ZE FROG-BOWL
Updated 19Jan1 14H30 EST (Quebec) by Gros

Me neet krink more peer, me tond zee ze pall anymor!!!

ZE NFL
Recently we added more fun to the grosbills by announcing the creation of the NFL (NORRATH FROG-BOWL LEAGUE).
It is played by going some place where there is a lot of mobs spawning fast (like all the orcs camps in SRO).
Each team has a "end zone" to reach - not to far (like the platform for one and the druid ring for the other).
You win one point each time an orc dies with the corpse falling in your end zone.
Any orc dying elsewhere does not count.

So the whole game is to pull orcs as fast as you can in your end zone and kill them there.
But obviously KSing or stealing pulls is fully recommended.
Even buffing/healing orcs so they don't die before reaching your end zone.
Or rooting an orc too close to the opponent zone, etc....
Or you can train a bunch of dervs on the other group to keep them busy, since dervs do not count.
Anyone can zone at any time.

Anyway grosbills know that carrying a ball has no purpose, whether a game where killing orcs is the point makes much more sense.
Just don't take MY orc!!!

ZE RULZ
There are many different versions of the game:

  • Basic game: teams are grouped with group chat enabled (you can prepare schemes) [but that is just like standard hunting so let's play something funnier]
  • Open chat game: teams are grouped with guild chat mandatory (everybody has right to know)*
  • Team game: teams are grouped with say mode mandatory (if you are away you are away)
  • Every-man game: teams are not grouped** and guild chat is mandatory*
  • Panic game: teams are not grouped** with say mode mandatory

    * Of course the team can create a code before the game to communicate secret messages through emotes like "Gros bonks Moppel and scratches his butt moving his feet very fast like he would like to go faster" Yes I know not so secret as a code but do not expect Gros to be much more clever.
    ** You still play by teams, but teams are not grouped hehe (may makes the whole Ksing stuff pretty fun).

    ZE PASHINK TEVIZEZ
    And then of course the question of what weapons are allowed:

  • All weapons game: all weapons allowed (beg for a good one before)
  • Rusty game: only rusty weapons allowed*
  • Tickling game: only summoned daggers allowed*
  • Bash game: no weapons allowed, all hand-to-hand*

    * So that "balls" survive longer (me like zee dem orkz running everyver) and it'smore more fair tolow levels and those who do not have great weapons. Cool part is you have to pull contact!

    ZE LITTEUL SBARKLINK LIDZE
    And then of course the question of what magic is allowed:

  • Me don't-get-it game: all magic allowed (beg for buffs before)
  • Shaman game: only shaman magic allowed
  • Wait-for-the-bonk game: only shaman magic with no pre-buffing allowed
  • Naked baby game: no magic at all allowed

    ZE OPFIOUZ RULZ
    It was so obvious... we forgot to tell you about those rules:
    Referees use the guild chat.
    There is usually 3 referees (one at each end zone counting kills and one at the main mob camp).
    The game starts with all players rushing from a single point. Usually in front of the main mob camp.
    Each team has two time outs that they can call anytime the main camp is empty by bonking the local referee.
    The referee immediately confirms the start of the time out on the guild chat.
    No new pulling from the main camp is allowed during the time out.
    Moving around, healing, buffing, bashing of existing mob/critters, taunting the other team, bashing the referees or the fans, drinking more, singing the Grosbill song, or pulling elsewhere is allowed during the time out.
    Any kill happening during the time out does not count (so keep them alive!!)
    The timeout ends when the referee calls it, which is usually as soon as the main camp is full spawn again.
    The game ends when any team reaches a certain number of kills.

    Zdrangely, ze ork dried to preak ze line zrou ze halflink zide!!!

    ZE FROKY-VULL-KAME
    Any of the above games can be played "fully-frogged".
    In this version at the beginning of the game each referee has a reserve of short beers on him (like 8 full bags of 20 each?).
    Players must have at least 5 in their inventory too.
    Just before the beginning of the game, the main referee makes sures he ears each player drink at least 5 times.
    Then during the game, each end zone referee validates a kill only if he ears a player of the team who scored drinking 2 beers just after.
    Also during any time out the main referee makes sure at least one player of each team drinks 5 more beers.
    Whenever a player cheers to a referee, the referee gives him 5 more beers.
    This game is usually really fun since not only the vision and abilities of the players vary in time, but bashing a running orc starts to be technic, and communication is pretty much limited to emotes.

    As a tradition the referees and fans drink the remaining beers after the game.

    ME VANT ZOUBERPOWL RINK
    Prizes and traditions are a full part of Frog-Bowling.
    The wining team usually receives a prize (they used to eat the losers but the league never reached the play-offs so they had to change that).
    As a tradition, if a player levels during the game, he has to get to his own end-zone and then get 5 fans (non-players, non-referees) of the opposite sex to kiss him before he can get out of the end-zone. The end-zone referee keeps count. For that purpose the player is authorized to shout to get the opposite sex to come to the end-zone (well providing they can understand him, which can be far from obvious in a Froggy-full game).
    Note that the player can still bash and score, he just cannot leave the zone until he is smooched.
    The fans usually bets or find other contests during the game.

    BILLY-I-DOLL
    The most important clash in Frog-bowl is the "Billy-I-Doll" game ("Flesh for Fantasy" being the national anthem).
    The name came from the first war opposing the Gros-Bills (the Ogres) to the Barbie-Dolls (the Barbarians).
    Since then they agreed that bashing orcs together to settle who's the strongest was more fun.
    So they ask the Divine Froggies to organize a periodic official competition.
    The Trolls are the usual referees, although they usually join the bash in the middle of the game just for fun.

    DAKINK KARE OV POUZINEZ
    Please understand (this is always scary to start a sentence about Grosbills like that) that this is SERIOUS business.
    At least if you grew up in Ferrott or Everfrost.
    The Billy-I-Doll is an institution that stops all life in Oggok, Grobb and Halas and dramatically increases the average Alcohol Tolerance of Antonica.
    So it's good!
    The heroes are known and praised and each have a specific role on the field:

  • The Defense whose job is to stop by any means an orc to approach the other team end zone.
  • The QB (qualified basher, terms come from the first game when it took 2 days to the first Bill captain to explain that NOT EVERYBODY SHOULD BASH) who starts the action by doing the initial pull.
  • The Running Back whose job is to KS back orcs pulled or Ksed by the other team.
  • The Receiver whose job is to make sure that an orc in the end zone stays there until he dies.
  • The Tackle whose job is to make sure that an orc scores.
  • The Special Team whose job is to make sure that a bunch of worthless mobs decide to roam the opponent end zone.
  • The Offense Coordinator who checks the spawns.
  • Etc...

    Zoin Uz vor ur negzt Frok-Powl Kame!!!

    U ZE OGERZ!
    These are the current known players:

    THE BILLS

    THE REFS

    THE DOLLS

    Gras
    Gros
    Grossebaff
    Moppel
    Ukgh
    Zurdan    		 Argharg
    Ghubaka
    Rube    		 Chuchulain
    Geroge
    Grevious
    Rhyannon
    Whalas
    Winor

    !PULL!
    PULL!

    Bak tu dee Froggies