DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER Date : 05/23/2008 Duedate: 06/05/2008 ZENSU ARENA DM-40 TURN-545 This Weeks Top Honors THE DUELMASTER IS LON CHANEY JR. MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) (40-4116) [15-3-2,135] Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader LON CHANEY JR. POSITION IS EMPTY MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) (40-4116) [15-3-2,135] Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite DACEANA LINZ LADY TIFF BEYOND THE PALE (337) GUARDIANS II (247) (40-4244) [15-20-1,73] (40-2666) [4-2-0,32] THE CURRENT TOP TEAM BEYOND THE PALE (337) TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team 1. MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) 59 2. MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) 20 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) 3. GUARDIANS II (247) 17 Unchartered Team 4. NEUROMANCERS (404) 6 5. BEYOND THE PALE (337) 1 MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) The Top Teams Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K 1/ 1 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) 49 22 4 69.0 1/ 1 BEYOND THE PALE (337) 7 8 0 2/ 5*MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) 4 2 1 66.7 2/ 2 NEUROMANCERS (404) 4 1 0 3/ 2 NEUROMANCERS (404) 53 43 6 55.2 3/ 5*MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) 4 2 1 4/ 3 BEYOND THE PALE (337) 562 729 21 43.5 4/ 3 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) 4 2 0 5/ 4 GUARDIANS II (247) 42 63 4 40.0 5/ 4 GUARDIANS II (247) 3 4 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 #5 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ + Zorpunt: Lenpro watched the last of the gladiators leave, clearing the common room of the Krill Cavalry guildhouse for his conference with Fandil. They were probably decent people, but he didn't know them, and the situation did not incline him to trust any stranger. "It will be fine," Fandil said. "They won't go blabbing about our presence, and they won't hear anything that matters, anyway." He gestured, and a faint shimmer sprang up, form a hemisphere in the room, enclosing the two of them. "This will ensure that there are no eavesdroppers." After a moment, Lenpro shrugged. "Okay, it's what we've got to work with, anyway. Where do we start, then?" "With the king, I think. No one's heard seen him in... two or three years, at least, I think?" Lenpro nodded. "At least." "Nor heard anything that constitutes persuasive evidence that he is still alive, still functional, and concerned with his job." Lenpro nodded again, imapatiently. "I know all that. You know all that--" "Just making sure we both know that we both know," Fandil said. "Assumptions are the shifting sands under faulty planning. All the information we can gather indicates that the king has spent the past several years on the Isle, never leaving it. Anything official coming out of Andor is signed by Herlas d'Arenju, styling himself 'First Minister to the King'. He is said to be Fratsfan, but he isn't listed in the Fratsfan Register of Noble Houses and Scions." "Does that matter? That he isn't a nobleman?" "I don't suppose so, in itself. But I would like to find some indication of his background, somewhere. At this point," Fandil said, suddenly exasperated, "I can't even prove that he's Frastfan!" "Or that he's ill-intentioned," Lenpro added, scowling. "He could just be really stupid when it comes to running a government." "Or the front man for a committee," Fandil agreed. Lenpro nodded but brushed the issue aside. "Same thing. That isn't one of the core questions. Later, it might be important, but first," he paused to make sure he had Fandil's full attention, "the first question is, Do we believe that the true and proper king of Andoria is doing his proper job?" The two managers locked eyes over the scarred table. "No," they said simultaneously. "Okay, second question, is there anything we can do to bring the king back to the point of doing that job?" He waved one hand casually. "Setting aside the matter of whether or not we can get at the king. IF we can reach the king, do we believe he can be gotten back on the job?" A silence. A long silence. The clock against the guildhouse wall ticked, chimed, struck the hour, ticked on. Finally Fandil sighed. "No," he said again. "Not according to the little I've heard." Lenpro nodded again. "Third question: Does the king have recognized heirs?" "No. No one that any person has seen or heard of in years. The rumors..." the old mage shrugged, "they're said to have vanished from the Isle, probably into some other dimension. Regardless, they're gone." "Right, so we're talking about establishing a new royal line, or trying for some other form of government, but at the least, we're talking a rebellion." "If there's effectively no king--" "There's a bureaucracy, inefficient and corrupt as it is, which is the acknowledged legal channel of government," Lenpro said. "You think they're going to smile and say, 'Oh, what a good idea, we're behind you all the way!'? I don't. They'll fight." "No army to speak of." "Plenty of assassins, though." "I don't think one of the, ah, non-royal types of government would work in Andoria at this time," Fandil said. "I've seen them elsewhere, and people have to be prepared before they can accept such an order and make it work. But king-making... that's tricky." Lenpro smiled, for the first time since the meeting had begun. "We've got a perfect candidate ready to hand," he said. "The Fratsfan Emperor Alonj." The Isle of the Eye: "I will never eat fish again," Senator Sedalia muttered from under the cover of the tarp. "You won't need to," Gissanniah whispered back. "You're going to have as much trouble getting that smell out of your mustache as I will getting it of my hair." Sedalia's hand went automatically to his mustache, and he sighed. It was limp and untidy, in need of a wash, a trim, and fresh waxing. "It's a sacrifice," he agreed, "but a senator does what he must for his constituents." He sighed theatrically, teasing a smile out of his companion. It was part of his duty, after all, to keep her spirits up. "How much longer will we have to lie here waiting, I wonder?" Gissanniah raised her head just enough to peer through a crack in the side of the cart. "I don't see our driver anywhere," she said after a moment. "At least, he isn't on this side of the cart." Both gladiators listened for a moment to the sound of voices. Too far away for them to make out the words, their driver was talking to... someone. Not guards, this was no checkpoint, but someone. Stung by a sudden surmise, Sedalia glanced across at his companion. Gissanniah was looking toward him, eyes widening with the same thought. "He's betraying us," Sedalia said, certainty crystalizing as he said the words. "He promised he wouldn't tell any of the guards--" "He said nothing about not telling other people... who might carry word to the guards. Out, of here, now! Your side is probably the less observed." "Right." Gissanniah twitched up the tarp, peered out, then slid through the smallest possible opening. "Clear right now," she said. The senator followed. Good so far. The sides of the cart were so high that whoever was talking on the other side could not see them, and it was only thirty feet to the edge of the woods. Sedalia didn't know why Lady Sheila had decreed that most of the Isle was to be left wooded, but he was glad of it now. The two of them walked quietly on a straight line from the cart to the trees. No one tried to stop them, called out, no one appeared at all. Once they were under cover, Sedalia stopped and looked back. "That was too easy," he said. Zorpunt: "Alonj?" Fandil's eyebrows rose. "I have always undestood that he is simple- minded at best, possibly unstable." "You're out of touch," Lenpro said. "Lady Fern has been back in Fratsfa for some time now, and she's observed the government there closely. She says that he's 'sane, steady, decent, and of at least normal intelligence'--her theory is that he was manipulated by his regents and advisors to give the impression of incompetence." "And what's to stop them from being no better than the bureaucracy in Andor?" "His wife. According to Lady Fern, the Empress Kitiara is... very firm, very competent, very loyal, rather dangerous in her own right, and she's given Alonj three children already--two sons and a daughter." Andor: Herlas d'Arenju frowned at the Chief Scribe. "I don't know what you're playing at, Hesselbod, but I don't like what I'm seeing and hearing. A semblance of normality--you said this yourself--is essential to maintaining order. An increase in taxes and an edict of conscription to double the size of the standing army is not normality." The bureaucrat shrugged minimally, his face remaining blank. "There are increasing reports of trouble in the Karnhorn area," he said. "That makes an increase in the army and the taxes proper. If we later end up using them for other things, that's later." "Not very much later!" "The Aruaki have always been troublemakers," the scribe said. "Allowing them to settle here in the first place was the mistake. I merely propose that it's time to take corrective measures. This five-step program should do what is needful. First, close the border of the Clanholds--" "Easy to say, hard to do," Herlas countered. "Land and water both? And what of--" "You have described yourself as a magician," Hesselbod said. "Prove it now. Cage the beast-people as the first step in our campaign to exterminate them." * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * }%|[-----+O+-----]|%{ * ---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===--- Duelmasters ----------- DM 8 ARKERS (turn 296): UNHOLY TERROR of BLOOD RITES (Wretch, mgr.) DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 593): CHIEF SITTING BULL of BULLDOGS (Kennelworth, mgr.) DM 14 TOBIR (turn 593): GINKOR of THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.) DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 586): JEROME of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.) DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 582): MIRESSEA POOLE of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.) DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 582): KEG STAND of BARHOPPERS (Apex, mgr.) DM 26 CALEAM (turn 579): CALONYMUS of STEEL CRUSADE (Cassius Calvata, mgr.) DM 30 IAYE (turn 575): PRIVATE PERNA of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.) DM 40 ZENSU (turn 544): PARTICLE MAN of NEUROMANCERS (Rude Buddha, mgr.) DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 535): RAMBLING OX of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.) DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 526): CUTTER of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.) DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 243): IGOR MALMORT of BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.) DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 428): ATRION of THE EXILED ONES (Darklock, mgr.) DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 197): TRYPTOPHAN of SUPERIOR FORCES (Manager, mgr.) ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 478): AXLY HIMSELF of GERFEL'S FRIENDS (Generalissimo Puerco) Top Teams --------- DM 8 ARKERS (turn 296): THE ANIMALS (The Zoo Keeper, mgr.) DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 593): ANIMAL FARM (Mino, mgr.) DM 14 TOBIR (turn 593): ALL THE MUN'S MEN (The Mun, mgr.) DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 586): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.) DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 582): KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.) DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 582): MASTERS OF SIN (Sin, mgr.) DM 26 CALEAM (turn 279): GOLDEN CANYON (Jorja, mgr.) DM 30 IAYE (turn 575): RED DOG GANG (Jojra, mgr.) DM 40 ZENSU (turn 544): BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.) DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 535): TEMPLARZ HAMMERZ (Hammer, mgr.) DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 526): DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.) DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 243): FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.) DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 428): WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.) DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 197): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.) ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 478): SUPERIOR FORCES (Manager, mgr.) Recent Graduates ---------------- DM 8 ARKERS (turn 296): HAMMURABI of SMITHSONIAN (Curator, mgr.) DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 592): KORO CLOUD of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.) DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 586): JEROME OF KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.) DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 581): TRAVIS T FLETE of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.) DM 26 CALEAM (turn 578): MOLDRAUN of GOLDEN CANYON (Jorja, mgr.) CAYLON MCCANN of STEEL CRUSADE (Cassius Calvata, mgr.) DM 30 IAYE (turn 575): FENCE POST of RED DOG GANG (Jojra, mgr.) DM 40 ZENSU (turn 544): ELDA MAINZ of BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.) (turn 543): BORIS KARLOFF of MEN OF 1,000 FACES (Mad Max, mgr.) DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 526): CUTTER of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.) DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 243): IGOR MALMORT of BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.) (turn 242): PAS DE QUARTIER of BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.) DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 196): I OF THE KNEE DOLL of HAZAARDS OF CLONGING (Crip, mgr.) SPY REPORT It is I, Novgorodny Vir, Spymaster of Spymasters. Look on my work, ye mighty, and despair! Practice pays for WHITE NOISE, who pummelled THE USEROUS MERCHANT, to pocket 21 points. A certain someone should cut down on the drinking and practice more, after losing 6 points to LADY TIFF. (Discrete enough, TERILEE LINZ?) What can be a greater victory? ELDA MAINZ has taken hers place as the top, as ZENSU's new Duelmaster. Word has it one team in ZENSU is taking speech lessons to try to bore their opponent to death. I'll bet it works. My mother wished me to avoid conflict, and seek the gentle trade of Spyreporter. But warriors aren't supposed to avoid fights! Like a horde of jackals fleeing from the lion, so did the "warriors" in ZENSU avoid GUARDIANS II. Like a pup with its tail between its legs, MEN OF 1,000 FACES scurried away from GUARDIANS II. Oh, the shame! Everyone is famous for fifteen minutes, and CHUCK ELVIS is it right now. Most challenged warrior. Isn't BEYOND THE PALE proud! Take heed ZENSU, of the unprincipled action of LON CHANEY JR.. By challenging CHUCK ELVIS, 26 points below him, LON CHANEY JR. besmirches the noble art of dueling. LON CHANEY JR. overcame CHUCK ELVIS with a point difference of 26. So this is what ZENSU calls a duel. This will make an interesting tale. Like the wind whispering among the pines, do hearest I many disquieting rumors. Ask not for whom the sword slashes; it slashes for thee. All good things must come to an end. More important duties call me. Like a mixed metaphor, and an overtaxed simile, I now bid ZENSU farewell-- Novgorodny Vir DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME LON CHANEY JR. 4116 15 3 2 135 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME PARTICLE MAN 4100 13 10 1 98 NEUROMANCERS (404) NORM THE GNOME 2377 11 2 2 96 GUARDIANS II (247) CHUCK ELVIS 4235 21 18 0 91 BEYOND THE PALE (337) CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -TINY GREENLEAF 2393 7 4 1 85 GUARDIANS II (247) DACEANA LINZ 4244 15 20 1 73 BEYOND THE PALE (337) -BELA LUGOSI 4114 10 4 0 73 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME WHITE NOISE 4274 3 0 0 46 NEUROMANCERS (404) CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME LADY TIFF 2666 4 2 0 32 GUARDIANS II (247) -CHRISTOPHER LEE 4139 3 2 1 30 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME CADDIS DEANE 4272 5 2 0 22 BEYOND THE PALE (337) GRUNT 5 4278 1 0 1 16 MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) DA1 4276 1 0 0 16 MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) TERILEE LINZ 4273 4 2 0 15 BEYOND THE PALE (337) -ABSOLUTE ZERO 4031 1 3 0 14 NEUROMANCERS (404) GRUNT 4 4275 1 0 0 13 MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) GRUNT 3 4277 1 0 0 13 MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) -PETER CUSHING 4280 1 0 0 10 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) TAHKASIS 2665 1 5 0 8 GUARDIANS II (247) DAY TURNER 4279 0 2 0 6 MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (439) '-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn. THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge? EMBEZZLING SCRIB 0 0 0 GRUNT 5 4278 545 NONE ROBERT ENGLUND 4281 0 1 0 MEN OF 1,000 FAC 420 SPYMASTER 545 NONE PERSONAL ADS Particle Man -- Euwh! I thought you had dandruff at first, or needed dusting, but then I realized that you have particles all over! Euwh. -- Chuck Elvis P.S. It gets on my blue suede shoes and is totally HECK to get off. Tiny Greenleaf -- Indeed, practically microscopic. But very green. -- Elda Mainz M. Chardinee. What more need I say? -- Daceana Linz A Cult Member? I thought that was passe. -- Terilee Linz Terilee -- Not so, it's all a secret conspiracy, you see. -- Daceana Christopher Lee -- How do you know which face to feed? -- Caddis Deane Mad Max -- Glad to have you here for however long. -- Jorja, Beyond the Pale LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS ROBERT ENGLUND was butchered by SPYMASTER in a 1 minute bloody Dark Arena fight. LON CHANEY JR. vanquished CHUCK ELVIS in a 1 minute uneven Challenge Title battle. TAHKASIS was demolished by CADDIS DEANE in a 1 minute uneven Challenge fight. PARTICLE MAN was bested by ELDA MAINZ in a popular 2 minute veteran's contest. DACEANA LINZ was demolished by NORM THE GNOME in a 1 minute mismatched competition. WHITE NOISE vanquished THE USEROUS MERCHANT in a 1 minute mismatched fight. LADY TIFF savagely defeated TERILEE LINZ in a crowd pleasing 8 minute gory brawl. DAY TURNER was handily defeated by EMBEZZLING SCRIBE in a 1 minute uneven melee. GRUNT 3 vanquished MORDANT DESERTER in a 1 minute uneven fight. GRUNT 5 dispatched EMBEZZLING SCRIBE in a exciting 1 minute novice's fight. DA1 unbelievably bested EMBEZZLING SCRIBE in a exciting 2 minute novice's bout. GRUNT 4 demolished CONVICTED THIEF in a 1 minute mismatched competition. BATTLE REPORT MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS |FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT| |SLASHING ATTACK 4 PARRY-RIPOSTE 2 - 0 - 0 100 | |BASHING ATTACK 4 PARRY-LUNGE 2 - 0 - 0 100 | |LUNGING ATTACK 3 WALL OF STEEL 1 - 0 - 0 100 | |AIMED BLOW 2 PARRY-STRIKE 6 - 2 - 0 75 | |TOTAL PARRY 2 SLASHING ATTACK 12 - 5 - 1 71 | |PARRY-STRIKE 1 STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 1 - 1 67 | |PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 BASHING ATTACK 8 - 7 - 0 53 | |PARRY-LUNGE 0 TOTAL PARRY 8 - 8 - 0 50 | |STRIKING ATTACK 0 AIMED BLOW 4 - 4 - 0 50 | |WALL OF STEEL 0 LUNGING ATTACK 9 - 10 - 0 47 | Turn 545 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-STRIKE 1 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 4 LUNGING ATTACK PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 - 0 STRIKING ATTACK 0 - 0 2 BASHING ATTACK SLASHING ATTACK 3 - 1 TOTAL PARRY 0 - 2 2 AIMED BLOW LUNGING ATTACK 2 - 1 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY AIMED BLOW 1 - 1 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE BASHING ATTACK 2 - 2 1 PARRY-STRIKE TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME BASHING ATTACK LON CHANEY JR. 4116 15 3 2 135 MEN OF 1,000 FACES (420) FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME TOTAL PARRY PARTICLE MAN 4100 13 10 1 98 NEUROMANCERS (404) LUNGING ATTACK NORM THE GNOME 2377 11 2 2 96 GUARDIANS II (247) AIMED BLOW WHITE NOISE 4274 3 0 0 46 NEUROMANCERS (404) Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above. The overall popularity leader is DACEANA LINZ 4244. The most popular warrior this turn was LADY TIFF 2666. The ten other most popular fighters were DA1 4276, LON CHANEY JR. 4116, WHITE NOISE 4274, CADDIS DEANE 4272, PARTICLE MAN 4100, NORM THE GNOME 2377, DAY TURNER 4279, GRUNT 5 4278, GRUNT 4 4275, and GRUNT 3 4277. The least popular fighter this week was TERILEE LINZ 4273. The other ten least popular fighters were DACEANA LINZ 4244, TAHKASIS 2665, CHUCK ELVIS 4235, ROBERT ENGLUND 4281, GRUNT 3 4277, GRUNT 4 4275, GRUNT 5 4278, DAY TURNER 4279, NORM THE GNOME 2377, and PARTICLE MAN 4100. The following warriors have traveled to AD after fighting this turn: ELDA MAINZ (40-4257) BEYOND THE PALE (337) MAIL-IN TOURNEY XLV ELIGIBLES TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME KING LOVE 3748 (70-52-2) 5 3 0 GARDEN OF HORRORS ADM TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME YORGO 3071 (36-10-1) 6 3 0 BLOOD & IRON JAICHIM 3355 (27-9-0) 4 3 0 BLOOD & IRON FRESHMEN TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME TRIUMPH 2160 (18-7-0) 13 2 0 SUPERIOR FORCES GUESS MY STYLE 3407 (33-15-0) 6 3 0 SUPERIOR FORCES CHALLENGERS TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME BORIS KARLOFF 4112 (12-1-1) 7 3 0 MEN OF 1,000 FACES JIMMY CRICKET 3744 (17-16-0) 1 3 0 SUNNYLAND ADEPTS TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME LON CHANEY JR. 4116 (13-3-2) 6 3 0 MEN OF 1,000 FACES INITIATES TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME TONY MEDES 4250 (0-1-0) 3 3 0 BULL RIDERS' APPRENTICES TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME DULLES 4264 (3-0-0) 2 3 0 VABOROUGHS ROOKIES TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME HERMAN 4271 (0-0-0) 1 3 0 BULL RIDERS' ADM FOOLS TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME BUTTERED BEAVER 4042 (8-0-0) 6 2 0 EXOTIC TASTES FRESHMEN FOOLS TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME MATEO 1898 (45-31-1) 4 3 1 TACO GODS TRIANGLE MAN 4000 (25-1-1) 0 3 0 NEUROMANCERS APPRENTICES FOOL TOURNEY W L K TEAM NAME LUKE SNYDER 4254 (1-0-0) 0 3 0 BULL RIDERS'