Court martial? We would have been lucky to get graves.Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya
Court martial? We would have been lucky to get graves.
It was very much the latter.
The back story on all this is that the other group had managed to get their invasion on the NE Frontier going, and Phil had managed to out-think them and get behind them with a pretty huge force. They were good tactically, but tended to lose sight of the big picture. Phil had them dead to rights; we came swanning up the road and blew his ambush, and he had the perfect opportunity to exterminate all of his players in both groups in one fell swoop. It would have ended the invasion, which would have ended the war, and we'd all have to roll up new PCs. In effect, a double TPK.
The only survivor would have been Kathy / Vrisa, who still had to survive the politics in Yan Kor.
The stakes were absurdly high, the odds against us absurdly high, and Gronan let Phil have it right between the eyes. The Saintly Old Professor was grouchy for weeks afterwards...
Yes. Phil was very annoyed that Gronan had pulled it off in the face of overwhelming odds - he was also miffed that Gronan was also not spending his clan's money like the other group was.I'm just plugging through Flamesong, and I had to laugh at how you are described Most Glorious General. Both the terms "parsimonious" and "miserly" are attributed to you.You must have really pissed off Phil with your exploits in the game.
Didn't you mention in an earlier post that you trounced him on the battlefield? Would your victory at Mar also be part of the reason for Phil's wrath?
BTW, I also noticed that Captain Harchar is mentioned quite a few times. Were the Glorious General and Lord Chirine part of Captain Harchar's scheme to become the Governor of Mihallu?
The General wasn't on that little trip to Mihallu; the rest of us were. Dave would get the most off-the-wall ideas...
Kutume was both cheap and greedy. Korunme was thrifty, both in money and lives.
And was damn grateful, too....
Is this why I need to have a 'cast of characters' in the book?
Why would this bother him?
Also, did the other group ever thank you for saving their bacon?
This way, he wasn't racking up a list of favours to return.
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I looked back in the book, and you're right. I think I was getting confused by all of those "K's". Maybe Chirine should include a cast of characters listing for his book.
BTW, speaking of K characters, wasn't Karin Missum a PC as well? Judging how he's described in the novels, the player must have really enjoyed playing him over the top in Phil's games.
Shemek
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Missum was indeed a PC.
One OTHER day out in the desert I had a cohort of Legion of Red Devistation attached. We were guarding a small fortress. When the Milumanayani tribes attacked the attached NPC magic user stood outside the gates and threw a Doomkill... and Phil promptly rolled snake eyes out in the open, meaning the magic user dropped the Doomkill on his own feet, vaporizing himself... and the gates of the fortress.
Whereupon I turned to Karin Missum and said "Now I know why they gave me a cohort of Red Devistation."
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Perfect. Gotta love double ones, when the opposition rolls them.
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