Joachim was about to step forward and engage the enemy troops that were moving in, but they suddenly stopped in their tracks and slowly backed off before turning around fully and running away. Joachim looked behind him to look what made them run, but nothing caught his eye. When he returned to face the enemy fully, it seemed the main enemy force was disengaging as well, taking their losses and going home. A few of the men were being helped by their friends and brothers in arms, their wounds keeping them from walking normally. Joachim considered giving chase, but they were all pretty beat up too, and it wouldn't be useful anyway. „Looks like we won.” he mumbled to nobody in particular, surprised that everyone was still alive and well. All the horses seemed to be dead however.
Joachim walked over to the mangled corpse of one of the knights and pulled the helm from his head, to reveal an ugly pig-like face staring back at him. The eyes were staring into the abyss of the sky, something that was always a bit strange to see. But that wasn't what was interesting about this guy, no, it was his identity. „Aemon Howard, the brother-in-law of Aryen Ewain. Seems like the nearby lordships have taken an interest to the queens lands.” It was a strange ordeal however, with them getting rid of the Ewain insignia on their shields. Was it possible that Aemon had acted on his own accord due to a deal struck with the king? Pure speculation at this point, and Aemon was dead and couldn't clarify.
„We should head back and inform Gnarl and the Queen.” Joachim said with the utmost serious voice that he could muster. Looking around, however, Joachim found most of the horses had been slaughtered. It seemed the enemy opted to take out the horses first. There was no doubt that the villagers that survived could point them to some leftover horses. Joachim sheathed his sword as he went to stand straight again, looking at Atl and then the woman behind him. „Woman, can you point us to the nearest horses?” The woman was still a bit shaken but pointed to the nearby stables, which luckily hadn't caught fire. There seemed to be enough horses in there for everyone that needed one for the journey back. Joachim walked over to the stables, looking at the edge of the village that was by now deserted by the enemy -- they were clearly fleeing at a speedy pace. Once he walked inside he grabbed a horse by it's reins and headed outside, where he'd wait for the rest of his companions.
It seemed that the Ewain family enjoyed either a very strong tie to the king, or that they liked Stags Rest and saw this as an opportunity to wage war to obtain it. And by burning the village and murdering everyone or taking them a prisoner, they'd quickly drain the manpower of the queen.
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If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires;
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. His passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Most Recent Posts
Whirlwind said
Wren was standing... ah well.
I'm gonna advance the story so it doesn't matter that much anymore.
Bladewind said
Kimono, and everyone else for that matter, feel free to critique my posts. I love hearing about flaws in my writing.
There's a difference between constructive criticism and blatantly saying something is flawed. The former is nice. The latter isn't.
Derpstone said
Just for clarities sake:No one has engaged Theo in conversation during him training off-duty guardsmen yet, right?Cause in that case I could possibly start breaking away from this training to give Gnarl a report.
No, nobody has done that. Feel free to visit Gnarl in his quarters.
Kimono said
I haven't insulted or engaged in any petty fighting at all. How am I being lumped into this? I made ONE post suggesting he make longer entries in the story and im arguing? I'm not getting the correlation here. But, its neither here or there. Sorry for whatever I did. I'll just be quiet and post IC to the best of my ability. :)
Bring your message a bit more subtle next time. It's weird for a person with 1 post have criticism about others.
I'll get on another post soon. I hate Misty. She's douchey. 
Hey, wanna drop this now before I have to remove either of you from the RP? Take these petty fights to PM's if you wish to insult eachother till no end. I'm the GM and until I say people need to put in more effort there's no problems.
That said, people need to put in more effort. I've seen 3 '1-paragraph posts' now and I'm not digging that too much. Up your game a bit, people.
And yes, I'm dead serious. Consider this, Kimono. You just walked into my RP with a CS, which I accepted, and now already arguments are happening. And Bee, you had trouble writing a backstory for the queen, something that isn't so hard at all. 1 paragraph posts paired with that aren't a good impression. Now drop the argument, I'm way too tired to deal with this shit.
That said, people need to put in more effort. I've seen 3 '1-paragraph posts' now and I'm not digging that too much. Up your game a bit, people.
And yes, I'm dead serious. Consider this, Kimono. You just walked into my RP with a CS, which I accepted, and now already arguments are happening. And Bee, you had trouble writing a backstory for the queen, something that isn't so hard at all. 1 paragraph posts paired with that aren't a good impression. Now drop the argument, I'm way too tired to deal with this shit.
TheDarkTemplar said
I like the sound of it. I was originally thinking of something like that, a mix of Persian and Egyptian maybe? Then again where Tal is from its a plainsland so I think your suggestion would fit better.
IDK man, I just digged the crazy ass Mongolian movie.
IncredibleBee said
I don't dig collab posts. Generally, they result in a lower activity rate IC and exclude other players from jumping in during a conversation.
Not a big fan of them either but they serve their purpose (like now) every now and then.
Kimono said
I'm loving this RP. Awesome writing and detail, awesome settings, awesome characters. I'm particularly interested in seeing what will become of Tal and if a friendship will form between Wren and Astrid. I hope this RP last for a long time. I will also do an RP summary for whats going on(It helps me follow the plot) and do you guys think we need a posting order?
Summary sounds good. Posting order.. no. I like posting when I feel like it and when I have a good idea.
IncredibleBee said
The last post was short because I didn't have much to say. I had to speak a few sentences, and that was it.If you make a post too long with no actual content, it's purple prose. Purple prose is terrible. You should write the appropriate length necessary. Any more would be wasting time.And for the record, the Dokkodo is twenty-one short sentences. The Book of the Void is about a page long.
I can see where you are coming from, but I think it'd been better if Sloth had just gone with no interaction. It doesn't really matter. We're not reading/writing a Dokkodo or Book of Void. Not a big deal anyway and certainly not worth the commotion we have now.
I had 4 hours of sleep so please bear with me if I'm saying stupid stuff.
TheDarkTemplar said
I'll work on getting him to the village at Tyne River, from there I'll let you decide how things go.
Possible theme song for his region?
Nah, I just don't wanna play him as a full fledged character, more as a way to steer the RP at times.
Currently a band of our guys is fighting raiders of a village whose identity is still unknown, could be anyone. Draw your own conclusions who it is. We have 1 person going after the scouts to invite them into the castle, another training the castle guard and Gnarl is .. doing nothing, mainly.
Yeah I'll do that later.
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