Kassarock

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Wait for the first post, I'll set the scene and give some you some stuff to react to

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AND THE RESULTS ARE IN:



Howard of Northall now has an unassailable lead over the other candidates, this will be our starting faction!

What does this mean for the Band?

Well our starting location will be the City of Tradeforth, the regional capital of the North of Westar and where Duke Howard is marshalling is forces for the coming war. It is already a few weeks after the death of Adalmar II and the realm is in a state of chaos. The Band, already being in the North when this happened, took the decision to sign contract with the Duke because of his military experience and the favourable rates he offered.

While the majority of Duke Howard's forces have arrived, he is still waiting on contingents from the Hook Peninsula to the West and a fresh levy raised from his own Duchy of Northall to the north. The Duke of Forlinger, though nominally part of the North, has not called his banners and the Skerrymen seem unconcerned with the war on the continent.

News has reached the city that Godfrey of Innsmouth, now calling himself King Godfrey I, is marching north through the Wolds and his host will soon be upon Tradeforth.

I'll get working on the first IC post tomorrow...

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@Gunther For some reason reminded me of this:

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

Sir Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Hey RPGuild!

Welcome to the Guild! I'm sure you'll be able to find something to your liking on here

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@Mattchstick It goes to Ireland first for me as well, so I think its like that for everyone?

I presume I'm the Birmingham UK one, although its actually about 80 miles off but whatevs

EDIT: Also the creepiness of this particular poll provider was not intended, will use a different one next time.

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Oh shit Howard has edged out in front!

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@Mattchstick

I wasn't going to say anything extra about what happens if we picked one side over the other, but I will confirm that if we pick Godfrey we will ALL IMMEDIATELY BE HANGED FOR BEING FILTHY BANDIT SCUM!

It was going to be the ultimate plot twist, but sigh, its ruined now.

(This is a joke - vote for whoever you want)

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Ahahahaha - this is exactly the reaction I wanted to provoke

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Right, everyone has been added to the character index at the top of the Characters Tab.

I have edited the Wider History section, could probably put more in, but I'll leave it at that for now.

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Now it comes time for us to decide on which faction The Band will be starting with, we have three choices:

1. Godfrey of Innsmouth, of the House of Powell. The lord of Innsmouth and second cousin to the King through his grandfather's youngest sister. He has the most legitimacy of any of the claimants, holding the capital and already crowned by the Arch Deacon of Kingsbury. However, with his realm split and many lords not wanting to be drawn into the succession conflict he does not have command of Westar's full host. He is a man in the prime of his life, politically able and a gifted administrator - serving as prominent councillor to Adalmar II. While not known for his martial prowess he has commanded hosts to put down revolts and deal with outlaws and pirates. He commands 12,000 men.

2. The Prince of Taratio, Antonio di Badoni. The Prince claims the Throne through his descent through the elder sister of Adalmar II's grandfather, however, there is one additional intervening generation thus making him the King's second cousin once removed. The young prince is considered a prodigy, gifted at anything he turns his hand at. His court is known as centre for learning and the arts. He has led inspiring victories against other Litan principalities, but some whisper this was more luck than strategic genius. He commands a host of 10,000 - which when combined with his Bordian allies rises to 16,000. The Bordians also possess one the most powerful naval forces of the combatants.

3. Lord Howard of House Northall is the Duke of Northall and is now the senior member of House Northall with the extinguishing of the main line. His cadet branch split off almost 200 years ago, when the Northalls ascended the throne of Westar, but by agnatic descent he is King by right. The old Duke is a hard and proud man, serving as the King's governor of the North of Westar for many years. He and his sons are popular amongst the northern aristocracy, but less so amongst the rest of the nobility. He is the candidate with the most military experience, having commanded numerous armies during the wars of Adalmar's predecessor. But with only 8,000 troops, he is militarily the weakest candidate - which means that he is willing pay extra for hired swords...

You can vote on this poll here - please make sure you only vote once, when a clear winner emerges, I will start writing the opening post...

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@Kassarock Are you going to have a post limit in place, as in "wait until three/four/five people have posted before posting again?" I have a lot of free time and this is currently my only RP, courtesy of the fandom RPs drowning my other two into oblivion. So I'll be available more than most, but I don't want to put in three or four posts a week if others can only manage one.

Then again, it depends on what we're doing when we start. If I've been sent off to hunt for food or take watch, it wouldn't interfere with others elsewhere.

@Mattchstick

Yeah I'll probably be enforcing some kind of posting order to make sure people don't left behind, but I think it would be unreasonable to make everyone wait for everyone else to post considering the size of the group. I'll probably be posting 1 or 2 times a week. We'll see how stuff unfolds then I might make something more formal.

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@Gunther Yeah people thinking/talking about relationships is definitely a good idea. Only one quick pointer Lem isn't actually the captain, the captain is an as of yet unintroduced NPC. Also would you consider my character a mentor or a friend? There are only 7 years between us after all?

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@Mattchstick And yeah dude, character is all good.

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Right then, still waiting on @Westwall for their edits, @Patryk PMed me and is good to move Gerald over, @Jbcool didn't have any edits to make and can move Bradach over.

In other business:

I still need to complete the Wider World tab, that will be happening tonight.

And we all have to make a decision about which faction we want to start with. The outcomes of the battles are already set in my mind, so who we choose will decide whether we end up on the winning or the losing side. After every major twist in the war/if our side gets the defeated, I'll give everyone the option to switch sides again.

However, bear in mind that if the winning side is well armed enough, they might not even want our services. And if we come crawling back to a faction that we have already broken contract with they will not be best pleased and may demand... retributions...

I'm going to write up some small introduction posts to each of the four factions, three of which the Band could potentially join (Blancia is unavailable as they will only enter the latter stages of the war). After that I'll put a poll in the thread and we'll all vote on who we will pledge our swords to.