OT: Mystic Wars: (IT HAS BEGUN!!!!) Join Up

[Irulan]

'General, there are tracks of horses, only a hand full it seems that thy are passed here not to long ago, leading south-west into our county'

'good work men, it seems that the traveler is heading towards the river in the hope to find a crossing... well I know this land and I know where the nearest crossing is. and we shall be waiting for him there... we got him.... quickly now gather all man, we're leaving!'



an hour later Briareus reached the crossing.

'make a screen of riders before the crossing. no one may pass it without my authorization'

the cavalry deployed in silence. and thy waited.... when suddenly after twenty minuets of waiting, an horseman came towards the crossing, he seemed to have traveled from far. when he saw the riders blocking his path he halted, but he did not turned around....

the standoff Lasted a few seconds, Briareus was wondering who it could be, it was probably just an lone traveler, not worth his attention, but still the unknown man had a certain look in his eyes, and his clothing where no clothing of normal peasants, but more for messengers...

'Halt!'shouted Briareus 'you have entered the Kingdom of Heodai. what is your buisness here?




meanwhile in the capital city.

Cyrene was worried, Briareus was gone scouting the borders, one moment the general was here the next he was off with the entire cavalry....


'he knows what he is doing' she muttered... 'but do I know what I am doing?'

Cyrene walked to her window, outside she could see the harbor and parts of the city. she loved the city, but she feared for her. scouts came in yesterday with news about massive armies being gathered in other nations, rumors about the lizards who where increasing there numbers.... we should not stay behind Cyrene thought, the new taxes where gathered at the moment. and we could start increasing the army size...


Cyrene took up an small bell and signaled for an servant.

quickly a man came out of no where... 'yes m'lady?'

'send word to Epheus that thy have to increase there medium infantry with 5000 man as soon as possible. Epheus is our border town, if an enemy want's to strike against our capital then thy first have to take Epheus...'

'ofcourse m'lady' I'll send word right away, is there anything else?'

yes, also send someone to the docks, tell our shipbuilders that thy have t build 30 new warships, and 20 transport vessels right away.'

'30 new triremes and 20 small transport ships m'lady?'

'yes, I want to prepare an expedition... leave now and do as ur told..'

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new page: gold and population increase: (right?)

3798 extra gold due to taxes over 37.980 people in 3 cities.

3798 + 166 rest gold = 3964 gold.

reached page 3. so population increase 10.000 per city(right? if I'm messing things up, sorry I also did not entirely got this part )

Astra 18.980 + 10.000 people = 28.980 people
Epheus 08.000 + 10.000 people = 18.000 people
Meteora 11.000 + 10.000 people = 21.000 people

total army size:

2700 med. infantry
500 archers
500 sailors
200 Livana Amazon guards.
120 light horseman.

total navy size:
5 heavy Trireme warships

(new Units Training)

5000 medium infantry at Epheus, total population remaining in that city: 13.000
-1000$
(shipbuilders)
30 triremes. 1/3 ready (60 gold for 1 ship) -1800$
20 transport vessels 1/3 ready (20 gold for 1 ship)-0400$

gold: 3964 -3200 = 764 gold remaining

[brianeyci]

'Halt!'shouted Briareus 'you have entered the Kingdom of Heodai. what is your buisness here?

==

The rider dismounted. He drew his sword. Then -- he tossed it into the ground.

"I come under the protection of the old treaties. I am Gaius Aelius Probus, a representative of the Elantrian Senate. I desire an audience with his royal majesty and come with a message of urgent importance."

Aelius frowned. It had been a long time since he had official contact with the... what did the man say? Kingdom of Heodai? Eight long years since he had been here, and the Empire had changed their name? No matter, it would all be sorted out -- in due time. At least he would get to see his good friend again.

==

Brian

[NarfsCompIsBack]

OOC: I've expanded on your breif sketch of Flavius, hope you don't mind.

Skaldron tapped an amulet hidden beneath his tunic. There was one simple reason he played this game on Flavius, he mused as his suroundings transposed...He didn't like the treacherous little backstabber. The first time he had come, an expensive ornamented brooch had somehow 'fallen' into his pocket. If Flavius hadn't accidently tripped on some low-lying moss, he would have gotten away with it, too. It was against certain signed treaties to search a messanger without risking grave offence. Unfortunatly. And it wouldn't be worth it to arrange an 'accident'. He was no threat to the realm. Unfortunatly.

At the appointed hour, Esthia transported Flavius to his working room, making sure that Flavius arrived without dizziness or nausea and without the slightest delay. Never mind that a mind like Flavius's couldn't understand why, even were Esthia human. 'Responsibility' probably equalled 'fool' in his mind. For that matter, he probably thought Esthia had a cowl on his cloak to look mysterious. Fortunatly for him, Esthia was never even tempted to take it off. Yet.

"Flavius. Welcome to Slianthia. I understand you have a message for me?"

OOC

Heh. A clue to Esthia's cowl.
Of course, I just put it in to look cool. But the real reason is...Budda Budda BOOM!
What, you didn't hear over the drums? I havn't decided yet.

As you may have noticed, Skaldron is not entirely nice.

Army and money stuff tommorrow. I've got a headache and my stomach is bothering me.

[Irulan]

brianeyci said:

The rider dismounted. He drew his sword. Then -- he tossed it into the ground.

"I come under the protection of the old treaties. I am Gaius Aelius Probus, a representative of the Elantrian Senate. I desire an audience with his royal majesty and come with a message of urgent importance."

Aelius frowned. It had been a long time since he had official contact with the... what did the man say? Kingdom of Heodai? Eight long years since he had been here, and the Empire had changed their name? No matter, it would all be sorted out -- in due time. At least he would get to see his good friend again.

==

Brian

"the old treaties?.. hahaha.... you shall find no old treaties here, you have not been in this part of the world for a long time Gaius Aelius, the Empire your senate signed treaties with is no more, there once mighty armies and great cities are gone and the royal line that ruled the Empire is no more... these lands are now under the rule of Princess Cyrene"

Briarus pauzed to see the reaction on the face of the man, to his delight the man seemed to be a bit shocked by the news

"therefor I cannot and I will not give you protection in name of the old treaties. couse thy no longer apply in this realm. However I shall not deny you passage since you are a messenger from the Elantrian Senate, and the old the empire was on friendly terms with yours."

Briareus thought for a while and then he continued:

"I will grant you passage deeper into our realm but you cannot go alone, fifty of my horseman will go with you as an escort. Thy will protect you during the remainder of the journey, but thy will kill you if you endanger them or the Kingdom. do you understand this?"

Briareus waited to hear the reaction of the man.

ooc
(Naval construction)

30 triremes. 2/3 ready
20 transport vessels 2/3 ready

[brianeyci]

Irulan said:"the old treaties?.. hahaha.... you shall find no old treaties here, you have not been in this part of the world for a long time Gaius Aelius, the Empire your senate signed treaties with is no more, there once mighty armies and great cities are gone and the royal line that ruled the Empire is no more... these lands are now under the rule of Princess Cyrene"

Briarus pauzed to see the reaction on the face of the man, to his delight the man seemed to be a bit shocked by the news

"therefor I cannot and I will not give you protection in name of the old treaties. couse thy no longer apply in this realm. However I shall not deny you passage since you are a messenger from the Elantrian Senate, and the old the empire was on friendly terms with yours."

Briareus thought for a while and then he continued:

"I will grant you passage deeper into our realm but you cannot go alone, fifty of my horseman will go with you as an escort. Thy will protect you during the remainder of the journey, but thy will kill you if you endanger them or the Kingdom. do you understand this?"

Briareus waited to hear the reaction of the man.

==

Gaius nodded. "Then I must speak to the heir of King Phillip, or whoever commands the realm in these parts. If you would take me to him, I will surrender my horse and my sword, and reveal my intention soon.

==

Brian

[Irulan]

brianeyci said:
Gaius nodded. "Then I must speak to the heir of King Phillip, or whoever commands the realm in these parts. If you would take me to him, I will surrender my horse and my sword, and reveal my intention soon.

Brian

Briareus walked closer and picked up the sword from the ground. "this is a good weapon, you should not toss it away like that. And your intentions…. We’ll see about them" Briareus turned to one of his man;


"lieutenant?"

"sir?"

"take 50 riders and escort our guest to the capital city. you will leave right now. I will remain in these parts for some more days with the rest of the riders"

"yes sir"

Briareus turned back to the messenger. "here is your sword, carry it with honor"


and the messenger and his escort rode off again. and after half a day the arrived at the capital. slowly the riders rode towards the crowded city, the riders passed the main bridge to the city, there where no walls to guard this city, the city was surrounded with some massive cannels. wide and deep. there where five wooden bridges across, that could be burned when an enemy was near. every bridge was guarded by a massive guard tower manned with only the most loyal soldiers.

after the bridge came the city, slowly the riders rode across the city, everywhere ya looked ya saw small merchants selling and buying goods in the crammed streets.

after some time the riders reached the military part of the city, again thy had to cross an large bride with massive guard towers next to them. This was off limits to civilians. only if you had to go to the harbour ya could go across this erea after being searched. the main academy with her training grounds and the main barracks where on the right, ya could see some platoons of medium infantry conducting drills every hour of the day. and the royal buildings where on the left. it was not a great fortress, but it was an elegant building made out of white marble. with only a few towers for defence. these towers where the highest buildings in the entire city. straight ahead ya could see an large fleet in the harbor, consisting of large warships and transport vessels, but also fishing and merchant ships.

The cavalry lieutenant:
“ we’re here, I will escort you to your room. There you can rest until u are being summoned, thought that might take some time... would you please follow me?”

Without waiting for an answer the lieutenant dismounted his horse and walked inside the building. The inside was also made out of white and grey marble, every few meters there stood an guard.

The lieutenant walked quickly to the west wing of the building, in an rather large room he stopped and turned around. The room furniture was simple, an large bed, an sofa, two simple chairs and a table with some fruit and water in a bottle. On the walls where some paintings, but also two crossed swords. The floor was covered with light red carpet that felt really warm. There was a small fire in the fireplace. There was one small window watching over the city.

“this is your room Sir, I hope all is to your liking?... I must return to my men now, but there is an small bell on the table if you need anything like food or wine. An personal servant will come right away and ame sure ya have everything you need.” the lieutenant bowed and walked away, closing the massive wooden doors behind him.

(militairy training

30 triremes: ready
20 transport vessels: ready

[Irulan]

Cyrene said at a table, writing some notes and signing papers, when suddenly someone knocked at her door.

‘come in’ she said while she laid down her writing equipment and rose from her chair. The door opened and a messenger come into her room, he bowed and gave her a letter.

‘thank you’ Cyrene said. After the messenger left she opened the letter, it was a short note from one of the guard posts at the entrance of the city. it said that an small group of cavalry just entered the city, thy seemed to escort someone who looked like an messenger.

“A messenger?.... where did that messenger come from? what news would he bring? Will it be good news? Or something bad?... well… I guess I shall find out soon enough”

Cyrene walked to a window, overseeing the piazza in front of the palace, she could see the messenger the note spoke about and an soldier dismount and walk into the palace. He would be brought to an special room where he could rest and get some refreshments, Cyrene knew this. And she loved that tradition, that gave her some time to prepare for the conversation. ‘I’m not nervous….I’m not nervous ’ she whispered… ‘ ah damn it why didn’t I pay more attention when thy told me this when I was a kid?.....well it is to late for that now’

Cyrene walked to the door and opened it. Near the entrance where a handful of personal guards. She summoned one of them. ‘please go and tell my maids that I need them immediately, after that you must go to the kitchen and inform them that I expect the dinner to be extra good today cause we have an guest, I want to make an good impression on the messenger. From the looks of him I’d say he comes from some lands that lies inland. So tell the kitchen that besides our dishes I do want some things from his lands, so without the sea fruits or sea fishes. if we have the ingredients that is. perhaps that will make him feel more at home. Go quickly now’

She closed the door again. And she felt some excitement, this is the first messenger that managed to reach her kingdom ever since the battle of Itachola* and the fall of the Empire … perhaps the dangers in the lands are decreasing? Nah the last reports she had of the outside world where reports of chaos and disorder, there must be chaos , the Empire did not last, so how could any other nation survive? ‘but the reports are old, from my fathers reign. Perhaps things are changing for the best she whispered’

*History of the empire:
*the battle of Itachola:

(I wrote this in an attempt to create more of a background of these lands)

An huge battle fought in the Empire, the Emperor, seeing how his empire was crumbling for years tried to regain the control of the rebellious cities. So he spend an year to gather an enormous army.. City after city was taken and burned to the ground, if thy chose to try to resist him. But the last rebellious cities formed an army and marched against the emperor. The two armies met at the plains of Itachola where a 5 day battle was fought. the Emperor and the rebel leaders both had there victories and there defeats in that battle because both armies and leaders where evenly matched. the emperor had a slight numerous advantage, but the rebels had an superior position and thy had an ally, werewolves, although the werewolves also managed to kill an large portion of rebel troops thy did manage to turn the battle in favor of the rebels… So In the end it was the rebel army that won the battle. The emperor was torn into very small pieces by an werewolf, and his personal guard fought to the death… records say that an enormous number of people died on that field. (afterwards no one dared to came there and the once great plain turned into a swamp.


Ooc: I felt like posting something after being crushed on Atro's SEIV mod (I really hate klingons! Thy are mean!!)
Anyway. I don’t build / train / construct / call god for some dead people or summon anything this post.

(knok knok... anyone home? )

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I hope nobodies waiting for me. I don't have a thing to say, yet.