DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 04/21/2009 Duedate: 05/04/2009
KATI-TEI ARENA
DM-41 TURN-560
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
SERGEANT 1
MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
(41-4388) [15-5-1,105]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
SERGEANT 1 POSITION IS EMPTY
MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
(41-4388) [15-5-1,105]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
CHARLES DEGLOPPER SERGEANT 1
MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397) MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
(41-4377) [11-10-1,102] (41-4388) [15-5-1,105]
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) 37
2. WANDERERS (329) 16 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
3. RADIO CLASH (394) 0 Unchartered Team
4. WHEELS (399) 0
5. THE PLAGUE (93) 0 VORPAL BLAZE (218)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 1 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397) 74 39 3 65.5 1/ 1 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397) 13 2 0
2- 2 RADIO CLASH (394) 56 34 3 62.2 2/ 2 WANDERERS (329) 8 7 0
3- 3 THE PLAGUE (93) 295 272 19 52.0 3- 3 RADIO CLASH (394) 1 1 0
4/ 4 WANDERERS (329) 614 639 15 49.0 4- 5*WHEELS (399) 0 2 0
5- 5*WHEELS (399) 1 4 0 20.0 5- 4 THE PLAGUE (93) 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 #27 ]H[ + ---:--- + ]H[ +
The Flower Shoppe was near the edge of the city, and Ravishing Redbud clearly
knew the neighborhood intimately-- Fandil paused and rephrased that thought as he
followed the Lady Protector and young Elosjon: She knew the area very well. She set
a wandering course at the beginning, so that within five minutes no one could have
guessed where they'd started from. And, as the young woman had predicted, people
were looking only at her, not at her companions. The old mage considered adding a
light spell to make himself and Elosjon even less noticeable but decided against it.
Even a minor spell used power, and he might need that power later. And here in
Fratsfa, where there were, if not "lots" of magicians, at least several, the spell
itself might attract unwanted attention.
They were passing through a very modest residential area, small houses, fenced
yards with gardens and laundry on the lines, chickens scratching in the dust, and
dogs that barked as they passed. No mobs, hired or otherwise, no haughty lords, just
plain people. Rather pleasant, if they didn't have such a weight on their future:
Finding out what had happened to the king and working out some way forward for
Andoria as a whole.
The outskirts of the city faded into not-quite-rural, and then into outright
farming country. Small farms, mostly, truck gardens, milk cows, more chickens.
Fandil avoided an aggressive rooster and admitted to himself that he didn't really
like chickens until they came out of the skillet all crispy and golden. Woodlots
here and there along the winding, unpaved road. More woods ahead, from what he could
see--rising ground, hills becoming the Daggerspine Mountains.
He moved closer to the two young people ahead, noting that Redbud had a firm
grip on Elosjon's arm. "Where do you plan to turn back, Redbud?" he asked.
She flung a glance over her shoulder at him, with a smile that would have felled
an unwary young man at fifty paces. "Oh, I think I might go all the way, sir! After
all, I can see that Elosjon wants me to come along...."
Fandil looked at the young mage, whose ears were as red as beets. "Is that so?"
Elosjon muttered something that Fandil took for agreement. But he wasn't trying
to pull away from Redbud, so it might actually be agreement.
"You say your grandfather told you about the Duke of Mountain Home," Fandil
said. "What, exactly and completely, did he tell you? After all, information is
power, and we'll need all we can get--that was a powerful spell we both felt."
Elosjon seemed glad of something to think about other than the Flower Girl who
had hold of him. "My grandfather just told me about the Duke resisting incorporation
into the Andorian League," he said. "How he fought it to the end. And that there
was a son who went away to study magic. Most of what I know--it isn't much--about
how things are now is from Herlas. He said--"
"One thing at a time," Fandil said. "Who's Herlas?"
"You never heard of...? Well, he's a magician from Zensu. Older, he must be, I
don't know, at least forty. Very skilled, but he had a bad reputation."
"Bad as in doing what? Demon worship, human sacrifice, Chaos magic?"
"Oh, NO! Not like that. Well, that I ever heard of. But very, um, ambitious,
and not too how his spells affected other people, you know."
Fandil nodded. He knew. That kind of attitude was common among younger
magicians, and those who didn't grow out of it tended to go down dark paths to a bad
end. One foot on the downward road and the other on a banana peel, as the saying
went. "You say he 'had' a bad reputation. Has this changed?"
Elosjon shrugged and shuffled his feet in the dust of the road. "I don't know.
We don't talk about him any more. Not since he went to Andor to serve in the palace.
If he'd been a dog, Fandil figured his ears would have stood straight up at
that. "Herlas went to serve in the palace?"
"Yes, about a year ago. But I saw him a few months later, just the once, you
know, and he said, well, I didn't understand why he told me, or what he meant by it,
but." Elosjon bit his lip and looked across Redbud at the older mage. "I never knew
Herlas personally, you see, and while I'm fairly good, I'm not the best young
magician in Fratsfa, but he came to ME. And he said I should remember that things
aren't always what they seem, and that 'right and wrong are independent of official
decrees', and that there was a magician around somewhere more powerful than all of us
together. And two wrongs not making a right. A lot of stuff like that. And he said
that there was what he called a 'black heart' in the Daggerspines. I thought about
that a lot after he left, and I remembered what my grandfather told me, and then we
felt the first of the barrier spells, and, well, I made some conclusions. I don't
know if I'm right, but--"
"I suspect you are right. At the least, it will bear looking into. Do you know
how to reach Mountain Home?"
"I think so. I never went, but I did look it up on a map." The young Fratsfan
pointed ahead to where the road they were following bent northward. "There should be
a fork up there, and we take the left-hand branch, south and west and uphill."
Redbud looked right and left. The countryside they were crossing was
increasingly wooded, and there had been no houses for the past few miles. "This is
mostly hunting preserves for the lords of Fratsfa," she said. "We'll need to go
carefully, especially once we turn off the road."
"Might meet gamekeepers?" Fandil asked.
"Yes, and they could be nasty ones. But there might be other things, too." She
scowled at the nearest trees, already dim with shadow as the sun sank toward the
Daggerspines. "Things they hunt, and not just deer, you know. Boars and bears! I
wouldn't like to meet one of those while we're on foot."
"Simpler to avoid trouble," Fandil agreed, "but if we meet it, we'll deal with
it."
The road bent to the right, and there was the fork. The left-hand branch was
narrow and choked with brush; it didn't look like anyone had passed there in months.
Fandil probed the first wall of brush with his staff. Brambles and saplings bound
together with morning glory vines, but nothing that absolutely denied them passage.
Redbud put her hand on her sword, perhaps thinking of cutting a path, then
hesitated.
"Quite right," Fandil said. "We don't want to leave a clear notice of our
passing this way."
"We'll end up with leaves and bugs down our shirts!" she warned.
"No doubt, but we'll survive that. If one of your nasty gamekeepers found a
clear sign of intrusion and followed us, that would be worse."
"I suppose." She twitched her shoulders as though she was already itching and
then pushed into the brush.
The other two followed.
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---===ANDORIAN REGIONAL NEWS===---
Duelmasters
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 308): CONCUSSION of CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 617): LILAC LIZARD of ANIMAL FARM (Mino, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 617): GEORGE FOREMUN of ALL THE MUN'S MEN (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 606): ULTRA FAIT of DROP THE LEASH (Jekyll, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 606): TCHENI LOY of KRILL CAVALRY (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 604): WORKER BEE of WE BEE BAD (Dartor, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 603): FLESH FLAYER of ULTRA-VIOLENT (Deep Thought, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 599): SIR CARLSON of LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 568): GRUNT 5 of MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 509): TERRINDAR of WANDERERS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 550): BUM of DEATHTONGUE (Technogeek, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 255): BRAIN TUMOR of OTTO'S PARTS (Crip, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 449): M.T. LANE of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.}
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 209): NAPOLEON of DOGS OF WAR (Omega, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 502): MAXIMUS of KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Top Teams
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DM 8 ARKERS (turn 308): CONSANGUINEOUS (Mannequin, mgr.)
DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 617): BULLDOGS (Kennelworth, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 617): ALL THE MUN'S MEN (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 22 SOLVEN (turn 606): MIDDLE WAY 15 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 24 ZORPUNT (turn 606): MEDAL OF HONOOR J4 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 25 LYRATILAN (turn 604): THE MIDDLE WAY 4 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 26 CALEAM (turn 603): MENAGERIE (Ichabod Frothingslosh, mgr.)
DM 30 IAYE (turn 599): LENPROS (Lenpro, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 568): MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 559): MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 550): BLUVALLEY WARRIORS (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 255): BLOOD AND GUTS! (Le Pentarque, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 449): MEDAL OF HONOR J3 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 209): THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
ADM 105 ANDORAK (turn 502): KELLUMBO'S KIDS (Detective Kellumbo, mgr.)
Recent Graduates
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DM 11 ARUAK CITY (turn 616): FILET MIGNON of BULLDOGS (Kennelworth, mgr.)
DM 14 TOBIR (turn 616): WHOLE MUTT of THE DOGHOUSE (Jorja, mgr.)
MINUTE MUN of ALL THE MUN'S MEN (The Mun, mgr.)
DM 40 ZENSU (turn 568): GRUNT 5 of MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
(turn 568): GRUNT 3 of MEDAL OF HONOR G1 (The Anarchist, mgr.)
DM 41 KATI-TEI (turn 558): JANIE JONES of RADIO CLASH (Rude Buddha, mgr.)
DM 46 ARDIVENT (turn 549): JACINTHE of BLUVALLEY WARRIORS (Jorja, mgr.)
IZZCO of INFERNAL LORDS (DeGotti, mgr.)
DM 52 FRATSFA (turn 255): TEALIN SALI of MIDDLE WAY 8 (Jorja, mgr.)
DM 63 AMEN-TEI (turn 449): M.T. LANE of WAYFARERS (Jorja, mgr.}
DM 71 KYR'TERR (turn 208): DORINE EAGEL of THE ZOO (Jorja, mgr.)
DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
Notes from the arena champ.
My dear Janie Jones, you are a princess among women! To have arranged to lose
your last fight, merely so that I might take the title on a win, is the height of
good manners. I salute you and wish you well wherever you go, the Isle or elsewhere.
Terrindar
SPY REPORT
Ready for some action-packed adventure, some thrills, chills and spills? Well
fergit it, cause this is the Spyreport for KATI-TEI. MVP award for COUNTRY RHODES?
WANDERERS' proud of her after beating RUTHLESS JAYWALKER and getting 24 points. Talk
about yer big time losers! VALARELLE got smashed by SERGEANT2, and lost 7 points!
Oh, wow, like the Duelmaster must be the most popular guy in all KATI-TEI. He got
the most challenges. (But what about proposals?) SERGEANT 1 thinks his 15-5-1 and
studly character is good enough to face up to the Duelmaster. Any bets? And I was
just getting used to the ex-Duelmaster's habit of...(!) Oh well, welcome SERGEANT 1.
Aren't MEDAL OF HONOR H3 proud. (Oh, my.) Who was the wiseguy that said KATI-TEI's
Duelmaster was paying for drinks at The Dripping Blade? Don't look at me!
Look, you guys stick to fighting, all right? THE PLAGUE was KATI-TEI's most
avoided team. Is there some award for that? Hhmph! What kind of warriors are MEDAL
OF HONOR H3? THE PLAGUE, an easy team to beat if I ever saw one, can't get them to
accept an invitation!
Challenges, revenges, Bloodfeuds. All KATI-TEI ever talks about is fighting!
Me, I'm more laid back. What if they had a fight and nobody showed up? I'd be out
of a job, that's what!!!
I really didn't, you know, study when I was a kid. Who would've guessed I'd be
a famous Spyreporter? I'm getting tired of writing this stuff, so I'm calling it
quits. Its been really albendranius! Later, guys-- Debby Tonte
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SERGEANT 1 4388 15 5 1 105 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
CHARLES DEGLOPPER 4377 11 10 1 102 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
TERRINDAR 4340 16 28 1 97 WANDERERS (329)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
ROBERT DUNLAP 4378 14 8 0 95 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
SERGEANT3 4393 9 2 0 78 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
SERGEANT2 4392 7 4 0 76 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
-THE WAIT 4382 12 5 0 72 THE PLAGUE (93)
-BREAK STUFF 4344 14 8 0 70 THE PLAGUE (93)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
STANLOY MEDAR 4369 16 17 0 65 WANDERERS (329)
VALARELLE 4365 15 20 0 65 WANDERERS (329)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
COUNTRY RHODES 4400 4 1 0 48 WANDERERS (329)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
BALIN CHANE 4391 6 8 0 33 WANDERERS (329)
-HARBINGER OF WOE 4390 7 3 0 26 THE PLAGUE (93)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-THUMP 2 4402 1 0 0 15 THE PLAGUE (93)
-JEEP 4398 1 0 0 13 WHEELS (399)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
PERSONAL ADS
Sergeant3 -- What a person you are! Is THIS any time to go kicking up a fuss? I ask
you! It is NOT such a time, it's a time for frolic and great relief, although not of
an expensive sort. The pleasure of having sated, for another year, the leechs King's
Revenuers! This is truly something to celebrate, but since you were so truly mean
and ungenerous (one skill? Piffling!), I will not celebrate it with YOU. -- Stanloy
Medar
Sergeant2 -- Cave man stuff! I assure you that this is not well received by most
women. Especially not gladiatresses! We like to preserve at least the illusion that
we are respected, as well as admired. That bullying, blustering approach just
doesn't do the job. -- Valarelle
P.S. Try chocolate next time!
We would like to thank the Trustworthy Scribe, who is clearly over-worked and under-
paid, for our wins. It is unfortunate the skills were so meager, but so it goes. --
Balin Chane and Country Rhodes
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
SERGEANT 1 bested TERRINDAR in a crowd pleasing 1 minute Challenge Title fight.
SERGEANT2 vanquished VALARELLE in a 1 minute uneven Challenge battle.
ROBERT DUNLAP subdued VIRGINAL CONCUBINE in a crowd pleasing 1 minute expert's fight.
CHARLES DEGLOPPER devastated VIRGINAL CONCUBINE in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
SERGEANT3 savagely defeated STANLOY MEDAR in a 1 minute mismatched competition.
COUNTRY RHODES devastated RUTHLESS JAYWALKER in a 2 minute mismatched match.
BALIN CHANE outwaited HAPPY PEASANT in a 9 minute expert vs. beginner fight.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|LUNGING ATTACK 4 PARRY-RIPOSTE 14 - 6 - 1 70 |
|AIMED BLOW 2 LUNGING ATTACK 33 - 15 - 0 69 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 1 - 0 67 |
|TOTAL PARRY 1 SLASHING ATTACK 3 - 2 - 0 60 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 1 AIMED BLOW 10 - 7 - 0 59 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 1 TOTAL PARRY 7 - 7 - 0 50 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 0 PARRY-LUNGE 7 - 8 - 1 47 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 0 PARRY-STRIKE 1 - 10 - 0 9 |
|BASHING ATTACK 0 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 1 - 0 0 |
|WALL OF STEEL 0 BASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 - 0 0 |
Turn 560 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-RIPOSTE 1 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 1 5 LUNGING ATTACK
LUNGING ATTACK 4 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 1 2 AIMED BLOW
TOTAL PARRY 1 - 0 SLASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 PARRY-LUNGE
AIMED BLOW 1 - 1 STRIKING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 TOTAL PARRY
BASHING ATTACK 0 - 0 1 PARRY-STRIKE
WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
LUNGING ATTACK SERGEANT 1 4388 15 5 1 105 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
AIMED BLOW ROBERT DUNLAP 4378 14 8 0 95 MEDAL OF HONOR H3 (397)
PARRY-RIPOSTE COUNTRY RHODES 4400 4 1 0 48 WANDERERS (329)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is CHARLES DEGLOPPER 4377. The most popular warrior
this turn was SERGEANT 1 4388. The ten other most popular fighters were ROBERT
DUNLAP 4378, CHARLES DEGLOPPER 4377, SERGEANT3 4393, COUNTRY RHODES 4400, SERGEANT2
4392, STANLOY MEDAR 4369, TERRINDAR 4340, VALARELLE 4365, BALIN CHANE 4391, and 0.
The least popular fighter this week was BALIN CHANE 4391. The other ten least
popular fighters were VALARELLE 4365, TERRINDAR 4340, STANLOY MEDAR 4369, SERGEANT2
4392, COUNTRY RHODES 4400, SERGEANT3 4393, CHARLES DEGLOPPER 4377, ROBERT DUNLAP
4378, SERGEANT 1 4388, and 0.