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[mandible/splinteryourjaw]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the battle Wednesday (or thursday for some of you!)  I really do appreciate you guys staying up late and helping.  In my notes I promised everyone who showed up 5k CRPG gold if they got a higher k/d percentage than me.  Well the results are as follows:

Bale O' Hay delivered an amazing moon jump, back twisting, double somersault, mighty broad one handed battle axe chop to someone that simply made me lol, while Bruvantas delivered a long awaited blow of revenge to the Sultan to end the battle.

I on the other hand, in my stupidity, forgot to sign myself up; didn't really matter as all slots were full anyway.  SOOOOOOO what this means is that everybody either equalled or exceeded my k/d.

I will pay everyone who showed or was in TS (I know a couple went to bed when they saw my roster was full, but I do appreciate you showing up and you can claim the $$$ also) the 5 k crpg gold.  I have had a few claim the bonus, but many haven't.  If you want the $$$ please put stones up for 5k gold and I'll buy them...if you put something else up please lmk because I will only search for stones.

The gold not claimed I will donate to the last, say 5-10, new board members (who are not an alias of Abay)...if the admins can tell me who they are.  I will pm them with a welcome, explanation of what's happening, a link to the factions page, and a list of the factions who were their benefactors (while the Turks may have indirectly been benefactors, that doesn't count  .)

If you wish to donate the $$$ simply do nothing, if you would like your share PLACE THE STONES!!!!!    This also includes the good man who tried to broker a deal and came very close to preventing Bruvantas from exacting his revenge, as well as those who provided/offered re-inforcements in certain locations ...I won't mention names here.

What the hell; Sultan since you and your teammate had the "Frank The Tank's avatars" to stand there and battle; thus giving bruvantas some satisfaction for your unprovoked attack on him, I'll send you 1k crpg gold each:  if you place stones...but I won't be sending newbies to your faction page (I don't like how your members do business.)

Thanks everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jarlek]

Good man!

[BaleOhay]

no pay required. I would have had both kills but the rest of our team did their best to kill me. Took 3 team hits while I was breaking down the second guy. Decided to get out of the way before I died from friendly fire.

[mandible/splinteryourjaw]

Thank you, Jarlek!!!   Its not a big thing, as far as I'm concerned the gold is not mine; it belongs to my mercs, and any donations will be made in their name...they are the "good men/women"

One of the great things about these guys is how they protected all my equipment.  I had horses available and offered, but they responded with "why waste a horse" , "leave the horses alone" etc.  BaleoHay is a great example, rather than continue his attack when his health got low he backed off to a safe area to save me the troop and more importantly the equipment he had (although I forced him into a fashion choice that we won't ever talk about again.)

I did lose 1 troop and a set of mail armor at battle start...I'm not sure how it happened, but thats all cool its just random pixels right.

Back on topic...I will contact admins Monday morning for the new account information and send out the pm's then...if you want your gold I must know by Sunday night (EST) or it will be donated    Thanks to all of you you went above and beyond!!!!

[Ozan]

ı have no problem with u m8...and u suprised me u have a lot of good friends..some of them came to my ts and wanted to cancel the battle against u.. ı accepted of course.. Anyway ıf u a real free trader we can trade with u.. my steam : ozaniikus   Add me ıf u want ,we can trade..bye

[mandible/splinteryourjaw]

ı have no problem with u m8...and u suprised me u have a lot of good friends..some of them came to my ts and wanted to cancel the battle against u.. ı accepted of course.. Anyway ıf u a real free trader we can trade with u.. my steam : ozaniikus   Add me ıf u want ,we can trade..bye

Sultan Ozan, I believe it can be said that the good friends you speak of are good friends to us both.  They were put in an awkward situaton and were trying to work out a peaceful solution.  Doing what was in both of our best interests was their sole motivation, and I appreciate everything they did.

As far as the conditions of a retreat, I could not in good conscience have my mercs show up at that time of the night and then agree to a pre-arranged retreat.  If the battle was cancelled at an earlier time, so that it would not have been necessary for my mercs to show up for the battle, I would have agreed to your terms.  In this case I was told the battle could not be cancelled early.  I therefore terminated all talks and voided any agreements or perceived agreements many hours before the battle.  My mercs showed up really late to fight and a fight is what they deserved to get.

I am reasonable and will contact you to discuss the situation further.

[Ozan]