83rd Annual Illegal Cross Country Fish Marathon

[Ater Nox]

Current winnings (that will be paid out at the end)

Jin: 0 + 330 + 870
Aersoldorf: 0 + 290 + 0
Randomain: 220 + 0 + 0
Barry: 0 + 0 + 870
Louisistan: 0 + 290 + 0
Almonaster: 150 + 0 + 490
Byzesion: 150 + 0 + 0
Fairly kind: 150 + 0 + 380
Control: 175 + 155 + 380
Baden-Wuerttemberg: 0 + 290 + 0

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Louisistan is this stage's random winner!

Congratulations to Louisistan for winning the XKI Casino's Prize for Outstanding Trademarks! The Casino has just found out that you hold the trademark on the business name 'Charlie's Day Spa'. Being the kind person you are, you have just agreed to hand it over to the Casino in exchange for this great prize! The Casino (*cough* Barry) will be along with your prize any moment now.

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Feel free to change your picks for the next stage, if you don't I will assume you are backing the same fish as last time. The next stage will be held in three days time. Sorry for the delay with this stage.

[Aersoldorf]

2 & 8

[Jin]

4&7

[Barry]

Things did not go well for Ex-XKI Casino Manager Barry and his Aide after being wisked off the casino’s roof by helicopter. As if being booted out of his cushy job and replaced by former XKI Delegate Aersoldorf wasn’t stressful and embarrassing enough, the helicopter pilot misunderstood his instructions on their destination. Instead of landing at Barry’s ancestral home in the region of ‘Fleece Them!’ Nation, the pilot softly set down at the Police Station! ….Whereupon, they were all promptly arrested.




Barry: Whoa! What’s the deal here?

Officer: You’re under arrest.

Pilot: Whoopsies. My bad.

Barry: Whatever for?

Officer: “Bribing a Police Officer”.

Barry: Well, I would never….

Officer: More specifically, bribing Officer Baden-Wuerttemberg with 500 Tacos to let Charlie, aka the nefarious “Big Tuna”, ‘off the
hook’, so to speak.

Barry: Now wait a minute. We never actually, er, rather,.. never gave her any Tacos!

Aide: *sheepishly* Uh, that’s not exactly true, Sir. I wired the 500 Tacos into Ba-Wu’s account via iPhone direct deposit, while on the chopper.

Barry: Oh my.

Aide: Isn’t modern technology just wonderful?

Barry: *facepalm*

Officer: Yep. We got the goods on ya’, that’s for sure.

Barry: What’s going to happen to us, given this is just an unfortunate..eh, misunderstanding and all? Heh-heh.

Officer: Well, if you’re lucky, Office Ba-Wu might choose to first interrogate you over at Louisistan’s “Charlie's Day Spa”.

Barry: That doesn’t sound too bad. A little massage might be in order about now. *nervous laugh*

Officer: I doubt it. Officer Ba-Wu is partial to ordering up “Hair Removal Aversion Therapy” from Louis in order to get our prisoners to talk.

Barry: Oopsies. Not good.

Officer: Nope. Nor a very pretty sight.

Barry: *softly aside to Aide* Quick. When you can, use that iPhone of yours to transfer Louis 500 Tacos to get us out of this!

Aide: *whispers* Aye, Sir.

Officer: Hey! What’s this? No talking! What did you tell him?

Barry: *cough* Nothing. I simply said that we should both fully cooperate with the police in this unfortunate matter. *cough*

Officer: Oh.. That’s a good idea... And when we have you all booked and locked up, we’ll get you a little something for that nasty cough of yours.

Barry: *sigh* That's very kind of you, I'm sure.



As this stage’s random winner, Louisistan will receive 500 Tacos at the conclusion of the competition.

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That's assuming the new Head Honcho over at the casino will honor illegal agreements entered into by prior management.

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[XKI Casino]

If you'd be so kind as to let me know how much to donate to each patron then I'll be happy to distribute the winnings.

Barry, Ater Nox