Crusaders of Via Timmei
The Crusaders of Via Timmei
Objective was to attempt to cleanse those who did not agree to follow their religion, while sparing those who did agree, or already worshipped Goonrush. |
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History
They started with the moderator Timmy granting the town of Nowy Madagaskar a pigstep disc. Later, when a different mod overheard 487 say he had a Pigstep and Otherworld music disc they were taken and replaced with a piece of paper saying "Mod repo-pigstep otherworld". This drove 487 to gather those willing at Nowy Madagaskar and crusade across the lands in pursuit of a pigstep disc to replace what was lost, as well as spread the name of their lord Timmei. They managed to convince Nowy Madagaskar's level 5 blacksmith to join them and brought 3 stacks of diamonds which was used to outfit any recruits with full diamond equipment and repair broken or severely damaged gear.
They first stopped by Sunfish Syndicate and stole the horses there, and marched to Sleepytown/Riverhold. There they did not acquiesce and one of the members disrespected their mission and was quickly slain. This caused a full breakdown in negotiations and all inhabitants were killed on sight unless they said they pledged and ran, or wished to join the Crusade. Sleepytown/Riverhold was burned where possible and the armory destroyed.
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Goal
To Burn and Kill all Non-Believers, whilst sparing those who submit or are a part of their sister religion dedicated to Goonrush(shotrush).
Government
487 was the leader that directed their path and recruitment, as well as what settlements were spared and which were not.
Foreign affairs
Viscerally hostile to all who did not submit or already worship Goonrush.
Notably they did not attack Fish Inn due to the Arch-Angel Prophet 487 being gifted food in session 1 by the leader of Fish Inn
Chronological Time line-The Account Of The Arch Angel 487
- Preperation Phase start of session 11
-487 (snorlax) started by telling the most trusted players he had at nowy that were online about the plan he had for a crusade -all trusted players were told and began prepping gear for the crusades including over 15 books of scripture 'via timmei' written by 487
-All remaining Nowy players were told the crusaders were leaving for main land at they likely wouldnt return and advised all players migrated to eastgard -8 players who had agreed to go on the crusades geared and waited at nowys western shore for the server to restart to 'fix' lag (spoiler didnt work)
Beginning Of The Crusades middle of session 11
-487 led all players to the island of fortun as this was the planned first target, upon arrival it was revealed that an internal cival war had broken out leaving 10~ players, they requested an audience with there leader to which they granted all be it not there leader but someone of authority, the crusaders asked the remaining players if they would pledge to via timmei and join them, two players swiftly agreed while rest were hesitant, after realised 2 players had fled on boat the remaining players unwilling to pledge were killed swiftly
-After this the Crusaders headed mainland to sunfish were they briefly stopped to 'borrow' the horses of sunfish for swifter on land travel, after this they follow the paved path up far north to riverhold/sleepy town, at the gates 487 requested to see the person in charge to which 170 (aphelion league leader) took them to there meeting hall, while in conversations of religion between 170 and 487 a player of riverhold spoke up saying he would never pledge to a false god, as action player 780 (miner of the crusaders) drew weapon and killed him which led to an all out fight in which 487 tracked down 170 to apologise for the way it went, after recruiting a few players such as a religious man and a farmer to tame horses for them they left to get back on the track and head back down the path
-after following the path they shortly reached fish inn, a relatively small civ that was also heavily technologically behind, due to personally interactions between a member of fish inn and the crusade leader earlier in the trial he demanded that they would be exempt of any raiding as they simiply requested any spare food and continued onwards, at this point they varied of the path and went back south to a small civ of atlantic, there was one sole player remaining upon arrival as it was a small civ, when offered the choice to join Via Timmei they accepted, possibly from fear of rejecting or genuine interest at which point they returned back to the path
---Crusaders {No Deaths} / Non-Crusaders {50~}---
Eastern Wall Pact Broken
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-Once proceeding back towards the main civs and most populated areas the crusaders ended up outside cannabis village before advancing in the leader of the crusaders instructed for there to be no initiation of combat from the crusaders as they were still at this point adhering to the eastern wall which the crusade leader had set up and most crusaders were apart of, but once entering the question of wether cannabis village would pledge arised to which there leadership said they would need a meeting on, in the middle of this conversation a player from riverhold had arrived with a book and quill which they handed to a guardsmen of cannabis who aimed a punch bow at the crusaders healer (118) who was then launched off the side of there skybase barely surviving, at this point combat broke out with multiple high level players of cannabis village died and respawned reciting 'fuck this server' and i quote, after noticing many deaths the cannabis players demanded a cease fire which the crusaders agreed to planning on returning later to see wether they would join the religion (although this never occured)
-With the pact already being broken the crusaders planned to head towards sunfish and dwarven to see what was occuring, upon arrival at the central building however they were met with joint resistance from both sunfish and dwarven forces where they demanded to have a conversation with the crusaders, they remarked that the crusaders had gone to far and demanded that they dropped all there gear and be held accountable for there actions, during this after crusaders denied this request a stray arrow was launched at player 655 (crusaders blacksmith) who initially engaged combat, due to heavy technological advantage of the crusaders despite there number disadvantage was able to take a head on fight with the majority of the forces killing many and causing any remaing troops to regroup at dwarvenern base, when the leader of the dwarven and the crusaders leader were conversating across the river after the crusaders told dwarven to leave and they wouldn't be hurt to which he remarked 'you only fight people in iron come and fight me' at which point 3 crusaders (487,118 and 394) got into the sea and crossed over onto dwarven land where another fight broke out between the two sides resulting in a few casulties of dwarven troops and the crusaders leader almost getting dropped by the dwarves guard in a 1 vs 1 but he eventually fled too after getting weak
-as payback for 655 getting shot in the first combat he set aflame to the two oddly familiar looking tall wooden towers
---Crusaders {No Deaths} / Non-Crusaders {100~}
. The Venture Back Home (session 11 end and session 12 start)
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-At the start of the session crusaders employed a cheap tactic of waiting around sunfish and dwarven to catch players logging back on who had missed the previous session and killing them, this was very successful resulting in heavy deaths for many high level players from both civs
-After this period all crusaders migrated back east to nowy to check what damage had occured to which point they had found that some dwarven players had gone over and destroyed there land and griefed 'very poorly' there statue which was quickly repaired, while the crusaders were checking there land and stashing some valuables (487's disk collection) and other loot in a hidden vault on nowy a crusader reported many players reaching the western docks of Nowy where a 2 vs 1 between sunfishs leader/dwarven republic leader (522&726) and the crusaders leader (487) where both leaders were killed leaving remaining forces to be cleaned up by other crusaders or alternatively attempt to flee back to mainland
-Crusaders then went straight east to check on the status on eastgard where they gathered food and checked on the safety of some nowy players who refused to partake in the crusades, after realising they were all safe they retuned back to main land at sunfish shore to which it was fully abandoned besides a few players one of which who joined the crusaders and told them that remaining players had all head south to warn the other civs and gear up, they also met a reporter who took accounts of crusaders actions and were given a holy scripture -All crusaders regrouped and took inventory of food and gear before preparing to head south to face the impending forces they had been alerted about
---Crusaders {No Deaths} / Non-Crusaders {125~}---
.A Short Stop With Satan
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-After regrouping and accounting the crusaders headed down south towards Satans Heaven, with lack of knowledge of this terrain in the south it took the crusaders a long time to navigate towards Satans heaven but upon arrival multiple players were seen running south to which a couple crusaders pursued chasing them south, remaining crusaders attempted to talk to the players arround satans heaven, one player was suprisingly willing to talk, it was later realised they had missed the last session and were unaware of the crusaders but after being given one of the few remaining peices of holy scripture she claimed she would head to ithica to tell her leadership that we were coming to give them time to make there decision, after seeing a low player count at Satans heaven it was assumed that all players had either settled back into pillaged civs or were scatter around the map as the crusaders assumed all remaining forces would be grouped at Satans heaven
-Crusaders who were chasing players then returned claiming they had killed a majority but some escaped in the direction of promised home so after some 'light' arson from 655 the crusaders rallied up and prepared for what was likely on of there last stops of the crusades
---Crusaders {No Deaths} / Non-Crusaders {130~}---
Final Destination
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-While traveling towards promised home a crusader (394, lvl 6 miner of the crusaders) asked there leadership if they could spare promised home as it was his civ of origin for the first sessions before finally joining nowy madagsker, it was then agreed they would be spared conflict unless it was acting upon by promised home -After a long journey upon arriving at Promised homes shores players decanted there mounts and began walking towards a lone player in a suger cane field to which they fired multiple arrows before running off into an open field with a seemingly ruined mob farm, short after though over 30 players emerged from the top and all rained arrows down on crusader forces on the floor, during this fight many players in the skybase remained up top while some players had been caught down below by the sudden enterance of the crusaders leading to a few casulaties with notably 1 crusader recruited from riverhold dying in this first skirmish , after an overwelling fire of arrows and potential forces the crusaders retreated to the castle which had been abandoned to plan an attack onto the mob farm as it was strong vantage point for the defender
-during discussions of how to attack a crusader reported that 3 players were missing, after noticing some crusaders were missing and likely still fighting in the open fields of promised home all crusaders geared up before finishing there plan to attempt to help the players still fighting -Once arriving back at the battlefront it was obvious more deaths had occured on both sides by the quantity of loot scattered across the floor -The leader of the crusaders had noticed that 655 was being focused out by a player with a riptide trident and other decent gear, in an attempt to try save player 655 he went in to try fight that player but after getting face to face in a fight and 655 still getting dropped 2 guardsmen notably 189 (former nowy member) attacked 487 from behind quick dropping him
-after 487 died leadership was lacking, causing players to get isolated into losing fights causing several more crusader deaths and defender deaths, after respawning 487 was able to disguise himself as an anti-crusader and get a full set of diamond gear and kill the alliances leadership to obtain the pigstep disk from him -At this point obvious out matched after heavy crusader casualties, remaining forces scattered across the world to hide in remote civs and blend in -Three crusaders (487/118/780) all headed to the ruins of Nowy where they buried all there loot and belonging (specifically 487s disk collection and pigstep) under what used to be the community meeting hall and retired until session 13 trying to restore the building of Nowy from there damage caused earlier on -Other crusaders locations remained unknown even until the end of the server with some speculated to have been let in by eastgard and other isolated civs
---Crusaders {15~} / Non-Crusaders{175~}---
The Trial Of The Crusaders
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-During the beginning of Session 13 player 487 embarked a journey across all the destoryed civs to see the damage caused by his and the crusaders hands, many civs still were decollated with few players still attempting to fix the damage and start a new from the ashes of there destroyed civs ruins
-Upon reaching Promised home player 487 handed him self in to the masses on the condition he would be given a trial to represent himself Infront of the players he had caused pain to take accountability for his numerous crimes and tribulations
-During the time of a council being formed to try him for his crimes he was able to conversate with the players of the ruined civs as players showed a HEAVY distaste towards him for his actions as few players tried to kill him before his trial all be it to no avail as they were swiftly shut down by the few who wanted to see him proper accounted for his crimes -After a council was formed with representatives from a majority of civs affected by the crusades, 487 was given with the sentencing of 45 accounts of first degree murder, 6 accounts of grand arson and vandalism and 1 account of inciting hate crimes to which he pleaded 'guilty as heck' and was senteced to public death in which he seemingly 'imploded' after being caged dropping one singular item which was the orignal scripture of 'VIA TIMMEI' a 24 page manifesto warning people of there fate if they werent to turn to there god of Timmy
-This remains the last noted action of the crusaders of Via Timmei as they remain blended into your civs hiding amongst you and possibly waiting for there next move....
Final estimated death toll
---Crusaders {15~} / Non-Crusaders{175~}---
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