[en] The Tavern at the Inn

[Xuca]

Write your arse down to Bulgaria then, they been waiting for month's!
Yes, Sir! *starts writing like a maniac*

Adventures of Xuca

16th june

It took me two hours to find my friend's tent. He was overjoyed to see me, but also worried about my wounds. He wanted that I stay until they heal, but I had to say no, because I must reach our allies soon. Then he told me how he defeted the rebels. At first, the rebels were winning, and only 1000 men of my old army survived. Then an other army showed up and helped him. Then he started to mobilise the people, and after that he won three battles and defeted most of the rebels. He plans to attack the capital at dawn. There are now 8000 men, 1000 my expirienced soldiers, 3000 militias and 4000 reinforcements. There is also another army of 10000 men in Zeta. I ordered him to announce to the soldiers that I'm alive. That should boost their morale before the attack. I also ordered him that he, after the city is retaken, send the militias home, and the rest of the army to help our allies. And the army in Zeta should send 5000 men to defend Serbia from a possible Hungarian attack, and the rest should defend the shore from Byzantins. There are only few places where they could land, and it shouldn't be too difficult to defeat them in the mountains of Zeta.
Now I'm riding to Bulgaria as fast as I can, but I don't know if I have enough strenght to reach it, I alrady drank the potion...

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

Here is another round of beer for the bards!:cheers:

[hawk_knight]

hawk_knights log june 12

My army of 80000 men is ready to march to Bulgaria I gave them the order to march. My scouts had reported that the road is save to march. I gave my commanders the order that we will rest 6 hours per day. While we where marching i had send more spy's to byzantine to gather more information.

later that day
after a long march this day i gave my army the command to make camp and to eat and drink something for there strenght. I said to one of my commanders to send more scouts out and another messenger to bulgaria. Because i still did not heard anything from the messenger that i had send two days ago to bulgaria. to be prepared for any surprises i had dubbeld the guard for tonight. Tomorrow my army wiil ressume the march but for now i will rest.



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[NaVatar]

Wouldn't it be cool if someone made a movie about our story? :cheers:
Imagine the special-effects!

Thanks for the beer btw :cheers:

[Richard]

Knight Richard's Adventure
Chap 15. The blue sea

June 10, 1005
Today we sailed to Poland. Hawk knight found it add that I was going to take that route, as it will make the march longer, but I couldn't say why I had to go there first. The day I was rescued my king called me to his tend. He seemed worried and sadened, but that wasn't unusual because he has been like that since the day I meet him, that was when I was a adolecent. He said that his time was coming to an end and he could feel it, that he was dieing and he felt sink. He said that in his absence the nobles would try to take power and there was going to be civil wars and that this could be prevented. The only way to stop this was if someone that had the loyalty of the army takes over. Then he stood quite for a while and some time later said
"You Richard, you have the army, you have the heart of a ruler, you must stop the nobles when I die."
I was shoked thath e had asked me this.Why make a man that was born a simple peasant a king? Was this the way of repaying me for saving his life that day during my adolecence? But It couldn't be, he had made me a knight for that. Then he interrupted my thinking and asked.
"Will you take this great honor?"
I didn't know what to answer, but something told me to do it So accepted. He then said that if was to become king I had to go to poland and ask the poland king, his brother to prepare his army, for when I came back from the bysantine campain I would take power and will probably need a standing army to fight the nobles. I asked him why I had to go, when a massanger could do this and he answered I would need to face him for the right to rule england and his support in a duel, because they had made a pact when they were joung and it had to be done. So now is late in the after noon and the seas seemto be favoring us. We will land in poland in 2 days if the winds keep this way.


2 Days later in the coast of poland
June 12, 1005

After 2 days at sea we have finally reached poland. We made camp near the coast and tomorrow we will go to the polish capital to do my duty.
I also will see the beutifull Naddie, my kings brother's dougther. We meet some year ago during the celebretion of my kings birthday. Since that day every year when the kings birthday came we taked to each other and love grew throughout the years, but we couldn't show our love to neither king as I was just a knight and she was a princes. Now, however, I have proven my self and if I win this duel I will ask her hand to my kings brother. I'm going to practise now my sword skills and prepare for tomorrow, as I must win if I'm to be with the women I love.

I'm back guys, sorry been buzy this last days, but now i'm back.
Something to drink plz. :wink:

[NaVatar]

(psst, Richard! Is that king your talking about is he me? or have i missunterstood it all?)

And may I have a beer please :cheers:

[Richard]

Your playing the king of Mercia and I'm talking about th king of England :wink:

[NaVatar]

I see.........I'm only ruling a province, maybe when/if i get better i might increase my land area hmhmhmhm

By the way, wheres hast thou beer gone, i wonder :cheers:

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

Here is the beer for everyone who wants it!:cheers:

[Dobber]

I see.........I'm only ruling a province, maybe when/if i get better i might increase my land area hmhmhmhm

By the way, wheres hast thou beer gone, i wonder :cheers:

Actually, I think by the time period in which we are writing there was probably not a King of Mercia. In the 900's, King Aethelstan is the first ruler to call himself "king of all Britain" on some of his coinage, by which he means modern-day England, Scotland, and Wales. In the mid 1000's the military leader Harold of Wessex claims the throne, after the death of childless King Edward the Confessor. He then holds the throne for only 6 months, when William of Normandy seizes it from him. But then we are not writing a correct historical account of this time.
But as you can see, things do not look well for a King of Mercia.

[Dobber]

June 14 - Dobber's Log

It was getting late on this final day of my journey north, no troops had been spotted. My heart was heavy for our Bulgarian friends and for the men that I once commanded. I thought of my friend Sakim who joined us looking for action and a chance to make his fortune as a mercenary in a foreign land. There was a mountain ridge before me and the decision was made to stop my northern progress and to turn south and to ride to rejoin my friends and fellow soldiers, but first just a trip to the ridgecrest to view the land to the north.
When I topped out the ridge, what a sight to behold, there was a huge army in the valley below, must be 75,000-100,000 men, and what is that I see, my eyes must be deceiving me, there appears to be a squad of dragons. The only squad of dragons I know anything about is the famed Dragonmasters under the command of Hawk_Knight, whom I have never met, but have heard much about. Plans most definitely have changed, I will not be turning south this night. I will ride down to the army and ask for an audience with Hawk_Knight, maybe just maybe we can get these troops to our friends in Bulgaria before it is to late. I must tell him of the plans that were being made to attack Adrianopol and maybe we can join the allied forces there. I must also let him know that we are 3-4 days ride by a man alone, the army pace would be probably one week to reach our friends and allies. I must also determine if I should stay with his force and travel with them or if I should strike out with a small party to quickly reach our friends and let them know how soon help will arrive.

[the knightly sword]

june 14th tks log

Ive reachead a great valley , it signs the borders a villager said. Ive sent out
scouts to see if there is any available way through the valley. The camps near the villages were my horde of warriors have heard about the on going wars in bulgaria. How the brave warriors fights to defend there lands from the mighty byztines.It has encouraged there hearts, they are eager to do battle with enemy.The past days have been favorable. The sun shines and the paths are clear for the eye. What more can a knight wish then to ease up the marchs for his soldiers. Ive also heard that there was allied forces which passed by some days ago.

later that day
My scouts have spotted a huge army camping in the valley. This might be allies or byztine forces makeing an surprise attack on bulgria.Theyve also spotted a bald man in armour on the other side of the valley.I fear that we might have been spotted by the enemy. The scouts said that the army must been over 600000.Not even the bravest of warriors can withstand such a number.Ive sent a messenger to annouce my presence for negotiations.


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[Richard]

Wait wait, for some reason I was thinking that mercia was somewhere near bulgaria :silly: Don't know why, but got cunfused because navatar was talking about rebels and the bulgarians had a rebolt too, so maybe I should edit my logs and make it as I came from east Anglia ( current day london) or something like that?

[Dobber]

Mercia is almost in the middle of current day England.


And congrats to the forces starting to come together and make a major move to Bulgaria. TKS, does it feel better to be with another force as you travel?

[Angryminer]

Angryminer's Tale
Chapter 24

We have joined forces with Sire Kuno and Sakim today.
I planned to move south-east through Macedonia and Thessalia to attack Constantinople from west, but Sakim brought bad news. As it seems the Caliph of Alexandria comes to aid the byzantine.
Looking at a map (Out of Story: You might also want to look at the KoH-map) I got when I was at the bulgarian court I suspected that it might be a bad idea to move through macedonia, because if the alexandrians help the byzantine, they will surely come here by ship and land either near Thessalia or eastwards of Macedonia to follow us until we meet byzantine troops and then attack us from two sides.
I also told them that we know that we will fight the Caliph's army, but we don't know where they will come from. Because of that we should avoid them and focus on the byzantine first.
But it is also very propable that the byzantine will be more numerous than we are. Thus we should avoid vast plains and travel past the mountains of Vidin towards the black sea and turn southwards from there towards Constantinople. I believe that, when it comes to scouting, we have an advantage over the byzantines and we can use this to be prepared for battle before the byzantines are. That way we might beat them.
Hopefully we will recieve reinforcements by then, because we can't attack Constantinople with a tired army.
I will send a messager to the bulgarian king when we have decided which way to travel, so propably reinforcements arive more quickly.

Angryminer

[Richard]

Mercia is almost in the middle of current day England.


And congrats to the forces starting to come together and make a major move to Bulgaria. TKS, does it feel better to be with another force as you travel?

I know it is in england, but I got confused with all the revels lol. So what should I do?

[the knightly sword]

change the logs :wink:

[hawk_knight]

hawk_knights log 14 of june

My scouts reported an army not far away from us moving towards us. He did not now if that army was friend of foe. Then a messenger came in to my camp he said that the army behind us is from The knightly sword and he asked if he could join us. I said to him say to Tks that Hawk_knight is leading this army and that he may join us. When the rider had left some guards came to me with a bald men on a horse. I said to him welcome sir Dobber to my camp i had fought beside you in the mercia campain. He had told me about the situation in bulgaria and there plan to attack Adrianopol and that there is not much time left for bulgaria and when my army has arrived in bulgaria will take about 2 weeks and horsemen 2/3 days. he ask me if he could go ahead with a small force to bulgaria. I said to dobber you could get from me 10000 horsemen to go to bulgaria or you could stay with us and go with us to serbia. To help our friend sir Xuca who needs help more then the bulgaria.


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[Dobber]

Now if Xuca's forces could catch up to TKS and the rest of Hawk_Knight's army it would be good.

[Angryminer]

Oh, then I must make haste so the bulgarians and our force can fight before those 200 000 soldiers remove all the tension :wink: .
Poor byzantines...

Angryminer