EventAcross the pillars
Killed at the Gates
The men of his escort come back thin and quiet, in twos and threes, over the space of a week. Their accounts differ in the details and agree in the substance. The scout reached the city. It stands, they say, stone on stone above a plain, exactly where the crosses pointed. Its lords refused him at the gates, held him a night outside the walls, and killed him in the morning when he would not turn back. The column has its confirmation, and the price of it walked ahead of us the whole way, shaking a gourd rattle.
Fired by
- A Cross the Height of a ManEventOption A “Let him greet the city. He has earned the first look.” · 3–5 days later
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
Event chain
Each event is fired by the one it is nested under; the line below it says which choice leads there and when.
- Crosses on the Trail
- A Cross the Height of a Man↳ Option A “Let him range. The crosses speak plainly enough.” · 10–15 days later
- Killed at the Gates↳ Option A “Let him greet the city. He has earned the first look.” · 3–5 days later
Triggered by 1
- A Cross the Height of a ManOption 1
Scripting 2
Grants 1
- leads_foundOption
Uses 1
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effectMAX = 20 · MIN = 10Option
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_cibola.14.title Killed at the Gates
desc = seven_cities_cibola.14.desc The men of his escort come back thin and quiet, in twos and threes, over the space of a week. Their accounts differ in the details and agree in the substance. The scout reached the city. It stands, they say, stone on stone above a plain, exactly where the crosses pointed. Its lords refused him at the gates, held him a night outside the walls, and killed him in the morning when he would not turn back. The column has its confirmation, and the price of it walked ahead of us the whole way, shaking a gourd rattle.
historical_info = seven_cities_cibola.14.historical_info Estevanico was killed at Hawikuh in May 1539, the first man of the Old World to reach the Seven Cities and the first to die for them. The survivors of his escort fled south and met Fray Marcos coming up the trail; the friar, by his own account, pressed on just far enough to view the city from a distance before turning back to Mexico with the news. The death was read as proof rather than warning, since a city that killed ambassadors was evidently a city with something to guard. The army that marched the following spring was, in that sense, Estevanico's monument.
outcome = negative
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition ?= {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}
immediate = {
scope:expedition = {
expedition_leader = {
save_scope_as = target_leader
}
}
}