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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Levitator" data-source="post: 3096040" data-attributes="member: 40099"><p>Well, with the player character out of the way, the older brother came back to reclaim his rightful place as chieftan, and was embraced by the tribe because he convinced them that his father banished him because the father was planning to join with a nearby tribe on really bad terms.  This was easy to do because he was obviously alive, so the father lied to the tribe when he told them his oldest son was dead.  Firmly entrenched as Chieftan, the brother put a bounty out on his traitorous brother (the player character) and even enlisted the help of the neighboring tribe which made things even tougher for the player.  At some point, the player caught a break.  As is usually the case with power hungry egomaniacs, the older brother forgot about those who helped him rise to the top.  One of his buddies actually helped in the assassination.  He helped to get the chieftan alone and vulnerable by distracting the chieftan's bodyguards.  But the older brother cast him aside, and eventually he got pissed enough to leave the tribe.  The accomplice was eventually found by the player, and by that time, he had worked his way in pretty good with a rival tribe that had since relocated.  They had an axe to grind with the older brother as he had helped the neighboring tribe run them out.  So the player sided up with some members of the rival tribe and, armed with the new information, returned to confront his brother and his tribe.  The player tricked his older brother into admitting some details of the assassination and the tribal council exploded.  There was an instant division in the tribe and there was almost a civil war.  To show the tribe that the gods approved of him being chieftan, the player offered his rightful place at the throne in a battle for the throne with his older brother.  It was a pretty long battle as it was hand-to-hand, but the player prevailed.  To show the tribe that he meant business and would make a decisive and firm chieftan, he ruled that the punishment for his treacherous brother was to be dragged to death.  Oh, and the player, just to be sure, rode the horse himself.  That seemed like a fitting end to that campaign because this particular player didn't have any actual interest in becoming a political leader in a campaign, so we just closed the book on the campaign, picturing the player's character riding off into the sunset, with just a little bit of his brother, following closely after.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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