Volume: 01 Issue: 04 Date: Backspindlewinter, Century of the Confused Turtle 04

The mysterious aborigines of XXXX had no success at all except in the Terror Incognita army holding. Fleets trying to take Ku and the Turnwise Widdershins Ocean encountered barbarians and Genuans in the desired locations. In the case of the Turnwise Widdershins Ocean, the attempt distracted the swamplanders, causing them to fight rather than support Agatea. This was the only thing that prevented the barbarian fleet in the Hubwards Widdershins Ocean from having to run back home to Ingenting or all jumping overboard.

Speaking of barbarians retreating, there was a complete scrum in and around the Koom Valley/Uberwald/Trollbone Mountains region, with the Hublanders, Genuans, and Ogg Clan all moving in. Nanny's children didn't get in, but did distract the hordes from supporting their fellows into Uberwald, which caused Genua to prise out that legion from the Trollbone Mountains, causing them to swirl over the Vortex Plains. The one loss was offset by two successful movements to Llamedos and the Ramtops, pushing the Clan farther out and into Lancre.

The Duc's creatures won the battle of the Trollbone Mountains, moving in from No ThingFjord with support from Uberwald. (They were heard to complain, however, that the mountains had no "real" food, only four-legged critters with no decent alligators to be found.) Genuan armies moved hubwards from the coast, taking the Old (masculine) Plain and the Rammerocks. In a peculiar fleet launching, the fleet stationed in Momerathia glided into the Gulf of Brindisi. Ecstatic in finally taking Borogravia, the Duc ordered help to his Muntab friends in Ushistan, but the soldiers had to turn and fight the Cenobriach's forces moving in from Istanzia instead.

The Muntabians, with help from the towel-heads of Brother Jhake's, took the philosophers of Ephebe away from the jurisdiction of the Circle Cities. The philosophers, upon hearing the news, began to debate whether Ephebe was actually still on the coast (Circle Cities area) or had moved into Muntab-region, rather than the Muntabians actually having moved there. Some soldiers, after attempting to follow the discussions, got fed up and initiated towel-rationing and bath-tickets as punishment. Due to the distraction of the Genuans in Borogravia, the Theocracy was unable to take Betrek and lost to the coastal army moving in. This unexpected setback caused the Kushistan army to quickly backtrack, finding that Ushistan wasn't vacant as supposed. The Rehigreed fleet went on manoeuvres in the Sumtri Sea.

The Cenobriach of the Circle Cities nicked Betrek from under the avaricious hands of Muntab, by distracting the Genuans in Borogravia. The support of the Holy Omnia was vital to this.

However, it seemed that the Klatchians were thinking about the Cenobriach's realm, for they moved from their capital in Al Khali to the Circle Sea and docked their Psuedopolitan fleet on the Sto Plains. The camel-riders were the only ones who had unalloyed success in Spring Prime, with movements overall Hubwards and widdershins. They continued their tradition of cooperation with the Muntabians, assisting the Muntab forces into Ephebe.

In Autumn Secundus, this long-standing accord seemed to fall through. With support from the fleet so recently moved to the Circle Sea, Klatchians from The Great Nef attempted to oust from Ephebe the Muntabians they had helped take the place. The Theocrat of Muntab seems to have had notice of the attempt, for the Ephebe garrison had support from Vanglemesh and pushed back the one-time friends. The unexpected rebuff caused the Klatchian army from Laotan, obviously expecting their compatriots to have a cake-walk into Ephebe and leaving The Great Nef open, to flitter back into their fort in Laotan. As further evidence of Brother Jhake's change of heart, he braved Cape Terror and located a fleet there from the Circumfence Sea. He also made inroads into the heart of the Cenobriach's domain, taking Ankh-Morpork from the Sto Plains. He had clearly not experienced the Ankh-Morporkians' attitude toward invaders before, and had the Psuedopolitan fleet assist in the takeover. In a flush of excitement at the easy victory (the gates were open and no-one resisted the Klatchian marines), Brother Jhake was heard to proclaim, "Ah, this is the life!" whilst munching a swede-curry from a takeaway in Broken-Moon Street. A number of his marines may have had different opinions after trying to have drinks at the Mended Drum. Hubwards of this easy victory, camels were seen for the first time in the Ramtop Mountains as Klatchians moved in from Chimera on the retreating Hublanders.

The Theocrat of Muntab, as previously mentioned, saved his skin in Ephebe only with help from Vanglemesh. The attack, however, caused an expected support for a movement into Betrek to fail, as the Ephebe army turned round to repulse the camels from the desert. The area resembled the melees of last year, with Muntabian, Circle Cities, and Genuan forces all playing round-robin. Betrek was easily taken, making the Genuan support from Borogravia unnecessary, which was all to the good, since the reason that Muntab found Betrek a stroll was that the Cenobriach's army had vacated for Borogravia. With all of that worthy's forces supporting this move, the Genuans had to make a run for it back to Momerathia. In a boringly familiar move, Muntab moved its Rimwards fleet back to Rehigreed. An albatross overheard the sailors grumbling about feeling like yoyos.

The Borogravian retreat was the only bad news for the Duc this season. Indeed, with support from the Ogg clan, Genuan forces destroyed a barbarian horde in the Koom Valley, taking the historic locale from Uberwald. Other Hublander forces successfully moved back into home provinces.

The Hublander marines' retreat back to the port of Ingenting left the mysterious Ku open for takeover from an Agatean merchanter supported by a Genuan fleet. This combined force had to beat off a XXXX fleet from The Big Bight. Possibly, the Hublanders' retreat back to home villages may have been spurred by the Agatean forces present in Cutangelsk, but that army moved into Oolskunrahod instead.

Just before Hogswatch, some of the Disk's leaders announced new recruitment drives, whilst a couple gave their soldiers pink slips. What was advertised as a convention of water-buffalo holders in Sum Dim turned into an army recruitment drive; in Al Khali a headcount was taken of the resident camels and the numbers didn't match with the population of camel-herders, so excess herders were sent for soldiers. The Muntabians felled some trees and build a fleet in Ghat. The army of the Circle Cities in Istanzia, proud of their efforts to help regain Borogravia from Genua, were not so proud to discover layoff notices in their Hogswatch pillow-cases, and the Duc left his army in No Thingfjord to find its own way back to the swamps of home.

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