The Free Company Tavern & "OOC" Thread: Book IV

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Funny guy. The Anatolians won't be so easy...

Chaff I tell you, chaff!

No they won't. And then come the janissaries and a certain insane Russian who would love to make your aquaintance.

Eh, bring em on. I'm spoiling for a fight, since everyone on my side of the wall is making my life difficult

In anycase, I am actually very curious to see how this plays out, heh.

RJ

 

[The_Hawk]

CA,

I can say with some certainty that I have absolutely no idea. I know the full extent of Plans I and J, but I don't know all the details of H. Thanks, though.

LD,

Thanks. Honestly, the hardest part was doing research on Turkish profanity. ("Assittiir", by the way, is a slurred form of "Has'siktir", translating as "fuck off". )

By the way, if Turkish profanity would serve the purposes of anyone else, I think I still have that site around somewhere... I strongly considered a number of other insulting words for the Turks to level at our pirate friend, but most were a little too wordy for my needs...

 

[TheWildFerret]

Well my little battle post is up... although I wanted to do more, unfortunately time at work ate up my writing time... damn them..

Interesting little discovery there T_H... I look forward to more info

 

[Cockney]

Gawd blimey, it's been a while

Nice to see the free company is back, been reading up on their latest exploits (only up to page 4 mind), great stuff.

Btw ta for the mention on page 3 LD, I'll send you a pm if my life becomes a little less busy over the next week or so

 

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Question, how hard are the flanks being hit? Especially the right one.

 

[HolisticGod]

CA,

Actually, Plan H began some time ago...

Plans I and J have just been put into action. Hawk started Plan K and furthered Plan H.

Plans L, M, N, O and P, which I call Elemenopee, will start as soon as Bruce moves us ahead to the attack of the Moon People.

Hawk,

Great post...

I'll get to it, and cover all the other bases I'm currently missing, later this afternoon.

SN,

Are you clear on everything?

I can send you a PM or something, but I forgot to reply last night... Just want to make sure everyone's in shape for the finale.

 

[Lord Durham]

Originally posted by Cockney
Gawd blimey, it's been a while

Nice to see the free company is back, been reading up on their latest exploits (only up to page 4 mind), great stuff.

Btw ta for the mention on page 3 LD, I'll send you a pm if my life becomes a little less busy over the next week or so

Now there's a blast from the past.
Yeah, I ressurrected Omar, and he even had his own subplot, but I think it will go unresovled for the time being. PM me when you get the chance.

Judas M, the flanks were hit hard enough that men got on the walls. In the future not all of the action will be strictly in the center, either. Assume that the Turks are attacking the length of the defenses, but concentrating on the weakened center for the breakthrough.

HG, I'm still waiting for Plan 9. You know, the one from outer space...

EJ, LLE, I guess I should have waited longer before wrapping up the first wave. It's just that it was so quiet today that I figured eveyone had written what they were going to write.

 

[stnylan]

HG

I'm in position, as it were, for whatever befalls. I have a fair idea about what Niklos is doing, and that's all I really need to know.

LD

Got your PM. Thanks.

 

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Glad to see your still alive Cockney, I've missed your special brand of insanity.

Nice job on the battle all. Stroph, in case your wondering, I'm pretty sure the reserves will be needed against the Anatolians, when that push comes, I think those of us in the center can see about giving you a nice juicy hook.

RJ

 

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Originally posted by Rath Jones
Stroph, in case your wondering, I'm pretty sure the reserves will be needed against the Anatolians, when that push comes, I think those of us in the center can see about giving you a nice juicy hook.

My Romans thank you kindly, sir!

On the other hand, I have been having computer problems today so if I am slow on the uptake when the hook appears, I will answer ASAP!

 

[TheWildFerret]

Originally posted by Lord Durham
EJ, LLE, I guess I should have waited longer before wrapping up the first wave. It's just that it was so quiet today that I figured eveyone had written what they were going to write.

No problem LD, just had to get in my fight scene Nothing big, just wanted to reiterate the losses that are happening on both sides

I had to work all day yesterday until a little after midnight, so today was the earliest I could work on it besides it wasn't all that bad, nothing we can't live with and I'm sure T_H can edit it up right nice for the pdf file

Stroph,

We'll definately will need fresh reserves for the next wave if we plan to hold the walls atleast until the last wave sets upon us Then I wonder where we'll get the reserves

 

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Sorry for my relative quiet in the past 2 days. Major work assignment with short deadline thrown at me yesterday has eliminated my at-work writing time, last night was dart night and tonight I really wanted to finish off the first post of a section for RRR that I've been fighting with since the weekend.

I should have at least one (or more) offerings tomorrow though.

 

[The_Hawk]

Originally posted by Erik Jaeger

I'm sure T_H can edit it up right nice for the pdf file

Ah, yes. Estimated time for completion of Book IV's endgame: May 6, 2047.

Though that does bring up a good point -- if anyone has specific edits they want to see made to earlier posts of theirs when the story gets Redux'ed, drop me a line. Though that applies mostly to Book One authors, at the moment. I doubt I'll remember 40 years from now if you wanted me to edit something in Book Four.

 

[Craig Ashley]

Hawk: I've checked out the Free Company Redux and I have to say great work. It flows great. My only "complaint" is I don't have more to read. Whatever changes you made, they worked for me.

Well the famed Anatolians have been sent forward. Hope you all have fun with them.

Oh and just a note before someone calls me on it. I am fully aware that not every single Azeb died in that assault. The last post was written from the Bey's POV, and I think it's fair to say he is not a reliable source of information anymore.

 

[Valdemar]

Great writing all, I feel with the Turks for facing you

LD, those 20,000 you had on you last map, was that Azebhs alone or a total? If it wasn't a total, how many Anatolians and Janissaires can we expect?

V

EDIT, Woohoo, that was my 1000 post and it went in the story thread

 

[HolisticGod]

All,

Two more coming.

Sorry for the delay.

Vald,

You've left Nicos open for use... Hope you don't mind.

If you'd like to know where I'm going with this, or you have something in store for him (my impression is that you don't), just let me know.

Thanks.

 

[Valdemar]

Nope, that's fine, I only invented him to cover that flank when severus "abandoned" us. Use away

V

 

[Lord Durham]

Originally posted by Valdemar
Great writing all, I feel with the Turks for facing you

LD, those 20,000 you had on you last map, was that Azebhs alone or a total? If it wasn't a total, how many Anatolians and Janissaires can we expect?

V

EDIT, Woohoo, that was my 1000 post and it went in the story thread

Congrats on the 1000th post.
Those were just the Azebs.
The Anatolians will number about the same, and the Janissaries about 10,000, which IIRC is about historically correct. There are also the Spahis, the cavalry, numbering maybe 20,000, but they're watching, at the moment.

 

[Valdemar]

Yeah, well then I'm not worried

As to the cavalry, I think I've got ideas for them if they ever manage to exploit a breach.


V

 

[HolisticGod]

All,

Second post away.

Rather terse, active. Didn't want to interrupt the flow of all this with some meandering, pointless description.

That and I'm running thin on time...

LD,

That map is working overtime to prove its usefulness. It's a good thing I double checked-would've fucked this whole thing up pretty badly.