Peccary - upload pretenders!

[Rorschach]

Abysians posted on top of Smouldercone spot Sauromatians crawling through the southern woods. They have obviously lost their bearings and we trust they will turn back from whence they came.

[das123]

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SAUROMATIAN ARROWS

The full might of Sauromatias main armies converge on the northern pass. In the pass itself are the cream of the Ermorian troops to hold off the attackers. One of the Ermorian priests sacrifices a pig to check the entrails for guidance. His interpretation is 'Don't sit and await death - go and greet it'. So the holding force makes the rash decision to strike southward into the heart of the Sauromatian lands.

Unfortunately, the road south is now held by masses of Sauromatian flesh eating archers, cavalry, 3 Witch Kings, a Warrior Sorceress and myriad other commanders and magicians. The battle doesn't last long and afterwards the bloody field is strewn with the mutilated bodies of Ermor's finest veteran legions.

A black day in the history of mighty Ermor.

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[Renojustin]

The slaughter complete, the archers drag the bodies of their slain foemen to the Blackest Cauldron for the great feast. A raucous, drunken night of revelry and naked limbo ensues. Speaking of Pangaea...

Slave girls wade in the camp ditches to freshen their masters' arrows for the seething hordes of the dirty, dirty naked women of Pangaea. And the hair, oh Weeping One, the hair. Too much hair, and in terrible, unnatural places. Even the swamp women at least braid their underarm and groin growths, but the maenads seem to be wearing kilts...

All of Sauromatia laughs as they come to the realization that the wild people have halted their expansions only to flail their armies uselessly at the awesome defenses of the swamplands. And so obvious! To amass 300 "troops" in one place, their entire military, over several months; the Celestial General would weep along with Gazebo if he knew. What a target! The wild people are only falling farther behind the times - no amount of research will draw them abreast of the mighty and destructive spellhymns of Gazebo!

The Weeping One wonders... does no one else play the great game with their neighbors? And also, how do they expect to reign ascendant as Pantokrator if not by climbing the stacked bodies of their rivals?

[rtyffg]

The Spirit of Forest wonders at words of the Weeping One, and thinks about does scouts of the swamps not even know, how to count? Or did a victory just made enemy three times more numerous in their sight? The Spirit mourns about eaten people of the forest and wants revenge.
But one thing is to be said to everyone - the Weeping One wants an ascendency so much, that even considers itself way higher, than rivals.
Both wars, that swamp dwellers started were declared at the same time, as their armies attacked, so any neighbour of them can expect attack, maybe even when their words say cease fire.

[Renojustin]

Murder most foul as three of our generals were ambushed and killed for their religion!

We are quite annoyed with Pangaea's intimations of somehow being betrayed. We offered Pangaea peace, we offered Ermor peace, and we offered Abysia peace. Then they all decided to attack us. Two we can defeat, but three so early in the day? We shall see.

I'm looking awfully forward to the day when I can play and not get ganged up on by unthematic metagame alliances, who apparently are never attacked in turn by the others in the game...

Whoever is in the north must be laughing at us now, because we are all getting exactly nowhere, fast!

On a more concerned note, when did this game become single player? It's discouraging to send messages, and recieve no reply. It's discouraging to post on the forums with only one or two people out of eight joining the discussion, and when they do, it's often to babble something nebulous about my character, which certainly cannot be called into question from my actions so far, until now:

Because I have to say this is the last game I play with people whose first post in the forums is for joining the game... I honestly suspect foul play after such universal silence.

So this is my last post in the thread. See you in Peccary, on the point of my blade!

[secretperson]

Justin, there was no foul play on my part- Kailasa so kindly decided to invade my lands at first sight and I am quite occupied with them. I met Ermor early and we made peace decided upon our borders. With a war already on my hands, I thought it incredibly unwise to go to war on another front.

I realize I probably should have sent a reply to your message and I regret not doing so.

On a side note- I think it is very thematic the war I am currently in with Kailasa. Lanka and Kailasa- both monkey nations ruled by very different and adversarial entities.

[das123]

Guys, at the end of the day it is just a game. There will be seven losers and one winner. I wouldn't play a game where my payoff for playing was whether I win or not with 8 to 1 odds against me.

Justin, I'm sorry if you feel picked on, but here in Australia we have a condition called the 'Tall Poppy Syndrome' where whoever is on top gets cut down by the others (I think it comes from our convict heritage). I've been honest with you (and the other players) both thematically and personally about my objectives. I have appreciated and enjoyed the way you've played the game - and learned a lot tactically from what you have done. You are much better at playing this game than I am and watching what you have done has been a real education. Having said that, I'm going to play the game as hard as I can tactically, strategically and diplomatically - and I'm hoping everyone else is as well.

Its nothing personal, its just the game.

[Renojustin]

secretperson said:
Kailasa so kindly decided to invade my lands at first sight and I am quite occupied with them. I met Ermor early and we made peace decided upon our borders. With a war already on my hands, I thought it incredibly unwise to go to war on another front.

Wow, you're fighting against one nation? That must be very difficult indeed. My heart bleeds for you.

It's one thing to go to war against two nations. It's something else to go to war against two nations that are fighting someone else.

It's something else entirely to be attacked by three nations that have no other wars than against you by turn 15. After frustration and defiance, finally I've come to acceptance and now humor; I will laugh when I drink to their bones.

In Sauromatia they will only find their doom.

Renojustin said:
Because I have to say this is the last game I play with people whose first post in the forums is for joining the game... I honestly suspect foul play after such universal silence.

Nobody is obliged to post in the forum.
There could be reasons for a person to keep silence.
I don't like forum's diplomacy and prefer to use messangers inside the game. And only if I have anything to say.

And besides my knowledge of the language does not let me take part in discussions and so on..

[Renojustin]

Your language skills seem fantastic! I'm just excited to see more posters, now. lol