Faeryl Viconia: Roleplaying Challenge

[Invoke_Shadows]

I rather have deity it all i ever play on.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

I'd like to remind everyone we have 20 days left. I suppose if I get enouugh entries we could start discussing a new RPC, but for now I'm gonna go against it. I look forward to reading your entries.

 

[Marksman77]

Work keeps me busy, so I'm only in turn 300+. I'll try to move on and finish berofe 20 Jan.

The game is quite interesting:

Spoiler :

My rpg-wise enemies, Malakim and Ljosalfar, both got wiped out by the barbarians.
I keep getting fun from moving my HN spiders and elephants through other civ's lands, killing their workers and occassionally military units. But I only managed to clear out one minor city to be taken by barbarians, although I was hoping for more such actions.
I founded Leaves and spread it to all but Elohim (who founded Runes) and Illians. Guardian of Nature boosted my cities. Recently I founded Esus, Evermore become the Holy City
The best score-wise is Flauros. He vassalized Grigori. I'm on the second position.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

Only 10 days left for the reports.

 

[Mesix]

Final Date for submissons will be Jan. 1st. If this is to soon, please let me know.

Since I just discoerd this (and you have not declated a winner), I was wondering if I can still play? I have recently started to appreciate the Dark Elven Mistress and would like the chance to role play a game with her.

 

[Mesix]

I tried loading the initial save for noble difficulty and got a crash to disk. Is the save game compatible with version 0.30f?

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

The date was changed to the 20th. I will update the first post.

 

[Mesix]

Has anyone been able to get this to run with patch f installed? I put the save game for Noble difficulty in my save games folder. It appears in the list of single player games, but when I try to load I get a crash to disk. Does this require any other mod than FfH to run peroperly?

What patch/version for BTS is the save game using?

I don't use Bhruic's Unofficial Patch...could this be the problem?

 

[Mesix]

So is it playable under b?
I loaded the savegame and was playing it under a. When I upgraded to b, my save refused to work for me (as advertised).
If the savegames on the first page are b-compatible I'll d/l and start over. Just have to remember not to install patch c

I guess that's my problem. I'll have to wait for the next role playing challenge to play along . I was really looking forward to trying this out. I think that the dark elves are my new favorite civ.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

The save only runs on patch B. Unfortunatly patch C breaks saves so we can't use it or anything past that.

 

[Marksman77]

If you don't mind, here's a teaser of my story.
It lacks beginning, pictures, and end (the game is still in progress)

Spoiler :

Fires and leaves
Acheron chose Evermore as his residence. The forests in the former elven lands were burning and burning… The fires covered half of the continent, including limited areas in my lands. I will have to sacrifice something or someone to Cernunnos, perhaps it will help.
Eventually the priers of the elves were answered. Gareth Minar become the center of a new religion, Fellowship of the Leaves. During next years forests in my lands grown larger and darker than before, thus preventing any fire from spreading to my lands.
The new religion earned quite a popularity in the world. Whole cities in Calabim and Balseraph states converted to the new faith and soon Flauros and Perpentach announced the Fellowship as the official state religion. Gareth Minar was collecting a respectable amount of gold from pilgrims.

The Dark Evermore
I send an expedition to capture Evermore and take over the famous Dragon Hoard. Alas, turn after turn, my units were too afraid to attack the dragon roaming through the countryside. Instead I made my units lure him into attacking them in well defended positions, hoping that one of his attacks will be fatal. In the process, he was allured to Flauros lands and died attacking a city. My troops captured Evermore.

Evermore, once proud Ljosalfar capital changed much during the years of barbarian and dragon rules. It became a twisted and dark place. A perfect new home for Svartalfar adventirers and exiles. Being separated from the bulk of my lands by lands of vampires, it was not easily governed from Thariss. So I appointed the most cruel dark elven aristocrat as governor of the previous Ljosalfar lands.
It wasn’t long before Evermore become the center of a new cult, the Council of Esus. I myself become the first dark Magistrate and actively promoted membership, giving knowledge of Deception to Cassiel and Perpentach. They both joined the Council. Perhaps this will somewhat offset they vassal links to Flauros and deminish his political power.

A lost civilization
On the very north-east of the continent my scouts met a strange group. Their speech was almost non-understandable and their manners were somewhat wild. They said they called themselves the Amurites.
These barely surviving people claimed they had a gloriuos past and noble ancestors. But now they were little more than barbarians. They also had a strange pagan ritual of choosing their leader, called Cassalwain. They quickly accepted the supremacy of the elven race (as really every reasonable man should) and Dain became my vassal.

Republic? Phew!
Today I received a delegation of scholars. They said times are changing, and power should go to the people. What a ridiculous idea! Power to the people? The elven never lived in such a way and never will! I am the Queen and I am the Goddess and I will never allow such a heresy spread amongst the elven race!!
The scholars were taken care of by my dungeon master.

War with Flauros
The time has come to challenge my strongest rival, the vampire state. He has about twice as much land as I do and has a little edge on technology. Recently Vampires were seen in the border cities, so I wonder if it isn't already too late for a war.
Fortunately Cassiel broke free from vassalship, so I will only face Flauros and Perpentach. I can’t count on much support from my vassal Dain, he’s somewhere in the stoneage.
I split my army in two parts. The eastern group, consisting of champions, illusionists and assassins, will invade vampires’ lands with the primary goal of taking the border city. The second group, consisting mostly of Nyxkins and assassins, will be held as a reserve near my north-western border. Its goal is to stop any eventual counter-attack either from Flauros or from Perpentach. If things go well, this army will be used as a second invading force. Apart from that I got strong garrisons in border cities and two Nyxkins in the city in eastern-central of my lands, as a quick reaction force in case my invading stack needs back-up or Flauros makes a counter-attack here, ignoring my attack force.

BTW is anyone else going to participate??

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

I'm really looking forward to your story. Indeed it looks as though you are the only participating player, so you have a very good chance of winning .

 

[Marksman77]

At least I stand a chance

 

[Marksman77]

Ehm... as I'm the last participant standing wouldn't you mind if I post the story few days later? The game is still in progress and for next few days I won't be able to play more than 10-20 turns a day, not mentioning writing the story.
Just don't say I'm taking advantage of the situation

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

Well, there's not much of a choice....

I'll look forward to the story regardless.

 

[Mesix]

I'll look forward to the story too.

Are you planning to post another role playing challenge using version F?

I have a couple of ideas for the next edition...although with not many participants on this one, I'll understand if you discontinue it.

How do you make several saves at different difficulty levels on the same map? If I could do this, I would post my own role playing challenge.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

I'll look forward to the story too.

Are you planning to post another role playing challenge using version F?

I have a couple of ideas for the next edition...although with not many participants on this one, I'll understand if you discontinue it.

How do you make several saves at different difficulty levels on the same map? If I could do this, I would post my own role playing challenge.

Yes, another RPC is not planned.

If there is I would like a Kuriorate patch using the new units added in .31

To get multiple saves, get your start, and enter worldbuilder. From there, save the map as a sceanario. From there just enter the sceanario like a normal game, and save it once under every difficulty level.

Out of Curiosity, what are your ideas for the new version?

 

[Mesix]

I was thinking of having either a Bannor or Sidar game. The Sidar would obviously be a thematic shadow civilization. Bannor would be crusading to extinguish the shadow civilizations.

 

[it-ogo]

To get multiple saves, get your start, and enter worldbuilder. From there, save the map as a sceanario. From there just enter the sceanario like a normal game, and save it once under every difficulty level.

A small trick: when you start the scenario, always choose first playable civ, otherwise some civs will perform their turn before you and saves will be slightly different. For example, they can found a city and in the next save you will have a city instead of settler.

 

[Mesix]

Any stories forthcoming?