Peccary - upload pretenders!

[das123]

I'm happy either way Rorschach. Don't know what the protocol is to delay the turn.

[llamabeast]

Oh right, I'm still admining this game. Okay, game postponed by 60 hours.

I'm just about to go away for the weekend, but when I get back it'd be great if one of you guys could take over admining this game for me. It can get a bit much keeping track of lots of threads so I try to delegate them all out.

[Rorschach]

I'm happy to administer the game

I hope Sauro doesn't crush me within a few turns though

[das123]

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THE AUTUMN BATTLE

Throughout the Kingdom of Ermor the heralds and messengers had called young boys and retired veterans to join the legions. In the dark swamps envoys command the lizard men assemble their Auxiliaries. The Sauromatian leaders had been ambushed and the time to take back the outer villages was at hand. Winter approaches and only week remained to launch an attack before the snows and rain make marching all but impossible.

And so, in the early dawn, the legions of Ermor stream once more from the mountain pass while the Lizard Auxiliaries ford the river, attacking the masses of Sauromatians encamped in the forest. The battle is long and bloody with honours fairly even. In the end, the high morale of the flesh eaters wins the day but the field is strewn with hundreds of bodies from both sides.

Small pockets of troops assemble for days later, dwindling back into the camps. The final count of the dead is devastating. Over half all the Ermorian troops are gone. The only saving grace is the knowledge that the Sauromatians also lost many men in the battle.

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[Renojustin]

Rorschach said:
Sauromatia still tries to prolong discussions by "misunderstanding" key elements of the negotiations. No more.

Be assured that it was impossible to misinterpret the presence of your assassins in our land during peaceful negotiations. It showed your intentions and character clear enough for all to see.

Rorschach said:
I hope Sauro doesn't crush me within a few turns though

We would, having the capability, but Ermor is much more dangerous than Abysia. Still we shall hold sufficient forces in reserve to repel Abysia and Pangaean attacks.

Soon enough, the other wars will be won and you will feel the cold winds of the north breathing down your neck.

(I hope your friend submits your turn soon. Llamabeast said that the next turn would be 72 hours. Submitting your turn, thereby cancelling the 72 hour timer, was your own action, and I assume that your friend will be taking your turn, and that if you did not take this precaution, that you will stall. Llamabeast can't hold everyone's hands in all the games he's hosting!)

[das123]

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FALL OF THE NORTHERN PASS

The legions of Ermor all flock into the Northern Pass. It should be a quiet Winter. The Sauromatians have been bloodied as have the Ermorian troops. Just before the first snows fall, a single creature enters the pass with hair twisting and squirming and with gigantic bat wings. This is the Sauromatian pretender! A gorgon of immense power.

The legions quickly assemble and advance of the Sauromatian abomination. But before the Ermorian troops can form line, the Sauromatian gorgon is amongst them. Scores of men are turned to stone and others succumb to poison. Not a single drop of the gorgon's blood is spilled and so, with terror in their hearts, the last of the Ermorian troops that hold the pass turn tail and run.

The Northern Pass has fallen and no Ermorian legionnaire is left on the Western side of the great river. One gateway remains to hold the Sauromatian troops from the fertile lands of Ermor. Somehow the Ermorians need to hold the river fords.

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Wow! So that is what a SC looks like. Awesome work Renojustin.

BTW. My main computer has crashed this afternoon so I'm playing this from my laptop. Hope to have the main computer back up sometime tomorrow.

[das123]

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ERMOR IN TERROR

The troops at the ford of the great river array themselves to meet the Sauromatians if they should decide to cross. Torches burn brightly to warn of surprise attacks and the remaining forces of Ermor stand ready for the expected assault on their homelands. But in the dead of night, high above the waiting legions, a large menacing figure with enormous bat wings flies over the ford. It flies over the forest and villages. It flies over the fallow fields of the Ermorian farmlands. It flies to the very walls of the Ermorian city. And there it unleashes its terror.

The hastily formed city guard try to stave of the attack of the Gorgon but to no avail. After scant minutes the outer plain of the city is littered with figures of stone with the mighty Gorgon standing amid the rubble.

Inside the walls the citizens quake in terror. They have no answer but the walls will keep the monster out. What will the Gorgon terrorise next? Will it return to fight the legions that hold the river? Will it stay and stop all commerce at the city? Or will it fly deeper into the lands of Ermor and leave a path of destruction behind it?

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[Renojustin]

The Ermorian army lies in ruins... only one undersized legion of fresh recruits remains guarding the walls of the great city. The women's tears stain their lullabies as they rock their children to sleep, the screams of their men horribly audible from the river ford, miles away.

The mother takes the pillow and gently, carefully places it over the mouth of her sleeping child. The revenge of Sauromatia will be a terrible thing, but not for this one. Not in this lifetime.