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Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
The thread is public yes, but we are playing a game here and peoples enjoyment rests on some vague notions of common courtesy. Sometimes the PM system is down, or the person you need to tell something to has a full box. Please do not read spoilers without your name on them.
I personally am far to bitter and untrusting to even consider posting anything of import in a spoiler
, but others do occasional put something they think to small for a pm - just don't look.
And you do realse you don't have to open all the spoiler windows to see what in the pit
I personally am far to bitter and untrusting to even consider posting anything of import in a spoiler
, but others do occasional put something they think to small for a pm - just don't look. And you do realse you don't have to open all the spoiler windows to see what in the pit
Stagnant smoke and the smell of death still remained, bearing mute witness to the rapid cremation that had happened here. Thousands of undead lie around, burnt to ashes and singed bones. There was no jungle to be seen as Qerah surveyed the destruction from atop the walls of Panama. He sighed and turned his gaze down. At what price purity? We sought to aid our brothers, and never shall we fail in that, but the cost was great. Though we removed much evil, we also caused much death.. This wasteland will not be fertile for a long, long time. What am I to do to help? I am no weather magician, nor are my colleagues. I can't grow forests, I can't resurrect those who were burnt in the onslaught. I did my duty.. Yet it tears me in two.
The Sharen groaned as he rolled his head over. The sharp light of dawn flashed and stabbed at his sore eyes. He tried moving his numb fingers, and - to his surprise - they responded. The words of the incantation rang in his mind, reminding him of what had happened. Blinking furiously, he tried to get up, yet laid down in shock and awe as he caught sight of his arm. It was rotting!
OOC: Cleric, the bolded part is dedicated to you
What have I done?
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The Sharen groaned as he rolled his head over. The sharp light of dawn flashed and stabbed at his sore eyes. He tried moving his numb fingers, and - to his surprise - they responded. The words of the incantation rang in his mind, reminding him of what had happened. Blinking furiously, he tried to get up, yet laid down in shock and awe as he caught sight of his arm. It was rotting!
With a yelp, Sharen leapt up. His legs almost gave away, but he staggered towards the opposite wall of the summoning chambers. Leaning at the wall, he withdrew a mirror from a cabinet and looked at himself. His features were rapidly degrading, severe burns in his skin wherever it remained non-putrid. His left eye was nothing but a small ball of blue flames, and his right one was milk-white. He groaned as the truth dawned upon him.
Those damned necromancers.. They got my eye.. And cursed us with undeath! The nerve..!He was shaking now, as he begun to realize he was not the only one in the summoning chamber. With renewed vigor, he turned around. Around him were disfigured bodies, like his, scattered.
The Sharen fell to his knees.OOC: Cleric, the bolded part is dedicated to you
Kozmos
Jew Detective
Yes necros can blind people!Wohoo!
jalapeno_dude
AKA Panda Judo Eel
From: Hawaii
To: Vol'kiss
The great nation of Hawaii would be pleased... (OOC:Oh, forget this stupid imperialism.)
Sure, you can have the contacts.
To: Vol'kiss
The great nation of Hawaii would be pleased... (OOC:Oh, forget this stupid imperialism.)
Sure, you can have the contacts.
The Strategos
Thanatos
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To: Illyria
From: Karthage
What reason do you have to continue this pointless war? We have already addressed all of your concerns that made you declare war on us in our peace treaty. To continue fighting shows that either you have been lying about your motives for war the entire time or you are merely a puppet of the western barbarians.
OOC: I don't think fireworks have been invented yet...
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
The Strategos said:
This is highly ironic
, what do you think Khemri?
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
Ok, maybe not fireworks. Stick a jar of naphta, a jar of pitch and a jar of Trafe on a catapult, fire them into the air. Same result.
BTW, I have another story written up, but I'm saving it for tomorrow.
Western barbarians indeed! I taught Iron Age to our eastern allies!
<injoke>My education outeducates your education!</injoke>
More seriously, prepare to go bye-bye. Next time we capture your Library, we'll take most of the books with us and burn it to the ground so you don't have a sudden resurgence. Stupid polar bear-distracted allies mumble grumble... *Erik wanders off, muttering to himself*
BTW, I have another story written up, but I'm saving it for tomorrow.
Western barbarians indeed! I taught Iron Age to our eastern allies!
<injoke>My education outeducates your education!</injoke>
More seriously, prepare to go bye-bye. Next time we capture your Library, we'll take most of the books with us and burn it to the ground so you don't have a sudden resurgence. Stupid polar bear-distracted allies mumble grumble... *Erik wanders off, muttering to himself*
Silver Steak
The Ghost of SS
Erik Mesoy said:
I think not. If it's secret, you send it via PM. If not, it's no big deal to post it on the thread. The proper use of spoilers is to reveal "secret" and preferably false information for others to read, not to post relevant stuff and expect people to skip it. And the spoiler is always so tempting...
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
You know, back in Ye Olde Days (tm) of NESing, we had an honor system, where people could write "Secret" before and after their message, and the opponents wouldn't take advantage of it. But now people are NESing as though it mattered in real life, and thus they start grabbing at every advantage they can. Disgusting.Silver Steak said:
Kozmos
Jew Detective
The Strategos said:
The reason is that you cannot be trusted for you invaded Germania without any kind off provocation.Leave us to our pondering....we have a council of Velichestvennii to assemble and discuss whether you should be trusted again.We are no puppets of the west...echos travel far and wide and only when it has travelled all it can,by focusing on a critical point can you achieve the best result.
The Strategos
Thanatos
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And the rest of the world attacked us without provocation, thus by your logic none of us can be trusted so you might as well sign peace with us and let us and the westerners destroy each other.
Israelite9191
You should be reading
To Carthage
From Abyssinia
It was recetnly overheard by one of our birds that you claim to have never provoked any of your enemies. I believe you are forgeting the fact that you claimed yourself master of the Mediterranean and that you tried to force your foreign policy on your neighbors. If that is not provocation, I do not know what is.
From Abyssinia
It was recetnly overheard by one of our birds that you claim to have never provoked any of your enemies. I believe you are forgeting the fact that you claimed yourself master of the Mediterranean and that you tried to force your foreign policy on your neighbors. If that is not provocation, I do not know what is.
The Strategos
Thanatos
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You're misquoting us, we never claimed to be masters of the Med, we've claimed at one point to be masters of the sea, two completely different things. The second merely suggests that our ships could go where they wanted with impunity, a fact that was true until very recently. As for our foreign policy, you are seriously twisting the facts. One point of our foreign policy was to protect our traders (open waters) an understandable concern that most reasonable nations had no problems with. The other point was our pledge to protect the current Med nations from any outside threat. Granted that screwed non-Med nations. But that's just tough for them, the western barbarians we hear have a similar policy protecting their lands. However, since Illyria is a Med nation, we see no reason why that is revelant to the discussion for peace with them.
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
I intend to write a minimum of one story a day this week. I think I'm going to be a novelist when I grow up - better get some practice in!
Also, the war has gotten personal.
Notes on Elgovian Shipbuilding and Navy
The Elgovian naval base of Sicotan is possibly the only major naval base to lie on an inland lake. This is made possible by their close friendship to Hyperborea and the fact that all Elgovian ships being produced at the moment are moved directly to Rhodes, the true naval base for Elgovia in the Karthaginian War.
At this moment, five galleys are under construction at Sicotan, another five are comitted to the defense of Rhodes, and twenty-five are in the Mediterranean on various duties. Many of the Elgovian ships have been sunk over the past few decades. But the managers, by order of the Chaos Throne, have recently begun to ramp up production drastically...
Wood for the ships is harvested from the vast forests that cover much of Elgovia. In the west, trees are cleared as a necessity so that new settlements can be founded and more trees are cut to create the beginnings of a road towards Dashiv; in the east, the forests are smaller, but the woodcutters have managed them for hundreds of years and so the wood is of better quality. (OOC - remember this is America before the settlers arrived! Until I hit 10M pop, forests will grow faster than I can cut them.)
The lumber mills are mostly situated in or around Tynno or Nevatak (the cities north-east of Dashiv,) due to the confluence of rivers at these cities. After the wood is processed, five out of every seven logs are transported to Sicotan on wagons made out of the sixth. The remaining one-seventh is considered waste product of too low a grade to be worth using for construction. Often mages claim it and let it rot as a study in chaotic decay, or rot it themselves to extract small amounts of Trafe; sometimes commoners take it for firewood.
One standard warship weighs in at a little over a hundred Ordbos*, 112 to be precise. Building such a ship requires 570 000 footfeet of wood, although cutaways, scourings, joinings, replacements and the like generally result in the loss of one-hundredth of the original materials in the form of shavings, sawdust, and cracked planks.
The warships are not fully assembled at Sicotan. As soon as the hull has been caulked and is seaworthy, the substructure is towed by rowing boats to the Hyperborean Warp Portal on the north end of the lake, leading to Rhodes. Here the oarlocks are readied, the mast is set upright, (completed or not, all ships lower their masts during a translation) and the crew finish readying the ship for war. This takes about a(n Elgovian) week, after which the ship joins the Rhodos garrison for the time being. Orders to the ships are generally passed through Grandmaster Meremmor, who has for some reason taken an intensely personal interest in the Karthaginian War; however, since Rhodes is a Hyperborean outpost, the Hyperborean Lord in Green technically has superior command of any ships stationed there, although this right is not usually exercised.
Lurkers: 1 Ordbo = 100 kg. Now work out what the density of Elgovian wood is!
Also, the war has gotten personal.
Notes on Elgovian Shipbuilding and Navy
The Elgovian naval base of Sicotan is possibly the only major naval base to lie on an inland lake. This is made possible by their close friendship to Hyperborea and the fact that all Elgovian ships being produced at the moment are moved directly to Rhodes, the true naval base for Elgovia in the Karthaginian War.
At this moment, five galleys are under construction at Sicotan, another five are comitted to the defense of Rhodes, and twenty-five are in the Mediterranean on various duties. Many of the Elgovian ships have been sunk over the past few decades. But the managers, by order of the Chaos Throne, have recently begun to ramp up production drastically...
Wood for the ships is harvested from the vast forests that cover much of Elgovia. In the west, trees are cleared as a necessity so that new settlements can be founded and more trees are cut to create the beginnings of a road towards Dashiv; in the east, the forests are smaller, but the woodcutters have managed them for hundreds of years and so the wood is of better quality. (OOC - remember this is America before the settlers arrived! Until I hit 10M pop, forests will grow faster than I can cut them.)
The lumber mills are mostly situated in or around Tynno or Nevatak (the cities north-east of Dashiv,) due to the confluence of rivers at these cities. After the wood is processed, five out of every seven logs are transported to Sicotan on wagons made out of the sixth. The remaining one-seventh is considered waste product of too low a grade to be worth using for construction. Often mages claim it and let it rot as a study in chaotic decay, or rot it themselves to extract small amounts of Trafe; sometimes commoners take it for firewood.
One standard warship weighs in at a little over a hundred Ordbos*, 112 to be precise. Building such a ship requires 570 000 footfeet of wood, although cutaways, scourings, joinings, replacements and the like generally result in the loss of one-hundredth of the original materials in the form of shavings, sawdust, and cracked planks.
The warships are not fully assembled at Sicotan. As soon as the hull has been caulked and is seaworthy, the substructure is towed by rowing boats to the Hyperborean Warp Portal on the north end of the lake, leading to Rhodes. Here the oarlocks are readied, the mast is set upright, (completed or not, all ships lower their masts during a translation) and the crew finish readying the ship for war. This takes about a(n Elgovian) week, after which the ship joins the Rhodos garrison for the time being. Orders to the ships are generally passed through Grandmaster Meremmor, who has for some reason taken an intensely personal interest in the Karthaginian War; however, since Rhodes is a Hyperborean outpost, the Hyperborean Lord in Green technically has superior command of any ships stationed there, although this right is not usually exercised.
Lurkers: 1 Ordbo = 100 kg. Now work out what the density of Elgovian wood is!
Silver Steak
The Ghost of SS
Will the stats be updated soon? Good story, Erik, though I refuse to find out the density of Elgovian wood.
