[en] The Tavern at the Inn

[Angryminer]

It's great that the story is moving again! :go:
But your messangers propably won't reach the town. In my last entry here (http://forum.sunflowers.de/showthread.php?t=3504&page=29) I stated that the enemy has been gathering large amounts of troops around adrianople. I'd expect the town to be surrounded within hours.
Also I can only offer you few room for reaction from my side. The last entry was close to dusk on the 9th of july, at dawn of the 10th the assault will begin and by noon the same day adrianople's walls will be crushed...
We need something tricky. Even if we manage to join forces we're still 80 thousand against something between 130 thousand and 170. These guys mean business! :wink:

Though the meaning of your massage may change dramatically depending on what you mean with "valkons". No dictionary I could find (written or online) knew that word.

Angryminer

[hawk_knight]

It's great that the story is moving again! :go:
But your messangers propably won't reach the town. In my last entry here (http://forum.sunflowers.de/showthread.php?t=3504&page=29) I stated that the enemy has been gathering large amounts of troops around adrianople. I'd expect the town to be surrounded within hours.
Also I can only offer you few room for reaction from my side. The last entry was close to dusk on the 9th of july, at dawn of the 10th the assault will begin and by noon the same day adrianople's walls will be crushed...
We need something tricky. Even if we manage to join forces we're still 80 thousand against something between 130 thousand and 170. These guys mean business! :wink:

Though the meaning of your massage may change dramatically depending on what you mean with "valkons". No dictionary I could find (written or online) knew that word.

Angryminer


did you not read that the messengers have valkons/eagles with them who will fly the news over to andrianople :wink:

yeah thts is true about the enemy force but we can think of something until the main army arrives :wink:

[Angryminer]

Ahh, you meant falcons! That clears up a lot! :go:
I'll write something up later or tomorrow.

Angryminer

[hawk_knight]

Ahh, you meant falcons! That clears up a lot! :go:
I'll write something up later or tomorrow.

Angryminer


ooh falcons had forgot how to write that :biggrin:

[Dobber]

Dobber thinks about giving Ainvar a fat lip for bringing him back into the story, but Eric frowns upon fights in the Tavern!
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Just kidding folks, Ainvar asked before doing so!

[Richard]

Great, thanks guys for changing the story now i have to change my last entry and delay my death :sad:

[Dobber]

Richard I think they should have to change their stories to correlate with yours!


Hey guys, this is what has already been written by Richard about the battle

Knight Richard's adventure
Chap. 29: Andrinople, The last stop
July 10, 1005
It is noon and the great allied army of 160,000 strong laids before the great city of Andrynople. The men watch as over 200,000 Romans/arabs attack the now under flames town. The other leaders are out giving orders to the men as they prepared to help the besieged men in adrinople, while Richard talks to his elite english infantry men.
"We have have sail acroos the Angry waters English channel, and throught the cold Baltic sea. We have marched over 10000 leagues across snow and desert, Mountains and plains. We have fought agaist overwellming odds,against 100 armys and all have fell before our might. Today we fight once more, this time together with our friends, The Serbians, Mercians,Bulgarians and the famous middrill men against a comvined army of arabs and Romans, with numbers far greater than our on. But don't fear, they will fall too!"
"Yeaah"The men shouted
"This words have been said many times through out history" Richard said," and today they shall be heard once more, Conquer your fear, and you shall conquer death!, Many of us might not be on this world by night fall, many of us might never return to our homeland, England, but this day will be remembered a 1000 years from now. The day when a band of brothers, all with different cultures and believes joined forces to stop a common foe, the day when good fought the evil tyrany and they won the day !"
The men shouted, showing their believe on their leaders.

And so the battle began, 1000's of Arab arrows painted the sky dark, killing many men. Hawk and his Horsemen charged at the enemy lines, fallowed by the others. The battle was beginign to be lost, many of them men were losign hope and were retreating. Richard seen this took the flag, which had been made to represent all of the allies, from the retreating man and charged with it toward the lines, shouting
"Stay in the lines, No retreat, Fight!!!"
The men began to return, But richard had lead himself to the open, leaving himself vunerable, seen this his remaining english infantry charged to his aid. Then an arrow out of no where pierce Richard's Armor, stunning him, then another two on his back, yet he didn't led go of the flag. He struggle a little, and raised him self fro the ground. Then a roman pierce his back with his sword and then destroyed the flag. Hawk seen this rushed to help and so did the other Commanders. The army fallowed leaving 1000's of Romans and arab bodies scatered about.The Romans begin to retreat. Hawk finally manage to get to Richard and kneels next to him. Richard says in his pain,
"I, I have finally found my purpose on this world "coughts" We have won, have we?"
"Yes my brother, thanks to your courage" Hawk Saids, " Rest now you will get better soon"
"Heh, I will finally meet with my old friend Roger", Richard saids with a smile, " Take this"
He gives a folde paper to Hawk, "Tell her I love her with all my heart"
" I will, I promise" Hawk said
"Goodbye,"Richards wispers
"Goodbye friend" Hawk said
"Tell her I love...." Richard wispers as his body loses all life left on it

Months later on poland, a massanger enters the capital on a rush. He gives the massage to the princess. She reads:
" He was a great man, fought like no other, his last wish was that I tell you how much he loved you. I'm sorry....."
From the her eyes drops of water begin to appear. Then she looks down and gently touches her now growing belly.......


Everybody is there on July 10th!

kawk_knight, you and Traveller and Kuno either need to write into your stories that you arrived at Adrianople prior to the 10th or that you held up a half days ride from the city awaiting the main army to catch up to you. Richard has placed you, hawk_knight, among the 160,000 strong main force that has arrived to find the city under attack, either that or you have come from inside the city to his side on the battlefield.

When one writer gets ahead in the story things like this happen, but I fully understand Richard writing ahead, he was leaving the forum and he wanted to be in the battle and thus wrote ahead and killed himself off, The least we could do is arrange our writings to go along with his.

[Angryminer]

Just because the fighting starts on th 10th of july that doesn't mean it ends the same day.
Me and Hawk weren't going to go full force until the rest of the army arrives anyway. We'll just keep the romans from removing me from the story. :wink:

Angryminer

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

hawk knight gets a beer for his cotribution to the story! Enjoy! :cheers:

[Dobber]

Just because the fighting starts on th 10th of july that doesn't mean it ends the same day.
Me and Hawk weren't going to go full force until the rest of the army arrives anyway. We'll just keep the romans from removing me from the story. :wink:

Angryminer


I never said it ended the same day.

You misunderstood me, Richard has already placed the entire allied force just outside Adrianople on July 10 at noon. He died during the fighting that day, the attacking forces were routed and pursuit had begun.
The battle could be fought in pursuit of the Byzantines all the way to Cansantinople, to be completed there as far as that goes.

[Traveller]

Sorry for not writing in here for the last week or so, but I was quite busy in that time. I hope that in the near days ahead I'll be able to come here for a longer time, read what's written, update the story thread and eventually write something from myself. Until then, I treat everybody in here with 3 rounds of beer (or other beverages by choice) because of my birthday tomorrow! :cheers:

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

...I treat everybody in here with 3 rounds of beer (or other beverages by choice) because of my birthday tomorrow! :cheers:

Happy Birthday, Traveller! Drinks are served! Enjoy! :cheers:

[Kuno of Gersenau]

Kuno's log - 7th of June

Hurt again, it looks as if destiny thinks that the bed is a better place for me than the battlefield...At least I have a clear mind again, yesterday I awoke from faint...
I found myself bound on a horse, slowly marching in the middle of Bulgarian knights. They told me that they had order to bring me back to the main-army.
They also said that the Byzantine forces march to Adrianople and will reach the city within the next days. I asked the man next to me how long it would take to ride to the city. "Two days, if we ride the whole day and half of the nights. But you're wounded and some of your men even worse. We have strict order to bring you save back to the main troops.“
He couldn’t really tell me, where Traveller is, but most probably he had to be somewhere around the town.
In the afternoon new messengers arrived, they said that the number of the enemy army would be up to 100’000 men or even more…There was just a small chance for Angryminer to keep the city long enough till the reinforcements arrive. I took a decision and went to the Bulgarian captain.
“Listen, I know you have your orders, but I will ride back to Adrianople and you won’t stop me. I kniw I’m hurt and it will maybe take all the power I gainded again in the last days, but I can’t wait here while the men with whose I came in this land fight and maybe die. Of course some of my men are wounded too bad for this, but I would be glad if the rest and most of your troops join me. I’ll go now and look who of the Mercians is able to ride that fast, I hope you made your decision when I’m back. We will ride day and night, maybe we can just swip into the town when the enemy arrives, and if not we will find a way through his lines!

Some hours later we started, 5 Mercians, 20 Bulgarians and I. We’re not many, but I think that soon every additional man will be necessary.



Ok, I’m back again, after long long time…:rolleyes:
Every drink this evening is on me! :cheers:

[Angryminer]

Angryminer's tale
Chapter 27

Night of the 9th of July
At last! It is unblievable how such a small piece of paper can glow so bright with the light of hope in this darkest of nights.
A curious thing happened. Shortly after dusk a falcon appeared in the city. It wasn't a normal falcon, it was the trained bird of a falconer. And it carried a message from it's master. The message didn't carry a sign on it because of its small size, but when the message was handed to me through many hands its origin was obvious to me. Fortune was it that allowed the message to travel from the birds leg into my hands and fortunate it was what the message told of! Hawk Knight sent me the message that our allies were coming to our aid!
I quickly wrote an answer that told of the enemy's number and the likely assault in the morrow morning. I wrote that I expected an assault at the main southern gate and that there was a northern gate where men would await the reinforcements and that I knew of no secret path between this city and the world beyond it's walls.

Despite the situation I am in in this dreadful town I am not unsuspicious. Shortly after we seized this town Kuno and me learned of a secret tunnel that leads out of this town, but it will only allow a few men to travel through it as it is very narrow. It will be guarded just like the northern gate will be. The few horses that are under my command will allow the soldiers to swiftly move back to the southern gate if the bird was truely sent by our allies. Beside the guards one of my officers will wait at the northern gate. I trust him and introduced him to my plans for the morning. If we really are to recieve reinforcements he will introduce them to my plans.

The night is dark but the stars are shining like our hope is.

Angryminer

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

Ok, I’m back again, after long long time…:rolleyes:
Every drink this evening is on me! :cheers:

Welcome back, Kuno!

Drinks for all on Kuno! :cheers:

Kuno and Angryminer get another round for thier contribution to the story! :cheers:

[Traveller]

Traveller's Log - The month of Chrven (July), after midnight, before the 10th day of the month
The Die Is Cast!

So, here we are, on the battlefield that is to be here tomorrow, waiting for our destiny to be fulfilled, ready to sacrifice our lives in the name of all that is holy or even better - to emerge victorious in the name of this very same... "Alea Iacta Est", one of the great ancient Romans had said this when he crossed the Rubicon river; "The die is cast", Lord Nike had repeated it before the battle, in which he died; and "The die is cast", I said it myself when I crossed the Hebros river today.
I might soon not be in this world anymore, so let me write down what has happened to us in the last few days! This very evening one of my fellow-companions, who had been a kraguiar (falconer) before, "catched" or "called" one of the messenger-falcons he had seen roaming in the skies. Attached to him was a message from the main army, adressed to Angryminer and the Adrianople garrison. The message said that the main army would haste as much as possible, so that it should reach the city not earlier than tomorrow at noon. I hope they'll find winged sandals for everyone, because before dusk today they were still at a day's travel. Or maybe they would find strength both to march in the night and fight the next day. I wouldn't be surprised of that! Especially since their own lives also depend on this, as they would have no chance alone on the open field, if Adrianople falls. And the odds seem to be not on our side. This day (the 9th of July) the Roman-Arab banners appeared before the walls of the city, together with the whole united enemy army. Fortunately, they were tired of their quick march as well and hadn't brought any big and serious siege equipment, they had mainly siege ladders. But as soon as they arrived, they started constructing siege towers, rams and other such devilish machinery; and I know how fast and clever the Romean engineers are. But I still have the hope that our army would arrive before they finish and put them to use. Angry would only need to hold off the laddermen from the walls, although this wouldn't be easy either...
Anyway, I wrote a message and sent it through the messenger-falcon to its owner. There I warned them not to try to cross the river through the southern fords and bridges, as the Romeans have already seized them and have placed traps. They have probably already received news that help is coming to aid Adrianople! Our army should come from the northern side, which I personally checked and which should still be secure. Unfortunately, I lost too much time, while checking the southern crossings, and the Romeans already placed some contingents to guard the northern gates. They weren't that much, but for me and my nearly 200 men (alas, I lost some in the traps to the south) they were too many. I don't know if the bulk of the army would be able to handle them tomorrow (at least not easily), as the united enemy army could increase the men there by the time my friends would arrive.

Ah, there's so much to mention, but my last candle is dying out... I desperately hope we'll live to write another day! If not - may whoever find this log-book, tell my family and my friends that I love them...
The die is cast, tomorrow destiny says its heavy word... Again I say: "Alea Iacta Est!"

Next to this log is a map of the region around Adrianople (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/Nike_Raido/PlannabitkatapriOdrin.jpg), hopefully thoroughly studied by its owner...

[Angryminer]

Nice post. But you removed the siege weapons I wrote about earlier...We spotted enough siege machinery to brake the walls within half a day.

Angryminer

[the knightly sword]

:smile: This is what the AE detector says:


the knightly sword tripped AE detector

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the knightly sword seems to have multiple personalities using Stupidorcwithahugefork and conquestare legionare and the knightly sword sharing the same computer.




Hello guys sorry for interrupting your discussion about the tavern tale , but once again ive been accused for being Conquestare legionare :lol:. Ive maybe not told you but me and CL are good friends and we hang out and play LAN alot when i have considerble amount of free time. Now it has been occured that my account has been used at the computer used by Cl stupidorcwithahugefork, yes but it was not me using it :wink:. As many might now im currently studying in university so i have alot less time for things i visit the forums once in a while. Cl has used my account sometimes to post just to keep it more active.
About stupidorcwithahugefork. conquestare made it because he didnt really like his first nick (Thats atleast what he told me). Well now when things are a bit more clear ^^ continue the great and keep up the fine writing of yours :smile:.

p.s I will visit the forum more often now. took a summer break from studies.

[Prince Eric of the Lorah Clan]

Knightly Sword, I was not really accusing you of anything. I was just curious about all the names coming from the same computer. Now we know. All is ok.

Traveller gets a drink for his contribution to the story! :cheers:

[Stupidorcwithahugefork]

Aye. Yes knightly now shut up :rofl: . Prince can i have a beer please :go:. I will write another part of the story as the role of a villian.