You wake up from what you can only describe as the worst nightmare that you've had in your entire life. You regain your composure and suit up for the oncoming battle. Today is the day that the war ends.
Wearing your armor and holding you helm under your arm you exit your tent to see that every legionary is preparing for the siege. You're probably going to be requested to meet with the Centurion before the troops start to move the towers.
[[Inspect the troops]]
[[Meet with the Centurion]]
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(set: $check to 0)}You walk through the camp and look over soldiers as they prepare for the oncomming fight. Most don't have armor as heavy as yours, and their weapons are not quite as well made as your own. But each weapon is still more than capable of the job it was made for, striking an enemy down. Their sheilds can cover most of their body at any given time.
The legionaries are ready for battle. Most seem nervous. That's a normal responce considering what all of you are about to go up aginst.
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[[Meet with the Centurion]]You walk into the Centurion's command tent and are greeted by Alexandrios. The Centurion of The Legion. The greatest leader you've ever known.
"Commander, I hope that you rested well and are ready for this." He says as you walk in.
"I am, sir" you reply, only half lying to him.
"I trust that the men are the same"
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[[Ask the plan]]
[[Prepare for battle]]"Yes, they are."
"Good, then today may actually go well""I'm not sure sir, I haven't inspected the camp yet"
"That's unfortunate, we'll have to hope for the best as we're running out of time""What's the plan for today?" you ask looking over the map of the city your forces have had encircled for just under a month.
"We push the towers into place and swarm the walls. those forces will open the gate for the rest to swarm the city. Hopefully their surrender comes soon after, I don't want to waste too many lives today."
"Have they made their choice on you yet?"
"This battle will decide it."
Alexandrios has always shown a distain for leading legions to their deaths in the name of the gods. That may be why they took such a great intrest in him and commanded him to wage this war. While you don't know what they have said to him you know that he has been promised something if this campaign goes well. As his first commander you know that if good things happen for him good things will happen for you.
[[Get ready for the Seige]]You Prepare your equipmet for the oncoming fight. You don't know what to fully expect but you know that whenever you fight at the back of Alexandrios it's a battle that even the gods of war would envy.
The infantry and battle mages move into fromation around the siege towers as the horns blow to signal them to start moving. a final valley of trebuchets and catapults unleashes onto the wall. You take your place next to Alexandrios.
[[To Battle! -> code]]You Prepare your equipment and take your place next to Alexandrios as the infantry and battle mage formations assemble near the two massive siege towers. Alexandrios give the orders then horns blow and the trebuchets and catapults fire one last volley at the walls.
You push forward with the legion ready for the fight of a lifetime.
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(if: $loop is 1) [(goto: "Day 1")]The troops move forward taking volley after volley of arrows from the defenders on the wall. Battle mages fire back and shield the troops as well as they can but men are still falling left and right.
It takes time but the siege towers make it to the wall and troops start to climb up. Alexandrios tells you that you and him will be going up on the wall.
[[Climb the tower]]The Legion throws itself against the walls of the defending army. As soon as the siege towers are in place forces start to climb up and swarm the top of the wall. Alexandrios says that you are with the forces that will be moving through the gate when it opens.
It takes time but the gate to the walls opens up. You and Alexandrios rush in with the rest of the legion and move through the remaining defenders. The battle at the gate is quick as the defenders get overwhelmed by forces. As you and Alexandrios move to the keep of the city. You're met by the more defenders of the city. They took you by suprise and surrounded you. Alexandrios calls for forces to push forward.
[[Push forward]]
[[Defend the back]]
Alexandrios tells you that you will be leading the middle of the charge with him. This is unusual as he likes to lead from the front.
You watch as the forces storm the top of the wall, and a wall of flames comes out of the gatehouse to keep troops back. The gates then open and you see that the forward forces got ambushed but managed to fight their way out. Along with pushing their way through the enemies final stand in front of the keep.
You walk into the thrown room of the main keep with Alexandrios and are greated by the opposing King and his general. They refuse to surrender.
Alexandrios leans to you and says "I fight whichever you don't"
[[Fight the King]]
[[Fight the general]]As the Legion starts to move on the city Alexandrios pulls you aside. and hands you a sheathed.
"Today you go where you think we will be needed the most. Take this blade and you will be the master of your own fate." He says.
"Are you sure sir?" You reply.
"Yes, I won't lead you to your death anymore"
The Siege towers land on the walls as a force waits to rush in the gate as it opens and the mid forces prepare to clean up the city after the group in front of them breaks the enemy lines.
[[Lead the walls]]
You and Alexandrios climb the tower to see the chaos that has started to unfold on the walls. While the forces have gained a foothold for more of the legion to make it to the walls its a bloodbath for both sides. Alexandrios moves to command a sheild wall that has formed to take the gate house.
[[Support the shield wall]]
[[Secure the back]]You move with Alexandrios and the 10 men that have formed up on you both as you all begin to fight your way to the gatehouse. The gods must have smiled on all of you because you are able to push relitivly unscaved as you cut down your enemies.
As you approch the doorway for the gatehouse everything goes wrong. From a balcany above the doorway 2 mages cast a fire that takes up the entire width of the wall. None of the shield wall is able to dodge. You manage to push Alexandrios out of the way as you are overtaken by the flames.
As your vision goes red from the heat and starts to fade you can hear Alexandrios call out then the world turns a shade of blue as everything goes black.
[[Wake up]]You decide to take command of the men who are facing away from the gate house and make sure that Alexandrios doesn't get surrounded. Your group manages to hold the line against a good number of enemies that throw themselves against your shields an blades.
After a few minutes that felt like hours of fighting an approching enemy shieldwall ducks to reveal a line of archers that loose a volley. Caught by suprise you get hit and fall. You look to Alexandrios who turned back to see you on the ground. He drops his shield and a ball of light manifests in his hand. The world turns a shade of blue and seems to freeze as your vision fades.
[[Wake up]] You push up with Alexandrios and break the encirclement. A good number of legonaires were killed by the forces behind but after breaking through most of the enemy forces fled at that sight of you and Alexandrios fighting side by side.
As you continue to push the defenders make their last stand in front of the keep. Fighting throught the mass of defenders you find yourself seperated from the Alexandrios and the legonaires and starting to be overwhelmed. You make eye contact with Alexandrios as an enemy cuts to back of your knee and you fall. You hear Alexandrios call for you as everything begins to slow down and the world takes on a blue tint. You vision fades to black as enemies encircle you and start to finish you off.
[[Wake up]] As the troops push forward with Alexandrios and break out of the encirclment you move to the back of the formation to keep them as safe as you can.
You strike down at least 10 enemies before they manage to overwhelm you and find the gaps in your armor. You fall with a dog pile of them on you stabing away.
Seconds later you feel them fall off one by one as you hear slashing. You're rolled onto your back by Alexandrios, who's face goes pale as he sees your condition.
"Don't worry." He says as he lifts his hand turing everything around you a shade of blue before you're vision goes black.
[[Wake up]]You draw your sword and rush towards the king as Alexandrios rushes the general. The king fought well dispite his older age. After fighting him for a few minutes you manage to beat him back and down onto one knee. That when his general turned to strike you instead of Alexandrios. You dodge the first sneak attack but the king pulled out a dagger and planted it right under your ribs.
As you fall Alexandrios strikes down the general and then the king who is supprised that he got you. Alexandrios comes to check on you and as you feel yourself fade he holds out a glowing hand. The world seems to get a blue tint as your vision fades out.
[[Wake up]] You draw your blade and rush the general letting Alexandrios take on the old king. You fight the general as Alexandrios beats the king back and down to one knee. Before the king can surrender the general take a swing of sword at Alexandrios. You jump in front of the blade to protect him.
Alexandrios quickly exicutes the king and finishes the general while your vision fades. He moves over to you with a glowing hand, the world takes on a blue tint as your vision fades away.
[[Wake up]] You and Alexandrios climb the siege tower to the top of the walls. You draw your new blade and it glows golden, enemy forces start to flinch at the sight of it moving thought the crowds.
[[Push to the gatehouse]]
[[Protect the rear]]Double-click this passage to edit it.Double-click this passage to edit it.You and Alexandrios push towards the gatehouse with new about 10 legionaries. As you close on the gatehouse you notice that there are no defenders near the doorway. You look up and see 2 men on the balcony.
[[Enter the gatehouse]]
You command a shield wall to hold the line as Alexandrios leads the rest of the men to the gatehouse.
The sheildwall holds. eventually an enemy shield wall forms and starts to march down the wall.
[[Rush the shieldwall]]
[[Call out archers]]As you move towards the opposing shield wall the front line of it ducks down revealing 5 archers who loose a volley into you.
You fall, as the sword drops it loses it's glow, your vision starts to fade but the world don't turn blue.You call out archers before the front row of the opposing shieldwall drops and exposes them. The volley of arrows only meets sheilds. Your men fight their way to the opposing shield wall and cut them all down.
After the fight you look to see the Legion passing into to city. You push on with the power of your new sword. By the time you get to the next wall the enemies send word of surrender.
This is victory. The final victory of Alexandrios the the Centurion of the Great Legion and the first victory of Alexandrios the God of Time.Double-click this passage to edit it.You close in on the gatehouse but as you do the 2 men you saw step forward and a wall of flames starts to stretch across the wall. The flames overtake you and everything goes red. You think you Hear Alexandrios over the roar of the flames.
Whatever he's saying is pointless though, after only a few seconds of the overwhelming pain everything goes black.