Talk:Plergoth Press/Issue Eight

Some additional information that might be of interest: Jonathan (at least I /think/ that this was his name) went south towards Riombara right before the massive 120.000 CS invasion marching towards the south as well. We contacted him, offering him asylum, but he went mad and joined the daimons. After the South (Riombara, Alluran, Enweil, Luz and Irombro) destroyed a third of the daimon force in and near Grehk we were overrun. Then the daimons proceeded to the (now closed) undead gate, entered the lands of the undead and took 'The One' prisoner, thus enslaving all undead (at least that is the story the undead told us). This resulted in all the undead turning on the humans. First Riombara, then Enweil and Irombro were hit hard by them. The south (and here especially Alluran) did destroy the complete force of 50000 that had ravaged us while Enweil was kept under attack for several weeks.

After the gate in Mio was closed, a second undead invasion hit Riombara, Luz, Caras Galadhon. Interestingly, a commander named Jonathan is present with the undead, commanding an undead host. Thus I might remember the name of the human who commanded the Lost Souls wrongly, because I think that he joined the daimons...TanSerrai 14:07, 19 October 2007 (CEST)

• With more and more regions falling under the sway of the Netherworld, the Undead abruptly abandoned all their alliances and began attacking human settlements at the behest of their daimonic masters. The Monster Swarm had been telling the truth!

Actually the undead leader was captured when the lost souls assaulted the undead capitol through the Moi gate, while a monster daimon army attacked in the shadowslands. The leader is tortured daily into making orders of the other undead on behalf of the daimons, and undead must follow the commands of their superiors. Free the undead leader and the undead would help humanity again, in theory.--Dalakar 15:49, 19 October 2007 (CEST)

Hence why the closure of the Mio Dupaki gate sounds, overall, like a very bad idea. -Chénier 18:53, 19 October 2007 (CEST)

Bah! The undead only offered token help from day one! They constantly avoided the Daimons and rarely showed up for the battles they said they would show up for. They've been lying to us from the beginning, and now that they have shown their true stripe they spout stories of how they were coerced into doing it. More lies. Need I remind anyone of their advice to strip the militias from the cities? Well it turns out that a well-stocked Militia behind solid walls CAN defeat the Daimons. How many more lies are people willing to believe? Sidewinder 18:12, 19 October 2007 (GMT)

Since one of us has the wrong time zone down, I've edited my post to GMT, in case it may be me. Sidewinder

That's a rather interesting wiki behaviour... -Chénier 19:23, 19 October 2007 (CEST)

Actually it's me, not thinking, again. Jeez where did my basic math skills go... Sidewinder

And who's idea was it to close the Mio Dupkai gate? Any guesses?

Request from Bocephus

Message sent to the rulers of this world

(Human rulers only) Greetings Human rulers, I should have 2 more stones in my possession soon and have another adventurer on the way to see Handkor to give him another one. Handkor and I have talked on this a little bit and he seems to believe(correct me if I am wrong) that the best first course of action would be to shut down the gate in Mio Dupakhi first. ...remainder of the message omitted...

Bocephus (Pontifex of Sint)

So Handkor and Bocephus collaborated on the decision to close the Mio Dupaki gate. I can understand Handkor's motivations: The gate is close to Enweil, so closing it would take some pressure off of Enweil to allow them to more effectively deal with the daimons. Can anyone think of a reason why Sint would want the gate that might be used to free the undead from daimon domination, sealed forever? It sees to me that if Sint had, as Bocephus reported, the astounding total of 6 portal stones, it would have been a simple matter to gather an additional two stones and close the gate in their own backyard, thus preventing any additional daimon forces from joining their realm. (It should be noted that Sint has already reported that they have two more portal stones. And guess what? They are sending them south. Any idea which gate they'll want closed next? Maybe a monster gate, or the other undead gate?)

The idea of Sint closing the daimon gate in Jobo's Mouth assumes, of course, that Sint really doesn't want the daimons in their realm. But do they really want to get rid of them? So far, we have only the highly suspicious words of Pontifex Bocephus that Sint doesn't want the daimons. Yet the fact remains that not only has Sint made no effort to remove the daimons from their realm, even back when there was only a single daimon lord amongst them that could have easily been cast forth, but the number of daimons in Sint continues to increase. The daimon strength has grown alarmingly, and continues to grow, to the point where it is easily four times larger than any realm on the island, with the exception of Vlaanderen, which is itself ruled by a daimon. The stated purpose of the daimons is bring an even larger daimon lord through a massive new daimon gate. A daimon that will lay waste to nearly all of humanity on Beluaterra.

The fact remains that too many coincidences have taken place that all point toward Sint's complete and willing cooperation with the daimons. Sint had plenty of opportunity to remove the daimons from their ranks when they first appeared. had they taken action at that time they could have removed the daimons easily. But they didn't. Instead Pontifex Bocephus continually endorsed their presence in Sint. He has even lately begun boasting of their strength: "I have over 70,000 CS at my disposal...". Sint has even used their daimon allies to take control of three former Old Grehk regions (including the city of Gethsemene) and one region of Ashborn. (Despite the fact that Sint and Ashborn swore a non-aggression pact when the invasion started.) Pontifex Bocephus' excuse for this? The daimons do whatever they want, he can't stop them, they'll give Djembe back when they're done with it, etc.

Whatever ends up happening, one inevitable consequence of all of this is that Sint will almost assuredly be destroyed. Word has reached us that several of the supporters of Sint have begun to reconsider their relationship with Sint. One of Sint's allies has already told me that they will participate in an effort to destroy Sint once the daimons have been removed from the island. --Indirik 20:19, 19 October 2007 (CEST)

Damn I hate the wiki sometimes... How much of this can actually be considered IC knowledge...? -Chénier 22:39, 19 October 2007 (CEST)

Of this, I'd say none. AlexTurner 02:03, 20 October 2007 (CEST)