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The Hellmouth III/Season 4 series, pitting the Tucson Butchers against the Delaware Corporate Shells , was a frustrating lesson for the Butchers in the limits of raw power to accomplish their goals. The Butchers, eager to unleash their "Blood Monsoon," found themselves entangled in a web of bureaucratic red tape and legalistic machinations. The Corporate Shells, masters of the league's bylaws, had identified a key contractual clause that would allow them to classify adverse weather events as falling outside of the league's insurance policy, and the league declared it too risky to allow. The Shells continued to fillet the Butchers not with knives, but with loopholes giving the Shells extra advantages, aces up their sleeves, and general trickery. It was a hall of mirrors for the Butchers, a disorienting maze of paperwork and legal jargon that was impossible to navigate. The "Blood Monsoon" was held back by a dam of paperwork, an impotent end to the Tucson Butchers season and another victory by rulebook for the Delaware Corporate Shells .