The Ostia Local games: Augustus 218AD

The Prologue 218AD  

Greetings and felicitations, and welcome back to the Ludis Scutum Quercu, the Oakenshield Gladiator Training school.  It is I, the slave Dubious, who shall be your guide to the goings on...

Nones has come around and it is time for our Gladiators to prove their worth.  Biggus put two of them, Thorinus and Balinus into one on one matches in the local show. 

The first to fight was Thorinus "Prince of Dwarves," but he is not really a dwarf!!!  He names himself Primus, but this is a littlle hasty as he has never fought and does not qualify. 

Scurrilous rumour, started by myself, Dubious the slave, has it that Thorinus is dosed up on performance enhancing turnip juice from Britannia!

As his opponent Thorinus drew the Thraex Breslaw, a German captured by our legions as he lived wild in the woods...  For such a huge man he has a rather high voice.

A slug match, with no finesse.  Both gladiators rely on sustained combat, and it is Thorinus who rolls high, constantly. 

Thorinus stands over the fallen Breslaw, but Breslaw survives to fight another day.

Ludus Fartakiss will be annoyed that their top boy took a beating!

 
Halftime entertainment

The Ode

There was a young fellow from Ostia,
Who thought that the games had got costlier,
He took to the wine,
And was feeling quite fine,
And woke up with the Legions in Austria...


Well its a work in progress.
back to our main event...
In the second local bout Balinus, a Thraex fought Kiel, another huge German Thraex, whose nickname around the Fartakiss Ludus is Jaws, mainly because of his huge chin.  He also gets the name Dick Kiel...  probably not worth looking into that one.

The Thraex square off

Kiel rolls abominably!

Balinus puts in a better performance, but this fight is also a sustained brawl.

Kiel rolled all 1 and then next round all 2.  That was as odd as it was poor!

Balinus doesnt get it all his own way.  His vitality drops alarmingly.  Well that is a huge German!

But it comes down to staying the course, and Balinus edges it.  Kiel is carried out leaking...

The rival Ludus gathered after the two bouts

 And so my master, Brutus Biggus has earned himself ten coin, and is looking very smug.  He kept back Sinister, our Retarius, for the Regionals later in the month.

In other news my mistress, Neurotica, has been seeing a Centurion of Marines to sort out a problem with his waterlogged pilum...


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