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nichodemus
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All was well in the Kingdom of Armor. For three thousand years, the country existed in a blissful golden age. The Kings had been benevolent, ruling justly. The latest of this line was King McNeely VII. He was assisted by a wise, noble council, the Council of Armor. The people were contented, all 215,000 of them. Crime level was virtually nil, except for the odd spammer. All was right, till three months ago.

The founder of the McNeely Dynasty whose name has now been lost to the ages had fought an evil being, the Naughty Sorceress Carlie at the Beginning of Time to gain control of the Kingdom and free the people whom Carlie had enslaved. He succeeded after an epic battle, banishing her to the Far North, imprisoning her in Castle Lupravia. For three millennium, she bided her time, gathered her forces and retrained herself in the dark artsâ¦

Now terror stalks the land. Carlie struck back finally, leading vast hordes from the Void across the land. The King was taken by surprise and imprisoned in a plexiglass prism, unable to break free. The Council was corrupted, a shadow of its former glorious self. One by one the great lords of the Council felt their will submitting to Carlie. The Naughty Sorceress granted a few of them great powers, throwing the weaker ones in the cell with the King. The Lord Morgreche, Keeper of the Royal Seal, was turned into the Prince of Spookiness. Duke Ubertuna, Chief Justice of the King was through a mysterious ritual resurrected as the Lord of Cold, installed in Castle Lupravia. Sir Devoidless, Commander of the Royal Guards resurfaced as the Viscount of Heat and was sent to the Desert of Skulls to the South. Dank, the ex-kingâs Royal Treasurer succumbed to the Sorceress, receiving the title Knight of the Sleaze. Lastly, Baron Strop appeared as the Tsar of Stench, ruling the Capital, Jacinto as a puppet of Carlie.

The populace was terrified; creatures of the night appeared and took them to the Sorceressâ lair, evil experiments conducted on them where their brains were altered, so they spoke in perfect grammar and talked less etc. Their freedom of speech was lost; there was acute food shortage, general mayhem⦠The most hated and drastic change was that SPAM meat was banned.

But not all was lost. One of the Councilmen had escaped and raised an army. The great Spamlord Jaza rose. The angry peasants flocked to his side, gathering whatever weapons they could find. Mercenary groups from other nations rushed over and joined the Grande Armée. Leetomancers once the Royal Mages of the King led by their Archmage, Demus sided with him. Rebellion quickly ensued, chaos reigned.

The Sorceress responded with haste. The Five Lords gathered their armies, the core of which comprised the Loyalists, men who had been tricked, coaxed to join the Sorceress. Void monsters were summoned from magical portals. War was inevitable.

It came. Lord Jaza trounced the Sorceressâ forces at the Battle of Tortuga. He captured more than half the Kingdom. But it was not to last. The Sorceress by some unspeakable black magic conjured up the Grey Plague, and slowly Jaza started losing ground, losing fortress after fortress. Just two weeks after the first battle, Jaza had lost half of his men to the epidemic. One Mercenary Captain left. Merciless, a hardened warrior had lost hope and defected with his army. With this betrayal, all was lost.

At the last skirmish fought, the Battle of Aether, Jazaâs army was utterly massacred, weakened by disease and with little will to fight. The Sorceressâ Void wizards drove Jazaâs army of the battleground. Her Spam Clubbers and Troll Tamers slew all of Jazaâs Leetomancers, decisively ending the battle. Jaza was captured, and thrown into a dirty pest infected jail cell, constantly tortured to give up his spamming ways.

When the victorious army left, the battlefield was strewn with mutilated bodies, survivors groaning and lying on the ground, the ravens of war circling above. As lone wolf gave a mournful howl, a dark figure rose weakly from the ground. Demus had survived, thirsty for revenge. For Jaza, for his Brother Mages ⦠It has begunâ¦

(~To be continued~)


Disclaimer: Any reference to people and their namesâ, real or fictitious is very very regrettable and unfortunate. All work was written by nichodemus though certain elements have been inspired by Armor Games, the fighting fantasy series and KOL (Kingdom of Loathing). Thank you. More will follow.

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jaza_m
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Woot i dont know why but i absoulutly love it!!!

nichodemus
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Hmm sorry the funny symbols are " ...". Not sure why when I copied them over from microsoft, they changed. Sorry about that!

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Bard

Lastly, Baron Strop appeared as the Tsar of Stench


Wow, that's quite a change in my job description there!

As I told Thoad, be absolutely sure that you get the okay from other people whose names you are using, despite that disclaimer, since some may object and you're publishing this within the domain that you are deriving this story from.
nichodemus
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Hmm Ill change some in the next sequel so people wont complain.

Merciless_Mercenary
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@ nichodemus
haha it's o.k that's kind of a compliment i guess.

Cenere
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This story seems rather mocking to the moderators. And have little to do with AG as a whole.
If you chnaged the names, and found another word for the spammers, well, no one would know it was AG, or Kingdom of Armor...

And Word kills stories. A good piece of advice would be to C/P it into notepad before posting, and then C/P it from notepad to here.
And stop using special signs as ' over e and all that, because AG cannot figure those signs out.

nichodemus
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Special signs???? No those funny symbols are actually "..." but somehow they messed up when I transferred from micosoft word to AG. and no it isn't mocking the mods! I just like to incoparate AG in a fantasy medieval theme. Ans based loosely on recent events in AG if you paid attention to the subtle details Cenere...

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And "arme", I think. But pasting from word to AG is always just stupid. Even if it is only " and '-over-e, Ag will ruin it.

Ans based loosely on recent events in AG if you paid attention to the subtle details Cenere...

Like the "giant spamming of Jaza"? (no offense)
Besides my wording was "seems rather mocking". Not that it was.

But yeah, try and c/p it from word to notepad to AG next time, it might kill off some of those fluffed up signs, and make'em right.
nichodemus
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Oh you mean the e. it isnt extra. Grandee Armee was the French name for Napoleons gigantic army. >.< I copied the actual term from wiki, it had French words in it and hence...

Cenere
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Did I say it was extra? I just say it had an e-acute in it, which Ag does not allow, and it end up looking like this é.

nichodemus
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I intepretated "over e" wrongly. i don't speak French anyway apart from the "mocking" tone what was ok, what was wrong, what was good etc.

Cenere
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Well, it seems a little messy to me, your writing. It is often okay as many users here are not the very best writers (I am not one of them either, I just read a lot). Most people go tl;dr on walls of text, and even though you have made paragraphs, some of these should probably have been a little smaller (not through double linebreaks, just a single one)
I usually make the same mistake of writing blocks of text, and the outweirded signs often makes it worse.

And... Maybe more detail. Because this seems a little .. what to call it... shallow. Like a quick overlook of the events. Of course this can be explained through the use of prologs, but then next chapter should probably settle down on one or two persons and follow them in one fashion or another. This will make it a less confusing and more indepth narrative.
And if I was evil, I would throw my homework after you (narrative, genre and storytelling), but I do not have it on the computer, so I will refrain from doing that.

nichodemus
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Well actually the second part would focus on Demus, this is a very brief introduction.

Cenere
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Good enough. I am sure you will do a great job, then.

jaza_m
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Nomad

I am the great Spam lord!!

(even though i dont meen to spam i just ask to many questions....)

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