Post by TheEvilTit on Jul 9, 2004 9:57:53 GMT
*This note is found tacked to the tree in West Styne, (the one between the mayor’s house and the inn) as the author found no more room left on the door to the blacksmith’s*
IC:
To whomever is interested…
I am a mercenary willing to work for the right price.
All circumstances will be considered.
The details of each case must be explained and discussed between me and the client, so that all conditions and objectives can be arranged and set under mutual agreement.
Zodak
*You notice a stamp has been used instead of a signature*
OOC: Please note I must follow the PVP IC Combat rule meaning that if I am asked to fight another player:
1. There must be a good RP reason for me to carry out the assault, so tell me what it is IC or OOC.
2. They have to be of moderate or higher experience to myself i.e. between levels 37-40 inclusive.
3. Anyone I’m asked to assault must be above level 5.
(However as it says in the rule if both parties agree to this cooperatively the moderate and 5th level restrictions may be ignored.)
Also note I’m no rogue so I can’t pick pockets or unlock doors, although I’m pretty good at bashing them, so you could hire me for that lol.
Additionally, although I will be hired for my military skills, there are many variations on how they could be put to use, examples include…
• The obvious, for assaulting someone or something.
• Being a bodyguard for someone or something.
• Guarding an area or item.
• Fighting alongside a guild or dare I say it the Knights.
• Exploration.
• Infiltration.
• Anything I haven’t thought of.
• Other.
Background information on Medieval Mercenaries:
(Copied from college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_033800_mercenaries.htm)
There is no general agreement on exactly what the term mercenary means. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia calls all professional armies, at least of capitalist countries, "mercenary armies." The word is often used to denigrate one's enemies—as when Kaiser Wilhelm called Indian troops in British service during World War I "an army of mercenaries." On the other hand, the thousands of Canadian and Mexican citizens who served in the American army in Vietnam were clearly not mercenaries.
What then is a true mercenary? Essentially mercenaries are not part of the society for whom they fight nor a part of its regular forces; rather, they are specialists in warfare and are paid. Mercenaries provide a number of advantages to their paymaster, foremost being military skills not possessed by national troops. Mercenaries may be willing to serve when the paymaster's subjects may not be. They consequently often make better bodyguards than the national troops would; members of a given society may be swayed by politics or sentiment. As a seventeenth-century Scots mercenary who fought in the Thirty Years' War put it, "So we serve our master honestlie honestly, it is no matter what master we serve."
Equally important is why a person becomes a mercenary. Although simple love of adventure and combat may be a factor, lack of economic opportunity is the chief motivator. Farmers, herders, and merchants who cannot earn a living, disinherited nobles, and others who simply know no other trade have always been the mainstay of recruitment. The supply of such men is as important as the demand.
Mercenaries have usually had an unsavory reputation, reflected in the old European saying that "Every soldier needs three peasants: one to give up his lodging, one to provide his wife, and one to take his place in Hell." Yet their use is almost universal in advanced societies, and they have often played key roles in history. Without them Carthage could never have challenged Rome, and Greek mercenaries were a crucial factor in the spread of Hellenistic civilization from Italy to Afghanistan after the death of Alexander the Great.
Mercenaries were an essential, and underrated, element of medieval warfare. Flemish mercenaries, for example, allowed King Stephen of England (1135-1154) to fight off the Plantagenets for nearly twenty years. When Henry II came to power, he banished the Flemings, who were hated by the English—and promptly hired his own mercenaries. By the end of the medieval period, mercenaries were everywhere in Europe, from the famed Swiss pikemen to Italian condottieri like Sir John Hawkwood. Mercenaries were heavily used elsewhere. In 755 the Chinese T'ang dynasty nearly fell when a Turkish general revolted and Indian pastoral tribes used military service to transform themselves into a warrior caste, the Rajputs, or "Sons of Kings."
The use of mercenaries by European powers continued; Hessian soldiers used by Britain in the American Revolution were a notable example. Before the creation of modern nation-states, most rulers found it convenient to use mercenaries. This era ended dramatically during the French Revolution (see French Revolution, Wars of the) with the massacre of the Swiss Guard in Paris. The modern concept of national sovereignty required the suppression of nonstate military activity. Foreign nationals would henceforth be uniformed, trained, and officered as units of the national army such as the French Foreign Legion and the British Gurkhas. True mercenaries reappeared in the 1960s when new African states such as the Congo, lacking an indigenous military infrastructure, briefly employed such troops. The major market for mercenaries now seems to be drug cartels and private security companies.
IC:
To whomever is interested…
I am a mercenary willing to work for the right price.
All circumstances will be considered.
The details of each case must be explained and discussed between me and the client, so that all conditions and objectives can be arranged and set under mutual agreement.
Zodak
*You notice a stamp has been used instead of a signature*
OOC: Please note I must follow the PVP IC Combat rule meaning that if I am asked to fight another player:
1. There must be a good RP reason for me to carry out the assault, so tell me what it is IC or OOC.
2. They have to be of moderate or higher experience to myself i.e. between levels 37-40 inclusive.
3. Anyone I’m asked to assault must be above level 5.
(However as it says in the rule if both parties agree to this cooperatively the moderate and 5th level restrictions may be ignored.)
Also note I’m no rogue so I can’t pick pockets or unlock doors, although I’m pretty good at bashing them, so you could hire me for that lol.
Additionally, although I will be hired for my military skills, there are many variations on how they could be put to use, examples include…
• The obvious, for assaulting someone or something.
• Being a bodyguard for someone or something.
• Guarding an area or item.
• Fighting alongside a guild or dare I say it the Knights.
• Exploration.
• Infiltration.
• Anything I haven’t thought of.
• Other.
Background information on Medieval Mercenaries:
(Copied from college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_033800_mercenaries.htm)
There is no general agreement on exactly what the term mercenary means. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia calls all professional armies, at least of capitalist countries, "mercenary armies." The word is often used to denigrate one's enemies—as when Kaiser Wilhelm called Indian troops in British service during World War I "an army of mercenaries." On the other hand, the thousands of Canadian and Mexican citizens who served in the American army in Vietnam were clearly not mercenaries.
What then is a true mercenary? Essentially mercenaries are not part of the society for whom they fight nor a part of its regular forces; rather, they are specialists in warfare and are paid. Mercenaries provide a number of advantages to their paymaster, foremost being military skills not possessed by national troops. Mercenaries may be willing to serve when the paymaster's subjects may not be. They consequently often make better bodyguards than the national troops would; members of a given society may be swayed by politics or sentiment. As a seventeenth-century Scots mercenary who fought in the Thirty Years' War put it, "So we serve our master honestlie honestly, it is no matter what master we serve."
Equally important is why a person becomes a mercenary. Although simple love of adventure and combat may be a factor, lack of economic opportunity is the chief motivator. Farmers, herders, and merchants who cannot earn a living, disinherited nobles, and others who simply know no other trade have always been the mainstay of recruitment. The supply of such men is as important as the demand.
Mercenaries have usually had an unsavory reputation, reflected in the old European saying that "Every soldier needs three peasants: one to give up his lodging, one to provide his wife, and one to take his place in Hell." Yet their use is almost universal in advanced societies, and they have often played key roles in history. Without them Carthage could never have challenged Rome, and Greek mercenaries were a crucial factor in the spread of Hellenistic civilization from Italy to Afghanistan after the death of Alexander the Great.
Mercenaries were an essential, and underrated, element of medieval warfare. Flemish mercenaries, for example, allowed King Stephen of England (1135-1154) to fight off the Plantagenets for nearly twenty years. When Henry II came to power, he banished the Flemings, who were hated by the English—and promptly hired his own mercenaries. By the end of the medieval period, mercenaries were everywhere in Europe, from the famed Swiss pikemen to Italian condottieri like Sir John Hawkwood. Mercenaries were heavily used elsewhere. In 755 the Chinese T'ang dynasty nearly fell when a Turkish general revolted and Indian pastoral tribes used military service to transform themselves into a warrior caste, the Rajputs, or "Sons of Kings."
The use of mercenaries by European powers continued; Hessian soldiers used by Britain in the American Revolution were a notable example. Before the creation of modern nation-states, most rulers found it convenient to use mercenaries. This era ended dramatically during the French Revolution (see French Revolution, Wars of the) with the massacre of the Swiss Guard in Paris. The modern concept of national sovereignty required the suppression of nonstate military activity. Foreign nationals would henceforth be uniformed, trained, and officered as units of the national army such as the French Foreign Legion and the British Gurkhas. True mercenaries reappeared in the 1960s when new African states such as the Congo, lacking an indigenous military infrastructure, briefly employed such troops. The major market for mercenaries now seems to be drug cartels and private security companies.
