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

[Starhawk]

Sanowin and her escort of riders came across reached the borderlands of Elantris undiscovered, they knew how to be stealthy and traveled rapidly for miles a day, only traveling by night, they scouted many of the smaller villages outlying the major cities and even now her and her riders patroled the foreign land along the borders that faced her homeland, to discover whether these myths of military mobilization were true.

On the Borders of Eldorneth the entire current military strength (other then the 1,000 light infantry guarding the capital) was mobilized on the frontier and the badlands that seperated Eldorneth and Elantris:

(Mobilized Army)
1,000 Golden Legion
500 Elven Rangers
180 Horse Archers
200 Archers
600 Heavy infantry
total Forces= 2480
Remaining Population= 37460
Total Incom per turn= 4,700 (I think I got that right)

[brianeyci]

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"Psst. You'd better take a look at this.", said Bato.

"What's that?", murmured Bitus.

"Wake up you bonehead. Take a look."

Bitus sat up. They were sitting on high observation post several hundred feet from the ground at the border between Eldorneth and Elantria. These observation Posts dotted the Elantrian borders at regular intervals, manned by men like Bitus and Bato who lived for months at a time. They were quite large and spacious, and had food and drink regularly delivered to them.

Bitus peered through his dwarven telescope. "So what, a small fire, probably the Eldorneth's having a picnic."

"You idiot. Look at how many fires there are. That's not the paper thin guard that normally patrols the border you dope."

At that moment, the small bell attached to a string that ran down the tower rang.

"[censored]. Someone's here. Stand up, get your helmet on, it might be an officer."

"Who disturbs the men of the watch? Speak!", shouted Bitus through a horn.

"Valerius Severius. I command thee to provide meal and drink for a representative of the Senate!"

Bato nodded to Bitus. Bitus picked up a large bucket filled with rations and waterskins. They started lowered it down a rope.

"Think we should tell him?"

"Tell him about what you moron?"

"You know, about the fires."

"You mean about the increased activity at the border?"

"Yeah, that."

"Nothing to say. Let him go. Not our concern."

Bitus curled up. Bato kicked him. "Its your turn to watch, my turn to sleep." Down below, the sound of a horse moving off as the messenger left.

"Uh, Bato?"

"What."

"The messenger is heading straight for the border."

"Well that's his problem. Maybe he'll run into a few Eldornethian patrols that will straighten out his attitude."

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Brian

[brianeyci]

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He had found another dead end.

Flavius swore. The lizard people insisted that he go through this maze every time he came. He did not know the intent or the purpose of the maze, other than to delay and irritate. Despite being here several times in the past, Flavius could never remember the layout. It was as if every time he left, he had the memory of the maze erased. Or perhaps the maze actually changed.

However they did it, Flavius didn't like it. He had been chosen for this assignment because his father was one of the leading diplomats to Esthia. He had tried to protest, but had been overriden. Somebody had a grudge against him. Now he was stuck as the messenger to Esthia, a land of trickery and magiks which made his skin crawl.

Flavius turned a corner. He had been consistently preferring the right. Logically, Flavius would eventually reach the end of the maze. If the sorcerers didn't change the rules in the middle.

A rustle. Perhaps they had tired of the game. Flavius turned around...

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[NarfsCompIsBack]

OOC

Whoops. Lack of data on that maze. There's plenty of rooms and resting places. Of course, they all look the same to someone not trained...

Skaldron slipped through the hidden archway and through some bushes to where the guards reported the guest was currently. Finding the messengers back turned, he coughed politely, satisfying his minimal demands of diplomacy. "You have been granted an audience. You will be summoned at the fourth hour." Pointing at a discreet, but visible, water-clock.

Skaldron cocked his head to the side. "In the meantime, use one of the side rooms to rest and refresh yourself." Pointing at a door. "Ring the bell inside for food."

OOC

As a side note, the 'only turn one way' rule only works if there are no circles. This maze works by repitition.
Also, the only doors lead to rooms.

Diplomatic Messages seem to take more time than the actual getting an audience and talking would. Shall we assume that most of the time is actually taken up with travel?

[brianeyci]

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Flavius shot off a fake smile and bowed slightly. "Of course, I respect your traditions." He crossed his arms.

"How many times have we done this Skaldron? Is it really necessary to change the maze every time I come here? And why cannot I ever seem to remember the layout of the maze, despite my most excellent ability to recall all five thousand one hundred and eighty pieces of Elantrian law?"

Not waiting for a reply, Flavius headed towards the door. Once the door shut behind him, Flavius gently rang the bell.

Seemingly alone, Flavius opened the pouch secured at his belt. He had long ago figured out how to circumvent the royal seal without giving himself away. Five gold crowns. Enough to bribe his way into the Senate, hire a hundred whores, and live like a King for the rest of his life. Flavius sneered. The fool Septimus was an idiot for wanting to bargain with the lizard people.

Flavius sealed up the bag. No, there would be a time and a place to get rich. But not now, while under invisible eyes. He cursed himself for not checking the bag earlier. Now with the lizard sorcerers around him, it would be impossible to take one of the coins.

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Brian

[Starhawk]

The man representing the Elantrian senate began to draw upon the Eldornethian position, the Eldornethi camp looked almost like a small city from this distance a several large campfires in cetnralized locations with a network of tents laid out in a grid pattern for almost a mile, armored figures stood watch at the "entrances" that led to the long pathways that would act as killzones should any raiders attack the camp during the night, several of the tents were large enough to be a complete temporary stable for the prized elvish warhorses of the Eldorneth Kingdom.

As the Senate rider drew closer to the camp the sound of running horses would have most likely startled him, he peered around seeing nothing but darkness even as the sounds drew closer almost before he noticed a few dozen yeards off he saw fast moving black shapes within the darknses, a small glint of metal the size of arrowheads sparkled in the moonlight, as he listened longer the man noticed that there was another group of horsemen coming at him from the opposite side, quickly the mounted warriors arrived in bowshot but instead of firing the two Groups of riders formed a circle around the man and stopped.
A tall man dressed in the black robes of an Eldornethi horse archer dismounted from his beautiful brown steed and placed his bow at his side, an arrow still noched, the other archers all pointed bow and arrow directly at the man, should he try to do anything.

"Who dares tred on Eldornethi borders without the permission of his most glorious highness the King?" the voice hissed softly behind the mask that covered the speakers face. The other archers froze in place and simply stared at the stranger that strode so bravely near their camps...some of the eyes had the shimmer of elvish appearence behind the robed faces, which explained why they saw the ornately dressed man so easily in the moonlit night.

OOC: I assume you wanted him seen by your post

Edit OH and My new population/gold:

Pop= 67460
Gold= 4,700

Units Trained:
2,000 Golden Legionaires= 800
3,000 Heavy Infantry= 1,020
500 Elvish Rangers= 200
240 Horse Archers= 128
2,000 Archers= 440
Total Expenses= 2588
Gold Remaining= 2112
Population Used= 7,740
Population Remaining= 59720

Overall Military Strength:
3,000 Golden Legionaires
2,600 Heavy Infantry
1,000 Elvish Rangers
2,200 Archers
480 Horse Archers
Total= 9,280 soldiers

[Starhawk]

Wierd in the forums it says 2 pages but when I get in here it says 3

[brianeyci]

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The man on horseback drew his weapon -- then threw it on the ground with a powerful flourish. The sword dug deeply into the ground.

"I am Valerius Severius. I come under the protection of the Treaty of Lucius and am a messenger from the Elantrian Senate. I desire an audience with his majesty." Serverius handed a rolled scroll in a round tube. The tube bore not the seal of the Elantrian Senate, but the personal seal of Septimus. Serverius had taken great risks accepting the bribe from Octavian, but despite Octavian's clout, duplicating the seal of the Senate was impossible. They had settled on using the Consul's personal seal. Serverius stared down the masked man, hoping he wouldn't recognize the difference, or at least would not care.

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OOC : I need some clarification on the "gold" and "city" thingy. How do I calculate how much gold I have? You said I get income every 15 Posts or one page, so does that mean we have had two periods of income since the IC started on page two? Also you mention you start with one default city for gold, but mention that the default starting cities is three. Also, how much does my +5 Gold Income help me?

Brian

[Starhawk]

IC: The masked rider looked at the scroll case carefully, looking over every inch of it, then opened it-rather carelessly-and inspected every inch of it for weapons, poison or creatures that may try to harm the King.
"You will not ride to see the king this day, however I will take you to his son, the commander of this army." The rider spoke in a tone that allowed no retort or appeal and mounted his fleet footed horse without another word, the other riders remained in a circle around this stranger and rode towards the camp, leaving the sword behind them to be picked up by one of the lower ranking amongst them.

Moments later the riders stopped outside of a tent that looked like all others except for the coat of arms upon it baring the symbol of Prince Kalathin.
The captain of the riders led the Senate reprasentative past the two golden legionaiires into the well lit warmth of the Princes' tent, it was not an ornate thing, a simple desk in the corner, a cot not unlike that of an average warrior's the prince himself however was a startling contrast to the average warrior, he was tall, had long golden hair hypnotic green eyes lit with a fire of intelect and whit, he wore the Eldornethi steel banded armor of a legionaiire but his was far more ornately forged, additional bands added for his increased protection were also present, his helm which lay on the desk had the same face guard as the standard legionaiires but a wonderous plume of many kinds of feathers sat atop the proud peice of craftsmanship.

"What does your senate wish of me guest?" he asked in a calm wise and youthful voice as he poured the stranger a cup of fine elvish wine.
"I will hear your reasons before I send you on to my father, if of course I choose to send you on and do not turn you back to your homeland after hearing your reasons." The prince handed the man the wooden cup with a polite smile and sat across from him waiting for this "Senate representative" to speak.


Yeah brainy I made a few mistakes on my first post and havn't pinned them all down yet thanks


You get 3 cities with a starting population of 40,000 to start with
Ever 1 city= 10,000 extra people per page
Every 10,000 people equals 1,000 gold by average.

As for pay periods, no the only posting started on 2 an you only get your pay period at the start of the next page (for example next pay period will be page 4).

You get 50% extra gold per pay period because of your 5 points to income, (don't count the 30,000 people you got this turn until page 4's income).....understood?

Sorry for not clarifying it you guys I'll try to pin down more of those errors I made and fix them.

[Edit]Brainy your starting population was 40,000 I added up your military recruitments and got 2161 people in the military which means the population you get gold from is 37839)

37839 People= 3,784 gold
50% Bonus for your people=1892
Your Total Income= 5676

[brianeyci]

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Location : An open plain in Elantria
Legionary Headquarters of Legio I



"How goes the recruitment?"

"Well. We should have the legion up to full fighting strength soon."

"Splendid."

"There is a problem of training. Throwing this many untrained soldiers saps the strength of the veterans."

"Nothing you can't handle. Unless you need assistance."

Gaius scowled. "Of course not, everything is under control."

"Good, I expect your recruits to be ready for inspection tomorrow."

"Are we at war?"

"Mind your business."

"Senator, you call up every able bodied man in Elantria..."

"I said mind your business. Unless you want to be replaced."

"Of course not."

"Then ask less questions. Be ready for tomorrow's inspection."

Gaius waited until the Senator left, then spat on the floor. "Politicians...", he muttered. They had no idea the amount of training, discipline and time needed to raise such an army. The Last war was fought and won by men like himself, who sacrificed everything to turn weaklings into disciplined fighting men. Now all the Senators were interested in were parades and uniforms. Strange that only one Senator had visited him. Perhaps the expansion didn't have the support of the Senate.

Gaius shook his head. No, scheming and politics was best left to others. He knew how to fight, and how to train people to fight, and how to win fights. That was enough.

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OOC : Thx for doing the math =D.

Combat ready forces deployed in large camp outside capital city Elantris
1761 Republican Legionnaires (Heavy Infantry +6 42/100 740 Gold Spent)
200 Republican Skirmishers (Light Skirmishers 56/200 56 Gold Spent)
100 Elvish Scouts (Light Calvary 32/100 54 Gold Spent)
100 Republican Engineers (Special Unit 35/100 35 Gold Spent)

Army in Training
10000 Republican Legionnaires (Heavy Infantry +6 42/100, Gold Spent 4200)
Split up into two camps, Legio II and Legio III. Legio I consists of all forces already trained and ready for combat plus new recruits.

2000 Republican Skirmishers (Light Skirmishers 10/50, Gold Spent 400)

1000 Republican Engineers (Special Unit 35/100, Gold Spent 350)

1000 Elvish Scouts (Light Calvary 32/100, Gold Spent 320)

Gold Left : 406
Total in Treasury : 436



Begin construction of forts for Legio I, Legio II, and Legio III.

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Brian