Tepes/Interactions

This is a list of interactions with Tepes. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Reencounter 3 Story: Kamanets 4 Story Recap 5 Like Quotes 5.1 Bakhyt 6 Dislike Quotes 6.1 Priest Spaspokoutsky 6.2 Oksana Introduction[] I beg your pardon, have we met before? Nay, not yet. My name is (player). "I am the last survivor of an ancient house of Valash rulers. My famous ancestor, Vladislav Tepes, known as Dracula, was the scourge of the Turks, and the Lord of Transylvania! The King of Hungary is the mortal enemy of the Valachs, and spread dreadful rumors that my ancestor had a thirst for blood! These legends and tales have become the bane of our family. The descendants of Dracula left Trasylvania [sic], and I grew up in Kamenets, near the border. For a while now I have lived the life of a wanderer. It is not the life I would have chosen... Several years ago, Hmelnitski's army laid siege to Kamenets. Soon a plague hit the Cossack camp, and they withdrew. But the same dreadful epidemic took the lives of many townsmen, including my parents. I volunteered to be the captain of the town guard, and could only visit their graves after sunset, so busy was I. The graveyard keeper spoke of it in a pub, and invented a few tall tales involving grave digging. The merchants, their minds inflamed by the war and the plague, accused me of mortal sins, and bent themselves on my destruction. All I could take as I fled the city were my sword and a treatise on the art of war." Well, a sharp blade is never out of place in my party. I hope you will forgive me if I will not join you at the table. I already had my supper, and I never dine afterward. I wield the sword with great skill, and I have mastered battle tactics through long study. In addition, I can do bloodletting in the case of a sickness. Well then, you are welcome to join my men. With pleasure. Just one pleas - last night I was somewhat unlucky at a game table. Could you pay my debt? The sum is pitiful, merely 200 thaler. But with this I can leave this town with a clean conscience. Here's 200 thaler. Travel with Dracula's offspring? No thanks. I am not looking for companions. Pardon me, I was confused... Reencounter[] I am a noble and have much war experience, but in my distress I have taken many jobs -- a guard for merchants, the night watch at a noble house -- and I have even fed myself by winning at cards. But perhaps you yourself are in need of a companion? Story: Kamanets[] Kamenets! I'll be damned if this is not the most beautiful place in the world. From here it is not far to Valachia, my homeland. This city has always been on one border or another. Many armies have come, to feel the tar poured on them by the city's defenders... The tumen of Batu Khan, the regiments of Algirdas. Nalivaiko, Krivonos, Bogun -- and even Hmelnitski himself have laid siege there. Together with other settlers, I have defended the city tower, from which I saw countless Cossack regiments surrounding the town. And this is how city dwellers repaid me... Story Recap[] For many years my kin ruled Valachia, but I myself was born and grew up in Kamenets. Like Quotes[] Bakhyt[] Let me just say that I wish there were more warriors like Bakhyt in our company! He is very educated man, and knows all about bloodletting. Just lately his knowledge of medicine saved my life. Dislike Quotes[] Priest Spaspokoutsky[] I cannot stand it any longer. That unfrocked monk Priest Spaspokoutsky stalks me all the time. I don't know what he's up to, but each night he draws a circle with chalk and prays inside of it, while he looks at me strangely. And the other day he tried to splash me with holy water... I respect religious feelings, but this has become absurd! Oksana[] Perhaps I speak out of turn, sir. but that Oksana is truly a witch. I met her at the cemetery the night when the moon was bright. She was gathering some roots. I fear to think what she's going to brew with them... Perhaps you want to ask what I was doing on the cemetery late at night? I was just walking by. Note that if you continue to keep the company of a witch, I shall have to leave your party.