+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Olympia Times Blossom bloom year 25 | | October 2, 2017 | | | | turn 195, 28 players olympia@shadowlandgames.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Questions, comments, to play: http://www.shadowlandgames.com/olympia Olympia PBEM * * * * * * =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Player-contributed press =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rumors =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is the Orphan Age: The horde came out of the west and laid waste to the world, slaughtering all in their path - they did not worry about the niceties of civilized war. They killed everyone, soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor - women, children, elderly -- no matter to them because it was all colateral damage. Some of the battlefields were inches deep in blood and gore. Suddenly, the horde was gone leaving a vacuum to be filled. There was war - leaving very few alive, of those few there were the corpse robbers slipping and sliding through the gore (carefully for if they fall into the gore, they change). There were a few who took charge and began the task of building pyres, including remains of the horde lending subtext to 'pyrhhric victory'; there were those who attempted to follow in the hordes' footsteps but were torn to pieces by a war-weary populace. Following the war was pestilence and following that was famine. Civilization was reduced to small domains separated by vast tracts of wilderness. In the interstices of these demesnes were the orphans; the few survivors of the massacres that had no reason to trust anyone but themselves. How they survived the horde is almost as varried as the orphans themselves, some survived beneath dead family, some were in the fields - their ages ranged from pre-verbal to pre-teen. They competed with corpse robbers for basic needs until =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=