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

[Starhawk]

Kalathin stood silent for long moments before turning to Flavius "You tell me that this news is unhealthy and dangerous yet you expect me to take this message to my father? The king of this entire realm, do you honestly think me a fool Elantrian?" Kalathin snapped harshly, and his guards drew their long curved swords awaiting their lord's order to strike this man dead.
But Kalathin did not give that order he placed the scroll on his desk and looked strongly into the man's eyes "Answer for yourself now or you will not leave this tent..."

[NarfsCompIsBack]

Stats Stuff:

Page 2:

Population increase: 39,980 + 30,000
Gold increase: 0 + 6,998

Hired:

15 lifemages, 300 cost
9650 skirmishers trained, 5024 cost
4186 engineers trained ,1675 cost

Population total: 55,498
Gold total: 0

[Starhawk]

Sorry narf maybe you missed this, you don't count the new population yet just your starting pop-number of soldiers.

[brianeyci]

Starhawk said:
Kalathin stood silent for long moments before turning to Flavius "You tell me that this news is unhealthy and dangerous yet you expect me to take this message to my father? The king of this entire realm, do you honestly think me a fool Elantrian?" Kalathin snapped harshly, and his guards drew their long curved swords awaiting their lord's order to strike this man dead.
But Kalathin did not give that order he placed the scroll on his desk and looked strongly into the man's eyes "Answer for yourself now or you will not leave this tent..."

Flavius looked tense for a moment. Then, he laughed.

"Your highness, the matter is dangerous only to those who are not protected by royal privilege. I assumed it would be dangerous to you your highness, but perhaps I was in error. Do you want to know? I cannot promise you safety, but I can promise that the protection so far extends to the King and his direct heirs, and perhaps those who would do you harm would make a distinction between first in line and Last in line."

Flavius grew serious.

"I cannot stop you if you desire to slay me. Indeed, I have already given up my weapon. But slay me, and you break ages old dipomatic protocol. If I do not return, men will be sent to find my fate. I know that my warning of danger has been ambigious, but it is only out of concern for your royal highness. If you wish, I can tell you now and you may take your chances. That is the most I can offer without endangering your life. And before you misintepret my remarks, the danger does not come from Septimus or his allies, but his opponents."

"Surround me with a hundred guards if you wish, have a mage examine me for evil intent, but I beg you to let me speak with your father Prince."

Brian

[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

[Starhawk]

Thousands more soldiers arrived at the camp along the Elantrian border camp two days after the prince had ordered their "visitor" placed in a comfortable tent until a message arrived from his father.

Three days had passed and a message had finally arrived, the King of all Eldorneth would see this man, the Prince sent an entire squadron of cavalry to guard this "senate representative" and to travel at speed.

The journey was swift on horseback and when they arrived in the palace the Elantrian man was taken to a chamber filled with guards and inspectors and stripped naked, he was searched for weapons, even his hair was shaved off to ensure no poisons or weapons of any form could be hidden there.
"Stay 100 paces away from the royal throne or you will be killed instantly, without question, do no forget this." The Captain of the guard said before a fine robe was placed on the Elantrian man with a great deal of ceremony and pomp.
Finally the Elantrian was taken to the doors to the throne room, 10 guards stood at attention there, all wearing Golden Legion armor and carrying the sword and shield of their office. The doors opened wide revealing a grand golden chamber of light and glory, somewhere could be heard the drawing of many bow strings which brought the reality of 'Killed Instantly" down upon the man's head.

A strong voice echoed throughout the hall as the Elantrian approached within the 100 paces, "You have traveled far to see me, and no doubt the ride was difficult, so I do appologize for the need to shave you, but as you can guess assassination attempts have been launched on some of my predecessors. But non of that now, why do you come to speak with me?"


OOC: Sorry for the brief post but I have been busy this past week.

[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.

[Irulan]

same here... nothing to say...yet

but perhaps Starhawk can explain in the meanwhile how we're calculating combat and stuff? couse that would be nice to know I think..