Fall From Heaven NES

Citizens of Kuriotates brave and inconquerable in you hardship

I come before you as a king that failed. I failed the trust you all put to me. I failed in bringing the peace and prosperity to Kuriotates. When you were suffering the severity of war and fighting on the barricades I was in my chambers crying for the suffering of you. But what have my tears brought? Nothing but the tears of millions. I was dreaming of a world where everyone could live in peace and prosperity but these dreams veiled from me the real world. The world where we we brutally assaulted. No, we are not in war, because in war, there are demands. In war, there is a purpose. But in this tempest of violence and pointless destruction, we have to ask ourselves: What they want? Why they are attacking our beloved cities? Have we poisoned their seas, shattered their mountains into pebble, broke their plains with deep cracks and high walls? No. But we should have. We should. Thesy want only our complete obliteration and they won't hesitate to use the most loathsome methods to destroy our freedom they both envy and fear.

Will we earn salvation through destruction of our enemies? I doubt it. But we will earn the salvation of our homeland! Salvation of our way of live! Salvation of all too weak to lift up a weapon! My wyrmlings, do you think there will be mercy upon the heads of our children when the murderous dwarves will come? Do you think that the seaman won't sell them into slavery? In this night of cracked shield and broken spear, the only light are our souls that burn with rage. Our enemies tried to tear down our civilization. Let us show them why we chained ourselves with morale and etiquette. In this deepest night we all are Balseraphs! But we won't drench in the excesses of flesh as they do. Nor Amurites excesses of mind nor the Grigory excesses of modesty! Our desires are desires of the soul roaring for justice! Freedom! And revenge! We must be the great arsenal of Freedom! Our purposes are noble and righteous!

Burn! Blaze! Like fire in Naggarond! We have nothing to lose but our scars! We have nothing to fear but the fear of fear itself!

(And he drooped his head and started recited a poem)

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
Gods knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

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From Algeroth, civics switching to Conquest, Military State

Kuriotates gain +2 stability and Centaur regiment at half cost.

Well that was unexpected.

To the Kuriotate people from Kandros Fir

No, we are not in war, because in war, there are demands. In war, there is a purpose. But in this tempest of violence and pointless destruction, we have to ask ourselves: What they want? Why they are attacking our beloved cities? Have we poisoned their seas, shattered their mountains into pebble, broke their plains with deep cracks and high walls?

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Your leader pretends we made no demands. He lies. We asked for 100 gold to repair the tempest of violence, the pointless destruction of the lives of our milita who were in a camp whose walls you cracked in order to abduct a man who was not there. Pointless was the war you started, to abduct a dwarf who was not there.

We have been asking for a compensation and received only insults after you took the lives of the dwarves without reason. Just remember: Your leader started invading us. We would have prefered peace.

Battle of Icea


Things are getting more and more dire in the north. After failing to storm the capital city, Lanun armies appeared content to just siege it and wait for reinforcements. Adepts used spells to turn roads to mud and supply lines were blockaded. Reinforcements soon came in form of Mercenary bands, called Brave Brothers. Kuriotate expected Balseraph reinforcements, but they got routed by Lanun ships and then got busy in their homelands.
Avelorn militia pushed Lanun away from Avelron, and Lanun mercenaries that tried to storm the city again had to pull west to keep their flank instead. Lanun ended up rounding up Kwythelhelar. Khazad also moved there. Hippus went to surround Naggarond.
A great battle ensued, with fierce Kuriotate resistance. Battle of Icea was fought by Kuriotate militia, adepts and centaurs on one side and allied Horsemen, bears, militia, paramanders and mercenaries on other side, led by Cardith Lorda himself.
Kuriotates were desperate to prevent enemies from crossing Icea, and after long and bloody battle, despite heavy loses, enemies did not cross the Icea. Fire magic of Kurotates helped a lot, and Hippus raiders finally had a decent opposition in the form of Centaurs who banded together to defend their homelands, although lack of Horseback riding meant lack of mounted tactics.
But no one did cross. This was first battle that could be called a victory for the Kuriotates, as enemies made little progress and destiny of the nation was to be decided within next few weeks.
On south, Kurotate hunters harassed inside Darkwoods, and Hippus made a massive counterattack to reclaim lands near Naggarond.


Khazad take 30 gold to recover troops
Lanun take 25 gold to recover troops
Hippus take 40 gold to recover troops
Kuriotates take 40 gold to recover trooops
Kuriotates +1 stability




Lanun pillage everything!

Lanun leader ordered a mindless, pirate pillage of eveything that they could get their hands upon. Every house, cottage and mansion they found was thoroughly pillaged, robbed and then burned. Entire villages were set on fire. People that resisted were put to sword, others were shipped to slavery. Such brutality was unseen from the Grindstone massacre, but this time it was much more widespread, due to simply much denser population of Kuriotate, and fact that Kuriotates were not Orcs but Humans made this even more tragic. Erebus is shocked by this atrocity, while Lanun enjoy profit from pillaging and slave trade. Kuriotates are certain that same will be done to their capitol, so many more men enlist in army.


Lanun: +45 gold
Kuriotates: Lose village in Kwythelhelar
Kuriotates: Men enlist in army, redcing cost of healing troops by 20 gold




Lanun establish Coastal Guard

Lanun passed a new law that obliges all captains and their ships to serve part of their time in royal service, to use their ships to scout the seasand serve as sea watch. This was met with resistance at first, seeing this as an intrusion to private liberty, but after announcing the generous pay, this was changed into joy. In either case, Lanun get insight on all naval movements in their sphere of influence, and boost to naval combat efficiency.


Lanun: -2 gold per city
Lanun: +2 stability
Lanun: Cultural values set to Consumption/Liberty





Luchuirp taking sides


There was an increasing tension in Luchuirp empire concerning taking sides in the conflict on the west. Central authority in Ithralia was all out for an alliance with Hippus, but city states have their own authorities, and heated discussions begun. Tia'ran sided with central government, partially due to close promixty to Hippus, and stopped trading with Kuriotates in favor of Hippus, but Mutambo remained divided, and discussions degenerated into fistfight. Trouble is that Mutambo is, despite not being a capital city, a richest city state and earns as much gold as both Ithralia and Tia'ran together. Decision of Mutambo leadership is vital and there is already a movement to seek to change Mutambo to capital city.

Luchuirp: -1 stability
Hippus: +5 gold



Svartalfarl coming to a peace?


After Calabim invasion in holy forests, some hurried negotiations took peace, but while queens talked, soldiers fought. Calabim forces were retreating, but Summer court still attacked them and inflicted them loses.
Meanwhile Summer Court pushed north into barbarian territory, full of refugee slaves and light elves, who joined Svartalfarl. With wood golems, they defeated most of the wild Orc opposition. Next thing was a secret attack on the remote Svartalfarl colony near Khazad lands. Few hundreds light elves traveled east, even after Lanun refused assistance. They were aided by Balseraphs and their Blood Axes regiment. They took control of the territory, and squashed minor opposition.

Soon Queens negotiated peace. Few disputed points of foreign diplomacy were settled after Lydia managed to provide technologies to Luchuirp on her own, and Calabim question was still to be discussed. But fragile truce was signed.

Feelings were mixed. Some felt that Ljosalfarl got too much, some that they haven't gained enough. Those on east felt that they haven't gained enough, and declared independence. They ask for Khazad, Grigori or Balseraph protection and offer themselves as vassals.

Final document of peace is still not signed, but it appears that kingdom will be ruled by two Queens, and that Svartalfarl will still keep true authority. But until peace is trully signed, civil war can re-erupt in any second.

Calabim: -10 gold to recover Milita
Svartalfarl: +5 stability





Bandit Nietz


A band of masked bandits appeared in Balseraph lands, preying on trade routes. Some people say that bandits have foreign sponsors, but also some say that bandits came from hell, but fear stuck in many a heart as their leader, Nietz, pillages and burns.

In either case, Nietz had a misfortune- Balseraph troops were sent to Avelorn by the sea, but were returned when Lanun ships intercepted Balseraphs. This large-scale foreign incident was unfortunate for Nietz as this troops soon returned to their homelands and stumbled upon bandits. Bandits had no option but to flee north to Malakia Sands, and from there they continue to plot and scheme, but traders are safe for now.


Balseraph: -5 gold




A new Juggernaut

Resting peacefully in the South, untouched, a new world power rises and takes her place in Erebus history. Amurites, who until recently lied in ruins, are growing stronger each day. As Order's mandate comes to an end, and new election campaign draws closer, many who feared that Order's rule will bring stagnation see that they were wrong- Amurites growth is not hindered. Their income is almost three times as big as it was during the Interregnum, and Order continued this trend of growth. Priesthood was being established, Order religion spreads and plans to restrict religious freedom are still heavily debated but opposition manages to rebuff such laws every time. And Order also invested in trade – after heavy investment in military navy, traders felt protected and southern trade fleet could be established, with great Senate financial support. Those new trade ships bring even more income to the Amurites.

Will Amurites remain in peace for a long? While both Order and traditionalists League of Sunrise remain careful about this question, for Mithril Guard is only question 'when?'. Popular support for easy expanison is growing, as citizens seem to easily forget the disasters of war...

Amurties: New trade route from Trade Fleet project




Amurite Traders protests Arms Trade ban

Amurite merchants and smiths protest the new law that disallows free trade of weapons in foreign lands. As one weaponsmith said, "It's everyone's basic right to own a sword, and I craft them. I studied my whole life to do that, and became one of few skilled smiths in Amurite Republic. Now I can't sell it anymore? What is that nonsense?"

While it is clearly intended to prevent escalation of conflicts in Svartalfarl lands, it does mean that merchants are unhappy and many smiths already went bankrupt for being unable to sell weapons they were made to craft.

Fortunately minister Cassel foresaw this so he bought them for government's armories, preventing much harsher economic consequences.

Amurites: -10 gold, -1 stability






Calabim troubles


While Calabim army returns from east, from an expedition that can hardly be called a victory, tales of victory DO spread in Prespur. A heavy propaganda machine does work, after all, and peasants are in awe of victory.
This was suddenly interrupted after most dire Amurite action. Group of adventures, supported by Amurites and Order priesthood, entered in Calabim feeding pits in an attempt to rescue Empyrean priests. They used divination magic and visions of Junil's angels to decieve guards, and to lead inmates to freedom.

What was seen in these pits was shocking even for hardened adventurers. State of inmates was terrible, many were having open wounds, and were so underfed that they were little more than walking skeletons. Many were diseased, blind, many had missing body parts, and there were even reports of pairs of people sewn together with tailor's rope. Escape via sea route was soon seen as impossible, as those men could never leave city. Still, sight of those men on city plaza was shocking and many citizens started to question what happens in their kingdom – could they all really be criminals, and what did they do to get such a treatment? City watch soon slayed all those who escaped the pits, and two of the infiltrators committed suicide rather than being caught by Calabim, the rest of infiltrators fled.

In Cevedes, even people who organized this were shocked. Mithril Guard was again the loudest and called for an action, and even Order majority agreed with them. Many are so shocked with this report that they believe it to be untrue.


Calabim: -4 stability





Gold found in Balseraph lands!

A new gold deposit was found in big desolate island east of much more famous, but smaller Raven Rock. Many gold miners already went to start the mining and gold fever is overrunning the Balseraph empire.

Balserpah: Gain Gold resource, +5 gold



Pirates raiding shores

Pirates, not pledging allegiance to any nation, were stumbled upon by Lanun Coastal Guard, in the seas of Trident and Central sea. They fled from the Lanun fleets but are ready to return again... They could have foreign support, but not necessarily... No victims were reported, yet

All: Be Aware!

From Hippus:
To Kuriotates:


Let us end this onslaught. Here are our terms: You cede us everything south of Naggarond, and we will make Khazad and Lanun generous compensation from our own vaults. That offer stands only if Khazad and Lanun agree to our terms.

Kwythelhelar can be saved. Think well, use your reason.


To Khazad, Lanun:

Contact us to agree about the terms of peace for our alliance and way of negotiating.

Good update. Interesting, anyway.

I hate to ask this so quickly, but when you send information Jopa could you make sure to tell me where my units are? I'm pretty sure I never had any units close to Avelorn...

orangelex44 said:

Good update. Interesting, anyway.

I hate to ask this so quickly, but when you send information Jopa could you make sure to tell me where my units are? I'm pretty sure I never had any units close to Avelorn...

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Avelorn and Kwythelhelar happen to be close, within one day (or turn's) reach, so that's probably what confused you.

Group of adventures, supported by Amurites and Order priesthood, entered in Calabim feeding pits in an attempt to rescue Empyrean priests. They used divination magic and visions of Junil's angels to decieve guards, and to lead inmates to freedom.

What was seen in these pits was shocking even for hardened adventurers. State of inmates was terrible, many were having open wounds, and were so underfed that they were little more than walking skeletons. Many were diseased, blind, many had missing body parts, and there were even reports of pairs of people sewn together with tailor's rope. Escape via sea route was soon seen as impossible, as those men could never leave city. Still, sight of those men on city plaza was shocking and many citizens started to question what happens in their kingdom – could they all really be criminals, and what did they do to get such a treatment? City watch soon slayed all those who escaped the pits, and two of the infiltrators committed suicide rather than being caught by Calabim, the rest of infiltrators fled.

In Cevedes, even people who organized this were shocked. Mithril Guard was again the loudest and called for an action, and even Order majority agreed with them. Many are so shocked with this report that they believe it to be untrue.

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To: The corrupt Calabim Aristrocracy

We had hoped to keep our involvement in this affair secret until much later but it seems our hand has been forced.
Every right-thinking man, woman and child is sickened by barbarous and vile monsters that are the Calabim nobles. We have seen with our very eyes the state of the ‘hunted’ in your caste society and we will not stand idly by as mortal, sentient creatures are treated like livestock. Nay, they are worse then livestock for who, (but a few Grigori) rape their livestock (just jokes ANW ), and who tortures them? None! And yet the Calabim butchers do so to their own people and for no reason but to satiate the bloodlust of a corrupt and decadent band of incestuous quibbling nobles.

Mortals are not meat and mortals are not valueless. As the summer court as declared in ages past, it is our brief moment in this life, the twinkling of our spirit, here today and gone tomorrow that lends such beauty and passion and elegance to our existence, that connects us to nature, this world and to the gods. The vampires that rule your country are a perversion of this; their passion comes from our blood, our toil, the sweat of our brows. The land of the living belongs to the living and the undead, to them belongs death!

But, all is not lost for the Calabim people for its people are its soul and it is not they with which our problem lies but with its rulership. That rulership is quibbling amongst itself; the infighting amongst its nobles is killing it. They are oppressed by taxes. The trading noble classes are bickering over loans and debts. And their armies are battling a losing battle in a war they had no business being involved in. Calabim society is no doubt very unstable. The rulers must be disposed; the ancient castes that sought reward by serving their demonic masters at the expense of their fellow men must be cast down. A new order arises, where all mortals are equal and vampires are unknown.

The word of Empyrean and of Junil spread throughout your land like fire through a dry plain. Step aside or you will be burned.

To: The Summer and Winter Courts

We know that the elves of summer will never accept the beast that is the Calabim, invaders of their forests and despoilers of the way of nature as friends. The winter elves best listen to these voices for the sake of a united elven nation. The summer queen has asked for an embargo upon this vile nation. Now that you have seen the deeds they are capable of, we hope that will heed their voice and join us in supporting the people of Calabim against the decadent nobles that rule them.

The Amurites offer you our continued friendship and goodwill. In the past we have proven ourselves steadfast friends. We could have assisted the summer court in the civil war in your country and in so doing win great wealth for our nation, but we chose not to. Instead we sent messages suggesting possible peaceful solutions. We had witnessed civil war and did not wish to see the same thing happen to our friends the elves. Of late we have assisted each other greatly and we would like to continue this path.

Choose now, you can have only one as a friend: the powerful and friendly amurites who help you and trade with you, or the decadent and lowly Calabim who invade your forests and who’s support will cost you half your nation.

Embargo the vampires, close your borders and do not trade with them any longer.

To: The Lanun captains

You are are lovers of freedom and free-movement. Your people can no more be contained then can the seas’ gales. No doubt it is an affront to your sensibilities to see your fellow man treated like disease-ridden cattle, shovelled into holes in the ground away from the sea’s edge, away from the winds and the sky. The Calabim are an affront to all the Lanun hold dear.
Hail Lanun captains. You are undisputed masters of the northern seas and extraordinary pirates. Your assistance in isolating the Calabim is critical to its success.
Peace is coming to the west. The Hippus have lost enough soldiers against the mighty Kuriotates and the Khazad are not raiders; they are accountants. The war is expensive for them and when the Hippus sign peace, no doubt they will too, for the sake of their treasury if for no other.
Your men need booty and plunder and the Calabim gem mines lie not too distant from their northern shores. Turn your attention to them- there is booty and plunder a’plenty amidst their cracking and crumbling nation.

Choose your friends carefully. Declare yourselves against the Calabim and retain the friendship of those friends that have helped you in the past, the amurite mages. Let us continue our projects that have been so beneficial in the past.
Or don’t declare yourselves enemies of the Calabim and watch as your people, lovers of Tali and freedom begin to question your motives. Watch as you lose the friendship and prosperity brought to you by the Amurites. The choice is yours.

To: The Calabim people, lovers of Empyrean, Junil and good for all people

We will not forget you and we will not abandon you. If the Calabim leadership does not change their ways, we will even come for you.

Signed:
every single last one of the amurite senate



EDIT: OOC: The amurites have stopped trading with the calabim and now have two open trade routes.

TheJopa said:

From Hippus:
To Kuriotates:
Let us end this onslaught. Here are our terms: You cede us everything south of Naggarond, and we will make Khazad and Lanun generous compensation from our own vaults. That offer stands only if Khazad and Lanun agree to our terms.
Kwythelhelar can be saved. Think well, use your reason.


To Khazad, Lanun:
Contact us to agree about the terms of peace for our alliance and way of negotiating.

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It seems senseless to continue this war. Khazad are fighting to protect their honour and their gold, and truthfully (in eyes of Amurites at least) cannot be considered aggressors. Both Khazad and Lanun want gold and Hippus are willing to provide it. Hippus want land but not land with cities which is not so very expensive for Kuriotates. This peace agreement, while difficult to accept, will probably be the best available and, in the long-term, the least costly.

The amurite suggest that instead of pouring money into repairing and replenishing units and recruiting more and more armies while more and more of the normally peaceful world (Balseraph, Luchuirp) are drawn into the conflict, peace be declared. Let those monies which would have been spent on armies be spent on assisting the people, on building infrastructure and on buying food.
The time for war has passed. Let peace reign.

OOC: I actually have a rebellion planned to go ahead as soon as I get enough money. The general plan was to move from Aristocracy to more Singularly controlled. However, if I am embargoed I will never get enough gold to prepare for the rebellion. I am insulted that you interfere so much in a land that really doesn't concern you. Empyrean worship in a land ruled by vampires is ridiculous and dangerous. that is the sole reason these people were imprisoned. I read that update with severe distaste, Jopa made it sound like I was running some sort of Soviet research centre, which isn't really my visiosn of the place. I will reiterate for hopefully the last time that our intrusion into the forest was at the request of the Svartalfar court and tehy have confirmed this. (and also, vampires are not undead in FFH)

I am halfway through the rebellion story, do you want me to continue it? Or are you going to withold all my gold and prevent this? This blatant attack on my stability has already seriously endangered my rebellion. Also, it is ridiculous to think that my people are ''lovers of the empyrean'', every last member of that faith was rounded up and the population is ~99% natural order worshipping.

OOC:
Don’t take it personally. When I write what I do, its just rhetoric. It’s the same as what algeroth writes in regards to his wars and most NESers write throughout their games. Compared to most NESes, this one is very peaceful and mutually respectful. In the end, this game wouldn’t be much fun if we didn’t have a little stab at each other every now and again.
Also, you did say that the pits were a place where people were habitually tortured and raped, so it makes sense that they would be malnourished as well. Two people stitched together- well, that’s just descriptive.
/OOC.

OOC: well it would be no fun for the vampires if their victims didn't even have the energy to struggle! I will write a diplo in a little while and I will completely blow you away .

To: The Nations of Erebus, The Amurite Senate
From: Lord Agron, Servant of Aeron the Protector

Erebus has been shocked again and again by bloody battles and horrific deeds. From the Grindstone Wars to the Lanun raids to the Amurite Civil War, yet none, none of these tragedies can possibly measure up to this ambomnible invasion into the privacy of our culture, our government, and our ways. You look to your petty morals and your pathetic ethics, yet you ignore the grand scheme of things. You ignore the fact that, at the end of the day, when Aeron created vampires, he created a predator. Are each of you mortal races not the same? We watch how you hunt deers and wild pigs in the forests, and we see you as the barbarians. You as the monsters! We watch how your hearts beat faster as you hold the hunting dogs back with all your strength, savouring the fear in the eyes of your prey! Have your people no care for the innocence of these creatures? As we are predators, so are you! To most Vampires, humans are alike to animals, lesser creatures, and historically abomnible creatures, the Brujah, would torment our villages, our cities, murdering and torturing and laughing all the way, just as humans to deer. Yet Aeron took pity on these people, victims of his own mistakes, and created Alexis. Yes, she was a Vampire. As all his greatest servants are! But she was different, she had a natural pity and maternal instinct for her humans, gifted to her through the very tears of our Lord. So she came to the city of Al-ash-ir, giving up her place in Heaven, and fought the Brujah, hunting down each and every one, and in this act of selfless bravery, she won the love of her humans! Yet, like a human commits such attrocities so that he may eat, a Vampire must feed. Yet our great Queen knew that she could never hunt in the manner of the Brujah, the traditional old way. Yet she knew that unless she fed, she would begin to descend, becoming more and more malevolent and destructive, rage blinding her eyes. For this reason, in the year 00-02 she created the Pits, and the humans gladly offered up their criminals and traitors to fill them. We feed upon only the criminal and treachourous dregs of mankind, parasites and vile creatures. In removing them we do mankind a great favour, proecting both their minds and bodies from dangerous men and ideologies. In a Vampires eyes, we are the very essence of civilisation, while you humans commit barbaric and evil practises, destoying innocent and beautiful animals, as well as each other.

To understand our practises, there is so much more you must have learned. Our tradition is rooted in the very essence of our culture, race, and law. To this day, I control signed confessions from the Empyrean Priests claiming they were sent by another Erebusian Nation to cause dissent and disruption in our glorious culture. Unfortunatly the man died before he could tell our agents which nation had sent him, but whoever it was is an abomination! Sending men of a faith banned by law into a nation such as ours! It is not us to blame, but the monsters who sent him! The men who surely knew what his fate would be, upon crossing our border! I suggest that you horrible little human nations pay great attention to this fact, do not interfere in our lands unless you know our customs, our beliefs, our way of life. You tell us we are monsters, liken us bizzarely to the undead servants of a Necromancer, yet you ignore all of our progress and achievements!

Humans are weak in the fact that, due to their unfortunately short lives, they are unable to see and understand the greater meaning. The great and continuing progress and benevolence of our race! This is the error in the Senate system of goverment. Your leaders seek to achieve as much as possible in the short term that they serve. Their actions are short-sighted and ignorant! You must have patience, as it is difficult for an entire race, akin to humans or dwarves, to change their ways, their natural instinct! To achieve a more peaceful and fulfilling existance. We Vampires have lived for eternity, and we will live for twice that again. Progress and change is a slow process, yet it is being done all around us, if only you could open your eyes.

Finally, I would like to offer my sincere regrets that the short-sighted Amurite Government has witheld their trade from the Calabim Empire, stunting our progress indefinately. We hope that our Elven friends, who are far more capable to see the Grand Scheme of things, will not seek to follow the Humans in their dangerous and needless plight, as it is only the influence of our Queen that that prevents such dispicable old ways returning to the Aristocracy. We hope that you will consider reopening our trade routes, so that we may return to our slow, but weighty progress.

Thankyou.

Lord Agron,

OOC: Ouch. That was longer then I expected. Read it all, I dare ya! .

Also can I just finally remind you that this is dark fantasty. You lot are all far too idealistic .

Immaculate said:

... Compared to most NESes, this one is very peaceful and mutually respectful ...

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ooc:

That reminds me someting ...

The very fact that vampires see themselves as predators and humans as prey puts us at odds. Indeed it puts your people at odds with your government. The senate is a representation of the people and the people will not be hunted! The people will not be prey!
All your hind-minded and flourishing rhetoric justifying your role as predators does nothing to appease the soul of those slain in your horrific ‘hunts’ nor the minds and hearts of those subjected to degrading and disgraceful tortures.
If your nobles and your queen were so benevolent, then why would they need a secret police?
Nay!!! Despite your pretty words, you are tyrants and blood-thirsty ones at that. The world sees that now better then ever before and I am sure even the most long-lived of races will not embrace your cruel and punitive government.
Your people cry out for salvation. Their cries fall not on deaf ears. We hear those cries.
The land of the living belongs to the living and the undead, to them belongs death!

Signed,
Some guy hired by the amurite senate for the purpose of spouting war-time rhetoric

OOC: when i got into this, i knew i was faced with a very accomplished writer and that, despite being a meta-game difficulty sort of scared me. Your post was well argued and as always, entertaining.

Two things:

Kol.7 and Immac - well do not take this personally, you shouldn't be, at least OOC, insulted by his involvement in your state as this is a game, and to it a game of war and dominance as well s of peace and development. As Immac said, without this kind of stuff NES would not be interesting. IC, any way of responding is good. For one I'm glad that there is a direct diplomatic provocation in Erebus.

I'm sorry that you didn't like the update. Now that you mention Soviet research centers, I was thinking more Nazi camps. But though your general society does accept vampires, you personally said that all things of nasty stuff happen to those in pits as they have no rights at all, and this is a typical FfH-like dark fantasy description (minus my poor writing skills both in Croatian and English)


EDIT: And I like the IC response

Map of Svart is a bit deceptive, it shows peace but it will only remain in peace if true agreement is reached. So Tyrs, contact me.

Immaculate said:

Signed,
Some guy hired by the amurite senate for the purpose of spouting war-time rhetoric

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Mithril Guard ?

Kol, this is even better cause to centralize power - responding to unrest and incompetent aristocratic pit guards

ooc:Yeah I wasn't real;ly insulted, just mildly irritated. SOmetimes I get my OOC and IC laguage mixed up .

The Amurite document was read out in the Assembly of Nobles, with the added annotations written by Lord Agron.

Immaculate said:

The very fact that vampires see themselves as predators and humans as prey puts us at odds.

It is our Nature, the Nature of our species. Yet these are not the old days, and we do not see all humans as prey to be hunted. We 'hunt' (and hunt isn't really the right word. We imprison the people until we have need of them, much like the farmer who keeps his cattle locked up until the slaughter) only the criminalist and treasonous dregs of society. We clean civilization of parasites like birds pick the flies of the back of the hippopamus.

Indeed it puts your people at odds with your government. The senate is a representation of the people and the people will not be hunted! The people will not be prey!

The People are happy to have the evil and corrupt amongst them removed from society. The innocent and just have nothing to fear from us.

All your hind-minded and flourishing rhetoric justifying your role as predators does nothing to appease the soul of those slain in your horrific ‘hunts’ nor the minds and hearts of those subjected to degrading and disgraceful tortures.
If your nobles and your queen were so benevolent, then why would they need a secret police?

If not for our Agents, how would we tell which among the humans are good or evil? If we could not make this judgement, how could we feed? Preventing ourselves from desending into Brujahs? If not for our Agents we would have no choice but to return to the old ways, something no one, least of all us, want to see.

Nay!!! Despite your pretty words, you are tyrants and blood-thirsty ones at that. The world sees that now better then ever before and I am sure even the most long-lived of races will not embrace your cruel and punitive government.

The World sees nothing but the irresponsible and short-sighted failiure of the Amurite government to inflict lasting damge upon the beacon of Glory and Civilisation.

Your people cry out for salvation. Their cries fall not on deaf ears. We hear those cries.
The land of the living belongs to the living and the undead, to them belongs death!

OOC: Everythinbg about this last statement is fundimentally incorrect.
- My people support the Government
- Vampires are not undead!!! /OOC

Signed,
Some guy hired by the amurite senate for the purpose of spouting war-time rhetoric

OOC: when i got into this, i knew i was faced with a very accomplished writer and that, despite being a meta-game difficulty sort of scared me. Your post was well argued and as always, entertaining.

Thanks

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