Karhumies
Joined: Oct 17, 2004
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Jan 16, 2006 - 23:35 |
 
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Our glorious Grudge League is looking for skillful fluff writers to plan Season 2 tournament fluff!
If you are interested, PM me with suggested fluff for a single tournament. If I like your fluff, you'll get the spot. At least two fluff guys total are needed.
Reward: staff member position to Grudge League & possibility to make a TR 100 team of any LRB race into Grudge League, regardless of the currently open race slots. Lots of honor and glory. |
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Karhumies
Joined: Oct 17, 2004
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Feb 01, 2006 - 19:21 |
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Karhumies
Joined: Oct 17, 2004
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Feb 01, 2006 - 21:21 |
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Manning has agreed to help but we are still looking for another fluff writer. |
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Kyyberi
Joined: Nov 27, 2004
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Feb 01, 2006 - 21:28 |
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I'm interested, as I do think that more fluff, more fun. But I'm going to a pub now, I'll come back for this one tomorrow of Friday...*zip* |
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Karhumies
Joined: Oct 17, 2004
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Mar 06, 2006 - 22:06 |
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Still looking for fluffers..
| Kyyberi wrote: | | I'm interested, as I do think that more fluff, more fun. But I'm going to a pub now, I'll come back for this one tomorrow of Friday...*zip* |
Been a long weekend, eh?  |
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BiggieB
Joined: Feb 19, 2005
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Mar 06, 2006 - 22:17 |
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Special tourney rules:
every foul on a human results in -1 tourney point
this since grales was a human country
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A tourney in memory of the land of Grales long parished but still remembered in a famous poem:
THE BARDS OF GRALES
Edward the king, the Servish king,
Bestrides his tawny steed,
"For I will see if Grales," said he,
"Accepts my rule indeed.
"Are stream and mountain fair to see?
Are meadow grasses good?
Do corn-lands bear a crop more rare
Since wash'd with rebel's blood?
"And are the wretched people there,
Whose insolence I broke
As happy as the oxen are
Beneath the driver's yoke?
"In truth this Grales, Sire, is a gem,
The fairest in your crown:
The stream and field rich harvest yield,
And fair and dale and down.
"And all the wretched people there
Are calm as man could crave;
Their hovels stand throughout the land
As silent as the grave."
Edward the king, the Servish King
Bestrides his tawni steed;
A silence deep his subjects keep
And Grales is mute indeed.
The castle named Montgomery
Ends that day's journeying;
The castle's lord, Montgomery,
Must entertain the king.
Then game and fish and ev'ry dish
That lures the taste and sight
A hundred hurrying servants bear
To please the appetite.
With all of worth the isle brings forth
In dainty drink and food,
And all the wines of foreign vines
Beyond the distant flood.
"You lords, you lords, will none consent
His glass with mine to ring?
What? Each one fails, you dogs of Grales,
To toast the Servish king?
"Though game and fish and ev'ry dish
That lures the taste and sight
Your hand supplies, your mood defies
My person with a slight.
"You rascal lords, you dogs of Grales,
Will none for Edward cheer?
To serve my needs and chant my deeds
Then let a bard appear!"
The nobles gaze in fierce amaze,
Their cheeks grow deadly pale;
Not fear but rage their looks engage,
They blanch but do not quail.
All voices cease in soundless peace,
All breathe in silent pain;
Then at the door a harper hoar
Comes in with grave disdain:
"Lo, here I stand, at your command,
To chant your deeds, O king!"
And weapons clash and hauberks crash
Responsive to his string.
"Harsh weapons clash and hauberks crash,
And sunset sees us bleed,
The crow and wolf our dead engulf -
This, Edward, is your deed!
"A thousand lie beneath the sky,
They rot beneath the sun,
And we who live shall not forgive
This deed your hand hath done!"
"Now let him perish! I must have"
(The monarch's voice is hard)
"Your softest songs, and not your wrongs!"
In steps a boyish bard:
"The breeze is soft at eve, that oft
From Milford Havens moans;
It whispers maidens' stifled cries,
It breathes of widows' groans.
"You maidens, bear no captive babes!
You mothers, rear them not!"
The fierce king nods. The lad is seiz'd
And hurried from the spot.
Unbidden then, among the men,
There comes a dauntless third
With speech of fire he tunes his lyre,
And bitter is his word:
"Our bravest died to slake your pride -
Proud Edward, hear my lays!
No Grelsh bards live who e'er will give
Your name a song a praise.
"Our harps with dead men's memories weep.
Greelsh bards to you will sing
One changeless verse - our blackest curse
To blast your soul, O king!"
"No more! Enough!" - cries out the king.
In rage his orders break:
"Seek through these vales all bards of Grales
And burn them at the stake!"
His men ride forth to south and north,
They ride to west and east.
Thus ends in grim Montgomery
The celebrated feast.
Edward the king, the Servish king
Spurs on his tawny steed;
Across the skies red flames arise
As if Grales burned indeed.
In martyrship, with song on lip,
Five hundred Grelsh bards died;
Not one was mov'd to say he lov'd
The tyrant in his pride.
"'Ods blood! What songs this night resound
Upon our London streets?
The mayor shall feel my irate heel
If aught that sound repeats!
Each voice is hush'd; through silent lanes
To silent homes they creep.
"Now dies the hound that makes a sound;
The sick king cannot sleep."
"Ha! Bring me fife and drum and horn,
And let the trumpet blare!
In ceaseless hum their curses come -
I see their dead eyes glare..."
But high above all drum and fife
and trumpets' shrill debate,
Five hundred martyr'd voices chant
Their hymn of deathless hate. |
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Karhumies
Joined: Oct 17, 2004
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Mar 07, 2006 - 00:52 |
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Biggie: Your entry was prolly a joke one but I've received so few fluff entries it looks like a shortened version of that poem will actually make it as a season two tournament. The situation is THAT bad. :-\ |
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babelfilm
Joined: Dec 15, 2005
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Mar 12, 2006 - 01:32 |
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