NationStates Jolt Archive


Wanted: Dead or alive

Allanea
07-09-2008, 18:39
WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE

As some of you know, the United States Government is at war with the Griffincrest Corporation and with its Patron State, the Blackhelm Condeferacy. After a procurement of a small amount of funds from the budget of the Confederacy of Sovereign States [after approval of the Confederate Treasurer], we have established a reward fund for the heads of every leader of the Blackhelm Confederacy.

Specified below are rewards for the various leaders of the Blackhelm Confederacy. These rewards will be given to anybody who turns them in, dead or alive. Should they surrender to Allanean justice willingly, they themselves will receive the reward. As shown by our behavior in the New France Incident, our word is good – even when given to the worthless scum that lead the Blackhelm Confederacy and Griffincrest.

Specifically, wanted for crimes against humanity, violations of human rights, aggression tyranny is the Chancellor of The Blackhelm Confederacy, Lucius Blackhelm. The reward for his head is [u]fifty billion Universal Standard Dollars, delivered in a currency or commodity of your choice.

A reward of ten billion Universal Standard Dollars, again delivered in a form of your choosing, has been announced for all of the key military and security personnel of the Griffincrest corporation – Marius Firesword, Appius Stonebridge, Tiberius Goldshield, Aulus Silverknife, Gaius Whiteboot, Gnaeus Orangeblossom, Spurius Redvest, Marcus Blueshield and Vibius Silkshirt. Claudius Griffincrest is also worth ten billion.

Rated lower on the scale of villainy are the Chancellor's Secretary, Publius Reddollar, his chief advisor, and head of Worker's Affairs Department, Quintus Blackletter. Similarly rated are subhuman scum like Octavius Featherpen, Decimus Clearglass, Sextus Longbow, Titus Bronzemace, Numerius Copperchip, Romulus Gildedhelm, Cassius Darkhood, Gaius Redpepper and Marcus Greyhammer. They are worth a billion dollars each

A variety of smaller fish, especially local officials and cabinet ministers, are lower on the totem pole:
Appolonius Lightdagger, Ambrosius Ivorybowl, Flavius Brownhorse, Fabus Leathersack, Cornelius Yellowfeather, Arrius Ironlock, Artorius Brightring, Decius Redwing, Flavius Brownhorse, Ovitius Bronzefist, Julius Onyxbridge, Marcellus Lemontree, Lucius Greelamp, Cornelius Pureheart and Julius Glassdagger. Each of these scumsuckers is worth 250 million dollars.

Finally, on the last – and definitely least – level of human failure, corruption, and slime, are the various Public Relations Chiefs (excepting, of course, those serving in other capacities as well):
Servius Greenarrow, Vipsanius Bluebush, Claudius Redsaddle, Marcellus Stonehut, Gaius Smoothstone, Calidus Diamondhilt, Marcus Redbook, Rufus Blackhelm, Octavius Coldknife, Flavius Hotbread. They're worse 100 million.. In a break from our habit, we value Rufus Blackhelm at thrice the default fee if brought back alive.

Finally, a $200,00 scholarship will be provided to anybody who figures out what is it with Blackhelmians and composite name – Black-helm, Stone-hut, Glass-dagger, and why it is that they so many names of medieval weapons and armor in surnames, like Greenarrow, Firesword, and Blueshield. We at the Department of State suspect that the Blackhelmian census clerks probably have a D&D game generator stashed in somewhere.

We thank you for your help.

Sincerely yours,
The Allaneans.
Catawaba
07-09-2008, 22:12
An email filtered into a public mailbox for the United States of Allanae.

From: "Doctor Indae Ana'jones" <ianajones@graceland.edu>
To: <blackhelmbounty@usa.state.gov>
RE: Blackhelm Naming Traditions

To whom it may concern,

Before your website that announced the bounties on Blackhelm government officials partially failed, I noticed a stipulation about the 'odd' naming traditions of the Blackhelm Confederacy. Your government assumes that all of Blackhelm uses some table top roleplaying name generator. It's easy to see where you might get the idea.

Most cultures prior to the stage of complexification that lead to city-states lived in villages and hamlets. These population centers were characterized by relatively low population densities. In such a site, it's quite possible to know all of the inhabitants personally. To that end, many peoples used personalized names to refer to people.

Some cultures refered to individuals in respect to their lineage as in "John, Richard's son" which would yield the surname "Richardson" eventually. Others refered to people by their occupation such as "thorncroft" who would weave and craft hedgerows or "wainwright" who repaired wagons. Yet others tended to refer to people based on appearance or quality giving rise to names such as "Byrd" for tall, lanky person and "Fairchild" for an especially good looking child. Also cultures have named people for where they have lived "Stonebridge" and "Meadowbrook" being examples.

I would hazard to guess that Blackhelm peoples have a sort of Anglo-Saxon warrior heritage. Many of the names listed in your bounties have warrior conotations speaking to qualities, deeds, or unique possessions.

Should this satisfy your curiosity enough to win your 'bounty' on information and earn the scholarship you offered, please contact the Department of Anthropology at the University of Graceland. They can direct you on how to transfer your award into our general scholarship fund. Even though I am the head of the Department, I can't do any more to help you at the moment as I'm deep in the jungles of Vashnear surveying the area around the ruins of a temple belonging to a fertility cult in hopes of finding the settlements that worshipped there.

Sincerely,

Dr. Indae Ana'jones
Dean of Anthroplogy, Professor, Archaeologist
University of Catawaba

GO Vornskrs!
Blackhelm Confederacy
08-09-2008, 00:04
OOC: Cat, you actually hit the nail right on the head, nice work! Our people got their names from a prized possesion of their ancestors, be it a black helmet (Blackhelm) or a kind heart (Pureheart).
Catawaba
08-09-2008, 00:13
[What can I say? I'm an anthroplogy/archaeology major with a fascination with geneaology.]
Blackhelm Confederacy
08-09-2008, 00:28
OOC: I just realized the name of your doctor hahaha.

My dad is an anthropologist, it is really interesting stuff.
Razorl
08-09-2008, 00:39
(OOC: omg its Indae Ana'jones!)
Tanara
08-09-2008, 02:55
LOL Catawaba deserves the prize!
Allanea
08-09-2008, 05:52
Ooc: Bump! Stuupid jolt
Catawaba
08-09-2008, 07:40
Indae minimized his email program and switched to what he should be doing, or at least was supposed to be doing. He was supposed to be looking at infrared satellite images the Tanaarans had provided him of this fairly unimportant region near the Vashneari border with the Skull Kingdom. It was difficult to survey or find any ancient structures in the dense jungle of the region on foot, but stone structures reflected greater than the forest of trees and foilage around them. This reflected heat could be seen on infrared satellite photographs, allowing otherwise unseen structures to be located.

Working from a known point on the image, like the main temple of the ancient Vashneari fertility cult Indae was sitting atop, they could work out to unknown sites. He found another blob of greater heat, glanced at his GPS reciever, and worked out what its GPS coordinates should be. He put a waypoint on those coordinates.

A mewling question came up from below. Indae looked up from his laptop and down the side of the step pyramid. One of the Vashneari scholars chaproning the local students in Indae's field school was asking if he wanted to break for lunch. Indae glanced at his watch. "Yeah. Go ahead. We can break early and then head out. I got us a probably northeast of here."

The Vashneari flickered her tail and squinted her feline eyes against the sun. She mewled another question up at him. Indae smiled. "I'm not hiding up here because yer girls have taken to me. The temple just has the best sat reception. Let me check my email again, and I'll be down. I think I might have secured some funding for my department."

Indae pulled up his email program and looked for any reply. He idly wondered considering the nature of Allanean inquiry and the announcement it had come with, if he shouldn't use part of the funds to create a course in cultural relativism.
Allanea
08-09-2008, 14:19
Official Response to Professor Indae Ana'jones


Congratulations! You have earned your price.

$200,000 in a currency of your choice will be promptly delivered to you.
Allanea
11-09-2008, 10:27
bumped
Lord Sumguy
11-09-2008, 20:05
Joe's Eat 'n' Drink Cafe, Sumguaia:

In a corner booth of a small lunch cafe in the Holy Empire's capital city of Sumguaia, A young woman gave brilliant smile as a cup of coffee was placed before her. "I do love the coffee they serve here." She said, picking up the mug. She shifted in her seat slightly and for a moment a tattoo of the insignia of the Abrahamic League was visible on her neck before it was covered again by the collar of her jacket.

"Unfortunately, coffee is all that is done well at this eatery." Said a man sitting across from her, looking at the runny eggs on his plate mournfully. Beside him was a newspaper, which he had been reading. It was obvious the two were related, they shared the same brown hair, green eyes, and slighlty narrow faces. "Who is our next target?" He asked. "The petty murderers the League has been sending us after lately aren't much of a challenge, the real threat to society in this city are the drug smugglers and organized crime elements, it is them we should be hunting."

"Well, I'm sorry to dissapoint you, Isaac," His sister said softly, amusement in her voice as she smiled. "but I'm afriad we've been given the month off."

"And what are we to do for a month, Amelia?" Issac asked after finishing a mouthful of eggs. "This job is all that I wish to do. I am an executioner, nothing else."

"Well, who's to say that the targets wich the League assigns us are the ony ones we may have?" Amelia asked, a faint smile still on her lips as he looked through the newspaper. "There's an article here, apparently the Allaneans have very large bounties on the heads of Griffincrest executives."

"Allaneans, eh?" Her brother said, smiling. The United States of Allanea was both highly respected within the Holy Empire for the high levels of freedom that it's citizens enjoyed and seen as somewhat eccentric due to it's aggresive foreign policy.

Isaac took the paper, looking at the article. "Hmm, this is quite an oppourtunity to help eliminate a malicious organization, and could prove to be a nice little earner for the League as well. We should contact some of the other executioners about this, perhaps it is time we did a little bounty hunting."

OOC: Blackhelm, do you have msn, yahoo, or aim?