Namyeknom
TNPer
Cecil Brownlow Grandel, 4th Earl of Radborough, looked up from his newspaper in disgust.
'Have you seen this Jenkins,' he said, tossing the newspaper to the table in front of him, and reaching for his tea. 'Barely a day goes by with some hot head North Pacific nation causing trouble.'
'Indeed, sir,' said Jenkins, picking up the paper and carefully folding back into shape.
'If they're not waffling on about who moved their temple where, they're expelling each other and generally being bad eggs,' Grandel said, pausing to sip his tea before continuing, 'I know this politics business gets people going, but it is all terribly poor form. The trouble is Jenkins, these politician types are a bit like a whole herd of stags in rutting season, endlessly banging horns with each other without any hope of release.'
'Release, sir?' questioned Jenkins, momentarily lost in the metaphor his employer had just unleashed.
'Females man, females!' Grandel boomed, slamming his tea down and rising out of his chair. 'Well, for stags anyway. Although I dare say it might do some good for the politicians as well.'
Grandel strode across to the improbably large fireplace and stared into the flames.
'No, what I mean Jenkins is that without some kind of healthy way of working out ones frustrations, there are bound to be unpleasantries between all these leaders and ambassadors and the like.'
Jenkins refrained from pointing out that thanks to his recent appointment Grandel was one of those ambassadors.
'The answer is simple Jenkins, what The North Pacific needs is honourable and gentlemanly sport!' Grandel turned to look at Jenkins from the fire, grinning from ear to ear. 'Send a wire out immediately on that international infogram thing, Namyeknom challenges all nations, to any sport, anywhere!'
For a millisecond Jenkins was frozen in shock before stumbling out, 'I'm not sure that is what Lord Burghly intended the machine for when he got it installed.'
'Lord Burghly?' Grandel questioned.
'Yes, Lord Burghly, the Foreign Secretary.'
'Binky?! Oh, he wouldn't mind! Beside, if anyone challenges us to a bout of coxless pairs he'd be first in line for it! Now get wiring, there is a good chap. If you have any trouble ask Marjorie, she's awfully good at that sort of thing.'
Grandel settled back down in his chair, head full of dreams of sporting triumph.
(OOC - I can have a go at RPing the trash talk and results of any sport, but well known worldwide sports would be best. Team events or individual are fine. I'm offering exhibition matches just to see how the RP sport side of things works as I've not RPed at all really. I've been poking about on the NS Sports RP forums for a bit, and would be interested in seeing TNP develop either its own football/soccer league (or whatever sport the majority of people would want to do) or some kind of Athletics/Olympic style competition if there was enough interest in the rest of the region.
Results of any event to be randomly generated. For exhibition events I'm happy to do them, I'm happy of any opponents to do them, I'm happy for neutral parties to do them. Just as long as they are done.)
'Have you seen this Jenkins,' he said, tossing the newspaper to the table in front of him, and reaching for his tea. 'Barely a day goes by with some hot head North Pacific nation causing trouble.'
'Indeed, sir,' said Jenkins, picking up the paper and carefully folding back into shape.
'If they're not waffling on about who moved their temple where, they're expelling each other and generally being bad eggs,' Grandel said, pausing to sip his tea before continuing, 'I know this politics business gets people going, but it is all terribly poor form. The trouble is Jenkins, these politician types are a bit like a whole herd of stags in rutting season, endlessly banging horns with each other without any hope of release.'
'Release, sir?' questioned Jenkins, momentarily lost in the metaphor his employer had just unleashed.
'Females man, females!' Grandel boomed, slamming his tea down and rising out of his chair. 'Well, for stags anyway. Although I dare say it might do some good for the politicians as well.'
Grandel strode across to the improbably large fireplace and stared into the flames.
'No, what I mean Jenkins is that without some kind of healthy way of working out ones frustrations, there are bound to be unpleasantries between all these leaders and ambassadors and the like.'
Jenkins refrained from pointing out that thanks to his recent appointment Grandel was one of those ambassadors.
'The answer is simple Jenkins, what The North Pacific needs is honourable and gentlemanly sport!' Grandel turned to look at Jenkins from the fire, grinning from ear to ear. 'Send a wire out immediately on that international infogram thing, Namyeknom challenges all nations, to any sport, anywhere!'
For a millisecond Jenkins was frozen in shock before stumbling out, 'I'm not sure that is what Lord Burghly intended the machine for when he got it installed.'
'Lord Burghly?' Grandel questioned.
'Yes, Lord Burghly, the Foreign Secretary.'
'Binky?! Oh, he wouldn't mind! Beside, if anyone challenges us to a bout of coxless pairs he'd be first in line for it! Now get wiring, there is a good chap. If you have any trouble ask Marjorie, she's awfully good at that sort of thing.'
Grandel settled back down in his chair, head full of dreams of sporting triumph.
(OOC - I can have a go at RPing the trash talk and results of any sport, but well known worldwide sports would be best. Team events or individual are fine. I'm offering exhibition matches just to see how the RP sport side of things works as I've not RPed at all really. I've been poking about on the NS Sports RP forums for a bit, and would be interested in seeing TNP develop either its own football/soccer league (or whatever sport the majority of people would want to do) or some kind of Athletics/Olympic style competition if there was enough interest in the rest of the region.
Results of any event to be randomly generated. For exhibition events I'm happy to do them, I'm happy of any opponents to do them, I'm happy for neutral parties to do them. Just as long as they are done.)
I have no idea on the rules or scoring, or even if there are rules and scoring. I'll do some looking up on it. Upper Tssenburgh will be contacting you shortly!)