Hyperion's Famous Fleuvian Racing Beetels Beetles
Hyperion the Shrew stands before you in Mossflower Common. He looks... shifty... but then again that's always how he looks. Before his little spat covered paws are five beetels... excuse me... Beetles. They are the Famous Fleuvian Five.... No matter that they've been the Famous Fleuvian Five for years and years and they continuously change colours and size from race to race. Bettels go to heaven right? Anyway... you can't help but grin as you look upon the fourth or fifth reincarnations of your beetle heroes.
Of course, you already know just by looking at them which is which, because they're famous... but as the other creatures start to gather around, Hyperion starts up his typical speech.
Cittizens of StoneCrest! It is that time again, that time when all creatures great and small come together and test the fates and my mistress the Lady De Cassa Luck. A time when even the wildest dreams can come true and the lest of creatures kin win a fortune. You know them, you love them, they'ze here, and they'ze ready to race their little beetel hearts to the breaking point for your love and admirsation. Frogs and fieldmice, fish and fox, flapper and flipper... and all the res of yis, putcher paws and claws together for the Famous Fleuvian Five! Number one, the Pretty Pink Princess! Number 2! The Mighty Jumping Plummer M! Number Three! They one the only, HERBICIDE! Number four! The almost pathetic, Pinchless Pinzer! and last and only sometimes least, Number Five! The aptly known Twice around the park, or as his late mum liked to call him, The K'pow-pow-powser!
Now ladies and laddies, you knows the high pitched drill here, step up to the table, claim a ticket, write-cher name and address if yer a pretty one, and jes yer name if yer got anything like buck teeth or knatchy ears or whatnot, and then write-cher choice to win, and follow it with the lineup there upon... gots it? Paper, name, number if'n yer a hottie, beetel to win, and the lineup to follow."
(( In order to participate in this race, all you have to do is say what you're betting (just make it up, a cake or a bracelet or something) and make a bet with your character. Each of your characters can put down their bets on what order the beetles will win the race... that first race was free... but this one you gotta say you bet something to be in it.
Example::
Amelia stepped boldly up to the table, and slapped an acorn cup down on the table. The thing was crude but well built, and it had teeth marks in it far greater than Amelia's little choppers. She didn't steal it... she only borrowed it. She intended to win this race and get her uncle's cup back anyway. Grabbing a charcoal stick with a grubby paw, she scrawled "Amelia" on the top line, and
"Herbicide to win, followed by 4,2,5,1" underneath it in a very neat little form. ))
The Beetels are ::
1 The Pretty Pink Princess
2 The Mighty Jumping Plummer M
3 Herbicide
4 Pathetic Pinchless Pinzer
5 K'pow-POW-powzer
(( This race will run at some point tomorrow evening (eastern) and you have until then to post your bets. One bet per character please. ))