+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Olympia Times Snowmelt year 23 | | June 5, 2017 | | | | turn 178, 36 players olympia@shadowlandgames.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Questions, comments, to play: http://www.shadowlandgames.com/olympia Olympia PBEM * * * * * * =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Player-contributed press =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rumors =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The instructions were simple. Teach the tribe a lesson that will resound throughout the world - Anyone under our protection is sacrosanct. In the far north, a chieftain decided that he could torture and kill an envoy traveling under our protection - who knows what he was thinking but whatever it was, the world must be disabused of the notion that there is a limit to our reach and that they can survive our retribution. My instructions were to meet the tribe unarmed, tell them my purpose and what it was I was going to do. Of course I was beaten into unconsciousness and beaten continuously until they threw me into an ice house. There was a narrow hole in the ceiling to allow the smoke from the small fire to escape; the door was bricked up with blocks of ice which was then coated with layers of water that froze solid in minutes. There was no possible means of exit, even with the fire in the middle of room the air was barely above freezing. Outside, the tribe was celebrating their victory over the single, simple monk that dared to tweak them. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=