Captured by the sandolinistas!

So here is where things get really interesting. I was standing alone on bedu hill and everything was quiet. Suddenly Sando comes out of his tent and comes up to me, and says he’s here to grant my wish. I’m like... oh, nice, you’re here to tell me you’re quitting as bedu leader? But... naturally nothing so fortunate. He tells me that he’s there for me to execute. Standing there saying, I said he should be executed for treason, referencing a comment of mine that was posted in the Chronicle, so I should do it, his throat is bared for me to cut him. Of course, since I don’t have a sword, he wasn’t really putting himself at risk. And all Ireem knows I couldn’t really hurt someone... well, unless I was in a temper and there was a fight already going on, but that never lasts long (and my skill is so low I’m more of a danger to myself than anyone else). Besides, as I told him, whether or not he should be executed is neither my decision to make, nor my responsibility to carry out. I stated my opinion in the Chronicle, which is absolutely my right to state my opinion. It is for Sultana and Lord Kadar to decide his offences and his punishment. But he kept on and on about it, and I’m thinking, geez, go away already. So then Arian comes up on the hill and Sando runs off back down to his tent, even though Arian didn’t attack, he just stood beside me looking all protective and stuff. And the next thing I know, April and Seawater are all over us, and although Arian got away, April capped me, continuing to attack even though it was obvious I didn’t even have a sword!

That’s when things got really, well... interesting. April runs off after Arian, and Cowboy comes running up and discovers I’m capped, and says he’ll buy me from April. You have to understand this is not from any philantropic ideas. He’s been after my hide for a month or more, since we had a kind of... .ummmm... *misunderstanding* ... and he hasn’t been very forgiving about it *grins* So off he goes, and Sando comes over. You know, I’d really had it with his whining and whining that goes on and on endlessly, so I moved away... and he came after me! So I went off the hill and down to the entrance to the bedu camp. Since I was capped, I needed to stay near the camp of course (a matter of honor), but OMG here he comes after me again, typing away. So I put my earplugs on ((i.e., I muted him)) and told him I wasn’t listening.

Finally after a bit, April calls me down to the bedu camp. She puts me on my knees, and tells me I have to obey Sando now. I told her no way in hell was I ever obeying that traitor, which left her kinda stuck as to what she was going to do with me. During all this, Sando keeps coming to stand in front of me, and I would turn my back on him, saying aloud that I wasn’t going to appear like I was kneeling to a traitor. So he’s going in circles around me, and I’m still on my knees, going in circles to keep my back to him.

So Cowboy comes and offers April money for me, and she’s interested in the deal. She asked me if Cowboy and I were friends, and I said no, he’s after me for revenge, so she’s really interested in his deal, until he offers her 100 dinars. She gets offended at the low amount, and attacks Cowboy and off they go into the desert. So here they come back after a bit, and Cowboy is capped by April. By this time, I’d gotten bored being on my knees in camp, and moved up onto one of the camels for a better view, and Cowboy takes the other camel. Arian comes back and is fighting both April and Seawater, and is suddenly joined by Ariberto! And I’m all clapping and cheering them on, when Estella, one of the rebel knights, shows up in camp with another rebel, a new and misguided knight who doesn’t know any better named Zazz. So they enter the fray, and low and behold, here comes Tobi and caps Zazz, and Ariberto gets Seawater. Cowboy informed me, as we sat there on the camels watching all this, that his being capped is my fault and he’s gonna get me for that, too. At some point Arian managed to kill Sando, I don’t know how, because he was in camp near me when he died. Then April was capped by Arian, and I thought by then that would be the end of it, since April was pretty much in charge of the whole aggression operation, when Primo showed up, and managed to cap Ariberto, but Tobi in the meantime had capped Estella.

Is anybody confused yet? OMG. I almost fell off my camel a dozen times from laughing so hard! Oh, and April told me later, about 10 preys, all in all, were capped throughout the course of all this, which certainly took well over an hour!

So here’s the final score, not necessarily in order:
April capped me
April capped Cowboy
Tobi capped Zazz
Ariberto capped Seawater
Arian killed Sando
Primo capped Ariberto
Arian capped April
Tobi capped Estella

At the end of it all... we all went up to the auction area and everyone was uncapped... and OMG wasn’t this a blast, from beginning to end!!!!! By this time, it was 6:30 a.m., and I finally headed to bed... after this very long, very exciting night... and laughed myself to sleep!

~Lady Elysa