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Angryminer
22-03-2005, 22:32
Angryminer's tale.
God knows I have been running around these woods for ages. Evil Normans invaded my homeland and pillaged the town where I was a guard. I escaped into the woods and tried to make my way for days. Some time ago I saw someone in the woods and I carefully followed him as I didn't know if he was evil or good. I don't think he noticed me.
After a time he took a rest and I watched him from a distance. After writing down some words he stood up and shouted at me like a madman.
As he now knew where I was I knew I was revealed and stood up.
He seemed to be very suprised and terrored like he was expecting to see the devil himself. We talked and I am very glad that he isn't one of the Normans. We'll see what the future brings.
Angryminer
"Adventures of Xuca"
by Xuca
Chapter l
l left my homeland in hope of finding some adventures. l found myself in a distant land of Mercia. A war was raging here for a long time. Normans were all over the land, plundering, killing. Me and my small group of men nearly avoided battle many times, as bloodthirsty groups of Normans wanted our heads! We depleted our food supply and saw a small tavern. l taught: "A good place to have a drink and refill our food wagon". Unfortunately, there was no food there, and there was no food anywhere!
A mad looking man entered the tavern and bought us all a drink. He said: "Grrrr! Those damn Normans, l'm so hungry! Let's go and kill them all!" The crowd ran out the tavern and started chasing the nearest group of Normans. l decided to join them and fight the Normans on their side.
As we chased Normans, l saw something shiny on a nearby hill. l was looking carefully, and saw that that is a bald man. The Normans spotted him too, and turned in that direction, and started marching at double speed. Who is that shiny-headed man, and why are the Normans so eager to catch him? Does he have an army that will aid us? Will we reach the Normans? Much men are hungry and drunk, they can't chase them for much more...
FrankishKnight
23-03-2005, 02:38
March 30
Frankish' Log
As I rode up to the hills I suddenly saw Dobber riding towards me. Had he spotted me?
But as I saw the Normans running after him I thought...mmm...maybe not. Luckily Dobber managed to tell me there was another army marching towards the Normans...all we had to do was get out of range, and then those two would battle it out. Our horses are fast and well trained...
*another entry on the same day, but a little later*
We are now safely in the cave of Caerbannog...I have blown my horn, which all those loyal to me can hear. They will hasten to me and so we can regroup. This way I know who will not answer my calls, and as such...a traitor.
Later March 30
Earlier today I saw a Herold, maybe he was bringing news of an ally joining our cause. Maybe reinforcements are marching to aid us as I speak. I came upon Captain Frankish and he reported that our company had been scattered by a band of Ogre's. Have the Ogre's joined with the Norman's against us? All we can do now is wait for the survivor's of our band to come back together and fortify a position that we might at last stand up to these Norman's. I have heard that Captain Fry is looking for adventure, maybe he can bring a force of fresh men and some supplies and join the cause! I call all men to arms against these damn Norman's!
*Bartender, my tankard is empty, another beer to wet my tongue!*
Nike's Diary, March 30
Damm those Normans, they run fast! Many of my comrades are tired, so we must stop often and strengthen ourselves with some beer. :cheers: Hmm... Beer... Eurica! I have an idea!
Few hours later
We finally reached one Norman camp. We said we are peaceful and hungry poor beggars and would like to share something in exchange for some food. The Normans were surprised by our arrival and asked: "What could you ol'beggars give to us? We have everything we need." But I knew their beer from before and it tasted like crap. I told them: "We may be poor, but we can make some great beer like one you could taste only in Valhalla". They thought for awhile (awhile? they thought whole two hours - idiots) and then agreed to share some meat if we make them some beer. Making beer was easy, but I had something else in mind. With my one hundred fellows we made the beer and then I put one of my special "flavours". Once again, thank God for the sleeping beer! :cheers: Those fools drank so much I began to worry they would all pop off. Ha! After they fell asleep we finally ate and drunk (but not from the sleeping beer, which the Normans drank the whole) and after that we binded them so they wouldn't escape. We searched the camp and found some pretty interesting stuff. One of my companions, the brave Xuca from a land near my home-country, came excited about some letter revealing something about a traitor or such. Don't worry me with such things, my friend! Btw is it from the beer or I did hear some strange noise like from a whole herd of elephants, coming from the nearby cave? I better check that out!
Chapter ll
That madman wasn't so mad. With his brilliant plan we captured those Normans and found in their camp lots of meat. While others were eating, l searched the camp and found some spy message that indicaies that there is a traitor and who he was. l showed it to Nike, and he said: "Not now, l must eat."
l started to follow shiny-headed man's trails to some cave, then sudennly a horrible noise came out of there! l said to my ten men: "Brothers, get ready, some monster is inside!" We saw somethimg in the dark and attacked...
March 30? 31?
Dobbers log
We were trying to rest, when we heard men coming toward our cave. I thought "DAMN!" those Norman's have found us! They sure are relentless bastards! As I started toward the entrance of the cave my stomach remembered how starved it was feeling and grumbled and growled tremendously. At that instant they attacked, I called out for help, "Someone help, Norman's are attacking me!" I sprang free of the confines of the cave into the moonlight so I would have more room to fight and be able to see my attackers. For some reason the strange attackers stopped. Have I been without food and in distress for so long that I look that frightening? Then they begin to laugh and say, "Oh, it is the bald man, not a monster.". I warn them that there are Norman's about, that they should be quieter. They inform me that they and their comrades have a band of Norman's tied up back at the Norman's camp. Their leader Xuca said that he also had a note back at the camp that revealed who our spy is! I go get Captain Frankish and we return to the camp with our newfound friends.
FrankishKnight
23-03-2005, 16:52
April 1
Frankish' Log
Dobber and I have travelled to the Norman camp, and when Dobber passed me a letter I was shocked...it was correspondence between NaVatar and Guy de Loimbard, the leader of the Norman army. So NaVatar was the traitor that had supplied them with livestock!
I asked Xuca whose tent was that of Loimbard, because I had something to search for...Amazingly, I found it. It had a map, on which a farmstead was marked with an X...I knew what was there, but didn't want to tell the others just yet, I didn't want to get their hopes up. I will ride out to the farm and search them thoroughly...I have warned the men not to follow me, because it is not worth it.
Nike's Diary - April 1st
Oooh... I ate and drank so much yesterday I feel like I'm gonna explode. And my head... Better have another beer to quench the thirst. Besides, it's a good pain relief... Huh? What on Earth is this beer? Blah, it tastes like Norman beer. Who put the Norman beer in my mug? April fools, huh? We'll see about that! Everybody's making fun on me. I hate 1st of April!
...
1st-2nd April 1005 AD
NaVatar's Journal
Only god knows how shocked i was last night when i saw how had been following me all that time.This Angryminer fellow seems like a good lad and we have been talking and have decided that we shall travel together for a time,I await the time when we cross blades together agains't the blasted Normans.
*later that night*
We have escaped the dark forest and we are now camping on some plain which i think i have seen before,but it's to dark to see the details.I can't remember if i been here before or something..........wait...it can't be....is it the castle of Mercia where the leader of the normans,Guy de Loimbard resides.... It seems fate have drawn me to this dastard to give out royal-butt kicking to him! But first i think i have to talk to Angryminer and tell him about my past with this so called leader of the normans.
Just to be certain that if i don't make it i will write this note and hopefully someone who knows cap'n Frankish will see it.
-Dear Friends-
If you haven't already found out, it was I who was the spy to the normans.
But i will now explain why i did it so please put your bloodlust aside for a moment and hear me out.
It was a terribly night in 12th March when i was out and hunted some deer to put on the table, when i was assualted from behind by 10 normans and they took me hostage and after a long night of draging and pushing i found my self in a tent somewhere,it was dark but in the corner there was a man whose name was Guy de Loimbard who is the leader of the norman army.He told me that he had a offer to make me,ofcourse i tryed to escape but there was too many norman guards around and my hands was tied.
He said that he had my family close by in chains ,ofcourse i did not belive him at first but then he showed me a lock of my mothers hair and other personal belongings of my family.I knew then something had happend them and i listened to the stinky,lowlife's proposition and he said that if i didn't spy on my allies and supply the normans with food they would have my family tortured and killed a very slow and painfull death.And alas i agreed to his dreadfull propsition,which i regret to this day and i will now march upon this fiends land and bring death to all those fiendish normans which is close to my wrath and release my family from his clutches once and for all! I really hope that you will forgive me my brehtren, if not i will pay back my debt to you with my death.NaVatar out.
Chapter lll, night betveen April 1st and 2nd
lt was my turn to guard the camp. lt was a very dark night, l couldn't see anything. l felt something is wrong, but there was nothing. Sudenly, l felt a strong pain in my head. Some guard l am, they captured me easilly. l heard one saing: "All the guards are disabled, let's attack!" The Normans will slaughter the camp! And it's my fault!
Nike's Diary - evening of 1st of April
...
Baah! I was so happy I found my real beer, not that Norman thing, that I drank and drank... And then I had to go take a leak, ofcourse. And just as I'm going to the nearby bushes and start to do my work and I hear "Hey! Watch it!" Some guy was hiding in the bushes. "What r'u doin' the'?", I asked, stunned from the beer and surprised from the guy. "Hiding", he replied. "Hidin'?", I asked and tried to fix my mind. "Yeah. Me and my fellows there are playing hide and seek.", he said as if it was ok. "Oh, so u'r hidin'?", I was even more confused. "Yeah, and you're seeking.", he answered. Then he stood up and ran towards our camp. "Hey, wait! I've already found ya!", I shouted back to him, "Go have some beer, till I find the othaz". Then I saw a lot of men rushing towards the camp. "Hey! I haven't found you yet! Where r'u goin' so fast? You wanna beer? No, not that one! That's... sleeping... beer... Well, anyway... I still need to take a leak."
the knightly sword
24-03-2005, 15:41
knightly`s journal 3 april 1005
finally after many days of stalking at enemy territory ive founs what ive searched for .I didnt only manage to steal norish plans but also i managed to make our allies join uss in our fight against the norish beasts . this is certainly a day of hope . i really miss my friends back at mercia i really hope to see them alive when i return back home with this huge army.
knightlys espionage journey
28 march,day one
just before the battle i was in deep thougths about the normens ,i was so curious why did they attack uss at the first place , and who there allies was , and about there plans and such , i packed up some euipment and left for a quest of information thirst . i headed north as i asumed there main province should lay .
march 29,day two
Ive finally arrvied to the norish borders . DAMN those normens they have outposts everywere . The march was tireing but the travel taverns paid off with . Im planing to get past there camps even if blood is neccery
march 30 ,day three
Phew!!!!!! ive sneaked past the camps without spilling a guards blood , haha those normens are sure stupid . Ive marched all the way to the center of normandie .i stole a cart from a farm nearby . Ive now reached the town , im amazed they have got a big trench surrounding the town along with a bulwark wall , i just hope the townwatch here are just as stupid as the border guards .I got past through without any suspction , i told them i was a poor merchant needing somewhere to sleep this cold night .They
actully belived me those stoned brains. Ive checked in into a tavern near the castle , tommorow im breaking in .
31 march,day four
To day is the day im breaking in ,yesterday i heard a drunken marshal named pascal de monteluie talking about very important documents plans and tactics stored in a valute at the third floor in the castle in his room . i waited until everyone in the city sleep , when i reached the castle after some efforts ,there was either the heavyily guarded entrence or the servents door , i chose to enter from the servent and cook crew door . the hall was empty expect the masterchief who was prepareing his special meal for tommorow`s meeting. I poked him a sleep with a club i bought from a thief who said it was able to make the most hard headed idiots go asleep with an hit on the head . I sneaked passed the half sleeping guards up the floors and to the third floor , i also did take anything valuabile i could spot at the way , i wouldint wanna go out from a great castle like this one without some profit
, when i finally reached the marshals room i looked-picked the valute
first by helping him sleep even more -
with a hit on his head . i enterd the valute
finding alot of papers and documents, important letters , historical books and more much more. i -
took the most important things and burned the rest which-
seemed important to the normens but also useless to uss . there was one intressting document-
about the norish allies , the king of england , and the duke of milano along with earl d`arnot of normandie was planning to conquer mercia.B
ecause they were jealous about our rich and beautifull lands , they were eager of to conquer our land , they were driven by there thoughts to war , i guess theyve planned it months ago as it is stamped 15th december 1004 . also a report from what seemd to be the main commander of the norish forces in mercia named Guy de Loimbard about an horrfying band of madmen causeing panic in the norish ranks makeing them run like pansy idiots . i left the castle with plenty of information , i payed the tavern keeper and marched out two the coastal docks , tommorow im gonna hire a crew to sail for our ally- the holy roman empire to the east , to look at the reinforcement situation i requested a couple days ago ,
1th april ,day 5
Ive hired a cheap boat crew who offers there services for little . the captain said we will reach our allies coast soon , the ship is little but fast . there is little to do on the ship then looking at the endless sea .
2th april ,day 6
We have reached the shore , i paid the captain twice as much for takeing efforts and makeing a long trip short .I bought a horse from a farmer on my way to the capital , he also gave me dieractions of were to go , i rode for hours and hours but never could see the great city , turned out i ended up somewhere at the border lines of the holy roman empire -to the mercian captured cities . I suddenly a sound which sounded like massive foot steps started to appear , i looked back , i saw an endless sea of soldiers strecthing to the horizont as far as the eye could see. thousands of banners were raised , there was a heavyliy armored knights in front , i asked there leader why they were marching , he told me that he was orderd by the king to gather the armies and to march into mercia to fend of the normens to aid there ally . i told him i was one of the last knights in mercia , he asked me how the hell i could pass the norish fortification , i told him the hole story until the end , he was amazed . time was going on and by night we reached the border river terecantus , a massive camp was set up. tommorow the knight said tommorow we shall fight.
( lol i know i made the story 2 serious but hey lol ^^ somebody has to make the story exciting^^)
April 1
Dobber's log
I've had it with this sh**! I am going stark raving mad! :wacko: Let me at 'em! :swordfigh I don't care anymore whether I live or die, I just ain't running no further! If I die, I die right here with a pile of Norman's laying about me. And there will be a pile because I now have an edge, and that is that I don't give a sh** no more, a man not afraid of dieing does not hesitate, he acts and his opponent does not expect that. Come on and join me my comrades and ayone else who will. Let us send some Norman's before their maker! :knight: :rumble:
hawk_knight
24-03-2005, 22:45
Dear diary 27th march
Now the other knights are disapeerd i had to lead the rest of the army to my kingdom The land of the dragons.
We finally came to my kingdom. The army had made a camp infront of my castle i had supplied them with beer, meat and new weapons. Th next day i started to organize my army and prepare them to fight against those bloody normans. It toke a week to organize my army it had a totally of 15 thousand men there where 5000 dragons, 3000 horsemen, 3000 archers and 4000 infrantry men. On 2th of april i marched to the norman lands with my compleet army. The march was quick an fast i had made camp at the norman border. My scouts reported tht there where 2 large norman army's where close to the border and they also reported that there was a another army had made camp at the norman border i had send a message to that camp to ask if they wanna join forces against those 2 norman army's. When my messenger came back he said that they had agreed to join forces with me. We will join tomorrow our army's together and assault the norman army's. I had send scouts to see if they can track the other knights and tell them that a army is ready to invade the normans lands and if they want they can join the fight.
FrankishKnight
25-03-2005, 19:08
Frankish' Log
April 2, a farmstead somewhere
Finally I have found what I was looking for! I unearthed the sword Excalibur of the famous King Arthur! Now I will beat these Normans with ease! Come now my brothers, CHARGE!
Eric, I need a beer after such a humiliating defeat. 3:0... Hey, we actually have a progress - 5:0 before, 3:0 now, 1:0 tomorrow! Let's drink for that! :cheers:
Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan
26-03-2005, 22:53
Nike, maybe you were defeated because you drink too much beer!:wink: Anyway, here is your beer...:cheers:
Sigurd Jorsalfar
28-03-2005, 04:40
Hello all!
Would it be possible to get some chips with dip around here? I would be very grateful.
Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan
28-03-2005, 07:33
Welcome, Sigurd Jorsalfar! Yes, we have chips & dip!
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