Smon: 12/8: Hakeem with Kogor at Theber 13/8: Hakeem & Kogor travel to Ahyf via lizard caves & ruins of Trade. Slave revolt in Ahyf, 6 slaver lords imprisoned inc Seroni & Rolth. 14/8: Hakeem leaves Sandor as Prince of Ahyf. Angry re Carchimish, he decides to seek out Malenn and heads for Nerra by sea from Clear Meadows.
chris107: Hakeem is unusually nervous. This is more fearsome than waiting for Kainos
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 3,
Smon: Well you do see a shoal of the giant red air sharks off to the north on the second day of the voyage, but they don't attack the fishing ship...
chris107: Phew
Smon: Evening 15/8, Hakeem's little boat passes through the huge Nerathi sea walls and comes in to the newly repaired ancient quays of Nerra.
chris107: "Nice new patio."
Smon: The repair work does look a little slapdash in places... but useable. The gangplank has just hit the wharfside when Hakeem, coming ashore, sees the familiar figure of King-Regent Bronze hurrying towards him, Rasgar Skarrison behind. He must have had lookouts posted.
Smon: Namelin slows as he nears, raising a hand in greeting.
Smon: "That was quick."
Smon: "I've sent a runner to inform Malenn."
chris107: "Joint King-Regent! Good to see you!"
chris107: "Aye, urgent matters have delayed my revenge. For now."
Smon: Namelin eyes Hakeem. "You too... " Namelin turns to look west over Glorious Nerra, bathed golden in the evening light, a few small ships now riding at anchor.
chris107: "We have a new man in Ahyf, the slaves are freed and work is starting to build deffences agin the Skandik threat."
Smon: Namelin looks sidewise at Hakeem. "Much has happened in a short time."
Smon: Namelin breathes out slowly."Good..."
chris107: "Sometimes it must, your Majesty."
Smon: Namelin smiles warmly at the appelation, relaxing slightly.
Smon: "Before Malenn gets here, we need to talk."
chris107: "I may have been a rubish King-Regent but I'm good at getting things done!"
chris107: "Of course."
Smon: He nods. Nearby, Rasgar eyes the two.
chris107: "Rasgar." H smiles at the big warrior.
Smon: Rasgar nods. Namelin: "You recall, on the Isle of Dread, you made me Joint Regent. I asked what happens when I and Minars disagree. You also gave me the treasure, said to do with it as I will..."
Smon: Namelin seems tense.
chris107: "I do.....But you understood it was to help those hurt by Shieldbiter's actions?"
Smon: "...When we left Selatine, we sailed swiftly for Hara, there to seek the council of my moth... the Lady Llanet."
Smon: Namelin nods. "Aye, of course."
chris107: "I'm not going to like this am I?"
chris107: Hakeem is still smiling.
Smon: Namelin. "Well... So... Anna and I consulted with the Lady Llanet. We discussed the bad blood between Minars and I. What we could do to make amends. She had the solution."
chris107: "She is a clever lady."
Smon: "You understand, we expected that you would not return for months, if at all. Emergency measures were required. So..."
Smon: Namelin turns to face Hakeem full on. "Her proposal was - I to inform Minars that you had appointed me King-Regent of the Empire, protector of the young Prince Hassan. I to then appoint Minars my Vice Regent, Commander of the Altanian Guard, and Warden of Nerra. With most handsome gifts from the hoard of Matriarx for him and his men."
chris107: "You did what?" The temperature drops several degrees.
Smon: "This we have done. Minars has left Nerra with 'tribute' for Beklomda Mor, their - your - High Chief of All Altani. He seemed pleased. As did his men..."
Smon: Namelin stops.
Smon: "There has to be a leader."
Smon: (stopped)
chris107: "If there is to be one leader. That leader wil be me. You have overstepped your authority. You have deliberately gone against my wishes."
Smon: roll CHA+Prof
Sandor Sunneson:
chris107: "Go back and tell your mother that that is not going to be you."
chris107 rolls 1d20+9 and gets: 10, (+9) = 19
Smon: Namelin's face darkens, but he nods slowly.
Smon: "If you wish."
chris107: "Don't go moody on me. I gave clear instructions."
Smon: Rasgar grips his spear, knuckles white on his spear shaft as he eyes the Godslayer. Namelin looks to him, curtly shakes his head.
chris107: "Was it your mother who slew Kainos? Kept Crowfinger from turning you allinto Zombies? Killed Matriarx?"
chris107: "Try it Rasgar. I fucking dare you."
Smon: Namelin turns back to Hakeem, face flushed. "My sister Anna said to me... you are a man who knows how to win an Empire. But not how to rule it. Was she wrong?"
chris107: "Don't grip your spear. Either stab me or throw it away. We are warriors here."
chris107: "Your sister and your mother have much to say."
Smon: Rasgar sighs, drops his spear. "I ain't fighting no god."
Smon: Namelin chuckles at Rasgar's actio.
Smon: n.
Smon: "There stands a man who may outlive us all!"
chris107: ""Good move Rasgar. I like you but you have backed the wrong horse in this race."
Smon: Namelin turns to Hakeem. "We will return to Hara. Malenn is safe."
Smon: He points to a blonde-haired figure descending the steps to the wharfs. "See. She comes now."
chris107: "Malenn is safe? What does that mean?"
chris107: "Malenn and Hassan had better be more than safe or their will be trouble."
chris107: Hakeem's brows unknit seeing his lovely wife safe.
Smon: "She ....has wept much since we told her you were leaving to seek Shieldbiter. That we did not know when - if - you would return. We feared for her - kept a close watch on her, as *you* charged me to."
chris107: "I always return. Remember that next time your mother tells you to steal my empire."
chris107: "Malenn!"
Smon: Hakeem sees Malenn approaching along the wharf, eyes red with many tears. "Hakeem!!"
chris107: "Are you and the boy safe and well?"
Smon: Namelin: "You abdicated, Hakeem. We did not betray you...."
chris107: "I made you and Minars joint regents."
Smon: Malenn runs up. "Yes! Why! Why are you back?! Why did you go?!
chris107: "If you would prefer me to come and take my empire back?"
chris107: "I think I have what's known as 'popular support'? Oh and a really big sword."
Smon: Namelin shrugs, half turns away. "Vice-Regent was enough to keep him happy... We could have saved the empire." he shrugs.
Smon: Namelin starts to walk away, Rasgar following.
chris107: "Shieldbiter has betrayed us again. I shall kill him then come back to you. You know I always come back."
chris107: "One moment Malenn."
chris107: "You think the empire lost?"
Smon: Malenn has stopped, staring at Hakeem, ignoring Bronze.
Smon: Bronze stops, turns back.
chris107: "In one week you have lost my empire?"
chris107: "In one week you have broken my trust!"
Smon: "Aye. You have proved you're not fit to lead. My sister was a fool to ask you to lead us. Under you there is only ruin."
chris107: "Then you chalange me?"
Sandor Sunneson: ooc- Devious DMing Simon to bring an empire down as the Hero seeks the Traitor
Smon: Namelin laughs, offering his open hands.
Smon: "You know how to kill. No one ever doubted that."
chris107: "And I know how to reward. Have I ever no rewarded loyalty?"
chris107: "Were you and yours not given the highest of honours?"
Smon: Namelin looks to Malenn. "You abandoned us. When will you abandon us again? No one trusts you now. But do not fear - the Altani wolves still love you."
chris107: "Yet in one week, when you think me gone. You turn on me."
Smon: "YOU MADE ME REGENT! YOU RESIGNED!!"
chris107: "No one trusts me? Why is that, Bronze! What lies have you been spreading?"
chris107: The sword of Bondorr slides from it's sheath.
Smon: "No lies... the truth. You resigned the Regency, abandined the empire, your wife and..." Namelin falls silent at the sight of the naked blade.
chris107: It crackles into life.
Smon: Malenn groans: "Hakeem, please, no..."
chris107: "You conspired with your mother and sister to take control of an empire you have no right to. "
chris107: "For this I would kill any other man."
Smon: Namelin just eyes the sword.
chris107: "I have built something that all can share in. But you want it all."
chris107: "Do you want it all?"
chris107: "Will you fight off the Skandics? Sarene? Shieldbiter and his army of Lizrardmen?"
Smon: Namelin speaks in a low voice now: "There would have been nothing. Better to make Minars Emperor, than *share* it. You have no idea... Better to make Malenn here Empress. She is well loved."
chris107: "Will you fight the next dragon that burns your lands?"
Smon: Namelin nods. "Aye. We would fight - where needs be."
chris107: "But you didn't do that did you? You took all power back to your own family."
chris107: "Malenn, we'll go get the boy now."
Smon: Namelin: "I have no tongue... Llanet could explain better... and I am afraid."
Smon: Malenn looks at Hakeem, face very pale, and nods.
chris107: "You have been fooled by your women folk."
chris107: Hakeem goes with Malenn, keeping an eye out to see which forces are here in Nerra.
Smon: Malenn beckons briefly and turns, taking the long walk back to the steps up to the city above.
Smon: Rasgar and Namelin stand on the wharfs, watching him go.
Smon: At the top of the long steps, where seagulls wheel in the blue Nerran sky, Malenn turns to Hakeem, trembling.
Smon: "If you... if you leave me again like that..." she sobs, looking down.
chris107: Quietly to Malenn. "Let them have the empire I bled for. I will build us a better one my love." Hakeem smiles broadly at his lovely wife.
Smon: roll CHA + prof
chris107: He holds her tight. Looking around the budding imperial splendour.
chris107 rolls 1d20+9 and gets: 7, (+9) = 16
Smon: Hakeem holds her tight, her arms at her sides.
Sandor Sunneson: hmmmmmm
Smon: Slowly she looks up, tears running down her face.
Smon: "Hakeem... I don't like it here. I want to go home. To Thusia."
Smon: She looks out across the Wine-Dark Sea. "I miss the little green... Hassan playing under the cherry tree..."
chris107: "Come we will load up our treasures, we have earned them. Then back to Thusia."
Smon: Malenn nods. "I don't care about gold."
Smon: "Not any more."
Smon: Slowly her arms go around Hakeem.
chris107: "Her Mighty Majesty King Lannete will soon tremble when the Skandiks come a calling."
Smon: Malenn smiles slightly through the tears. "Lord Br - King-Regent Bronze - has all sorts of plans. To build war-galleys, on the ancient Nerathi plan. But Hara has no records - he thinks the Lighthouse of Ulther might..."
chris107: "The gold is not for us, it is for Prince Sandor. He has his own realm now. He will need gold to rebuild it."
chris107: "Let the Nerrathi keep Nerrath. Our friends in the Ghinarrian Hills will welcome us with open arms."
Sandor Sunneson: OOC: Don't forget the gold
chris107: "The Lighthouse is to be our home."
Smon: She nods. "Well, Minars took a lot, and much went to the Altanian warriors - but I think there is still quite a lot left."
chris107: (Malenns own gold is about £1,000,000)
Smon: GM: You turn and walk into the city, towards the Imperial Palace.
Smon: GM: OK moving on....
chris107: "Let them keep this little empire!" Hakeem laughs.
Smon: Hakeem finds Hassan safe and well, tended by his own mother Gnubis.
Sandor Sunneson: OOC (You both, and boy and unborn would be more than welcome in Port Sandor, could build you a nice seaview house befitting of a God
Sandor Sunneson: )
Smon: Soon word comes that the Harans have sailed from Nerra.
chris107: OOC - I think the Vale to the Ceaderwade will follow Hakeem not the usurper Bronze.
Smon: The vast vaults of the Nerran Imperial treasury could hold millions, the coins there seem quite a small pile.
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 6,
Smon: Counting indicates some 66,000gp.
Sandor Sunneson: OOC- Been good reading you both, enjoy rest of game, I'll be around Wed night GMT for next game if that suits others
Smon: (will see how it goes)
Sandor Sunneson: OOC: Flying back to the old world tomorrow. Cool, ciao for now, have updated Sandor stuff on DF too.
chris107: Hakeem will send for mules and Altani escourt. Taking his son, wife and own treasure he'll head for first Ahyf to give all the treasure to Prince Sandor then on to see Lady Meda then to make his family home in Oriax's Tower.
Smon: bye Fergus
9:47pm 2018-2-11 Sandor Sunneson Has exited the room
chris107: Safe travels Fergus
chris107: He will take only Malenn's treasure past Ahyf.
Smon: GM: OK, there's about 2 tons of silver & gold in the 66,000 gp, the fishing boat can take it all in the hold.
chris107: How many Altani still in Nerra?
Smon: Still a couple hundred warriors, mostly Seawolf, about 50 of them Greywolf.
Smon: The Seawolf have some of their canoes here too.
chris107: Then we ask for volunteers to come to the defence of Ahyf and to get his mother home safely. (Is his aunt here? If so he'll ask if she will come with him to see Kogor's wife.)
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 2,
Smon: Yup Nefeti is here too, with several other Wise Women inc Kala.
Smon: They all seem a bit puzzled by recent events, having heard that Hakeem had resigned and did not plan to soon return.
chris107: "You have been duped!"
Smon: GM: Nefeti is happy to come with Hakeem to the Ghinarian lands.
chris107: "Lord Bronze has usurped the throne that should have gone half to Minars in my brief absence."
Smon: Kala Greywolf eyes Hakeem. "You did not resign?"
chris107: "Go and tell Minars what has happened, tell him I go to Ghinaria"
Smon: Kala, Wisest of the Wise, waits for her answer.
chris107: "I have vengence to dispence. You know vengeance always comes first to Greywolf. I asked Bronze to tell Minar's that they would rule jointly."
chris107: "He duped my and my friend Minars. He bought power with the gold of the Dragon I killed.Q"
Smon: Kala nods. "You resigned. You told them to rule together. Bronze chose to make himself the superior."
chris107: "That is not what I wished."
chris107: "It seems that my word is no longer listened to?"
chris107: "Hakeem Greywolf stands with the Altani."
Smon: Kala nods. "No. I think Namelin believed that, as you were no longer King Regent, he could do as he wished. Typical of the Nerathi. They hide behind forms of words."
chris107: "I have learned who can be trusted, Kala. I will not make these mistakes again."
Smon: OOC need to check if >>"It seems that my word is no longer listened to?"<< referred to Kala? The WWs do not consider themselves ruled by men, of course.
chris107: "Tell Minars that if he needs anything he must just ask."
chris107: OOC - Not to Kala, but asked of her. Better translation may be "Is my word no longer feared by men?"
Smon: Kala nods. "You can trust the Greywolf, Hakeem. Your people. To a smaller degree, our Seawolf Cousins. Beyond them, the other tribes. Nerathi, Ghinari - these you cannot trust."
Smon: (ooc ok thx, Kala is happy then)
Smon: Kala looks to Malenn. "And your wife, who is of the Blood. Do not leave her again like that."
chris107: "Malennis a warrior too. She understands vengeance."
Smon: "She is a mother."
chris107: "Aye, a mother to warriors!"
Smon: Malenn just remains silent.
Smon: Kala: "Her anguish was... " she sighs. "Learn from this. Talk to those you trust. Tell them your plans - before you go."
Smon: Malenn moves over to Kala, gives her a brief hug. "Thank you. Wise Woman. You have been a comfort to me, these past few days."
Smon: Kala smiles graciously, hugging her back.
chris107: "Now wise woman. I bid you farewell until we meet again. I must go south. My family deserve a fine home. Please tell Minars what I have said. I will see you at the Clanmoot if not before. Nerra is his if he wants it."
Smon: Kala nods. "As you will." Malenn turns to Hakeem smiling. "Let us take Hassan and go home."
Smon: GM: OK think that's a fair stopping point?
Smon: Wednesday w Sandor at Ahyf?
chris107: He wraps his big arm around her. "Aye home."
Smon:
chris107: Great thanks, tresure to Ahyf, trip to Lady Meda then make a home in the Tower of St Ulther or the Citadel of Water.
Smon: aww
chris107: Wednesday is Valentines Day, we have a table booked at the Old Registery. If I said there was a game I would be shot!
Smon: Well Malenn really likes Thusia... maybe you can have a rainy season & a dry season home? :d
Smon:
Smon: LOL
chris107: Thanks for the extra game, we tied up a lot of loose ends
Smon: OK can do something else w Fergus
Smon: A very necessary game!
Smon: Originally I expected you to ride back, via Hara
chris107: The first words on Hakeem's character are "Short Tempered"
Smon: Would have met Llanet & Anna first that way, very different I suspect
Smon:
Smon: Well you didn't gut Namelin, at least!
chris107: The Bronzes were always going to be trouble.
Smon: Now you see why Varek Tigerclaw just wanted to wipe them out...
Smon: Much simpler.
chris107: No point. It's his sister and mother who will be the power in Hara. Bronze will remeber that act one day.
chris107: And if they choose to expand they will have a job to lead anyone against the God Slayer.
chris107: The Rangers won't be happy
Smon: Llanet does have several son, yup!
Smon: s
chris107: And they may just have to start worrying about raids from the Altani again next year. The Bronzes have their work cut out
Smon: I think the Ranger will be busy again on the border, keeping the peace.
Smon: /hunting raiders
Unknown Command
Smon: Well it was a nice empire while it lasted.
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