Strategy And Tactics*************************It is acknowledged throughout the Trollball world that there are five essential strategies to Trollball. No one can quite agree on their names or exactly what they involve; some say that Subere thought of them before the world began. Valastos of the Seven Pens thought that they had elemental ties and sought to prove it. Her later gambling debts were blamed, some say, not on her lack of data but on her poor grasp of statistics. She was "a mere compiler of facts and anecdotes" as Tish Pistos famously complained. Tish, a man who believed in teleporting Lopers, put his faith in Mostalic probability theory, and backed up his calculations with cautious wagers.
As I swam down a silvery stream,
I met with tricksy Labrygon:
With gall in his eye and sinews awry
The earth would shake and never know why!
As I climbed up the invisible bridge
I met with clear-eyed Jhostarl:
He'd heard me walk as I spanned the sky,
Loyal to Pavis till the day I die.
As I walked through a shingly cave,
I met with queenly Cathora:
Her beasts had come with their night-questing eyes
To cut me down to my proper size.
Keith
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