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 RadarRegine has already founda 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 ConniptionsHere's the thing they set upat our Northgate tournament ground for competitors to have their pre-tournament conniptions in front of My MatchI'm in the Ragging and BraggingCompetition 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 ScoreboardThe White Company is ceded into the partysince 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 |