[en] The Tavern at the Inn

[Traveller]

I think he's getting old and starts to forget things... :wink:

[Angryminer]

Maybe he took a serious hit on his head when he fell from the ship onto some wooden board floating in the water :wink: .

Angryminer

[Dobber]

Must've been part of the brain fart, I had! :biggrin:
Sorry I forgot that Xuca! Anyway Mercia is the country most of my troop of followers was fighting for when we formed up to head south.

I hope we wind up with enough of a force to seige Constantinople. It appears several of the standing armies that pledged their support have disappeared.

[hawk_knight]

Hawk_knight's log 4th of june

Yesterday we received news that the army of the normans may not invade England but it is going to help the bysantines. and because of that the norman king had sended us a messenger to ask if he can talk to us about a peace treaty. When the norman rider left a Serbian messenger came to ask if we will come to help them against bysantine. it is a dilemma for me and sir Richard for what to do. I said to sir richard we will meet the normans tomorrow i think they will be no peace treaty with them if we will let them go they will trouble ower allias in the south and may destroy them. we have an alliance with ouwer friends who fight the bysantines and i will honor that alliance. So i said to sir Richard my answer is clear we will speak to him but the asnwer is maybe clear that we will fight them.

I immediately called my troops together and told them about the situation
and there answer was first talk then To BATTLE. so i yell prepare for battle and i told them that we will ride tommorow at noon to the norman king.
I said to sir richard if he can send a message to his king. if he can prepare his army battle so when it comes we can fight and that he could get more information about the norman army his strenght and weakpoints.

I called a messenger i said to himn taht he must bring the message to my capital to raise more troops and send them to me so that we will have enough troops to help serbia.

but for now i must prepare my self for tommorow's battle.



Bartender a XXL BEER plz :cheers: :cheers:

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

Your XXL beer is served, hawk knight!:cheers:

[the knightly sword]

beer beer plzzz (i think im drunk )

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

beer beer plzzz (i think im drunk )

Hmm... if you are drunk already, maybe I shouldn't serve you. :wink: But I will serve up your beer because you won't get it till tomorrow anyway.:wink:

[Angryminer]

Just give him american beer when he's too drunk to drink real beer. :lol:
Just kidding. :wink:

Angryminer

[NaVatar]

Navatar's Journal

5th June

Only one room left. I can clearly see my sword hanging there above the throne.
And i can also see the low-life, double-crossing, son of a skank that sits on my throne with my crown and clothes.
But that's not what angers me the most. It's that my wife is sitting next to him with her hands tied up and with bruisers the size as a fist on her face,pale as a ghost and weak eyes pointed down the floor. I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that the baby is still alright.
When I see that son-of-a-whore on my throne sitting as he was the king and when people in the throne-room bows before him and that ,so called "king", sends tied up prisoners which is my dearest friends to prison or to be hanged brings out tears from my eyes. Both for sadness and angryness(!).
Odly I don't see TKS in the long line of prisoners. Is he still loyal to me? Has he switched sides and joined the traitors? Or has he avoided the hands of the traitors and waiting for a opportunity to act? I hope he's still allright amongst this chaos.
I've regained some of my orginal strength and I'm now able to use a sword without falling down and all I have to do now is to gather up courage to regain my crown,throne,kingdom and most of all my wife and my unborn baby.
The only thing I have left to do is pray to the god Pie before i charge the room.

"O, Holy Pie, bless me in the coming battle with all your powers and might and please lend me a hand which I will use to perish evil and injustice and bring order to chaos. Protect me O, Holy Pie so that I can live yet another day in happiness, justice and order."

I'm now ready to meet the traitors.

*NaVatar, the King of Mercia, goes with focused footsteps into the throne room with a sword in hand and a shield in the other hand and eyes filled with hatred and despair.
With a terribly war-cry which strikes fear in the rotten traitors hearts, he starts to run with the sword held high, and shield infront of him, towards his foes with his eyes focused on the man who sits on the throne, which is shaken from the unexpected attack from the man he thought lied dead in the dungeon. Guards form up to counter the rightfull kings attack but with fear in their hearts they see the king runs towards them with revenge in his eyes*

[NaVatar]

A extra large one this time Eric :cheers:

[Richard]

Hawk knight can you edit ur post. We were suppost to meet with the norman king and i had somehting in mind. So can you change it that we will talk to him on june 5 instead of going to battle.

Navatar dont drink to much, or you can get drunk and the traitors will get you :lol:

[Richard]

Sir Richard's Adventure
Chap 12: Lost friend, Dark Dungeon.

June 6, 1005.
The morning of june 5 came and me, hawk knight and some other men rided to meet with the norman king. I had a feeling that this barbaric man had a surprise waiting for us. While riding, I saw roger, my most trusted friend who i had made my personal guard after the fall of the novogolods. I found it wierd that he was still in the army, since he had allready taken what he came for, the revenge of his famaly's death. The I spoke to him
"Roger, why are you still here, fighting when you allready did what you had to."
"Yes sir", He answered, I did took my revenge, but somehow I feel that something is comming, something I somehow feel obligated to go, Something that I think wil take me near to my famaly."
I didn't understood, but it was his will and so we rode together. We meet with my king as previsted and continue our road. We finally got to the spot where we had agreed to meet. It was a old church, we went in and there was the norman king. He had some guards near who seemed a little impassient. Then the king spoke
"I have been specting you"
I wondered how he knew english, afterall he was more of a french, maybe he wasn't so barbaric after all.
"Yes, we came to negotiate" My king said
"yes" Sir Hawk fallowed
"Oh yes, the peace between us" The norman said " Well, I'm afraid there will be a peace very soon, since I will rule all the lands"
"What do you mean?" My king asked
" I mean I have a small surprise for you" The norman spoke with a smile in his arrogant face " Gurads!, leave non alive"
"What is this" My king said
"your end my friend" the norman said
Then a feeling that i had never felt before came to me and I shouted
"Run my king and hawk knight, get out of here I will hold them!"
"No I can't leave you here" Hawk said
" No, go you have a kingdom and army to maniage, I most do my deuty and protect my king"
"Very well if that is your will so be it, May the gods have mearcy on your soul and may they give you the strengh of a thousand dragons" Sir hawk said "Godd bye, friend"
Then as I prepared to charge I saw roger he was still there next to me.
" Roger, go save your live"
"No sir, I think this is the thing that I felt comming and is my deuty to fight alone side you" He said
"Thank you, Friend" I said " If we are to die today, may you find happines with you family in the after live and I hope to find you there as you are my best friend."
" Now for honor, for glory, and for ruin,CHARGEE!!"

Sir richard and his fellow companion, Roger ,charge against the enemy with a thunder like shout and fight fearsly. They get to kill many of their foes, but more and more keep comming. Then as they fight Richad doesn't notice his flank side where a man is comming to stab him.
" Look out sir, NOOO!" He shouts as he jumps into the man's weapon saving Richard, but courageuslly ending his life
" Roger NOO!" Richard screams
"Don't worry sir, ( he coughts) I will join my fami..." Roger speaks with his last breath
Then a guard hits Richard with the bak of his sword and he becomes unconcius.

Several hours later he wakes up inside a dungeon
So now I'm here inside this dark, cold cell wondering if my king and friend Hawk knight made it out of this "ambush". I only prey that my friend Roger finds his family and can finally be happy in the after life, thu I feel i should had been the one that die. :sad:

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

A extra large one this time Eric :cheers:

I assume you mean beer. Here it is...:cheers:

[hawk_knight]

Hawk_knight's log 7th of june

we where ambushed by the norman king yesterday and i had heard of sir Richard being held in a dungeon. I had spoken with the king of England for a battle plan he will attack from the sea and i will attack from land.
I had said to the King of Engeland we must attack in three hours i said my army is ready for battle and he said that his army is also ready. I said then TO Battle i called my army to gether and told them what happend They got angry at the norman king to ambush us and that he captured sir Richard.
I yelld PREPARE TO MARCH TO BATTLE.

three hours later

we where in position for the attack i had send some men forward to kill the enemy's scouts so that they will not see us comming.
I gave te order to advance the norman army was preparing them selfs for battle but they where not ready for battle now. we where closing in on the norman camp then i gave the archers to open fire they shoot a volley and then i shouted CHARGE FOR DEAD AND GLORY CHARGE i was at the head of the charge with my dragon scarlet.
We charged straight through the norman camp killing all norman soldiers on ouwer path.
During the battle i gave the signal that the horsemen can charge to battle.
I saw that the King of england has been landed on shore and is attacking the normans flank. the normans morale broke and they fled the i saw the norman king trying to get his men back to fight i charged at him and he felll of his horse my dragon put his feet on the norman king that he cannot escape.
A rider came and told me that he new where sir richard was being held captive he was locked up the the norman last defence the castle where the remains of the norman army had fled to. This battle was over but we must take the norman castle to free sir richard and to stop the normans once and for all. I gave my army the order to make camp for now tommorow we will march to the norman castle for now we will rest.

[Heretic]

Desert Notes (or now, better, Sea Notes)

I remember Sea in North. It was different than this Sea, not such turquoise colour, colder..Much more colder. I wish this travel across the Sea will end soon, I feel unsafe in this vast of water, especially when I carry the letter. But captain said the coast is not far away.

When the ship sailed closer to the coast, I've put armour under the clothes and robed into the hood. My horse didn't like this travel and was anxious.

As soon as it has reached the ground with hoofs, it has begun to run like wind.
I've left the Sea behind.

[Xuca]

Adventures of Xuca

10th june

l just don't know what to do. lf the rebels' plan worked , the spies will strike tomorrow, and l can't reach the Hungarian King in a day. l think it's the best for me to return to Serbia, destroy the rebels and organise the difence. But the rebels are very strong, and probably the Hungarians will reach us before we destroy them...

Later that day

My companion saw my greef after my last entry and said: "Sir, there might be a way for us to reach the Hungarian King in ti.."
"What way?" l interrupted him.
"Well, the wizard..."
"What wizard?"
"You know, the Wizard. They say he was last seen in Hungary..."
"There are no wizards! And if there were, how would we find him?! He could be anywhere!"
"People say that he finds you, if you are worthy..."
"lt's just a legend. When you said that there might be a way, l thougth you meant a real way... What's that!"
l saw a hut which was not there before! lt was far away, so l took my horse and rode in that direction. l felt something strange when l got near, and my horse trew me off and ran away. And, instead of going after my horse, l entered the hut. A strange man sat there and said:"Sit down." Then he started talking about Mercians reaching to help the Bulgarians in the siege of Constantinople, he told me about King NaVatar being captured, he told me about Normans attacking England and many more things. But the most important thing he said was that the Byzantins gathered a big army in Asia Minor and that they will sail out in 5 days to attack Bulgaria from the Black Sea. l didn't know what to do! l could never reach Bulgarians and Mercians to worn them in time. And l still had to defend Serbia from Hungarians and rebels. But before l said anything, the Wizard said: "You can do everything in time. lt's already aranged for you to meat the King today."
"How" l asked.
"Look outside."
l turned around, went out the hut and saw a castle. But there was no castle there! l wanted to ask the Wizard about the castle, but the hut disapeared!
l still can't belive what happened to me! My translator is gone, but sudenly l know Hungarian like l was born in Hungary! l'll go to the castle and see if the King is there...

[Angryminer]

Angryminer's Tale
Chapter 19
Sire Dobber offered me the command over the army.
I didn't recieve the education to know strategies. After all, before the war against the Normans I was a townguard in Sire Kuno's father's town. So it would be greedy to demand the command for myself.
But I will also not dissapoint Sire Dobber. I will work out strategies and we shall all discuss them before the battle so each of us can use his wisdom to our advantage.

Chapter 20

I'm feeling nervous. We are still in our fortified camp near the shore somewhere in Bulgaria. None of our scouts reported any of our allies in the area yet.
Where are they? We have recieved a report about rebels in Hungary but nothing more. I'm feeling very unhappy not knowing where our allies and where our foes are. We don't even know exactly who our foes are. The byzantine, of course, but why did they attack the normans? What has shattered the alliance to lead to an open conflict? And how are our forces involved with this? Are there now other allies? We must be cautious.
If our mercian allies were successfull in the Bulgaria-Campaign we would have noticed this here. After all, the scout we sent here from the african shore didn't get back too.
I hope for the best, but I will, for now, assume that our allies are ... not in the area. We must make contact to the local nobility and the ruler of Bulgaria. We will need his support if we are to launch a successfull campaign against the byzantine.
When I'll talk to Sire Dobber, Kuno and Sakim I will also address the byzantine forces. By now they had enough time to regroup and follow us. Also, if the byzantine are not too bad organized they will soon notice that we aren't flying norman flags anymore.
I must draw the conclusing that our forces are very propably well outnumbered, our allies propably scattered and our chances bad.

But now for better news... In the nearest town there was someone who will help us translate the words of the man who kept Sire Dobber captive. Tomorrow we talk to him. Perhaps he knows something about the political situation. After all, he's been wearing the cloths of a nobleman...

May the lord bless us all and lead us to victory and peace.

Angryminer


Added another Chapter.

[Traveller]

Traveller's Log - June 9th
A New Hope

Today finally my hope came to real! In the early morning a man came, obviously somewhere from the nearby villages. He said he was a trader from Bulgaria and he could speak also Greek. I can speak Greek myself, so I started to laugh - how didn't I thought of that before. Greek and Latin are universal languages. I don't know Latin, but there should be somebody more educated in this army, who could speak Greek. And ofcourse there was. I asked the soldier, who brought the trader, if he can translate for me and he agreed. I think some of the commanders might also be able to serve as enterpreters, but I didn't want to insult them in some way - they might be offended, who knows! So, the translator called the leaders in the army and all of the officers to speak with me. I started rather carefuly, because I didn't knew their habits and manners and I wasn't still sure I can fully trust them.
"Good day, dear people!", I said on Greek. "Thank you for beeing so kind and generous to untie a poor beggar like me and to give me back my book!"
"You? A beggar? Hah!", answered one of them, a strange looking guy. He was wearing exotic clothes as those that the infidels from the Holy Lands carry. "Do you think we're blind and can't see your armour? It bears the signs of a Roman noble, not of a beggar!"
"Oh, I believe there has been a misunderstanding, dear Sir! I found these clothes on the battlefield near Thessaloniki, where a Greek army was defeated by the Bulgarian troops.", I told him. I was still trying to figure out who they are - Normans or Mercians. But in both cases, they were obviously not in good relations with the Romeans now and as a proof I noticed a sparkle of hope and joy in the man's eyes. "My own clothes were only dirty worthless rags, so I thought there's no harm to take something better. But if you need them, I'll be more than happy to give them to you! I don't really need them. I have my own kingdom, you know!", and I made a silly face.
"Stop playing crazy, you fool!", this time it was another guy, maybe an executioner, as he had an halberd with him. "Tell us who are you and under whose banner do you serve! Speak!"
"If we should be fair, Milords, then you should tell me first who YOU are. You're more than me, so you have nothing to worry about."
"This is none of your business!", said the third man. "But we'll tell you anyway as you really serve no threat. I'm Kuno of Gersenau and this is the army of Mercia under the command of Sire Dobber, who you had tied up. And here we should ask you that: Why did you captured Sire Dobber? Who are you? A spy of the Greeks?"
"So, it was Dobber, not Duba!", I thought. "Well, Milords, as I see, you really are the Mercian reinforcements we were expecting! I didn't knew this was Sire Dobber, of whom I have heard many things and I deeply appologize for this misunderstanding! But come now, I have many things to tell you!"
I told them all I knew about the progress of the war since their departure from the coast of Mercia. About the attack of the Romans in Northern Bulgaria and how Lord Xuca captured their ships; about the peasant uprising in Thrace and the following battle at the Balkan passes; about the death of Lord Nike and my service under his command; about the rumours of war between Serbia and Hungary; about the death Of Lord Xuca and the assassins we caught and finally - about the preparations of Tzar Samuil for a siege over Constantinopol. They were all saddened from the words of Lord Nikes and Lord Xucas deaths, especially the bald one, my ex-prisoner, who seems to be Sire Dobber, of which Lord Nike had told me about. The other one, the "executioner" seemed to be another man from the Mercian campaign - Angryminer. On the other side, Sire Dobber told me of their journey through the Mediteranean Sea, how they found Sire Kuno as a prisoner in a pirates vessel and how the met his old friend Sakim, who joined their forces with some of his men. Then we spoke of our future plans and I suggested that I ride to Bulgaria and warn my king to send immediately reinforcements to his newly-arrived allies. In less than five days I could go there and return with the current standing troops. They agreed and now we're preparing our horses and some provisions for the road. They decided that an escort should be sent with me, maybe they still have their doubts about my loyalty and my side. That doesn't matter, as I don't have any doubts about them anymore. Reinforcements have finally arrived and new Star of Hope is rising!

[Dobber]

Glad to see Taveller has gained a renewal of spirit and the desire to write again, maybe it is the beer that has loosened his tongue to tell his tales and
limbered his fingers to write them.


Thank you for the beer, Eric! :cheers:

I'm not really in the mood for writing now, so I guess my part of the story would delay a little. Or, Dobber, you could take it on your own if you wish?

[Richard]

Knight Richard's adventure
Chap 13: Lonely cell.

June 8, 1005
It has been 2 days since I last wrote in my log. the truth is that it is a little hard coz there isnt much light and my ink is running low. My head hurts a little, and I can't forget that last stand of Roger, my friend. If I'm to get out of here alive, I promise on all the gods to honor his death and courage. May he rest in peace.So here In this dark cell all i got for company during most of the day is the ocasional rat that passes by. I'm feeling a little weak, since this barbarians havent give me anyting to eat, only a sip of water.
Also Yesterday there was a big noise, guards shouting like if they were angry. I couldn't understand a word they said, but it seemed like the normans are in trouble. Maybe my king and Hawk knight made it to safety and they attacked the army that was going to invade. I hope they were succesfull. But even so they still will need a great efford to bring the normans down as they have many castles and a huge standing army. I most device somekind of a plan to scape this place. Maybe my spys will hear of my capture and try to help me, but I ill try to scape next time one of the guards comes alone.