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[Delta Foxtrot]

Could I get a copy of someone's turn? I'd like to see that battle and I don't get turns anymore.

I can send you the ones with me and Culise storming your forts. Bogarus is taking his sweet time doing it but I can probably send that as well when it happens.

You still have one free fort actually. Oranor I think.

edit:
I think you were still in when I stormed your fort. Well that's five minutes of searching for an old turn wasted. Oh well.

[lijacote]

Could I get a copy of someone's turn? I'd like to see that battle and I don't get turns anymore.

Have you gotten your turn? I can send mine to you if you like.

[Bluerobin]

I got one from Delta Foxtrot, thanks!

[lijacote]

"In the later days of Spring, approaching Summer, the unspeakable happened. Several ninja were caught instigating a revolt in our most loyal, stalwart and obedient population, fomenting a most uncouth attitude towards our rule! Here is our proof of their unspeakable crimes against the Revolution."

Five severed heads are presented to the public, black masks covering them, bearing Jomonese insignia. They seem disturbingly fresh, the blood only now coagulating.

"See the fruits of your scheming labours, Eastern Enigma! See it gone to waste against the followers of Red October! Master Arkady, present!"

A gaunt man wearing the regalia of the Central Committee steps forth. He takes out a skull staff, and waves it in a circle. A soft murmur of words streams from his mouth, their meaning dark. The heads break out in unison to confess!

"It was us, it was us! We have destroyed nations and people, we have brought down the civilized apes of Patala, the noble savages of Mictlan, and even now the genocide of Midgård is underway! We are monsters, beasts, we deserve nothing more than annihilation as a final mercy! Forgive us our transgression, Red October!"

Master Arkady waves his staff once more, and the heads are silenced. He seems pleased with himself, but lets that show only most faintly.

The crier resumes lambasting Jomon. The crowd screams with him, gasps with him, moves with him, in perfect unison. Hundreds go to enlist in the army. War has come.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Only five? (paranoia GO!)

I do remember catching some sneaky fivefold angels in my lands, but looking at all the lambasting I guess it's too late to ask if we're even.

Game on

[lijacote]

News from the freshly reopened Patalan front travel fast. In Purpagh, a flutter of wings announces the arrival of one of the alkonost, the holiest of Red October's messengers. The people gather in Saint Boulder's Square to hear words, averting their eyes lest they offend her.

"In Bear Grove, as in the Strand of Birds by the grace of local action, we triumph. The poor and ailing ashigaru serving under Sumio, false prophet of Jomon, were given mercy by our fighting men. He even now cowers in the ape-built fortress in Bear Grove, weak without his peasants to serve him. In two months' time, we will come for him."

The alkonost takes off, rising above the crowds almost gracefully before heading further south and east, to the other cities. The dense ranks of the peasantry cheer.

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143 ashigaru, 23 aka-oni samurai and 37 crossbowmen bought time for the prophet to escape. I'll get you next time!

[Delta Foxtrot]

I left that guy on patrol? RAAAAAAAGH!

Damn you damn.

[lijacote]

A baleful pressure pushed against the walls of the chamber, against the skulls of those serving at the meeting. Thankfully, they finish and leave the meeting to its unnatural silence, which continues throughout the night. Moments before dawn, the meeting concludes.

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What a strange turn. The battle report shows me being defeated in the storm, but the map shows me owning the fort province. In other news, Jomon is terrifyingly strong and I am not sure at all that I can defeat him. Not at all anymore. Still, there is no choice. I killed nine dragons, but there are many more, and it was expensive for me.

[Delta Foxtrot]

My apologies, life issues demand me to postpone by 24h. That would put the current deadline at 10:07 GMT on Sunday.

[Margrave]

That's a-okay by me. I'm going to be away until Sunday afternoon. So apologies in advance.

[Delta Foxtrot]

You killed many dragons and while it was expensive for you, you mainly lost troops. Resource expensive troops, yes. But troops. I lost a score of mages in return. 16 of them were slow-to-recruit to boot. In fact that was very much like how Pan v Midgård ended. Mages can kill a ton of troops but without some chaff they'll end up dead.

But therein lied the brilliance of your move. Allow me to enlighten the rest of you:
I had some ok quality, very expensive dragon mages at province A. They flew to a fort of mine. I had several hundred troops in province B, they were marching to that fort of mine. And what does our brilliant Rus player do but cast a remote horror attack on the province between my troops and my fort. Since magic phase happens first, the horror attacks, takes the province and since my troops have no direct route to my fort, they just freeze for a turn. My dragons of course have no such problems and they arrive to my fort just in time to be sieged by evil slavs.
Cue next turn and my very many, very expensive mages get slaughtered as Bogarus storms while my chaff army is still slugging about one province too far.

I already complimented lijacote privately but that was a brilliant move that deserves a public accolade.

[lijacote]

War was on their doorstep, but that was no matter. There were rumours of ninjas, and the state had even produced proof of them. Five ninjas, they said, had tried to rile up the people. Nonsense, and irrelevant. What mattered it to Vysheslav? None.

The rapid patter of steps alerted him: he was not alone in the park. A shadow approached from afar, and it closed the distance in a heartbeat. Vysheslav conjured his powers and unleashed Hell at the shadow, and it blossomed in fire. What burned him most was not the flames, but that many of his colleagues had not managed to resist Jomon's daggers.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Jomon's Kamikaze Ninja Vengeance Death Squad has made it's debut!

And boy do those vengeance medallions suck. That's what, 2 or 3 rus mages who had a ninja blow up in front of them without dying. Waste of fire gems. And ninjas for that matter. But it's ok.


There will be more.

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Or will there? DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!~

[Culise]

A kamikaze vengeance death squad?  Heh heh heh... :3

[lijacote]

There is no pretending: Jomon has effectively won. It's over for me. If not now, then soon. You will follow. Even if we all attacked him now, we would lose.

Perhaps I am being dark, but this is one of the armies that attacked me. I'm sure his other regions are less well-equipped, but you've been slow. You've been awfully slow. I have been slow. I have NOTHING to match that. If you were counting on a gambit to let him perhaps maul me first and then come to my aid, it has failed.

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The dramatic text is the only way I can convey how stupidly outmatched I am.