Month: January 2013

Also Beltane, year 761, on the Outside

Unexpected significant Shadow Storms occur throughout Shadow.

Extensive damage recorded in the areas around Casablanca, Murray, Texorami, Sarrabann and Thelbane, with some significant effects felt in St. James, Sanguine, Liberty, Dealunde, Haven and Parys, and weather and tides affected throughout Shadow.

At this time there is no explanation for the Storms.

Casablanca Arena Update Week 18

In a dramatic turn of events, Mathilda! is now 17 and 1. Every loss that you walk away from is blindingly good fortune as they say. Well – Mathilda! couldn’t actually walk away from this one, – she had to be carried – but she still got very lucky indeed.

Her opponent had managed to cause a slip, with a brilliant wrong footing move and she couldn’t get her balance back before he had hamstrung her on both legs, reducing her mobility to basically – nothing. At that point, he lined up a killing blow, and waited to see of
the referee would call the victory. The referee took a moment, but as Mathilda clearly couldn’t use either leg and was bleeding copiously, eventually called the victory, and the opponent bowed to her and withdrew.

It later emerged that her opponent attained his 26th win, after having been a gladiator over 10 years, fighting at the minimum rate (once every 3 months). He had a few lucky losses of his own early on, but had no losses since he got out of novice class. He was immediately commissioned into the military after winning free of the arena.

Will Mathilda! be back next Saturday, or will she need longer? Expectations are that we will see her as usual, but those who were betting on a whitewash card have already now lost their bets. The new gamble now is how many more will she lose before it’s all over, and will her luck finally run out?