A Spartan Future

[Maion Maroneios]

Sure, that's completely fine.

Maion

[Celtic_Punk]

There will be An update but no battles or progression of time... just a story of the Olympics... Which I am finishing up right now.

[Gleemonex]

a story of the Olympics

Nice! I love little tangents like that. Looking forward to it.

-Glee

[Celtic_Punk]

lol sorry I disappeared, went to jersey for the weekend (dont ever ever ever drive to jersey... by the time you pass pensylvannia you need to drop a leak and you feel like your in a prison cell sitting in that car.)

I'll be finishing the write up tonight and it'll be posted mid-day tomorrow EST

[Celtic_Punk]

Chapter something...

King Akrotatos stood firm... This was HIS ring afterall! Young Tellianos of Thebes stood opposite... He was not intimidated the slightest. He WAS the other finalist. 5 people had died already in the ring that day. "FIGHT!" So starts the most brutal of all sports. Pankration... I myself dare not enter... Not after what I've seen personally! The 190lbs Thebean was lifted above the King, he threw him about 10 feet away, but the boy shot up like an arrow, charged forth and unleashed a fury of blows, under which a lesser man would have been slain by. Our King parried blow after blow like his hands were shields and his arms were blades. The fight seemed to go well, and was very exciting. Nobody could tell who would be the victor. Each round proved to have a different man besting the other. Till the final round that is. It was cut short horribly. The Thebean rushed forward, threw the Spartan king over his shoulder, punched down but missed, Akrotatos rolled to his right, hopped up and shot the boy in the neck with his fist. He made a horrible gurgling sound as blood spewed from his mouth. He flailed around trying to gain some bearing, falling over himself. the horrible scene lasted 5 minutes, with onlookers shocked and horrified. They'd seen men die in the ring... But this boy was but 19, had much promise, and to end with such a gruesome death was quite chilling. He knew the risks... It was all part of what you accepted when you entered that ring.. Especially with.. A Spartan.

[Maion Maroneios]

Nice chapter there, mate. Always liked Pankration, wanted to do some lessons this year as well, but University seems to get the best of me

Maion

[PriestLizard]

Rated R.

Nice chapter ;)

[theoldbelgian]

I got one problem with this actually
wasn't thebes raised to the ground save for the temples and a house of a famous writer by alexandros after they rebelled? or was it rebuild later

[PriestLizard]

Yup Thebes was completely destroyed by Alexander - but it was eventually rebuilt later. During the wars following the death of Alexandros, Thebes did already play an important role again and I think they led some kind of league against Kassandros or Demetrios... I'm not sure (pls correct me). That was arround 300 BC.

So in 272 BC and later, Thebes was indeed present again and so theres no prob with the story.

[Celtic_Punk]

Shorter than I wanted it to be, but I have less and less time to be pissing about, The time i spend on the forums here are because ive got the computer on most of the day, while i go rushing about running errands.
I actually wrote this today, minutes before i posted it. I'm going to continue to update this AAR but updaets will be once a week maybe twice at most.

[Gleemonex]

So, when are those Spartans going to win their Helots back?



-Glee

[Celtic_Punk]

opk so maaaaaaaaaaaybe not once a week... But i'm back baby!!!!! And your gunna ACTUALLY see updates regularly! Next Update is comin on Weds!!!!! KEEP AN EYE OUT!

[Maion Maroneios]

That was about time

Maion

[Celtic_Punk]

ok maybe not wednesday... I wrote a little bit of stuff, mostly drafts, but i havent gotten around to getting on the game... I will need to review whats happened (sorry) so far, and such, and reassess where i want to take the story. Rest assured, I wont let this fall back into the dusty bookshelf again. I promise lots of death rape and pillage!

[Maion Maroneios]

ok maybe not wednesday... I wrote a little bit of stuff, mostly drafts, but i havent gotten around to getting on the game... I will need to review whats happened (sorry) so far, and such, and reassess where i want to take the story. Rest assured, I wont let this fall back into the dusty bookshelf again. I promise lots of death rape and pillage!

Don't worry too much. Take your time, just remember there lads out here who want to see a Spartan Future

Maion

[Phalanx300]

Nice AAR, Spartan power!

or is there already another word for non spartans who do the agoge?

I found this word on wikipedia, as far as it can be trusted :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophimoi