Crowqueen
Token forum woman
This is my second attempt at a story - I wrote an account of "Juche in Sixty Centuries" a few months ago but since it was just a short account of a short and not-very-complicated game I only wrote one section. Inspired by reading some of the stuff from Sisutil and Axident in particular I thought I'd write my own version of a Civ game, based on the Sumerian Gods mod from BtS. I've done this as Babylon (like Sumeria but organised so I don't run out of cash and have to cheat myself up) and I cheated a bit to start off with like the bad girl I really am but basically I speed up the start a bit to get going early on.
I'm writing the story as I go along so I have three "tablets" done already but in reality it's not very far in (2000 BC or so). In this mod to found religions you have to build wonders rather than learn technologies so at least I'm hoping for a different strategy but this is the way I play normal games so maybe I'll learn something or just go under because I can't adapt or whatever.
There's very little "game-speak" in here because I want to tell a story rather than show off a particularly good game, and anyway as I said I cheat at the start of a game by giving myself a starting package: two Bowmen, two Settlers, two Workers alongside the initial Settler and Warrior.
The original epic of Gilgamesh is written on clay tablets - the Epic of Wolgamesh is written on a handful of paracetamol tablets found in the ruins of Dur-Kurigalzu sometime over the last fifty years. Just before the researcher took them for a blinding headache, he noticed that they were inscribed with ancient writings and therefore began to decode and transcribe the small print he found there. Then he decided to take them anyway because after all that tiny script his head felt as if an elephant had recently sat on it.
Enjoy. I'll try and keep it going over the next week or so - I'm still looking for work so real life doesn't get in the way too much - because I have a feeling that by the end of next month things will have got going again and I know what it is like to be waiting months for the next installment of someone else's story so bearing that in mind I aim to try and get it done before the end of June.
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TABLET I
The Epic of Wolgamesh
A Story On Paracetamol Tablets
Slightly cheated
He who has laid down has got up again
He who has slain Boudicca has got up again
He who has tamed Enkidu has got up again
He who has built three cities has got up again
There is a road from Akkad to Dur-Kurigalzu without a completion
Because the Lion stole our worker from his duties
An gives and An takes away
Tundra archer stands awaiting orders from the far end of the world
The silver stars dictate no way home
Yet two nations stand between our lands and his.
The scribes have been and gone, and left their tablets for all to see
An takes away and An gives
From this we see our destinies clear
That Wolgamesh may now explain more of his deeds and spread this knowledge from afar
That the stars may see his glories from afar
That noble Ramesses and loquacious Pacal admit us from afar
An gives, and An yet gives.
Our bowman has slain another Lion
Such that our slaves may live yet to complete that road
Once to An our shrine is raised.
Oh mighty King of Thebes
Accept that we come to you and you to us
Make this agreement sound and be blessed by An
An gives, and still An gives.
Enkidu has found us those who would also be blessed as part of our tribe
He who wanders finds us those who would also be blessed as part of our tribe
To bring us completion for that road from which the Lion stole completion
Trek home to bring that road from which the Lion stole completion
To its finish Brave Enkidu!
He asks of us that which we gave Ramesses.
He demands of us that which we gave Ramesses.
Perhaps An gives, and perhaps An takes away.
He requests of that which we gave Ramesses but perhaps not.
I'm writing the story as I go along so I have three "tablets" done already but in reality it's not very far in (2000 BC or so). In this mod to found religions you have to build wonders rather than learn technologies so at least I'm hoping for a different strategy but this is the way I play normal games so maybe I'll learn something or just go under because I can't adapt or whatever.
There's very little "game-speak" in here because I want to tell a story rather than show off a particularly good game, and anyway as I said I cheat at the start of a game by giving myself a starting package: two Bowmen, two Settlers, two Workers alongside the initial Settler and Warrior.
The original epic of Gilgamesh is written on clay tablets - the Epic of Wolgamesh is written on a handful of paracetamol tablets found in the ruins of Dur-Kurigalzu sometime over the last fifty years. Just before the researcher took them for a blinding headache, he noticed that they were inscribed with ancient writings and therefore began to decode and transcribe the small print he found there. Then he decided to take them anyway because after all that tiny script his head felt as if an elephant had recently sat on it.
Enjoy. I'll try and keep it going over the next week or so - I'm still looking for work so real life doesn't get in the way too much - because I have a feeling that by the end of next month things will have got going again and I know what it is like to be waiting months for the next installment of someone else's story so bearing that in mind I aim to try and get it done before the end of June.
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TABLET I
The Epic of Wolgamesh
A Story On Paracetamol Tablets
Slightly cheated
Spoiler :
He who has laid down has got up again
He who has slain Boudicca has got up again
He who has tamed Enkidu has got up again
He who has built three cities has got up again
There is a road from Akkad to Dur-Kurigalzu without a completion
Because the Lion stole our worker from his duties
An gives and An takes away
Spoiler :
Tundra archer stands awaiting orders from the far end of the world
The silver stars dictate no way home
Yet two nations stand between our lands and his.
Spoiler :
The scribes have been and gone, and left their tablets for all to see
An takes away and An gives
From this we see our destinies clear
That Wolgamesh may now explain more of his deeds and spread this knowledge from afar
That the stars may see his glories from afar
That noble Ramesses and loquacious Pacal admit us from afar
An gives, and An yet gives.
Our bowman has slain another Lion
Such that our slaves may live yet to complete that road
Once to An our shrine is raised.
Spoiler :
Oh mighty King of Thebes
Accept that we come to you and you to us
Make this agreement sound and be blessed by An
An gives, and still An gives.
Enkidu has found us those who would also be blessed as part of our tribe
He who wanders finds us those who would also be blessed as part of our tribe
To bring us completion for that road from which the Lion stole completion
Trek home to bring that road from which the Lion stole completion
To its finish Brave Enkidu!
Spoiler :
He asks of us that which we gave Ramesses.
He demands of us that which we gave Ramesses.
Perhaps An gives, and perhaps An takes away.
He requests of that which we gave Ramesses but perhaps not.