DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER

Date   : 02/04/2009    Duedate: 02/17/2009

IAYE ARENA

DM-30    TURN-594

This Weeks Top Honors

THE DUELMASTER IS

LITTLE ROCKY
RED DOG GANG (356)
(30-4768) [21-9-0,104]

Chartered Recognition Leader   Unchartered Recognition Leader

LITTLE ROCKY                   THIGHS
RED DOG GANG (356)             HER BEST ASSETS (461)
(30-4768) [21-9-0,104]         (30-4796) [0-1-0,5]

Popularity Leader              This Weeks Favorite

SPUD                           LITTLE ROCKY
RED DOG GANG (356)             RED DOG GANG (356)
(30-4783) [10-8-0,66]          (30-4768) [21-9-0,104]

THE CURRENT TOP TEAM

LENPROS (145)

          TEAMS ON THE MOVE            TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name                  Point Gain  Chartered Team
1. LENPROS (145)               24
2. HER BEST ASSETS (461)       11      LENPROS (145)
3. THE WARLOCKS (430)           1      Unchartered Team
4. GAMEHENDGE (299)             1
5. RED DOG GANG (356)          -6      HER BEST ASSETS (461)

The Top Teams

Career Win-Loss Record           W   L  K    %  Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns    W  L K
 1/ 1 LENPROS (145)            %1050 670 31 61.0   1/ 1 LENPROS (145)             9  4 0
 2/ 2 THE WARLOCKS (430)       206 136 12 60.2   2/ 2 RED DOG GANG (356)        7  8 0
 3/ 3 GAMEHENDGE (299)         213 213 11 50.0   3/ 3 GAMEHENDGE (299)          2  3 0
 4/ 4 RED DOG GANG (356)       613 766 13 44.5   4/ 4 THE WARLOCKS (430)        1  2 0
 5/ 0*HER BEST ASSETS (461)      0   2  0  0.0   5/ 0*HER BEST ASSETS (461)     0  2 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 #22 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +

Fratsfa:

     It was one of the worst parts of the city.  Calling it a slum would be an insult
to honest slums elsewhere.  Lenpro's first instinct was to hustle the Flower Girl out
of there.  How did she even come to know such an area?  He glanced sideways at
Sizzling Sunflower.  It might be better to ask how she could help finding it.
     Sunflower was leaning close to a man, talking earnestly.  Persuasively, because
his firm gestures of refusal were becoming uncertain.  Very persuasively, because she
finally took him by the arm and brought him over to Lenpro.  As he watched them
approach, the manager was impressed with how carefully the stranger did not attempt
to take any liberties with the Flower Girl.
     "This is Two-finger Tom," Sunflower said.  "He saw what happened, and he'll tell
you what he saw."
     "Yeah, well."  The man squinted at him, looked around carefully, leaned closer.
His breath was bad.  "I seen some of those cat men grab a couple of decent girls.
Dragged 'em off, they did.  I reckon that has something bad in mind."
     Lenpro resisted the urge to step away from this case of walking halitosis.  "We
can't go by what you 'reckon'," he said.  "What do you know for sure?"
     "That a coupla those Aruaki--" Two-finger Tom spat, narrowly missing Lenpro's
boot, "they grabbed a coupla human girls and dragged them off.  Down that way," he
added, jerking his head toward the river.  "No telling what they might do to the
girls.  Cats.  You can't trust 'em."
     "Then we'd best go look for the girls."  Lenpro glanced around at the crowd that
had gathered.  "A group of us are going to look for the girls who were taken," he
said.  "A disciplined group, not a mob."
     Someone in the back of the crowd laughed.  "Sounds to me like a mob--a LYNCH
mob--is what's needed here."
     "Yeah, we can start by killing all those beast-men!  More beast than man, THEY
are!" someone else yelled.  Also someone in the back that Lenpro couldn't see.  The
crowd stirred and muttered, some in agreement and some not, but the agreement seemed
to have the upper edge.
     "No killing out of hand!" Lenpro shouted back.  "That isn't the Andorian Way--"
     The first man took up the argument again, his voice dripping contempt.  "The
'Andorian Way' is just a pretty toy the elves and beast-lovers came up with to hobble
us honest humans!  That 'Andorian Way' isn't worth spit!"
     The crowd stirred and muttered.  A lot of the mutters seemed to be in agreement
with the hecklers.
     "Show yourself!" Lenpro demanded.  "If you have courage in your convictions,
step forward and show your face."
     The crowd stirred and a man came forward.  Was thrust forward, perhaps against
his will, by the people around and behind him.  He looked defiant, truculent.
     He looked Karnhorn.  Lenpro knew that racial stereotyping was often unfair, but
he needed to discredit this man before the crowd became a mob.  "Is this the Karnhorn
party line you've been handing out?" he asked, keeping his voice calm, idly curious.
"It sounds like it, and you look like it."
     More stirring in the crowd, mutters, a wave of suspicion.  If there was a
lynching, this man might be first, and he could see it.  "I'm no Kjarran-lover," he
growled.  "Don't go putting words in my mouth!"
     "Somebody's been putting them there," Lenpro said.  "Somebody with his
headquarters in Zuwayza, I'd guess."  He held up a hand and stopped the surge of the
crowd--for now, at least.  "You didn't want us to wait for facts before lynching
Aruaki, why should we wait for facts before lynching you?"
     "I'm not--!"
     Someone threw a stone, Lenpro couldn't see who.  It arched up over the heads of
the crowd and struck the possible Karnhorn on the side of the head so that he
staggered and fell, blood running down the side of his face.
     The crowd roared and became a mob, maddened and excited by the blood, by having
a target for hostility that had been festering.  Lenpro cursed and pushed Sunflower
back.  He wanted the heckler for questioning, but he wasn't going to get the man.
The mob would see to that--and maybe that mob had been triggered by his accomplice
who didn't want questions asked.  He wanted to go in search of the missing girls, but
he suspected that wasn't going to happen right away, either.  The witness, informant,
that Sizzling Sunflower had found was in the thick of the mob.

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                          ---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---

                                     Duelmasters
                                     -----------
 DM   8 ARKERS (turn 305): CONCUSSION of CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
 DM  11 ARUAK CITY (turn 612): DICKY V GOES POSTAL of ARMED & GREGARIOUS (?, mgr.)
 DM  14 TOBIR (turn 611): WHOLE MUTT of THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  22 SOLVEN (turn 604): HOT EIGHTEEN of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
 DM  24 ZORPUNT (turn 601): TCHENI LOY of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  25 LYRATILAN (turn 600): MISS SCARLET of GOTTA GET A CLUE (?, mgr.)
 DM  26 CALEAM (turn 597): SOLDIER 23 of MEDAL OF HONOR F7 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
 DM  30 IAYE (turn 593): LITTLE ROCKY of RED DOG GANG (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  40 ZENSU (turn 563): GRUNT 5 of MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
 DM  41 KATI-TEI (turn 554): GOTHELCINA of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  46 ARDIVENT (turn 545): BIG DOPE of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
 DM  52 FRATSFA (turn 253): PULLED HAMSTRING of OTTO'S PARTS (Crip, mgr.)
 DM  63 AMEN-TEI (turn 444): M.T. LANE of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  71 KYR'TERR (turn 205): TRYPTOPHAN of SUPERIOR FORCES ZC (Manager, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 467): MAXIMUS of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)

                                      Top Teams
                                      ---------
 DM   8 ARKERS (turn 305): CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
 DM  11 ARUAK CITY (turn 612): TECHNO 8 (Technogeek, mgr.)
 DM  14 TOBIR (turn 611): OTAGO HIGHLANDERS (The Mun, mgr.)
 DM  22 SOLVEN (turn 604): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
 DM  24 ZORPUNT (turn 601): MEDAL OF HONOOR J4 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
 DM  25 LYRATILAN (turn 600): THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  26 CALEAM (turn 596): ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr)
 DM  30 IAYE (turn 593): POSITION IS EMPTY
 DM  40 ZENSU (turn 563): BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  41 KATI-TEI (turn 554): MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
 DM  46 ARDIVENT (turn 545): FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
 DM  52 FRATSFA (turn 253): THE ORDER (Torak, mgr.)
 DM  63 AMEN-TEI (turn 444): MEDAL OF HONOOR J3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
 DM  71 KYR'TERR (turn 205): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 497): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)

                                   Recent Graduates
                                   ----------------
 DM   8 ARKERS (turn 304): GOLDENEYE of BONDAGE (Spawn, mgr.)
 DM  11 ARUAK CITY (turn 611): ONEWOLF of WOLFBROTHERS (Doc Steele, mgr.)
 DM  25 LYRATILAN (turn 600): TRELLIN XISS of THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  30 IAYE (turn 592): OUT OF TIME of GAMEHENDGE (Malaquar, mgr.)
 DM  40 ZENSU (turn 562): DACEANA LINZ of BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  41 KATI-TEI (turn 554): GOTHELCINA of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  46 ARDIVENT (turn 545): BIG DOPE of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
 DM  52 FRATSFA (turn 552): SIZZLING SUNFLOWER of FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.)

                                 DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
                             Notes from the arena champ.

     That's the trouble with you humans, well, you're a golem, but the principle
applies.  Out of Time.  Because you think time is important.  Abstractly, you know.
Us dogs don't do abstract, and we're a lot happier.  Sure, we like to be fed
regularly, but that has more to do with being hungry than with a clock.  For us,
"morning" is good enough, and we don't have to fret over nine am, or ten am, or
eleven am, or whatever.  So we're never "out of time."  Which might be why I won, or
maybe just because golems don't have the knack.  Who can tell?  Who cares?

                                    Little Rocky

                                      SPY REPORT

     It is I, Novgorodny Vir, Spymaster of Spymasters.  Look on my work, ye mighty, 
and despair!  Practice pays for LADY LIBERTY, who pummelled RUSTIE, to pocket 26 
points.  RUSTIE certainly had a baffled expression on hers face, after losing to LADY 
LIBERTY and losing 19 points in the process!  HELP ON THE WAY found out that IAYE 
isn't a democracy.  You've gotta be the best to be Duelmaster here!  So who was the 
warrior seen charging into immovable walls and challenging dead trees?  Someone's got 
a basic problem...   
     So much to report, so little time!  Like the noble eagle soaring amongst the 
mountaintops, so stand the warriors of GAMEHENDGE, alone and unchallenged.  As a 
woman of good breeding scorns the "warriors" of LENPROS, so did that sorry team shy 
from GAMEHENDGE If challenges were horses, HELP ON THE WAY could open up a fast food 
joint!   
     Ah, the duel!  The roar of the oppenent, the smell of the crowd!  Ask not for 
whom the sword slashes; it slashes for thee.   
     All good things must come to an end.  More important duties call me.  IAYE, I 
leave you now.  The Duelmaster has agreed to foot my bill at The Rat Nest.  'Til next 
time-- Novgorodny Vir  

DUELMASTER                     W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 LITTLE ROCKY 4768            21   9  0   104       RED DOG GANG (356)

CHAMPIONS                      W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 SIR CARLSON 4777             17   4  0    85       LENPROS (145)
 BAINES 4724                  17  26  0    77       GAMEHENDGE (299)
 HELP ON THE WAY 4717         15  28  2    75       THE WARLOCKS (430)

CHALLENGER ADEPTS              W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 SPUD 4783                    10   8  0    66       RED DOG GANG (356)

ADEPTS                         W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 LADY LIBERTY 4792             5   1  0    55       LENPROS (145)
 MAYOR MCLAY 4784              8   4  1    54       LENPROS (145)
 RUSTIE 4789                  10   4  0    34       RED DOG GANG (356)

CHALLENGER INITIATES           W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 MOONDOG 4790                  9   5  1    33       RED DOG GANG (356)

INITIATES                      W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 GENERAL GOLF 4794             2   0  0    16       LENPROS (145)
 BROTHER DOBBIN 4795           2   0  0    16       LENPROS (145)
 THIGHS 4796                   0   1  0     5       HER BEST ASSETS (461)
 DIGGITY DOG 4793              0   5  0     5       RED DOG GANG (356)

'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.

THE DEAD                W  L K TEAM NAME            SLAIN BY              TURN Revenge?
LEGS 4798               0  1 0 HER BEST ASSETS 461  STONE GOLEM           594  NONE

                                     PERSONAL ADS

Good thing we Lenpros contributed at The Face!  0-3, 0-3, 2-3, and another 0-3 in
ADM.  We must be easy, eh? -- Lenpro (The Embarrassed)

Out Of Time -- Congrats on the Lord Protectorship.  Well deserved. -- All Us Lenpros

Red Dogs -- I think you have the adepts covered! -- Lenpro

     With dog hair?

Congratulations to Little Rocky, Dog Of The Month AND Duelmaster! -- The Lenpros

Baines -- You were patient, but not patient enough.  (wink) -- Sir Carlson

Friendly Constable -- Thank you for the welcome.  I think I shall like Iaye. --
Brother Dobbin

Moondog -- Abide by the rules of our city and beware the dogcatchers.  (wink) --
Mayor McLay

Spud -- You ruined my perfect record, you dog! -- Lady Liberty

Hot diggety dog!  A great start for me with a drive down the middle and sinking a
twenty-footer for the birdie.  (Or was that a doggy?) -- General Golf

Health.  Humility.  Honor.  Iaye Forever. -- Lenpro

That Kung-Fu Master goes around KICKING DOGS!  I should have expected it when I saw
he was a dwarf.  Dwarves just don't understand dogs at all.  Sad.  For them.  They
miss so much. -- Rustie

Mayro Mclay -- I can TOO kill a houseplant!  I did just the other day, although I
didn't MEAN to, but I was trying to bury a bone in the pot and, well, the plant got
uprooted.  But it was just a plant, you know, so who cares?  And I couldn't bury it
OUTSIDE, because the ground is frozen. -- Moondog
P.S.  Are you going to do anything about this darned leash law?  It's really putting
a crimp in my social life.

Lady Liberty -- What's the point of wearing socks that look like they aren't there
and then when a dog comes along quite innocently and rubs up against 'em, they get
"runs" and you get all mad?  I'm not seeing the point in this.  I mean, they look
like no socks, and they're so thin they can't be very warm, so why wear 'em? -- Spud
P.S.  They aren't even good to chew on.

General Golf -- But...!  I was just going to play with your ball, fetch it back and
all, so why did you get so upset?  There was no need to hit me with your stick.  That
hurt! -- Diggity Dog

Lenpro -- It must've been some kind of fluke, but sometimes it feels good to be top
dog! -- Jorja for the Red Dog Gang

Lady Liberty -- It's a friendly gesture, dammit. -- Diggity Dog

A salute to all who participated in the tourney, and remember, there are some things
that are better buried under the rug. -- Jorja and the Red Dog Gang

                                  LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS

LEGS was dealt death by STONE GOLEM in a crowd pleasing 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
LITTLE ROCKY vanquished HELP ON THE WAY in a 5 minute brutal uneven Title battle.
BAINES was outlasted by SIR CARLSON in a unpopular 8 minute master's duel.
MAYOR MCLAY was narrowly defeated by SPUD in a 2 minute fight.
RUSTIE was demolished by LADY LIBERTY in a 1 minute mismatched competition.
MOONDOG lost to HAPPY PEASANT in a 3 minute master vs. novice upset fight.
DIGGITY DOG was bested by BROTHER DOBBIN in a 1 minute novice's competition.
GENERAL GOLF overcame THIGHS in a action packed 1 minute beginner's melee.

                                    BATTLE REPORT

             MOST POPULAR                        RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS     
|FIGHTING STYLE               FIGHTS        FIGHTING STYLE     W -   L -  K   PERCENT|
|STRIKING ATTACK                  3         LUNGING ATTACK     7 -   1 -  0      88  |
|LUNGING ATTACK                   2         BASHING ATTACK    14 -   4 -  0      78  |
|TOTAL PARRY                      2         PARRY-LUNGE       10 -   3 -  0      77  |
|AIMED BLOW                       2         PARRY-STRIKE       6 -   4 -  1      60  |
|PARRY-LUNGE                      1         PARRY-RIPOSTE      6 -   4 -  0      60  |
|PARRY-STRIKE                     1         TOTAL PARRY       16 -  13 -  0      55  |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE                    1         WALL OF STEEL      6 -   9 -  0      40  |
|BASHING ATTACK                   1         STRIKING ATTACK    2 -   4 -  0      33  |
|WALL OF STEEL                    1         AIMED BLOW         3 -  13 -  1      19  |
|SLASHING ATTACK                  0         SLASHING ATTACK    0 -   1 -  0       0  |

Turn 594 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     STRIKING ATTACK    1 -  2         2  TOTAL PARRY    
LUNGING ATTACK     2 -  0     AIMED BLOW         0 -  2         2  LUNGING ATTACK 
TOTAL PARRY        2 -  0     PARRY-STRIKE       0 -  1         1  WALL OF STEEL  
                              PARRY-RIPOSTE      0 -  1         1  AIMED BLOW     
                              SLASHING ATTACK    0 -  0         1  PARRY-LUNGE    
                              BASHING ATTACK     0 -  1         1  BASHING ATTACK 
                              WALL OF STEEL      0 -  1         1  PARRY-RIPOSTE  
                                                                1  PARRY-STRIKE   
                                                                1  STRIKING ATTACK

                               TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE

FIGHTING STYLE   WARRIOR                     W   L  K PNTS TEAM NAME                  
TOTAL PARRY      LITTLE ROCKY 4768          21   9  0  104 RED DOG GANG (356)
PARRY-LUNGE      SPUD 4783                  10   8  0   66 RED DOG GANG (356)
LUNGING ATTACK   LADY LIBERTY 4792           5   1  0   55 LENPROS (145)
BASHING ATTACK   MAYOR MCLAY 4784            8   4  1   54 LENPROS (145)
PARRY-RIPOSTE    RUSTIE 4789                10   4  0   34 RED DOG GANG (356)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.

The overall popularity leader is SPUD 4783.  The most popular warrior this turn was 
LEGS 4798.  The ten other most popular fighters were LITTLE ROCKY 4768, MAYOR MCLAY 
4784, SPUD 4783, GENERAL GOLF 4794, LADY LIBERTY 4792, MOONDOG 4790, BROTHER DOBBIN 
4795, THIGHS 4796, HELP ON THE WAY 4717, and RUSTIE 4789.

The least popular fighter this week was SIR CARLSON 4777.  The other ten least 
popular fighters were BAINES 4724, DIGGITY DOG 4793, RUSTIE 4789, HELP ON THE WAY 
4717, THIGHS 4796, BROTHER DOBBIN 4795, MOONDOG 4790, LADY LIBERTY 4792, GENERAL GOLF 
4794, and SPUD 4783.