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Strategus => Diplomacy => Topic started by: Butan on April 25, 2014, 01:39:54 am

Title: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times
Post by: Butan on April 25, 2014, 01:39:54 am
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[RP] Prologue : Chaotic times
(beginning of round 5)





The land of Calradia, a rusty old continent which have seen countless souls walks its path.
In a time long forgotten, warring nomads came from the East to this forsaken place, settled down in clans, which turned into states, which turned into empires...
Monarchs claimed the riches of the land, their unshackled greed had turned them fat, lazy and soft.
They had forgotten whence they came, they had forgotten their grandfather's names and heritage, they had forgotten their way...
The way of the warrior.
Time will teach them anew.


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The dispassionate crowd mind his own business, without a care in the world.


The towns, the castles, the villages, were all bustling with shops and inns: trade had become a virtue, while the sword was abandonned.
In their cities of silk and sin, the temples were full of cunning priestlings, selling paradise for simple coins...
The population did not see through the veil of this everyday blindness that they called reality.
Incapable of remembering their past twinkling fame, they were equally powerless to defend their home from the incoming wild tribes.
As a horde, they came from the East, as their forefathers did before them, a blight to the land, they ravaged everything.
Crowns won by heritage, were now won with blood, and they would not have sold them, even for promises of valleys filled with gold.


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The unprepared citizenry meet up with an unnecessary hollow death, the rest can only run for their lives...


First, the unfortified villages were overrun, and its denizens massacred, with a select few being enslaved in the dreadful armies.
The once prosperous and peaceful grasslands were now burnt to the ground, the countryside was ripe with crime, plunder and war cries.
The devious warlords appeared as if they came from nowhere, and had invaded the whole known territory in a matter of days.
Then, refugees and survivors from the slaughters came to the gates of the surrounding walled castles and cities.
Here they would make their stand.
Here they would die in even bigger heaps.


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Hastily formed, untrained militia can only do so much against hardened warriors: resistance is weak, even futile.


Except for a handful of besieged fortifications and other dominions that still resisted the unrelenting assaults of the warring tribes, every city states had crumbled.
The war of civilization against barbarianism had undergo a full turn of the clock in a matter of weeks, and barbarians had once again triumphed.
Did they knew they were a part of the never-ending cycle of history? Let philosophers brood over this question.
They had invaded, they had conquered, they were still alive, while their foes were dead: and they were content.
Some of them were so content, that they already started to settle down, to build new walls on top of the broken ones, to drink the wine of life, one gulp at a time...
Others were not of this opinion, their way of life could not be changed, they would die as they were born, restrained by no bounds, be them bounds of chains, or bounds of laws.


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Not the best person to cross by the streets at night...


Some of them were not content and had plans of their own, and one of those people was Buba, the Vagabond...





To be continued...

Next chapter: soon
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: phnxhdsn on April 25, 2014, 01:46:07 am
Spoiler alert:
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Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: GRANDMOM on April 25, 2014, 08:05:06 am




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Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: phnxhdsn on April 25, 2014, 06:26:34 pm

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This is the picture (Gif) you should of used:
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Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: UnholyRolyPoly on April 25, 2014, 10:56:23 pm
Nice job man.  Love the artwork. 
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: SanGliers_Manouck on April 26, 2014, 03:02:33 pm
Butan, always so good as usually !
You should write books haha  :wink:
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Vengt037 on April 26, 2014, 06:00:02 pm
Goes awesome w/ the music. I'm pumped. This is the story of the dark ages--when the walls of civilization crumble and those left standing in the rubble must fend for themselves, bereft of the laws of God and man. These are the days of the volkerwanderung, when our unbaptized ancestors wandered through the megalithic ruins of a shattered empire, through primeval forests, through Stygian darkness older than time. This is the era when the sacred rings were forged, binding together those who would fight--a time when many arts were lost, but the craft of metalworking reached unparalleled ascendancy. Behold what was wrought in the forges of antiquity.

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Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Butan on April 26, 2014, 08:00:51 pm
Thanks for the praise guys, I mainly inspired myself from how strategus behaves at the beginning of a round with AI fiefs (the untrained population) against the players (the hardened barbarians), with some sprinkling of legendary ages, be them real (like Vengt said, the Dark ages) or unreal (Hyborian age, from Conan).

I will try to keep writing in a style that fits all, even those who arent interested in strategus at all...
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: buba on April 26, 2014, 09:07:57 pm
Always enjoyed your story's Butan. Can not wait for the next one.
I am one of those people that think role play makes a game so much better.
So I am glad you are in this community giving us these great story's to read.

And I am in this one! wooppieee! :D
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Jacoby on April 29, 2014, 02:53:05 pm
Nice Nice!
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Butan on May 05, 2014, 06:55:46 pm
New chapter very soon, which will begin the first arc. As I think this strat will have more to it than what we think it will.
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Kalitorian on May 06, 2014, 06:42:23 pm
New chapter very soon, which will begin the first arc. As I think this strat will have more to it than what we think it will.
... until UIF arrives to wipe us all.
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Butan on May 06, 2014, 08:06:31 pm
... until UIF arrives to wipe us all.

Even then there will be something to tell next  :P or I'll make it up!
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Kalitorian on May 06, 2014, 11:43:09 pm
Will there be a tale of the valiant battles fought between the Frenchies and GO? visitors can't see pics , please register or login

Or will you be a honest bard...
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Butan on May 06, 2014, 11:44:23 pm
I dont know which frenchies you refer to  :D
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Kalitorian on May 06, 2014, 11:45:47 pm
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Faction: Ordre de l'Etoile
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Joseph Porta on May 06, 2014, 11:59:58 pm
Wow, awesome! Did you make those drawings yourself?
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Butan on May 07, 2014, 01:12:01 am
I would be a damn genius if I did  :mrgreen:  I found most of them on deviantart, which is a great place to look for highest quality paintings and whatnot.
Title: Re: [RP] Prologue : Chaotic times (the beginning of round 5)
Post by: Butan on May 07, 2014, 05:10:09 pm
Faction: Ordre de l'Etoile

Not sure it will ever appear in my tales, god knows what will happen to my pencil in the next chapters  :D
For the moment I am focused on other things...