DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER

Date   : 05/05/2004    Duedate: 05/18/2004

MURSKA ARENA

DM-35    TURN-462

This Weeks Top Honors

THE DUELMASTER IS

TOM THUMB
THE BEARS (253)
(35-3791) [8-1-1,90]

Chartered Recognition Leader   Unchartered Recognition Leader

TOM THUMB                      MEGALODON
THE BEARS (253)                DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)
(35-3791) [8-1-1,90]           (35-3838) [5-1-0,41]

Popularity Leader              This Weeks Favorite

GWALCHMAI                      CLYDE
CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)         LOST CAUSE (268)
(35-3749) [16-13-3,64]         (35-3665) [10-10-2,61]

THE CURRENT TOP TEAM

LOST CAUSE (268)

          TEAMS ON THE MOVE            TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name                  Point Gain  Chartered Team
1. THE BEARS (253)             43
2. LOST CAUSE (268)            28      THE BEARS (253)
3. B.I.B. (255)                19      Unchartered Team
4. DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)     9
5. STRONGHOLD (282)             0      DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)

The Top Teams

Career Win-Loss Record           W   L  K    %  Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns    W  L K
 1/ 1*DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)   5   1  0 83.3   1/ 1 LOST CAUSE (268)          8  7 0
 2- 2*BLITZKRIEG (357)          13   7  4 65.0   2- 3*BLITZKRIEG (357)          4  1 2
 3- 3 LADY OF BATTLES (336)     22  14  0 61.1   3/ 7 THE BEARS (253)           4  1 1
 4/ 4 THE BEARS (253)          321 235 21 57.7   4- 2 STRONGHOLD (282)          3  2 0
 5/ 5 LOST CAUSE (268)         288 238 26 54.8   5- 5 LADY OF BATTLES (336)     2  0 0
 6- 6 STRONGHOLD (282)          25  26  3 49.0   6/ 6*DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)  2  1 0
 7/ 7 CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)   427 659 18 39.3   7/ 8 B.I.B. (255)              2  6 0
 8/ 8 B.I.B. (255)              18  29  2 38.3   8/ 4 CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)    2 13 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 #79 [(< + -----:----- + >)]H[(<

Near Barikala:

     The pillar of light over Barikala was not an attack in any obvious way, but
Artemisia found no comfort in that.  It was probably magical.  No, it was definitely
magical.  No one had been able to explain it in the months, the years since the
Invasion, but they'd figured out that early on.  Well, what else could it be?  And
it, or something connected to it, was deadly dangerous, because no ship or single
visitor had returned from Barikala after the pillar first appeared.  Those ship
captains who normally used Zukal's port had long since worked out the limits of
safety in the waters around Barikala, and The Golden Moon was well outside that 
limit.  But...the zombies were something new on the chart.
     A man screamed behind her, along the ship's other rail, and she whirled.  There
was movement beyond the rail, black on near black, hard to make out.  Lanterns lit
the ship's deck but cast no significant light beyond it.  She could see one of her
sailors staggering toward the rail with some kind of dark cable wrapped around the
middle of his body, but not what lay beyond and pulled him.
     She didn't need to see.  She crossed to that side of the deck, her cutlass
whistling down on the cable.  The blade bit, but not deeply, the cable was more
rubbery than a normal rope.  It wasn't a rope, of course.  She saw with disgust
rather than fear that it was a tentacle, though what creature would have a tentacle
four inches thick at any point was not something she cared to think deeply about.
The Lady Protector hacked downward again.
     There were more cries.  Fear, loathing, terror.  More tentacles reaching up and
over the ship's side.  Tentacles on one side of the ship, zombies on the other.
Neither group of sailors could abandon their own task to aid the other.  Both
attacking forces were stronger than Artemisia had expected.  She began to wonder if
her crew and her ship would survive at all.

Niatoli Island:

     Lord Protector Ghenis walked along the waterfront of the island's only real town
and looked over the shipping on hand.  He wasn't sure what he was looking for, but he
figured he'd know it when he saw it.  Some people might have taken him for a tourist
and considered robbing him, or selling him the kind of trash that hustlers always
sold to strangers and rubes, but...not here.  This town had an arena, and they knew
that kind of walk, that assured and dangerous stance.  He could be a hick with hay
growing out his ears, but as long as he was a Lord Protector, no one would mistreat
him so.  At least, no one but another Lord Protector.  And since he wasn't such a
hick....  He smiled, a baring of his teeth that drove human rats out of his path.
     Ah.  There was a man on the street ahead of him, talking to a probably ship
captain.  A man who, like himself, was unmistakably a Lord Protector.  Tall, hard,
maybe not quite human, although Ghenis couldn't put his finger firmly on the
difference.  Something in the way he stood, maybe.  Not that it matter.  This looked
like a man he could work with.
     When the man turned away from the sailor, Ghenis was there, nodding his head in
a move as close to a bow as he ever got.  "I'm Ghenis, from Zukal," he said, and
raised a questioning eyebrow.
     The other frowned.  Odd, at this close distance, he seemed almost...scaled.
"Agro, Lapur," the man said shortly.
     Ghenis noted that the sailor was moving away, clearly dissociating himself from
the two gladiators.  "I have control of a ship," Ghenis said, "and I am minded to
make a raid on the invaders at Monuntial.  You look like a man who might be
interested in that."
     Agro's frown deepened, but he smiled, baring pointed, over-large teeth.  "I'm
interested," he agreed.

Rocanis:

     Lady Protector Eleven Blade, Leven to her friends, stood on Spirit Ridge and
stared southward.  What should have been rolling, increasingly arid grasslands to the
distant horizon was now a bank of...fog, maybe.  Dark, sharp as a wall at its base,
the top of it working like porridge boiling in a pot.  And no more than fifteen miles
away, probably less.  Ten.  "I've never seen anything like it," she admitted.
"Strange weather...if it is weather."
     "It's partly weather," her companion said slowly, "but not entirely."  He was a
Lord Protector from Morya, Ghost Dancer by name.  "I have been studying it for two
months now.  It began...I don't know where.  Somewhere in the far south.  It was a
hundred miles south of here when I first saw it."
     Leven glanced at the man sharply.  She didn't really know him, but there was
nothing in his face or manner that suggested he was lying.  "It's moved ninety miles
in two months?  At that rate, it could be on Rocanis within a week!"
     "Its speed is irregular," Ghost Dancer said.  "Some days it moved scarcely a
mile, other days it raced north like wildfire.  But yes, it could be on Rocanis...
any time."  He was silent for a moment, as though debating whether he should say
more.  With a faint shrug, he went on, "I have not been able to find an end to the
line of it and get around behind.  I have no idea what lies behind in the ground it
has already covered.  But I would not expect to find anything really GOOD where that
has passed."
     Obviously not, Leven agreed silently.  The unknown never seemed to be
benevolent.  It was probably a natural law.  "You couldn't get around an end," she
said.  "Did you try going straight through?"
     Ghost Dancer paled a little.  "Yes," he said very quietly.  "I survived, but I
didn't get very far into it.  Or I would never have come back, I think.  It was like
being caught in a whirlwind, in part.  But I was not the only thing in the grip of
the walking storm, and the others were....  Some of them were beasts, mad with terror
and striking blindly.  Others were," he hesitated, "things.  The sort of things a
priest of the Mytori might call out of the Darkness."
     "Do you believe it's a natural phenomenon?" Eleven Blade asked.
     "No."
     "Good.  If it's unnatural, it was made by men.  Or something like men, anyway.
And what men can make, they can undo.  Let's find out how, and then...undo."

            + ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ Out of the Past #6 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
                                  Free Blades Edition

Zuwayza:

     Tiberious, newly made a Lord Protector in Aljafir, looked at the capital city of
the Glorious Empire with curiosity and unease.  While he was a citizen of the Empire
in good standing, he was also a Dwarf, and the races which weren't strictly human
were regarded with suspicion throughout most of the Empire.  Especially here at its
ancient heart.  He hadn't wanted to come here.  But a new law ruled that all Lord
Protectors desiring a grant of lands or other honors must apply to the Great Palace
of the Satrap for them, and he WAS a Dwarf.  He would not lightly forego this portion
of the reward for which he had striven so long and at such risk.  He took a firmer
grip on the battle axe which custom required all Dwarves to carry and strode up to
the Western Door.
     Decent metal work, he noted professionally.  To be honest, excellent metalwork,
although he could not (and this surprised him) even guess at the source.  It was
unlike anything he'd seen before, not the work of Elf or Human, and certainly not
Dwarven work.  He was an educated man, in the Dwarven sense, and he would KNOW.  Very
old, you didn't get that kind of patina on bronze in a day, not even if you employed
an alchemist.  He leaned closer, trying to make out the individual symbols that
formed a tangled whole on each panel.
     "Too close a study of those doors can be injurious to your health."
     Tiberious whirled, raising the axe automatically.  But the speaker was an old
man in the long robe of a Karnhorn scholar, no threat unless he was a wizard.  On
closer look, it seemed like he probably was a wizard.  There was something about the
eyes that marked them, as though they saw things that others couldn't.  Probably they
did.  "If the doors are so dangerous, why use them?"
     "Because of the danger, perhaps, but mostly because they are old, and old things
lend a legitimacy to what is younger."  The old man shrugged slightly.  "You are a
gladiator, I think?"
     "Right, from Aljafir, come to see about my Lord Protector grant."
     "Good!  I am Vekhirn, chief wizard to the Satrap, may his days be long, and I
have need of a gladiator."  He gestured, and the door swung open.  "Come into my
sanctum, and I will explain what must be done."

Chimlevtal:

     Lord Kinnishan, ruler of Chimlevtal, looked up from a litter of reports as his
chief adviser entered the study.  "If it's more about the assassination plot--"
     "No, that is grave enough, but we have other problems," Shau'nin Snowbeard said.
"Deeper ones, perhaps, in the long view.  Have you seen the Ruin Reef lately?"
     The shipping hazard known as the Ruin Reef lay two miles off shore to the
southeast from Chimlevtal.  It was a rocky barricade just below the surface of the
lake (most of the time).  When the water was clear, or when wind and waves exposed
them, the rocks could be seen to resemble a line of ruined buildings, but without a
closer examination that was normally possible, no one could say if that was a true
seeming.  There were natural formations that could give that appearance.  The Reef
was visible from Chimlevtal in good weather, but not from this room.  Without
comment, Kinnishan got up from the desk and went out onto the balcony, peering
southward past the end of the building.
     Shau'nin didn't follow him; he already knew what was to be seen.  "It would
appear that the Reef actually is formed on ancient ruins.  Or was."
     "It would appear," Kinnishan said grimly, "that they are ruins no longer.  I
presume you have a report from closer observation?"
     "Some gladiators are investigating now," the old Adantri said.  "Others are
traveling to Arvat and Zukal, even to Monuntial, to discover the faces behind the
assassination plot.  We should have information soon."
     "And then we will have to make plans.  I will not lose this city-state to the
forces of Chaos, come what may."

      * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ *

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

                                     Duelmasters
                                     -----------
 DM   9 ZUKAL (turn 490): B. TRAYOR of LETTER BOMBS (Papa Bear, mgr.)
 DM  12 RIZTAB (turn 488): PHANTAST of DREAMERS (Sleepy, mgr.)
 DM  15 MALCORN (turn 484): BIRDSONG of GREENWARDENS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  16 WILLAF (turn 484): ANTEZEL of WYLDERNESS WYLD (Barnabas, mgr.)
 DM  17 ALJAFIR (turn 482): TORLYN UNA of MIDDLE WAY (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  19 ZUWAYZA (turn 481): BLUE of THE SIERRAS (Barnabas, mgr.)
 DM  28 MORYA (turn 240): LOONY LATEKNIGHT of IDIOTIC ICCERS (THawk, mgr.)
 DM  29 LAPUR (turn 473): BINDI of CROC FILES (THawk, mgr.)
 DM  31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 238): SYWINELL of BUSHMASTERS (Tripwire, mgr.)
 DM  32 ARVAT (turn 470): DIETER KWAN of DEVIL ADVOCATES (The Dark One, mgr.)
 DM  33 NIATOLI ISLAND (turn 467): KEOKOTAH of SACKETT'S & CO. (Barnabas, mgr.)
 DM  35 MURSKA (turn 461): TOM THUMB of THE BEARS (Papa Bear, mgr.)
 DM  43 VEASTIAN (turn 424): FLESHRENDER of WIDOWMAKERS (Soultender, mgr.)
 DM  45 STORMCROWE (turn 215): ZINDELLA AZRON of MOJO P@TROL (Master Voodoo, mgr.)
 DM  47 NORTH FORK (turn 210): 100% COLUMBIAN of COFFEE RULES! (Mr. Coffee, mgr.)
 DM  50 SNOWBOUND (turn 196): TOM SMITH DISEASE of STRANGE TUNES (Berylstar, mgr.)
 DM  56 ROCANIS (turn 348): TYI VELWIC of INCONSISTENT FURY (Banthius, mgr.)
 DM  61 JURINE (turn 328): FREDDIE of FAVORITE GUYS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  73 ERINIKA (turn 145): CONUNDRUM of MYSTERIOUS (Mad Max, mgr.)
ADM 103 FREE BLADES (turn 374): KREWKUT SAUSAGE of LINCOLNSHIRE from DAL SHANG (The
                                Sandman, mgr.)

                                      Top Teams
                                      ---------
 DM   9 ZUKAL (turn 490): SOLITAIRE (The Dark One, mgr.)
 DM  12 RIZTAB (turn 488): ARENA FELINES (Garfield, mgr.)
 DM  15 MALCORN (turn 484): SACRILEGIOUS MEAT (Klep, mgr.)
 DM  16 WILLAF (turn 484): WYLDERNESS WYLD (Barnabas, mgr.)
 DM  17 ALJAFIR (turn 482): HEROESANDFOUNDONES (The Judge, mgr.)
 DM  19 ZUWAYZA (turn 481): CURTAIN CALL (?, mgr.)
 DM  28 MORYA (turn 240): THE PENTARCHY (The Pentalque, mgr.)
 DM  29 LAPUR (turn 473): CROC FILES (THawk, mgr.)
 DM  31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 238): WHAMMO & THUDDA 4 U! (Micky, mgr.)
 DM  32 ARVAT (turn 470): DEVIL ADVOCATES (The Dark One, mgr.)
 DM  33 NIATOLI ISLAND (turn 467): CASINO HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.)
 DM  35 MURSKA (turn 461): LOST CAUSE (Vol, mgr.)
 DM  43 VEASTIAN (turn 424): THE FAMILY (Don John, mgr.)
 DM  45 STORMCROWE (turn 215): MOJO P@TROL (Master Voodoo, mgr.)
 DM  47 NORTH FORK (turn 210): LAND OF OZ (Oz the Successful, mgr.)
 DM  50 SNOWBOUND (turn 196): TEAM VIRTUE (Boy Scout, mgr.)
 DM  56 ROCANIS (turn 348): ROLE MONSTERS (Keldon Blackfang, mgr.)
 DM  61 JURINE (turn 328): FAVORITE GUYS (Jorja, mgr.)
 DM  73 ERINIKA (turn 145): PERFECTION QUEST II (Mannequin, mgr.)
ADM 103 FREE BLADES (turn 374): BLACKEST PRIDE (

                                   Recent Graduates
                                  -----------------
 DM  12 RIZTAB (turn 488): FLADRAKEEN OOSCH of TEAM GNASTY (Big Gnasty, mgr.)
               (turn 487): KNOTHEAD of BLOODSUCKERS (Way Cool, mgr.)
                           HOFFA'S BANE of SPIRITUAL GIFT (Sultan, mgr.)
 DM  16 WILLAF (turn 484): ANTEZEL of WYLDERNESS WYLD (Barnabas, mgr.)
                           MANAGER TC'S of IT'S JUST WRONG (LHI, mgr.)
 DM  17 ALJAFIR (turn 482): TIBERIOUS of HEROESANDFOUNDONES (The Judge, mgr.)
 DM  28 MORYA (turn 240): LOONY LATEKNIGHT of IDIOTIC ICCERS (THawk, mgr.)
                          IDIOTIC INDIGO of IDIOTIC ICCERS (THawk, mgr.)
              (turn 239): POPPY HAMMER of FLOWER HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.)
 DM  29 LAPUR (turn 473): RAGING FIRE of DEATH THREAT (Papa Bear, mgr.)
 DM  31 CHIMLEVTAL (turn 238): UNCAS of THE STORMGUARDS (The Icelord, mgr.)
                   (turn 237): HUNGRY BONES of UNFIT TO BE ORCS (Slugbait, mgr.)
 DM  32 ARVAT (turn 469): LOCKED IN of CALL THE PRIEST (Destitute Noble, mgr.)
 DM  33 NIATOLI ISLAND (turn 467): KEOKOTAH of SACKETT'S & CO. (Barnabas, mgr.)
 DM  43 VEASTIAN (turn 424): FLESHRENDER of WIDOWMAKERS (Soultender, mgr.)
 DM  47 NORTH FORK (turn 210): 100% COLUMBIAN of COFFEE RULES! (Mr. Coffee, mgr.)
                               BLACK JACK SHELACK of ROYAL FLUSH (Crip, mgr.)
                               TENT IN QUARANTINO of SPOONERTIKS (Spawn, mgr.)
                   (turn 209): SUGAR CUBE of COFFEE RULES! (Mr. Coffee, mgr.)
                               101 PROOF!! of COFFEE RULES! (Mr. Coffee, mgr.)
 DM  50 SNOWBOUND (turn 195): NASSE of DARK SIDHE (Daehir, mgr.)
 DM  56 ROCANIS (turn 348): NAKHA ADIASO of INCONSISTENT FURY (Banthius, mgr.)
 DM  73 ERINIKA (turn 145): CONUNDRUM of MYSTERIOUS (Mad Max, mgr.)
                            PRIZMATYK WAHL of MAGIC MAYHEM (Fizban, mgr.)
                (turn 144): LEE of GODDESSES (LHI, mgr.)
                            GAI-JIN of RISING SUN (Spawn, mgr.)

                                      SPY REPORT

     I was going on vacation, see?  Surf, sun...  But what do those bums say?  "Hit 
the road, Debby Tonte.  MURSKA needs a spyreport."  Oh, well.  I don't wanna hurt 
anybody's feelings or anything, but CHILDREN OF LLYR really goofed with their 0-5-0.  
The guys at THE BEARS like really pulled together to get a 3-0-1 this turn, moving up 
by 4.  MVP award for PADRE?  THE BEARS' proud of him after beating LYN SAIN and 
getting 22 points.  Talk about yer big time losers!  BRUTE got smashed by WICKED 
WANDA, and lost 3 points!  Don't you think the Duelmaster is being unfair?  I think 
TOM THUMB should let SPELLSINGER be Duelmaster for a while, without fighting about 
it.  Is the Duelmaster really being a real snob to his teammates?  Don't ask me!   
     Look, you guys stick to fighting, all right?  The warriors of LOST CAUSE must be 
getting lonely.  They were the most avoided team.  Do you guys know something that I 
don't?  Hhmph!  What kind of warriors are DEVILS OF THE DEEP?  LOST CAUSE, an easy 
team to beat if I ever saw one, can't get them to accept an invitation!   
     Man, all these warriors dying and killing each other!  Don't you guys ever give 
it a break?  What if they had a fight and nobody showed up?  I'd be out of a job, 
that's what!!!   
     Remember, blood on a purple robe may stain.  Soak it in cold water, and hand 
wash.  I know how much you like reading this stuff, but I really should stop.  
Remember you guys, ease up sometimes!  Chill out!  Later, Debby Tonte  

DUELMASTER                     W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 TOM THUMB 3791                8   1  1    90       THE BEARS (253)

CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS           W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
-INANNA 3537                  12   5  0   112       LADY OF BATTLES (336)

CHAMPIONS                      W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 SPELLSINGER 2597              8   7  1    70       B.I.B. (255)

CHALLENGER ADEPTS              W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 GWALCHMAI 3749               16  13  3    64       CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)
 CLYDE 3665                   10  10  2    61       LOST CAUSE (268)

ADEPTS                         W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
-BARRISTER 3817                3   1  1    56       BLITZKRIEG (357)
-KAN'SHI 3802                  6   3  1    53       STRONGHOLD (282)
 MEGALODON 3838                5   1  0    41       DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)
-O'MALLEY 3816                 3   1  1    40       BLITZKRIEG (357)
-SEBASTION 3834                3   1  0    39       STRONGHOLD (282)
 PANE 3822                     4   3  0    36       LOST CAUSE (268)

CHALLENGER INITIATES           W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
 STUPID 3840                   5   0  0    30       LOST CAUSE (268)
 OISAN 3794                    5  13  0    28       CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)
 WICKED WANDA 2826             5   5  0    25       B.I.B. (255)
-MUSCLE HEAD 3847              2   0  0    25       STRONGHOLD (282)
 BRANGWYN 3793                 3  15  0    24       CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)

INITIATES                      W   L  K POINTS      TEAM NAME                  
-DARLING NIKKI 3842            2   0  1    23       BLITZKRIEG (357)
 PADRE 3844                    1   0  1    22       THE BEARS (253)
-ESTHER 3739                   2   1  0    14       LADY OF BATTLES (336)
 BLUE EYES 3845                1   0  0    12       THE BEARS (253)
 BRUTE 3850                    1   2  0     9       LOST CAUSE (268)
-BADDA BADDA 3815              2   2  0     8       BLITZKRIEG (357)
 CU-CADAL 3848                 0   4  0     4       CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)

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

THE DEAD               W  L K TEAM NAME             SLAIN BY             TURN Revenge?
HEH8ME 3855            0  1 0 B.I.B. 255            MISTRESS SHA'TYIR 23  462 NONE    
LYN SAIN 3849          2  2 0 CHILDREN OF LLYR 141  PADRE 3844            462         
MELGWYN 3804           3  6 0 CHILDREN OF LLYR 141  KAN'SHI 3802          458 NOT REVE
DEAD 3854              0  1 0 LOST CAUSE 268        MOUNTAIN TROLL 18     462 NONE    
BROKE 3846             1  1 0 LOST CAUSE 268        DARLING NIKKI 3842    460         
SPARHAWK 2927          7  6 0 STRONGHOLD 282        BARRISTER 3817        460         

                                     PERSONAL ADS

Megalodon -- Back to the deep!  Begone! -- Brangwyn
P.S.  I figured it was worth the try.

O'Malley -- Sheesh, you Blitzkriegers are everywhere!  Next thing you, you'll turn up
as a warrior in Duplicate Redundancy. -- Oisan

Musclehead -- And elsewhere, too, apparently. -- Lyn Sain

Inanna -- Those grapes were sour anyway. -- Gwalchmai

Pane -- I'd like to just accidentally heave a rock through you. -- Cu-Cadal

A lot of personals, including mine, didn't make it last time, but they should be here
THIS time. -- Jorja

Tom Thumb -- You dwarves really are stumpy little fellows, aren't you? -- Gwalchami

Megalodon -- Well, there's nothing wrong with your learning curve, that's for sure.
-- Oisan

Pane -- I hope somebody just throws a rock right through you. -- Brangwyn

Brute -- Et tu? -- Cu-Cadal

Oh, nice!  I get the only win for the team, and it's a standby.  Easy job. -- Lyn
Sain

8 April 2004
CLICK (KLK) -- Remember, you asked for it.  Chaos is coming....

14 April 2004
CHAOS Inc. proudly announces our newest member, Silver Stroke.  He becomes the
seventh brother of Chaos.  We shall indeed be better for his joining.

                                  LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS

HEH8ME was butchered by MISTRESS SHA'TYIR in a 1 minute bloody Dark Arena fight.
DEAD was unbelievably slain by MOUNTAIN TROLL in a 2 minute Dark Arena battle.
TOM THUMB overpowered SPELLSINGER in a crowd pleasing 1 minute mismatched Title duel.
GWALCHMAI was narrowly defeated by CLYDE in a crowd pleasing 1 minute veteran's fight.
PANE bested BRANGWYN in a popular 5 minute duel.
OISAN was devastated by MEGALODON in a 1 minute mismatched match.
STUPID overcame OSKSI NOBLE in a dull 5 minute fight.
WICKED WANDA won victory over BRUTE in a 1 minute gory expert vs. beginner duel.
CU-CADAL was vanquished by BLUE EYES in a 1 minute one-sided duel.
LYN SAIN was assassinated by PADRE in a 1 minute gory uneven match.

                                    BATTLE REPORT

             MOST POPULAR                        RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS     
|FIGHTING STYLE               FIGHTS        FIGHTING STYLE     W -   L -  K   PERCENT|
|WALL OF STEEL                    5         TOTAL PARRY        8 -   2 -  0      80  |
|LUNGING ATTACK                   3         LUNGING ATTACK    29 -  16 -  4      64  |
|BASHING ATTACK                   3         PARRY-STRIKE       5 -   3 -  0      63  |
|AIMED BLOW                       2         PARRY-LUNGE        6 -   4 -  1      60  |
|SLASHING ATTACK                  1         STRIKING ATTACK   10 -   8 -  3      56  |
|TOTAL PARRY                      1         SLASHING ATTACK    7 -   7 -  1      50  |
|PARRY-LUNGE                      1         AIMED BLOW         4 -   5 -  0      44  |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE                    1         WALL OF STEEL     17 -  24 -  1      41  |
|PARRY-STRIKE                     0         PARRY-RIPOSTE      6 -   9 -  0      40  |
|STRIKING ATTACK                  0         BASHING ATTACK     9 -  24 -  0      27  |

Turn 462 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:

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

                               TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE

FIGHTING STYLE   WARRIOR                     W   L  K PNTS TEAM NAME                  
AIMED BLOW       TOM THUMB 3791              8   1  1   90 THE BEARS (253)
PARRY-LUNGE      SPELLSINGER 2597            8   7  1   70 B.I.B. (255)
WALL OF STEEL    GWALCHMAI 3749             16  13  3   64 CHILDREN OF LLYR (141)
LUNGING ATTACK   MEGALODON 3838              5   1  0   41 DEVILS OF THE DEEP (358)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.

The overall popularity leader is GWALCHMAI 3749.  The most popular warrior this turn 
was DEAD 3854.  The ten other most popular fighters were CLYDE 3665, PANE 3822, 
BRANGWYN 3793, TOM THUMB 3791, WICKED WANDA 2826, GWALCHMAI 3749, MEGALODON 3838, 
BLUE EYES 3845, PADRE 3844, and HEH8ME 3855.

The least popular fighter this week was STUPID 3840.  The other ten least popular 
fighters were LYN SAIN 3849, CU-CADAL 3848, BRUTE 3850, OISAN 3794, SPELLSINGER 2597, 
HEH8ME 3855, PADRE 3844, BLUE EYES 3845, MEGALODON 3838, and GWALCHMAI 3749.