ON THE PLAGUED HAESEN

[Harri 4815]

 

ON THE PLAGUED HAESENI

 

 

As reported to the Ducal Court, Doctor Daniel of the Danielson medical and mercenary company.

 

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In the first days of the past year, troubling news was reported to the Ducal throne of deadly sickness among fellow Highlanders. By Godric’s just command, the doctor Daniel and his assistant, Ralph were dispatched at the first snows, 1742 in an attempt to understand this epidemic. In deep cover, his loyal subjects discovered grave news on the subject; this understanding having been recounted the eve of 1743 to the Ducal court, and recorded for public enlightenment.

 

By the report of Dr. Daniel, the disease has been traced to have begun in the city of New Reza, Haense. Beginning first among local rye-farmers, it is noted to have quickly spread to the city center, from which outward trade spread it as far as the Ruberni crossroads within a fortnight. Its rapid spread in Haense is theorized to have been caused by a variety of factors, among them naturally inferior physique and a disturbing lack in both faith and willpower. Not only this, but the act of cramming every man, woman and child within the city’s square at the first mention of danger gave birth to its numerous hosts, and with the city under siege, who knows the lengths at which this sickness has developed? Among its victims, the most commonplace symptoms include a wracking cough, severe hallucinations, a sudden failure of the limbs, loss of actual speech and devolving to a grunting beast. Men who succumb to it are even open to consuming dirt, happily doing so once suggested. As such, it has been deemed by the nation’s foremost physicians as a plague of the utmost severity.

 

To combat this virus, known herein as the MARIAN PLAGUE, a national prescription has been issued by the Ducal Court; Ashwood and incense burnt twice daily before one’s doorstep to keep away Marian humours; three measures of lungwort weekly, to protect against the cough of Haeseni peasantry; one measure crushed rye seeds, combatting the illness’ origin; two measures macerated oak bark, fortifying the body against black biles; one measure animal fat to be taken with each meal, solidifying the body’s blood; and one cup Serpent’s Stalk tea fortnightly, cooling the body and reducing yellow bile. Under no circumstances should the infected areas be approached without proper preparation. At the least, one should cover their nose and mouth with a thick cloth, ideally dipped in a fragrant substance.

 

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Writ en Namen De

 

-Godric

[ferdaboy 3472]

Titus sweats in fear of catching this brain rotting plague

[rukio 8924]

“How....how exactly is it spread Doctor Daniel?” Edyth would ask, a concerned tone to her voice! 

[Harri 4815]

6 minutes ago, rukio said:

“How....how exactly is it spread Doctor Daniel?” Edyth would ask, a concerned tone to her voice! 

“More research must be done, as the process is still uncertain. After the plagued city is captured, I’m sure it will be much more apparent!” Daniel answers the worried Edyth, giving her a reassuring smile from behind his protective equipment.

[BenevolentManacles 2232]

John follows the doctor’s orders, having heard this tale second-hand from a chambermaid.

[Salvo 1852]

“Ah, yes, the infamous Marian brain-rot. I am glad the medical authorities have finally intervened, as the situation was beginning to be uncontainable and threatened the safety of Rubern.” remarks Salbo, Officer of the Rubernii Peacekeeping Force, upon reading the treatise. “I will ensure the rest of the men are notified and take the necessary preucations to avoid becoming infected.”

 

“After all, we wouldn’t want them to turn into Haensemen.” the burly man smiles under his thick moustache, walking away to find his platonic lover.

 

@TheElvenMage

[Telanir 6975]

Posters in this thread have 1 hr to put OOC bickerings into spoilers and rephrase their replies to keep things civil and polite.

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/187191-forum-roleplay-guidelines/

[Salvo 1852]

15 minutes ago, Telanir said:

Posters in this thread have 1 hr to put OOC bickerings into spoilers and rephrase their replies to keep things civil and polite.

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/187191-forum-roleplay-guidelines/

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send feet pics

 

[Narthok 10416]

Spoiler

 

19 minutes ago, yopplwasupxxx said:

Again here is the mentality of winning wars = good story experience, which just is not true at all. Only reason it is in this state is because people such as yourself continuously decide that war and conquest is the end all be all.

The fact you just claim its pulled straight from means to me you haven’t actually read any of it and just go off hearsay. And do not get me started on the originality of “Norland”.

 

And this claim you put story over your egos? That is some of the most blatant  falsehoods I have seen in recent memory, when your own people just sprout about winning or losing as the end all, be all on the server. Do I claim my empire was the best? No it was not, in fact quite the opposite, but was it because of “muh rp bureaucrats”? Or this supposed “rp elitism”?

 

Nay, its the fact that groups (infact many of those who you fight with now) wanted nothing more than to kill each other and factionalize, thinking that ruling by strength is the only war forward. Its not at all. I tried to make an EFFORT to not enter wars or start these useless conflicts, but needlessly people like you start them because of some conflated thought that “clicking = success”. Humanity would be ALOT more successful not with this warmongering mindset but rather that YOU YOURSELF get off this high horse that focusing on making an actual story not through conflict but inclusion is a much better mindset in getting things done.

 

While I commend that you have rolled with the punches and pk at every death, it is in no way excuse to blatantly execute others with weak rp or sub par capture posts and gloat about how “strong” you all are. Do you not see that at all as ego-stroking? Empire does do the samething yes, but there is a reason why I am not in it anymore. Stop seeing this game in which you win or lose or that its innately some politick strategy of conquering eachother for the sake of “story”. Story is much more fun for all involved when it builds communities up, not tear them down for the sake of some misguided stagnation.

Ah yes something I conceived of when I was what 15? As it was a synthesis of northern and land. With a what vaguely germanic culture? Yes what foul plagiarism. And yes I did read your thing, you explicitly spoke of black biles, yellow biles humours etc. Pulled directly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism is that a necessarily bad thing. Surely not but I just find it rich that you’re going to come after something that has been genuinely rped out throughout the conflict. And yes I do put the story over my own ego, shall we not point to the plethora of times my nation has lost / had their tile fully conquested. Like??? nice argument I suppose. Norlanders aren’t the ones writing a 25 page document to the administration making the argument that they shouldn’t be rply punished for war that they initiated and then lost. We die, we lose, we move on and rebuild.

 

Here is where we will always disagree. Without strength you cannot have stability and order. Mog quite literally wrote the book on this when he conquered all of humanity and formed the first Empire. You can have cooperation and inclusion sure, but if the Emperor is not the strongest and cannot enforce the law and the peace, you will have a facade of legalism with anarchy running amok. 

 

Now to address this idea of warmongering. Alright so war of Two Emperors was a Johannian instigation against the Pertinax in Helena with them having the aggressive edge in the war due to being the declarers. What of this war. Sure the Simba murder was a false flag (I didn’t know at the time) but the RP that occured is that my merchant was killed by a Haense character. Godric went to the field to receive justice, was threatened with death and allowed to leave. The hostilities stall out as Godric promptly yoinks all of the Empire’s allies (who have a number of legitimate rp greivances (high elves not being included in irrinor diplomacy etc) and form a coalition GUARANTEEING THE INDEPENDENCE AND SOVREIGNTY OF ALL SIGNATORIES. Less than a week later, Haense waltzes in, kidnaps a signatory of the alliance, and then has the audacity to violate the sovreignty of Rubern. Two violations of our alliance that demanded response. Rather than declaring war we once against proposed weregild, because I ******* hate war and was tired of the orc and irrinor conflicts and wanted to focus on my own nation.

 

Haense being Haense, spits in our face so we escalate the conflict. It is worth noting that Haense were the initial aggressors who violated not only the western alliance when they killed my soldiers who tried to defend the Auvergne from kidnapping but also assaulted the Auvergne and ignored the demands of the Rubern sovereign on his own land. We have clips of them admitting they were in the wrong, the pontiff agrees they were in the wrong. Haense is the aggressor here. We did not ‘warmonger’ I want peace, I hate pvp. But when RP demands for violence then it will be pursued. This ‘narthok is a warmongering dictator who is going to keep pushing us until its war’ narrative is actual fake news. The AIS was formed so quickly because there was already a number of resentments against the Empire for violations of obligation and generally poor behaviour towards various factions. You guys can talk about how this is an ooc coalition all you want but literally a week before I had been chewing out Kaelan in ooc / fighting the orcs etc. The coalition was formed through valid rp by unifying a number of factional grievances.  

 

For a while I had gotten off my high horse, with Adrian we had a peaceful relatively unified humanity. It was the aggression of Haense and the threats of Peter III that destroyed the western alliance and prompted this current conflict. This has all spawned from RP. The only executions I have been involved in are the executions of Peter III and some Haense Knight. Peter III was captured 3 times after he continued to power game out of situations and meta squaded. Each time we beat the rescue force and returned him to the stairs. He was curb stomped because he had explicitly threatened my character with death via “I will stomp on your skull” so the death was fashioned to be a poetic response. He of course did not PK because of some excuse about ‘everything he had built’ and ‘damaging the empire’. It was **** for the story and **** for the war.

 

I’ve offered many many many ways to end the war and again and again Haense has spit on them all. We will resolve the conflict through mechanics and continue from there. 

 

Godric wearing his trusty construction helmet snaps his fingers at a nearbye craftsman “Begin development on a number of the sanitary mask designs that Dr Daniel submitted recently, we need to ensure this infection does not spread beyond the Heartland” He’d say curtly before returning his attention to the designs laid before him by the architects and labourers. 

[yopplwasupxxx 5946]

20 minutes ago, Narthok said:

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Ah yes something I conceived of when I was what 15? As it was a synthesis of northern and land. With a what vaguely germanic culture? Yes what foul plagiarism. And yes I did read your thing, you explicitly spoke of black biles, yellow biles humours etc. Pulled directly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism is that a necessarily bad thing. Surely not but I just find it rich that you’re going to come after something that has been genuinely rped out throughout the conflict. And yes I do put the story over my own ego, shall we not point to the plethora of times my nation has lost / had their tile fully conquested. Like??? nice argument I suppose. Norlanders aren’t the ones writing a 25 page document to the administration making the argument that they shouldn’t be rply punished for war that they initiated and then lost. We die, we lose, we move on and rebuild.

 

Here is where we will always disagree. Without strength you cannot have stability and order. Mog quite literally wrote the book on this when he conquered all of humanity and formed the first Empire. You can have cooperation and inclusion sure, but if the Emperor is not the strongest and cannot enforce the law and the peace, you will have a facade of legalism with anarchy running amok. 

 

Now to address this idea of warmongering. Alright so war of Two Emperors was a Johannian instigation against the Pertinax in Helena with them having the aggressive edge in the war due to being the declarers. What of this war. Sure the Simba murder was a false flag (I didn’t know at the time) but the RP that occured is that my merchant was killed by a Haense character. Godric went to the field to receive justice, was threatened with death and allowed to leave. The hostilities stall out as Godric promptly yoinks all of the Empire’s allies (who have a number of legitimate rp greivances (high elves not being included in irrinor diplomacy etc) and form a coalition GUARANTEEING THE INDEPENDENCE AND SOVREIGNTY OF ALL SIGNATORIES. Less than a week later, Haense waltzes in, kidnaps a signatory of the alliance, and then has the audacity to violate the sovreignty of Rubern. Two violations of our alliance that demanded response. Rather than declaring war we once against proposed weregild, because I ******* hate war and was tired of the orc and irrinor conflicts and wanted to focus on my own nation.

 

Haense being Haense, spits in our face so we escalate the conflict. It is worth noting that Haense were the initial aggressors who violated not only the western alliance when they killed my soldiers who tried to defend the Auvergne from kidnapping but also assaulted the Auvergne and ignored the demands of the Rubern sovereign on his own land. We have clips of them admitting they were in the wrong, the pontiff agrees they were in the wrong. Haense is the aggressor here. We did not ‘warmonger’ I want peace, I hate pvp. But when RP demands for violence then it will be pursued. This ‘narthok is a warmongering dictator who is going to keep pushing us until its war’ narrative is actual fake news. The AIS was formed so quickly because there was already a number of resentments against the Empire for violations of obligation and generally poor behaviour towards various factions. You guys can talk about how this is an ooc coalition all you want but literally a week before I had been chewing out Kaelan in ooc / fighting the orcs etc. The coalition was formed through valid rp by unifying a number of factional grievances.  

 

For a while I had gotten off my high horse, with Adrian we had a peaceful relatively unified humanity. It was the aggression of Haense and the threats of Peter III that destroyed the western alliance and prompted this current conflict. This has all spawned from RP. The only executions I have been involved in are the executions of Peter III and some Haense Knight. Peter III was captured 3 times after he continued to power game out of situations and meta squaded. Each time we beat the rescue force and returned him to the stairs. He was curb stomped because he had explicitly threatened my character with death via “I will stomp on your skull” so the death was fashioned to be a poetic response. He of course did not PK because of some excuse about ‘everything he had built’ and ‘damaging the empire’. It was **** for the story and **** for the war.

 

I’ve offered many many many ways to end the war and again and again Haense has spit on them all. We will resolve the conflict through mechanics and continue from there. 

 

((rp portion

 

You pulled one thing (the humours) out of the 10,000s of words I wrote over it. Very nice. I am not shaming you for coming up with something when you are 15 but to say “hur hur hur its not original” is very, VERY hypocritical. Have I ever written a 25 page document about why Haense should not be conquered? Go find me where I have ever done that, and I will concede- perhaps the current Haeseni do that, but that is something I do not support or condone, nor do I plan on it.

 

 

Yes, yes, everyone pulls up mog and says “he did this therefore it is the way the empire should be done.” No, it is not. First Empire, despite most people thinking otherwise, was not unified through blatant war (though there was some wars here or there) but a lot of it through mutual cooperation. Renatus, on the other hand, did go out of its way to conquer and that is the sole reason why I, a poet RPer, was able to get so many people. Why? Perhaps it is became conquering everyone and killing them is not the way to go? When you force people to submit (like your own group, for example) it creates a toxic environment between the conqueror and the conqueree. Look at all the shittalking people did when Seahelm got conquered, some of which I did participate in. I see now that this mentality, however, this wanting to put one above one another, only exacerbates the issue- yeah mog was strong when you conquered everyone but moment he left all the people that got conquered rose up, contributing to a cycle of distrust amongst eachother. I resent myself for wroughting this belief of strength over cooperation and ruling over serving, and ultimately humanity will never be fixed unless you see it the same way. The only true success of humanity can come when we can stop causing coalition wars every 2 months to solve our internal issues.

 

While yes, the war you claim was started via RP and that this is because of the Auvergenian incident, the fact is I have seen so little of that on the forums as the reasoning but rather this borderline-petty “hur hur hur haense is SICK” or for the empire, “hur hurhur sufonia is GYPSIES”. I do not know what alty did and that is beyond my personal pay-grade, but I will take your word on that regard. However, while the war may have been started in RP, your method in approaching it (OOC shitslinging) is what I most heavily condemn. Why can’t we have a war where we aren’t making all these threads as jabs to one another?

 

Resolve the conflict, sure, but don’t actively platform these OOC attacks then wonder why all these people think its an OOC clique war. Fight the war, sure, but don’t actively sponsor factionalism and PVP elitism.

 

[Hanrahan 2983]

DOCTOR Charles Napier begins an investigation into these reports with haste...

[KeatonUnbeaten 1103]

5 hours ago, yopplwasupxxx said:

 

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Why do you continuously make these cringe tier posts instead of actually writing something worth while? Just a shame seeing so much work put in purely to spite one another.

 

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its funny because this wont get flagged for trollplay but literally any orenian post will

 

[sergisala 3451]

One saint day ago, when the Duke of Westmark was riding his horse towards New Reza alongside the mighty forces of the Alliance of Independent States he then realized the lack in faith and willpower of the haensemen when they refused to leave the safe walls of New Reza to face them and said: “Oh no, It’s too late! These haensetic people have all been infected. They may look fine now, but it’s a matter of time before they turn into the undead.”

 

He’d then sigh and nod to his allies: “This entire city must be purged!”

[bickando 3967]

Mr. Odoaker Drakaene, Ph.D. fears this mysterious plague!

4 hours ago, yopplwasupxxx said:

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You pulled one thing (the humours) out of the 10,000s of words I wrote over it. Very nice. I am not shaming you for coming up with something when you are 15 but to say “hur hur hur its not original” is very, VERY hypocritical. Have I ever written a 25 page document about why Haense should not be conquered? Go find me where I have ever done that, and I will concede- perhaps the current Haeseni do that, but that is something I do not support or condone, nor do I plan on it.

 

 

Yes, yes, everyone pulls up mog and says “he did this therefore it is the way the empire should be done.” No, it is not. First Empire, despite most people thinking otherwise, was not unified through blatant war (though there was some wars here or there) but a lot of it through mutual cooperation. Renatus, on the other hand, did go out of its way to conquer and that is the sole reason why I, a poet RPer, was able to get so many people. Why? Perhaps it is became conquering everyone and killing them is not the way to go? When you force people to submit (like your own group, for example) it creates a toxic environment between the conqueror and the conqueree. Look at all the shittalking people did when Seahelm got conquered, some of which I did participate in. I see now that this mentality, however, this wanting to put one above one another, only exacerbates the issue- yeah mog was strong when you conquered everyone but moment he left all the people that got conquered rose up, contributing to a cycle of distrust amongst eachother. I resent myself for wroughting this belief of strength over cooperation and ruling over serving, and ultimately humanity will never be fixed unless you see it the same way. The only true success of humanity can come when we can stop causing coalition wars every 2 months to solve our internal issues.

 

While yes, the war you claim was started via RP and that this is because of the Auvergenian incident, the fact is I have seen so little of that on the forums as the reasoning but rather this borderline-petty “hur hur hur haense is SICK” or for the empire, “hur hurhur sufonia is GYPSIES”. I do not know what alty did and that is beyond my personal pay-grade, but I will take your word on that regard. However, while the war may have been started in RP, your method in approaching it (OOC shitslinging) is what I most heavily condemn. Why can’t we have a war where we aren’t making all these threads as jabs to one another?

 

Resolve the conflict, sure, but don’t actively platform these OOC attacks then wonder why all these people think its an OOC clique war. Fight the war, sure, but don’t actively sponsor factionalism and PVP elitism.

 

 

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To be fair, the humours part was my idea. Apologies to everyone that feels I’ve ripped off real life; I tried to adapt what I thought was an interesting part of medieval medicine to LotC. Am just trying to undo 500 years of Elven clinic rp.

 

[Legoboy7984 3155]

“I didn’t know that when the A.I.S suffers a defeat they end up making no sense. Perhaps they are the ones that are plagued..”