Hey /his/, I've heard that during the Black Death that bandits

Desperation bumperino

That sounds awesome. Just imagine stumbling across a sickened kingdom, briefly becoming king with your bandit band before succumbing to the illness yourself.

>>2147907
Ye that's the idea of the story, a group of highwaymen move into a motte and bailey after the lord dies, wreak havoc on the populace of the area

>>2147436
>move into a property whose landowners all died by the plague
>meaning their entire family did since it would have been inherited otherwise
>meaning the majority of the inhabitants died
>corpses have been dumped en masse wherever it wouldn't contaminate the water (or did it?)

I've seen better places to live.

Besides, what's the point of living a castle if you have no servants here to cook and clean for you? Are your fellow bandits really willing to become chamber maids? How are you going to find food?

>>2147990

>family at the castle dies
>next of kin lives months and months away
>passage is made even harder for messenger since everyone is paranoid about plaguebearers
>messenger might not even make it there
>next of kin might be dead of plague too
>same difficulties apply on the way back
>castle is being handled by captain of the guard and the staff
>bandits find this out
>move in and take control
>all current systems work for them now

>>2148026
>captain of guard can handle bandits when lord is alive
>magically bends over and accepts bandit when lord dies
You fucking retard. Even if the bandits could win, if they expect more than 10 ir 20% deaths they wouldn't do it.

This thread should watch the movie Flesh and Blood with Rutger Hauer, this is basically half the story. But cooler.

>>2148090
I don't see how it's too unlikely that literally EVERYONE in the castle either dies or gtfo's when shit starts to go from bad to worse
Plus I was imagining that the castle would be a very small Norman motte and bailey and wouldn't have many residents in the first place

>>2148095
You (if that is you) yourself said that it's being handled by the captain of the guard and staff.... It's easy to defend even a motte and bailey, with a dozen or two people, from fifty or so.

>>2148090

Yeah dude the bandits are just gonna walk up and tell him to get out that's literally what I was imagining when I wrote that.

>>2148120
Nah that wasn't me, I'm OP
And that's good to know, I was planning on having the group of robbers and brigands be about a dozen or so strong

>>2148129
Yeah that's retarded, why would you ever think that?

>>2148134
No problem. Again I say, watch that movie. Depicts this exact situation with a great framing story, and is a great movie besides.

And yes, 12 is more manageable than 50 or so. I'd have everyone dead.

>>2147436
Decameron nigger.