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    Oh if that is the case then I have interpreted the rule wrongly and will replay my turn
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    Have reuploaded the save. Apologies Peaman if you already started playing the turn.

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    20 years in game and 40 turns played.. good job all!



    It was a cold winter's night and the land was covered in snow when the Irish fleet arrived at the port of Dublin bringing home thousands of Irishmen who fought at Castletown and in Wales under their High King who now disembarked and after sending his men home to their families for the winter he rides hard for Dublin city with his guard following..

    In Dublin the bells rang and at midnight and the people feasted as the first of the High Kings grandson's, Prince Griffon son of the late heir Prince Domnhall son of High King Brian came of age and all his sparring with swords, training with the bow and war games have taken hold on the young Irish Prince, though he is yet to be tested in battle he has a good mind for warfare and will be more chivalrous than his dreaded grandfather...


    It was during the feast for his 16th name day in the hall of kings in Dublin that a rider arrived with word that his grandfather was riding for the capital and orders the city prepare for his return...

    The young Prince was eager to be reunited with his grandfather and to join him in Wales when he returns though the two were as different as day and night with the High king being a ruler who knows the power of fear and to be merciless while the Prince was young and wanted to do things differently having the support of his 2 royal cousins who would stand behind their friend..

    It was at dawn when High King Brian and his retinue came within view of the walls of Dublin.. something he thought he would never see again though he was glad to be home on the emerald Isles but it was yet to be seen if his return would be welcomed or cursed as under Brian many had died on all sides..

    With High King Brian coming to the end of his lifespan some in the Kingdom are glad that the crown will fall to a strong yet just leader under griffon and a new hope that he will lead Eire into a golden age..

    High King Brian at the age of 58 knows he does't have long left to live..





    Wales up - https://www.mediafire.com/file/qq73qnqx6i8p71w/TIOC_Wales_40.sav/file

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    Quote Originally Posted by Turkafinwë View Post
    Have reuploaded the save. Apologies Peaman if you already started playing the turn.
    No worries I didn't play the turn yet anyways.

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    The small army of the Norwegian prince is defeated with overwhelming odds, finally ending the fighting at Aberdeen. A Norwegian spy is also assassinated. I'm guess it was kicked out of Perth because it was standing there visible when I opened the turn.

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    Sorry for the late reply and short RP, I had a particularly busy week.
    Onwards.


    Somewhere near the port of Inverness...
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    "Crossbows ready on my order!!
    Riders, identify yourself or be impaled on the spot!!"


    The tower guard was menacing as his eyes set upon the tens of riders, bloodied and with ragged armour, approaching the city walls.

    "Open the gates to your Prince, soldier!"
    Prince Inge's first officer identified himself.

    "Prince Inge is alive. He is back!"
    Magnus's servant announced him the news.

    Magnus rose to hs feet and immediately asked "how many survivors?"

    "Not much Sire, not much..."

    The loss of Aberdeen after heroic courage and abnegation by the Vikings brought Magnus and Inge much hate form the populace.
    The nobles also deemed the loss of life useless.

    The influence of King Magnus was waning as fresh warlords arrived fro mainland Norway with ambitions of their own.
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    The Barons are next: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ndaod6hk6j6uuoj/TIOC_Barons_40.sav/file
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    In the winter of 1297AD , the kingdom of England struck back at the northern shires , attacking by assault the city of Norwich, fields were burnt , and the populace brought back under the crowns control, much to the objections of the peasantry, who had been given more rights under the command of the northern shires. The northern navy which had sent reinforcements of foot to mount a counterattack, had been repulsed by a English royal navy , pushing them back and the prospects for the barons countermove in that part of England was certainly in doubt. To counter the threat another navy at York [previous intended to be sent northwards on crusade] removed the sign of the cross from the ships sails and sailed against the English fleet of the eastern coast , as a naval contest for the eastern waters of England took place. Both sides took bloody casualties, as Englishmen in both ships lost there lives, to booms and ship masts falling down after artillery hits , crushing some sailors on the hull, whilst sending others off the sides of the ships to drown in the waters.

    But the northern shires fleet from York was found to be triumphant after the battle , with the royalist ships limping southwards , whilst the northern shires held the waters , for now protecting the remainder of there troops, on the damaged transport fleet which had been previously targeted.

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    In the west however, Henry of Lancaster raged at the news , of the actions of Edmund the Mad, and had to be seen to be making good of some type of retaliation against the MadKing and his domain of Chester [of which there was another score to be made]. Spies were sent out , and the surrounding English cities seemed a little weak, whilst the English throne was taking action in the east [and the far west in defence of welsh lands] and so Henry called for the army of Lancaster to be mobilised , to teach this upstart king a good lession .

    Firstly though , a lone knight [he had returned!] asked that he would be given permission to regain his previously captured holdings at the castle [fort] at Flint , [northern wales] if he could be lent some forces, to correct the actions of the king in recapturing his new domain. Henry grinned mischievously at such news and granted the knight a few scraps of his command , that were perhaps good enough , to complete such a task without diminishing his effort to the south. The new task force , consisted of the lone knight again , at the head of the army , with seventeen feudal knights of horse in heavy armour , a full company of mailed knights with a escort of a company of light horse. The force, rode down though the chester valley and then headed westwards , and with a spies effort in damaging the gear that operated the gate, rode into Castle Flint [fort] which was held by a couple of score of welsh mercenary company's reinforced by a mere fifty spearmen militia.

    The fight in the courtyard was certainly bloody as the knight looking to regain what he considered his own domain , hacked and slashed at the spearmen and Welshmen below him on his horseback, with none of there blows from the ground , damaging the mighty knight. The small battlegroup began to tread and crush the spearmen using the horses against the men who tried to contain the small force in the courtyard, as it turned bloody , as body parts, where now being mixed into the muddy courtyard. Some of the lighter horsemen fell against the spearmen, who managed to dislodge the lesser armoured horsemen. But generally after a fierce melee , the courtyard was clear, but there where some persistence welsh mercenaries holding the wall. The heavier knights took the responsibility , dismounting slowly and leading a slow charge onto the walls. It was here in the spiral staircase that the lone knight met his end , climbing the stair slowly, with his limited visibility [damn those helmets] until a welsh mercenary with the height advantage thrust a javelin into his neck guard, felling the proud knight who topped back down the stairs, blocking that entrance, until he was taken away for healing [which was unnecessary , by the time , they did , dying from bloodloss]. The armoured knights pushed there ways onto the walls, seeking revenge, where the welsh were slowly pushed backwards, despite there axes and javelins ,against the heavier knights who fought with sword and shield. The was a slight reversal however, when one Welshmen feigned death , only to rise behind the English knights , and from his advantageous position cut three down of knights from the rear with his axe, and topped two from the wall, until he himself was cutdown but the end , was never in doubt, as the much heavier taskforce secured castle flint , securing the west, as the army of Henry of Lancaster marched southwards.

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    {I know this is for a Spanish theme, but the jingo perfectly suits Henrys rash aggressive theme here , and always loved this tune }

    The army of Lancaster soon reached the outskirts of Chester, were they begun to dig in siegelines , chopping down trees making siegeladders and other equipment to help with there own artillery superiority. The English thrones army had a mere catapult company [if you take the two components that were left] , where as the army of Lancaster had a catapult company of there own and a newer piece of technology in the new bombard, which was immediately sent to work with its slow rate of fire , to dismay the army in Chester.

    Further news had also reached Henry , that another noble of England , a certain , John deWarenne had appeared south of Chester [just appeared] , with his own retinue and a mercenary group [purchased from northern shires coppers using those welsh mercenaries to prove more fruitful and perhaps deny them to the crown] as he declared for the northern shires , as also it seemed that the King himself still resided in Chester surrounded by a mere company of heavy knights and the remainder garrison of town miltia.

    With the Siege ongoing , Henry [being a rather rash and implusive lord and subject to rages since a smash on the head] firstly had a package sent to the to the English king who seemed to be now isolated in Chester. When the English king opened it , he found it contained a noblewoman's dress and a note saying that the king could use the dress for balls in the town , as he didn't really need his armour {} .....the rest of the note was in a similar vein of what Henry was declaring to all of the kings forces [all those within earshot against the sound of the bombard firing] as he rode back and down the siegelines clasping his own banner , shouting out to his opponents forces , to all those of the king's men asking they take his offer, of a battle on the field [a online battle] if the King had but the courage to take it ....or like a craven dog the English king was [trying to provoke his opponent to see how mad he really was ..or to at least make him froth at the mouth ] , that he could sit out the fight wearing his new dress [I always loved this tactic {see utube vid below} , and wait for the summer, where the forces of Lancaster , would storm the city , and grasp for his crown from his dead hands.....

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    Turn to England
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/wckp149wh3...nd_41.sav?dl=0

    p.s the utube vid I refer to ..is a scene in the "Romance of the three kingdoms" ..or the battles within old china which was redone in 2010 and features the clever manevours and plots as KongMing and Sima Ya [as commanders of opposing forces] plot against each other and KongMing sends Sima Ya a dress to provoke him , hoping to enrage him and make him send out his army which has been forced onto the defensive....see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKohnAydgDg at around [23:55-30:35] for details if you like such things as strategy etc [enjoy]
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    Outstanding as usual man!

    One note though regarding the siege equipment.

    If The Mad King has a defensive catapult, you are countering it with yours.
    But you will need another to assault the stone walls as the bombard is considered a catapult, and thus need another bombard or catapult to breach the walls.

    I was reading the rules again and it says that bombards follow the same rules as the catapults.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Böse Wolf View Post
    Outstanding as usual man!

    One note though regarding the siege equipment.

    If The Mad King has a defensive catapult, you are countering it with yours.
    But you will need another to assault the stone walls as the bombard is considered a catapult, and thus need another bombard or catapult to breach the walls.

    I was reading the rules again and it says that bombards follow the same rules as the catapults.
    Yes indeed but I believe I only need one catapult to negate the rules "In addition, defending forces may include siege equipment in their own cities. If that is the case, you must match their siege equipment, as their equipment cancels out your own. If they have a catapult, you need to have one more catapult. If they have two catapults, you need a trebuchet to counter them and then use the amount of siege equipment required to breach the walls".....As England has only barely even a half a catapult company [19men +2men...as even in game, not sure 2men can operate a catapult?] I am assuming that counts as one catapult unit combined,rather than two...[we can leave that to admin if it requires a judgment] in which case the bombard [which counts as a catapult] as stated negates the extra catapult needed.....as for the rest I have more infantry than the English defences with the required siege equipment.....But all is in flux anyways as England could perhaps find the men to repulse the siege [he has done it before.... ]


    edit : ah , I see because Chester has been turned into a castle it now needs a additional [2 catapult effectively to take the walls as well as the one to negate the one..]..Well that is fine, [sighs -these rules ] as well ...I not going to change the turn because of these rules...I am also quite content to siege him out if needbe....
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    Quote Originally Posted by paladinbob123 View Post
    Yes indeed but I believe I only need one catapult to negate the rules "In addition, defending forces may include siege equipment in their own cities. If that is the case, you must match their siege equipment, as their equipment cancels out your own. If they have a catapult, you need to have one more catapult. If they have two catapults, you need a trebuchet to counter them and then use the amount of siege equipment required to breach the walls".....As England has only barely even a half a catapult company [19men +2men...as even in game, not sure 2men can operate a catapult?] I am assuming that counts as one catapult unit combined,rather than two...[we can leave that to admin if it requires a judgment] in which case the bombard [which counts as a catapult] as stated negates the extra catapult needed.....as for the rest I have more infantry than the English defences with the required siege equipment.....But all is in flux anyways as England could perhaps find the men to repulse the siege [he has done it before.... ]


    edit : ah , I see because Chester has been turned into a castle it now needs a additional [2 catapult effectively to take the walls as well as the one to negate the one..]..Well that is fine, [sighs -these rules ] as well ...I not going to change the turn because of these rules...I am also quite content to siege him out if needbe....
    Excellent RP, as usual! Seems I was just in time with turning Chester into a castle. May your men break upon this fortress like water on rock. You need at least 3 men to man 1 catapult in-game, I think. I don't know how the admin wants to look at said situation, in theory I have two catapult crews but the admin can decide otherwise. Of course I will stake my claim that I have indeed two catapult crews. (I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot here, I'll take any advantage I can get.)

    I wish I had your confidence in me in defending against such a grand invasion. Why do my generals keep betraying me, I am a kind and benevolent ruler. (I'll kill him first). Excuse me my inner Edmund came out. I'll try to play my turn today, if I can find the time, otherwise it won't be until Sunday (by which I mean in that case I humbly request an extension) that I can play the game. (I'm going to a beerfestival this friday till saturday evening for those who are interested ) As for your offer to do an online battle, I must graciously decline for I simply do not have the time to spend on it with RL butting in. I do thank you for the beautiful dress, I think I look quite fetching in it.
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    Henry of Lancaster had come and King Edmund could see his three-lioned banner waving above his tent when he walked the battlements. A banner so similar to that of Edmund's English Crown, the King remarked. They had called him mad when he had commissioned the construction of a castle in Chester. MAD! Look at them now, the town would never have stood against the artillery the enemy had brought but these castle walls would hold out for a long time. If Henry wanted to camp and prance around in front of his fortifications then let him, were the King's thoughts. He was not mad, he was a genius whatever they muttered behind his back.

    At the start of the siege a messenger had come to the gate asking for an audience with the King. He said he beared a gift from Henry to the King. This was of course denied but the package was taken from him to Edmund before he was sent on his merry way. It wasn't heavy but rather large, the courtiers in the hall were anxious to see what Henry had sent. As the King slowly started to unwrap this most gracious gift the crowd could see flashes of emerald green. The King unveiled the contents of the parsel, a noblewoman's dress and a note. All but one gasped for air at this grievous insult and the hall fell in complete silence. Then a soft chuckle disturbed the quiet hall, which suddenly rose to a roaring volume. Edmund laughed and laughed until they thought he was having a fit. Tears ran from the King's eyes as he took the dress in his hands, feeling the soft garb. Edmund wiped his eyes, his face red while his laughter came to a staggering halt, visibly being contained. None dared to break the King's reverie.

    "What are you going to reply, Your Grace?" one of them eventually dared say.

    Edmund looked him in the eye and said with a surprising stern gaze.

    "Go and fetch my tailor."

    "Your tailor, Your Grace?"

    "You heard correctly" the King said while rising from his chair.

    "Now please leave me." he added.

    As the room emptied, Edmund's voice rang again, as if a thought had just sprung in his mind, to call one of the scribes as well.

    "We must send our gratitude to dear Henry for his delightful gift. Can't forget our manners now can we." he muttered to himself.


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    Ireland: http://www.mediafire.com/file/3cnpdz...nd_41.sav/file
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    In Dublin the bells rang in celebration and the townsfolk rejoiced as Prince Sean, the eldest living son of High King Brian came of age and was to wed the Princess Caitriona, sister of the new heir Prince Griffon and daughter of the late Prince Domhnall who perished at Castletown..


    While the city celebrates the High King sets up camp at the port of Dublin and sends out his captains to gather men to him and the small camp soon becomes filled with men from all over the country.. from Downpatrick in the north came the hardy ulster swordsmens under their chief numbering around 600 men carrying huge great swords and clad in chainmail, from Cork came 450 deisi javelinmen and a company of 300 gaelic archers.. Unlike their northern kin the chief of Cork gave command of his troops to a captain and stayed behind to oversea the construction of the newly city watch which is being built in the settlement..

    While men were pouring in from north and south, Prince Griffon departs for Dublin in the pretext for attending his sisters wedding to his good friend and cousin.... The prince spent but a few hours at the feast before he was seen departing with 300 Irish Knights towards the fortress of Trimm which was currently garrisoning a formidable force, leaving the Prince Sean to govern Dublin while his father and nephew were away..

    Wales up - https://www.mediafire.com/file/ozlrnly1t2socgt/TIOC_Wales_41.sav/file
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    Subbed my ally, Scotland up - https://www.mediafire.com/file/o8qtd0whstbr45l/TIOC_Scotland_41.sav/file

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    At the Castle of Inverness...
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    "Any news on the unholy Crusade in the South?"
    Magnus was talking with Inge, questioning him about the fall of Aberdeen and the rumours of the imminent Crusade.

    Ever since Inge made it back to the safety of Inverness, he has been laying low.
    He lost more than a city.

    He lost hie ego.

    But Magnus was keen on restoring his morale.

    He needs him strong as ever for the future crucial steps that will determine the fate of the Norse presence in Britannia...




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    The summer of 1298AD found the war escalated with news from the south as the newly appointed Earl of Leceister rebelled against the crown bringing all forces to bear, whilst the Mad King was confined at Chester. The Earldom of Leceister was previously the estate of the late Simon de Montfort, and with his demise , was given to the kings son , Edmund to keep things within the family. With the Mad kings elevation to monarch , the title was given to the next lowly noble of the province , who took over the estates to run on behalf of the king , as Brian Peckham became lord of Leceister. There was however much ill feeling , particularly after the peoples of the provinces had to suffer the indignities of the mad princeling and all his foibles . Combined with respect and love for the governorship of Simon [whilst he was alive], Brian found a great amount of support from the minor noble families of the region ,and assembled a mighty army , combined with revenues from some of those self named nobles of Leceister.

    The Barons of the northern shires , had received a note for gold to help this new rebellion in the south , and it was dully delivered , sneaked down though the forest areas, which still ran thought the centre of the country , to help the erstwhile Earl fund his new expeditionary attack to free himself from the Mad King's governorship. With the delivery of gold to the rebels down south, brought delays to the crusade to the north, as naval strength previously sent to the south to break the crowns fleet there , now moved northwards bringing with it artillery to reinforce the crusading army. More troops had been ordered, but delays now , were inevitable, with most of the previously picked finances now going to fund this new surprise in the south.



    The first thing this Earl did , with his new fortune and army was to march on the castle of Groby[first mentioned #634 P32 but not talked about] , to secure his flanks, and then he would be in a invaluable position to either strike out at Oxford, Nottingham or London making his new arrival into the fight , a rather special figure which the crown must face down...


    [Coat of arms of the Earl of Leceister]

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    Back around Chester the siege continued , with the Mad king making no moves, other to compliment Henry on his choosing of the dress he had sent. Frustrated Henry , allowed his second line of siege troops to sit around , cooking hot meals from field kitchens, allowing the cooking smells of meats and breads to waft across the fields and into the town of Chester to demoralise the people and troops within the old settlement.

    One frustrated noble , a young "Hugh" asked for troops to mount a counterattack on Flint castle which had fallen again to the English flag, mainly from English bought welsh mercenaries. Henry , needing some good news gave him the troops, he needed to preform the deed of another assault , which succeeded in recapturing the castle , from its English controlled masters . There were some problems in the nearby walled village of Flint near the castle[fort] as some of the nearby population where getting rather tired of the continual fighting around the castle and the resultant fallout of the occasional burnt thatched house. Indeed most of the mainly welsh population just wished that the attacking English [northern shires] and the welsh mercenary troops [England] could take there conflict elsewhere as most were struggling to make a living with the lasting conflict.

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    The other English noble, who had rebelled last season took his mercenary troops and joined in a attack which some welsh mercenary troops had mounted on Peveril castle [#521 P27] which was within the province of Chester and still being held by English troops. Hugh returned from his capture of Flint castle[fort] and was given some mercenary troops to hold the bridge over the river Dee which was a important strategic point to secure the northern shires west flank from the English forces to the west.



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    In the far east [of the uk] , the waters now secure, the yorkish force sent to hold the city of Norwich [which was diverted from english attack ...against the already captured Norwich by the English] made landfall at the port of Norwich blocking trade and commence for the English crown. Rebels from the nearby Anglia shires disappointed with the new kings rule flocked to there banner , as they hoped to besiege the weakly held city in the winter.



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    Groby castle



    After the Norman Conquest, the area came into the possession of Hugh de Grantmesnil. Groby was one of 67 manors Grantmesnil held in Leicestershire according to the Domesday Book. The Victoria County History for Leicestershire suggests that Grantmesnil founded Groby Castle, as does the English Heritage Archive. However, medieval historian R. Allen Brown suggests a foundation date in the third quarter of the 12th century by the Earl of Leicester. This figure was accepted by Professor Leonard Cantor and David Cathcart King.

    The castle was built by Hugh de Grantmesnil towards the end of the 11th century. The stone keep was built directly onto the bedrock with an earth motte 100 feet across and 25 feet high then being built up around it. It was beseiged and eventually destroyed by Henry II in 1173. In the 13th century a manor house was built by the Grey family within the bailey. This was replaced in the 14th century by a larger house, now demolished and superseded in the 15th century by the present Old Groby Hall which was extended with a brick tower in the late 15th century

    Excavations in the 1960s demonstrated that the motte, an artificial mound, was built around a stone tower.

    Along with Leicester, and Brackley, Groby was one of three castles belonging to the earl that were destroyed on the orders of Henry II after the Revolt of 1173–1174 led by his son, Prince Henry. In the 13th century a stone manor house was founded on the site. Antiquarian William Burton noted in the early 17th century that Groby Castle "was utterly ruinated and gone and only the mounts, rampires and trenches were to be seen".

    A fragment of one wall remains, together with earthworks consisting of a large mound of earth at the rear of the present manor house known as Groby Old Hall. Part of the site is occupied by the church of St Philip and St James. In 1962 and 1963 excavations were carried out at Groby Castle in preparation for the construction of the A50 road nearby.

    The road, which runs past the north-east of the motte, destroyed some of the castle's outworks. In April 2010, archaeological television programme Time Team undertook excavations at the castle. Time Team carried out an excavation in 2013 - Series 18, Episode 7, "The House of the White Queen". This refers to Elizabeth Woodville who inherited Groby after the death of her husband Sir Edward Grey and who then married King Edward IV in 1464. Their two boys became the ill-fated Princes in the Tower.
    [https://sites.google.com/site/grobyo...roby-old-hall]

    Groby Castle is a Scheduled Monument, which means it is a "nationally important" historic building and archaeological site which has been given protection against unauthorised change.


    {that great program ..Time team at work ]

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    Turn to England
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    England



    Another season passed, another traitor to the Crown. Brian Peckham was the name of the man who had forsaken King and Country this time. Edmund had gone berserk when the news of yet another defector reached him, sending tables and chairs flying injuring one of the courtiers who was unlucky to be in its way. In his rage Edmund had ordered to bring before him all Brians within Chester. Unlucky for the Chesterians, Brian is a pretty common name in England. Luckily for them most of the populace had received a warning of the King's order and when the King's searching parties came round they staunchly denied they knew anyone called Brian and they most definitely were not named Brian themselves. In the end Edmund had gathered a small hundred unfortunate Brians before him. They were led to the town plaza where they received their punishment; tarred and feathered and forced to run circles around the plaza while clucking like a chicken. They were to do this until Edmund tired of the sight, which could mean any minute or last forever. While the Feathered Brians ran around the courtyard, the siege by Henry of Lancaster was still ongoing with no prospects of it ending soon. With Brian had gone Chester's relief force and his treachery would pull many soldiers away from the frontline to deal with him. Nor could Henry assault the walls for he lacked the siege equipment to gain a big enough advantage to ensure victory. Thus Chester stood for awhile longer with its maddened King inside.

    A couple of miles west the tug-o-war for Castle Flint continued with the English Crown recapturing it once more. This times' victim was Charles Bourchier, a noble still loyal to Edmund. After the battle had been won Bourchier remarked that he thought it miraculous that people still inhabited the fort and its surrounding lands seeing it was one of the most wartorn parts of the entire Kingdom.


    In the east a small invasion force from the Northern Baron's had landed at the port of Norwich, ready to reclaim what they thought to be rightfully theirs. The English Loyalist saw the writing on the wall and abandoned the town and made their march back to friendlier territory. Lewes, demoralised and angered by Brian's treason and with him Lewes' former troops, the young noble roamed through the English countryside, which was rife with unalligned rebels, finding himself a bunch of brigands to channel his rage through. He could not do anything about Peckham but he sure as hell could smash some buffoon's head in.



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    Last edited by Turkafinwë; February 14, 2019 at 05:00 AM. Reason: It was Charles you blind fool!

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    haha brilliant! Poor Brians, I hate that name anyway!
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    English spy killed -

    https://gyazo.com/a5ac8edcba98461d42013ff45828c13a

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    It's late for me so no RP tonight, I may update my post tomorrow if I find the time but apologises if I don't.

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