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I once walked across a beautiful meadow, filled with colour and joy. I took in a breath of the clean fresh air, and watched as the birds chirped down at me from the skies high above.

Oh ye and as well as the winner there will also be rewards for:

R*tard of the Ages

Opressor of Happiness

King of Hippydom

Graceful Ruler

etc. And the results will be determined by the answers you give, as I will make a daily graph of %s in each one.

Name: Karzun Demonsul
Age: 20ies
Personality: Black. Hardly ventures out of his fortress, but very quick tongued and sometimes explosive.
Description: Tall, thin, in a black cloak. Always carries a sword and wears armor under his cloak.
Story:
Demonsul is a member of one of the higher circles of one of the groups that sprang up during the Overlord's decline. However, he decided to dissolve the group and take command of all their resources. Setting about building himself a large black fort, he quickly established military control of his area. Although it is almost entirely wasteland, the barren landscape will serve as his starting point as he sets out to conquer the world. He even established a secret military force, known as the Black Cloaks, to do his bidding behind the backs of others.
He now sits upon a black throne in a black hall in his (half-finished) black fortress, awaiting the first challenges of his rule...

Name: Killer
Age: Unknown
Personality: Wise, and a fair enough leader, but crinimals are harshly punished, there are high taxes, and any enemy captured is tortured and subdued, and then sent out to work in fields to farm.
Description: Stands five foot seven above the ground, but other than that, it is unknown what he looks like, for he wears a long cloak with a hood and the hood is long and shadows his face. Apart from that it is thought that he is thin. Many rumours circulate about the face behind the mask.
Story: His past before becoming a ruler are unknown. He somehow became the leader of a small town, killing any threat to his rule. He built a large army for the size of what the town was, little more than a village, near four hundred of the one thousand population. He rules fairly, but it is unknown for how long that will continue.

I refuse to join this, due to the fact I fight for good.  I'll join if I can kill the evil people. :-)  Just kidding.

Samulis (my charicter) fights for good, but this is his mad great-great-grandson. It's simple, have one of your decendants do it.

                                             Day One

(Everyone currently owns one village, fortresses are currently not allowed until either more land is owned or your village grows. Though half fortresses are possible through the marvels of slave labour lol.)

You walk across a narrow bridge, suddenly you are approached by a bright light. It seems to be riding a horse and begins to draw out its sword. The light begins to dim and you recognise the face as the freedom fighter leader. They fight to break your cruel rule over the village, and bring back peace and prosperity. This is indeed a problem on your way to world domination, famine, and misery. How will you approach this situation?

1. Bribe him to leave you alone.
2. Bring out your sword and challenge him.
3. Call out for assistance from the nearby slaves.
4. Ask politely if he could leave you alone.
5. Punch him in the stomach.
6. Flee.

Choose wisely...

(When you've decided on your answer make sure to type up a before story, eg. I was walking across my village, making sure the slaves were all working, executing any that looked slightly happy, when I come across a bright light. As it started to approach me i realized it was riding on a horse. As it drew out its sword i recognized it as a freedom fighter. I decided to deal with him in this best way possible. I called out for help from the nearby slaves. )

(atm you only have a handful of soldiers, and they are quite a distance away, in the future depending on choices you will see your village and lands grow along with more soldiers etc. You'll find out what your answer brings tommorrow, and shortly after another question will be given. If you got particularly bad luck you could be killed or your character temporarily left without a village or desciples.)

The mad king stood there, whipping the slaves who were slow. He had to get enough stone by tommarow, or else his village would never get their walls needed. In the distance rode a single rider, it seemed to be not Rugvak, but a foreginer. He welcomed the soldier in, and as the soldier rode up, he asked what his business was. The soldier, who was sent to kill the King thought that he could really be a nice person. He got off his horse, and came up, hand on blade, ready to kill him when he got close enough. In a flash, the King knocked his sword aside with his gauntlet, and drew his sword, prepared to cut off his head. He didn't, and feited to the left as the assasin spun to get at his heart, parrying the assasin's blade as he feinted. He did a low, and quick swing towards the mans leg, and pulled it out from under him. He turned to the slaves, "This is what happens to those who dare defy me. Fail and  you will get this..." (to be continued)

2.5. Bring out your sword and 'challange' him. (use terror wepons on slaves...)

yeah... that's what I ment. but it is part of both.

Braggi was walking along the wall of his village, the people of the village had chosen him to lead them and now the goblins were rumored to be planing an attack. Braggi went a bit out the village when he saw a man riding towards him. Braggi greeted him and asked. Who are you and what are you doing here? But the man kept riding towards him and at the last moment he saw a blade and merly ducked the blow. I dont care who you are but im killing you for this! Braggi yelled at the man while drawing his blade. Give it your best shot. The man said while going of the horse. He charged against Braggi who easily blocked the blow and kicked him down, the man got back back on his feet bit slowly, Braggi charged at him and quickly hit his sword to the side and stabbed him in the heart. I dont know why he attacked me but i seem to be cougth up in some wierd mess. Braggi thougth while going back inside the village

2. Bring out your sword and challenge him.

Outcomes of Day

1. Bribe him to leave you alone : You corrupt him with ideas of unthinkable ammounts of gold to his peasent mind, and as you escort him to the vault in come your loyal minions you planned for. Bye bye freedom fighter, HELLO dictatorship.
2. Bring out your sword and challenge him : Sword? I never said you had a sword with you did i now? You are still only a village remember? You go to draw out the  imaginary sword only to get your hand chopped off when you thought you were blocking. Lucky for you the guy fainted when he saw the blue blood pouring out.You survive but only just...Lets just hope you can get those slaves of yours to build a new wooden hand.
3. Call out for assistance from the nearby slaves : The people you've suppressed and cut down if they show any happiness? Doubt it...
4. Ask politely if he could leave you alone : He hates you, your rule, and thinks you've ruined his village, you probly should have through that one through alittle.
5. Punch him in the stomach : You punch him in the stomach only to hit into a solid plate of steel armor, your hand is broken and you are struck down. 
6. Flee : He mounts back onto his horse and chases you down, and cuts you to pieces.

We don't have swords? Come on... We've got 1,000 gold coins and can't afford a sword? Also, blood's red unless it's deoxygenated.

Day 2

As I moped around my cosy but evil little home, licking my wounds from the prior day, I thought, "Hey, wouldn't it have been great to have had a sword at that time?". But I then thought, "Maybe a bow and arrow would have been even more effective than the sword? Or maybe a shield?!? I could have blocked the attack, that would have been great! But the problem is, I can only afford one of these...Hmmm, which should I choose...?"

1. Sword.
2. Bow and arrow.
3. Shield.

(A couple hours after you have decided and acquired what you decided on.) 

Minion Master:Sire the slaves are revolting!

You: Aren't they always?

Minion Master: Well ye, but this time its because they're attacking!

You: OH CRUD!! THEY'LL PAY!! Minions Assemble!!

1. Leave your minions to do the work.
2. Have a change of mind and call your minions off so you can face the slaves alone.
3. Charge into battle along side your minions.
4. Declare a free candy day and hope it entices the slaves to love your rule.
5. Call for negotiations.
6. Pray to satan.
7. Retreat.

kl, you're one day behind but as no one chose the best answer it only means 10 less slaves atm. Choose from todays answers, and scroll up if you need to see how you're meant to answer. Also everyone so far as learnt that I may play tricks and chop off your hand as a result lol.

Having wanted to buy a bow till he noticed that it only came with one arrow, Anubis bought a sword.  Merely moments after buying it however, his minion master rushed in with the news of a slave attack.  Calling for his minions to assemble he quickly assessed his options.  If he let his minions do the work, they could be massacred even though better armed, facing them alone was laughable (read how to become an evil overlord in the hangaround), charging into battle carried the risk of injury to himself, bribing the slaves was no doubt to late by now, negotiations might work if handled right, being the son of a god Anubis knew that prayers are overrated, and retreating was for cowards.  Forming his plan, he set up his minions in proper ranks and rows in the most defensable area, and prepared them for war in case his plan did not work.  Then he sent a herald out telling the slaves that he was sorry, and had seen the light of goodness.  Not two mintutes before an angel had come down and now he saw the wickedness of his ways, and if the former slaves would agree to negotiations he would see to it that everyone would live in a prosperous world of equality.  Weak from lack of food, having no real weapons, and facing an easy way out, the slaves agreed and their leaders met with Anubis to talk.  Cleverly though, Anubis put poison (one that Anubis was immune to) in his own drink and near the end of the discussion, told the leaders that as a symbol of their new brotherhood and trust they everyone should mix their drinks together then drink them to signify that they would share everything, wealth and poverty alike.  After this was done and the leaders fell dead; however, Anubis in a fake rage declared that the leaders had tried to kill him and since the slaves couldn't be trusted they should be enslaved.  Leaderless and unprepared, the slaves fell easily to the assault and were again captured.  This time better guards were put over them to insure it didn't happen again.

after thinking it well over Braggi decides to buy a bow, he goes to the market and finds a nice sturdy one and is on his way to train a bit cause it has been  while sinse he has been able to shoot one when his second in command comes running to him.

Sire the slaves are revolting!

Arent they always? Braggi asked.

Well ye, but this time its because they´re attacking! 

OH CRUD!! THEY'LL PAY!! Guards Assemble! Well retreat to the town hall where its better to defend, but try not to kill them unless forced too, after all they are the work labor around here. Braggi took place behind his guards and readied him self for the upkoming attack

7. Retreat

     The mad king decided to get a Sword, for it was the weapon he learned to fight with when he used to be a not-mad prince. He spent the next couple hours training with is minions, whom had become very good fighters with spear, sword, and bow. He ordered 10 slaves to craft arrows and hunt birds to make fletching. He also ordered another 10 slaves to set up a forge and begin processing some ore they had found mining the stone [in the last post].

     He had just finished his touches on the first room of the small tower taking shape when his lead minion came in, and told him the slaves were attacking. He quckly decided that he should 'reward' them. He sent out a minion with a proclimation to post by the slaves quarters saying that it was free candy day. The slaves were told to come to the tower to get their free candy. All the slaves showed up and were forced into a line and searched, the minions claming that if they had no weapons on them, they would get free candy. All the conspiritors who had weapons gave them to the minions, still wanting candy. The conspiritors were quickly tied by 3 minions, while the other 4 blocked off all excape passages. The mad king came out and gave each of the conspiritors a choice: Revolt, and be killed now, or get work hard and get 'free candy'. The other slaves were given bread that looked like candy made by the 2 chiefs in the kitchen (basicly, given their dinner that had goat blood mixed in instead of horse dung). The slaves thought it was candy, and because of the Placebo effect, they acted as if they were eating candy. The conspiritors quckly swore allegance and ate their bread. They were all released and told that if they did a good job, they may get more candy.

Result: Slaves liked the king more,the king got to get rid of all the goat blood (and dead slave blood), he never had to fight them, the king got all their weapons, and the slaves worked harder.

Problems: it costs 5 wild animals more to feed the slaves each week or so.

I thought RP-ing was about making stories, not only listening to them.

Name: Emperor Morning
Age:15
Personality: Like's to rule things, and is asian, hopes to one day create the Empire of the Rising Sun, ambitious, likes to micromanage and has goten to be good at it!
Description:Short stunt little being measuring only 5ft and 5 inches, but he makes up for his shortness with quick movements, and quick thinking
Story:My character started his life at an innocent homestead in Japan. He was always shorter than everybody else so he always had to to prove himself making his ambitious personality something that you wouldn't want to mess with, he plans to rule anything and everything. How he does it doesn't matter as long as he achieves his goals it doesn't matter what happens

Since when did we NOT have swords? If we have half finished castles I think we can have swords. Also; 'Description: Tall, thin, in a black cloak. Always carries a sword and wears armor under his cloak.' 'Description:Rigth over average hight and bit muscular always keeps a sword by his side and a bow on his back' so we did have swords. Whet happened to them is apparently a mystery.
And since when did we have enough cash to even PRETEND to bribe him? A small village can't generate more than a fi*beep*l of wealth, and that wont be enough to corrupt a freedom fighter, especially one that can afford to wear armor to avoid stomach punches. God, this RP needs better ideas...anyway, that's enough moaning at bad choices. On with the RP!

After buying himself a sword (finally), Demonsul heard cries of a revolt. Sending in his minions, Demonsul drew his shiny new sword, and using the skills he learned while wielding his sword that magically vanished, he went out to face the rebellion alongside his new troops. Although they only had construction tools from his fort's construction site to work with, he hoped that would be enough to overpower his pitifully underfed, unarmed and unskilled slaves.

3) Charge into battle along side your minions.

Results of Day 2

1. Leave your minions to do the work.
2. Have a change of mind and call your minions off so you can face the slaves alone.
3. Charge into battle alongside your minions.
4. Declare a free candy day and hope it entices the slaves to love your rule.
5. Call for negotiations.
6. Pray to Satan.
7. Retreat.

With Sword

1.       Your minions charge in alone against the revolting slaves. They are chopped up to pieces by the butcher shop slaves, and you are then chased out of your village.

2.       You march forward alone only to be thrown to the ground and killed seconds later. Not very clever...

3.       Nine minions and one evil overlord plunge forward,  into the ever-growing rebellion. Apparently seeing you and your “I’ll eat your babies” look on your face, nearly all of the able-to-fight slaves join in. You are surrounded and forced to accept their terms. All slaves are now freed and must now be addressed as citizens and paid an arranged minimum wage.  You lose 50% of your gold production.

4.       Candy hasn’t been invented yet genius. Your promises to cleanse the slave’s sweet teeth have met a dead end; all slaves are now more likely to riot in the future. Plus 30 Unrest.

5.       You fly the white flag of truce and meet with the ringleaders at your headquarters. They are promptly glued to their chairs, where they are tied up and heads put on pikes in the street... Slaves get back to work without further mischief, and everything goes back to normal.

6.       You get on your knees and pray to Satan for forgiveness for any sins you forgot to commit. Unfortunately Satan doesn’t take kindly to the whole “forgiveness” thing and you are shot down by a bolt of lightning.

7.       You run to high ground only to realize you’re holding a sword in your hand. Swords aren’t the best thing for defence, and after chucking it in a slaves eye in a foolish attempt to range kill him, you are slaughtered.

With Bow

1.       You send your minions forward to occupy the slaves while you pick them off one by one from a safe distance. After a lengthily battle you come out alive, only five minions less.

2.       Same as sword.

3.       You charge forward side by side with your minions, forgetting you are holding a bow. You attempt to hit people with it only to enrage them further. You are eliminated and your village freed.

4.       Same as sword.

5.       Same as sword.

6.       Same as sword.

7.       You get up to high ground with your minions, who hurried to arm themselves with nearby rocks and branches. The slaves are battered and give up on fear of more rocks. You lose ten slaves to your arrows.

With Shield.

1.       Same as sword.

2.       You go down on your knees and hold the shield above your head. Unfortunately the slaves just kick your sides until you surrender and get forced out.

3.       Charging into battle with no weapons is even dumber than charging in with a bow. You are stabbed in the heart and die soon after.

4.       Same as sword.

5.       Same as sword.

6.       Same as sword.

7.       You go to the high ground, and hold up your shield, while your minions batter the slaves with rocks and branches. Any slave that manages to reach the top is then locked out by your shield. The slaves surrender on condition of a “happy allowance” which states the slaves right to look or act happy on a determined day of the year.

Killer you only have nine minions, and you cant just batter and lock out 90 slaves with a shield lol.

Killer (Is dead for one day)

·         Total Slave Count-120.

·         Non-slaves-8.

·         Minions-5.

·         Weapons-Wood and stone.

·         Gold-1000 pieces.

Hero-No weapons or armour.

Bragi

·         Total Slave Count-110.

·         Non-slaves-12.

·         Minions-9.

·         Weapons-Wood and stone.

·         Gold-1000 pieces.

Hero-Bow

Samulis

·         Total Slave Count-120.

·         Non-slaves-12.

·         Minions-9.

·         Weapons-Wood and stone.

·         Gold-1000 pieces.

·         Unrest-30 (100 unrest = riot)

Hero-Sword

Demonsul

·         Total Slave Count-120

·         Non-slaves-12.

·         Minions-9.

·         Weapons-Wood and stone.

·         Gold-500 pieces.

Hero-Sword.

Morning

·         Total Slave Count-110

·         Non-slaves-12.

·         Minions-9.

·         Weapons-Wood and stone.

·         Gold-500 pieces.

Hero-Sword.

Anubis

·         Total Slave Count-110

·         Non-slaves-12.

·         Minions-9.

·         Weapons-Wood and stone.

·         Gold-1000 pieces.

Hero-Sword.

Well, at that point, the new RP I am planning will be far more successful. Sorry 'friend', but in a world where Blasts of Darkness only last for a few days, Demons rule the land.

Yay symbolism.

Errr... I'm guessing since I'm dead, I can't choose for this one?