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A gnome wearing a baseball cap drawn heavily over his eyes walks down through the Trade District and comes to an abrupt stop in front of The Hero's Call Board, he carefully removes a package of papers from his pack and sides a single sheet of paper from the stack and tacks it up onto the board. He grumbles slightly before heading off to post more sheets in the other Alliance capitals. Meanwhile a similarly dressed goblin is putting the same piece of paper on the Hero's Call Boards in the Horde capitals. The sheet reads the following: Dearly beloved communities of Azeroth, it is that time of year again, you
guessed it! Frogball opening day is just around the corner. Prepare your bats, your frogballs and your gnomes for Frogball is guaranteed fun to be had by all. I'm sure I'll be seeing all of your bright and happy faces out at our frogball stadiums, conveniently located in Stranglethorn and Nagrand. All fans are
invited to come and watch for FREE, yes you heard me FREE, this year, due to a sizable donation from the Kirin Tor, we no longer have to charge for admission! So come one and come all and root for your favorite teams!

This year, however, The Azerothian Frogball Association, or A.F.A, has made some slight adjustments to this year's game. The Alliance Federation of
Frogball and the Horde Union of Frogballers have united to form one solitary
Inter-Faction Frogball League. As we close in on opening day, we kindly request that all team managers submit a team roster to The A.F.A for approval, Thank
you and have a good day!

Your Friend and Fellow Frogball Enthusiast,
Belpha "The Hex King" Lyron

((Some OOC Information:This concept was born as a fun little thing RP-PVP thing that everyone could have some fun with. I'm not sure if we'll get enough people interested to actually do anything, but I though I might as well try and gauge everyone's interest and see how it goes! Please give some feed-back on the idea and feel free to ask any questions or concerns.))

((For those who have no idea what this "Frogball" thing is, i'll repost the rules that Drakehide so kindly drafted for us:

Two teams of four, one Alliance and one Horde. Each team must have at least one shaman or mage. Everyone flags for PvP. It goes in three innings, with each side taking a turn to bat. basically, bases and home plate are marked [guild standards or raid markers, etc.,] and the 'fielders' stand close to them. Batting is a /roll 4 where 1 = strike, 2 = foul, 3 = ball, and 4 = hit. Three strikes is an out, and three outs means the team's done batting. Four balls means batter gets to take a base.

The catcher on the field team gets to be the Frog. Instead of a pitcher, a shaman from the batting team is standing at the center mound, keeping the frog CC'ed. It's the shaman's job to make sure that CC doesn't break until it's supposed to. When a batter "hits", they attack the Frog, break the CC, and start running to first. To "hit" a base, you must physically strike the baseman standing there, and touch the base. Same with each base in sequence, all the way up to home plate - you get a point when you've passed all the bases, and touched home, without dying yourself

Oh, and as you're running, batters, everyone whose base you tagged - from the catcher to the third baseman - will be trying to KILL you. Fielders, have fun - but don't attack anybody till you've been tagged! The most points at the end of three innings wins.))

Drakehide inspected the letter on the board and groaned. Everyone knew that the warrior loved a good game of Frogball as much as the next person, but...the timing was ATROCIOUS! He had work to do on his latest engineering project - a project which, unfortunately, was geared towards keeping him alive, and so it would take priority. Then, of course, there was the letter from Ragefang...the troubling letter that, more than likely, would involve the son of Mok'Rukh walking cleanly into an Alliance trap. On top of all of this, they had still not determined recently the source of Velidraestel's nightmares, and still had Mialera and all of her minions (up to and including Kol'than and Eldantios) to contend with.

Drakehide was now caught in the mad scramble of juggling this, juggling his work and commitment to the bar, his ties with the Plunderblood Cartel, and...and, most importantly, finding time, now, to share with someone he had come to care for, greatly, over the last while. Someone who had shown him kindness. Someone he wanted to be with, and spent his time with. Someone he did not want to hurt, or disappoint, by not being present.

...Frogball. This was MOST unglorious timing. But...

...Frogball...

Drakehide scowled. Despite all the other tasks he had before him, this WAS Frogball, and he was not about to let this challenge pass him by. First of all, because he owed this shaman "Hex King" Belpha a piece of his mind, and a plethora of obsidium bolts for previous, unwarranted hexings. Second, if he DID pass this by...realistically, Tyrynna, who remained a rival and foe, would NEVER let him live it down. And the last thing he needed was Tyrynna reminding him constantly about the Frogball tournament he chickened out of.

The warrior penned a hasty response.

So-Called "Hex King",

I accept your challenge. I intend to prepare a crack team of Frogball experts, and meet you on a field of battle of your choosing. And this time, Shaman, there will be no drive-by thunderstormings or "Home Runs" for you.

I will notify you as soon as my team is complete.

- Drakehide, son of Mok'Rukh

P.S. Kindly advice Tyrynna that if she does not participate in this league, I will consider it an act of cowardice, and will be party to gloating priviledges.

((OOC, I'm not going to be actively on until basically next week because of a big IRL event I'm part of and stock that I have to build for said event over the next few days. I'll definitely let you know once I have a team assembled, and once we're ready to play ball! This is an awesome, awesome idea, Belpha, and I salute you. xD))

((Ooh, I'm glad you started this thread. I've got a simple request to make of you guys.

Do you think you can keep the majority of your Frogball and other OOC antics and chatter to this thread?

It's making some of the RP threads hard to read and has already turned me off of wanting to participate in the "Vindicated" thread. Since Knowles treated Eldantios after the attack, I'd initially planned on making a post about it, but I didn't feel like anyone was making any effort to keeping that thread about RP.))

((Actually...I gotta agree with Knowles on this one. I know that we've probably derailed already between five and ten threads with our Frogball stuff, and...as much as I loves my Frogball, we should probably keep it confined to this thread, just to prevent similar situations in the future.))

((My apologies to anyone else who's been railroaded or ran over by my antics. ^^; I'll try and better behave myself in the future.))

Im just happy that for once Belpha, you have come up with an idea that doesnt involve abusing Gnomes.

I'm totally in and oddly enough, there are several ball uniforms in the off bank. Good work, Drake and Belpha.

Discocis, Discocis... where do you think we're getting the frogs from?

>.>

04/18/2012 12:46 PMPosted by Ragefang

Discocis, Discocis... where do you think we're getting the frogs from?

Ragey's got a point. xD

((I've noticed the same thing Knowles, and that was one of the reasons i though having this thread would be nice, and Sorry about that! It won't happen again. Oh and also, yes Disc, gnomes are the balls *Kidnaps Disc for ball usage*))

"HAHA! Gnome acquired! GLOOOOORIO - owwww..." Drakehide grumbles, rubbing the demonic rubber duckie that has been glued to his sore head, way back in the Bralox Meandering thread.

The son of Mok'Rukh quivers with rage. Someone WILL answer for this most grievous offense.

Tyr grins at the letter, meanwhile flexing her prosthetic legs with anticipation.

"Frogball season! Finally! My frying pan's been getting rusty!"

Immediately, Tyr started running towards her home, unearthing the appropriately named "Frying Pan of Doom" and her baseball cap from her closet. After that last little bit of Prosthetic rehab and that visit to Darnassus... FROGBALL WILL BE ON!

"Watch out, Bronny! Tyr's comin' for you!"

((On an OOC note, IRL is prohibiting me from being around this weekend, but there shall be plenty of Frogball fun to be had afterwords. And Knowles, I understand your complaint. I'll try to confine the frying pans and the demonic rubber ducks (<.< >.>) to this channel from now on.

Anyway... GLOOOOORIOUS FROGBALL! *whacks Discosis out of the stadium*))

*Shifts the feline head attachment on Drake to over here*

Drakehide runs around in a circle, flailing and trying to get the druid OFF of his head. At hearing Tyrynna's gloating (from the Bralox thread) Drakehide scowls.

"There is POPCORN?" he snarls, "GLORIOUS popcorn? And you are NOT sharing with the son of Mok'Rukh?!? THAT'S IT! THAT'S REALLY IT!"

A grown Drakehide, after all, can only be called Bronny so many times before he finally snaps. Despite the druid stuck to his head, Drakehide whips out his high-powered bolt gun and unleashes a semi-automatic hail of obsidium bolts in Tyrynna's direction.

...except Tyrynna, somehow, had simultaneously run off somewhere, and he was shooting at empty space.

"...next time," he grumbled.

((I'm pretty much out of commission as well until at least next Mondayish, other than occasional 20-30 minute ninja log-ons over the next few days.))

IT was an act of war, this Frogball team. But for this war, Bralox was ready. He set aside the tabard of the AAMS, and whistled. A slow grin set across his face as the ground shook slightly. "Meet my home plate Gaurd. King Mosh stood at Bralox's shoulder, glaring down and waving his tiny little Mosh arms. "OH, but she prefers to go by Devilsaur Sue."

(( Sigh. *Puts Kezrin up next on the "need to level" list.*

Not that she's ICly a shaman right now, anyway, but hey! ))

((We also accept mages, there's not enough shaman love to go around it seems))

((I will be very, very amused if you actually manage to pull this off at the stag party. That, I think, is an appropriate place for it. Good luck!))

04/22/2012 08:29 PMPosted by Belpha

((We also accept mages, there's not enough shaman love to go around it seems))

(( Mages you say? Perhaps a sheepball team is in order? ))