First day in Italy

The Tiber river. A greater sight was never seen by man. After years of war, and years of trials and hardships we finally arrived in the land Apollo prophesied about.

First thing Aeneas thought we should do was eat. Granted, we were all pretty hungry and could use a bite to eat, but we were in a foreign country and had no idea if the natives were friendly. Luckily we weren't attacked, but still it was a pretty bonehead move by Aeneas. We could have offended or scared the natives by just coming in and eating. We didn't know how civil the natives were. Idk, maybe I was being overly cautious, but I was quite weary from travel and didn't want to start a new war after just arriving. I'm so sick of wars and sailing! I just want to settle down and live peacefully

After we ate Aeneas ordered us to rest. We still hadn't scouted....Aeneas didn't even bother assigning a sentry order, I had to do that myself.  Once again we were lucky enough not to be killed despite our lack of vigilance. Finally I was able to convince Aeneas to scout around, and after half an hour our scouts returned telling us of a great kingdom ruled by king Latinus. Immediately Aeneas sends our hundreds of unarmed envoys for diplomatic purposes into the city to meet with Latinus. Not thinking that he might be pretty mad if hundreds of soldiers landed on his land! If he had attacked we all surely would've died!  Still probably being a little overly cautious, but I was really REALLY tired

When our diplomats arrived back they told Aeneas that we could live here peacefully without fear of attack. So much weight left my shoulders right there, you don't even know!

Then they told Aeneas about Lavinia, the kings daughter. Here we go again...maybe it was the thousands of women raging about the countryside, or my past experiences with Aeneas and his lovers, but something very bad was about to happen, I could feel it.

That night, as I was tossing and turning in my attempts to get to sleep I heard men in the camp yelling and running back and forth. I hopped up and followed them to the action. Apparently some shepards had attacked Ascanius after he killed their prized stag. What could have been settled peacefully had now become a full on war between the natives and us.

Okay, come on now, I'm starting to think Jupiter hates us.We were really about to settle down, and be through with all of this. We were so close! Then we start a war over a pet deer?!?! Are you kidding me? Who even keeps a pet deer anyways! Maybe we ought to go to war with these people! If they're dumb enough to have a pet deer and get mad at us when we accidently kill it while we're hunting, then maybe they deserve to be slaughtered!