Japan Surrenders!
In the dead of Mother Night
Flew death upon Silent Wings
Marched Fearless Army with might
As keenest-whet sworde dealt swings
Upon neck of Native Thane
Fallen protecting in vain
Japan
Recruitment Moratorium Over!For three months, we were forbidden to recruit. For three months, we were without our life-blood. For three months, we slowly lay dying. For three months, we waited in agony for time to pass. For three months, we were barely alive.
But how the months fly by. As soon as the recruitment moratorium expired, our recruiters spearheaded campaign after campaign, raising our regional population by over 700% from 30 nations at the beginning of May, and watching it skyrocket to 226 nations at the time of writing, less than a month after the ban’s expiration. We had fallen, but we have risen again. We were dead, but we are alive again. We struggled in the beginning, but we rose above all adversity, emerging stronger than ever before.
Morning’s End: A Fictional NarrativeUnable to be present in the initial offensive, I, Sgt. Tyegëa, encounter Brigadier-General Knot, as he managed to hold off the initial front line of liberators:Though Knot was evidently determined not to discuss these events, I found another occasion to seek him out.
“The founder I told you about, the one who I thought had suffered such a crushing defeat — I have heard that she is still alive. She has come on unhappy circumstances, I am told. It all seems very unlikely — but then the way she disappeared was unlikely too. And so the rumors I have picked up may not be so unlikely after all.”
And he described them in more detail. He chose his words carefully when we touched upon Otaku, and he did not speak at all of our victory that night.
“I was rather frightened when I had the story from the high priest, and did not listen as carefully as I should have. But how could my wife possibly have learned of it? I know all about her nature, and have no doubt that news of this sort would leave her in mourning. The talk I pick up from her about Otaku worries me terribly.”
I knew that he would never, in what seemed to be the frankest of conversations, let slip something he had learned in confidence.
The mystery haunted us, day and night. In what far reach of the world would Otaku be? How might we, with dignity, hide the news from her, the news of Japan’s fall at our hands, lest she come rushing back, with an army? Knot needed the facts directly from the high priest of Raideron. He made solemn offerings on the thirteenth of every month, sometimes in the remote shrines most sacred to Lord Raideron himself. This time he would go on to Nugut. He took his wife with him, and I also accompanied them. He did not mean to tell our families for the moment, not until he had more precise information. Perhaps he hoped that the girl’s presence would bring an immediacy to an encounter that might otherwise seem unreal. If the girl in the high priest’s story should indeed prove to be Otaku, and if, further, she had indeed returned, even in a strange new guise, off among a strange new entourage — the truth would not be pleasing.
Such are the thoughts that troubled him, his wife and later, myself, along the way.
Modified passage from The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Excerpt taken from the end of Chapter 53: Tenarai (手習)
War Games Coming Soon!DEN will be beginning Round 1 of its inaugural war games, directed by Major Victor Savage, in the near future. Awards will include promotions, medals, etc. Stay tuned!
After several BBQ's with Guy in TRR, defenders have conceded their defeat!
A big shout-out to all of our allies supporting the occupation in Japan: The Black Hawks, Lone Wolves United, Ile de France, The South Pacific Special Forces, the Imperial Army of The Land of Kings and Emperors, the Imperial Navy of The Kingdom of Great Britain, the Royal Albion Legion, the Europeian Republican Navy, the Peoples' Revolutionary Armed Forces of The Communist Bloc, the Vikings of Funen, and the Mafia of Equinox.
We look forward to working with you in the future.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:16 pm
He gets his information the same place most other people do. The gameplay forum, and most of that info is at least a week old if not more.
and Gradea don't lose heart laddie you have the right idea!
