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Ok, so my head hurts. Drank tooo much Trojan wine. Can’t sleep.
So Polites, gets this wine from a couple of Trojan girls he is seeing. Not the prettiest of girls, but that’s Polites. Misenus, Elpenor and I helped him work on it. It was cool and breezy, and I couldn’t help but think that we were at a beachfire back at the Academy.
Polites is going off about his exploits with these gals, and guess what? General Odysseus comes strutting up. We must’ve been something like 200 yards from his tent, but he’s still buckling his belt as he walks up. -Just so we would all know that he got laid. What an ass.
Anyway, Elpenor totally takes the bait, and is like: “A rough night of conquest General?!” Such a lame innuendo, but Odysseus loves it. He says something like: “Well, Lieutenant Elpenor, let’s just say that there were at least some parts of Troy that were subjugated on this night!” -Frickin’ Apollo’s ass.
Well, feeling good and stroked, the General plops down and goddamned Elpenor hands him a bottle of wine. Elp then starts yapping to the General about Polites and his girls, and how we got the wine. -Whatever. But then, the General blows us away.
“How’d they get back into Troy, Eurylochus?” he asks me.
Is it really possible that the General doesn't know that each morning, small numbers of peasantry and animals were released from the gates, to be readmitted in the evening? -It’s not like it’s a risk to Troy. Their high ground makes our position always obvious. If we came close and messed with these folk, they’d just toss some burning oil on our asses. Anyway, we trade with these people. It’s been going on for more than a year.
I start to tell the General about this, trying my best not to make him look stupid, but then Elpoenor interjects: “Yeah, some of those Trojans even traded wine for a couple of horses from the Salamisians. I can’t figure why they’d want horses though.”
Odysseus frowned at that. He then goes: “Oh, yes, yes… that’s how those girls have gotten into the city. I thought that Polites knew of some other means of getting into Troy.” -But, we knew otherwise.
It must have really pissed off Odysseus that the Salamisians are profiting from this trade. Ajax is the General of the Salamisians. The two Generals are always very cordial to each other, but I know that Odysseus is intimidated by Ajax. Like Odysseus, Ajax is a monster of a man, and he looks every part the leader too. However, unlike Odysseus, Ajax is a quick thinker and smooth talker. Odysseus can own just about any room, but not one with Ajax in it. It must have really bothered him that not only had Ajax known about this trade first, but that he might actually be profiting from it too.
Anyway, that sort of dampened the General’s spirits, because not long after, he excused himself. Once again, Elpenor tried his best to impress the General, and instead just succeeded in pissing him off.
-Goodnight.
So Polites, gets this wine from a couple of Trojan girls he is seeing. Not the prettiest of girls, but that’s Polites. Misenus, Elpenor and I helped him work on it. It was cool and breezy, and I couldn’t help but think that we were at a beachfire back at the Academy.
Polites is going off about his exploits with these gals, and guess what? General Odysseus comes strutting up. We must’ve been something like 200 yards from his tent, but he’s still buckling his belt as he walks up. -Just so we would all know that he got laid. What an ass.
Anyway, Elpenor totally takes the bait, and is like: “A rough night of conquest General?!” Such a lame innuendo, but Odysseus loves it. He says something like: “Well, Lieutenant Elpenor, let’s just say that there were at least some parts of Troy that were subjugated on this night!” -Frickin’ Apollo’s ass.
Well, feeling good and stroked, the General plops down and goddamned Elpenor hands him a bottle of wine. Elp then starts yapping to the General about Polites and his girls, and how we got the wine. -Whatever. But then, the General blows us away.
“How’d they get back into Troy, Eurylochus?” he asks me.
Is it really possible that the General doesn't know that each morning, small numbers of peasantry and animals were released from the gates, to be readmitted in the evening? -It’s not like it’s a risk to Troy. Their high ground makes our position always obvious. If we came close and messed with these folk, they’d just toss some burning oil on our asses. Anyway, we trade with these people. It’s been going on for more than a year.
I start to tell the General about this, trying my best not to make him look stupid, but then Elpoenor interjects: “Yeah, some of those Trojans even traded wine for a couple of horses from the Salamisians. I can’t figure why they’d want horses though.”
Odysseus frowned at that. He then goes: “Oh, yes, yes… that’s how those girls have gotten into the city. I thought that Polites knew of some other means of getting into Troy.” -But, we knew otherwise.
It must have really pissed off Odysseus that the Salamisians are profiting from this trade. Ajax is the General of the Salamisians. The two Generals are always very cordial to each other, but I know that Odysseus is intimidated by Ajax. Like Odysseus, Ajax is a monster of a man, and he looks every part the leader too. However, unlike Odysseus, Ajax is a quick thinker and smooth talker. Odysseus can own just about any room, but not one with Ajax in it. It must have really bothered him that not only had Ajax known about this trade first, but that he might actually be profiting from it too.
Anyway, that sort of dampened the General’s spirits, because not long after, he excused himself. Once again, Elpenor tried his best to impress the General, and instead just succeeded in pissing him off.
-Goodnight.
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