Nick, please clarify.
"It seemed the monsters allowed Liam to pass, mostly because he was one person, and because Grandmother ordered them to attack any further people."
He was one person, he could pass, because she ordered them to attack anyone????
Also, not to single nick out on this, you people have a lot of grammar/tyoping goin on in this here plaec. What.
edited 16th Nov '10 7:28:41 PM by StercusAccidit
Well, I notice people keep missing entire words and that annoys me.
Like...
'The man went to the store' turns into 'the man went the store.'
It irks me, I do it too, but I try and try and try to remedy this and try to ignore when others do it, and now it's got me boiling over.
Of course, maybe I'm just venting because League of legends is such a bullshitty goddamn piece of fucking shit RANDOM CUNT WAFFLING AAAAARGH game.
edited 16th Nov '10 7:33:13 PM by StercusAccidit
Gets a bit hard to read when there are multiple speakers in the same paragraph. (I know that probably sounds a bit hypocritical considering my last post, but Athena's Flat "What" was more of an aside than anything)
Incidentally, did you mean to imply that the soldiers forgot where they were, or that they even existed?
DOOD!!!hu, does I hav such bad speling and gramar, fukk u prepy!
Grandmother is allowing Liam to come to her, because she thinks she can handle one person. She is unwilling to let others through besides Liam. Its a scheme of hers to slowly decrease the number of heroes by decreasing their numbers by one, slowly but surely. She is Dangerously Genre-Savvy. She knows team work usually makes parties invincible, so she has decided to use a strategy that makes team work damn near impossible.
edited 16th Nov '10 8:25:03 PM by NickTheSwing
I was agreeing with you and I am fairly sure Nick was being sarcastic/joking.
Anyway!
The more I play Aldric the more I feel like I am playing "Alain Guevara".
Also, if you're willing to humour me random, I'd like to throw Sarath into the middle of the battle or at least see the Blackfang soldiers. Whether or not it actually means anything is a different matter.
Good question. I assume that out of all the people who were involved in the battle with the Goddess, at least a couple of them must have been willing to give an account of what happened for the history books. I'd say the more educated among the people should have a decent but fairly basic idea of what happened.
edited 17th Nov '10 2:14:47 PM by randomtropeloser
You mean dividing his ressources between two sides and taking one openly?
Unless the swords are traps but your post wasn't clear on that. Regardless, Aldric isn't going to actually use weapons, since he knows not to trust Dukes bearing gifts. He wouldn't turn away soldiers fighting with him but he made it relatively clear that he wouldn't accept joint operations of any kind.
Secondly he is by no means a rebel. Even out of character, he has yet to actually plot or move against the Empress, In Character he's not done anything wrong. If anything, Kurt's invovlement here makes him significantly more suspicious. If anything, doing the exact same thing my character is doing with insane wonder of science/magic weapons is going to make my character the Martyred hero.
Finally, My character is supposed to be the primary antagonist of this arc. If Kurt kills him here, the Players don't even get to see him. This battle's just the backdrop to a major conflict politically, that Kurt is threatening to pre-emptively defuse. And also, if without even making use of his own soldiers, Kurt can change the course of battle with his "magic" swords it's pretty ridiculously broken. I mean, There's roughly 3/7-4/7 of Begnion's army here, depending on whether Kurt does send his army. Either there are a enough swords to make a major difference, which would scale in the hundreds or the person holding them are literally invincible. Even the mooks in Fire Emblem would eventually be able to wear down PC with all the best swords and weapons, even if fully leveled. If they are that powerful, even when the swords are divided between the two sides, why not just march on the empress right now?
Also, seen as I am in a complainy mood, I'd tried to time skip it as Mobilising the standing armies [I'd thought I had implied that Aldric was planning this for a while, while of course Tanas and Celioria are or should be both prepared or near prepared] after having planned to make the pledge is one thing, but for Kurt and Blackfang to both be able to organize and march their army to the field in less than twenty four hours is rather strange.
Kurt would be able to get his standing guard likely, as well as a few militias, but I doubt they'd be able to be rallied and travel to Daein in the time it would take him to do all the travelling between Duchies on the map. Same with Blackfang, except worse as they need to find and hire Mercenary companies that will march their men to the front lines of a battle zone in less than 24 hours. They have contacts, but negotiation and all takes time.
edited 17th Nov '10 2:54:21 PM by Fauxlosophe
He is relying on Aldric taking the bait of the Saiga-esque swords. The swords he would offer Aldric are part of the death trap and are fake. The trap involves a burning castle, ala The Battle of Wan Castle, from The Three Kingdoms. The swords would only be put into play by the generals of Kurt and Hargrave, and would not be numerous. Mostly, they would act to get rid of everything not filled with crossbow bolts, burned to death, poisoned or some combination of the above.
Yeah, I will just wait for him to become more dangerous so Kurt can essentially maximize the perception of himself and Hargrave as heroes.
edited 17th Nov '10 5:10:06 PM by NickTheSwing
Ah, right. However it remains a rather straight battle over all. It seems I've mistaken the nature of the plan, as the battle is likely happening within a matter of hours. The time required to organize a rendezvous would be more than that. Considering you want to make it appear as though Aldric and Dryden have the initial advantage that's probably expected and what you want.
Still though, referring to them as Rebels is slightly off, considering he's made no initiative and done nothing in opposition to the Empress.

edited 16th Nov '10 6:16:48 AM by Fauxlosophe