Sorry to interrupt just for a while, me dear Kumomoto, as I wrote to you in a private post (though maybe indirectly), you have already declared war upon me (and possibly thus upon us), though in an indirect, "harmless (?)" way. The peasants whom I grant technology and protection, I mean, the ones living under my sovereignty, speak of hundreds and thousands of occupants just where they live.
My caravans harvesting next to my towns within the range of my sovereignty have been destroyed in possibly harmless (?) accidents. The mentioned peasants, running in panic to seek shelter in my castles, again speak of some armies of unknown, possibly harmless (?) origin, to have been the cause of those accidents.
Please, tell me, my dear Kumomoto - as the in-game character, because I am at this point writing this as an in-game character, not the player - if being a lord in Illyria facing such acts of undeclared aggression, would you call this agression or not?
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Now please forgive me this tone, but this is a sort of introduction to how things should be seen from a different perspective as we look at matters from the point of view of the players and the in-game characters. I mean no harm to you, but - again speaking as an in-game character - you constantly keep doing harm to me, which puts the whole idea of your alliance as you call it ("fair in all dealings, harmless (?), spreading kinship etc.") under huge question mark - you are simply not able to face your own rules of honor which you so proudly declare. Again, as I have already written to you in a private message: while you speak of the merits, I put them into existance. While I do not speak of them so proudly, you harm them below underhand acts of undeclared aggression. And may all arcanum Illyria remember this for ages!
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Again, just to clarify, this is what Boromir, lord of Gondor, says (not me, the player) seeing huge occupant armies all around his towns and looking at the peasants running in panic to seek shelter in the castles...
What I, the player, and also a many-year experienced professional game developer, have to say, I will say after the tournament, as I have already written. There might even be a few days of additional delay, as at first I need to have the preBeta build of ma last game finished.
Kind regards to all of you.
Boromir