Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-25344655-20150908031022/@comment-25975584-20150915002711

Aramirtheranger wrote: The Indomitable wrote: Aramirtheranger wrote: The Empire has heard of Edacnik, and their wizards are working on a spell which can cripple his ability to fly. Meanwhile, all 3,000 Rangers have been gathered with the full might of the Orsinian Empire, a grand total of 60,000 men and women, all of whom have been upgraded from chainmail to the lamellar previously worn only by the Rangers. They will drive out the invaders, and continue on to destroy them, down to the last man. The women and children they will spare however. They are not like the conquerors. They have a sense of right and wrong. For the first time since this war began, they are going on the offensive. And they will not rest until the enemy has repayed the lives of every man, woman, and child they have slaughtered like animals threefold. About that...

The army needs a long, and cumbersome supply line, for all the settlements are torched, the fields lie trampled, livestock slaughtered, and left to rot. Alongside the corpses of countless imperial citizens that will never be identified. For they had been mutilated, burnt, or left to rot. Many men from the provinces that have been taken start complaining about how they have nothing left to fight for, refusing to go on, or killing themselves. A hardy few become even more grim, and filled with bloodlust. The royal road is lined with the impaled bodies of what was once a sizeable resistance movement. While the emperor of the High Men sits upon his throne, and his legions, augmented with fresh forces from across the sea, sit, and wait for their foe to come to them. (OK, what is with this?! You basically say you crush everything that goes against you!!! Though, you have only had to deal with mere local militia units and a handful of real soldiers so far in the Empire. Also Orsimer believe that those who commit suicide go straight to Dunmaro, a fate they consider worse than dying itself. Culturally they're like a combo of Medieval Japan, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Klingons. And they do have something worth fighting for, their very way of life!)

Falvik and Ulfric send a messenger ahead to the Emperor of the High Men. He bears the white spear, a javelin made of very lightweight materials and painted white with a message tied to it. It can be thrown a very great distance by a skilled user, so that more cruel foes can't literally "shoot the messenger". It's not intended as a weapon, though it could be used to fight in an emergency.

The messenger finds the location of the Emperor, and throws the white spear somewhere he knew that they would notice it: in the guard's stew.

It bears the following message/challenge:

To the savage emperor of the High Men,

''We challenge you. It will be a contest of arms. Myself, Emperor Ulfric of the Orsimer, and my son, Prince Falvik, against you and your heir. If you accept our challenge, the two of us shall meet at the location marked on the included map, with twenty unarmed witnesses.''

- Emperor Ulfric and Prince Falvik,  of the Orsinian Empire It was peasants. Any trained army can hunt down peasants...

To the chieftain of the degenerates,

Your challenge amuses me, trying to draw me out, are you? I put my people first, I care not about yours. Which is why I sent them straight to hell. Don't worry, not all of them. Just look at the corpses, and look at the pattern of missing people. In short, you're not worth my time, we were forging an empire, while you were still living in caves!

Sincerely, Emperor Athellian

The letter is dropped by a trained falcon, onto the lap of an officer.