Divine Intervention II

[TheForestAuro]

Well, It's not so much that you misread the rules. I just didn't really indicate whether or not this was OK or not.

The rules are simple. I will play 30 turns, and then I will save my game and post the save for the boards to see. Then, anyone may take the save and make any number of resource, military, or world alterations [with a few restrictions, see below] before posting the save back for me to play 30 more turns.

I can see where you took your opinion from.

 

[ANewGuy]

Dang. Interesting challenge.

I don't have BTS, so I can't play god myself, but I'll watch this.

I will say - Several FPs and a bunch of Panthers. Too bad you don't have a unit there for free EXP.

 

[TheForestAuro]

Got it. Updating shortly.

 

[TheForestAuro]

Hannibal stirred from his bed - and found it to be very damp. In fact, it was soaked! After changing into some dry armor he spoke to his advisors, who informed him that all of the land around the less-than-burgeoning city of Carthage had flooded, and behind the wake of the miraculous, fertile rains was land perfect for a surplus of agriculture like no other!

Before Hannibal could ask for the downside of such a rain, his three advisors died. One, eaten by a panther, the second, eaten by a lion, and the third, of Floodplain Flu.

Hannibal hired new ones.

And time rolled on.

Spoiler :

We met a new friend.

And despite the sudden vicious attacks of wildlife, we were able to fend them off without any loss of life through clever warrior placement!

It was around this time that we began to suspect something.

Were we alone? No, there must be a higher purpose. The crops had come. We were bustling! Why should this all happen to us?

Clearly this was a sign. We were blessed to help our fellow man! This was a sign, a gift from an altruistic high power!

We shall call him Rolo - and we shall dedicate this city to him.

Glory be to Rolo.

We had just drawn up plans to build a circle of stones to venerate our newfound deity, when we learned someone else, somewhere else did it too. Before any plans to create a more original structure could be drawn up, the engineers were promptly eaten by lions and panthers.

The next set of engineers have begun work on a new project. They have called it a very large wall.

I like this plan. But do the heavens....?

 

[CCRunner]

Got it! Yes!

 

[CCRunner]

Ok, here we go.

The great god CCRunner is jealous of Rolopolis. He decrees that a magnificent palace must be built in his honor! For that reason, he gives his future servant a master builder to be used for that palace and only for that palace. Also, Hannibal the Devout is strongly advised to send a boat up north to discover a message concerning the city of gold. To aid in these tasks, the great and just god CCRunner has sent his avatar to earth. This avatar is jealous though and desires to be the only recon unit from this time onward.

changes:

Spoiler :

I added the city of gold It's an island of riverside gold floodplain hills. Lot's of gold but impossible to grow, unless another god takes pity on him . I also gave him a GE to be saved for the AP and added a few barbs. And I gave every AI at least one gold to keep the techpace up. Oh, and I added myself in as a 5 move mobility scout.

Screenies:

Spoiler :

Explored land at the request of TheForestAuro




And the city of gold

 

[TheForestAuro]

got it, updating shortly

 

[TheForestAuro]

Time rolls on, and the good Rolo-fearing people of Carthage awake to blissfully live their lives. But Hannibal the Devout awakens to a changed world. Something is not right.

Spoiler :

His closest (new) advisers tell him of a demi-god, a shining man who runs faster than any and never tires. Sent by a higher power known only as "The Runner", Speedy pledges to explore until there is nothing left to explore.

And explore he does!

Meanwhile, our place in the world is becoming clear - we are its savior. Rolo has chosen us.

But wait - why would one being call himself both "Rolo" and "The Runner"? Perhaps there ar-

Of course! There must be two! Hannibal's Advisors urge him to use his Great Builder to construct some triangular buildings, but he will have none of it - he fears the retribution of this new god, The Runner.

Meanwhile, what the citizens have termed Roligion has prospered into an Organized Church. The natives there call him "Confucious", but we know better.

We founded two cities - one to honor our national hero, and one to honor this inhumanly fast demigod. But he detects something on the horizon...

Is this the message The Runner told us about? Boats to the north? These foul barbarians cannot scale our

But it seems as if a Crusade is brewing. They quickly flee from the borders of Mount Runner. It seems as if this new god is the Antithesis of these Barbarians.

Our lord hannibal is nearly ready to retire, but tragedy strikes. These barbarians, fearing the influence of the Divine Runner, sent warrior-assassins to strike him down! He fought valiant against three of them, but alas this Demi-God could kill only two before...

The world trembles as the world changes. Hannibal sleeps fitfully, fearing the Runner's retribution for the death of his Avatar.

Do your worst, gods!

 

[TheForestAuro]

Here's the save!

 

[Winston Hughes]

Silence fools! I am The Great Spirit of the Sea, and I have returned to wreak a terrible revenge!!

(ie. got it; back soon)

 

[Naraka]

This is incredibly interesting! *Looks for the subscribe button*

 

[Joshua368]

Would it be possible to show a few more whole pictures during the playthrough, particularly with the map in view? It's easy to get lost and have no idea where anything is until the recap...

Also I'm definitely going to have to grab it sometime.

 

[Winston Hughes]

TheForestAuto, son of mice, prepare to feel my cold and watery wrath...

Spoiler :

 

[r_rolo1]

Cool

 

[LiberiGlacialis]

Wow. Cruel Streak much?

 

[TheForestAuro]

In a fit of cold shivers, Hannibal the Devout started awake. Why was it so cold!? In a land full of jungles and fertile plains, of grasslands and of lions and panthers....was that...snow!?

Bursting outside, he saw that his world had changed.

"Clearly the Runner was not pleased," said one of his advisers, wrapped in the skin of a panther.

"No," Hannibal said, shaking his head. "This is not the Runner's work - look!" Pointing at the north, a giant glacier had swallowed up Mt. Runner. "My father, Mice Mansa, told me of this God. He is the God of the Sea, and he is a vengeful god. Start the prayers! We must pray to our Lord Rolo for support!"

Spoiler :

Well, even though everything was cold, it was still a miserable old Flood Plain. Good for food, bad for health. And not so good for food anymore!

He wants open borders. I say no! He is the only one in the known world not to embrace the truth that is Roligion.

This is troubling. What's his angle? We have no time for infidels in these tough days. We ignore Zara for now.

Little do we know, the god of the sea has been terrorizing our cut off patriots in Mt Runner and Aschington. But by smoke signal we know they still live - and it appears that Ashington has got their mines up and running. I am relieved!

Faith paid off - we used the great builder and we were not dissapointed - even though others beat us to the Pyramids, the Palace built to Lord Runner was completed - and then promptly used by advocates of Roligion to create a dual-religion - a pantheon of Rolo and Runner. These new people are calling the religion "Rolorunnerism." I am not sure this is wise. Gilgamesh, however is all for it. What?

Bah! His trickery! After all of our help, he assumes control of the Rolorunnerist Church! We do not trust his sudden play for power and send one of our top agents!

They report back to us about the bedamned sumerian, as we consider our options. Why have we been damned by the sea god!? But we must keep our faith. Proof?

Not a day after we built our wonderful Rolorunnerist Chapel were these truffles found. Glory be to Rolo.

Glory be to Rolo. May he look down on us with Mercy, and may the Runner spirit our enemies away!

 

[CCRunner]

These barbarians, fearing the influence of the Divine Runner, sent warrior-assassins to strike him down!

Drat! I wanted to make him an explorer but the rules said only current age units. Barbs wouldn't have had such an easy time with him with 4 strength. And no, the boats aren't the message. They were placed to guard the message but the stupid things wandered off obviously.

Also, got it!

Cool

 

[CCRunner]

The Runner is pleased by his servant's devoutness though he cannot stand to see his city diseased. To rectify this, he decrees "There shall be a grand river, above the ground to bring fresh water for all". Anger belongs to the cursed Sumerians. "A plaque on there civilization! May all of their cities starve to pop 2 as well as henceforth feel the lack of military resources! And he sends a boat manned by the finest crewmen to search for the city of gold.

 

[Eldarion]

Got it!

(Not going to counteract any of the Runner god's changes; going to add something... completely different.)

 

[ANewGuy]

How in Terra did Gilgamesh win the AP?