NOVEMBER UPDATES

November 29, 2001
Well we can now read the match between Flegmar and Ralmauthor. This is Ralmauthor's first appearance and he puts up a tough fight. This was also Flegmar's ranking fight which lands him right below Crucibal. He would have been tied but Crucibal defeated him in his first match. Hahahaha! I've decided that ties in the ranking system won't happen anymore. This is how a tie will be broken. Whoever beat the other more often is higher ranked. If that doesn't determine it then whoever has more experience is the higher ranked. Barring that I will give the higher rank to whoever I like better. (actually I guess at that point a tie might exist). Anyway I also readjusted two fights because week ten had Crucibal matching up against Flegmar which has already happenned. Anyway thats all for now folks.

November 28, 2001
I have added the fight between Whisper and Craningar. This is quite an interesting match. I have also updated the list of available resources. This should have been updated awhile ago. The following are now allowed although some require my permission if you are going to use something from them. Oriental Adventures, Manual of the Planes, Song and Silence, Magic of Faerun and new issues of Dragon Magazine. I have also posted the roster for week 10. That will conclude regular fights for Season 1. I'll be sending out an email request to everyone shortly (by the end of the week) with regards to special tactics for weeks 11 and 12 as well as details of what is planned. Thats it for now.

November 27, 2001
Wow another update! Actually this one is to let everyone in on what the DM's are discussing. I have decided to end the first season of the Pit at twelve weeks. The next two weeks will be regular 1-on-1 but we have some surprises for everyone with regards to week 11 and 12. I won't reveal anymore right now but I will leave you with that teaser. I would also like to say I corrected a problem with one of the links. Not sure what was happenning because the link was pointing to the right file name and the file contained the right content but it would display something else. Anyway it is corrected now. Check out the fight between Ackeron and Dis Loveth

November 26, 2001
No updates for 10 days. God I am getting neglectful of my duties. But as my new motto says "Life is Busy (and I am lazy)". But today I have for you 3 fights and updated fight roster for next week!!! That's right, you can now see who will kick your ass next week (or whose ass you will kick depending on your outlook). But lets talk about the three new fights. First we have the Pit Champion Calathra and Crucibal. Crucibal is attempting to fight for his ranking (3rd match equals a proper place in the standings). Read the fight to find out how things ended up or check the standings :) next up we have an unusual situation between Melquiades and Rannos. See the not-to-common ending to that match. And lastly of the three updates for today we have the righteousDis Loveth and the despicable Ackeron. Dis Loveth and Ackeron have quite the battle as you can read here. Anyway I should have more for you tomorrow. Take care and keep coming back for more!!

November 16, 2001
Well I must say things are getting interesting here in the Pit these days. Everytime I update the standings I think of little conflicts and rivalries that should be occuring. Like today between Melquiades and Crwag. These two are poised for a long standing feud that could see one of the Pits most hated struggle against one of the Pit's most loved. I love it!! Anyway all week 7 fights are posted. Now time to move onto Week 8. I must say I am happy with the way the other DM's are making their own little plot lines. It makes it very interesting for me to read as well. Plus it gives me incentive to get writing :) I'm sure I wanted to say something else but I can't figure it out for the life of me. And when I remeber I will most likely be to lazy to update... oh wait yeah I know what it is. I don't see much action on the forum or the yahoo group. Is everyone still their? I would like to hear more from everyone, I know I am bad for replying but I still like to know people are reading and enjoying. So speak up! ...please.

November 15, 2001
Two days in a row... what could be happenning? I have finished another fight. This one between Flegmar and Whisper. It is short. I will try to have the last one for week 7 done this afternoon. So the way I look at it I'm less than two weeks behind schedule. In high school terms that would 80% off my mark (at 10% per day late). In university that would mean a 0% (I never once had a professor let anyone be more than a few days late and only with good excuses). In my ITI computer training days that would mean a 0% with the possibility of impacting my overall teams mark. In the work place it would mean I get to begin looking for a new job. I notice a trend that it gets more severe as the level increases... hmmm. Well at least here the worst thing is that I disappoint my devoted readers. Ah well you guys are probably used to me doing that by now :) Anyway enjoy the fight.

Note: Never eat 4lbs of ribs at 11pm and then expect a good night sleep. I learnt it the hard way. Trust me.

November 14, 2001
Today has been a busy day for me with getting things organized around the Pit. I have cleaned up the combatants list. This entailed removing two characters. One because I never received a character sheet. The other character retired. Nathaniel is no longer with the Pit and there will be more to follow on that later. I have added a new DM to the list as well, Ultrann. Read his exhibition match. But of course the fun doesn't stop there folks. I have uploaded two more fights to the Pit. You can now watch (or read I guess) two of the top competitors duke it out, Rannos and Calathra. Also you can witness two beginners in the Pit fight for their glory and fortune, Ackeron and Shanna (this is Shanna's first fight!). Wow, aren't you glad you checked in today! I also have a few plans up my sleeve but I won't reveal anymore than that because I tend to work slower than I intend to. Anyway, if you submitted a character to me recently, I haven't forgotten about you. I am just waiting for even more DM help in order to expand the Pit's gladiatorial clientle. Oh yeah. when submitting tactics, please submit them as a seperate document NOT as an updated character sheet. When you go up a level send me the changes, NOT an updated character sheet. The reason for this is to make it easier to track changes and keep all DM's on the same page :) Anyway I think that is it for the moment. No wait. I also changed a fight next week that Nathaniel was to be in. Ralmauthor of Colors has stepped in to replace him since his departure.

November 8, 2001
Update - I have uploaded two more fights. Crucibal and Dis Loveth. Craningar and Nathaniel. Both are excellent fights and I think we have a some combatants that seem like they will pose a challenge for our Pit Champion Calathra.

Ok. I'm sorry I haven't been replying to emails lately or updateing the website or adding new fights. On Saturday I updated my computer to Windows XP. I was prepareing for a huge headache and had slotted several hours to do the install and try to get everything back up and running. Well what do you know. The install was relatively painless. I was a little bewildered but WinXP is pretty intuitive and found all my software drivers and installed most everything easily. I quickly hooked up IE and Outlook Express to access my ISP and voila, everything was great. I went to bed. I woke up and there was a windows update waiting so I updated WinXP. Restarted my computer and before it was even shut down I was on my way out the door for the day to run errands. I come back and my weekend/week crumpled. WinXP would not reboot, somehow the boot files went missing. Now for anyone who has lost their boot files can understand that life becomes quite a headache and my precious easy install became just what I had prepared for. I ended up having to reinstall WinXP over the old install. I lost a bunch of email from Saturday and Sunday. So if you emailed me about anything on the weekend I may or may not have received it. If it was important just send it my way again. On a second note. Work has been exceptionally busy for me this past week and I haven't had time to do anything I consider fun (except to see Monsters Inc with my fiance and her mom because I needed some serious relaxing time). So I do promise to get those fights up. It will just be awhile.

November 5, 2001
Holy crap! Time is flying by and I am once again falling behind. I guess this is what I get for having such a busy life. The final fight of last week is posted, Dis Loveth vs Whisper. I will be posting this weeks fights as I get them. Which basically means I don't have them all yet. But ah well, thats life.

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