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based on what? pull over here 対戦相手 opponent calm down かーむだうん calm person I ended up reading the book one day. How do you end up living in Tokyo? intrigued= very curious 13/Feb/2011 香味徳 銀座 intuition, I used intuition.Goto-san, Why Some People Evade Colds And Others Don t These spines are devoid of ER. It doesn t get much better than this!!! syo-tyan I don t get more than this. fraud ふろうど boiling hot freezing cold stark naked bone idle = very lazy My toungh is bone dry= extremely dry soaking wet very wet stone cold = very cold mout 堀 convene= be held cause and effect abortion stunned=shocked petrified=scared livid=angry devastated=very sad speechless=absolutely sad, He died yesterday... Speechless. awful=terrible bizarre=strange brill=brilliant sheer bliss=absolutely wonderfull What am I supposed to do about it? それを私にどうしろと言うんだ？ What am I supposed to do with it? それとどんな関係があるのですか？ What am I supposed to do? どうすればいいの？／私はどうしたらいいのでしょうか？／どんなことをしたらいいんだい？ What am I supposed to do? Read books? 僕は何すればいいんだよ？本でも読むの？ 全文表示 What am I supposed to say? 何と言えばいいの？ When you pull electrode, please check program number not to change others karam How much is the raise? Are you moving? (Francoise) after a long interval after so long 久しぶりに I underwent computer training. go somewhere else I couldn t think of anywhere else to go. I don t like the idea any more than you do. income other than employment income besides, except, apart from, other than： besidesは追加「～に加えて」，except は 除外「～を除いては」の意で用いる。apart from，other thanは追加と除外の両方に使える： There are two children in my family besides［apart from, other than, ×except］me.（私の家族には私以外に子供が二人いる）《英語では「私に加えて」と発想する》/ I have been to every country in Asia except［×besides, ×apart from, ×other than］China.（私は中国を除いてアジアの全ての国に行ったことがある） 否定文ではどれも使える： He has no friends except［besides, apart from, other than］Tom and Bill.（トムとビル以外彼は友達が無い） What should be done? What would it be like if you can do it? How would it be if you can do it? What is gonna happen if you can do that? What is it like How much is it gonna be? keep an eye on Can I pick your brain? ちょっと知恵を貸してくれないかな？ are you pulling my leg? jut a kidding? Francis always gets tongue-tied when he meets a girl he likes. Trixie put her foot in it when she mentioned Malcolm s divorce. I laughed my head off when I watched the slapstick comedy on TV. そのどたばた喜劇をみて涙が出るほど笑った。 "Are you ready to go on stage?" "No, I m not ready! I m beginning to get butterflies in my stomach!" If I pull this off, I ll never have to work again. I hope I can pull it off. How are you going to pull that off? うまくいくのか？ procrastinater procrastinat=put off/postpone Don t procrastinate, life is short. perseverance persistence what can be used? what can it be used for? From the point of the animals, cruelty cruel endanger spices animal refuge = animal safe place heated debate The debate heated up. very costly =expensive I don t know where we should draw the line? skeptical = doubtful Petrified of closes space pyroforbia =petrified of water aracnaforbia Ingrained error. I m getting back on my feet. happy medium = balance My work is very hectic. acrophobia touch wood. superstition hand in hand = take together You treat me so badly. bullying That is unfair treatment. peace treaty. We are doing the best til the last second!!!(iTune) It s been too long. 本当に久しぶりだ。 colloquial under the weather wine fest. sack of potatoes and potates rolling of racists ku klux klan vs Malcom X, civil rights whatever it is whatever the NY one is not. ニューヨーク以外のものならなんでも、OK。 whatever the NY one is. ニューヨークone 以外のものなら何でもオーケーよ 。 Treatment of hair with detergents is dangerous. Treatment of cells with dengerous drug is gonna cause death of cells. She looks adoreble. そのシャツ、よく似合ってるね。 You look real fine in that shirt. そのスーツはあなたにとてもよく似合っていますよ。 The suit looks great on you. そのドレス、よく似合ってますね。 That dress suits you.〔ほめる〕 そのドレスはあなたに大変よく似合っています。 That dress is very becoming on you. そのドレスよく似合ってるよ。 I am gonna treat you this time. But next time treat me. Treating your cell phone well noun treat ごほうび noun treatment 処置 Wrong treatment of X-ray (wrong) Wrong treatment of something with X-ray. He treats the elderly in an impolite way. Oh, butterfinger is product name. disguise as polisemen disguise true emotion How would you do that?はーうじゅーどーざ。 B4=before to make a story short, pass it along, pass it down welcome backs nomad, nomadic people Oh, that is a butter finger. punctuality = on time I heard I could go swiming in the hotel. Could I have one-third of it? BBC learning 6min English topic naive about the difference between A and B 02/Oct/2010 I want shopping spree. If I have to choose one, it would be... 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This table is scrated and stained. top table. what do we have to do? spoiled food = rotten means easy to see not to eat. It spoiled my day. Don t spoil kid wagamama-suruna. need to be disiplined fixing repairing replaceing broken chipped cracked hem hemming tape. The hem is to be sewn. The result turned out in a way beyound anyone s imagination. How long did you say you had them? how long to be nurse? abbrebiation. when in use 使うとき when not in use 使わないとき Don t panic. Pull yourself together 慌てるな。しっかり。 まだ情報をまとめている最中です。】"I m still pulling together information." upon dephosphorylation behind me, in front of me、横は？by me上は？on me, over me 下は？斜めは？ This inormation will help SfN to foster diversity in all society affairs. Your credit card is about to charged $465. No hotel meet your requirment. Of course we will cover a portion. stitching I think that gives away the fact that I like to travel. Ivy Year, I came up with as follows! He feels rewarded finally. This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. burise あざ head-to-head competition 直接対決 blues ブルース in order not to それを免除するために in order not to go to military servive in Korea, you have to be top student. 兵役にいかないようにするために、 in order to have less people use car, He insisted on me（my） paying money. I m proud of my son（my son s） being a doctor. She is afraid of us（our） telling a lie. He is ashamed of being scolded by his teacher I m proud of not being scolded by my boss She is afraid of me（my） being arrested by poice. nestin neural stem cell marker BrdU staining dividing cells we therefore sought to use DNA microarray analysis to comprehensively analyze the polyclonal selection outputs and identify additional phoshatidylinositide-binding protein fragments. The authors make the point that they can detect physiologically produced PIP3. ぽるとぎー ポルトガル語 carries malaria or disease. present perfect continuous have been teaching I have been teaching English. I have been eating food. But this is the daily routine. I eat breakfast everyday. I have been reading mori s novel for two years. dripping electrical appliance clogging - similar jam. clog drain. The drain is clogged with some foods. It s durable. vacume cleaner contrastive stress Are my jeans torn? shirt シャツ suitcases OK. but laggage is not pluory. garbage disporsable machine horizontary strips vertical-striped daigonally strips 01/Oct/2010 MNI-Gluとcaged GABAのタイミングが少しでもずれるとやばい。 If there is even a little bit of difference in position between 910 nm and 720 nm laser, uncaging experiment doesn t work well. Yah, Japnanese people dislike such a thing like a needle. So that thing should be discarded in the round shape white trush, in which serum attached something is also discarded. based on the above consideration The susceptibility gene for Cowden syndrome was mapped to 10q22-q23. it s in part because the immunity of people who were immunized earlier has waned," he adds. 22/July/2010 inhbitory effect of U73122 on Ca++ influx was confirmed We are gonna show the inhibitory effect of U73122. This raises the intriguing possiblility that 確かに、palmitylationの除くことによって、AMPARのクラスタリングが 変わることが報告されている。 しかし、PDZ domainが必要でない理由にはならない。 Exactly it is reported that the removal of palmitoylation leads to change in clutering of GluR. However this data doesn t remove the possibility that PDZ domain is not requirment. 結局、タンパク質がスパインの中に入っていくのは、 中に、くっつくタンパク質が多くなるからということであって、 何か、スパインネックに好きなタンパク質をいれるような機構が あるわけではないんだね。 Taken together, can I think as follows? The protein entering into the spine more than RFP is caused by another proteins which binds to the entering proteins. There is no system like that So it is no wonder to think that the function of lipid phosphatase of PTEN is crucial for tumour and hamatoma. So it is reasonable thinking that ... What do you want to happen? I wonder if that What is the mechanism by which the concentration of calcium increases? What is the activation mechanism for PTEN and what is the effecor of PTEN? What if the hypothesis is wrong? What about PTEN? This system is aplicable to Camui probe. These findings raise the possiblility that Based on biochemical experiments, This data is supported by the finding that 裏付けられる What s gonna happen if you How much depth do you observe? What shoud be done with next step? NMDAR tetramer from NR1 and R2. NR2 is compose of NR2A, NR2B NR2C,NR2D. NR1 has glycine binding site. 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Kumicitのコンテンツ インテリジェントデザイン概説 教える内容がないインテリジェントデザイン 理論は必要ないとインテリジェントデザイン支持者たちは考えていた。結果として、インテリジェントデザイン理論は進化論に比肩するようなレベルに到達していない。したがって、学校で教えるべき内容もない。 インテリジェントデザインに理論は必要ないというインテリジェントデザイン支持者たち インテリジェントデザインの父たるPhillip Johnson曰く「神の導きの方法を提示する必要はない」： Did God create out of whole cloth the first pigs? Or did he merely guide mutations in such a way that pigs were suddenly born to non-pig parents? Today’s IDers are equally mute on this point. As attorney Phillip Johnson says over and over again in his books defending ID, it is not necessary for opponents of Darwin to explain exactly how God guided evolution. It is only necessary to make clear the inadequacy of explaining the origin of species by random mutations followed by survival of the fittest. 神は最初のブタを完成体として創造したのか？それとも、突然変異を導いて、ブタではない親から、ブタが突如として生まれるようにしたのか？今日のインテリジェントデザイン支持者たちは、この点について等しく沈黙している。法律家Phillip Johnsonがインテリジェントデザインを擁護する本で繰り返し述べているように、ダーウィンの反対者は神が進化を導いた方法を説明する必要はない。ランダムな突然変異と適者生存による種の起源の説明の不適切性を明示するだけでよい。 [ Martin Gardner "Throw a baseball into the Atlantic Ocean" ] インテリジェントデザイン理論家Dr. Jonathan Wells曰く「代替理論はない」： In a debate at the Cato Institute between evolutionist Michael Shermer and so-called Intelligent Design proponent Jonathan Wells, the latter was asked point-blank what his alternative to the evidence for natural selection was. “I don’t think I’m obligated to propose an alternate theory,” Wells publicly stated. “I don’t pretend to have an alternate theory that explains the history of life.” CATO Instituteでの進化論者Michael Shermerとのディベートで、いわゆるインテリジェントデザイン支持者Jonathan Wellsは、自然選択に代わる彼の理論の証拠は何かと問われて「私は代替理論を提唱する義務があるとは思っていない。私は生命の歴史を説明する代替理論があるふりをしない」と公的に明言した。 [ Brian Trent "Intelligent Design is Neither" (2007/02/28) on AmericanChronicle] Paul Nelson曰く「理論はなくてもよい」： Dr. Paul Nelson, a Biola professor and apologist, approached the heavily debated theory of Intelligent Design from a biological angle. He set out on an intense 45-minute session entitled “Intelligent Design in Three Easy Steps” to argue that science supports the idea that an intelligent being designed the universe. Biola University[ファンダメンタリストではないが、福音主義の大学]の教授で、護教論者であるDr. Paul Nelsonは、生物学の面から徹底して論争されているインテリジェントデザイン理論にアプローチしている。彼は、インテリジェントな存在が宇宙をデザインしたという考えを科学が支持すると論じる「Intelligent Design in Three Easy Steps」という強烈な45分間セッションに出た。 “I want to remind you that you don’t need a theory of design to know that is design,” said Nelson. “The reality of detecting intelligence doesn’t require a theory. A theory is a nice thing to have, certainly if we are going to apply this to biology, but design inferences are sound and stable even if we don’t have a fully articulated theory.” 「それがデザインであるか知るためにデザイン理論を必要としないことを、思い起こしてもらいたい。インテリジェンスを実際に見つけるのに理論は必要ない。生物学に適用するのであれば、理論は持っていてよいものだ。しかし、完全に理路整然とした理論がなくても、デザイン推論は正しくかつ信頼できる。」 [ MICHELLE A. VU "Intelligent Design Defended by Unsolved Genetic Puzzle" (2006/11/17) on Christian Post] 保守の論客Ann Coulterは「レストランを開業しなくても、レストラン批評家になれる」： 実際、創造論者の人気のある話のポイントは、ダーウィニズムが間違っていることを知るために、ダーウィニズムの代替理論を持っている必要性がないということだ。たとえば、 Jeremy PaxmanによるAnn Coulterのインタビュー の2 00あたりの“I can be a restaurant critic without opening up a restaurant”（レストランを開業しなくても、レストラン批評家になれる）。 [ bhumburg "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review Why Should Words Have Meanings? (Chapter 1) " (2006/08/26)] 研究プログラムがないインテリジェントデザイン 理論は必要ないので、研究プログラムも必要ないのだが、それではまずいと考える人々もいる。ただし、そう考えているだけで、行動しているわけではない。 1998年にDembskiは、ポジティブな研究プログラムを提案した： The Intelligent Design movement begins with the work of Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, Michael Denton, Dean Kenyon, and Phillip Johnson. Without employing the Bible as a scientific text, these scholars critiqued Darwinism on scientific and philosophical grounds. On scientific grounds they found Darwinism an inadequate framework for biology. On philosophical grounds they found Darwinism hopelessly entangled with naturalism, the view that nature is self-sufficient and thus without need of God or any guiding intelligence. More recently, scholars like Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wells, and myself have taken the next step, proposing a positive research program wherein intelligent causes become the key for understanding the diversity and complexity of life. インテリジェントデザイン運動は、Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, Michael Denton, Dean Kenyon, 及び Phillip Johnsonの成果により始まった。科学的文献として聖書を使わずに、これらの学者たちは科学的および哲学的にダーウィニズムを批判した。科学的分野では、生物学の不適切なフレームワークであることを見つけた。哲学的分野では、自然はそれだけで充足しており、したがって神や指導的インテリジェンスの必要がないという自然主義と、ダーウィニズムが絶望的に絡み合っているのを見つけた。最近ではMichael Behe, Stephen Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wellsや私のような学者が次の段階たる、生命の多様性と複雑さを理解する上でキーとなるインテリジェントな原因についてのポジティブな研究プログラムを提案している。 [ William Dembski "The Intelligent Design Movement" (1998 Spring) ] そして、2002年にDembskiは次のように言った： Why should ID supporters allow the Darwinian establishment to indoctrinate students at the high school level, only to divert some of the brightest to becoming supporters of a mechanistic account of evolution, when by presenting ID at the high school level some of these same students would go on to careers trying to develop ID as a positive research program? If ID is going to succeed as a research program, it will need workers, and these are best recruited at a young age. The Darwinists undestand this. So do the ID proponents. There is a sociological dimension to science and to the prospering of scientific theories, and this cannot be ignored if ID is going to become a thriving research program. ダーウィン学派が高校レベルの最優秀な生徒たちの一部が進化の機械論的説明の支援者となるようにしているのを黙ってみていなければならないのか。高校レベルでインテリジェントデザインを提示すれば、その同じ生徒たちの一部は、肯定的研究プログラムとしてのインテリジェントデザインを発展させる仕事につくかもしれないのに。インテリジェントデザインが研究プログラムとして成功するには、研究者が必要であり、そのためには若い人材の獲得が最善である。ダーウィニストはこれをわかっている。そしてインテリジェントデザイン支持もわかっている。科学と科学理論の隆盛には社会的な面があり、インテリジェントデザインが隆盛な研究プログラムとなるにはこれを無視できない。 [ William A. Dembski "Then and Only Then A Response to Mike Gene" (2002) via Richard Hoppe ] どうも提案しているだけで終わったらしい。2002年時点でも高校レベルでのリクルーティングをしないと研究プログラムができないらしい。 また、理論と言っても、因果メカニズムなどを含むわけではない。 As for your example, I’m not going to take the bait. You’re asking me to play a game “Provide as much detail in terms of possible causal mechanisms for your ID position as I do for my Darwinian position.” ID is not a mechanistic theory, and it’s not ID’s task to match your pathetic level of detail in telling mechanistic stories. If ID is correct and an intelligence is responsible and indispensable for certain structures, then it makes no sense to try to ape your method of connecting the dots. True, there may be dots to be connected. But there may also be fundamental discontinuities, and with IC systems that is what ID is discovering.” あなたの例について、餌に食いつくつもりはない。あなたはゲームをするように依頼している：「私が私のダーウィン主義者のポジションについてやったことを、あなたのインテリジェントデザインのポジションに対して可能な因果メカニズムについて詳細を述べよと」 インテリジェントデザインは機械論ではなく、機械論的ストーリーを語るにあたって、あなたのまったく不十分なレベルの詳細にあわせることはインテリジェントデザインのタスクではない。もし、インテリジェントデザインが正しく、インテリジェンスが特定構造の原因であり、不可欠であるなら、点と点を結ぶような、あなたの方法を真似る意味がない。実際のところ、点と点のつながりがあるかもしれない。しかし、インテリジェントデザインが発見した還元不可能な複雑さを持つシステムのような根本的な不連続があるかもしれない。 [ William A. Dembski "Organisms using GAs vs. Organisms being built by GAs thread" at ISCID 18. September 2002. ] 学校で教えるべき内容がないインテリジェントデザイン インテリジェントデザイン理論は不要で、研究プログラムもないので、結果として理論は存在せず、学校で教えようにも、教えるべき内容がない。 2003 However, responding to a question after the lecture, Nelson said that he opposed the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. "It isn t a fully-fledged theory -- there isn t yet enough there to actually teach," Nelson said. しかし、講義の後の質問に対する答えで、Nelsonは公立学校のインテリジェントデザインを教えることに反対だと言った： 「それは成熟した理論ではなく、まだ実際に教えるため十分なものがない」 [ Intelligent design may underlie life(2003/02/21) ] 2004 Nelson Easily the biggest challenge facing the ID community is to develop a full-fledged theory of biological design. We don’t have such a theory right now, and that’s a real problem. Without a theory, it’s very hard to know where to direct your research focus. Right now, we’ve got a bag of powerful intuitions, and a handful of notions such as “irreducible complexity” and “specified complexity”―but, as yet, no general theory of biological design. インテリジェントデザインのコミュニティが直面している最大のチャレンジは、完全に自立した生物学デザインの理論をつくることである。我々は今のところ、そのような理論を持っておらず、そのことは本当に問題である。理論がなければ、研究がフォーカスすべき場所が示せない。今、我々は強力な直観と、還元不可能な複雑さや指定された複雑さのような主張が数個あるが、しかし、生物学デザインの一般理論はない。 { The Measure of Design on TouchStone 2004/7-8 ] 2006 The hypothesis of intelligent design, while being developed, is not complete enough to be taught in the classroom, Phillip Johnson, professor emeritus of law at the University of California at Berkeley, said during a lecture at Knox College Friday. インテリジェントデザインの父は、彼の子供がまだ学校へ行く準備ができていないと言った。インテリジェントデザイン仮説は発展途上であり、授業で教えるに十分に完成していないと、カリフォリニア大学バークレー校の法学名誉教授Phillip Johnsonは、金曜のKnox Collegeでの講義で発言した。 [ Intelligent design founder argues against evolution (2006/02/18) ] 2007 I[Phillip Johnson] also don’t think that there is really a theory of intelligent design at the present time to propose as a comparable alternative to the Darwinian theory, which is, whatever errors it might contain, a fully worked out scheme. There is no intelligent design theory that’s comparable. Working out a positive theory is the job of the scientific people that we have affiliated with the movement. Some of them are quite convinced that it’s doable, but that’s for them to prove…No product is ready for competition in the educational world. 私も現時点で、間違いを含んでいるにせよ、完全に働く記述であるダーウィン理論に比肩するような代替理論に、インテリジェントデザイン理論がなっているとは考えていない。比肩しうるようなインテリジェントデザイン理論は存在しない。肯定的理論を導くことは、私が運動で支援している科学系人材の仕事である。彼らの中には、それが可能だと完全に確信している者もいる。しかし、それを証明するのは彼らである。教育界で競合するために、いかなる生産物も準備できていない。 [ quoted by Michelangelo D’Agostino "In the matter of Berkeley v. Berkeley " ]
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Chapter VI.条約後のヨーロッパ(Europe after the Treaty)-5 Contents Top Chapter I.序論(Introductory) Chapter II.戦争以前のヨーロッパ(Europe before the War) Chapter III.会議(The Conference) Chapter IV.条約(The Treaty)-1 Chapter IV.条約(The Treaty)-2 Chapter IV.条約(The Treaty)-3 Chapter V.賠償(Reparation)-1 Chapter V.賠償(Reparation)-2 Chapter V.賠償(Reparation)-3 Chapter V.賠償(Reparation)-4 Chapter V.賠償(Reparation)-5 Chapter VI.条約後のヨーロッパ(Europe after the Treaty)-5 Chapter VII.救済策(Remedies)-1 Chapter VII.救済策(Remedies)-2 Chapter VI.条約後のヨーロッパ(Europe after the Treaty) This chapter must be one of pessimism. The Treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated Central Empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new States of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it promote in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves; no arrangement was reached at Paris for restoring the disordered finances of France and Italy, or to adjust the systems of the Old World and the New. The Council of Four paid no attention to these issues, being preoccupied with others,—Clemenceau to crush the economic life of his enemy, Lloyd George to do a deal and bring home something which would pass muster for a week, the President to do nothing that was not just and right. It is an extraordinary fact that the fundamental economic problems of a Europe starving and disintegrating before their eyes, was the one question in which it was impossible to arouse the interest of the Four. Reparation was their main excursion into the economic field, and they settled it as a problem of theology, of polities, of electoral chicane, from every point of view except that of the economic future of the States whose destiny they were handling. I leave, from this point onwards, Paris, the Conference, and the Treaty, briefly to consider the present situation of Europe, as the War and the Peace have made it; and it will no longer be part of my purpose to distinguish between the inevitable fruits of the War and the avoidable misfortunes of the Peace. The essential facts of the situation, as I see them, are expressed simply. Europe consists of the densest aggregation of population in the history of the world. This population is accustomed to a relatively high standard of life, in which, even now, some sections of it anticipate improvement rather than deterioration. In relation to other continents Europe is not self-sufficient; in particular it cannot feed Itself. Internally the population is not evenly distributed, but much of it is crowded into a relatively small number of dense industrial centers. This population secured for itself a livelihood before the war, without much margin of surplus, by means of a delicate and immensely complicated organization, of which the foundations were supported by coal, iron, transport, and an unbroken supply of imported food and raw materials from other continents. By the destruction of this organization and the interruption of the stream of supplies, a part of this population is deprived of its means of livelihood. Emigration is not open to the redundant surplus. For it would take years to transport them overseas, even, which is not the case, if countries could be found which were ready to receive them. The danger confronting us, therefore, is the rapid depression of the standard of life of the European populations to a point which will mean actual starvation for some (a point already reached in Russia and approximately reached in Austria). Men will not always die quietly. For starvation, which brings to some lethargy and a helpless despair, drives other temperaments to the nervous instability of hysteria and to a mad despair. And these in their distress may overturn the remnants of organization, and submerge civilization itself in their attempts to satisfy desperately the overwhelming needs of the individual. This is the danger against which all our resources and courage and idealism must now co-operate. On the 13th May, 1919, Count Brockdorff-Rantzau addressed to the Peace Conference of the Allied and Associated Powers the Report of the German Economic Commission charged with the study of the effect of the conditions of Peace on the situation of the German population. "In the course of the last two generations," they reported, "Germany has become transformed from an agricultural State to an industrial State. So long as she was an agricultural State, Germany could feed forty million inhabitants. As an industrial State she could insure the means of subsistence for a population of sixty-seven millions; and in 1913 the importation of foodstuffs amounted, in round figures, to twelve million tons. Before the war a total of fifteen million persons in Germany provided for their existence by foreign trade, navigation, and the use, directly or indirectly, of foreign raw material." After rehearsing the main relevant provisions of the Peace Treaty the report continues "After this diminution of her products, after the economic depression resulting from the loss of her colonies, her merchant fleet and her foreign investments, Germany will not he in a position to import from abroad an adequate quantity of raw material. An enormous part of German industry will, therefore, be condemned inevitably to destruction. The need of importing foodstuffs will increase considerably at the same time that the possibility of satisfying this demand is as greatly diminished. In a very short time, therefore, Germany will not be in a position to give bread and work to her numerous millions of inhabitants, who are prevented from earning their livelihood by navigation and trade. These persons should emigrate, but this is a material impossibility, all the more because many countries and the most important ones will oppose any German immigration. To put the Peace conditions into execution would logically involve, therefore, the loss of several millions of persons in Germany. This catastrophe would not be long in coming about, seeing that the health of the population has been broken down during the War by the Blockade, and during the Armistice by the aggravation of the Blockade of famine. No help, however great, or over however long a period it were continued, could prevent those deaths en masse." "We do not know, and indeed we doubt," the report concludes, "whether the Delegates of the Allied and. Associated Powers realize the inevitable consequences which will take place if Germany, an industrial State, very thickly populated, closely bound up with the economic system of the world, and under the necessity of importing enormous quantities of raw material and foodstuffs, suddenly finds herself pushed back to the phase of her development, which corresponds to her economic condition and the numbers of her population as they were half a century ago. Those who sign this Treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children." I know of no adequate answer to these words. The indictment is at least as true of the Austrian, as of the German, settlement. This is the fundamental problem in front of us, before which questions of territorial adjustment and the balance of European power are insignificant. Some of the catastrophes of past history, which have thrown back human progress for centuries, have been due to the reactions following on the sudden termination, whether in the course of nature or by the act of man, of temporarily favorable conditions which have permitted the growth of population beyond what could be provided for when the favorable conditions were at an end. The significant features of the immediate situation can be grouped under three heads first, the absolute falling off, for the time being, in Europe s internal productivity; second, the breakdown of transport and exchange by means of which its products could be conveyed where they were most wanted; and third, the inability of Europe to purchase its usual supplies from overseas. The decrease of productivity cannot be easily estimated, and may be the subject of exaggeration. But the primâ facie evidence of it is overwhelming, and this factor has been the main burden of Mr. Hoover s well-considered warnings. A variety of causes have produced it;—violent and prolonged internal disorder as in Russia and Hungary; the creation of new governments and their inexperience in the readjustment of economic relations, as in Poland and Czecho-Slovakia; the loss throughout the Continent of efficient labor, through the casualties of war or the continuance of mobilization; the falling-off in efficiency through continued underfeeding in the Central Empires; the exhaustion of the soil from lack of the usual applications of artificial manures throughout the course of the war; the unsettlement of the minds of the laboring classes on the above all (to quote Mr. Hoover), "there is a great fundamental economic issues of their lives. But relaxation of effort as the reflex of physical exhaustion of large sections of the population from privation and the mental and physical strain of the war." Many persons are for one reason or another out of employment altogether. According to Mr. Hoover, a summary of the unemployment bureaus in Europe in July, 1919, showed that 15,000,000 families were receiving unemployment allowances in one form or another, and were being paid in the main by a constant inflation of currency. In Germany there is the added deterrent to labor and to capital (in so far as the Reparation terms are taken literally), that anything, which they may produce beyond the barest level of subsistence, will for years to come be taken away from them. Such definite data as we possess do not add much, perhaps, to the general picture of decay. But I will remind the reader of one or two of them. The coal production of Europe as a whole is estimated to have fallen off by 30 per cent; and upon coal the greater part of the industries of Europe and the whole of her transport system depend. Whereas before the war Germany produced 85 per cent of the total food consumed by her inhabitants, the productivity of the soil is now diminished by 40 per cent and the effective quality of the live-stock by 55 per cent.[145] Of the European countries which formerly possessed a large exportable surplus, Russia, as much by reason of deficient transport as of diminished output, may herself starve. Hungary, apart from her other troubles, has been pillaged by the Romanians immediately after harvest. Austria will have consumed the whole of her own harvest for 1919 before the end of the calendar year. The figures are almost too overwhelming to carry conviction to our minds; if they were not quite so bad, our effective belief in them might be stronger. But even when coal can be got and grain harvested, the breakdown of the European railway system prevents their carriage; and even when goods can be manufactured, the breakdown of the European currency system prevents their sale. I have already described the losses, by war and under the Armistice surrenders, to the transport system of Germany. But even so, Germany s position, taking account of her power of replacement by manufacture, is probably not so serious as that of some of her neighbors. In Russia (about which, however, we have very little exact or accurate information) the condition of the rolling-stock is believed to be altogether desperate, and one of the most fundamental factors in her existing economic disorder. And in Poland, Roumania, and Hungary the position is not much better. Yet modern industrial life essentially depends on efficient transport facilities, and the population which secured its livelihood by these means cannot continue to live without them. The breakdown of currency, and the distrust in its purchasing value, is an aggravation of these evils which must be discussed in a little more detail in connection with foreign trade. What then is our picture of Europe? A country population able to support life on the fruits of its own agricultural production but without the accustomed surplus for the towns, and also (as a result of the lack of imported materials and so of variety and amount in the saleable manufactures of the towns) without the usual incentives to market food in return for other wares; an industrial population unable to keep its strength for lack of food, unable to earn a livelihood for lack of materials, and so unable to make good by imports from abroad the failure of productivity at home. Yet, according to Mr. Hoover, "a rough estimate would indicate that the population of Europe is at least 100,000,000 greater than can be supported without imports, and must live by the production and distribution of exports." The problem of the re-inauguration of the perpetual circle of production and exchange in foreign trade leads me to a necessary digression on the currency situation of Europe. Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers,", who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery. Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. In the latter stages of the war all the belligerent governments practised, from necessity or incompetence, what a Bolshevist might have done from design. Even now, when the war is over, most of them continue out of weakness the same malpractices. But further, the Governments of Europe, being many of them at this moment reckless in their methods as well as weak, seek to direct on to a class known as "profiteers" the popular indignation against the more obvious consequences of their vicious methods. These "profiteers" are, broadly speaking, the entrepreneur class of capitalists, that is to say, the active and constructive element in the whole capitalist society, who in a period of rapidly rising prices cannot help but get rich quick whether they wish it or desire it or not. If prices are continually rising, even trader who has purchased for stock or owns property and plant inevitably makes profits. By directing hatred against this class, therefore, the European Governments are carrying a step further the fatal process which the subtle mind of Lenin had consciously conceived. The profiteers are a consequence and not a cause of rising prices. By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract and of the established equilibrium of wealth which is the inevitable result of inflation, these Governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century. But they have no plan for replacing it. We are thus faced in Europe with the spectacle of an extraordinary weakness on the part of the great capitalist class, which has emerged from the industrial triumphs of the nineteenth century, and seemed a very few years ago our all-powerful master. The terror and personal timidity of the individuals of this class is now so great, their confidence in their place in society and in their necessity to the social organism so diminished, that they are the easy victims of intimidation. This was not so in England twenty-five years ago, any more than it is now in the United States. Then the capitalists believed in themselves, in their value to society, in the propriety of their continued existence in the full enjoyment of their riches and the unlimited exercise of their power. Now they tremble before every insult;—call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. They allow themselves to be ruined and altogether undone by their own instruments, governments of their own making, and a press of which they are the proprietors. Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. In the complexer world of Western Europe the Immanent Will may achieve its ends more subtly and bring in the revolution no less inevitably through a Klotz or a George than by the intellectualisms, too ruthless and self-conscious for us, of the bloodthirsty philosophers of Russia. The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths. The various belligerent Governments, unable, or too timid or too short-sighted to secure from loans or taxes the resources they required, have printed notes for the balance. In Russia and Austria-Hungary this process has reached a point where for the purposes of foreign trade the currency is practically valueless. The Polish mark can be bought for about three cents and the Austrian crown for less than two cents, but they cannot be sold at all. The German mark is worth less than four cents on the exchanges. In most of the other countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe the real position is nearly as bad. The currency of Italy has fallen to little more than a halt of its nominal value in spite of its being still subject to some degree of regulation; French currency maintains an uncertain market; and even sterling is seriously diminished in present value and impaired in its future prospects. But while these currencies enjoy a precarious value abroad, they have never entirely lost, not even in Russia, their purchasing power at home. A sentiment of trust in the legal money of the State is so deeply implanted in the citizens of all countries that they cannot but believe that some day this money must recover a part at least of its former value. To their minds it appears that value is inherent in money as such, and they do not apprehend that the real wealth, which this money might have stood for, has been dissipated once and for all. This sentiment is supported by the various legal regulations with which the Governments endeavor to control internal prices, and so to preserve some purchasing power for their legal tender. Thus the force of law preserves a measure of immediate purchasing power over some commodities and the force of sentiment and custom maintains, especially amongst peasants, a willingness to hoard paper which is really worthless. The presumption of a spurious value for the currency, by the force of law expressed in the regulation of prices, contains in itself, however, the seeds of final economic decay, and soon dries up the sources of ultimate supply. If a man is compelled to exchange the fruits of his labors for paper which, as experience soon teaches him, he cannot use to purchase what he requires at a price comparable to that which he has received for his own products, he will keep his produce for himself, dispose of it to his friends and neighbors as a favor, or relax his efforts in producing it. A system of compelling the exchange of commodities at what is not their real relative value not only relaxes production, but leads finally to the waste and inefficiency of barter. If, however, a government refrains from regulation and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer. The effect on foreign trade of price-regulation and profiteer-hunting as cures for inflation is even worse. Whatever may be the case at home, the currency must soon reach its real level abroad, with the result that prices inside and outside the country lose their normal adjustment. The price of imported commodities, when converted at the current rate o exchange, is far in excess of the local price, so that many essential goods will not be imported at all by private agency, and must be provided by the government, which, in re-selling the goods below cost price, plunges thereby a little further into insolvency. The bread subsidies, now almost universal throughout Europe, are the leading example of this phenomenon. The countries of Europe fall into two distinct groups at the present time as regards their manifestations of what is really the same evil throughout, according as they have been cut off from international intercourse by the Blockade, or have had their imports paid for out of the resources of their allies. I take Germany as typical of the first, and France and Italy of the second. The note circulation of Germany is about ten times[146] what it was before the war. The value of the mark in terms of gold is about one-eighth of its former value. As world-prices in terms of gold are more than double what they were, it follows that mark-prices inside Germany ought to be from sixteen to twenty times their pre-war level if they are to be in adjustment and proper conformity with prices outside Germany.[147] But this is not the case. In spite of a very great rise in German prices, they probably do not yet average much more than five times their former level, so far as staple commodities are concerned; and it is impossible that they should rise further except with a simultaneous and not less violent adjustment of the level of money wages. The existing maladjustment hinders in two ways (apart from other obstacles) that revival of the import trade which is the essential preliminary of the economic reconstruction of the country. In the first place, imported commodities are beyond the purchasing power of the great mass of the population,[148] and the flood of imports which might have been expected to succeed the raising of the blockade was not in fact commercially possible.[149] In the second place, it is a hazardous enterprise for a merchant or a manufacturer to purchase with a foreign credit material for which, when he has imported it or manufactured it, he will receive mark currency of a quite uncertain and possibly unrealizable value. This latter obstacle to the revival of trade is one which easily escapes notice and deserves a little attention. It is impossible at the present time to say what the mark will be worth in terms of foreign currency three or six months or a year hence, and the exchange market can quote no reliable figure. It may be the case, therefore, that a German merchant, careful of his future credit and reputation, who is actually offered a short period credit in terms of sterling or dollars, may be reluctant and doubtful whether to accept it. He will owe sterling or dollars, but he will sell his product for marks, and his power, when the time comes, to turn these marks into the currency in which he has to repay his debt is entirely problematic. Business loses its genuine character and becomes no better than a speculation in the exchanges, the fluctuations in which entirely obliterate the normal profits of commerce. There are therefore three separate obstacles to the revival of trade a maladjustment between internal prices and international prices, a lack of individual credit abroad wherewith to buy the raw materials needed to secure the working capital and to re-start the circle of exchange, and a disordered currency system which renders credit operations hazardous or impossible quite apart from the ordinary risks of commerce. The note circulation of France is more than six times its pre-war level. The exchange value of the franc in terms of gold is a little less than two-thirds its former value; that is to say, the value of the franc has not fallen in proportion to the increased volume of the currency.[150] This apparently superior situation of France is due to the fact that until recently a very great part of her imports have not been paid for, but have been covered by loans from the Governments of Great Britain and the United States. This has allowed a want of equilibrium between exports and imports to be established, which is becoming a very serious factor, now that the outside assistance is being gradually discontinued. The internal economy of France and its price level in relation to the note circulation and the foreign exchanges is at present based on an excess of imports over exports which cannot possibly continue. Yet it is difficult to see how the position can be readjusted except by a lowering of the standard of consumption in France, which, even if it is only temporary, will provoke a great deal of discontent.[151] The situation of Italy is not very different. There the note circulation is five or six times its pre-war level, and the exchange value of the lira in terms of gold about half its former value. Thus the adjustment of the exchange to the volume of the note circulation has proceeded further in Italy than in France. On the other hand, Italy s "invisible" receipts, from emigrant remittances and the expenditure of tourists, have been very injuriously affected; the disruption of Austria has deprived her of an important market; and her peculiar dependence on foreign shipping and on imported raw materials of every kind has laid her open to special injury from the increase of world prices. For all these reasons her position is grave, and her excess of imports as serious a symptom as in the case of France.[152] The existing inflation and the maladjustment of international trade are aggravated, both in France and in Italy, by the unfortunate budgetary position of the Governments of these countries. In France the failure to impose taxation is notorious. Before the war the aggregate French and British budgets, and also the average taxation per head, were about equal; but in France no substantial effort has been made to cover the increased expenditure. "Taxes increased in Great Britain during the war," it has been estimated, "from 95 francs per head to 265 francs, whereas the increase in France was only from 90 to 103 francs." The taxation voted in France for the financial year ending June 30, 1919, was less than half the estimated normal post-bellum expenditure. The normal budget for the future cannot be put below $4,400,000,000 (22 milliard francs), and may exceed this figure; but even for the fiscal year 1919-20 the estimated receipts from taxation do not cover much more than half this amount. The French Ministry of Finance have no plan or policy whatever for meeting this prodigious deficit, except the expectation of receipts from Germany on a scale which the French officials themselves know to be baseless. In the meantime they are helped by sales of war material and surplus American stocks and do not scruple, even in the latter half of 1919, to meet the deficit by the yet further expansion of the note issue of the Bank of France.[153] The budgetary position of Italy is perhaps a little superior to that of France. Italian finance throughout the war was more enterprising than the French, and far greater efforts were made to impose taxation and pay for the war. Nevertheless Signor Nitti, the Prime Minister, in a letter addressed to the electorate on the eve of the General Election (Oct., 1919), thought it necessary to make public the following desperate analysis of the situation —(1) The State expenditure amounts to about three times the revenue. (2) All the industrial undertakings of the State, including the railways, telegraphs, and telephones, are being run at a loss. Although the public is buying bread at a high price, that price represents a loss to the Government of about a milliard a year. (3) Exports now leaving the country are valued at only one-quarter or one-fifth of the imports from abroad. (4) The National Debt is increasing by about a milliard lire per month. (5) The military expenditure for one month is still larger than that for the first year of the war. But if this is the budgetary position of France and Italy, that of the rest of belligerent Europe is yet more desperate. In Germany the total expenditure of the Empire, the Federal States, and the Communes in 1919-20 is estimated at 25 milliards of marks, of which not above 10 milliards are covered by previously existing taxation. This is without allowing anything for the payment of the indemnity. In Russia, Poland, Hungary, or Austria such a thing as a budget cannot be seriously considered to exist at all.[154] Thus the menace of inflationism described above is not merely a product of the war, of which peace begins the cure. It is a continuing phenomenon of which the end is not yet in sight. All these influences combine not merely to prevent Europe from supplying immediately a sufficient stream of exports to pay for the goods she needs to import, but they impair her credit for securing the working capital required to re-start the circle of exchange and also, by swinging the forces of economic law yet further from equilibrium rather than towards it, they favor a continuance of the present conditions instead of a recovery from them. An inefficient, unemployed, disorganized Europe faces us, torn by internal strife and international hate, fighting, starving, pillaging, and lying. What warrant is there for a picture of less somber colors? I have paid little heed in this book to Russia, Hungary, or Austria.[155] There the miseries of life and the disintegration of society are too notorious to require analysis; and these countries are already experiencing the actuality of what for the rest of Europe is still in the realm of prediction. Yet they comprehend a vast territory and a great population, and are an extant example of how much man can suffer and how far society can decay. Above all, they are the signal to us of how in the final catastrophe the malady of the body passes over into malady of the mind. Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. Physical efficiency and resistance to disease slowly diminish,[156] but life proceeds somehow, until the limit of human endurance is reached at last and counsels of despair and madness stir the sufferers from the lethargy which precedes the crisis. Then man shakes himself, and the bonds of custom are loosed. The power of ideas is sovereign, and he listens to whatever instruction of hope, illusion, or revenge is carried to him on the air. As I write, the flames of Russian Bolshevism seem, for the moment at least, to have burnt themselves out, and the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe are held in a dreadful torpor. The lately gathered harvest keeps off the worst privations, and Peace has been declared at Paris. But winter approaches. Men will have nothing to look forward to or to nourish hopes on. There will be little fuel to moderate the rigors of the season or to comfort the starved bodies of the town-dwellers. But who can say how much is endurable, or in what direction men will seek at last to escape from their misfortunes? FOOTNOTES [145] Professor Starling s Report on Food Conditions in Germany. (Cmd. 280.) [146] Including the Darlehenskassenscheine somewhat more. [147] Similarly in Austria prices ought to be between twenty and thirty times their former level. [148] One of the moat striking and symptomatic difficulties which faced the Allied authorities in their administration of the occupied areas of Germany during the Armistice arose out of the fact that even when they brought food into the country the inhabitants could not afford to pay its cost price. [149] Theoretically an unduly low level of home prices should stimulate exports and so cure itself. But in Germany, and still more in Poland and Austria, there is little or nothing to export. There must be imports before there can be exports. [150] Allowing for the diminished value of gold, the exchange value of the franc should be less than 40 per cent of its previous value, instead of the actual figure of about 60 per cent, if the fall were proportional to the increase in the volume of the currency. [151] How very far from equilibrium France s international exchange now is can be seen from the following table Monthly AverageImports $1,000Exports $1,000Excess of Imports $1,000 1913140,355114,67025,685 1914106,70581,14525,560 1918331,91569,055262,860 Jan.-Mar. 1919387,14066,670320,470 Apr.-June 1919421,41083,895337,515 July 1919467,565123,675343,890 These figures have been converted, at approximately par rates, but this is roughly compensated by the fact that the trade of 1918 and 1919 has been valued at 1917 official rates. French imports cannot possibly continue at anything approaching these figures, and the semblance of prosperity based on such a state of affairs is spurious. [152] The figures for Italy are as follows Monthly AverageImports $1,000Exports $1,000Excess of Imports $1,000 191360,76041,86018,900 191448,72036,84011,880 1918235,02541,390193,635 Jan.-Mar. 1919229,24038,685191,155 Apr.-June 1919331,03569,250261,785 July-Aug. 1919223,53584,515139,020 [153] In the last two returns of the Bank of France available as I write (Oct. 2 and 9, 1919) the increases in the note issue on the week amounted to $93,750,000 and $94,125,000 respectively. [154] On October 3, 1919, M. Bilinski made his financial statement to the Polish Diet. He estimated his expenditure for the next nine months at rather more than double his expenditure for the past nine months, and while during the first period his revenue had amounted to one-fifth of his expenditure, for the coming months he was budgeting for receipts equal to one-eighth of his outgoings. The Times correspondent at Warsaw reported that "in general M. Bilinski s tone was optimistic and appeared to satisfy his audience." [155] The terms of the Peace Treaty imposed on the Austrian Republic bear no relation to the real facts of that State s desperate situation. The Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna on June 4, 1919, commented on them as follows "Never has the substance of a treaty of peace so grossly betrayed the intentions which were said to have guided its construction as is the case with this Treaty . . . in which every provision is permeated with ruthlessness and pitilessness, in which no breath of human sympathy can be detected, which flies in the face of everything which binds man to man, which is a crime against humanity itself, against a suffering and tortured people." I am acquainted in detail with the Austrian Treaty and I was present when some of its terms were being drafted, but I do not find it easy to rebut the justice of this outburst. [156] For months past the reports of the health conditions in the Central Empires have been of such a character that the imagination is dulled, and one almost seems guilty of sentimentality in quoting them. But their general veracity is not disputed, and I quote the three following, that the reader may not be unmindful of them "In the last years of the war, in Austria alone at least 35,000 people died of tuberculosis, in Vienna alone 12,000. Today we have to reckon with a number of at least 350,000 to 400,000 people who require treatment for tuberculosis.... As the result of malnutrition a bloodless generation is growing up with undeveloped muscles, undeveloped joints, and undeveloped brain" (Neue Freie Presse, May 31, 1919). The Commission of Doctors appointed by the Medical Faculties of Holland, Sweden, and Norway to examine the conditions in Germany reported as follows in the Swedish Press in April, 1919 "Tuberculosis, especially in children, is increasing in an appalling way, and, generally speaking, is malignant. In the same way rickets is more serious and more widely prevalent. It is impossible to do anything for these diseases; there is no milk for the tuberculous, and no cod-liver oil for those suffering from rickets.... Tuberculosis is assuming almost unprecedented aspects, such as have hitherto only been known in exceptional cases. The whole body is attacked simultaneously, and the illness in this form is practically incurable.... Tuberculosis is nearly always fatal now among adults. It is the cause of 90 per cent of the hospital cases. Nothing can be done against it owing to lack of food-stuffs.... It appears in the most terrible forms, such as glandular tuberculosis, which turns into purulent dissolution." The following is by a writer in the Vossische Zeitung, June 5, 1919, who accompanied the Hoover Mission to the Erzgebirge "I visited large country districts where 90 per cent of all the children were ricketty and where children of three years are only beginning to walk.... Accompany me to a school in the Erzgebirge. You think it is a kindergarten for the little ones. No, these are children of seven and eight years. Tiny faces, with large dull eyes, overshadowed by huge puffed, ricketty foreheads, their small arms just skin and bone, and above the crooked legs with their dislocated joints the swollen, pointed stomachs of the hunger oedema.... You see this child here, the physician in charge explained; it consumed an incredible amount of bread, and yet did not get any stronger. I found out that it hid all the bread it received underneath its straw mattress. The fear of hunger was so deeply rooted in the child that it collected stores instead of eating the food a misguided animal instinct made the dread of hunger worse than the actual pangs. " Yet there are many persons apparently in whose opinion justice requires that such beings should pay tribute until they are forty or fifty years of age in relief of the British taxpayer.
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一定範囲の敵を岩の顎で攻撃し、さらに地面に埋めて動きを封じます Maws of the Earth 領域 使用 宝石 Alteration Lv5 戦闘/水陸両用 1 主属性 副属性 効果量 効果発生数 3 - 12+1/Lv - 射程距離 効果範囲 精度補正 疲労 10+5/Lv 4+1/Lv 3 100 特殊 飛行・浮遊無効防御貫通 ゲーム内説明文 The earth cringes and heaves and a great maw with teeth of rock opens and swallows those unfortunate to be standing in the area. Those who survive will be partially buried in the ground and immobilized. 和訳 大地が激しく鳴動すると共に岩の牙を持つ大顎が開き、その地域に立っていた不運なものたちを飲み込みます。生き延びたものは部分的に地中に埋もれ、拘束されます。 解説 地魔法単独で使用可能な強力な広範囲攻撃魔法。飛行するものには効果が無いものの、それ以外のすべてに強烈なダメージを与えつつ、生き残ったものにもEarth Gripの効果を与える。 効かない相手がはっきりしている上に宝石も消費するが、注意して使いさえすれば地特化の魔術師の主力攻撃として申し分ない性能を持つ。レベルに応じて威力だけでなく射程と範囲も拡大していくため、地魔法特化の神や使途にとっても有力。一撃で倒せない相手も少なくとも行動不能には追い込めるので、トドメを刺すのも容易となる。 広範囲攻撃はどれも味方を巻き込むのが不安材料となるが、無属性の広範囲攻撃であるこの魔法はそれがとくに深刻である。防御貫通のため少々重装備な程度では無効化しきれない上、筋力が低いとEarth Gripからの脱出にも苦労する。 飛行・浮遊系のユニットを前衛に置ければそれが最善だが、それが難しい場合はある程度の誤射を覚悟の上で使うしかないだろう。よほどひどい外し方をしない限り、撃って損をすることはない。 ちなみにこの魔法、Conquest of Elysium 3からの輸入である。性質もほとんどそのまま受け継がれている。 コメント 名前 コメント
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str_rumor_talki_heretics_1|he heard from a Barclay trader, whom he met in Javiksholm, that they burn Heretics at the stake there. Some of them are reputed to be Knights of the Dawn gone bad! str_rumor_talki_heretics_2|he said that a Fierdsvain abbot told him that the Heretic goddess, Erida Occisor, grows in power with every human sacrifice given her by her priests. str_rumor_talki_heretics_3|he saw a man who was unmistakably a Heretic priest. He briefly spoke to a couple of urchins, handed them some coins and the urchins promptly scarpered off. str_rumor_talki_heretics_4|he was told by a prisoner, a Vanskerry Raider, that the Heretics are terrifying the whole Fierdsvain. They are taking peasants from all the villages and sacrificing them to their Dark Goddess. str_rumor_talki_heretics_5|he said that a Nal Tar horse merchant told him that he found a dying Turkmani on the way here. He was missing an arm, and lay dying. He said something called Eyegrim the Devourer had ripped off his arm and eaten it before his very eyes! str_rumor_talki_heretics_6|he said he had talked on the road with a wandering traveller, who told him that the Knights of the Dawn have dispatched a Paladin to Pendor to help fight the Heretics. He is reputed to be a formidable fighter. str_rumor_talki_heretics_7|he heard from a farmer in the Fierdsvain that they have to guard their graveyards now, so the Heretics do not raise their buried relatives to swell their numbers. str_rumor_talki_heretics_8|he came across two women, one of whom was in shock and seemed oblivious to her surroundings. The other one told him that a Knight of the Dawn had rescued them from a horrible fate at the hands of Death Worshipers. str_rumor_talki_heretics_9|he heard two sellswords complaining that the Heretics have demons amongst them, which are almost impossible to kill. They are filthy undead things, with decaying faces. One said to the other that he could smell them well before he saw them. How revolting! str_rumor_talki_heretics_10|he heard from a merchant that the corpses he saw on the road to Janos had been gnawed and the marrow sucked right out of the bones. The Koningur is trying to quash the rumor, but it is all over the markets now. str_rumor_talki_heretics_11|he overheard a merchant in the Windholm market say that a Heretic Confessor had been seen outside the city gates. The confessor was offering a reward for knowledge of the whereabouts of one {playername}. str_rumor_talki_heretics_12|he overheard talk between an ugly old woman, probably the madam of a brothel, and a hooded man, who was most likely a Heretic Priest. He told the old bird she had best come up with more girls for the Solstice sacrifices, or she would assuredly regret it. str_rumor_talki_heretics_13|he heard from one of the caravan guards, in the alley behind the market, that the Heretics have just killed another Caravan Master, and taken his guards and apprentices for sacrifice. One lucky apprentice managed to get away and reported the ambush. str_rumor_talki_heretics_14|he heard from a Barclay historian, currently lecturing in the Abbey at Valonbray, that the Heretics were originally saintly priests, until they were lured into worship of the Dark Goddess. They are spreading all over Pendor now, and a certain danger to all travelers. str_rumor_talki_heretics_15|he heard from a farmer in the Valonbray market that the Heretic goddess has our poor Thallo Ver Shures on the run. Pity, she is a kind little goddess, for all she runs starkers through the fields waving flowers. str_rumor_talki_heretics_16|he swears the Heretics have portable altars, so they can instantly sacrifice their captives on the spot! What is Pendor coming to, that murdering perverts like the Heretics roam free, killing at will?! str_rumor_talki_heretics_17|he heard about a group of Fierdsvain Maiden Cavalry partying in the Javiksholm tavern. The innkeeper told him he overheard them say that the Heretics are ferocious fighters, though they fill their ranks with outcasts and other rabble. The lassies seemed a mite fearful, which surprised him. str_rumor_talki_heretics_18|he said that one of the wharf traders, an old friend of his, is bemoaning the fact that his business is down, because the Barclay traders do not come so often to Pendor these days. He says they are afraid of those roving bands of Heretics. str_rumor_talki_heretics_19|he said that the innkeeper in Valonbray overheard a thinly-disguised Heretic priest say that he was most annoyed at the number of potential sacrifices killed fighting, rather than merely stunned by his men. He threatened to sacrifice his own men if they do not do better. str_rumor_talki_heretics_20|he said that he ran into a Squire in service to a Knight of the Dawn. The Squire confessed that he wept at their discovery of the bodies of dozens of young girls, lying next to a Heretic altar. Their hearts had been torn from their breasts. He and the Knight hunted down and slew every last one of the evil perpetrators, but he still has nightmares about the girls. str_rumor_talki_heretics_21|he saw a Heretic Confessor threatening a hooded man in the alley behind the castle. He said the man was so affrighted that he pissed himself, all the while bowing, scraping and pleading for another chance. str_rumor_talki_heretics_22|he heard that the Windholm armorer is turning a pretty penny making armor for the Heretics on the sly. It is also rumored he gave that nagging wife of his to them for sacrifice, as she has not been seen for some weeks. str_rumor_talki_heretics_23|he overheard a terrified woman, pleading frantically with the city guards for help in finding her teenage daughter. Her daughter was friends with three boys who were rumored to belong to some sort of coven. All of them had disappeared without a trace. str_rumor_talki_heretics_24|he said that he overheard an armsman talking about a battle his troop fought with the Heretics. He said that some of them were as skilled as any Knight he had seen in a tournament. str_rumor_talki_heretics_25|he saw two men, in skull-emblazoned livery, sneak over the castle walls, dragging a bound man with a sack over his head. Before he could raise an alarm, the two Heretics had fled. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_1|he heard one of the Fierdsvain Lords say that the Vanskerries want the Lords to join them in overpowering Pendor. My opinion is that the Lords have grown too soft for that. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_2|he said a trader friend of ours, Gunnar of Valonbray, says his cousin, a Vanskerry Raider currently locked in the local dungeon, claims a powerful Vanskerry Jarl plans to bring a large army into Pendor. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_3|he said he was looking to buy some slaves from Ramun and heard from one Vanskerry galley slave that the Vanskerry Raiders think Pendor is ripe for the picking. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_4|he heard a merchant from Windholm say that after he finished his business in the market, he took a short cut through an alley, and observed a tall, blonde man, obviously a Vanskerry Jarl, threatening the Valonbray horse merchant with death, if he did not produce better details about Valonbray's defenses. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_5|he said that local rumor has it that a cousin to Inar Hairybreeks, son of his own old auntie, is amongst the latest Vanskerry Raiders captured. He is trying to persuade the Koningur to release him. He will not have much luck there! str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_6|he heard in the Windholm market that the Vanskerry raids are on the increase because the Pendor pickings are so profitable for the Raiders. They raided Jayek again yesterday. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_7|he said his informant overheard some Barclay merchants talking in Windholm. They say their profits are down considerably because the caravans coming to Windholm from Ravenstern get raided too often and they cannot get enough goods. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_8|he heard some farmers complaining over their ale in the Valonbray tavern. They say it simply is not worth farming these days, what with raids taking all their harvested crops before they can get them to market. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_9|he heard the lord say that, if rumor does not lie, all the Fierdsvain towns have been infiltrated by Vanskerry agents posing as Fierdsvain merchants! Unbelievable! str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_10|he said the foreign Jarls claim that all the Fierdsvain belongs in truth to Vanskerry, and should be under their rule, since it was conquered and settled by Vanskerry Raiders. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_11|he overheard some captured Vanskerry Raiders, en route to the slave pens, laughing about how they would have their revenge on the Fierdsvain shortly, though they did not go into detail about what is planned. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_12|he heard a man, who claimed to be an escaped Vanskerry captive, say there is a plan afoot to free all the Raider prisoners. That's all he overheard, and I don't know how much credence to give the story. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_13|he heard Thomas of Rane, a trader from Ravenstern, tell of a narrow escape. His caravan hired scouts, and their outriders ran into a good-sized pack of Vanskerries. The Raiders killed all the scouts while the caravan ran for it. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_14|he told me an acquaintance of his said he could scarce credit what he overheard some sailors say in the Valonbray tavern. These more frequent raids are supposedly intended to soften up the Fierdsvain in advance of full-scale Vankserry invasion! str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_15|he said Thomas of Rane, a merchant friend of his, says the Ravenstern merchants are speaking of hiring a mercenary troop to protect their caravans to the Fierdsvain towns. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_16|he said he heard from one of his friends, cousin to a Vanskerry, that their god, Haf Sigla, sends them winds blowing in the direction of Pendor to aid their longboats in sailing here. We need a god to send winds that blow in the opposite direction! str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_17|he heard an interesting explanation of the reason behind the Vanskerry raids. Apparently, if they do not raid, they have no means of support. They are unable to farm their own cold land, so they live off the food they steal. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_18|he said his grandfather came here as a Vanskerry Raider and married a Fierdsvain farm lass. Vanskerries love our rich farmland here because they have none of their own back home. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_19|he said he did not know if he should pass this on or not, but anyway talk amongst some of the Fierdsvain geezers is that the Vanskerries think that life in Pendor has destroyed their cousins' strength and turned them soft and luxury-loving. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_20|he told me a shocking story! A Caravan Master said that his group passed a pack of Vanskerry Raiders abusing some peasant women they'd kidnapped in a raid. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_21|he heard an amusing story about the Vanskerry Raiders from the bookseller. He said they raided a Sarleon caravan carrying ale and drank it up on the spot. One of their captives got loose, tied them up and castrated every drunken one of them! str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_22|he said one of the Vanskerry Jarls claimed to own a powerful, magic axe that could cut through the strongest armor. str_rumor_talki_vanskerry_23|he said that all the women taken by the Vanskerry Raiders, and many of the men, end up as thralls in the North. What a terrible fate! str_rumor_talki_red_1|he saw two men talking in an alleyway. He could not hear what they said, but one passed a packet, and they parted with a complicated series of hand gestures. As they left, one of them dropped a red leather glove. Watching them walk away, he was careful not to pick it up. str_rumor_talki_red_2|he spoke to a slaver last week. It appears that well-trained soldiers have become the slave of choice on the market, because that seems to be all they are interested in purchasing. That is odd, as high-end soldiers usually make poor galley slaves. One loose chain and they kill their owners! str_rumor_talki_red_3|he heard two badly disguised Brotherhood bullyboys talking in the tavern last night. Someone is disrupting their harvester gangs. He did not hear the whole discussion, but the name {playername} was bandied about quite a bit. str_rumor_talki_red_4|he told me that・oh, damn. It is you! Listen, {playername}, you need to・no, never mind how I know you. Just get out of town. The Brotherhood are crawling all over this place, and they are aiming for one target You. Someone is paying top dollar. Now go. You never saw me. str_rumor_talki_red_5|he found out that the Brotherhood are angling to get into the weapons trade. They already have the slave market tied up, mostly because it is distasteful. But weapons? That is a new direction for the boys in red, and if they know something we are unaware of・well, I would sleep light, were I you. str_rumor_talki_red_6|he heard from the guild master that the blacksmith got visited by the rouge stooges last night・seems he decided not to pay for his new 'apprentice'. Claimed the boy simply dropped in on him and wanted a job. Poor, dumb bastard. They broke his hammer-hand. str_rumor_talki_red_7|he saw it plain as day. Three bloodyboys beating up a shopkeeper on the steps of his own house! And the town guards・did they do aught to help? No, they walked right on past, as blind as men can be paid to be. Nobody even trusts the sheriff in this town any more. str_rumor_talki_red_8|he said to me I should never be late in paying the guards, and here I am thinking I must have hired security in my sleep, right? But no, he was talking about the Reds! I left Ethos to get away from those dogs・and here they set up shop in my own bloody courtyard. A man never wins with those gits. str_rumor_talki_red_9|he noticed a certain, well, preference, shall we say. With the slavers. They have all gone from nice docile galley-strokers to myrmidons. Suddenly soldiers are pulling top dollar. Listen, friend. Those Reds? They know all the folks who know. They are moving mercenaries, plain and simple. What does that tell ya? str_rumor_talki_red_10|he knows some folks on the inside at the Brotherhood. Worst infighting he has ever seen. They like to act all organized, but when was the last time you saw more that a couple of them together? That is purely because they cannot stand each other! Bloody taffers hate themselves as much as we do! str_rumor_talki_red_11|he overheard a Buyer in the tavern talking to a bounty hunter. Apparently someone is rather keen to buy a slave named {playername}. The price mentioned was pretty steep. On the other hand, I hear {reg63?he she} captains an adventuring company. Fat chance of the Reds tackling that, eh? str_rumor_talki_red_12|he said he told the butcher that the Brotherhood act all big here in the safety of the city, but out there? They are so much fodder, scrabbling for a few farmer captives. They just cannot cooperate enough to pose a threat. Next day, his house burns down. What did we learn? The butcher is a snitch. str_rumor_talki_red_13|he saw a bounty hunter with a line of slaves. Sorry looking sods they were, too. All stumbling and weak, unfed for days most likely. Perfect galley-fodder, they was. And the ruddy bugger turns them away. Said he had no room in the pens for low rent strokers. What, did the galleys all sink? str_rumor_talki_red_14|he heard from the guildsman that two of the Brotherhood houses are feuding. Three men have been found killed in・ creative fashion. And two more are missing. This is better than the arena! I would place bets, but the bookies are all Reds! str_rumor_talki_red_15|he said the boys in red had been over to the granary. Seems they decided the price there was too low, and needed doubling. Like they would know! They are just spooked because that caravan got whacked by the bloody snake handlers down south. str_rumor_talki_red_16|he has not had a good run in weeks. The Brotherhood keep driving the price up, and no one wants to pay. At this rate he will be running around to each little farm, buying it at the source. Sure, it's time consuming, but when was the last time the farmers cared a whistle for the Reds? str_rumor_talki_red_17|he heard the Reds had been pushing for the cobbler to sign on with them. I mean, yeah, the cobbler is a second cousin twice removed from the Seneschal, but is that enough to get offered a membership now? Oh well, that is his funeral. str_rumor_talki_red_18|he saw the captain of an adventuring company troop into the tavern with a whole gang of ruddy-buddies in tow・as prisoners! A harvester gang had tangled with the wrong company. Did his heart no end of good to watch the Brotherhood buy back its own. str_rumor_talki_red_19|he sat with me and he said wanted out. I asked him, out of what? He just said out. Poor sap. He looked so sad. He looked even sadder when the other Reds came to take him in hand, but what was I to do? If I had said anything it would have been my hide. Better him than me, that's what I say. str_rumor_talki_red_20|he walked in and simply said, 'They know.' 'Know what?' says I. 'Don't play coy,' he says, 'they know {playername} has been here. Next time, signal them or there will be trouble.' As if I know what {playername} looks like! The Reds can go rot, is what I say. {playername} indeed. Pffft. str_rumor_talki_red_21|he saw a priestess leap between a knight of Dawn and a member of the Red Brotherhood, shouting, 'Everything casts a shadow, even Pendor. We cannot cut it away. It is an inseparable, holy part of us. If the Red Brotherhood didn't satisfy our vices, then a thousand other gangs would rise to take their place. There would be war on the streets, war for our lust, our sloth, our wrath!' Yet before she could say more, the knight slew her. str_rumor_talki_red_22|he heard from a barkeep that the Red Brotherhood ran a brothel in Sarleon with Noldor women. It enticed him, so next time he visited Sarleon he wanted to pay them a visit, even if it cost him 1,000 denar. At first, he even thought it might be worth it, as the women there were exceedingly beautiful. Yet as he lay with one, he discovered that her pointed ears were sculpted with wax, and outraged, he stormed out of the brothel, the mistress laughing behind him. str_rumor_talki_red_23|he heard from a militiaman in Ravenstern that the Red Brotherhood had been organizing dog fights. Although King Gregory was trying to put a stop to it, the Brotherhood was always a step ahead of them. And late into the night, they'd hear the howls and snarls of dogs needlessly killing one another. str_rumor_talki_red_24|he heard from a wandering refugee that she had only just managed to escape a Red Brotherhood slave camp. They forced her and countless others to cultivate a new strain of sage that, when smoked, gave prophetic visions... and sometimes led to madness. Apparently, it's all the rage amongst a certain circle of nobles. str_rumor_talki_red_25|he heard from the barkeep in Janos that the Red Brotherhood and the Snake Cult were feuding endlessly over vice in the Empire. For generations, it had been under the control of the Red Brotherhood, and many local thugs and dealers are still loyal to their former masters. But the Snake Cult has control of the higher classes now, and slowly they're working their way down, weeding out the last bastions of Brotherhood influence. str_rumor_talki_red_26|he heard from a shadowy merchant in Torbah that one can buy anything from the Red Brotherhood, even objects they don't strictly own. When he asked for the Khan's chalice, the merchant simply laughed and said it would cost 40,000 denars. For the right price, anything could be bought and sold amongst the Brotherhood. str_rumor_talki_adven_1|he said that the local Lord has hired an Adventuring Company to search for treasure on his behalf. He supposedly has a treasure map. I wonder how much treasure he will actually see out of that deal? str_rumor_talki_adven_2|he said some of the Adventuring Companies really have it in for someone named {playername} and are looking for {reg63?him her} all over. The name is the same, I hope that is not you! str_rumor_talki_adven_3|he heard a Lord hired an Adventuring Company to escort his wife to Sarleon, and the bastards kidnapped her and demanded a hefty ransom from him. He is positively apoplectic over the affair. str_rumor_talki_adven_4|he said that rumor has it a Sarleon merchant tried to double-cross one of the Adventuring Companies and came to grief over it. They raided five of his caravans to get what they said was their payment due. He failed to overhear what the merchant had hired them to do. str_rumor_talki_adven_5|he heard that a farmer, Yanus of Pern, is beside himself. He had a fight with his wife, and she up and ran off. Damned if she did not join an Adventure Company. Mind you, she blacked his eyes and bashed his head with an iron skillet before she left, so she is a fighter, all right. str_rumor_talki_adven_6|he overheard one of the Adventuring Companies laughing it up in the Senderfall tavern. They were drinking toasts to some Lord, who had just paid them a hefty ransom for the safe return of his wife. str_rumor_talki_adven_7|he said the Jatu massacred an Adventuring Company they caught poking around ruins in the Jatu hills. I guess they were looking for treasure. Too bad they found the Jatu! str_rumor_talki_adven_8|he heard it was downright dangerous to search the Noldor ruins these days, because the Adventuring Companies are looking for artifacts and treasures there and do not welcome competition. str_rumor_talki_adven_9|he told me the Ethos innkeeper says she is really pleased that one of the Adventuring Companies is using her inn for a base while they search for something near there. Her wine sales have tripled and she has had to order more ale, as well. str_rumor_talki_adven_10|he was told a Cez Caravan Master claims that the Empire is currently crawling with Adventuring Companies. I wonder what they are all doing there? str_rumor_talki_adven_11|he said a Legionnaire told him that the Adventuring Companies are fighting with the Renegade Knights in the Empire. He said he hopes all of them exterminate one another and save the Legion some trouble. str_rumor_talki_adven_12|he heard from a squire who escaped the massacre, that he was the only survivor of an Adventuring Company which fell afoul of the Noldor in the Woods of Laria. They were looking for Noldor artifacts there. str_rumor_talki_adven_13|he heard from a man who claims he saw an Adventuring Company ambushed while they were looking for treasure in Rane. He did not mention who attacked them. str_rumor_talki_adven_14|he said the Adventuring Companies, especially that one run by Meregan Kierlic, the Griffonsword Company, actively recruit woman fighters. str_rumor_talki_adven_15|he said most of the Adventure Companies will honor their given words, so long as they get paid on time for their jobs. str_rumor_talki_adven_16|he heard from a guard captain in Avendor that he made the mistake of propositioning a woman in one of the Adventure Companies. She knocked him into the wall, kicked him where it hurt the most and put her dagger to his throat, all the while damning him for his effrontery in quite poetic terms. str_rumor_talki_adven_17|he said members of one of the Adventuring Companies were in the tavern, drinking away their disappointment. They failed to find the treasure marked on the map they bought. He said the Traveler who sold it to them is in real trouble. str_rumor_talki_adven_18|he heard that the Valonbray innkeeper has banned all Adventuring Companies from his tavern because one of them tore up the place last week. str_rumor_talki_adven_19|he said any one of the Adventuring Company captains would sell off his own old mother if thought he could get a few denars for her. str_rumor_talki_adven_20|he heard that there were recruiters in Barclay looking for young nobles to join some of the Pendor Adventure Companies. They promise their recruits riches beyond their wildest ken. str_rumor_talki_bandit_1|he said you should not blame some of the boys who turned to banditry. The Lords hang their fathers for poaching and send their sheriffs to confiscate their farms before the hanged man is done kicking. What else can the lads do, at that point? str_rumor_talki_bandit_2|he said one of the Red Brotherhood told him that he knew several lads who turned bandit because of what a Lord did to their sisters. They call it 'Jus Primae Noctis' or some such thing. str_rumor_talki_bandit_3|he said a caravan master told him that between the outlaws and those Rougie Stoogie bastards, it was worth his life to get a caravan from Sarleon to Avendor unmolested without an Adventuring Company escorting it. str_rumor_talki_bandit_4|he heard a bandit boast that the outlaws have started joining up with the Heretics, because those murdering bastards let them have a go at the girls before they sacrifice them. str_rumor_talki_bandit_5|he heard the merchants in Sarleon have petitioned the King to quit hanging the outlaws. They want him to have them drawn and quartered in the public square as examples. str_rumor_talki_bandit_6|he said the Outcasts are cast out for good reason. A lot of them get thrown out of their own villages for bad behavior and petty crimes. str_rumor_talki_bandit_7|he said the Red Brotherhood only recruits bandits when they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for more men. He should have said the 'top of the barrel', since they are all scum and scum floats to the surface, haha. str_rumor_talki_bandit_8|he said some of the outlaw groups are joining the Mystmountain Raider clans. Some clan chief has promised them land when the Raiders take over Ravenstern. Gullible fools, those bandits! str_rumor_talki_bandit_9|he heard from an Outlaw Chief that someone called {playername} had called the bandit 'verminous scum'. Heh, he had to ask what 'verminous' meant before he took offense. He did not seem to object to the 'scum' part. str_rumor_talki_bandit_10|he heard in the Javiksholm tavern that some of the bandit groups are talking about ganging up on {playername} because {reg63?he she} has killed so many of them and sold off the survivors to Ramun for the galleys. str_rumor_talki_bandit_11|he said he heard in the Laria market that the Jatu killed some forest bandits who tried to join them. Funny that the Jatu should show a little good taste! str_rumor_talki_bandit_12|he heard from a farmer outside Rane that when Saffrongate was raided, there were outcasts mixed in with the marauding Mystmountain Raiders. Trash recruits trash, as I always say. str_rumor_talki_bandit_13|he heard from one of those galley slaves Ramun peddles that {playername} refuses to ransom {reg63?his her} bandit captives after a battle. {reg63?He She} says they deserve be sold to the galleys, for the misery they cause the peasants. str_rumor_talki_bandit_14|he heard from a Pathani horse merchant that one of the D'Shar Khans has taken to impaling bandits outside the Singal walls. That should discourage them from preying on the villagers there! Makes me twitchy to think on it! str_rumor_talki_bandit_15|he said a lot of the Adventuring Companies are delighted that the bandits have gotten so bold. They are making a pile escorting caravans all over Pendor, and selling off the bandits they catch on top of that. str_rumor_talki_bandit_16|he says the price of velvet is up by 50%, because the traders have to pay so many guards to get their caravans here safely. They pass the cost right on to the customer, too. str_rumor_talki_bandit_17|he heard a right sad story from a young bandit the other day. Seems his father died, and his uncle managed to get hold of the farm. His mother had to sell herself into bonded labor just to eat. The lad turned bandit, of course. str_rumor_talki_bandit_18|he heard in the Fierdsvain that the Heretics sacrifice the bandit members of their bands when they fail to catch enough peasants to satisfy that bloodthirsty goddess of theirs. str_rumor_talki_bandit_19|he heard a really funny story about some bandits! Seems they tried to take on Meregan Kierlic and the Griffonsword Company by mistake. They only spotted the first few riders and attacked, then the rest of the company appeared and wiped them out. str_rumor_talki_bandit_20|he said the Vanskerry Raiders grab bandits to sell as thralls up North. Serves the gits right, though I doubt they make very good thralls. Probably steal their owners blind. str_rumor_talki_bandit_21|he heard from a Gosbur peasant that after that long winter last year, many farmers had been unable to plant at the proper time. Due to the Lord's greed and their high taxes, they weren't sure they'd get through the next winter. Some spoke of abandoning their land and running south to Sarleon. A few of the younger lads have turned bandit, of course. str_rumor_talki_bandit_22|he saw a woman in Buillin weeping over the body of a young man. Other peasants were standing around watching, and when he asked what had happened, they replied that after the woman lost her husband, their eldest son turned to banditry to support the family. He'd robbed several caravans, and when word got to Titus Legatus about his doings, justice was swift and merciless. str_rumor_talki_bandit_23|he overheard some bandits planning their next raid. They mentioned the names of several nearby villages, but then one suggested that instead of simply raiding, they ride into the village and turn it into their own personal kingdom. The rest cheered this idea along, overjoyed at the thought of becoming lords. In reality, they were all still just boys. str_rumor_talki_bandit_24|he said he found a wanted poster by the side of the road. At first he thought it was a picture of a missing child, since the boy looked to be no more than thirteen. On closer inspection, he realized the lord had offered a hefty reward for the head of that kid. Apparently, he was a common bandit and had already killed a dozen men. str_rumor_talki_bandit_25|he heard a bard sing the Ballad of Tonky Smith. Apparently, it was a favorite in the local tavern, as within minutes the crowd was jeering and singing along discordantly. The ballad told the story of Tonky, the son of a blacksmith that turned to banditry in pursuit of fame and fortune. He ravaged the countryside and swilled wine like water, only to be cut down by {playername}, who did not even know his name. str_rumor_talki_renegade_1|he heard from a passing caravan that one of the Rogue Knight warbands cut the throats of all the men in a Ravenstern village. And why? Because they didn't like the food they'd stolen from the peasants. str_rumor_talki_renegade_2|he heard in the Senderfall tavern that someone helped out a Ravenstern Lord in a fight with some Renegade Knights. Now the Knights are out to get that person, name of {playername}. Is that you, by chance? If so, beware! str_rumor_talki_renegade_3|he said that, according to a Squire who deserted from one of their companies, anyone who gets between the Renegade Knights and their victims is instantly classified as a sworn enemy. And they never forget an enemy. str_rumor_talki_renegade_4|he heard that most of the Rogue Knights are actually outlawed nobles from foreign lands. They come here to make their fortunes off our current unsettled state, like buzzards circling a dying dog. str_rumor_talki_renegade_5|he heard from the Valonbray armorer that a group of Renegade Knights tangled with one of the Adventure Companies, and came off badly in that battle. It might have been the Ironsword Company they fought. str_rumor_talki_renegade_6|he said he had heard that the Renegade Knights badly abuse the peasant women they capture, as well as the apprentice boys in the caravans they take. What perverts those sods must be! I guess they get hard up, since even the whores avoid them if possible. str_rumor_talki_renegade_7|he heard from a Caravan Master that a group of Renegade Knights mixed it up with some Heretics in the Fierdsvain, and killed off the lot. That is the only good thing I ever heard about Renegade Knights. str_rumor_talki_renegade_8|he said he heard in Sarleon that even the Lords avoid fighting with the Renegade Knights. Those are some mean bastards, but they are fierce warriors, all right. str_rumor_talki_renegade_9|he said a trader told him that a pack of Rogue Knights massacred some refugees near Marleons, just for the fun of it. They left the bodies piled up for any passers-by to trip over. str_rumor_talki_renegade_10|he heard from a friend in Avendor that there was a new group of Renegade Knights, led by the younger son of some Pendor Lord. His father outlawed him for trying to poison his older brother, the heir. The little sod deserved it, if that story is true. str_rumor_talki_renegade_11|he said he had heard in the Ravenstern market that King Gregory gives a big reward to anyone who brings him the head of a Renegade Knight. They surely are a plague in Ravenstern these days. str_rumor_talki_renegade_12|he heard an Empire Captain say that Marius told his Legionnaires to kill every band of Rogue Knights they ran across. He says they are nearly as evil as the Snake Cultists. str_rumor_talki_renegade_13|he said that one of the Renegade Knights claims to be a former member of the Order of the Dragon, and is out to avenge the unlawful disbanding of his Order. str_rumor_talki_renegade_14|he heard Ramun say that the peasant women he bought from some Renegade Knights were abused to the point of mindlessness and totally unfit for resale. str_rumor_talki_renegade_15|he said the Sarleon seneschal told him that King Ulric ran away from a group of Renegade Knights. The King was hunting with a small group of nobles and did not want to risk defeat or capture. str_rumor_talki_renegade_16|he heard in the tavern that a captured Renegade Knight got away from the Red Brotherhood and is looking for someone named {playername} to avenge his defeat. If that is you, be careful! str_rumor_talki_renegade_17|he said he heard from a Sarleon trader that the Noldor whipped a band of Renegade Knights near Laria, and killed off all the wounded on the spot. It serves those bastards right. Good for the Noldor, I say. str_rumor_talki_renegade_18|he heard from a Legionnaire that a band of Renegade Knights raided a village near Cez, and set the place on fire when they were done with the women. str_rumor_talki_renegade_19|he said the Poinsbruk abbot told him that the Rogue Knights are mostly from Pendor, not from foreign lands as they claim, but they pretend to be foreign to disguise their origins. Hard to believe any of them care about family honor, though. str_rumor_talki_renegade_20|he said that he heard in Janos that some of the Renegade Knight warbands would fight against the Empire on the side of the Snake Cult, if they happened upon a battle between the two. Afterwards, they turn on the winner, of course. str_rumor_talki_special_1|he said that he met a wandering minstrel who told him that the grave of the mad prophet Madigan is covered in flowers which never wither or die. str_rumor_talki_special_2|he met a wanderer who told him tales of a mysterious, well-hidden mine guarded by crazy old men. One is said to be a master smith who forges wondrous weapons, and the other seems to have a penchant for wine. str_rumor_talki_special_3|he heard that there are trainers who will help sharpen the skills of warriors not yet worth their salt. str_rumor_talki_special_4|he met a merchant who said that he would pay 3000 denars for the Tear of a Dragon. He had no idea what the man was talking about, as there are no living dragons in Pendor. Besides, everyone knows that Dragons cannot cry. str_rumor_talki_special_5|he had a conversation with several mercenaries in the tavern. They all agreed that if the wars keep getting worse, food will become scarce. There are too many farmers in the army and not enough in the fields. str_rumor_talki_special_6|he said he had visited a weapons merchant the other day and was stunned to see a Masterwork Noldor Runesword for sale. The merchant wanted more denars for it than his whole town makes in a year! str_rumor_talki_special_7|he said that he had noticed a lot more foreigners in Pendor in the last six months. They seem to be arriving en masse and disembarking at Valonbray. str_rumor_talki_special_8|he said that he was approached by a mercenary in a tavern the other day. The man offered to sell him a treasure map. str_rumor_talki_special_9|who whispered to me over a tankard of ale about the true origins of the Snake Cult in Pendor! He claimed a women named Laorea founded the Cult due to disappointment in her second husband, as she still mourned the first. str_rumor_talki_special_10|when we camped that night, he sang the sad tale of Hadarac Tanis, the Fire of the Steppes, how he fought and perished in D'Shar lands. str_rumor_talki_special_11|he was talking about the Order of the Griffon and how Calathar the First refounded it. str_rumor_talki_special_12|and when we took out our pipes and lit up for a smoke, the story he told was the grim tale of Arbogast of Walven. I did not sleep well that night. str_rumor_talki_special_13|he said his grandsire fought in the Great Battle of Rane in 327 with the father of Hendrik the Cruel, and saved the Heir of Rane from those heathen savages. Though Hendrik became famous, his sire was was a drunken sot who was ultimately hanged. str_rumor_talki_special_14|he boasted in the Old Oak Tavern that the merest mention of the name of Durak to any of the Red Brotherhood scum sends them running, crying for their mothers. str_rumor_talki_special_15|he told me he heard a bard singing the tale of Echilon, a brave old warrior, who died of his wounds after winning his last battle in the snows of Ravenstern. str_rumor_talki_special_16|and he said that some simpleton, name of Noosers, said he had seen the Fish Knight! No one has seen him for ages! str_rumor_talki_special_17|he said that after having too much ale, he told the story how of Marius I was captured by Hendrik the Cruel. That is a story best not told in earshot of the Empire. str_rumor_talki_special_18|he sang his latest song for me ・the Ballad of Chase. That story of murder will never go down well in any court, but I liked it the better for that. str_rumor_talki_special_19|he said he had seen a horse like Darkstar. Unfortunately, he did not have the coin to purchase it. I was unsurprised, given his weakness for high-stakes gambling. str_rumor_talki_special_20|he said he had heard the tale of Corey the Slave, who used foul sorcery to find water. Sorcerers and magicians should be burned at the stake, for the good of us all! str_rumor_talki_special_21|he told of a night not long ago, when The Fish Knight shared their fire. They did not recognize him until after he left, the dafties. str_rumor_talki_special_22|he spoke of the strange habits of the Windtooth tribe in D'Shar lands ・I prefer not to repeat them in mixed company. str_rumor_talki_special_23|he said he heard the Vanskerry Raiders worshipped an enigmatic deity. Those heathen savages hail something called a Saxon Dragon. Everyone knows there are no dragons alive today. str_rumor_talki_special_24|he said he heard those gossiping monks over at the temple discussing the writings of some old bat of an elder, called Fawzia, who is a scribe and former rug merchant. str_rumor_talki_special_25|he said he had gawped in awe at the latest work of Alan the Armorer, but could never hope to afford it! str_rumor_talki_special_26|he related a touching tale of Lord Filadh, who found a baby girl in the ruins of one of his looted villages. His medic healed her, and Lord Filadh raised her as his daughter. He kept her in seclusion to hide her terrible scars. str_rumor_talki_special_27|he said a Vanskerry Raider walked into the Valonbray tavern, and the barkeep tells him he looks just terrible. The Vankskerry says, 'What do you mean? I feel fine.' 'Well, what about that new wooden leg?' 'A Fierdsvain Huscarl got me with an axe.' 'And the hook where your hand used to be?' 'I was in a sword fight and lost my hand, so I was fitted with this hook.' 'What about the eye patch?' 'A flock of gulls flew over our longship. I made the mistake of looking up, and one of the gulls shat in my eye.' 'You lost your eye from seagull shit?' 'Well, I'd only had the hook for two days... ' str_rumor_talki_special_28|he said a Sarleon Lord was leaving for a siege and told his seneschal, 'Here is the key to my wife's chastity belt. If I do not return within a month, you may use this key to free her of it.' The lord set out on the dusty road, armored from head to toe. He took one last look at his castle and saw his seneschal rushing after him, yelling, 'Stop! Stop! Thank goodness I was able to catch you. This is the wrong key.' str_rumor_talki_special_29|he said a bard told him that an Empire Legion returned to Janos with prisoners and lots of loot from their victories. 'Tell me of your battles,' said Marius Imperator. 'Well, Sire, we have been winning on your behalf for weeks, burning and pillaging the villages of your enemies in the west.' Old Marius was horrified. 'But I have no enemies in the west at present!' he said. 'Well,' said the Legionnaires, 'you have now.' str_rumor_talki_special_team_1|he heard there was a D'Shar named Haji Vader, who went mad from something called 'coding' - do you know what that is? Sounds like some D'Shar perversion to me, since it has 'cod' in it. str_rumor_talki_special_team_2|he said a poor young Sarleon squire plunged into an abyss to escape being buggered by the lord's hangman. Something about that story really bugged me. str_rumor_talki_special_team_3|he was told about a young fellow named Endymion, a handsome shepherd caught mooning his sheep. Must have been from Ravenstern - you know their reputation with sheep there. str_rumor_talki_special_team_4|he said a man named Camus told him about his essay called 'Le Mythe de Sysyphe' that was written in some kind of froggy gibberish. How absurd! str_rumor_talki_special_team_5|he heard there was a new bandit on the loose named Talon, an older feller with an aquiline nose. Keep an eye out for him, he's rumored to be a dangerous caffeine addict. str_rumor_talki_special_team_6|he said if your jakes are overflowing, you should call in a specialist in bog work named Gerhart. He's famous all over Pendor for being a real professional at that kind of job. str_rumor_talki_special_team_7|he said the garrison had a new bowman with a really strange name, Chicky-sicky, or something like that. He's supposed to be pretty good with his bow, in spite of that odd name. str_rumor_talki_special_team_8|he said there was a priest of Astraea, Father James, who regularly lands himself in trouble through preaching things nobody understands. Priests are full of odd sayings, and their words are as twisty as a python. str_rumor_talki_special_team_9|he said that fellow Mordred spent all his time thinking, and that he'd drown you in details if you let him. He says nothing is ever uncomplicated to that young man, though he's asked him time and again to try and keep things simple. str_rumor_talki_special_team_10|he said he'd caught an ermine in his rabbit trap and the critter started speaking in different tongues. He must have been drunk as a lord to think that could have happened! str_rumor_talki_special_team_11|he told me about a quiet armorer who is an utter perfectionist. His armor could have been made by the angels themselves! Unfortunately, he is relocating to a far-away land populated by felons and Pendor will soon be deprived of his skills. str_rumor_talki_myst_1|he told me that another village militia had been lost to raiders. That makes two this week! Something has to be done・we have not had Mystmountain incursions this bad since the Siege of Rane. str_rumor_talki_myst_2|he said a caravan out of Poinsbruk had been hit by Mystmountain raiders and Jatu horsemen at the same time! He said he would not term it an alliance, though・Seems that once the caravan guards were taken out, they fought each other over the spoils! str_rumor_talki_myst_3|he asked if I had heard anything from Ismirala lately. Apparently there are rumors of vast hordes of Mystmountain raiders forming in the east. They will probably sweep in from the ranges, like they did in 199, slaughtering, raping and burning everything from here to Falcondark. So, another drink, {playername}? str_rumor_talki_myst_4|he told me he happened to be present when the last batch of Mystmountain prisoners was brought in by the militia. They were bloody, beaten, foul-smelling brutes to be sure, but do you know what he said? They were smiling. Shackled in chains, headed for the dungeons・and smiling. str_rumor_talki_myst_5|he noticed some old Mystmountain knickknacks I once collected. So, I had to tell him all about my days as a manhunter ・yup ・those were the days. Hunting men, you know, because that is what we real manhunters did, you know, all the time. What? No, you may not see them. They are, um・being cleaned. str_rumor_talki_myst_6|he seemed nervous, always looking over his shoulder. He asked if I had seen anyone named {playername}. I never heard of anyone by that name, so I told him no. He seemed right pleased to hear that and said he would be hiding behind a house in some village or other, if I wanted him.' Oddest thing. str_rumor_talki_myst_7|he heard the Sheriff talking to some manhunters, and they were not happy. They said the raiders have been seen massing north of Taloncrag, and the garrison there has been clamoring for reinforcements. When the blow falls, it will land there, mark my words. str_rumor_talki_myst_8|he met a bent, old Mystmountain man on his last trip. They were heading in the same direction, so they walked together in silence. The old fellow looked up as they passed Silveredge Keep and said, 'Vejovis knows'. Only thing he said the whole way. str_rumor_talki_myst_9|he ran into a mountainman who looked shaken. he said he had seen that cat, Vejovis, on the mountain. He figured the mountainman was drunk again, but there was no smell of wine on him. He told the man those Vejovis tales were naught but legend and besides, only shamans supposedly see Vejovis. And then the old mountainman turned his face. Clawed from brow to jawline, he was. str_rumor_talki_myst_10|he told me the raids are picking up. Bigger and bigger hordes of Mystmountains are pouring out of the crags. Somewhere, someone is organizing the clans. There is no other explanation, unless you believe in that Vejovis nonsense. str_rumor_talki_myst_11|he said he wanted to・ Hey, are you {playername}? Listen, whatever Aaron told you is not true. I had nothing to do with it. Pretending to be Vejovis outside that cottage was all his idea, and his doing. Funny as hell, though・ str_rumor_talki_myst_12|he wanted to know if I had heard anyone asking about herds of horses. I had not, of course, but I was curious as to why he asked. So then he tells me that raiders have taken the entire stock from three horse farms in the last week alone・and there is only one reason for that. They're coming, and soon. str_rumor_talki_myst_13|he mentioned seeing a young Mystmountain lad in the tavern last night. Seemed bright and cheerful, really. There was no trouble at first. But then old Brice got drunk and started bragging about killing raiders. And you know what? The kid just smiled. 'Vejovis knows' was all he said. str_rumor_talki_myst_14|he said he had seen the god manifest. Taloncrag, Silveredge, Alden・all the border forts are stockpiling food, weapons, and fresh-faced youngsters. I never asked him how he had come to see it. Doubt he would tell me anyway, but he never steered me wrong before. The lords know. The cat is awake. str_rumor_talki_myst_15|he told me a caravan master had brought him some troubling news. Jatu horsemen and Mystmountain raiders have been joining forces in the east. I dunno if they have an actual alliance, or if was just convenient, but travel to Poinsbruk has gotten rather chancy. str_rumor_talki_myst_16|he said he was taking in some air last night, when he saw a group of people moving swiftly and silently past him in the darkness. They seemed to be heading in the general direction of town. The only sound he heard was the distant yowling of a mountain cat. str_rumor_talki_myst_17|he heard a group of caravan guards arguing with the master. They wanted more money and they demanded he hire more guards. You watch, prices are going to go up on everything. Bloody Mystmountains refuse to leave well enough alone. Who will chase them back into their caves this time? That's what I'd like to know. str_rumor_talki_myst_18|he told me that another caravan has been lost to raiders. That is not all that unlikely in this day and age, but this caravan? It was south of Balanli. That is further than they have ever struck before. At this rate they will end up bringing in those leaf-eating Noldor! And here's us, nicely caught smack in the middle. str_rumor_talki_myst_19|he told me to be on the lookout for you, {playername}. Apparently, you are a popular topic of Mystmountain conversations. And, it is not because of your winning personality, if ya take my meaning. str_rumor_talki_myst_20|he said he had just returned from a successful campaign against the Mystmountain Raiders that have been plaguing Dugan. Did you know the Mystmountains never eat meat? Their whole diet consists of horsemilk cheese and coarse bread. Figure they leave the meat for Vejovis, or something. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_1|he said some Barclay traders he met when they first landed in Javiksholm left there with the intention of buying Noldor artifacts, but were waylaid by the Jatu and killed. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_2|he heard a trader say that the Noldor resent the fact that they have to sell their goods to humans. They think their crafts are too good for our kind, I guess. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_3|he said he overheard Ramun say that when he gets hold of a Noldor woman, she never goes up for public sale. He puts Noldor gals into his 'private stock,' reserved for his best class of customer, and gets bushels of denars for them. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_4|he heard in Janos that one of the Empire Lords rescued some Noldor Rangers from a band of Snake Cultists, and has enlisted them into his warband. What a lucky dog he is! With them on his walls, his castle is safe as houses from besiegers. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_5|he heard from a captured thief that a Sarleon Lord bought a Noldor Maiden Ranger from the Red Brotherhood and keeps her locked up in his castle tower. I wonder what his lady wife thinks of that. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_6|he heard from a courtier that Emperor Marius tried to hire some Noble Noldor Knights the Legion saved from the Snake Cult and they spat on his offer, laughed in his face and went back to their woods. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_7|he heard in Ethos that a musician there is willing to pay a fortune for a Noldor flute, but cannot find one to purchase. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_8|he heard a troubadour playing a Noldor lute, and said it had the loveliest tone he had ever heard drawn from a string. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_9|he said he had heard in Laria that the Noldor took out another lot of Jatu. I guess the Noldor are useful once in a while, in spite of themselves. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_10|he heard in the Empire that the Legionnaires hate fighting the Noldor, because the casualties are so high, even if they outnumber the Noldor three to one. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_11|he heard the Noldor are venturing further into the Empire, chasing groups of Snakes. I pray they get them all, but that is too much to hope for! str_rumor_talki_noldor1_12|he heard that the Noldor enlist peasants freed from the bandits and Jatu they kill, and even sneak into the Empire to recruit, when the Lords are not looking. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_13|he heard a rumor that the Noldor are backing some new Warlord, who hates Jatu even more than he detests the rest of us humans. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_14|he said a Sarleon Halberdier told him he would rather face fifty Jatu than ten Noldor Rangers. He says they never miss their targets and can shoot from a greater distance than a Sarleon Longbowman. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_15|he heard some collector in Rane was paying serious money for any Noldor artifacts he could get his hands on. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_16|he said the traders are unable to procure enough Noldor goods these days. The Noldor are keeping more to themselves and even refusing to trade with their usual buyers. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_17|he heard of an auction sale in Laria that is invitation only, restricted to Lords. They have to put up a deposit of 1000 denars just to get in the door. The Red Brotherhood is selling some Noldor Maiden Rangers to the highest bidders. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_18|he said the Red Brotherhood bought a Noldor Ranger from some deserters, but the Ranger got his hands on a sword, killed six of the Redboys and escaped. They are still mourning their lost profit on him, no doubt. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_19|he heard a mercenary from the Fierdsvain declare in the Laria tavern that he would prefer to take on ten Valkyries in a fight, as opposed to a pair of Noldor Maiden Rangers. He said he might survive a fight with the Valkyries. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_20|he heard in Poinsbruk that the Noldor fought a great battle with the Jatu, and that both sides were hurt badly, but the Noldor won in the end. str_rumor_talki_noldor1_21|he said it is rumored that there is a secret passage into the hidden Noldor city, but nobody has ever found it. str_rumor_talki_trav_1|he said the life of a traveler is never dull. His work as a miller grew confining and he never got out of his village. One day, he sold his mill and took to the road. str_rumor_talki_trav_2|he said there are certain stones which are, in fact, the tears of a dragon. He set out to try to acquire one for himself. You don't happen to have one, do you? Ah never mind, the gems are doubtless just some hopeless fantasy. str_rumor_talki_trav_3|he said the Noldor are a most interesting people, but very secretive. He wants to locate a group of them and write a book about their culture. str_rumor_talki_trav_4|he said that I would be better off traveling and talking to people in order to get information for my book, 'The Mysterious Musings of a Marvelous Mystic'. It is a collection of the wisdom of one known as Madigan. str_rumor_talki_trav_5|he said that the Snake Priestesses were young girls taken from villages by the Snake Cult. My own daughter was stolen in such a raid and I roam Pendor seeking her. str_rumor_talki_trav_6|he said I should join the army. I'd rather be sailing, but I get really sea-sick. Even thinking about the rolling, rocking sea is making me... Bluuuugh! str_rumor_talki_trav_7|he said that knowledge is power. I have read more books than most people know exist. Now I am a student of life of the road, learning from the common folk and their tales. str_rumor_talki_trav_8|he said he asked him, 'What is your quest?' The man replied that he wished to find the average flight velocity of an unladen swallow. str_rumor_talki_trav_9|he talked of the final words of his father. My own expressed his disappointment at not having seen the world beyond his farm. He made me promise to journey the length and breadth of Pendor and recount to him my adventures when I join him in the afterlife. str_rumor_talki_trav_10|he said... acorn, almond, beech, cashew... he knew a Knight of the Radiant Cross with the biggest list of nuts in Pendor. Chestnut, coconut, hazelnut, hickory, macadamia... So I bet that... Ogbono, paradisenut, peanut... mine was the larger list. My colleagues however think I have gone a little nuts. str_rumor_talki_trav_11|he said he followed the mantra of Veni, Vici, Vidi. I myself follow the mantra of Veni, Vici, Peregrinus. I came, I saw, I wandered. str_rumor_talki_trav_12|he said one must wander the world to appreciate its varied marvels. I travel not for its beauty but rather to observe how it change us. str_rumor_talki_trav_13|he said a piece of the sky fell near here. I came to discover if it was the folly of man or the will of the gods which caused it. str_rumor_talki_trav_14|he said that the goddess Erida Occisor had awakened! The end of the world is nigh! We are all doomed! Doomed, I tell you! str_rumor_talki_trav_15|he said he sometimes felt the invisible tug of a hand guiding his actions. Personally, I feel an omnipresent authority figure moving me like a pawn in the game of life. str_rumor_talki_trav_16|he said a wise man once told him to talk to everyone he met. Much valuable information can be gleaned from idle tavern conversations and gossip in the markets. str_rumor_talki_trav_17|he said a captain he knew had actually purchased a Knight in a tavern. He was being held for ransom by the Red Brotherhood, and his cost was remarkably cheap. str_rumor_talki_trav_18|he said the man was marvelously strong and vigorous, due to an elixir he'd purchased from some wandering fellow. Cost him a Qualis Gem, but was worth it. str_rumor_talki_trav_19|he said the village militias often know more than they let on about enemies in their area. If they like you, they will tip you off as to where they are. str_rumor_talki_trav_20|he heard that when an Empire lord vanquished somebody called Maltise, he got something called a 'qualis gem' in ransom. I wonder what it is and what he can do with it. str_rumor_talki_trav_21|he heard there was a mine somewhere run by a couple of strange old fellows. One is a weaponsmith and the other is a crazy old drunk. He won't even talk to you unless you give him wine. str_rumor_talki_trav_22|he said he'd refused to pay 10 denars for rumors from a traveler, and lived to regret it. His caravan was overrun by a Mystmountain army the very next day. Now, he pays 10 denars gladly to hear the news. str_rumor_talki_trav_23|he talked about the hidden chests in a couple of towns and said he'd bought a map to find one of them. It wasn't there but now, the fool is looking for the man who has the map to the other one. He thinks he might get some kind of gem out of it. str_rumor_talki_trav_24|he said that gambling with guild masters was risky if you lost, but very profitable if you won. str_rumor_talki_trav_25|he said that the training fields were an underused benefit to all warriors. Everybody, regardless of experience, needs to keep his hand in! str_rumor_talki_trav_26|he told him that no man worth his salt would disdain conversation with the arms instructors in the training fields. Their conversation is frequently spicy, too! str_rumor_talki_trav_27|he said he'd heard the old gods of Pendor sometimes speak when they have a message to deliver, but I never met anybody they had spoken to. Claptrap, I say. str_rumor_talki_trav_28|he said a sea captain told him about some island called Veccavi, where the women run everything and the men are slaves. Did you ever hear of such a thing? str_rumor_talki_trav_29|he heard in the Empire whispers of an escaped Snake Priestess now at large in Pendor. There was some sort of power dust-up in whatever their hierarchy was, and she was on the losing side. str_rumor_talki_trav_30|he was told that rumors have more weight than most people think. Sometimes, it seems as if the rumor presages the event. Odd thing, that. str_player_ask_drag_1|I was very curious to learn something about your order, if you don't mind? str_player_ask_lion_1|I'm sure the great and famous Knights of the Lion have a history? str_player_ask_immo_1|I would like to know the origins of your legendary order. str_player_ask_wind_1|Swift rider of the desert, what can you tell me of your famous order? str_player_ask_valk_1|Surely the Valkyrie Sisterhood has some history to share with me? str_player_ask_grif_1|Grand knight of the old kingdom, care to tell me about your order? str_player_ask_falc_1|They say that your order was banned by King Gregory. str_player_ask_rave_1|I thought that the Order of the Raven Spear was composed of scholars? str_player_ask_radi_1|If you wouldn't mind, may you tell me some history of your order? str_player_ask_clar_1|Why does your order choose to use horse archers? str_player_ask_dawn_1|People say that your order is dedicated to the elimination of evil ...? str_player_ask_ebon_1|Who exactly are the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet? str_player_ask_shad_1|Why do you use cavalry for some Empire troops, but not for the higher ranks? str_player_ask_silv_1|Word has it that your order admires the Noldor - can you tell me more? str_player_ask_even_1|I understand that your Order split from the Order of Dawn. What caused the rift? str_player_ask_phoe_1|You don't look like most knights around here good sir, where do you hail from? str_player_ask_wolf_1|Dear dark knight, what can you tell me about your order? str_player_ask_scor_1|Fearsome warrior of the D'Shar, could you tell me about your order? str_player_ask_krak_1|Do the intimidating Kraken Cultists have a history? str_drag_response_1|I can indulge ya, if you're willing to part ways with some of that delicious ale in your baggage train! - Sips donated drink - Now let's see ... Ah yes I remember, It was the 199th year of Pendor, or was it 200 ... Anyway, glorious Earl Klovis, liege of Rane, was the order's founding Grandmaster. While I can't exactly remember -why- the order was founded, I believe the scribes from Poinsbruk stated that it had something to do with the Siege of Rane when the royal family died off not a few short years before. str_lion_response_1|Hmph, I suppose I can indulge you. Better than lending my ears to the tales of the dirty peasantry. I belong to one of the oldest orders in Pendor, if not the oldest itself. The order was founded no less than 90 years, 82 to be exact, after the founding of the first Kingdom of Pendor. The gallant knight, Sir Roderick the Red, Lions Mane himself, was our founder. You may look him up at your own leisure. str_immo_response_1|You're the first one to have gall to approach me and ask, so I'll indulge. The Immortals started off as more of a ... secret service ...in direct contact of the current Overlord, Imperator Marius I. This is according to our founding charter created by Marius who signed the Validus Charta. The order itself is v ery young and we don't have much history. But I can tell you we are the toughest bastards the Empire has to offer. str_wind_response_1|Hello traveler. It seems the blowing winds have made us cross paths, no? -Chuckles- I am indeed a Windrider. Representative of the strongest the D'Shar nobility have to offer. Our horses have been bred to maintain composure when fighting on the wind-shaped dunes in the desert and to transverse great distances. Believe it or not we were once a sect of assassins born from a similar cloth like the brotherhood of Scorpion Assassins. So happens through many generations that we developed our own identity to combat our enemies on the field. str_valk_response_1|Hello. As you may have guessed, I am indeed part of the Valkyrie Sisterhood. Our lineage is traced through Fierdsvain nobility and Vanskerry blood. Our order originated from women who traveled with Vanskerry raid parties to Pendor. We were shield-maidens on the field and property in the camps ... str_grif_response_1|Greetings. I am glad you noticed my orders ancient sigil, The Griffon. With the revival of our order, we have set out to hear the voices of the people; to bring peace and order to the land which we all share. str_falc_response_1|True, my friend, but we have a past in which we take pride. Our original company, which founded the order, was formed by the Validus Charta. It was not disbanded until King Gregory betrayed us and his sister. We are also the only order to allow both men and women to fight in ranks. str_rave_response_1|We are, but due to incursions from the Mystmountain armies on our university strongholds, we were forced to take up arms to defend wisdom and civilization. str_radi_response_1|Of course, I would be delighted to shed some light on our orders history! The creation of our order in 113, by Baron Jorn of Dunglave, now known as Janos, is an interesting tale. Back then we were known as Medicine-Men. The state of medicinal knowledge and practice in Pendor was abysmal in the beginning years of our founding. Subsections of our signed Validus Charta charter allowed our members to proliferate the cities, fiefs, towns, with knowledge of medical advancements from Amala. From various herbal concoctions to simple remedies for the average ache of the head. The order was the bedrock foundation for the curb of pestilence and disease. str_clar_response_1|We are a highly mobile force which patrols and secures our borders. We need to move fast to locate and harass our enemies. This is the way the nobility of Laria has learned to fight. While the Lions of Sarleon have their rolling plains, the Knights of the East must adapt to the forest and the steppes. Many of the Larian nobility fight this way; have you seen the Larian Sentinels? Some of them are young nobles from Laria who wish to fight like us, instead of those pompous Lions. We may fight like the D'Shar, which is the best for most situations, but that does not mean we forego the traditional ways of knightly battle. We still bear spear and sword with pride and skill. str_dawn_response_1|Our sworn mission is to root out evil; our swords and lances are the instruments of Astraea. When we strike down a sinner, we are doing the sanctified work of the Goddess. She has blessed us, even in this godforsaken place. Soldiers of the Fierdsvain, foot-knights and commoners have converted and flocked to our holding in Valonbray. They now serve us under the banner of the now defunct order of the Wyvern. The Wyverns protected their land long ago, and now our new Wyverns fight to protect Pendor from evil. They may be barbarians, but they fight well enough. str_ebon_response_1|We exist to serve the greater good of the whole of humanity, though I suppose that sounds a bit pompous. We consider ourselves above petty matters and politics, the squabbles of kings and queens. str_shad_response_1|Our Ironbred stallions date to the old days of the Empire. They are strong, very fast and aid us in swiftly crushing our enemies. We value them highly, but they are difficult to breed and train, so our supply of them is limited. str_silv_response_1|Yes, our order holds them in great admiration. There is enough space in Pendor for us all to live in peace with one another. We can learn much from them, but also they are a force to be reckoned with, I can tell you! str_even_response_1|The Order of Dawn is riddled with fanatics whose twisted beliefs and violence against the populace are despicable. We split from them because they are rotten to the core. str_phoe_response_1|I come from across the sea, the great continent of Amala. My order is known as The Order of the Phoenix. str_wolf_response_1|... str_scor_response_1|I can indeed bring you up to speed of whom we are. Like the soft eroding sands of the Shavanir Desert, we slowly infiltrate our way into the world. We are men bound by creed and secrecy, loyal to those who would support our brotherhood. We are whom you come to if you have a problem that is lawfully out of your hands. Our only incentive is the gleaming shine of coin. For there is no greater employer than man's folly for wealth, which breeds conflict, and for us, work. str_krak_response_1|I will let you know -some- things. Many of us are several generations of combat-trained hunters and fishermen. We take our prey from the sea to provide for our people and to make a livelyhood from the demand of our bounty. We also contract out our members as hired work for our Lords. We get our hands dirty so to speak. There is always an off-season for the hunt so we do what we do naturally, kill. str_player_ask_drag_2|Huh, sounds like the history is a bit lost in mystery. Are you sure you can't remember more? str_player_ask_lion_2|So what is some more history of your old order? str_player_ask_immo_2|Interesting! I didn't know the order was so young. What kind of services did Marius ask of? str_player_ask_wind_2|You were all assassins at one time? How did that work with The Scorpion Assassins? str_player_ask_valk_2|You come from a solely male-dominated society, how did your order overcome that social barrier? str_player_ask_grif_2|What can you tell me about your newly created order? What do you hope to achieve? str_player_ask_falc_2|Could you elaborate on how you allow both genders? str_player_ask_rave_2|A pack of ancient scholars don platemail and equip swords to stand against barbarians? str_player_ask_radi_2|That's truly amazing! Pray tell you have more to share? str_player_ask_clar_2|Why is your order called the Knights of the Clarion Call? str_player_ask_dawn_2|How do you determine who is guilty and who is innocent? str_player_ask_ebon_2|I see. What of the Noldor then? str_player_ask_shad_2|Please excuse my question, but why is your Order at odds with the Radiant Cross? str_player_ask_silv_2|They say that few bowmen can shoot a arrow as far as a Silvermist - what's your secret? str_player_ask_even_2|So what caused Barclay to ban them? What did they do? str_player_ask_phoe_2|I can't imagine a world bigger than Pendor. What more can you tell me about your order? str_player_ask_wolf_2|Um, sir? str_player_ask_scor_2|That is certainly good to know ... how does your order operate? str_player_ask_krak_2|That's quite the background. If that is the case, why is your order associated as a cult? str_drag_response_2|- Drinks from mug - AH! Yes I remember a bit more now! The Siege of Rane caused the lords of the old kingdom to secede and form the Kingdom of Ravenstern, after the capital. The lords of the north came together and signed the infamous Validus Charta, which is rumored to have consented for the birth of our Order as an official noble-influenced chapter. str_lion_response_2|We are renowned for our continuous use of chivalry in battle and etiquette in presenting ourselves as proper nobles in court. Around 200 years after the old kingdom was reigning, the royal family was struck down by a malady, which led to immediate chaos. Our sister order, the Knights of the Griffon, were royal guards of the kingdom and became responsible for maintaining peace. The Lions of course were ordered to as well. This immediate power vacuum started pitting lords against one another, which led to even more conflict. str_immo_response_2|Anything and everything that involves the Snake Cult. They have masterfully infiltrated the nobility and heart of our Empire and many Empire Lords requested Marius for reform and action. The Immortalem Iuris charter subsection stated that select men are, without question, to pursue and hunt down secret sects and cult meetings. Further more to eradicate any and all traces of cult activites and persons. It turned bloody every time. str_wind_response_2|When it came to fruition that the Scorpion Assassins have been acting as a household guard for a tribal chief after the death of the old Royal Family, our order was conceived by invoking a land-wide charter at the time. Caliph Itsaf Xer was afraid that he was to be killed by the aspiring and future Khan. Our order were the counter-measure to the numerous assassination attempts that came from the Scorpions. They thwarted many attempts against the Caliph and his family until finally, retaliation was warranted. The Windriders made their way into the rising Khan's camp, guarded by his Scorpion Assassins. They successfully infiltrated the area. The Scorpions let their guard down and didn't notice. So the Windriders thought. str_valk_response_2|Jarl Gardor Oldboar was a fearsome Vanskerry leader. He brought many of our order ancestors with him on an expedition to the heartland of Pendor. Raid after raid and countless times of being abused and taken as toys to these men in battle and bed, the sisters formed a blood pack amongst themselves. Those shield-maidens swore and oath to never be seen as objects and be used to the great benefit of others. That night they played their roles for the tired Jarls and when the time came, they killed the entire Oldboar Leadership. They raised the alarm and most of them fled together into the hills. str_grif_response_2|We plan on supporting the leaders of our new Kingdom. With their leadership, The Knights of the Griffon will help pave a new era into prosperity and peace. After the Red Plague and the decimation of the Royal Family we ended up falling into disarray. Our order was fractured by the various battles for power and the successful bid of the Lions and the Duke they supported. We lost all credibility and support. Most of the order went into hiding, mercenary work, trades or just vanished. Our records, except for the documents taken by some of the knights, are all but extinguished from this world. But our original charter has made it clear that our purpose is to solely keep a unified Pendor protected and to make sure chaos does not find it's way into the roots of our land. Descendants of our old order have been showing up almost everyday, ready to put our steel to the test and to follow through where our predecessors failed. str_falc_response_2|In the past, one of the five original founding members was Valera, a woman of great skill and bravery. The charter allowed our order to be women-only, but Ursula amended that and allowed men to join the ranks. My guess is mainly because there is only so many woman warriors in Pendor. Many join the Valkyries but we will never turn down those who wish to join. Valera never really was questioned on why this was part of our founding charter but I wouldn't trade my fellow knights for the world. str_rave_response_2|No, not at all. The students and scholars continue our most important work, that of academia. They have always employed groups of adventurers like us to aid their research and discover lost lore. We also fight for them as required. str_radi_response_2|The increase in overall health throughout the land was incredibly better than at the start of our cause. Then The Red Plague came in 198. Tales say the order had never seen anything so deadly. It was an unstoppable plague that wiped out the Royal family in its entirety and many knighthoods succumbed and collapsed due to so many deaths. We still don't know where this disease came from or why it suddenly appeared. Some records indicate that it bore a resemblance to The Poxaspa Plague used by the Snake Cult over in Amala. Although it is hard to say since many supporting records were destroyed since then and no trace of the disease even exists anymore. str_clar_response_2|The Clarion Call name stems from our answering the call to protect the frontier, to advance against our enemies, and to demonstrate that those who bear arms against us forfeit their lives. str_dawn_response_2|After all, every human is guilty of something! When in doubt, we simply burn them all. Our wise goddess will sort them out. str_ebon_response_2|Filthy tree rats hiding in the shadows. They're like a curse. That Red Plague which damn near ended life in Pendor, came from them, I'd wager. They ever lurk in ambush. Only way to deal with Noldor is a bolt between the eyes. str_shad_response_2|We accept the true faith of the Old Empire unquestioningly. Those misguided fools of the Radiant Cross are blind and fail to accept our traditional faith. They endlessly question that which we accept upon a leap of faith. We cannot make them see reason. str_silv_response_2|We learned from the Noldor. They hold that the bow is an extension of the body. They become one with the bow physically and with the arrow mentally. We meditate before battle to achieve this melding of weapon and soul. Some, such as our halberdiers, have even used this philosophy with other weapons. str_even_response_2|Their paranoia and fanaticism led them to murder for what they deemed blasphemy, and was frequently merely accidental on the part of their victims. They once burned a whole village, lock, stock, and peasants. They burned one of our most revered Brothers at the stake! Their reason? They thought his scholarly research was heretical. Another time, they put a merchant to the stake because he spat in the street when some of them rode by. str_phoe_response_2|We are true sons of the Ashenborn Empire. Our Emperor, Emperor Marneus Calgar, leads our people from across the sea against the very threat that is strong enough to destroy this world. You know of the Snake Cult. Our name derives from the multitude of Empires that each one has been built upon. From the ashes, the true sons spread their wings and take up arms for each new empire, now, The Ashenborn Empire. We believe that each Empire is stronger than the next, like that of the mythical Phoenix, with each resurrection. Our order is unmatched across the sea and our Emperor has sent us to Imperator Marius to help quell the unrest the Snake Cult has been creating. Unfortunately, we are now tied up in whatever this colonial Empire gets itself into. str_wolf_response_2|I will tell you little if that makes you go away. Just talking to you is more than I wish to bargain for. I am part of an order known as The Shadow Wolves. Our Emperor from across the sea has sent us here to aid the people. We undergo certain missions to stop the Snake Cult from spreading it's venomous tendrils here. With the Cult lead by Amala's fierce Maltise, this land has got its hands full. str_scor_response_2|Our order is based in the south where our people live. After the formation of the Principality, we were legally founded as an order under the Validus Charta. Our foundation was funded by Baltar al-eaqarab, one of the few leaders of the tribes competing to rule as Khan of the nomads. Unfortunately, his power and influence weren't as great as the leaders who traded with the northerners. So when the Red Plague wiped out nobility in the year 198, the power vacuum made all the tribe leaders lunge for power in the south. If there was no King, then there must be a Khan. So Baltar thought smart, and hired men to take care of his opposition. He founded the Scorpion Brotherhood as a household guard. Underneath that veil were trained assassins, my ancestors. str_krak_response_2|Religion or Cult, it boils down to the bone as the same thing, doesn't it? The Dawn like to remind everyone that there's a clear difference, but then again, it's the Dawn. We pray to the Great Hunt. The spirit we conjure form as beasts; found out at sea. They are the ultimate prey and we don't stop our season until one is killed. Each one of our masked helmets are made from the rare materials these creatures provide. We harvest what we need out at sea and return the carcass to the depths below. Sounds grandly exaggerated, but if you saw what we saw, your world would be flipped as you know it. str_player_ask_drag_3|Why would the Lords choose to support Earl Klovis' and the knights at the time? str_player_ask_lion_3|That is very insightful. What happened with trying to maintain peace? str_player_ask_immo_3|What was the immediate response to the reform? str_player_ask_wind_3|So what happened that night? str_player_ask_valk_3|That sounds hardly like an order worth joining, how did your order redeem themselves? str_player_ask_grif_3|Your order seems extremely chivalrous and devoted to the cause of justice and order. What more can you share? str_player_ask_falc_3|Not to offend you with my question, but why was your Order disbanded? str_player_ask_rave_3|So you are therefore an Order of mercenaries? str_player_ask_radi_3|That's quite terrible, hopefully it got better! str_player_ask_clar_3|I have heard people say that your horses are different from other Pendoran breeds ...? str_player_ask_dawn_3|I heard that once your Order burned a entire village and all its peasantry? str_player_ask_ebon_3|Yet some scholars embrace the elder knowledge of the Noldor and claim to have reached enlightenment from it. str_player_ask_shad_3|I understand that your Order is somewhat at odds with Marius Imperator? str_player_ask_silv_3|I heard your Order bears a grudge against the Order of the Ebony Gauntlet. str_player_ask_even_3|I gather then, that your Order's previous affiliation with them is non-existent? str_player_ask_phoe_3|That is quite an interesting view on your own Empire and the one in Pendor. How does one become a Phoenix Knight? str_player_ask_wolf_3|I see ... before I leave is there anymore you can tell me? str_player_ask_scor_3|Your order sounds like it has influenced events in Pendor with your methods of solution. str_player_ask_krak_3|I see ... anymore I should know? str_drag_response_3|The conflict with the lower kingdoms was only the beginning of the problems they faced back then. The Mystmountain tribes found them to be more susceptible to attacks and raids as Ravenstern was already at war and standing on its own feet, without southern support. The order was called upon to serve the Kingdom and to quell all unrest that the tribes caused. Let me tell you, the Order gave no mercy to the tribes, which caused them to split exponentially into smaller ones. Which, mind you, is much easier to control than a single tribe. str_lion_response_3|Many northern lords formed a pact and seceded from the Kingdom. Naturally protected by the great lake, they fortified themselves in the northern tundra, creating a new kingdom of their own. Then with the war against the Greater Baccus Empire, the order needed to start gaining influence with a winning side. The grandmaster at the time supported Duke Alfred of Sarleon as king. Furthermore, he used the old capital as his own, in turn creating the glorious Kingdom of Sarleon. In the year 298, after the original creation of the Pendor Kingdom, our order was outlawed. Why? Hard to say, since all records were destroyed by our current king, King Ulric I. Our order was reestablished once again in the year 346 in Sarleon and we became the household guard of our capital once more. str_immo_response_3|Like I stated, bloody. While we lost a lot of great men out there, we were mainly successful in rooting out most of the corrupt individuals leading the cults agenda. Cutting the snake's head, as you will. Many were driven out of fiefs and towns; mainly to the south. There are even rumors that they infiltrated nobility in Cez and the nobles there. We found no evidence. Maybe they were just good at hiding it finally ... Now we hunt roaming bands and protect our Lords as law and stature apply. Rest is history to be written. str_wind_response_3|The Windriders entered the grand tent that was strangely less guarded than anticipated. Eventually coming upon the Khan in his chambers, they had him surrounded and were ready to strike him. Before that, he began laughing. He then quickly glanced to the men who hung from the roof as they descended down and disarmed the Windriders and killing those who resisted. To those who surrendered he offered them something they did not expect; a sit-down with Itsaf himself. With their release, a place was set and the two leaders met and formed an alliance. Itsaf was granted rank of marshal and supported the aspiring Khan. The stipulation was that Itsaf could not claim the right to Khan and that the Windriders either be disbanded or removed from any kind of service to stealth and secrecy. The later was taken. Slowly the order got into skirmishes against other cultures and adopted similar fighting techniques to mounted knights and the rest is history or another story entirely. str_valk_response_3|Those woman reluctantly came upon a town controlled by a Jarl-Lord. By then, news had spread that Gardor and his raiding warband had been thrown into chaos. The Lord's lands were continuously ravaged by the disgruntled Vanskerries. With the raiding party in disarray, he was in our ancestors' debt. With some strings pulled, he was able to sign off on part of the Validus Charta. Our actions were rewarded with us becoming Valkyries, the Choosers of the Slain. Our charter was created to serve those who are being suppressed and to righteously smite oppressors from existence. While this would clearly put us at odds with the Dawn, we don't feel like creating order warfare with those who have helped our fellow Fierdsvain people. Let us hope that one day we don't choose you. Take care. str_grif_response_3|We indeed are and we are glad to have been reformed by those with similar values and hopes for a united Pendor. We are now going to give our sister order, The Knights of the Lion, a piece of their traitorous medicine if we ever meet them in combat. They spat on all good that knights stood for and claim to be the oldest and strongest of orders in Pendor. Well, sadly, we will be glad to inform them that is not the case anymore. The time for a united Pendor is now upon us. Let us hope that you have chosen the right side in this upcoming and glorious era. str_falc_response_3|When King Gregory usurped the throne of his elder sister, Madame Ursula, he claimed that ours was an invalid charter, with no authority to induct his sister, or any knights, into our ranks. He knew that we would support her claim to the throne, and proclaimed Fire and Sword against us to eliminate her threat to his stolen throne. So many of us were killed. Those few of us who survived had to remain underground out of fear for our lives. Our numbers were too few to fight back. str_rave_response_3|I suppose so, technically, since we primarily fight for pay. We prefer to consider ourselves the paid guardians and defenders of knowledge and the protectors of the scholars who pursue lost knowledge. str_radi_response_3|At first, it didn't. The order had to become even more militarized since war was rampant throughout Pendor. The order answered the call of the King of Sarleon at the time when General Oasar of Amala came in the year 202. Oasar conquered what little resistance the Sarleon lords could put up. At the battle of Sagen Glade, the order was caught off guard in the opening of a forest. The knights began getting slaughtered. Oasar's army killed every member on the field. Those who stayed in Dunglave survived and when Oasar conquered the city, he refounded the order. Those who refused his regulations were hanged. With the rise in Snake Cult activity after conquering and diseases rampant, the new order was kept busy and recruited more members from any class. Now, we spread knowledge and work with scribes up in Poinsbruk to keep records. We will not stand by as Pendor succumbs under plague. The Snake Cult must be purged. str_clar_response_3|We prefer faster horses than those heavy warhorses of other Orders, so we breed ours from D'Shar and Jatu stock and trade with their horse dealers for breeding stock. str_dawn_response_3|That corrupt offshoot Order of Eventide, my friend, spreads its heresy everywhere! They were founded upon hate, and death and hatred is what they preach. Rest assured, we will eliminate them down to the last man. They will burn in payment for their sins! Question me thusly again, and you may find yourself afire! str_ebon_response_3|Bollocks. The only true enlightenment for a Noldor is the light let into his skull from my morningstar. Till the day they all lay dead, I will fight them. I will stand with my shield brothers, hell, I'll even even stand with the Hammers. They may be dressed up commoners, but they sure can swing those hammers. The sound of one of their hammers crushing a Noldor ranger's head is poetic, to say the least. str_shad_response_3|Marius seeks to turn us from the old Empire path we follow to the Pendorian ones. Those cretins of the Radiant Cross endorse the new ways but we follow tradition. What brought glory to our ancestors will surely bring glory to us! We would prefer to convert Marius to the old ways, to persuade him that the traditions of the Old Empire should endure. Marius would see us all become mounted knights, like those 'Lions' from Sarleon or the Dawn from Barclay. The only remains of the mighty fleet the Empire used to sail here are the soldiers that we had to train to become the marines you see today. str_silv_response_3|Look, the last thing Pendor needs is an Order like Ebony Gauntlet. Don't you think there are enough people seeking to feud with the Noldor? When they are done hunting the Noldor, who will they choose next to hunt? Madness of this sort must end! str_even_response_3|I spit upon their so-called justice and honor! It is nothing more than an excuse for mayhem and senseless slaughter. Astraea granted them no right to sit in judgment upon others. They hunt those they call Heretics but it is they who named us thusly. My Order prefers to look at both sides of the coin, and we do not pass judgment upon ignorant peasants. We prevent the Order of Dawn from persecuting the people!The people themselves are joining us, D'Shar tribals now take up the cause of the Eventide as our Ghilmen. They are no knights, but that sure as hell doesn't stop them from killing any! str_phoe_response_3|Back home, our order are heir successors from knights who live long enough to produce an heir. From the moment we are old enough, we are trained to ride horse, become smiths, and we train for combat. Our future is laid out by our fathers. Each one of us wear our father's armor as they did before us and so on. Like our beliefs, we renew our armor and make it reborn from heat, ash, and steel. We have had to make due with the fact that we aren't in Amala, so we accept only the strongest this land has to offer. The Phoenix is represented upon our breastplate, so our enemies know whom they face and that each time we are struck down, we only come back stronger. str_wolf_response_3|... What you need to know is that we are a order bound by secrecy. Every word I spit out to you not only puts me in danger, but you and that horrible bard over there, by Snake Cult spies. In our line of work, we are fast and stealthy. Those two reasons alone keep us alive. If you reach your enemy before they reach you, then you have already won. Now go away before I think you're a Snake Cultist. str_scor_response_3|We have and will continue to do so as long as coin exists and problems arise. Supply meets demand. As I was saying, Baltar nearly eliminated most leaders of the tribes, absorbing them as he took them out. It quickly came to be that our order was known to operate as we do now. To avoid dying a pointless death, many leaders chose Baltar as their Khan and he in turn rewarded their loyalty. Our charter allowed us to be hired out in armies as well, to provide morale and support. A scorpion is never fearful, we can strike at a moment's notice and if our blade won't kill you, our poison will. If we find you either on the battlefield or in a dark alley, just know that it's nothing personal, just business. str_krak_response_3|During the off-season, we become a military force. We mainly provide heavy infantry support to the ranks of armies we fight with. Such is the way of our Fierdsvain blood. We are paired with our equals, the women hunters or The Storm Sisters. These lasses share the the hunt with us. But due to how the charter was formed by Vanskerry Jarls and the charters reliance on such older ways, only men can serve as Krakens. But get in our way and you won't notice a difference in our prowess when it comes to the art of hunting. Either it be bounty or human. We are all flesh and bone to be taken from this world. So ask yourself, are your the hunter or the hunted? Food for thought. str_courtship_comment_conventional_generic|is a very well-bred sort str_courtship_comment_adventurous_generic|seems decent enough str_courtship_comment_otherworldly_generic|is most polite and attentive str_courtship_comment_ambitious_generic|lacks drive -- but perhaps that may be remedied str_courtship_comment_moralist_generic|seems to be a man of good character str_feast_description|scant str_feast_description_2|meager str_feast_description_3|barely adequate str_feast_description_4|sufficient str_feast_description_5|bountiful str_feast_description_6|magnificent str_feast_lengthy_description_1|The food you provided was insufficient for your guests and their retinues, forcing them to purchase their sustenance from the surrounding countryside at grossly inflated prices. The consensus among those who attended was that you failed to do your duty as a host, diminishing both their trust in you and your overall reputation. str_feast_lengthy_description_2|The food and drink you provided eventually ran out, forcing some guests to either buy their own from passing peddlars, or send some of their retinue home early. The more charitable attributed the shortfall to poor planning rather than meanness, but either way, it did your reputation no good. str_feast_lengthy_description_3|The food and drink you provided was adequate for your noble guests, although some of the commoners in their retinues went without. You are establishing a reputation as one who has at least a grasp of your social obligations as a noble. str_feast_lengthy_description_4|You have provided enough food and drink, and with sufficient varieties, to do yourself credit. The food, drink, and merriment have loosened your guests' tongues, allowing them to converse candidly about the matters of the realm, and deepening their trust in you. str_feast_lengthy_description_5|You have provided a bountiful table not just for your noble guests but for their retinues, with food left over to be distributed to the poor. Your guests lavish praise upon you for your generosity, and for your understanding of the social obligations of your rank. The conversation, fueled by the food and drink, has been merry, strengthening the bonds between those who attended. str_feast_lengthy_description_6|The realm will be speaking of the bounty of your table for months to come, and it will become the standard to which all other feasts will aspire. You have filled the bellies not just of your noble guests and their retinues, but also of the poor who flocked to the gates. str_kingdom_1_adjective|Sarleon str_kingdom_2_adjective|Ravenstern str_kingdom_3_adjective|D'Shar str_kingdom_4_adjective|Fierdsvain str_kingdom_5_adjective|Empire str_credits_1|Mount Blade Warband^Copyright 2008-2010 Taleworlds Entertainment^^ Prophesy of Pendor story^Copyright 2009-2020 James Landes (Saxondragon) all rights reserved^^ Prophesy of Pendor module original design, programming and story by ^James Landes (Saxondragon)^^ Credits music by ^Lind Erebros^http //www.linderebros.com^http //www.elven-oratory.com/ str_credits_2|Warband game design ^Armagan Yavuz^Steve Negus^Cem Cimenbicer^^ Prophesy of Pendor design ^Saxondragon^Fawzia dokhtar-i-sanjar^M0rdred^Noosers^Mad Vader^AlanQsmithee^FritZ FretZ^Abyss^MitchyMatt^Snouz^IconracI str_credits_3|Warband programming ^Armagan Yavuz, Cem Cimenbicer, Serdar Kocdemir, Ozan Gumus^^ Prophesy of Pendor Mount and Blade scripting ^Saxondragon, Mad Vader, FritZ Fretz^^ Prophesy of Pendor Mount and Blade porting to Warband PoP 3.2 ^Mad Vader (Zoran Pejcinov)^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband 3.2x to PoP 3.51 ^Combat VI^Scripting and Design ^Treebeard (Jorgen Linde)^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband 3.611 to PoP 3.7063 ^Saxondragon, MitchyMatt, Snouz, IconracI^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband 3.7063 to PoP 3.9 ^MitchyMatt, Snouz, IconracI, Gorvex (support), Latis (support), Ralyks (support)^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband 3.9 to PoP 3.9.5 ^IconracI, MitchyMatt, Gorvex (support), Latis (support) str_credits_4|Warband CG artists Ozgur Saral, Mustafa Ozturk, Pinar Cekic, Ozan Unlu, Yigit Savtur, Umit Singil^^ Prophesy of Pendor artists (original and Warband) ^MitchyMatt, IconracI (Konrad Zalewski), Snouz (Max Brolet),^Archangel2K,Abyss, Sysyphe, Runner2424, Gerhart and a host of others.^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband art ^Archangel2K, Sysyphe, AlanQSmithee, Snouz, IconracI^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband logotype and interface ^Snouz^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband new horses ^Wanderer949^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband Valonbray scenes ^Abhuva^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband additional art and OSP artists ^Smokindog, Fourleaf Clover, Sairtar, Nierra, Spak, Andragorn, Amade, Baraban, Barf, BrustwarzenLenny, Ficus, Fredelios, Narf, Njunja, Pino, Rath0s, RgCotl, Runico, SacredStoneHand, Igorbb, Yamasubi, Gothic Knight, Xenoargh^^ See Changelogs in README folder for the complete credits lists str_credits_5|Warband concept artist ^Ganbat Badamkhand^^ Prophesy of Pendor Warband 3.2 to 3.51 lead testing ^Valorian Endymion (all versions), NicotiN (PoP 3.42)^^ Prophesy of Pendor testers ^Gorvex (3.7+), Latis (3.7+), Dorrin, Hinkl, Vaanshir, Spartan012, Shadow-Seeker, MitchyMatt, JatuWrangler, Axemaster3, Akuthia, Chiksika, Iskar, Lothario, Centurion1, Asphe, Griefer, Abremms, Froggyluv, Fidelity, LittleMikey, Webspinnre, Kaeldragor, The Horse, Ogaburan, ManOfHonor, Hoellenbewohner, Norrlandsguld, ZirZor str_credits_6|Warband writing ^Steve Negus, Armagan Yavuz, Ryan A. 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(Asia)^Snowball (Russia)^Pinnacle (UK)^Porto Editora (Portugal)^Hell-Tech (Greece)^CD Projekt (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia Hungary)^Paradox Scandinavian Distribution (Scandinavia) str_achieve_kill_battle|You skillfully dispatched fifty enemies in one battle single-handedly! For this heroic deed you are awarded +20 renown and the title of 'Deathbringer.'^Your enemies cower before your might! str_achieve_kills_1|Your boldness and battle skills have brought about the deaths or wounding of 5000 enemies. You will henceforth be known as a 'Masterful Warrior' with a +1 Trainer skill as reward for your triumphs on the field of battle. str_achieve_kills_2|You have slaughtered or wounded 10,000 enemies and are herewith granted the title of 'Legendary Warrior' with +2 Trainer skill awarded for your ferocious slaying of enemies. str_achieve_vic_1|You have emerged the winner of 250 battles and earned the title 'Battle Master' with a +1 Tactics Skill awarded for your tactical expertise. str_achieve_vic_2|You have successfully fought and won 500 battles and will now be titled a 'Great General' with +2 Tactics skill awarded for your expertise in battlefield generalship. str_achieve_heroes_1|You have defeated 7 of the evil invaders of Pendor, and are herewith awarded the title 'Defender of Pendor' with +1 Intelligence granted you by Pendor's grateful people. str_achieve_heroes_2|You have defeated 15 of the marauding armies plaguing Pendor and are now titled 'Guardian of Pendor' with +2 Intelligence granted in recognition of your heroic defense of the people of Pendor. str_achieve_mysts|You have saved numerous villagers from the ravaging Mystmountain Army and are granted the title 'Bane of Vejovis' by the relieved populace, who also gift you with +1 Agility in thanks. str_achieve_snakes|The Army of the Serpent Cult fell before you as wheat to the scythe, and you will henceforth be known as 'Cult Banisher' with +1 Ironflesh wrested from Azi Dahaka herself for your defeat of her villainous Snakes. str_achieve_jatu|The remainder of the mighty Jatu now cower in their tents due to your crushing defeat of their army. Jatu drums beat a dirge in tribute to the 'Scourge of Jatu' with +1 Riding skill grudgingly given you by Indar in recognition of your victory. str_achieve_heretics|With skill and perseverance you defeated the hideous Heretic Army, despite their strong and evil troops. You will now be known as the 'Purger of Heresy' to the followers of Erida Occisor, who grudgingly and with gnashing of teeth concede to you +1 Strength for your victory. str_achieve_tour_1|You have emerged the champion of 25 Tournaments and your renown increases by +100. Your opponents in future tournaments will quail when your name is announced as a participant. str_achieve_tour_2|You have conquered all comers in 50 Tournaments and now bear the title 'Tournament Champion' with +1 Weapons Master in reward for your mastery of all forms of tournament combat. str_achieve_rnwn_1|With your gain of 5000 Renown, you are hailed everywhere as the '{reg63?Hero Heroine} of Pendor' and the lords wish to grant you +1 charisma in recognition of your heroism. str_achieve_rnwn_2|All hail you as the {reg63?Lion Lioness} of Pendor since your renown has swelled to 7500! The rulers of Pendor are for once united in granting you +2 Charisma. str_achieve_honor|Your Honor rating of 500 has resulted in the rulers of Pendor unanimously granting you the title of 'Chevalier of Pendor' with a gift of +1 Charisma for your chivalrous and honorable behavior. str_achieve_king|You are hailed as the 'Rogue {reg63?King Queen}' now, as you have boldly declared yourself sovereign of your own kingdom. Your brashness wins you +1 Leadership. You will doubtless need it! str_achieve_persuader|You have persuaded 30 Pendor lords to join your righteous cause! They award you +1 Persuasion and the title of 'Great Persuader' for your logic and tact in convincing them to join forces with you. str_achieve_builder|You have completed 30 improvements to your holdings! The village elders thank you and offer +1 Engineering in gratitude for your attention to the needs of the common man. str_achieve_quests|You successfully completed 30 quests and the lords now know you as a 'Competent Aide.' You are granted +20 Renown by them, in recognition of your faithful service. str_achieve_fquests|You have failed to complete 10 Quests and the lords now title you the 'Epitome of Ineptitude.' With jeers and laughter, they penalize you with -10 Renown for your utter incompetence at doing the simplest job. str_achieve_captured|You have succeeded in getting yourself captured 10 times! Some of the more sensitive outlaw leaders decided to pool some of the money they earned by selling your troops into slavery, and now present you with a gift, the fabled Infinite Supply of Vaseline!^May your inevitable nights in captivity be as enjoyable for you as they were for them! str_achieve_caravan|Your 30 raids on hapless Pendorian caravans have won you the title 'Caravan Marauder' and a penalty of -1 Charisma in addition to the opprobrium of Guild Masters throughout Pendor. str_achieve_village|Your 20 raids on the suffering villagers of Pendor have cost you -1 Charisma and the village elders despise you. You will henceforth be known as a 'Village Plunderer.' You really should consider reforming your ways. str_achieve_cheater_warn_1|You cheated to win that battle! This is your first warning - if you continue with your dishonorable behavior, you won't get any achievement rewards until you start a new game. str_achieve_cheater_warn_2|You cheated to win that battle! This is your second and final warning - if you continue with your dishonorable behavior, you won't get any achievement rewards until you start a new game. str_achieve_cheater|You cheated to win that battle! Your repeated dishonorable behavior has disabled all achievement rewards until you start a new game. You can still earn achievements, but you'll know you don't really deserve them. str_achieve_gm|You have risen through the ranks of a Knighthood Order to become its Grandmaster, a position of considerable power and influence among the elite soldiery of Pendor. Your exalted title wins you +1 Persuasion. You are a force to be reckoned with. str_buriligi_intro|Guided by me, you will attain Paradise through martyrdom. I will open your mind and expand your conciousness, bring you to the light through my inspiration. Pendor is a teeming morass of sin and I shall not rest until I have purged it of all which opposes the enlightenment given me by the gods. All will face the choice of conversion or instant execution. I like to eat dates and play takhte when the gods are not speaking through me, hee, hee. Do you have a takhte board with you? Let's have a game. str_buriligi_explain_1|Only through me can you walk the paths of righteousness. Ask any of my followers and they will tell you that, until they came unto me, their lives were empty, sinful and purposeless. I give them a direction, a just cause and the will to fight and die for their beliefs. You will also enjoy the method by which, ahem, I aid such enlightenment. str_buriligi_explain_2|Do you play takhte? It is a fine strategy game. If you have any dates, I'd like some. Hee, hee, hee, just wait until I rule all Pendor. I will herd these lords and kings like sheep into my fold and slaughter them. 'Better living through chemistry,' hee, hee, that's my motto! Did I ask if you had any dates? str_oswald_intro|I was outlawed by my own father over a small misunderstanding, and intend to rectify this via conquest. The rumor that I poisoned my elder brother is overblown. A petty little fool like you can scarcely comprehend the methods of one so superior, but I will attempt to educate you. Successful conquest is achieved through ruthlessness and artistic killing. Inspire terror in your enemies prior to engaging them, and the battle is won before the first sword is drawn. The more hideous examples you make, the easier it becomes to cow your enemies into abject surrender. Once I offered surrender but was refused, so I cut off all their heads and stacked them into a pyramid. Lovely sight, that. str_oswald_explain_1|It is quite simple - grab your enemy by the balls and his heart and mind will follow. Do not release your captives, torture them and leave their mutilated remains for all to admire. Ransoming prisoners or selling them into slavery is so mundane. There are so many more enjoyable and educational ways of dealing with them. str_oswald_explain_2|I like to rope my prisoners into three lines children, women and men. First, I kill the children as their mothers shriek and plead for their little lives. Next, I have my men rape the women while the men curse and struggle helplessly, then we slit their throats. The men I torture to death in creative ways. The next time I confront an enemy, I offer a choice between instant surrender or similar treatment. You'd be surprised how often a stronger foe capitulates at the prospect of such a fate. You look a bit queasy - did you eat something which disagrees with you? str_meregan_intro|I am an easy man to understand. My code is straightforward and my troop and I live by it. When I take a contract to escort a lord's wife or guard a caravan, the caravan arrives intact and on time, and the noble ladies are shown great courtesy and guarded carefully during their journey. Hah, sometimes they are guarded more assiduously than they'd prefer, much to their chagrin, if you take my meaning! We are very discreet, and are given confidential jobs, such as retrieving runaway wives or delivering letters which must not fall into the wrong hands. Never a word leaks out, when I handle the job. str_meregan_explain_1|I have excellent female fighters in my company, so I detail them as guards for the ladies I escort. They are well-mannered and the ladies enjoy their conversation; in fact, I actually have recruits from amongst the nobility - lord's daughters who wished for the freedom enjoyed by the women of my troop. My lasses can hold their own in a battle or a tavern brawl, as their would-be seducers have found. str_meregan_explain_2|Do not think our courtesy in any way hampers our efficiency. My troops are ferocious fighters, one and all, and our reputation for relentless defense of our charges and skill in battle precedes us. We are rarely challenged by bandits or other riffraff. When a king hires the Griffonsword Company, he gets a lot more than he pays for! str_kodan_intro|No doubt you have heard that tavern ditty that begins 'My father arrived on a Vanskerry raid, and married my mother, a Fierdsvain maid...' It goes on to describe my exploits pretty well. My company includes many former Vanskerry Raiders and their Fierdsvain-born sons. My lads have a few bad habits, such as wrecking the Valonbray tavern once in awhile, but it is all in good fun, and I always pay the tavern keep for the damages. They are a fierce lot and, thanks to my training and discipline, far surpass the Vanskerries and every other Pendor company in fighting skill. str_kodan_explain_1|My philosophy, like me, is very simple I honor my word, do exactly what I am hired to do and extract payment by force if my employer tries to weasel out of paying me. Koningur Valdis is a prime example not long ago, he hired me to kick a little Vanskerry butt along the coast, which I did, but he then tried to re-negotiate the terms of payment for the job. str_kodan_explain_2|After I raided a few dozen of his caravans, he came around. I even deducted the value of the goods I looted from the balance he owed me, though I doubt he paid the caravan masters for their losses, stingy old bastard that he is. If you want a job done right, my Ironsword Company is the company you hire. When the Ironsword Company goes Pendor on somebody's ass, every lord and king hears about it within a day! str_syla_intro|Confide in a worthless upstart like you? I think not! The corpses I leave behind on the field of battle will tell you all you need to know about Syla Uzas. If you want to learn more, pit your paltry little troop against mine. You will learn then the folly of bothering your betters. str_syla_explain_1|You are a glutton for abuse, aren't you? I take what I want by force and no man can stand against me. I kill those annoy me as you would swat a persistent fly. My company has never been defeated. str_syla_explain_2|I am here solely to negotiate a contract for the elimination of someone who has annoyed someone else. That is all you need to know. Pester me further, and I'll toss you to my men. I'm sure they will find you more entertaining than I do. str_shalavan_intro|I am a former lord of the D'Shar, unjustly deprived of my holdings by the Bahadur Khan. I have called blood feud upon him, and I shall take not only my lands but also his as well in revenge. His army shall become my army and his women my women. I will wear his crown and feast in his palace when I defeat him. His head will rest upon a platter on my table as I devour his delicacies. str_shalavan_explain_1|That fornicating camel-lover had the audacity to command me, Shalavan, a true D'Shar, to cease raiding and send my men to aid his endless wars. I informed him that he could damned well recruit the men he needed elsewhere, as I was occupied with the traditional D'Shar ways of making a living. In revenge, he sent his men to drive me from my land and stripped me of my titles. str_shalavan_explain_2|He already feels my vengeance. Since he named me outlaw, outlaw I have become and my forces swell with recruited raiders from the fearsome Pansjiri, Turkmani and Balochi raiders throughout the Principalities. At the hands of outlaws shall he fall! I intend to raze the D'Shar cities, execute his soft and lazy lords and restore the D'Shar to the nomadic tribal state traditional to our people. Let Kadan sip wine, recite poetry and amuse himself with his women while he yet can. His days as Bahadur Khan are numbered! str_boris_intro|Doubtless you would, as most little mercenaries aspire to be just like me! That is a vain aspiration, but I am bored, so I will condescend to chat for a moment. My Ravens excel in siegework and are the most fearsome fighters in Pendor. I deign to work for petty Pendor rulers on occasion, but only for a very high price. Never think I don't get my price, too - they soil their armor at the thought of what I would do if they tried to double cross me. They are feckless fools and one day, I will take their thrones. str_boris_explain_1|Pendor needs a strong and intelligent ruler, one who can unite the land under one banner. I know in my heart that I am the hero Madigan prophecied would succeed at that. Of course, I don't share that information with the kings who engage my services. Hah, even if I did, those morons would ignore the warning! I'd suggest that, should you happen upon us in the field, you beat a very hasty retreat. You'll live longer if you do. str_boris_explain_2|We are not only superb at siegework, for I am a most excellent strategist. The Ravenstern lords run like frightened virgins when they encounter us. I milk those lords for every denar they have in ransom, too. One lord, whom I won't name, even offered me the use of his wife and daughters if I'd just let him go. Hmph, a man like me does not need to pay for noble bedmates! I get more offers of that sort than I want or need! Perhaps, if you continue to increase in skill, I may hire your company when I rule Pendor. Now run along; you bore me. str_inquisitor_intro|The holy men with me will help rid these lands of vile worshipers of Erida Occisor! Death to all demon spawn and their heathen followers! Those sand-faring people of the south need to stop believing in such false idols like that of Vata or Indar! str_inquisitor_explain_1|No, I have said enough! str_inquisitor_explain_2|Bother me more and we will continue this conversation in Inquisition's dungeons. str_heartbeat_intro_1|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}! I am glad you arrived so quickly. str_heartbeat_intro_2|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, thank you for making all haste. str_heartbeat_intro_3|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}! We need your help in a matter of importance. str_heartbeat_intro_4|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, I am so glad that you are here! str_heartbeat_intro_5|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, we need your assistance with an important matter. str_heartbeat_intro_6|I am so glad you have arrived, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! We need your help. str_heartbeat_intro_7|Ah! {reg63?M'lord M'lady}, thank the Gods that you have come! str_heartbeat_intro_response_1|Well, I am here, so tell me what is the matter? str_heartbeat_intro_response_2|Well? What is so important? str_heartbeat_intro_response_3|Yes, we came as soon as possible. str_heartbeat_intro_response_4|Go on, what is so urgent? str_heartbeat_intro_response_5|We rode through the night to get here, what has happened? str_heartbeat_intro_response_6|We came in great haste. Speak up, what's the problem? str_heartbeat_intro_response_7|Ah yes! What is the issue? str_heartbeat_problem_statement_1|Rats, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! We have a terrible infestation of rats. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_2|We have had unusually heavy rains and some flooding {reg63?M'lord M'lady}. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_3|We need to hire the local Witch, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_4|Two of the village clans are fighting again - they've sworn blood feud against one another. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_5|We have a situation with horse thieves here, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_6|Wolves! We are besieged by an enormous pack of ravening wolves! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_7|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, we have a refugee problem. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_8|We have had a fire {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_9|Our wells are befouled and may have been poisoned! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_10|We've captured a Heretic! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_11|The Snake Cult is spying on us! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_12|It is about the shrine, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_13|We are stricken with disease. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_14|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, there is a mercenary company here requesting to speak with you. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_15|There are thieves among us! They're robbing everybody! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_16|It concerns the castle {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! Repairs are urgently needed. str_heartbeat_problem_statement_17|Deserters, dangerous ones, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! str_heartbeat_problem_statement_18|We need to review some petitions for new trade routes. str_heartbeat_problem_1_a|They are as big as small dogs and have carried off children! Our villagers are afraid to take to the fields and some refuse to leave their home. Can you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_1_b|They are everywhere, even in the cooking pots and under the beds. They scurry everywhere, destroying our food stocks and spreading their filth! If we don't do something, they may cause a plague. We need your help! str_heartbeat_problem_1_c|They are huge {reg63?M'lord M'lady}! They scurry everywhere, destroying our food stocks and spreading their filth! If we don't do something, they may cause a plague. They have glittering eyes, small jutting teeth... shudder , we are only poor farmers and need your help to rid ourselves of these filthy rodents! str_heartbeat_problem_1_d|Some are very large and they are very aggressive. Packs of them have attacked our villagers in the fields and many people are afraid to venture out of their homes to tend the crops. Can you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_2_a|The streams have overflowed from these torrential rains, and have washed away the roads. str_heartbeat_problem_2_b|The fields have flooded and we may lose our crops! Some farmers have been ruined already. str_heartbeat_problem_2_c|The sudden flooding has washed away some farms and several people have drowned! str_heartbeat_problem_2_d|Due to recent heavy rains, the river is rising and the village crops are threatened by flood. If we don't do something, our crops will be destroyed. str_heartbeat_problem_3_a|Some disease is destroying our crops; they are wilting and rotting. We must hire the local Witch to remove the curse from our harvest. Will you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_3_b|We have not had rain in a long time, and our crops are failing. We need to hire the local druidic witch to invoke the rain to save our crops! We need your help! str_heartbeat_problem_3_c|The local Witch says that we have been cursed! Two women here have had miscarriages, a horse died unexpectedly and five villagers have had freakish accidents. We need to hire the Witch to remove this curse! str_heartbeat_problem_3_d|Many of our villagers have come down with a strange fever. A local Witch says she can help us, but she will not do it for free. Can you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_4_a|The old clan led by one of the Village Elders has killed four people of the newcomer clan. The newcomers have killed six of the old clan thus far. This started over a perceived slight to the Village Elder who then raided a newcomer farm and burned their barn to the ground. This feud could go on for generations, if it is not stopped now by someone in authority whom the tribes respect. str_heartbeat_problem_4_b|The tribal elder claims a man of the of the newcomer clan dishonored his daughter. The elder claim their man offered honorable marriage to the girl, when she discovered she was bearing his child, but her father demanded a ridiculous dowry. When the newcomer clan refused to pay it, the Village Elder declared blood feud. str_heartbeat_problem_4_c|We've a disagreement over a stolen blue-eyed sheep escalating into a clan feud. The Tribal Elder purchased the sheep from the newcomers, who apparently did not receive payment. They took back the sheep, citing nonpayment and perverse use of livestock, and took a dozen of the Elders sheep as interest. The Elder has sworn blood feud and the situation grows worse by the hour. str_heartbeat_problem_4_d|Recently a large new family moved into the area and set up several farms. They need water from a small stream to water their fields, a stream that flows upstream through a village Elder's farm. The Elder built a dam and asks payment from the new family to let the water through. This has erupted into a feud which might turn very ugly. We need your help. str_heartbeat_problem_5_a|One of our citizens claims his plow horses have been stolen. He's looked everywhere and cannot locate them, so we doubt it simply wandered off. Can you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_5_b|One of the peasants claims there are bandits in the area and they stole their horses. We need your help to recover them. str_heartbeat_problem_5_c|We have a report that several bandits made off with a herd of our horses. {M'lord/M'lady}, we need your help in recovering them. str_heartbeat_problem_5_d|A known thief and his sidekick stole two of our horses. Will you help track them down and recover our horses? str_heartbeat_problem_6_a|A pack of wolves has come down from the mountains and is ravaging the villagers' livestock. One herder was attacked and fear is running high. str_heartbeat_problem_6_b|Some of the peasants think the Mystmountain Raiders are stealing their herds, but the carcasses devoured are left behind. str_heartbeat_problem_6_c|The villagers say the wolves are very fierce and bold and they are too afraid to guard their herds at night. str_heartbeat_problem_6_d|We must eliminate these wolves before the villagers' herds are all eaten! str_heartbeat_problem_7_a|A large band of refugees is harassing the locals. They first asked for food, and were given some, but now they refuse to leave! What do you want to do with them? str_heartbeat_problem_7_b|A group of refugees is squatting just outside of the marketplace. They have taken to begging and harassing people who enter the market. This, of course, is nuisance to the merchants, who want them removed. What do you want to do? str_heartbeat_problem_7_c|We've a pack of peasant refugees outside the gate, petitioning you for aid. str_heartbeat_problem_7_d|We have a large group of refugees, including several families with small children, who want to start a new life here. What do we tell them? str_heartbeat_problem_8_a|The forest outside the village caught fire, it spread and the village mill was severely damaged. str_heartbeat_problem_8_b|There was a fire in the smithy which spread to the market, and damaged it badly. str_heartbeat_problem_8_c|The was a fire that started in the stables and spread through the area. str_heartbeat_problem_8_d|We have had a succession of suspicious fires that have damaged homes and businesses str_heartbeat_problem_9_a|Someone has thrown the rotting carcass of a goat into the well, and the water is completely befouled. str_heartbeat_problem_9_b|There is an outbreak of typhoid here, and we fear polluted wells are the cause. str_heartbeat_problem_9_c|Five men died this morning after drinking from the well. I fear an enemy has poisoned it. str_heartbeat_problem_9_d|A troublemaker we made outcast was seen pouring something into the well, and now the water is foul tasting and makes us sick. str_heartbeat_problem_10_a|The peasants claim a woman in the village is a Heretic and want to burn her at the stake. She's ancient and reputed to be very nasty, so I'm not sure if she is a Heretic or just a senile, disagreeable old bag whom the villagers dislike. str_heartbeat_problem_10_b|We found the body of a girl with her heart ripped out. We've captured one of the five Heretics who murdered her. When taken, all he did was yell 'For Glory'! He shows no fear at all. str_heartbeat_problem_10_c|We've caught an unsavory character lurking around the marketplace. From the look and smell of him, he is a Heretic! We're holding him for your judgement. str_heartbeat_problem_10_d|We have caught an odd wandering old man who is wild eyed and babbles about a plot to take you as a sacrifice to Erida Occisor. What shall we do with him? str_heartbeat_problem_11_a|A Snake Cult Armsman bought some vegetables from us, and asked whether we had any girl babies here. str_heartbeat_problem_11_b|A woman who hissed when she spoke questioned the tavern keeper about how many troops we have stationed here. He spotted her walking around later,too, looking all about. str_heartbeat_problem_11_c|A couple of men showed up here asking for work, and we think they may be Snake Cult spies. They didn't do much work at all, just hung about and looked over the battlements and other defenses. str_heartbeat_problem_11_d|Rumor holds that six orphan girls are missing. We think the Snake Cult is taking them. str_heartbeat_problem_12_a|To pray for better crops, we'd like to build a shrine to Thallo Ver Shures, but we can't afford the cost. Will you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_12_b|The Snake Cult defiled the shrine of Damia Provideo and we must build a new one before the Harvest Festival. Will you help us? str_heartbeat_problem_12_c|We think that if we had a shrine to Eunomia Stabilitis here, some of the lawlessness in the surrounding country would abate. Could you pay for the shrine? str_heartbeat_problem_12_d|The Knights of Dawn demand we erect a shrine to Astraea here, and say we have to tear down all our other shrines to the Pendor gods. What should we do? str_heartbeat_problem_13_a|The people have broken out in itchy red spots all over their bodies, and fear it is the Red Plague. Rumor holds that a band of Snake Cultists crossed the fields last week. They may have sent the plague. str_heartbeat_problem_13_b|The men ate some bad food, and they are all in agony with stomach trouble. The jakes are in a terrible state, just terrible, and the whole area is covered in vomit! What should we do? str_heartbeat_problem_13_c|Half the garrison is afflicted with, ahem, a social disease, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}, and the source is almost certainly the local brothel. str_heartbeat_problem_13_d|There is something in the air that makes us sneeze and cough all the time. The people think it must be some kind of plague. str_heartbeat_problem_14_a|The {s20} leading a company of {s21} has approached us asking for employment. They look like a well-trained force. They will join you for 10,000 denars. str_heartbeat_problem_14_b|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, a company of {s21} arrived a few days ago. They are seeking employment and await your decision on hiring them. Their leader, a {s20} requested 10,000 denars to serve you. str_heartbeat_problem_14_c|{reg63?M'lord M'lady}, there is a troop of {s21} camped outside our gates. Their leader, a {s20} asks if you will hire them for the sum of 10,000 denars. str_heartbeat_problem_14_d|There is a large company of {s21} sitting outside our gates! They will hire out for the sum of 10,000 denars. They look fierce and I don't know what they will do if you turn them down! str_heartbeat_problem_15_a|Someone here is pilfering food. Our stores are going missing regularly. str_heartbeat_problem_15_b|Someone has raided our weapons stores and taken all our best bows and arrows. str_heartbeat_problem_15_c|Someone here is picking pockets whenever a crowd assembles. The people are very angry about it. str_heartbeat_problem_15_d|Someone is stealing our young women's underwear off their drying lines. str_heartbeat_problem_16_a|During the last siege, the curtain wall was badly damaged and if we don't repair it, it will collapse. It will cost 2500 denars. str_heartbeat_problem_16_b|One of the castle gates is about to fall off its hinges. We have a serious security problem there. str_heartbeat_problem_16_c|We've discovered a tunnel in the dungeon leading out to the woods. Should we block it off, {reg63?M'lord M'lady}, or keep it for emergencies? str_heartbeat_problem_16_d|There are weak spots in the portcullis and if we have to lower it fast, it may break. str_heartbeat_problem_17_a|There's a pack of deserters roaming the countryside. The people are terrified of them. str_heartbeat_problem_17_b|We saw a couple of our men sneaking away last night. They deserted on duty in the middle of the night. str_heartbeat_problem_17_c|A large band of deserters is raiding caravans and robbing the peasants here. str_heartbeat_problem_17_d|Some deserters raided the village last week, and they returned again last night! str_heartbeat_problem_18_a|An Emissary requests your permission to open trade between Duke Sandoval of Barclay and your town. str_heartbeat_problem_18_b|We have a request from Southern Barclay that we permit their caravans to trade in our town. What do you wish to tell them? str_heartbeat_problem_18_c|A most importunate group of merchants from Mettenheim wishes to see you for the purpose of trade. They say they can increase prosperity if you agree. str_heartbeat_problem_18_d|Here is a petition from a trade ambassador that you allow a group of their nobles to open up new sea trade routes from Veccavi to this city. str_heartbeat_problem_response_1_a|Let's hunt them down. I declare an Open Season on Rats 1 denar per rat killed! str_heartbeat_problem_response_1_b|Here are 100 denars. Put out poisoned food for the rats and burn their bodies. str_heartbeat_problem_response_1_c|Call in that fellow, Hamlin, the best of the Pendor Rat-Catchers. Here are 500 denars to pay him. str_heartbeat_problem_response_1_d|Do I look like a rat-catcher, fool? Solve this rat problem yourself. str_heartbeat_problem_response_2_a|What do you suppose I can do about normal weather? Live with it! str_heartbeat_problem_response_2_b|I am sorry to hear that. Distribute these 100 denars to those who need it. str_heartbeat_problem_response_2_c|Here are 1000 denars to aid those in need. str_heartbeat_problem_response_2_d|Take 2500 denars for repairs and for those who need help. str_heartbeat_problem_response_3_a|What? We do not believe in superstitious rubbish! str_heartbeat_problem_response_3_b|Take 100 denars and find a solution which does not include a Witch. str_heartbeat_problem_response_3_c|Here are 500 denars to hire your Witch. str_heartbeat_problem_response_3_d|Take 1000 denars, hire the Witch and have her bless our village as well! str_heartbeat_problem_response_4_a|This is your problem to solve, not mine. str_heartbeat_problem_response_4_b|Order the local militia to enforce the peace! str_heartbeat_problem_response_4_c|Here are 300 denars. Give this to the village Elder as payment to end the Blood Feud. str_heartbeat_problem_response_4_d|Take 500 denars for the widows, arrest the leaders of both clans and hang them! str_heartbeat_problem_response_5_a|Tell them to mend their fences and watch the horses more carefully in future. str_heartbeat_problem_response_5_b|Here are 200 denars as a bounty for the return of the horses. str_heartbeat_problem_response_5_c|Take these 300 denars and buy them more horses. str_heartbeat_problem_response_5_d|Order the Militia and hunt down those thieves! str_heartbeat_problem_response_6_a|You have plenty of hunters here; send them out to kill the wolves! str_heartbeat_problem_response_6_b|Take 100 denars, hire some extra hunters and eliminate the pack! str_heartbeat_problem_response_6_c|Take 400 denars, ask advice of the local Witch and follow it. str_heartbeat_problem_response_6_d|Here are 100 denars for bait, now take the militia and trap the beasts! str_heartbeat_problem_response_7_a|We have no need of more mouths to feed; run them off. str_heartbeat_problem_response_7_b|Give them some food, then send them on their way. str_heartbeat_problem_response_7_c|They are welcome to stay. It is our duty to show charity to those in need. str_heartbeat_problem_response_7_d|We could use more subjects. Here are 800 denars to build them houses. str_heartbeat_problem_response_8_a|I'll give 500 denars towards materials for repairs, but you will have to provide the labor. str_heartbeat_problem_response_8_b|Take these 1000 denars and begin repairs immediately. str_heartbeat_problem_response_8_c|You dragged me back here urgently for a fire?! You try my patience severely. str_heartbeat_problem_response_8_d|Arrest whoever started the fire and hang him. str_heartbeat_problem_response_9_a|So drain and clean the well, fool. Here are 100 denars for the labor. str_heartbeat_problem_response_9_b|We'd best summon physicians to deal with any sickness. Here are 500 denars. str_heartbeat_problem_response_9_c|Find the one who befouled or poisoned the well. Under torture, discover who sent him. str_heartbeat_problem_response_9_d|Have the militia hunt down the culprit and hang him. str_heartbeat_problem_response_10_a|We hand over all Heretics to the Knights of Dawn. See to it. str_heartbeat_problem_response_10_b|Inform the captured Heretic that we will torture the confession out of them 'for Glory'! str_heartbeat_problem_response_10_c|Let us be quite sure we are actually dealing with Heretics before we kill an innocent. str_heartbeat_problem_response_10_d|I have dealt with heretics before and killed plenty. This is not one of them. Let this person go. str_heartbeat_problem_response_11_a|If anyone told him we've girl babies here, flog the blabbermouth for his indiscretion! str_heartbeat_problem_response_11_b|Have the guard track down and capture the spy. Offer a reward of 500 denars for a live one! str_heartbeat_problem_response_11_c|Flog the captain of the guard for letting Snake Cultists in here to begin with! str_heartbeat_problem_response_11_d|Here are 2000 denars. Get any orphans off the street and housed safely in an orphanage. str_heartbeat_problem_response_12_a|I'm not paying to support superstitious nonsense like shrines to gods who don't exist! str_heartbeat_problem_response_12_b|Certainly. Here are 350 denars for your shrine. str_heartbeat_problem_response_12_c|Here, take 200 denars, build your shrine over in the next kingdom. Not here. str_heartbeat_problem_response_12_d|Very well build your shrine, just do not cause strife in my realm with followers of other Deities. str_heartbeat_problem_response_13_a|Here are 500 denars. Send for physicians from the Radiant Cross. str_heartbeat_problem_response_13_b|Take these 300 denars and find whatever medicines you need. str_heartbeat_problem_response_13_c|Cease your sinful habits and the gods won't send you diseases in punishment. str_heartbeat_problem_response_13_d|Do I look like a physician? I can't do anything about this! str_heartbeat_problem_response_14_a|I cannot afford to pay that sum just now. Send them on their way. str_heartbeat_problem_response_14_b|Excellent news! I can certainly use them. Here are 10,000 denars. str_heartbeat_problem_response_14_c|I don't trust mercenaries. Tell them to leave immediately. str_heartbeat_problem_response_14_d|Hmm, Yes indeed. Give them an extra 2000 denars for goodwill and have them report forthwith! str_heartbeat_problem_response_15_a|Hmm, if the thief stole from true need, find out why and give him aid. str_heartbeat_problem_response_15_b|Security here needs an overhaul. Post additional patrols to keep this from happening again. str_heartbeat_problem_response_15_c|Take the Militia and do a house to house search! str_heartbeat_problem_response_15_d|I will offer a 200 denar reward for apprehension of the thief. Dead or Alive. str_heartbeat_problem_response_16_a|Here are 2500 denars for repairs. Have the engineers begin immediately. str_heartbeat_problem_response_16_b|I can't afford to pay that right now. Do what you can with this 1000 denars. str_heartbeat_problem_response_16_c|I can either pay for repairs or pay the troops. I prefer to pay my men. str_heartbeat_problem_response_16_d|You're the one in charge here - do what you think best. str_heartbeat_problem_response_17_a|Here are 500 denars, just to make sure that none of our men decide to join them. str_heartbeat_problem_response_17_b|I'll pay a bounty of 10 denars per dead deserter. Spread the word. str_heartbeat_problem_response_17_c|Thanks for the information, Pendor has it's own way of dealing with scum like this. str_heartbeat_problem_response_17_d|We hang deserters. We will hunt them down and take care of the problem. str_heartbeat_problem_response_18_a|Tell them that I require a fee of 2000 denars to grant them permission. str_heartbeat_problem_response_18_b|A fine idea. More caravans will increase all Pendor's prosperity. str_heartbeat_problem_response_18_c|I don't trust foreigners to trade fairly here. The answer is no. str_heartbeat_problem_response_18_d|Tell them they may trade here, but if they undercut Pendor merchants, I'll revoke their permits.
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Bleed Out 説明 Since you opted to go out on a date with Michelle instead of manning up and helping your cousin defend himself against some hooligans, the game will give you a chance at some redemption here. Drive around a bit after you drop Roman off until you receive a phone call from him. The Albanians have found him again and are roughin.. Since you opted to go out on a date with Michelle instead of manning up and helping your cousin defend himself against some hooligans, the game will give you a chance at some redemption here. Drive around a bit after you drop Roman off until you receive a phone call from him. ･貴方がMichelleとデートに出掛ける代わりに、従兄弟を数人のチンピラから助ける事を選択してから、ゲームは貴方に彼の救出のチャンスを与えるだろう。 Romanを車から降ろし、彼から電話が掛かってくるまでの少しの間、車で乗り回せ。 The Albanians have found him again and are roughing him up on a basketball court nearby. After receiving the call and the call ending, you ll get some direction from the GPS, so follow the directions until you arrive at your destination. ･アルバニア人達は彼を再び探し出し、近くのバスケットボールコートで暴力を振るうだろう。電話を受け取り、通話を終えた後、貴方はGPSでいくつかの道順を確認しろ。 目的地に着くまで、道順を教えてくれるだろう。 Note it looks like you will receive this mission also if you decide to blow off your date and go help your lame cousin. Your destination in the car and the destination itself are two different things, however. Roman is being roughed up on the basketball court, so you ll need to get out of your car and run to his rescue (simply go forward from where his car is parked, then swing right along the chainlink fence and to the court). ･ It s here that a brief cutscene will ensue. The Albanians are clearly a little scared of you and try to reason with you. Naturally, you ll break some skulls regardless. This will be your first chance to fight with your fists, and the fighting system and lock-on system here is much more refined than in previous Grand Theft Auto games. Be sure to follow the on-screen prompts as they come to be sure to lock on to an enemy. Then, punch away, dodging any enemy swings. Both of the Albanians are relative pushovers. It s their knife-wielding friend on the other side of the fence that you ll really want to get your hands on, though. The knife-wielder, Dardan, will run off and find a car of his own to speed away in. You ll have to give chase. Run off the court and back around towards your car. Hop in, and Dardan s location will be seen on the HUD immediately thereafter as a red dot. And from here, the chase begins. Keeping up with Dardan is important, but don t stress too much. The only way you can fail this mission is to fall ridiculously far behind, or if you total Roman s car. Otherwise, simply staying with the red dot as it travels around the HUD is all you have to worry about. You won t have a GPS to help you here, but you won t need it. Think about techniques you used in previous GTA titles -- gravitating towards the icon on your HUD will get you where you need to go, it just might not be efficient. It s a fact that sticking on Delaware Avenue will get you to your location quickly, however. You ll arrive at a harborside warehouse, and Dardan s car is abandoned. Follow the on-screen prompt, which tells you to pursue Dardan up the various staircases to the top floor of the nearby warehouse. Here, you ll have to do battle with Dardan. Dardan is armed, so you need to be careful. Getting slashed with a knife hurts a lot more than getting punched by one of his friends. Regardless, you should get enough punches in easily that he will begin to stagger and fall. He ll get up a couple of times, but once he takes a fall, he ceases being a threat. And hey, if you re especially brutal, try punching out the windows at the side of the warehouse and pushing Dardan to his death. Hey -- just a thought. With Dardan eliminated, you can run back to Roman s car. The GPS will again work, and it will bring you back to the taxi depot. Drop Roman off there as you ve done several times now, and the mission will come to an end. And like that, the first batch of missions that seemed to run directly into each other is now over for the time being. What takes over from here is a more traditional mission-by-mission feel that GTA veterans will be most familiar with.
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9121342Have any of you even heard of a Ferox Rift Crusade? 9121343We are receiving another priority signal - from Captain Angelos. 9121344Commander, we must not abandon this sector to the Traitor Legions. 9121346I am headed to Calderis to discuss the matter with Diomedes. 9121347Continue to oppose the Black Legion. 9121348Angelos out. 9121349Gabriel is correct. 9121350We must continue… 9121351We must find the traitor in our ranks… 9121352The log entry which played when you activated the logic engine aboard the Judgment of Carrion was only one of many in the engine s cogitation archives. 9121353Listen to these additional entries 9121354The Emperor has granted us a miracle. 9121356Guarding the corpses of the brothers lost aboard this derelict, we have found a survivor. 9121357And this entry, sometime later 9121358Bonaparte fell today, killed by another daemon of the dark gods… 9121360Who is now Chapter Master and Chief Librarian of the Blood Ravens. 9121361Match Duration 9121362Survival Streak 9121365Click and target area 9121366High Score 9121367Final Wave 9121383Click to activate 9121387Blood Ravens, hear me! 9121388I am Araghast the Pillager! Master of Hounds! The Lash of the Black Legion! 9121389You and all your kind are cowards! Lowly lickspittles! 9121390You must be emulating that pile of bones you call an Emperor! You are as dead and useless as him! 9121391I am destroying your worlds, Blood Ravens. Yet you do nothing! 9121392I see your precious craft, hanging in orbit above Aurelia. 9121393I am here. 9121394Face me if you dare! 9121395A fitting death for a leader of traitors. 9121396True, but what game is Eliphas playing? 9121397Bah! He is greedy and honorless scum. 9121398He saw his chance to gain power and he took it. 9121399And the prospect of Eliphas with more power somehow reassures you? 9121406Upgrade to Elite Status 9121409Click and target area 9121418%1XP% XP Earned 9121419Guard Tower 9121420Right-click to occupy. 9121421Garrissonable Structure 9121422Indigenous Building 9121423Too much time in the Space Hulk causes corruption. (%1SOFAR%) 9122358Avitus still has access to the vox channels, Commander. 9122359I am marking his location on your map display, along with the two other Black Legion outposts. 9122360Eliminate those to weaken the main stronghold. 9122361Keep a sharp eye out for patrols. 9122362Commander, Martellus has fled to the main Black Legion stronghold, indicated on the map. 9122363The two satellite bases are also marked. 9122364We should eliminate those to weaken the force defending the traitor. 9122365Keep a sharp eye for Black Legion patrols 9122367Commander, you are nearing the Western outpost. 9122368To avoid an alarm, you must destroy the base quickly. 9122369The Western outpost is near, Commander. 9122370We must deal with it quickly to prevent an alarm. 9122371Raze the outpost to the ground -- and quickly. 9122372Strike quickly, before they can report! Time is against us. 9122373Well done, Commander. No alerts. 9122374Excellent, no alarms. Move to the next target. 9122375Loyalists whelps assail Bastion Abattoir! 9122376They will ready a defense -- for all the good it will do them. 9122377Expect increased resistance now that they are aware of our presence. 9122379They have raised an alarm! 9122380Steel yourselves. Our next targets will be ready. 9122381You are near the Eastern outpost, Commander. 9122382Once you engage, there will be very little time before an alert goes out. 9122383Eastern outpost ahead. 9122384Strike swiftly lest they raise an alarm. 9122385Quickly, Commander! Eliminate the enemy! 9122386Destroy this foul den! There is no time to waste. 9122387Good work, Commander. No alert was raised. 9122388The main stronghold has been weakened. 9122389Excellent, Space Marines. 9122390This clears the way for our assault on the main stronghold. 9122391Blood Ravens attack Bastion Terminus! 9122392An alert, Commander! 9122393Expect the Black Legion to be ready for you. 9122394They have sounded an alarm. 9122395These heretics are more disciplined than I expected. 9122396Eliphas has them on the leash. 9122397Commander, auspex shows the stronghold gate to be heavily guarded. 9122398There may be another approach. 9122399The stronghold gate is ahead - and brimming with Chaos Space Marines. 9122400I recommend taking another approach, Commander. 9122401Blood Ravens! Kill them all! 9122403Eliminate that patrol! 9122404Destroy that patrol! 9122405Disengage! As Lord Eliphas ordered! 9122406Servants of the False Emperor! 9122407To the stronghold! 9122409Loyalists! To the hunt! 9122410Break off! Now! 9122411Eliminate the traitors! 9122412Night Stalker squad is still hunting. 9122413They ignore summons. 9122414They will strike at the main stronghold next. 9122417Do not bother me with your failures, Chaos dog! 9122419I suspect my brothers may be here. 9122420Eviscerator and Syrax squads no longer respond. 9122422Of course they have! 9122424Are you really this incompetent? Mobilize your forces! 9122425I have little interest in your failures. 9122426Sweep their hunting ground. This is no coincidence. 9122427Blood Ravens are confirmed in the area. 9122428Put all forces on alert. 9122429Prepare for battle! 9122431They know you are here, Blood Ravens. 9122432Then put all forces on alert! 9122433Ready all forces. They might strike anywhere. 9122436The traitors escaped! 9122437This makes our mission much harder, Commander. 9122438Blood Ravens! Destroy them all! 9122439Let fire rain from the Warp! 9122440Fire artillery! Let their skulls gift Khorne! 9122441Bomb them to ash! A gift for our dark lords! 9122442Commander, tectonic activity is increasing. 9122443This whole area could be swept away. 9122444Holy Terra! This planet is falling apart at our feet! 9122453So slow. So clumsy. Pathetic. 9122454It is not too late to join me, brothers. 9122455You are so misguided. Such a waste. 9122456He attempts to flank us! Find him! 9122457A parting gift for you, brothers. 9122458A large, easy target. 9122459Blindness to match your idiocy. 9122462Here we are at last. The end is in sight. 9122463Do not worry, Thaddeus. Have you ever known me to run and hide? 9122464I needed only to ready our Chapter Master s final gift to me. 9122465Show yourself! 9122466Terminator armor. 9122467Yes. The holiest of chapter relics in the hands of a loathsome betrayer. 9122468There is the honor of the Blood Ravens! 9122471This is all that remains blood and fury! 9122472Faith is a lie! Truth is a lie! 9122473The whole galaxy will suffer my hate! 9122474Seek cover, brothers! 9122475Only the fury of battle can silence the dead! 9122476Missile barrage! 9122477Get. Back!! 9122478You are so fond of hand-to-hand combat-- 9122479Let these dogs oblige you! 9122480Your death will weigh on my soul, Avitus. As will your folly. 9122481I want none of your pity, Tarkus! 9122482It matters not who lives and dies! Blood is shed as it has always been. 9122483Blood Ravens, it is not too late. 9122484Leave me be and I will set matters right. 9122485How? With the Black Legion at your back? 9122486With combat knife, boltgun and grenade, the Space Marine shall assail his foe. 9122487The chainsword is the will of the Space Marine made manifest. 9122488When harried, the Space Marine shall drive his enemies back. 9122489The Space Marine shall master all weapons -- and all battlefields. 9122490A single Space Marine squad shall be worth whole regiments. 9122491The Space Marine… shall never know defeat,… only-- 9122492Silence! 9122493Enough quoting the Codex in service of the enemy! 9122494Your treason is ended, Tarkus. 9122495We-- we could have done so much, you and I-- 9122496Why are you abandoning me? 9122497Here we are. This was inevitable. 9122498Kyras said you would twist my actions with lies. 9122499No. I was on the Litany of Fury, facing down the Hive Mind itself! 9122500I fought that terrible intelligence for weeks, child! 9122501I felt it die as the bio-toxin reached the central hive ship. 9122502There was no daemonic hand in that victory. 9122503He came to me after our victory -- he told me he too had made bargains with Ulkair. 9122504I saved us all! Can you not see that!? 9122505Ulkair has made me more powerful than ever! 9122506No one can stand against me now! 9122507Remember that you chose this fight, not I. 9122508Lay down and die! It is the only way! 9122509I am become fury incarnate! 9122510No! I am unstoppable! 9122511Ulkair made me so… 9122512Another lie, Thaddeus. 9122513The Chapter Master? What part did he play in this? 9122514Ah, we come to it at last. 9122515You will leave Jonah Orion daemon. 9122516No, I think not. 9122517This withered flesh is surprisingly well suited to my purposes. 9122518Let Ulkair and his rot-children drag this world and the next into oblivion. 9122519I will make the rest into daemon- worlds with the power of your own chapter. 9122520Never! 9122521A desperate and foolish gambit, Space Marines. 9122522The best he can do is forestall my repair of this flesh. 9122523I will build my throne from your bones! 9122524Why do you resist the inevitable? 9122525Your hate only makes me stronger, Space Marines. 9122526Your armor is laughable, brothers. 9122527My power is far stronger than steel and ceramite. 9122528You have such a limited understanding of the Warp. 9122529Allow me to enlighten you. 9122530Servants of the Dark Gods, attend me! 9122531Let your paltry lives feed my victory! 9122532Mend, accursed flesh! Mend! 9122533You! What have you done? 9122534Ah -- I see. You do nothing. It is Jonah. 9122535Show yourself turncoat! Your reckoning is at hand! 9122536I have longed for this day, Loyalists. 9122537I will grind you to bloody pulp in tribute to the Dark Gods. 9122538Let the slaughter begin! 9122539You are but flesh. You cannot win. 9122540Kyras showed me the darkness in my soul. He will show it to you as well. 9122541Yes! Scurry and run! It will avail you not at all! 9122542Expect no mercy now, Blood Ravens. You shall be my first true gift to the Dark Gods. 9122543Feel the power of daemon and steel made one! 9122544Crush them! Full power! 9122545Out of the way! 9122546I will crack open this world! 9122547Receive the gift of fire from the Warp! 9122548Look out, he is calling an artillery strike! 9122549Cry Havoc! 9122550You should have died on Typhon, traitor. 9122551Tarkus is correct in a way - I was reborn on Typhon. 9122552And look where that power has brought you. 9122553Savor your victory while you can. This whole sector will soon feed the Great Ulkair. 9122554Commander. I have discovered another transmission… from the traitor in our ranks. 9122555The master of scribes found this… message. 9122556He came to me… He did not know whom else… to trust. 9122559You must get Diomedes to put a leash on Angelos. 9122560He still has us chasing them, and that is putting me at great risk. 9122561I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9122562"Knowledge is power," as you are all so fond of saying. 9122563This was… sent to Calderis… and the Honor Guard. 9122568Terminator 9122569Terminator 9122570Terminator 9122573Click and target area 9122574Commander, another transmission from Captain Diomedes of the Honor Guard. 9122575He has declared Gabriel Angelos a renegade. 9122576And orders our return to Calderis. 9122577Blood Ravens, take heed 9122578Gabriel Angelos is hereby declared an enemy of the chapter and sentenced to death. 9122579For the grievous sins of refusing Chapter orders, spreading heresy, raising arms against his one-time brothers, and stealing relics, arms and artifacts from the Chapter 9122580The renegade Angelos has fled, absconding with the Battle Barge Litany of Fury. 9122581I, Captain Apollo Diomedes, issue this declaration with full authority from Azariah Kyras, Chapter Master of the Blood Ravens and Keeper of the Librarium. 9122582Knowledge is Power. Guard it well. 9122583This is madness. 9122584Gabriel is no traitor. 9122585We must expose the corruption among the honor guard. 9122586We must go to Calderis. 9122587Commander, the Judgment of Carrion s logic engine confirms our suspicions 9122588The encoding rites used by our traitor and in Galan s logs both bear a marked resemblance to those of the chapter honor guard. 9122589With a copy of their codes, I could finally identify the traitor. 9122590Then we will get… those codes. 9122591Chaos Heavy Bolter Turret 9122592Heavy Bolter Turret 9122593Building 9122594Click an area then choose firing arc 9122595, 9122596Tyrant Guard 9122597A large, durable melee unit that moves faster in synapse. Can use the Shieldwall ability, which regenerates health and reduces incoming damage. 9122598Tyrant Guard 9122599Monster 9122600Monstrous creature 9122601Project an expanding psychic barrier, nullifying ranged attacks and pushing back all those caught in its path. Librarian is immobile while the ability is active. 9122602Force Barrier 9122623Commander, to finally identify our traitor, we must obtain the transmission codes of the Chapter Honor Guard. 9122624To do so, you must penetrate to the heart of the Blood Ravens firebase and destroy the stronghold of Captain Diomedes. 9122625This will trigger an automatic signal from his battle barge, from which I can gain the codes we need. 9122626Between us and those codes, stand both the Honor Guard and our own brothers from the Third and Fourth Companies. 9122627The entire area is patrolled by our chapter brothers. 9122628They will fire on us without hesitation. Only stealth and non- lethal attacks can prevent bloodshed. 9122629Diomedes has established a perimeter of satellite bases. 9122630Field generators and automated tarantula sentry guns are standard issue for such temporary positions. 9122631Captain Diomedes adheres to the chapter s tactical doctrines. 9122632The codex calls for a tactical feint when a satellite position is destroyed. 9122633Nearby forces fall back to a strong firing line, either drawing their attackers into the teeth of bolter- fire or calling in artillery. 9122634If we destroy the field generators we can use this to push through the perimeter without killing Blood Ravens. 9122635The heretic Apothecary Galan is nearby, Commander. 9122636We cannot leave a servant of Chaos in the Honor Guard. 9122637We must confront and expose him. 9122638Or his evil will continue to infect the chapter. 9122639Emperor forgive us for taking our brother s life. 9122640Commander, these killings stain our honor. 9122641There he is. 9122642Hello, brothers. 9122643So glad you have come to see me. 9122644I assume you uncovered our mutual friend s mewling message from the Retribution. 9122645A foolish misstep. 9122646But that is something of a pattern with Blood Ravens, I suppose. 9122647Shall I kill you now? 9122648You fight well. 9122649But do not fool yourself into thinking I am the only one who has seen the path of Chaos. 9122650Let me introduce you to more followers. 9122651Th- Thank you- 9122652The daemon has lurked within me for too long… 9122653You must warn Diomedes The brothers of his retinue, they serve Chaos as well… 9122654And Diomedes himself? Has he fallen? 9122655No… But his pride blinds him… 9122656You are traitors to the Chapter. Honorless scum. 9122657Open your eyes, Captain. 9122658We fight to preserve the chapter. 9122659You abandon our worlds to the Black Legion. 9122660You surround yourself with heretics like Galan. 9122661Do not lecture me, sergeant! 9122662I follow the orders of our Chapter Master Kyras. 9122663And you are the only heretics I see here. 9122664Have Kyras and Galan told you of their time on the Judgment of Carrion, Captain? 9122665Have they shared stories of the deaths of their brothers? 9122666Or the daemonic Voice of Ulkair that plagued them? 9122667Ulkair? Where did you hear that name? 9122668From Galan, Captain. 9122669Go from here… 9122670You will pay for the deaths of your brothers, renegades. 9122671I will not be reproached by a coward! 9122672You dare! 9122673I do. You ordered the chapter away from the Traitor Legions. 9122674I followed the orders of our Chapter Master! As any true Blood Raven would. 9122675And his cowardice forgives all. 9122676You are no Space Marine. You are barely even a man. 9122677You will die for that! 9122678"Excuses are the refuge of the weak." 9122679Murderous, treasonous scum. 9122680I will see you dead for what you have done today. 9122681Meaningless threats. 9122682I am a Blood Raven! I will deliver furious retribution upon you all. 9122683In the Emperor s Name, I swear it. 9122684We go to fight the Black Legion. 9122685Pursue us, and you violate your master s edict. 9122686I am Captain of the Honor Guard! Chapter Master Kyras will not hesitate to send me after you! 9122687You deceive yourself. 9122688I am Apollo Diomedes! You will not escape me! 9122689I will hunt you to the depths of the warp itself! 9122690Perhaps I can help you with that, Captain. 9122691Commander - I have recovered the codes we needed. 9122692The decoding rites needed to identify him are not yet complete. 9122693The codes did allow me to uncover additional data from the Judgment of Carrion, however. 9122694I believe I know where the Black Legion s true base of operations is hidden on Planet Aurelia. 9122695The honor guard s codes unlocked a great deal from the Judgment of Carrion s logic engine. 9122696This record from Apothecary Galan seems especially relevant 9122697Librarian Kyras grows more morose by the hour. 9122698He is a mighty asset against the things lurking in this ancient space hulk, but he does little to keep our faith strong. 9122699At Morning Prayers he recounted a great battle on a lost world named Aurelia. 9122700A terrible daemon beset this planet, and summoned mighty warp storms. 9122701Blood Ravens faced the daemon in a terrible battle at a chapter keep. 9122702This should have inspired us all, but Kyras made it a tale of woe. 9122703He described his brothers dying one by one to bind this daemon, but called their sacrifice pointless. 9122704And somehow, even before Kyras mentioned it, I knew this creature s name. 9122705Ulkair. 9122706A daemon bound in the keep on Planet Aurelia. 9122707I share your thoughts Librarian. 9122708I can locate the keep s remains if we return to Aurelia. 9122709Commander, Praise Terra you have come. 9122710The Vandis heretics and the Black Legion are overrunning Capital Spire itself. 9122711We still hold the Imperial Palace, but they have taken the rest of the spire. 9122712I will die before surrendering the palace to these treasonous curs. 9122713Without your aid, Blood Ravens, I will make good on that pledge before long. 9122714Commander - I am forever in your debt. 9122715I cannot understand why Captain Angelos and Captain Diomedes refused to aid us. 9122716But in our darkest times, against our most terrible foes, you stood with us. 9122718Meridian will never forget this. I will never forget. 9122719So long as the Judgment of Carrion remains in this system, we can launch additional expeditions aboard it. 9122720Recovering additional Blood Ravens genetic material would be a great service to the chapter. 9122721Daemons and xenos of all sorts infest this vessel, however, and it still resonates with Warp energies. 9122722Returning to the Judgment of Carrion is entirely at your discretion, Commander. 9122723You will automatically teleport back to the Retribution after a fixed amount of time. 9122724This should prevent you from becoming trapped and limits exposure to the maddening effects of the Warp. 9122726If you can find ways to boost the teleport signal, we can extend mission duration. 9122727Our previous point of entry is the only safe access we have located. 9122728You can locate additional access points from within the vessel, however. 9122729These will allow us to board deeper within the ship, in areas that may hold greater finds still. 9122730These areas likely hold graver threats, as well. 9122731These gene-seeds will… ensure the future… of our chapter. 9122732Well done… Commander. 9122733This sector will never be free of Eldar, it seems. 9122734Do Eldar often infest such vessels? 9122735Not in my experience. 9122736They are unlikely to be trapped within and have little use for human relics. 9122737The Judgment of Carrion is an amalgam of vessels and other detritus. 9122738Most seems human in origin, but there could well be xenos artifacts as well. 9122739Like those the Eldar were excavating on Aurelia. 9122740Precisely. 9122741What would Orks want with a derelict vessel? 9122742The same things they want anywhere to fight, loot, and kill. 9122743Or to use the vessel s travels to carry them to new worlds. 9122744Commander, the Vandis heresy continues to spread. 9122745Vandis and Black Legion forces have taken Spire Legis. 9122746They have erected artillery batteries and emplacements that make a large-scale assault impossible. 9122747If you can disable these defenses, however, the Imperial Guard can retake the spire. 9122748If not, the population of Legis will remain at the mercy of these heretics and daemons. 9122749You are sending me to Spire Legis, Commander. 9122750Is that an order, Sergeant Thaddeus? 9122751No… No. Forgive me, Commander. 9122752I request to be part of the strike force. 9122753Long ago, Spire Legis was my home. 9122754I will not see its people sacrificed to Chaos. 9122755Thank you, Commander. 9122756The 85th Vendoland has begun its assault on the spire. 9122757The heretics are resisting, but without their defensive guns, they will crumble. 9122758It is good to see them suffering the wages of their sins. 9122759Derosa out. 9122760The Eldar have reappeared, Commander. 9122761They have congregated at the site of our climactic battle against the Tyranids. 9122762The Black Legion must take priority, but ignoring the Eldar is unwise. 9122763At your discretion, pursue and eliminate these xenos. 9122764Very little. 9122765The Tyranids destruction of the land exposed ancient Eldar ruins, however. 9122766This may be what has drawn them here in such numbers. 9122767You can expect to face xenos skimmer tanks and walkers, as well as powerful infantry. 9122768The area remains a wasteland, but there have been some changes. 9122770Also, an Imperial Shrine now stands on the site of our battle with the Hive Tyrant. 9122771Purging that temple of xenos infection would be a laudable act, Commander. 9122772Even with the Traitor Legions assailing us, we must oppose the Eldar. 9122773Remember that they manipulated the Orks on Calderis and attempted to destroy all of Meridian. 9122774I owe their species a debt of blood and fury, Commander. 9122776The Avatar, the bloody hand of Khaine shall tear you asunder! 9122777Tarkus! Allow yourself a smile for once. 9122778We have killed the Eldar and their daemon god! 9122779They will return sooner or later. 9122780They always do. 9122781The Apothecaries removed all humor from brother Tarkus when they gave him his second heart. 9122782Killing Galan and his Terminators will redeem your squads 9122783If there are chapter brothers in need, provide support. 9122784But be wary of a trap. 9122785Just enough to lure us in. 9122786Then let us act like Space Marines! Find the array, and destroy it. 9122787I will kill them before they can blink, let alone call in an attack. 9122788"The Reward for Treachery… 9122789… Retribution." 9122790This signal could be another trap, Captain Angelos. 9122791This call is a full message, Sergeant. 9122792I am sure Governor Derosa will be delighted. 9122793A spotter called in that attack from hiding. Cowards! 9122794The Last Stand Statistics 9122795"What of their defenses?" 9122796"What are the Honor Guard s orders?" 9122797Level %1RANK% 9122798Your hero will RESTART at Level 1. 9122799Your badge will update to Elite Status, and your hero receives a new Elite token. However, your hero starts over at level 1. 9122800Level 91228013x Multiplier! 9122802Force Sword 9122803A heavy weapons team equipped to destroy vehicles. 9122806Heavy Weapons Team 9122811The veteran Tarkus weathered pitiless alien attacks… 9122812Allowing Cyrus and his scouts to find weaknesses in our ravenous foes. 9122813While Avitus leveled his righteous fury upon the xenos… 9122814Thaddeus descended upon them on wings of fire. 9122821Wargear Unlocked 9122822Wave 9122823Current Rank Level 9122824XP Required %1EXPERIENCE_REQUIRED% 9122825Next Rank Level %1LEVEL% 9122827I await you on Aurelia! 9122828Build Structures 9122829All our exits have sealed and our beacons have failed… we are trapped … 9122830The rest of the log is protected by ancient encoding rites, and these are strikingly reminiscent of the rites masking our traitor s identity. 9122831What happened to Galan himself? 9122832He serves with the chapter honor guard. 9122838You Blood Ravens are clearly "fearless" in your hurry to leave the sector. 9122839The courage with which you show us your hind quarters does your Emperor proud. 9122840Turncoat scum! I will kill you here and now! 9122841Yes! And to the void with orders and niceties! 9122842But not quite yet, little Blood Ravens. 9122843First, a test. Make your way to my chosen battleground. 9122845Yes, Lord. 9122846Eliphas - The next portal. 9122847Yes, Lord. 9122848Who sacrifices for you, Blood Ravens? 9122849No one! No one!! 9122850Kill the heretics to weaken him. 9122851A change in leadership is in order. 9122852Enough! 9122853I can no longer sit here in orbit while that treasonous filth lives. 9122854I swear I will deliver the deathblow myself. 9122856We must find a way to reach that stronghold without killing Blood Ravens. 9122857Some Blood Ravens have fallen to Chaos. 9122858Then we fight and kill those! 9122859But to murder one who is simply doing his duty to chapter and Emperor? 9122860We could never recover from such an act. 9122861So who is the traitor? 9122862The fiendish creature, he said, was yet free. 9122863Surely Eliphas seeks its release. 9122864Commander, I have a request. 9122865Every Librarian swears to protect the relics and histories of the chapter. 9122866Leaving this vessel unexplored feels like a violation of that oath. 9122867I would ask to join you on this mission. 9122868Upgrade squad 9122869Improves health and grants the Gate of Infinity ability. 9122870Equip weapon 9122871Grants increased knockback and disruption to the Librarian s melee attacks. Improves health and grants the Force Barrier ability. 9122872The Last Stand is an action-based game mode that pits you and two allies up against a series of ruthless attackers. To begin playing, click on the Start Searching button to match up with other players, or invite up to two friends to form your own party. 9122873Wargear Unlock 9122874Kill the Plague Champion 9122881Remember proceed cautiously and target the field generators. 9122882We are here to recover data, not kill Blood Ravens. 9122883Fall back to defensive positions! 9122884Now - move forward while the way is clear. 9122885Incoming artillery strike! 9122886Clear the target area! 9122887+5% base point value of all enemies 9122888Elite Token 1 9122889Elite Token 2 9122890+3% base point value of all enemies 9122891Elite Token 3 9122892+3% base point value of all enemies 9122893Let the Galaxy Burn 9122894Fire orbs of destruction at a target that will detonate upon impact leaving a smoldering residue that will damage enemy units over time if they stay in the area. 9122899Click and target enemy 9122900Compel an enemy squad to engage Tarkus in melee combat. 9122901Compel an enemy squad to engage Tarkus in melee combat. 9122902Challenge 9122904It is an honor to serve alongside the heroes of Typhon. 9122905I am dispatching troops to Aurelia immediately. 9122921Key targets are on your map display, Commander. 9122922If you destroy the enemy s generators and strongholds, the Imperial Guard can retake Spire Legis. 9122923Chaos forces are regrouping in large numbers. 9122924They are launching a counter-attack. 9122925Massive troop movement in your area, Commander. 9122926Prepare for another counter-attack. 9122927Enemy forces are headed your way, Blood Ravens. 9122928A rift in the Warp. 9122929As long as it remains open, the enemy can summon reinforcements. 9122930Ambush! 9122931Counter-ambush fire, now! 9122932Look out! 9122933They strike from hiding! 9122934They come… 9122935Beware, brothers! 9122951Assault Supremacy 9122952Thaddeus learns to use his jump pack to move quickly between and over terrain. Assault Jump also gains special bonuses if Thaddeus is under the effects of Battle Supremacy (Avitus), Command Supremacy (Force Commander), or Tactical Supremacy (Tarkus). 9122953Thaddeus learns to use his jump pack to move quickly between and over terrain. Assault Jump also gains special bonuses if Thaddeus is under the effects of Battle Supremacy (Avitus), Command Supremacy (Force Commander), or Tactical Supremacy (Tarkus). 9122954Team Free For All 9122955Another group of traitors took prisoners and headed west. 9122956Emperor only knows what fate the heretics have in store for them. 9122957Peace, Priam. The Blood Ravens will not abandon their own. 9122958We will find these initiates. 9122959Our thanks, brothers. 9122960There is a heretical Sorcerer leading these traitors. Be on your guard. 9122961Praise the Emperor! 9122962We will vanquish these heretics yet. 9122963The rift is closing! 9122964Our brothers are safe! 9122965For now. 9122966There is the sorcerer who leads these traitors! 9122967He dies. 9123008Attention This is Governor Elena Derosa. 9123009The Blood Ravens are here! 9123010The Emperor s Angels of Death fight with us! 9123011The palace is safe thanks to your Blood Ravens, Commander. 9123012The Black Legion will not give up so easily, Governor. 9123013Prepare for a counter-attack. 9123014Sergeant Tarkus is surely right. This is only a reprieve. 9123015The enemy still holds the Communications Array and Imperial Shrine below the plaza, however. 9123016A quick strike could retake them, Commander. 9123017I will oversee the defense of this area. 9123018You are free to return to the Palace and assist Governor Derosa. 9123019None shall take this place… while I remain. 9123020Assist the Governor… she is a worthy ally. 9123021Commander, inbound to your location. 9123022My squad can hold here, but the Governor needs help at the palace. 9123023Go aid Governor Derosa, Commander. 9123024My Tactical Squad will hold this location. 9123025My initiates and I will keep this area secure. 9123026Your firepower is needed elsewhere. 9123027My Devastators can maintain the defense of this location, Commander. 9123028Assist Governor Derosa. 9123029The enemy has taken the Imperial Shrine. 9123030We walk a dark path if we allow them to corrupt such places. 9123031The enemy has massed for a counter- attack on the palace. 9123032Stand with the Emperor and drive them back! 9123033Commander - The palace will not hold without your aid. 9123034There! That should silence the heretics guns. 9123035Derosa s fragile Guardsmen can advance without trembling now. 9123038We must war with our own, then. 9123039We are betrayed! By a Blood Raven! 9123040Angelos sent us into this mess without even considering that a traitor could be using our codes as bait. 9123041We will hunt down this turncoat. And kill him. 9123042There is no other way. 9123043We will all do what must be done -- no matter the price. 9123044We do not search alone, Thaddeus. 9123045Stand with the Commander as he stands with you. 9123046When Eliphas shows himself again, we dare not hesitate. 9123047A well placed bolt will end him for good this time. 9123048You let yourself believe he had died on Kronus, I take it. 9123049And yet he lives on, beyond death. 9123050Death only limits the physical, Thaddeus. 9123051The soul endures -- at least until it is consumed. 9123052The masters of the Warp can stitch a body back together as easily as they tear it apart. 9123053It matters not how he made fools of you. Only that he did. 9123054Tell us, Martellus-- How did you cheat death? 9123055And just where were you while we were killing the Hive Mind? 9123056Would that our weapons were keener and our armor stronger. 9123057So we could destroy the evils we face without losing our brothers. 9123058Change Hero 9123059Change Wargear 9123068Chapter s Fury 9123069Merciless Assault 9123070Enter a state of holy fury during which abilities have no Energy cost or cool-down. Damage to Thaddeus charges this ability. 9123071Enter a state of holy fury during which abilities have no Energy cost or cool-down. Damage to Thaddeus charges this ability. 9123072Defend the Palace (Structural Integrity %1SOFAR%%%) 9123073Capture the Shrine and Array 9123074Survive as long as possible! 9123075Completing waves earns your heroes experience points towards their next level. Gaining levels unlocks new Wargear, which grants new Abilities, new Traits or improved hero statistics. 9123076Level does not trump skill! 9123077Leveling up does not directly increase your hero s power. It grants more options through additional Wargear. Skilled players can make a significant impact with the lowest level of heroes. 9123078Try for the high score! 9123079Hold the Shrine and Array 9123080Holding the Shrine and Array redeems your squads 9123081Score points by killing enemy units. The stronger the enemy unit the more points it s worth. You earn points as a team, so work together! Your highest score appears on the Leaderboards. 9123082Time Multiplier 9123083This score multiplier starts full at the beginning of each wave, and then decreases over time. 9123084Survival Multiplier 9123085Surviving a full wave with all heroes increases this score multiplier. Any hero death resets this multiplier to 1. 9123086Control Multiplier 9123087Securing Control Points on the map increases this score multiplier. Beware, your enemies will attempt to take these points away from you! 9123088Know your enemy! 9123089Each wave of enemies is always composed of the same units, but they come from random directions. Every fourth wave is a milestone introducing a unique and powerful threat - so be ready for a major fight! 9123090Tactics are important! 9123091Use cover to protect your hero from ranged attacks. Enemies use cover too! Flank them to negate their cover advantage. 9123095Multiplier Bonus 9123096Communication Array 9123097Capturing a Communications Relay on a planet will allow emplaced Planetary Defense Forces to focus Artillery Strikes to a specified location. 9123098Communication Array 9123099Right-click to secure 9123100Imperial Shrine 9123101Shrines to the Emperor of Man dot the surface of many worlds and many believe are a direct conduit to the divine grace of the Golden Throne. The sanctity of these shrines is of the upmost importance and retaking them will allow for the channeling of their power to any squads deployed on the field of battle. 9123102Imperial Shrine 9123103Right-click to secure 9123170None shall find us wanting! 9123175Ho ho, what is this? More Blood Ravens… 9123176You should visit with me. 9123177I have gifts for one and all. 9123178I commend you on your persistence, Blood Ravens. 9123179Even faced with the betrayal of your brother Martellus, you strive on. 9123180Such determination could accomplish a great deal -- if backed by the powers of the Dark Gods. 9123181As it is, your stubborn nature only ensures your destruction. 9123182The full might of Chaos is arrayed against you, Blood Ravens. 9123183You have no hope of victory. 9123184Ha ha! Eliphas underestimates you, Space Marines. 9123185Your only path to victory is to join us, brothers. 9123186Your Chapter Master understands this. 9123187You draw closer to your doom, Blood Ravens. 9123188Surrender to the inevitable. Share in our glory! 9123197You disappoint me, little ones. 9123198You destroy my children, and worse, you refuse the gifts of Grandfather Nurgle. 9123199For that, I shall have to punish you. 9123200And you as well, Eliphas, for failing the Dark Gods…again. 9123201Yes! Struggle and fight! 9123202Your deaths will be the sweeter for it! 9123203Your Chapter Master imprisoned me! 9123204For that, I have drawn him into the darkness -- made him into the very thing he once abhorred. 9123205Now, I will destroy his chapter, consume his sector, and rot away his entire reality. 9123206And so they go to their hoped for reward. 9123207Even in killing my servants, you do Nurgle s work. 9123208Is the Lord of Decay not magnificent? 9123209How many times must we defeat you, Eliphas? 9123210You will not destroy our chapter, traitor! 9123212This will end as it did on Kronus, Eliphas. In your death. 9123213You will pay the price for our brothers lives, Eliphas. 9123214You are weak, Eliphas. Weak, and doomed. 9123261Governor Derosa 9123296Awarded Wargear 9123297Bonus Skill Points %1POINTS% 9123298+%1POINTS% %2POINTCATEGORY% 9123299Corruption +%1POINTS% 9123300Redeemed %1POINTS% 9123302Lore unlocked 9123303+%1XPPOINTS% XP 9123307Commander, you must locate ancient dataslates to access the vault. 9123308They should be in data racks of some sort. 9123309We have no time to waste. The foul resonance of the Warp is already palpable. 9123310Kill them all! Let there be blood! 9123311He leads us around in circles! Why does he command? 9123312Get out. Get out. Get out! 9123313None other will do. It must be mine. Then we can fight back. It will be mine. 9123314I have done what you asked. No more. Can you hear me? 9123315The Warp is making itself felt, Commander. 9123316We must hurry. 9123317Commander - The window of safe operation is now past. 9123318You must ignore the Warp s effects and continue. 9123319Recover that logic engine. 9123320We had best exercise caution. 9123321Tyranids aboard these derelicts can evolve to suit the environment. 9123322Yes, I sense powerful psychic echoes… 9123323…even against the Warp energies. 9123324Are these Tyranids feral? 9123325Only without a leader creature nearby. 9123326Remember when connected to their synapse web, all Tyranids become deadlier. 9123327Xenos in the gantries! Get ready! 9123328Here they come! Take positions! 9123329They scurry above! Set up now! 9123330Ambush from the ducts! 9123331Tyranids in the pipes! 9123332In the walls! They are in the walls! 9123333You have enough dataslates, Commander. 9123334If more remain… in this place… 9123335Recovering them… would honor the chapter… 9123336The chapter … shall not forget … your deeds this day. 9123337Another door blocks our way! 9123338There is a dataslate on the door 9123339Xenos detected! 9123340Eliminate them! The logic engine must not be damaged! 9123341No, no! It enters my mind! 9123342The foul thing is dead. 9123343Let us get to the Logic Engine. 9123344And we are to do that alone? Even with so many Blood Ravens in the sector? 9123345I did not suffer the ravages of the Hive Mind only to have these worlds abandoned, Captain Angelos. 9123346Why would Diomedes abandon us and our worlds? 9123347Open your eyes to the realities of the chapter, Thaddeus. 9123348To please his master, Diomedes and the rest of our so-called brothers will gladly leave us to die. 9123349Captain Diomedes is as shackled by duty as we are, Avitus. 9123350Its travels are hardly random. 9123351Regardless of what horrors it visits, the Judgment of Carrion eventually returns to this sector. 9123352That is a pattern, Techmarine. 9123353How will leading us into another accursed deathtrap help locate the traitor? 9123354It is time for you to open your eyes, Commander. 9123355Legends of heroism and valor are blinding you to the dangers close at hand. 9123356Listen to this message. I found it in our own transmission logs. 9123357There is a cost to your decisions, Commander. 9123358This strike force cannot follow a leader who debases himself. 9123359I found this message in our own logs. 9123360You would send us all to our deaths to recover another accursed trinket, Techmarine. 9123361Send me into that place again, Martellus, and I will kill you myself. 9123362What must we do to silence him? 9123363I will enjoy killing this braggart. 9123364We walk into yet another trap. 9123365Another battle for us to win. 9123366We will never be rid of his kind. 9123367At last a simple call to battle. 9123368He lures us in. 9123369Trap or no, there will be fury and there will be blood. 9123370Listen to him wailing like a child! 9123371He will die like all the rest. 9123372The fool thinks to trap us. 9123373Good. Hopefully there will be more to kill. 9123374What good is a Governor who cannot defend her own palace? 9123375Vandis was a coward and Derosa is a fool. 9123376With any luck, all the useless nobles on Meridian will kill one another. 9123377The sector would certainly be better for it. 9123378Would the Governor… still call on you… if she knew what you had done? 9123379He abandons the sector so easily. 9123380How can we follow such a man? 9123381There is the iron resolve of the Blood Raven. 9123382Heed Gabriel… 9123383A commander must preserve his honor. 9123384Even the strongest mind cannot resist the denizens of the Warp indefinitely. 9123385They saw the truth of the Warp, it seems. 9123386How shallow this world must seem to them now. 9123387He came to me… because he could not trust you… 9123388Corruption worms its way … into the chapter s heart. 9123389You must stand against this. 9123390Yet I see you… stepping into darkness… as well. 9123391Stop… before you are lost. 9123392Such is the fate of all those who think to control daemons… 9123393Perhaps. But now we face an even more powerful foe in Eliphas. 9123394Bah. What does it matter who we fight or why? 9123395Let the scum grab at power if he wishes. 9123396This may be… your last chance … for redemption. 9123397You are the one… who has lost his way… 9123398The Emperor punishes us … for your sins… 9123399Imperial Guard Squad 9123400Light Infantry 9123401Let this … be a step away from darkness. 9123402Do not make the Governor… regret her gratitude. 9123403These deaths will weigh on our souls until the end. 9123404There can be no absolution for the murder of our own brothers. 9123405Perhaps, but we can still destroy the enemy. 9123406A victory on Aurelia will not wash away the blood on our hands. 9123407No, we cannot erase our sins so easily. 9123408But we must fight on regardless. If we do not, then we simply compound our crimes. 9123409And the deaths of our brothers become pointless. 9123410Let us make for Aurelia, then. 9123411Harness whatever guilt burns within you and turn it into rage against the traitors and daemons ahead. 9123412And after that, should we live, we will carry on to another fight, and another, and another. 9123413It will be… a crusade of penance. 9123414Assuming we survive. 9123415Curse Kyras and his lackeys! 9123416We are marked as murderers and renegades because they used our brothers as shields. 9123417We did what was necessary. 9123418Anyone who cannot see that once we defeat Eliphas is not worth our anger. 9123419I will be glad to put Eliphas to the sword. 9123420Surely that will outweigh all else. 9123421Yes, perhaps it will. 9123422All great victories come at the cost of innocence. 9123423You talk like initiates! 9123424We are Space Marines - Angels of Death. 9123425We go to Aurelia to do what we were made to do to kill our enemies. 9123426And after that, we will kill another enemy, and then another, and then another still. 9123427Penance can wait. 9123428Chaos minions are attacking in force, Commander. 9123429Drive the traitors from the palace gates! 9123430Commander, the heretics are assaulting the palace gates. 9123431If you can attack their flank, we will mount a counter-attack. 9123432Loyal troops are taking position to defend the Shrine, Commander. 9123433Imperial Guard squads will defend the array. 9123434We would benefit from you aid at the plaza, however. 9123435Chaos forces have taken the Communications Array, Commander. 9123437Apollo Diomedes 9123438Ork 9123439Identity Unknown 9123440Space Marine 9123441Ulkair the Unclean 9123442Eliphas the Inheritor 9123443Chaos Space Marine 9123444Araghast the Pillager 9123445Space Marine Scout 9123446Scout Sgt. Priam 9123447Cyclone Missile Barrage 9123448Fire a cluster of missiles to damage all targets in a large area. 9123449Fire a cluster of missiles to damage all targets in a large area. 9123450Click and target an area 9123451Artillery Strike 9123452Call down a barrage from allied Imperial Guard artillery positions. 9123453Call down a barrage from allied Imperial Guard artillery positions. 9123454Click and target area 9123455Frag Missile 9123456Fire a Fragmentation Missile, highly effective against groups of infantry, but not effective against vehicles. 9123457Fire a Fragmentation Missile, highly effective against groups of infantry, but not effective against vehicles. 9123458Click and target area 9123461Apothecary Galan 9123462Remote Detonation 9123463Plant an explosive which can be triggered remotely. Deals heavy damage to all targets in blast radius. 9123464Plant an explosive which can be triggered remotely. Deals heavy damage to all targets in blast radius. 9123465Click and target area 9123466Demolition Charge 9123467Throw a demolition charge which deals heavy damage to buildings and units in an area. 9123468Throw a demolition charge which deals heavy damage to buildings and units in an area. 9123469Click and target location 9123470Cluster Mines 9123471Deploy mines at the designated location. Enemy troop proximity triggers the mines. 9123472Deploy mines at the designated location. Enemy troop proximity triggers the mines. 9123473Click and target area 9123474Factory 9123475Garrisonable Structure 9123476Civilian Structure 9123477Right-click to occupy 9123478Destroy the Chaos barracks (Distress in %1SOFAR%) 9123480Destroy the Chaos worshiping camp (Distress in %1SOFAR%) 9123482Cluster Mines 9123483Deploy mines at the designated location. Enemy troop proximity triggers the mines. 9123484Deploy mines at the designated location. Enemy troop proximity triggers the mines. 9123485Click and target area 9123487Call To Arms 9123488Click to Activate 9123489Issue a call to battle, reviving any incapacitated units after a brief delay, and causing them to fall back to Thule s position. 9123490Revive any incapacitated units after a brief delay, and cause them to fall back to Thule s position. 9123506Machine Duel 9123507Force a targeted enemy vehicle to engage Thule, or a targeted walker to charge him. Killing the target enhances nearby allies. 9123508Force a targeted enemy vehicle to engage Thule. If the target is a walker, both it and Thule will charge one another, knocking back anything in their paths. Killing the target will also enhance nearby allies. 9123509Click and target enemy vehicle 9123520Melta Sweep 9123521Sweep a wide arc with the multi-melta, subjecting everything caught within to searing doom. 9123522Sweep a wide arc with the multi-melta, subjecting everything caught within to searing doom. 9123523Click and target location 9123524Deactivate Ancient Defender ability 9123525The logic engine… has finished… 9123526Use them to ambush my battle brothers like you did with the distress signal and our agreement is over! 9123527Angelos has us charging round the sector on the Retribution. 9123528You must get Diomedes to put a leash on Angelos. 9123529I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9123530Knowledge is power, as you are all so fond of saying. 9123531Martellus! You traitorous filth! 9123532Commander - Martellus is no longer aboard. 9123533Where is he?! 9123534A drop pod has taken him to the planet s surface. 9123535We cannot allow him to escape. 9123536Commander, the ancient logic engine has done its work. 9123537I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9123538Knowledge is power, as you are all so fond of saying. 9123539Avitus! Avitus betrayed us… 9123540Commander - Avitus is no longer aboard. 9123541He has taken a drop pod and headed for the planet below. 9123542He seeks to escape us. 9123543He will not succeed. 9123544I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9123545Knowledge is power, as you are all so fond of saying. 9123546Cyrus… you stubborn fool… 9123547Commander - Cyrus is not on the Retribution. 9123548Where did the treasonous wretch go?! 9123549The planet below. Using a drop pod. 9123550Then we follow. 9123551And seek retribution. 9123552I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9123553Knowledge is power, as you are all so fond of saying. 9123554We called him brother. 9123555Now he shows his true nature he has fled to the surface. 9123556We must pursue him. 9123557Enough discussion. 9123558We have a traitor to kill. 9123559I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9123560Knowledge is power, as you are all so fond of saying. 9123561Tarkus? How can this be? 9123562He has left the ship, Commander. 9123563His drop pod is already on the surface. 9123564We must go after him. 9123565Know the heretic. Kill the heretic. 9123566I am not the only one who will be discovered if it comes to that - do you understand me, Galan? 9123567Knowledge is power, as you are all so fond of saying. 9123568Thaddeus. What have you done? 9123569He has left the Retribution, Commander. 9123570His drop pod is headed for the surface. 9123571So young to bear the burden of a Space Marine… 9123572He will grow no older, Librarian. 9123582Remote Teleport 9123583Mark a position where a chosen squad will be teleported. 9123585Activate 9123586Teleport the marked squad to the marked location. 9123587Click to activate 9123591Click and target location 9123593Assault Cannon Barrage 9123594Cover an area with a devastating hail of high-explosive shells. 9123595Click and target location 9123596Blind Grenade 9123597Throw grenade to temporarily stun enemy units, preventing them from moving or firing. 9123598Throw grenade to temporarily stun enemy units, preventing them from moving or firing. 9123599Click and target location 9123600Clear Out 9123601Swing Avitus s weapon, knocking away nearby enemies. 9123602Swing Avitus s weapon, knocking away nearby enemies. 9123603Click to activate 9123607Cluster Mines 9123608Deploy mines at the designated location. Enemy troop proximity triggers the mines. 9123609Deploy mines at the designated location. Enemy troop proximity triggers the mines. 9123610Click and target area 9123611Destroy the Chaos Barracks (Distress sent) 9123612Destroy the Chaos worshiping camp (Distress sent) 9123616Chaos barracks destroyed. 9123617Chaos worshiping camp destroyed. 9123618Merciless Assault 9123619Thaddeus charges his teleport pack, upon arrival unleashes an explosion. 9123620Thaddeus charges his teleport pack, upon arrival unleashes an explosion. 9123624Merciless Assault 9123625Teleport to the targeted location, releasing an explosive discharge of energy upon arrival. 9123626Click and target destination 9123627Teleport to the targeted location, releasing an explosive discharge of energy upon arrival. 9123628Kraken Bolts 9123629Specialist Ammunition 9123630Increased Weapon Range 9123635The adamantine core and improved propellant of these bolts can penetrate the thickest hide, even at extreme range. 9123636Reduced weapon range 9123637Increased effectiveness vs. vehicles 9123638Specialist Ammunition 9123639Vengeance Rounds 9123640Dragonfire Bolts 9123641Specialist Ammunition 9123642Area-effect explosion on impact 9123643Reduced single-target damage 9123644Sergeant Priam is one of our most experienced teachers. His initiates are our future. 9123645The structures there can provide us some defense, at least. 9123646Another falsified chapter signal. 9123647This is Eliphas s handiwork; I am certain of it. 9123648And that of the turncoat who gave the signal rites to him. 9123649Facts, sergeant. Do not speculate. 9123650Here are facts, Captain 9123651Thaddeus! Be quiet. 9123654The remains of a Craftworld still lay among these benighted worlds. 9123655We will not leave while the souls of the lost lie scattered on the wind, and until Idranel s vision is fulfilled at last. 9123656Your witch s vision died with her on Meridian. 9123657Spare me your primitive obstinance, human. 9123658Your victory is illusory. 9123659Ulthwe the Damned shall have its vengeance yet, Blood Ravens. 9123662Click and target a squad 9123663Mark first a location, then a squad, relaying the information to the Strike Cruiser s teleport cogitators. Upon command, the marked squad will be transported to the marked location. 9123664Click and target position 9123665The traitors have broken through! 9123666All is lost. 9123667Thank you, Blood Ravens. 9123668Once again you have saved Meridian. 9123669Unavailable 9123670Congratulations! 9123671Drop Pod 9123672Ravener Tunnel (Exit) 9123673Carnifex 9123674Mycetic Spore 9123675Power Supply Self-Repair 9123676Activate self-repair sequence 9123677Repairs the victory point power supply back to full health. When the power supply reaches full health it will restore power to the victory point beside it, allowing it to be captured. 9123678Look -- an Apothecary s reductor vial, still intact. 9123679It contains Bonaparte s progenoid glands -- the chapter s holy gene- seed. 9123680If an Apothecary collected it, why leave it here? 9123681A fair question, but we cannot overlook the opportunity to recover Blood Ravens gene-stock. 9123682Be vigilant for other vials, or signs of an Apothecary. 9123683See when Bonaparte was lost to the chapter. 9123684And another reductor vial. 9123685Cyrus is right -- this defies reason. 9123686I shall try to uncover more about this expedition. 9123687The records list… Apothecary Galan as the leader. 9123688Which explains the reductor vials. 9123689But not why they were left behind. 9123690I shall begin the activation rites. 9123695Rally Defenders 9123696Order a squad of Imperial Guard Storm Troopers to defend the target location. 9123697Order a squad of Imperial Guard Storm Troopers to defend the target location. 9123698Click and target area 9123700Select and control these Veteran Stormtroopers 9123701Blood Ravens Predator 9123702Heavy tank with autocannon and bolters for anti-infantry attacks. 9123703Predator Destructor 9123704Predator Destructor 9123705Vehicle 9123706Hold fast, brother Martellus! 9123707Jump Pack 9123708Astartes Type 12 - Jump Pack 9123709Extended Lift Capacity 9123710DEFAULT Wargear Item for Assault Marines 9123711Astartes type 12 Jump Pack; extended lift capacity. Enabling the wearer to cover distances both long and short, the real value is not so much in the rising, but the falling. Crashing down onto an enemy position causes much disruption and deals damage to light infantry. 9123712Jump Pack 9123728Make yourselves ready. The Blood Ravens will be here shortly. 123729They will need to use the tech panel to open the gate.
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2 When he arrived, Dr. Yamano put both hands against the tree and closed his eyes. Though his palms, he could feel moisture. He felt that the tree was breathing. “The tree will live,” he said. The children around him were very happy to hear his words. They followed his directions very carefully. Soon a bud appeared on the broken trunk of the tree. This was the 828th tree saved by Dr. Yamano. Tadahiko Yamano was born in Osaka in 1900. He loved mountains and tree. He spent many of his early years studying forest management. Dr. Yamano discovered for himself that the forests do not belong to people alone. They are home to many other creatures. Trees in the forests are important because they store water, protect us from floods and make oxygen. After the Second World War, then he talked in the mountains, he found that many old trees were weak. He was very sad. He wanted to save those trees. ==================================================== [問題1] 以下の単語・熟語の意味を調べなさい。 ・ palm ・ moisture ・ breathe ・ direction ・ bud ・ management ・ discover ・ belong ・ creature ・ flood ・ oxygen ・ spend～-ing ・ for oneself ・ belong to [問題2] 本文中の下線を和訳しなさい。