Beyond the Pit [Pitboss Diplomacy Game] [Story Thread] Part 2 (September)

[Pitboss Portugal]

New King

A Ship a ship on the horizon. The flag carry the royal colors.

2Hrs later..

Soldier

My prince you are back

Marco

Not your prince you midget I am the King now. Where the damn are those clergies, bring them at once. No wait chain them and bring them to me. They have gambled the fate of my kingdom long enough.

Waiitttt, not in chains – I want their heads on a rusty plate.

Also bring the Bi..t…ch my mother. I personally will chop her head for doing nothing to save my kingdom from the Romans.

Soldier

What about the Romans my King?

Marco

This is my business, I’ve already dispatched my men to hand them my agreement to their peace terms. I have returned to clean this mess, and there will be peace now that I am here.

Now leave me alone so I can sharpen my sword, where is the Bi..t..ch.

[Pitboss Portugal]

Soldier

My lord what should I tell your armies, there are currently 100,000 men gathered at Vrata. They were ready to counter attack the Romans.

Marco

Hmmm 100,000 men were where they when the people of Outpost needed them. Tell them to go home and take care of their families.

Leave 20,000 at Vrata and another 20,000 at our western borders. I want to secure my borders, this will be the last time a foreign nation troubles us. My father was weak. Glad the Romans did what they did. I had much worse planned for him.

Soldier

I will do as you obey my Lord.

Marco

Good because you are next on the plate!

[Pitboss Portugal]

General

Sir we should not disband the army, the Romans may turn on us as they did so many times. We can’t trust the Romans

Marco

Shhhhh you G

With a single blow with his sword, Marco cut the general in two pieces.

Marco

I trust only one country, for the others only time will tell.

Ah so much better, all this talk is giving me such a headache, hey you pointing with his bloody sword.

Bring me some wine!!!

[Pitboss Vikings]

Oldonian Palace

The Prince thumped the desk in sheer disgust.

He threw the letter down and stared at his Advisors.

"how the hell do these rumours start? Can any of you explain this to me?"

The letter had arrived express donkey. The meesenger ahd rode al lday and night for a week. and collapsed starving and tired. The personal seal of the new Portugese King. Ragnor had opened the letter imemdiatly saddend by news last month of the death of the old King. Hoping to hear of good tidings in the world.
But the note was fileld with venom. accusations.

The Portugese claimed Oldonia had somehow orchestrated the Pierecian involvement in the roman portugese war.

"How could they think this? They must have been lied to by someone. It says here the info is from the Pierced ones."

The advisors all looked at each other.

"The Pierces ones are stirring trouble. Why ?"

"send a note to Portugul king. Express post it. And make sure the guard on the easter nborder is alerted."

"should we stop the Wynadot highway construction?"

"No , they are showing us good frienship. Whilst the Piercia attitude needs consideration, we will hold off till it is confirmed one way or the other"

[Pitboss Portugal]

Rome has again SAID no to his own peace terms!!!!

Portugal has been lied again

He publicly stated that he has offered terms and now that i have said yes he has said NOOOOOOOOOO AGAIN


Rome own words:

"sorry I am amending my terms"

[Pitboss Portugal]

How much more evidence does the world needs to see that Rome seeks only our destruction!!!!!!

[Pitboss Vikings]

(OOC) perhaps copies of the PMs.....

[Pitboss Portugal]

Negotiations

Everything started with this horrific thread:

ROME:

Before you refuse consider this, we have another option besides limited war and negotiation:

c) We invade Portugal razing "Lizbon" taking Outpost, Vrata and the small western city and making a vassal of the rest of Portugal forcing it into a tribute arrangement.


ROME:

Please draw up your proposal (which we talked about in chat) up quickly, we will not waste any time in pursuing our strategic advantage.

PORTUGAL:
Pick one please: (that is what Rome and I spoke of in our chat)

1st You get the Nile, 4 workers and Philosophy. I in return I get Outpost

2nd You get the Nile, 4 workers and a future tech like: Machinery or Civil Service. I in return I get Outpost

I hope you can show me some goodwill and finalize the whole think by picking one of the above options. Let my people have the chance to call your king the merciful one. Remember my noble deeds in the last years as a trading partner, lets put an end to this so we can resume trade and close relations. Be noble and accept so my women and children can stop crying.

Tir

ROME:

The King found your offer reasonable, the Piercains vetoed the peace proposal. I took the moment to dethrone the old traitor.

I demand the surrender of Outpost or
6 workers and a future tech. This is the only price large enough for me to defy my Piercian masters who have helped me seize power and payed me to wage this war.


PORTUGAL:

Rome I expect your response soon enough so we can put an end to this issue.

But mark my word I will hold you to your promise:

Time will show how noble you really are Rome.

Lets wrap the deal. If it is 6 workers so be it. But you very well know that I will need time for this HUGE payment. So again I ask that before you raze the desert city please let me try to slave some from there ok?

Final deal Future Tech, Nile and 6 workers RIGHT?

If so it is a DEAL.

ROME:

I've run it through, and talked about this with Piercia, and it seems that I was too generous about the terms and should have talked to them before offering you the deal.

Maybe they are concerned by your economic growth and would like to hurt you in a war? What if I slashed the workers I demand in half (to 3) and you instead provide me and Piercia with free wine and pay me tribute in gpt (please tell me how much you can afford)

I won't pillage or attack until my army reaches your city that means we still have 2 (or is it 1 by now?) days to reach a deal.

PORTUGAL: (The .Italic are my comments in this letter)

Maybe they are concerned by your economic growth and would like to hurt you in a war?

Well it is clear they have their own agenda, I do not blame leaders will do whatever they can to advance themselves.

What if I slashed the workers I demand in half (to 3) and you instead provide me and Piercia with free wine and pay me tribute in gpt (please tell me how much you can afford)

Free wine, I still have no access to it, if we agree on this you have to wait for me to get it (20 turns) roughly. Being already over expanded I am running my sci at 40%. So gnp I can pay little. 3-4 gold I can afford a turn no more. And for how long will you want this tribute. Example 25,50 turns? .

I won't pillage or attack until my army reaches your city that means we still have 2 (or is it 1 by now?) days to reach a deal.

Just to be clear what is the final demand here? .

I keep Outpost you get: Future Tech, 3 workers, desert and wine and possible some gold per turn? .

As I said before I need to keep for some turns that Desert city to slave you the workers, you can raze it after that. I see Percia wants to attack it, but that should happen only after I get the workers. I will not put my main cities on a hold to build you workers. The desert one will be ready in 10 turns with 3 workers I predict.

Please when you reply, underline the whole final deal.

Rome never answered he took Outpost after my answer

ROME:

ROME PEACE OFFER::::
I'm going to keep this simple:
You don't trust me. Fine. I don't trust you either. But a balance of power and a narrow land bridge as a border is the best guarantee of peace one can make.

I will provide you with free Gold.
2 settlers

If you agree to this deal, I will order the Piercian armies to hold their sword and not raze your desert city (if it isn't too late) untill you can slave workers out of it, that way loosing it won't be such a big blow.


My deal won't get any better.

The alternative is

I provide free gold (the resource)
I give you 3 of my praetorian
I get rid of an additional 3
I don't build new ones for 20 turns


You can't deny that this deal is fair. Future deals will be less generous as I invest more and more into this war and will need to recover that.


PORTUGAL:

I Marco King of Portugal:

Accept the following terms.

I will provide you with free Gold.
2 settlers

If you agree to this deal, I will order the Piercian armies to hold their sword and not raze your desert city (if it isn't too late) untill you can slave workers out of it, that way loosing it won't be such a big blow.

How soon can you give me the settlers? The sooner the better 5-10 turns. Stop the Percians please, i want to slave something from there!

And there will be Peace!!!

ROME:

I just noticed you have aesthetics. By providing you with gold for free I'm practically handing you a very important wonder....

also the Greek threat is no more....
sorry I am amending my terms.

Rome pays no reparations, but agrees to after the war preform trade along these lines:

wine for gold
settler for 2 workers


OOC SO here you go Vikings

[Pitboss Vikings]

(ooc Thanks Portugul , you have open the eyes of the world to the type of character we are dealing with.)

[Pitboss Khmer]

it great sad, a big mausoleam is build and my father he bury. shiva has die. and all khmer sad and rejoice of god.

the great city of Nagara Jayasri has center of rejoice and poetry.

i ganesh do carry on as he.

[Pitboss Khmer]

all from great north friend are invite to great ceremony.

[Pitboss Khmer]

and western shore friend too.

[Pitboss Rome]

/edited out: angry rant. I was quite upset/

[Pitboss Rome]

/edited out: angry rant. I was quite upset/

[Robert]

You can post it all, as long as you do it IC