Day 5 ended with 2 hours and 57 minutes remaining.
9 Players still alive: Galayn Lord, Korbas, Meanas, Omtose, Ruse, Spite, Sukul Ankhadu, Telas, Tulas Shorn
5 votes to lynch, 5 votes to go to night.
2 Votes for Sukul Ankhadu ( Spite, Galayn Lord )
1 Vote for Ruse ( Korbas )
5 Votes for Korbas ( Telas, Sukul Ankhadu, Meanas, Omtose, Ruse )
Players not voted: Tulas Shorn
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After fighting off his northern aggressors, Yuan Shu had concentrated on expanding his territory south into the lands formerly held by Liu Biao and the Sun family. Soon his reign stretched south the Chaisang and westwards through Jing right up to the borders of Huang Zhong's domain. It was in the eastern lands of Wu, however, that Yuan Shu would meet his gravest threat - Liu Yao. Brother of the esteemed Liu Dai and a humane but mighty governor in his own right, Liu Yao had conquered Wang Lang's fertile plains and Yan Baihu's mighty fleet intact, and now wielded these two resources to dominate the land from Jian Ye to Jiang Xia. After the death of Sun Ce, Liu Yao had taken in refugees from the Sun family's forces, including the generals Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and Chen Wu, as well as Sun Ce's sister Sun Shang Xiang, who was now Liu Yao's wife. But above all of Liu Yao's resources and officers, it was Taishi Ci - a fearless warrior from Huang Xian who could break through a fifty-thousand-man siege by himself - that Yuan Shu feared the most.
The two forces engaged each other at Lu Jiang. Yuan Shu sent out his top general Zhang Xun for personal combat. Taishi Ci spotted Zhang Xun, raised his spear, and rode out to meet him. The two horsemen tangled, closing and breaking some forty or fifty times. Then Zhang Xun yielded and made for his line; Taishi Ci galloped after. Zhang Xun began circling round his formation; Taishi Ci would not let up. From a point of vantage, Yuan Shu's general Qiao Rui drew his bow and, sighting true, shot Taishi Ci in his left eye. Bellowing in pain, Taishi Ci plucked out the arrow; the eyeball had stuck fast to the point. "The essence of my parents cannot be thrown away," he cried, and swallowed the eye. He pulled out his own bow, placed the arrow and shot at Zhang Xun, striking Xun squarely in the back. Turning, he went for Qiao Rui and speared him in the face before he could defend himself. Zhang Xun fell dead from his horse and Qiao Rui toppled from his vantage point. The spectacle left both sides aghast.
Taishi Ci rode back to his men. Heartened by their general's merits, Liu Yao's forces delivered slaughter on the leaderless troops of Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu's slain soldiers were strewn over the blood-soaked field. Thousands more fled. His former commanders, Lei Bo and Chen Lan of Mount Song, plundered his treasure, grain, and fodder. Bandits kept Shu from returning to his base city, Shouchoun, and he was forced to remain at Jianting with barely a thousand men, most of them old and weak. It was midsummer. He had thirty pecks of wheat to feed his followers. Many of his own family had already starved to death. Shu could not swallow the coarse meal and asked the cook to find some honeyed water to ease his thirst. "We have bloody water," the cook said, "no honey." Suddenly Shu, who had been seated on his couch, groaned and toppled over. He spit up mouthfuls of blood and died.
Korbas (Grief) is dead. He was the Governor Yuan Shu.
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I will now resolve night.
This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 18 February 2010 - 06:32 AM
Only someone with this much power could make this many frittatas without breaking any eggs.
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