The Phoenician
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The Phoenician is
the only merecenary, because he is the only one who
figured out how to get paid. No one knows what he does
with the money.
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S-Mallet
(pawn)
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S-Mallet is a
former judge. Very former. Way former. Especially after
the central role he played in the so-called Last Game
affair, when he failed to find a pawn guilty of
trespassing The Last Line and impersonating a
queen.
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Maharashvili
(pawn)
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This guy doesn't shave because he doesn't have
the appropriate sort of weapon. And true warriors don't
share weapons, it's like sharing toothbrushes to them.
There is no way he will abandon his dear own weapon for
some razor. Don't even mention it to him.
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Pete
(pawn)
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Pete is a small
guy. That is why they made him a pawn. While Stew (see
next) has no past, this guiy has no future. Otherwise he
is a great companion, unless of course you are waiting
for the same thing.
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Stew
(pawn)
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Stew - this guy has
no other characteristics except for the fact he has no
characteristics. He has no past either.
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Ben
(pawn)
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Ben - a fine
soldier, whose services as a spy under the cover of the
night, or hidden in a giant chocolate cake, are always
impeccable. Always cheerful.
A toothpic for some, but
a spear for others.
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Hairy
Turtle-Head John
(pawn)
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Hairy Turtle-Head
John is such a day-dreamer, that if it weren't for his
heavy weapon, which he uses as a n anchor, he would have
floated away in the open air a long long time ago. The
subject of his daydream is RARELY the wellbeing of the
enemy. Sometimes he leaves a spike or two on the enemy's
shields or helmets. Rumor has it that these make an
excellent prosthetic tooth, of course not without the
help of ex-judge Smallet who has the only tool suitable
for fine dentistry.
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The Rabbit Hunter
(pawn)
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Some falsely think he is called that because he
hunts rabbits. Not true. He looks like a rabbit (hence
his nickname) and is a hunter. Maybe a dash between
rabbit and hunter would somewhat clarify the situation,
but The Rabbit Hunter does not like to mess with
punctuation. It is too dangerous, he says, even for him.
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Nandes
(knight)
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Nandes - very
strong, very powerful. His specialty in battle is to make
so much noise that both armies quickly retreat to their
head quarters.
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Penata
(knight)
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Penata - what a
fine animal!
He is a little vain
too.
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Quaint Weapon
Balthazaar
(bishop)
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Quaint Weapon
Balthazaar is a cunning man. His invaluable advice has
lead the king's armies through many a gory campaign. He
knows everything.
Use the other pieces. It's better to be safe than
sorry.
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Fritz
(bishop)
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Fritz has a SHARP
sense of humor and a hard and
FAST answer for most
questions the pawns have to ask. The pawns normally ask
questions about food - What? Where? When?
The keen sense of what's funny and what is not he got
when a new and SUDDEN tax
CUT was introduced while two
meticulous old-school officers of the fiscal police of
king Henry the nth were just knocking on his
door while he was trying to take a fish bone out of his
pain-in-the-neck nephew's
THROAT. It was then that his
men first heard him CHUCKLE
in the night.
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The Ox
(rook)
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The Ox has a short name and a long history. The
history of the Ox consists of a chain of events following
the pattern "get it a fight -- win -- get in a bigger
fight". When he is on vacation he does the "get in a
fight -- get in a bigger fight" pattern, because he is
not getting paid anyway, so why bother.
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Mustafa
(rook)
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Mustafa has a lot of common history with the Ox.
Mustafa's history consists of a chain of events following
the pattern "get in a fight over something stupid -- lose
--get in a fight over something stupider -- go home and
think about it -- put them on your black list -- forget
about it". He doesn't do a vacation routine. What he does
instead during his days off work is bee keeping.
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Arthur The President
(king)
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He is actually the King, but he goes by the
President. It has to do with the comlex international
post-negotiation partners he sometimes has to deal with,
like the Contender. Loved by his people and hated by his
wife the President is a noble man who never forgets his
elven origin.
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Antoinette
(queen)
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Anoinette The Queen married rich. She now hates
the King because his men hired the Phoenician, and that
is a little tough on the family budget, if you ask her,
even though no one knows how much the Phoenician gets.
Antoinette always knows what she wants and how to get
it, although she sometimes has to use the heavy bundle
(which represents The Heir - a very promising young men,
the secret weapon of his mother) to smack people on the
heads in order to help the generate the right ideas.
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The Black:
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Longdrillbit
(pawn)
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Longdrillbit is he
who never stands before the king or the queen for fear
his height might cast a shadow on their royal highnesses.
Bear this in mind when you put him on the board.
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Jagged George
(pawn)
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Jagged George
doesn't like the military approach. He is a politician.
He is going to run for knight some game soon.
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Little Sip
(pawn)
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Little Sip is the younger of two brothers in the
Gulps family. He is the heart and soul of the battle. He
is lways eager to share a drink with the "other guys" and
stops to crack jokes at all the appropriate moments that
present themselves so often when you are fighting.
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O'Sullivan the Red
(pawn)
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O'Sullivan the Red
- Judging from the color of his hair he suspects that his
father must have been a great Scottish warrior, although
he himself prefers the word Scotch, I don't know why.
Seriously I have no idea. None whatsoever. Extravagant in
choice of register he is a brave and unforgiving
warrior.
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P.
(pawn)
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P. - He is such a
coward that the only thing he is good for is protecting
himself. In battle he plays a crucial role - the enemies
are always puzzled when they see a man carrying two
shields. P.s fellow soldiers always take advantage of
their hesitation.
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Heat L'Air
(pawn)
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Heat L'Air is the
pawn nobody likes. It has to do with the rare phenomenon
of reversed evil-twin reincarnation and its very peculiar
manifestation in unfair inverted bad karma, and some
undisputedly hideous things someone who very much looked
liked him did in one of their other lives. He is always
dying for a nap.
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Armstrong
(pawn)
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Armstrong - After
the Battle of Schwa, when his life and limb were hanging
on a thread, the village blacksmith made for him this
curious specimen of a prosthetic arm. As Armstrong
miraculously recovered and the money for the stainless
steel arm was already paid, he began to use it as a
fearsome weapon against evil and a door prop.
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Mendelei
(pawn)
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Mendelei's favorite sport is actually bowling,
but he doesn't like exercise that much, so that's why he
is into chess. He is very unpredictable.
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DraKon
(knight)
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DraKon has some Samurai ancestry. Not that
anyone has ever heard him speak of it - he is so proud he
rarely utters a word. In spite of his apparent quietness
he is said to be the one who pulls the strings, whatever
that means.
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ProstoKon
(knight)
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ProstoKon on the other hand would love nothing
more than to chat with you. Except for he likes very few
topics, ranging from ancient ping-pong to contemporary
table-tennis. I don't think you are ready for this
though.
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Aye
Pro-Bleme
(bishop)
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Aye Pro-Bleme is
the bravest soldier of all. He has a critical eye for all
miltary tactics too, so he often ends up as the one in
charge when worse comes to worse. He is also the oldest
in the whole army. Which by itself is eloquent of his
military skill.
The only troublesome
thing about him is that he carries bones around all the
time.
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Earnest
(bishop)
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Earnest -The only
warrior the enemy truly fears. Not because of his combat
skills, but because of the way he whistles.
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Pun Gowder
(rook)
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Pun Gowder is an
even-tempered middle-age soldier. Methodical and cruel he
carries out his orders with devotion and precision. His
deepest regret is that when it rains his mouth fills with
water. (rook)
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Methodius
(rook)
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Methodius - If you
ask Methodius, it is people like Pun Gowder that give
rooks a bad name. If it were up to him he'd rather have a
castle than a gun-man for a colleague. In his spare time
he designs alphabets and engages in all other kinds of
scholarly study. Very typical of men with Ys on their
foreheads.
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The Contender
(king)
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The Contender - This King suffers from a very
deep inferiority complex. He believes the world is a
republic. That's why he is always in war with neighbour
states. This is what this particular KonFlict is all
about.
Some say that he is OK, but he is a puppet on a string
and there is someone else behind him. (king)
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Merluza The Queen
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Vanity, and not "the", is her middle name. She
just has to carry a mirror around. The green liquid is
not dry at all and does not have any olives in it.
Merluza loves fine jewellery, but not as much as she does
her husband. One would be surprised that she is capable
of such feeling all.
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