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Zoltan's Rule (Introductionary RP)

The Flame Drake Zoltan
24-09-2003, 18:17
Nervously walking down the corridor was young Smithe, one of the few civil servants left from last years ‘incident’. ‘Incident’ was the best for the events of last year because no matter how many times Smithe went over it in his mind; he couldn’t come to terms with what really happened.

Slowly and somewhat more quietly, Smithe approached the doors into the main lecture theatre in which his new leader lay quiet inside. Carefully, as though to make no sound, Smithe opened the double door and tip toed into the hall.

As strong breeze could be felt from the ceiling where the roof had been destroyed, opening up into the cool autumn air, with his hair standing up on his arms and legs, Smithe approached his lord, a dark figure laying in the middle of the stage on top a pile of valuable, shiny items.

The dark figure slowly rose as it heard Smithe walk in; though Smithe was sure he made no sound. In a deep voice, the figure spoke. “How long will it take to regain our military strength, Smithe?” It said in a calm fashion.

“Well… err… since you decimated most of them last year m’lord, we can only estimate that-” Smithe was interrupted, much to his dismay.

“I don’t want estimates Smithe, I want to know how long until we have my army back to its full capability” The voice was still calm, though a little more demanding.

“You have to understand Sir, the men of your kingdom don’t want to join the military; they fear that it may happen again” Smithe looked on the verge of a breakdown, the migraine got worse.

“I don’t have to understand anything, Smithe. Tell the population that they don’t need not fear this time, I will not be doing it again.”

“Yes Sir, of course Sir.”

“Good, now what are these weapons you tell me of, these…Gonnes” Smithe smiled at this mispronunciation but only slightly.

“They are the weapons of this age m’lord. They are like crossbows, only they reload by themselves and are much faster.”

“Yes… weapons of this time… what ever happened to suits of armour, long bows and swords?”

“People thought of new weapons, tactics and inventions… the world has changed a lot from when you knew it”

The dark figure voice sounded a little disappointed. “Yes… I suppose it has. Very well, how much paper will you need to get them to sign up?”

“A fair bit sir, but you needn’t worry about the dollars. You will still have your gold either way.”

“Good… it’s one of the few things I still understand these days. I’m going to patrol the skies, keep this nation running… oh and finally, have you found any mages?”

Smithe looked a little worried again “No sir, we have not found any; perhaps it is a lost art.”

“No Smithe, it is not a lost art, I can still taste the copper in the air… this world still has magic. Find me a mage Smithe, or failing that, find another kingdom that is willing to train us some. I’m going now so find me that Mage.”

The dark figure got up; it’s large mass filled most of the stage. But as it got up the red scales could be seen. It unfurled its wings and shot up into the air, outside people gasped even though they had keen it many times now. Carefully, the scaled creature beat its wings, hovering in mid air. Then finally, it decided a direction and begun to glide above the skies.

He was a majestic creature of old; his dark red scales the colour of fresh blood, an ancient dragon as tall as a eight story building. Zoltan, the Flame Drake.

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Lord Zoltan


OOC – This is the beginning of a set of posts describing Zoltan’s rule over his people and him building the ground work for his nation to recover from his arrival.

Zoltan was a dragon, lost over time in a near by mountain range, awoken by heavy mining. When he left this mountain range, he set out to rule a kingdom and sleep on a hoard of gold. Of course, the nation wasn’t going to stand up for this and pretty much lost most of its military attempting to stop Zoltan. After a couple of days, Zoltan hit the government headquarters and killed all but a few of the previous rulers. The nation gave up and accepted their fate, now Zoltan tithes gold (though not actual money) as well as anything else relatively shiny (being a huge magpie that breathes fire).

Now a year has passed and the people are almost content, though in a little bit of fear because they still remember what Zoltan did. His interests are with the people though, they are fairly safe and now they see him as the only protection they have, effectively having no military left.

Note: This is not an attempt at having a leader who can kill armies, the only reason he won is because of the size of the tiny nations military and his decisive attack against the rulers. He is a character I want to role-play quite a bit so I do not want a load of imperialists wanting to invade because they say they are doing “what is right”. I will ignore any nation that goes to war for stupid reasons with little to no roleplay.

Anyways… I’ve got plans for Zoltan. Nothing big mind, he isn’t a army in himself (though he’s almost an army, why do you think my nation has no military?) And I’m thinking of a few nice little plots to play along.

2nd Note: I am getting this nation started for a friend, it was his idea and he thinks it would be neat, he doesn’t have as much time as me (nor has he played NS before) so you may recognise this style of RP… though I doubt it, my main nation isn’t well known.
24-09-2003, 18:32
(OOC I have a mage...well two in actuality, he can sue magical forces. But he would be an intensely complecated character due to his previous experiances here, and of what he is. So I have two mages, both rather powerful. Do you want to send them messages? The complex one is far more powerful than the other, but is a vampire.

If you send messages, I shall come to the place. If I do, can you give me a description of where they are going?)
The Flame Drake Zoltan
24-09-2003, 19:40
OOC - The chances are that I will be doing that later. Currently I am just setting the scene and testing the water for a pretty powerful dragon leader.

He will rarely deal with outside nations himself, instead when you get a IC message, it will be some nervous man: either Smithe or another aide.

Possible Ideas include:

Zoltan sends men off to learn magic

Zoltan wants his planes for his military (he destroyed all of them are we can't rebuild them here)

Zoltan wants to meet a female dragon (this will be oddest one, becuase there isn't that many dragons to choose from, plus he's been on his own for a long long time.)

Zoltan wants to find a necromancer he used to know (could be alive, or killed by knights... he doesn't know)

Zoltan gets involved in politiks...

Zoltan allies with other dragons, wants to set dragon steeds free


And the list goes on. It's a pet project at the moment, but my friend want's me to move it along. He'll be happy with this thread... it fits his idea of how it would work. But I will post IC queries in this thread and others, maybe I will send off for a human to join the Shentavo Acadamy (if I learn about it IC). I will probably buy things and do things via a nervous man wanting to inform Zoltan of this brave new wolrd he lives in.
The Flame Drake Zoltan
29-11-2003, 03:51
(OOC I have a mage...well two in actuality, he can sue magical forces. But he would be an intensely complecated character due to his previous experiances here, and of what he is. So I have two mages, both rather powerful. Do you want to send them messages? The complex one is far more powerful than the other, but is a vampire.

OOC: Sorry Kain, the nation now burns all vampires at the request of the person who tells me what he would like his nation to be run like... it's all his idea, I just give life to it... you may be able to guess my style and guess the nation who is righting this but it doesn't matter... I'm still interested in finding a Magician at some point but I will have to RP a request for magicians when I get around to it.

The newest thread concerning Vampire Burning... you may or may not be interested in this. (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2239385#2239385)
Teritora
29-11-2003, 03:52
Teritora has a Wizards guild which is headed by a 9,000 year old high wizard.
The Flame Drake Zoltan
29-11-2003, 04:17
Teritora has a Wizards guild which is headed by a 9,000 year old high wizard.



OOC: It's pretty late here and I'm out of RP ideas to do anything interesting so I'll do a RP some time tomorrow... but I am interested. For a pic of Zoltan, see the first post, I know the pic is small but it gives you an idea of what I have leading my nation. Should you get to meet him I would suggest you be carfeul, he's meant to be a very old red dragon making me very powerful... and he's got a funny habit of killing subjects that demand things of him.
Crownguard
29-11-2003, 04:22
*Official Response from Crownguard*


Greetings from the great nation of Crownguard, Sir Zoltan. I am Xavier Delryn, head of the military of this realm as well as international diplomat. We have, through our own network, heard of the woes of your military and felt this was an excellent opportunity. As you may not know, our nation is renowned for its war production, indeed, it prides itself on being a true, honorable, ercenary nation. We hold the tenets of honor very seriously in warfare, and drive all our citizens to follow these tenets.

At any rate..we wish to offer to send miltiary advisors to train your troops into a prestigious fighting force, one worthy of international respect. In addition, we wil make offered military supplies to shore up the ravaged army. We have no intention of military takeover of your nation, we have no silly "democratic" issues concerned and wish to conduct profitable business, as well as friendly relations.

I look forward to your reply.

Honorably Yours,
Tercero Xaiver Delryn
The Flame Drake Zoltan
29-11-2003, 04:44
I am Zoltans newest advisor, Jake Smithe and I represent Lord Zoltan in many issues, like in international trade and the like.

From what little I've already heard we are impressed with your offer to re-build and train our military back to at least some strength... though getting enough people to join could be an issue and I doubt that our... old fashioned lordship would like it if we allowed females to join the forces.

We accept your offer to come over, though if you incist on meeting with his lordship personally you will have to learn a few rules before seeing him... he's very... tempermental, thankfully he doesn't understand alot about this time and as such we can keep him happy. Any military attempt to remove him would be exspensive to say the least, he is comparable to a army and easily overpowered our military. Then again, they were small at the time.

Eitherway, the people have grown to accept him even to the point where they feel that it was a good idea all along to be ruled by a dragon... even though the nation isn't actually run by him. Will you be requiring your own transportation or will you use your own private jets?


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Zoltan's Advisor, Jake Smithe
Crownguard
29-11-2003, 04:54
Our delegation will come over on our own jets, thank you. This is not a sign of distrust, merely that we like to see that the Royal Transportation Service work for its keep.

As for your people, we are willing to send economic and finincial advisors over to help them in their plight, as well as humanitarian aid. As we said before..honor is the greatest ideal to us, and so we will keep to it. We expect no r eward, but your nation wil be fruitful once again. We only ask you consider us allies in the future, and perhaps allow us to open an embassy in your nation.

More will be discussed when we arrive, and a pleasure to speak to you, Mr Smithe.

-Xavier Delryn

(OOC: Holy crap, I massacred that the first time)
The Flame Drake Zoltan
29-11-2003, 12:21
Economic advisors are not an issue we are glad to say... our leader has a very low upkeep cost and is actually an asset when it comes to finding new gold reserves to keep him happy... he can smell the valuable metals in the air and has revolutionised mining techniques... though he does then tithe all such metals for his horde.

Eitherway, you will find that since the incident and the raise to power of Lord Zoltan our economy has become strong, and were it not for his lord ships dislike for loud and ugly vehicles we would have a frightening economy by now... he's practically banned cars from everyone other then the extreemly wealthy.

Meanwhile humanitarian aid is welcome for some of the under classes but it is also not required, we are not a nation in crisis.... we have just lost most of our military personnel during the battle to stop his lordship from killing our government... to this day our outlook on the incident has changed to the view that it was a required action to remove those who were corrupt from our leadership.

However, like your original message suggested, we would gladly accept any military advisors and R & D experts who can assist us in re-building our military... our police forces have become quite extent so they will not reuire such help, though effiecientcy is always welcome.

If you could also look to talk trade over some of the more interesting equipment like military craft and the such... our air force is reduced to almost nothing as they were the first to be decimated in his lordships ascension.

Eitherway, we are thankfull for this assistance and we are willing to compensate you for your troubles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/Iuthia/Characters/patrician.jpg
Zoltan's Advisor, Jake Smithe
The Flame Drake Zoltan
01-01-2004, 20:45
Final bumpage... I don't want this to be deleted anytime soon.
Crownguard
01-01-2004, 23:04
Im still around, but I ask that you post something for me to follow up on, I somewhat lost my train of thought on where I was going with this.
The Flame Drake Zoltan
05-04-2004, 15:58
Current Status:

The Flame Drake Zoltan is currently something of a information black hole to most nations of the world. Only a few nations have embassies in this island nation and the people in those embassies are often given the mushroom treatment and are carefully monitored.

On the whole FDZ is a isolationist nation which doesn't go out of it's way to meddle in international affairs of other nations, they carefully enforce their borders and mine their waters to make sure that they are secure from the outside world.

Tourism doesn't exist and essentially people can just about leave though re-entery into FDZ is near impossible; infiltrators have yet to return information and are assumed dead. The people of FDZ are incredabily xenophobic.
The Flame Drake Zoltan
21-04-2004, 23:46
Relevant RP Index

Vampires Burnt in FDZ (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=98497&highlight=)

Anti-Elf Riots in FDZ (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=98654&highlight=)

Mage Mentors Required (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99188&highlight=)
The Flame Drake Zoltan
09-09-2004, 13:13
upage for new forums.
Weyr
09-09-2004, 19:41
It's been over a hundred and fifty years in Weyr, since we said you could send spellcasters to us.........

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Dar-Kavryn
09-09-2004, 20:20
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