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ok, i think i have you cornered, so i think i will just surround you for a 
while.  but who knows, maybe you moved your capital.  i think it's about 
time to end this thing in one of the upcoming turns.  i know you still have 
the shambles of an army left in at least one location, and i am wondering if 
you are assembling another just to put up a fight.



whoops.  ok, NOW i am marching straight towards your would-be capital.  
unless you moved it, which is entirely possible, since i moved mine.  betcha 
can't guess where!  ok, i should finish up this game already, my reports are 
waaay to long and it takes too much time to find the stuff i need to change. 
  i suppose i should make a map or sumptin, that would be mad crucsh.


soon you will perish.  boo!  i am marching straight towards your capital 
with all of those troops, and thus far unchallenged.  are you gonna do 
something about it?



so, what's happening.  i need to check out the carnage to see if i tagged 
what was left of your army.  you have so many heroes prancing around 
together it makes it hard to get any spies/scouts/saboteurs near your 
capital.  so much for keeping 139 in tact, and i think i will have to start 
zapping some more of the middle shires in each region.  not like i need them 
to develop an army to storm all over you.  look, don't feel bad, you just 
didn't think anyone was out there until it was waaaay too late.  i guess i 
will take 178 this coming round and use it and 180 as good breeding grounds 
for troop to get to you.  i have arrogoth's island under control, by the 
way, and at one point the majority of my resources were going to supporting 
this endeavor.  now that it is under control, i have to keep it that way as 
lava legions keep springing up on multiple shires of the 9 regions, and 
there is a limit on the number of REWs the main wizard can cast along with 
ARM. alright, perhaps i will give you a break over xmas and you can cast ARM 
on my capital while i am gone and win this thing.  my bet is you won't be 
able to cause you still don't have the spellcraft points for it.  i guess 
you just have to plan well in advance in this game.  i am so bored, i 
suppose i should go.



old:
dude.  it's about time i started crushing you faster, so instead of using 
some wussy defensive spells, it was time to bring down the hammer.  I will 
be taking the rest of your territory back with a newly assembled 10,000 
troop army headed your way.  right before is another army of 4k, and there 
are a couple of thousand after it somewhere.  And i think you which 
direction it is headed to.
I am still waiting for some sort of retaliation armageddon, a vicious spell 
of some sort, y'know?  It's like you got nothin' over there... no storm 
giants dropped on my shires, not even a rat.  I shouldn't expect too much as 
even your heroes don't even have their combat spells worked out.  It does 
take a little bit to figure them out, but I thought you would have worked 
that out by now.  All right, have fun reading the next report...you have now 
been aptly named: Target.


all right.  so, another battle and you got 139,5 back.  i shoulda destroyed 
the place while i coulda.  s'ok, you in trouble with the rest my army now, 
and some of it is finally getting there.  i am still waiting for an 
armageddon to start somewhere, so maybe i will have to start.  where would 
you like it?  i could try to nail your army with it, by why bother?  it'll 
take longer to starve you out, but it's funner watching your peeps and lands 
choke to death while trying to maintain some 10000+ army.  I guess it's just 
fun for me, you gotta be getting frustrated with always being on the 
defensive.  later.



dude.  are you ever gonna write back?  i guess i will just need to keep 
pummelling you until you finally lose, without any trash talk back from ya.  
This thing is kinda cool, but i want the spells to be different, or more 
powerful or something.  Right now I only use a few of them, and I think you 
know which ones by the way I have been crushing you.


so when are you going to give up?  haven't heard a peep outta ya for a 
while, but you keep fighting.  you know, i have an army of about 4000 about 
to creep up to the surface and march straight to that shoddy dervish lair.  
i hope you have some heroes at about level 14 or so to at least match the 
lich lord thats about to reach daylight.  why don't you armegeddon that 
shire?  i hope you have some spies running around peaking in to see what i 
am about to do in 3 turns.  oh yeah.  arrogoth is goin' down in flames.

BREAKING NEWS --
I guess this is gonna drag out a while, as I can't seem to rematerialize my 
troops through my new portal at 180.  So now I will have to mobilize all of 
them in some sort of tidal wave that will keep smashing against your troops 
until you are spent.  Until then Mr. R, you shall be able to grasp onto your 
meager holdings for a turn or two longer.  I was hoping you would drop some 
armageddon bombs on some of my stuff, but i suppose you haven't researched 
that far yet.  Well, you will be constantly defending from here on out.

oldish news...
I hate it when I lose a slow moving floating fortress to a whirlpool... I 
have to start all over again.  So, what do you think Kyle?  Is this dragging 
out your inevitable defeat too much for you?  I think perhaps you might need 
some encouragement, such as letting you bombard some of my cities with the 
armageddon spell.  Go ahead - I know you have the gems for it.  Or should we 
start fighting for the third island that we have been sparring for?  I think 
I got the underground territories rather easily, and I am waiting for some 
retaliation or something.  By the way, I am sending some guys up through the 
underground to break your island into two pieces: the angry half and the 
indifferent half.  Tootles.

some older news --
Our main opponent gave us a setback last month, and we were forced to 
backtrack to recover our own territory.  But instead of focusing our troops 
on this effort, we purged them straight ahead, leapfrogging shires held by 
lava legions.  This allowed us to go to the heart of Arrogoth's domain, and 
now our brave troops can even look upon it through a gigantic doorway.  It 
is of course guarded by some ferocious demon, blah blah blah, so KR why 
don't you just give it up?  I am about to solve this thing despite your 
continued impedence, and I think you might want to know that your empire is 
doomed.  We can drag it out some more if you would like, at least long 
enough for you to finally research far enough to get armageddon.  Which is 
fine, but you won't be able to destroy any territories but your own by the 
time you get to use it.  Your resources are spent, and soon I will snatch up 
the rest of the regions under your evil wrath.  Ta ta!

not as new news --
With the breaking of our named wizard adversaries forces, it looks as though 
Kyle's forces have had the wind taken out of them.  With another set of 
swift victories and minimal troop loss, we have stormed into yet another 
region capital.
Possibly the explanation for this weak resistance is that the enemy is 
lacking the resources to raise a well equiped army, and the momentum is not 
in his favor as far as recruiting much needed heroes for the front lines.
At the moment our other adversary is causing us much more grief by routing 
our unaware forces holding the volcanic territory.  We are sending in 
another massive army soon, but it has taken too much time getting troops 
together.

not new news...
So with the advent of new creatures, we have an arsenal of personnel to 
choose from, from flame-bearing dwarves to mounted lizardmen.  With this 
selection, variable selections of armies can be made and distributed upon 
the one who must be named - KR.  That's right, our agents have led us to him 
at his own doing, and now we shall tighten the noose with every passing 
battle.


not so old news...
It is important to note that soon the Nonamewizard11 will be vacating 
Savannah, GA, and will be travelling to Washington, DC, in search of a new 
job as a digital graphic artist since completing college.  With this 
transition, it is likely to disrupt the next few submissions of news, and 
possibly even orders preventing the quick demise of my opponent.  I suppose 
it is just drawing out the inevitable, but it seems that's how he likes it.
This game is very good, and with only some minor modifications I think it 
could become a massively multiplayer strategic game.


old news:
On the front lines, we have again had a major confrontation with the enemy 
and won.  With every fiber of thier wills being tested, our troops 
persevered against a mighty force of Arrogoth's to prevail on foreign 
ground.  With our confidence rising in our new strategy, we now feel renewed 
in taking ground from Arrogoth.  The latest of his minions, some sort of 
demented thoughtless mound of shambling lava, has several weaknesses that we 
are learning to exploit.
On the other hand, we did give up a city to the other of our enemies.  A 
grave battle was fought, but eventually our forces fell to perhaps the 
largest of our inferior's armies.  While they may have captured a hard 
fought victory, we are still surging into his territory below ground.  With 
his defenses lowered and his forces diminished, we shall continue our march 
into his lands, freeing the people of his wrathful rule.  As we once 
attacked by sea, now we are focusing our troops underground in 
concentrations of armies that are being fed by local cities.  Soon our 
numbers will swell, and we will try the same strategies against this living, 
breathing foe as we are using on the latest of Arrogoth's minions.  Again, 
with magical superiority and economic might, we will trounce both of our 
enemies in due course.

Past news...
So, here we are.  The last two of the superpowers now are struggling to 
shift troops to the right locations to duel each other on the front lines.  
It looks like the battle grounds will begin in the underground, as our 
adversaries forces pulled a coup by seizing one region's capitol and 
recruiting enough reinforcments to fend off our shallowly supported follow 
up attack.  With that, it looks as though the new battlegrounds will be 
within this region, although we are not commiting any significant amount of 
resources to raise a vast army.
The bulk of our opponent's forces are within one army that has been roving 
uncharted grounds, and has so far been avoiding any major confrontation by 
our armies thus far.  We are preparing scouting parties to seek them out and 
harass them, hopefully to draw this single army into a trap, where six or 
seven armies of equal size to theirs will be able to easily dismiss any 
chance of a victory.  Once we are able to draw this single army into at 
least one major battle, then we will be able to trounce the enemy with 
stronger attacks along their shore lines.
Seeing as this fight may drag out over the next few months, we have been 
preparing our magical capacities to a much further extent.  Regions are now 
safer and better guarded with defensive spells than ever before, with still 
the ability to launch scathing magical attacks on random shires under the 
enemies control.  With the advent of new magical locations and buildings, we 
have been able to incorporate new enchanted items that further our heros' 
abilities.

Not so new news:
Again we have suffered a setback in our struggle to defeat both of our 
enemies.  Aragoth has foiled us a several key locations abroad, and we do 
not have the leadership to guide our troops to an outright victory.  Thus we 
are now providing our troops of afar with magical support by blowing up the 
main volcano stronghold on that island.  This is actually been the first 
successful test of the new destructive magics that has recently been 
learned.  In the coming months furthur testing will be conducted, and in the 
end an attack will be launched upon our other more pesky adversary.
Our other more tangible foe across the waters has been summoning beings onto 
our territories to try to wreak havoc on the people.  However, this has been 
the least of the effects that these so called 'dark lords' has done.  At 
most they have ruined only an acre of planted crops and chased off the local 
authorities.  An organized stalwart band of troops has again defeated this 
unintelligent foe, rendering it several notches below one of Aragoths lava 
legions.
We have been able to find another mode of transportation besides ocean going 
transports to move a vast amount of troops onto this other wizards isle, and 
we will be trying it out as we move several hero led armies onto an adjacent 
isle to aid in the fight against Aragoth.  Then we can slide our forces onto 
his territory on his weak side, pouncing on any troops that still might 
claim allegiance to this inferior self-proclaimed 'dark mage'.  In due time, 
the coming winter may prove his last.


More not so new news:
So the problem now lies in defeating any enemy abroad, as it appears we will 
never reach an agreement on how or even why we should band together to 
defeat Arrogoth.  Therefor, we have decided to add more pressure to this 
adversarie's realm, pushing it's borders, and continue with unrelenting 
assaults to keep his forces at bay while we explore the mystery behind 
Arrogoth.  So far we have been able to piece a preliminary plan together, as 
we have been gathering our strongest vessels to carry our most prized 
warriors over the seas to Arrogoth's island.  Lava legions still claim the 
majority of the volcanic territories, but this has been a pitched battle 
that whose tide will soon be turned with a young new leader at the crest of 
our tidal wave of troops, ready to wash away any signs of the vile beings.



Old news:
Well, well, well.
I am back.  A very tough battle was fought with the lava legions, but 
eventually we prevailed.  That is not great news to our enemies, as they 
will no doubt redouble their efforts to strengthen their strongholds and 
increase their armies.  Our armies will swell greater than any they will 
ever see, and with our new found hope we will crush them and push them back 
to their own gates.

Again we fended off the surmounting numbers of lava legions that threaten to 
take our capital, and again we have lost more of our increasingly valuable 
troops.  We have surveyed the situation and although bleak, we feel we are 
on the cusp of turning the tide against the hordes of lava legions.  Their 
numbers have been lower due to them spreading out through what used to be 
under our control, and as such have fallen on two instances as we reclaimed 
two small shires for our kingdom.  As the central core of lava legions has 
finally dropped below a tally of two hundred, we are planning to launch a 
three prong attack against them to retake our lands.  We have already 
decided to cut our losses and not to push our luck or resources too far by 
trying to defeat the whole mass of them, but to just cut them down piece by 
piece as we free the lands shire by shire.  Since they have no leader to 
strike down, we can see no sense in tackling the central force of lava 
legions at this time.  Good luck to all those out there dealing with the 
same enemies of arrogoth!

We have fought the lava legions continuously, and yet they still not only 
wipe out our attacking forces, they retaliate by pushing us further on our 
heels, and now finally we can be pushed no more.  We have started to erect 
more complex defensive structures as the lava legions have only plowed 
through all of our other attempts to slow them down.  They have been cutting 
into our resource supplies, and have eliminated several key territories that 
we have been relying upon for precious metals.  Soon we hope reclaim part of 
the ground we lost to them, as well as discover new grounds on newly 
discovered islands.  Unfortunately, we will have to battle for them as well, 
seeing as arrogoths shock troops have pervaded even the smallest of nooks on 
these islands.


And the Lava Legions continue to harass us to no end, as they destroyed 
approximately one quarter of our land forces without taking a single loss.  
This was due mostly to the unexpected arrival of reinforcements for them, as 
they amassed a total of almost three hundred that struck first and 
devistated our attacking troops with their vicious ranged attacks that we 
could not get through.  Even the communication runners were mercilessly 
slain, and all were left gutted on the field of battle with no hope of 
retrieving much needed resources such as their armor or weapons.  As the 
Lava Legions have claimed the field of battle, we are keeping a careful eye 
on them from overhead as they seem unable to match the ability of flight.  
This might ultimately be the weakness that we have been looking for...

Still there is no indication of surrounding outsiders, and now we are 
preparing to take the initiative to explore in a more aggressive way to 
locate potential allies nearby.  So far the first scouts have reported no 
encounters with any humanoid life of any kind in the limited scope of lands 
they have ventured in thus far.

However, we did have our first encounters with some of Arrogoth's minions.  
We have dubbed these vicious creatures 'Lava Legions' as they amble along, 
pushing their great masses forward leaving a path of charred ground in their 
wake.

They prove to be capable fighters in close as well as from afar - they slung 
great burning pieces of themselves at a long bows distance, and they 
lumbered quickly out of the way of our piercing spears.  Once they were hit, 
they began to loose their strength and faultered enough for our champion 
fighters to end the evil beasts.

As we have moved into some of the outer surrounding lands we have been 
received very well by the peoples that are native to them.  Already we have 
befriended several tribes of minotaurs and we have also run into another 
peculiar species of humanoid who call themselves 'demi-humans.'  Their 
stature is even shorter than our own, yet their build is very slight and it 
is rumored that their bones are hollow to allow them to leap from tree to 
tree with ease like a flitting sparrow.  They can see very far, and spotted 
us from a much greater distance than we ever noticed them.  At first we 
thought them to be elves, but we have seen elves venture into our lands 
often enough for us to be familiar with their haughty ways.  Either way we 
are glad for their company and we willingly accept them as friends and 
comrads, and we sang together -

'Lo the yonder mountain speaks
it is not the dwarves which it seeks
for the great hill grumbles and stirs
and still we continue our mirth!'

We also asked them how long they have been seeing the Lava Legions roam 
about their lands, and they mentioned they were tracking the very one that 
we had defeated after loosing several of our bravest warriors.  We told them 
of the costly victory and they immediately sympathized, adding that next 
time they would like to stand at our side, helping to defend us and aiding 
in the slaying of the beasts.

The minotaurs have decided to accept the governorship of their lands by us, 
as they have no real city to which they lay a claim to organize.  Although 
they are a tough race, their lack of organization and leadership finds them 
wont for good defenses.  They have agreed to be led by us without question 
to be directed taxed in order to build a suitable defense for their people 
to fight Arrogoth's forces from the nearby volcano.  After the news of the 
encounters with the Lava Legions spread, a certain limited panic set in, 
disturbing everyone to their core, and making the people realize the 
certainty that a war is brewing.
   

  
Again, We seek to build more structures 
within our growing capital, however without the raw materials nor the means 
to gather them we are left in a lurch, a halfway point on many of our 
buildings as they stand half completed in our city.  For our lands are 
barren of most of the materials that are required for building places to 
worship and gather.  For we should also like to prepare a blacksmith a new 
home, so that he can prepare great weapons and train apprentices to work 
more quickly and accurately for the good of our kingdom.
The waves of the sea lap the borders of our expansive kingdom, and we are 
ill prepared for any type of marine based assalt upon our own shores.  For 
this we do not know what to do, for if we could we would construct watch 
towers to survey the seas at great distances, or perhaps we would create 
walls to keep intruders at bay.  But alas, we cannot even begin to think 
about such devices until we have the means to provide for them, and 
supposedly we would need to increase our capabilities in our main city to 
provide more of a base of knowledge to allow us such options in the future.  
And quickly we must move, for we sit next to the very volcano that Arrogoth 
once inhabitted so long ago, and it could be the very gate from which his 
minions pour into our world from.  We hope that no others among the isles 
share the same fate of being so very near the deadly volcanos and their 
poisonous gases and choking ash.

The best scout that was to investigate the very heart of the active, 
rumbling mountain, has not returned, nor has any trace of him been found.  
Within a few miles of his course we found another charred trail of a Lava 
Legion that was long cold  For it now points only to Arrogoth as the blame 
for the dangerous mountain's sudden reawakening, with no previous 
indications beyond the speculations that Arrogoth has begun the process of 
putting his devious plans into motion.

We cannot plug up the monsterous hill, for that will only cause the pressure 
underneath to build until it's irresistable power destroys all the 
surrounding lands, meaning the absolute defeat of our own cause.  We need to 
tap the mountain, to ease it's pains and take away it's fearsome bite.  How 
to do this, how to properly achieve a plan to carefully sap the mountain's 
power like a parasitic leech without getting caught in it's overwealming 
fury has so far perplexed us.
So in this we finally concede that we need to enlist the help of a 
mercenary, a hired hero to assist us with this most dangerous task.  Perhaps 
he will know what to do to achieve sucess in this endevor, but then again, a 
hired mercenary may just turn sides as easily and quickly as day turns to 
night.

So upon his first introduction to our camp he will be informed of his task, 
being first to investigate the volcano thoroughly for any signs that can 
help us, to look for any weakness that it may have, to see if there are any 
hidden tricks to the hill that our scouts cannot witness.  And along with 
him shall go a small troop of men to ensure that he tells all of which he 
sees, and they will accompany him everywhere that he goes, to ensure his 
protection and ours.  Once he gains our trust, it is then that we will let 
him lead our armies into battles and it is then that we shall rely upon his 
judgement to make decisions that mean life or death to not only our troops, 
but to the entire dwarven community at Camp Jollymount.  We hope this is the 
beginning of a beautiful friendship.

  
It is also becoming clear the need to 
begin production of magical energies.  In this endevor we are currently 
lacking in breadth and depth in all subjects and we need desparately to make 
up ground and quickly.  Unfortunately, we are uncertain which way to press 
our knowledge and what the fruits of certain types of research would be.  If 
we knew what the possible effects of each type of magic, then we would have 
more direction and feel more confident about what we would like to develop 
and what we would wish to avoid.

Obviously we are very adament about not sinking even a moment of our time or 
resources into the Dark or Necromatic arts, as they are so very often linked 
to evil and the destruction of one's spirit and the spirits of others.  We 
are somewhat suspicious of the Druidic arts as well, for they often are too 
passionate about there own craft that any who do not appreciate what they do 
or do not understand to their degree they have a tendancy to cast out of 
their ranks as an undeserving outsider, incapable of learning the finer 
things that exist and thrive in all things and elements.

So therefor our path shall begin as neutral as a newborn babe, with no 
awareness of the good and evil of magic, just the outcome that it can 
create, and to be content with simple abject bliss of knowing for 
knowledge's sake.
With the presence of winter, our food production has 
been lessened as only the winter grains will grow.  Our herds may feast upon 
this and our food may still be ever flowing, but it is nothing compared to 
the vast stores that are saved by just the eve of summer.  Such harty 
supplies should be saved for these times of war and should be considered 
bountiful compared to times that may come ahead.

The winter has also hindered the swiftness of our scouts, as the undefined 
roadways are difficult to navigate by swiftest of runners, no matter how 
deftly their feet glide along the ground.  Soon spring will reawaken us to a 
new year, when typically we rejoice with lively events, but this year is 
forshadows nothing but the ill tidings of war.  The fruit of this spring 
will be nothing but the permeating sense of evil nearby, of the growing 
feeling of urgency to do something but never knowing what, of being trapped 
in a cage that grows ever smaller with each passing day but not knowing what 
to do to reverse the tightening grip that seizes us in a stranglehold.  For 
Arrogoth is a calamity waiting to happen to us all, to affect all of us in 
one way or another, either directly or through the separation of loved ones 
as they go off to fight in distant lands whose names are hard to pronounce 
and whose peoples are strange and frightening.


One such people are the plainsmen to our north, as they are a nomadic 
people, swift on the plains and hard to please with friendly words.  They 
walk boldly upright, towering lofty over our heads, and they stride and 
openly and haughtily to show their might, and often compete in rough games 
in which some have been known to die.  They speak of fallen heroes of the 
past, and when pressed for more tales of the old days, they hush and slink 
away, except for a few of the elders who tell the stories of a time when 
Arrogoth ruled them all.  It is these stories that we are most fascinated 
with, capturing every detail and sifting through all of their words to see 
how Arrogoth was defeated once so long ago.

They tell all they can of the deeds of their heroes of the past, and each 
passing tale that they weave becomes more and more grim.  Finally they begin 
to preach of the day when Arrogoth will come back, when he will seek again 
to rule them, and again that they must fight for their freedom to roam the 
plains.  At this the tribal leaders scoff the elders, dening the existance 
of any such unspeakable horror in the first place let alone his revival.  
Our emissaries did not speak of Arrogoth to them or persist that he does 
exist and is coming soon, but rather simply listened to what they had to 
say, gaining their trust and hopefully their companionship despite their 
rough hardy lifestyle.

We hope not to overinflate our neighbors egos too much, and they know not to 
flaunt their strength too boldly about their deeds, as they were once 
enslaved by Arrogoth in the days of old unlike ourselves, and they have been 
waiting for us to admit that at one time we too had been under the control 
of Him.  But we have not, which may make us look all the more hardy and free 
than their race to them, and it saps their competitive spirits.

We hope that all of us, whether halfling, minotaur, plainsman, dwarf, or 
even elf, can get along well enough to work together side by side to beat 
Arrogoth at his own cruel games of war.

With all of us united across our lands we have found out that all of the 
races are very comparable to one another, and with teamwork we hope to be 
able to provide the best answer to Arrogoth's violence.  We are all his 
enemy, and the enemy of our enemy is our friend.  So I ask of all of you 
brave leaders, will you join us?  Will you strengthen the bonds of our races 
into one common united front with which to smash the enemy?  Or will you 
continue to betray the free peoples of the Isles with the insistance of 
being stubbornly independant, seeking to doom us all with dreams of glory 
for no one other than yourself no matter what the cost.  We pity such 
dreams.











About Camp Jollymount





Us vs. 
Arrogoth





Where do you 
stand?





The future 
of the Isles
















Frequently Asked Questions About 
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Nameless Wizard

Hill Dwarf Commander


e-mail to: matsuo@bishoujosenshi.com 


Arrogoth shall fall 
because good is not dumb!





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