Path-Shaper, on 22 October 2011 - 02:34 AM, said:
ST here, deputizing:
It is Day 13. less than a minute remaining
5 Players still alive: Emurlahn, Karosis, Korlat, Okaros, Sheltatha Lore
3 votes to lynch, 3 votes to go to night.
3 Votes for Okaros ( Emurlahn, Korlat, Karosis )
Players not voted: Okaros, Sheltatha Lore
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Ma Chao, troubled by Gongsun Zan's parting words, paced the wreckage of the Luo Yang palace restlessly. Returning to his camp, he forced himself to sleep but dreamed strange dreams of being caught in a maze of burning hexagrams. He awoke soaked in sweat and over the next few weeks grew ill. At the advice of his subordinates, he invited the travelling mystic Guan Lu to interpret his dreams. Guan Lu was brought to Ma Chao's camp outside the razed city of Luo Yang where Ma Chao explained his dreams and the symptoms of his illness.
Guan Lu said "The hexagram represents the ordered streets and walls of civilization. Just as you burned this city, so do the hexagrams of your dreams burn. Now, the Han dynasty was aspected to earth and the Xia aspected to water. The Xiliang revere ancient deities of fire. That you are disturbed by dreams of fire but awaken covered in water is a sign of the heavens that you must cast aside your Xiliang ties and take on the responsibilities of the Xia you have conquered. It is time for you to declare your own dynasty and re-establish an imperial structure which brings the realm under one rule once again."
Convinced by this counsel, Ma Chao declared the next day that he was the Son of Heaven and the legitimate successor of the Han. His native Xiliang warriors, who represented over half his fighting force, cried out in dismay at the news. The Xiliang had been spurned as barbarians and worse by the people of the middle kingdoms and they revered their leader, Ma Chao. For him to set them aside to establish a bureaucracy in the middle kingdoms was deemed a great insult. The Xiliang battalions gathered their plundered riches and began marching west back to Wu Wei that very evening. Ma Chao, seeing his desperately needed military departing, sent messengers ordering them to return. The second wave of messengers were given the heads of the first to bring back.
Furious, Ma Chao lead his remaining troops in pursuit. When the Xiliang soldiers ignored his own shouting for them to halt, he ordered his troops to begin cutting down the rear elements. The Xiliang force then turned around and struck back. The battle escalated into a full-blown civil war between Ma Chao's forces. Ma Chao, gone berserk with rage, cut his way through hundreds of Xiliang, intent on reaching and killing their commanders, after which he believed the warriors would stop fighting. Charging on his horse he forced his way into the center of the Xiliang force where he suddenly came upon over twenty commanders and lieutenants. Wielding his half-moon halberd, he began cutting down officers left and right, felling six of them before they could react. The remaining officers charged Ma Chao and as he cut down four more they threw themselves onto his halberd, holding it fast. With knives they cut him out of his saddle and dragged him up onto a hill over the battle. They tried screaming for the soldiers to stop, offering Ma Chao as a hostage, but were ignored by the soldiers fighting all around them. Suddenly a wave of Ma Chao's soldiers charged over the hill, cutting down everyone in their path. The soldiers were so full of battle lust that they did not distinguish Ma Chao from the Xiliang commanders, and so Chao was cut down by his own soldiers and lay bleeding to death in the midst of battle.
Okaros (Trull's Son) is dead. He was Ma Chao, the Summer Dragon, Warlord of the Xiliang.
and this is why you should leave me in charge.
Karosis 
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