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ガンシューティング FPSゲームなど Sniper http //www.game1games.com/playgames/sniper_gm_game.htm 難：易 初出：part30の89 操作 マウス移動：照準 クリック：射撃 スナイパーが依頼をこなしていく。 Major Madness http //www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/309675 難：普 初出：part29の961 操作 マウス移動：照準 クリック：攻撃 スペース：手榴弾 敵兵を片っ端から倒すゲーム。 Robot-War http //www.venusarcade.com/Robot-War.htm 難：普 初出：part29の884 操作 画面クリック：攻撃 ロボットと戦うガンシューティング。 Sift Heads http //www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/299858 難：普 初出：part29の248 操作 マウス移動：照準 マウスクリック：攻撃 スペース：リロード 与えられた指令通りに狙撃するガンシューティング。 The Hills Have Eyes http //www.arcadedemo.com/the_hills_have_eyes.htm 難：普 初出：part29の165 操作 カーソル、WASD：移動 マウス移動：照準 マウスクリック：攻撃 ゾンビを倒しつつ鉱山から脱出する。 Divine Intervention pt. 1 http //www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=136337 難：難 初出：part19の320 操作 WASD：移動 クリック：攻撃 １２３：武器チェンジ 神父が銃でゾンビを退治する。 Robocop Target Practie http //www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/268707 難：難 初出：part26の691 操作 画面クリック：アイテムを取る、攻撃 ←→：移動 スペース：バックブロー ロボコップを操作するガンシューティグ。 DUCK HUNT1945 http //www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/290917 難：普 初出：part28の549 操作 マウス移動：照準 クリック：攻撃 ↑↓：隠れる、現れる など 敵の攻撃をかわしつつアヒルを撃つ。 Tactical Assasin http //www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/283047 難：易 初出：part27の985 操作 画面クリック：狙撃 ↑：ブリーフィング ↓：開始 スペース：コンティニュー 指示通りにターゲットを狙撃していく。 D-Day in Normandy http //www.mofunzone.com/online_games/d_day_in_normandy.shtml 難：難 初出：part27の879 操作 マウス移動：照準 マウスクリック：攻撃 WASD：移動 ノルマンディ上陸作戦で敵兵を倒す。 Rogue Cupid http //www.curiousjorge.com/flash.asp?file=roguecupid.swf 難：普 初出：part27の784 操作 マウス移動：照準 画面クリック：攻撃 AD：ズームイン、ズームアウト ターゲットの方向を確認しながら弓で敵を射撃する。
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【Tags Miku Yuzuhiko tG J】 Original Music title ↑ 人生ゲーム ↓ English music title ↑ Game of Life ↓ Romaji music title ↑ Jinsei Geemu ↓ Music Lyrics written, Voice edited by ゆずひこ (Yuzuhiko) Music arranged by ゆずひこ (Yuzuhiko) Singer(s) 初音ミク (Hatsune Miku) Click here for the original Japanese Lyrics English Lyrics (translated by vgboy / vgperson)： My first life was of tedium My second life allowed me to do all I wished My third life was as a dreadful man My fourth life was as a blind pianist My fifth life was as a feminist My sixth life was rife with corruption My seventh life was as a mourning woman My eighth life was as a millionaire A game played by the fickle God, A game people call their lifetimes, Grinding forward along pre-laid rails The game of life binds us all, Puppeting us with invisible strings God gazes on the spectacle, And the dice roll... My ninth life was as a cartoonist My tenth life was as a teacher-slash-****phile My eleventh life was... Something too gruesome to even look at The dice punish me again, Determining my day And every day repeating itself over... Tiring and endless is the game of life, Everything occurring at God s whims Claiming the likes of fate in light of that... It s sheer comedy! Happiness and sorrow? Merely choices decided by a one-in-six What number awaits next? The game of life binds us all, Puppeting us with invisible strings God gazes on the spectacle, And the dice roll... Grinning, he tosses the dice Trickery, deceit, he cares not For people revere him as their god; Ah, how laughable it is! Ah, how laughable it is... Romaji lyrics (transliterated by vgboy / vgperson)： Ikkai-me no jinsei wa taikutsu de Nikai-me no jinsei wa yaritai houdai Sankai-me no jinsei wa doku-otoko Yonkai-me no jinsei wa moumoku no pianisuto Gokai-me no jinsei wa feminisuto Rokkai-me no jinsei wa oshoku ni mamire Nanakai-me no jinsei wa mo-jo Hachikai-me no jinsei wa daifugou desu Kimagure na kamisama no geemu Hito no isshou nante Shikareta reeru o guriguri susundeku Jinsei geemu wa bokura o shibaru Mienai ito de ayatsurareru Kamisama wa sore o nagamenagara Saikoro korogasu no Kyuukai-me no jinsei wa mangaka de Juukai-me no jinsei wa rori **** kyoushi Juuichikai-me no jinsei wa Me mo aterarenai you na seisan na mono Kyou mo mata saikoro ga furarete Ichinichi wa kimaru Mainichi onnaji koto no kurikaeshi de Akitara poisareru jinsei geemu Subete wa kamisama no kimaguresa Sonna koto mo shirazu ni unmei nante Waraeru hanashi da ne Kou mo fukou mo roku-bun no ichi de Kimerareta sentaku Tsugi no masu wa nani ga matteiru no Jinsei geemu wa bokura o shibaru Mienai ito de ayatsurareru Kamisama wa sore o nagamenagara Saikoro korogasu no Niyaniya shinagara sai o furi Ikasama, zuru mo heiki de suru Hito wa sore o kami to agameru Aa nante kokkei nano Aa nante kokkei nano
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Game Room 項目数：56 総ポイント：1000 難易度：（難易度というよりは、お金をつぎ込めるかどうか） ～105：★☆☆☆☆(無料プレイの限界) ～240：★☆☆☆☆(プレイセッション1回：40MSPの限界) ～1000：★★☆☆☆ 製品情報：マーケットプレース 配信日：2010年3月24日 DL費用：Game Room本体と各Game packは無料、完全版の購入：1タイトル 240MSP(1プラットホームの場合)、プレイセッション：1回 40MSP ジャンル：アクション アドベンチャー, 懐かしのゲーム ★2015年3月22日（日）現在、パック含めストアから記載が無くなる。配信が終了した模様。 サーバーが不安定で接続ができる時とできない時があったが、2015年2月始め辺りにサービスが終了した模様（タイトル画面前のローディングで止まるので作品内コンテンツも遊ぶことが出来ない状態） 2015年2月21日(土)21時頃の時点では問題無くプレイできたので、単にサーバーが不安定なものと思われる。 配信タイトルリスト等：http //ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Room Windows版とクロスプラットフォームタイトルのため、実績も両方で共通。 Game Room本体と各Game packは無料だが、本体を起動した瞬間に実績が1つ解除される。 無料で解除できるのは最大105Gまでで、実績コンプには少なくとも26タイトルの有料プレイが必要となる。 解除率にこだわる人や変な実績は要らないという人は、まずはサブタグで試す事を強く推奨。 プレイセッション購入を最大限に活用すれば、理論上は1,240MSPでコンプ可能。 (あくまでも理論値で、現実的にはタイトルを厳選し個別に練習した上で1,500～2,000MSP程度の出費を覚悟する事) なお、全て完全版を購入する場合は最低でも6,240MSPが必要となる。 金さえ惜しまなければ簡単にメダルを稼げるので、そういう意味ではコンプ難度が低いのは確か。 専用サーバーの不調・セーブデータの破損など環境面の問題が多い(詳細は後述)。 実績解除に深刻な支障をきたすものも存在するので、場合によっては相当なストレスが予想される。 アイテム購入不要：95 LIVE アーケード訪問 ショーケース アーケードを訪問する 5 ファースト テーマ アーケードにテーマを配置する 5 テーマ中級者 アーケード内に 5 つの違うテーマを配置する 20 ファースト デコレーション アーケードにデコレーションを 1 個配置する 5 デコレーション入門 アーケードにデコレーションを 5 個配置する 20 1 ルーム完成 1 ルームのすべてのスロットを埋める 20 ファンシー アーケード すべてのルームに別のテーマを使って、アーケード全体にテーマを適用する 20 フレンドが必要：45 ビジター フレンドのアーケードを訪問する 5 購入不要 プレイヤー フレンドのゲーム機をプレイする 5 40MSP or 5トークン使用 ファースト ウィン チャレンジに勝利する 5 完全版の購入が必要 ファースト チャレンジ チャレンジを送信する 5 完全版の購入が必要 チャレンジ チーフ 10 個のチャレンジに勝利する 5 完全版の購入が必要 チャレンジ マスター 20 個のチャレンジに勝利する 20 完全版の購入が必要 完全版の購入が必要 (240MSP) ファースト ゲーム アーケードにゲーム機を 1 台配置する 5 マスコットの購入が必要 (40MSP / ゲーム配信当日にゲームを購入すれば無料) ファースト マスコット アーケードでマスコットを 1 体アクティブにする 5 最低1タイトルのプレイセッション(40MSP)または完全版(240MSP)の購入が必要：155 ニュー スコア いずれかのゲームで自分のハイ スコア記録を更新する 20 ファースト アワー 同じゲームを 1 時間連続でプレイする 5 アーケード ジャンキー アーケードでゲームを合計 4 時間プレイする 20 レトロ中毒 アーケードでゲームを合計 8 時間プレイする 20 グッド ナイト アーケードでゲームを合計 16 時間プレイする 20 メカ人間 アーケードでゲームを合計 24 時間プレイする 20 やりこみプレイヤー アーケードでゲームを合計 36 時間プレイする 20 ファースト メダル 初めてのメダルを獲得する 5 バラエティ メダル 各カテゴリーにつき 1 個ずつメダルを獲得する (ポイント バスター、サバイバー、タイム スペンダー) 5 メダル コレクター メダルを 3 個獲得する 20 複数タイトル購入によるメダル実績：525 ダブル トラブル 各カテゴリーにつき 2 個ずつメダルを獲得する (2x ポイント バスター、2x サバイバー、2x タイム スペンダー) 20 80 年代スキル マスター メダルを 6 個獲得する 20 ゲーム マスター メダルを 9 個獲得する 20 アーケード ハスラー メダルを 12 個獲得する 20 レトロ エキスパート メダルを 15 個獲得する 20 ニュー トラディショナル メダルを 18 個獲得する 20 メダル マニア メダルを 21 個獲得する 20 アーケード荒らし メダルを 24 個獲得する 20 スペシャル メダリスト メダルを 27 個獲得する 20 レトロ マスター メダルを 30 個獲得する 20 スキル マスター メダルを 33 個獲得する 20 メダリスト メダルを 36 個獲得する 20 メダル リッチ プレイヤー メダルを 39 個獲得する 20 スーパー メダリスト メダルを 42 個獲得する 20 メダル ハンター メダルを 45 個獲得する 20 グレート メダリスト メダルを 48 個獲得する 35 メダル スマッシャー 各カテゴリーにつき 10 個ずつメダルを獲得する 20 メダル マスター 各カテゴリーにつき 20 個ずつメダルを獲得する 50 ポイント バスター ポイント バスター メダルを 5 個獲得する 20 ポイント スラム ポイント バスター メダルを 10 個獲得する 20 サバイバー サバイバー メダルを 5 個獲得する 20 スペシャル サバイバー サバイバー メダルを 10 個獲得する 20 タイム スペンダー タイム スペンダー メダルを 5 個獲得する 20 タイム クレイジー タイム スペンダー メダルを 10 個獲得する 20 レベル：170 レベル アップ! レベル 2 に到達する 20 最低2タイトル購入（プレイセッション：80MSP / 完全版：480MSP） レベル 5! レベル 5 に到達する 20 最低6タイトル購入（プレイセッション：240MSP / 完全版：1,440MSP） レベル 8! レベル 8 に到達する 20 最低10タイトル購入（プレイセッション：400MSP / 完全版：2,400MSP） レベル 11! レベル 11 に到達する 20 最低14タイトル購入（プレイセッション：560MSP / 完全版：3,360MSP） レベル 14! レベル 14 に到達する 20 最低18タイトル購入（プレイセッション：720MSP / 完全版：4,320MSP） レベル 17! レベル 17 に到達する 20 最低22タイトル購入（プレイセッション：880MSP / 完全版：5,280MSP） レベル 20! レベル 20 に到達する 50 最低26タイトル購入（プレイセッション：1,040MSP / 完全版：6,240MSP） 全般専用サーバーについて メダル系、レベル系実績 ゲームを○○時間プレイする実績 / タイムスペンダーメダル実績 ニュースコア チャレンジ系実績「チャレンジ マスター」の手っ取り早い解除方法 ファースト マスコット テーマ系実績 / ファンシー アーケード なるべく少ない出費で実績コンプを目指すためのタイトル選択＆攻略タイムスペンダーメダルの稼ぎ方ホリパッドEX2ターボが放置を妨害する件について 強制終了バグで放置を妨害される件について 各タイトルのポイントバスター狙いの練習について 完全放置でタイムスペンダーゴールドを獲得できるタイトルActivision Decathlon (ATARI 2600) Beamrider (ATARI 2600) Breakout (ATARI 2600) Chopper Command (ATARI 2600) Circus Atari (ATARI 2600) Cosmic Commuter (ATARI 2600) Crystal Castles (Arcade) Demons to Diamonds (ATARI 2600) Dolphin (ATARI 2600) H.E.R.O. (ATARI 2600) Kabobber (ATARI 2600) Kaboom! (ATARI 2600) Night Stalker (Intellivision) Oink! (ATARI 2600) Pinball (Intellivision) River Raid (ATARI 2600) River Raid II (ATARI 2600) Seaquest (ATARI 2600) Super Breakout (ATARI 2600) Super Breakout (Arcade) Thunder Castle (Intellivision) Tutanhkam (Arcade) Video Pinball (ATARI 2600) 完全放置はできないがTSゴールド獲得は簡単なタイトルYar's Revenge (ATARI 2600) ゲーム自体の難易度が低く、ある程度練習すればタイムスペンダー獲得を狙えるタイトルAstrosmash (Intellivision) Space Hawk (Intellivision) Laser Blast (ATARI 2600) Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Arcade) ポイントバスター＆サバイバー稼ぎ編プレイセッション購入時のメダル獲得条件について トークンを利用したTSメダル獲得法について ポイントバスター＆サバイバーのゴールド獲得が容易なタイトルの一例Buzz Bombers (Intellivision) Missile Command (ATARI 2600) Pitfall! (ATARI 2600) Plaque Attack (ATARI 2600) 余談：40MSPで一気に135G解除法 全般 セーブデータが壊れる不具合があるので注意。 サーバーが不安定で読み込み中の画面で止まってしまうケースあり。この時にサインアウトやダッシュボードに戻るとセーブデータが破損する恐れがある。 他に「実績を解除した瞬間にフリーズ」というケースも確認されている。 念の為、USBストレージやメモリーユニットに定期的にバックアップしておく事を推奨。 ちなみに開発元は経営難でプロジェクトを放棄し、Microsoftも放置のため今後改善される可能性はほぼゼロと思われる。 専用サーバーについて 本作のオンライン機能は専用サーバーを用いており、これがダウンした場合はほとんどの機能が使えなくなる。 具体的には完全版を購入済タイトルのクラシックモードしか遊べない。 よって、ランクモード限定やオン接続が必要な実績も一切解除不可能になってしまう。 完全版やプレイセッションの購入もできなくなるため、場合によっては完全にお手上げとなる。 (本作の有料コンテンツはxbox.comや本体マケプレからの購入ができない仕様) 2013年現在でも断続的にサーバーダウンが発生しており、それ以外でもオン周りの不具合は多い。 また、専用サーバーが運営終了となった場合、同様に多数の実績が解除不可能になると思われる。 Microsoftマターなのでその可能性は低いと思われるが、一応留意しておいた方がいいだろう。 メダル系、レベル系実績 デモ(体験版)やトークン使用によるボーナスプレイではメダルを獲得できない。 ランキング対応のタイトルは1タイトルにつき3種類のメダルを獲得可能。 タイムスペンダーメダルはクラシックモードでも獲得できるが、ポイントバスターメダル及びサバイバーメダルはランクモード限定。 プレイセッションの購入時はランキング対応タイトルなら強制でランクモードでのプレイとなるため、ポイントバスターとサバイバーを取りこぼす心配はない。 ランキング非対応のタイトルはタイムスペンダーメダル1個しか獲得できない。 メダル獲得にこだわる場合は、ゲーム購入前にランキングの有無を確認しよう。 ちなみに、全実績解除のためにはランキング対応タイトルを最低26本プレイする必要がある。 ブロンズメダル1個で2メダルポイント、シルバーで3メダルポイント、ゴールドで5メダルポイント獲得。 ただし累積ではなく現在のメダルでポイントが決まるため、1種類につき最高5ポイント。 ランキング対応タイトルなら1タイトルにつき最大ゴールド3種、15メダルポイントが獲得できる。 20メダルポイント獲得ごとにレベルアップ。 ゲームを○○時間プレイする実績 / タイムスペンダーメダル実績 プレイ時間はクラシックモード・ランクモード・デモ(体験版)・トークンでのプレイ全ての累計。 ゲームを○○時間プレイする実績は、ゲームプレイ中に○○時間に達した瞬間に実績解除される。 ただし、これらの実績の解除は完全版またはプレイセッション購入でのプレイ時限定で、デモやトークン使用のみで解除はできない。 今までの累計プレイ時間は、完全版を購入済のタイトルならメダル確認画面のタイムスペンダーメダル欄で確認できる。 各タイトルを起動中の時間が全てカウント対象となり、ランクモード以外ならプレイ時間外のデモ画面等でも累計に加算される。 ただし、まったく操作していない状態が1分間程度続くといずれかのボタンが押されるまでカウントが止まる。 連射コントローラを持っている場合は、ゲームを開始してからコントローラのいずれかのボタンを連射状態にして放置すると簡単にプレイ時間を稼げる。 普通にプレイしながら稼ぎたい場合は、クラシックモードでリワインドを使いミスした原因を研究しながらプレイするとよい。 ニュースコア ランクモード限定。自分のハイスコアが0点でない時にハイスコアを更新すると実績解除。 ゲームの途中にBACKボタンで終了した場合もスコアは保存される。 例えばランクモードを未プレイのタイトルならば 1点獲得→ゲームを終了→もう一度プレイ→2点獲得→ゲームを終了 とするだけでも構わない。 完全版を購入しなくても、同じタイトルのプレイセッション2回で解除する事も一応可能。 チャレンジ系実績 チャレンジを送信・プレイできるのは自分で完全版を購入したタイトルのみ。 同一本体ならサブタグでも購入済みと見なされるので、サブタグから本タグにチャレンジ送信すればセルフ談合可能。 注意事項は以下の通り。 1つのタグで1度に送信できるチャレンジは10個まで。それ以上は登録できず、先に送信したチャレンジの終了を待つ必要がある。 チャレンジの終了条件は基本的に時間経過だが、全プレイヤーが参加を拒否するか、もしくは全プレイヤーが挑戦回数を全て消化しきった場合はその時点で終了となる。 BACKボタンでゲームを終了してもスコアは登録される。 スコアが0点でも登録される。 スコアが同点なら先に登録した方のタグが上位になる。 1位になった場合はリプレイを登録する必要がある。リプレイを登録できない場合はスコアが登録されない。 「棄権（参加していません）」ならば不参加、「未トライ」なら参加しているという扱いになる。 サーバーの不調等でリプレイのアップロードに失敗すると棄権扱いとなり相手側の勝利となる。 自分以外が全員不参加のチャレンジは無効になる。 「チャレンジ マスター」の手っ取り早い解除方法 本タグとサブタグをフレンドにする サブタグでサインインしてGame Roomを起動。 本タグにチャレンジを10個送信する。このとき、タイプをベストスコア（ハイスコア）、プレイ時間を1分、挑戦回数は1回、有効期限は自由（その時のサーバーや回線の調子と相談）にする。 サインアウトして、本タグでサインインする。 チャレンジをプレイし、ゲーム開始後すぐにBACKボタンでゲームを終了する。 ハイスコアとリプレイを登録。 （5）と（6）を10回繰り返す。 全て済んだら（2）～（7）をもう1度行う。 両方のタグでプレイするとさらなる時間短縮が見込める。負ける側は開始後即BACKボタンで終了、勝つ側は1分プレイしても良いし多少のプレイで終了させても良い(スコアに差が付けばよい)。 お互いに10個ずつ送信しあう場合は、本タグから送る方の有効期限を長くするか、本体をもう1台用意するとよい(本タグで送った方を確実にサブタグでプレイさせるため。なお別本体使用の場合はサブタグは本タグで購入したタイトルのうち1本を購入しておく必要がある)。 ファースト マスコット マスコットを入手してマイコレクションからアクティブにすれば解除。入手方法は ゲームリリース日にゲームを購入するとマスコットがオマケで貰える（無料） ストアで売られているマスコットを購入（40MSP） のいずれか。 新作タイトルの配信は2010年で途絶え、今後の追加も見込めないため 現在から始めるのであれば素直にストアで購入するしかないだろう。 テーマ系実績 / ファンシー アーケード 「パープルルーム」「グリーンルーム」「オレンジルーム」「ブルールーム」はノーカウント。 「ファンシー アーケード」に必要なテーマは12種類。「○○○ルーム」以外で最初からアンロックされているテーマは12種類(当初6種類、Pack003～005/007/009/010で1つずつ追加)、レベルアップにより得られるテーマは5種類。 2010/9/22のGamePack 010配信により、無料で獲得できるテーマだけでファンシーアーケードが解除可能になった。 なるべく少ない出費で実績コンプを目指すためのタイトル選択＆攻略 プレイセッションの購入を主体としたメダル稼ぎのガイドです。 腕・根気・環境・運などで多少変動はありますが、コンプまで総額1,500～2,000MSP程度必要と考えて下さい。 ※注意 実績コンプ後は完全版1本とマスコット1つしか残りません。 大半が連射パッドで放置可能とはいえ、タイムスペンダー稼ぎだけで約40時間は必要です。 PBメダルは実力勝負なので、出費を抑えるには30本以上の黎明期ゲームを延々と練習する苦行となります。 Game Room自体の作りが色々とお粗末なので精神的に辛いです。 それでも構わないという方、長文ですが参考になれば幸いです。 タイムスペンダーメダルの稼ぎ方 レベルを20まで上げるには合計380ポイント分のメダル獲得が必要。 さらにメダルマスター解除のために3種類のメダルを各20個ずつ獲得しなければならない。 ここで問題となるのがタイムスペンダー(以下TS)。 ポイントを効率良く稼ぐためランキング対応タイトル(メダル3種・最大15ポイント)メインで進めたいところだが、 これらの多くは1回のプレイセッション購入ではTSブロンズ獲得も厳しく、 Pitfall!やKONAMI GTのようにどんなに粘っても1プレイ時間の限界がTSブロンズに届かないものまで存在する始末。 ランキング非対応タイトルなら大抵は放置で簡単にTSゴールドを獲得できるが、当然最大5ポイントしか稼げない。 よって、まずは次項でリストアップしたTSメダル獲得が簡単なランキング対応タイトルを全部プレイするのがよいだろう。 サバイバー(以下SV)のゴールドも併せて獲得できるので、最低でも10ポイント稼げるのもおいしい。 総出費額を抑えるためにはポイントバスター(以下PB)のメダルも同時に狙いたいが、 PBメダル獲得の難易度はゲームによってマチマチで、各自の腕や得意不得意も絡むのでこれは自己判断で。 これらのタイトルのほとんどは完全放置でTSゴールドを獲得できるが、 先述の通り、無入力状態(ボタン押しっぱなし等もダメ)が1分続くとプレイ時間のカウントが増えなくなるため、 そのタイトルで使用しないボタンをペチペチ押すか連射パッドに任せて放置する事になる。 なお、放置が続くと画面が真っ暗になったりサイケデリックに変色する場合があるが、 これは放置が解ければ即元に戻るので気にする必要はない(多分スクリーンセーバーか？)。 ホリパッドEX2ターボが放置を妨害する件について 自由度の高い連射ホールド機能を搭載し、本作の放置に持ってこいなはずのホリパッドEX2ターボだが 本機は突如左スティックが誤入力されるという不具合が多数報告されており(参考：Amazonのレビュー) レバー入力でも放置が解けてしまうタイトルでは役に立たないと考えていい。 例えばDolphinのようにレバー入力があっても放置が解けないタイトルであれば全く問題ない。 (放置条件は個別に解説していますが、念の為各自デモで調べておく事を推奨) 他の連射パッドならこのような問題は起こらないはずなので、結局そちらにテープでも貼って放置するのが無難かもしれない。 強制終了バグで放置を妨害される件について 連コン放置で労せず稼げる…と思いきや、放置中に突然ゲームオーバー扱いで終了してしまうケースがある。 そこまでに条件達成したメダルは獲得できるが、大抵40ゲイツを勝手にドブに捨てられる形になるので腹立たしい事この上ない。 永パ対策なのかこちらの環境の問題なのかゲームの作りが杜撰だからかは不明だが、 発動条件が不明確なため、Game Roomだから仕方ないと諦めるしかないのが現実。 ちなみに筆者はBreakout・Circus ATARI・Demons to Diamondsで強制終了が発動。 特にDemons to Diamondsは強制終了の条件を特定しようと色々5回試して5回とも強制終了したまさにデーモンなので要注意。 各タイトルのポイントバスター狙いの練習について タイトル別攻略の「ある程度の練習」はゲーム内の説明をちゃんと読んだ上でデモで30分程度の練習と考えて下さい。 (機械翻訳なのか説明が分かりにくかったり意味不明なケースも少なくありません) デモは1タイトルにつき10分の時間制限付きで、プレイ情報はおそらく専用サーバー側で保存のため 1タグで延々と練習はできないが、サブタグを量産すれば好きなだけ練習可能。 なにぶん古いゲームばかりなので、シビアさや作りの粗さは当たり前だと覚悟する事。 また、海外タイトルは国内ゲームのお約束が通じない物もザラなので(特にシューティング)そこらへんも注意。 本来ならランキング上位のリプレイを参考にするのが上達の早道のはずだが、 サーバーがまともに稼動しておらず大半のランキングが読み込めない上に、 たまに表示できてもリプレイデータが破損していて全く役に立たない事がほとんど。 一部のメジャー作ならYoutube等で動画を漁る手もあるが、大部分は自力で何とかするしかないだろう。 完全放置でタイムスペンダーゴールドを獲得できるタイトル Activision Decathlon (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 6,000 7,000 8,000 タイムスペンダー 45分 60分 90分 開幕で操作しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま90分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 ホリパッドEX2でLS誤爆が不安なら、操作方法をレイアウトBに変更すればOK。 ハイパーオリンピック系の連射スポーツ集。 全種目連射力がスコアに直結するので、連射機能付きパッドを使えばPBゴールドも楽勝。 自力で頑張る場合は、ある程度練習してブロンズが取れれば上出来というところか。 【ゲームの基本】 走る操作は左右交互に入力する必要はなく、片方のみ連打でもOK。操作設定をレイアウトBにすればX or Bボタン1つのみ連打で走れるのでこちらの方が楽かも。 砲丸投げや走り幅跳びではハイパーオリンピックのようにアクション長押しでの角度調整は不要な模様。 Beamrider (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 1,000 4,000 7,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 不明 不明 開幕で操作しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 先述の問題のためTSゴールドの条件を確認できず。筆者は2時間放置でゴールド取れました。 平面ステージのみのTempestみたいな固定画面シューティング。 プレイセッションの購入だといきなり8面からスタートのため激ムズ。 PBゴールドは厳しいが、多少練習すればブロンズは獲得できるだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 基本装備のレーザーはSaucer(白い円盤)とChirper(ピロピロ鳴きつつ横切る黄色い唇)しか倒せないため、他の敵はアルゴリズムを把握して気合で避けること。 Saucerとの接近戦は極力避ける事。攻撃が容赦なく、ほぼ撃ち負けてしまう。 ミサイルは全ての敵＆敵弾を破壊可能。1面につき3発まで使用可能で、ステージクリアで全回復。 リジュビネーター(黄色い残機マーク)は大体1面につき1回は出現。貴重な1UPアイテム。攻撃すると敵に変化してしまうので注意。遠距離でも一応色で判別可能。 PBシルバー以上を狙うなら、これらの基本に加えてChirperとセクターセンチネル(ステージ最後の要塞。ミサイルのみ有効)がそれぞれ500点と高得点なので狙っていきたい。 Breakout (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 50 100 200 タイムスペンダー 30分 45分 60分 Aボタンを押さなければボールが出現しないので、そのまま60分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 Game Roomのブロック崩し系全般に言える事だが、アナログスティック・十字キー操作のどちらも操作性が劣悪で、PBはブロンズが取れれば御の字というレベル。アナログは真左なら画面左端、真上なら中央というように傾けた角度に応じた位置に高速移動する仕様。 十字キーは普通に等速移動だが移動がやたら速い上に妙な遅延が入るため細かい操作は困難。 ランキングの世界TOPも2面でゲームオーバーという有様なので、これを必死こいて練習するならその時間を他のタイトルに費やした方が有意義だろう。 Chopper Command (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 10,000 15,000 タイムスペンダー 60分 90分 120分 ゲーム開始後一切操作しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 左右任意スクロール方式のシューティング。移動に慣性が付くなどクセがやや強め。 PBブロンズは多少練習すれば取れるだろうが、難易度の上昇ペースが速くゴールドは難しめ。 【ゲームの基本】 PBシルバー以上を狙うなら、本作のフィールド全体の構成と仕様を把握する事。敵機と味方トラックは全て地形に固定されていて、その地形は自機の移動とは無関係に左にゆっくり強制スクロールし続けていると考えると分かりやすい。地形の左右端はなく無限ループ。地形から見れば敵機はどれも固定範囲を左右に往復し続けるだけなのだが、強制スクロールのため自機の視点からは左に高速移動⇔右に低速移動を繰り返しているように映るという仕組み。 どの敵も画面内に入るとすぐ分裂弾を撃ってきて接近戦は危険極まりないので、レーダーを見て事前に高度調節してできるだけ遠くから出現即倒すか、振り返った直後を追いかけて倒すかという戦法を徹底するのがセオリーとなる。先述の移動速度の関係上、正面勝負で出現即破壊なら左側に進み、振り向き後を狙うなら右側に進むのが若干生存率が高いだろう。 地上の味方トラックは地形に張り付いているだけで特に気にする必要はないが、ぶつかるとミスになる事に一応注意。 Circus Atari (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 300 600 1,200 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 120分 Aボタンを押さなければゲームは始まらないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 これも操作性が劣悪な上にジャンプの軌道が読み辛く、PBはブロンズすら困難。 Cosmic Commuter (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 2,000 6,000 8,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 最初にレバーを↑に入れないとゲームは進行しないので、そのまま90分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 お手軽なDefender(Williams)という感じの横スクロールシューティング。 ゲーム性が色々と独特だが、セオリーが身に付けばPBゴールドも充分狙える。 セッション購入でのプレイは難易度ハード固定なので注意。 【ゲームの基本】 最初の着陸がいきなり難しい。これができないとゲームにならないので練習して完全にマスターする事。最初に一瞬↑に入力後、着陸船と地平線の間が1キャラを切ったあたりの高さで↑に入れ続ければOK。 乗客の大まかな位置は画面左下のレーダーで黄色く表示される。また、画面内に乗客が現れると画面上部のスコア表示部が青→赤に変化する。 燃料アイテム(F)は撃つと壊れてしまうので注意。 ショットは単発だがボタン押しっぱなしでフルオート連射。 ほとんどの敵はただ浮かんでいるだけだが、タンク型の敵はこちらの攻撃に呼応して上下に動くので注意。全ての敵は一律たったの1点で追いかけてきたり攻撃もしないので、戦闘は最小限に留めて燃料＆乗客回収を優先でよい。 2面までノーミス＆乗客全回収でクリアすればPBゴールド確定。 Crystal Castles (Arcade) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 20,000 40,000 70,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 クォータービューのドットイート物だが、操作性が凄まじくピーキー。 (オリジナルはトラックボール操作だそうなので、パッド操作へのアレンジの問題かもしれない) 1面は迷路の上の角(建物の陰になっている外周の部分)でジャンプするとワープして14万点入る。 次の面はまず下の角で待ち、緑の蛇(？)が着地した瞬間に右上に走って殲滅＆三角帽(無敵アイテム)を取る。 そのまま左のトンネル内の角に直行して停止すれば樹木と蜂は近付けないので永久パターンとなる。 この状態で90分放置すれば3種全てのゴールドメダルを獲得できる。 元々操作性がアレな上に蛇殲滅のタイミングもシビアなので、デモでしっかり練習すること。 参考動画：http //www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWiRC-d1Zug Demons to Diamonds (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 1,500 3,000 4,500 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 120分 アレンジインベーダー的な固定画面シューティング。 2人で対戦ができるのが特徴だが、1人プレイはvsCPUではなく普通のシューティング形式。 オリジナルがパドル操作だったためか、これもブロック崩し系と同様に操作性にやや難あり。 ステージ終盤になるとドクロが出現しなくなり死ぬ要素はなくなるので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 …のはずだが(永パ防止策の類はなく、デモでは10分間放置でも終わらない事を確認済)、 筆者の場合は強制終了バグが連発したため、実際に1セッション購入でTSゴールドを取れるかは未確認。 この永パはどのステージでも可能なので、自分の腕に合わせて全滅しない程度にスコアを稼いでから放置すれば一応PB分は逃さずに済む。 【ゲームの基本】 レーザーはボタンを押し続けないと遠くに届かず、発射後に左右に移動すればワインダーも可能。レーザーと言うよりカメレオンの舌とでも考えた方が扱いやすいかもしれない。 やってはいけない事No.1：ドクロの下をくぐるどのドクロが上下どちらに弾を撃つかはランダムで弾速も速く、見てから避けるのはまず無理。更に次の自機も出現後即死が不可避なケースすらある。どうしようもない場合以外はドクロの下は極力避ける事。 やってはいけない事No.2：青いデーモンを撃ってドクロに変えてしまうデーモンは一切攻撃してこないし、画面の端に消えて再出現のたびに色が変化するので焦る必要はない。 時間制限やインベーダーで言う侵略も存在しないので、落ち着いて赤いデーモンとダイヤのみを正確に撃つ事を意識すればPBシルバー程度ならそれほど難しくない。 赤いデーモン・ダイヤ共に高い位置にいるものほど高得点。 赤いデーモンが1体数点に対してダイヤは1つ数十点と高得点なので、余裕があれば逃さず撃ち落したい。ダイヤの動き出すタイミングにはかなりランダム幅があるので状況判断力が重要。欲張って死んだりはしないように。 Dolphin (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 4,000 10,000 15,000 タイムスペンダー 45分 60分 不明 最初にAボタンを押さなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 後述の問題のためTSゴールドの条件を確認できず。筆者は2時間放置でゴールド取れました。 ステージの区切りや明確な目標はなく、ひたすらイカから逃げ続けるだけのゲーム。 ゲーム性が色々と独特だが、一通り理解した上である程度練習すればPBゴールドも狙える。 【ゲームの基本】 前方のタツノオトシゴの壁の隙間はイルカのエコロケーション音で予測できるので、まずは音と位置の対応を覚える事。5種類の音が5箇所の隙間(上2マス目～6マス目)に対応しており、高い音ほど上の隙間となる。 スピードアップ(緑の＞)とスピードダウン(オレンジの＞)は自分とイカの双方に効果がある。自分は緑を取り続け、イカはうまく誘導してオレンジを取らせるようにすれば追いつかれにくい。 時折現れるカモメを取ってイカに体当たりすれば一気に数千点入るが、無敵時間は約2秒しかなく、数をこなして慣れないとなかなか安定しないだろう。 必ず右に進まないといけないわけではなく、左に進み続ける事も可能。ただしカモメが取りづらいなどデメリットもあり、一時的にイカを振り切る手段と考えた方がよい。 ここまでは真面目な攻略だが、実は常に海面近くを進み、タツノオトシゴを全てジャンプで跳び越える邪道プレイが存在する。跳び越えのタイミングがややシビアで慣れを要するが、カモメを取りやすく稼ぎやすいため、PBゴールド狙いなら最初からこっちを練習するのも一つの手。タツノオトシゴはエコロケーション音が終わった瞬間に画面に現れる。ただしイルカの位置や速度、音の長さなど変動要素が複数あり、毎回音に合わせて同じタイミングで跳べばOKというわけではない。 H.E.R.O. (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 15,000 30,000 50,000 タイムスペンダー 60分 90分 120分 ステージ冒頭で移動しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 初見殺しの多いパターンゲームで、PBブロンズはともかくゴールド獲得となるとかなりの練習が必要。 Kabobber (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 8,000 16,000 25,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 45分 60分 最初に一切操作しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま60分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 既存のゲームに似た存在が少なく(強いて言えばボコスカウォーズあたりか)プレイ感覚は独特。 ゲームのシステムとセオリーを理解すれば、PBゴールドもさほど難しくない。 【ゲームの基本】 全ての敵は止まっている時に体当たりしないと倒せない。動いている時にぶつかると一方的に負けてしまう。ガブスキー(緑の敵)は仲間(小)で倒せば仲間が(大)にパワーアップ、仲間(大)で倒せば仲間のストックが＋1。 赤い敵は仲間(大)なら倒せる。黒いブーツは倒せないので避けるしかない。 仲間は最大9匹までフィールドに出せるが、多すぎると移動・回避が難しくなってしまう。縦幅は基本2列までに留め、全滅はしないよう3～4匹は常に出しておくのがよいだろう。 これらの基本を押さえてタイムオーバーと全滅に注意して安全策で進めばPBシルバーは取れるだろう。 Kaboom! (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 300 500 700 タイムスペンダー 45分 不明 不明 最初にAボタンを押さなければ爆弾が来ないので、そのまま放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 後述の問題のためTSゴールドの条件を確認できず。筆者は2時間放置でゴールド取れました。 これも操作性に難アリでPBはブロンズすら困難。 Night Stalker (Intellivision) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 10,000 20,000 30,000 タイムスペンダー 60分 90分 120分 中央のバンカー内が安全地帯なので、ゲーム開始後移動せずに120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 パックマンのドットイートの代わりに銃撃戦みたいなゲーム。 ゲームスピードが非常に遅く、ロボットの処理と弾切れに注意すればPBゴールドも難しくない。 本作に限らずIntellivision物は操作性が悪かったり細かい処理が雑なものばかりなので、 寛大な心で接さないとキツイかもしれない(Game Roomの問題か元々そういう仕様なのかは不明)。 【ゲームの基本】 クモとコウモリは当たってもしばらく動けなくなるだけでミスにはならない。 ロボット系の敵を倒した後の再出現の位置は常に迷路の左下隅。再出現のタイミングも一定なので、少し慣れれば出現即キルを繰り返せるだろう。 ピストルの弾丸は6発。撃ち尽くすとすぐに新しいピストルが出現する。敵が増えてきたらロボットを一掃した後などに残弾を使い切って弾薬を補充するとよいだろう。 ステージの区切り等はなく、(おそらく敵の撃破数かスコアに応じて)徐々に難易度が上がっていく仕様。 Oink! (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 700 1,000 1,200 タイムスペンダー 45分 90分 120分 開幕で操作しなければゲームは始まらないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 狼の挙動が読み辛く土壇場の粘りは運ゲー気味だが、ある程度練習すればPBゴールドも狙えるだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 ブロック設置先の優先順位は、幅の広い穴＞幅の狭い穴＞貫通していない穴がよいだろう。 狼の舌(？)に捕まっても、途中で床に引っ掛かればミスにはならない。具体的にはブロック2つ分までの隙間なら助かるので、広い穴が開いてしまった場合は飛び飛びでブロックを置くようにすれば生存率を上げられる。 Pinball (Intellivision) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 7,500 20,000 50,000 タイムスペンダー 45分 60分 90分 ボールを発射しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま90分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 細かいフィーチャーが分からないので未攻略。詳しい方がいれば追記をお願いします。 River Raid (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 10,000 15,000 タイムスペンダー 60分 90分 120分 最初に一切操作しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 縦スクロールシューティングだが国産物とは色々とノリが違い、PBシルバー以上は難しめ。 【ゲームの基本】 本作の上下入力はスクロール速度の加減速で上下方向の移動はできない(つまり常に前進状態)。また、操作に若干慣性がかかるのも要注意(Game Roomの問題か元々そういう仕様なのかは不明)。 ショットは単発だが押しっぱなしでフルオート連射。また、発射後左右に移動するとワインダーが掛かる。 FUELマークは上にいる間回復し続けるので、低速で通過すればたくさん回復できる。撃つと壊れてしまうが若干スコアを貰えるので、満タンに近い時は全快後に壊すのもよい。 水色のジェット機は撃ち漏らして横に消えると反対側の端からまた現れるので注意。 River Raid II (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 15,000 25,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 最初の離陸シーンでAを押さない限りゲームは進行しないので、そのまま90分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 前作River Raidよりさらにクセが強く、色々なお約束を覚えないとまともに進めない。 PBブロンズはともかく、ゴールド獲得はかなり練習しないと難しいだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 最初の離陸シーンはレバーを↓に入れたままAを押し続けないと墜落死するので注意。 地上や海上の敵はレバーを↓に入れながらAの対地攻撃を当てないと倒せない。 最初から空中敵の攻撃が容赦なく、接近戦だとあっさり撃ち負ける事がほとんど。 金色の補給機は普通に通過するだけでFUELが回復するが、燃料ブイは説明通り上空から急降下しないと回復できない。つまりパターンを暗記して事前に高速スクロールで突入する必要があり、ただでさえ高い難易度に拍車を掛ける形となっている。 ステージ最後に着陸シーンがあり、PBシルバー以上を狙うには最低1回は成功させる必要があるようだが、筆者はここまで辿り着けなかったので自信のある方は頑張って下さい。 Seaquest (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 15,000 25,000 50,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 ゲーム開始後一切移動せずに90分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 思い入れのない人にとっては色々とキツイ代物ばかりのATARI 2600タイトルだが、これは結構遊べる。 操作性・ゲーム性共にまともなのでPBゴールドを目指して練習するのもいいだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 魚雷はボタン押しっぱなしで連射でき、発射後上下に移動するとワインダーが掛かる。魚は縦幅が小さく蛇行するので、ワインダーを活用して対処するのが基本。 ダイバーを6人揃えずに浮上するとダイバーが1人減るが酸素ゲージは全回復する。6人揃えて浮上すると酸素の残量に応じてボーナスが入るので、5人目あたりで一旦浮上して酸素ゲージを回復後すぐに6人揃えて浮上すればかなり稼げる。ゲームが進むと残量ボーナスの点効率はさらにUPする模様。 水上の潜水艦には要注意。6人揃えて浮上すれば水中の敵は全滅するが、こいつは消えないので浮上タイミングを間違えると死亡確定してしまう。水中の敵から逃げたり酸素回復のために一旦浮上する場合でも、潜水艦が通り過ぎた後に浮上するのが鉄則となる。 Super Breakout (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 50 100 150 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 Aボタンを押さなければボールが出現しないので、そのまま90分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 ブロック崩し系に共通の操作性の問題は変わらず。 1面の半分程度のブロックを消せればPBゴールド獲得できるので、自信のある方は頑張って下さい。 Super Breakout (Arcade) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 20 100 200 タイムスペンダー 45分 90分 120分 Aボタンを押さなければボールが出現しないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 本作は他のブロック崩し系より操作性が若干マシで遊びやすい。 PBもゴールドとなると難しめだが、少し練習すればブロンズは取れるだろう。 プレイセッション購入でも3種類のモードから自由に選べるので、遊びやすいものを選ぶのが一番。 Thunder Castle (Intellivision) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 7,500 15,000 25,000 サバイバー 10分 20分 30分 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 ドットイートをなくしてモンスター退治に特化したパックマンみたいなゲーム。 モンスターをどんどん倒してより高難度のステージに挑むのが本来の遊び方だが、 1面でわざとドラゴンを倒さず90分間ひたすら逃げ回れば簡単にSV＆TSゴールドを獲得できる。 時折出現するアイテムを拾ってスコアも稼げるのでPBゴールドも簡単。 更に安全地帯が存在するのでこれを利用すれば完全放置でSV＆TSゴールド獲得も可能。 1面でアイテムの鍵を拾い、上から2段目の横通路の左端で左に向かって鍵を使う。 そのまま左に進めば、壁の中にめり込んでドラゴンは近付けないので安全地帯となる。 ただし、スコアは稼げないので、PBメダルが欲しければ稼ぎ終わってから入ること。 【ゲームTSゴールド狙いプレイの基本】 ドラゴンは通常自機を追いかけてくるが、コウモリを取って無敵時間中は逃げていくので、なるべくコウモリを取り続けてドラゴンを遠ざけるよう心がける事。コウモリはしばらく停止⇔次の停止位置に一直線に移動を繰り返すだけで、停止位置もある程度限られているので、少し慣れればサクサク取り続けられるようになるだろう。 TS獲得目的ならドラゴンは極力倒さないこと。1匹倒すごとにスピードアップして難しくなり、3匹倒してしまうとステージクリアしてTSどころではなくなってしまう。 迷路の一部は時折開閉する。挟まれても死なないが、身動きが取れなくなるのでなるべく避けること。 アイテムは色々種類があるが、櫛(スコア減少)だけは絶対避け、燭台(1UP)は頑張って取り、他は余裕があれば拾って適当に使う程度で構わない。各アイテムの詳しい効果はゲーム内の遊び方の説明を参照。 Tutanhkam (Arcade) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 10,000 20,000 30,000 タイムスペンダー 25分 45分 60分 1面の最初のワープゾーンを通過した先の区画で、周囲の敵を一掃して左下隅で停止すれば永久パターンとなる。そのまま60分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 ただし、タイムアップ後は面クリアまでレーザーが撃てなくなる。 フラッシュボムは使用可能だが、この状態からPBメダルも狙うとなると相応の腕が必要。 ゲーム自体クセが強く難しいので、TS＆SVゴールドのみ獲得タイトルと割り切った方がいいかもしれない。 Video Pinball (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 10,000 20,000 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 120分 ボールを発射しなければゲームは進行しないので、そのまま120分放置すればSV＆TSゴールド獲得。 ピンボールというよりスマートボールのようなプレイ感覚。 フリッパーでの介入性が低くナッジ(台揺らし)が重要っぽいが、揺らしすぎると当然ロストボールとなってしまう。 フィーチャーがよく分からなかったので未攻略。詳しい方がいれば追記をお願いします。 完全放置はできないがTSゴールド獲得は簡単なタイトル Yar's Revenge (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 20,000 35,000 50,000 タイムスペンダー 25分 35分 45分 フィールド中央のノイズ地帯の上にいれば破壊ミサイル(ゆっくり追いかけてくる虹色の横棒)には当たらない。 スワール(右端のコア部が放つ渦巻き)はノイズ地帯でも死ぬので避けないとダメ。 スワールは分かりやすい前兆の後に自機狙いで飛んでくるので画面の上下ループを利用して簡単に回避できる。 1面でこれを45分続ければSV＆TSゴールド獲得。音が耳障りなら音量を絞った方がいいかも。 【ゲームの基本】 クォタイル(右端のコア部)は自機で直接触れると左端にキャノンが現れるのでタイミング良く撃って当てればステージクリア。このキャノンが自機に当るとミスになってしまうので注意。 ステージが進むと破壊ミサイルの追尾が速くなり難しいが、ある程度練習すればPBゴールドも狙える。速攻クリアを狙うメリットは特になく、余裕があれば周囲のバリアを全て破壊してからクォタイルを仕留める方がスコアは高くなるだろう。 ゲーム自体の難易度が低く、ある程度練習すればタイムスペンダー獲得を狙えるタイトル Astrosmash (Intellivision) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 25,000 30,000 40,000 サバイバー 5分 10分 15分 タイムスペンダー 45分 60分 90分 インベーダー・ギャラクシアン系のシンプルな固定画面シューティング。 スコアエクステンドが1,000点エブリでガンガン残機が増えるので、PB・SVのゴールド獲得は簡単。 時間経過でどんどんゲームスピードが加速してゆくが、ある程度練習すればTSもブロンズは狙えるだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 巨大隕石は中央を狙って素早く2連射すると、分裂した小隕石もまとめて破壊できる。 敵を地面に落とすと減点となるが、TSを狙うなら死なない事が最優先。回転オブジェクト(ヒューッというSEと共にクルクル回りながら落下する白い敵)は地面に落とすとミスとなるので頑張って撃ち落すこと。 誘導ミサイル(ピーッピーッというSEを発して飛来する白い丸)が難敵。迎撃・回避に失敗した場合はハイパースペースで逃げられる場合もあるがこれは多分運まかせ。 Space Hawk (Intellivision) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 2,000 5,000 8,000 サバイバー 5分 10分 15分 タイムスペンダー 30分 45分 60分 全方位に移動・攻撃が可能なシューティング。Asteroidsのお手軽版という感じ。 こちらも1,000点エブリでガンガン残機が増えるので、PB・SVのゴールド獲得は簡単。 長時間プレイしてもあまり難易度が上がらないので、少し練習すればTSゴールドも狙える。 【ゲームの基本】 デフォ操作は操作に慣性がかかって難しいので、最初にRS↓で無慣性操作に切り替える事を推奨。 自機のショットは画面のスクロールと連動せずにまっすぐ飛んでいく。つまり、発射後に移動すると弾道がずれたり加減速する事になる。最初は戸惑うかもしれないが、慣れれば1時の方向の敵に真上にショットを撃った後に右に移動して誘導ヒットさせたりもできるだろう。 光る電球？や煙(破壊不可能)は無理に相手をせずスクロールアウトで消してしまえばよい。 生き残る以外の目的やステージの区切りはないので、TSゴールド獲得のためにはとにかく死なない事を優先してプレイする事。 Laser Blast (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 10,000 20,000 サバイバー 2分 5分 10分 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 3つずつ設置されたレーザー砲台をUFOのレーザーで破壊し続けるだけのシンプルなシューティング。 こちらも1,000点エブリで、1機につき砲台12台を破壊できれば理論上は終わらない事になる。 ただし、速攻で正確に撃つ以外の攻略はないらしく、運が悪いと立て続けに死んでしまう。 デモで練習して10分間終わらない自信があるのなら、TSはブロンズが取れればラッキー程度の気持ちで挑戦するのもいいだろう。 自機のレーザーはレバーを左右に入れながら撃つと斜めに、ニュートラルだと真下に発射。 死亡時の墜落は誘導すれば砲台を破壊できるので、必ず報復するべし。 Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Arcade) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 40,000 75,000 100,000 サバイバー 2分 4分 8分 タイムスペンダー 60分 90分 120分 2面(STAR)で相手を倒さずに手裏剣を迎撃・回避し続ければ自分が死なない限り永久パターンとなる。 ただし、時間経過で難易度がかなり上がるため、TS獲得となると往年の猛者でないと難しいだろう。 上段迎撃はレバー後ろ＋キック、中段はレバー前＋パンチ or キック、下段はレバー下＋キックがよいだろう。 手裏剣を全て迎撃はできないので、アドリブのしゃがみ・ジャンプで回避も必要。 ここまででSV＆TSメダルは20個以上集まっているはず。 もし強制終了バグ連発などでTSメダルが20個に届かなかった場合はランキング非対応タイトルを放置して稼げばよい。 使用条件は限られるものの、後述のトークン使用によるTSメダル獲得法を使う手もある。 完全版(実績コンプのためには最低1本の購入が必要)でTSゴールドが確実に1つ貰えるのも忘れずに。 ポイントバスター＆サバイバー稼ぎ編 残りのメダルポイント(PBメダルが20個に未達ならそちらも)は自分でタイトルを選んで稼ぐ事になる。 ゲーム自体の難易度はもちろんメダル獲得の難易度もマチマチなため、デモで様子見＆練習から入るのが無難。 昔遊んで自信があるタイトルがあれば当然それで頑張るのが有利だが、 Game Roomの環境自体の問題があるので、やはり一度はデモで試す事を推奨。 (例えばコナミ系だとエブリエクステンドが1回のみに変更されていたり入力の遅延が酷いケース等がある) コナミやATARIのアーケード物はXBLAで配信中の物も複数あるので、 両方が完全コンパチとは限らないが、XBLA版を持っていればそれで練習するのもよいだろう。 プレイセッション購入時のメダル獲得条件について 本作はタイトル購入前に各メダルの獲得条件を知ることができない上に、1セッション購入だと画面左のメダル進捗状況の表示がおかしく、ブロンズ以上の獲得条件はゲーム内で確認できないと考えた方がいい。 よって、こちらを参考に事前に条件をチェックしておく事。 https //docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ann6kq7uN6XKdFlkdmVWb3JTbjN5YWdNWUQxdmlodUE hl=en rm=full#gid=0 海外有志の調査のため一部抜け等がありますが、情報なしよりは遥かにマシでしょう。 トークンを利用したTSメダル獲得法について 前項でリストアップしたお手軽タイトル群とは違い、 1セッション購入でのTSメダル獲得は相当難しい(あるいは獲得不可能な)事がほとんどだが、 デモプレイとトークン使用によるプレイ時間もTSの累計に加算される仕様を利用すれば簡単にメダルを獲得できる。 例えば、Buzz Bombersなら事前にデモプレイ＋トークンプレイ8回で総プレイ時間を90分突破させておけば、 1セッション購入で即ゲームオーバーになってもTSゴールドを獲得できる。 となれば、何とかしてトークンを荒稼ぎしてTSゴールドを取りまくりたいところだが、 実践するには以下のようなハードルがあり、これをガンガン活用できる人はかなり限られるだろう。 フレンドのアーケード訪問によるトークン獲得はおそらく1日1枚まで。専用サーバー側で情報を管理していると思われるので、抜け道は多分なし。 セルフ談合のトークンプレイでトークンを増やすには本体が複数必要(購入情報が本体紐付けのため本体1台だとサブタグでトークンプレイが選べない)。 トークンを使用できるのはショーケースアーケードかフレンドのアーケードに設置中のタイトルのみ。 フレンドと協力してお互いにサブタグを量産し、相手のアーケードでトークンプレイでトークンを送りあうのが現実的なところだが、 実はゲーマータグの新規作成には1日あたりの作成数の制限がある上に、 現在そのような酔狂に付き合ってくれるフレンドが居るかも問題となるだろう。 ポイントバスター＆サバイバーのゴールド獲得が容易なタイトルの一例 ※筆者の主観で選んでいるので当然難易度に個人差はあります Buzz Bombers (Intellivision) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 20,000 30,000 40,000 サバイバー 5分 7分 10分 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 固定画面シューティングだが、敵が攻撃してくる事がないため回避の概念がない。 初期難度も低めで、少し練習すればPB・SV共にゴールド獲得できるだろう。 デモプレイとトークン使用で10分ずつプレイした後に1セッション購入で10分以上粘れればTSブロンズが獲得できるのもおいしい。 【ゲームの基本】 弾を撃つたびにBGMが途切れて気持ち悪いのはオリジナルに忠実な仕様らしいので我慢しましょう。 画面左下のスプレー缶は残機ではなく残り弾数。1缶56発で一定得点毎に1缶追加。つまり本作のプレイスタイルはムダ撃ちを避け高得点を逃さないのが基本となる。 黄色のハチは止まった時を狙うとよい。白いハチは高速で移動し止まる事はない。 蜂の巣(六角形)は壊さずにハチドリに食べさせると高得点。白いハチが残す赤い巣はさらに高得点。ハチドリは気まぐれで消化ペースも遅いので、邪魔なものは壊してしまっても構わない。 大きな巣(作り方不明)は残しておけば面クリア時にボーナス点が入る。 ハチが画面下端まで到達してしまうと花が咲いて移動を遮られるが、面クリアすれば花は全て消滅する。全く動けない状態で自機も花に潰されると、ペナルティとして弾数が減った上にステージの最初からやり直しとなる。 Missile Command (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 2,000 8,000 13,000 サバイバー 2分 4分 5分 タイムスペンダー 30分 60分 90分 アーケード版よりシンプル＆易しめで、ある程度練習すればPB・SV共にゴールドも狙えるだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 都市が全滅しない限りゲームオーバーにならないので、都市が減った土壇場での粘り方を覚える事。敵ミサイルの弾道をよく見て、都市と中央の基地に直撃コースの物のみ撃ち漏らさないよう集中して他は無視でよい。 Pitfall! (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 10,000 20,000 サバイバー 10分 15分 19分 タイムスペンダー 60分 90分 120分 単純明快なジャンプアクション。 ATARI 2600屈指のヒット作だけあってか、操作性・ゲーム性に変なクセがなく遊びやすいはず。 実力不問でSVゴールドが取れるのがおいしい。多少練習すればPBゴールドも容易。 【ゲームの基本】 ひたすら地上を進み、スコアが2万を超えたら敵のいない場所で左上のタイマー切れまで放置すればPB＆SVゴールド獲得。スコアが2万に届かないまま残機がラスト1人になってしまった場合は、SVゴールドを優先してそのまま放置してもよいだろう。 左右どちらに進んでもあまり難易度は変わらない。死んだ時は画面の左端から再スタートとなるので、左側へ進む方が若干楽かも。 丸太に当たったり落とし穴(小)に落ちても、スコアが減るのみでミスにはならない。 地上に何もない場面では必ず中央に大穴が開く。一旦待って閉じてから進むこと。 ワニは右端の目のあたりに乗れば口を開いても死なない。一気に3匹飛び越えるのは難しいので、これを利用してゆっくり渡るとよいだろう。 Plaque Attack (ATARI 2600) メダル獲得条件 ブロンズ シルバー ゴールド ポイントバスター 5,000 10,000 20,000 サバイバー 2分 4分 6分 タイムスペンダー 45分 60分 90分 ヘンテコな題材とゲーム性だが、敵に触れても一切ペナルティがないので取っつき易い。 セオリーを理解してある程度練習すれば、PB・SV共にゴールドも狙えるだろう。 【ゲームの基本】 ショットは単発だが、ボタン押しっぱなしでフルオート連射。 ステージ開始後約35秒経過でタイムオーバーとなる。即ゲームオーバーではないが、攻撃不可能になり敵が全て歯にくっ付くので終わらなければラッキーというのが現実。 食べ物の挙動は上下どちらかの歯を狙う→一度くっ付くと反転して反対側の歯を狙うの繰り返し。横列を2匹以上残すとまとめて歯にくっ付かれるので、わざと1匹残すようにすれば被害を抑えやすい。 歯が残りわずかになったら、その歯の上下に位置して死守するようにすれば粘りやすいが、タイムオーバーには注意。 余談：40MSPで一気に135G解除法 実績を消したいゲーム投票があれば世界No.1候補とも噂される本作ですが、 解除率に拘らないなら、わずか40MSPで135G獲得できる優良ブーストゲーだったりもします。 無料で解除可能な実績と合わせれば、ほとんど苦労せずに240Gまで解除可能。 方法は簡単、先述した放置でTS取れるタイトルを1セッション購入して36時間ぶっ通しで連コン放置するだけ。 ただし、PBもブロンズは獲得しなければならないので最低限の練習は必要です。 この場合のお勧めタイトルはDolphin、Super Breakout (Arcade)、Thunder Castleあたり。
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str_no_string|NO STRING! str_empty_string| str_yes|Yes. str_no|No. str_blank_string| str_noone|no one str_s50_and_s51|{s50} and {s51} str_s52_and_s51|{s52} and {s51} str_s5_s_party|{s5}'s Party str_given_by_s1_at_s2|Given by {s1} at {s2} str_given_by_s1_in_wilderness|Given by {s1} whilst in the field str_s7_raiders|{s7} Raiders str_bandits_eliminated_by_another|The troublesome bandits have been eliminated by another party. str_msg_battle_won|Battle won! Press tab key to leave... str_tutorial_map1|You are now viewing the overland map. Left-click on the map to move your party to that location, enter the selected town, or pursue the selected party. Time will pause on the overland map if your party is not moving, waiting or resting. To wait anywhere simply press and hold down the space bar. str_randomize|Randomize str_charge|Charge str_color|Color str_flip_horizontal|Flip Horizontal str_flip_vertical|Flip Vertical str_hold_fire|Hold Fire str_blunt_hold_fire|Blunt / Hold Fire str_tutorial_ammo_refilled|Ammo refilled. str_tutorial_failed|You have been beaten this time, but don't worry. Follow the instructions carefully and you'll do better next time. Press the Tab key to return to to the menu where you can retry this tutorial. str_finished|(Finished) str_delivered_damage|Delivered {reg60} damage. str_archery_target_hit|Distance {reg61} yards. Score {reg60} str_use_baggage_for_inventory|Use your baggage to access your inventory during battle (it's at your starting position). str_cant_use_inventory_now|Can't access inventory now. str_cant_use_inventory_arena|Can't access inventory in the arena. str_cant_use_inventory_disguised|Can't access inventory while you're disguised. str_cant_use_inventory_tutorial|Can't access inventory in the training camp. str_1_denar|1 denar str_reg1_denars|{reg1} denars str_january_reg1_reg2|January {reg1}, {reg2} str_february_reg1_reg2|February {reg1}, {reg2} str_march_reg1_reg2|March {reg1}, {reg2} str_april_reg1_reg2|April {reg1}, {reg2} str_may_reg1_reg2|May {reg1}, {reg2} str_june_reg1_reg2|June {reg1}, {reg2} str_july_reg1_reg2|July {reg1}, {reg2} str_august_reg1_reg2|August {reg1}, {reg2} str_september_reg1_reg2|September {reg1}, {reg2} str_october_reg1_reg2|October {reg1}, {reg2} str_november_reg1_reg2|November {reg1}, {reg2} str_december_reg1_reg2|December {reg1}, {reg2} str_town_nighttime| It is late at night and honest folk have abandoned the streets. str_door_locked|The door is locked. str_castle_is_abondened|The castle seems to be unoccupied. str_town_is_abondened|The town has no garrison defending it. str_place_is_occupied_by_player|The place is held by your own troops. str_place_is_occupied_by_enemy|The place is held by hostile troops. str_place_is_occupied_by_friendly|The place is held by friendly troops. str_do_you_want_to_retreat|Are you sure you want to retreat? str_give_up_fight|Give up the fight? str_do_you_wish_to_leave_tutorial|Do you wish to leave the tutorial? str_do_you_wish_to_surrender|Do you wish to surrender? str_can_not_retreat|Can't retreat, there are enemies nearby! str_s1_joined_battle_enemy|{s1} has joined the battle on the enemy side. str_s1_joined_battle_friend|{s1} has joined the battle on your side. str_entrance_to_town_forbidden|The town guards are on the lookout for intruders and it seems that you won't be able to pass through the gates unchallenged. str_sneaking_to_town_impossible|The town guards are alarmed. You wouldn't be able to sneak through that gate no matter how well you disguised yourself. str_battle_won|You have won the battle! str_battle_lost|You have lost the battle! str_attack_walls_success|After a bloody fight, your brave soldiers manage to claim the walls from the enemy. str_attack_walls_failure|Your soldiers fall in waves as they charge the walls, and the few who remain alive soon rout and run away, never to be seen again. str_attack_walls_continue|A bloody battle ensues and both sides fight with equal valour. Despite the efforts of your troops, the castle remains in enemy hands. str_order_attack_success|Your men fight bravely and defeat the enemy. str_order_attack_failure|You watch the battle in despair as the enemy cuts your soldiers down, then easily drives off the few ragged survivors. str_order_attack_continue|Despite an extended skirmish, your troops were unable to win a decisive victory. str_join_order_attack_success|Your men fight well alongside your allies, sharing in the glory as your enemies are beaten. str_join_order_attack_failure|You watch the battle in despair as the enemy cuts your soldiers down, then easily drives off the few ragged survivors. str_join_order_attack_continue|Despite an extended skirmish, neither your troops nor your allies were able to win a decisive victory over the enemy. str_siege_defender_order_attack_success|The men of the garrison hold their walls with skill and courage, breaking the enemy assault and skillfully turning the defeat into a full-fledged rout. str_siege_defender_order_attack_failure|The assault quickly turns into a bloodbath. Valiant efforts are for naught; the overmatched garrison cannot hold the walls, and the enemy puts every last defender to the sword. str_siege_defender_order_attack_continue|Repeated, bloody attempts on the walls fail to gain any ground, but too many enemies remain for the defenders to claim a true victory. The siege continues. str_hero_taken_prisoner|{s1} of {s3} has been taken prisoner by {s2}. str_hero_freed|{s1} of {s3} has been freed from captivity by {s2}. str_center_captured|{s2} have taken {s1} from {s3}. str_troop_relation_increased|Your relation with {s1} has increased from {reg1} to {reg2}. str_troop_relation_detoriated|Your relation with {s1} has deteriorated from {reg1} to {reg2}. str_faction_relation_increased|Your relation with {s1} has increased from {reg1} to {reg2}. str_faction_relation_detoriated|Your relation with {s1} has deteriorated from {reg1} to {reg2}. str_party_gained_morale|Your party gains {reg1} morale. str_party_lost_morale|Your party loses {reg1} morale. str_other_party_gained_morale|{s1} gains {reg1} morale. str_other_party_lost_morale|{s1} loses {reg1} morale. str_qst_follow_spy_noticed_you|The spy has spotted you! He's making a run for it! str_father|father str_husband|husband str_wife|wife str_daughter|daughter str_mother|mother str_son|son str_brother|brother str_sister|sister str_he|He str_she|She str_s3s_s2|{s3}'s {s2} str_s5_is_s51|{s5} is {s51}. str_s5_is_the_ruler_of_s51|{s5} is the ruler of {s51}. str_s5_is_a_nobleman_of_s6|{s5} is a nobleman of {s6}. str_relation_mnus_100|Vengeful str_relation_mnus_90|Vengeful str_relation_mnus_80|Vengeful str_relation_mnus_70|Hateful str_relation_mnus_60|Hateful str_relation_mnus_50| Hostile str_relation_mnus_40| Angry str_relation_mnus_30| Resentful str_relation_mnus_20| Grumbling str_relation_mnus_10| Suspicious str_relation_plus_0| Indifferent str_relation_plus_10| Cooperative str_relation_plus_20| Welcoming str_relation_plus_30| Favorable str_relation_plus_40| Supportive str_relation_plus_50| Friendly str_relation_plus_60| Gracious str_relation_plus_70| Fond str_relation_plus_80| Loyal str_relation_plus_90| Devoted str_relation_mnus_100_ns|{s60} is vengeful towards you. str_relation_mnus_90_ns|{s60} is vengeful towards you. str_relation_mnus_80_ns|{s60} is vengeful towards you. str_relation_mnus_70_ns|{s60} is hateful towards you. str_relation_mnus_60_ns|{s60} is hateful towards you. str_relation_mnus_50_ns|{s60} is hostile towards you. str_relation_mnus_40_ns|{s60} is angry towards you. str_relation_mnus_30_ns|{s60} is resentful against you. str_relation_mnus_20_ns|{s60} is grumbling against you. str_relation_mnus_10_ns|{s60} is suspicious towards you. str_relation_plus_0_ns|{s60} is indifferent against you. str_relation_plus_10_ns|{s60} is cooperative towards you. str_relation_plus_20_ns|{s60} is welcoming towards you. str_relation_plus_30_ns|{s60} is favorable to you. str_relation_plus_40_ns|{s60} is supportive to you. str_relation_plus_50_ns|{s60} is friendly to you. str_relation_plus_60_ns|{s60} is gracious to you. str_relation_plus_70_ns|{s60} is fond of you. str_relation_plus_80_ns|{s60} is loyal to you. str_relation_plus_90_ns|{s60} is devoted to you. str_relation_reg1| Relation {reg1} str_center_relation_mnus_100|The populace hates you with a passion str_center_relation_mnus_90|The populace hates you intensely str_center_relation_mnus_80|The populace hates you strongly str_center_relation_mnus_70|The populace hates you str_center_relation_mnus_60|The populace is hateful to you str_center_relation_mnus_50|The populace is extremely hostile to you str_center_relation_mnus_40|The populace is very hostile to you str_center_relation_mnus_30|The populace is hostile to you str_center_relation_mnus_20|The populace is against you str_center_relation_mnus_10|The populace is opposed to you str_center_relation_plus_0|The populace is indifferent to you str_center_relation_plus_10|The populace is acceptive to you str_center_relation_plus_20|The populace is cooperative to you str_center_relation_plus_30|The populace is somewhat supportive to you str_center_relation_plus_40|The populace is supportive 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opulent and crowded with well-to-do people. str_town_prosperity_100|The glittering town of {s60} openly flaunts its great wealth. str_village_prosperity_0|The poverty of the village of {s60} is unbearable. str_village_prosperity_10|The village of {s60} looks wretchedly poor and miserable. str_village_prosperity_20|The village of {s60} looks very poor and desolate. str_village_prosperity_30|The village of {s60} looks poor and neglected. str_village_prosperity_40|The village of {s60} appears to be somewhat poor and struggling. str_village_prosperity_50|The village of {s60} seems unremarkable. str_village_prosperity_60|The village of {s60} seems to be flourishing. str_village_prosperity_70|The village of {s60} appears to be thriving. str_village_prosperity_80|The village of {s60} looks rich and well-maintained. str_village_prosperity_90|The village of {s60} looks very rich and prosperous. str_village_prosperity_100|The village of {s60}, surrounded by vast, fertile fields, looks immensely rich. str_town_alt_prosperity_0|Those few items sold in the market appear to be priced well out of the range of the inhabitants. The people are malnourished, their animals are sick or dying, and the tools of their trade appear to be broken. The back alleys have been abandoned to flies and mangy dogs. str_town_alt_prosperity_20|You hear grumbling in the marketplace about the price of everyday items and the shops are half empty. You see the signs of malnourishment on both people and animals, and both buildings and tools suffer from lack of repair. Many may already have migrated to seek work elsewhere. str_town_alt_prosperity_40|You hear the occasional grumble in the marketplace about the price of everyday items, but there appear to be a reasonable amount of goods for sale. You see the occasional abandoned building, shop, or cart, but nothing more than the ordinary. str_town_alt_prosperity_60|The people look well-fed and relatively content. Craftsmen do a thriving business, and some migrants appear to be coming here from other regions to seek their luck. str_town_alt_prosperity_80|The walls, streets, and homes are well-maintained. The markets are thronged with migrants from the nearby regions drawn here by the availability of both goods and work. The rhythm of hammers and looms speak to the business of the artisans' workshops. str_village_alt_prosperity_0|Only a handful of people are strong enough to work in the fields, many of which are becoming overgrown with weeds. The rest are weak and malnourished, or have already fled elsewhere. The draft animals have long since starved or were eaten, although a few carcasses still lie on the outskirts, their bones knawed by wild beasts. str_village_alt_prosperity_20|Some farmers and animals are out in the fields, but their small numbers suggest that some villagers may be emigrating in search of food. Farm implements look rusty and broken. Brush and weeds seem to be reclaiming some of the outermost fields. str_village_alt_prosperity_40|The fields and orchards are busy, with villagers engaged in the tasks of the seasons. Humans and animals alike look relatively healthy and well-fed. However, a small number of the outermost fields are left unsewn, and some walls are in ill repair, suggesting that there are still not quite enough hands to do all the work which needs to be done. str_village_alt_prosperity_60|The fields and orchards are humming with activity, with filled sacks of grain and drying meat testifying to the productivity of the village's cropland and pastureland. str_village_alt_prosperity_80|The fields and orchards are humming with activity, with freshly dug irrigation ditches suggest that the farmers have enough spare time and energy to expand area under cultivation. Seasonal laborers appear to be flocking here to help with the work and join in the general prosperity. str_oasis_village_alt_prosperity_0|The palm groves are virtually abandoned, and the canals which irrigate them are clogged with silt. The handful of villagers you see look malnourished and restless. The draft animals have long since starved or were eaten, although a few carcasses still lie on the outskirts, their bones knawed by the wild jackals of the desert. str_oasis_village_alt_prosperity_20|Few villagers can be seen tending to the palm groves, and in places, the desert dunes appear to be encroaching on the gardens. Many of the canals are clogged with silt, and the wells and cisterns are filled with sand. str_oasis_village_alt_prosperity_40|Men and women are busy tending the palm groves, climbing to the tops of trees to pollinate the fruit. Healthy animals draw the pumps and wheels that bring water to the fields. Some of the irrigation canals and cisterns, however, could use some maintenance. str_oasis_village_alt_prosperity_60|The palm groves and orchards are humming with activity. Farmers call to each other cheerfully from the tops of the trees, where they pollinate the date fruit. The creak of wooden pumps, the bellowing of draft animals, and the rush of flowing water speak of an irrigation system that is thriving under the villagers' attention. str_oasis_village_alt_prosperity_80|The palm groves are humming with activity, as farmers load up a bumper crop of dates for sale to the market. Men and women are hard at work digging new wells and canals, to bring additional land under irrigation. str_acres_grain|acres of grainfields str_acres_orchard|acres of orchards and vineyards str_acres_oasis|acres of irrigated oasis gardens str_looms|looms str_boats|boats str_head_cattle|head of cattle str_head_sheep|head of sheep str_mills|mills str_kilns|kilns str_pans|pans str_deposits|deposits str_hives|hives str_breweries|breweries str_presses|presses str_smithies|smithies str_caravans|overland caravans str_traps|traps str_gardens|small gardens str_tanneries|tanning vats str_master_miller|Master miller str_master_brewer|Master brewer str_master_presser|Master presser str_master_smith|Master smith str_master_tanner|Master tanner str_master_weaver|Master weaver str_master_dyer|Master dyer str_war_report_minus_4|we are about to lose the war str_war_report_minus_3|the situation looks bleak str_war_report_minus_2|things aren't going too well for us str_war_report_minus_1|we can still win the war if we rally str_war_report_0|we are evenly matched with the enemy str_war_report_plus_1|we have a fair chance of winning the war str_war_report_plus_2|things are going quite well str_war_report_plus_3|we should have no difficulty defeating them str_war_report_plus_4|we are about to win the war str_persuasion_summary_very_bad|You try your best to persuade {s50}, but none of your arguments seem to come out right. Every time you start to make sense, you seem to say something entirely wrong that puts you off track. By the time you finish speaking you've failed to form a single coherent point in your own favour, and you realise that all you've done was dig yourself deeper into a hole. Unsurprisingly, {s50} does not look impressed. str_persuasion_summary_bad|You try to persuade {s50}, but {reg51?she he} outmanoeuvres you from the very start. Even your best arguments sound hollow to your own ears. {s50}, likewise, has not formed a very high opinion of what you had to say. str_persuasion_summary_average|{s50} turns out to be a skilled speaker with a keen mind, and you can't seem to bring forth anything concrete that {reg51?she he} cannot counter with a rational point. In the end, neither of you manage to gain any ground in this discussion. str_persuasion_summary_good|Through quick thinking and smooth argumentation, you manage to state your case well, forcing {s50} to concede on several points. However, {reg51?she he} still expresses doubts about your request. str_persuasion_summary_very_good|You deliver an impassioned speech that echoes through all listening ears like poetry. The world itself seems to quiet down in order to hear you better . The inspiring words have moved {s50} deeply, and {reg51?she he} looks much more well-disposed towards helping you. str_secret_sign_1|The armoire dances at midnight... str_secret_sign_2|I am selling these fine Khergit tapestries. Would you like to buy some? str_secret_sign_3|The friend of a friend sent me... str_secret_sign_4|The wind blows hard from the east and the river runs red... str_countersign_1|But does he dance for the dresser or the candlestick? str_countersign_2|Yes I would, do you have any in blue? str_countersign_3|But, my friend, your friend's friend will never have a friend like me. str_countersign_4|Have you been sick? str_name_1|Albard str_name_2|Euscarl str_name_3|Sigmar str_name_4|Talesqe str_name_5|Ritmand str_name_6|Aels str_name_7|Raurqe str_name_8|Bragamus str_name_9|Taarl str_name_10|Ramin str_name_11|Shulk str_name_12|Putar str_name_13|Tamus str_name_14|Reichad str_name_15|Walcheas str_name_16|Rulkh str_name_17|Marlund str_name_18|Auguryn str_name_19|Daynad str_name_20|Joayah str_name_21|Ramar str_name_22|Caldaran str_name_23|Brabas str_name_24|Kundrin str_name_25|Pechnak str_surname_1|{s50} of Uxhal str_surname_2|{s50} of Wercheg str_surname_3|{s50} of Reyvadin str_surname_4|{s50} of Suno str_surname_5|{s50} of Jelkala str_surname_6|{s50} of Veluca str_surname_7|{s50} of Halmar str_surname_8|{s50} of Curaw str_surname_9|{s50} of Sargoth str_surname_10|{s50} of Tihr str_surname_11|{s50} of Zendar str_surname_12|{s50} of Rivacheg str_surname_13|{s50} of Wercheg str_surname_14|{s50} of Ehlerdag str_surname_15|{s50} of Yaragar str_surname_16|{s50} of Burglen str_surname_17|{s50} of Shapeshte str_surname_18|{s50} of Hanun str_surname_19|{s50} of Saren str_surname_20|{s50} of Tosdhar str_surname_21|{s50} the Long str_surname_22|{s50} the Gaunt str_surname_23|{s50} Silkybeard str_surname_24|{s50} the Sparrow str_surname_25|{s50} the Pauper str_surname_26|{s50} the Scarred str_surname_27|{s50} the Fair str_surname_28|{s50} the Grim str_surname_29|{s50} the Red str_surname_30|{s50} the Black str_surname_31|{s50} the Tall str_surname_32|{s50} Star-Eyed str_surname_33|{s50} the Fearless str_surname_34|{s50} the Valorous str_surname_35|{s50} the Cunning str_surname_36|{s50} the Coward str_surname_37|{s50} Bright str_surname_38|{s50} the Quick str_surname_39|{s50} the Minstrel str_surname_40|{s50} the Bold str_surname_41|{s50} Hot-Head str_surnames_end|surnames end str_number_of_troops_killed_reg1|Number of troops killed {reg1} str_number_of_troops_wounded_reg1|Number of troops wounded {reg1} str_number_of_own_troops_killed_reg1|Number of friendly troops killed {reg1} str_number_of_own_troops_wounded_reg1|Number of friendly troops wounded {reg1} str_retreat|Retreat! str_siege_continues|Fighting Continues... str_casualty_display|Your casualties {s10}^Enemy casualties {s11}{s12} str_casualty_display_hp|^You were wounded for {reg1} hit points. str_quest_log_updated|Quest log has been updated... str_banner_selection_text|You have been awarded the right to carry a banner. Your banner will signify your status and bring you honour. Which banner do you want to choose? str_retirement_text_1|Only too late do you realise that your money won't last. It doesn't take you long to fritter away what little you bothered to save, and you fare poorly in several desperate attempts to start adventuring again. You end up a beggar in {s9}, living on alms and the charity of the church. str_retirement_text_2|Only too late do you realise that your money won't last. It doesn't take you long to fritter away what little you bothered to save. Once every denar has evaporated in your hands you are forced to start a life of crime in the backstreets of {s9}, using your skills to eke out a living robbing coppers from women and poor townsmen. str_retirement_text_3|Only too late do you realise that your money won't last. It doesn't take you long to fritter away what little you bothered to save, and you end up a penniless drifter, going from tavern to tavern blagging drinks from indulgent patrons by regaling them with war stories that no one ever believes. str_retirement_text_4|The silver you've saved doesn't last long, but you manage to put together enough to buy some land near the village of {s7}. There you become a free farmer, and you soon begin to attract potential {wives/husbands}. In time the villagers come to treat you as their local hero. You always receive a place of honour at feasts, and your exploits are told and retold in the pubs and taverns so that the children may keep a memory of you for ever and ever. str_retirement_text_5|The silver you've saved doesn't last long, but it's enough to buy a small tavern in {s9}. Although the locals are wary of you at first, they soon accept you into their midst. In time your growing tavern becomes a popular feasthall and meeting place. People come for miles to eat or stay there due to your sheer renown and the epic stories you tell of your adventuring days. str_retirement_text_6|You've saved wisely throughout your career, and now your silver and your intelligence allow you to make some excellent investments to cement your future. After buying several shops and warehouses in {s9}, your shrewdness turns you into one of the most prominent merchants in town, and you soon become a wealthy {man/woman} known as much for your trading empire as your exploits in battle. str_retirement_text_7|As a landed noble, however minor, your future is all but assured. You settle in your holdfast at {s7}, administrating the village and fields, adjudicating the local courts and fulfilling your obligations to your liege lord. Occasionally your liege calls you to muster and command in his campaigns, but these stints are brief, and you never truly return to the adventuring of your younger days. You have already made your fortune. With your own hall and holdings, you've few wants that your personal wealth and the income of your lands cannot afford you. str_retirement_text_8|There is no question that you've done very well for yourself. Your extensive holdings and adventuring wealth are enough to guarantee you a rich and easy life for the rest of your days. Retiring to your noble seat in {s8}, you exchange adventure for politics, and you soon establish yourself as a considerable power in your liege lord's kingdom. With intrigue to busy yourself with, your own forests to hunt, a hall to feast in and a hundred fine war stories to tell, you have little trouble making the best of the years that follow. str_retirement_text_9|As a reward for your competent and loyal service, your liege lord decrees that you be given a hereditary title, joining the major nobility of the realm. Soon you complete your investitute as baron of {s7}, and you become one of your liege's close advisors and adjutants. Your renown garners you much subtle pull and influence as well as overt political power. Now you spend your days playing the games of power, administering your great fiefs, and recounting the old times of adventure and glory. str_retirement_text_10|Though you started from humble beginnings, your liege lord holds you in high esteem, and a ripple of shock passes through the realm when he names you to the hereditary title of {count/countess} of {s9}. Vast fiefs and fortunes are now yours to rule. You quickly become your liege's most trusted advisor, almost his equal and charged with much of the running of his realm, and you sit a throne in your own splendourous palace as one of the most powerful figures in Calradia. str_loot_village|attack innocent villagers str_steal_from_villagers|steal from poor villagers str_rob_caravan|rob a merchant caravan str_sell_slavery|sell people into slavery str_men_hungry|run out of food str_men_unpaid|not be able to pay the men str_excessive_casualties|turn every battle into a bloodbath for our side str_surrender|surrender to the enemy str_flee_battle|run from battle str_pay_bandits|pay off common bandits str_fail_quest|fail a quest which we undertook on word of honour str_squander_money|squander money given to us in trust str_murder_merchant|involve ourselves in cold-blooded murder str_round_up_serfs|round up serfs on behalf of some noble str_battle_fate_1|We were separated in the heat of battle str_battle_fate_2|I was wounded and left for dead str_battle_fate_3|I was knocked senseless by the enemy str_battle_fate_4|I was taken and held for ransom str_battle_fate_5|I got captured, but later managed to escape str_npc_morale_report|I'm {s6} your choice of companions, {s7} your style of leadership, and {s8} the general state of affairs str_happy|happy about str_content|content with str_concerned|concerned about str_not_happy|not at all happy about str_miserable|downright appalled at str_morale_reg1| Morale {reg1} str_bar_enthusiastic| Enthusiastic str_bar_content| Content str_bar_weary| Weary str_bar_disgruntled| Disgruntled str_bar_miserable| Miserable str_here_plus_space|here str_npc1_intro|Ho there, traveller. You wouldn't by chance be in the market for a tracker, would you? str_npc2_intro|Hello. Would you be so kind as to have a cup with me? I'm down to my last five denars and I'd rather not drink alone. str_npc3_intro|Good day to you! str_npc4_intro|Greetings. I am Rolf, son of Rolf, of the most ancient and puissant House of Rolf. str_npc5_intro|Greetings, traveller. Would you join me for a drink? str_npc6_intro|I am lost... Lost... str_npc7_intro|Yes? Keep your distance, by the way. str_npc8_intro|What do you want? str_npc9_intro|You there, good {man/woman}, be so kind as to fetch me another drink, eh? str_npc10_intro|Greetings there, {Brother/Sister}! Here's to the doom and downfall of all high-born lords and ladies! str_npc11_intro|Hello there, {laddie/lassie}. Have a drink on me. str_npc12_intro|Greetings, fellow traveller. Perhaps you can help me. str_npc13_intro|Greetings, traveller. I am Nizar. No doubt you will have heard of me. str_npc14_intro|Yes? What is it you wish? str_npc15_intro|Oh! Say, friend, are you by chance heading out of town anytime soon? str_npc16_intro|Hello there. From the look of you, I'd say you're expecting to get into some fights in the near future. Are you by any chance looking for some help? str_npc1_intro_response_1|Perhaps. What's the urgency? str_npc2_intro_response_1|Your last five denars? What happened to you? str_npc3_intro_response_1|Hello. What's a clearly well-brought up young lady like you doing in a place like this? str_npc4_intro_response_1|Hmm... I have never heard of the House of Rolf. str_npc5_intro_response_1|Certainly. With whom do I have the pleasure of drinking? str_npc6_intro_response_1|Why so gloomy, friend? str_npc7_intro_response_1|My apologies. I was merely going to say that you look a bit down on your luck. str_npc8_intro_response_1|Merely to pass the time of day, ma'am, if you're not otherwise engaged. str_npc9_intro_response_1|You must have me confused with the tavernkeep, sir. str_npc10_intro_response_1|Why do you say that, sir? str_npc11_intro_response_1|What's the occasion? str_npc12_intro_response_1|How is that? str_npc13_intro_response_1|Um... I don't think so. str_npc14_intro_response_1|To pass the time of day with a fellow traveller, if you permit. str_npc15_intro_response_1|I am. What concern is it of your, may I ask? str_npc16_intro_response_1|I could be. What's your story? str_npc1_intro_response_2|Step back, sir, and keep your hand away from my purse. str_npc2_intro_response_2|I have better things to do. str_npc3_intro_response_2|Run along now, girl. I have work to do. str_npc4_intro_response_2|Eh? No thanks, we don't want any. str_npc5_intro_response_2|I have no time for that. str_npc6_intro_response_2|No doubt. Well, good luck getting found. str_npc7_intro_response_2|Right. I'll not bother you, then. str_npc8_intro_response_2|Nothing at all, from one so clearly disinclined to pleasantries. Good day to you. str_npc9_intro_response_2|Fetch it yourself! str_npc10_intro_response_2|That's rebel talk, and I'll hear none of it. Good day to you. str_npc11_intro_response_2|I think not, madame. str_npc12_intro_response_2|Sorry, I am afraid that I am otherwise engaged right now. str_npc13_intro_response_2|No, and I can't say that I much want to make your acquaintance. str_npc14_intro_response_2|Nothing at all. My apologies. str_npc15_intro_response_2|I'd be obliged if you minded your own business, sir. str_npc16_intro_response_2|Mind your own business, lass. str_npc1_backstory_a|Well, {sir/madame}, it's a long story... str_npc2_backstory_a|It's a tragic tale, sir. str_npc3_backstory_a|A good question, and I shall tell you! str_npc4_backstory_a|Really? Well, perhaps your ignorance can be forgiven. Our ancestral lands are far away, over the mountains. str_npc5_backstory_a|I am Baheshtur, son of Azabei, grandson of Badzan. Were you not a barbarian, you would likely know from my lineage that I am a Roan Horse Khergit of the highlands, of the tribe of Shamir, of the clan of Dulam, of the family of Ubayn, from the Pantash valley, and you might be able to guess why I am so far from home. str_npc6_backstory_a|I have commited the greatest of sins, {sir/madame}, and it is to my shame that I must appoint you my confessor, if you should like to hear it. str_npc7_backstory_a|My luck? You could say that. str_npc8_backstory_a|Ah. Well, if you must know, I shall tell you. str_npc9_backstory_a|My most humble apologies. It is sometimes hard to recognize folk amid the smoke and gloom here. I still cannot believe that I must make my home in such a place. str_npc10_backstory_a|It's a long story, but if you get yourself a drink, I'll be glad to tell it. str_npc11_backstory_a|Why, I managed to sell my wagon and pots, {lad/lass}. For once I've got money to spend and I intend to make the best of it. str_npc12_backstory_a|I shall tell you -- but know that it is a tale of gross iniquity. I warn you in advance, lest you are of a choleric temperament, and so become incensed at the injustice done unto me that you do yourself a mischief. str_npc13_backstory_a|You have not? Then perhaps you will have heard of my steed, who cuts across the Calradian plains like a beam of moonlight? Or of my sword, a connoisseur of the blood of the highest-born princes of the land? str_npc14_backstory_a|Very well. I do not mind. My name is Lazalit. str_npc15_backstory_a|I'm an engineer, specialized in the art of fortification. If you need a wall knocked down, I can do that, given enough time. If you need a wall built back up, I can do that too, although it will take longer and cost you more. And you can't cut costs, either, unless you want your new edifice coming down underneath you, as someone around here has just found out. str_npc16_backstory_a|Well, {sir/madame}, as long as I can remember I've had a weakness for pretty things, and it's gotten me into trouble, you see. str_npc1_backstory_b|I had a bit of a misunderstanding {s19}in {s20} about a horse that I found tied up outside the inn. It was the spitting image of a beast that threw me a few days back and ran off. Naturally I untied it for a closer look. As it turns out, the horse belonged to a merchant, a pinch-faced old goat who wouldn't accept that it all was a simple misunderstanding, and went off to get the guard. str_npc2_backstory_b|A while back, I left Geroia with a caravan of goods. I was hoping to sell it all in Sargoth and make a hefty sum. But, what do you know... we were ambushed by a party of Khergit raiders who rode away with most of the horses and goods. And two days later, my own caravan guards ran away with the rest of what I had. str_npc3_backstory_b|My father, a well-known merchant {s19}in {s20}, decided that I should be married to one of his business partners, a man well past the age of 30. I have been an obedient daughter all of my life, but it was a ridiculous and horrid proposition. So I ran away! str_npc4_backstory_b|Like all the men of my family, I have come to a foreign land to make a name for myself in the profession of arms before returning home to take over custodianship of my estates. Unfortunately, the authorities in these lands have little understanding of the warrior code, and have chosen to call me a bandit and brigand, and put a price on my head -- a most unfair libel to throw at a gentleman adventurer, you will surely agree. str_npc5_backstory_b|For as long as any one can remember, our people have feuded with the tribe of Humyan, many of whom have settled in the next valley over. Many men have died in this feud, on both sides, including two of my brothers. The Khan himself has ordered us to cease, to save men for the wars in Calradia. But I know my rights, and my brothers' blood cries out for vengeance. I waylaid and killed a Humyan on a track over the mountains, and I rode out of our village the same night, without even having had the chance to bid farewell to my father. I will bide my time in Calradia, for a year or two, then return home when the Khan's men have forgotten. The Humyan will not forget, of course, but such is the price of honour. str_npc6_backstory_b|I was a captain of horse in the service of the lord {s19}in {s20}, and my brother served with me. But we were both in love with the same woman, a courtesan -- a temptress, who played upon our jealousies! My brother and I quarreled. I had drunk too much. He slapped me with his glove, and I spit him upon my sword... My own brother! My sword-arm was stained with the blood of my kin! str_npc7_backstory_b|It was my bad luck to be born to a weak father who married me off to a drunken layabout who beat me. It was my bad luck, when I ran away from my husband, to be taken by a group of bandits. It was my bad luck that the only one among them who was kind to me, who taught me to hunt and to fight, inspired the jealousy of the others, who knifed him and forced me to run away again. str_npc8_backstory_b|I am from an old family in the northern lands, the daughter of a thane and also wife to one. I fought by my husband's side, his partner both in war and in peace. But my husband died of the plague, when I was still childless. My husband had decreed that I should inherit his lands, in the absence of an heir. My brother-in-law, cursed be his name, said that it was not our custom that women could inherit a thanedom. That was nonsense, but his gold bought the loyalties of enough of my husband's faithless servants for him to install himself in my hall. So I fled, something I was raised never to do, and something I hope never to do again. str_npc9_backstory_b|I was my father's first son, and his heir. But my mother died, and my father remarried. His new wife thought that her son should inherit. She could not move against me openly, but the other day I fed a pot of suet that had been left out for me to one of my hounds, and it keeled over. I accused my stepmother, but my father, befuddled by her witchcraft, refused to believe me and ordered me to leave his sight. str_npc10_backstory_b|A sergeant I was, in the garrison {s19} at {s20}. Twenty years I stood guard for the city, taking many a hard knock in many a tough fight, until they appointed a snot-nosed, downy-lipped princeling, barely out of his mother's cradle, as commander of the garrison. He came upon me standing watch atop the tower, with my crossbow unstrung -- on account of the rain, you see... Can't have the cord loosen... But Little Prince Snot-Nose tells me that an unstrung bow is dereliction of duty. Says he'll have me horsewhipped. And something in me snapped. So I walked off my post. str_npc11_backstory_b|For 30 years I followed the armies of this land, selling them victuals and drink, watching their games of dice and finding them girls, and nary a denar was left in my purse at the end. str_npc12_backstory_b|I am by training a natural philosopher, but condemned by the jealousy of the thick-headed doctors of my university to make my living as an itinerant surgeon. I was hired by a merchant of this city to cure his son, who fell into a coma after a fall from his balcony. I successfully trepanned the patient's skull to reduce the cranial swelling, but the family ignored my advice to treat the ensuing fevers with a tincture of willow bark, and the boy died. The father, rather than reward me for my efforts, charged me with sorcery -- me, a philosopher of nature! Such is the ignorance and ingratitude of mankind. str_npc13_backstory_b|I am a warrior by profession. But perhaps you may also have heard of my prowess as a poet, who can move the iciest of maidens to swoon. Or of my prowess in the art of the bedchamber, in which I must confess a modest degree of skill. I confess a modest affection for Calradia, and for the past several years have visited its towns, castles, and villages, making the most of my talents. str_npc14_backstory_b|I am the second son of the count of Geroia, of whom you have no doubt heard. Having no inheritance of my own, I came here to seek my fortune in Calradia, training men in the art of battle. Unfortunately, the lord here in {s20} has no taste for the disciplinary methods needed to turn rabble into soldiers. I told him it was wiser to flog them now, then bury them later. But he would not listen, and I was told to take my services elsewhere. str_npc15_backstory_b|The castellan {s19}in {s20} wanted a new tower added to the wall. Trouble is, he ran out of cash halfway through the process, before I could complete the supports. I told him that it would collapse, and it did. Unfortunately he was standing on it, at the time. The new castellan didn't feel like honouring his predecessor's debts and implied that I might find myself charged with murder if I push the point. str_npc16_backstory_b|I grew up in Malayurg castle as a bonded servant, working alongside my mother in the kitchens. I would amuse myself by hunting mice through the pantries and sculleries. I was so good at it that I put the castle cats out of a job, and eventually the lord realized that I might also be employed to track down bigger game, on certain errands of a type perhaps better left unsaid. Needless to say, I found a number of opportunities to avail myself of trinkets that had formerly belonged to my lord's enemies. So I was able to buy myself out of bondage, and find hire as a free agent. My last job was {s19}in {s20}. str_npc1_backstory_c|But if I was with a larger group who could vouch for me, they might let it pass. I'd be very grateful to you. str_npc2_backstory_c|So here I am, no money and no way home. str_npc3_backstory_c|I shall marry whom I want, when I want. Moreover, regardless of what my father might think, I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I was thinking that I should perhaps join a band of gypsies, or perhaps a troop of mercenaries! str_npc4_backstory_c|But I am anxious to avoid any further trouble, so if you knew of any company of fighting men where I might enlist, I would be most grateful. str_npc5_backstory_c|In the meantime, any opportunities to earn a living with my sword would be most welcome. str_npc6_backstory_c|Do you believe there is hope for a man like me? Can I find the path of righteousness, or am I doomed to follow the demons that dwell inside of me? str_npc7_backstory_c|But I do not count myself unlucky, stranger, no more than any other woman of Calradia, this fetid backwater, this dungheap among the nations, populated by apes and jackals. str_npc8_backstory_c|When I have enough gold to raise an army I shall go back and take what it is mine. str_npc9_backstory_c|I hope to offer my sword to some worthy captain, as it is the only honourable profession for a man of my birth apart from owning land, but in the meantime I am condemned to make my bed among thieves, vagabonds, merchants, and the other riff-raff of the road. str_npc10_backstory_c|Now I'm here getting drunk, and the Devil take tomorrow. str_npc11_backstory_c|It's no kind of life, victualling the armies. You earn a bit here and a bit there as the soldiers spend their money, and then along comes one defeat and you have to start over, endebting yourself to buy a new wagon and new oxen. So I've decided to get out of the business, but army life is all I know. str_npc12_backstory_c|The lord of this castle is reluctant to place me under arrest, but I am anxious to move on elsewhere. str_npc13_backstory_c|Which reminds me -- somewhere out there in the city is a rather irate husband. I don't suppose you might consider helping me leave town? str_npc14_backstory_c|So, if you know of any commander who believes that his purpose is to win battles, rather than pamper his soldiers, I would be pleased if you directed me to him. str_npc15_backstory_c|More fool me for having taken the contract without an advance, I suppose, but the end of it all is that I'm in a difficult spot, with the roads full of bandits and no money to pay for an escort. So I'd be much obliged if a well-armed party heading out in the next few days could take me along. str_npc16_backstory_c|Unfortunately, my last employer's wife had a lovely amulet, of a kind I simply could not resist. She doesn't know it's missing, yet, but she might soon. So tell me, are you looking for helpers? str_npc1_backstory_later|I've been here and about, you know, doing my best to keep out of trouble. I'm desperately in need of work, however. str_npc2_backstory_later|I sold my boots and have managed to make a few denars peddling goods from town to town, but it's a hard living. str_npc3_backstory_later|I hired myself on as a cook for some passing caravans, and that at least keeps me fed. But it is rough company on the road, and I grow weary of fighting off guards and others who would try to take liberties. I was thinking that if I could find work as a warrior, men would know to leave me alone. str_npc4_backstory_later|I went back to my ancestral barony, to inspect my lands. But we had locusts, you see, and bad rains, and other things, so here I am again, looking for work. str_npc5_backstory_later|I've been wandering through this war-torn land, looking for a leader who is worth following. str_npc6_backstory_later|I have been wandering Calradia, but have yet to find redemption. str_npc7_backstory_later|I have been wandering, looking for work as a tracker, but it has not been easy. Calradians are mostly ill-bred, lice-ridden, and ignorant, and it is not easy to work with such people. str_npc8_backstory_later|I am still seeking a war leader in whose shield wall I would fight. But I need gold, and fast, and the lords of this land as often as not prefer to stay behind the walls of their fortresses, rather march out to where glory and riches can be won. str_npc9_backstory_later|I've offered my sword to a few lords in these parts. But I find as often as not they'll ask me to run messages, or train peasants, or some other job not fit for a gentleman. str_npc10_backstory_later|I don't know if I told you or not, but I deserted my unit after I struck a young noble who had ordered me to be horsewhipped without cause. Since then I've been laying low. Thankfully I had the wit to pilfer my captain's purse before heading out, but the money is running low. str_npc11_backstory_later|I've been around and about. But it's a rare captain who'll take on an old bag of bones like me as a fighter, even if I could whip half the boys in his outfit. str_npc12_backstory_later|I have been here and about, tending to the sick and taking what reward I can. But the people of these parts are ignorant, and have little respect for my craft. The few denars I make are barely enough for me to replenish my stock of medicine. I should be grateful for the chance to find other work. str_npc13_backstory_later|I have been wandering through the cities of Calradia, leaving a string of love-sick women and cuckolded husbands in my wake. But I grow weary of such simple challenges, and had been thinking of turning myself to more martial pastimes. str_npc14_backstory_later|I have gone from court to court, but I have not yet found a lord who is to my liking. str_npc15_backstory_later|I've been going from castle to castle, looking to see if walls or towers need repair. But either the lord's away, or he's got other things on his mind, or I run into his creditors on the street, begging for change, and I realize that here's one job not to take. So if you hear of anything, let me know. str_npc16_backstory_later|I do the odd job from time to time. But there's naught like steady employment, and a regular run of corpses to loot. str_npc1_backstory_response_1|Perhaps. But how do I know that there won't be a 'misunderstanding' about one of my horses? str_npc2_backstory_response_1|Well, perhaps I could offer you work. Can you fight? str_npc3_backstory_response_1|Well, as it happens I run a company of mercenaries. str_npc4_backstory_response_1|I run such a company, and might be able to hire an extra hand. str_npc5_backstory_response_1|That's the spirit! I might be able to offer you something. str_npc6_backstory_response_1|You could join us. Right wrongs, fight oppressors, redeem yourself, that kind of thing. str_npc7_backstory_response_1|Hmm... Are you by any chance looking for work? str_npc8_backstory_response_1|I can offer you opportunities to make money through good honest fighting and pillaging. str_npc9_backstory_response_1|Perhaps you would like to join my company for a while. str_npc10_backstory_response_1|If you're looking for work, I can use experienced fighters. str_npc11_backstory_response_1|What will you do now? str_npc12_backstory_response_1|Well, you could travel with us, but you'd have to be able to fight in our battle line. str_npc13_backstory_response_1|I might be able to use an extra sword in my company. str_npc14_backstory_response_1|I might be able to use you in my company. str_npc15_backstory_response_1|Where do you need to go? str_npc16_backstory_response_1|I might be. What can you do? str_npc1_backstory_response_2|I'll do no such thing. I have better things to do then to help thieves avoid justice. str_npc2_backstory_response_2|Hard luck, friend. Good day to you. str_npc3_backstory_response_2|Go back to your family, lass. Fathers must always be obeyed. str_npc4_backstory_response_2|No, sorry, I haven't heard of one. str_npc5_backstory_response_2|Sigh.. So long as you hill clans fight tribe against tribe, you will remain a silly, weak people. str_npc6_backstory_response_2|Away with you, accursed fraticide! str_npc7_backstory_response_2|Actually, I'm rather fond of the place. Good day to you. str_npc8_backstory_response_2|Your brother-in-law was right -- women should not rule. Go back home and tend your hearth. str_npc9_backstory_response_2|Some of my best friends are riff-raff. Good day to you, sir. str_npc10_backstory_response_2|No doubt you'll wake up with your head in a noose, and you'll deserve it. Good day. str_npc11_backstory_response_2|Very interesting, madame, but I have work to do. str_npc12_backstory_response_2|Sorry. I can't take on any new hands. str_npc13_backstory_response_2|No, sorry. Nothing I can do for you. str_npc14_backstory_response_2|I'll let you know if I hear of anything. Good day. str_npc15_backstory_response_2|Sorry. I've got all the men that I can manage right now. str_npc16_backstory_response_2|Sorry, lass. You sound like you might be trouble. str_npc1_signup|{Sir/Madame} -- I'm offended that you would even think such a thing. I'd be most indebted to you, and you'll see that I show my gratitude. str_npc2_signup|Well, I will confess that I am not a warrior by trade. str_npc3_signup|Do you? Well, I am in no position to be picky! I would be pleased to join you. str_npc4_signup|Good! I look forward to vanquishing your enemies. str_npc5_signup|Why, that is a most generous offer. str_npc6_signup|Yes! You must have been sent by divine providence! Lead me -- lead me away from darkness! str_npc7_signup|I might be. I could certainly use the money. str_npc8_signup|Can you? I shall accept your offer. str_npc9_signup|I would very much like that, {sir/madame} str_npc10_signup|Are you, now? Well, that's a sight better than swinging from a gibbet for desertion. str_npc11_signup|Why, I'll be a soldier myself! Help my old hands to a bit of loot to comfort me in my retirement. Two boys I bore, both soldiers' brats, and they became soldiers themselves. One had his head split by a Khergit war club, the other died of the pox, but at least they didn't die hungry. str_npc12_signup|As I told you, I am a surgeon, not some silk-robed university physician who has never touched a body. I can get my hands dirty. str_npc13_signup|Indeed? You would do well to enlist me. str_npc14_signup|I would be pleased to ride with you, at least for a little while, for pay and a share of any loot. str_npc15_signup|Geroia, eventually, but I'd welcome the opportunity to get a few denars in my pocket, first, so I don't come home empty handed. So if you promise me food and a share of the loot, I'd be happy to fight with you for a while. str_npc16_signup|Well, {sir/madame}, let me tell you. I may not know how to read and write, but I know the quickest way to a man's heart is between his fourth and fifth rib, if you understand me. str_npc1_signup_2|I've ridden over a fair amount of rough country in my time, more often than not in a hurry. I'm a good tracker and I've got a good eye for terrain. So what do you say? str_npc2_signup_2|I'm a fast learner. I can ride, and know a fair bit about trade, prices and such. str_npc3_signup_2|I think you would find I would be a most valuable addition to your ranks. I am well versed in the classics of literature and can declaim several of the epic poems of my people. I play the lute and am a skilled manager of household servants. str_npc4_signup_2|Note however that as a gentleman and the holder of a barony, I expect to be in a position of command, and not be treated as one of the common soldiers. str_npc5_signup_2|I shall not betray you -- so long, of course, as you do your duty to me by feeding me, paying me, and not dragging my miserable hide into a battle where there is no chance of winning. Hand me some salt, if you will -- it is the custom of our people to take salt from our captains, as a token of their concern for our well-being. str_npc6_signup_2|I am well practiced in the arts of war -- but I beg you, {sir/madame}, I wish to use my skills to defend the innocent, the pure, and the defenseless, not to be a common brigand and wreak more misery than I have already wrought. str_npc7_signup_2|But let your followers know that I do not suffer louts and brutes. Anyone who misbehaves around me will quickly find an arrow in their gullet. str_npc8_signup_2|I shall be pleased to fight in your shield wall. But I warn you -- if you ask me to gather the firewood, or cook a meal, you will not like the consequences. str_npc9_signup_2|I am a gentleman, and prefer to fight with sword and lance. I recognize that you are of lower birth than I, there is no shame for me to serve under an experienced captain -- presuming, of course, that your followers do not become too familiar with me. I assume that will not be a problem? str_npc10_signup_2|You won't regret taking me on, {Brother/Sister}. I'm a dead eye with a crossbow -- a beautiful weapon, it can right punch through a nobleman's armour and spill his blue blood upon the ground. And I've trained more raw recruits than you've had hot dinners, begging your pardon. I don't toadie to the high-born. str_npc11_signup_2|I know how to swing a blade, staunch a wound, and feed an army on the march. It would be a foolish captain who passed up the opportunity to hire an experienced campaigner like me! Say, {laddie/lassie}, don't you command a war party of your own, now? str_npc12_signup_2|I have treated every variety of wound that can be inflicted by the hand of man. Before I was a surgeon, I was a student, so you may be sure that I have inflicted wounds as well as healed them. str_npc13_signup_2|Sword, lance, the bow -- my skill in all such martial pursuits is the stuff of epic verse. Together we will perform such feats as will be recounted in festivals and campfires, in filthy taverns and in the halls of kings, for many generations to come. str_npc14_signup_2|I am a skilled swordsman, and I can also instruct your men in fighting. But I warn you that I do not care to fight for a leader who is lax in discipline with {his/her} men, for in the long run they will not respect a soft hand. str_npc15_signup_2|Siegework is my speciality, although I reckon can handle myself well enough in an open battle, if need be. str_npc16_signup_2|I can throw knives, in addition to stabbing with them, and I'm slippery as quicksilver. You'll find me useful in a fight, I'll warrant. str_npc1_signup_response_1|Good. You can be useful to us. str_npc2_signup_response_1|That will do. str_npc3_signup_response_1|Um, that's a start. We can teach you the rest. str_npc4_signup_response_1|Very well. I'll be glad to have you with us, um, 'Baron.' str_npc5_signup_response_1|Certainly. Here, have some salt. str_npc6_signup_response_1|Happy to be of service! Get your things together, and we shall be on our way. str_npc7_signup_response_1|I will hire you. Try not to shoot anyone on your first day. str_npc8_signup_response_1|No fear, ma'am. You're the widow and the daughter of a thane, and you'll be treated as such. str_npc9_signup_response_1|Well, it shouldn't be. I'll have a talk with them. str_npc10_signup_response_1|Good man. We'll treat you with the respect you deserve. str_npc11_signup_response_1|It sounds like you'll be useful. You are hired. str_npc12_signup_response_1|Then welcome to our company, doctor str_npc13_signup_response_1|Good. Make yourself ready, and we'll be on our way. str_npc14_signup_response_1|Good. I'll be happy to hire someone like you. str_npc15_signup_response_1|That works for me. I will be pleased to hire you. str_npc16_signup_response_1|It sounds like you can do the job. I will hire you. str_npc1_signup_response_2|I'd prefer not to take the risk. Good day, sir. str_npc2_signup_response_2|I'm afraid I'm only looking for men with some experience. Good day to you. str_npc3_signup_response_2|Actually, we were looking for a slightly different skill-set. str_npc4_signup_response_2|Actually, we are not in the habit of hiring bandits with invented pedigrees. Good day, sir. str_npc5_signup_response_2|Actually, on second thought, I prefer to keep more civilized company. str_npc6_signup_response_2|On second thought, maybe a mercenary company is not what you need right now. str_npc7_signup_response_2|Actually, on second thought, you sound like you might be trouble. Good day to you. str_npc8_signup_response_2|Ah. Actually, if you don't do whatever I order you to do, you'd best seek your fortune elsewhere. str_npc9_signup_response_2|You assume wrong, sir. In my company we respect courage and skill, rather than noble birth. str_npc10_signup_response_2|On second thought, we value discipline pretty highly in our company. Good day to you. str_npc11_signup_response_2|Sorry, madame. We've already got as many in our company as we can handle. str_npc12_signup_response_2|A battle is not the same thing as a tavern brawl. Perhaps you should look elsewhere for work. str_npc13_signup_response_2|Actually, on second thought, a fighter overeager for glory is dangerous to have in one's company. str_npc14_signup_response_2|Actually, I have no wish to provoke a mutiny in my ranks. Good day, sir. str_npc15_signup_response_2|Actually, I need a different kind of expertise. My apologies. str_npc16_signup_response_2|To be honest, I'd prefer someone who was a little less tempted to larceny. str_npc1_payment|I will be very useful to you, {sir/madame}, you can bet on that. Just one more thing before we leave, would you mind lending me {reg3} denars? I am ashamed to say it, but I have made myself a bit of debt here, staying in this tavern over the last few weeks and the tavern owners no longer believe that I am loaded with gold as I used to tell them. You know, things could get ugly here if they see me leaving with you before paying them. str_npc4_payment|Excellent. Before we depart, would you be so kind to lend me {reg3} denars? I had to pawn a family heirloom at a pawnbroker here in {s20}, and I would like to retrieve it before we leave. str_npc5_payment|Thank you. Now, to seal off our agreement, I ask for {reg3} denars from you. It's an advice my father gave me. He told me 'Baheshtur, never fight for a barbarian before {he/she} pays you your worth of gold first'. str_npc7_payment|All right then. I will come with you. But I want a payment of {reg3} denars first. You aren't expecting me to work for free, do you? str_npc8_payment|Then I will fight your enemies for you. But first I want a bounty of {reg3} denars. If you are a worthy captain who can lead {his/her} company to riches and plunder, you should have no trouble paying. I cannot afford to follow a pauper. str_npc9_payment|That's very good of you. And before I join, can you lend me {reg3} denars, so that I can buy some proper clothing that befits a gentleman of noble birth such as myself. The coat on me has been worn down badly due to my recent bad fortune, and I cannot let common soldiers mistake me as one of their own. str_npc10_payment|That's good news. But I'll ask for one last thing, captain. I have a woman here in {s20}, a tavern wench, and she says she has my child in her belly. I want to give her some money before I leave... for the child, you know. Do you think you can spare {reg3} denars? str_npc11_payment|Hey thank you captain. But before joining up with you, I would ask for a payment of {reg3} denars. I know that in war parties soldiers can go on for weeks without seeing any wages. I am wise enough not to sign anywhere without having myself covered. str_npc13_payment|Before I sign up, there is the small matter of some expenses I have incurred while staying here -- {reg3} denars. Do you think that you could cover those for me, as a gesture of friendship? str_npc14_payment|Ah, one last thing. I would ask for an initial bounty of {reg3} denars before I join your command. It's my principle never to enter someone's service without receiving the payment I deserve. str_npc15_payment|Good. By the way, as a skilled engineer I would expect a payment for my services. A signing bonus of {reg3} denars would be fair, I think. str_npc16_payment|Now, that's good news, captain. So, how about paying me a little something to seal off our agreement? A mere {reg3} would be enough. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I've had some bad luck with employers in the past. str_npc1_payment_response|Very well, here's {reg3} denars. Now, fall in with the rest. str_npc4_payment_response|Certainly. Here's {reg3} denars. str_npc5_payment_response|Well... here's {reg3} denars, then. Your first payment. str_npc7_payment_response|No, of course not. Here's {reg3} denars. str_npc8_payment_response|Oh, I am no pauper, madame. Here's {reg3} denars for you. str_npc9_payment_response|Very well, here's {reg3} denars. str_npc10_payment_response|Of course. Here, {reg3} denars. str_npc11_payment_response|Very well, here's {reg3} denars. Make yourself ready. We leave soon. str_npc13_payment_response|Of course, here's {reg3} denars. Make ready to leave soon. str_npc14_payment_response|All right, here's {reg3} denars. You are most welcome in our company. str_npc15_payment_response|All right, here's {reg3} denars. Glad to have you with us. str_npc16_payment_response|All right, here's {reg3} denars for you. Make yourself ready. str_npc1_morality_speech|Oy -- boss. Please don't take this the wrong way, but it's a hard life and it's a bit much that we {s21}. Take a little more care in the future, captain, if you don't mind my saying. str_npc2_morality_speech|I hope you don't mind my saying so, but it's a bit hard for me to see us {s21}. Maybe I ought to try to be more of a hardened soldier, but if we could try to exercise a little mercy from time to time, I'd sleep better. str_npc3_morality_speech|Perhaps it is not my place to say so, {sir/madame}, but I confess that I am somewhat shocked that we {s21}. Of course I realize that war is cruel, but there is no need to make it more cruel than necessary. str_npc4_morality_speech|Your pardon -- just so you know, the men of the House of Rolf do not care to {s21}. I will not be pleased if you continue to take this course. str_npc5_morality_speech|Pardon me, captain. It is not good to {s21}. Your first duty is to the men who have taken your salt. The least they can expect is food, pay, the opportunity to loot, and that you not waste their lives needlessly. str_npc6_morality_speech|Excuse me, {sir/madame}. As you know, I joined with you to right wrongs, protect the innocent, and make amends for my sin. I did not expect to {s21}. str_npc7_morality_speech|Captain -- I do not like to see us {s21}. Such are the actions of a common bandit chief, with no regard for his followers. str_npc8_morality_speech|I was not pleased that you decided to {s21}. To fall in battle is an honour, but to fight in a warband led by a coward is a disgrace. str_npc9_morality_speech|{Sir/Madame} -- it is not my way to {s21}. Men of my house will accept death but not dishonour. Please do not make me ashamed to serve under you. str_npc10_morality_speech|Begging your pardon, captain. I can't say that I'm happy to see us {s21}. Those are just simple people, trying to make a living. If we could try to go easy on the poor wretches, captain, I'd feel much better. str_npc11_morality_speech|Excuse me, captain. It's not good that we {s21}. I've followed armies and warbands for 30 years, and the least the soldiers expect of a leader is to feed them, pay them, and do {his/her} best to keep their sorry skins intact as best {he/she} can. str_npc12_morality_speech|Captain -- I do not like to see us {s21}. I am prepared to be a warrior, but not a brigand. Pray let us try to show a little more compassion. str_npc13_morality_speech|Captain, if we can avoid it, I'd prefer not to {s21}. Calradia is a small place, and one's reputation is precious. I would not care for one of my rivals to include this latest unfortunate incident in a satirical verse. str_npc14_morality_speech|I do not care to {s21}. No one with a reputation for cowardice will be properly feared by his men. str_npc15_morality_speech|{Sir/Madame} -- just so you know my opinion, any commander with sense will not let his company {s21}.I hope you don't mind me speaking so bluntly. str_npc16_morality_speech|Captain. I don't like to {s21}. So many throats left uncut, and so many purses left unexplored... str_npc1_2ary_morality_speech|Boss -- just so you know, I've got no problem if we {s21}. Living to fight another day makes good sense to me. str_npc2_2ary_morality_speech|{Sir/Madame} -- I'm not altogether happy that we {s21}. I'm a merchant, and in our business one is bonded by one's word. I don't want a reputation for dishonesty -- that would spell my end as a trader, {sir/madame}. str_npc3_2ary_morality_speech|{Sir/Madame} -- I think it was a brave decision you took to {s21}. There is no shame in finding a way to avoid the spilling of blood. str_npc4_2ary_morality_speech|Your pardon -- whatever anyone else says, I think nothing of it that you {s21}. You should adopt whatever ruse you need to survive in these troubled times. str_npc6_2ary_morality_speech|{Sir/Madame} -- you may choose to {s21}, but would prefer to have no part in it. Such is not the path to my redemption. str_npc9_2ary_morality_speech|Captain, I am dismayed that you {s21}. A {gentleman/gentlewoman} such as yourself should exhibit the highest standards of honour at all times. str_npc10_2ary_morality_speech|{Brother/Sister} -- I can't say I like to see us {s21}. You should treat your men well, and they'll repay with interest. str_npc14_2ary_morality_speech|Captain -- you should not let it bother you that you {s21}. Armies are made to do their leaders' bidding, and hardships are part of a soldier's life. str_npc15_2ary_morality_speech|You know, friend {playername}, it's none too reassuring to see how you just {s21}. If you can break your word to them, you can break your word to me, is how I figure it. str_npc16_2ary_morality_speech|Captain -- just so you know, it's no problem by me that we {s21}. We do what we need to do to live, and they'd do the same to us if they were in our shoes. str_npc1_personalityclash_speech|Captain -- no offense, but I'm a bit tired of {s11}, who puts on airs like she's something better than your humble servant Borcha. str_npc2_personalityclash_speech|{Sir/Madame} -- as you recall I was a merchant before I signed on with you. I respect men who make their living peacefully, risking all to bring goods for far away lands. str_npc3_personalityclash_speech|Captain -- in my opinion, {s11} is a hard and cruel man. He speaks of nothing but the need to flog, beat, and hang his fellow soldiers. str_npc4_personalityclash_speech|{Sir/Madame}. The House of Rolf is one of the most ancient and respected families in this part of the world, with a provenance dating back to the Old Calradic Empire. Yet {s11} openly shows me disrespect, and casts doubt on the provenance of my house. str_npc5_personalityclash_speech|A moment of your time, captain. {s11} seems to think me a common bandit, just because I have rewarded myself in the past to the legitimate spoils of war from caravans passing through my family's lands. str_npc6_personalityclash_speech|Your pardon, {sir/madame}, but I cannot keep my tongue stilled any longer. That harlot, {s11} -- every time she sees me she points the five fingers of her hand at me -- a peasant's sign to ward off evil. str_npc7_personalityclash_speech|Captain, I have done my best to put up with your followers' rude talk and filthy habits. But that one who calls himself {s11} is beyond tolerance. str_npc8_personalityclash_speech|Just so you know, I cannot abide that insolent mountebank {s11}. Some minutes ago, I was remarking to our companions how the peasants of this region were more than usually slack-jawed and beetle-browed, and speculated that perhaps they had bred with apes. str_npc9_personalityclash_speech|Sir -- {s11} is a base braggart, a man with no respect for the honour of women. I am tired of hearing how he conquered this or that damsel. str_npc10_personalityclash_speech|Excuse me, captain. I hate to trouble you with such things, but I just wanted to let you know that I can't abide that fellow Rolf, the one who calls himself a baron. str_npc11_personalityclash_speech|Begging your pardon, captain, but I can't keep silent. That man, {s11} -- he killed his own brother. str_npc12_personalityclash_speech|My lord. The barbarian woman, {s11}, complained of headaches -- a possible symptom of excess of sanguinity. I thought to apply my leeches. str_npc13_personalityclash_speech|Captain, I weary of {s11}, who talks of nothing but chivalry and feats of arms. str_npc14_personalityclash_speech|Excuse me, captain. A few minutes ago, I had expressed the opinion that liberal use of the lash and occasional use of the gallows is essential to keep soldiers in line. Men without a healthy fear of their commanders are more likely to run from battle. str_npc15_personalityclash_speech|Excuse me. I hope you don't mind me telling you that in my opinion, that girl {s11} is a danger to the party. She's a feral brat, disrespectful of authority and the basic principles of the military art. str_npc16_personalityclash_speech|Oy, captain. Just so you know -- there's something funny about {s11}. He makes strange scrawlings in the dirt, and mutters to himself. str_npc1_personalityclash_speech_b|She's a common bandit, just like myself, and she has no right to tell me to keep my distance from her, as she did just now. str_npc2_personalityclash_speech_b|I don't much care to hear {s11} gloat about the caravans he has looted, or he plans to loot, like he has no respect for good honest trade. str_npc3_personalityclash_speech_b|I know that an army is not a nursery, and that strong discipline is important, but I do believe that man enjoys cruelty for cruelty's sake. I hope you do not mind me saying so. str_npc4_personalityclash_speech_b|{Sir/madame}, these are indeed sorry days if common folk are allowed to mock their betters. That is all. str_npc5_personalityclash_speech_b|I told him that if the warrior's way bothers him so much, that he become a priest or a beggar and so not have to worry about such things. I hope you do not mind that I said such things. str_npc6_personalityclash_speech_b|I know the crime I committed was an abomination, but I am seeking repentance, and I deserve better than to be the object of some witch's superstition. I just thought you should know. str_npc7_personalityclash_speech_b|I do not care for how he stares at me around the campfire after a meal, as he picks his teeth. I believe I recognize him from my days as a bandit. He is base and ignorant. I do not care to travel with such people. str_npc8_personalityclash_speech_b|{s11}, that font of impudence, overheard me, and called me ignorant, and a savage, and other words I do not care to repeat. It was only out of respect for you that I refrained from cutting his throat then and there. I thought it only fit that I should warn you. str_npc9_personalityclash_speech_b|If he persists, I shall tell him that he is a base varlot, and if it comes to blows I will not apologize. That is all, {sir/madame}. str_npc10_personalityclash_speech_b|He's just a simple brigand, as far as I can tell. House of Rolf, my arse. Genuine blue-bloods are bad enough, but those who pretend to be blue-bloods are bloody intolerable. Anyway, I might have said something a bit sharp to him a minute ago. He seemed to take offense, anyway. I just thought you should know. str_npc11_personalityclash_speech_b|He's a kinslayer, cursed by heaven, and he'll bring misfortune and sorrow upon us, that's for certain. I don't like being around him and I don't think he should be with us. That's all. Sorry for troubling you. str_npc12_personalityclash_speech_b|But when I tried to afix them, she recoiled and struck me, and accused me of witchcraft. Captain, I am deeply tired of attending to the complaints of such an ungrateful and ignorant lot. str_npc13_personalityclash_speech_b|Valorous deeds are all very well, but they are not the only goals worth pursuing in life. Personally, I never trust any man who has not at least once woken up drunk in a ditch, or been beaten by the slipper of his lover. str_npc14_personalityclash_speech_b|That chit {s11} saw fit to admonish me for this. I will not have my methods questioned in front of the men, and I will not serve any commander who tolerates such insubordination in his company. Thank you for allowing me to speak my peace. str_npc15_personalityclash_speech_b|What's more, I suspect she's a thief. I found her going through my baggage and pawing some of my schematics, and she pulled a knife on me when I thought fit to object. A wise captain would not allow her in his company. str_npc16_personalityclash_speech_b|Fearing witchcraft, I asked him about it, and he told me that a chit of a girl like myself should mind her own business. So I had a look in his baggage, and found strange plans and diagrams. I think he's a sorceror, {sir/madame}, and if I catch him trying to hex me he'll have a knife in his throat. str_npc1_personalityclash2_speech|Oy -- boss, I don't fancy myself a sensitive soul, but I don't particularly like how {s11} went about cutting the throats of the enemy wounded, back there. str_npc2_personalityclash2_speech|{Sir/Madame}. If you don't mind, I'd prefer not to be deployed anywhere near {s11}, after what he said to me during that last battle. str_npc3_personalityclash2_speech|{Sir/Madame}. Since I have joined your company, I have tried hard to learn how to live like a soldier, and how to honour the warrior's code. If I occasionally make mistakes, I would hope to be forgiven. str_npc4_personalityclash2_speech|{Sir/Madame}. I happened to exchange a few words with {s11} as we were dividing up the spoils of battle. Please inform her that when she speaks to me, she should call me 'Baron' or perhaps 'Baron Rolf,' or 'Your Grace,' but certainly not just 'Rolf.' str_npc5_personalityclash2_speech|Captain. {s11} needs to have her tongue cut out. str_npc6_personalityclash2_speech|My lord. Did you see {s11} during that last battle? He taunts the fallen foe as they lay stricken and helpless on the battlefield, mocking their parentage, their foolishness for having fought us. str_npc7_personalityclash2_speech|Captain -- I have been searching my mind trying to remember where I have seen {s11}, the one who calls himself a baron. As I watched him in action during that last battle, I suddenly remembered. He is a good fighter, but also a vicious one. str_npc8_personalityclash2_speech|Captain. {s11} is a most insolent girl. I have tried to be polite, even friendly, only to have her rebuff me. str_npc9_personalityclash2_speech|{Sir/My lady}, I hope you do not mind me telling you this, but in my opinion {s11}, the merchant, does not know his place. During that last battle, he cut in front of me to engage a foe whom I had marked for my own. str_npc10_personalityclash2_speech|{Brother/Sister} -- a question for you. Are you in charge of this company, or is it {s11}? str_npc11_personalityclash2_speech|Captain. I don't much care for that {s11}. After that last battle, he went around muttering some heathen incantation, as he went through the slain looking for loot. str_npc12_personalityclash2_speech|Captain. I can no longer abide the rank ignorance of {s11}. As I was treating the wounded during our last battle, he saw fit to disparage my use of laudanum in relieving the pain while I conducted surgery, and of treating wounds with a poultice of honey. str_npc13_personalityclash2_speech|Hello, captain! {s11} is a temperamental one, isn't he? During that last battle, I was merely having a friendly chat with our foes about their mothers as we exchanged swordblows, and it caused him to throw a fit! str_npc14_personalityclash2_speech|Sir. {s11} is incorrigibly indisciplined. During that skirmish, I called out to him that he should hold ranks with the rest of our battle array. He called back to me that I should 'get stuffed.' str_npc15_personalityclash2_speech|Captain -- I must tell you that I question {s11}'s medical credentials. As he was tending to our wounded after that last battle, I saw fit to remind him that the peerless Galerian often advocated administering a distillation of beetroot, to restore the humor imbalance brought by loss of sanguinity. str_npc16_personalityclash2_speech|Beg your pardon, {sir/ma'am}. {s11} might have been a very good thief, but he's not got the stomach to be a warrior, if you ask me. str_npc1_personalityclash2_speech_b|The way she whistles cheerfully as she does it -- it puts a chill down my spine, it does. str_npc2_personalityclash2_speech_b|The enemy was bearing down on us, and he says, 'Step aside, merchant, this is knight's work.' Next time I will step aside, and let him take a spear in the gut. str_npc3_personalityclash2_speech_b|After our last victory I was picking through the slain, and availed myself of one of our foe's purses. No sooner had I done so then {s11} came up behind me and struck it from my hands, saying that it was she who had made the kill, and thus she deserved the spoils. My lord, I could not tell in the heat of battle who had struck whom. If {s11} had simply told me that she deserved the purse, I would gladly have given it to her. str_npc4_personalityclash2_speech_b|I am of noble blood, and she is of the basest birth. She must remember her place. str_npc5_personalityclash2_speech_b|When the loot was piled up after the last battle, I found among the enemy's baggage a very decent cooking pot. Often I had wished to find such a pot, so I could boil some of the stews that my people use to warm their bellies during the winter months. But {s11} grabs the pot, and tells me that I will not be allowed to 'taint' it with heathen food, and that it should properly belong to her. I yielded the pot to her, but I will not tolerate such disrespect in the future. str_npc6_personalityclash2_speech_b|My lord -- such hubris will not be overlooked by Heaven, and I fear we shall all of us pay the price. str_npc7_personalityclash2_speech_b|Back when I lived in the ravines, we would sometimes fight with a rival band called the Brethen of the Woods. Captain -- I would not trust any man who hides his origins, and particularly would not trust a common bandit who calls himself a lord. str_npc8_personalityclash2_speech_b|As we were cleaning our weapons after that last battle, I remarked that I thought her a handsome girl, and after I regained my lands I would happily find her a match with one of my warriors. I thought it was a very generous offer, as a woman disinherited by her father is hardly going to find herself awash in prospects. But rather than thank me, she simply turned her back without a word. It was only out of respect for your leadership that I did not immediately try to teach her some manners. str_npc9_personalityclash2_speech_b|I appreciate that he is willing to risk his life in battle, but that alone does not make a gentleman. He is not of noble birth, and his family's wealth comes from commerce and usury. He may fight with us as an auxiliary, but should not attempt to steal glory from his betters. str_npc10_personalityclash2_speech_b|In that last battle he was shouting at me 'Go forward, go back, hold the line.' When I told him to mind his own trimming he said he'd have me flogged. Captain, that man is looking for a crossbow bolt in his chest, begging your pardon. str_npc11_personalityclash2_speech_b|He said it was a prayer of thanksgiving for victory, but it didn't sound like that to me. Captain, I don't want him raising up the ghosts of the dead to make trouble for us on our travels. I think you had best be rid of him str_npc12_personalityclash2_speech_b|Captain, if that man knew the slightest thing about medical matters, he would know that one should never undermine a patient's confidence in his doctor, particularly not during a complicated operation. If you would be kind enough to dismiss him from this company, you would be doing all of us a great service. str_npc13_personalityclash2_speech_b|When all the dust settled, {s11} turned on me and told me not to 'tempt the wrath of the Heavens' with my 'hubris.' I responded that at least I hadn't killed my own brother, which I think bothers the Heavens a lot more than battlefield small talk. {s11} turns red like a baboon's arse and would have struck me had I not artfully dodged out of his away. Tell him to lighten up, will you? str_npc14_personalityclash2_speech_b|{Sir/Madame}, such defiance of proper authority is a corrosive influence on our company, and I shall have him flogged if he does so again. str_npc15_personalityclash2_speech_b|{s11} responded that Galenian was an 'antiquated know-nothing.' Captain, no true doctor would have such disrespect for the great masters of the past. I do not believe you should employ such an obvious impostor. str_npc16_personalityclash2_speech_b|After our last scrap, I was slicing open the guts of some our foes to check for hidden gold, as a girl who counts her pennies ought. He gagged and muttered that I was an 'animal.' I'll inspect his innards for contraband if he doesn't keep a civil tongue in his head. str_npc1_personalitymatch_speech|Boss. {s11} back there didn't do badly in that last fight at all. He's a good egg, too. str_npc2_personalitymatch_speech|{Sir/Madame}. I just wanted to tell you that {s11} may be a rough sort, and I'll venture a thoroughgoing rogue as well, but I'm proud to call him my companion. str_npc3_personalitymatch_speech|Hello, {sir/madame}! I had just wanted to tell you that {s11} is a most gallant knight. Did you see him in our last battle? str_npc4_personalitymatch_speech|Excuse me, {sir/madame}. I just wanted to say a word in praise of {s11}. He did well in that last battle. str_npc5_personalitymatch_speech|That was a fine battle, {playername} Bahadur! {s11} is a good man to have by our side in a fight. str_npc6_personalitymatch_speech|Captain. Sometimes I am troubled by all this bloodshed, although I know that proud warlords must be humbled, and cruel bandits tamed, if we are to restore peace to Calradia. str_npc7_personalitymatch_speech|Captain. I was just talking to {s11}. She may be a bit savage, but I believe that she is a faithful friend. str_npc8_personalitymatch_speech|A fine battle that was, captain. And I have to say, I admire the taunts that {s11} hurled at our enemy. str_npc9_personalitymatch_speech|Captain. {s11} acquitted herself well in that fight back there. A fine, modest maiden she is, if I dare say so myself. str_npc10_personalitymatch_speech|Ahoy, Brother! I wish you joy of your victory! Say, old Mother {s11}'s not bad in a scrap, is she, for a woman of her years? Although I'm getting to be a bit of an old dog myself, now. str_npc11_personalitymatch_speech|Ach, captain! A fight like that one sets my old joints a-creaking. Still, we licked them pretty good, didn't we? str_npc12_personalitymatch_speech|A bloody business, captain, a bloody business -- although a necessary one, of course. {s11}, I believe, shares my ambivalence about this constant fighting. str_npc13_personalitymatch_speech|You have earned your name today, oh valorous one! And {s11}, too! I like that one. She sings the songs of her people as she goes into battle, which appeals to an artistic soul like my own. str_npc14_personalitymatch_speech|Captain. It is a pleasure going into battle with men like {s11} by my side. str_npc15_personalitymatch_speech|Captain. I was just having a word with {s11} after our last battle, and it strikes me that the man has got a good head on his shoulders. str_npc16_personalitymatch_speech|Oy -- captain. I was just having a chat with {s11}, as we picked through the bodies after our last little scrap. str_npc1_personalitymatch_speech_b|Without good honest souls like him to bring silver into Calradia, scoundrels like me would have a hard time in life, I'll warrant. I'm glad to have him with us. str_npc2_personalitymatch_speech_b|Based on how he did in that last fight, I'd say that I'd trust my back to him any day, although I'd still keep a hand on my purse. str_npc3_personalitymatch_speech_b|I also confess that I find him a truly delightful companion, a man of both wit and manners. Perhaps, perhaps... Ah, but I say too much. Good day, {sir/madame}. str_npc4_personalitymatch_speech_b|You chose well to enlist him in our company. He knows a thing or two about a fight, and also knows the importance of respecting his comrades-in-arms, unlike some others I might mention. str_npc5_personalitymatch_speech_b|As for his other attributes, I doubt that he is any more a Baron than I am, but I have to admire the brazen way he makes that claim. str_npc6_personalitymatch_speech_b|I must say that {s11} is a source of great comfort to me. I have told him of my sin, and he said to me that Heaven will forgive my transgression, if I truly repent and truly desire such forgiveness. He is wise, and I am glad that he is with us. str_npc7_personalitymatch_speech_b|At some point in the future, if you have no need of our services, she has promised to go back to the ravines with me and find the bandits who murdered my lover, and help me take my revenge. It was a kind offer. I am glad that she is with us. str_npc8_personalitymatch_speech_b|He managed to include their geneology, their appearance, and their eating habits in a well-framed Old Calradic quatrain. I personally prefer the saga, but we Nords respect poetic craftwork when we hear it. str_npc9_personalitymatch_speech_b|Were she of noble blood, I might ask for her hand. It is a pity that she is a merchant's daughter. But speaking with her is a pleasant way to pass time on the march. str_npc10_personalitymatch_speech_b|Heh. It just goes to show that youth ain't everything, that experience also wins battles. I reckon she and I could teach the young puppies of the world a thing or two, couldn't we? str_npc11_personalitymatch_speech_b|Old {s11} in particular showed them a thing or two, I thought. Not bad for the pair of us, I thought, given that between us we've probably seen close to a hundred winters. str_npc12_personalitymatch_speech_b|It saddens him deeply to take the lives of his fellow men, however just the cause. He and I have talked together of a brighter future, of the need to unite these petty warring kingdoms of Calradia, so that we may bring this time of troubles to an end. str_npc13_personalitymatch_speech_b|Also, although I normally prefer the coy to the Amazonesque, I confess that I have also noticed the femininity she tries to hide beneath her martial demeanour. True, she is a bit aloof on the march and in camp, but perhaps my fair words can melt the Nordic ice around her heart. str_npc14_personalitymatch_speech_b|He is a professional soldier, and though he may not be as fast on his feet as some others, he knows the wisdom of holding together in a disciplined battle-line. You showed good sense in bringing him into this company. str_npc15_personalitymatch_speech_b|War, like any other affair, requires careful planning and preparation, and a firm grasp of strategic principals. All other things being equal, the best trained army will win the battle, an observation that I think our last fight bears out. The men may curse him now, but they'll learn to thank him, I'll warrant. str_npc16_personalitymatch_speech_b|Have you heard her story? Can you believe the wrongs done to her? I tell you, it makes my blood boil. I want to cut off all the little bits of those bastards who mistreated her -- and I'll do it, too, if we ever run into them in our travels. str_npc1_retirement_speech|I'm a bit tired of marching up and down the land, shedding my blood for someone else's cause. The loot is good, but I think I've got enough of that, now. I'm going to head back to my village, take a wife, settle down, maybe raise horses if I can afford it. str_npc2_retirement_speech|I'm getting a bit tired of the warrior's life. I'm going to invest my share of our loot into a cargo of goods -- furs, linens, velvets, probably -- and take them back over the mountains. I would like to thank you again for taking me on, and wish you the best of luck. str_npc3_retirement_speech|I am afraid I have something to tell you. I have decided that the warrior's life is not for me. I think it is probably too late for me to find a good marriage -- no one of my people would take a wife who had served with a company of soldiers -- but I may have enough money to start myself up as a merchant. I hope you will not be angry, {sir/madame}. str_npc4_retirement_speech|I have fought with you honourably, as befits a son of the House of Rolf, but I am not altogether satisfied with your leadership. I will go home to my ancestral estates, which are much in need of my services. str_npc5_retirement_speech|Bahadur -- since I have taken your salt, I have fought for you fiercely, and loyally. But you have not always repayed my service with the kind of leadership that I deserve. So I am going home, in the hope that the Khan's men have forgotten me, to see my father and brothers again. str_npc6_retirement_speech|I joined this company in the hope that you would lead me out of darkness, and indeed I have found a measure of peace here. But I have some qualms about your leadership, and have begun to suspect that the path to redemption can be found elsewhere. str_npc7_retirement_speech|I am tired of this squalid life of endless warfare, seeing men debased by fear, greed, lust, and a hundred other sins. I have money in my purse. I am going overseas to look for a better land than Calradia. I assume that you will fare well without me. str_npc8_retirement_speech|I have fought in your shield wall, and done well by it. But your leadership is not always to my liking, and anyways I have another task. I will take what plunder I have won and raise a warband of my own and sail to Nordland to take back my husband's hall from my treacherous brother-in-law. I wish you well. str_npc9_retirement_speech|We have fought well together, and earned ourselves much glory. But I have some reservations about your leadership, and at any rate have my patrimony to reclaim. I will be leaving you. Perhaps we will meet again. str_npc10_retirement_speech|I've had enough of tromping up and down the length and breadth of Calradia. I've got enough to buy a small bit of land somewhere, so I think I'll give that a try. So long, and best of luck to you. str_npc11_retirement_speech|You did an old woman a great service by taking her into your company. But I'm afraid I'm finding this life no more to my liking than driving a wagon. Too much cold, too much hunger, and at the end all I see in front of me is a hole in the ground. So I'll be off, although I don't know where. str_npc12_retirement_speech|I've done all right in your company. I filled my belly, put some gold in my purse, and broadened my knowledge of wounds and injury -- I can't complain about that! But I think right now that service in this company is holding me back. I have a duty to share my findings with other surgeons, and for that I need to hire scribes, who are rare in Calradia. I shall be going home str_npc13_retirement_speech|As the luster of your name grows ever brighter, I fear that my own reputation will seem pale in comparison, as the moon is outshined by the sun. I have decided to strike out on my own. The very best of luck to you! str_npc14_retirement_speech|I would like to inform you that I wish to sever our relationship. I intend to seek alternative employment. str_npc15_retirement_speech|I appreciate that you took me on, but I'm not altogether happy about how things have worked out. I'm going to head off elsewhere -- maybe go home, maybe find another job, I haven't quite decided yet. str_npc16_retirement_speech|I've had good times in this company, and I've found myself a pretty trinket or two on the battlefield, but right now it isn't working out. I'm leaving you to go offer my talents to someone else. str_npc1_rehire_speech|Boss -- it's good to see you again. I know we had our differences in the past, but to tell you the truth, those were some of the best days I've known. And, to tell you the truth, I've had a bit of difficulty finding work. Listen, if you'd be willing to have me back, I'd be willing to sign up with your company again. str_npc2_rehire_speech|{Sir/Madame}! It's good to see you again. But I'll confess -- I've been looking for you. I bought a load of goods like I told you I would, loaded them up, and took them back across the steppe -- but wouldn't you know it, I was hit again by Khergits, and lost it all. I guess I'm just destined to fight for my fortune. Also, people tell me that you've done very well for yourself. So tell me, {sir/madame}, would you have me back? str_npc3_rehire_speech|Well, hello {sir/madame}! It is very good to see you again. I have not fared so well since we parted, I am afraid. My mother's family. whom I hoped would give me a start in trading, have not been as welcoming as I have hoped. I receive nothing but lectures from my aunts, on how I have ruined my prospects for marriage by taking service in a mercenary company. Perhaps I am better suited to war than to commerce, to share a meal over a campfire with rough fellows than to drink wine with the burghers of Veluca. {Sir/Madame}, I must ask you -- will you take me back? str_npc4_rehire_speech|Why hello, captain. It's been a while. You've done well for yourself, I hear. For my part, I've been having some difficulties coaxing a living from my estates -- locusts, bad rains, unruly serfs, that sort of thing. I thought I might take up the sword once more. I know there's been some bad blood between us, but I'd be honoured to fight in your ranks once again. str_npc5_rehire_speech|{playername} Bahadur! Your fame grows ever greater -- even as far as my homeland, beyond the mountains. I'd returned there, hoping that the Khan's men had forgotten. Well, they had not -- even before I set foot in my valley, I had word from my family that both the Khan and the Humyan were looking for me. So I came back again, hoping you might forget any harsh words I had spoken, to see if I could fight with you once again. str_npc6_rehire_speech|It is good to see you, {sir/madame}. Everywhere I go, men are in awe of your deeds. I have not had it so well since I left. Wherever I go, I feel my demons returning. My soul is in turmoil. For reasons that I cannot fully explain, I had found peace in your company, even if I had questions about your leadership. Will you allow me to serve with you once again? str_npc7_rehire_speech|Captain! It is good to see you. Forgive what I may have said when we parted. I took a ship out of Wercheg, bound for the east, but it was taken by pirates and after my ransom I was set ashore back here. There may be better places in the world than Calradia, but I have yet to see them. So I think, if it is my lot to live here, then your company is as good a livelihood as any. Will you have me back? str_npc8_rehire_speech|Greetings to you, {playername}. I was wondering if the harsh words spoken between us in the past could be forgotten. I have been hunting among the Nords here, to see if I could find enough men to take back my husband's hall. But I could not find enough men to crew a longship, and those whom I gathered quickly got bored and wandered off -- not, I will add, before they drank away such gold as I had accumulated. So I thought back to the battles we fought together. Those were good days, and profitable ones too. str_npc9_rehire_speech|My dear, dear {man/lady}! So good it is to see you! I have sought service with the lords of this land, but have been most grieviously disappointed. Half of them ask me to collect debts from fellow lords, as though I were a banker's errand boy, or chase down his serfs, as though I were a farm overseer. One even asked me to murder one of his creditors! I have looked for you, to see if you would wish me to join you again. str_npc10_rehire_speech|Captain! It's good to see you. You see, it turns out I'm not much of a farmer. Too soft on the hired hands, I figure. I let them rob me blind. I guess fighting is what I know best. So tell me, captain, are you still looking for good men? str_npc11_rehire_speech|Captain! So good to see you! People say that you've been making gold hand over foot. I'm a fidgety old bag of bones, I'll admit. I left you because I wasn't satisfied with the warrior's life, but I spend a bit of time in town and I realize that there are worse things in life than a full belly, honest companions, and the joy of seeing the enemy run before you. So, would you be hiring again str_npc12_rehire_speech|Captain! It's a fine thing to see an honest face like yours. This world is full of lies. I went home to publish my findings, hired some scribes and made a handful of codices, and waited for the commissions. But it turns out that the universities don't care about real medical knowledge rather than warmed-over Galerian. And publishers -- let me tell you, you never saw anyone so unscrupulous. They rent the books out chapter to by chapter to students to copy, but half of them aren't returned, and those that are have pages soaked in wine, and there's no longer a complete copy of my work anywhere. I'll keep trying, but first I need a bit of money in my pocket, first. Are you looking for a surgeon? str_npc13_rehire_speech|Well hello there, oh valorous one. I had been hoping to see you again. Everywhere I go, I hear tales and songs of your deeds. I will admit that I felt a twinge of regret that we had parted ways, and, I'll confess, a twinge of jealousy as well at your reputation. I thought that once again I might fight by your side, and thus bask in the reflection of your glory. Perhaps we might ride together again, for a little while? str_npc14_rehire_speech|Captain. It is good to see you. When last we parted, I was ready to swear that I would not serve you again, but perhaps I judged you too harshly. All over Calradia, men sing your praises. I have tried serving in other lords' armies, and believe me, what I have seen of them restores my opinion of your leadership. If you would have me in your company, I would fight for you again. str_npc15_rehire_speech|Why hello, {playername}. I can't say I'm entirely displeased to see you. You see, I took on another contract before I left, and sure enough, when it came time to collect the pay, the lord had nothing but talk and excuses and petty little complaints about my handiwork. I can't say I was always happy in your company, but at least I put gold directly into my purse after every battle. You still offering work? str_npc16_rehire_speech|Captain! They say that you've done well for yourself since we last met. I'll come out and admit that I cursed your name when we parted ways, but thinking back on it you weren't all that bad. All these lords, they're glad enough to send me on little side errands, but they don't much care to have me in their main battle-line. Apparently I spook the men. I've heard it muttered that I'm a witch, or that I eat men's hearts after killing them, or other rot. Not that I mind stabbing a man while he's asleep, but it's a lot more gratifying when he's awake and kicking. So I thought I'd try to find you again, see if you'll take me on. str_npc1_home_intro|Boss -- did you know that I was born around here, in the high steppe? This is where I got my eye for horseflesh, because this is good land for horses, although a hard land for men. I suppose that's why the Khergits like it. str_npc2_home_intro|We're approaching Sargoth. That's where I was headed when the Khergits got me. str_npc3_home_intro|Can you smell that? Lemon trees, apples and crocus flowers, it's the scent of Veluca. I spent many a happy summer here when I was a girl, playing in the gardens of my mother's family while my father was away trading. str_npc4_home_intro|The Woods of Ehlerdah. Bah. This place is thick with bandits and outlaws. str_npc5_home_intro|Bahadur, we are nearing Halmar, largest town in the lower steppe. My mother's sister went here to marry a townsman and I thought to seek service with the lord here. That is when I ran into you. str_npc6_home_intro|I can see by the vines and terraces on the hillside that I am near home. I have no wish to see my family, so I will linger outside the walls if you go into town. I am sure that you will understand. str_npc7_home_intro|Do you smell that? Salt fish, rotting flax and river mud. The smells of my childhood. I want to retch. str_npc8_home_intro|Hmf. Do you hear that? It must be the crash of waves on the headland. We must be near Gundig's Point. str_npc9_home_intro|Behold the Rock of Rivacheg! The strongest fortress in Calradia. My father was one of those who held the line here against the Nords, when they first tried to push inland from the coast. str_npc10_home_intro|D'you smell that fresh air, Brother? This was my home, before I went abroad in search of coin. It's good to be up in the hills again. It's the smell of freedom. This is the cradle of Rhodok liberty, here under Grunwalder Castle str_npc11_home_intro|I see the mountains. We must be getting near home. str_npc12_home_intro|We're passing by the site of one of my greatest medical triumphs, if that interests you. str_npc13_home_intro|Ah, Castle Ergellon! Such a lovely spot, at the foot of the Rhodok highlands. Such happy days I spent here, the summer before last. str_npc14_home_intro|Do you see that fortress up there, on the spur over the valley? Ismirala? I spent a winter there some years back, trying to train the lord's men. str_npc15_home_intro|You see that castle up on the hill? Culmarr Castle, it's called. I did some work there, not long ago. It's not as showy as some of the other castles in this land, but it's the finest stonework you ever saw. str_npc16_home_intro|Aye, captain, do you see those? Those are hare tracks in the snow. We must be getting near to my birthplace. str_npc1_home_description|Well, Khergits always lived here, even back in the old days, as the Emperor gave them gold and lands to keep out the other tribes. I'm told my grandfather was a Khergit chieftain, although my mother didn't know him, any more than I knew my father. When my mother was a lass, the Khergit started coming over the mountains in larger numbers, and now there's a Khergit Khan in Tulga. str_npc2_home_description|People say that the Nords are a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians, but they have a good head for trade, if you ask me. They make the people up and down the coast grow flax, which they weave here into linen. It can't compete with Jelkala silks and velvets as a luxury fabric, but it makes good summertime wear and you can use it for the sails of ships. More importantly, linen was one of the few goods that someone else in Calradia wasn't already making. str_npc3_home_description|Veluca has wet winters and hot summers, but the people here build great cisterns to water their crops. They grow grapes -- Velucan wine is famous, {sir/madame} -- and those who can afford it make walled gardens, where fruit trees grow in abundance, and we sit at night listening to music, or playing chess, or merely sniff the night air. str_npc4_home_description|Well, you see, the King of Swadia declared this to be his personal hunting preserve, and said he'd kill any man who as much as strung his bow here. So what happens? Some family goes hungry, and succumbs to the temptation to poach, and the king's sheriff comes along and strings him up and takes his land. His sons, rather than starve, go bandit. And so naturally anyone in the whole valley who feels the need to run away from a debt or a nagging wife or a vengeful noble comes up here to join them, living on wild pigs and berries and the purses of unwary travellers. str_npc5_home_description|Khergits had always come here, to trade and raid, and in the last days of the Empire we began to settle. Just like the Vaegirs, Swadians, Rhodoks, Nords and the House of Sarran, we took the Emperor's coin to keep the other tribes at bay. But when the Great Horde attacked our homeland in my grandfather's day, we moved into this region in force. We pushed the Vaegirs back, and made their fortresses our own. str_npc6_home_description|Here in the Vale of Suno, our dialect and customs are closer than anywhere else in Calradia to those of the old Calrad Empire. We grow olives and wine, both crops brought to this land from overseas by the emperors, and also follow the old Calradic ways. We keep our pledges and pay our debts. str_npc7_home_description|Before I was married off, and before I was taken by bandits, I lived here. I was born in a hovel and spent my childhood in the fields. Our landlords were Nord, but we never saw them, merely their cursed minions and overseers. My father, coward that he was, cringed before them. str_npc8_home_description|You haven't heard the story? When Gundig Hairy-Breeks came to Calradia from Nordland, he planted his banner on the headland and said that it would remain there until he recaptured his 'inheritance.' His 'inheritance', he called it. Gundig believed the skalds who told him that the Emperor had bequeathed Calradia to the Nords, when in fact he just gave us a small strip of land along the coast, so that we would crew his galleys. str_npc9_home_description|The Nords would sail up the river in their longships. The townsmen of the coast could have stopped them, but they were cowards then, as they are today, and paid them a yearly stipend, known as the Nordgeld, to be let in peace. But the Vaegir king would not pay. My father decided to come over the mountains, to fight with the Vaegir hosts. Three summers in a row they tried to take the Rock, and each time the Vaegir lords held them back. str_npc10_home_description|In my father's day the Swadians would come calling, thinking to make us knuckle our foreheads and call them their overlords. But Grunwalder, an old veteran of the wars from the hills, showed us how to form a battleline with spear and crossbow that could break a Swadian charge. He fell in battle, but the people gave his name to the castle that was built here, where he fell, so that we would remember, and always stand firm against the horsemens' onslaught. str_npc11_home_description|I'm from Uxkhal. You know the saying, {sir/madame} -- 'Barley grown in Uxkhal is made into ale in Praven, and we're all the better for it.' Not sure what that means, {sir/madame}, but it's true about the barley. And wheat, and oats. We grow more grain here in the Vale of Uxkhal then all the rest of Calradia put together, and our ale is the best, too. You can see it in the soil here -- rich and black, and smells of good harvests and full bellies. str_npc12_home_description|The lord over there in Almerra Castle had the dropsy, and had requested a doctor from Uxkhal to treat him. Like a typical university-educated doctor, he went right to Galerian for a cure. Galerian commends sun-metal for dropsy. Now most of Galerian's writings were useless back in the days of the Calradic emperors when they were first written down, and they're doubly worthless today, but sometimes he hits upon the right cure by chance sun-metal does cure some kinds of dropsy in small doses. However, sun-metal in large doses is poison, something that the Galerian-worshippers never grasped. str_npc13_home_description|I had come up here with a small Swadian force, but they were caught by the Rhodoks in the woods and their horsemen cut down amid the trees. I fled and found shelter up in the high valleys, in the arms of the comeliest cowherd you ever saw. She took me to a cave near the high pastures, and would bring me cheese and berries, and tell me the tales from the hills -- of playful goat-men who guide lost animals back to their flocks, or of ghostly huntsmen who ride the winds, chasing stormclouds. Such rustics they are! str_npc14_home_description|I say 'trying' because in my opinion, Vaegirs don't take well to discipline. Finest archers you ever saw, and good riders too, but they have no stomach for fighting in ranks. Their skills serve them well enough against Khergits and Nords, particularly when they can hide behind walls, but Sarranids can match them arrow for arrow, and I've seen Swadian knights cut through Vaegirs like a knife through butter. Now, a Rhodok spear-wall is designed to stop a Swadian charge in its tracks, and usually does. str_npc15_home_description|Like most castles that last around here, it's got foundations that are old Imperial Calradic. You can't see them any more with all the rebuilding, but the slabs are the size of a house. They must have been real sorcerors back in those days, because I don't see how they moved those things otherwise. Beautiful location, too -- Culmarr sits right in front of the pass leading out of Calradia, which allows the lord to charge a pretty penny in tolls during the three months of the year that it's not snowed in. str_npc16_home_description|The snows in these valleys don't melt until late in the year, and the land is hard to plough. You can grow a bit of barley, but not much else. But there's wealth here in the woods deer, rabbit and lynx, meat and furs, and the mountains have iron, and traders would ship enough saltfish up the river from the coast to keep the people fed for the winter. str_npc1_home_description_2|They go easy on us farming folk, and don't ask for much in tax -- not that we would be able to pay in any case. The land isn't good enough for most crops. Frankly, it's only good for horse-rearing, and that only for half of the year, in the winter after the rains. In the summer they take their herds back into the mountains. Caravans come over the hills and bring spice to Tulga, but we don't see much of that money down in the villages. str_npc2_home_description_2|I had loaded up on saffron, cinnamon, cloves, pepper and other spices and a chest full of denars. I estimated that I could buy linens, furs, velvet, iron and wool, and the extra horses to carry them back, and I'd still make a profit. I just hadn't figured in the Khergits, who apparently don't care for others cutting in on their monopoly. str_npc3_home_description_2|The poets call Veluca a paradise, and I think for once that they do not exaggerate. str_npc4_home_description_2|How do I know this, you ask? Well... I was taken by them, and held for ransom, but I got away. That's really all there is to tell. str_npc5_home_description_2|Of course, you know how things go. My father's generation were hard warriors from the cold lands across the mountains, but this generation all has houses in the town and great estates and spend time as much trading as they do practicing archery. The next generation will grow soft on Velucan wine and will lose their lands to the next batch of illiterate hill-raiders to come over the mountains, just you watch. It's how things always were, and how things always will be. str_npc6_home_description_2|We men of Suno also never forget an insult, and avenge any wrong done unto us. Old-fashioned Calradic honour, I dare say, has brought me to my current fallen state. But despite that, I am proud to be from this region. Our lord is a vassal of the Swadian king in Praven, but as far as we are concerned he is just yet another barbarian chieftain, and we are the Empire's true heirs. str_npc7_home_description_2|We were allowed to fish the river, raise pigs amid the reedbeds, and grow whatever we could in our private plots, but in the open fields we were only permitted to grow flax, to be taken to Sargoth and woven into linen. So we were always hungry, and weak, and never had the courage to rebel. str_npc8_home_description_2|The skalds' tales at least gave Gundig an excuse to raise a warband -- not that we Nords ever need an excuse, mind. He sailed across the sea, rallied the Calradian Nords to his banner, and marched on the Rock of Rivacheg. The Vaegirs killed him, and threw his banner into the surf. But the Nords keep coming, and some day all of Calradia will be ours. str_npc9_home_description_2|Just as the Nords can call on their kinfolk overseas, so does the Vaegir king call on his kinfolk from over the mountains. Had my father not disinherited me, I would also have taken an oath of fealty to the lord of Reyvadin. But just as I was shorn of my inheritance, so also was I shown of my obligations, and it is the Vaegir king's loss. str_npc10_home_description_2|We grow mulberry trees here for silk and kermes too for the dye. We take it to Jelkala where they weave it into the finest velvet -- not that I have ever had enough denars in my pocket to buy velvet, mind. But the craftsmen of Jelkala also make good crossbows, and for that I'll not begrudge them their little luxuries str_npc11_home_description_2|The Swadian king will tell you that Praven was the biggest city in Calradia back under the Empire, and that's why he should rule the whole land today. Mind you, I don't care much about politics, {sir/madame} -- I've sold provisions to every army that ever marched in Calradia, and I tell you that I wouldn't give a single one of them a single biscuit unless I had the cold, hard denars in my hand first. Why these high and mighty kings and nobles can't pay their bills, I'll never know. But I prattle on a bit, there, don't I? str_npc12_home_description_2|The difference between poison and cure is the dose. You tell that to everyone you meet, and tell them you heard it first from Jeremus the Great. People think that all the wisdom worth knowing was written in Old Calradic, but I say you can learn twice as much from village midwives and careful examination of nature than from the entire imperial corpus. That's why they threw me out of the university, although in retrospect that was a blessing. Anyway, I put that lord back on his feet, and he availed me of a sack of gold and the corpse of a freshly hanged criminal to dissect. Ha! To think of the lengths I had to go to get specimens back in those days. str_npc13_home_description_2|Eventually I had to leave, and sometimes I wonder if there is a little herdsboy swaddled on her back, as she takes the cows up to pasture each morning. I'd be tempted to try to find her -- but no, no, one should never look back. str_npc14_home_description_2|If anyone were ever to unify this little land of ours, I'd sign up to serve them, free of charge. I'd put together an army of Rhodok spears with Nord footmen on the flanks and Vaegir archers in front, take along some Khergit scouts to find and fix the enemy, and some Swadian lancers and Sarranid mamlukes to finish them off. I'd take that army over the mountains and make the whole world kneel to Calradia.... Of course, that's what the Emperors thought, and in the end the tribes took away their Empire. str_npc15_home_description_2|And here's the funny thing -- when the Rhodok lands first rebelled against the Swadians, they all said they weren't going to have any noble lords ruling over them. You can guess how long that lasted. One Rhodok hill chieftain sets himself up in Culmarr, calls himself 'Count', and the good burghers of Jelkala and Veluca have to lick his boots if they want to sell their wine and velvet outside Calradia. And if you want to keep the counts under control, and the peasants providing the towns with food rather than selling to the highest bidder, then you need a King too, don't you? The Rhodok lands are no different than anyone else, whatever guff they talk about 'ancient liberties' and 'freedom.' str_npc16_home_description_2|Still, it was a thin living, and there were always too many mouths around to feed. The Vaegir king and the Khergit khan don't make life any easier for us, squeezing for tax money the villages they control, and raiding for plunder the villages they don't. Of course, I can't say I wouldn't do the same if I had a castle and an army all of my own. The mighty do whatever they can, and the humble do whatever they must. str_npc1_home_recap|I'm from the high steppe, near {s21}. str_npc2_home_recap|I was born over the mountains. I'm a merchant, the son of a merchant, and the grandson of a merchant. str_npc3_home_recap|I used to live in my father's house in {s20}, but I spent much of my childhood in {s21}. str_npc4_home_recap|Our ancestral barony is over the mountains, across the Culdarr pass. str_npc5_home_recap|I was born in the highlands on the other side of the mountains, past Tulga, but I have relatives in {s21}. str_npc6_home_recap|My family lives in {s21}, but I cannot bear to face them. str_npc7_home_recap|I was born in a hovel in the fens, not far from {s21}. str_npc8_home_recap|I was born overseas, in Nordland, and my husband's hall also was in Nordland. str_npc9_home_recap|I am from the Vaegir homeland over the mountains, where the Vaegir lords lived before the Emperor brought them in Calradia. str_npc10_home_recap|Born and raised in Jelkala, {Brother/Sister}, and I hope some day to buy land there. But I had a mind to see a bit of the world first, so I took my crossbow and went off to the wars. str_npc11_home_recap|I was born in the train of an army, and lived all my days in the train of an army. My folk are from Praven, however, so I guess that's as much home to me as anywhere. str_npc12_home_recap|I come from overseas. I travel the world in search of medical lore. str_npc13_home_recap|Oh, far away from here, my {lord/lady}, else you would already have heard about me, and would not need to ask such things. str_npc14_home_recap|I am the younger son of the Count of Geroia. str_npc15_home_recap|I'm from over the hills. But Calradia is where the money is to be made, these days, if your trade is siegecraft. str_npc16_home_recap|Why, captain, I was born in Uslum village, but my mother lost her land to a scheming relative and had to put herself in bond to a nearby lord. str_npc1_honorific|boss str_npc2_honorific|{sir/madame} str_npc3_honorific|{sir/madame} str_npc4_honorific|captain str_npc5_honorific|{playername} Bahadur str_npc6_honorific|captain str_npc7_honorific|captain str_npc8_honorific|{playername} str_npc9_honorific|{my good sir/my good lady} str_npc10_honorific|{Brother/Sister} str_npc11_honorific|{laddie/lassie} -- I mean Captain str_npc12_honorific|captain str_npc13_honorific|oh valorous one str_npc14_honorific|commander str_npc15_honorific|captain str_npc16_honorific|captain str_npc1_kingsupport_1|That's a great idea, Boss. All these kings and khans and landed nobles who rule now, with their prisons and gibbets and scaffolds, the whippings and brandings and hangings for any man who might be driven by the crying of his children to steal a loaf of bread, or maybe a horse -- Calradia deserves something better. str_npc2_kingsupport_1|Well, captain -- I'd support you. I think you'd give Calradia the kind of enlightened rule which it has long needed. str_npc3_kingsupport_1|Well, my lord -- I would worry for you. Our histories tell us that power tends to corrupt. But in the end, I am comforted by the mercy and judgment you have shown as captain of this company. str_npc4_kingsupport_1|Well, captain, I think that you would be the kind of {king/queen} that well-born gentlemen such as myself would be proud to follow into battle... str_npc5_kingsupport_1|A fine idea, Bahadur - you have shown that you know how to govern men. Mind that you govern them justly, though... str_npc6_kingsupport_1|I cannot judge the legal merits of your claim. However, I think that unlike the other kings here, you have the capacity to unify this land -- and that would put a stop to these endless wars, between kingdom and kingdom, noble and noble, and brother and brother, that have brought us all into disgrace in the eyes of the heavens. str_npc7_kingsupport_1|Aye -- you'll do well. You know how to treat bandits and ruffians. str_npc8_kingsupport_1|The saga of Bjernstad tells us that a man who does great deeds, beyond those of the other men of his time, may claim the throne. I'd say that you could make that claim. str_npc9_kingsupport_1|Very good, my lord. I'm a Vaegir by blood, but Yaroglek never stood for me when I was cheated of my inheritance. So I don't owe him anything, and I say, 'Let the throne go to the most valiant!' Which would be you, {sir/my lady}. str_npc10_kingsupport_1|Well, {Brother/Sister}, I suppose there must be {kings/kings and queens}, and if there must be {kings/kings and queens}, then you would be as good a {king/queen} as any... str_npc11_kingsupport_1|Why, that's a fine idea, {laddie/lassie}! I suppose I shall have to learn to call you 'Majesty', or 'Your Grace', then... str_npc12_kingsupport_1|I am sure that you would make a fine king, captain. I flatter myself that I am a good judge of character, and you have demonstrated a capacity for compassion that far exceeds that of these others who call themselves monarchs. str_npc13_kingsupport_1|That would be a fine thing, {sir/my lady}! Many is the tale of the hero who has proven his worthiness to wear a crown through valor. Perhaps you know the song of Antaran son of Ashdab, who rose from obscurity to become king of Dabarah. A splendid tale! str_npc14_kingsupport_1|Well, sir, the heavens have instituted a hierarchy in this world, and normally I would have no truck with usurpation. But I also think that the kings of this land are a weak and sorry lot, not worthy of the name of king, and that leaves the crown free to be taken by a better {man/ruler}, such as yourself. str_npc15_kingsupport_1|Well, you pay your men on time, when you can, generally speaking. That's the best qualification for kingship there is, in my book. You show some respect for the rights of others. str_npc16_kingsupport_1|Why not, captain? I'm sure you'd make a fine {king/queen} -- and of course I'd hope you remember the little people like myself who did you a pretty turn on your scramble to the throne. str_npc1_kingsupport_2|Sure would, Boss. But let me tell you what might bring others to your cause -- particularly us poor folk. They tell us that in the old days, each new Emperor who took the throne would issue a great amnesty for all but the worst prisoners in his dungeons, give people a second chance to make something of themselves -- like you gave me a second chance, Boss. str_npc2_kingsupport_2|Most of the lords of this land -- well, let's just say that they never held a denar that they didn't collect as rent or take as pillage. You, on the other hand, have some experience of commerce and trade, of the effort and risk involved in making sure that men don't go hungry in Sargoth while there's a glut of grain in Praven, to give an example.... If you like, captain, I reckon I could find some support for you among the merchants and burghers of this realm. str_npc3_kingsupport_2|I would, {my lord/my lady}. But I would strongly recommend that you reinstitute an old Calradic imperial tradition -- the council of lords and commons, drawn from both the nobles of the land and well-educated men of property, with the power to overrule any new taxes or other tyrannical measures that might tempt you. It would be for your own good, {sir/my lady}. str_npc4_kingsupport_2|Of course, {captain/my lady}. The trick is now to get others to follow you. As you know, one's lineage is a great determinant of one's worthiness. Perhaps you have a long-lost ancestor of whom you have not told me? str_npc5_kingsupport_2|Ay, Bahadur, I would. But there is something I should say, on behalf of the men of the steppes such as myself. It would bring great joy to us, to hear from the lips of one who would be khan, that you would restore an anicent right. From the days of the old emperors, the men of the steppes have enjoyed the right to bring their flocks to new pastures or to market, which necessarily involves the crossing of lands owned by the great lords of this realm. str_npc6_kingsupport_2|I would. I would tell anyone who listens of your deeds on behalf of the weak and helpless, of your ability to lead men against great odds and triumph, and tell them that if you were to become {king/queen}, there would be one law and one peace -- from the Rhodok highlands to the Vaegir wastes, from the high steppe to the Nordic shore. str_npc7_kingsupport_2|Yes, captain, I would. A {king/queen}'s duty is to keep the roads safe for decent folk, make it so a woman can gather the firewood or draw the water without being accosted by some drooling, scabby ape of an outlaw. Anyway, you've split the skulls of a number of such brutes in your time. Men would fear to even meet the eyes of a woman on the road, if you were {king/queen}. str_npc8_kingsupport_2|I would -- on one condition. You'd be king in Praven or Sargoth or wherever you want to rule, but I'd rule my own hall. And if I had a dispute with any other of your thegns, be it over land, livestock, or blood, you'd let us settle it sword to sword, according to the old ways, and let the heavens decide who is in the right. str_npc9_kingsupport_2|I would, {sir/madame}, and others would too. But here's what I think -- you need to show the noble lords that you'll uphold their ancient rights. Right now, Calradia's a mess -- the lord owns the land, except it's the king who owns the forest, but the city has the right to levy tax at its gates, and the commons can use the pastures on odd Tuesdays, except in Rivacheg when it's Wednesday. Who can remember? So I say you make things simple, like it was in the old days -- first the {king/sovereign}, then the lords, then everyone else. str_npc10_kingsupport_2|Certainly, {Brother/Sister}. But I'd ask that you consider a thought of mine. If you became {king/queen}, then I'd ask you open your court to the common folks, and not just to the lords and blue-bloods. I'd ask you to let it be known that should any man be judged and sentenced, that he have the right to appeal to you directly. Right now, the lords have the right -- I say every man in Calradia should have it, too. str_npc11_kingsupport_2|Of course, I would! Let me see your hand, there... Aha! You've got the 'Mark of Kings.' That's what we call it in Praven, anyway. I hear in Suno it's the 'Emperor's Line,' but they call everything differently, over there. Anyway, yours is very long -- I'd say that it means that you're meant to rule! It's your destiny! In fact, I think I can even recall a prophecy to that effect. Hmm, how did it go... str_npc12_kingsupport_2|Of course, captain. But if I have learned anything in my travels in this land, it is that Calradians are sticklers for precedent. Everything must be done as it was done in the days of the old Empire -- even though not more than one in a hundred of them can read enough Old Calradic to understand the chronicles! Veluca merchants marry their daughters according to the 'imperial' rite. Rivacheg cattle herders churn 'imperial' butter. And of course, every king must be crowned according to 'imperial' law. str_npc13_kingsupport_2|Of course, {my lord/my lady}. Also, as we learn from the tale of Antaran, when claiming a throne, it does not hurt to be the subject of an epic, recited around campfires and hearthfires, describing one's deeds. As you no doubt know, I fancy myself a fair crafter of couplets. str_npc14_kingsupport_2|I would indeed, sir. I think you can unite this land, and then we'll be able to raise an army such as Calradia has not seen for many generations -- Swadian lances, Vaegir archers, Rhodok spears, Sarranid swords, Nord axes, and Khergit skirmishers, and take it over the mountains to subdue all the lands that the Calradic emperors once held sway. str_npc15_kingsupport_2|I would. People might say that you don't have royal blood in your veins. But as far as I've seen, royal blood makes you a skinflint. Kings and nobles will take out loans or commission building projects without half a thought to how they're ever going to pay back all those commoners who expect to eat after an honest day's work. If you ask me, an honest tongue makes a {man/woman} a {king/queen}, not a fancy pedigree. str_npc16_kingsupport_2|Of course, my {lord/lady}. And what's more, I figure a girl like me could do you a bit of a service raising support with the lords of this land. I may have only had a small part in their schemes and intrigues over the years, but I think I know what they want. And given what I know of their secrets, they'd not want to be denying me admission to their halls, now would they? str_npc1_kingsupport_2a|Please go on... str_npc2_kingsupport_2a|Please continue... str_npc3_kingsupport_2a|Please continue... str_npc4_kingsupport_2a|Of course - let me tell you all about him. str_npc5_kingsupport_2a|Please go on... str_npc6_kingsupport_2a|Splendid str_npc7_kingsupport_2a|Well, yes, I will try to keep order... str_npc8_kingsupport_2a|Fair enough str_npc9_kingsupport_2a|That seems sensible enough... str_npc10_kingsupport_2a|Of course - I would give my subjects that right str_npc11_kingsupport_2a|See if you can recall that prophesy. str_npc12_kingsupport_2a|Interesting. Please go on... str_npc13_kingsupport_2a|Why, yes, that you are. str_npc14_kingsupport_2a|Please go on... str_npc15_kingsupport_2a|Well-spoken, my good man str_npc16_kingsupport_2a|Interesting... Please continue str_npc1_kingsupport_2b|Well. We saw how that turned out... str_npc2_kingsupport_2b|I do not ask for their support, as they would no doubt wish to make a profit on the transaction. str_npc3_kingsupport_2b|I have no intention of hobbling myself in that way. str_npc4_kingsupport_2b|I will have no part of this str_npc5_kingsupport_2b|I said that I wished to be {king/queen}, not that I wished to involve myself in the minutiae of nomadism str_npc6_kingsupport_2b|I'm not sure that I can quite deliver all that str_npc7_kingsupport_2b|I think you're maybe taking the idea of the king's peace a bit too far, there str_npc8_kingsupport_2b|That's a pretty tall condition str_npc9_kingsupport_2b|I'm not sure that implementing your idea would be as 'simple' as you think str_npc10_kingsupport_2b|Hmm. Let me think it over. str_npc11_kingsupport_2b|Ah... I'll have my hand back, please. str_npc12_kingsupport_2b|Enough, sir. I will not have you mock our traditions str_npc13_kingsupport_2b|Hmm. I'm not sure about that. str_npc14_kingsupport_2b|Actually, I was looking forward to a bit of rest after becoming {king/queen}... str_npc15_kingsupport_2b|{King/Queen} of the Clerks, maybe, Enough of such talk str_npc16_kingsupport_2b|No offense, but I'm not sure that's the approach I'd take str_npc1_kingsupport_3|If I could go about this land for a few weeks, telling the common folk that you were going to amnesty their kinfolk like the emperors of old -- well, they would start talking of you as the Emperor, and that would pave your way to the throne. Shall I do that, Boss? str_npc3_kingsupport_3|If you were to make such a pledge, {sir/madame}, I think that it would help many of the lords of this land overcome any reluctance that they might have. If your aim is to restore the old Calradic system, then arguably you are a more legitimate {king/ruler} then any of these come-lately usurpers. Give me leave for several weeks, {sir/madame}, and I will let it be known in the noble courts and merchant houses of this land that you intend to restore their ancient rights. str_npc4_kingsupport_3|Yes -- I think I have heard of that line, In fact, I can envision {his/her} entire genealogy. If you give me leave, 'Majesty', I shall travel about the villages and castles of this realm over the next several weeks, spreading word of your royal birth. Of course, I would hope that you would remember your faithful subject, when it comes to distributing lands... str_npc5_kingsupport_3|Anyway, lord, in these sorry times the men of the great estates have taken to blocking our passage, charging us huge fees to cross. It is a great burden on my people, Bahadur. If I could take a few weeks to let the men of the steppes know that you would support the restoration of our ancient rights, well, then, I think you would find many who would support you as khan, And when men speak of you as khan, that's the first step to becoming one. str_npc6_kingsupport_3|Very well. Although I am now a stranger to my family, I have entered many a noble's hall in your train, and I reckon I would be welcome again. I shall go about this land and tell the nobles that when you are {king/queen}, you will strive your hardest to protect the weak and to crush discord, so that no man will raise his hand against another with impunity, and one day, perhaps, the sin of fraticide will be no more. str_npc7_kingsupport_3|I'll tell you what, captain. Give me a few weeks and I'll go to some of these villages -- stinking hovels that they are, but I reckon I can take care of myself these days. I'll tell the people there that once you unify this land, you'll wipe it clean of banditry. You'll erect gallows along the roads and keep them well-stocked with broken-necked thieves, so that every passerby knows that the wages of indecency is death. str_npc8_kingsupport_3|Good! Then give me a few weeks and I'll go about the courts of this land, letting it be known that you're a {king/ruler} who respects the thegns and their ancient rights. You won't go sticking your royal nose where it doesn't belong, and Calradia will be the better for it. str_npc9_kingsupport_3|It's perfectly sensible, {sir/madame} -- and we'll be free of those cursed writs and burghers' petitions and scrolls that take up all of my time and yours, when we should both be out fighting for the glory of your kingdom. Give me leave and I'll spread word among the noble lords of this land that you're here to restore the old ways, and I'll bet there will plenty who will follow you into battle. str_npc10_kingsupport_3|Well then, {Brother/Sister}, give me leave for a few weeks and I can go about this land, letting the common folk know that you will rule justly and equitably, and that lord and common alike should be one before your law. Men will speak of you as {king/queen}, and that's a good start to becoming one... str_npc11_kingsupport_3|I can't recall now, but if you let me go back to my home, I could find an old greybeard who remembers it in full. And, I could put it around that you've got the mark of kings on your hand! There's many where I come from who are waiting for a just ruler, and a man's hands tell all that's worth knowing about him. Give me a few weeks, and I'll reckon I can have quite a few expecting you to be their next {king/queen}. str_npc12_kingsupport_3|But you know what? There was no 'imperial' law when it came to the crown. Sometimes one emperor handed the empire to his son. Sometimes he split it between his generals. Sometimes one emperor murdered the last. There's no right 'Calradic' way to crown a {king/king or queen}, and thus it makes sense that the crown should go to the one most fit to govern -- which would be you, naturally. Give me a couple of weeks, and I'll write a tract which proves it and find a copyist to post a version in every town tavern in the land. What do you say to that idea, captain? str_npc13_kingsupport_3|Then give me leave for a few weeks, oh gallant one, and I will spin such a tale as would stir even the dullest heart, inspiring admiration for your virtues, compassion for your hardships, and indignation at those who would stand in your way. I assume, of course, that I would be able to take a certain amount of poetic license with the details? str_npc14_kingsupport_3|Give me leave for a few weeks, {sir/madame}, and I will let all the worthy men of this land know that you are the one to unite not just Calradia, but all the other Calradic dominions. For according to my thinking, no one should be {king/king or queen} here unless they have the capacity to rule the entirety of the realm -- and you alone have demonstrated such a capacity, {sir/madamge}. str_npc15_kingsupport_3|I'm glad you think so. Here's what I suggest. I know men in the guilds here, men like me, who've been shafted and shaken down until they can take no more. Here's what I'll tell them -- you're honest. You respect the burghers. You'll pay your debts. You won't beggar your subjects. str_npc16_kingsupport_3|Give me leave for a few weeks, and I'll do a little tour of my former employers' castles. I'll sing them a pretty song about what you'll do as {king/queen}, about all the ancient freedoms you'll restore -- let them rob their tenants and tax the merchants and fight their wars and spend themselves silly without a thought to tomorrow, as a noble ought! What do you say to that, captain? str_npc1_kingsupport_objection|Boss -- you've given leave to Alayen to go tell the nobles that they will have rights over pasture, market, and forest? I can't say I like that. Give him his way, and he'll set up gibbets in every village in the land, where there will dangle some poor sod like me who thought he might pick up a bow, head to the woods and put a bit of meat on his table. str_npc2_kingsupport_objection|Um, captain. Matheld has ridden off to tell the lords of this land that you'll let them settle their quarrels by force and violence. You know they rarely actually fight each other, right? Most of the time, it's the traders and travellers on the roads between their castles that get clobbered in their petty disputes. Any excuse to shake down a caravan, they'll take. I really hope that she misunderstood you, sir. str_npc3_kingsupport_objection|Captain -- Deshavi has set off on some sort of expedition, which she says that you countenanced. She says that she will go about the villages of this land, telling the poor villagers that once you are {king/queen}, you intend to hang all thieves and bandits. {Sir/Madame}, I am a merchant's daughter, and know well the scourge of banditry. I also know that Deshavi has suffered great wrongs. But surely you do not intend to hang men indiscriminately. There must be some place for mercy in your kingdom str_npc4_kingsupport_objection|Captain. Artimenner has set off on a journey, telling the burghers that you claim the throne because you know how to balance your accounts. That's nonsense. Nobles and kings fight and rule. If they had to haggle over wages and overruns with every passing vagabond who ever did a scrap of work on their estates, then there would be nothing but disorder and chaos. str_npc5_kingsupport_objection|{playername} Bahadur -- I overhead what you told Ymira. But I wonder -- if the lords who live from farming, and the merchants who earn from trade, are allowed to determine what taxes will be leveed, then who will be taxed? Those who live from flocks, of course -- my people, the people of the steppes. I would have nothing to do with these councils, Bahadur -- all free men should be one, under the khan, and that is the end of it. str_npc6_kingsupport_objection|I understand that you have dispatched Rolf to fabricate a claim of royal descent. I have to tell you, {sir/madame} -- I do not think that the heavens will smile on such an attempt to take the throne by fraud. str_npc7_kingsupport_objection|I have heard what you told Bunduk, about giving every common criminal the right of appeal to the {king/ruler}. I do not approve. Bandits should be hanged when caught. Give them a trial or an appeal, and they will talk their way out of the noose. Bunduk is a good man, but no man can fully understand what these wolves in human form do to women str_npc8_kingsupport_objection|Captain -- you have dispatched Firentis to tell the lords of this land that you intend to impose a peace, under which no one should settle their disputes by the sword. Would you have us all die in our beds, then? That is a great shame, for my people. A {king/sovereign}'s duty is to lead us into battle, not to tell us how to handle our quarrels and differences. str_npc9_kingsupport_objection|{Sir/Madame} -- it is with great regret that I have learned that you have told Baheshtur to let his people know that you will allow them to lead their flocks over the lands of their betters. I hope that I am mistaken about this, sir. The money we demand is but small compensation for the damage they cause to our flocks and the pollution of our water sources. My {lord/lady}, if your future kingdom is to be some nomads' paradise, then I for one do not look forward to it. str_npc10_kingsupport_objection|I hear that you've got Nizar spinning poems to justify your ascent to the throne. I can't say I approve, {Brother/Sister}. If men fight for a {king/sovereign}, it should be because they know they're going to get something good out of it, not because they've taken a liking to a silly song. str_npc11_kingsupport_objection|I hear that Lezalit is off and about telling folks that you're going to make yourself {king/queen} and then lead an army over the mountains. Shall there be no end to these wars, {laddie/lassie}? I was thinking that if you made yourself {king/queen}, then maybe you'd give us a bit of peace. But I guess the heavens have made Calradian blood to be spilt, and Calradian bones to be broken, and there's no getting round their decree. str_npc12_kingsupport_objection|Captain. I hear that you've gone and made Klethi, of all people, some sort of ambassador to the aristocracy. I shudder to think of what that amoral girl might be promising them on your behalf -- and dignifying all these gross indulgences by calling them 'ancient freedoms.' By doing this, you mock those of us who who had hoped that you would have helped Calradia escape its bloody past, and move towards a new age of peace and learning. Enough, I have said my peace. str_npc13_kingsupport_objection|Oh valiant one -- I hear that you have given leave to Jeremus to produce some testily-worded dissertation that undermines everything the people of this land hold dear, and accuses the old emperors of murder and usurpation. Captain -- I know as a poet that people must have heroes to emulate, and a golden age to restore. Will you create a kingdom in which cynics and scholars tell us what we must believe? I can think of nothing more dull. str_npc14_kingsupport_objection|I understand that you've sent your man Borcha to proclaim to all Calradia that you intend to free all the miscreants of this land upon your accession to the throne. What a foul idea... Men must be governed, {sir/madame} -- with whips and chains and the noose, if necessary. You'll find that out the hard way if you become {king/queen}, I'll warrant. str_npc15_kingsupport_objection|I understand that you've given leave to Katrin to spread some nonsense about marks on your hands. I just want to say that, as an educated man, I find it disturbing that you would resort to old women's superstitions to back your claim. Village women will believe one thing one day, another thing the next. Now a horoscope, properly cast by an astrologer at a royal university with a reputation to uphold, might tell you something worth knowing, but those have not been performed in Calradia for some time. str_npc16_kingsupport_objection|Oy -- Captain! I hear that Marnid's gone off to sing a pretty song to the merchants, on how you'll hand them Calradia on a silver platter for them to feast upon, smack their lips, and suck the marrow from the bones. I hope that's just a tale you're telling. A noble lord will at least toss a few coppers to the poor when he holds his feasts, and will make sure that the servants go home with full bellies. A merchant marries his daughter, and you'd be lucky to get a few crusts and scraps of gristle from the table. That's my experience, anyway. str_npc1_intel_mission|Well, Boss, as it happens, I have a few cousins over in {s17}, and unlike some in my family, they can still stand the sight of me. They deal in horses --- I've even been able to supply them with stock from time to time -- and so they get to pick up a bit of the gossip round the castles and great halls of the {s18}. I could go over there for a few days and tell you what I find out. str_npc2_intel_mission|{Sir/My lady}, if you're interested in events in {s18}, I can still make contact with my old trading partners in {s17}. They're usually well-informed about political events. str_npc3_intel_mission|Captain, although I cannot return to my father's house in {s17}, I still may make contact with my sister. She will be privy to the councils of the great merchant houses, and may tell us much about the state of the {s18}. str_npc4_intel_mission|Captain, if you could spare me for a few days, I would like to look up an old comrade-in-arms in {s17}, who has from time to time led a small company in the pay of the {s18}. He is a good man, the kind who speaks little and listens much. I'm sure over a drink or two he might let us know which way the political winds are blowing in those parts. str_npc5_intel_mission|If you like, {playername} Bahadur, I can take a few days to visit my mother's sister's people. They work in a caravanserie in {s17}, and hear the news from all across the {s18}. They may have some gossip about the feuds and rivaries of the great lords, if that is of interest to you. str_npc6_intel_mission|Captain -- while I am not strictly welcome in {s17}, I would be able to make contact with some former tenants of an estate of mine nearby. I granted them ownership after my abrupt departure, and they are now well-placed in society, and also less inclined than most to hold my crime against me. If you give me a few days, I may be able to collect some interesting information about the {s18}. str_npc7_intel_mission|Captain. When I left my former home in {s17}, I had promised myself that I would never return, except for the purposes of taking out vengeance on those who wronged me. Perhaps I was rash. I am occasionally curious as to how my family is getting along. Perhaps I can bring them some gifts, to let them know what I have made of myself! Any rate, they are wretched people, but just as a cringing dog keeps its ear to the wind, so do they. They may have useful information about the {s18}, if you would give me a few days to pay them a visit. str_npc8_intel_mission|If you have any interest in the events in the {s18}, a former shield-companion of mine retired and now keeps a farm near {s17}. He keeps in contact with a number of other old warriors. I could visit him for a few days, and learn more about what is going on there. str_npc9_intel_mission|{Sir/My lady} -- it has been some time since I sampled the delights of {s17}, where gentlefolk such as myself are wont to partake of the hospitality of the most puissant and generous lord. If you wish, I could perhaps go there, and let you know something about the concerns that weigh on the minds of the great peers of the {s18}. str_npc10_intel_mission|Captain -- I was thinking that some of my old mates in the garrison at {s17} would be glad to see me. They are good lads, and would never betray the city, but like me they have no particular affection for the bluebloods that command them, and may be willing to slip a little political gossip our way. The gentry are always falling out over one little thing or the other, but the lads might be able to know if there's real dissent brewing. str_npc11_intel_mission|{Laddie/Lassie} -- I was thinking that it's been a while since I visited my kinfolk in {s17}. They've been kind enough to me over the years, helping me out during the lean times, so I feel I'd like to share some of my newfound fortune with them. I've also bought wholesale enough times from the Praven grain merchants for them to trust me. I'd reckon they might be persuaded to spill a few tidbits about events in the {s18}, if that would interest you. str_npc12_intel_mission|If you wish, Captain, I would not mind taking the time to pay a visit to a pupil of mine, now employed by the lord of {s17}. I had great hopes for him, but I have heard that he has lately endorsed the use of muskmelon for the treatment of palsy, on the grounds that its cold essence offsets an abundance of yellow bile. This is a travesty of medicine, and I must journey there swiftly to correct him. While I am there, if you wish, I could question him on the latest trends within the {s18}, a matter which may interest you. str_npc13_intel_mission|Oh valiant one! With your permission, I was thinking that I might pay a visit to the dales near {s17}. I try not to revisit old pastures, but I must confess a certain curiosity as to how a comely shepherdess of my former acquaintance is getting along. On the way, I may attempt to stop in at the castle. I suspect that it would not be terribly difficult for me to charm my way into the lord's hall, and I may be able to provide you with the latest news from the {s18}. str_npc14_intel_mission|Captain... As you may know, I helped train the garrison of {s17}. One of their number has lately been in touch with me, and suggests that if I were to visit him, he could pass me information on events within the {s18}. I am willing to do this, if you can spare me. While it is a great disgrace to be a traitor, there is no dishonor in making use of one. str_npc15_intel_mission|Captain. As you may know, I have for some time harbored a wish to go to {s17}, and study the masonry -- one of the finest examples of the old Calradic style. As it happens, one of my colleagues is currently engaged there doing repair work on the curtain wall. While his sense of professional obligation I think would prevent him, rightfully, from disclosing to me any weaknesses in its defenses, I suspect that he would not be averse to offering up his opinion on the general state of the {s18}, if that is of interest to you. str_npc16_intel_mission|Oy, Captain! I had a mind to pay a visit to my old haunts at {s17}. Let's just say that the lord and lady of the place had commissioned a certain service from me, and had been a bit lax about payment. However, a certain sparkly bauble in the lady's possession will fit the bill nicely. I see no need to trouble them by letting them know about my visit, but I could have a wee chat with my old friend the castle steward, who'll be letting me into the place, about goings-on in the {s18}. str_npc1_fief_acceptance|You'd make me lord of {s17}, Boss? Well, that would be the kindest thing that anyone has ever done for me in a long time. Heh. I'll make the most of it -- you can count on that. I have to say, though -- I'm not sure how the other lords of this realm will react, when they find old Borcha in their august company. str_npc2_fief_acceptance|{s17} as a fief? Well, I've always thought in terms of buying and selling goods, not in terms of governing anything. But now that you mention it, I bet I could make that place turn a fair bit of revenue. I thank you, {my Lord/my lady} -- this is a very kind turn that you have done me. str_npc3_fief_acceptance|{Sire/My lady}, it is most generous of you to offer me {s17}. I would be pleased to hold it, and dedicate myself to the moral and material uplift of its inhabitants. str_npc4_fief_acceptance|It is good of you to grant me {s17} as a fief -- and most appropriate. Proud indeed is the king who has a baron of the House of Rolf as {his/her} vassal. str_npc5_fief_acceptance|Bahadur -- I would be most pleased to hold {s17}. I will send word to the hills, to my kinsmen, and let them know that there is honorable gold to be earned serving under me in your armies -- and they will come flocking to fight for you! str_npc6_fief_acceptance|{Sir/Lady} -- I am surprised that you find me worthy to govern men, as I am just beginning to learn to govern myself. But if you indeed wish it, I would be most honored to hold {s17} in your name, and dedicate myself to the protection of those who live there. str_npc7_fief_acceptance|Aye, I'll hold {s17} -- and give it a reputation that strikes fear in the hearts of thieves and brigands across Calradia. Thank you, {sire/madame}, for this opportunity. str_npc8_fief_acceptance|You'd make me a thegn? Well, I suppose that I can postpone reclaiming my inheritance for a little while longer, and make my great hall at {s17}. Some day, I may travel over the seas to take back what is mine, but until then, I would be pleased to raise a band of battle-hardened Nords to fight under your banner. str_npc9_fief_acceptance|{Sire/My lady}, I was cheated of my inheritance -- but now, with this offer of this estate, you make right what was wrong. It would give me the greatest honor to serve you, to fight for you, and to hold this land in fief to you. str_npc10_fief_acceptance|You'd make me a lord? Well, no thank you -- but if you would call me 'tribune' -- the tribunes being the people's servants in the old times -- then I suppose I could bring myself to run {s17} for you. I'd put food in the bellies of the hungry, and raise a fine force of Rhodok foot to fight on your behalf, {Brother/Sister}. But I can't promise that the real blue-bloods will enjoy rubbing shoulders with me in your councils. str_npc11_fief_acceptance|Ay! You'd grant old Katrin a title of nobility? Well, I'd be daft to turn you down, now wouldn't I? My, the strange turns that life takes... Fancy this old bag of bones becoming a great peer of the realm of Calradia. str_npc12_fief_acceptance|Well, {sire/my lady}, I'd have you know that don't believe in the holding of land in fief to the king. Farmers and landholders should govern their own affairs, under the distant watch of the sovereign. That being said, Calradia has seen far too much bloodshed for us to turn the social order on its head right now. Give me that land, and I'll endeavor to prepare it for a brighter future -- if not in this generation, than perhaps in the next. str_npc13_fief_acceptance|How generous and kind of you, {sire/my lady}. Allow me to express the utmost reverence for your wisdom in selecting me. Truly, your perspicacity exceeds that of King Laminur, who could read the character of a man from a single hair of his head. Your judgment surpasses that of the Emperor Akembra, to whom even the jinns submitted their disputes. Anyway, I accept. str_npc14_fief_acceptance|You do me a great honor, captain. In Geroia, a youngest son such as myself has few opportunities to earn a fief of his own. But here, in Calradia, there is still the chance for a man to win with his sword what was denied him by his birth! I shall hold {s17} as your vassal, and raise an army to fight for your glory and for mine. str_npc15_fief_acceptance|Well, {sir/my lady}, that's a gracious act, and marks you as the kind of monarch who can save this sorry land from the incompetence of the current batch. I suspect a lot of the noble lords around here will think that a commoner like me isn't fit to hold a fief. Well, when they see what I do with it, and what revenues I can bring in, they'll change their tune! str_npc16_fief_acceptance|Oh, that's most generous of you, {sire/my lady}. I've been in and out of many a great hall or manor -- not always with the master's permission, I should add -- but I never thought I'd own one myself. Let me think... When I collect my first year's rents, what baubles shall I buy myself? str_npc3_woman_to_woman|My lady, if you don't mind me saying -- I think by now you have proven yourself to be one of the great warriors of this realm. Yet strangely, no king has come forward to offer you a fief. Perhaps it is because you are a woman. No matter -- I personally believe that you will take your place among the great lords of this realm, even if you have to fight twice as long and twice as hard to receive your due! str_npc7_woman_to_woman|Captain. If you don't mind me saying, you have fought long and hard against the scum of Calradia, and with their defeat, you make this land a better place. You are well deserving of a fief of your own -- and I suspect that if you were not a woman, a king would have offered you one by now. That is the way of the men in this sorry land they let us stand in the front of the battleline to take the enemy's blows, but when it comes to a division of the spoils, they expect us to head to the rear. str_npc8_woman_to_woman|Excuse me, {playername}. I would like to offer you my congratulations -- it seems that you are well on your way to making a name for yourself as a warrior to be feared. If you were a man, I suspect the kings of this land would be falling over themselves to make you their vassal. Alas, in this world, women like ourselves must fight twice as hard to receive what is only our due. str_npc11_woman_to_woman|Aye, lassie, I just can't help thinking to myself -- you've made quite a name for yourself, haven't you? Fighting and marching up and down the length of the land. Why, I suspect if you were a man, some king would have offered you a fief by now. Well, you may still get what you deserve -- you'll just have to prove yourself a bit more. str_npc16_woman_to_woman|Oy, Captain -- if you don't mind me saying, you've made quite a name for yourself in these parts. I suspect that if you were a man, a king would have offered you a fief by now. But we ladies should come to expect things like that. Men will find any excuse not to reward us for our work, so if we take a fancy to a bit of land somewhere, maybe we should just reach out and take it. That's the way I look at the world, anyway. str_npc1_turn_against|I'm sorry that we meet like this, boss. There's no question that I owe my rise in life to you. You doubtless think me ungrateful. However, one has to follow one's destiny -- isn't that correct? str_npc2_turn_against|This is a sad day. I never thought that I might meet my old captain on the field of battle. Even if I triumph, it will bring me no joy. str_npc3_turn_against|Oh {playername} -- what a tragic turn our lives have taken! I can only hope that the tides of war that have made us enemies, will one day allow us to be friends. str_npc4_turn_against|Aye, well.... I'm not sure what to say. If we must fight, let's get it over with. str_npc6_turn_against|It grieves me more than anything I can say to meet you like this, {playername}. I shall not dwell on the circumstances that have led us to this point. I can only hope that we may one day be reconciled. str_npc7_turn_against|Well, captain. You made of me a great lady, and for that I am grateful. However, you did not buy me, and now the circumstances have caused us our interests to clash, I can meet you in battle with a clear conscience. Still, I hope some day that circumstances may change again, and we may meet as friends. str_npc8_turn_against|So we now we meet as enemies, and may shortly face each other over the rims of our shields. A grim day this is. Sometimes, the spinners of our fate have a dark sense of humor. str_npc9_turn_against|I will not accept fault for the circumstances which have led us to become enemies. I want you to know that my conscience is clear, although my heart is heavy. str_npc10_turn_against|Well, it looks like the tides of fate have led me to make war on my old captain. Maybe things started to go wrong when you became my liege -- I suppose I was never much suited to vassalage. Anyway, here we are now. Maybe, when the world is changed and there are no more masters and servants, or lords and vassals, then we can meet together as friends. str_npc11_turn_against|Great heaven, {laddie/lassie}. So now it looks like you and I are enemies. Didn't I say that life takes us on some very strange turns? Destiny sometimes has a cruel sense of humor -- I'll say that much. str_npc12_turn_against|So, it seems we must fight. I would have you know, {sir/my lady}, that I have not betrayed you. I had never served you as a man, but served the principles which I believed you upheld. As you no longer uphold them, I must do my best to thwart you. But I bear you no ill will, and I hope that we can meet again some day as friends str_npc13_turn_against|It is sad to meet you as my enemy, Captain -- but on the other hand, to meet such a titan of the battlefield as yourself in combat is a rare privilege. Truly, the news of our contest today shall keep the bards and poets of Calradia in wine and silver for months to come, do you think? str_npc14_turn_against|Well, {playername}. We meet as enemies. I confess that I have mixed feelings. It grieves me to make war on you, but if we meet in battle and I prevail, I will have defeated the worthiest foe in all Calradia, and I will know that my mastery of the military art is complete! str_npc15_turn_against|Ah... I have not been looking forward to this day. I just want to say that in my sight, if you'd kept your faith in me, things would never have come to this. But no doubt you see it differently. str_npc16_turn_against|Hello, Captain! So, I guess we're enemies! One small word of warning if we end up fighting each other -- once the rage of battle hits me, I can't always account for my actions. Just know that whatever I do, it's not personal. Maybe if we both walk away from this, we can meet once more as friends? str_comment_intro_liege_affiliated|I am told that you are pledged to one of the pretenders who disputes my claim to the crown of Calradia. But we may still talk. str_comment_intro_famous_liege|Your fame runs before you! Perhaps it is time that you sought a liege worthy of your valor. str_comment_intro_famous_martial|Your fame runs before you! Perhaps we shall test each other's valor in a tournament, or on the battlefield! str_comment_intro_famous_badtempered|I've heard of you. Well, I'm not one for bandying words, so if you have anything to say, out with it. str_comment_intro_famous_pitiless|I know your name. It strikes fear in men's hearts. That is good. Perhaps we should speak together, some time. str_comment_intro_famous_cunning|Ah, yes. At last we meet. You sound like a good {man/woman} to know. Let us speak together, from time to time. str_comment_intro_famous_sadistic|I know your name -- and from what I hear, I'll warrant that many a grieving widow knows too. But that is no concern of mine. str_comment_intro_famous_goodnatured|I've heard of you! It's very good to finally make your acquaintance. str_comment_intro_famous_upstanding|I know your name. They say you are a most valiant warrior. I can only hope that your honour and mercy matches your valor. str_comment_intro_noble_liege|I see that you carry a {nobleman's/noble's} banner, although I do not recognize the device. Know that I am always looking for good {men/warriors} to fight for me, once they prove themselves to be worthy of my trust. str_comment_intro_noble_martial|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. No matter -- a brave {man's/warrior's} home is all the world, or so they say! str_comment_intro_noble_badtempered|I don't recognize the device on your banner. No doubt another foreigner come to our lands, as if we didn't have so many here already. str_comment_intro_noble_pitiless|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. Another vulture come to grow fat on the leftovers of war, no doubt! str_comment_intro_noble_cunning|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. Still, it is always worthwhile to make the acquaintance of {men/women} who may one day prove themselves to be great warriors. str_comment_intro_noble_sadistic|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. Perhaps you are the bastard {son/daughter} of a puffed-up cattle thief? Or perhaps you stole it? str_comment_intro_noble_goodnatured|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. Forgive my ignorance, {sir/my lady}! It is good to make your acquaintance. str_comment_intro_noble_upstanding|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. No doubt you have come to Calradia in search of wealth and glory. If this indeed is the case, then I only ask that you show mercy to those poor souls caught in the path of war. str_comment_intro_common_liege|You may be of common birth, but know that I am always looking for good men to fight for me, if they can prove themselves to be worthy of my trust. str_comment_intro_common_martial|Perhaps you are not of gentle birth, but even a commoner, be {he/she} of sufficient valor, may make something of {himself/herself} some day. str_comment_intro_common_badtempered|Speak quickly, if you have anything to say, for I have no time to be bandying words with common soldiers of fortune. str_comment_intro_common_pitiless|You have the look of a mercenary, another vulture come to grow fat on the misery of this land. str_comment_intro_common_cunning|Well... I have not heard of you, but you have the look of a {man/woman} who might make something of {himself/herself}, some day. str_comment_intro_common_sadistic|Normally I cut the throats of impudent commoners who barge into my presence uninvited, but I am in a good mood today. str_comment_intro_common_goodnatured|Well, you look like a good enough sort. str_comment_intro_common_upstanding|Peace to you, and always remember to temper your valor with mercy, your courage with honour. str_comment_intro_female_famous_liege|I have heard much about you. Some men may fear a woman who is versed in the art of war, but I for one will not turn away hands that can grip a sword, should their owner be brave and loyal. str_comment_intro_female_famous_martial|I have heard much about you. They say that you are the equal of even the bravest of men in your prowess at arms. Perhaps one day I shall try my valor against yours, either in a tournament or on the battlefield! str_comment_intro_female_famous_badtempered|I've heard of talk of you -- the woman who knows how to fight like a man. str_comment_intro_female_famous_pitiless|I know your name. It strikes fear in men's hearts. That is good. Perhaps we should speak together, some time. str_comment_intro_female_famous_cunning|Ah, yes. At last we meet. You sound like a good woman to know. Let us speak together, from time to time. str_comment_intro_female_famous_sadistic|I know your name -- and from what I hear, I'll warrant that many a grieving widow knows too. But that is no concern of mine. str_comment_intro_female_famous_goodnatured|I've heard of you! It's very good to finally make your acquaintance. str_comment_intro_female_famous_upstanding|I know your name. They say you are a most valiant warrior. I can only hope that your honour and mercy matches your valor. str_comment_intro_female_noble_liege|It is not often that I meet a woman who aspires to lead men into battle. But these are dark and troubled times, and I for one will not turn away hands that can grip a sword, should their owner be brave and loyal. str_comment_intro_female_noble_martial|I do not recognize the device on your banner, but clearly you are a lady of rank. Please consider me your most humble servant. str_comment_intro_female_noble_badtempered|I don't recognize the device on that banner. Clearly another foreigner come to our lands, bringing their strange ways. str_comment_intro_female_noble_pitiless|I see that you carry a noble's banner, but I do not recognize the device... You should know, lady, that in Calradia it is the men to ride to war, and if you seek to overturn the natural order of things, you will find your fair head stuck on a pike -- like that of any other rebel! str_comment_intro_female_noble_cunning|It is not unheard-of for a woman to seek her fortune on the battlefields of Calradia, but neither is it usual. I shall be most interested in your progress. str_comment_intro_female_noble_sadistic|You appear to be of noble rank, but I don't recognize your banner. Clearly, another foreigner come to our shores -- no doubt from a land where men are weak, and the women ride to war in their place! str_comment_intro_female_noble_goodnatured|I see that you carry a nobleman's banner, but I do not recognize the device. Forgive my ignorance,, my lady! It is good to make your acquaintance. str_comment_intro_female_noble_upstanding|It is not every day that we see a woman caparisoned for war. Please do not take this amiss, my lady, for you have every right to protect yourself, but I cannot pretend to be fully comfortable with your decision to fight in battle. I would prefer that women be untouched by these wars, as I believe the female to be the custodian of what little gentility and tenderness remains to us. str_comment_intro_female_admiring_liege|It is not often that I meet a woman who aspires to lead men into battle. But these are dark and troubled times, and I for one will not turn away hands that can grip a sword, should their owner be brave and loyal. str_comment_intro_female_admiring_martial|Greetings, my lady. Although I see from your demeanor that you are not a conventional maiden, I hope that you are not averse to a declaration of admiration from me, your most humble servant. str_comment_intro_female_badtempered_admiring|Heh. Fancy this -- a maiden, all equipped for war. Well, it's a strange sight, but in your case, I can imagine that it might grow on me. str_comment_intro_female_pitiless_admiring|It is unusual to see a woman girt for war. Be careful, my lady -- it is a harsh world, and it would be a shame to see such beauty marred by a sword-blow. str_comment_intro_female_cunning_admiring|Greetings, my lady. Please do not think it forward, if I say that it is unusual to see a woman caparisoned for war. I hope that one day I may be the father of a daughter possessed of such bravery and spirit. str_comment_intro_female_sadistic_admiring|What have we here! A woman, caparisoned for war! Well, I dare say that one as fair as you could lend a touch of femininity even to a mail hauberk. str_comment_intro_female_admiring_goodnatured|My lady, if you are skilled as arms as you are fair in countenance, then your enemies should indeed fear you! str_comment_intro_female_admiring_upstanding|Greetings, my lady. Even with the dust of the march upon your clothes and gear, I can see that you are not lacking in the graces of your noble sex. str_comment_intro_female_common_liege|It is not often that I meet a woman who aspires to lead men into battle. But these are dark and troubled times, and I for one will not turn away hands that can grip a sword, should their owner be brave and loyal. str_comment_intro_female_common_martial|I must say, my lady -- do be careful, riding about this dangerous land. If you ever wished to seek a more... em... settled life, I'm sure I could find you a worthy husband from among my men. str_comment_intro_female_common_badtempered|By the way, girl -- does your husband know that you nicked his weapons and armor? I'll bet you're in for a right old beating when you get home! str_comment_intro_female_common_pitiless|These are fallen times indeed, when even women turn brigand, to pick the leavings from the wreckage of war. str_comment_intro_female_common_cunning|It is not unheard-of for a woman to seek her fortune on the battlefields of Calradia, but neither is it usual. I shall be most interested in your progress. str_comment_intro_female_common_sadistic|A woman, caparisoned for war! Well, I suppose that you're no more womanly than most of those in my service who call themselves warriors. str_comment_intro_female_common_goodnatured|From the look of you, I suppose you can handle yourself, but do be careful out there, my lady. str_comment_intro_female_common_upstanding|It is not every day that we see a woman caparisoned for war. Please do not take this amiss, my lady, for you have every right to protect yourself, but I cannot pretend to be fully comfortable with your decision to fight in battle. I would prefer that women be untouched by these wars, as I believe the female to be the custodian of what little gentility and tenderness remains to us. str_rejoinder_intro_female_common_badtempered|I won my weapons in battle. Would you care to test their edge? str_rejoinder_intro_female_noble_sadistic|Never mind my country. Here in Calradia, it seems, dogs lead men to war. str_rejoinder_intro_female_common_sadistic|And you, sir, are no more bestial than my horse. str_rejoinder_intro_female_noble_pitiless|I would restore the natural order, so that you no longer speak from your arse. str_rejoinder_intro_female_common_pitiless|Indeed, these are fallen times, when brigands call themselves 'Lord'. str_rejoinder_intro_noble_sadistic|Maybe now I'll take your banner. And your cattle. And your life. str_rejoinder_intro_female_pitiless_admiring|I would be delighted to mar your handsome nose, sir. str_rejoinder_intro_female_common_upstanding|Would you like to feel the tenderness of my steel? str_rejoinder_intro_female_noble_upstanding|Would you like to feel the tenderness of my steel? str_rejoinder_intro_female_common_martial|I could find worthier husbands than those in a kennel. str_rejoinder_intro_female_sadistic_admiring|You could add a touch of humanity to a horse's harness, but just a touch. str_rejoinder_intro_female_badtempered_admiring|If you're disturbed by the sight of me, I'd be pleased to put out your eyes. str_comment_you_raided_my_village_enemy_benevolent|You have attacked innocent farmers under my protection in the village of {s51}. I will punish you for your misdeeds! str_comment_you_raided_my_village_enemy_spiteful|You have raided my village of {s51}, destroying my property and killing the tenants. I will take my compensation in blood! str_comment_you_raided_my_village_enemy_coldblooded|You have raided my village of {s51}, destroying my property and killing the tenants. I will make you think twice before you disrupt my revenues like that again. str_comment_you_raided_my_village_enemy|You have raided my village of {s51}, destroying my property and killing tenants under my protection. You will pay the price for your crime! str_comment_you_raided_my_village_unfriendly_spiteful|You have raided my village of {s51}. Do it again and I'll gut you like a fish. str_comment_you_raided_my_village_friendly|You have raided my village of {s51}. This will place a grave strain on our friendship. str_comment_you_raided_my_village_default|You have raided my village of {s51}. If you continue to behave this way, we may soon come to blows. str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_enemy_benevolent|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from innocent farmers under my protection in the village of {s51}. I will punish you for your misdeeds! str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_enemy_spiteful|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from my villagers living at {s51}, stoling my villager's property. You will pay results of this dishonorable act! str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_enemy_coldblooded|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from my villagers living at {s51}, stoling my villager's property. I will make you think twice before you disrupt my revenues like that again. str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_enemy|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from my villagers living at {s51}, stoling my villager's property. You will pay results of this dishonorable act! str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_unfriendly_spiteful|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from my villagers living at {s51}. Do it again and I'll gut you like a fish. str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_friendly|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from my villagers living at {s51}. This will place a grave strain on our friendship. str_comment_you_stole_cattles_from_my_village_default|I have heard that you have stolen cattles from my villagers living at {s51}. If you continue to behave this way, we may soon come to blows. str_comment_you_robbed_my_village_enemy_coldblooded|You have robbed my tenants in the village of {s51}. I take that as a personal insult. str_comment_you_robbed_my_village_enemy|You have robbed innocent farmers under my protection in the village of {s51}. I will punish you for your misdeeds! str_comment_you_robbed_my_village_friendly_spiteful|I have heard that you pinched some food from my tenants at {s51}. Well, I'll not begrudge you a scrap or two, but keep in mind that I'm the one who must listen to their whining afterward. str_comment_you_robbed_my_village_friendly|I have heard that you requisitioned supplies from my tenants at {s51}. I am sure that you would not have done so were you not desperately in need. str_comment_you_robbed_my_village_default|You have robbed my tenants in the village of {s51}. If you continue to behave this way, we may soon come to blows. str_comment_you_accosted_my_caravan_enemy|You have been accosting caravans under my protection. But your trail of brigandage will soon come to an end. str_comment_you_accosted_my_caravan_default|You have been accosting caravans under my protection. This sort of behavior must stop. str_comment_you_helped_villagers_benevolent|I heard that you gave charity to my tenants in the village of {s51}. I had been neglectful in my duties as lord and protector, and I appreciate what you have done. str_comment_you_helped_villagers_friendly_cruel|I heard that you gave charity to my tenants in the village of {s51}. I appreciate that you meant well, but I'd rather you not undercut my authority like that. str_comment_you_helped_villagers_friendly|I heard that you gave charity to my tenants in the village of {s51}. Times are hard, and I know that you mean well, so I will not object to you providing them with assistance. str_comment_you_helped_villagers_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that you gave charity to my tenants in the village of {s51}. As amusing as it is to see you grubbing for favor among my vassals, I would ask you to mind your own business. str_comment_you_helped_villagers_cruel|I heard that you gave charity to my tenants in the village of {s51}. As the peasants' lord and protector, it is most properly my duty to assist them in times of hardship. You may mean well, but your actions still undercut my authority. I would thank you to leave them alone. str_comment_you_helped_villagers_default|I heard that you gave charity to my tenants in the village of {s51}. Times are hard, and I know that you mean well, but try not to make a habit of it. I am their lord and protector, and I would rather not have them go looking to strangers for assistance. str_comment_you_give_castle_in_my_control|You won't regret your decision to give {s51} to me. You can count on me to protect it. str_comment_you_captured_a_castle_allied_friendly|I heard that you have besieged and taken {s51}. That was a great dead, and I am proud to call you my friend! str_comment_you_captured_a_castle_allied_spiteful|I heard that you have besieged and taken {s51}. Good work! Soon, we will have all their fortresses to despoil, their treasuries to ransack, their grieving widows to serve us our wine. str_comment_you_captured_a_castle_allied_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that you have besieged and taken {s51}. Well, every dog has his day, or so they say. Enjoy it while you can, until your betters kick you back out in the cold where you belong. str_comment_you_captured_a_castle_allied_unfriendly|I heard that you have besieged and taken {s51}. Whatever our differences in the past, I must offer you my congratulations. str_comment_you_captured_a_castle_allied|I heard that you have besieged and taken {s51}. We have them on the run! str_comment_you_captured_my_castle_enemy_spiteful|I hear that you have broken into my home at {s51}. I hope the dungeon is to your liking, as you will be spending much time there in the years to come. str_comment_you_captured_my_castle_enemy_chivalrous|You hold {s51}, my rightful fief. I hope you will give me the chance to win it back! str_comment_you_captured_my_castle_enemy|You have something that belongs to me -- {s51}. I will make you relinquish it. str_comment_we_defeated_a_lord_unfriendly_spiteful|I suppose you will want to drink to the memory of our victory over {s54}. Well, save your wine -- it will take more than that to wipe out the stain of your earlier disgraces. str_comment_we_defeated_a_lord_unfriendly|I will not forget how we fought together against {s54}, but I can also not forget the other matters that lie between us. str_comment_we_defeated_a_lord_cruel|That was a great victory over {s54}, wasn't it? We made of his army a feast for the crows! str_comment_we_defeated_a_lord_quarrelsome|I won't forget how we whipped {s54}? I enjoyed that. str_comment_we_defeated_a_lord_upstanding|I will not forget our victory over {s54}. Let us once again give thanks to heaven, and pray that we not grow too proud. str_comment_we_defeated_a_lord_default|That was a great victory over {s54}, wasn't it? I am honoured to have fought by your side. str_comment_we_fought_in_siege_unfriendly_spiteful|I suppose you will want to drink to the memory of our capture of {s51}. Well, save your wine -- it will take more than that to wipe out the stain of your earlier disgraces. str_comment_we_fought_in_siege_unfriendly|I will not forget how we together we stormed {s51}, but I can also not forget the other matters that lie between us. str_comment_we_fought_in_siege_cruel|I won't forget how we broke through the walls of {s51} and put its defenders to the sword. It is a sweet memory. str_comment_we_fought_in_siege_quarrelsome|Remember how the enemy squealed when we came over the walls of {s51}? They had thought they were safe! We wiped the smug smiles of their faces! str_comment_we_fought_in_siege_upstanding|I will not forget our capture of {s51}. Let us once again give thanks to heaven, and pray that we not grow too proud. str_comment_we_fought_in_siege_default|I will not forget how together we captured {s51}. I am honoured to have fought by your side. str_comment_we_fought_in_major_battle_unfriendly_spiteful|I suppose you will want to drink to the memory of our great victory near {s51}. Well, save your wine -- it will take more than that to wipe out the stain of your earlier disgraces. str_comment_we_fought_in_major_battle_unfriendly|I will not forget how we fought together in the great battle near {s51}, but I can also not forget the other matters that lie between us. str_comment_we_fought_in_major_battle_cruel|I won't forget the great battle near {s51}, when we broke through the enemy lines and they ran screaming before us. It is a sweet memory. str_comment_we_fought_in_major_battle_quarrelsome|That was a fine fight near {s51}, when we made those bastards run! str_comment_we_fought_in_major_battle_upstanding|I will not forget how we fought side by side at the great battle near {s51}. Let us once again give thanks to heaven, and pray that we not grow too proud. str_comment_we_fought_in_major_battle_default|I will not forget how we fought side by side at the great battle near {s51}. I am honoured to have fought by your side. str_comment_you_defeated_a_lord_allied_liege|So, you crossed swords with that rascal they call {s54}, and emerged victorious. I am very happy to hear that. str_comment_you_defeated_a_lord_allied_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that you fought and defeated {s54}. Every dog has its day, I suppose. str_comment_you_defeated_a_lord_allied_spiteful|I heard that you fought and defeated that dog {s54}. Ah, if only I could have heard him whimpering for mercy. str_comment_you_defeated_a_lord_allied_unfriendly_chivalrous|I heard that you fought and defeated {s54}. I hope that you did not use dishonourable means to do so. str_comment_you_defeated_a_lord_allied|I heard that you fought and defeated {s54}. I wish you joy of your victory. str_comment_you_defeated_me_enemy_chivalrous|I will not begrudge you your victory the last time that we met, but I am anxious for another round! str_comment_you_defeated_me_enemy_spiteful|I have been looking forward to meeting you again. Your tricks will not deceive me a second time, and I will relish hearing your cries for mercy. str_comment_you_defeated_me_enemy|When last we met, {playername}, you had the better of me. But I assure you that it will not happen again! str_comment_i_defeated_you_enemy_spiteful|Back for more? Make me fight you again, and I'll feed your bowels to my hounds. str_comment_i_defeated_you_enemy_chivalrous|Come to test your valor against me again, {playername}? str_comment_i_defeated_you_enemy_benevolent|So once again you come at me? Will you ever learn? str_comment_i_defeated_you_enemy_coldblooded|You are persistent, but a nuisance. str_comment_i_defeated_you_enemy|How many times must I chastise you before you learn to keep your distance? str_comment_we_were_defeated_unfriendly_spiteful|Last I saw you, you had been struck down by the men of {s54}. I blame you for that disaster. What a pity to see that you survived. str_comment_we_were_defeated_unfriendly|Last I saw you, you had been struck down by the men of {s54}. Well, I see that you survived. str_comment_we_were_defeated_cruel|Last I saw you, you had been struck down by the men of {s54}. Don't worry -- we'll find him, and make him choke on his victory. str_comment_we_were_defeated_default|Last I saw you, you had been struck down by the men of {s54}. It is good to see you alive and well. str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied_friendly_spiteful|I heard that {s54} gave you a hard time. Don't worry, friend -- I'll find him for you, and make you a gift of his head. str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied_unfriendly_cruel|I had heard that {s54} slaughtered your men like sheep. But here you are, alive. Such a disappointment! str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied_spiteful|I heard that {s54} crushed you underfoot like an ant. Hah! Children should not play games made for grown-ups, little {boy/girl}! str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied_pitiless|I heard that {s54} defeated you, and scattered your forces. That is most disappointing... str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied_unfriendly_upstanding|I heard that {s54} defeated you. Perhaps you should consider if you have considered any misdeeds, that might cause heaven to rebuke you in this way. str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied_unfriendly|I heard that {s54} defeated you. Look, try not to get too many of our men killed, will you? str_comment_you_were_defeated_allied|I heard that {s54} defeated you. But take heart -- the tables will soon be turned! str_comment_you_helped_my_ally_unfriendly_chivalrous|I heard that you saved {s54} from likely defeat. Whatever else I may think of you, I must at least commend you for that. str_comment_you_helped_my_ally_liege|I heard that you saved my vassal {s54} from likely defeat. str_comment_you_helped_my_ally_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that you rode to the rescue of our poor {s54}. Did you think him a damsel in distress? No matter -- it's a common mistake. str_comment_you_helped_my_ally_spiteful|I heard that you saved {s54} from a whipping. You should have let him learn his lesson, in my opinion. str_comment_you_helped_my_ally_chivalrous|I heard that you got {s54} out of a tight spot. That was a noble deed. str_comment_you_helped_my_ally_default|I heard that you got {s54} out of a tight spot. Good work! str_comment_you_abandoned_us_unfriendly_spiteful|You worm! You left us alone to face {s54}, didn't you? I spit at you. str_comment_you_abandoned_us_unfriendly_pitiless|Well... You abandoned me in the middle of a battle with {s54}, didn't you? I'll see you buried in a traitor's grave. str_comment_you_abandoned_us_spiteful|You disappeared in the middle of that battle with {s54}... I hope you have a good explanation. Did your bowels give out? Were you shaking too hard with fear to hold your weapon? str_comment_you_abandoned_us_chivalrous|What happened? You disappeared in the middle of that battle against {s54}. I can only hope that you were too badly wounded to stand, for I would be ashamed to have gone into battle alongside a coward. str_comment_you_abandoned_us_benefitofdoubt|What happened? You disappeared in the middle of that battle against {s54}. I assume that you must have been wounded, but it did look suspicious. str_comment_you_abandoned_us_default|What happened? One moment you were fighting with us against {s54}, the next moment you were nowhere to be found? str_comment_you_ran_from_me_enemy_spiteful|Last time we met, you ran from me like a whipped dog. Have you come back to bark at me again, or to whine for mercy? str_comment_you_ran_from_me_enemy_chivalrous|Last time we met, you fled from me. Learn to stand and fight like a gentleman! str_comment_you_ran_from_me_enemy_benevolent|When I saw you flee the last time that we met, I had hoped that I would not have to fight you again. str_comment_you_ran_from_me_enemy_coldblooded|Last time we met, you fled from me. That was a wise decision str_comment_you_ran_from_me_enemy|You may have been able to escape the last time we crossed paths, but the next time I doubt that you be so lucky. str_comment_you_ran_from_foe_allied_chivalrous|They say that you fled from {s54}, leaving your men behind. I pray that this is not true, for such conduct does dishonour to us all. str_comment_you_ran_from_foe_allied_upstanding|They say that you fled from {s54}, leaving your men behind. I do not always believe such rumors, and I also know that desperate straits call for desperate measures. But I beg you to take more care of your good name, for men will not fight in our armies if they hear that we abandon them on the field of battle. str_comment_you_ran_from_foe_allied_spiteful|By the way, they said that you ran away from {s54} like a quaking little rabbit, leaving your men behind to be butchered. Ha! What a sight that would have been to see! str_comment_you_defeated_my_friend_enemy_pragmatic|You may have bested {s54}, but you cannot defeat us all. str_comment_you_defeated_my_friend_enemy_chivalrous|I have heard that you defeated {s54}, and ever since have been anxious to cross swords with you. str_comment_you_defeated_my_friend_enemy_spiteful|Your fame runs before you, {playername}. {s54} may have fallen for your tricks, but if you fight me, you'll find a me a much more slippery foe. str_comment_you_defeated_my_friend_enemy|They say that you have defeated {s54}. But I will be a truer test of your skill at arms. str_comment_you_captured_a_lord_allied_friendly_spiteful|I heard that you captured {s54}. I hope that you squeezed him for every denar. str_comment_you_captured_a_lord_allied_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that you captured {s54}. Your coffers must be well-bloated with ransom by now. Such a pity that money cannot transform a low-born cur into a gentleman! str_comment_you_captured_a_lord_allied_chivalrous|I heard that you captured {s54}. Well done. I assume, of course, that he has been been treated with the honours due his rank. str_comment_you_captured_a_lord_allied|I heard that you captured {s54}. Well done. His ransom must be worth quite something. str_comment_you_let_go_a_lord_allied_chivalrous|I heard that you captured {s54}, but then let him go. Such chivalry does a credit to our cause. str_comment_you_let_go_a_lord_allied_upstanding|I heard that you captured {s54}, but then let him go. Well, that was an honourable course of action, if possibly also a dangerous one. str_comment_you_let_go_a_lord_allied_coldblooded|I heard that you captured {s54}, but then let him go. That was most chivalrous of you, but chivalry does not win wars. str_comment_you_let_go_a_lord_allied_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that you captured {s54}, but then let him go. How very chivalrous of you! No doubt the widows and orphans he leaves in his wake will want to commend you in person. str_comment_you_let_go_a_lord_allied|I heard that you captured {s54}, but then let him go. Well, I will not tell you what to do with your own prisoners. str_comment_you_let_me_go_spiteful|When last we met, you had me at your mercy and allowed me to go free. I hope you enjoyed toying with me, like a cat with a mouse, because soon I will have you at my mercy, to slay or humiliate according to my fancy. str_comment_you_let_me_go_enemy_chivalrous|When last we met, you had me at your mercy and allowed me to go free. That was most chivalrous of you, and I will not forget. But I also must remember my oath to my liege, and our kingdoms are still at war. str_comment_you_let_me_go_enemy_coldblooded|When last we met, you had me at your mercy and allowed me to go free. But we are still enemies, and I cannot promise to repay your mercy in kind. str_comment_you_let_me_go_enemy|When last we met, you had me at your mercy and allowed me to go free. That was kind of you. But we are still at war. str_comment_you_let_me_go_default|When last we met, you had me at your mercy and allowed me to go free. That was kind of you, and I am glad that our kingdoms are no longer at war. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_martial_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Pray do not disgrace us by behaving in a cowardly fashion. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_martial|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. I look forward to fighting alongside you against our foes. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_quarrelsome_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Bah. Do yourself a favor, and stay out of my way. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_quarrelsome|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Fight hard against our foes, respect your betters, and don't cross me, and we'll get along fine. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_selfrighteous_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. If I were he, I would not trust you to clean the sculleries. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_selfrighteous|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Fight bravely and you will be well-rewarded. Betray us, and we shall make of you the kind of example that will not soon be forgotten. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_cunning_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. I do not pretend to be happy about his decision, but perhaps it is better to have you inside our tent pissing out, than the other way around. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_cunning|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. That is good. The more skilled fighters we have with us in these troubled times, the better. I shall be watching your progress. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_debauched_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. No doubt you will soon betray him, and I will have the pleasure of watching you die a traitor's death. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_debauched|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Excellent... I am sure that you and I will become very good friends. But remember -- if you betray us, it will be the biggest mistake you will ever make. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_goodnatured_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Well, I can't say that I would have trusted you, but perhaps you deserve the benefit of the doubt. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_goodnatured|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Good {man/woman}! Our lord is a noble soul, and rewards loyalty and valor with kindness and generosity. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_upstanding_unfriendly|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Alas, from what I know of you I fear that you will disgrace us, but I will be happy if you prove me wrong. str_comment_pledged_allegiance_allied_upstanding|I heard that you have pledged allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Fight against our foes with valor, but also with honour and compassion. A good name is as valuable as a sharp sword or a swift horse in affairs of arms. str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied_friendly_cruel|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. Don't forget -- spare the whip and spoil the peasant! str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied_friendly_cynical|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. I am glad to see you prosper -- but be careful. Men are vipers, envious and covetous of their neighbours' wealth. Stay close to me, and I'll watch your back. str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied_friendly|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. May your new lands prosper. str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied_unfriendly_upstanding|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. But keep in mind that pride goes before a fall. str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied_unfriendly_spiteful|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. I suspect, however, that fortune is only raising you up so as to humble you even more, when it casts you back into the dung from whence you came. str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied_spiteful|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. Let's hope you are indeed deserving of our lord's favor. str_comment_our_king_granted_you_a_fief_allied|I heard that {s54} granted you {s51} as a fief. You seem to be doing very well for yourself. str_comment_you_renounced_your_alliegance_enemy_friendly|I heard that you renounced your allegiance to our lord, {s54}. It grieves me that we must now meet on the field of battle. str_comment_you_renounced_your_alliegance_friendly|I heard that you renounced your allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Let us pray that we may not come to blows. str_comment_you_renounced_your_alliegance_unfriendly_spiteful|I always had you figured for a traitor to {s54}, and now it seems I was proven right. I hope you are prepared to die a traitor's death! str_comment_you_renounced_your_alliegance_unfriendly_moralizing|I heard that you renounced your allegiance to our lord, {s54}. I am forced to consider you a traitor. str_comment_you_renounced_your_alliegance_enemy|I heard that you renounced your allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Well, it is the way of the world for old comrades to become enemies. str_comment_you_renounced_your_alliegance_default|I heard that you renounced your allegiance to our lord, {s54}. Well, that is your decision, but do not expect me to go easy on you when we meet on the battlefield. str_comment_you_claimed_the_throne_1_player_liege|My informants tell me that some people in this realm are speaking of you as the next king. I assume that you will quickly put a stop to such idle and dangerous talk. str_comment_you_claimed_the_throne_2_player_liege|My informants tell me that some of your companions have telling the peasants that you have a claim to the throne. I sincerely hope that they have been acting without your orders. str_comment_lord_intervened_against_me|It is well known that I had quarreled with {s54}, and {s50} ruled in my rival's favor. str_comment_i_protested_marshall_appointment|It is well known that I had protested {s54}'s decision to appoint {s51} as marshal. str_comment_i_blamed_defeat|It is well known that I am dissatisfied with {s54} for the favor shown to {s51}, who led us to defeat against the {s56}. str_comment_i_was_entitled_to_fief|It is well known that I am disappointed that {s54} received the fief of {s51}, which should have gone to me. str_comment_i_quarreled_with_troop_over_woman|It is well known that {s51} paid suit to {s54}, while I was also courting her. He is unworthy of her attentions, and I intend to teach him to keep his distance from her. str_comment_i_quarreled_with_you_over_woman_default|I hear that you have been paying suit to {s54}. I do not believe that you are worthy of a fair lady such as her, and would strongly encourage you to cease pursuing her. str_comment_i_quarreled_with_you_over_woman_derisive|I hear that you have been paying suit to {s54}. Let me tell you something -- I've had my eye on that one ever since I was a lad, and she was a lass. She's a high-born lady of this realm, and should not be demeaned by a foreigner's crude attentions. Keep away from her, or expect to pay the price! str_comment_player_suggestion_succeeded|I followed your suggestion, and profited much by your advice. str_comment_player_suggestion_failed|I followed your suggestion and met with disaster, and I hold you responsible. str_comment_you_enfiefed_a_commoner_hesitant|I understand that you have given {s51} to a commoner who calls himself {s54}. Be careful. To learn the art of governance is no easy task, and perhaps it is best that fathers pass it on to their sons. I advise you against tampering with the institution of lordship. str_comment_you_enfiefed_a_commoner_derisive|I understand that you have given {s51} to a commoner who calls himself {s54}. Do not the ancients warn us against making royal robes out of the hides of pigs? str_comment_you_enfiefed_a_commoner_nasty|I understand that you have given {s51} to a commoner who has taken the name of {s54}. Have a care! A dog may turn on its master. str_comment_marriage_normal_family|Congratulations on your marriage to my {s11} {s50}. You may now consider yourself part of the family! str_comment_marriage_normal|Congratulations on your marriage to {s50}. The news does credit to you both. str_comment_marriage_normal_nasty|Well -- I see that you have married {s50}. She was always a silly girl, with appalling judgment. str_comment_marriage_elopement_family|Well... You somehow persuaded my {s11} {s50} to marry you. I don't know what you did to make her accept you, but our family will not forget this humiliation. str_comment_marriage_elopement_liege|I hear that you have eloped with {s50}, against her family's wishes. I am not pleased. Her family are among the great lords of my realm, and I do not like to see them made to look like fools. str_comment_you_broke_truce_as_my_vassal|I hear that you have broken my truce by attacking {s55}. Do you know how this makes me look? If you were acting under my orders, I appear dishonorable. If you were not, I look weak. I have half a mind to indict you for treason here and now. str_comment_you_attacked_neutral_as_my_vassal|I hear that you have attacked subjects of the {s55}. You have given them an excuse to attack me, if they want... We shall see what comes of this. A fine day's work you have done! str_personality_archetypes|liege str_martial|martial str_quarrelsome|bad-tempered str_selfrighteous|pitiless str_cunning|cunning str_debauched|sadistic str_goodnatured|good-natured str_upstanding|upstanding str_roguish|roguish str_benevolent|benevolent str_mercantile|mercantile str_surrender_demand_default|Yield or die! str_surrender_demand_martial|The odds are not in your favor today. You may fight us, but there is also no shame if you yield now. str_surrender_demand_quarrelsome|I've got you cornered. Give up, or I'll ride you down like a dog. str_surrender_demand_pitiless|You cannot defeat me, and I'll teach you a painful lesson if you try. Yield! str_surrender_demand_cunning|You are outmatched today. Give up -- if not for your own sake, then think of your men! str_surrender_demand_sadistic|Surrender or I'll gut you like a fish! str_surrender_demand_goodnatured|We have the advantage of you. Yield, and you will be well-treated. str_surrender_demand_upstanding|You may fight us, but many of your men will be killed, and you will probably lose. Yield, and spare us both the unnecessary bloodshed. str_surrender_offer_default|Stop! I yield! str_surrender_offer_martial|Stop! I yield! str_surrender_offer_quarrelsome|Enough! You win today, you dog! Ach, the shame of it! str_surrender_offer_pitiless|I yield! You have won. Cursed be this day! str_surrender_offer_cunning|Stop! I yield to you! str_surrender_offer_sadistic|I give up! I give up! Call back your dogs! str_surrender_offer_goodnatured|I yield! Congratulations on your victory, {sir/madame}! str_surrender_offer_upstanding|I yield! Grant me the honours of war, and do yourself credit! str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_default|That may be, but I wish to fight with you str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_martial|That may be, but it is my duty to fight with you str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_quarrelsome|Hah! I want to fight with you str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_pitiless|Why should I care? I wish to fight with you str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_cunning|Ah. Unfortunately, you see, I wish to fight with you str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_sadistic|Still your tongue! You will have need of it shortly, while begging for mercy str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_goodnatured|I'm sorry -- I can't just let you ride away. No hard feelings? str_lord_declines_negotiation_offer_upstanding|That may be, but my duty to my liege requires me to fight with you str_prisoner_released_default|You have my gratitude, {sir/madame}. I shall not forget your kindness. str_prisoner_released_martial|You are indeed a {man/woman} of honour, {sir/madame}. I shall not forget this! str_prisoner_released_quarrelsome|I'm free? Well... Good bye, then. str_prisoner_released_pitiless|Thank you. When you are finally defeated, I will request for your death to be swift and merciful. Unless, that is, you care to join us... Good bye, for now. str_prisoner_released_cunning|Am I? You are a good {man/woman}. I will try to find a way to repay you. str_prisoner_released_sadistic|Am I? So refined is your cruelty, that you would rather see me free and humiliated, than in chains. Enjoy your triumph! str_prisoner_released_goodnatured|You are indeed a {man/woman} of honour, {sir/madame}. I shall not forget this! str_prisoner_released_upstanding|You are indeed a {man/woman} of honour, {sir/madame}. I shall not forget this! str_enemy_meet_default|Who are you, that comes in arms against me? str_enemy_meet_martial|What is your name, {sir/madame}? If we come to blows, I would know whom I fight. str_enemy_meet_quarrelsome|Who the hell are you? str_enemy_meet_pitiless|Who are you? Speak, so that I may know whom I slay. str_enemy_meet_cunning|Tell me your name. It is always good to know your enemy. str_enemy_meet_sadistic|Who are you? Speak quick, before I cut your tongue out. str_enemy_meet_goodnatured|What is your name, {sir/madame}? If we come to blows, I would know whom I fight. str_enemy_meet_upstanding|Who are you, who would come in arms to dispute our righteous cause? str_battle_won_default|You have proven yourself a most valued ally, today. str_battle_won_martial|There is no greater fortune than the chance to show one's valor on the field of arms! str_battle_won_quarrelsome|Hah! We showed those bastards a thing or two, there, didn't we? str_battle_won_pitiless|Together, we will make the foe learn to fear our names, and to quail at our coming! str_battle_won_cunning|Now, we must be sure to press our advantage, so that the blood shed today is not wasted. str_battle_won_sadistic|Now let us strip their dead and leave them for the crows, so that all will know the fate of those who come against us. str_battle_won_goodnatured|That was a good scrap! No joy like the joy of victory, eh? str_battle_won_upstanding|Now, let us give thanks to the heavens for our victory, and mourn the many fine men who have fallen today. str_battle_won_grudging_default|You helped turn the tide on the field, today. Whatever I may think of you, I cannot fault you for your valor. str_battle_won_grudging_martial|{playername} -- you have shown yourself a worthy {man/woman} today, whatever your misdeeds in the past. str_battle_won_grudging_quarrelsome|Hmf. Yours is not a face which I normally like to see, but I suppose today I should thank you for your help. str_battle_won_grudging_pitiless|Your help was most valuable today. I would not imagine that you came to help me out of kindness, but I nonetheless thank you. str_battle_won_grudging_cunning|It would be unwise of me not to thank you for coming to help me in my hour of need. So... You have my gratitude. str_battle_won_grudging_sadistic|Well! How touching! {playername} has come to rescue me. str_battle_won_grudging_goodnatured|{playername}! I can't say that we've always gotten along in the past, but you fought well today. My thanks to you! str_battle_won_grudging_upstanding|Perhaps I was wrong about you. Your arrival was most timely. You have my gratitude. str_battle_won_unfriendly_default|So you're here. Well, better late than never, I suppose. str_battle_won_unfriendly_martial|We have hard harsh words in the past, but for now let us simply enjoy our victory. str_battle_won_unfriendly_quarrelsome|If you're standing there waiting for thanks, you can keep waiting. Your help wasn't really needed, but I guess you had nothing better to do, right? str_battle_won_unfriendly_pitiless|You have come here, like a jackal to a lion's kill. Very well then, help yourself to the spoils. I shall not stop you. str_battle_won_unfriendly_cunning|{playername}... Well, I suppose your arrival didn't hurt, although I won't pretend that I'm happy to see you. str_battle_won_unfriendly_sadistic|Back off, carrion fowl! This was my victory, however hard you try to steal the glory for yourself. str_battle_won_unfriendly_goodnatured|Oh, it's you. Well, I suppose I should thank you for your help. str_battle_won_unfriendly_upstanding|Thank you for coming to my support. Now I will be off, before I say something that I regret. str_troop_train_request_default|I need someone like you to knock them into shape. str_troop_train_request_martial|They need someone to show them the meaning of valor. str_troop_train_request_quarrelsome|Fat lazy bastards. They make me puke. str_troop_train_request_pitiless|They are more afraid of the enemy than they are of me, and this will not do. str_troop_train_request_cunning|But men, like swords, are tempered and hardened by fire. str_troop_train_request_sadistic|They need someone with steel in his back to flog some courage into them, or kill them trying. str_troop_train_request_goodnatured|They're good enough lads, but I am afraid that they are not quite ready for a battle just yet. str_troop_train_request_upstanding|It would be tantamount to murder for me to lead them into combat in their current state. str_unprovoked_attack_default|What? Why do you attack us? Speak, you rascal! str_unprovoked_attack_martial|I have no objection to a trial of arms, but I would ask you for what reason you attack us? str_unprovoked_attack_quarrelsome|You're making a big mistake, {boy/girl}. What do you think you're doing? str_unprovoked_attack_pitiless|Indeed? If you really want to die today, I'd be more than happy to oblige you, but I am curious as to what you hope to accomplish. str_unprovoked_attack_cunning|Really? I think that you are acting most unwisely. What do you hope to gain by this? str_unprovoked_attack_sadistic|What's this? Do you enjoy having your eyes put out? str_unprovoked_attack_goodnatured|Why do you do this? We've got no quarrel, {sir/madame}. str_unprovoked_attack_upstanding|I consider this an unprovoked assault, and will protest to your king. Why do you do this? str_unnecessary_attack_default|I will not hesitate to cut you down if pressed, but I will offer you the chance to ride away from this. str_unnecessary_attack_martial|I am eager to take you up on your challenge, {sir/madame}, although I will give you a minute to reconsider. str_unnecessary_attack_quarrelsome|Bah! I'm in no mood for this nonsense today. Get out of my way. str_unnecessary_attack_pitiless|I am in a merciful mood today. I will pretend that I did not hear you. str_unnecessary_attack_cunning|I don't see what you have to gain by making an enemy of me. Maybe you should just ride away. str_unnecessary_attack_sadistic|I have no time to waste on a worm like you. Get out of my way. str_unnecessary_attack_goodnatured|I don't see what you have to gain by picking a fight, {sir/madame}. You can still ride away. str_unnecessary_attack_upstanding|If a fight is what you wish, {sir/madame}, then you will have one, but I will yet offer you the chance to back down. str_lord_challenged_default|As you wish. Prepare to die! str_lord_challenged_martial|So be it. Defend yourself! str_lord_challenged_quarrelsome|You impudent whelp! I'll crush you! str_lord_challenged_pitiless|If you so badly wish to die, then I have no choice but to oblige you. str_lord_challenged_cunning|Well, if you leave me no choice... str_lord_challenged_sadistic|You heap of filth! I'll make you wish you'd never been born. str_lord_challenged_goodnatured|Very well. I had hoped that we might avoid coming to blows, but I see that have no choice. str_lord_challenged_upstanding|So be it. It saddens me that you cannot be made to see reason. str_lord_mission_failed_default|Well, I am disappointed, but I am sure that you will have many chances to redeem yourself. str_lord_mission_failed_martial|There is no honour in failing a quest which you endeavoured to take, but I will accept your word on it. str_lord_mission_failed_quarrelsome|You failed? Bah. I should have expected as much from the likes of you. str_lord_mission_failed_pitiless|You failed? Well. You disappoint me. That is a most unwise thing to do. str_lord_mission_failed_cunning|Well, I am disappointed, but no one can guarantee that the winds of fortune will always blow their way. str_lord_mission_failed_sadistic|Indeed? Those who fail me do not always live to regret it. str_lord_mission_failed_goodnatured|Oh well. It was a long shot, anyway. Thank you for making an effort. str_lord_mission_failed_upstanding|Very well. I am sure that you gave it your best effort. str_lord_follow_refusal_default|Follow you? You forget your station, {sir/madame}. str_lord_follow_refusal_martial|Perhaps if you one day prove yourself a valorous and honourable warrior, then I would follow you. But not today. str_lord_follow_refusal_quarrelsome|Follow someone like you? I don't think so. str_lord_follow_refusal_pitiless|Lords like me do not follow people like you, {sir/madame}. str_lord_follow_refusal_cunning|First show me that you are the type of {man/woman} who will not lead me into disaster, and then perhaps I will follow you. str_lord_follow_refusal_sadistic|I think not! Rather, you should follow me, as a whipped cur follows {his/her} master. str_lord_follow_refusal_goodnatured|Um, I am a bit pressed with errands right now. Perhaps at a later date. str_lord_follow_refusal_upstanding|First show me that you are worthy to lead, and then perhaps I will follow. str_lord_insult_default|base varlot str_lord_insult_martial|dishonourable knave str_lord_insult_quarrelsome|filth-swilling bastard str_lord_insult_pitiless|low-born worm str_lord_insult_cunning|careless oaf str_lord_insult_sadistic|sniveling cur str_lord_insult_goodnatured|unpleasant fellow str_lord_insult_upstanding|disgraceful scoundrel str_lord_derogatory_default|base and vile str_lord_derogatory_martial|bullheaded str_lord_derogatory_quarrelsome|quarrelsome and divisive str_lord_derogatory_pitiless|cruel, tyrannical str_lord_derogatory_cunning|unscrupulous and manipulative str_lord_derogatory_sadistic|vile and dishonorable str_lord_derogatory_goodnatured|hopelessly naive str_lord_derogatory_upstanding|stiffnecked and sanctimonious str_lord_derogatory_result|bring us to ruin str_lord_derogatory_martial_action|attack the enemy without thought or plan, and throw away the lives of your men str_lord_derogatory_quarrelsome_action|pick fights with other lords, leaving us divided and weak str_lord_derogatory_pitiles_action|alienate the commons, provoking revolt and mutiny str_lord_derogatory_cunning_action|cut a deal with the enemy behind our back str_lord_derogatory_sadistic_action|bring shame upon our cause and our realm str_lord_derogatory_goodnatured_action|take pity on our enemies, rather than fight them str_lord_derogatory_upstanding_action|place your own exaggerated sense of honor above the needs of the realm str_rebellion_dilemma_martial|{s45} was clearly wronged. Although I gave an oath to {s46}, it does not bind me to support him if he usurped his throne illegally. str_rebellion_dilemma_quarrelsome|Hmm. {s46} has never given me my due, so I don't figure I owe him much. However, maybe {s45} will be no better, and {s46} has at least shown himself . str_rebellion_dilemma_pitiless|Hmm. {s45} says {reg3?she he} is the rightful heir to the throne. That is good -- it absolves me of my oath to {s46}. But still I must weight my decision carefully. str_rebellion_dilemma_cunning|Hmm. I gave an oath of homage to {s46}, yet the powerful are not bound by their oaths as our ordinary people. Our duty is to our own ability to rule, to impose order and prevent the war of all against all. str_rebellion_dilemma_sadistic|Hmm. In this vile world, a wise man must think of himself, for no one else will. So -- what's in it for me? str_rebellion_dilemma_goodnatured|I do not know what to say. I gave an oath to {s46} as the lawful ruler, but if he is not the lawful ruler, I don't know if I am still bound. str_rebellion_dilemma_upstanding|This is troublesome. It is a grave thing to declare my homage to {s46} to be null and void, and dissolve the bonds which keep our land from sinking into anarchy. Yet I am also pledged to support the legitimacy of the succession, and {s45} also has a valid claim to the throne. str_rebellion_dilemma_2_martial|On the other hand, {s46} has led us in war and peace, and I am loathe to renounce my allegiance. str_rebellion_dilemma_2_quarrelsome|So tell me, why should I turn my back on the bastard I know, in favor of {reg3?a woman the bastard} I don't know? str_rebellion_dilemma_2_pitiless|It is a most perilous position to be in, to be asked whom I would make {reg3?ruler king} of this land. Yet it is also a time of opportunity, for me to reap the rewards that have always been my due! str_rebellion_dilemma_2_cunning|{s46} has been challenged, and thus he will never be able to rule as strongly as one whose claim has never been questioned. Yet if {s45} takes the throne by force, {reg3?she he} will not be as strong as one who succeeded peacefully. str_rebellion_dilemma_2_sadistic|Perhaps if I join {s45} while {reg3?she he} is still weak {reg3?she he} will enrich me, but perhaps if I bring {s46} your head he will give me an even greater reward. str_rebellion_dilemma_2_goodnatured|{s46} has always treated me decently, yet it's true that he did wrong to {s45}. I hesitate to renounce my homage to {s46}, yet I also don't think it's right to support injustice. str_rebellion_dilemma_2_upstanding|I feel that I must do whatever is best for the realm, to avoid it being laid waste by civil war and ravaged by its enemies. str_political_philosophy_martial|My sword is at the disposal of my rightful liege, so long as he upholds his duty to me. str_political_philosophy_quarrelsome|Bah. They're all a bunch of bastards. I try to make sure that the ones who wrong me learn to regret it. str_political_philosophy_pitiless|Men will always try to cheat others of their rightful due. In this faithless world, each must remain vigilant of his own rights. str_political_philosophy_cunning|Well, it's a harsh world, and it is our lot to face harsh choices. Sometimes one must serve a tyrant to keep the peace, but sometimes a bit of rebellion keeps the kings honest. Circumstance is all. str_political_philosophy_sadistic|My philosophy is simple it is better to be the wolf than the lamb. str_political_philosophy_goodnatured|Well, you should keep faith with your promises, and not do injustice to others. Sometimes it's hard to balance those. Stick with people you trust, I think, and it's hard to go far wrong. str_political_philosophy_upstanding|Kingship and lordship have been instituted to keep the peace and prevent the war of all against all, yet that must not blind us to the possibility of injustice. str_political_philosophy_roguish|Hmm.. I guess I'm thinking that it's good to be a lord. str_political_philosophy_benefactor|A good ruler makes sure all are treated justly. Personally, I intend to use my authority to better the lot of those who live in my demesne. str_political_philosophy_custodian|A good ruler creates the proper conditions for people to prosper. Personally, I intend to use my wealth to create more wealth, for myself and for the common benefit. str_rebellion_prior_argument_very_favorable|I have already heard some arguments for supporting your candidate for the throne, and I tend to agree with them. str_rebellion_prior_argument_favorable|I have already heard some arguments for supporting your candidate for the throne, and I tend to agree with them. str_rebellion_prior_argument_unfavorable|I have already heard some arguments for supporting your candidate for the throne, but I do not find them convincing. str_rebellion_prior_argument_very_unfavorable|I have already heard some arguments for supporting your candidate for the throne, but I disagree with most of them. str_rebellion_rival_martial|{s49} your ally {s44} once questioned my honour and my bravery. It's not often I get the chance to face him in battle, and make him retract his statement. str_rebellion_rival_quarrelsome|{s49} you're working with {s44}. He's a crafty weasel, and I don't trust him one bit. str_rebellion_rival_pitiless|{s49} you seem to have enlisted the support of {s44} -- who is soft, and weak, and not fit to govern a fief, and whom I have always detested. str_rebellion_rival_cunning|{s49} {s44}, who has already joined you, is headstrong and quarrelsome, and a bit of liability. str_rebellion_rival_sadistic|{s49} I have no desire to fight alongside your ally {s44}, who puts on such a nauseating display of virtue. str_rebellion_rival_goodnatured|{s49} I'd be reluctant to be on the same side as {s44}, who has quite a reputation for cruelty. str_rebellion_rival_upstanding|{s49} your ally {s44} is in my opinion a dangerous, unreliable, and highly unprincipled man. str_rebellion_argument_favorable|I respect your line of argument str_rebellion_argument_neutral|I find your line of argument only moderately compelling str_rebellion_argument_unfavorable|I do not find your line of argument compelling str_rebellion_persuasion_favorable|you state your case eloquently str_rebellion_persuasion_neutral|you make a reasonable case str_rebellion_persuasion_unfavorable|you make an unconvincing case str_rebellion_relation_very_favorable|I have the greatest respect for you personally. str_rebellion_relation_favorable|I know and respect you personally. str_rebellion_relation_neutral|I do not know you as well as I might like. str_rebellion_relation_unfavorable|I do not trust you. str_and_comma_3|Furthermore, str_but_comma_3|However, str_and_comma_1|, and str_but_comma_1|, but str_and_comma_2|. Moreover, str_but_comma_2|. Nonetheless, str_rebellion_agree_martial|I have decided. I will back {s45} as the rightful heir. str_rebellion_agree_quarrelsome|Ahh, I've thought long enough. I never did like {s46} much anyway. Let's go take his throne away from him. str_rebellion_agree_pitiless|You are fortunate. I have decided to join you. Pray do not give me cause to regret this decision. str_rebellion_agree_cunning|This is a most dangerous decision, but after careful consideration, I have decided that I will join you. Let's hope it is for the best. str_rebellion_agree_sadistic|I have decided. I will back your {reg3?woman man} {s45}. But you'd best make sure that {reg3?she he} rewards me well! str_rebellion_agree_goodnatured|All right. I think your {reg3?woman man} will be a good ruler. I'll join you. str_rebellion_agree_upstanding|So be it. My first duty is to this realm, and to save it from lawlessness I will back {s45} and renounce my homage to {s46}. May the Heavens forgive me if I do wrong. str_rebellion_refuse_martial|I am sorry. {s45} has a good claim, but it's not enough for me to turn my back on {s46}. I will remain loyal to my liege. str_rebellion_refuse_quarrelsome|Nah. Your whelp {s45} doesn't have what it takes to rule this realm. I'm sticking with {s46}. str_talk_later_martial|Now is not the time to talk politics! I am here today with my fellow lords, armed for battle. You'd better prepare to fight. str_talk_later_quarrelsome|Do you expect me to discuss betraying my liege with you, while we are surrounded by his army? What do you take me for, a bloody idiot? str_talk_later_pitiless|Still your tongue! Whatever I have to say on this matter, I will not say it here and now, while we are in the midst of our army. str_talk_later_cunning|This is hardly the time or the place for such a discussion. Perhaps we can discuss it at a later time and a different place, but for now we're still foes. str_talk_later_sadistic|You should have your mouth sewn shut! Can you imagine what would happen if the other vassals see me talking to you of treason? str_talk_later_goodnatured|So you wish to discuss your rebellion with me? Try that again when we aren't surrounded by my liege's army, and I will hear what you have to say. str_talk_later_upstanding|Whatever my thoughts on the legitimacy of the succession, I am not about to discuss them here and now. If we meet again when we can talk in privacy, I will hear what you have to say on the matter. But for now, consider me your enemy. str_gossip_about_character_default|They say that {s6} doesn't possess any interesting character traits. str_gossip_about_character_martial|They say that {s6} loves nothing more than war. str_gossip_about_character_quarrelsome|They say that {s6} almost came to blows with another lord lately, because the man made a joke about his nose. str_gossip_about_character_selfrighteous|I heard that {s6} had a squire executed because the unfortunate man killed a deer in his forest. str_gossip_about_character_cunning|They say that {s6} is a cunning opponent. str_gossip_about_character_sadistic|They say that {s6} likes to torture his enemies. I wouldn't want to get on the bad side of that man. str_gossip_about_character_goodnatured|They say that {s6} is a good man and treats people living in his lands decently. That is more than what can be said for most of the nobles. str_gossip_about_character_upstanding|People say that it is good to be in the service of {s6}. He is good to his followers, and rewards them if they work well. str_latest_rumor|The latest rumor you heard about {s6} was str_changed_my_mind_martial|However, your stirring words make me reconsider my position. str_changed_my_mind_quarrelsome|But I think you've talked me into it anyway, you bastard. I'm still listening str_changed_my_mind_pitiless|But when you plea like that, I will deign to reconsider. str_changed_my_mind_cunning|But you know, you're a well-spoken bastard. That impresses me. I'm still listening. str_changed_my_mind_sadistic|But as your silver tongue sings so pretty a song on your behalf, I will not dismiss the idea just yet. str_changed_my_mind_goodnatured|But you make a good case, so I'll try to keep an open mind. str_changed_my_mind_upstanding|However, you make an eloquent case. I am still listening. str_swadian_rebellion_pretender_intro|I am Isolla, rightful Queen of the Swadians. str_vaegir_rebellion_pretender_intro|My name is Valdym. Some men call me 'the Bastard.' I am a prince of the Vaegirs, but by all rights I should be their king, instead of my cousin Yaroglek. str_khergit_rebellion_pretender_intro|I am Dustum Khan, son of Janakir Khan, and rightful Khan of the Khergits. str_nord_rebellion_pretender_intro|I am Lethwin Far-Seeker, son of Hakrim the Old, who should be king of the Nords of Calradia. str_rhodok_rebellion_pretender_intro|I am Lord Kastor, the rightful King of the Rhodoks, who will free them from tyranny. str_sarranid_rebellion_pretender_intro|I am Arwa, whom they call the Pearled One, Mother of the Sarranids and their rightful Queen. str_swadian_rebellion_pretender_story_1|I was the only child of my father, King Esterich. Although I am a woman, he loved me like a son and named me his heir -- not once, but several times, before the grandest nobles of the land so that none could doubt his intention. There is no law that bars a woman from ruling -- indeed, we Swadians tell tales of warrior queens who ruled us in our distant past. str_vaegir_rebellion_pretender_story_1|My father died when I was young, leaving me in the care of his brother, the regent Burelek. But rather than hold the throne until I came of age, this usurper used his newfound power to accuse my mother of adultery, and to claim that I was not my father's son. She was executed for treason, and I was declared a bastard. str_khergit_rebellion_pretender_story_1|Sanjar Khan and I are brothers, sons of the old Janakir Khan, although of different mothers. Although I was the younger brother, all those who knew the old Khan will testify that throughout my father's life, I was his favorite, entrusted with the responsibilities of government. Sanjar busied himself with hunts and feasts to win the affection of the more dissolate of my father's commanders. str_nord_rebellion_pretender_story_1|I am called the Far-Seeker because I have travelled great distances, even by the standards of the Nords, in search of knowledge. Before I came of age, my father sent me abroad on a tour of study at the courts and universities in the lands overseas. If the Nords are to call themselves the heirs of the Calradian empire, then they must act the part, and know something of law and letters, and not call themselves content merely to fight, plunder, and drink. str_rhodok_rebellion_pretender_story_1|The Rhodoks are a free people, and not slaves to any hereditary monarch. The king must be chosen from one of the leading noble families of the land, by a council drawn by lot from the patricians of the cities of Jelkala, Veluca, and Yalen. The council meets on a field before Jelkala, and no man is allowed to appear in arms during their deliberations, on pain of death. str_sarranid_rebellion_pretender_story_1|I was born in a faraway land, to a humble family, and made a slave when I was but a girl -- but there is no shame in that, for the mothers of many of our kings were slaves. The old Sultan, Ayzar, spotted me in the markets and was struck by my beauty. I entered his household, and there he also learned to respect my intelligence. As he grew older, he allowed me to govern in his stead. First I managed the affairs of the palace, and later those of the realm. str_swadian_rebellion_pretender_story_2|Yet when my father died, his cousin Harlaus convinced the nobles that no Swadian king of sound mind could name a woman as his heir. Harlaus said that his designation of me was the act of a madman, and thus had no legal standing, and that he, as my father's closest male relative, should of take the throne. str_vaegir_rebellion_pretender_story_2|I was smuggled abroad by a faithful servant, but now I am of age and have returned to reclaim what is rightfully mine. Burelek died soon after his act of perfidy -- the judgment of heaven, no doubt. His son Yaroglek now calls himself king, but as his claim is tainted, he is no less a usurper than his father, and I will topple him from his throne. str_khergit_rebellion_pretender_story_2|According to Khergit custom, when a man dies his herds are split between all his sons, equally. So too it is with the khanate. When I heard of my father's death, I was away inspecting our borders, but I hurried home to Tulga, ready to give Sanjar his due and share the khanate with him. But when I arrived, I found that he rushed his supporters to the court, to have himself proclaimed as the sole khan. str_nord_rebellion_pretender_story_2|My father died however before I completed my course of study, and as I hurried home to claim his throne my ship was wrecked by a storm. One of my father's thanes, Ragnar, seized this opportunity and spread rumors that I had died abroad. He summoned a gathering of his supporters to have himself proclaimed king, and has taken the past few years to consolidate his power. str_rhodok_rebellion_pretender_story_2|During the last selection, there were but two candidates, myself, and Lord Graveth. While the council was deliberating, Graveth appeared, sword in hand, telling them that a Swadian raiding party was about to descend on the field of deliberation -- which was true, by the way -- and if he were not elected king, then he would leave them to their fate. str_sarranid_rebellion_pretender_story_2|When Sultan Ayzar died, it seemed to the emirs of the realm only natural that I should succeed him as ruler, thus avoiding any danger of civil war. They insisted, however, that I should marry one of his generals, the Emir Baybak. The emirs then lined up to give us the oath of allegiance together -- to Baybak as Commander of the Armies, and to me as Mother of the Realm. For the brief time that we ruled, our realm prospered. str_swadian_rebellion_pretender_story_3|I will admit that I did my cause no good by cursing Harlaus and all who listened to him as traitors, but I also believe that the magistrates who ruled in his favor were bought. No matter -- I will raise an army of loyal subjects, who would honour their old king's memory and will. And if anyone doubts that a woman can wield power, then I will prove them wrong by taking Harlaus' ill-gotten crown away from him. str_vaegir_rebellion_pretender_story_3|Until I have my rights restored in the sight of all the Vaegirs, I will bear the sobriquet, 'the Bastard', to remind me of what I must do. str_khergit_rebellion_pretender_story_3|My brother thinks that Khergits will only respect strength a leader who takes what he wants, when he wants it. But I think that he misreads the spirit of our people.--we admire a resolute leader, but even more we a just one, and we know that a man who does not respect his own brother's rights will not respect the rights of his followers. str_nord_rebellion_pretender_story_3|So I remain in exile -- except now I am not looking for sages to tutor me in the wisdom of faraway lands, but warriors, to come with me back to the land of the Nords and regain my throne. If Ragnar doubts my ability to rule, then let him say so face to face, as we stare at each other over the rims of our shields. For a warrior can be a scholar, and a scholar a warrior, and to my mind, only one who combines the two is fit to be king! str_rhodok_rebellion_pretender_story_3|Well, Graveth defeated the Swadians, and for that, as a Rhodok, I am grateful. When I am king, I will myself place the wreath of victory on his head. But after that I will have it separated from his shoulders, for by his actions he has shown himself a traitor to the Rhodok confederacy and its sacred custom. str_sarranid_rebellion_pretender_story_3|But alas, Baybak himself was soon killed in a skirmish with the Khergits. Had I known of his death in time, I would have been able to prepare myself against any possibility of betrayal. But alas, my husband's treacherous nephew Hakim came riding with his men, still covered with the dust of the battlefield, and drove me from the palace at swordpoint and proclaimed himself sultan. So be it -- I shall gather an army of my own, and return him the favor. str_swadian_rebellion_monarch_response_1|Isolla thinks she should be Queen of the Swadians? Well, King Esterich had a kind heart, and doted on his daughter, but a good-hearted king who doesn't use his head can be a curse to his people. Isolla may tell you stories of warrior queens of old, but you might also recall that all the old legends end in the same way -- with the Swadians crushed underfoot by the armies of the Calradic Emperor. str_vaegir_rebellion_monarch_response_1|Were Valdym to come to me in peace, I would laden him with titles and honours, and he would become the greatest of my vassals. But as he comes in war, I will drag him before me in chains and make him acknowledge me as rightful sovereign, then cut his tongue from his mouth so that he cannot recant. str_khergit_rebellion_monarch_response_1|My brother Dustum has perhaps told you of his insistence upon splitting the khanate, as though it were a herd of sheep. Let me tell you something. Ever since the Khergits established themselves on this land, the death of every khan has had the same result -- the land was divided, the khan's sons went to war, and the strongest took it all anyway. I simply had the foresight to stave off the civil war in advance. str_nord_rebellion_monarch_response_1|Lethwin 'Far-Seeker'? Lethwin Inkfingers, is more like it. Perhaps you have heard the expression, 'Unhappy is the land whose king is a child.' Unhappy too is the land whose king is a student. You want the Nords to be ruled by a beardless youth, whose hand bears no callouses left by a sword's grip, who has never stood in a shield wall? If Lethwin were king, his thanes would laugh at him to his face! str_rhodok_rebellion_monarch_response_1|No doubt Lord Kastor told you that I defiled the hallowed Rhodok custom by interfering with the patricians' election of a king. Well, let me tell you something. The patricians of the towns make longwinded speeches about our ancient liberties, but then choose as their king whichever noble last sat in their villa and sipped a fine wine and promised to overlook their unpaid taxes. str_sarranid_rebellion_monarch_response_1|Our scholars have long agreed that there is one overriding principle in politics. Men should accept the authority of the ruler, because tyranny is better than civil war. It was for that reason that I accepted the authority of both Baybak and Arwa, to whom I gave my oath as co-rulers. str_swadian_rebellion_monarch_response_2|Those who weep for the plight of a Swadian princess denied her father's throne should reflect instead on the fate of a Swadian herdswoman seized by a Vaegir raider and taken as chattel to the slave markets. Talk to me of queens and old stories when our warlike neighbors are vanquished, and our land is at peace. str_vaegir_rebellion_monarch_response_2|Whatever my father may or may not have done to secure the throne does not matter. I have inherited it, and that is final. If every old claim were to be brought up anew, if every man's inheritance could be called into question at any time, then it would be the end of the institution of kingship, and we would live in a state of constant civil war. str_khergit_rebellion_monarch_response_2|Dustum would make a fine assessor of flocks, or adjudicator of land disputes. But can you imagine such a man as khan? We would be run off of our land in no time by our neighbors, and return to our old days of starving and freezing on the steppe. str_nord_rebellion_monarch_response_2|Old Hakrim may have had fancy ideas about how to dispose of his kingdom, but it is not just royal blood that makes a King of the Nords. I am king by acclamation of the thanes, and by right of being the strongest. That counts for more than blood, and woe to any man in this land who says otherwise. str_rhodok_rebellion_monarch_response_2|The only liberty that concerns them is their liberty to grow fat. Meanwhile, my men sleep out on the steppe, and eat dry bread and salt fish, and scan the horizon for burning villages, and shed our blood to keep the caravan routes open. Here's an idea -- if I ever meet a merchant who limps from a Khergit arrow-wound or a Swadian sword-stroke, then I'll say, 'Here's a man whose counsel is worth taking.' str_sarranid_rebellion_monarch_response_2|You should know, however, that Arwa was not chosen as Baybak's partner because of her wisdom or love of justice. No, she was chosen because she was a witch, who could transform men like Ayzar and Baybak into stammering fools. No matter -- I was true to my oath, and respected her usurpation, until the very hour that it was invalidated by the death of her puppet. Now she must respect mine. 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|Swadian str_kingdom_2_adjective|Vaegir str_kingdom_3_adjective|Khergit str_kingdom_4_adjective|Nord str_kingdom_5_adjective|Rhodok str_kingdom_6_adjective|Sarranid str_credits_1|Mount Blade Warband Copyright 2008-2010 Taleworlds Entertainment str_credits_2|Game design ^Armagan Yavuz^Steve Negus^Cem Cimenbicer str_credits_3|Programming ^Armagan Yavuz^Cem Cimenbicer^Serdar Kocdemir^Ozan Gumus str_credits_4|CG Artists ^Ozgur Saral^Mustafa Ozturk^Pinar Cekic^Ozan Unlu^Yigit Savtur^Umit Singil str_credits_5|Concept Artist ^Ganbat Badamkhand str_credits_6|Writing ^Steve Negus^Armagan Yavuz^Ryan A. 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map to {s0} and factions to {s1} versus {s2} 1 = Accept, 2 = Decline str_poll_change_number_of_bots|Poll to change number of bots to {reg0} for {s0} and {reg1} for {s1} 1 = Accept, 2 = Decline str_poll_time_left|({reg0} seconds left) str_poll_result_yes|The poll is accepted by the majority. str_poll_result_no|The poll is rejected by the majority. str_total_item_cost_reg0|Total cost {reg0} str_server_name|Server name str_game_password|Game password str_map|Map str_game_type|Game type str_max_number_of_players|Maximum number of players str_number_of_bots_in_team_reg1|Number of bots in team {reg1} str_team_reg1_faction|Team {reg1} faction str_enable_valve_anti_cheat|Enable Valve Anti-cheat (Requires valid Steam account) str_allow_friendly_fire|Allow ranged friendly fire str_allow_melee_friendly_fire|Allow melee friendly fire str_friendly_fire_damage_self_ratio|Friendly fire damage self (%) str_friendly_fire_damage_friend_ratio|Friendly fire damage friend (%) str_spectator_camera|Spectator 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str_make_factions_voteable|Allow polls to change factions str_make_kick_voteable|Allow polls to kick players str_make_ban_voteable|Allow polls to ban players str_bots_upper_limit_for_votes|Bot count limit for polls str_make_maps_voteable|Allow polls to change maps str_valid_vote_ratio|Poll accept threshold (%) str_auto_team_balance_limit|Auto team balance threshold (diff.) str_welcome_message|Welcome message str_initial_gold_multiplier|Starting gold (%) str_battle_earnings_multiplier|Combat gold bonus (%) str_round_earnings_multiplier|Round gold bonus (%) str_allow_player_banners|Allow individual banners str_force_default_armor|Force minimum armor str_respawning_in_reg0_seconds|Respawning in {reg0} seconds... str_no_more_respawns_remained_this_round|No lives left for this round str_reg0_respawns_remained|({reg0} lives remaining) str_this_is_your_last_respawn|(This is your last life) str_wait_next_round|(Wait for the next round) str_yes_wo_dot|Yes str_no_wo_dot|No str_we_resign|We have no strength left to put up a fight. We surrender to you, {playername}. str_i_resign|I don't want to die today. I surrender. str_s1_returned_flag|{s1} has returned their flag to their base! str_s1_auto_returned_flag|{s1} flag automatically returned to their base! str_s1_captured_flag|{s1} has captured the enemy flag! str_s1_taken_flag|{s1} has taken the enemy flag! str_s1_neutralized_flag_reg0|{s1} has neutralized flag {reg0}. str_s1_captured_flag_reg0|{s1} has captured flag {reg0}! str_s1_pulling_flag_reg0|{s1} has started pulling flag {reg0}. str_s1_destroyed_target_0|{s1} destroyed target A! str_s1_destroyed_target_1|{s1} destroyed target B! str_s1_destroyed_catapult|{s1} destroyed the catapult! str_s1_destroyed_trebuchet|{s1} destroyed the trebuchet! str_s1_destroyed_all_targets|{s1} destroyed all targets! str_s1_saved_1_target|{s1} saved one target. str_s1_saved_2_targets|{s1} saved all targets. str_s1_defended_castle|{s1} defended their castle! str_s1_captured_castle|{s1} captured the castle! str_auto_team_balance_in_20_seconds|Auto-balance will be done in 20 seconds. str_auto_team_balance_next_round|Auto-balance will be done next round. str_auto_team_balance_done|Teams have been auto-balanced. str_s1_won_round|{s1} has won the round! str_round_draw|Time is up. Round draw. str_round_draw_no_one_remained|No one left. Round draw. str_death_mode_started|Hurry! Become master of the field! str_reset_to_default|Reset to Default str_done|Done str_player_name|Player Name str_kills|Kills str_deaths|Deaths str_ping|Ping str_dead|Dead str_reg0_dead|{reg0} Dead str_bots_reg0_agents|Bots ({reg0} agents) str_bot_1_agent|Bot (1 agent) str_score|Score str_score_reg0|Score {reg0} str_flags_reg0|(Flags {reg0}) str_reg0_players|({reg0} players) str_reg0_player|({reg0} player) str_open_gate|Open Gate str_close_gate|Close Gate str_open_door|Open Door str_close_door|Close Door str_raise_ladder|Raise Ladder str_drop_ladder|Drop Ladder str_back|Back str_start_map|Start Map str_choose_an_option|Choose an option str_choose_a_poll_type|Choose a poll type str_choose_faction|Choose Faction str_choose_a_faction|Choose a faction str_choose_troop|Choose Troop str_choose_a_troop|Choose a troop class str_choose_items|Choose Equipment str_options|Options str_redefine_keys|Redefine Keys str_submit_a_poll|Submit a Poll str_administrator_panel|Administrator Panel str_kick_player|Kick Player str_ban_player|Ban Player str_mute_player|Mute Player str_unmute_player|Unmute Player str_quit|Quit str_poll_for_changing_the_map|Change the map str_poll_for_changing_the_map_and_factions|Change the map and factions str_poll_for_changing_number_of_bots|Change number of bots in teams str_poll_for_kicking_a_player|Kick a player str_poll_for_banning_a_player|Ban a player str_choose_a_player|Choose a player str_choose_a_map|Choose a map str_choose_a_faction_for_team_reg0|Choose a faction for team {reg0} str_choose_number_of_bots_for_team_reg0|Choose number of bots for team {reg0} str_spectator|Spectator str_spectators|Spectators str_command|Command str_profile_banner_selection_text|Choose a banner for your profile str_use_default_banner|Use Faction's Banner str_party_morale_is_low|Morale of some troops are low! str_weekly_report|Weekly Report str_has_deserted_the_party|has deserted the party. str_have_deserted_the_party|have deserted the party. str_space| str_us_|Us str_allies_|Allies str_enemies_|Enemies str_routed|Routed str_weekly_budget|Weekly Budget str_income_from_s0|Income from {s0} str_mercenary_payment_from_s0|Mercenary payment from {s0} str_s0s_party|{s0}'s Party str_loss_due_to_tax_inefficiency|Loss due to tax inefficiency str_wages_for_s0|Wages for {s0} str_earlier_debts|Earlier debts str_net_change|Net change str_earlier_wealth|Earlier wealth str_new_wealth|New wealth str_new_debts|New debts str_maximum_seconds_for_round_is_reg0|Maximum seconds for round is {reg0}. str_respawn_period_is_reg0_seconds|Respawn period is {reg0} seconds. str_bots_upper_limit_for_votes_is_reg0|Bots upper limit for votes is {reg0}. str_map_is_voteable|Map is voteable. str_map_is_not_voteable|Map is not voteable. str_factions_are_voteable|Factions are voteable. str_factions_are_not_voteable|Factions are not voteable. str_players_respawn_as_bot|Players respawn as bot. str_players_do_not_respawn_as_bot|Players do not respawn as bot. str_kicking_a_player_is_voteable|Kicking a player is voteable. str_kicking_a_player_is_not_voteable|Kicking a player is not voteable. str_banning_a_player_is_voteable|Banning a player is voteable. str_banning_a_player_is_not_voteable|Banning a player is not voteable. str_player_banners_are_allowed|Player banners are allowed. str_player_banners_are_not_allowed|Player banners are not allowed. str_default_armor_is_forced|Default armor is forced. str_default_armor_is_not_forced|Default armor is not forced. str_percentage_of_yes_votes_required_for_a_poll_to_get_accepted_is_reg0|Percentage of yes votes required for a poll to get accepted is {reg0}%. str_auto_team_balance_threshold_is_reg0|Auto team balance threshold is {reg0}. str_starting_gold_ratio_is_reg0|Starting gold ratio is {reg0}%. str_combat_gold_bonus_ratio_is_reg0|Combat gold bonus ratio is {reg0}%. str_round_gold_bonus_ratio_is_reg0|Round gold bonus ratio is {reg0}%. str_point_gained_from_flags_is_reg0|Team points gained for flags is {reg0}%. str_point_gained_from_capturing_flag_is_reg0|Points gained for capturing flags is {reg0}%. str_map_time_limit_is_reg0|Map time limit is {reg0} minutes. str_team_points_limit_is_reg0|Team point limit is {reg0}. str_defender_spawn_count_limit_is_s1|Defender spawn count is {s1}. str_system_error|SYSTEM ERROR! str_prisoner_granted_parole|Prisoner granted parole str_prisoner_not_offered_parole|Prisoner not offered parole str__age_reg1_family_|^Age {reg1}^Family str_s49_s12_s11_rel_reg0|{s49} {s12} ({s11}, rel {reg0}), str_s49_s12_s11|{s49} {s12} ({s11}), str_lord_info_string|{reg6? {reg4?{s54} is the ruler of {s56}.^ {s54} is a vassal of {s55} of {s56}.^}}Renown {reg5}. Controversy {reg15}.^{reg9?{reg3?She He} is the {reg3?lady lord} of {s58}. {reg3?She He} has no fiefs.}{s59}^{s49} str_foreign_relations__|Foreign relations ^ str_s21__the_s5_is_at_war_with_the_s14|{s21}^* The {s5} is at war with the {s14}. str_s21_the_s5_has_had_the_upper_hand_in_the_fighting|{s21} The {s5} has had the upper hand in the fighting. str_s21_the_s5_has_gotten_the_worst_of_the_fighting|{s21} The {s5} has gotten the worst of the fighting. str_s21_the_fighting_has_gone_on_for_some_time_and_the_war_may_end_soon_with_a_truce|{s21} The fighting has gone on for some time, and the war may end soon with a truce. str_s21_the_fighting_has_begun_relatively_recently_and_the_war_may_continue_for_some_time|{s21} The fighting has begun relatively recently, and the war may continue for some time. str__however_the_truce_is_no_longer_binding_on_the_s14| However, the truce is no longer binding on the {s14} str_s21__the_s5_is_bound_by_truce_not_to_attack_the_s14s18_the_truce_will_expire_in_reg1_days|{s21}^* The {s5} is bound by truce not to attack the {s14}.{s18} The truce will expire in {reg1} days. str_s21__the_s5_has_recently_suffered_provocation_by_subjects_of_the_s14_and_there_is_a_risk_of_war|{s21}^* The {s5} has recently suffered provocation by subjects of the {s14}, and there is a risk of war. str_s21__the_s5_has_no_outstanding_issues_with_the_s14|{s21}^* The {s5} has no outstanding issues with the {s14}. str_s21_the_s14_was_recently_provoked_by_subjects_of_the_s5_and_there_is_a_risk_of_war_|{s21} The {s14} was recently provoked by subjects of the {s5}, and there is a risk of war.^ str_the_s5_is_ruled_by_s6_it_occupies_s8_its_vassals_are_s10__s21|The {s5} is ruled by {s6}.^It occupies {s8}.^Its vassals are {s10}.^^{s21} str_reg4_killed_reg5_wounded_reg6_routed|{reg4} killed, {reg5} wounded, {reg6} routed str_reg4_killed_reg5_routed|{reg4} killed, {reg5} routed str_reg4_killed_reg5_wounded|{reg4} killed, {reg5} wounded str_reg4_wounded_reg5_routed|{reg4} wounded, {reg5} routed str_s42|{s42} str_s4_awarded_to_s5|{s4} awarded to {s5} str_calculating_sortie_for_s4_strength_of_reg3_vs_reg4_enemies|Calculating sortie for {s4}, strength of {reg3} vs {reg4} enemies str_current_wealth_reg1_taxes_last_collected_from_s4|Current wealth {reg1}. Taxes last collected from {s4} str_s4_has_reg4_chance_of_recruiting_troops|{s4} has {reg4} chance of recruiting troops str_s4_has_reg4_chance_of_going_to_s5|{s4} has {reg4} chance of going to {s5} str_s4_has_reg5_chance_of_patrolling_s6|{s4} has {reg5} chance of patrolling {s6} str_s4_has_reg5_chance_of_raiding_s6|{s4} has {reg5} chance of raiding {s6} str_s4_has_reg5_chance_of_besieging_s6|{s4} has {reg5} chance of besieging {s6} str_sum_chances_reg6|Sum chances {reg6} str_deciding_faction_ai_for_s3|Deciding faction AI for {s3} str_lords_of_the_s1_gather_for_a_feast_at_s2|Lords of the {s1} gather for a feast at {s2}. str_players_kingdom_has_had_reg3_days_of_peace|Player's kingdom has had {reg3} days of peace str_s4_is_present_at_the_center_and_is_attending_the_feast|{s4} is present at the center and is attending the feast str_s4_is_present_at_the_center_and_is_awaiting_the_player_in_private|{s4} is present at the center and is awaiting the player in private str_s4_is_present_at_the_center_and_is_allowed_to_meet_the_player|{s4} is present at the center and is allowed to meet the player str_s4_is_present_at_the_center_and_is_not_allowed_to_meet_the_player|{s4} is present at the center and is not allowed to meet the player str_no_relation|no relation str_niece|niece str_nephew|nephew str_aunt|aunt str_uncle|uncle str_cousin|cousin str_daughterinlaw|daughter-in-law str_soninlaw|son-in-law str_motherinlaw|mother-in-law str_fatherinlaw|father-in-law str_sisterinlaw|sister-in-law str_brotherinlaw|brother-in-law str_print_party_members_entered|print party members entered str_num_companion_stacks_=_reg10|num companion stacks = {reg10} str_someone|someone str_i_take_what_work_i_can_sirmadame_i_carry_water_or_help_the_merchants_with_their_loads_or_help_build_things_if_theres_things_to_be_built|I take what work I can, {sir/madame}. I carry water, or help the merchants with their loads, or help build things, if there are things to be built. str_im_not_doing_anything_sirmadame_theres_no_work_to_be_had_around_here_these_days|I'm not doing anything, {sir/madame}. There's no work to be had around here these days. str_im_not_doing_anything_sirmadame_i_have_no_land_of_my_own_and_theres_no_work_to_be_had_around_here_these_days|I'm not doing anything, {sir/madame}. I have no land of my own, and there's no work to be had around here these days. str_why_im_still_living_off_of_your_kindness_and_goodness_sirmadame_hopefully_there_will_be_work_shortly|Why, I'm still living off of your kindness and goodness, {sir/madame}. Hopefully there will be work, shortly. str_i_work_in_the_fields_just_outside_the_walls_where_they_grow_grain_we_dont_quite_grow_enough_to_meet_our_needs_though_and_have_to_import_grain_from_the_surrounding_countryside|I work in the fields, just outside the walls, where they grow grain. We don't quite grow enough to meet our needs, though, and have to import grain from the surrounding countryside. str_i_work_mostly_in_the_fields_growing_grain_in_the_town_they_grind_it_to_make_bread_or_ale_and_we_can_also_boil_it_as_a_porridge|I work mostly in the fields, growing grain. In the town they grind it to make bread or ale, and we can also boil it as a porridge. str_i_work_in_the_breweries_making_ale_the_poor_folk_drink_a_lot_of_it_as_its_cheaper_than_wine_we_make_it_with_grain_brought_in_from_the_countryside|I work in the breweries, making ale. The poor folk drink a lot of it, as it's cheaper than wine. We make it with grain brought in from the countryside. str_i_work_in_a_mill_grinding_flour_to_make_bread_bread_is_cheap_keeps_well_and_fills_the_stomach|I work in a mill, grinding flour to make bread. Bread is cheap, keeps well, and fills the stomach. str_i_tend_cattle_we_dry_and_salt_meat_to_preserve_it_and_make_cheese_from_the_milk|I tend cattle. We dry and salt meat to preserve it, and send the hides to the towns to be made into leather. We also make cheese from the milk. str_i_tend_cattle_we_dry_and_salt_meat_to_preserve_it_and_make_cheese_from_the_milk_so_it_doesnt_spoil|I tend cattle. We dry and salt meat to preserve it, and send the hides to the towns to be made into leather. We also make cheese from the milk. str_i_tend_sheep_we_send_the_wool_to_the_cities_to_be_woven_into_cloth_and_make_mutton_sausage_when_we_cull_the_herds|I tend sheep. We send the wool to the cities to be woven into cloth, and make mutton sausage when we cull the herds. str_i_work_at_a_loom_spinning_cloth_from_wool_wool_is_some_of_the_cheapest_cloth_you_can_buy_but_it_will_still_keep_you_warm|I work at a loom, spinning cloth from wool. Wool is some of the cheapest cloth you can buy, but it will still keep you warm. str_i_crew_a_fishing_boat_we_salt_and_smoke_the_flesh_to_sell_it_far_inland|I crew a fishing boat. We salt and smoke the flesh, to sell it far inland. str_i_sift_salt_from_a_nearby_flat_they_need_salt_everywhere_to_preserve_meat_and_fish|I sift salt from a nearby flat. They need salt everywhere, to preserve meat and fish. str_i_mine_iron_from_a_vein_in_a_nearby_cliffside_they_use_it_to_make_tools_arms_and_other_goods|I mine iron from a vein in a nearby cliffside. They use it to make tools, arms, and other goods. str_i_make_pottery_which_people_use_to_store_grain_and_carry_water|I make pottery, which people use to store grain and carry water. str_trade_explanation_tools|I work in a smithy, {sir/madame}, making all sorts of ironware -- knives, axes, pots, plough-blades, scythes, hammers, anvils, tongs, adzes, saws, nails, horseshoes, firesteel, braziers, and of course arms and armor for your excellencies. str_trade_explanation_oil|I work in an oil press, making oil from olives brought in from the countryside. If you can afford it, our oil has a hundred uses -- in cooking, lamps, even for easing childbirth. str_trade_explanation_linen|I weave linen, using flax brought in from the surrounding countryside. It's makes a tough, light fabric, {sir/madame} -- good for summer clothing, sails for boats, and the like. str_trade_explanation_velvet|I work in one of this town's great weaveries, carefully making the velvet for which we are known. We use silks brought from across the mountains, and dyes from the far corners of the earth, and make of it the finest and most expensive fabric that can be found in the land. str_trade_explanation_spice|I work in the caravanserie, helping the merchants unload the spice they bring from across the mountains. Pepper, cinnamon, cloves, saffron... The rich mark their wealth by the amount of spices in their food, and they say that for every ailment, there's a spice which cures it. str_trade_explanation_apples|I'm just coming in from the orchards, where we grow apples. We dry them for storage, or they can also be made into cider or vinegar. str_trade_explanation_grapes|I work in the vineyards on the hillsides, growing grapes to be made into fine wines for the tables of the lords, ladies, and merchants, and cheap wine to be mixed with water to quench the thirst of the commons. str_trade_explanation_dyes|I work in the caravanseries, unloading dyes brought in from the lands outside Calradia -- the crimson of oak beetles and the red roots of madder, the blue of indigo and woad shrubs, the yellow of weld root and greenweed. The weavers use it to color the silks and velvets of the great lords of the realm. str_trade_explanation_leatherwork|I work in the tanneries outside the walls, turning cured hides from the countryside into good, supple leather. It's foul work, and I come home stinking of urine, dung, and lime -- but that's where your boots, saddles, and bridles come from, {sir/my lady}. str_trade_explanation_flax|I sew and harvest linseed, and rot the stems to make flax fibers. That's the source of your fine linens, {sir/my lady} -- a rotting pit on the edge of a field. str_trade_explanation_dates|I tend to a grove of date palms. I hope you don't mind me saying so, but it takes great skill to tend them, as we must climb to the tops of the palms to ensure that the trees will flower. We export the fruit far and wide, as they keep for many months when properly dried. As sweet as honey, and they grant the eater health and strength. str_trade_explanation_olives|I tend to a grove of olive trees. You can eat the fruit or preserve it in brine, but we end up sending most of it to be pressed, to be made into oil. str_s14_i_hear_that_you_can_find_a_good_price_for_it_in_s15|{s14}. I hear that you can find a good price for it in {s15}. str_s2s_rebellion|{s2}'s Rebellion str_political_suggestion|Political suggestion str_instability_reg0_of_lords_are_disgruntled_reg1_are_restless|Instability {reg0}% of lords are disgruntled, {reg1}% are restless str_reg1shehe_is_prisoner_of_s1|{reg1?She He} is prisoner of {s1}. str_s39_rival|{s39} (rival) str_s41_s39_rival|{s41}, {s39} (rival) str_love_interest|love interest str_betrothed|betrothed str_other_relations_s40_|Other relations {s40}^ str_relation_with_liege_reg0_|Relation with liege {reg0}^ str_sense_of_security_military_reg1_court_position_reg3_|Sense of security military {reg1}, court position {reg3}^ str_political_details_s47_|Political details ^{s47}^ str_the_s55|the {s55} str_travellers_on_the_road|travellers on the road str_a_short_while_ago|a short while ago str_one_day_ago|one day ago str_two_days_day_ago|two days day ago str_earlier_this_week|earlier this week str_about_a_week_ago|about a week ago str_about_two_weeks_ago|about two weeks ago str_several_weeks_ago|several weeks ago str_unknown_assailants|unknown assailants str_swadians|Swadians str_vaegirs|Vaegirs str_khergits|Khergits str_nords|Nords str_rhodoks|Rhodoks str_sarranids|Sarranids str_bandits|bandits str_deserters|deserters str_your_followers|your followers str_we_have_heard_that_travellers_heading_to_s40_were_attacked_on_the_road_s46_by_s39|We have heard that travellers heading to {s40} were attacked on the road {s46} by {s39} str_we_have_heard_that_travellers_coming_from_s40_were_attacked_on_the_road_s46_by_s39|We have heard that travellers coming from {s40} were attacked on the road {s46} by {s39} str_travellers_coming_from_s40_traded_here_s46|Travellers coming from {s40} traded here {s46} str_it_is_still_early_in_the_caravan_season_so_we_have_seen_little_tradings42|It is still early in the caravan season, so we have seen little trading.{s42} str_there_has_been_very_little_trading_activity_here_recentlys42|There has been very little trading activity here recently.{s42} str_there_has_some_trading_activity_here_recently_but_not_enoughs42|There has some trading activity here recently, but not enough.{s42} str_there_has_some_trading_activity_here_recently_but_the_roads_are_dangerouss42|There has some trading activity here recently, but the roads are dangerous.{s42} str_the_roads_around_here_are_very_dangerouss42|The roads around here are very dangerous.{s42} str_we_have_received_many_traders_in_town_here_although_there_is_some_danger_on_the_roadss42|We have received many traders in town here, although there is some danger on the roads.{s42} str_we_have_received_many_traders_in_town_heres42|We have received many traders in town here.{s42} str_there_is_little_news_about_the_caravan_routes_to_the_towns_of_s44_and_nearby_parts_but_no_news_is_good_news_and_those_are_therefore_considered_safe|There is little news about the caravan routes to the towns of {s44} and nearby parts. But no news is good news, and those are therefore considered safe. str_s47_also_the_roads_to_the_villages_of_s44_and_other_outlying_hamlets_are_considered_safe|{s47} Also, the roads to the villages of {s44} and other outlying hamlets are considered safe. str_however_the_roads_to_the_villages_of_s44_and_other_outlying_hamlets_are_considered_safe|However, the roads to the villages of {s44} and other outlying hamlets are considered safe. str_we_have_shortages_of|We have shortages of str_we_have_adequate_stores_of_all_commodities|We have adequate stores of all commodities str_s33_and_some_other_commodities|{s33} and some other commodities str_the_roads_are_full_of_brigands_friend_but_that_name_in_particular_does_not_sound_familiar_good_hunting_to_you_nonetheless|The roads are full of brigands, friend, but that name in particular does not sound familiar. Good hunting to you, nonetheless. str_less_than_an_hour_ago|less than an hour ago str_maybe_reg3_hours_ago|maybe {reg3} hours ago str_reg3_days_ago|{reg3} days ago str_youre_in_luck_we_sighted_those_bastards_s16_near_s17_hurry_and_you_might_be_able_to_pick_up_their_trail_while_its_still_hot|You're in luck. We sighted those bastards {s16} near {s17}. Hurry, and you might be able to pick up their trail while it's still hot. str_you_speak_of_claims_to_the_throne_good_there_is_nothing_id_rather_do_than_fight_for_a_good_cause|You speak of claims to the throne. Good. There is nothing I'd rather do than fight for a good cause. str_you_speak_of_claims_to_the_throne_well_there_is_nothing_id_rather_do_than_fight_for_a_good_cause_but_the_claim_you_make_seems_somewhat_weak|You speak of claims to the throne. Well, there is nothing I'd rather do than fight for a good cause, but the claim you make seems somewhat weak. str_i_am_pleased_that_you_speak_of_upholding_my_ancient_rights_which_are_sometimes_trod_upon_in_these_sorry_days|I am pleased that you speak of upholding my ancient rights, which are sometimes trod upon in these sorry days. str_i_am_pleased_that_you_speak_of_upholding_my_ancient_rights_but_sometimes_men_make_pledges_before_they_are_king_which_they_cannot_keep_once_they_take_the_throne|I am pleased that you speak of upholding my ancient rights. But sometimes men make pledges before they are king, which they cannot keep once they take the throne. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_well_i_supposed_thats_good_but_sometimes_the_commons_overstep_their_boundaries_im_more_concerned_that_your_claim_be_legal_so_i_can_swing_my_sword_with_a_good_conscience|You speak of protecting the commons. Well, I supposed that's good, but sometimes the commons overstep their boundaries. I'm more concerned that your claim be legal, so I can swing my sword with a good conscience. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_good_i_ask_for_no_more_than_my_due|You speak of giving me land. Good. I ask for no more than my due. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_unfortunately_you_are_not_wellknown_for_rewarding_those_to_whom_you_have_made_such_offers|You speak of giving me land. Unfortunately, you are not well-known for rewarding those to whom you have made such offers. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_well_i_believe_that_well_always_be_fighting__its_important_that_we_fight_for_a_rightful_cause|You speak of unifying Calradia. Well, I believe that we'll always be fighting - it's important that we fight for a rightful cause. str_you_talk_of_claims_to_the_throne_but_i_leave_bickering_about_legalities_to_the_lawyers_and_clerks|You talk of claims to the throne, but I leave bickering about legalities to the lawyers and clerks. str_you_speak_of_ruling_justly_hah_ill_believe_theres_such_a_thing_as_a_just_king_when_i_see_one|You speak of ruling justly. Hah! I'll believe there's such a thing as a just king when I see one. str_you_spoke_of_protecting_the_rights_of_the_nobles_if_you_did_youd_be_the_first_king_to_do_so_in_a_very_long_time|You spoke of protecting the rights of the nobles. If you did, you'd be the first king to do so in a very long time. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_ay_well_lets_see_if_you_deliver|You speak of giving me land. Ay, well, let's see if you deliver. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_bah_youre_not_known_for_delivering_on_your_pledges|You speak of giving me land. Bah. You're not known for delivering on your pledges. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_well_youve_done_a_good_job_at_making_calradia_bend_its_knee_to_you_so_maybe_thats_not_just_talk|You speak of unifying Calradia. Well, you've done a good job at making Calradia bend its knee to you, so maybe that's not just talk. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_id_be_impressed_if_i_thought_you_could_do_it_but_unfortunately_you_dont|You speak of unifying Calradia. I'd be impressed if I thought you could do it. But unfortunately, you don't. str_you_speak_of_claims_to_the_throne_well_any_peasant_can_claim_to_be_a_kings_bastard|You speak of claims to the throne. Well, any peasant can claim to be a king's bastard str_well_its_a_fine_thing_to_court_the_commons_with_promises_but_what_do_you_have_to_offer_me|Well, it's a fine thing to court the commons with promises, but what do you have to offer me? str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_that_would_make_a_fine_change_if_my_rights_as_lord_would_be_respected|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. That would make a fine change, if my rights as lord would be respected. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_that_would_make_a_fine_change_if_my_rights_as_lord_would_be_respected_however_it_is_easy_for_you_to_make_promises_while_you_are_weak_that_you_have_no_intention_of_keeping_when_you_are_strong|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. That would make a fine change, if my rights as lord would be respected. However, it is easy for you to make promises while you are weak, that you have no intention of keeping when you are strong. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_well_my_family_is_of_ancient_and_noble_lineage_so_you_promise_me_no_more_than_my_due_still_your_gesture_is_appreciated|You speak of giving me land. Well, my family is of ancient and noble lineage, so you promise me no more than my due. Still, your gesture is appreciated. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_well_you_make_that_pledge_but_i_am_not_impressed|You speak of giving me land. Well, you make that pledge, but I am not impressed. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_well_much_of_this_land_now_bends_its_knee_to_you_so_perhaps_that_is_not_just_talk|You speak of unifying Calradia. Well, much of this land now bends its knee to you, so perhaps that is not just talk. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_but_right_now_yours_is_just_one_squabbling_faction_among_many|You speak of unifying Calradia, but right now yours is just one squabbling faction among many. str_you_speak_of_claims_well_no_offense_but_a_claim_unsupported_by_might_rarely_prospers|You speak of claims. Well, no offense, but a claim unsupported by might rarely prospers. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_well_i_suppose_that_will_make_for_a_more_prosperous_realm_ive_always_tried_to_treat_my_peasants_decently_saves_going_to_bed_worrying_about_whether_youll_wake_up_with_the_roof_on_fire|You speak of protecting the commons. Well, I suppose that will make for a more prosperous realm. I've always tried to treat my peasants decently. Saves going to bed worrying about whether you'll wake up with the roof on fire. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_very_well_but_remember_that_peasants_are_more_likely_to_cause_trouble_if_you_make_promises_then_dont_deliver_than_if_you_never_made_the_promise_in_the_first_place|You speak of protecting the commons. Very well. But remember that peasants are more likely to cause trouble if you make promises then don't deliver, than if you never made the promise in the first place. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_good_youd_be_well_advised_to_do_that__men_fight_better_for_a_king_wholl_respect_their_rights|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. Good. You'd be well advised to do that -- men fight better for a king who'll respect their rights. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_very_well_but_remember__failing_to_keep_promises_which_you_made_while_scrambling_up_the_throne_is_the_quickest_way_to_topple_off_of_it_once_you_get_there|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. Very well. But remember -- failing to keep promises which you made while scrambling up the throne is the quickest way to topple off of it once you get there. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_very_good_but_often_i_find_that_when_a_man_makes_too_many_promises_trying_to_get_to_the_top_he_has_trouble_keeping_them_once_he_reaches_it|You speak of giving me land. Very good, but often I find that when a man makes too many promises trying to get to the top, he has trouble keeping them once he reaches it. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_well_many_have_said_that_you_might_very_well_be_the_one_to_do_it|You speak of unifying Calradia. Well, many have said that, you might very well be the one to do it. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_well_all_the_kings_say_that_im_not_sure_that_you_will_succeed_while_they_fail|You speak of unifying Calradia. Well, all the kings say that. I'm not sure that you will succeed while they fail. str_you_speak_of_claims_do_you_think_i_care_for_the_nattering_of_lawyers|You speak of claims. Do you think I care for the nattering of lawyers? str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_how_kind_of_you_i_shall_tell_my_swineherd_all_about_your_sweet_promises_no_doubt_he_will_become_your_most_faithful_vassal|You speak of protecting the commons. How kind of you! I shall tell my swineherd all about your sweet promises. No doubt he will become your most faithful vassal. str_you_speak_of_protecing_the_rights_of_lords_such_sweet_words_but_ill_tell_you_this__the_only_rights_that_are_respected_in_this_world_are_the_rights_to_dominate_whoever_is_weaker_and_to_submit_to_whoever_is_stronger|You speak of protecing the rights of lords. Such sweet words! But I'll tell you this -- the only rights that are respected in this world are the rights to dominate whoever is weaker, and to submit to whoever is stronger. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_yes_very_good__but_you_had_best_deliver|You speak of giving me land. Yes, very good -- but you had best deliver. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_hah_perhaps_all_those_others_to_whom_you_promised_lands_will_simply_step_aside|You speak of giving me land. Hah! Perhaps all those others to whom you promised lands will simply step aside? str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_you_may_indeed_humble_the_other_kings_of_this_land_and_in_that_case_i_would_hope_that_you_would_remember_me_as_your_faithful_servant|You speak of unifying Calradia. You may indeed humble the other kings of this land, and in that case I would hope that you would remember me as your faithful servant. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_but_you_are_weak_and_i_think_that_you_will_remain_weak|You speak of unifying Calradia. But you are weak, and I think that you will remain weak. str_you_speak_of_claims_its_good_for_a_king_to_have_a_strong_claim_although_admittedly_im_more_concerned_that_he_rules_just_ly_than_with_legalities_anyway_your_claim_seems_wellfounded_to_me|You speak of claims. It's good for a king to have a strong claim, although admittedly I'm more concerned that he rules just ly than with legalities. Anyway, your claim seems well-founded to me. str_you_speak_of_claims_but_your_claim_seems_a_bit_weak_to_me|You speak of claims, but your claim seems a bit weak to me. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_i_like_that_my_tenants_are_a_happy_lot_i_think_but_i_hear_of_others_in_other_estates_that_arent_so_fortunate|You speak of protecting the commons. I like that. My tenants are a happy lot, I think, but I hear of others in other estates that aren't so fortunate. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_im_glad_to_hear_you_say_that_but_do_me_a_favor__dont_promise_the_commons_anything_you_cant_deliver_thats_a_sure_way_to_get_them_to_rebel_and_it_breaks_my_heart_to_have_to_put_them_down|You speak of protecting the commons. I'm glad to hear you say that. But do me a favor -- don't promise the commons anything you can't deliver. That's a sure way to get them to rebel, and it breaks my heart to have to put them down. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_well_very_good_i_suppose_but_you_know__we_lords_can_take_of_ourselves_its_the_common_folk_who_need_a_strong_king_to_look_out_for_them_to_my_mind|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. Well, very good, I suppose. But you know -- we lords can take of ourselves. It's the common folk who need a strong king to look out for them, to my mind. str_you_speak_of_giving_me_land_its_kind_of_you_really_though_that_is_not_necessary|You speak of giving me land. It's kind of you. Really, though, that is not necessary. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_well_maybe_you_can_unite_this_land_by_the_sword_but_im_not_sure_that_this_will_make_you_a_good_ruler|You speak of unifying Calradia. Well, maybe you can unite this land by the sword. But I'm not sure that this will make you a good ruler. str_you_speak_of_claims_a_king_must_have_a_strong_legal_claim_for_there_not_to_be_chaos_in_the_realm_and_yours_is_wellestablished|You speak of claims. A king must have a strong legal claim for there not to be chaos in the realm, and yours is well-established. str_you_speak_of_claims_a_king_must_have_a_strong_legal_claim_for_there_not_to_be_chaos_in_the_realm_but_your_claim_is_not_so_strong|You speak of claims. A king must have a strong legal claim for there not to be chaos in the realm, but your claim is not so strong. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_it_is_of_course_important_that_a_king_respect_the_rights_of_his_vassals_although_i_worry_that_a_king_who_took_a_throne_without_proper_cause_would_not_rule_with_justice|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. It is of course important that a king respect the rights of his vassals, although I worry that a king who took a throne without proper cause would not rule with justice. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_rights_of_lords_it_is_of_course_important_that_a_king_respect_the_rights_of_his_vassals_however_i_would_like_to_know_that_you_would_indeed_deliver_on_your_promises|You speak of protecting the rights of lords. It is of course important that a king respect the rights of his vassals. However, I would like to know that you would indeed deliver on your promises. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_i_would_be_pleased_to_serve_a_king_who_respected_the_rights_of_his_subjects_although_i_worry_that_a_king_who_took_a_throne_without_proper_cause_would_not_rule_with_justice|You speak of protecting the commons. I would be pleased to serve a king who respected the rights of his subjects, although I worry that a king who took a throne without proper cause would not rule with justice. str_you_speak_of_protecting_the_commons_i_would_be_pleased_to_serve_a_king_who_respected_the_rights_of_his_subjects_however_i_would_like_to_know_that_you_would_indeed_deliver_on_your_promises|You speak of protecting the commons. I would be pleased to serve a king who respected the rights of his subjects. However, I would like to know that you would indeed deliver on your promises. str_i_am_not_swayed_by_promises_of_reward|I am not swayed by promises of reward str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_it_would_be_good_to_bring_peace_to_the_realm_and_i_believe_that_you_are_strong_enough_to_do_so|You speak of unifying Calradia. It would be good to bring peace to the realm, and I believe that you are strong enough to do so. str_you_speak_of_unifying_calradia_it_would_be_good_to_bring_peace_the_realm_but_with_your_kingdom_in_its_current_state_i_worry_that_you_are_just_bringing_more_discord|You speak of unifying Calradia. It would be good to bring peace the realm, but with your kingdom in its current state, I worry that you are just bringing more discord. str_my_s11_s15|my {s11} {s15} str_my_s11_s18|My {s11} {s18} str_the_socalled_s11_s18|The so-called {s11} {s18} str_s18_would_cheat_me_of_my_inheritance_by_heaven_i_know_my_rights_and_im_not_going_to_back_down|{s18} would cheat me of my inheritance. By heaven, I know my rights, and I'm not going to back down. str_s18_once_questioned_my_honour_and_my_bravery_i_long_for_the_day_when_i_can_meet_him_in_battle_and_make_him_retract_his_statement|{s18} once questioned my honour and my bravery. I long for the day when I can meet him in battle, and make him retract his statement. str_s18_once_questioned_my_judgment_in_battle_by_heaven_would_he_have_us_shirk_our_duty_to_smite_our_sovereigns_foes|{s18} once questioned my judgment in battle. By heaven, would he have us shirk our duty to smite our sovereign's foes? str_s18_seems_to_think_he_has_the_right_to_some_of_my_property_well_he_does_not|{s18} seems to think he has the right to some of my property. Well, he does not. str_s18_once_took_something_i_said_amiss_stubborn_bastard_wont_give_it_up_and_keeps_trying_to_get_me_to_recant_my_words|{s18} once took something I said amiss. Stubborn bastard won't give it up, and keeps trying to get me to recant my words. str_s18_is_a_crafty_weasel_and_i_dont_trust_him_one_bit|{s18} is a crafty weasel, and I don't trust him one bit. str_s18_i_despite_him_he_puts_on_such_a_nauseating_display_of_virtue_and_thinks_nothing_of_insulting_his_betters|{s18}? I despise him. He puts on such a nauseating display of virtue, and thinks nothing of insulting his betters. str_s18_entered_into_a_little_deal_with_me_and_is_now_trying_to_wriggle_out_of_it|{s18} entered into a little deal with me and is now trying to wriggle out of it. str_s18_once_ran_an_errand_for_me_and_now_thinks_i_owe_him_something_i_owe_his_ilk_nothing|{s18} once ran an errand for me, and now thinks I owe him something. I owe his ilk nothing. str_s18_is_soft_and_weak_and_not_fit_to_govern_a_fief_and_i_have_always_detested_him|{s18} is soft, and weak, and not fit to govern a fief, and I have always detested him. str_s18_is_a_quarrelsome_oaf_and_a_liability_in_my_opinion_and_ive_let_him_know_as_much|{s18} is a quarrelsome oaf and a liability, in my opinion, and I've let him know as much. str_s18_i_am_sorry_to_say_is_far_too_softhearted_a_man_to_be_given_any_kind_of_responsibility_his_chivalry_will_allow_the_enemy_to_flee_to_fight_another_day_and_will_cost_the_lives_of_my_own_faithful_men|{s18}, I am sorry to say, is far too softhearted a man to be given any kind of responsibility. His chivalry will allow the enemy to flee to fight another day, and will cost the lives of my own faithful men. str_s18_seems_to_have_something_against_me_for_some_reason_i_dont_like_to_talk_ill_of_people_but_i_think_hes_can_be_a_bit_of_a_cad_sometimes|{s18} seems to have something against me, for some reason. I don't like to talk ill of people, but I think he's can be a bit of a cad, sometimes. str_s18_has_always_treated_me_contemptuously_although_i_have_done_him_no_wrong|{s18} has always treated me contemptuously, although I have done him no wrong. str_s18_is_thoroughly_dishonorable_and_a_compulsive_spinner_of_intrigues_which_i_fear_will_drag_us_into_wars_or_incite_rebellions|{s18} is thoroughly dishonorable, and a compulsive spinner of intrigues which I fear will drag us into wars or incite rebellions. str_s18_disappoints_me_i_once_scolded_for_his_rashness_in_battle_and_he_took_offense_i_do_not_care_to_apologize_for_my_efforts_to_save_his_life_and_the_lives_of_his_men|{s18} disappoints me. I once scolded for his rashness in battle, and he took offense. I do not care to apologize for my efforts to save his life, and the lives of his men. str_s18_squanders_money_and_carouses_in_a_way_most_unbefitting_a_noble_by_doing_so_he_disgraces_us_all|{s18} squanders money and carouses in a way most unbefitting a noble. By doing so, he disgraces us all. str_s18_has_been_speaking_ill_of_me_behind_my_back_or_so_they_say|{s18} has been speaking ill of me behind my back, or so they say. str_s18_is_a_disgrace_reg3shehe_consorts_with_merchants_lends_money_at_interest_uses_coarse_language_and_shows_no_attempt_to_uphold_the_dignity_of_the_honor_bestowed_upon_reg3herhim|{s18} is a disgrace. {reg3?She He} consorts with merchants, lends money at interest, uses coarse language, and shows no attempt to uphold the dignity of the honor bestowed upon {reg3?her him}. str_s18_has_condemned_me_for_engaging_in_commerce_what_could_possibly_be_wrong_with_that|{s18} has condemned me for engaging in commerce. What could possibly be wrong with that? str_s18_i_have_heard_has_been_encouraging_seditious_ideas_among_the_peasantry__a_foolish_move_which_endangers_us_all|{s18}, I have heard, has been encouraging seditious ideas among the peasantry -- a foolish move which endangers us all. str_s18_has_called_me_out_for_the_way_i_deal_with_my_tenants_well_so_be_it_if_i_teach_them_that_they_are_the_equal_of_anyone_with_socalled_gentle_blood_what_is_it_to_reg3herhim|{s18} has called me out for the way I deal with my tenants. Well, so be it. If I teach them that they are the equal of anyone with so-called 'gentle' blood, what is it to {reg3?her him}? str_a_most_gallant_gentleman_who_knows_how_to_treat_a_lady|a most gallant gentleman, who knows how to treat a lady str_a_base_cad|a base cad str_a_man_who_treats_me_as_his_equal_which_is_rare|a man who treats me as his equal, which is rare str_appears_to_value_me_with_his_estate_and_his_horse_as_prizes_worth_having|appears to value me with his estate and his horse as prizes worth having str_a_bit_dull_but_what_can_you_expect|a bit dull, but what can you expect... str_the_man_whom_destiny_intends_for_me|the man whom destiny intends for me str_is_not_right_for_me__i_cannot_say_why_but_he_makes_my_skin_crawl|is not right for me - I cannot say why, but he makes my skin crawl str_is_a_man_who_clearly_intends_to_make_his_mark_in_the_world|is a man who clearly intends to make his mark in the world str_is_a_layabout_a_naif_prey_for_others_who_are_cleverer_than_he|is a lay-about, a naif, prey for others who are cleverer than he str_is_a_man_of_stalwart_character|is a man of stalwart character str_appears_to_be_a_man_of_low_morals|appears to be a man of low morals str_appears_to_be_a_man_who_lacks_selfdiscipline|appears to be a man who lacks self-discipline str_bandits_attacked_a_party_on_the_roads_so_a_bounty_is_probably_available|Bandits attacked a party on the roads, so a bounty is probably available str_total_additions_reg4|Total additions {reg4} str_total_subtractions_reg4|Total subtractions {reg4} str_s11_relocates_to_s10|{s11} relocates to {s10}. str__i_must_attend_to_this_matter_before_i_worry_about_the_affairs_of_the_realm| I must attend to this matter before I worry about the affairs of the realm. str_the_other_matter_took_precedence|The other matter took precedence. str_i_cannot_leave_this_fortress_now_as_it_is_under_siege|I cannot leave this fortress now, as it is under siege. str_after_all_we_are_under_siege|After all, we are under siege. str_we_are_not_strong_enough_to_face_the_enemy_out_in_the_open|We are not strong enough to face the enemy out in the open. str_i_should_probably_seek_shelter_behind_some_stout_walls|I should probably seek shelter behind some stout walls. str_enemies_are_reported_to_be_nearby_and_we_should_stand_ready_to_either_man_the_walls_or_sortie_out_to_do_battle|Enemies are reported to be nearby, and we should stand ready to either man the walls or sortie out to do battle. str_the_enemy_is_nearby|The enemy is nearby. str_as_the_marshall_i_am_assembling_the_army_of_the_realm|As the marshal, I am assembling the army of the realm. str_as_the_marshall_i_am_assembling_the_army_of_the_realm_and_travel_to_lands_near_s10_to_inform_more_vassals|As the marshal, I am assembling the army of the realm. We are travelling to the region of {s10} to inform more vassals. str_i_intend_to_assemble_the_army_of_the_realm|I intend to assemble the army of the realm. str_as_the_marshall_i_am_leading_the_siege|As the marshal, I am leading the siege. str_i_intend_to_begin_the_siege|I intend to begin the siege. str_as_the_marshall_i_am_leading_our_raid|As the marshal, I am leading our raid. str_i_intend_to_start_our_raid|I intend to start our raid. str_as_the_marshall_i_am_leading_our_forces_in_search_of_the_enemy|As the marshal, I am leading our forces in search of the enemy. str_i_intend_to_lead_our_forces_out_to_find_the_enemy|I intend to lead our forces out to find the enemy. str_as_the_marshall_i_am_leading_our_forces_to_engage_the_enemy_in_battle|As the marshal, I am leading our forces to engage the enemy in battle. str_i_intend_to_lead_our_forces_out_to_engage_the_enemy|I intend to lead our forces out to engage the enemy. str_i_dont_have_enough_troops_and_i_need_to_get_some_more|I don't have enough troops, and I need to get some more. str_i_am_running_low_on_troops|I am running low on troops. str_we_are_following_your_direction|We are following your direction. str_i_need_to_make_preparations_for_your_wedding|I need to make preparations for your wedding. str_after_all_i_need_to_make_preparations_for_your_wedding|After all, I need to make preparations for your wedding. str_i_am_heading_to_the_site_of_our_wedding|I am heading to the site of our wedding.
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syamu_game 名称 syamu_game(しゃむげーむ) ジャンル 実写 代表タグ syamu_game ニコニコでの消されやすさ 低 素材 シャムとは大物Youtubeｒである。syamu_gameは彼のチャンネル。例のアレの一つ。ゲーム実況や商品レビューなどをしていた。現在は引退している。YouTuberなのだが「ホモと見るシリーズ」などとしてニコニコ動画に転載され有名になり、MADなどに使われるようになった。淫夢コンテンツとして扱われることも多いが「クッキー☆」とは違い混ぜないことも多い。以前は削除多かったらしい、現在はほぼ削除されない模様。 もっと詳しく知りたい方はこちら→https //dic.nicovideo.jp/a/syamu%20game
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【Tags Gumi Takanon tB tT K】 Original Music title カケヒキゲーム English music title Bargaining Game Romaji music title Kakehiki Geemu Music Lyrics written, Voice edition by タカノン (Takanon) Music arranged by タカノン (Takanon) Singer(s) Gumi (Megpoid) Click here for the original Japanese Lyrics English Lyrics (translated by m-i-s-a-k-i / misaki)： This doesn't feel like we met for the first time I felt it was fate, memories came back The story continued A meeting from when it was "an end without being said" Do you remember? Have you forgotten? Feeling your gaze I turned around Before that you looked away quickly Did you notice you were there? Thinking about it, from that day on I was surely getting stronger though I didn't tell you how I really felt Right, but, but Rather than telling I wanted to be told Hey, did you really notice? And were you pretending you didn't notice? Were you that stubborn? If so the capture is bothersome Right, but, but That's not it Bargaining? Hey, did you really notice? Even though I pretended I didn't notice I'm not a perfect beauty I'm rather a person that's "beautiful only on one side" Fairly single-minded But I won't become obedient Bargaining Somehow not enough memories are piling up And they just won't turn into the opposite It's time to worry The pain won't pass, I don't want to turn around Like, if I had told you that time Yes, then now it would be all different It's not "If it were enough" Rather than telling I want to be told But... Hey, did you really notice? Hey, you did notice, right? Hey, I really want you to say "I like you" but I don't want an end like that day seems "One day" I thought or There was no chance These are just excuses "So is that really bargaining?" Hey, I'm really afraid to say "I like you" but The wishes I held that day are now like this If I say I like you, will you Tell me you like me, too? Will it go as planned? "I don't know" Don't be so proud Let's just end this game without any sense and reset So the answer would be easy So we can avoid more failures So, let's try a new start Romaji lyrics (transliterated by m-i-s-a-k-i / misaki)： Hajimete atta ki ga shinai n da Unmei kanjita Kioku sakanobotta Monogatari ha tsuzuiteita n da "Iezu ni oshimai" kara no saikai Oboeteru kana? Wasureteru kana? Shisen kanjite ushiro furikaetta Sono saki ni ha asette me sorasu ANATA ga ita Kizuita no kana? Omoeba ano hi kara kitto Tsuyogatte hontou no kimochi wo zutto tsutaerarezu iru kedo Yappari, demo, demo Tsutaeru yori mo tsutaeraretakute Nee, HONTO ha kizuiteru n desho? Nanoni ANATA ha kizukanu FURI na no? Yoppodo ANATA ha donkan? Dattara kouryaku ha konnan Yappari, demo, demo Sonna wake nai KAKEHIKI? Nee, HONTO ha kizuiteru n da yo? Dakedo WATASHI mo kizukanu FURI na no Happou bijin ni shitenai yo "Ippou bijin" no tsumori da yo Kekkou ichizu Demo sunao ni narenai KAKEHIKI Nanika tarinai omoide tachi ga fueru bakari de Mushiro gyakkouka de hatten shinai Sorosoro shinpai Tsurai surechigai, kurikaeshitakunai Tatoeba ano toki ni demo tsutaeteireba Sou, moshikashitara mou chigau ima atta kamo "Tarareba" DAME da yo Tsutaeru yori mo tsutaeraretai no Demo... Nee, HONTO ha kizuiteru n desho? Nee, HONTO ha kizuiteru n da yo? Nee, HONTO ha "suki" tte itte hoshii kedo Ano hi mitai na owari ha IYA na no "Itsuka" tte omotteita to ka Kikkake nakatta kara to ka Iiwake narabete bakari "Sore tte HONTO ni KAKEHIKI?" Nee, HONTO ha "suki" tte iu no kowai kedo Ano hi daita omoi wo ima koso Suki da tte ittara ANATA Suki da tte ittekureru kana? Sujigaki doori ni nante ikanai? "Wakannai" Iji hattenaide Imi nante nai Game nante YAME ni shite Reset Dattara kotae ha kantan Shippai kurikaesanai you ni Saa, atarashii Start wo
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長さ（Duration）：8 18動画公開日（Published）：10/05/09 14 37 15動画更新日（Updated）：12/05/27 09 48 00動画カテゴリ（Category）：ゲーム（Games）収録日：2010年5月3日 リクエストに応えて、ホラーゲームをプレイ！ ※「枠」はアマレココの撮影領域を表す枠ですので、動画内には表示されていません。 マウスがワープして表示されるのは編集を加えたためです。 ゲームはこちらから。 本家 http //www.sinthaistudio.com/thehouse/ 翻訳版（今回プレイした方） http //www.gamedesign.jp/flash/thehouse/thehouse.htmlSINTHAI s TheHOUSE, ザ・ハウス, ざはうす, フラッシュゲーム, Flash Game, ホラーゲーム, Horror Game, 実況, ゲーム, .com.com, tkcomcom1ishttp //i.ytimg.com/vi/bu2TwWWkYpA/0.jpghttp //i.ytimg.com/vi/bu2TwWWkYpA/1.jpghttp //i.ytimg.com/vi/bu2TwWWkYpA/2.jpghttp //i.ytimg.com/vi/bu2TwWWkYpA/3.jpg Name Comment 流石です！Σ（・□・）しかし、たまに驚くコムコムさん可愛いですw -- kaitoP110ban (11-10-23 19 24 23) あなたすごいよｗｗ俺と坊主頭があんなに叫んだこのフラッシュをこうも冷静にやってしまうとはｗｗ後編楽しみ～ 引き続き後編も見ま～す＾＾ -- syoutyan222 (10-05-09 15 07 30)