by Onionfighter » Thu May 13, 2010 10:15 pm
Ok, here is another part of the story.
I tracked two people from recent murders in Gangband and from south of Xanadu to Xanadu's silver mine. We then broke into the silver mine, and killed one of the perpetrators, who had a keyring with three keys: one of which said "Xanadu mine". I wanted to see if these people were part of Xanadu.
We still distrusted Xanadu since we last raided them, with all the bitter back and forth, and having never come to any formal peace agreement. As mentioned earlier, peace terms were offered, but none were agreed to. We also had heard that Sabinati had left Xanadu, so there was nobody I knew from Xanadu to contact. We didn't know anyone had been kicked out, or really anything about what was going on within Xanadu. That said, I can say now that what happened was a huge mistake, and I bear a large part of the responsibility.
Though after the fact I realized what a tenuous connection the keys were (the murderers could have kept the keys secret from Xanadu), I have just tried to open the Xanadu gates using those keys, and they do not work. The problem is that when I tried Xanadu's gate, I had keyrings taken from the previous raid. This was a mistake, and I shouldn't have had those on me. I had mistakenly assumed that the gates had been replaced, since I saw rams next to them shortly after the first raid.
The bottom line is this: we should not have raided you, and I apologize for this.
Cheerleader