The Story of Souls: A Sweboz AAR

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Chapter Twenty Three: Demon's Rise
(From the Greek book:)
Spring 382AD

The coming of spring this year has changed many things. The skies cleared up quite a lot about three weeks ago. We have heard that the warlord of the barbaroi in the west has been soundly defeated and killed. The people of this polis cheered their hearts out at this news. For it not only means that men are now free to come to our aid and that crops will now grow in some part of the world, as well as health can return, but that these monsters are NOT invincible as they claim to be to us daily. In fact my cousin, emboldened by the news, told this to the barbaroi spewing their horrid tongue at us earlier this week. The "conversation" went like this, as far as i can remember.

The barbaroi were spewing their rhetoric at us in a vain attempt to get us to surrender as they had been for almost a year now. Then my cousin appeared upon the walls. The barbaroi's ambassador came up to the walls to greet us. "Greeting dog", the barbaros said in poor Greek, "you wish give up yourself? Or must pain continue" "Tell your foul leader that his days are numbered", my cousin said to the monster, "He will not survive this year!" At this the barbaros began laughing a hateful laugh. "And why this is dog?", he said after he was done laughing. "So you have not heard then filthy one? Well look at the sky. THAT at least should tell you something, that is unless your brains are to addled after gelding your mares to your pricks.", my cousin spat at the fool. He became very angry and started yelling at my cousin in a language i didn't understand nor, from the sound of it, did i WANT to understand it either. After he was done he looked at the sky and said, "I see nothing, just pain and hate, as sky should be dog." At that my cousin started laughing, really hard at the idiot. "You...you honestly do not see..", he said before he burst out laughing again. At this the barbaros became angry again. "WHAT TO SEE DOG?!?!?!", he roared. "You FOOL the Sun of course", my cousin told the barbaros. He looked up and saw the Sun, then he said to my cousin, "So, Sun always there, God Attila using more magic to beat you Rome friends down. When he finish them, come for you." "Not if he is DEAD idiot", my cousin said to him. "What you mean dog? He is God, he not die!", the foul one said to us. At this my cousin became enraged and yelled at the fool, "HE IS DEAD MONSTER!!!!! THAT DEMON HAS BEEN PUT DOWN AND SO WILL YOUR "MASTER" BLEDDA ALONG WITH YOUR WHOLE FUCKING MISBEGOTTEN RACE!!!!!!! SO RUN BARBAROS! RUN AS FAR AS YOU CAN, FOR YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY AND ONE TRUE GOD!!!!" At this the barbaros was too stunned to speak and immediately fled back to his camp. "Well", my cousin said, "I think THAT got the message across."
And with that the conversation ended. Id say it went over rather well. The number of barbaroi attacks has been significantly curtailed since the announcement. We think that the barbaroi might actually retreat. But i can only guess at this outcome.
But i must go for now, for i need to attend to courtly matters.

[julius_caesar_the_first]

I smell a plot twist. Great writing there Olaf. You should make this into a novel. It't really great stuff.