The Death of the Chieftain (Special SIMCON 2013 Live Event) Week 1 Special Event

#1

–The following is known by players but not by their characters–

The room had arched ceilings with a single hole cut as a skylight. This had once been a cathedral on the outskirts of the capital of Dunesphere. Now it was one of the infamous Site of Trials.
When an Inquisitor, Paladin or Red Bishop failed their mission, they may be ordered to a Site of Trials to be tested by the High Inquisitors.
They may or may not be the men in heavy red robes who stood on highbacked chairs behind individual podiums with different angel-names. Those may just be lesser Inquisitors, Seidermann thought, just acting as mouthpieces for the real leaders.
One of them began to speak but because of their wide brimmed hats and white scarves over their faces, Seidermann could not tell which one.
“Inquisitor Lord Seidermann, you come from a recognized family and your work in service of the Church of One is undisputed. Yet Bartsport is a ghost town, How do you explain this when you and Red Bishop Larety survived?”

“Simple, High Inquisitor, my beloved home of Bartsport, home of the perfect Earthers that I have spent over one thousand years breeding, cloning and breeding to create, is no more because of a Terrorist Attack. As you know the Goblin Genocide ended when the Flamewinds struck our beloved cities of Unen, Brez, and Karov. Since then we have placed Saints relics designed by the Inquisition to protect against the Flamewinds at the borders of Bartsport. When our Leyas detecters went off and a storm was on both horizons, we expected a lightning storm. With the lighting rods and Saints Relics, the the port would be safe, and my neighbors would be alive. Then suddenly the Leyas alarm shut off, and we breathed a sigh of relief. But the storm was unlike any the desert or sea has thrown at us.
It was so cold that everyone was flash frozen, and most turned to slush when the hot midday sun cooked them the next day.
But I digress, the storm was a weapon, I know this because I saw it with my two eyes, and one has a camera installed in it. I have recorded images taken from my Private AAV of Goblins looting the ships we had moored at port. The engines were stolen by Goblin Pirates, they even stole the lightbulbs.
And while they did there were grey cloaked Goblins leaping from shadows like the monsters they are, collecting some of the bodies of our dead in the frozen form.
Larety and I took to the air in my private AAV and prepared to do a bombing run on their pirate vessel and their ground forces. I went for the cockpit, while Larety went to arm the nerve gas bombs.
I lined up our run perfectly as I was taught in my days in the EEF before my service in this most esteemed institution.
Then there was one of their pagan priests the lightning came down from the storm and struck me and the guidance console. We splashed down out in the ocean, and we did recover the AAV and the nerve gas bombs. We returned here to tell the tale.”

Inquisitor Seidermann was a small wirey old man with a long white beard fringed in silver and covered neck down in thick black and red robes. He moved the robes open to reveal a cybernetically enhanced torso and retrieved a memory unit from his chest. Two of the possible High Inquisitors shuddered as they saw that. Seidermann had sampled the same nano-cybernetics used by the Cyborgs of the Wastes at a battlesite in Chooru, and replicated much of the technology in his own body.
The memory unit was placed in a projector that did back up his description of the events.
One of the Inquisitors said, “With all due respect Seidermann, you designed your cybernetic eye. How do we know it cannot tell lies?”

“Respected superior, I’m offended you would imply such a thing. The technology involved in this Memory Unit your Red Bishops will confirm cannot be altered. I have withheld nothing that I personally witnessed,” said Seidermann arrogantly, rising up as his legs elongated and the armor plating under his robes began to flex into position.
“Calm Seirdermann, we do not disrespect your honor. You know that all must come before us in your circumstances,” said another, “But we needed to know for sure. The AAV’s weapon cameras confirm your story, as does Red Bishop Larety. You are free to return to Bartsport, seek the aid of Lord Grimaldus to rebuild your workshop there. We have read your reports on the progress with Operation: Goblin High King.”
Another High Inquisitor interrupted, “To create human minds in Olgog bodies is a crime against God’s plan.”

#2

Seidermann politely replied, “We are not creating human minds, nor are they technically Olgog bodies. We used some splicing yes, but overtly they do not have Olgog brains. Their minds are copied from Earthers intrinsically loyal to us.”

The previous Inquisitor agreed saying, “Operation: Goblin High King was a success, our faux-Kalokgog brought out the Goblin Boss called Tladol, and used him to lure out of hiding tribes from across the Goblin Lands.The Relic Cross of the Unseen hid all of our soldiers, and the listening devices were a complete success, until one of the Goblins splashed it with blood mixed with powdered zela metal.”

Seidermann replied, “Unluckily we have witnessed their obviously demonic powers as a handful of them destroyed a HoverTank, three Gunpod aircraft, and my bravest Dark Bishop Handel Von Tranton.”

“Handel is dead? I will say a prayer for him. You were one of the few allowed a dispensation to keep one of the original Dark Bishops,” whispered another High Inquisitor, “He served loyally since the Goblin Genocide did he not?”

“Yes,” said Seidermann with a hint of grief, “He was a good, good friend.”

“Do not fret Seidermann,” replied the same High Inquisitor, “The Pope has heard your story and has
approved a deployment of the Dark Bishop Striders to the Penninsula of Man. Many Dark Bishops begged for the honor, all heard of Handel’s heroic defense of Bartsport during the last days of the Goblin Genocide.”

“Thank you honored masters,” said Seidermann, “I will with your authority request help from Lord Grimaldus to prepare a new lab. Operation: Goblin High king will succeed. We will force them into losing all trust in the EEF, and force the EEF into exterminating their leadership.”

“Truly a wise plan Seidermann,” said the first Inquisitor had originally spoken, “Set up a high king, have him gather tribes to him. Have him publicly threaten the other Earther Colonies, and prove us right, that these Olgogs are nothing more than monsters, savages and demons.”

“Olgogs?” asked Seidermann with a laugh, “Don’t you mean Goblin, High Inquisitor?”

“There are no lay people here, Seidermann,” replied that High Inquisitor, “The natives serve their purpose in our battles but we must all admit we just need them out of the way.

We want the EEF and the Natives distracted while we raid the treasure trove found by Mortis Leonin in the Cursed Ruins.”

“Has Leonin been found you emminence?” asked Seidermann.

“Not yet…but we will soon.”

#3

–The following is known by all characters in game except where specifically noted. This takes place over the course of three in-game weeks and officially demarcates the end of the Pre-game and the official beginning of open gaming for all who wish to join.–

The news quickly spread by runners to all tribes across the Goblin Lands. From Tla’loc’al, it came and moved through whispers and was even spread by Gor’abs as they went about their hunts.

The Olgog Cheiftain Tladol had subjugated tribes from Karov and Brez and formed them into a tribal army. With his territories now abutting the Tribal Lands of Gul’al of Brez, on one side, Tladol sought out allies from Karov, Unen, Tla’loc’al and even the feral lands.

Each tribe was given a ceremonial tent equal distance and size in a circle around the pavilion tent of the peaceful meeting. The entire meeting, however had really been arranged by a circle of four Olgog Kalokgog who had played off Tladol’s pride for months. Finally convincing him that only by eliminating the threat of the Earthers could the Olgog peoples finally find true peace.
These Kalokgog also convinced Tladol to contact the tribes of the Ur-King to request soldiers and weapons.

A subset of the Tribe of the Ur-Kings under Eloga became advisors to Tladol. On the promise of future military support and protection from their Krato friends from the Quall N’drone Hordes, Cheiftain Tladol, who truly had hundreds of tribals under his rule, was emboldened by these alliances and was now ready to form a very special unified force…under his command.

From the Port of Unen came Pirates and Goblin Gunners interested in the loot this new High Cheiftain spoke of in his impassioned speeches recounted by his messengers.

The Uhryus of Karov came but they came to talk mighty Tladol into turning away from attacking the Earther Colonies, rightly fearing it would bring down the full force of an orbital attack on all their settlements.

The Aufgogs and Tor’ogs of Tla’loc’al arrived at the meeting hoping to convince Chieftain Tladol to instead have his forces join the new Olgog Nation they hoped to form.

The Brezans ignored the meeting more intent on their own battles on the penninsula than Tladol’s untimely power-grab.

From the Cursed Ruins in the southern Feral Lands came two different Tribal Representatives of Dead Olgog Tribes with wildly different motivations.

And Eloga was excited to see so many prepared for the great revolution the Krato used to tell him about when he was a but a cub growing up on dimension of Do’krice in the Land of the Krato.
Truly Eloga had thought the Olgog tribes working together was a dream, little more than a fairy tale his adopted father, a Krato named Kotin, used to tell him. After all the Krato would tell the stories wearing thick krato-skin mitts while he rocked the child to sleep, along with stories of the immense battles where the Krato were enslaved by the K’ias on behalf of the evil Sylvan (evil from the Krato point of view).
He would never speak of the K’ias Wars, and Eloga knew something truly terrible had happened and his adoptive father had witnessed it.
Eloga met Bo’gan at the Olgog caves the Krato provided them, in a protected zone. No Annihilators roamed free here, striking and killing peaceful Olgogs like in the wild lands where the bestial-plagued Sylvan now lived. Instead any Annihilator was quickly caught and trained, which Eloga saw as a good thing. They were intelligent beings sure, but their power made them dangerous and they had to be well controlled. For the good of the society. For the good of the society.
Eloga and Bo’gan had spent youthful days hunting the wild W’roc birds. The W’roc birds were monstrously large and picked up Olgog children and ate them. And as the pair grew up, Eloga and Bo’gan formed the Tribe of the Hobites, a subsect of the Tribes of the Ur-King.
The Hobites were brave and returned to Tla’loc’al only a decade before. Long enough to learn the lay of the Goblin lands, learn the threats, and make a healthy living bartering weapons made of Krato Bone to the Aufgogs, Tor’ogs, and Ur Tor tribals. Then the mighty Chieftain Tladol made the Hobites an offer they could not refuse.
The dream of final freedom of all the Earther Colonial lands from Earther dominion by Olgog axe and spear. And how would Tladol pay them, in food for their Krato allies. It was well know by the tribe of the Ur-King that the Krato suffered from a shortage of food. They consumed the Earthers and the Children of the Falosini, much as the Olgogs eat the Mal’ie and Mak Hoblok, at least as Eloga saw it. But the Ur-Kings were not the only Krato, there were the Old Generals of Warmonger. And the Ur-Kings and the Old Generals fought for food and resources. These two Krato groups fought bloodily and often, which is why the Tribe of the Ur-King received quite so much Krato bone to trade with their allies.
It was said after General Tharr died in the Northern Kingdoms, the Old Generals broke up into little more than Bandit Clans. But Bandits that were 40 feet tall and able to lift up a full grown Earther in plate mail and eat them.
Eloga was pleased that soon the Ur-Kings would gain more food, and could fight better as a result against the Old Generals. He quickly contacted his adopted father Kotin who quickly brokered a treaty to allow the Krato the ability to conquer the areas of the Goblin Lands and the Earther Colonies. It was the first step in the Ur-King’s tribe granting freedom to the rest as they saw it.
But instead of the other tribes responding with joy about this new promise of safety and support, manny of them accused Tladol and Eloga of selling out the Olgogs to slavers.
Tladol who cared less about slavery than Eloga, simply barked his anger at how the Earthers had enslaved the Olgogs and maybe deserved a little enslaving of their own.
Glog of the Or’Lur tribe voiced his anger over the idea of enslaving any Earther children.
Eloga suggested that the Tribe of Or’Lur instead be given the Earther children to raise in the Tla’loc’al way.
“The Auf” of the Ol’Lur tribe and Uhryu Bill of the Gultor’Uf tribe both spoke with passion to try and convince Tladol to instead join them in a greater pursuit. They appealed to Tladol from multiple perspectives.
And they almost succeeded, to the concern of the four Kalokgog Advisers of Tladol who slipped out quietly during a Church of One raid that only they expected. These faux-Advisers fled but not before imparting to the hidden sniper teams the location of the “dangerous Olgog Terrorist Tladol” who was planning a full scale invasion of the Colonies.
As the assembled Tribal leaders fought off the Church of One assault, Torkol’ab used a reverse metal mine hidden on church of One paladin’s body to destroy the hovertank supporting the Church of One attack. Krodnok, used his magi cannon to melt down the Dark Bishop Strider onboard before it could deploy and begin targeting them.
Yet after each wave of Church of One attackers the different tribes set aside their differences gathering their loot together and distributing it so it could be used for the best for all. They ignored petty greed, and petty wants and instead worked together and were victorious time and time again.

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Then a single act of betrayal by the EEF caused the victory to turn sour. The EEF was tricked into sending in assassination teams hidden among Church of One soldiers, and assassinated Tladol but missed the other “dangerous targets” marked for death before the faux-Advisers left.
The bullet they used was an armor piercing shell, with a zela metal alloy lining and powdered zela metal. As the bullet struck, it erupted, putting zela powder directly into the veins headed towards the Chieftains’ heart which quickly spread it around the body.
The death of the Chieftain, left a power vacuum which Eloga quickly tried to fill. However an offense given by the Pirates of Unen resulted in Eloga attempting Tladol’s own method of enforcing order. He struck out at the Pirate Leader with acid. Wounding the Pirate Leader was enough to set off Uhryu Bill who pummelled Eloga into unconsciousness, but not before Eloga drove his poleaxe through the Uhryu’s chest killing him.
With both Bill and Eloga dead on the ground, Torkol’ab tired and disgusted by Eloga’s constant Krato propaganda killed him while he was unconscious. The execution of Eloga, turned the remaining Hobites tribe against the tribal leadership present, and Bo’gan became Chieftain of the Hobites. He went to summon Kotin who would surely want to know of the death of his adoptive son, Eloga.
With Kotin at his side, Bo’gan who confronted the other tribal leaders about the killing and its obvious implications.
The assembled trible leaders spoke with intelligence and with a desire for a peaceful succession instead of a bloody one initiated by the Hobites. They talked of a challenge to see who could take the most Church of One Heads to prove they could protect the Olgogs of Tladol’s old tribe.
This plan was overturned instead for one that involved a dangerous raid on the thriving town of Bartsport. They would sneak into Bartsport in hopes of stealing Cloning Technology allegedly used by an infamous Inquisitor Seidermann to keep himself alive for centuries. They would use the cloning vats to create a clone of Tladol and restore him to rule. With Kotin’s promise he would hold back the Hobite tribals until they returned, they set out.
A daring plan but one that required some sort of distraction. Underestimating the power of so many tribes focusing as one, they brought down two separate frost storms. One came in from the sea, and another from the land, slamming the coastal town with cold enough temperatures to snap-freeze the bodies of the people in their homes and under their blankets. The Old, the young, the women, the men, all were killed and as the Church of One does not believe in “resurrection” of those so fundamentally affected by the Leyas, it ended in final death for so many.
The Olgogs did not plan this, but once a storm was create it built and built and built and its ferocity was terrifying. It took all the power of the assembled tribal elders to then hold the storm over Bartsport and dissipate it before it killed all the nearby wildlife.
The Manor house which receeded below ground and below an armored blast shield during the storm. It was the only thing that saved Inquisitor Seidermann and the Red Bishop Larety. This was little impediment to the Goblin Gunners of Unen who used their Brezan stalkers to burrow down before the frozen ground and go at the manor from its side. They succeeded in breaching the manor, and delivered themselves, the Aufgogs of Tla’loc’al and the Dead Olgog Captain Torkol’ab into the cloning lab.
But as the city lay bare the great teamwork of the previous days fell apart. The tribal leaders stopped communicating and each focused on their own wants. The Pirates of the Batavian Bat raided the two ships docked there, stealing the engines from one and it’s entire supply of lightbulbs.
The Goblin Gunners began looting Seidermann’s private hangar bay for tools and replacement parts.

Order broke down, and it became common looting. All the respect had evaporated.

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The Pirates left out to sea with some allies, and they began to party. Dancing to music while the stolen lights flickered around the ship and a large shining ball reflected their light, was a mesmerizing event. .
During that time the Aufgogs of Tla’loc’al discovered that the faux-Kalokgogs were cloned spies of the Church of One. A leftover project from the days of the Old VLAD Agency. The cloning project was restarted by Seidermann and the High Inquisitors as part of a larger plan to turn the Colonies against the Olgogs once and for all.
In the home of Seidermann, “The Auf” recovered the ears from every Olgog head in Seidermann’s trophy case. And one to his joy was from the Mag Auf Yyanyi the Uniter who had been killed during the Goblin Genocide.
Meanwhile Torkol’ab stole the Cloning technology and left with it, frustrated at the lack of respect given by fellow tribal leaders. On the back of his eight legged undead steed he rode for the camp in the desert. Not stopping day or night, using shadows to walk him and his steed faster and faster across the dunes.

When he reached the camp of Tladol it was quiet. The tribals were on their nomadic path to return within days, but at least fourteen Ur-King tribals of the Hobites had been here when he had set forth. Now not a single one could be found anywhere. Until he passed by the tent and was waved in by Krodnok, another Dead Olgog of an unknown Unit.
And piled high, killed and claimed by Krodnok were all the Hobites leadership, except Bo’gan who had left with the Krato Diplomat Kotin.
Torkol’ab left the camp and its dead behind him, taking the Cloning gear to his own Unit’s home.

The rest of the tribal leaders arrived a few days later, and they two were greeted by Krodnok who showed them the dead Ur-king tribals. He claimed he had eliminated the threat they posed, but during their discussion, Bo’gan returned with an army of Krato.

Declaring Krodnok and all his followers his enemy for life (Urgor), Bo’gan swore on his honor he would punish the Dead Olgog for his transgressions and murder.
He also demanded to know where the Cheiftain Tladol who had been promised was. Without the cloning technology taken by Torkol’ab, the remaining cheiftains and their strife prevented them from achieving success.

Then “The Auf” had a brilliant plan, and along with his allies, he returned to Tla’loc’al by air.
There the council convened, and Mag Auf Yyanyi the Uniter was resurrected.
Yyanyi thanked those who rescued him and his original claim to those tribal lands gave him more rights to the tribals there than the Krato.
Yyanyi was also an overt pacifist known for wanting to create a new Olgog nation, putting him firmly on the side of the Aufgogs present, and “The Auf” of Ol’Lur personally.

Bo’gan withdrew without violence, as did the Krato.

On the border of Brez, the wise Mag Auf Yyanyi is trying to reform the raiders of Tladol. But how will their neighbors in the Tribe of Gul’al take this cultural form of “weakness”.

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–Rewards–

The Tribes of Karov present gain the Knowledge of the Power of the United Olgog Will. They can now judge how many tribes should take part in a ritual to prevent overflow of power. This special bonus only affects rituals involving more than one tribe working together.

The Pirates of Unen present gain an Inboard/outboard engine. Medium tech (emotional control tests to use, or must find an Immutable to pilot it for no tests). When using this engine, The Batavian Bat’s Move raises to 12 when on the water (but not in the shallows). They also gain, We have a Party Deck, which reduces 2 points of Pain damage from every attack they take as long as they keep the party going between missions. Has an E.P. 10 (Engine Points are H.P. Vs Chill for a vehicle, move drops to 0 if hit with Chill or EMP in excess of E.P.)

The Goblin Gunners of Unen present gains Lots of Replacement parts. No standard replacement parts are necessary for first three months of the Online game.

The Tla’loc’al Members present gain The support of Mag Auf Yyanyi, which allows them free passage through the lands controlled by his tribe, even in cases where other Karovian and Brezan tribes have declared war on the Tla’loc’al members. They also now know that if they can gather enough tribes together they can wipe out cities as easily as the Earthers do with technology. It is dangerous knowledge.
“The Auf” of Ol’Lur gains the additional benefit of Yyanyi owes me a Life Debt.

Unit 817 gains Three cloning vats. Each week during which Unit 817 takes part in a mission, he will gain as an additional reward 3 Dead Olgogs (which use normal Dead Olgog stats but do not have any of the weapons or armor of a kit Dead Olgog). This bonus is once per week of missions, no matter how many missions Unit 817 is a part of it is maxed at 3 Dead Olgogs.

Krodnok gains fourteen bodies to turn into 14 Dead Olgogs (however these dead Olgogs do not have the standard Dead Olgog weapons and instead are armed and armored in the manner of Tribe of the Ur-king. This includes Krato-bone weapons listed and acid grenades). Krodnok’s deeper motivations still are a mystery to the other tribal elders.

All players characters gain any gear given out in-game by the Narrator, for online game use as well.

Three New Special Threads will open this week. (These are not combat threads, and weapons and attacks are not allowed in them. These are Social threads for in-character roleplaying based on the location and who is present).

In Unen
On the Party Deck of the Batavian Bat

In Brez
The Tent of Peace of Mag Auf Yyanyi

In Unen
An Auf walks into a Bar

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