DUELMASTERS NEWSLETTER

Date   : 11/19/2003    Duedate: 12/02/2003

ARVAT ARENA

DM-32    TURN-459

This Weeks Top Honors

THE DUELMASTER IS

STARBREAKER
CALL THE PRIEST (344)
(32-4039) [12-2-1,126]

Chartered Recognition Leader   Unchartered Recognition Leader

STARBREAKER                    ROHAN
CALL THE PRIEST (344)          DIAMOND THRONE (269)
(32-4039) [12-2-1,126]         (32-3361) [3-2-1,23]

Popularity Leader              This Weeks Favorite

MAY FISTAFOLES                 IZUSU TROOPER
DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)          FLAMING DEATH (347)
(32-3852) [15-8-0,66]          (32-4062) [2-0-0,22]

THE CURRENT TOP TEAM

DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)

          TEAMS ON THE MOVE            TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name                  Point Gain  Chartered Team
1. SARATOGA GLORY (352)        32
2. DIAMOND THRONE (269)        27      CALL THE PRIEST (344)
3. CALL THE PRIEST (344)       15      Unchartered Team
4. FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)     12
5. FLAMING DEATH (347)         11      FLAMING DEATH (347)

The Top Teams

Career Win-Loss Record           W   L  K    %  Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns    W  L K
 1/ 1*FLAMING DEATH (347)        2   0  0  100   1/ 1 DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)    11  4 0
 2/ 2 CALL THE PRIEST (344)     44  24  3 64.7   2/ 2 CALL THE PRIEST (344)     7  0 0
 3/ 3 DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)    705 410 37 63.2   3/ 3*DIAMOND THRONE (269)      5  4 0
 4/ 0*SARATOGA GLORY (352)       3   2  1 60.0   4/ 0*SARATOGA GLORY (352)      3  2 1
 5/ 6 FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)  265 377  9 41.3   5/ 6*FLAMING DEATH (347)       2  0 0
 6/ 7*DIAMOND THRONE (269)       8  13  2 38.1   6/ 7 FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)   2 11 0
 7/ 0*L.A. MOB (353)             0   1  0  0.0   7/ 0*L.A. MOB (353)            0  1 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[(< + -----:----- + >)] The Free Cities #73 [(< + -----:----- + >)]H[(<

Korga:

     Fist of Kjarran rather liked being hailed as a hero in Korga.  It wasn't
something he'd expected, which made it even better.  Cadal explained to the people--
several times--that the hunter had not been destroyed, only driven off, and that the
road was still dangerous after dark, but the Korgans didn't seem to care.  They
fussed over Fist, cheered when he assured them that Aghtamar, herself a Korgan, had
been invaluable in the effort, and generally made a party out of the whole situation.
     Later that evening, when all the gladiators were so full of food they could
barely move (or didn't want to, at least), Fist drew Cadal aside.  "These people act
like all their troubles are over!" he worried.  "The hunter will still be out there,
maybe not right away, but he'll be back."
     "I know that," Cadal said, "and you know that, and more of the Korgans realize
it than you might think.  But there isn't anything else we can do about it without
help."  He smiled faintly.  "Even the kind of help you had is not exactly what we
need here.  It was enough for that night, but it was...."  He frowned, groping for
the right words, then shrugged.  "There was power enough, you understand, and the
will to help, but it wasn't really the best tool for the job."
     "What is the best tool, then?  If there is one at all."
     "I think there is a tool," Cadal said, "and I think the man who knows about it
is Lord Malcorn.  So in the morning we head for Malcorn, and we ask."

Zukal:

     Ghenis watched the ship _Relentless_ ease out into the channel and brushed his
hands together.  It was bound for Niatoli to further certain interests of the dark
cult.  On it was Veleks, and Cousin Og, who would look after the small thief...one
way or another.  Which freed him to attend to other matters.
     First of those other matters was a meeting with Pelishtekan, the Ferencian who
was currently the 'chief priest' of the cult.  Ghenis scowled to hide his grimace of
disgust.  He didn't like the Ferencian.  In fact, he loathed the man.  But it wasn't
necessary to like him, not really.  As long as Pelishtekan did his job, nothing else
counted.
     And right now, the man's job was to explain what manner of creature, monster, or
whatever was hunting over the lands just north of Zukal.  And how the damned thing
could be fought and destroyed.  It was in the way of certain plans that he had made
for the benefit of the dark cult...and of himself, of course.  The dark power did not
expect his minions to work for nothing but the joy of it.
     Ghenis left the waterfront behind and wove his way through the twisted and
noisome alleys of one of Zukal's poorest districts.  The cult always had its centers
among the homes of the poor.  They were the ones who had something to gain from it,
and nothing to lose, from shaking up the old order, after all.  Ghenis smiled just a
little.  He liked shaking things up.
     The cult was headquartered in a tall narrow building squeezed between other tall
narrow buildings.  The cellar, which was dark and always damp and divided into tiny
rooms no more than six feet square, was used for...storage.  More or less.  The
ground floor, reached by going down half a dozen steps from street level, was the
shrine itself.  The level above that was where the main work of the cult was done,
the plotting and planning, the gathering of information, the good stuff.  Above that,
two floors of small rooms where members of the cult lived if they couldn't do better
for themselves.  And on the top floor, the pigeons that carried messages from points
as distant as Zuwayza and Murska in the north, Rocanis, Xochithlan, and even Tricorus
in the south.  Most people had no idea how far the cult reached.
     Which was another source of amusement to Ghenis.  The authorities here in Zukal,
the very heart of the cult, had no idea that it was anything more than a handful of 
dissatisfied commoners meeting to worship some petty godling.  Ha!  If Bey Sekahos
knew how near he stood to the rim of disaster, how fast he was sliding down the slope
into hell--!  Even the Bandit Princes, who had a clearer understanding of their city,
didn't know that the cult was gaining power daily and would soon be ready to make its
move.  IF the monster north of the city could be dealt with.
     Ghenis pushed open the door of the old house and stepped toward Pelishtekan's
office, batting away the coil of incense that came up from the shrine below.  The
incense wasn't necessary, just window-dressing added to the cult worship by
Pelishtekan.  Ghenis didn't care for it.  Damned frills!  But it did seem to please
the lesser members, and of course it added to their "harmless crackpot" image.
     The Ferencian was waiting for him in the cult's office, simmering with
indignation.  As soon as the door was shut, he demanded, "What do you think you're
doing?"
     Ghenis raised an eyebrow and smiled faintly, clearing off the other chair and
sitting down.  "Doing?  The cult's work, of course.  What did you think I was doing,
Pelish?"
     "In sending Og and Veleks to Niatoli without consulting me, you were--"
     "--Doing as we agreed was necessary.  Niatoli can't be left out of our plans,
and we HAD agreed that we should send someone to lay the ground there."
     "But--"
     "And it was necessary to get Veleks out of the city before his fear broke the
nerve of other people.  Cousin Og will keep an eye on him."
     "If the thief's nerve is broken--"
     "He'll be fine on Niatoli.  The thing he fears doesn't seem to cross water
readily."  Ghenis leaned forward.  "Put aside your annoyance and listen to me,
Pelish.  The thing Veleks fears--let me tell you about it."  He launched into a
description of what he had seen north of Zukal, and of what Veleks had been able to
tell him.
     When Ghenis was through, the other man sat in silence for a long moment.  Then
he shook his head, seeming almost dazed.  "I had believed Alastari free of such
beings, unaccountable as that freedom had appeared.  I supposed it was the Grey
Witch's doing, that she had bound them long ago to keep them from interfering in her
plans.  Why would she loose them now?"
     "Who knows what the Witch would do?  But you do know what this monster--these
monsters--are?"
     "More or less," the Ferencian said, shrugging.  "They're remnants of the races
that inhabited Ghea before...whatever, the Old Gods or who knows what, started
meddling.  The ancient scrolls which I have seen in Ferencia speak of them as being
the rulers of the world when humans were still little more than beasts living in
caves and there were no elves or dwarves here at all."  He shrugged again.
"Unsupported myth, of course, but it does suggest that they are a very old race.
Frankly, if I'd thought of them at all, I would have supposed them destroyed here in
Alastari."
     "Destroyed in Alastari," Ghenis repeated.  "That implies that in other places--
such as Ferencia--they are not destroyed, and perhaps not even bound?"
     "They're BOUND, of course!"  Pelishtekan snapped, scandalized.  "Er...more or
less.  Differently in different places, of course.  But we couldn't leave them
LOOSE."
     "I can see that," the gladiator agreed.  "So, we have these things loose here,
but they CAN be bound.  Okay, fine.  How do we do it?"
     The Ferencian blanched.  "WE don't do it, that is work for great wizards, high
priests, men of power--"
     "And no one in the cult has that amount of power?"  Scowling, Ghenis came to his
feet and leaned closer to the Ferencian, his hands braced on the desk between them.
He gathered up a fist-full of Pelishtekan's tunic.  "Are you telling me that the cult
doesn't have that kind of power?  That it's just a piddling little two-bit cult?"
     Pelishtekan paled further.  "No!  No, the cult has that power, but nobody HERE
can wield it!  And with the Arcanum so weak--"
     "The state of the Arcanum doesn't seem to be affecting the monsters," Ghenis
interrupted in a hard voice.  "Any dark god worth his worship should be able to take
care of a few monsters, Ferencian.  If I find that this is just a small time
operation for a small time demon after all, there will be HELL to pay, man, and I
will PERSONALLY see that you pay the first installment."

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                        ---===FREE BLADES REGIONAL NEWS===---

                                     Duelmasters
                                     -----------
 DM   9 ZUKAL (turn 478): SCHIZOPHRENIC of DSM4 (The Sandman, mgr.)
 DM  12 RIZTAB (turn 476): CUNNING CALICO of ARENA FELINES (Garfield, mgr.)
 DM  15 MALCORN (turn 472): MAN O' WAR of TRIPLE CROWN (Sultan, mgr.)
 DM  16 WILLAF (turn 472): CRIMSON of PHOENIX (?, mgr.)
 DM  17 ALJAFIR (turn 470): ASH of DELTA DOOM (Barnabas, mgr.)
 DM  19 ZUWAYZA (turn 469): LADY DEATHSTRIKE of QUASI-LEGAL OPS (Necron 99, mgr.)
 DM  28 MORYA (turn 234): TERRIBLE TOTOMAC of IDIOTIC ICCERS (THawk, mgr.)
 DM  29 LAPUR (turn 461): BUZZARD of THE TAKEN (Stillgard, mgr.)
 DM  31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 232): GAELIN BLACKTALON of THE NIGHTHAWKS (Firehawk, mgr.)
 DM  32 ARVAT (turn 458): STARBREAKER of CALL THE PRIEST (Destitute Noble, mgr.)
 DM  33 NIATOLI ISLAND (turn 456): WILD CARD HAMMER of CASINO HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.)
 DM  35 MURSKA (turn 449): KING BEAR of THE BEARS (Papa Bear, mgr.)
 DM  43 VEASTIAN (turn 412): SILVER BELLE of WENSINWASIN (Youngblood, mgr.)
 DM  45 STORMCROWE (turn 209): BINGE N PURGE of EMETICS (Berylstar, mgr.)
 DM  47 NORTH FORK (turn 204): 101 PROOF!! of COFFEE RULES! (Mr. Coffee, mgr.)
 DM  50 SNOWBOUND (turn 191): IRIADOR of DRUID'S GROVE (Talon Warsmith, mgr.)
 DM  56 ROCANIS (turn 337): GAZELLE of REDHORSE (Mila, mgr.)
 DM  61 JURINE (turn 317): MARTINE of FAVORITE GUYS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  73 ERINIKA (turn 139): MONGOL HORDE of WORLDWIDE GORE (Crip, mgr.)
ADM 103 FREE BLADES (turn 362): NEMESIS of CHAMPIONS from JHELUM (Shadowgate, mgr.)

                                      Top Teams
                                      ---------
 DM   9 ZUKAL (turn 478): BLUE MOON (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  12 RIZTAB (turn 476): ARENA FELINES (Garfield, mgr.)
 DM  15 MALCORN (turn 472): GREENWARDENS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  16 WILLAF (turn 472): BLACKHEART'S AXE (?, mgr.)
 DM  17 ALJAFIR (turn 470): none
 DM  19 ZUWAYZA (turn 469): NATURE'S WRATH (?, mgr.)
 DM  28 MORYA (turn 234): KESSEN (Iker, mgr.)
 DM  29 LAPUR (turn 461): none
 DM  31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 232): WORDS TO THE WISE (Wordsmith, mgr.)
 DM  32 ARVAT (turn 458): DEVIL ADVOCATES (Dark One, mgr.)
 DM  33 NIATOLI ISLAND (turn 456): CASINO HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.)
 DM  35 MURSKA (turn 449): THE BEARS (Papa Bear, mgr.)
 DM  43 VEASTIAN (turn 412): KORGAN CRUSADE (Jack Wolfspider, mgr.)
 DM  45 STORMCROWE (turn 209): MIKES MORGUE (Mike, mgr.)
 DM  47 NORTH FORK (turn 204): COFFEE RULES! (Mr. Coffee, mgr.)
 DM  50 SNOWBOUND (turn 191): TEAM VIRTUE (Boy Scout, mgr.)
 DM  56 ROCANIS (turn 337): BAD APPLES (Uncle Wolf, mgr.)
 DM  61 JURINE (turn 317): FAVORITE GUYS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  73 ERINIKA (turn 139): DHOOMZDEY (Fizban, mgr.)
ADM 103 FREE BLADES (turn 362): MEOW MIX, etc. (Sylvester Frothingslosh, mgr.)

                                   Recent Graduates
                                  -----------------
 DM   9 ZUKAL (turn 478): SCHIZOPHRENIC of DSM4 (The Sandman, mgr.)
                          GWEN RYDER of DREAM PARK (Zalgor Prigg, mgr.)
 DM  12 RIZTAB (turn 476): CUNNING CALICO of ARENA FELINES (Garfield, mgr.)
                           CAT FANCY of ARENA FELINES (Garfield, mgr.)
                           FASTER PUSSYCAT of ARENA FELINES II (Garfield, mgr.)
                           PERSONAL BEJEEZUS of ESTIMATED PROPHETS (Chazz
                           Frothingslosh, mgr.)
 DM  17 ALJAFIR (turn 469): INBRED FRED of SPECIAL ED (PTFT, mgr.)
 DM  28 MORYA (turn 233): LUCKY LUCIEN of CANADIAN BACON (Firehawk, mgr.)
                          POLARIS of ASTRONOMY DOMINE (Razorback, mgr.)
                          RAPAX of THE PENTARCHY (The Pentalque, mgr.)
 DM  31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 231): DELWYNNDWN of THE NIGHTHAWKS (Firehawk, mgr.)
                               GILGAMESH of THE STORMBRINGERS (High Lord Bosk, mgr.)
 DM  32 ARVAT (turn 458): LINDEN of FISHERMAN'S WHARF (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  33 NIATOLI ISLAND (turn 456): WILD CARD HAMMER of CASINO HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.)
 DM  35 MURSKA (turn 449): KING BEAR of THE BEARS (Papa Bear, mgr.)
 DM  43 VEASTIAN (turn 411): HEMERA AHKISAR of TERMAGANT VOTARY (Noachian, mgr.)
 DM  45 STORMCROWE (turn 208): IPECAC of EMETICS (Berylstar, mgr.)
 DM  47 NORTH FORK (turn 204): BEAR KEEPER of CARNIVAL (Carny, mgr.)
                   (turn 203): JUMBO MUMBO of SPOONERTIKS (Spawn, mgr.)
 DM  56 ROCANIS (turn 337): GAZELLE of REDHORSE (Mila, mgr.)
 DM  73 ERINIKA (turn 139): SUNGLASSES of FOUND IN THE SAND (Assurnasirbanipal, mgr.)
                (turn 138): I.O.U. of ALPHABET SOUP (Crip, mgr.)

                                 DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
                             Notes from the arena champ.

Greetings, Arvat!

Starbreaker coming at you one more time after my huge defeat of M. Chardinee.  After
this fight (presuming I live to tell the tale), I will have 20 fight experience and
thus will be just on the cusp of competing in the adepts for the next tourney, and
that will be my last fight before then.  Hopefully, I will make up for my absence by
a strong tourney showing, and by coming back afterwards and representing you again as
the DM until I'm promoted to the Isle.  At least...that's the plan!

J.B. Goode got a few wins in the champions class in the tourney for us which will
hopefully make him that much more ready for the next one in January.  Locked In and
Private Property should also be competing in that event both at my side in the
adepts, so we're hoping for a good showing.

This turn my challenge goes to...no one, again.  Looks like M. Chardinee, or Kung Fu
Master, or whomever.  J.B. is going down in the ranks to try one of those Devil
Advocates with a winning record.  Nothing personal, just no one else interesting to
challenge.

Good luck to all, and we'll see you down the road!!

Starbreaker

                                      SPY REPORT

     Welcome ARVAT.  I, Olaf Modeen remember this place well.  Many the fights have I 
fought here.  The celebrations, the disappointments...  What's with TRADEMARK?  He 
actually beat DIAMOND THRONE's SWIFT FEUTZ, and walked away with 14 more points from 
the fight.  Laughs were big at FLAMING DEATH while they watched IZUSU TROOPER clobber 
TED EVIL.  He lost 6 points and got bruised from objects thrown from the stands.  Try 
as she might, LINDEN wasn't good enough at persuading STARBREAKER to step down from 
the Duelmaster's throne...  Advice to fighters with a 1 will--give up fighting!   
     Speaking of cowardly avoiders and unfair challenges...  How well I know the 
feeling of being in the most avoided team!  Don't fall out of practive, FISHERMAN'S 
WHARF!  Management must be dealin', as the boys at DEVIL ADVOCATES ain't reelin'!  
FISHERMAN'S WHARF's mad!  What do people see in BASKERVOLE?  His 8-16-0?  FISHERMAN'S 
WHARF ain't talkin', but he's got 40 points.  MAY FISTAFOLES expects the easy win by 
going 22 points down.  BASKERVOLE will find this a hard lesson!  MAY FISTAFOLES 
bested BASKERVOLE.  DEVIL ADVOCATES calls this fighting?  In my day...   
     A fighter's lot is filled with strife, revenge, and killing.  Some fighters 
don't accept this.  The best do.  Is it my imagination, or are fighters getting 
younger every day?  To die so young, so gloriously!   
     Well, I'm pretty much through.  You guys need to get back practicing.  All work 
and no play makes Olaf a dull fighter.  Work and play no fighter dull Olaf.  
Olaffighterwork and no play.  I don't want to overstay my welcome...-- Olaf Modeen  

DUELMASTER                     W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 STARBREAKER 4039             12   2  1   126       CALL THE PRIEST (344)

CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS           W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 JOHNNY B GOODE 4034          13   2  0   120       CALL THE PRIEST (344)

CHAMPIONS                      W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 FIZGIGG 4012                 19  25  1    90       FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)
-PRIVATE PROPERTY 4029         7   4  1    90       CALL THE PRIEST (344)
-LOCKED IN 4049                8   4  1    87       CALL THE PRIEST (344)
 TIA M. ATT 4095               8   1  2    74       DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)

CHALLENGER ADEPTS              W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 MAY FISTAFOLES 3852          15   8  0    66       DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)

ADEPTS                         W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 DIETER KWAN 4092              8   2  0    53       DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)
 LIL ETH 4093                  7   3  2    49       DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)
 BASKERVOLE 4071               8  16  0    40       FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)

CHALLENGER INITIATES           W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
-RUN OF THE MILL 4056          3   4  0    32       CALL THE PRIEST (344)

INITIATES                      W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 ROHAN 3361                    3   2  1    23       DIAMOND THRONE (269)
 IZUSU TROOPER 4062            2   0  0    22       FLAMING DEATH (347)
 KI'SHIN 4110                  2   0  0    20       DIAMOND THRONE (269)
 TRADEMARK 4114                1   0  1    14       SARATOGA GLORY (352)
 KY'LIAN 4118                  1   0  0    10       DIAMOND THRONE (269)
 SOLAR MAN 4115                1   0  0    10       SARATOGA GLORY (352)
 TED EVIL 4109                 2   1  0     9       DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)
 STYLISH 4116                  1   0  0     6       SARATOGA GLORY (352)
 DOGFISH 4105                  0   4  0     4       FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)
 PRETTY WILD 4113              0   1  0     1       SARATOGA GLORY (352)
 TASSALTER 4112                0   1  0     1       FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)
 STEFANUCCI 4121               0   1  0     1       L.A. MOB (353)
 GHOSTZAPPER 4117              0   1  0     1       SARATOGA GLORY (352)

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

THE DEAD               W  L K TEAM NAME             SLAIN BY             TURN Revenge?
DEBBE EAST 3858       10  6 0 DEVIL ADVOCATES 105   OBSIDIAN GOLEM 3975   456         
DA #1 4111             0  1 0 DIAMOND THRONE 269    BANDIT PRINCE 334     459 NONE    
SWIFT FEUTZ 4107       1  2 0 DIAMOND THRONE 269    TRADEMARK 4114        459         

                                     PERSONAL ADS

Johnny B Goode -- Why not be BAD for a change?  I'd think you'd get TIRED of being
good all the time. -- Fizgigg

May Fistafoles -- I could've SWORN you'd died.  And if you did, and here you are
again, well, I'm not getting mixed up with you at all! -- Baskervole

Lil Eth -- My dear, the chainmail bikini thing is NOT you.  You need silk (not wool!)
next to the skin. -- Linden

Rohan -- (puzzled look)  If I'm a fine opponent, why did I lose? -- Dogfish

     That's exactly why you're fine. -- Ed.

Starbreaker -- Well done! -- Linden

31 October 2003
     Come one, come all, to the greatest contest in Alastari!  The Third Annual Turf
War will be in North Fork (DM 47) starting in about 6-7 turns....  C'mon and get your
team some experience, and get declared!
     More info available in North Fork's newsletter.
     Bloody Sands. -- Asmo Dius, TCB

13 November 2003
Let it be known far and wide, that the Warrior TUM 18-7380, the Champions Runner-Up
for the recent Tournament, is managed by none other than Shocking Toad.  I named this
fabulous warrior after my friend and mentor, TUM, a.k.a. Don!  Sorry TUM didn't get
me my first TC; however, a runner-up with all those sandbaggers is pretty impressive,
if I do say so myself. -- Shocking Toad, The Manager

13 November 2003
All -- This is to announce that I am no longer a member of the Vendetta Cartel
Alliance.  I have enjoyed my time there, and I've made some great friends.  Their
company will be missed, but they will endure.  I wish them well. -- Apex

                                  LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS

DA #1 was butchered by BANDIT PRINCE in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
MAY FISTAFOLES devastated BASKERVOLE in a 2 minute gruesome one-sided Challenge duel.
TED EVIL was savagely defeated by IZUSU TROOPER in a 4 minute Challenge fight.
STARBREAKER devastated LINDEN in a 1 minute one-sided Title fight.
JOHNNY B GOODE demolished TIA M. ATT in a 1 minute mismatched competition.
FIZGIGG vanquished DIETER KWAN in a 1 minute mismatched fight.
LIL ETH luckily beat THE USEROUS MERCHANT in a unpopular 12 minute gory brawl.
ROHAN handily defeated DOGFISH in a 1 minute gruesome uneven melee.
SWIFT FEUTZ was slaughtered by TRADEMARK in a 1 minute uneven fight.
KI'SHIN vanquished PRETTY WILD in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
TASSALTER was overpowered by SOLAR MAN in a 1 minute one-sided melee.
STYLISH savagely defeated STEFANUCCI in a 1 minute bloody novice's match.
GHOSTZAPPER was handily defeated by KY'LIAN in a 1 minute one-sided contest.

                                    BATTLE REPORT

             MOST POPULAR                        RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS     
|FIGHTING STYLE               FIGHTS        FIGHTING STYLE     W -   L -  K   PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK                   5         LUNGING ATTACK    20 -  10 -  0      67  |
|SLASHING ATTACK                  4         WALL OF STEEL     20 -  11 -  4      65  |
|WALL OF STEEL                    4         SLASHING ATTACK   16 -   9 -  1      64  |
|STRIKING ATTACK                  2         PARRY-LUNGE        7 -   4 -  0      64  |
|PARRY-STRIKE                     2         STRIKING ATTACK   12 -   7 -  1      63  |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE                    2         TOTAL PARRY        3 -   2 -  1      60  |
|TOTAL PARRY                      2         AIMED BLOW         4 -   3 -  1      57  |
|PARRY-LUNGE                      1         BASHING ATTACK     4 -   4 -  1      50  |
|BASHING ATTACK                   1         PARRY-STRIKE       8 -  16 -  1      33  |
|AIMED BLOW                       1         PARRY-RIPOSTE      0 -   5 -  0       0  |

Turn 459 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     WALL OF STEEL      1 -  3         4  SLASHING ATTACK
SLASHING ATTACK    4 -  0     AIMED BLOW         0 -  1         2  WALL OF STEEL  
STRIKING ATTACK    2 -  0     PARRY-STRIKE       0 -  2         1  BASHING ATTACK 
BASHING ATTACK     1 -  0     PARRY-RIPOSTE      0 -  2         1  AIMED BLOW     
LUNGING ATTACK     3 -  2     TOTAL PARRY        0 -  2         1  PARRY-LUNGE    
                                                                1  LUNGING ATTACK 
                                                                1  PARRY-STRIKE   

                               TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE

FIGHTING STYLE   WARRIOR                     W   L  K PNTS TEAM NAME                  
SLASHING ATTACK  STARBREAKER 4039           12   2  1  126 CALL THE PRIEST (344)
WALL OF STEEL    TIA M. ATT 4095             8   1  2   74 DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)
PARRY-LUNGE      MAY FISTAFOLES 3852        15   8  0   66 DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)
LUNGING ATTACK   DIETER KWAN 4092            8   2  0   53 DEVIL ADVOCATES (105)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.

The overall popularity leader is MAY FISTAFOLES 3852.  The most popular warrior this 
turn was IZUSU TROOPER 4062.  The ten other most popular fighters were MAY FISTAFOLES 
3852, STARBREAKER 4039, JOHNNY B GOODE 4034, STYLISH 4116, FIZGIGG 4012, ROHAN 3361, 
KI'SHIN 4110, KY'LIAN 4118, BASKERVOLE 4071, and TED EVIL 4109.

The least popular fighter this week was LIL ETH 4093.  The other ten least popular 
fighters were GHOSTZAPPER 4117, STEFANUCCI 4121, TASSALTER 4112, PRETTY WILD 4113, 
SWIFT FEUTZ 4107, DOGFISH 4105, DIETER KWAN 4092, TIA M. ATT 4095, DA #1 4111, and 
SOLAR MAN 4115.

The following warriors have traveled to ADVANCED DUELMASTERS after fighting this turn:

LINDEN (32-4072) FISHERMAN'S WHARF (288)