Failed Diplomacy by James of Acre

[Pistachio]

This is why you shouldn't trust James.

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For Desires first battle against Reyvadin. James told me most of his guys were on vacation so no mercs were available. http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=strategusbattlesarchive#!?page=strategusinfobattleroster&id=1053 They had a lot of pseudonyms.
He tells me the day of the second battle before we knew Desire was in acre the whole time.
 N_James: Hey pistachio
N_James: I figured i should tell you this as you were trying to sign people against desire at reyvadin
N_James: but shes come to us seeking to enlist for protection
N_James: and we have accepted her offer
N_James: She will be joining us and will operate reyvadin as a free trade city
Pistachio: oh
Pistachio: Desire is joining acre?
N_James: yeah
Pistachio: We claimed acre..
Pistachio: You gotta support us on that
Pistachio: I mean
Pistachio: We claimed Reyvadin***
Pistachio: At least resapect us for that
N_James: That is unfortunate
N_James: but we have signed no agreements
N_James: it is a complex situation
N_James: but she basically is alone and was seeking protection from larger groups
N_James: she is a great xbower and i would enjoy not fighting against her
N_James: i am always recruiting and she is a good player
Pistachio: So you're just going to take my city?
N_James: im not taking anything
N_James: but desire is joining us
He said he wasn't even taking the fief.


Later after the battle :
N_James: Hey
N_James: So you have declared against us
N_James: very unfortunate
N_James: We will not attack you later than 330 am
N_James: and not before 3pm
N_James: as a courtesy
N_James: est*
N_James: well
N_James: maybe a bit later than 330
Pistachio: When did we declare war?
N_James: Desire is in our faction
N_James: You attaacked did you not?
N_James: i havent looked i admit
N_James: but i heard
Pistachio: I attacked yea
N_James: Ok so you declared war on us
N_James: Unless you cancel the attack we are moving in
N_James: we are reinforcing and will defend
N_James: with full force
N_James: you have 30 minutes to cancel the attack still
N_James: If you do you can salvage your relations in the area

Kudos to you James. We've been your friendly neighbors the whole time. I don't know what was in your mind but to be power hungry because you're big.

[Alaire]

Pistachio: We claimed acre..

 

[PsychoTwins]

I dont see an attack on Acre, I see an attack on Nova Reyvadin Liberation Force 

[Holiday203]

Dayum, couldn't even read them their miranda rights Acre?

[Sandersson Jankins]

inb4 strat is ded

inb4 big acre roleplay post

inb4 gow are 12 year olds

induring im gay

[GiuseppeBlackRose]

I wish i could say i was surprised but i cant say that i am surprised be cause i am not surprised

[njames89]

I am sorry Pistachio that you have plotted against us since the start of Strat, with several other players who now have left the region, and that you cannot understand why that puts you in no position to make demands of my faction. You intended to attack us and I am uncomfortable with your behaviour. Desire came to me seeking to join a larger group as she is an individual in Strategus. You guys attacked her after I had agreed to give her protection. I offered you a way to avoid war with my faction after explaining that desire was joining us. You did not choose that route. I was unfortunately unaware of your claim to Nova Reyvadin and perhaps I missed a diplomatic post. I cannot help that you didn't move as fast as Desire to capture it but that doesn't mean that I will help you take it from her.

[Alaire]

Hey, Sandy...

A lil role playing never hurt anyone. Don't stamp out the fire in it's last bursts. Who knows, it could catch flame to the carpet and blaze harder than ever before.

There will be some battles with a decent amount of experience (not plate, but getting closer).

And also... we've all been playing this game for years, and like you said we're all still twelve.

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You've found our secret. We've found the fountain of youth.

[Pistachio]

I am sorry Pistachio that you have plotted against us since the start of Strat, with several other players who now have left the region, and that you cannot understand why that puts you in no position to make demands of my faction. You intended to attack us and I am uncomfortable with your behaviour. Desire came to me seeking to join a larger group as she is an individual in Strategus. You guys attacked her after I had agreed to give her protection. I offered you a way to avoid war with my faction after explaining that desire was joining us. You did not choose that route. I was unfortunately unaware of your claim to Nova Reyvadin and perhaps I missed a diplomatic post. I cannot help that you didn't move as fast as Desire to capture it but that doesn't mean that I will help you take it from her.

1. We haven't planned anything
2. Desire wasn't even in your faction yet. You told us she was joining your faction but you weren't taking the fief.
3. You told us we could cancel the battle to remain neutral after we attacked. Never before. You also never talked to me about protection of desire. Everything you said about acre and desire was not told to me.

We've been your friends since the beginning. You're going to war over one person taking our claimed fief. You know you planned this. You're just power hungry because you're so big. I get it.

[Real_Dece_Guy]

Having heard out the messenger, who spoke considerately softly, the Axeman raised himself from his bed cautiously, and was relieved when the effort was not rewarded by a stab of pain.

The illness had struck him suddenly as he had been girding himself for the tournament. In a matter of moments he had gone from feeling slight discomfort to a migraine he could only liken to being bludgeoned repeatedly by a great maul.  Neither physic, nor the ministrations of his body-slaves skilled in the arts of the healing touch could give him more than the slightest relief, so he sent a messenger to excuse his absence and ask forgiveness of his liege for allowing this weakness to overcome him.

Yet it was not the tournament that preyed most upon his mind, but the news from the south.  Although he had taken to his bed before the battle, and as it occurred, rested uneasily with a heated stone below his neck, no illness could excuse him from the responsibility he had taken by choosing to offer assistance to Acre's newest member.  He could not find it in his heart to blame the Marauders for their decision to go to war - their honour demanded no less.  Yet his own honour would not have allowed him to renege on his pledge of support to a loyal friend of the clan.

It was emphatically not greed for land that had driven this decision - both he and the clan had expected that Desire would hold the fief as an independent.  Yet when she implored protection and offered to swear allegiance, none of the lords of Acre felt they ought to spurn her request.

With a heavy heart, and still uneasy stomach, the Axeman awaited a war they had not sought, but would fight nonetheless.

[njames89]

1. We haven't planned anything
2. Desire wasn't even in your faction yet. You told us she was joining your faction but you weren't taking the fief.
3. You told us we could cancel the battle to remain neutral after we attacked. Never before. You also never talked to me about protection of desire. Everything you said about acre and desire was not told to me.

We've been your friends since the beginning. You're going to war over one person taking our claimed fief. You know you planned this.

1. We haven't planned anything=False

2. Desire wasn't even in your faction yet. You told us she was joining your faction but you weren't taking the fief.=She is unable to join until she is in reach of a faction member. She was sworn in.

3. You told us we could cancel the battle to remain neutral after we attacked. Never before. You also never talked to me about protection of desire. Everything you said about acre and desire was not told to me.= This was a sincere opportunity for you to avoid war with my faction. I would have assumed my intent was pretty obvious as I was threatening war on you for attacking someone who had recently come under our protection.

[Sandersson Jankins]

Hey, Sandy...

A lil role playing never hurt anyone. Don't stamp out the fire in it's last bursts. Who knows, it could catch flame to the carpet and blaze harder than ever before.

There will be some battles with a decent amount of experience (not plate, but getting closer).

And also... we've all been playing this game for years, and like you said we're all still twelve.

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You've found our secret. We've found the fountain of youth.

I don't at all dislike roleplaying. Really, I have nothing against it. I enjoy writing at times, poetry or prose. It's fun. I don't share it with people, and I can't bring myself to sack up and post roleplay shit really because...I don't know, my sack ain't big enough?

I was just posting funny stereotypes or something. I know for a fact there aren't that many young folks in GoW anymore. Still, it's what you're "known for", at least in my book, so I posted that shit.

C'mon m8, if I post seriously it's a wall of text. If it's a few lines, I'm just shit-posting fun-posting

[njames89]

I don't at all dislike roleplaying. Really, I have nothing against it. I enjoy writing at times, poetry or prose. It's fun. I don't share it with people, and I can't bring myself to sack up and post roleplay shit really because...I don't know, my sack ain't big enough?

I was just posting funny stereotypes or something. I know for a fact there aren't that many young folks in GoW anymore. Still, it's what you're "known for", at least in my book, so I posted that shit.

C'mon m8, if I post seriously it's a wall of text. If it's a few lines, I'm just shit-posting fun-posting

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Hope you brought your hipweighters I got a feeling this shit funriver is about to overflow 

[Pistachio]

James the reason I believe you wanted to go to war with is because you've planned it and wanted our fiefs.  desire offered to join us first. She said she would join if she could keep reyvadin. I really don't believe you're going to war because of desires fief. She asked to join us first and knew we would attack back and take reyvadin. You being the next choice and using it as an excuse to go to war is something I don't believe

[njames89]

We will post our thread tomorrow bit tired right now.