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Post by Admin on May 28, 2023 22:09:21 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/RCLVpNY/colwyn~png "The locals, of course. Even though this place was already destroyed and deserted when we arrived. They may not want to live in this city, but they don't want anyone else to either.""I have no idea. They must be opposed to the King, yes? Why else would we have been stationed here? What word of them back in Amber?""The Black Road war, of course. Why would that not be obvious to you? What is happening out there?"
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Post by Maeve on May 28, 2023 22:29:30 GMT
"The Black Road war is over since a long time. King Eric died defending Amber, Prince Brand and Princess Deirdre died too decades ago. There was a battle at the End of the Black Road. Amber won and we had a peace treaty with the Courts of Chaos." Maeve answers.
[OOC How much time passed in Amber since the last battle of the Patternfall War?]
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Post by Lorelei on May 30, 2023 20:20:04 GMT
[OOC: based on Lorelei's age, and the fast that she has spent most of her life in Rebma, it's been roughly 25 years Amber-time since the treaty signing with the Courts at the end of the war...] .
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Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2023 3:26:31 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/RCLVpNY/colwyn~png OOC: 25 sounds about right. "You lie," Colwyn says flatly. "Corwin could never defeat our king in battle. I know it's a lie because you made up a foolish name for our foe. 'Courts of Chaos'? Couldn't you have invented something more convincing than that?
"We have only been here a few years, I'd estimate; there is no decades ago. Are you agents of Corwin's? Bleys? Brand? Any other traitor you wish to mention?"
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Post by Dirk on Jun 3, 2023 4:35:53 GMT
The unicorn? The Serpent? Or could we be free agents? That is a very good question. Isn't it?
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Post by Dionisia on Jun 3, 2023 4:44:06 GMT
Dio looks curiously at the people. Hearing Colwyn's words she nods solemnly.
"Time is a fickle thing especially on the edges of existence. I am sorry for your loss in time. Many things have changed.
I am from the Courts of Chaos. And since i am here, would mean that place exists as well.
It can boggle the mind knowing all places actually exists.
And in most time flows different.
Pergaps it is time for you to let this place go. And we all find a way out of here."
She looks at Maeve and Dirk with her ever swetlet smile.
"Or did i say to much?"
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Post by Maeve on Jun 3, 2023 7:21:55 GMT
Maeve is watching the reaction of Colwyn and those around.
Listening what the other say. Listening to the murmur of those around.
"Believe me or not General, but do not call me a liar." Her voice is polite and friendly. "Time can run faster or slower in shadow compare to Amber, as Lady Dionosia said. We are not allied with any of the three Princes you named.
To her friends it looks like she is back to the polite behavior she showed in Amber.
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Post by Dirk on Jun 4, 2023 16:05:24 GMT
Dirk nods, "Indeed, we are not aligned with any of the Princes. So we have a choice. To head deeper into shadow or to head closer to Amber to drop those off who want to return that way."
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Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2023 4:28:27 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/RCLVpNY/colwyn~png Colwyn stares at Dio with distaste. "You so casually admit to being an enemy of Amber? If the King is dead, then who has taken the throne?"
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Post by Dionisia on Jun 5, 2023 4:34:47 GMT
Dio smiles, her face calm as usual.
"Sir i admit to be of Chaos. But i am far from an enemy.
As my friends had said. The war is over. They are no longer enemies. I have no ill intend towards Amber, towards Chaos.
And to be honest, it seems you are all here in a bit of a pickle and could use all the help. I wouldn't mind to help you."
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Post by Maeve on Jun 5, 2023 5:25:55 GMT
Maeve looks at Colwyn. "The Unicorn made a choice and choose Prince Random, but he too died recently in an explosion. Right now Princess Flora act as Regent till a new King or Queen is being named."
Maeve continues to keep a part of her attention at those around her. She also watches 'Bob' and his reactions to all of this.
"Dio , Dirk, I know you mean to be kind by your offer to those soldiers. But they got an order by the King of Amber and only the King of Amber or The Regent can recall them or relieve them from their duty. Telling them to come with us is asking them to desert their post, it is asking to them to cast aside honor and disgrace all they fought and died for. The reason King Eric send them here is not know to us and might persist independent of the Black Road War."
She truns back to Colwyn. "I can offer my help to fend off your enemy General and when I return to Amber or get a chance to get into contact with the Regent I will inform her about your situation."
"Do you have by chance any prisoner from former attacks?"
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2023 4:29:25 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/RCLVpNY/colwyn~png Colwyn rears his head back and laughs loudly when Maeve mentions Random and Flora. "I am beginning to understand," he says when the laughing stops and he wipes a tear from his eye. "King Eric had no wish to sacrifice Droppa, so he sent you understudy comedians to entertain us in our final hours. I know Random of old, and he is unfit even to collect Amber's bedpans, let alone run the place! And you added Florimel too!
"Riot!" he adds, clutching his sides in mirth. He then sobers up. "But now the time of mirth has passed. If you know how to use those weapons, then join us in our final battle. If you'd rather sightsee, the thing is over there."He points to the dark smudge in the air, closer to the centre of the city.
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Post by Maeve on Jun 15, 2023 6:01:27 GMT
[OOC the Genereal said he expected that attack to be in the next few days?
How far is the smudge away?
And what can be seen from her when using a invisible logrus lens looking at the smudge and surrounding.]
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2023 6:24:19 GMT
Maeve can't seem to bring the Logrus to her mind. The smudge is an hour's walk, but it might talk longer depending on how rough the roads are through this shattered city.
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Post by Maeve on Jun 15, 2023 6:55:00 GMT
"When do you expect them to attack, you said in the next days. The city center look not like it is away more then an hour." Maeve asks
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