The thing with the Somnium and stasis reminded me of an episode of Star Trek.
I was thinking of
Groundhog Day when I wrote it. I am not familiar with a similar Star Trek episode; are we talking the original, The Next Generation, DS9 or Voyager?
Anyway, Stasis struck during a very boring part of the game. I had just decided to start building up to invade the elves (no army to speak of yet) so the only unit that had anything to do was my sole worker (who built a LOT of roads). I looked about and realized the only meaningful thing I could do other than road laying was play
Somnium with the three other rules I was aware of (Rhoanna, Arturus and Arendal). Hence the card game story.
Wow, I love how Eurabates is sorta sharing the same body with the boy-king. Nice! I like it. Very refreshing and new take on the boy-king. In fact, it makes sense, man. Good read!
Again, Eurabrates is the sole reason the Kuriotate civilization is anything other than a random goody-hut on the map. Since she and Cardith are sharing the same body they always think of their actions in the 1st person plural (I didn't think they would talk like that to others because once word gets around that you have a gold dragon in your head, a bunch of casters
full of bad ideas will probably want to try and
EXTRACT IT).
It's also a fun game to think about what quirks a child-dragon gestalt would exhibit. Make the draconic stuff a puberty metaphor for the child and make the dragon need an extravagant bed chamber instead of a pile of gold to sleep on and you have instant, topical comedy. Just try to stay out of Pern territory while you do it;
Menolly was pretty obnoxious and even
Jaxom had his
wangst moments.
Finally, I wanted to come up with an explanation for why the Kuriotates had such a harsh limit to the number of major cities they could have. Making that an extension of the dragon's physiology seemed like as good a source of
applied phlebotinum as any. This does undermine my
previous remark about the Grigori being Tau-like; a pheromone supported society usurps an agnostic, humanist brotherhood for the tau-trophy any day.
And extra points of the Led Zeppelin rock-off.
Excellent! Now I am only sixteen points shy from being able to purchase a ticket to the
official Led Zeppelin Roller Coaster. But honestly, doesn't the Altar of Lunnator make sense as a literal stairway to Heaven? Granted an escalator would be more convenient but this is a
dark fantasy so you have to
climb for your salvation in Erebus. Plus, the Immigrant Song fits the Illians (and the Doviello, now that I think on it) too nicely to pass up.
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