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Post by Kaiser on Jul 28, 2015 3:38:10 GMT
This if the team wanting in to one of the best cups i have ever played in and at last they are starting up again see iron-phoenix.freeforums.net/thread/1881/fraternity-cup-season-3-signupsThe University of I-Dont-Know is located under the city of Heimseter on Taaketskog's frozen coast. It sewers and surrounding caverns and tunnels are more then 5 times the city above and hold one of the largest Skaven populations in the north. The University has made its first application to the famed Fraternity Cup and eagerly away its approval All of the Skaven players on the team come from Sigma Chi within the University The motto: In Hoc Signo Vinces ("In This Sign You Shall Conquer") Head Coach: Coach Jester he was offered the job after winning the crippled cup hospital league with a skaven team and it is hoped he can mold the vandals into another champion team assistant Coach: Tom Cable a graduate of the university himself none are better at line blocking than cable he is expected to use the line rats speed and work on zone and trap blocking Head Cheerleader:Mis Chitta seven nipples, winner of the miss cheese of 2013 she is a star breeder able to produce a litter of 14, 5 times a year The players on the team Stormvermin #16: John Friesz he is the one star that can be designated and what a star he is, he has showed he is not just a hard hitter but also can throw the ball, only time will tell if he is picked up in the draft. Linerat #1: Chitta Gouda along with 2 of his 87 brothers was the first to sign up and has been named the captain of the team. The Gouda family have donated a warp stone to the team and have many family members playing on other skaven teams. Linerat #2: Nibbler Gouda is the youngest on the team but he can chew through a wizard's spell book in less than 3 minutes Linerats # 3 and 4: The Parmesan brothers Kweei and Minke are from a family that are know to have many mutations but their litters tend to be smaller and number only 4 at a time, only time will tell what extra body parts they will grow Linerats # 5 and 6: Mozie and Nuk Nuk Mozzarella have family member high up in the thieves guild and their farther made them sign up as a right of passage to test their skills Linerats # 7,9,10 and 13:The Swiss family are the largest breeding families in Heimseter and number over 700 Linerat #8: Bilby Squeeks watched his family die in the great pied piper attack of 2011 and has a strong hatred of humans Linerat #12: Sliner Scuttle not much is know of him as he never talks but he is fast and agile and always has food with him and well liked as he hands it out freely to his team mates Linerat #11: Woot Gouda is the loud mouth of the team and claims he is as fast as a Gutter runner, sadly he isn't but he is always willing to take on the risky play More to come
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 2, 2015 2:31:26 GMT
breaking news last night a band of humans raided the school, at first it was believed to be just another group of rat catchers and was even feared that the famed Rattenfänger von Hameln the Pied Piper himself led the attack. Turns out is was a raid by bandits and they got away with 1 of the 4 warp stones the team plan to use. seven of our citizens died in the attack along with 4 or the raiders and one was taken alive. Through torture we have discovered little except the attack was led by a Volt Garbles and they were paid by an unknown third party to do the deed. In other news the vandals have been accepted and there will be a celebration tonight in the city square.
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 8, 2015 7:14:58 GMT
The coaches office door burst open and in sprung a skaven , his pads and armour covered in mud. "coach coach, did you hear our.." "What have I told you all?" yelled the man sitting at the desk. "to um knock and er wait?" "that's right" "wh..whan me to um go back out and er..." stammered the skaven. "no, your hear now, and I know what your going to say, I am the coach and so I get the list of who we play before you do" "Are they any good? who are they? iz it orcs?, I hear orcs hit hard be we can out run them" The coach leaned back in his seat. "It is another Skaven team, from the Under-mountain community college" "wow coach didnt know there were others like us in this cup, are they any good?" "I have been able to view the team train with the help of a few crystal ball sessions. for starters they have a odd name for a skaven team" "what iz it?" "the UCC Fighting Skinks" "do they have skinks on the team?" "No. I suspect it it to confuse any rookie coaches and to ruin their game plans, the have a star, its a Gutter runner, a..." he looks at the roster on the desk to check the name "a runner by the name of, Skrillek 'Two Toes'. He got the nick name because of some incident with a goblin team but don't underestimate him, he is fast and from what i have seen he is hard to get down, he also has good hands and attacks the ball at its highest point, yep this guy can catch" "want us to hire an assassin and take him out before the game coach?" "No" Jester snapped back. "we wont play like that, we shall beat him on the field, we shall double our tackling training at once and I want all the Swiss brothers and Nuk Nuk to spend extra time with the warp stones, Now get back to it and I shall be out shortly so the team can do a walk through of the plays I want to run" With that the skaven bowed, turned and left the room, leaving the coach looking at his notes and writing X's, O's and arrows on some paper.
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 10, 2015 6:05:47 GMT
"Tom whats the injury report?" asked the head coach as he walked into toms office
"They hit us hard coach, but all will be ok and ready for next week"
Jester walked over to the window and looked down onto the practice field. The field was inside a large cavern, high above large crystals glowed a bright red to illuminate the players running their sprint drills. "two toes was good wasn't he?" he muttered without turning
"yeah he is fast, he played only a quarter of a game and still he scored, but John knocked him out, and we did tie the game"
"yes, but only just and right at the end, we were lucky Tom, just lucky. They hit harder, executed better, they had their timing right; we, we didn't"
Tom sat in silence unsure for the first time what to say, he new a draw was still not as bad as a loss but this game left a sour taste in not only his mouth but Jesters as well. after a few moments Jester finally broke the silence
"halflings next Tom, we cant lose to halfling, whats the report on the warp stone sessions?"
"well Tass, Drax and Ssabe are showing signs, Ssabe the most, he, he has a lump on his shoulder, could be a head or an arm forming."
"good, Nuk Nuk ran well with the ball, run him through some catching and passing drills. This is going to be a long season, lets make players outa them shall we"
"you got it coach" the taste in his mouth suddenly seemed less and a smile started to appear.
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 12, 2015 7:01:40 GMT
Jester looked up at the clear blue sky, at least it not raining he thought to himself, the thought was interrupted by the crunching sound of boots stepping on the two inches of fresh fallen snow from the night before.
"The teams ready coach" Tom said as he put the whistle to his lips to signal the players to fall into line. Jester looked arond he had wished they could have been training at his facility back in Altdorf in Reikland, but the school required teams to train at their university as they had other classes to attend and Altdorf was just too far away. After a moment he found what he was looking for, a large birch tree a bit more than three feet across. seems bout the right size, an oak would be too thick, to solid, yes this will do nicely he thought "have the team form up at that tree" Tom blew his whistle again and shouted the order to the team and the skaven scuttled over and all formed a line behind Chitta their captain some eight paces from the tree, As Tom sounded the whistle Chitta took off, running with fast yet measured steps at the tree, as he neared he lowered his shoulder but kept his head up looking at his target, as he hit he wraped his arms around the tree and then let go and stepped to the side.
"that's it, same shoulder same foot, that's how your going to have to hit him" jester addressed the team, "His name is Gorden Ramsay, a treeman that wont go down easy, I am not going to lie this wont be easy and to add to it they may have a ring-in, a real blood bowl star play for them as well, Deeproot Stronbrach or maybe Zara the slayer, we wont know till closer to game time but we will have to train for both" with a nod to Tom the assistant blew again; and again, and again, and after an hour of this Tom at last blew three quick blasts to signal a stop to the training drill and looked to jester.
"whata ya think coach?"
The Coach surveyed the scene, His team all panting and laying on the cold snow to cool down, some rubbing sore heads and shoulders.
"I dont know Tom, they are not ready, we need another plan as a back up"
Jester walked up to the tree and the team stood to listen
"form a circle around the tree... now, RUN AWAY... now come back... and, RUN AWAY"
the team did this for another twenty minutes till the coaches had enough and as a team all went back underground beneath the city to rest up and await tomorrows next training day, while jester headed to the kitchens to instruct the staff to make sure that each player would have some sort of food strapped to each of the players uniforms to help distract the halfling from their game plan.
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 17, 2015 4:02:57 GMT
Big Gritz squeezed through the entrance to his home, it had been a long night scrounging and all the rat ogre wanted to do now was sit down put is twisted tail up and read the Vermin weekly. The overs sized chair creaked as Gritz put his full wight on it and opened to the sports section and started to read the headline. Blood bath at home Today the vandals took on the Master Chef Academy. the vandals got of to an early start thanks to Drax Swiss who streaked down the sideline and unselfishly handed off to his brother Ssabe who then with a perfect spiral, passed to his captain Chitta for the go ahead score, the team then had to withstand the cowardly attacks from the cheating cooks' till at last late in the game goblin referee Grotty Bottomrun opened his eyes and sent a chef his marching orders, but it was too late, 6 of our brave players lay injured and Nuk Nuk lay dead, also7 of our players had been knocked out but some managed to return. Sadly not enough as only 3 players remained standing at the end of the game and the cheating cowards managed to tie the game in the final moments. I didn't go all there way our brave lads managed to kill one of theirs, injure two more and knock out a further two. Our fearless boys didn't back down for the trees either and went one on one with them, knocking them down 3 or 4 times, but they kept getting up and only once, late in the game did one of them take root. The stone floor is said to be blamed, the field will now be resurfaced with dirt and we shall try to grow grass on it as well. To do this the staff have hired Ishka Growseed a wood elf curator. Services for Nuk Nuk will be held in the city square tonight and the Bucktooth Tavern will have free drinks for one hour starting at 6 in honor of number 6 Nuk Nuk, our thoughts and wishers are with his family, friends and team at this time.
Gritz threw down the paper and garbed his club, "I bet not all those fling fans have left the city yet, time for some payback" he muttered to himself as he headed out to hunt.
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 21, 2015 6:45:43 GMT
Jester and Tom sat in the darkened viewing room looking at the large white screen mounted on the wall, at the other end of the room a crystal ball was on a table images moved about inside of it. Behind the ball was a lantern with one opening, the light from inside it focused directly at the ball and in turn putting the images up on the screen the coaches looked at. Sitting, focusing on the crystal was an old man with dressed in wizard robes.
"Looks like two toes will be doing it again for this game too" Tom commented about the skaven team the vandals had faced in week one.
"Damn he is good, but we need to focus on the linemen Tom" Jester replied.
"Coach Squiggy is using a wide soft zone it seems"
"yeah, Tom make no mistake, this Squiggy, know what he is doing, lets just see if his team is as disciplined as we want ours to be and stay in their zones"
They sat watching for in silence for a few moments, then jester turned to the wizard "wind back and replay that last move" with that the wizard focused and the images went in reverse for a few seconds and then went forward once again but this time slower.
"Tom watch number ten, he contained the back side edge, and stopped the cut back misdirection play, nice, disciplined."
"yep, and its only Two toes individual skill that was able to get through the line for the score"
"we dont have a Two Toes though"
"are we in trouble Coach?"
"No, look, see his zones collapsed, no safety back, also what we lack in speed we make up for in hitting"
"WOW" called out Tom "for a moment I thought that fan killed that player, he seems ok, yeah he's limping off"
"These humans play dirty Tom we will have to have words with the ref before the game, make a note of it"
Tom pulled out his notebook and wrote in the reminder.
"I've seen enough" Jester said as he stood and stretched, "There are holes in the center we can exploit, I will write up the plays now and we shall run the team through them tomorrow... Thanks once again Zool" Jester said almost absentmindedly to the wizard as he headed to his office.
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Post by Kaiser on Aug 25, 2015 1:52:29 GMT
In the darkness two squeaky voices echoed through the tunnels
"Zippy is late again" the higher pitched one exclaimed
"Titch, you know as well as I do he is always going to be late, I just hope this is not another one of his crazy ideas" the other said.
"hey Trizz did you see the game this week?"
"yeah, those cheating human fans running on the pitch like that, hardly fair, only three of our boys standing after the ref got them all off, and they didn't let us all in to see the game, only a few of us got on the field to punch 4 of them"
"the ref let em stay on a little to long if you sack me, ref had to have been paid off, he got our fans off before even looking to get the humans off"
"Yeah, its the only reason they scored at all if you ask me, the first half was just not worth watching at all, unless you were a... human" Trizz spat as he said the word that filled his heart with hate and anger.
"true enough, but the half time show made up for it and then some"
"wow yeah Miss Chitta was hot, if i were one of her litter i would feed on those nipples the rest my life"
"well while your busy feeding I would be doing the breeding"
"I didn't say I would just feed, i would be doing that as... shhh did you hear that?
both went quiet and slowly pulled out their daggers, only to relax again when they realized it was Zippy.
"guys sorry I'm late, what were you talking about?"
"the game and how we lost, I tell ya those humans cheat more than goblins" Trizz spat again
"so wha..." Titch started to ask but was interrupted by Zippy
"I hear the Doc Peg leg Pat will get the sack, or worse after his cock up to save Ssabe Swiss, Ssabe was dead, he than saved him on the field, only to trip and fall on Ssabe on the stretcher as he was getting up and kill him again, what a dick"
"we can talk about the game and how we lost later but right now whats your great plan Zippy?" asked Titch
Zippy pulled out a glass bottle with a clear liquid in it "we go up, and pour this into their water and while they are under the affects we rob em and get all that fresh food, I plan to use my share of the spoils to give to the team and maybe they will let me play"
"whats the potion?.. poison?" asked Trizz
"No, I call it L.S.D, its a new drug i have been working on, it will make them see things that are not there and make em laugh a lot, so much so they wont want to fight us, hell they wont even know we are there, or better will think we are something else" Zippy explained.
"whats the LSD stand for?" asked Titch
"Liquid, Skaven , Drugs." Said Zippy proudly.
"Nice one Zippy, nice one. This may just work, lets try it" Titch said as he started to climb the ladder to the manhole and the street above.
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