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written Monday, January 5 2004 19:09
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What of plant life? -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, January 4 2004 14:38
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quote:You are very lucky there is no way to punch a man in the penis through a monitor. Very lucky indeed. -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, January 4 2004 13:49
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Geneforge 3 needs a 'push' command, I think; kinda like Fallout 2's, to prevent this from being necessary. Alternatively, you could love the servile and stroke him and listen to his ideas and perhaps he might move. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, January 4 2004 13:41
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No great loss. ... The Solarans at the border were preparing for more guerilla attacks. They had intensified; first from the Populists, who seemed to be fleeing from something, and then from the Kylenians, who seemed to be the something they were fleeing from. The sun was low in the sky when shapes appeared over the horizon. If that was a Populist levee, they had been ordered to take a light hand, forcing them into Kylenian territory; that way they could give the appearance of fighting the Populists while using them as a weapon against the Kylenians. This was no levee. As the number and volume of shadows swelled, that much became obvious -- the Populists couldn't field any one army this size. The Solaran sentries gave one hard look at the Kylenian army approaching, rubbed their eyes, and then, for the most part, ran like hell. "Dig in! Set the pikes at level and meet the bastards head-on!" All around the border, commanders were giving the same order to scared, unenthusiastic troops. Then the cries came from the other side of the border -- from one man's throat and then from those of thousands. "Up with the Empire!" "Up with the Empire!" "Death to traitors!" "Death to traitors!" "Death to Sol!" "Death to Sol!" And then, the next cry came as a unified shriek: "Long live Emperor Hugo!" The commander sat rather puzzled. "Emperor Hugo? What the devil -- I thought the Kylens wanted to--" Those were his last words. Thousands of arrows pounded into the Solaran lines; one tore through his head. A line of hideous beasts crashed into the Solarans, and then beams of searing light followed them. When the beasts disappeared, wave upon wave of troops under General Hugo's banner, numbering improbable thousands with weapons, armor, and boundless fury. What separated them from a guerilla army? Mages, maybe; noble generals, certainly; and most certainly, the fact that they didn't stop there. The entire wave swept into the Solaran faction with a characteristic yipping roar. Propaganda has appeared demanding the people of the Solaran faction fight for the Empire against Sol, a traitor in bed with the Populists. Warderson has been bombarded with appeals from the Kylenians for aid against the Solarans, who they call 'traitorous rabble-rousers', in rebuilding the Empire with Emperor Hugo at its head. And finally, an offer has come to both Gideon Ironclad and Jehan Sol -- how, we cannot really elaborate on -- offering clemency if either surrenders at once and devotes further military efforts only to defeating the Populist menace. -------------------- ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el Pueblo! ¡Vivan los Trabajadores! Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 3 2004 19:02
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Ay, but if you subscribe to the neutral God theory, there's something of a problem with the belief that a good God would want you to be happy more than anything else. In essence, you are working on a very trivial definition of 'good' and 'evil'; God is nothing if not a universal governing force, and a government that lets some of its people live happy while others suffer miserably -- indeed, even because others suffer miserably! -- is best-regarded as evil, no matter how freely it allows those citizens to be happy. [ Saturday, January 03, 2004 19:03: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-veiratu CUSITURA ] -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 3 2004 18:02
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1. Valorim, Aizo, Pralgrad, Vantanas, in order of size. Pralgrad, Aizo, Vantanas, Valorim, in order of importance. Capital on Pralgrad, old capital on Aizo, Vantanas is inhospitable, Valorim we know. If you're going to try to make a scenario involving all four continents, I suggest you scrap the idea and work on something smaller. Trust me on this one. 2. There was a way to get rid of items in BoE, but I don't know if there is in BoA. Given that I recall it happening at least in Nethergate, I think so. 3. They keep the items, although items with special significance (e.g. in-scenario flags or nodes^w scripts attached to them) will probably lose such significance, and I'm pretty sure items with custom graphics will still be lost from scenario to scenario. And yes, the party keeps all skills and level and experience and so on. [ Saturday, January 03, 2004 18:03: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-veiratu CUSITURA ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 3 2004 17:57
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I wouldn't be so fast to say that. The two of you have about the same amount of temporal seniority, I think... -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 3 2004 17:55
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For all I can see, the only crimes seem to be stealing and physical harm, and they seem to count for just as much. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 3 2004 14:13
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*pegs MSW with a tranquilizer dart from 30 yards* *closes in, unloads needler pistol with more tranquilizer darts into him at point-blank* *stalks off* -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, January 3 2004 13:24
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I was a mod a year and a half ago. It was dull then, and things were much more exciting then than they are now in terms of moderator action. -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, January 2 2004 19:23
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quote:OR SO YOU THINK. -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, January 2 2004 15:55
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I recall you being able to shoot one person for free, and the next one turning the town hostile. I did this to make guards in Drypeak fight each other once. [ Friday, January 02, 2004 15:56: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-boariku CUSITURA ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, January 2 2004 15:40
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"Well, gentlemen, I suppose now we have to ask ourselves: What can we do?" The question was met with bitter mumbling from the now-Emperorless faction. "What can we do? Side with the Populists, of course. They might gut the aristocracy like a trout, but at least they'll be going after the Solarans and Ironcladians too." The famed general stares at the Minister of the Interior balefully. If he hadn't gotten here sooner, this idiot would surely be in charge of things. "We cannot do any such thing. The Solarans have been using the Populists as a weapon against us; we cannot sink to their level. Similarly, the Ironclads have gone so far as to throw around the idea of allying with the Populists outright. How the mighty have fallen!" Hugo spits at the phrase. Karadas looks mildly disgusted as well. "Then what should we do, General Hugo? I don't see any way we can preserve our position, let alone recover what we used to have, unless we side with the Populists." "I'll tell you what we're going to do: We're going to fight them with every ounce of strength they have. Propagandize. Set off guerillas. Fight them like we did the Ironcladders. And then we're going to rip the Solarans a new one. They have violated our neutrality agreement unconscionably often, and with intolerable methods. Intolerable to us, intolerable to any right-thinking men, and intolerable, surely, to any Aizoan." The last word rings for a while. Several mouths open at once, and then shut half a second later in stunned unison. "Aizoan." The word comes from as many mouths, but not the same ones. "Yes! The Aizoans! We had forgotten about the doddering idiots running the Imperial Army up there, but now we are going to go over and make them come over. Tell them that people wanting to kill the Emperor, calling themselves Populist Republicans, have risen up, that Gideon Ironclad has openly aided them and Jehan Sol is doing them nothing but good. And we shall tell them, all the way up to Corin godforsaken Warderson, that we, the right-thinking and Gods-fearing citizens of the true Empire, shall not, and cannot, stand idly by as everything that the Empire has ever stood for is thrown into the ash-heap! We shall tell them all, all the way up to Corin godforsaken Warderson, that if they do not give succor unto us, the defenders of the true Empire, that they won't be able to see themselves as men! In two years time, we shall parade about the streets of Imperius with the heads of Sol and Ironclad on pikes, and the people will shout --" "Long live Emperor Hugo!" The people in the room chant this in near-perfect unison, and from Hugo's reaction, he clearly didn't see it coming. "Long live Emperor Hugo! Long live Emperor Hugo!" Hugo leans over to Karadas in slight awe. "What the devil has happened to this country?" "Exactly." Karadas smiles smugly as the Kylenian ministers verbally crown the man who was once his fiercest rival Emperor. ... [ Saturday, January 03, 2004 01:34: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-veiratu CUSITURA ] -------------------- ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el Pueblo! ¡Vivan los Trabajadores! Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, January 1 2004 18:29
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Things can change with the smallest detail. Consider, for example, Jilem of Bortho. You needn't remember his name or that of his village -- history certainly won't. However, Jilem's life has been shaped by a series of events as fickle as the sea. He was once a farmer, but the slightest accident brought him into the Imperial city to be executed. That was years ago. Had the civil war happened any earlier, had any of the legion of factors that caused the capture of Imperius not happened, Jilem would be long dead. As was, Kylen captured the city. But he didn't capture Jilem, no -- the Imperial High Court fled Imperius as quickly as the rest of Ironclad's backers. And they took Jilem with them. They would have reached the Ironclad capital, too, if it hadn't been for the right army hitting the High Court at just the right time. Jilem survived for years in the backwoods of central Pralgrad, playing one group of guerillas against the other for years while trying to find a way home. He finally did, one fine summer day when the Populists rose. They burned Bortho to ashes; they burned many little villages to conscript their apathetic peasants, but they blamed the nearest Imperial successor. Kylen. Had he died in the woods, or had he come to Bortho and died or been conscripted by force, none of this would have happened. Now he was an expert in the Populist Army. An expert on assassination. And his mission today took him into Kylen's palace on business, under an assumed name and identity. There exist two ways that things could have come out: had the hatchet moved one inch either way, Kylen would have survived -- he wouldn't see next year, but he'd have survived long enough to keep the Kylenians alive for the worst. The Populists would have swallowed the Kylenian faction from the inside out, and then nothing, not even Jehan Sol, would have saved Pralgad from the early republic. The first Chairman would have quickly made himself an Imperial-scale tyrant, suspending elections, suspending the courts, hanging Ironclad, Sol, and every nobleman and general from trees within a few bloody years. The Purge would leave a weaker but intensely loyal Pralgrad -- one which wouldn't snap like a twig when Warderson landed. They hanged Warderson from a tree, too; the regime lasted a few more Chairmen before collapsing into a dark age which lasted many centuries and set back Ermarian civilization for millenia. The hatchet found its mark. Kylen didn't last the day, but at least he outlived Jilem of Bortho. And had General Hugo not arrived with a guerilla army in Imperius moments before, who knows what would have happened to the Empire? ... [ Thursday, January 01, 2004 18:31: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-boariku CUSITURA ] -------------------- ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el Pueblo! ¡Vivan los Trabajadores! Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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-------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 31 2003 12:13
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What do those of us who've seen the editor so far (you know who you are) think about the possibility of a BoA Arena once it's released? How will things change? What kludgy fixes will need to be made? And will we ever be safe from the menace of Ablis? [ Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:14: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-boariku CUSITURA ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 31 2003 10:41
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I would respectfully posit that perhaps it would be best for you to train your attack ferrets in a manner similar to the training of the JSDF. Although one would be hard-pressed to specify exactly how Japanese forces -- restricted to Japanese soil, no less -- would run into a situation which forced them to fight in tundra or desert, the JSDF remains prepared anyway. Similarly, although the target of your mission may not realistically ever be on a secret moonbase devoted to the clandestine re-establishment of the Soviet Union, or within a mainframe in said moonbase which executes the profane and bizzare orders of the secretly-preserved brain of Iosef Stalin, or indeed within a subroutine of said machine devoted to creating minimalist BoE scenarios, what's the point in being an evil genius if you can't throw money at it anyway? ... I've gone and said too much again, haven't I? -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 31 2003 10:28
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quote:CHOKE ON IT AND I MEAN THAT FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART CHOKE ON IT ... And the idea was to spark a discussion on what life is all about, which I suppose I've succeeded in doing, haven't I? :P And eh, my answer has always been the same as my answer to everything else, which is admittedly a tad vague: comprehension. I've made it a goal of my life not to know anything, or at least not to make a show of knowing anything, until I understand its purpose, cause, and so on. These are all good answers (although I have a personal grudge against answers to the question of life from books, HHGTTG or the KJB included), and I suppose I thank you for them. I might even get around to answering some once I've more than skimmed over all of them. (No Internet, see.) [ Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:33: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-boariku CUSITURA ] -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 31 2003 10:24
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You are so damn fast, I'm not even joking. Two minutes? The ladies must love you. :P [ Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:25: Message edited by: USA-se Xenerali-boariku CUSITURA ] -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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quote:Translation: HUBURGURGH I AM FILLED WITH HOLIDAY CHEER AND TWO GUESSES AS TO WHERE I GOT THE 'CHEER' (I have a thing against the straight-edge movement.) -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 29 2003 21:35
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"Sullust. That's who it is that has given us such trouble lately." "Sullust? Odd name for an Imperial officer, isn't it?" "Quite. Sounds almost Pralgadian." The Kylenian gives a pointed shrug. "What are we to do? The rebel scum have cut us off, and we desperately need to get home to fight them." "It seems as if every right-thinking man in the Empire should band together against these scum, sir, if you do understand my meaning." The lieutenant sneers. "Yeah. Karadas and Hugo side-by-side. Makes for nice propaganda, son, but I doubt it'll ever happen." "Well, sir, we do need to get back home." "Send in a delegate under a white flag. Tell Sullust what's happening in the rest of the Empire. If he chooses to attack me after that, may the Gods have mercy on his forsaken soul." ... "What kind of fool do you take me for? I know that as soon as we get out of here, you're going to shoot me in the back." "What do I have to gain by doing that, Karadas?" "What do I have to gain by helping you get out? You get home, you're going to get medals, fame, money, and a barony under that false Emperor. I get home, I get to play babysitter some more for a doddering old wine-sniffer who thinks that, if we close our eyes and think happy thoughts, the world is going to turn out all right. The simple fact is, you have a gamble to make, but I'm going to do a midair Continental either way. Why prolong the inevitable?" "I know what you think about me, Karadas, but I am not a dishonest man. If I get out of here, I will do everything in my power, up to getting rid of Kylen, to make sure that the right-thinking men in this world get rid of these damn rebels. You understand? Even if they shoot you now, you'll have died making sure we go on having an Emperor, no matter who he is." Karadas mutters below his breath. "I'm not in much a shape to run, not after the wound you inflicted." "Oh, blow it out your ear. I don't think there's a priest in Aizo who wouldn't be proud of the job the healer you got did on it." "Fine. We're fighting together, aren't we?" "Yeah. For now, anyway." "Then I suppose you'll want this." He hands Hugo a red bottle filled with oily fluid. Hugo shoots him a questioning look. "They thought it was liquor. Don't shake it too hard." He looks thoughtful. "It's a wonder they haven't already --" An explosion shakes what seems to be the whole world. Karadas nods pointedly. "Move it, you rebel bastard!" "Up yours, elitist scum!" The two generals give savage, hushed laughs as they burst forth from the tent. The guard posted to them lifts his sword and is promptly dropped with an elbow to the face by Karadas. More soldiers approach, and Hugo gives a hard throw. The bottle lands in the middle of the Republican forces and there is an impressive explosion. "The stables are that way! Let's go!" The two old enemies hurried off in the direction of the stables. ... -------------------- ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el Pueblo! ¡Vivan los Trabajadores! Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Yes, yes, they're all out to get you because you're the only one who knows the truth :rolleyes: -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Hey, I'm not the sort who asks for existensial angst. :P Life is concrete enough: what is the purpose of life? I don't see any, to be honest, and that's something of a problem. -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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This topic means what it says: Why? Why are we, and to what end? What point is there to life? -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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"Under General Hugo's orders, I have been instructed to encourage you to hold this land against Solaran invaders. Kylen offers you more opportunity and freedom than a dictator like Sol ever could." "What use do we have for Kylen, either?" Hecklers. Lieutenant Slauthe had run into hundreds in his travels. "I'm sure you just love being a slave to the Emperor." "As much as I love being a slave to the landed aristocracy." What the -- that was a new one. "The landed aristocracy? Hardly. The people Kylen supports are the merchants, who--" "--are overfed on the fruits of the people's labor. And the Emperor gives them a nice pat on the back for it." Grumbling among the assembled partisans. This is no good. "And what alternative would you have?" "The people must rule the Empire! The people must decide what is best for them, rather than letting a man appointed by bloodline rule! No more blood must be shed for the petty feuds of children that grew up wearing knee britches and spats!" Loud shouts of approval. The Lieutenant coughs loudly. "This is treason!" "From your mouth, we take that as a badge of pride! Treason? Ha! You and the Emperors have betrayed the people of the Empire! Treason! Treason! Treason!" The crowd joins in the shout. And in the annals of history, Lieutenant Slauthe will be remembered for being the first officer to taste revolutionary justice. ... "General Hugo!" "Not now, damn you. We've ridden him to the coast! I can smell his horse from here, and it's only a matter of time until I can finish what I started at the passes!" Hugo didn't even realize he was more concerned with killing Karadas than Gideon Ironclad. Didn't matter. They'd both be just as dead. "Sir, this is urgent, and needs attending to immediately! If we don't do something about it, we'll..." "What? What will WE do? I am going to pursue Gideon godforsaken Ironclad another mile and give him the justice he deserves. "Sir! The people are revolting in the east!" "Let them revolt! Without Ironclad, they will be lost!" "The people are revolting against Ironclad, too, and all Imperial power!" "What!?" "They're mutineers, sir! They've begun taking officers prisoner and stealing weapons and executing aristocrats!" "No." Ilai Hugo isn't denying it; he simply cannot believe it. "No! It can't be true!" "Yes, sir. And your assistance will be required for the forces fighting the rebels near the old Ironclad capital. We are to meet with them at Little Bend as soon as possible; the sooner, the easier time we will have of--" "Karadas!" "Rot in hell, Hugo!" "Karadas, I swear with the Gods as my witness that I have no further intent to injure either you or Ironclad." "As I said, Hugo, rot in hell!" "A group of guerillas on the rise in your old faction against all the Empire stands for -- against the Emperor himself, who we both agree should exist, even if we don't agree on who he should be -- is trying to sack the Imperial capital. For the sake of all that is good, General Karadas, if you value the Empire, you will get to Little Bend at once." Then General Hugo sets off for the hamlet. ... General Hugo and two guards, along with the messenger, ride at a gallop into the village -- which seems to have been deserted. General Kouvin is seated on a horse in the central square, which encourages Hugo. He approaches the town, and realizes far too late that General Kouvin has been dead for days. .... Karadas was pacing the floor when General Hugo, bedraggled and miserable-looking, walks into the tent where they are both to wait for revolutionary justice. Karadas looks ready to strangle the ex-Kylenian when he sees the haggard look in his eyes and the fresh blood and bruises from a vicious beating. "So they got you too..." ... (OOC: The Populist Republicans are a faction on the rise all around Pralgrad. Tired of the abuses of the Imperial factions, they seek a democratic system, abolishing the Emperor and the old aristocracy once and for all. They're gaining a tremendous level of power in the old Ironclad territory, but they stretch from Solaria to White Peak Island; they'll need a new leader. This gives an excuse to shift the allegiance of any PCs currently on Pralgrad to them, too...) -------------------- ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el Pueblo! ¡Vivan los Trabajadores! Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |