Hi, you!

It's Tournament Day . . .

. . .and it's pure chaos!

It's already been going for about 6 hours
They start stuff early morning back here

There are tournament venues
at three different Milan city gates

and Visconti pages and heralds
are tearing around the top of walls
on horses
keeping score
and hollering results

We have to have at least 14 wins
to make it inside the gates to the wedding party

Julio already won 2 fencing matches
and has another one in half an hour


Radar

Regine has already found
a few of the local women
who are competing

most of them dress as men

but one has a breastplate
with breasts
and nobody bats an eye


Conniptions

Here's the thing they set up

at our Northgate tournament ground
for competitors to have their
pre-tournament conniptions
in front of


My Match

I'm in the Ragging and Bragging
Competition
and I go on
this afternoon

On the trail I've been working on
some translations into English for you

Here's what I do at work.
I yell stuff like this:

Your band of fighters clad in rusted mail
Resists our onslaught like the stalwart quail!

You sing your insults like a clever bird
Who plummets from the sky, impaled, unheard!


Another day, another Florin.


Partial Scoreboard

The White Company is ceded into the party
since Hawkwood is the Visconti's General Contractor

So they're competing without being scored
(they're doing pretty well)

otherwise, as of right now

Facino the Dog & Co. --- 4
Sicilian Lances --- 3
Swiss Jag-Offs (the same ones who we tangled with
at the ford!!) --- 5
Rhone Valley Rustlers --- 4
Rhone Valley Mary's Company --- 4
Corps of Charlemagne's Glory --- 4
Dieter's Darlings --- 4
Free Lances of the Veneto --3
North Woods Terrors --- 3
Walter's Weaklings (what a cool name!) --5
Blue Company --- 4



Good Luck in your Review!


Your Sports Correspondent,


Bertie Ho