High Chance of Ice Monday!

OMG! The Den of Gossip is totally buzzing with the news! Have you heard??? It seems that Issy and Trixie were seen back in the Red Dragon Inn Monday night! NO LIE! Could this mean that the Scath girls are back??? We soooo hope so! We hear that Issy had a run in with Baby Taneth and was more than a little confused by the whole thing. We sure hope somebody fills her in. However, that’ll probably leave her even more confused. We know that the more we hear the more confused we become.

Anyway, welcome home, Issy!

Crazy Train Tara was busy trying to get Horam in bed with her. Horam didn’t seem all that intrigued by the idea. In fact, the pair seem to have some history because Horam seemed to downright dislike Tara. He wasn’t the only one displeased with Tara. It seems that some girl named Vex wasn’t too happy either because Tara had left her cattle prod lying about and someone had decided to use it on Vex. As usual, Tara was clueless to other people’s emotions.

We hear that Tara’s friend, Alice, went a little crazy later into the evening. She was seen batting at something invisible in front of her face and knocked over quite a few bottles of liquor! We bet Panther finds a way of making sure those get on her tab! Evidently she was seen bleeding and screaming by the time her whole little fit was over… And then she just walked out. We always knew there was something a little strange about that girl.

Well, Jade is alive and she’s back and she’s human. But other than that she’s the same old TRASH-tastic Jade. Our sources did say that she was overheard saying that she doesn’t drink much (HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA) and then proceeded to drink enough to kill a small horse. Evidently she’s been staying out of the Inn as of late because she’s been busy spending time with her husband and daughter. She was seen catching up with a bunch of her friends, including Icer and Duci, who seemed absolutely thrilled to see her. As usual, Jade was up to trouble. Our sources say that she was trying to get some guy named Chris to kiss Duci. It seems that Chris did appear interested in Duci but, you know, wanted to actually get to know her. We sure hope Jade didn’t ruin Duci’s chances with this guy because she seemed to be digging him as much as he was digging her.

Anyway, at some point in the night Jade broke into tears and started accusing people of poisoning her. It seems that the human version of Jade is a really annoying drunk. Thankfully, her BFF Rhy had taken a night off from Mommy duties… or at least was doing some mommying of a different sort. She showed up to calm Jade down and escort her back home.

Zev and Lilli were seen having a quiet night together. The pair had some drinks by the hearth and their conversation was quiet and intimate. Definitely seems like the pair of them are still going strong! They’ve been together now for a good couple of months. Things certainly seem like they’re getting serious! We’d never have thought that the pair would make a good match but definitely seems like we were wrong!

Daniel was seen chatting with Mindy about the party the night before. Mindy made mention of how good he and Riley look as a couple. We hear that Daniel was awfully pleased with the compliment. It seems that he’s falling pretty hard for her. Eh. We’re not totally thrilled with Riley. We think Daniel can do better but… whatever. Evidently Mindy met a man at the party that she is interested in but Daniel does NOT seem to like him one bit. We don’t have any details but we’re certainly going to look into it! Riley showed up a little later on and (prepare yourself for this one, guys) she and Mindy we talking about having a girls’ only sleepover. How many guys would love to try to sneak into that???

Down in the Outback, the news that dominated the night was some serious issues between Sartan and several women. In the middle of Sartan telling Harris how odd he found this whole rushed marriage thing between Sarah (who he mentioned he has still not met) and his friend Rix, Joey evidently took offense to him making fun of her newly minted girlfriend, Teagan. It led to Teagan and Sartan exchanging words and eventually afer being egged on for some time by Joey, Teagan threw a punch. It hardly just remained between the two of them. When Teagan made an insulting remark about Sartan’s wife, Collie jumped in to tell her to knock it off. Our sources tell us after putting the whole thing into motion, Joey did eventually lead Teagan away from the confrontation.

Sartan’s night got no better from there, though. Wyh confronted him about some of the rude things that he said to Teagan which led to Sartan accusing Wyh of trying to STEAL Icedancer. If you remember correctly, Wyh called the match in which Sartan won Icedancer and after holding Icedancer during the match was none to pleased about having to turn it over to Sartan at the end. Sartan was overheard saying that she didn’t really care about Teagan and was just using it as an excuse to make a play at Icedancer. Wyh actually ATTACKED Sartan with ice but Icedancer blocked the attack.

At that point, MAN-tastic Matt very wisely threw them out of the Outback. He’s had his building destroyed by fire more than once. Nobody wants to see what an ice show down would do to it! A crazy night! That’s for sure!

Edited: April 14th, 2010

Bonking On A Thursday!

You know there is trouble afoot when Wolvie and Awesom Alain get together for a little chat! We hear that the pair had a pretty tense little chat at the Red Dragon Inn Thursday night. Evidently Alain is not happy with one of his employees — Silas — but we’re not exactly sure why. Now there have been a lot of rumors about the young wizard recently. He was involved in the St. Patrick’s Massacre and there are reports that he may have worsened the situation in the process of trying to help AND he’s currently running for governor. We hear that even Wolvie was surprised by the level of Alain’s anger!

We hear that Daniel saved the pretty Aliss from a feral cat outside the Inn later into the night. Reeeeaaaally??? She made him a cup of tea and was quite grateful. However, Riley doesn’t have to worry about her man, evidently, because we hear that Aliss was flirting it up with the handsome Rico. But while Aliss seems to have a thing for Rico, Rico seems to have a thing for his captain’s sister! He was shooting quite the warm smile to Ajia most of the evening as they had a couple drinks together. Was that a date??? Really??? We wonder what Aja would have to say about her employee dating her sister???

Did we not call this??? Juliane and Everett were seen chatting in a booth together for quite some time. They were not joined by anyone nor did their eyes seem to leave one another very much. In fact, they seemed pretty thrilled to be spending some time together! There’s DEFINITELY some chemistry here. Two creative personalities??? Sounds pretty magical! We’re definitely waiting on pins and needles to see where this thing heads.

After the mega challenges the night before, dueling was pretty light in the Arena Thursday night. That being said, there was an old face in the crowds that our sources were surprised to find! It seems that Red is back in the dueling venues. Red just so happens to be Rix’s ex-wife. We wonder what this is going to mean for his recent engagement. Probably nothing. We’re guessing that women don’t go back to Rix after they wise up and move on.

Kalamere didn’t give much time to Anubis for him to recover! The slaver is AGAIN under challenge for Battlefield Park. This time it’s from the legendary former baron and overlord. Kalamere and Harris were overheard chatting about it Thursday night as the pair got a duel in. It seems it will be Kalamere’s first challenge in THIRTEEN years! Now that is a serious comeback. We don’t know anybody who isn’t already looking forward to it!

It seems we were dead wrong about Joey! She was overheard declaring her love for Teagan Thursday night. Evidently, Teagan never returned the words to Joey. It seems we may have gotten the situation a little backwards. Maybe it’s Joey that’s fallen deep and Teagan who really isn’t all that interested. After all, Teagan’s the one that’s been sleeping with Kalamere. Joey was overheard saying she hadn’t been with anyone else in months. We wonder how she’s going to feel when she hears that Teagan’s been bonking the former overlord in her absence!!!

Edited: April 11th, 2010

Challenge Happy Wednesday!

Have you all entered the poetry contest that the Post and the Den of Gossip are holding yet??? DO SO TODAY!

Also, be sure to vote in the primaries this weekend! The polls are open and we want to know who YOU want to be your governor!

The Many Faces of Fio was in fine crazy fashion Wednesday night in the Red Dragon Inn… which is to say that she wasn’t Fio at all. We hear that she was chatting away to some big scary looking guy about kittens and bendy straws and the baby in her belly. Ugh. We want this to work out. We want Fio to be a good mother. But how in the world could anybody trust her with a small child??? Having had to raise Intern Pumpkin Head since her parents were unfortunately lost to our cause, we know first hand that taking care of a newborn is seriously hard work! It takes everybody here at the Den of Gossip to work together to take care of her. We’re just not so sure that some of Fio’s personalities are up for the task. Really, Ali, what were you thinking???

Our sources tell us that the Arena was absolutely packed Wednesday night for back-to-back challenges. The first one of the night was Harris pressing challenge against Anubis for the right to the barony of Battlefield Park. We hear that Koy showed up as his lady of honor looking HAWT! It’s good to see that the girl’s back on her game! We have to wonder, however, how the Gov MAN-tastic Matt feels about his wife getting all prettied up for another man. Clearly, he’s not too upset as he served as Harris’ second for the night.

As is typical with Anubis, things couldn’t go off without a hitch. His wife, Dawn, was overheard making some comments to Pslyder that are so wrong that we can’t even post them in this blog! More importantly, Anubis had himself strapped to Harris and the pair had to fight the entire duel with knives while tied together. It definitely made for an interesting evening! Kattria, who we fall deeper and deeper in love with every day, was overheard saying that she didn’t know it was going to be a “hand-fasting”. OMG! We love a witty chick!

Unfortunately for the good of the city, Harris was not able to put Anubis in his place. Anubis won the best of three in two duels and remains the Baron of Battlefield Park. Ugh. Congratulations, Anubis… or whatever.

Wow! Slutty Pirate Girl Teagan was overheard telling Kalamere that she is thinking of asking Joey to head home with her to visit her folks. That sounds like a major step! We had no idea they were like that. We’re a little worried for Teagan’s sake. We kind of feel like Joey’s experimenting and isn’t as serious about this relationship as Teagan is. Teagan definitely has a history for falling deeper for the people that she’s sleeping with than they fall for her.

Ugh. Rekah and Dawn were seen together again! This just keeps getting worse and worse. They were chatting with one another like old friends. We hear that there was even discussion of the pair having tea with Crazy Train Tara. Really??? Really??? These are the people that Rekah is going to be allowed to hang out with. Where is her new boyfriend??? Haven’t we already made fun of Mini-Frank Cor enough for failing to tell his girlfriend to STAY AWAY FROM THE SLAVER! Cassius has been around forever! He has no excuse for not warning his girl about the more unsavory elements of the Arena. We remain seriously unhappy.

Guill seems to be on a mission to be the first duelist in history to give each and every one of the sitting barons a defense. He and Deathlord also chose Wednesday night to meet up. Slightly more than twenty-four hours beforehand, Deathlord had changed his alignment to loyal and Overlord Tical had accepted it! It was definitely a surprising move but everyone could see the writing on the wall after that! Tical did step in to intercede on behalf of his newest loyal baron. He lost by a point but it turned out that Deathlord didn’t need the intercession. He came close to a shutout but couldn’t make it happen. He did, however, take an impressive 5-1 win!

Congratulations, Deathlord! New Haven continues to be represented by one heck of a scary dude. We can’t help but laugh.

We’re a little worried still about Deathlord’s fascination with Taneth. She was present to cheer for him as well as Harris. It’s more than a little creepy, isn’t it??? Thankfully, she was distracted from Deathlord and his minions by the presence of Shy who it seems showed up to cheer on Harris. When did Harris get so many friends??? Don’t people know that he’s a world class jerk! But maybe it’s just that compared to Anubis, he’s a really nice guy.

Edited: April 9th, 2010

Friend Maker Sunday!

Kalinda sure makes friends easily! ….we’re at a loss as to which punch line to use with that statement so just take a moment to fill in with your own. Or write us with yours and will publish it! Anyway, Kalinda was seen in the Red Dragon Inn Sunday hanging out with a young couple that has been seen in the dueling venues recently. The guy’s name is Jason and he’s seemed to take a real interest in brushing up on his skills in the ring. Not so sure what his chick’s name was but she definitely seemed more interested in some intimate time with Kalinda and her man than she did about the duels. Don’t worry. We’ll find out her name in no time. We know you all like the…. well, sexually free chicks!

Riley, Daniel, and Mindy were overheard discussing a hanami party planned for the opening of the Zen Gardens Building this coming Sunday. We hear that the building boasts a pretty lovely garden on the roof and that’s where the party will be held. We think it’ll be one of the spots to be seen Sunday night. It’s the first party of the season and you know how the citizens of this city start to go a little crazy this time of year! We’re definitely going to try to sneak in a spy or two to check out the event.

While the Inn was a little light on action, the Annex was PACKED for Fight Night!

Finally! We have someone who will speak up and tell Rowdy Rekah that she shouldn’t be with Cassius! Unfortunately for us, it seems that the person is Harris. We really might need to rethink our stance on it if the only one agreeing with us is Harris. We just can’t help it! Everything in us SCREAMS how wrong it is! He was overheard telling Rekah that Cassius was a bad influence but when she asked why, he got distracted. Ugh! Will nobody step up and end this thing???

Speaking of Harris, he’s been busy putting things into motion for his upcoming challenge against Anubis. We hear the thing is going down on Wednesday and, to be perfectly honest, if you’re not there, you’ll totally miss out. This is going to be one of those epic sort of throw downs that people will be talking about for cycles to come. We hear that Harris was convincing Taneth to wear a cheerleader outfit to the match so if nothing else that alone is worth the price of admission! We wonder how Deathlord feels about Harris yanking his “lady”. Deathlord’s not the sort that we’d want to piss off.

Collie was spotted by our sources feeding information on Rix’s newest bride-to-be to Nova and Sartan. The two guys seemed a bit perplexed by Rix’s sudden engagement but not particularly surprised. They also weren’t even bothering to take bets to see if Rix would actually get married. We have a hard time believing that he’s serious too. The whole thing is just way odd. Even Collie said that Sarah was a pretty girl but didn’t think Rix would actually marry her. What do we know about this girl??? And why would she want to marry Rix???

Uh oh. That was the reaction in the Den of Gossip when our sources reported back to us that Kalamere and Crazy Train Tara were seen with their heads together for quite a while Sunday night. Could C.T. Tara be moving in on the baroness’ territory??? We hear that their conversation was kept low and intimate. Whatever it was about we doubt it was good. If you throw together two troublemakers, you’re not likely to get anything but trouble out of the mix!

Edited: April 5th, 2010

McPretty Saturday!

The Red Dragon Inn was pretty quiet Saturday night but a couple regulars were spotted out and about. Harper and John started off the evening with what seemed to be an argument but it didn’t last long. When our sources spotted them a short time after the tense exchange, they seemed quite cozy. We hear he literally knocked a bottle of the table in his hurry to put his hands on her. We’re not so sure if this one is going to work out. John seems like a nice guy but we’re still not convinced he’s not a playboy.

Neo and Archmage McPretty Sivanna were seen in the Inn as well. They were chatting about his clothes returning to their normal color at the stroke of midnight. It’s a little rare for the pair to be seen in the Inn these days other than to pass through to one of the dueling venues but it seems that they were on a mission. They were joined by Alec and Kelathe but this was no double date. They searched out Aolani and then had a rather tense conversation with her. We’re starting to love this girl. It seems she’s just surrounded in drama. Neo seemed to get pretty pissed and Kelathe and Alec tried to convince him it was time to leave. Even Harris jumped in to try to talk some reason into Neo. Eventually, Neo stormed right out of the Inn. We hear that Sivanna was awfully angry at both Kelathe AND Neo. Iiiiinteresting!

We die. Crazy Train Tara was overheard trying to convince Lucky Lawyer Lucien to see a marriage counselor with her! OMG! How many of you would just LOVE to be a fly on the wall in that office??? L.L. Lucien told her that he could not because he had to go on a business trip. Not that he couldn’t because he didn’t love her, didn’t want to marry her, and didn’t want to shorten his lifespan by spending part of it with Tara but that he couldn’t because he had to go on a trip! What?!?! Tara told him that if he refused her again she’d have to duel him to the death. We hear that Lucien was unconcerned. Maybe he’s just grown deaf to having his life threatened by Tara.

Down in the Arena, Mini-Frank Cor was not the least bit happy that people kept making slave jokes about his girl, Delphi, who was present. Harris said that Anubis should let her have a new collar in a color that better represented spring and Teagan warned M-F Cor not to play with slaves because it’s just not worth it. He was promising them the moon to keep them from going on about it. Delphi didn’t say anything but was seen shooting nasty looks at Harris. Doesn’t she know that Harris is immune to nasty looks???

Maybe Harris is one step closer to having every man’s dream — sisters! He was seen spending quite a bit of time flirting it up with Kattria’s sister, Tristanie. We got word that the toad she was carrying around the night before was actually Rath’s dinner which she saved from… well, being dinner. The girls named it and then told Rath that he couldn’t eat anything with a name. Aww! Those two girls are actually growing on us. Enough so for us to warn them to STAY AWAY FROM HARRIS! You will never be the same again. Trust us on that one.

Roderick, the newest Talon of Redwin, was busy making friends Saturday night. He evidently pissed off Aya enough that she held a sword to his throat… outside the ring. You’ve got to be careful of those former/current baroness types. Their tempers are pretty unpredictable and they will cut you. We’re pretty sure none of them are all that emotionally stable. Evidently, Roderick eventually talked himself out of the situation and stuck to hitting on women — like Kalinda — who are actually interested in sleeping with him, not killing him.

There was a mini-DoD girl reunion. Our sources spotted Charlie chatting with FLAWLESS Koy at the bar late into the night. FLAWLESS Koy has been looking not so flawless these days. There’s quite a few rumors swirling about both the stability of her mental state and the health of her marriage. We have to wonder if Charlie has resurfaced because of these rumors. We have to hope that having a DoD girl in town helps Koy out some because things do NOT seem to be going well for her at all these days. And maybe it did because Koy was actually seen smiling and laughing when her husband, MAN-tastic Matt, showed up shortly after.

Edited: April 5th, 2010