The World Rumor Mill 2
The Ottomans:
D100 => 1
Suliman:
D100 => 63
Severin and the Order of Solutions Escape:
D100 => 80
He had chased them through his empire. He had chased the men who killed his friend. And he had them…
Rather they had him. Jon Charles Severin was the greatest master of war of this century, many would claim ever. But instead, he merely brought him before him.
Jon Charles was a strange man. He seemed jovial and loved battle, yet as he stared at you, alone with a sword and hand, he laughed but was serious in his tone. "I killed your friend? Didn't I?" he asked. "And why have you not brought your army with you?"
"Because it is my revenge, not theirs." Suliman stated.
"Then he should not have tried to hard to kill me and mine. You should have shown mercy to men when you murdered them, and took them prisoner." Jon said. "I aimed to kill because I wanted to escape, and no longer be part of a conflict when our contract had been voided by the Mamluks." Jon then took out his pistol and aimed it at the young Sultan's head. "I am showing you this mercy, so that I may get home, and nothing more."
"I should kill you all!" Suliman screamed.
"Perhaps. But you are not in any position to make those threats." Jon Charles said as he held his pistol at the Sultans head. "Now give me your word that we will pass unmolested back to Europe."
"Or what?"
"I'll kill you." Jon Charles said. "Simple as." He pulled back the hammer. "Make your choice."
The Order of Solutions would be allowed to leave the Ottoman Empire.
Reward: Through an act of emotion, Suliman was captured by the Order of Solutions, and managed to negotiate for safe passage out of the Ottoman Empire.
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Austria:
D100 => 13
Poland/Lithuania:
D100 => 85
Poland came to Vienna's aid, and saved the city from siege and destruction.
The Austrian Hapsburgs had all but thanked their saviors… because there was only one thing they could do. Pay them sums of coin, and pray to god the Ottomans did not return.
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France:
D100 => 92+
D100 => 17
The French Pope… or as he is called by his people, the Hammer of God, has brought forth a proclamation to the rest of Europe.
That the Pope is an apostate, who has sullied and corrupted God's word on earth. And that the only ones who have found Jesus will.
And tens of thousands… nay, hundreds of thousands from all over Europe headed the French King's call. Churches burned.
Bishops and priests were killed, and their livelihoods were sacked and brought to France, filling the French coffers richly.
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England:
D100 => 31
The Papacy Diplomatic Efforts:
D100 => 85
The Pope succeded in bringing the English back to the fold, after a fear that they would leave.
But the English were given a free opportunity to fight the French without harming their immortal soul and to finally take the throne that they had been fighting for for centuries.
England will rule France. Or failing that, show that they are the superior nation.
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Scotland:
D100 => 48
Scotland just… followed the English's lead for the first time ever.
Mostly because they wanted to beat up the french for abandoning them.
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The HRE:
D100 => 38
The emperor of the Germans sees many of the principalities burn. Many of his western Princes joined the new French Pope, and struck out for riches and glory, and the ability to become rich under this new regime.
And to the east, the fear of the Ottoman Turks still remains.
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Spain:
D100 => 92+
D100 => 97+
D100 => 60
But in Spain, there was nothing of the sort of chaos or destruction from France. If anything there was fervor. Religious fervor from their new king, who had brought them gold from a new world. Gold and a place of refuge if they were to fail, and Europe becomes lost.
Yet Charles has begun his own reforms. His reforms… that will bring Spain to the future.
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New Spain (Carribian):
D100 => 95
D100 => 92+
D100 => 97+
D100 => 48
Charles the V:
D100 => 97+
D100 => 87
With the King offering land and gold to his new settlers, the New Spain's population has been exploding.
But it was also exploding for another reason.
Bartolomé de las Casas, the king's newest governor, has had a change of heart, and a change of style. Inspired by the King of Italys crusade against slavery, and seeing the horrors that such a system has brought, even with the King ordaining it as God's mission to build Spain's new empire…
He used his wealth, his influence, and his power as Governor of New Spain… to free every man, woman, and child that was in bondage. He declared to his Sovrigen, under pain of death and treason this simple fact.
"
My King has brought subjects of the Spanish crown, and God himself, into a cruel and unjust servitude. Through every fiber of my being, I despise it. I lash out at it. I use every avenue, legal and otherwise, to do one good thing in this world. We have been shown that men can be free from the oppression and servitude of slavery by others in the Old World. So I say this, to my King. Let us be free from those same chains in this New World."
The King, Charles said nothing about the treason. But rumors abound, that he smiling at a portrait of his friend. "You win." He had said.
Accepting that he had been defeated by his friend, both on the argument to him… and by the will of his own people and subjects.
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Pizzaro:
D100 => 38
The Inca's
D100 => 33
A standstill, where no one can win… but no one can lose.
That is what Pizzaro finds himself.
But he and his enemy, cannot make the first move.
