The cowgirl Queen tacked up a letter on the corkboard. She had checked with Kheld to see who all was on the list for the upcoming Diamond Quest and been horrified after speaking with him. Horrifed just might not have covered the range of emotions she was feeling when she ripped out the back page of her mortal enemy, her journal, by hand leaving a jagged edge along one side of the note.
Dear Emeralds, Opals, and Vinny,
I hear tell that only ONE person has signed up so far for the Diamond Quest this here time around! Count 'em I said ONE!!!! Now how ONE person is gonna fight themselves I don't know. But this here does not bode well for any BLOOD GUTS and GLORY for anyone to come by and see on Sunday night. How can this be that such a prize would not be coveted by y'all!?
How can y'all pass up the opportunity to kick each other's ass royally for such an honor? I am right disappointed that there ain't nobody out there but Bran that wants to be the Diamond this here go around!!! What is the problem here? So what if ya sign up and then can't make it. At least ya made it known ya were interested in being the best of the best by golly!
And don't think to get away with telling me ya ain't got no paper to send Kheld (or Matt) a note. I'm attaching extra papers and a pen to the board here for ya to use. Ya still have until this coming Sunday evening when the Diamond Quest takes place to enter folks. Do the deed!
Des
Out beside the note was a pad of paper and a pen chained to the corkboard.
We had a field of 6 entrants in the 49th Diamond Quest folks!
Chris Graziano was there and seeded number one because he showed up first and yes all you ladies out there he did take off his shirt when I put him in the POOL! Anyone that had been wanting to beat up on Jake Thrash, owner of the Red Orc Brewery (That makes that very tasty Badsider beer.), well ya missed out and yes his beautiful spokesmodel PJ Ramirez was there too! Kheldar Drasinia arrived in good time to be part of this grand and glorious evening and do you know that the very last move of the night he made was a tribute to his missing friend?
Bran Bale was there in his first ever Diamond Quest and do you know that he made it all the way to the FINAL Match with his scaly fists! Dizzy Flores was there and oh how she did shine as the only female in this Quest! Cory Havoick was there, having ran in at the very last second just as we were getting ready to start round one, and survived ice, water, and muck, mire, mud, and weevils all the way to round 5 out of six rounds of matches last night and yes he lovely wife Anjolie, the holder of the Opal Pathfinder, was there cheering him on!
I think it is pretty telling that none of them nasty Opals let their holders come and fight for the position of Diamond but that is just my opinion because them Opals are dangerous I tell ya!!! Everybody wants them and they are right handy in a fix for sure but they got them a dark side just ask those that are willing to speak up about ‘em!
Anyhow about this here Diamond Quest that we had going on it was right fun and VERY exciting. I got to set off the lights and sirens all over the place. There were so many SUDDEN DEATH matches it was grand and it was glorious! The first two were in the very first round even!!! Bran and Dizzy were tied at 4 - All in FERN then 5 - All and then Bran got himself a point to win 6 - 5. Jake and Kheld were on the BRIDGE and tied up at 4 - All then Kheld managed a point to bring the match home. Chris and Cory their first round matchup ended up with Cory taking it at a score of 5 - 2 up in STYX.
In the second round Dizzy gave us the first elimination of the night in the CAN which was Jake at a score of 5 - 2. And Cory had his first loss handed him by Bran on the RINK at a score of 6 - 5 in our 3rd SUDDEN DEATH of the night that started out 4 - All then went to 5 - All before it ended. Chris and Kheld our top seeded loser and winner respectively had byes.
In the 3rd round Cory had the bye and I gave everyone still fighting a break and put them in Rask generic rings for this round. Chris managed to sit our only female in the Quest down, Dizzy, for the night in HAVEN in yup you guess it a SUDDEN DEATH match that ended 5 - 4. Kheld and Bran were facing off and this match appeared to flat out belong to Kheld folks as he won it 5 - 2 in BRANDED.
We came to round 4 with Bran having a bye and this is when I got Chris and Cory to take their shirts off ladies. A shame if ya missed it because I put them in the POOL for their duel! Water was going everywhere and I am quite certain that some lifeguard somewhere was just spinning in their grave at what was going on but eventually after all the splashing died down it was Cory that emerged victorious with a score of 5 - 3 and Chris got to relax the rest of the night.
Anyone who knows me is going to tell you it is just a matter of time before Des hits that button and those panels slide open. And so it was last night that I picked round 5 to open up the most vile and nastiest ring in the place, the PIT. The muck, mire, mud, weevils and smell is just, I don’t know, just something about it that does a body good and helps ya too to see folks fighting in it! This one came out in Bran’s favor by a score of 5 - 2 which meant that Cory got to watch the rest with his lovely lady.
Now it all came down to Bran in his first ever Diamond Quest with one loss and the veteran fighter Kheldar with no losses who had already faced off against Bran and given him that one loss this evening. I decided there was no better place to hold this last match than in the Outback itself so I told them boys to commence fighting and by golly they sure enough did!
This here match was about as back and forth as you can get. First Kheld scored then Bran tied it up. Then they both scored then Bran was ahead and Kheld tied it up. I swear it was a nailbitter delux and in the end came down among the broken tables, chairs, and mugs to SUDDEN DEATH no less!!! Now how it turned out though was Kheld pulled off a perfect imitation of Matt's signature move against Bran for the winning point to become the new Diamond of the Duel of Fists folks!
Congrats to Kheld on his win!!!
Excellently fought duels by all of you who entered!!!
Thank you to everyone that came to cheer and watch!!!