What Passes For A Romance Expert Sunday!

Lil’ Boy Blue Locke was seen in the Red Dragon Inn Sunday night which means that we got our first piece of news on Ballerina Katarina’s recovery from her surgery! Doc Eva was overheard asking about it and Locke told her that Ballerina Katarina is up and moving around but a bit “gimpy” still. We’re glad to hear that she’s on her feet at least! Manly Mason was there as well and had a conversation with Lil’ Boy Blue Locke about how to spice up his dinners with Ballerina Katarina since he cannot eat hot food. We hear that Manly Mason had some good ideas and was even trying to suggest some more… romantic option. We’re a little bit disturbed that Manly Mason is considered an expert on romance in this city!

We hear that L.B.B. Locke got a little anxious later when Juliane came in and made a reference about him marrying her cousin. He was quick to say that he and Ballerina Katarina were not engaged. Reeeeaaally? You’re going to shack up with the girl and not make her your wife??? Not cool, L.B.B. Locke! Not at all cool! We’re not entirely sure L.B.B. Locke appreciates what an amazing woman he’s landed. Maybe Head of the Fam Johnny should kick his ass after all! The awkward moment was easily defused when Lil’ Bit Lirssa brought up the subject of Juliane’s new gallery which L.B.B. Locke showed a great deal of interest in. L.B.B. Lirssa saves the day again!

Regular Fight Night dueling as well as a Fists’ MegaBrawl brought quite the crowd into the Annex Sunday night. We hear that surprisingly enough even the storied (and half-retired) duelists, Amal and Xeno, were on hand to represent their team in the brawl. We hear that the Brawl was so insane that it was difficult to tell who was doing what to whom. Quite the spectacle! It proceeded laaaaate into the night and we hear that EVERYBODY ended up pretty beat up. And there’s still two more of them!

Lil’ Black Book Jaycy showed up to get in some regular dueling dressed in a pretty formal gown. We hear that she bailed on the wedding that was ongoing and was in quite the pissy little mood. Maybe she realized just how close to marriage she and Pslyder now are and it scared the living dickens out of her. We hope to God that the realization about the path that she’s on finally dawned in her dull little head. Come on, L.B.B. Jaycy! Don’t ruin the amazing reputation that you have made for yourself by sticking with one guy! There’s still half of RhyDin left for you to seduce and bed! We miss you snapping hearts in two and stomping on them with your heels!

Edited: January 24th, 2010

Too Late Friday!

Lil’ Bit Lirssa was behind the bar of the Red Dragon Inn Friday night! That little girl works more than most adults we know! She was seen preparing drinks for Manly Mason and Doc Eva as they came in with the remnants of a snowball fight all over their coats. We’re quite sure that Doc Eva was the winner. That girl is FIERCE when you cross her! Speaking of FIERCE, Lil’ Bit Lirssa had a hand that was pretty busted and when the pair questioned her about it, Lil’ Bit Lirssa admitted that she had punched some stranger at the docks for getting grabby with one of her friends. Wow. Doc Eva declared it not broken but we have to admit that we are even more nervous about L.B. Lirssa’s well being now!

Things are proceeding right along with Marvelous Mira and Cowboy Jake. It seems that the pair had a lovely New Year together and spent the end of the evening with warm drinks at the Inn. We hear that Cowboy Jake even mentioned that maybe they could invite her family to spend the winter holidays with them next year at “our place”. WHAT?!?! Now we NOW Cowboy Jake is too traditional to be suggesting that they live together out of wedlock so it seems to us that he’s suggesting that they will be married within a year! HOW FANTASTIC!

Ballerina Katarina was seen catching up with Doc Eva later in the evening. It seems that she and Locke are still going strong. Ballerina Katarina was heard saying that he’s enjoying the snow. He must reeeeaaaally love her to stick it out through the long hot summers here in RhyDin. Either that or he loves fashion that much that he can’t stand leaving the fashion hub that is RhyDin. Maybe it’s a combination of the two.

Laaaaate into the night, our sources found two of the Inn’s resident Cheer Brigade all down in the dumps. Doc Eva, Manly Mason, and Chief Mischief Maker Eless were a bit baffled and concerned when both Serena and Mad Cow Kazzy entered in funks. There was no word about Serena’s but she certainly seemed out of it. M.C. Kazzy’s problems were more clear, though. It seems Lizzie has left town! What a bummer! We hear that M.C. Kazzy was drowning her sorrows with ice cream. Aw. We do hope that Lizzie returns soon. That’s so sad!

It seems that Guill might be rethinking his actions! We hear that he was seen down in the Annex apologizing for the things he has said. Wow! We didn’t think he would budge off his stance but it seems that the criticism from his friends is weighing heavily on him. Aja wasn’t immediately forgiving. We hear that she made it pretty darn clear that she thinks he’s been acting like an ass. We doubt Aja wouldn’t be as angry as she is if it her brother hadn’t been one of the ones that made Guill’s list of dishonorable people. Aja is the biggest defender of the legendary status of her brother’s dueling career. He’s going to have to work hard to win her over.

This should be illegal. Really. We hear that Crazy Train Tara and G’naughty G’nort were seen spending time in the Annex together Friday night, causing trouble. In fact, C.T. Tara even caused a serving boy to faint at one point. We’re highly uncomfortable with this pair being allowed within a hundred yards of one another much less planning and going on adventure together. The city may implode from their combined trouble making potential. Nobody’s going to believe us until it’s too late!

Edited: January 3rd, 2010

Take a Tour Monday!

An old friend of Marc Franco and several of the other interns walked into the Red Dragon Inn Monday night for a drink. Her name’s Sophie and… well, we typically try not to say bad things about her. We’ve found it safe to stay on her good side. So we’ll just say she was there. It seems that she was quick to catch Deliciously Sinful Sin’s eye… but no matter if you’re male or female as long as you have a tight ass and a long set of legs, you’re likely to catch D.S. Sin’s eye. No shame!

In spite of all that spit fire and the giant blow-up between Elite Eleanor and DIRTY Mish, we knew that they’d end up back between the sheets. They’re certainly not short on passion. We just didn’t think that the pair would have kissed and made up quite so soon. E. Eleanor was spotted back in DIRTY Mish’s lap Monday night as the pair smoked and drank just like the picture of debauchery that they are!

The Outback was pretty hopping Monday night. We hear that Darien, the journalist who is heavy in with the Prop 37 crowd, was spotted checking out the dueling venue! Interesting, no??? Say what you want about him but he certainly has to have some guts to show up in the middle of a crowd that tends to be heavily pro-magic. We hear Pslyder volunteered to give him a “tour” of the Outback which involved a beat down. Darien at least put up a fight but in the end Pslyder was able to pull it out.

Oddly enough, Head of the Fam Johnny was hanging out in the Outback along with Ballerina Katarina! She’s back in town and busy dancing so we haven’t seen much of her lately. It was a thrill to hear that she was out and about! The pair was seen drinking Badsiders and it seems that they had arrived to cheer on Lil’ Boy Blue Lock who was definitely surprised to see his girl and her cousin! B. Katarina and L.B.B. Locke still seem very much in loooooove! Cute!

SLUTtacious Darcy was evidently overheard by our sources apologizing for her behavior to her “mother” Mega Mom Icer. What behavior??? Well, it seems that SLUTtacious Darcy has NOT taken her break-up with Playboy Shane very well. Uh… did she not know WHY we call him Playboy Shane??? Evidently SLUTtacious Darcy told M.M. Icer that she plans on being strong but we’re sure that she’ll beg Playboy Shane to come back to her a good half dozen more times. The boy is TROUBLE! Just wash your hands of him!

It seems Lil’ Bit Lirssa was doing better but there’s still no detailed explanation about what happened to her. We’re hearing vague stories from our sources about a ring exploding which caused the metal to be embedded in the cuts. Odd. She was seen chatting with Real Estate Mogul Rena who was looking a bit down in the dumps. Could the rumors really be true??? We’re just not buying it!

Edited: September 13th, 2009

Little Big Locke Saturday!

Reality Check Brandon was back to work Saturday night in the Red Dragon Inn trying to keep Playboy Shane from falling victim to those darn wiley women! He was overheard on yet another diatribe about SLUTTACIOUS Darcy. REAL Gypsy Lilli (we’ve decided to call her that because there’s a lot of people that run around calling themselves gypsies but that girl is like fresh off the caravan gypsy) tried to stand up a bit for S. Darcy but R.C. Brandon was hearing none of it. We’re not entirely sure where he’s going with this one as to date we haven’t seen him approve of a single female. This is RhyDin, R.C. Brandon! There’s a million and one good women. Which one is going to be??? Just let us know! We’ll make it happen!

It seems that Playboy Shane is listening to R.C. Brandon because after R.C. Brandon called her worse insults than even we feel comfortable laying out, Playboy Shane did not defend his lady love but instead left with R.C. Brandon. Coooold. Very, very cold. We hate to feel sorry for SLUTTACIOUS Darcy but she can do better than a guy who ditches her like that.

It seems a couple more of Icer’s progeny has hatched as she told Marvelous Mira. Marvelous Mira seemed disappointed that the young were back at Le Dragon Cave and not there for her to play with. Ha! We’re sure that M. Mira can get an invitation back to Le Dragon Cave because Icer’s seriously got to need the babysitting help. That dragon-lady has just GOT to stop having kids.

Cutie Carley was with her newest handsome companion — an elf who seems to go by Cy. Very good-looking, Cutie Carley! We here at the Den of Gossip totally approve! We hear that our foul-mouthed little favorite had some… uh… choice comments about Lil’ Boy Blue Locke’s… well, little Locke, if you know what we’re saying. L.B.B. Locke didn’t seem to appreciate her commentary and invited her into the bathroom with him when he went to check out “little Locke” (or “Little Big Locke” as he seemed to be contending) for herself. Head into the bathroom she did! And with a SLINGSHOT! Evidently, L.B.B. Locke’s cry could be heard well into the common room.

The prank got her a stern talking to from Queen of Class Sylvia who was there attempting to have a quiet drink with her Hunky Hudson. As seems to be a common trend with them, Hunky Hudson could not stay long without being called away by a messenger! What a bummer! Must be the story of Q.O.C Sylvia’s life these days! He certainly laid quite the cute little kiss on her before he left though. Le sigh. These two are ALMOST enough to turn the whole lot of us here at the Den of Gossip into a bunch of sappy romantics. ALMOST.

Den Mama Sid! No lie! Den Mama Sid was seen behind the bar late Saturday night catching up with her dear friend Q.O.C. Sylvia. It seems like D.M. Sid is everyone’s “dear friend”, though. As usual, she was acting a bit eccentric — fading in and out of view covered in sparkles, cursing some unknown sorcerer, and talking of bouncy castles. What are you going to do??? That’s Den Mama Sid and you can’t help but love her and all her beautiful eccentricities.

The basement Arena was busy with activity Saturday night! Sweetheart S’jira and Head Pussy Panther were seen canoodling! COUGHMARRYHERCOUGHCOUGH! While Brale Brother Baker seemed to accidently wander a floor lower. One bar is just like any other to him, we suppose. He was belly up to the bar pounding down the mugs of ale and verbally accosting any woman who would stop and chat. One classy dude!

We do hear that he actually managed to have a somewhat coherent conversation with Lil’ Miss Anger Management Jewell. The pair talked of life, love, and the event the previous night! It seems that B.B. Baker drummed it down to a night full of “stuffy bastards”. We sure hope he wasn’t refering to us! OMG! We’d be so sad! It seems that he was upset that yours truly didn’t say hi to him. We are sure we overlooked a few but we were oh-so nervous about performing a wedding! So to make up for it…. hiiiii, Brale Brother Baker!!! Cutie Carley or one of our other regular readers, make sure B.B. Baker sees our little shout out to him!

Edited: June 27th, 2009

Launch of the GangSTAR Children’s Foundation / Fio and Ali’s Wedding!

We here at the Den of Gossip have been discussing how we may be able to give more back to the community that we love for well over a year. The GangSTAR Children’s Foundation came out of just these talks and we were thrilled to be able to launch it with a fantastic cocktail party in the Red Dragon Inn Friday night! It was, of course, all PINKED out! We named some great pink cocktails after Ehz’s nicknames for us — the Pinkoodle Fluff consisting of iced pink lemonade with a light rum in a hurricane glass and the Farfenpooter combining vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice black currant juice, and a dash of sour mix into a chilled martini glass. There were also waiters in well-tailored black suits complimented with pink ties making the rounds around the Inn with trays of hors d’oeuvres and a full spread of more filling foods laid out on the bar.

We were so thrilled to see some of our favorite people in attendance and, of course, we followed up with as many as we could to see how things in their lives were going.

Our Darling Taneth was looking ever the young beauty that she is! She gave me the great pleasure of FINALLY being able to meet Sullen Sal. We definitely can see what Deliciously Sinful Sin sees in him. Never one to change for anyone he was in jeans and a t-shirt and while we may not HEART his fashion sense we do HEART the way he is always himself. Definitely a HAWT guy and anyone who is sweet and caring to Our Darling Taneth gets biiiiig kudos in our book! She’s the best!

Lucky Lawyer Lucien was present and accounted for as well. Despite rumors that he has been seen looking quite melancholy and somber over the past month (come on, it’s L.L. Lucien after all, being somber is what makes him HAWT), he seemed to be in an excellent mood. He told yours truly that he brought out his best smile for the event. That smile, unfortunately, did not last the entire evening which we’ll explain later!

Ballerina Katarina looked to die for in a strapless yellow sundress! Certainly practically anything on that body would look expensive but we did question her about her fabulous fashion sense that we believe comes from her boyfriend, Lil’ Boy Blue Locke. When we questioned her on it she was a wee bit illusive but did admit that L.B.B. Locke occasionally supplies her with a dress or two. Who wouldn’t take his help??? He’s one snazzy dresser! She also confirmed that they have not yet gotten engaged. Although, we are hearing that they are shacking up together.

SPLENDIFEROUS Kairee never fails to bring attention to herself! She was wearing an uber sexy black strapless gown with white and gray vines printed into the fabric. It had quite the slit as well to show off more than a little of those famous/infamous legs. She greeted yours truly by jumping from the bar into my arms. She’s awfully lucky I have good reflexes or she may have gotten hurt! Knowing SPLENDIFEROUS Kairee she would have merely landed on a bed of magical roses instead.

I also got to catch up with one of our most avid readers in Cutie Carley! She was certainly enjoying the great food and the company. We hear that she definitely made the rounds and was even seen chatting with a number of people that we didn’t know she was familiar with. That young lady can make a friend out of ANYONE!!! We do have to wonder where she has been the past several months. All she told us is that it is “fun out of RhyDin”. Iiiinteresting!

Prof. Jolyon was busy giving his nightly lecture to Lil’ Lirssa when we found our way over to them. Lil’ Lirssa was again looking mighty spiffy in an adorable hunter green skirt and matching jacket. Such a little lady! Unfortunately, I only had a brief opportunity to discuss our shared interest — the plight of poverty-stricken children in this city.

But we’re quite sure that you would rather here of our discussion with her handsome tutor than our charity work anyway, you gossip scoundrels! Well, we did in fact discuss the nature of Prof. Jolyon’s relationship with Real Estate Mogul Rena (who joined us at the hearth as well). Unfortunately, he continued to remain koy about what exactly is going on there. From our very brief discussion with R.E.M. Rena in which she called him a “puzzle” it seems we are not the only ones confused by his behavior! The two did chat for quite a while afterward! Maybe a discussion on the state of their relationship???

We hear that Renna was in an amazingly sexy black number and was seen catching up with Icer. Unfortunately, Renna had moved on by the time I made it over to Icer’s couch where she was chatting with Drake…. who is yet another one of her relatives, according to our sources. Evidently the first of the current batch of Icer’s brood has begun hatching. It’s no wonder she’s trying to stay out of the house…. or den or cave or whatever!

Our sources caught more details on the upcoming wedding of Overlord Tormay and Our Darling Taneth! O.D. Taneth was overheard telling Sex Pot Kitty and Old Man Tass that the pair had decided to ask Therapist Chryrie to marry them! How cuuuute! Knowing T. Chryrie she will insist on pre-marriage counseling. Wouldn’t you love to just be a fly on the wall for one of those meetings? How much fun would pre-marriage counseling with O. Tormay and O.D. Taneth be???

Doc Anya was there on the arm of her man, Alper. She had the nerve of welcoming us to the cause of helping children in this city… which we find completely insulting to all the time, talent, and money that we here at the Den of Gossip have sunk into our favorite charities over the past two years we have worked in this city… and, really, that’s all we have to say about either of them. Thankfully, our night was brightened by some of the yummy eye candy that was occupying the table! Simmering Sivanna truly is TO DIE FOR! The woman just oooooozes sex! She was in a fantastic strapless black number that was cinched around the middle to show off her teeny tiny waist. Love her! The dashing Neo was also present. We hear some fantastic things about his exploits within the rings of the dueling venues. We may have to make a special trip there to see him for ourselves!

That lovely new girl AJ was around and chatting with Doc Eva and Ballerina Katarina. We’re hearing rumors that the girl might actually be pregnant. Wowzers! She and that man of her’s juuuuust hooked up and started living together as well. Now that’s a lot of pressure on a brand new relationship. We don’t understand why these kids can’t just slow things down. Why are they in such a damn hurry??? Well, perhaps speaking with Doc Eva gave her some perspective. Doc Eva isn’t exactly on the rocket express with her own relationship. They seem to be taking it nice and slow… which is probably a good thing since there’s still a TON of tension between her and her ex.

And then it was time for the big EVENT! We were so honored and delighted when The Many Faces of Fio and Awful Ali asked yours truly to unite them in holy matrimony! T.M.F.O. Fio looked delicious in a short, sassy indigo silk dress with a drop waist and ruffled skirt. And while we all knew A. Ali is suuuuper HAWT, he looked especially elegant in his black silk jodphuri jacket. Their witnesses seemed to be RhyDin’s Redheaded Stepchild, Tara, and a goat. We were straight and to the point and before the crowd knew it, T.M.F.O. Fio and A. Ali were JOINED!!! And they looked radiantly happy (and a bit nervous as to how everyone would react) about it!

Who doesn’t love a good surprise wedding???

Well, it seems that it didn’t take long for us to find out! Deliciously Sinful Sin and Old Man Tass stood in shock giving us the evil eye. And we must admit that it pained us to see it from D.S. Sin! Sex Pot Kitty and Lucky Lawyer Lucien stormed out of the Inn even! Shock reigned supreme for quite a while before people began congratulating the newly married couple.

We hear that the celebrating went on laaaate into the night and we must admit that these two are incredibly cute together. Only time will tell if they can stick it out in the harsh limelight of RhyDin but we certainly are hoping for the best for them. We certainly wouldn’t want the first marriage we officiated to end in divorce!

TO THE BRIDE AND GROOM!

Edited: June 27th, 2009