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[Shintaro Fago]

The Land of Bretonnia is a feudal, traditional society where the peasants serve the knights in return for protection, while the knights are bound to militarily serve their lords in return for certain rights and titles. Bretonnia is, in many ways, similar to the fairy-tale kingdom of Lyonesse or Logres under King Arthur, with noble knights who live by a series of vows (to uphold the virtues of honor and chivalry) and beautiful damsels who are rescued by courageous, dragon-fighting heroes.

Warhammer mod: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=93254.0

Basically, to promote this great mod and to test my own faction, I've decided to run this (short) community fortress. The sheer amount of both threats (orcs, chaos, dark elves, skaven and countless more) and noble positions as well as unique artifact weapons, castes and workshops should be enough for me to run this thing. It's my first community fort so be gentle

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For years our beloved Bretonnia continued to grow in strength and influence. With the borders secure and our strongholds strong the lesser nobles turn their gaze beyond the borders sending scouts and founding new castles. With no major war going on, you have no means to prove your worth on the royal court. That is, you had no means until today. In the morning you've received a letter from the Duke himself! While it's not a great war you had hoped for, he proposed you a major role in one of his little projects. It's definitely a good way to start your adventure.

CHOOSE THE THEME OF THE FORTRESS (first 5 posts will decide)
-a grand castle full of nobles and intrigues
-royal sheep flock protected by brave shepherds
-a superstitious farming village
-a holy chapel with the pilgrims and protected artifacts
-a group of young knights embarking on a dangerous journey

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As for the dorfing your characters - the castes available:
NOBLES:
nobles - The Knights of Bretonnia are renowned for their skill at arms, their bravery and chivalry.
mounted noble - Those knights look like they were born on the horseback and make fearless and dangerous lanciers.
champion - Holy knight driven by visions of the Lady and of the Grail.
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PEASANTS:
peasant - A poor low born peasant.
craftsman - A low born peasant, skilled in various crafts.
mousillon peasant - A poor, horribly deformed low born peasant suffering from foul diseases.
grail pilgrim - Pilgrims are fanatically devoted to the Grail Knights, and will fight any who dare profane against them. In battle their devotion is such that they will often fight to the last man.

[Sirus]

I vote for HOLY CHAPEL, for those strange moods that we'll end up getting.

I also volunteer to be a CRAFTSMAN, preferably metal or stone work.

This looks interesting, can't wait to see how this differs from a normal dwarven fortress.

[JamCat]

I vote for a grand castle, can I be a noble.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Grand Castle, with a Holy Chapel under it Warrior Noble named Lloyd

[Shintaro Fago]

-A new castle? - the young knight Jamcat sighed - This is going to be the most boring thing I've done in months.
-Not only a castle m'lord - said Sirus, Jamcat's trusted servant and wall warden who designed the fortification of castle they stayed in - a complete settlement! Isn't that great?
-I'm not sure about this...
-Protecting the helpless people and raising a monument for the great Lady Of The Lake is an act of chivalry itself and the forests nearby will surely provide you both the game and beasts to slay. I'd say it's a fair option, m'lord. The duke will surely make you a knight of the realm in no time!
-...it's decided, then! Gather the supplies, Sirus, I've got a visit or two to make before we embark.

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Lloyd the son of Hugo stayed in the tavern for the time being, waiting for the supplies to be gathered. You see, the lord of the castle he served in swore to cut of his head. It wasn't even Lloyd's fault that lord's wife was an enthusiastic practitioner of the adulterous love praised in the songs of ministrelsy and Lloyd itself found himself in her chamber in the wrong time. The Jamcat's proposition to join in his quest was a great opportunity to escape both the lord AND his wife.

Spoiler: humans so far (click to show/hide)

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-The location sure is great, Sirus. - said Jamcat. - but that brook... what was it's name again?
-Roughbutchers the Uncle of Touching, m'lord.
-Yeah, the one. Who on earth would name it that way? - Sirus smiled eating an apple
-There was this merchant from Empire, Fredrick Krueger. They say he loved both his coins and the young bretonnian girls. Long story short, an angry mob of peasants got him and killed him next to this very brook.
-...better start unpacking the supplies.

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people taken:
Jamcat [a cross made of two swords] - young errant knight and the official leader of the party
Lloyd [red with a lion standing erect with forepaws raised in the middle] - brave errant knight who loved the wrong damsel
Sirus  - low-born wall warden and blacksmith

unnamed people:
female peasant lumberjack
male pilgrim
male peasant miner
female peasant doctor

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Oddly enough DF made Lloyd pretty damn close to my own personality.
And can I request Poisoned weapons for Lloyd

Spoiler: Using Poison (click to show/hide)

make a garbage dump,
dump weapon(s)/ammo,
dump poison container on top.
forbid Poison in container,
claim container.
Poison should be dropped on weapons and such coating them.
Claim all.
(note walking through water or rain will wash all poisons off.)

That is once we get poisons

[Shintaro Fago]

Will surely try, Hugo!

The first spring during which nobles find and deal with a chaos cultist.

-Hey Sirus, why are we stopping here? We are not even close our destination point! - shouted Jamcat
-It's the yak, m'lord. It won't pull the wagon anymore...

Both yaks looked sick, the first one mooed hopelessly, while the other one on Jamcat's own eyes started to cover in ugly blisters from head to hooves. The nobles decided to raise Lady's Shrine and decide what to do in the evening. In the meantime both sick animals were transported on a field nearby.

-I've never seen anything like it before - said Backen Feuerschreien - but I've heard about such cases in Mousillon where it's complete..
-I SAY, there is a chaos cult operating here. - Jamcat stood and checked his silver war hammer. - We are staying here.


In the place of the old shrine a temporary noble house was built. While the majority of peasants worked on it, Amkol Fashtomus worked in the mountains up North, collecting stone and checking for ores. To kill the time, waiting for chaos cultists to show up, Jamcat, Lloyd and Backen went hunting foxes.

-An exotic bear, you say - smiled Lloyd, checking his lance - I'd say we hunt this one too.
-An excellent idea Lloyd - said Jamcat grabbing a hammer and both ventured into the thick forest, while Backed checked on the scared yaks.

While the panda wasn't that dangerous opponent as they wanted, the lack of armour resulted in Jamcat's hand torn and bleeding all over the place. Backed had it sewn together and the panda was turned into Jamcat's new leather cloak.


It was then, when the first yak succumbed to infection - Jamcat knew that chaos cultists won't come - they were already here! Rushing into the noble house where Backen was performing a surgery on Amkol's rotting feet, grabbed the sick one and declared him a traitor and Nurgle's cultist.

The peasants were ecstatic to find a man behind the sickness of the animals and quickly built a bonfire, gathered a large pile of wood and tied poor miner to the pole.

-Burn the wizard! - they shouted - Burn the traitor!

Both Lloyd and Backen didn't watch the obviously staged execution but couldn't help not to hear the Amkol begging for his life slowly roasting in the bonfire. The death marked the end of their first Spring.

[UltraValican]

Requesting Brettonianing( Their the guys led by Karl Franz , right?)
Name: Kharne Defuego
Gender: Male
Caste: Peasant
Job Name: Illiterate Serf, totally not a cultist.
Job: Anything violent/mechanical, not like he's a Khorne worshipper, nope he is totally loyal to the bitch of the pond Ulric Lady of the lake.
Bio: When Kharne was young. His village was wrecked by a couple of questing knights looking for food. After, they were informed there was no food, they raped and pillaged everything in sight. He then vowed to become stronger, and Khorne would help him do that.... Of course his covenant with the ruinous powers have to be kept secret, he pretends to be an illiterate serf and drifts from town to town setting them up for invasion...

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

I like that Idea of a Wood Wagon. And the Witching Pyre looks fun too I might have to get this Mod

[Shintaro Fago]

Bretonnian Camp, Summer

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

O'mighty champion, here's your humble servant Kharne writing. I've successfully infiltrated the bretonnian camp just like you've ordered me to. I've happened to meet the actual migrants and joined them. There were three errant knights in the group you should know about:
Soldat Speisenkorn [white tower], Ninur Lirukimesh [a burning shield], Gud Ospunasnu [fire-breathing dragon]
It seems like they've killed one of their miners and needed someone to work in the forge. A perfect way to prepare weapons I'll defend myself with in case of discovery! After the work as the wood burner I constructed myself both crude armour and a morningstar and went scouting the nearby area killing the animals. There are few people worth noticing in the camp now. The leader, Jamcat is a fanatic, ready to kill his own servants just to prove his worth, he even promoted me as a yeoman seeing my mace skill. This will be too easy. Lloyd is a fearless warrior we should look out for. Backen, their doctor should be easy enough to manipulate, I'll just need an injury to get him while he's alone. I'll have yet to meet Sirus the wall warden in person to get informations about the curious castle they are building in the Easat.
We shouldn't attack now, o'dark lord for they are too weak. I'll send this letter with an aid of our friend merchant.

Kharne

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE



@Hugo Everything but the latest bretonnian assets (the workshops, sadly) is in the link I've posted (this fort is a way of crash-testing everything for me). Funny thing with the witching bonfire, it does explode in fire and does make the peasant suffocate with a syndrome. It's not instant though and Amkol managed to come back to the crowd, decided he's thirsty and then finally die.
@UltraValican, hope it's violent enough. Also Karl Franz is the dude from Empire faction.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Should have the syndrome payralise the victum then ehy will lay there and burn
I had did a short crash test with my mod, damn paper industry and minor alchemy.

anywho shame there wasn't a acual wood wagon that had a reaction to produce a bunch of wood then disassemble in vanilla (something to order from the traders hmmm..?)

And yay a castle! Hopefully we can root out the spy before it's too late, I will give him a slow death with my poisoned weapons.

[Ahra]

Ahra the pilgrim plz?

[Pokon]

Make mah a Noble. Pokonic the Amusing. Everything a noble should not be, but still travels with the knights. Give him a pike, if you dont mind.

[Shintaro Fago]

Both the Ahra and Pokonic came with the latest wave. We have now 21 bretonnians so we should soon get a crazy wave of useless nobles like castellans, earls and marquises. Didn't mention it but we had our first mandate by the 14th granite.

I'll try to end this year well... in this year.

[Teneb]

Name any male one after me, please. And stick me in the military.