Rotation Divine Intervention I: The Chaos Begins

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Hey, everyone, it's me, MoreEpicThanYou. I have an epic idea for a S&T game, and it's sort of a cross between a DI and a SG. This story will explain the gist of it.

In the heavens, the almighty gods watched upon the earth, where civilizations were about to form. They saw the Germans as the ones chosen to inherit the earth, but there was a problem: No one in the tribe would make a good leader. So the gods sat down to decide who would descend to Earth and rule over the Germans...

Epicius: OK, gods, we need to stop fighting and actually be productive. Who do you think we are, the politicians of Earth Prime?
God 2: We're gods! We CREATED politicians.
Epicius: Shut up. Now, let's try again: Who wants to go to Earth?
*silence, except the God of Crickets chirps a bit*
God 3: But Epicius, don't you remember that to appear in human form outside of dreams, we'd lose our powers unless we returned to the heavens?
Epicius: I know that, but SOMEONE needs to do it. I know how we can decide! We could draw lots...
God 4: No! You saw how well that worked for the Greek gods on Earth Prime. Hades has never stopped complaining since!
God 5: I know. Why don't we take turns?
Everyone Else: What?
God 5: One could stay on Earth helping the humans for a period of ten turns!
Epicius: Why turns? We could just use years.
God 5: But turns are the time measurement unit of the gods!
Epicius: Fine, fine... Carry on.
God 5: After 10 turns, the god-on-duty would return to Heaven, and another would take his place!
*silence*
Epicius: Well, that idea is terrible, but no one has anything better. Let's do it.
Everyone Else: Grumble, grumble.

If you haven't figured it out, someone plays a save for 10 turns, then becomes a god and passes it on. Here are the rules, with a few added to make things a bit more fair...

Spoiler:

Standard Commandments of Dietyhood

I.Thou shalt announce your intentions.
--(Be sure to "got it" so we don't run into continuim errors. We reserve the right to ignore not announced updates)

II. Thou shalt not Intervene if you were the last deity to intervene, and thou shalt only intervene once per waking
--(You may only intervene once per my update, and you must wait for another God to intervene before intervening again.)

III. Thou shalt not reveal the secrets of knowledge or the heavens to mortals.
--(No units or techs should be revealed to any civilization if they are not in the current or previous era of the player)

IV. Thou shalt not use your powers for cataclysmic destruction
--(Remember, less is more. Be subtle. It is far more interesting for everyone if you make subtle, interesting changes like forming a choke with mountains than if you just tear giant swathes of ice through my cities. I reserve the right to reject saves I think are unnecessarily apocalyptic.)

V. Thou shalt reveal yourself to the mortal with grace.
--(Everyone loves a good story, and if you decide to contribute to it, be creative! Choose a name and domain [i.e., Winston, the Sea God] that you govern, even if the characters don't know it's you acting)

VI. Thou shalt not be vindictive, and thou shalt not halt progress.
--(You are not allowed to strip techs away from me. Anything I research is mine permanently. You are also not allowed to remove any named unit, for any reason.)

VII. Thou shalt not be unnecessarily nice to the puny mortal.
--(I do not need a stack of thirty Level 9 Praetorians to win my fights. You do not need to fill my BFC with flood-plain grassland goldmine hills next to rivers. The only exception to this is if you genuinely make me work my ass off to get it, and even then it not ought to be as good as the dream city outlined above.)

VIII. Thou shalt reward him for piety, and thou shalt offer him redemption for his punishments.
--(If you give me a quest and I succeed, reward me! If it was easy don't give me a big bonus, and if it was hard I am going to be miffed if I get another Great Prophet for all my hard work. Likewise, if you punish me, tell me how I can fix it!)

IX. Thou shalt not war with the other gods. Much.
--(Obviously there's going to be some strife between those who would support Ragnar's Conquest, and those who would seek to protect the world from his tyranny. Having said that, Gods are not allowed to reverse the effects of an intervention without waiting for the update after the effects have been felt. This includes quests. In fact, you would do well to leave the other god's quests alone entirely. If you want me to do yours instead, make it more interesting or more lucritive)

X. Thou shalt obey the natural order of things, and of time, and of destiny.
--(There is a storyline going on here. Do try and fit in. Do not take great lengths to completely detract from it. Be smart.)

XI. Thou shalt not abuse your architectural omniscient nature.
--(Don't add wonders that don't already exist.)

Additional Rotation Commandments

XII. Thou shalt not alter the human world during the ten turns before your time on Earth.
--(Don't use Worldedit the on the save before your turn, or on the save you send out.)

XIII. Thou shalt tell Epicius if you are unavailable to serve your time on Earth.
--(Tell me if you won't be able to play your ten turns.)

Anyway, let's go! I'll put an update out tonight, we are playing standard BTS, Bismark, on a Large Archipelago with 12 civs. Also, to kick things off, I will play the first 20 turns.

[SamSniped]

lurker's comment: Sounds interesting. But shouldn't you finish Rome: Eternal Empire?
Anyway, I'll be watching this.

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Not posting the update for this game until someone signs up.

[strijder20]

Sounds interesting indeed.
*Signs up*

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Well, here we have an at least decent start.

Pretty obvious what I should go for.

Gold? Meh.

Surrey? Could be worse.

Looks like a canal spot... I'll probably settle there.

Izzy or Asoka?


I know I played a bit over the turn limit, but considering the next turnset is also mine, it won't matter that much.

Remember, you don't have to spoiler your changes, because EVERYONE is a god here.

[Optical]

Joining as Glod, the Gold-crazed Goldly Gold of Gold.

Er, I mean the gold-crazed godly god of gold.

[strijder20]

Call me Vandorac, lord of Mountains, Hills, and other Capitalized High Areas Of The World.

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Erm... anyone going to edit the save?

[Optical]

Probably tomorrow.

[Optical]

Ah, knew I forgot something I said I'd do. My sports got cancelled tomorrow, so I'll edit the save then.

[strijder20]

I doubt Optical has been working 8-hours non-stop on the save, so I'll take it.

[strijder20]

From the highlands he came, and now he stood on this tiny peninsula, where the German people lived.

He cautiously approached the village and gave the guards some gifts to prove his good will.

Once having arrived in the village center, the natives swarmed around him, trying to see something from that stranger who came from the south. He spoke:

'Greetings, noble Germans! I have been sent by Vandorac. He ordered me to make a map of the highlands to the south of here.'

The crowd murmured, and finally one of the older men dared to respond:

'You are wrong. There are no highlands to the south. Our explorers have seen it themselves. Only the jungle-men and the coast are in the south.'

'My god, Vandorac, has the might to raise mountains from the sea and to change a plain to a rugged highland. I will make your map, and prove I am right.'

He left, and started his long travel to the mountains he came from.

[MoreEpicThanYou]

You're supposed to say what changes you made in both RP and OOC format.

[strijder20]

Originally Posted by MoreEpicThanYou

You're supposed to say what changes you made in both RP and OOC format.

Oh, sorry, forgot to add the spoiler in which the changes are

Spoiler:

Added a hilly/mountainy area to the south of the island. Gave Germany a Guerilla 2 explorer.