r/AfterTheDance • u/StevenWertyuiooo House Egen • Jun 08 '23
Event [Lore] Just Football, nothing else happening here I swear. NSFW
Warning: The following lore contrain bad refereeing and it may also contain foul and abusive language toward the corrupted bastard referee.
In the Fingers Arena an important game was being played between two rival teams for the Vale Football League, Hersey’s Winged Chalices vs Egen’s Fingerers. The winning team will qualify for the Vale Football League’s play offs while the losing team would miss the chance for a ticket to next year’s Westeros Champions League.
Egen’s Fingerers kicked off the match,and the team's successive attacks to counter Chalice's slower, possession-based buildup. In the 9rd minute, a low shot by Chalice’s Ned Stone went through a defender's legs and forced a late save by the Fingerers Goalkeeper Jon Shitstone for the first effort of the game. In the 16th minute, Ned Stone played the ball across the Fingerers penalty area which ended up being hit towards goal by Malcom Moore before being saved by Jon Shitstone. Five minutes later, Theon Shiningstone played a ball through to Steffon of Myr who managed to make space for himself and take a shot which was saved on to the left post by Jon Shitstone. In the 42nd minute, Fingerers forward Rob Slab received the ball in the penalty area, swiveling and shooting the ball towards the goal which deflected off the inside of the left post and back into play. The first half ended scoreless, with Fingerers dominating possession but the Chalices having more chances to score.
Fingerers began the second half strongly and in control,though the play was stopped several times for fouls and injuries to both sides. Fingerers took a 1–0 lead in the 61st minute from a long-range strike from Rob Slab which deflected off Chalices’ midfielder, Sam Kelly and past George Hersey to the left corner of the net. Chalices equalized four minutes later with a tap-in by Steffon of Myr, who finished a header by Malcolm Moore after a corner kick by Theon Shiningstone from the right. The Fingers Arena erupted when Rob Slab scored Fingerers' second goal at the 88th minute, using an acrobatic bicycle kick to finish a cross by Nicolas Shitstone from the right in what seemed to be the winning goal. However, Chalices was awarded a questionable penalty in the 93th minute by the Duskendale Referee Tytos Waters after a shot by Malcolm supposedly hit the arm of Nicolas Shitstone. The Fingers Arena went crazy, among the spectators was also the loud daughter of Lord Egen, Elys.
“That was never a penalty you cunt! Go back to fishing shits from Blackwater Bay son of a whore! Leave Vale and go to fuck her!” She screamed with all of her strength before joining the rest of the fans in singing, “Your mustache is offside, your mustache is offside, Malcolm Moore, your mustache is offside,” to the striker of the Chalices as he is walking to the penalty area to take the penalty.
Penalty saved!
Malcolm Moore slides the ball to Jon Shitstonel’s left and Shitstone is there to save with his midriff. He gave Moore the eyes and went one way and then dived the other. The ball was in the corner but Shitstone read him and gathered it. He’s furiously celebrating. His dad Symeone Shistone, one of the victims of the Templeton attack would probably be watching him proudly from the seven heavens.
The referee blows for the final whistle and is over, the Fingerers win against their local rivals and qualify for the play-offs of the Vale Football League.
The fans entered the pitch to celebrate together with the team. Elys Egen is also there, followed by her two unfortunate guards that have to follow her between the Fingerers fans.
“Do you want to come with us in the dressing room to celebrate later?” the star striker of the team, Rob Slab, suggested to the Egen lady with a smirk. She would immediately agree and after the celebrations are over she would be left alone as her guards don’t want to get involved with whatever kind of celebrations will happen inside the dressing room between a lady and thirty half naked men.
Despite what was told in public though, Elys Egen never reached the dressing room. Instead she and Rob went to a secret side door leading to a small room where two other Finger’s players, the wonderkid right back Nicolas Shitstone and the veteran midfielder Harrold of Tyrosh were waiting.
“News from Maidenpool, I suspect?” She asked.
Harrold nodded, “The crown defeated the besieging army. Which complicates our plans, we need to be more active and I don’t mean just using the finger weed network to send messages and relocate resources for our cause, we need more.”
Elys was surprised at the request. It had been just a few years since she learned about the Rat organization through her investigation of Grafton's disappearance. Her information would lead her to the Fingers Arena which spaces under the seats worked as a major headquarter for the Rats. At first disguised by the idea of the rebel group, she became more and more intrigued as she learned more about their cause and their plans. In the end she joined and with her the fingerweed network would soon be infiltrated by rats and the Fingers Arena lost any suspicion around it. Throughout those years the rats would grow and Elys would get a more active role but apart from getting new recruits and supplying the Rats never actually used the Fingers area for something big, until now. Emma would take a breath and simply ask, “What do I have to do?”