Post by orbis3 on Jul 5, 2017 6:04:19 GMT -6
A glorious first game of the season! The badly coached dead elves receive the ball, and the Khemri catcher, Legolas, entertains the crowds with a prolonged juggling routine. His tricks with the ball bouncing off his various bony protuberances and rolling around on the turf are so hysterical, on turn 3 two players on each side collapse, stunned with laughter, and the eager Bull Minotaur charges across the field to fall to his knees in awe right in front of the mesmerizing ball. Legolas dutifully gives Vilebull his autograph, and, buoyed by all this adulation, picks up the ball, makes a cartwheel, and passes to Celeborn the Blitz-Ra, who casually saunters the ball into the endzone for an unexpected lead.
Now it's the Chaos Dwarfs turn to show-boat. Alas, the Khemri set up a _perfect_ defence... they try for some sort of a skeletal pyramid, which predictably collapses and knocks-out Mr. Vilebull, who barged in waving his autograph book again. In the confusion, the Hobgoblins pass the time by flawlessly dodging, passing, catching, and even blitzing with the ball-carrier, stunning a skeleton in the backfield. Angered by their antics, the Khemri injure one of them slightly, but the others just cackle and score on turn 7. On turn 8, nothing happens. The sacrificial line-dwarfs withstand a barrage of Tomb Guardian insults and the half-time whistle blows on a tie game.
Second turn, and the Dwarfs have possession. The Khemri coach, whose last season in another league featured approximately 40 back-to-back 1-2 losses after taking an early lead, sees the writing on the wall... and mounts a desperate defence. There's a lot of pushing and shoving and a few non-lasting injuries, but the hobgoblins are stymied until Galadriel (the other Blitz-Ra) is KOd and the Khemri trap collapses, allowing the ball carrier to escape, cut back, and advance on the other side of the pitch, away from those nasty Tombies. After a pass, the Hobbos have a runner with the ball in scoring range when a desperate lone skeleton manages to stay upright blitzing across his backfield until both players go down in a tangle of limbs. The ball bounces badly, leaving the Hobgoblin one step short of the goal line after he gets it back. The Khemri celebrate like this opening 1-1 tie is a grand post-season win -- with Coach Orbis at the helm, they need to find joy even in a near-loss. Coach Hikaru meanwhile punitively pulls on the beards of his drawfs threatening them with deportation to some Nurgle-infested island until he is appeased by an MVP award which'll allow one of his surprisingly competenthobgoblins --my mistake, it was a dirty dorf with a pointy head! -- to level up.
Now it's the Chaos Dwarfs turn to show-boat. Alas, the Khemri set up a _perfect_ defence... they try for some sort of a skeletal pyramid, which predictably collapses and knocks-out Mr. Vilebull, who barged in waving his autograph book again. In the confusion, the Hobgoblins pass the time by flawlessly dodging, passing, catching, and even blitzing with the ball-carrier, stunning a skeleton in the backfield. Angered by their antics, the Khemri injure one of them slightly, but the others just cackle and score on turn 7. On turn 8, nothing happens. The sacrificial line-dwarfs withstand a barrage of Tomb Guardian insults and the half-time whistle blows on a tie game.
Second turn, and the Dwarfs have possession. The Khemri coach, whose last season in another league featured approximately 40 back-to-back 1-2 losses after taking an early lead, sees the writing on the wall... and mounts a desperate defence. There's a lot of pushing and shoving and a few non-lasting injuries, but the hobgoblins are stymied until Galadriel (the other Blitz-Ra) is KOd and the Khemri trap collapses, allowing the ball carrier to escape, cut back, and advance on the other side of the pitch, away from those nasty Tombies. After a pass, the Hobbos have a runner with the ball in scoring range when a desperate lone skeleton manages to stay upright blitzing across his backfield until both players go down in a tangle of limbs. The ball bounces badly, leaving the Hobgoblin one step short of the goal line after he gets it back. The Khemri celebrate like this opening 1-1 tie is a grand post-season win -- with Coach Orbis at the helm, they need to find joy even in a near-loss. Coach Hikaru meanwhile punitively pulls on the beards of his drawfs threatening them with deportation to some Nurgle-infested island until he is appeased by an MVP award which'll allow one of his surprisingly competent