The Festival of Diana



Greetings and felicitations, and welcome back to the Ludus Scutum Quercu, and Dubious, the camp slave, your guide!


Oh Missus!  Stop messing about...

Suit yourselves. ..

The Prologue

Once again Senator Ludicrous Pompous has sponsored a festival, this time to Diana of the hunt.  Female gladiators dressed as the goddess will fight dwarves for public entertainment.  Also beasts.
Roman culture eh?

The Ludus Fartakiss and it's it's second rate  collection of has-beens is providing the ladies, Biggus Brutus the dwarves.
And Pafos has a new arena, a resplendent A2 print, easy to store, with a great look to it.
Now on with the Games...


The opening fight.  Retarius vs Thracian.

Fork boy is caught and put down by the Thracian.  The crowd is impressed.

And next the beasts.

Mavis the Amazon Queen struggles to kill a very stubborn giraffe.  The crowd is unimpressed.

The Mighty Rhino is more competitive.  Two Diana impersonators see it off, but only just.  When the crowd realise that one of those gladiators is a man they are furious again, but hey... its 22AD for goodness sake.  Get with it grandad.

Not these guys again!  The Ostrich are far too fast.

But Mavis catches one and easily kills it.

The Mighty Silverback seems a little small?  Has Biggus Brutus done it again?  A floured chimp?

But the Chimp is Mighty.  It kills Sandra with a paw swipe.  Mavis finally kills it.  Senator Pompous rewards the Ludus with five coins.  Skintflint old git.


Next up... four convicts vs Diana's Amazons

Four guys caught shoplifting in Morrisonus 

The ladies pile into them, two quickly go down

The last guy takes some putting down

But Mavis is joined by big Sandra and they kill the last fellow

Let's hear it for the girls!


And our penultimate event, two vs two around a bonfire.  Its two Secutors vs two Thracians.  Odds favour the Secutors since Newcomer Geddy has been highly tipped.

Don't get near those coals boys.

Critical hit wounds a Thracian.

But honours are even

Ozzy gets too near the fire and it's a serious burn.  Geddy is working hard today

Seger vs Geddy, and against all odds it's geddy that goes down.  Last Thracian standing.

And the Primus.  Diana Woman of Wonders, vs Balinus the Thracian Dwarf

The Lady is well equipped.

On your marks, literally

Game on.  Balinus is straight in with a hit.

And the never seen 999.  Diana starts to worry.

And finally the Dwarf prevails.

40 coins to the Ludus. The Senator never did cough up those five he promised...
A profitable games for Brutus but we need a new chimp.




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