Young Writers Society

War has overtaken the country.

No one wants to be fighting it.

And everyone wants to be fighting it.

In the faraway country of Remauk, civil war rages. It has for a year. Fields are burned, villages are massacred, children are slaughtered mercilessly every day, yet it doesn't stop. The army is fractured, split between their queen and their captain.

Their captain is a gullible leader, looking out for the good of the country, but is being fed misinformation and is dreadfully misguided.

Their queen is a selfish monarch, emptying the coffers and losing her people's alliegance while trying to ignore the brewing war with her neighbors and within her own country- and succeeding at neither.

Both believe that the other betrayed them.

And meanwhile, the other countries plot to conquer Remauk, led by the strongest of them all, Sin'he.

The officers in the army are corrupt. Crime rules the streets nowadays. The capitol and court are in upheaval. Nobles are killed or dying. Bands of highwaymen strike wherever possible, murdering nobles and commoners alike. There is no way to flee the country- the borders are blocked by both Remauk and Sin'hian troops. Not to mention that no one would make it to the border alive.

Where do you come in, you ask?

A band of unlikely companions have come together, just inside Remauk's border, where the fighting is the worst. They are three, maybe four days away from the capitol, which is the base of both the queen and the captain. That is- three or four days without fighting.

You're made up of every type of person possibly imaginable.

A Sin'hian spy, posing as a refugee.

A couple of Remauk soldiers.

A poor noble lady that might or might not be the crown princess.

A strange boy that looks oddly like the captain's missing son.


And they all have one goal: to get to the capitol, Althea.

To get information.

To find their regiment and take critical information to their captain.

To be crowned queen.

To find his father and talk some sense into him.


Spots available
1. Sin'hian spy. @r4p17 You've earned the displeasure of your king. But you're still his most trusted soldier. Although young (around the same age as the soldiers), you are skilled. Your job is to ruin Remauk from the inside, and yo have to return in two weeks' time with valuable information. Maybe you know the true identities of some of your companions. Or maybe you don't have anything but a few sneaking suspicions. Either way, are you going to drive a wedge in between these already-natural-enemies?
2. Soldier(s). @lostthought You're a veteran of the war, around twenty-something years old. You fought your way to the borderlands for important information. All you care about is getting back to your captain. And in two weeks time, your warning will be useless. Or... maybe you're tired of the fighting. Maybe you want to leave. You don't know your companions' identities, but the facts aren't adding up. The strange boy knows too much of military strategy not to be an officer or a high-up soldier. The noble lady knows too much of politics for a girl that's never attended court. And the refugee seems too at ease and sneaky to be any normal refugee.
3. The princess. @Aurora99 You were left behind at the summer palace when the civil war first started. Most think you to be dead. You've managed to survive on your own for a year of war. All you care about is getting home and crowning yourself queen, even if you are only seventeen. You know that your mother is destroying the country, and you want to fix that. Your mother has signed a proclamation saying that if you aren't back by the end of the month- which is in two weeks- you will lose your crown. You know how to fix it, and you know you only have so much time left. You don't know who your companions are, but that strange boy- you feel like you've met him before.
4. The son of the captain. @RavenMoonStone You ran away at sixteen years old, when the war started because your father wouldn't let you help. You wanted to join the army, but quickly realized that it was too easy for you to be recognized and were stuck in the borderlands, trying to make your way home. You want to go to your father and knock some sense into his head. But in two weeks' time, a message will be sent to your father telling him that you are alive. And the only chance you have needs the element of surprise. You believe that the princess is alive, because a body was never discovered. If she steps forward, you're ready to support her, in any way possible. You don't know that the lady you're traveling with is the princess, but you also feel as though you've met her before.


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I have taken the part of the princess. Once all the spots are taken, we will be starting the SB! There is no structured plot in this- however, it would be nice if some of the group succeeded in the goal. If you are joining, please know that you must post weekly unless you've previously told me otherwise.

People whom I think may be interested: