Day Eight: Tournaments!

So I joined a tournament in a town under siege by enemy forces (Don't ask me why they're holding tournaments while their town is under siege, but whatever). Anyhow, I was pwning, when, all of a sudden, BOTH teams (there were 3 teams in that section of the tournament) all decided to attack ME and my team just sat there and didn't help. The tournament judge declared that I was the wildcard and could continue to the next round even though I got beaten up, however, due to my earlier pwnage of a quarter of each other team. WIN. I got through the next few rounds pretty easily, and at some point killed the dude so brutally that I got a few seconds at the end of the round. I proceeded to knock out his horse. It looked at me funny! Silly horse. I ended up winning the tournament and, because I had been betting on myself illegally, won a crapload of money. Picture is of me in the tournament gear. Blue team win.

I found a really good deal on Oil in that town, on my way out (Suno,in Swadia), so I bought a whole bunch to sell in another town called Reyvadin, where I'd get almost double (per jar) what I'd paid for it. Turns out I didn't buy enough to break even after buying myself a new horse (which wasn't cheap), so back to Suno I went. What a waste of time. I DID, however see the merchant there, DUCK BROTHER'S BROTHER!!!!1! I've included a picture of him as well, RIGHT (-->) over there. Notice the family resemblance? So when I went back to Suno, the siege had lifted. I noticed the Swadian lords riding out to defend their town on the way to Reyvadin (the first time /sigh) and I went to buy some more Oil... which was now less than half the price it was when I bought it the first time! Awe.Some.Oil. I sold it for the same price at Reyvadin! The same 500 something price! Fantastical.

Afterwards I actually KILLED some sea raiders, and, while I didn't get my cool armour back, I did pick up some pretty good bodyarmour from 'em. Also, I like shooting my men in the back with arrows when the fight is over. Not to kill them, but to make them suffer a little. FEAR>ANGER>HATE>SUFFERING! *muppet*


I continued to pwn sea raiders for a while, my army has actually gotten good enough to do some damage now. Nordic foot soldiers are tough and strong so WIN! At some point I was attacked by HUNDREDS of sea raiders, so I ran to a castle to seek refuge. When I got there, however, I found a skeleton sitting at their dinner table. I'm not sure what to make of this - there's no explanation whatsoever, he's just there with a cup in his hand. I've never seen there before (Pic included) Weird. The people at Bulugha castle have some explaining to do. Especially the woman standing at the end of the table like nothing is wrong. WHAT A BITCH!

Afterwards, I stormed a majestic sea raider hideout along a rockbeach. I managed to kill them and raise my archery skill quite a bit (I picked up a longbow off a dead sea raider a while ago, and, even though I had to raise my Power Draw skill to even be able to EQUIP it, it looks so badass and actually deals some damage) I've also included a picture of Pincushion me and my horse after a battle. I was pretty close to death, yet managed to kill the enemy while being outnumbered 2:1. The picture doesn't really do it justice, but my shield, my horse, and my body had arrows and javelin sticking out of us left and right.

On my way to find a few more of my companions I enrolled in a tournament at Dhirim, a Swadian City. I won. I always seem to be on the blue team when I win, not sure why. It changes team colours in the middle of the thing too, so you're on a different team every bout. Weird that I always win being blue. WEIRD. On my way out of town I was attacked by a band of Khergit Horsemen. I had to get my troops to turtle for a while, until the horsemen wasted all their arrows. I lost a few troops, but I just didnt have the speed to chase down horsemen on an open plain. I found my men a little hill, though, so it wasn't too bad. We managed to kill them when they charged us (I had been riding around, picking off a few as well as I could with my bow and scimitar if they got close) Anyhow, one of them dropped BIG BLACK BOOTS for me, which were better than my boots and now I can listen to BBB as I play Warband! Win. Listen to the sound. Of my BIG.BLACK.BOOTS.

So I found Ymira at a bar in Praven, she's the purdy one I had lost after that battle a few days ago with the Sea raiders, but now she is mine again mwaha! Anyhow I'm going to break this session into two posts cause this is getting long and I'm sure you're all bored of reading it by now. PIECES.