Dryad Riots Mar Spring Baseball

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SYLVAN TOWN, MINAS MORGUL - Breaking news out of Minas Morgul has nothing to do with baseball. Well, that's not completely true. It seems that the local "government" has passed an act banning dryads from ever joining the team. The measure passed, 7-6, late last night in the Orcish Time Zone.

"No, dryads. No! They are puny and dustraxishing to us orcs," one orc grunted.

The ayes were all from orcs, trolls, and uruks, the prodominant races in Mordor. The nays were from Men, Elves, and the lone dwarf on the council.

The dryads were outraged at the decision and started out in a peaceful protest. But after the orcs rounded up the dryads and "took care of them" the dryad population (and many of their sympathizers, mostly from nearby Lorien) have risen up in a riot and have refused to work, shop, or other engage in anything involving or owned by an orc, troll, uruk, or any combination thereof.

The orcs then attacked Sylvan Cove, the stadium built and designed largely by dryads, in retailiation. No damage was done to the stadium however since rocks and sticks don't really do a lot. The dryads held a rally in the stadium recently while the Slayers were on a Spring road-trip.

The protests and counter-protests (and the violence between the groups), seemed to peak and reach an uneasy stalemate, until the orcs made a bold move. They incited the trolls to action and they launched an attack on the Dryad Monument, built by the druids many years ago when the dryads first arrived. The dryads defended the monument fiercely and a small scale battle broke out. Lives were actually lost, more orcs than dryads from the early death counts, but the tide swung when the Attack Trolls showed up. Them, and the Drummer Trolls organized the hordes and pounded the Monument relentlessly.

They dryads then awakened some ents and "found" some volunteer archers (rumored to be sympathetic elves in disguise) to counter the strike. The Monument was damaged but it seemed it would stand firm after all.

Until the Mumak Riders came. The dryads had no answer for these beasts, and even the Ents struggled against them. They were enough of a distraction to let the Trolls do the damage and eventually bring the Monument down. This caused the dryads and their supporters to scatter, but reports are that they are re-grouping and plotting a counter-attack.

The Slayers' players were saddened by this and Agnes Fernia, one of the first dryads on the team, has already asked for her trade or release, citing concern for her family. So far, it seems Sakura Silkpetal, maybe the most well-known of the team's dryad members, stand firm in playing for the team.

"I'm making a statement of support to my dryad sisters in this time of crisis. I might not can join them on the front lines, but by playing for this team, I'm in civil disobedience to this stupid act and I refuse to give up my position." Silkpetal spoke, drawing cheers from nearby dryads.

The rest of the team also seems to be speaking out against the action and hope that baseball can help heal the wounds. A highly active offseason on the field just got even more chaotic after these off-field events.

More to come as events warrant...

Posted at September 14, 2008 07:02 PM | more from Minas Morgul