*General Lyte makes a request about dead giants*
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Lyte, Operations General of the Legion and Sgt. of the Watch of the Jiyyd, walks into town during a lull in the fighting, and seeing many defenders, stands on a rock near the gates, and speaks up, and her voice sounds with a practiced note of reason and leadership qualities which many find inspiring and endearing.
_"I'd like to sincerely thank everyone who has assisted thus far in defending against the evil creatures who have been relentlessly attacking us. These creatures, orcs, bugbears, goblins and giants, have without stating any reason, are attempting to kill us, and the women and children behind us, mercilessly, as they have recently proven in the past.
I would ask those who are returning the bodies of frost giants to stop doing so immediately. I recognize your intentions are positive, but the actions of the enemy have not been decent under any measure of our traditions, and sending them back into the hands of the capable giant priests and priestesses is simply not acceptable.
They can be raised and returned to battle to fall our own defenders..as they have already done.
These are the very same giants who slaughtered the innocent women and children of Ormpur. Was this honorable? Did Ormpur attack them?
These are the same creatures who have come to destroy us, without even the basic honor to tell us why they have come. Is this a just practice, or should these things have at least given us a list of what they want?
They are attacking us on our soil….we are not going to their lands, and it is they who are the agressors.
The Gypsy troops under Lady Raver have pulled out of the defense because of this misplaced idea of returning of their bodies for resurrection. I cannot stand for this, as it will lead to our own deaths.
I ask you to think about what I have said. Following the "traditions" of an evil race who slaughter our children, without even making demands or telling us what they want is completely honorless, by the standards of all intelligent, decent cultures.
They have proven themselves black hearted swine. It is they who bring war here. Some of them may sing praises to Tempus, but that doesnt mean he is happy with them in their evil, cowardly ways. They have certainly not conducted themselves honorably killing unarmed innocent civilians in surprise attacks at poor Ormpur....and Tempus isnt going to punish us for burning them in respectful pyres in the way old Uthger went to his maker in the tradition of the Nars out there on those same plains. They bring war to the plains. We are not attacking them in their homes.
No more of this aiding the enemy by sending their dead troops to their powerful clerics for bringing back."_
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_Jonni and Raver are seen upon the battlements in a long, sometimes heated discussion with Generals Lyte and Theaon. If those eavesdropping had not stuck their noses into the conversation, would not have been nearly as heated.
In the end, Jonni agreed to send the Camp Guards under the command of Jonathan to aid the Jiyyd Defenses. Raver refused to order her men back to the lines, but agreed that she would ask for volunteers from the Pink and Black Forces, and any who chose to come would be allowed. She was overheard telling Lyte that if she was going to head an all volunteer force, Raver wasn't going to order her men back in.
As Raver and Jonni turn to go, orcs attack again, and both Jonni and Raver wade deep into the enemy forces, blades swinging._
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Nilla and I had a talk - all straightened out. My apologies to anyone who was upset by what I wrote.
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@eb135d8da2=Sethan:
**//Jiyyd has no NPCs of its own manning the defenses (the Helmites have vanished again, the Jiyyd militia NPCs remain in Jiyyd, and the Legion has no NPCs), and the non-Jiyyd NPCs don't man the gate defenses directly.
As such, when there are no PCs at the defenses, there is no one at all at the defenses… which is how I find them more often than not when I log Will on.//**
((This is an OOC issue. I get sick of spawning NPCs at the battles zones only to limbo them, or have to raise PC's once their factions go buggy. So yes.. there are people there, manning the gates, ALWAYS. If it is so hard to imagine them being there.. consider you showing up, them a chance to take a break. I don't think, even a small town such as Jiyyd is so stupid as to leave such defenses unmanned. And I'm frankly shocked that people can't understand that concept and give other PC's hell that there are not the "local guards" around. Use your imagination.. it is why you play Narf, right?))
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// Let me set the record straight.
This has NOTHING to do with NPC's from Pelt, Jiyyd, or elsewhere.
I fully understand that there are dead times on the server,and that the walls and gates are not manned 24/7. …....... and if SEVERAL PC's from the Legion and others regularly protecting the Long Road, had not been on the server and within actual hearing distance of the fighting, Aelthas and Raver would not have said a thing about dead NPC gypsy warriors.
OOC off
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The gypsies have been sent home because Raver and I have said so, not only because of the fact that some were wanting the enemies bodies returned, but also because I fought alone at the gates and five of our men died because no one else was there.
If anyone has a problem with it, speak to Raver or myself, we have and always will continue to fight for Jiyyd, despite our men being sent home.
I can choose to die for this land and I also can choose if my men die for Jiyyd, the choice is made, my life may be given, but theirs will not be given.
You can talk all you want, I will still be here, fighting the enemy to protect my family.
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nods Firmly to Dwin and the rest Anyone got a spare Skald Catapult? says jokingly
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Sounds to me like a big misunderstandin that the War Council and a few ales outta be able to clear up.
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General Lyte speaks up to clear the confusion
_"Burning the enemy bodies is what Raver and the gypsy soldiers wants done, and has been my policy throughout this campaign. That is what I have been doing.
I think the idea of sending the giants bodies back to the giants originated with Jerr, who I always had believed spent a great deal of time at the Camp…I thought he lived there, though perhaps I am mistaken, since it is the Camp who has pulled it's forces out because of this._
She looks momentarily frustrated, then shakes her head
_"In any case.
These giants have proved themselves honorless, by slaughtering the women and children of Ormpur in surprise attacks, without stating any reason for their murderous activities.
They just…..murdered helpless innocent women and children who had never attacked them, crushing them in their homes.
Honor????
This makes any talk of "honoring their dead" or pretenses that the enemy has any sense of justice or honor or morals obviously a pile of troll dung, and, if these bastards dont want the body of their fallen burned on pyres, they can damn well stop attacking us here in our homes.
This is War.
It is a war of their bringing.
We need to get that through our thick skulls, and we all need to realize that many of us along with a lot more of them are going to die.
And, we need to understand that our only chance of surviving this is to make sure they run out of troops before we do.
To do that, we have to make sure they cannot resurrect their fallen troops.
I will be burning the enemy corpses in pyres, in the manner of the Nars folk like Uthger. It will lessen the forces we face, it will slow down the spread of disease.
We are forced to be hard."_
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**General Grag is seen by the fiery man cloaked in Red known as Dentius Pointing to a area and may have been heaard saying "Burn umm all Freind!"
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((have the helmites vanished IG? or is that an OOC issue?))
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_Will responds to Dwin
"The Gypsies left because some people were returning the fallen giants to the enemy (there is an unconfirmed rumor that it was Legionnaires doing this, though the only people I know of doing so are not Legion), and because when the Gypsy archers were cut off and killed, the gate defenses were unmanned.
It was said that they would not defend those too lazy to take up arms in their own defense, and who gave the enemy back their dead so they could kill us again."_
**//Jiyyd has no NPCs of its own manning the defenses (the Helmites have vanished again, the Jiyyd militia NPCs remain in Jiyyd, and the Legion has no NPCs), and the non-Jiyyd NPCs don't man the gate defenses directly.
As such, when there are no PCs at the defenses, there is no one at all at the defenses… which is how I find them more often than not when I log Will on.//**
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Dwin is spending some time with the Norwick Scouts that have recently taken up the vacated archer positions near the wall, making sure they have ample supplies, good fields of vision, and an understanding as to why they are there.
Lemme get this straight… the Gypsies up and left because they want to return the dead giants to their own kin--only to be brought back to kill our folks another day?
Do the Elders think they can hold off this horde on its own if it gets beyond this wall?
Maybe I aint got the whole story.
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::Gulir listens and tries to look over the shoulders of those gathered::
At least some of ye humans got some sense.
::Promptly goes to the inn to order a keg of ale for the Gypsies stationed at the Sisterhood farm::
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Behind a line of archers on the hill, Raisa silently shakes her head.
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Aelthas listens quietly to Lyte talk, then suddenly speaks up
You were misinformed. The Gypsy Guard under Raver hasnt been pulled out of the defence of Jiyyd. The whole force of Gypsy guards has pulled out of the defence of Jiyyd, mine included.
Our men will not die for no reason and they will be stationed at the Sisterhood to make sure the sisters get out alive, they will not engage the enemy at any time.
The Romani are no longer part of it.
