Challenge Happy Wednesday!

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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

We Die Monday!

Well, well, well. That was certainly an interesting vibe that our sources spotted between Ewan and his wife the Divine Mrs. Storm! They report back to us that the couple seemed awfully cozy and were chatting about how nice it was to have one of the Taneths stay with them for a couple of days. A couple days earlier we’d heard Taneth saying what a great time she’d had there to Lucky Lawyer Lucien. Well, it certainly seemed as if having an additional member to their household made them realize that they… well, want an additional member to their household.

Their conversation was interrupted when a watchman who was present decided that he was going to take baby Taneth to an orphanage since she had no guardians or parents present. Ewan and Storm quickly stepped in to say that Taneth had plenty of guardians. We hear that they eventually took her home with them after a round of harassing from the watchman. We have a feeling that he’s going to be in deep trouble when the Gov MAN-tastic Matt hears about it! Not only are Ewan and Storm one of the city’s more high profile couples but MAN-tastic Matt has a special place in his heart for the Taneths.

You know what the problem with cheating on your man and expecting to have a relationship with the man that you cheated with? The sort of man that will engage in such an affair is never ever trustworthy. Danny was seen hanging out in the Inn laaaate into the night flirting it up with Kendall as well as some pretty brunette. Kendall didn’t seem much interested (probably because he can put together complete sentences) but the mystery brunette definitely did. It seemed pretty hot and heavy between the pair of them. We’ll have to see where it leads!

There were fireworks a plenty in the Outback Monday night! We hear that some girl named Eleanor dared enter the Outback and try to campaign for the Governor position. FLAWLESS Koy was pretty livid but MAN-tastic Matt tried to talk her down by telling her it was neutral territory. We hear that Eleanor told Koy that she didn’t think Matt was a bad governor but that he was getting a bit “old” for the position. OMG! WE DIE! AWESOME! This girl just scored some big brownie points in our book. Not only did she walk into Matt’s building to campaign for his political position but then she called him “old” to his violent wife’s face! Balls of steel!

Rekah and Cassius were spotted together… and we hear that he was actually being rather sweet to her. We weren’t sure that Cassius was capable of such a sentiment. He was overheard by our sources congratulating her on her win and for making the Elite Eight while giving her a hug. She was evidently trying to get him to come watch her in her match against Neo which is set for Thursday night. Really, nobody should miss that match. Who isn’t intrigued by Rekah’s underdog rise through the Madness Tournament??? We didn’t think Cassius would appreciate Rekah’s silliness but he certainly seemed happy with her Monday night!

It seems that Lydia and Soerl are looking for a new place with a bit more room for his kid from his previous marriage and… a new baby??? It certainly seemed that they were discussing just that. Lydia has definitely changed over the years that we’ve been blogging in RhyDin. Maybe, just maybe, she’s ready for this journey. She certainly deserves to finally be completely happy. Our sources tell us that she definitely looked happy when talking about the new house and their life together. Good for her!

Edited: April 6th, 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

Knowing in the Biblical Sense Monday!

Is it just us or was that Kate being awfully vague about how she knows Ali??? Our sources say that The Many Faces of Fio was overheard questioning her (as casually as it is possible to ask “HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW MY HUSBAND, WENCH?!?!?!”) Monday night in the Red Dragon Inn and Kate wasn’t all that forthcoming. Reaaaaally? How much do you want to bet that Ali and this Kate had a thing??? We already know that Ali likes his women beautiful and just a little bit nuts!

Fio was later heard chatting with one of Our Darling Taneths and some disturbing news came up in their conversation. It seems that when Fio asked Taneth how many Taneths there are, Taneth replied that there isn’t as many as there used to be. That’s a little scary, isn’t it??? What do YOU think happened to the missing Taneths??? We had hope in the beginning that they would all be reunited as one but we’re quickly starting to lose that hope. The longer this goes on the more it seems like it will have a tragic ending. So, so sad!

Speaking of tragic, that’s just how the night turned out. In the middle of the crowded Inn, two (or three depending on the source) gunshots rang out. Everybody ducked for cover and when people started getting up, one person didn’t — Fury. Considering the fact that she had just entered the bar and our sources say that the only shots that were fire struck her dead center, it certainly seems that she was the object of some sort of hit. Poor child Taneth was in the room and quite shaken by the whole event. Ugh. How awful! We have a feeling that Panther is not going to be happy about this at all. We hear that the Divine Mrs. Storm kept Taneth occupied while her husband Ewan helped Fio get the body upstairs. Lucky Lawyer Lucien and Crazy Train Tara (who is still referring to Taneth as her and Lucky’s child much to Lucky’s chagrin) showed up shortly thereafter to help calm little Taneth down.

Oddly enough Fio stayed upstairs with the body for quite a while. We hear that Veighn showed up and tried to get Fio to let him in the room. Fio was very adamant that he should stay away. Their argument could actually be heard in the common room. Ewan actually had to go up and convince him to leave by promising to get him a drink.

This whole situation is very, very odd. We don’t really know what else can be said about it so we’re going to move right on to what happened in the Outback!

We hear that the ever cheerful Duci was spotted in the Outback Monday night for the first time in for-freaking-ever! We do love Duci because she can always be overheard spilling all sorts of great gossip. She’s broken some of our biggest stories for us! We do so love bubbly blondes with big mouths here at the Den of Gossip! Speaking of people who haven’t been seen in FOREVER, Dris was spotted on the couch! Yay! We are so glad he’s back! He always seems to put himself smack dab in the middle of interesting situations!

OMG! Will someone PLEASE tell us why FLAWLESS Koy is looking so darn miserable??? It’s driving us bonkers! We hear that she was again seen moping around the Outback but evidently after Cutie Carley offered to let FLAWLESS Koy dress her, she seemed to be in a bit better of a mood. Our sources tell us that Cutie Carley looked pretty smoking and not so much like a twelve year old when she came out of the locker room after Koy got done with her. If Cutie Carley let Koy dress her all the time she may have to become Hottie Carley!

Juliane was seen in the Outback strangely enough. Yep, Juliane of the Smith clan! She was evidently chatting about her art gallery with Cy… who is evidently something of an artist! Imagine that! After all the stories we’ve heard of him and his legendary mouth, we can’t help but admit we’re a little surprised at the news. The pair seemed to get along swimmingly and had quite the little discussion on art. Juliane seemed in a much better mood than she had several nights earlier and Cy really seemed to be on his best behavior!

Dris was overheard questioning Rekah about her relationship with Cassius! FINALLY! Somebody is finally showing some concern about whatever Cassius is doing to Rowdy Rekah! Rekah was overheard saying that Cassius has never asked to be her “boyfriend” and that he really is more of a “man-friend” anyway. Dris encouraged her to call him her “lover” instead. WHAT?!?! Dris, you’re supposed to be on our side here! Anyway, Rekah said she couldn’t because Tara hadn’t given her the birds and the bees talk yet… which finally gained some concern (or maybe more appropriately, humor) from Dris. Ugh. Seriously, Cassius??? You’re dating a woman who needs a birds and the bees talk…. and is going to get it from Crazy Train Tara!!!

Edited: March 31st, 2010

Life’s Fantastic Sunday!

With the second round of Madness dueling wrapping up in the Annex and the Talon of Redwin Tournament unfolding in the Arena, the Red Dragon Inn was pretty vacant Sunday night. The lovely Sjira was seen in the Inn for a while chatting with a man who seemed to be trying to give her quite a lot of money. Men handing large sums of money out to pretty young women always gets our attention…. even more so when the pretty young woman in question is the apple of the proprietor’s eye! We have to wonder what Head Pussy Panther will think of this news!

Barbie’s back it seems. She drove that crazy car of her’s right up into the Inn and popped out as if she was ready for a flood of paparazzi. She is more than a little nuts. We hear that Taneth was super excited to see her and made Lucky Lawyer Lucien promise to take her to get a doll the next day… so public appearance score for Barbie! That girl Riley who got into the big brawl in the Inn the night before was certainly a fan. We hear that she totally stopped paying attention to the rather hot man who seemed into her to send her love to Barbie. That actually scores her points in our book!

The dueling fanatics that weren’t in the Arena watching the Talon of Redwin Tournament go down were hanging out in the Annex to watch the last of the second round of Madness duels shake out. Harris and his former flame FLAWLESS Koy were seen tossing back drinks and looking a little too chummy. It seemed that Koy was juuuuust about to open up to Harris about her troubles when her husband, the Gov MAN-tastic Matt, came wandering over to complain about his dueling troubles. SERIOUSLY, Matt??? That’s the most pressing matter you have right now??? Have you not noticed that your wife seems incredibly depressed these days??? OMG! He may be nice to look at but he’s no rocket scientist, that’s for sure.

For some reason, Crazy Train Tara was head over heels about Porthos. We’re not really sure why. She was actually acting a bit shy around him. While in the middle of flirting with Kalamere, Crazy Train Tara saw Slutty Pirate Girl Teagan walk up to Porthos and kiss him and nearly blew a gasket. She was overheard telling Kalamere that you couldn’t just walk up to an important man like Porthos and kiss him. Well, there’s a lot about tact that needs to be explained to Teagan. Anyway, Kalamere seemed pretty amused about the whole thing. That man just has no sense of self-preservation AT ALL!

Our sources didn’t catch the entire thing but evidently later into the night Harris was seen fleeing into the Annex with some ninjas hot on his trail. Yeah, you read that right. Ninjas. Not angry fathers or ripped off customers or murderous husbands…. but ninjas. It evidently had something to do with his wife’s former ward, Samiyah, who the ninjas seemed to be after. Thanks to a blade being thrown his way from the crowd of onlookers, Harris managed to dispatch the attackers. We’re not all that terribly surprised that there are people actively trying to kill Harris. We’re more surprised that this doesn’t happen on more of a daily basis.

Edited: March 29th, 2010