DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 12/30/2008 Duedate: 01/12/2009
KATI-TEI ARENA
DM-41 TURN-552
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
GHETTO DEFENDANT
RADIO CLASH (394)
(41-4351) [20-10-1,105]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
GHETTO DEFENDANT POSITION IS EMPTY
RADIO CLASH (394)
(41-4351) [20-10-1,105]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
GHETTO DEFENDANT SERGEANT3
RADIO CLASH (394) MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
(41-4351) [20-10-1,105] (41-4393) [2-1-0,15]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397) 44
2. WANDERERS (329) 18 RADIO CLASH (394)
3. THE PLAGUE (93) 0 Unchartered Team
4. RADIO CLASH (394) -22
BABIES (217)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1 RADIO CLASH (394) 51 31 2 62.2 1/ 1 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397) 9 6 0
2/ 2 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397) 49 31 3 61.3 2- 2 THE PLAGUE (93) 7 3 0
3- 3 THE PLAGUE (93) 284 264 18 51.8 3/ 4 WANDERERS (329) 6 9 0
4/ 4 WANDERERS (329) 597 616 15 49.2 4/ 3 RADIO CLASH (394) 5 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[ + ---:--- + ]H[ The Andorian Succession #20 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
Fratsfa:
Lenpro was no magician, but he could tell that something had happened...even if
two men over in the corner hadn't been screaming and holding their heads. Something
magical, probably. He put down his beer, took the glass out of Dandy's hand--he
didn't want to know what weird concoction was in it--and stood. "We have to get back
to the Flower Shoppe," he said. "Fandil may need me."
***** *** ***** *** *****
Fandil was okay. That was a relief, but not entirely unexpected. His brother
was tough, and experienced; he would know how to defend himself. Against...whatever
that had been. He raised an eyebrow inquiringly.
"I don't know either," Fandil said. "Some kind of magical barrier, yes. But
whether it's intended to seal up the magical activity of Fratsfa, or block magical
communication with somewhere else--Andor, for instance, or what exactly was
intended...?" He shrugged. "I don't know who, I don't know why. But I think we
need to go to Andor physically and soon."
"I thought you were concerned about the safety of Emperor Alonj," Lady Fern
said.
"We are," Lenpro answered quickly. "But I would think we could leave that in
your capable hands, sister."
Fern frowned but nodded. "I'll take care of it."
Amen-Tei:
Senator Sedalia looked at his hands and sighed. The oars had rubbed them into
blisters, despite the gloves he'd worn. His back ached. And he loathed the clothing
that went with his costume. Would anyone here in Amen-Tei seriously believe that he
was an itinerant peddler? At least the gods favored him in one thing, and Senator
Dole was no longer resident in this town. He couldn't have fooled Dole for a minute;
one senator always knew another.
Sedalia had argued with the demon on the Black Ship, Tashkemk, that this
masquerade was unnecessary and would be unconvincing, but arguing with demons turned
out to be monumentally unproductive. In a human, the senator would have suspected a
simple enthusiasm for the theatrical, but did that apply to demons? But the worst
was that Tashkemk had insisted that the senator's companion, Gissanniah, remain on
the Black Ship as a hostage for his, Sedalia's, performance. Dammit, he had given
the demon his WORD. If they couldn't trust him, why employ him on this fool's
errand? And when he'd asked what guarantee HE had of the young woman's safety, the
demon had just LAUGHED.
All of which put the senator in a really bad mood, so that when a dockhand
slouched up and sneered at the wretched little boat, skiff, whatever was the proper
term, why, he let fly with some harsh language that would have blistered the hide on
a rhinoceros. Which, Sedalia pointed out in a calmer afterthought, the dockhand
rather resembled--big, ugly, stupid, with a misshapen nose, and a singularly unlovely
attitude.
It turned out that this was precisely the way one should approach sneering
dockhands, and the fellow tethered the vessel to the dock in some appropriate
manner--Sedalia didn't want to know the details--and helped unload the cargo.
The senator didn't care about most of the cargo. Yes, it was valuable, but it
was just stuff, and a man who couldn't pour out wealth to achieve a goal had no
business in politics. Still, it wouldn't do to let the dockhand think he had secret
agendas, so he asked questions about rental space and then watched closely while the
cargo was loaded on a cart, hauled to a sturdy warehouse, and stored in a sealed
room. One leather case with a shoulder strap and brass fastenings he kept with him.
Cargo dealt with, Sedalia's next goal was a dockside tavern called the Pig's
Eye. He had no great hopes of it but found the place cleaner than he'd expected,
busy but not raucous. Of course, he had no inherent objection to "raucous,"
political conventions were always like that. But which of these rather ordinary
looking people was his contact? What would a demon's contact look like, anyway? It
couldn't be another demon, surely, not here in the open.
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---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 304): GOLDENEYE of BONDAGE (Spawn, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 609): THUNK of TECNHO 8 (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 609): WHOLE MUTT of THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 602): HOT EIGHTEEN of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 598): TCHENI LOY of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 598): TRELLIN XISS of THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 595): HEART BREAKER of ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 591): PRINCE POLIOLES of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 560): GRUNT 3 of MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 551): GHETTO DEFENDANT of RADIO CLASH (Rude Buddha, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 542): BLUE KNIGHT of THE TASKMASTERS (Blueface, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 251): SIZZLING SUNFLOWER of FLOWER GIRLS (Lady Fern, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 441): CRUZIA GARDETT of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 205): TRYPTOPHAN of SUPERIOR FORCES ZC (Manager, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 464): SNAKE CHARMER of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 304): CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 609): TECHNO 8 (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 609): ALL THE MUN'S MEN (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 602): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 598): KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 598): THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 595): ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 591): LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 560): BEYOND THE PALE (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 551): MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 542): FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 251): ZERO (Ice Man, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 441): 1949 YANKEES (Papa Bear, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 205): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 493): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 304): GOLDENEYE of BONDAGE (Spawn, mgr.)
(turn 303): ROCK GLAS HUT FUN of ORCISH IDIOMS (Slugbait, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 609): SILVER SNAIL of ANIMAL FARM (Mino, mgr.)
ERITHE ENDIREDRE of PATRONAS VERITAS (Ichabod
Frothingslosh, mgr.)
(turn 608): HORSELFY of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 591): PRINCE POLIOLES of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
(turn 590): BROTHER J.J. of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 560): NORM THE GNOME of GUARDIANS II (Twig, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 541): SHELLEY of FANDILS (Wise Old Fandil, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 441): CRUZIA GARDETT of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.)
SPY REPORT
Well, what are you looking at, KATI-TEI? Ain't you never seen Snide Clemens
before? Ah, shaddup and listen to my news. Of course, we're all terribly impressed
to see ROBERT DUNLAP win a fight and gain 29 points, terribly. Tsk, tsk, ROBERT
DUNLAP beat JANIE JONES and JANIE JONES lost 24 points. You're breakin' my heart.
And if variety is the spice of life, KATI-TEI may be getting bland, as GHETTO
DEFENDANT stays top dog in the city. Kickbacks and bribes, kickbacks and bribes, how
else do you think some of these guys win their fights? Skill? Ha!
He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day, the coward.
KATI-TEI, I am losing what little hope I had in you. THE PLAGUE the most avoided
team? What insult will suffice, I cannot say. And it looks like MEDAL OF HONOR H3
avoided them the most this turn. What a pack of would be losers, if you ask me.
Hmph. STANLOY MEDAR was challenged more times this turn than the Duelmaster. Now
was the DM insulted or feared? Heh, heh.
Some people like volunteer work in the hospitals. I volunteer for KATI-TEI's
morgue. More variety. Titanium shields and bamboo daggers, guess what brave team is
developing these kinds of weapons?
There's got to be a better place in KATI-TEI to get a drink than The Warty Toad!
Any suggestions? Just wait 'till next time I show up here, I won't be so nice! So
nyaaah! Paste this one in your scrapbooks, you'll need the kindling come this
winter-- Snide Clemens
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
GHETTO DEFENDANT 4351 20 10 1 105 RADIO CLASH (394)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-EYES THAT BURN 4339 14 10 0 101 THE PLAGUE (93)
ROBERT DUNLAP 4378 10 7 0 98 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-RAISE THE ABYSS 4331 18 10 1 89 THE PLAGUE (93)
GOTHELCINA 4376 12 10 1 87 WANDERERS (329)
JANIE JONES 4349 17 13 0 75 RADIO CLASH (394)
CHARLES DEGLOPPER 4377 8 9 1 75 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
SERGEANT 1 4388 8 4 1 73 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
TERRINDAR 4340 13 23 1 68 WANDERERS (329)
-THE WAIT 4382 11 3 0 68 THE PLAGUE (93)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
STANLOY MEDAR 4369 16 9 0 57 WANDERERS (329)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-BREAK STUFF 4344 11 7 0 49 THE PLAGUE (93)
VALARELLE 4365 11 16 0 49 WANDERERS (329)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SERGEANT2 4392 3 0 0 29 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-HARBINGER OF WOE 4390 5 1 0 23 THE PLAGUE (93)
BALIN CHANE 4391 2 4 0 23 WANDERERS (329)
SERGEANT3 4393 2 1 0 15 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
PERSONAL ADS
Raise the Abyss -- Oh, yes? And what do you see this doing to sea level? Are we
looking at heavy coastal flooding here? Do we expect the mountains to drop by way of
balancing things? You people never think about the consequences! This is not a
small thing you are proposing. -- Gothelcina
Harbinger of Woe -- There's plenty of woe around without anyone harbinging it. Why
not let it, the woe, I mean, which they say life is full of, just creep up on us and
kind of move in without fanfare? It's easier to deal with that way, which, I
suppose, now that I think about it, decreases the Woe Coefficient. From your point
of view, this might be bad, I guess. But it'd work better for me. -- Balin Chane
Ghetto Defendant -- That's such an ambiguous title. Are you defending the ghetto, or
are you FROM the ghetto defending yourself, or what? Inquiring minds, needing
something to talk about, are mildly curious. -- Terrindar
I think the real problem with the Ambitious Guard, who comes out with a warhammer and
starts bashing around with it, is that he isn't a basher by nature. His normal style
is probably something with "parry" in the name, befitting a guard. Still, his bad
luck, my good luck. I can live with this. -- Valarelle
I don't believe in the Honesty of that Merchant, and nothing can change my mind.
Very little will make me be even polite about it, so there. -- Stanloy Medar
Janie Jones -- I suppose you felt you had to do that. You Fratsfans are always big
on Making a Statement of Rectitude, or whatever you call it. But even though I
mostly agree that most assassins don't qualify as "noble" except sometimes in the
sense of "born to family considered noble," there are times when it's a fair call,
you know. Sometimes there's dirty work that has to be done. Come along on a job
sometime and I'll show you. -- Jerroem Farmer, second-class noble, more or less, and
assassin (third class) by unwilling necessity
Valarelle -- One does as one must. Meet me behind the arena tonight and we'll so who
must do what then. -- Moro Sullogra, Ambitious Guard
Stanloy Medar -- I will have satisfaction for the debt unpaid by your departed
teammate Flutterlee. Consider how much happier you would be if you simply paid it
and had done with the matter. I await your response. -- Londrus Korlins, Merchant of
this City
Sergeant3 -- You military types are always like this. Always coming along making
trouble. Walk the streets in my boots sometime and see how much you like people
throwing their weight around with violence, bub. -- Tobie Stone, (usually) Friendly
Constable
Sergeant2 -- You're not exactly broke, you could have spared me enough for a meal,
couldn't you? -- Josem Green, Beggar and student of Emma Le Poste
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
CHARLES DEGLOPPER devastated STANLOY MEDAR in a 1 minute mismatched Challenge fight.
GHETTO DEFENDANT handily defeated TERRINDAR in a 1 minute one-sided Title match.
JANIE JONES was vanquished by ROBERT DUNLAP in a 1 minute mismatched brawl.
GOTHELCINA overpowered M. CHARDINEE in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
SERGEANT 1 devastated VALARELLE in a 1 minute uneven brawl.
SERGEANT3 was defeated by BALIN CHANE in a exciting 6 minute bloody struggle.
SERGEANT2 viciously subdued CULT MEMBER in a 2 minute gruesome fight.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK 5 SLASHING ATTACK 5 - 2 - 0 71 |
|AIMED BLOW 2 STRIKING ATTACK 5 - 3 - 0 63 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 2 PARRY-RIPOSTE 11 - 7 - 1 61 |
|TOTAL PARRY 1 TOTAL PARRY 8 - 6 - 0 57 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 1 LUNGING ATTACK 25 - 19 - 0 57 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 PARRY-STRIKE 9 - 7 - 1 56 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 0 PARRY-LUNGE 15 - 14 - 1 52 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 0 AIMED BLOW 8 - 14 - 0 36 |
|BASHING ATTACK 0 WALL OF STEEL 1 - 3 - 0 25 |
|WALL OF STEEL 0 BASHING ATTACK 0 - 1 - 0 0 |
Turn 552 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:
TOTAL PARRY 1 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 1 3 PARRY-LUNGE
LUNGING ATTACK 4 - 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 1 3 LUNGING ATTACK
AIMED BLOW 1 - 1 SLASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 2 PARRY-RIPOSTE
PARRY-LUNGE 1 - 1 STRIKING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 AIMED BLOW
BASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY
WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0 1 PARRY-STRIKE
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
PARRY-LUNGE GHETTO DEFENDANT 4351 20 10 1 105 RADIO CLASH (394)
AIMED BLOW ROBERT DUNLAP 4378 10 7 0 98 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
LUNGING ATTACK GOTHELCINA 4376 12 10 1 87 WANDERERS (329)
PARRY-RIPOSTE JANIE JONES 4349 17 13 0 75 RADIO CLASH (394)
PARRY-STRIKE STANLOY MEDAR 4369 16 9 0 57 WANDERERS (329)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is GHETTO DEFENDANT 4351. The most popular warrior
this turn was SERGEANT3 4393. The ten other most popular fighters were CHARLES
DEGLOPPER 4377, SERGEANT2 4392, ROBERT DUNLAP 4378, GHETTO DEFENDANT 4351, GOTHELCINA
4376, SERGEANT 1 4388, STANLOY MEDAR 4369, TERRINDAR 4340, JANIE JONES 4349, and
VALARELLE 4365.
The least popular fighter this week was BALIN CHANE 4391. The other ten least
popular fighters were VALARELLE 4365, JANIE JONES 4349, TERRINDAR 4340, STANLOY MEDAR
4369, SERGEANT 1 4388, GOTHELCINA 4376, GHETTO DEFENDANT 4351, ROBERT DUNLAP 4378,
SERGEANT2 4392, and CHARLES DEGLOPPER 4377.
The following warriors will travel to AD after next turn:
GHETTO DEFENDANT (41-4351) RADIO CLASH (394)