Hey folks, it's been a damned interesting few days. I've been talking heavily to just about every faction on the strat map during these days; it's now wise for me to let everyone know exactly what's going on as I see it. I could be wrong on these, but I am not actively lying. There's no ARR PEE here, only what I know.
New Rindyar Castle was previously owned by JABONRA. The castle ran out of gold for upkeep, and starting draining troops in a hurry. Murdertron talked to When we got it, there were a total of about 1800 JABONRA troops on there split amongst their high-key members. Palatro, dan_cheats, couple others. I would name them all but I forget and I'm not exactly at Rindyar right now. Now, over the past few days those guys have been losing troops rapidly as the castle did; meaning they didn't have the gold for upkeep.
I attempted to contact Palatro about buying their strat stuff for cRPG gold and looms, but to no response. BADPLAYER was taken down rushing 100 unarmed troops at our castle. At the time, we really did think that he could lock down our transfers that way; the only person to contradict me on that point was Arowaine. Arowaine told me in TS that you need 1/3 of the troops of the castle to do that. I don't know if that is accurate at all; I don't mistrust or trust him on it. I simply have no other source of information on it.
What I think BADPLAYER was doing was trying to gain entry into the castle to get transfered a fuckshitstack of troops from the JABONRA guys. I mean, they're more of his friends than mine. Of course they wouldn't sell me shit and screw HP over, that's fine. In addition, BADPLAYER could have been doing ANYTHING with that unarmed army of his; I just find it likely he was up to no good, causing trouble in my neighborhood.
Fast forward a bit, and I'm in hosp TS, alone with arowaine. He called me in there via a PM, and I was sure that they were going to ask me to vacate my ass out of Rindyar. Now, this was just the case. Arowaine told me in teamspeak that Rindyar must be vacated. He told me that he would relocated me to somewhere with at least one castle. He also told me that we would need to merc for occitan and others to get this.
Now, to be, that sounded like "become an occitan vassal and you'll be spared" Arowaine was very kind and proper throughout the whole thing. I do like most occitan folks, truly. However, the problem was not with his presentation of the deal...the problem was with the deal.
I've repeatedly claimed that I'm not an FCC ally recently, and that was quite true. However, lets look at this situation:
Hero Party has 34 members and 9 fiefs.
Occitan has 56 and 8 fiefs.
The Frisian Freedom has 14 members and 2 fiefs.
If you think that I'm not going to accept ANY help from ANYONE that gives it to me in ANY capacity I can, you'd have to be fucking nuts.
I've got 90 people ready to eat our ass. I'm not complaining about it; I love a good fight and boy are we going to give it to you. As I've said before, my momma didn't raise no fucking coward. However, I truly, TRULY did NOT want to be an FCC ally. I really didn't. I wanted to go after equally-sized factions in a fair fight. However, I understand the strategic significance of New Rindyar for both sides. I'm not upset that you're coming after me because we're small. I'm not really even upset about it. I just really wish you could have let me watch you go by to go stick it to FCC while I take care of other strategus affairs.
However, you've given me no choice. You've chosen my allies for me. FCC didn't come to me when we're mercing for tkov, when if we were allies we'd need to merc for remnant. FCC hasn't given me any reason to dislike them. Kesh says some silly things, some rude things, and some damn near crazy things on the forums occasionally. Kesh hasn't given me an ultimatum. You know very well that FCC could do the same thing you're doing; Rindyar is important to them too. They haven't.
I DIDN'T WANT TO FIGHT OCCITAN AND I BARELY WANTED TO FIGHT HERO PARTY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WANT TO FIGHT ME
I'll take whatever I can get from whereever I can get it, and as long as we've still got troops standing, you're going to have a very shitty time taking New Rindyar or anything else from us.
glhf
