The Siege of Oceansford: Open War for the Mighty - Page 2

Vapor · 07-24-2008, 10:08 AM

...Are you ever gonna edit in who's on which side, Gale?

**Galefore** · 07-24-2008, 10:59 AM

As soon as time permits. I know it sounds ridiculous, but lately I've yet again run into an obstacle. For now I'm focusing on the NLBFT, and even that I've been procrastinating in order to at least give Selene a challenger. I'm awfully sorry, guys, and I promise this will be started within the confines of this summer.

Inferno Dragon · 08-24-2008, 03:22 AM

well, it's august 24th, and we're approaching the end of summer, when can we start this thing?

**Galefore** · 12-04-2009, 04:08 PM

Well, let's reboot this.

By now most everybody who signed up is no longer with us, so I'm going to clear the signup sheet for now. Any new folks who want to try this out, read the first post.

I'm going to work on some sort of epic opening post over the weekend. In the meantime, let's see if anyone's interested.

Robotazy · 12-04-2009, 07:03 PM

I'll join in kicking your ~~sand~~castle, Gale.

**Galefore** · 12-04-2009, 07:24 PM

HEY YO REP

Are you still around? I left you on Ally if you are.

And Tazy, I'mma assume you want enemy. So that's where you're placed.

1-up Salesman · 12-04-2009, 10:31 PM

Can I join as an ally? I'm a bit more experienced now.

Fairlight Excalibur · 12-06-2009, 01:15 AM

I shall join the attacking side, as it appears that the possibility for carnage is much higher on that end of the spectrum.

Will there be any sort of time-delay penalties in this topic, as there have been in the other three that I read? Because I would assume that it is harder to keep something like this active if certain people do not post while others keep doing so.

Hello, by the way.
I am a traveller.

Repster · 12-06-2009, 03:32 PM

Hrm... wonder if I still have my original post saved around here somewhere.

**Galefore** · 12-06-2009, 04:55 PM

Let's hold off on adding any more allies for now.

We'll be getting this started about now; anyone else who would like to sign on early for the initial attack should do so before tomorrow. I should have my post written up tonight, but I'll hold off on posting until then.

**Galefore** · 12-07-2009, 02:55 PM

OoC: I'm really rusty. I didn't realize it until I tried to write this damn thing. So please excuse this post not really being too incredibly detailed or superspecialawesome. I kept it simple for now, but I expect it to become a little more complicated than it looks as we go along. Anyway, this is just so you know who and what you're up against for now. So, uh... To arms!

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Oceansford.

The castle was perfect. There were no mistakes. It spanned thousands of feet, with walls ten stories high and towers far higher. There was a great moat, dug by countless slaves who often found their lives at an end floating face down in that same place. It was perfectly circular; on all sides, it was guarded by four great towers, each surrounded with two smaller towers, all filled with garrisoned men. Deep inside its brick and its wood it harbored centuries of turmoil, and it had seen hundred of lords come and go. So often was it besieged that it came to be known as Oceansford the Stepping Stone. It was a fortress that lay unfortunately in the center of several warring kingdoms and was often the sole obstacle to pass before those kingdoms could be accessed. Any given day of the week, a new Lord would brave the chaos and take the fortress, often abandoned, for his own, only to have one of the kingdoms march right over him on the warpath to whatever opposite kingdom that had managed to offend them.

But now, for twenty years, a new lord had owned the castle. No longer were there armies marching through him; no, they marched around him, knowing that they would unnecessarily lose many of their proud foot soldiers if they even passed within stone's throw. The fort now hosted thousands of men, walls laced with archers continuously on watch, dipping their arrows in foreign oils and setting any machination of wood and steel meant to crush the thick walls of the keep ablaze before the great stone fortress even came within sight. The lord himself was feared, his name rarely uttered; he was a man from the great southern kingdom that rarely took part in any war save for war with themselves.

Now he was stroking his beard, alone. All was silent around him. His banner, the great black eagle, was draped over each of the windows in his great hall, though he kept no other company nor furnishing to liven the dark gray around him. Lord Stone, they called him. His family name was Ashenlake, but he had long abandoned the noble family he had been raised to be a part of in favor of being a conquering hero. He was not at all a conquering hero, but he often tricked himself into believing he was.

He was not aware of the armies approaching. He did not know of their intent to march through him as they did in days of old, and honestly, he was not the sort to concern himself with such things. The last siege on the fortress was seven years before. At this point, he was more concerned with waiting for his country to send him the reinforcements he had requested so that he could launch a full-scale assault on the kingdoms he was in the dead center of; he did not know, as there had been no messenger to tell him, that his home country was once again in the midst of civil war and that he was long thought dead due to a miscommunication.

But now his men outside were beginning to stir. Something was not quite what it should be. Something, some brave thing, was outside of the walls, and approaching.

And something was about to awaken the deadened spirit in the great Stone Ashenlake.

VG_Addict · 12-07-2009, 06:19 PM

I'd like to take a crack at this. I've improved quite a bit.

Speed · 12-07-2009, 08:07 PM

I haven't posted in awhile but I've improved in RP-ing in general...

If you don't think I'm skilled/active/reliable enough I'll understand.

**Galefore** · 12-07-2009, 08:44 PM

Hay, brah, I'm not stopping anybody from joining. If we're going to revive this forum again, I can't act like 2007 Galefore and go "omguh no newbs/notvtereans gaiz".

So go for it.

Speed · 12-07-2009, 09:32 PM

Oh cool, I'm in then I guess.

Vapor · 12-09-2009, 07:54 AM

HIT ME UP WITH AN AVAILABLE POSITION MAAAAN

I'll get character n stuff by the end of the day.

Ed: Looks like I'm an Ally, rite?

***the Octopus*** · 12-09-2009, 08:14 AM

Your title indicates that an ocean will be or has been forded. I am amused.

**Galefore** · 12-09-2009, 03:43 PM

i kno rite, I actually came up with it at about 3 AM a little over a year ago and now I kind of snicker at it.

^^I actually kind of want to close off allies for now, since I'd like to odds to be heavily against us, and I already have Rep and 1-up.

Robotazy · 12-09-2009, 10:08 PM

OoC: wtf, there's what, 3 people on my team and no one posted. I'm not even sure if my army breaks any rules or not.

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From over the hill came an evil laugh. It wasn't a deep voice, or a crazy sounding voice either, it was more of a....child's voice. Despite that, the laugh obviously showed the years of practice that went into it, so obviously no real child would laugh like that. Regardless on top of a hill of the castle was a young man with no shirt, short blue hair, though he had long strands of hair long enough to be pushed over his head. A long, somewhat torn Red scarf is tied around his neck, matching the color of his shorts, shoes, and eyes. Around his arms are gold bracelets, with decorative "x's" on them. To his left is a girl about the same age with Pink pigtails and suggestive black clothing sitting on top of a blue penguin that looked like a doll. To his right is another girl with long blond hair wearing a white coat and a red hairband that bears a resemblance to rabbit's ears, matching the unitard under the coat and high-heels. The girl on the left speaks up. "When your done laughing like an utter buffoon, maybe you could tell us why we're in this alternate human world?"

The boy turns to darker looking of the two women. "I do not laugh like a buffoon!" says the boy. "Besides, isn't an Overlord supposed to accept any challenge?". "But, Laharl..." says the girl on the right "You haven't been challenged. Especially not by anyone here. It looks like such a nice place." "That's because you don't know about this castle!" says Laharl "In the past, this place has been conquered over and over by invading armies. Recently though, it's been occupied by a more powerful human." "Now, how would you know about that?" says Etna. Laharl only smirks and says "I have my sources." Flonne immediately speaks up "You heard it from that Silver Prinny! I remember him talking about a castle and-". Laharl glares at Flonne, quickly silencing her, "Who gives a damn about sources? The point I'm trying to get across is that this castle itself is a challenge!" Both Etna and Flonne stare at Laharl after he utters this statement, Etna's stare being one of annoyance, while Flonne's stare is more out of amazement. "Yyyyeah....How is this a challenge?" says Etna. "Hmph. Etna, for an Overlord's Vassal, you sure seem out of the loop about how I do things." Etna stares at the castle for a second, before she answering "Oh I get it. You issued this challenge to yourself." "That's right!" says Laharl "This castle is just asking to get conquered, and who better to do so then yours truly!"

"I guess I'll call the army and start this thing." says Etna. She taps the Prinny under her, who pulls out a button. Etna quickly stomps on the button, and uses it to jump off the Prinny, who falls over. Almost immediately a large blue portal opens and about 48 Prinnies pop out, one standing in front wearing a Red Scarf. This is followed by a 40 Swordsmen, 25 Archers, and 10 Mages, 2 of Fire, 2 of Ice, 2 of Wind, 2 of Star, and 2 Clerics. These are followed by three people, one being a man in a space suit, a hot babe, and an Egg shaped Robot. "FOR THE NETHERWORLD!" says Thursday, the Robot. "Hmph." Says the Spacesuit man, Gordon "I can't believe he's using me, The Defender of Earth, like a lowly soldier!" "Aw, cheer up." says Jennifer, the babe "if everything goes smoothly, Harley may just promote you." "I don't want that!" says Gordon "Nothing would be more detestable then helping that demon anymore than I already have!" "ARE YOU THREE JUST GONNA STAND THERE AND CHIT-CHAT?!" yells Laharl. "You get to marching, or I may just have you clean the ash off the castle walls!". Upon hearing this, the three "Defenders of Earth" run off. "So, you're going to storm the castle with such a small army?" says Etna. "Ha! This is just the first wave!" responds Laharl "Just keep that beacon from being destroyed, and everything will go according to plan."

Laharl of course refers to the button the Prinny was holding. The Prinny quickly gets back up and starts to spin in place.

1-up Salesman · 12-11-2009, 10:25 PM

OOC: Sooo... Should we be going for like one of those realistic looking D and D type battles, or an anime sort of thing with Disgaea characters? I'm not exactly sure how I should start.

Also, can I control as many characters of my own as I want, since you only have 2 allies?

12-06-2009, 01:15 AM	#28
Fairlight Excalibur Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: LA Gender: Posts: 880 Thanks: 72 Thanked 111 Times in 82 Posts Blog Entries: 1	Looks like fun I shall join the attacking side, as it appears that the possibility for carnage is much higher on that end of the spectrum. Will there be any sort of time-delay penalties in this topic, as there have been in the other three that I read? Because I would assume that it is harder to keep something like this active if certain people do not post while others keep doing so. Hello, by the way. I am a traveller. Last edited by Fairlight Excalibur; 09-20-2010 at 03:54 AM.

12-09-2009, 07:54 AM	#36
Vapor Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WHERE IT'S AT Gender: Posts: 5,211 Thanks: 314 Thanked 412 Times in 248 Posts	HIT ME UP WITH AN AVAILABLE POSITION MAAAAN I'll get character n stuff by the end of the day. Ed: Looks like I'm an Ally, rite? Last edited by Vapor; 12-09-2009 at 08:00 AM.

12-09-2009, 10:08 PM	#39
Robotazy PRESS ANY KEY TO PANIC! Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: A Tiny Shed Gender: Posts: 16,284 Thanks: 521 Thanked 1,238 Times in 885 Posts Blog Entries: 43	WHY WON'T SOMEONE COME BEFORE ME?! OoC: wtf, there's what, 3 people on my team and no one posted. I'm not even sure if my army breaks any rules or not. --------------------------- From over the hill came an evil laugh. It wasn't a deep voice, or a crazy sounding voice either, it was more of a....child's voice. Despite that, the laugh obviously showed the years of practice that went into it, so obviously no real child would laugh like that. Regardless on top of a hill of the castle was a young man with no shirt, short blue hair, though he had long strands of hair long enough to be pushed over his head. A long, somewhat torn Red scarf is tied around his neck, matching the color of his shorts, shoes, and eyes. Around his arms are gold bracelets, with decorative "x's" on them. To his left is a girl about the same age with Pink pigtails and suggestive black clothing sitting on top of a blue penguin that looked like a doll. To his right is another girl with long blond hair wearing a white coat and a red hairband that bears a resemblance to rabbit's ears, matching the unitard under the coat and high-heels. The girl on the left speaks up. "When your done laughing like an utter buffoon, maybe you could tell us why we're in this alternate human world?" The boy turns to darker looking of the two women. "I do not laugh like a buffoon!" says the boy. "Besides, isn't an Overlord supposed to accept any challenge?". "But, Laharl..." says the girl on the right "You haven't been challenged. Especially not by anyone here. It looks like such a nice place." "That's because you don't know about this castle!" says Laharl "In the past, this place has been conquered over and over by invading armies. Recently though, it's been occupied by a more powerful human." "Now, how would you know about that?" says Etna. Laharl only smirks and says "I have my sources." Flonne immediately speaks up "You heard it from that Silver Prinny! I remember him talking about a castle and-". Laharl glares at Flonne, quickly silencing her, "Who gives a damn about sources? The point I'm trying to get across is that this castle itself is a challenge!" Both Etna and Flonne stare at Laharl after he utters this statement, Etna's stare being one of annoyance, while Flonne's stare is more out of amazement. "Yyyyeah....How is this a challenge?" says Etna. "Hmph. Etna, for an Overlord's Vassal, you sure seem out of the loop about how I do things." Etna stares at the castle for a second, before she answering "Oh I get it. You issued this challenge to yourself." "That's right!" says Laharl "This castle is just asking to get conquered, and who better to do so then yours truly!" "I guess I'll call the army and start this thing." says Etna. She taps the Prinny under her, who pulls out a button. Etna quickly stomps on the button, and uses it to jump off the Prinny, who falls over. Almost immediately a large blue portal opens and about 48 Prinnies pop out, one standing in front wearing a Red Scarf. This is followed by a 40 Swordsmen, 25 Archers, and 10 Mages, 2 of Fire, 2 of Ice, 2 of Wind, 2 of Star, and 2 Clerics. These are followed by three people, one being a man in a space suit, a hot babe, and an Egg shaped Robot. "FOR THE NETHERWORLD!" says Thursday, the Robot. "Hmph." Says the Spacesuit man, Gordon "I can't believe he's using me, The Defender of Earth, like a lowly soldier!" "Aw, cheer up." says Jennifer, the babe "if everything goes smoothly, Harley may just promote you." "I don't want that!" says Gordon "Nothing would be more detestable then helping that demon anymore than I already have!" "ARE YOU THREE JUST GONNA STAND THERE AND CHIT-CHAT?!" yells Laharl. "You get to marching, or I may just have you clean the ash off the castle walls!". Upon hearing this, the three "Defenders of Earth" run off. "So, you're going to storm the castle with such a small army?" says Etna. "Ha! This is just the first wave!" responds Laharl "Just keep that beacon from being destroyed, and everything will go according to plan." Laharl of course refers to the button the Prinny was holding. The Prinny quickly gets back up and starts to spin in place. Last edited by Robotazy; 12-09-2009 at 10:11 PM. Reason: I hate Notepad now.

12-11-2009, 10:25 PM	#40
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Your bedroom. I love it here! Gender: Posts: 3,861 Thanks: 2,071 Thanked 228 Times in 180 Posts Blog Entries: 9	OOC: Sooo... Should we be going for like one of those realistic looking D and D type battles, or an anime sort of thing with Disgaea characters? I'm not exactly sure how I should start. Also, can I control as many characters of my own as I want, since you only have 2 allies? Last edited by 1-up Salesman; 12-11-2009 at 10:25 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

07-24-2008, 10:08 AM	#21
Vapor Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WHERE IT'S AT Gender: Posts: 5,211 Thanks: 314 Thanked 412 Times in 248 Posts	...Are you ever gonna edit in who's on which side, Gale?

07-24-2008, 10:59 AM	#22
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	As soon as time permits. I know it sounds ridiculous, but lately I've yet again run into an obstacle. For now I'm focusing on the NLBFT, and even that I've been procrastinating in order to at least give Selene a challenger. I'm awfully sorry, guys, and I promise this will be started within the confines of this summer.

08-24-2008, 03:22 AM	#23
Inferno Dragon Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Planet Draco Gender: Posts: 6,038 Thanks: 67 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts	well, it's august 24th, and we're approaching the end of summer, when can we start this thing?

12-04-2009, 04:08 PM	#24
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	Well, let's reboot this. By now most everybody who signed up is no longer with us, so I'm going to clear the signup sheet for now. Any new folks who want to try this out, read the first post. I'm going to work on some sort of epic opening post over the weekend. In the meantime, let's see if anyone's interested.

12-04-2009, 07:03 PM	#25
Robotazy PRESS ANY KEY TO PANIC! Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: A Tiny Shed Gender: Posts: 16,284 Thanks: 521 Thanked 1,238 Times in 885 Posts Blog Entries: 43	I'll join in kicking your ~~sand~~castle, Gale.

12-04-2009, 07:24 PM	#26
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	HEY YO REP Are you still around? I left you on Ally if you are. And Tazy, I'mma assume you want enemy. So that's where you're placed.

12-04-2009, 10:31 PM	#27
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Your bedroom. I love it here! Gender: Posts: 3,861 Thanks: 2,071 Thanked 228 Times in 180 Posts Blog Entries: 9	Can I join as an ally? I'm a bit more experienced now.

12-06-2009, 03:32 PM	#29
Repster Gunjin Mod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: J'tun ostie d'Acadien. Gender: Posts: 6,130 Thanks: 2 Thanked 37 Times in 25 Posts	Hrm... wonder if I still have my original post saved around here somewhere.

12-06-2009, 04:55 PM	#30
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	Let's hold off on adding any more allies for now. We'll be getting this started about now; anyone else who would like to sign on early for the initial attack should do so before tomorrow. I should have my post written up tonight, but I'll hold off on posting until then.

12-07-2009, 02:55 PM	#31
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	OoC: I'm really rusty. I didn't realize it until I tried to write this damn thing. So please excuse this post not really being too incredibly detailed or superspecialawesome. I kept it simple for now, but I expect it to become a little more complicated than it looks as we go along. Anyway, this is just so you know who and what you're up against for now. So, uh... To arms! ------------------------------------------------------ Oceansford. The castle was perfect. There were no mistakes. It spanned thousands of feet, with walls ten stories high and towers far higher. There was a great moat, dug by countless slaves who often found their lives at an end floating face down in that same place. It was perfectly circular; on all sides, it was guarded by four great towers, each surrounded with two smaller towers, all filled with garrisoned men. Deep inside its brick and its wood it harbored centuries of turmoil, and it had seen hundred of lords come and go. So often was it besieged that it came to be known as Oceansford the Stepping Stone. It was a fortress that lay unfortunately in the center of several warring kingdoms and was often the sole obstacle to pass before those kingdoms could be accessed. Any given day of the week, a new Lord would brave the chaos and take the fortress, often abandoned, for his own, only to have one of the kingdoms march right over him on the warpath to whatever opposite kingdom that had managed to offend them. But now, for twenty years, a new lord had owned the castle. No longer were there armies marching through him; no, they marched around him, knowing that they would unnecessarily lose many of their proud foot soldiers if they even passed within stone's throw. The fort now hosted thousands of men, walls laced with archers continuously on watch, dipping their arrows in foreign oils and setting any machination of wood and steel meant to crush the thick walls of the keep ablaze before the great stone fortress even came within sight. The lord himself was feared, his name rarely uttered; he was a man from the great southern kingdom that rarely took part in any war save for war with themselves. Now he was stroking his beard, alone. All was silent around him. His banner, the great black eagle, was draped over each of the windows in his great hall, though he kept no other company nor furnishing to liven the dark gray around him. Lord Stone, they called him. His family name was Ashenlake, but he had long abandoned the noble family he had been raised to be a part of in favor of being a conquering hero. He was not at all a conquering hero, but he often tricked himself into believing he was. He was not aware of the armies approaching. He did not know of their intent to march through him as they did in days of old, and honestly, he was not the sort to concern himself with such things. The last siege on the fortress was seven years before. At this point, he was more concerned with waiting for his country to send him the reinforcements he had requested so that he could launch a full-scale assault on the kingdoms he was in the dead center of; he did not know, as there had been no messenger to tell him, that his home country was once again in the midst of civil war and that he was long thought dead due to a miscommunication. But now his men outside were beginning to stir. Something was not quite what it should be. Something, some brave thing, was outside of the walls, and approaching. And something was about to awaken the deadened spirit in the great Stone Ashenlake.

12-07-2009, 06:19 PM	#32
VG_Addict Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: In the Vicinity Gender: Posts: 3,801 Thanks: 33 Thanked 222 Times in 189 Posts Blog Entries: 2	I'd like to take a crack at this. I've improved quite a bit.

12-07-2009, 08:07 PM	#33
Speed Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: If there's a bright center to the universe I'm on the planet it's farthest from Gender: Posts: 3,723 Thanks: 1,595 Thanked 319 Times in 223 Posts Blog Entries: 1	I haven't posted in awhile but I've improved in RP-ing in general... If you don't think I'm skilled/active/reliable enough I'll understand.

12-07-2009, 08:44 PM	#34
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	Hay, brah, I'm not stopping anybody from joining. If we're going to revive this forum again, I can't act like 2007 Galefore and go "omguh no newbs/notvtereans gaiz". So go for it.

12-07-2009, 09:32 PM	#35
Speed Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: If there's a bright center to the universe I'm on the planet it's farthest from Gender: Posts: 3,723 Thanks: 1,595 Thanked 319 Times in 223 Posts Blog Entries: 1	Oh cool, I'm in then I guess.

12-09-2009, 08:14 AM	#37
*the Octopus* THE PRESIDENT OF FUN Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 27,481 Thanks: 1,974 Thanked 5,121 Times in 2,320 Posts	Your title indicates that an ocean will be or has been forded. I am amused.

12-09-2009, 03:43 PM	#38
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,255 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 823 Times in 532 Posts Blog Entries: 5	i kno rite, I actually came up with it at about 3 AM a little over a year ago and now I kind of snicker at it. ^^I actually kind of want to close off allies for now, since I'd like to odds to be heavily against us, and I already have Rep and 1-up.