301 - Forum Diplomacy Only Steel SVC

[IMPERIAL_TARK]

UN-RA

For Queen, coming I am. Early kidnap, we try. If success, highest agent honor, Agent 16 will receive. And the best we are, to prove, nothing more is needed. If success, treated well, as a guest, your Queen will be. And regime change, for you may be good. And ransom back, for Queen, we will consider. 50,000 gold, perhaps.

RA -> UN

Master Yoda,
  We have an expression in Synisvania..... don't count your dragon eggs before they're hatched.  Perhaps next time do your boasting AFTER you have succeeded.... yes?!  Thanks to your warning (odd for an assassin to take this tact), I took an ancient anti-sleep remedy before your sleep magics affected me and was waiting with blade in hand when your men came calling.  And here I sit, still a top my throne.  Lucky for you your men were good enough to escape with their lives and without us being able to catch them but a few will be nursing some wounds upon their return, a gift free of charge.  
  So keep sending more, I'm sure sooner or later you will get lucky, but now all of Alamaze knows that you're not quite as good as you think you are.....; you can join the Red Dragon in that category.
And know that while I appreciate that I will be treated properly if/when I do become your prisoner, I have instructed my people to NOT pay any ransoms for my return.  My people are well aware of the fate that awaits them with the Red Dragon, he made that quite clear when he butchered my ambassadors at Jukanta on a peaceful diplomatic mission.  So my people here will never give up, and never surrender, not even upon my death, it is simply not in our nature.  We will take as many of your kind with us, as well as the Red Dragons and Dwarves as we can till our time on this world is done which will not be long given you all like to bring three big fellas to the fight against one simple country girl.
   And it keeps me warm at night that all of Alamaze has seen one a single defiant queen can do before the might of the simultaneous onslaught of the Scarlett Wyrm, Dwarven people, and your Master Assassins.  We have a legend of a great Ranger king of old named Leonidus, who though he perished with his men to the man, inspired other kingdoms to rise up and take arms against the evil doers that invaded their lands.  The Rangers were eventually reborn again, and I think you will see the Ranger kingdom reborn again and again long after my passing, for there will always be those rally to the call of good and oppose evil where it stands.

Lady SteelHawk, Snow Queen of the Rangers
Slayer of Dragons
Confounder of Assassins