DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 02/16/2009 Duedate: 02/28/2009
TOBIR ARENA
DM-14 TURN-613
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
WHOLE MUTT
THE DOGHOUSE (188)
(14-4516) [26-21-0,111]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
RAIN MUN POSITION IS EMPTY
ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
(14-4561) [16-3-1,112]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
MINUTE MUN LITTLE BIG MUN
ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
(14-4545) [16-15-1,103] (14-4559) [16-7-0,98]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
THE DOGHOUSE (188)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) 32
2. THE DOGHOUSE (188) 22 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
3. ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) 4 Unchartered Team
MISCREANTS (340)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) 342 229 29 59.9 1/ 1 THE DOGHOUSE (188) 11 4 0
2/ 2 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) 352 266 21 57.0 2/ 3 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423) 10 5 0
3/ 3 THE DOGHOUSE (188) 574 656 9 46.7 3/ 2 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348) 8 7 3
'*' 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 #23 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
Fratsfa:
Lenpro looked at the mob in frustration. It had surged in on the Karnhorn-
looking heckler, so that he and Sunflower were now on the outskirts. And from the
sound of it, injury was being done, to the heckler for a start, and probably to
others. His first impulse was to leap into the thick of it and try to stop things,
but that would be folly. A magician who knew just what to do might stop this many-
headed beast, but nobody else was likely to. He wasn't going to waste time trying.
"Can you find which way the kidnapped women were taken?" he asked Sunflower.
Sunflower jerked her wide-eyed attention away from the swirling violence and
nodded. "Yes." She took a deep breath. Violence in the arena, planned and agreed
to, or even violence in an alley, one-on-one, were things she understood and
accepted. This was different, and in ways she couldn't articulate yet. But two
young women kidnapped was something she could get her mind around. "He... he told
me. That man. When I first heard about the kidnapping, he told me the, well, he
said Aruaki--werecats, anyway--he said they went toward the Old Ruins."
No point in cursing the facts, but Lenpro wasn't happy about it. The Old Ruins
was the oldest part of the city, long deserted and little more than a maze of rubble.
Even vagrants didn't go there in search of shelter, they went to the New Ruins, or to
slums like this one. The Old Ruins dated back before the last Chaos War, and they
were said to be contaminated with magic-gone-bad, and haunted by vicious ghosts and
other monsters.
"Then we'd better go that way," Lenpro said. "Someone else may have noticed
something between here and there."
"Are we just going to leave this?" Sunflower waved a hand at the packed crowd
from which shouts, screams, and the too-familiar sounds of violence were rising.
"We have to, child. There's nothing we can do here to make any kind of
difference, and we'd get ourselves killed if we tried."
"But it's wrong to do nothing!"
"Yes, but it would be wrong to throw our lives away, too. Sometimes choices are
hard, and there's no right answer." Lenpro started walking.
She hurried to keep up with him. "I don't like it." Took a deep breath. "I
guess I have to live with it anyway, don't I?"
Fandil frowned at the young magician facing him. He was a Fratsfan, tall, slim,
blond, a bit of a dandy in his dress, but also very earnest. "I... we felt your
probing, sir, just before the blast and wondered whether, well--"
"The 'blast' as you call it," Fandil said, "what do you make of that?"
The young man shrugged and looked uncomfortable. "I... we aren't sure what to
'make' of it," he said. "We have debated it often--this wasn't the first. There
were two previous blasts much like it. Some believe it to be an attack, although
they disagree as to who is being attacked. Others claim it's purely defensive,
although defensive against what we don't know."
Fandil sighed. He had almost hoped this young man would be unimportant. Not a
complication. But the fellow clearly had useful data, at the least. "This 'we' you
refer to...?"
The young magician pulled himself up straighter and taller. "The Graduating
Class of 523 from the Frafrejan Academy of the Magical Arts! Ah, sir. There are six
of us now--since Larsenjo died. The first blast caught him wide open. His head
exploded." He swallowed a couple of times. "I was there. It was really horrible."
And startling, as well, Fandil thought. A most unlikely result of such a spell.
But there were aspects of that spell or blast which, looking back, he realized were
definitely not normal. Ah, make that, not in the commonly established mode of
magical practice.
"So, you have discussed and debated this matter," Fandil said. "Have you done
any research on it, reached any conclusions? By the way, what's your name?"
"Elosjon, sir. We, um, we didn't like to do any probing right after that first
blast. Because of what happened to Larsenjo. But after a little while, we did try
to backtrack the traces. It wouldn't have worked at all except for the, I don't know
what to call it, the different flavor? Of the magic in the blast."
"And what did you find?" Why had nobody taught this young man to make a proper
report? It was like pulling teeth to get information out of him.
"We did finally narrow down the origin point for it," Elosjon said. "It comes
to Fratsfa from the west, from the northern end of the Daggerspines."
"Do you blame it on the Aruaki, then?"
The young mage sighed. "We wanted to, we really did. They're so untrustworthy
it just seemed natural that it might be them. But it isn't. At least, we're pretty
sure it isn't. Not the Clanholds territory, anyway. It seems to be coming from
around Mountain Home somewhere."
"Didn't there used to be some kind of independent duchy around Mountain Home?"
Lady Fern asked. "I seem to remember hearing that the last duke fought the formation
of the Andorian League bitterly, and lost, leaving the line vacant."
"I don't know about the title," Elosjon said, "but there was a son, very young
then, and he'd only be just beginning to be old if he's still alive. They were pure
Fratsfan, and naturally long-lived. My grandfather told me about him. The boy went
off somewhere to study magic and nothing's been heard about him since."
"Meaning there could be a fully mature magician in Mountain Home who might be
holding a grudge against the Andorian League," Fandil said. "An unpleasant thought,
but still, valuable information. I was going to go to Andor, but perhaps I should go
to Mountain Home first...."
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---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 305): CONCUSSION of CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 613): POSITION IS EMPTY
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 612): LITTLE BIG MUN of ALL THE MUN'S MEN (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 605): ELLIRN KOUL of MIDDLE WAY 15 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 602): TCHENI LOY of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 601): MISS SCARLET of GOTTA GET A CLUE (?, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 598): KNEE BREAKER of ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 594): LITTLE ROCKY of RED DOG GANG (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 564): GRUNT 5 of MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 555): RAISE THE ABYSS of THE PLAGUE (Reaper, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 546): TANK of FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 253): PULLED HAMSTRING of OTTO'S PARTS (Crip, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 445): BILLY JOHNSON of 1949 YANKEES (Papa Bear, mgr.0
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 206): DORINE EAGEL of THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 468): MAXIMUS of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 305): CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 613): TECHNO 8 (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 612): THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 605): MIDDLE WAY 15 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 602): MEDAL OF HONOOR J4 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 601): THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 598): ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 594): LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 564): BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 555): MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 546): FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 253): THE ORDER (Torak, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 445): MEDAL OF HONOOR J3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 206): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 498): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 304): GOLDENEYE of BONDAGE (Spawn, mgr.)
Dm 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 612): DICKY V GOES POSTAL of ARMED & GREGARIOUS (?, mgr.)
THUNK of TECHNO 8 (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 600): TRELLIN XISS of THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 555): RAISE THE ABYSS of THE PLAGUE (Reaper, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 546): TANK of FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
(turn 545): BIG DOPE of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 552): SIZZLING SUNFLOWER of FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 207): MESSY MONGREL of DOGS OF WAR (Omega?, mgr.)
SPY REPORT
I can't believe the violence in TOBIR! I still haven't told Mom I'm writing
Spyreports. She'd have a cow! Well, here we go... MVP award for ANZAC? OTAGO
HIGHLANDERS' proud of him after beating VIRGINAL CONCUBINE and getting 17 points.
Talk about yer major upsets! MR FANG's match with GEORGE FOREMUN cost him a loss of
9 points! Was that a tear I saw in WHOLE MUTT's eye, as he took over Duelmastership?
And wasn't LITTLE BIG MUN fit to be tied! Is the Duelmaster really being a real snob
to his teammates? Don't ask me!
AAARRGH!!! I HATE SPYREPORTING!!! Sorry. I just had to say it. Like, is LADY
NIP popular, or what? She was challenged the most in all of TOBIR! She's got a
6-9-0, is that good?
Challenges, revenges, Bloodfeuds. All TOBIR ever talks about is fighting! Me,
I'm more laid back. Hey you guys, don't you think your families would like to hear
from you? Write! (Or have someone write for you.)
I really didn't, you know, study when I was a kid. Who would've guessed I'd be
a famous Spyreporter? I'm getting tired of writing this stuff, so I'm calling it
quits. Remember you guys, ease up sometimes! Chill out! Later, Debby Tonte
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
WHOLE MUTT 4516 26 21 0 111 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
RAIN MUN 4561 16 3 1 112 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
GEORGE FOREMUN 4187 24 14 0 110 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
DALMORE 4563 14 3 2 106 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
MINUTE MUN 4545 16 15 1 103 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
LITTLE BIG MUN 4559 16 7 0 98 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MR FANG 4550 14 12 0 90 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
ANZAC 4560 14 8 2 86 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
LADY NIP 4571 6 9 0 80 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
MUN OVER BOARD 4219 18 16 1 71 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
PITCH 4572 9 6 0 56 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
FLOORMAT 4577 6 3 0 52 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
BOMBAY 4519 7 30 0 51 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
HELENA 4578 4 4 1 27 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
TYNE 4584 1 0 1 14 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
M. CHARDINEE 0 0 0 DALMORE 4563 613 NONE
SHIFTYEYED VOLUN 0 0 0 TYNE 4584 613 NONE
PERSONAL ADS
Little Big Mun -- I was having fun right up to the end when you bit me. Me! On the
ear. You're not supposed to do that. It's inhuman! -- Whole Mutt
George Foremun -- You're such a managing type, why don't you manage to lose to me?
I'm sure it would be easy. -- Lady Nip
Mun Over Board -- You keep DOING that. If you want to swim, fine, swim. If you
don't want to swim, don't jump in! Humans are so strange. -- Mr Fang
Helena -- It's okay if you want to wriggle your toes in my fur. People do that all
the time, and I don't really mind. At least, if they take their shoes off and trim
their nails first. Some of them have really smelly feet, too, which is great! --
Floormat
Bombay -- I never really got interested in a female cat before, but Lady Nip won't
let me near, so, um, you doing anything tonight? -- Pitch
Fenwick -- Sorry to see you go. Are you returning to Otago? -- the pack at the
Doghouse
If there were more personals, please accept our apologies. Hal took a long
weekend and is only now getting through the mail. They'll show up next time.
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
MUN OVER BOARD was viciously subdued by LADY NIP in a 1 minute Challenge fight.
LITTLE BIG MUN was narrowly defeated by WHOLE MUTT in a 4 minute Title melee.
DALMORE slaughtered M. CHARDINEE in a 1 minute mismatched brawl.
RAIN MUN overpowered KUNG-FU MASTER in a crowd pleasing 1 minute one-sided fight.
GEORGE FOREMUN devastated MR FANG in a crowd pleasing 1 minute brutal one-sided duel.
MINUTE MUN devastated NOBLE ASSASSIN in a 1 minute one-sided competition.
ANZAC vanquished VIRGINAL CONCUBINE in a popular 1 minute gruesome uneven duel.
FLOORMAT vanquished HELENA in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
BOMBAY was beaten by PITCH in a popular 1 minute one-sided melee.
TYNE murdered SHIFTYEYED VOLUNTEER in a 1 minute mismatched match.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK 5 AIMED BLOW 2 - 0 - 1 100 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 2 TOTAL PARRY 7 - 3 - 0 70 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 2 PARRY-STRIKE 7 - 3 - 0 70 |
|AIMED BLOW 1 WALL OF STEEL 7 - 3 - 0 70 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 1 SLASHING ATTACK 7 - 3 - 2 70 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 1 BASHING ATTACK 6 - 4 - 0 60 |
|BASHING ATTACK 1 STRIKING ATTACK 16 - 12 - 1 57 |
|TOTAL PARRY 1 PARRY-LUNGE 9 - 9 - 1 50 |
|WALL OF STEEL 1 LUNGING ATTACK 25 - 27 - 0 48 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 - 0 0 |
Turn 613 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:
AIMED BLOW 1 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 2 4 LUNGING ATTACK
PARRY-STRIKE 1 - 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY
SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 1 1 PARRY-STRIKE
STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 0 1 STRIKING ATTACK
BASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 1 WALL OF STEEL
TOTAL PARRY 1 - 0 1 PARRY-LUNGE
LUNGING ATTACK 3 - 2 1 SLASHING ATTACK
1 BASHING ATTACK
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
TOTAL PARRY WHOLE MUTT 4516 26 21 0 111 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
PARRY-STRIKE RAIN MUN 4561 16 3 1 112 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
LUNGING ATTACK GEORGE FOREMUN 4187 24 14 0 110 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
STRIKING ATTACK DALMORE 4563 14 3 2 106 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
WALL OF STEEL LITTLE BIG MUN 4559 16 7 0 98 ALL THE MUN'S MEN (423)
PARRY-LUNGE MR FANG 4550 14 12 0 90 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
SLASHING ATTACK ANZAC 4560 14 8 2 86 OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (348)
BASHING ATTACK PITCH 4572 9 6 0 56 THE DOGHOUSE (188)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is MINUTE MUN 4545. The most popular warrior this turn
was LITTLE BIG MUN 4559. The ten other most popular fighters were LADY NIP 4571,
WHOLE MUTT 4516, RAIN MUN 4561, MINUTE MUN 4545, DALMORE 4563, GEORGE FOREMUN 4187,
ANZAC 4560, BOMBAY 4519, FLOORMAT 4577, and PITCH 4572.
The least popular fighter this week was HELENA 4578. The other ten least popular
fighters were MUN OVER BOARD 4219, TYNE 4584, MR FANG 4550, PITCH 4572, FLOORMAT
4577, BOMBAY 4519, ANZAC 4560, GEORGE FOREMUN 4187, DALMORE 4563, and MINUTE MUN
4545.