Tacked up onto the cork board in The Arena was a piece of brightly colored ice cream themed stationery that featured plenty of sprinkles. The bubbly handwriting read:
Hi, Sal!
The time has come for me to try out challenges. It looks like you're the longest standing Baron without a challenge. Respectfully, I would like to challenge you for Dragon's Gate, please.
Also, everyone gets ice cream after the challenges. That's SO fun! I would like to do that, too. Do you like ice cream?
- Title holder acceptance must be publicly posted within 5 days of this validation.
- The challenge must be fought within two weeks (14 days) of validation.
- This tool will assist in helping verify the required dates.
Instead of tacking a separate note of his own beneath the challenge, the Baron wrote on the notice itself using a red marker. There were only three words. The first two were written across the initial notice of challenge, reading:
ok acepto
And further down on the page, as if to answer the question of whether or not he liked ice cream, the Baron wrote:
NO
He did not even think to sign his name, but his handwriting was certainly recognizable by now.
Another post-it note was added to the mix. This time it was blue with a drawing of an adorable little brown puppy in the lower right hand corner. Obviously, that was a direwolf. So says The Dire herself. The bubbly handwriting read:
This challenge for Dragon's Gate will happen Saturday, August 10th at 9:00PM RST (EST). Eden Parker will call.
Tonight in the ArcadeI got to call for Delaney's first challenge, facing off against Sal for the Dragon's Gate ring. The Baron opted for a single match to decide this challenge, and a closely fought duel it was!
Ring Foxtrot: Delaney Lovell vs Delahada in a dos duel. Begin when ready!
*Ring Foxtrot 1: Delahada scores! (FCP / HC | 0 - 1, Delahada leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 2: No action this round. (SH / FCP | 0 - 1, Delahada leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 3: Delaney Lovell scores! (HC / FSS | 1 - 1, Delaney Lovell and Delahada.)
Ring Foxtrot 4: Delaney Lovell scores! (TH / LC | 2 - 1, Delaney Lovell leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 5: Delahada scores! (FLP / FDU | 2 - 2, Delaney Lovell and Delahada.)
Ring Foxtrot 6: Delahada scores! (HC / TH | 2 - 3, Delahada leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 7: Delaney Lovell scores! (FSS / FCP | 3 - 3, Delaney Lovell and Delahada.)
Ring Foxtrot 8: Everybody scores! (TH / TH | 4 - 4, Delaney Lovell and Delahada.)
Ring Foxtrot 9: Everybody scores! (HC / LC | 5 - 5, Delaney Lovell and Delahada.)
Ring Foxtrot 10: No action this round. (FSS / FSS | 5 - 5, Delahada and Delaney Lovell.)
Ring Foxtrot 11: No action this round. (HC / HC | 5 - 5, Delaney Lovell and Delahada.)
Ring Foxtrot 12: Delahada gains position. (LC / CP | 5 - 5.5, Delahada leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 13: Delaney Lovell scores! (HC / SS | 6 - 5.5, Delaney Lovell leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 14: Delahada scores! (LP / LC | 6 - 6.5, Delahada leads.)
Ring Foxtrot 15: Delahada scores! (LC / TH | 6 - 7.5, Delahada leads.) FINAL: Delahada def. Delaney Lovell, 7.5 - 6 in 15 rounds. - dos
With a sudden lunge, Salvador Delahada takes the match in the 15th round and defends his title as Baron of Dragon's Gate against Delaney Lovel! Well done, Sal, and well-tried, Del!
In the wake of the challenge, Sal has declared Dragon's Gate as Loyal to the Overlord.
