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The Crusade (autumn, winter 2013-14)

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22.09.2013 Iamsamstan (Blue, rampart, Ryland) def COBECTb (red, castle, Adele) anarchy 144.
This game became proof that the first anarchists appeared long before the mid-80s when Grazhdanskaya Oborona emerged, and long before the early 80s when The Exploited appeared, and even earlier than the 70s when the Sex Pistols appeared, and even long before the 60s when the first collectives appeared in America of the last century. In general, the first anarchists appeared in the times of Shakti and Grindan Gurnisson and Galtran, Tazar and Solmir, in the human city of Transom.
The young philosopher and Diplomat Adele decided to change the course of history, overthrow the monarchy, and establish a new, anarchic form of government. Since she initially had few supporters, she began traveling through the surrounding lands, enlightening the population to replenish her anarchist detachment. Since in those times electric guitars had not yet been invented, let alone any guitar pedals, and existing instruments could not convey all the beauty of anarchist views, new instruments were invented—homemade, of course—by people who knew neither how to play nor sing, and most importantly did not know that they needed to be not just tuned, but intonated. For example, it is well known that horsehair from Adele's horse's tail was used for string instruments, and the bark of a red mahogany observatory; to create low-sounding or simply bass strings, several hairs were twisted into one. Archers created an instrument similar to a violin by placing their bows on their shoulders and using arrows as a bow, while spearmen tapped spears on everything they possibly could to try and create a rhythm. And so, with such a lineup, they set off for agitation.
The kings grew concerned. No one wanted to lose their power, and they began to think about how to fight this incomprehensible and unknown plague.
Not far from those places were the domains of the young forest ruler Ryland. He had recently ascended the throne, so he was still a ranger; the choice fell on him because, like Adele, he knew how to talk his way through things, and could also get quite drunk and then perform all sorts of feats: sometimes putting dwarves into 7 stacks but forgetting to leave slow units at home when going scouting, or deciding to attack someone without magic. But strangely enough, the warriors loved him for this and always agreed to go on various campaigns with him.
The warriors did so this time as well; they emerged from the tavern and set off to find the anarchists. On the 3rd day, they entered the swamps, while the anarchists meanwhile already had several cities and villages. Ryland became frightened, so at night they drank heavily, and the next day they broke through 70 zombies, but didn't have time to dive into the monolith because it had already grown dark. But the next day they saw a pack of great basilisks who struck up a conversation with them:
- Were you the one who broke through 70 zombies with these brave lads (7 grands, 50 centaurs and 27 dwarves)?
- Yes, me!
- And how?
- I don't remember, I didn't even see it happen because I could barely stay on my horse!
- You're a bold fellow; we want to go further with you too!
- Let's go!
And they went further and saw a fork with silver pegasi and earth elementals, and who knows how things would have ended if the scout Orrin, opening the vision on the other end of the map, hadn't discovered an external dwelling of elves, unicorns, and a griffin conservatory?
Ryland turned his troops around, handed them to someone, then to someone else, and eventually they reached Orrin; the external dwellings were taken on the 7th day and the conservatory was checked. It was reported that 20 white and 80 green griffins lived there. On the second day of the second week, they were defeated, and 2 angel brothers appeared in Ryland's army. Since then, things looked up. Those pegasi were killed, and nagas, and someone else, because Ryland hadn't yet learned how to drink that much and still remember something. Somehow, he grew wiser, studied the earth, improved his leadership qualities, and loosened his tongue. He managed to talk the cyclops into giving him the water book, and then studied water—or maybe he studied water first and then earth, he didn't remember this, but vaguely remembered that he also stole sandals from dendroids and then took them and killed them for some reason. In those lands there were also 3 strange hives, which he collected and found 20 mysterious dragons in: green with long necks. And behind the elementals who stood on the other road next to the pegasi, he saw a necromancer's cloak, and slightly higher, boots. He went there, killed everyone, took the cloak, crashed... Ah yes, he also brought a dungeon with him near the hives; that's where he crashed and rebuilt a mages guild, and began looking at various mysterious pictures in books since he hadn't fully sobered up yet.
In the morning he left the dungeon, freed the black market and found a skull amulet there, another hive, a box behind undead horses, and a prison. He collected everything, defeated everyone; oh yes, behind those earth elementals, he found a piece of paper with a picture and the word "flight," although at first he didn't know what it was for. Then he saw a shield that was part of the same set as the sandals and took it, killing fierce nagas. During the battle, he saw this flight in his book of pictures... They feasted through the night until morning...
In the morning he entered the Dungeon again, and strangely, his mana flask filled to the brim, and even more was poured on top, but it didn't leak into the same map; seeing so much mana at once, he pressed flight, and... oh miracle! He flew over the cyclops and fell upon mages with another strange hive. The mages were surprised:
- Who are you?
- I am Ryland.
- Where did you fall from to get to us?
- Uh, I don't know myself, I bruised a spot when I landed, that's all I can say!
- Hm, you're a strange guy, but we see you have a lot of mana, well and... uh... do you happen to need 95 mages?
- 95?
- Uh-huh!
- For free?
- Of course! You've really surprised us!
- Guys, of course I need them; we're looking for anarchists here, let's go!
And they entered this hive together, took more dragons, then, it seems, killed ice fish, took another hive, and saw long black pillars with red caps.
- Who are you guys?
- We're psychos, so you've come to the right place! Just tell us, who are you?
- I am Ryland!
- That same Ryland who stole sandals from dendroids and then killed them too?
- That happened!
- But why did you kill them?
- I don't remember!
- No, man, you're probably a psycho even more serious than us! In general, we also want to fight with you! You taking us?
- For free, really?
- Well yeah, why would we psychos need money?
- Of course I'll take you; by the way, we're looking for anarchists, seen any?
- Nope, though we heard some strange and incomprehensible sounds a few days ago to our south.
- Let's go there.
After walking a bit more, they decided to spend the night near harpies, and at night they indeed heard grinding, knocking, clanging—in general, a terrible cacophony—and a female voice soloed:
- I wanna-a-a be-e-e anarchy-y-y-y! It was a terrible night; a double dose had to be drunk to fall asleep. The next day, after kicking the harpies away, they moved further. The road led west, where at a fork an accomplice of the anarchists, Shakti, was brutally killed, and going further south, they stumbled upon Adele. Enraged by her singing and driven by alcohol, Ryland launched an attack. A historic battle took place.
Anarchists: Adele 7 3 6 (17) 9 angels, 45 archers, 14 ogre vags, 69 blue fish, 13 swordsmen, 9 monks and some others against:
Blue (in every sense): Ryland 14 15 13 (157) 2 nagels, 20 psychos, 34 wyverns, 8 unicorns, 1+9 great basilisks, 95 mages.
The battle was terrible. On the first turn, the anarchists poured boiling oil underfoot; an angel managed to fly up and wasn't hit (or a necklace for 5% helped) and they waited. Ryland and the warriors prayed on their turn and attacked, then also poured oil underfoot, then healed themselves, then the anarchists cast protection, then stone skin; in the end, Adele left with 1 fish, while Ryland had 20 psychos, 30 wyverns, and 87 mages left. The first city, Silverwing, was liberated!
I completely forgot, Ryland managed to collect the cloak of the undead king and tried for a long time to find a Necromancer, but he couldn't and gave up on that idea.
On the seventh day of the 3rd week, Transom was liberated and the persecution of the anarchists continued. Four days later, Adele was killed by some evil neutrals! The monarchy stood!
P.S. Ryland made it in time, as Adele was heading for 2 cons (4+3) and who knows how it would have turned out if he had been late! Thanks for the game and patience!
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