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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9124861" data-attributes="member: 6999616">This was the Avalon campaign, an extra session out of the weekly cycle. The main Monday night party has a completely unofficial™ new job.The large country of Greensward, to the south of our home in Landcentre, has been having a civil war for over a year. That consists of two of its northern sub-kingdoms, led by the Temple of Set, against the centre of the country. More recently, one of the southernmost sub-kingdoms, Coastmarch, seems to have taken over its neighbour to the east, Southmarch, and is making war on the centre. Adding to the complications, the city of Petersport, also in the south of Greensward, which spent 40 years with all of its people transformed into undead, has had most of them returned to life.The form of government in Greensward is . . . repressive. The nobility are in charge of absolutely everything, and have a lot of control over their magicians and priests. Their peasants are bound to the land, and taxed heavily. Landcentre was founded by groups that left Greensward and headed north. They created a much more egalitarian society. So the idea of rebellions in Greensward is appealing. Landcentre has also learned recently that quite a few of the nobles of Landcentre are secretly worshippers of the "One True Church of Evil" which seems like another good reason to remove them from power.Petersport killed off its nobility after everyone was transformed into undead, and now has a council-based government. It has no interest in being re-integrated into Greensward and is sheltering runaway peasants. They are still growing crops, but they get to sell their produce rather than just have it taken from them.So Petersport is happy to cooperate with Landcentre in peeling sub-kingdoms away from Greensward. The Monday night party will be assisting with that. The "bard solo" was a PC, not part of the Monday night group, who spent a few weeks travelling through Southmarch and Coastmarch, entertaining anybody who wanted it, and learning what's going on there. The Southmarch troops are largely keen on the conflict, but there are almost no Southmarch nobles around, suggesting they've been eliminated or imprisoned. The stalemate is because there's a severe winter going on, with far too much snow on the ground for military operations. Lots of logistic preparations are going on to get ready for spring.</blockquote>

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