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You lead your men against another camp! Archers and some spearmen are there, and your men engage them in melee.

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After a while, its obvious that you're, unfortunately, losing. As it stands-

*swish-THOK*

*THUD!*

Your men, seeing you on the ground with an arrow protruding from your left eye socket, quickly panic; some retreat, most surrender. Their King is dead - what else could they do?


You are Lech, son of Houlandin, and, by the decision of the court and Queen Mother Ciri, the new King of Luathbas! There was of course some protest from Queen Aolineniya, but her child is too young to rule a nation that is in such deep trouble. To further cement your rule, you abandon the Houlandin name and use yours as the new naming convention.

Much like your father, wisdom is your strongest point, and you always excelled in fields of history and traditions.


Fortunately, Queen Alexandra, after the bloody siege of Felonsein that thinned her numbers, and perhaps due to your elder brother's reckless attack, decided to ask for peace.

You are now at House of Lech, with her emissary, Count Dakpaklaktak, who offers you the same terms that were presented to your older brother. Unfortunately, with the fall of Felonsein, and the current state of Luathbas's forces, you have to agree on ceding Southern Territories to Lametania by default.

There remain however the two other conditions. The more you agree to, the easier it will be to maintain the peace in the future...

A) Agree to marry a female member of Queen Alexandra's family, and allow followers of Damed freedom of worship and equal religious laws.
B) Agree to marry a female member of Queen Alexandra's family, but foreign cults shall have no place in Luathbas!
C) Reject the marriage proposal, but allow the Cult of Damed its rights and freedom on par with Luathbas' current pantheon.
D) Reject both, and persuade the Duke to back your stance after his return to Queen Alexandra.

PTW.

You order that the armies be ready to resume a move south in few days' time.

Five days later, you and your army is moving south once again, toward Felonsein. Your scouts report that the main siege army have arrived, having bested you in the forests, and they manage to deal considerable damage with their siege engines, mostly catapults.

When you're one day away from Felonsein, the scout brings someone to you; it the emissary of Lametania.

"O, King of Luathbas, brave warrior of proud people. My good Queen, Alexandra, is willing to offer you peace if you accept some conditions." You have him say those conditions.

The first is ceding of the Southern Territories to Lametania. The second is freedom of worship and equal religious rights to the followers of Damed. The third is the bethrothal of your oldest son with Queen's niece, Issira.

A) Tell the emissary that you reject those stupid conditions.
B) Tell the emissary that you're willing to negotiate something less demanding.
C) Tell the emissary that you accept those conditions if it brings peace between your two nations.

FEF1 was the first FEF game on forums, and that gave way to handbook usage, maps, post format, etc etc.

Before that, there were Maptools sessions, which were a bit more chaotic but some stuffs I learned from there, like how to character sheet, where to mugs, etc v:

Up to 5HP healed

~~Enemies Turn!~~

The lone spearmen kept poking at Hildebrand, but that didn't go well for him.

Actually, it ended in a strange wooshy-swishy display of spear flexing?

Hit: 101-21 = 80
Hit roll: 97, miss!

Hildebrand counterstrikes!
Hit: 102-19 = 83
Hit roll: 96, miss!

~~Allies Turn!~~

"Wait, if you will be taking items from these two rooms here, be wary, as they have traps built into the floor. A quartermaster would be able to disable them for safe removal... I believe it has something with the floor mosaics inside."

You order the Hurthlings to come help the attacked flank.

The yells of the foreigners tell you that they did notice the non-humans...

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Your men are cut down along with Hurthlings.

And then you hear a battle cry from your right; it's Lametanian cavalry!! Either your spearmen reserves were utterly destroyed or the Queen's horsemen managed to avoid confrontation in the forest!

The situation looks grim.

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A) Run away northwards! Mayhaps the escape route isn't cut off, and maybe even our spearmen are still out there!
B) Surrender to Queen Alexandra's forces.

You order the spearmen reserves to leave your side and march to the rear to stop advancing cavalry.

Meanwhile, a new regiment of the heavy infantry is approaching at your flank! You begin suspecting that these aren't just mercenaries, and that Queen Alexandra might have some powerful allies willing to back her conquests with many forces.

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The armored swordsmen are cutting through your men like scythe through wheatstalks!

A) Move the Hurthlings to boost the flank's numbers!
B) -
C) We're suffering too many casualties... we gotta retreat!

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