?" Fandil's eyebrows rose. "I have always understood that he is simple-
minded at best, possibly unstable."
"You're out of touch," Lenpro said. "Lady Fern has been back in Fratsfa for
some time now, and she's observed the government there closely. She says that he's
'sane, steady, decent, and of at least normal intelligence'--her theory is that he
was manipulated by his regents and advisors to give the impression of incompetence."
"And what's to stop them from being no better than the bureaucracy in Andor?"
"His wife. According to Lady Fern, the Empress Kitiara is... very firm, very
competent, very loyal, rather dangerous in her own right, and she's given Alonj three
children already--two sons and a daughter."
Andor:
Herlas d'Arenju frowned at the Chief Scribe. "I don't know what you're playing
at, Hesselbod, but I don't like what I'm seeing and hearing. A semblance of
normality--you said this yourself--is essential to maintaining order. An increase in
taxes and an edict of conscription to double the size of the standing army is not
normality."
The bureaucrat shrugged minimally, his face remaining blank. "There are
increasing reports of trouble in the Karnhorn area," he said. "That makes an
increase in the army and the taxes proper. If we later end up using them for other
things, that's later."
"Not very much later!"
"The Aruaki have always been troublemakers," the scribe said. "Allowing them to
settle here in the first place was the mistake. I merely propose that it's time to
take corrective measures. This five-step program should do what is needful. First,
close the border of the Clanholds--"
"Easy to say, hard to do," Herlas countered. "Land and water both? And what
of--"
"You have described yourself as a magician," Hesselbod said. "Prove it now.
Cage the beast-people as the first step in our campaign to exterminate them."
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---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 295): UNHOLY TERROR of BLOOD RITES (Wretch, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 593): CHIEF SITTING BULL of BULLDOGS (Kennelworth, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 592): MOLYNEUX of OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 585): JEROME of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 582): MIRESSEA POOLE of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 581): KEG STAND of BARHOPPERS (Apex, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 578): MOLDRAUN of GOLDEN CANYON (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 574): WORLD CHUMPS of THE A'S -- LOSERS II (Malaquar, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 544): PARTICLE MAN of NEUROMANCERS (Rude Buddha, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 535): RAMBLING OX of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 526): CUTTER of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 243): IGOR MALMORT of BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 428): ATRION of THE EXILED ONES (Darklock, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 197): TRYPTOPHAN of SUPERIOR FORCES (Manager, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 478): AXLY HIMSELF of GERFEL'S FRIENDS (Generalissimo Puerco)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 295): SMITHSONIAN (Curator, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 593): ANIMAL FARM (Mino, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 592): OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 585): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 582): KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 581): MASTERS OF SIN (Sin, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 578): ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 574): LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 544): BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 535): TEMPLARZ HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 526): DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 243): FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 428): WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 197): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 478): SUPERIOR FORCES (Manager, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 592): KORO CLOUD of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 590): ABBOTT of OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 584): JACKSON OF KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 581): TRAVIS T FLETE of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 578): MOLDRAUN of GOLDEN CANYON (Jorja, mgr.)
CAYLON MCCANN of STEEL CRUSADE (Cassius Calvata, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 573): KLINK of THE A'S -- LOSERS II (Malaquar, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 544): ELDA MAINZ of BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
(turn 543): BORIS KARLOFF of MEN OF 1,000 FACES (Mad Max, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 526): CUTTER of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 243): IGOR MALMORT of BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.)
(turn 242): PAS DE QUARTIER of BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 196): I OF THE KNEE DOLL of HAZAARDS OF CLONGING (Crip, mgr.)
SPY REPORT
Ready for some action-packed adventure, some thrills, chills and spills? Well
fergit it, cause this is the Spyreport for TOBIR. Too bad, OTAGO HIGHLANDERS, but
ALL THE MUN'S MEN was just too good to be stopped. What was the name of that team
who got 4-1-0 this turn for a total 523-608-9 you ask? (Sure) THE DOGHOUSE's their
name, and fighting's their game! MVP award for MISS MUTT? THE DOGHOUSE's proud of
her after beating GEORGE FOREMUN and getting 23 points. Talk about yer major upsets!
GEORGE FOREMUN's match with MISS MUTT cost him a loss of 18 points! Was that a tear
I saw in GINKOR's eye, as he took over Duelmastership? And wasn't MOLYNEUX fit to be
tied! I hear the top team insists all their warriors get nine hours sleep. They
want photogenic fighters for PR photos.
I gotta admit I haven't been in "deep con caves" with any spies. Really, I just
wing this stuff. WESTON must not be a good enough fighter to get in fair fights. He
challenged WHOLE MUTT. 8 is a big difference. (Well, that's what they tell me.) I
thought WESTON showed great skill and promise when he defeated WHOLE MUTT. All
right, so I slept through it! Big deal!
What does a fighter fight for? I mean, the crowds don't give a hoot if someone
gets killed. Not after four more fights. Fight, fight, fight. Is that all you guys
can do?
I really didn't, you know, study when I was a kid. Who would've guessed I'd be
a famous Spyreporter? I gotta leave. TOBIR is like such a dump, and you guys smell
too much! Remember you guys, ease up sometimes! Chill out! Later, Debby Tonte
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
GINKOR 4515 16 11 0 109 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MOLYNEUX 3921 29 20 0 113 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
ECHANOSARAH 4490 19 17 0 99 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
WESTON 4137 14 10 2 84 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
STEWART 4213 11 9 3 79 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
WHOLE MUTT 4516 13 14 0 68 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
SHAMUN 4544 8 0 1 67 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MUN OVER BOARD 4219 9 5 1 52 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
MISS MUTT 4557 5 0 0 49 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
MINUTE MUN 4545 7 4 0 48 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
LITTLE BIG MUN 4559 3 0 0 45 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
GEORGE FOREMUN 4187 10 8 0 38 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MR FANG 4550 4 2 0 25 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
BOMBAY 4519 2 15 0 21 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
KNIGHT 4551 1 0 0 11 CHESS PIECES (464)
ANZAC 4560 0 2 0 2 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
PERSONAL ADS
George Foremun -- If you're running for public office, I am NOT voting for you. --
Whole Mutt
P.S. Even though you're kind to dogs.
Molyneux -- Oh, dear. Why can't you be taller than I am? It would make such a
difference. -- Echanosarah
Weston -- Take that! Think we'd let a dog-kicker get away with it for long? Ha! --
Ginkor
Bombay -- And a snap and a snarl and a spin one-two, slide and twirl and growl one-
two. Come on, the dance is easy, just give yourself to the rhythm. -- Mr Fang
Anzac -- That's to prevent you starting your career with a swelled head. Very
dangerous, swelled heads, they prevent you seeing straight. -- Miss Mutt
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
WESTON viciously subdued WHOLE MUTT in a 2 minute master's Challenge fight.
MOLYNEUX was viciously subdued by GINKOR in a 2 minute veteran's Title match.
ECHANOSARAH viciously subdued STEWART in a popular 1 minute brutal fight.
SHAMUN devastated CHEERFUL FAN in a 1 minute uneven brawl.
MUN OVER BOARD defeated CIVILIZED CRIMINAL in a exciting 1 minute bloody struggle.
MINUTE MUN viciously subdued THE HONEST MERCHANT in a action packed 2 minute fight.
GEORGE FOREMUN was viciously subdued by MISS MUTT in a 1 minute duel.
LITTLE BIG MUN vanquished AMBITIOUS GUARD in a exciting 1 minute one-sided fight.
MR FANG luckily beat BOMBAY in a exciting 1 minute brutal fight.
ANZAC was devastated by KNIGHT in a 1 minute mismatched conflict.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK 6 WALL OF STEEL 8 - 0 - 0 100 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 4 STRIKING ATTACK 6 - 2 - 0 75 |
|WALL OF STEEL 2 PARRY-LUNGE 4 - 2 - 0 67 |
|TOTAL PARRY 2 SLASHING ATTACK 12 - 6 - 2 67 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 1 BASHING ATTACK 6 - 3 - 1 67 |
|BASHING ATTACK 1 TOTAL PARRY 15 - 8 - 0 65 |
|AIMED BLOW 0 AIMED BLOW 6 - 5 - 0 55 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 0 LUNGING ATTACK 29 - 29 - 1 50 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 - 4 - 0 20 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 1 - 0 0 |
Turn 593 was great if you Not so great if you used The fighting styles of the
used the fighting styles: the fighting styles: top eleven warriors are:
PARRY-LUNGE 1 - 0 AIMED BLOW 0 - 0 4 LUNGING ATTACK
BASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 2 TOTAL PARRY
WALL OF STEEL 2 - 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 2 SLASHING ATTACK
LUNGING ATTACK 4 - 2 STRIKING ATTACK 0 - 0 2 WALL OF STEEL
SLASHING ATTACK 2 - 2 TOTAL PARRY 0 - 2 1 BASHING ATTACK
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
LUNGING ATTACK GINKOR 4515 16 11 0 109 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
TOTAL PARRY MOLYNEUX 3921 29 20 0 113 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
BASHING ATTACK WESTON 4137 14 10 2 84 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
SLASHING ATTACK STEWART 4213 11 9 3 79 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
WALL OF STEEL MISS MUTT 4557 5 0 0 49 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is ECHANOSARAH 4490. The most popular warrior this
turn was WESTON 4137. The ten other most popular fighters were GINKOR 4515, MINUTE
MUN 4545, ECHANOSARAH 4490, MUN OVER BOARD 4219, MISS MUTT 4557, LITTLE BIG MUN 4559,
BOMBAY 4519, MR FANG 4550, KNIGHT 4551, and WHOLE MUTT 4516.
The least popular fighter this week was ANZAC 4560. The other ten least popular
fighters were GEORGE FOREMUN 4187, STEWART 4213, SHAMUN 4544, MOLYNEUX 3921, WHOLE
MUTT 4516, KNIGHT 4551, MR FANG 4550, BOMBAY 4519, LITTLE BIG MUN 4559, and MISS MUTT
4557.