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In Progress Let's Play King of Dragon Pass! In Times of Turmoil Beneath an Incompetent Tranny Ruler...

Harpsichord

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So, I've attempted a few LPs in the past, only one of which was here, and I've never finished one. However, my experience with KoDP so far has led me to believe that I stand a good chance of finishing an LP of the game with ease. As my recent post in strategy suggest, we'll be lucky to survive a decade before complete agricultural collapse.

So begins the saga of the Korani! Austere sons of Elmal, the Loyal Thane. The Korani are known for their modesty, fidelity, vigilance, and sense of tradition. Though they fulfill their martial duties without complaint, they much prefer to settle things before the law, avoid feuds when possible, and hope in their wildest dreams to reconcile the disparate clans as a tribe one day. Confounding these aims are their sense of stubbornness, naivete, and reluctance to change. They will be tried harshly in the times to come...
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It is a new year, and the rituals are underway. Our lawkeepers, shamans, and clan ring set about the business of securing good auspices for our clan's crops, herds, good health, and good reputation.
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We've only been in the pass a short time, and we've more cottars and carls than land cleared to work. The clan ring reaches a quick consensus, clear more of our territory for farmland so that we can put those hands to work and keep the wild things at bay. 105 fields are being worked as of the moment, but the clan ring makes plans to clear out another 35 fields in 1329 Sea.

No sooner than we had done this, some womenfolk who really should have been in their house tending children bust through the door ranting about some ritual of sisterhood.

As could be expected, this emotional display has no real bearing on the law, or anything relevant for that matter. Enfrew informs the women to hush their mouths and get back to their respective kitchens. If solving a feud were a matter of cutting ourselves and making up rules on the spot, we'd have come up with a solution a long time ago.
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With all of the estrogen behind them, plans were made to explore the region around the settlement. A small band of thanes and carls set out to get a feel of the surroundings, when they came upon an unusual cave. A few carls went in to investigate, only to be chased out promptly. They were covered in bites and complained of bizarre rodents, and plenty of them!
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News is returned to the ring, and the remainder of the thanes are sent out to eliminate the problem. We'll not let those rats get the best of us!

We lost a good man, but he'll be remembered when we tell the tale of how the creatures lost their lives!
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Speaking of naivete, several were heard grumbling that nothing of value was found in the cave. Not even a measly piece of silver...

...but it seems that virtue has many rewards in store, even if the fanged armadillos didn't. The Wildcat clan heard of our exploits and sent an emissary to honor our victory, offering 16 cows worth of goods as a testament of their good will. We were overjoyed by the welcome and invited their thanes to share in a feast!
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Come earth season, a trade mission is sent to the Vostang clan. We offer them goods and horses for cattle and food. For 40 cows worth of goods and a few horses, we negotiated a sum of 27 cows and 100 bushels of crops. Upon the return trip, the caravan stumbles upon something wondrous, the Raven Banner of Humakt! The thanes escorting the caravan sequester away the banner and bring it back to the clan ring, who in turn decide that no other clan can be trusted with such a powerful weapon. They assure the thanes it will only fly under the most dire of circumstances, but nonetheless the mood is somewhat morose amongst the retainers of the clan for a while, and the clan ring are left to ponder how such things came to this strange land they've set out into...
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Unfortunately, clearing extra land and allotting our clan rituals to the crops was not enough to please the Gods. We've a bad harvest already, and are fortunate to have traded for food and cattle. This is an ill omen, and a bad sign for what this new land might hold for us.

In the dark season, things should be quiet, but it seems that some amongst our clan are not content with what they have. A scandal is going about the village, and accusations of adultery have been leveled at one of our carls. Such a happening would normally be an offense to a man's honor, but something even more foul is afoot. The carl was accusing his wife of lying with his nephew, an offense to the gods and our ancestor's alike! In spite of the gravity of this offense, the clan ring is careful to observe due process. An official divination is conducted to confirm the guilt of the accused parties. Our ancestral spirits answered with disgust, and bid the ring to uphold the law, and place them outside of it. Bawdy tales and cruel jokes are heard for some time afterward, they suffer considerably for their transgressions without the law to protect them.
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An expedition sent out in the Earth season brings news of a Wyrm's cave in the Quivin mountains. Rostakos said that the Korani had never dealt with dragons, and they weren't about to start. However, not all of the clan ring agreed. After some argument on the matter, Enastarra suggested a third option, 'Let's sell the map to the Squat Oak clan for 30 cows worth of goods. A goodly sum, and the prudent course for our scarce time.' Feeling wearied by the troubles of late, the proposition seemed to give some small respite.

But it didn't last long, the dreaded Raven Banner of Humakt went missing. The diviners gave vague portents...in a pile of gold...no harm will come to those who find it...

...so six thanes and three times again as many carls were sent in search of it.
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The diviners were wrong, and six men were slain battling the troll who managed to steal it away. How this happened without the notice of any of our kinsmen has roused some suspicion of our own. Other still, worry that it could be yet another curse the banner carries, and have petitioned to be rid of it.

So it was, the first year in Dragon Pass behind them, the Korani square their shoulders to the challenges that lie ahead...
 

Lindblum

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You know this would be a lot more fun if you let us vote.
I know that there is no pause feature and save scumming will cycle the RNG of events but still.

Also Raven banner this early!? Game set and won.
 

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Sir. Good Luck. My prayers be with you.
 

RK47

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You know this would be a lot more fun if you let us vote.
I know that there is no pause feature and save scumming will cycle the RNG of events but still.

Also Raven banner this early!? Game set and won.

:hmmm: Leaving it to vote will lead to epic tears and tales of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Majestic spectacle, if it ever happens.
 

Lindblum

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You know this would be a lot more fun if you let us vote.
I know that there is no pause feature and save scumming will cycle the RNG of events but still.

Also Raven banner this early!? Game set and won.

:hmmm: Leaving it to vote will lead to epic tears and tales of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Majestic spectacle, if it ever happens.
That was if he didn't have the Raven Banner, guaranteed victory in any fight for the price of 1 warrior.

Its such a waste this game was practically designed to be vote Lp'd.
 

RK47

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NEVER MIND. HAPSICORD IF U ARE A WAR PONY - KILL THEM ALL NAO. :mob:
 

Lindblum

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Bad harvest and having to barter for food how low and disgusting.

This is a sign from Hakumat himself take to WAR! If an Orlanthi cannot protect his herd he doesn't deserve it.
 

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1330 - Sacred Time, the time of rituals and omens, the time when we learn of the year to come. This year, we would be wise to learn from the year that's passed.

We lost a little bit of food last year, but our craftsmen were productive, and we had enough to make it through the dark and storm seasons without turning to slaughter. A watch tower was also built in the Dark season, lightening the spirits of the thanes, if only a little bit.
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The rituals are in order, hoping for the best in 1330.
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On the first expedition of the year, trouble rears it's head. After a struggle with some some savage boar riding subhumans, one of our carls is missing. In accordance with the law, we refuse to conduct a funeral ceremony. So long as there is no body, we can not entreat the spirits to see to his fate after death. If it makes you feel any better, he might just make it back one day! Hope is kept alive that perhaps he'll turn back up...
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...but a season passes and we don't hear from him, life going on nonetheless. In the early part of the Fire season, the Konthasos approached to collect a favor we were given upon first settling. They were going to be raiding the Greenwings soon, and were demanding our assistance. In line with the increasingly cautious approach this land has lent them, the Clan Ring reached the decision to give the Konthasos a cow and fifteen cows worth of goods to sacrifice to the gods of their choice. Our rationale being that it would honor the gods and our obligation alike.
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They seem pleased with this, and the gods favored them well. Their raid on the Greenwings was swift and brutal, and we received many goods more than we sacrificed to the gods of war.
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During the Earth season, our thanes assembled and complained they were too few. Reviewing their options, the Clan Ring concluded that Enastarra would be best suited to finding good candidates from the nearby clans. So she was sent to search for four seasons, and the thanes were appeased for the time. Oddly enough, toward the end of the Earth season, a strange man appears in the tula. He claims to be the carl who went missing in the Sea season!
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He looked very strange though. The Clan Ring interrogated him thoroughly, and came to the cautious majority that he was indeed Thadart, their kinsmen. After a short period of tense silence, Hend made mirth of all the worry, and asked, 'Why the puzzling? We convinced everyone to hold out for him!' It was then unanimously agreed that they would introduce him back to the clan, and use this as an example of the virtue of the law and the canny leadership of the Clan Ring. The clansmen accepted him back with open arms, with most seeming to say that he just couldn't be anyone other than Thadart, regardless of how he looks. Though a very few expressed concerns over a curse, they were drowned out by the joyful reunion.
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Shortly there after, one of our bands sent on an expedition came back with news of Duckmen. Yes, ducks that stand almost as tall a man and who tend to the soil, have a settlement just a day and a half's walk away. This is first dismissed as ridiculous but after much insistence upon the band who delivered the report, a special order was given and a lone scout confirmed their testimony once more. After initial talk of a raid died down upon discovering that most of the thanes were still on expedition, and we were at the height of Earth season's harvest, a less radical plan was enacted. Our remaining two thanes would go out and negotiate a form of tribute, some of their crops for our protection. This would let us make do until we could come up with a more 'permanent' solution to the 'duck' problem.
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Bluster was more than enough to get what we wanted out of them for now. The Clan ring all agreed that they could look forward to the easy fight next Fire season.

As the Dark season began to set in, our trading expedition came back for the cold seasons. They brought with them hundreds of bushels of food and a half a dozen cattle for the goods and horses we'd traded out. Thanks to the blessings of the gods, it would be in surplus to the entirely acceptable fortunes they'd had with the crops this year. Maybe things aren't so bad in Dragon Pass after all? You just gotta learn the ropes, amirite?

The thralls are grumbling, miserable lot. We treat them as well as they ever deserved. The Carls told us they were behaving rebelliously, and as the law compels us, we took it seriously. That should teach the heaps a lesson.
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As if we didn't have enough trouble from threats around us, we've miscreants within. It's Heorl, the man who's wife and nephew were outlawed, and he's breaking into one of our steads. The stead with, you know, the Raven Banner in it. We can't put up with this shit, not for even a moment. You're in trouble Heorl, we treated you well and you turned around and treated us wrong. He's killed on the spot. Good riddance to bad rubbish! The Storm season passes without event, and we find the second year nowhere near as harrowing as the first. Indeed, it seems to have been a time of growth, and the healing of wounds.
 

Harpsichord

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Also, no I'm sorry I'm not going to do a vote LP. I'm really new to the game and I'm having fun larping different 'personalities' for tribes. Maybe I'll play my second game that way if people show a reasonable amount of interest in that. We can play that one on hard or something.

I'm likely not going to end up abusing the Raven Banner on account of said larping either.
 

RK47

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It's still good. Too bad I'm out of work soon...would be nice to keep reading it and whiling away the hours. :)
 

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It's interesting how he's playing completely uptight
 

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1331, Sacred Time, we find ourselves beginning our third year in the pass. We produced much more food than we consumed last year, a wonderful sign given that we only had a mediocre harvest. The extra land cleared is paying dividends already.
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Our clan magic is also strong, and we've plenty left in reserve after performing the usual rituals to bring health, food, and good reputation.
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It's not entirely rosy though, we're short on thanes. Thankfully, our trust in Enastarra was well placed, and she arrives at the end of the Sea season with eleven trustworthy thanes in tow. Much to our relief, they're fully equipped. As is custom, our first expedition departed with the new year. A Konthasos thane arrives in Fire season, asking for information about the gods. We honestly informed him that we didn't have the knowledge he sought, and apologized for his wasted time in the journey. Shortly after he left, we made plans to raid the Greenwings cattle herd, and picked up another 26 head for our troubles, none the wiser. Unfortunately, we also fear that Jarosar will and his band will not be returning from the expedition of last Fire season, some members of the clan ring express outrage and say that Vinga is punishing our irreverence.

Toward the end of Fire season, a scandal arises regarding one of our maid's. It seems that she's been wooed by the notorious womanizer known as Korol of the White Horse clan. While this normally wouldn't draw the attention of the Clan Ring, she is already betrothed to a Rangdani man, and this could look bad on us should he discover that she's damaged goods. Seeing no real choice, or way to hide the obvious fact, the Clan Ring decides that the only way to salvage any honor would be to inform the Rangdani of the breach, and hope for the best.
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Thankfully, all is understood, and the groom to seems to think it's only sensible that people want in his wife to be's honeypot. We think this an awful restrained attitude, but are appreciative of his lack of fuss nonetheless.
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The Odayla worshiping Rastanti show up in the Earth season to sell us a ritual blessing of our woodlands. We don't feel it appropriate to use rituals in such a transparently mercantile way, and refuse their 'generosity.' They took some offense and skulked off, complaining of our reluctance to honor the Gods. We couldn't be bothered, what do the Rastanti know of honor?Come the Dark season, we find Jorator of the Rangdani in our halls, complaining that his wife wasn't a virgin no less! We're astounded to learn that he thinks we were just trying to put him off the marriage, and evidently didn't think us serious. He's deeply offended that we went through the marriage, and says it would be an offense to the honor of his clan should we not compensate him for her infidelity! It would seem that Korol left her with child, one of many bastards he's sown across the pass.

While we do not wish to seek trouble, this man has no legal basis to his claim at all. We inform him that above all, the Korani adhere to the law, and it should be known that our words are true and plain. Our only regret is that our kinswoman married a buffoon, and we let him know as much when we banish him from our hall. Both our people and the Rangdani alike told stories of his foolishness for some time to come.
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Come the Storm season, we hear many rumors that the Greenwings have amassed the greatest band of thanes in Dragon Pass. We can only hope that this is idle talk, for we've been feuding with them for some time. Perhaps it is time to make peace...

1332, Sacred Time, 1331 was a year in which we seemed to hit a stride. Food was plentiful, but goods were short. We have a significant band of thanes in our retinue, and are getting good gains from our land. Still, some in the Clan Ring worry that things might be a bit too quiet, and that we could be facing hard times ahead.
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Concerned with the Greenwings renewed militancy, we petition our ancestors and gods to bring us luck in war. Our clan magic is still strong, and we've some left to allocate or barter with, even after covering our bases.
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It isn't long before trouble finds us either. One of our carls, Enerin, was found murdered in a secluded corner of our tula. In line with due process, we promptly conducted a divination. They returned grim news, the Varmandi had taken his life...
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...and so we launched a legal claim in an attempt to let them redeem their honor. As we suspected, they have none at all. They denied the allegations in full, and refused to pay the weregild we were rightly owed.
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There is only one recourse now, come the Fire season, blood will repay blood. We send word to our allies, the Rangdani, and they joyfully send warriors to aid in our vengeance. We set out to burn down their steads, and kill a good number of them in the process!
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Outnumbered, outclassed, and in the wrong, the Varmandi suffer terribly for their transgressions! Glory to Elmal! Glory to Orlanth! Glory to Humakt! Glory to Rangdani! Glory to Korani! Our honor is satisfied this day! Two steads were burned, and ten of them fallen, with many more bitten by our spears. A mere taste of what's to come, should they ever cross us again the blow will be harder again.

But as we are out on the warpath, the Squat Oaks make the unwise decision to raid our steads. Traitorous dogs! Fearing for their lives and steads, a brave thane takes up the Raven Banner and rallies the remainder of the fyrd...
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...and so the banner's prophecy held true. The brave thane who bore it was found dead after the battle, but many more Squat Oaks lay fallen than Korani.
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As fortune would have it, wandering shamans found their way to our tula as the dust settled. We paid them handsomely to heal our wounded fyrd and the thanes who were returning. Back to full strength, we wasted no time in retaliating against the Squat Oaks, that we laid many of them low does not redeem them of their offense in tresspassing here! This time we call upon the Red Foxes to aid us, and they honor their call. We move openly toward the Squat Oaks' tula, and they stand ready on the field when we arrive.
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In spite of superior tactics and the favor of the spirits, we were not able to drive them from the field. No matter, we laid many low as we did at our tula, and all of our own thanes walked away unharmed. With Earth season upon us, and the cold times coming soon, they would be foolish to strike back with any haste, though many thanes were heard hoping that they did.
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Come harvest time, we are visited by the priestesses of Uralda. We give them a few cows as a gift, and they offer their blessing in return.
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We've a huge surplus of food, so we decide to throw a great feast, and invite all of our neighbors before the Dark season sets in. Drink and merriment were had in the name of our victories this Fire season, and we and our neighbors bid woe to any and all who came after us. A well earned celebration to our bloodiest year in the pass.


SCO said:
:roll:
 

XenomorphII

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I want this game so much. It is a shame that it still isn't available digitally (at least as far as I know, feel free to correct me).
 

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