...One day a Bloody and broken currier trooper reached the capital east gates this is the story he told:
My Lady this is a report from the Gleensburg Valley fortification complex!
the day before this and the day before that it was just an ordinary day, we had controlled border transports and taxed them according to our laws, we where just about to close the main gate for the night...
Then they where there all close to our fortification, Captain Beefheart panicked and pulled the portcullus, so a few of our guys where where outside, they were slaughtered by the hordes, then a bad thing was that because of the friendly peaceful times that have lasted for so long in this area, we were undermanned, since a lot of soldiers were "on leave" with the families and down the pub, something that Captain Beefheart often didn´t take very serious since, the barbarians were not as active these days as they had been in the past...
Then there was a second front, from the inside of the fort commandos had been hiding in the merchants and peasants charts and transports...
obviously no charts had been inspected as well as we should have, again Beefheart´s fault, he was far to slack on everything, that is what long lasting peace does to soldiers... I men non of us had seen blood for ages...
...so anyhow, now we were only a few crossbows and archers up above the gate, they Barbarians where organized this time fighting in squads, they even formed a shield-wall to block out arrows and bolts...
they were not behaving like before, my Lady you know, before if the killed a trooper they would pillage him directly sometimes smaller fights would erupt among themselves now they just kept moving in their units and formations...
...they fought almost like us, the collaborated amongst themselves...
...now ma´am I have almost no soul left and no blood left, I am asking for permission to pass out and taken to a bed, I will give a full report later, I am sorry we failed you ma´am, we.. we.. failed... we, fail...
the soldier passes out in front of Esmeralda.
