DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 01/28/2010 Duedate: 02/10/2010
ZORPUNT ARENA
DM-24 TURN-627
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
WILD FIRE
DISASTER (497)
(24-4880) [14-0-3,147]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
WILD FIRE SERGEANT 4
DISASTER (497) MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
(24-4880) [14-0-3,147] (24-4901) [6-2-1,58]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
TCHACK LOY MODESTA STONE
KRILL CAVALRY (403) KRILL CAVALRY (403)
(24-4856) [15-28-1,84] (24-4910) [2-1-0,19]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. KRILL CAVALRY (403) 47
2. MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499) 26 DISASTER (497)
3. DISASTER (497) 12 Unchartered Team
4. PIRATE'S COVE (498) 10
MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1*MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499) 31 7 4 81.6 1/ 1*MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499) 11 4 0
2/ 2 DISASTER (497) 43 17 5 71.7 2/ 2 DISASTER (497) 7 1 1
3/ 3 KRILL CAVALRY (403) 756 763 22 49.8 3/ 3 KRILL CAVALRY (403) 6 8 0
4/ 4*PIRATE'S COVE (498) 8 23 0 25.8 4/ 4*PIRATE'S COVE (498) 2 7 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 #43 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
In the mountains west of Fratsfa:
Fandil waited, poised, for the demon to take its next form. Carefully not
thinking what that next form might be, lest he give it a clue against him. Nothing
appeared. Was it through? Surely not!
A shimmer in the air and a twist of iris-colored smoke. One of the sharps in
his epsilon shield shrieked and went flat. The orthodox response to that called for
blank verse in a blue-and-magenta palette, which was a good argument for taking a
different direction. And fast, his opponent was too good--and too dangerous--for
"stop and think." Acting on an instinct he didn't question, Fandil shifted to a
ballad form in earth tones, with a hint of paprika wave at the end.
The little cloud of smoke flashed red, flashed black, and fell in on itself,
leaving a robed and hooded figure in its place. Not the demon, there was no sulfur
in its signature. The mage, his opponent. Very tall, very thin, stiff and unmoving
once it appeared. The sigil over its heart (if it was put together in human pattern)
was Folstrom.
"Begone," the hooded mage intoned. "You interfere with my necessary work! The
ways must be opened for the Masters to return--"
"The Folstrom? I don't think so," Fandil snapped.
"The Masters will know how to deal with the prancing elves and the Aruaki
beasts--"
"I seem to recall that the Folstrom idea of good government and cultural
stability was to have everyone submissive to them, and that more than half the
population of Alastari at that time died in their Chaos Games."
"They brought order and unity!" the mage shrieked. "And I have seen the Chaos
Games, and they are a performance of beauty, not like the bloody holocaust of the
arena system. The Folstrom understand the order that lies in the heart of Chaos--"
"And that has driven them mad," Fandil said. "The Folstrom are insane."
"No!" Where the mage had stood was now a shaft of intensely violet light.
Fandil could feel the power of it burning against his shield, but he had
expected this, or something like it. He was ready. His will reached down through
his feet to grip the bedrock of the mountain top, up through his raised hands into
the clouds that boiled black overhead. He seized the lighting and pulled it down
onto his enemy.
+ ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ Report from the Tourney #1 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
Larkin here, with a report from the Winter Tourney. Okay, maybe this isn't
Atlantis, but it's somewhere warm, and if that isn't a beach, at least it's sand,
and, as advertised, there are drinks with umbrellas in them. And young women with a
lot of suntan showing. By the time you read this, the tourney will be over, but
while I'm writing it, the tourney is NOT over. And a lot of you guys reading this
won't have been able to go, anyway.
I'm interviewing Zalgor Prigg, one of the managers participating in the Old
Valamantis Bloodgames, and let me tell you, Old Valamantis is not a place you want to
hang around if you don't have to. It's rotten with magic, to begin with--Folstrom
magic, the blackest there is--and then it's got all this blood and violence on top of
it, and it makes for a dark and scary venue. Anything might rise out of the ruins
around the arena, summoned by the blood and the curses of the managers.
"Mr. Prigg, could you tell us why you--"
"It was the play on words," the manager said, overriding the question. "I
couldn't resist--the chance to call a Bloodgames team Phoenix, you know, the 'rising
from the ashes of death' business. Of course, then I had to change it to Phonetix,
but that's okay, keep people guessing."
"I've heard the Commission mages talking about that name, sir, and they seem
alarmed. One of them said the name was practically a spell in itself, used here."
"I heard. That's why I had to change it."
"Have you considered what might actually rise from the ashes and blood here as a
result?"
"Well, no, but that isn't my business, you know. I manage gladiators. Let the
mages worry about what pops in from some other dimension. Besides, what if nothing
happens?"
"But, sir, there have already been reports of zombie rats and tentacled monsters
lurking in the backs of the locker rooms! And someone is bound to consider that you
have a partial responsibility--"
"No," Prigg said, "I have no responsibility for that kind of thing. I'm no
magician, I haven't been reading forbidden tomes...." He paused, looking thoughtful.
"Maybe it was TigToad with his Obscure Lore...."
"I don't believe there's a team of that name in this Bloodgames--"
"No, not here. Earlier, in Veastian. He could have been, hmm, preparing for
this, opening contacts if not gates, stuff like that. Has anybody seen any Dark
Toads around?"
"Not until they've had six drinks with umbrellas in them. Tell me, sir, have
you given any thought to the moral implications of the Bloodgames?"
"What moral implications?" the manager asked. "This isn't about morals, it's
about survival. And the way to survive on the sands is to kill your opponents every
chance you get!"
"Yes, but--"
"There's a reason they don't hold these contests up in Andoria," the manager
said sternly. "Good people in their ways, the Andorians, but they just aren't cut
out for this kind of grim business." He paused to listen to the roar of the crowds
jamming the ancient arena. Checked the marquee where slaves dangled from ropes and
updated the records of participants. Nodded, grimly satisfied. "Another death.
That's good--can't have too many survivors, or it cheapens the victory at the end."
"But the death toll--"
"Bah! Don't get the idea that these gladiators are the flower of Alastarian
youth. The ones who enter the Bloodgames are the men with no hope. We offer them a
future they could never have dreamed of, but they have to work for it, sweat for it,
bleed for it, and sometimes die for it. The survivors..." he bared his teeth in a
grin that would not have looked out of place on a wolf, "they owe us EVERYTHING, and
they'll do anything to repay us."
"But--"
"And besides," Zalgor Prigg went on, "if you really want to take up the moral
question, go talk to the Grey Wand. She's the one set this up, after all."
"I don't see the point, frankly. She's got plenty of Lord Protectors, and they
have longer training, skills polished and honed to a--"
"The Bloodgames victors, they're Her enforcers," Prigg said. "No polish, sure,
but when a dirty job needs doing, one of these guys will do it, and no questions
asked."
+ ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ Report from the Tourney #2 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
Larkin here once again, with more interviews from the tourney. This time I'm
talking to a new manager, so new he doesn't even have a manager name. "Sir... what
would you like me to call you, by the way?"
"Why do you have to call me anything? I don't understand why you want to
interview me. There are lots of great managers here who could probably tell you
stuff--"
"I'm looking for a new perspective, the point of view of someone who is just
starting out with the gladiatorial games."
"Oh. Well, I guess that would be me."
"Absolutely right! Tell me, what do you think of the tourney? This is your
first, right?"
"Right, my first," the young man agreed. "And it's GREAT! Everyone is just
great here! I mean, most of these managers, they're, like, legends, you know?
Everybody's heard of them, and they have stables of HUNDREDS of gladiators, and
they've been polishing their tricks for YEARS, and I didn't figure I had much of a
chance, you know?"
"The popular view is that no matter how much you know, the arena can always
throw a surprise at you--"
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard that. I don't know if I believe it, but I've heard it.
But that isn't the best thing about this tourney. The best thing is that everyone
here has been GREAT. Or else I didn't meet them--the ones that might not have been.
But I think I met just about everyone, and--"
"And they were great. I'm glad. But perhaps you could tell our readers a
little more, maybe tell them how these experienced managers were great to you?"
"Well, yeah, okay. It's that everyone was so friendly and helpful, see? The
ENTIRE Consortium talked to me about warrior design, for instance. I learned a lot
there. And, well, there was Mannequin, and The Greek Guy, and I actually met
Manager, too! And they were all really helpful. Advice, you know, and charts, and
all that stuff that was so confusing. It was just the best experience! I'm going to
do it again, for sure!"
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---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 318): WAR BOND of SMITHSONIAN (Curator, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 637): GREEN THUMB of COLORIFIC (Purple People Eater, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 637): PITCH of THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 622): JILIAN NORMAN of MIDDLE WAY 15 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 626): WILD FIRE of DISASTER (Papa Bear, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 622): AIKIDO of DARK FORCES (The Walkin' Dude, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 621): DEATH RATTLE of ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 619): MAJOR MARTIN of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 583): CORBIE LEK of BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 579): HELL HOUND of DA DOG POWNDAZ (Marma Duke, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 570): SHADOW BLADE of SERPENT'S HOLD (Khisanth, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 265): NOT SO HOT of PYROMANIA (Marma Duke, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 469): VALNAKORINE of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 219): WITCH of DOGS OF WAR (Omega, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 522): VISION of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 318): Z GLADIATORS (Z Man, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 637): BULLDOGS (Kennelworth, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 637): POSITION IS EMPTY
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 622): SERPENTS HOLD (Khisanth, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 626): MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 622): THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 621): GOLDEN CANYON (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 619): RED DOG GANG (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 583): MEDAL OF HONOR Z1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 579): THE PLAGUE (Reaper, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 570): FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 265): BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 469): WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 219): INSECTOSOIDS (The Storm Lord, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 521): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 14 TOBIR (turn 637): PITCH of THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.)
(turn 636): HELENA of OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 579): COUNTRY RHODES of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 264): NUMBSKULL of OTTO'S PARTS (Crip, mgr.)
BRAIN TUMOR of OTTO'S PARTS (Crip, mgr.)
PULLED HAMSTRING of OTTO'S PARTS (Crip, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 219): WITCH of DOGS OF WAR (Omega, mgr.)
SPY REPORT
It is I, Novgorodny Vir, Spymaster of Spymasters. Look on my work, ye mighty,
and despair! Say what you will about blind luck and dirty fighting, but KRILL
CAVALRY will tell you 756-763-22 is nothing to laugh at... Practice pays for
SERGEANT 2, who pummelled DANGEROUS CRIMINAL, to pocket 18 points. A certain someone
should cut down on the drinking and practice more, after losing 14 points to MOHAWK
JOE. (Discrete enough, SERGEANT 5?) Those who hoped for a new Duelmaster were
disappointed by TCHACK LOY, of KRILL CAVALRY, who despite a 15-28-1 couldn't overcome
ZORPUNT's Number 1. So who was the warrior seen charging into immovable walls and
challenging dead trees? Someone's got a basic problem...
And how sociable are ZORPUNT's warriors? Come, let us see.
The moving sword slashes, and having slashed, moves on... Forgive and forget is
not my motto. Take heed, MEDAL OF HONOR Z3, as SERGEANT 1's death remains unavenged.
Ask not for whom the sword slashes; it slashes for thee.
Leave me now, you base fools! As the seasons change, and the creatures of the
wild change also, so do I feel a yearning to leave this place. Like a mixed
metaphor, and an overtaxed simile, I now bid ZORPUNT farewell-- Novgorodny Vir
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
WILD FIRE 4880 14 0 3 147 DISASTER (497)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
TCHACK LOY 4856 15 28 1 84 KRILL CAVALRY (403)
-TWISTER 4888 8 2 0 79 DISASTER (497)
EARTH QUAKE 4885 8 2 1 74 DISASTER (497)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SERGEANT 4 4901 6 2 1 58 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SERGEANT 2 4900 7 1 2 53 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
SERGEANT 3 4903 7 1 1 49 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
GENERAL 3 4905 5 1 0 45 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MOHAWK JOE 4896 3 6 0 33 PIRATE'S COVE (498)
-MUD SLIDE 4907 3 1 0 33 DISASTER (497)
-LISA ANN 4824 2 0 1 33 MINGALOIDS (486)
COLIN POOLE 4893 6 4 0 27 KRILL CAVALRY (403)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MODESTA STONE 4910 2 1 0 19 KRILL CAVALRY (403)
MELWODE STONE 4909 1 2 0 16 KRILL CAVALRY (403)
MORIT KOBUN 4911 1 0 0 15 KRILL CAVALRY (403)
MORTIS THE FORSAKEN 4897 2 7 0 13 PIRATE'S COVE (498)
CAPTAIN BONES 4898 2 7 0 13 PIRATE'S COVE (498)
SERGEANT 5 4908 3 1 0 12 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
BUBBA LOY 4853 15 28 0 KRILL CAVALRY 403 WILD FIRE 4880 625
TCHUMP LOY 4871 7 24 0 KRILL CAVALRY 403 SERGEANT 4 4901 624 REVENGED
SERGEANT 1 4902 3 1 0 MEDAL OF HONOR Z 499 EARTH QUAKE 4885 623 NOT REVENGED
PERSONAL ADS
Mud Slide -- That isn't a disaster if you're an otter. I'm thinking of becoming a
were-otter. Not as hackneyed as a were-cat. -- Colin Poole
Wild Fire -- Burn, baby, burn! -- Tchack Loy
Mortis the Forsaken -- Do you suppose that could be considered an act of charity to
someone who needed the win even more than I did? I never thought of myself as
particularly charitable, but then, I never thought of myself as inclined to lose to a
nerd, either. -- Modesta Stone
Sergeant 5 -- Is it your military training that gives you your edge? -- Melwode Stone
P.S. I am not a golem, I don't know where the Commission got that idea, damn their
ears and whiskers.
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
WILD FIRE devastated TCHACK LOY in a 1 minute mismatched Title fight.
EARTH QUAKE won victory over SERGEANT 4 in a 1 minute battle.
SERGEANT 3 handily defeated AMBITIOUS GUARD in a 1 minute one-sided match.
GENERAL 3 vanquished FRATSFA SLAVE in a 1 minute mismatched brawl.
SERGEANT 2 overpowered DANGEROUS CRIMINAL in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
SERGEANT 5 was devastated by MOHAWK JOE in a 1 minute uneven brawl.
COLIN POOLE overpowered CAPTAIN BONES in a 1 minute one-sided struggle.
MORTIS THE FORSAKEN was bested by MODESTA STONE in a 3 minute competition.
MELWODE STONE overpowered PERSISTENT BEGGAR in a 1 minute uneven melee.
MORIT KOBUN vanquished PERSISTENT BEGGAR in a 1 minute uneven duel.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|AIMED BLOW 3 AIMED BLOW 18 - 5 - 2 78 |
|BASHING ATTACK 3 BASHING ATTACK 17 - 7 - 3 71 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 2 STRIKING ATTACK 13 - 8 - 0 62 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 2 LUNGING ATTACK 13 - 8 - 1 62 |
|WALL OF STEEL 2 SLASHING ATTACK 8 - 9 - 1 47 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 6 - 1 40 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 1 WALL OF STEEL 4 - 8 - 0 33 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 PARRY-STRIKE 3 - 8 - 0 27 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 0 TOTAL PARRY 4 - 13 - 0 24 |
|TOTAL PARRY 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 - 0 0 |
Turn 627 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 3 - 0 BASHING ATTACK 1 - 2 3 STRIKING ATTACK
LUNGING ATTACK 2 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 2 AIMED BLOW
SLASHING ATTACK 2 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 1 2 SLASHING ATTACK
STRIKING ATTACK 1 - 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 1 2 BASHING ATTACK
WALL OF STEEL 1 - 1 TOTAL PARRY 0 - 0 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE
1 LUNGING ATTACK
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
AIMED BLOW WILD FIRE 4880 14 0 3 147 DISASTER (497)
SLASHING ATTACK EARTH QUAKE 4885 8 2 1 74 DISASTER (497)
BASHING ATTACK SERGEANT 4 4901 6 2 1 58 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
LUNGING ATTACK SERGEANT 3 4903 7 1 1 49 MEDAL OF HONOR Z3 (499)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is TCHACK LOY 4856. The most popular warrior this turn
was MODESTA STONE 4910. The ten other most popular fighters were WILD FIRE 4880,
EARTH QUAKE 4885, SERGEANT 3 4903, GENERAL 3 4905, SERGEANT 2 4900, MOHAWK JOE 4896,
COLIN POOLE 4893, MELWODE STONE 4909, SERGEANT 4 4901, and MORIT KOBUN 4911.
The least popular fighter this week was MORTIS THE FORSAKEN 4897. The other ten
least popular fighters were CAPTAIN BONES 4898, SERGEANT 5 4908, TCHACK LOY 4856,
MORIT KOBUN 4911, SERGEANT 4 4901, MELWODE STONE 4909, COLIN POOLE 4893, MOHAWK JOE
4896, SERGEANT 2 4900, and GENERAL 3 4905.