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Norwich, Kingdom of London
2999
The Norwich Mechanical Cathedral changed hands more times than countable on the hands of every Techpriest in the cathedral, mostly during the early period of the Third Dark Age after the collapse of the British government centuries ago. Pagans, Catholics, Protestants, or secular bandits were usually the takers. The year 2987 was the first time a cult held the city, but Rory would never call it a cult out loud. Rory prayed in solitude in an enclave. Officially to the "machine spirits", which are real strangely enough. Unofficially, he prayed to the same deity his father prayed to, and his father before him, and so on. The language may have changed, from "Atomic English" a thousand years ago, to Low Gothic English, to the current High Gothic English, but the sentiment was the same.
Rory didn't risk even mouthing the prayer in fear a camera watched in the enclave or a microphone.
When the Norwich Republic fell to the Kingdom of London in 2987, one of the first things the theocracy did was expand the infrastructure for the Infinity Circuit. When Rory dies, the Techpriests remind him weekly, his soul will not ascend to the heavens, but descend to power the country and the country's machines of war.
That conversation happened a few months ago, and was plainly uncomfortable for both the Techpriest and Rory. "You're saying that spirits actually do power London's death machines?" Rory had asked. "The 'machine spirits'?"
"Yes. This is how it works."
"Even the souls of the people of Norwich?" The Priest nodded. "There were, and probably still are, a lot of people not happy with London. In the stories, the machine spirits controlled machines. Why haven't we heard of a Vyper firing on Londoners or Soldier-Inquisitors?"
"The stories are true, but only strong spirits can exert power over machines."
"The Champion of Norwich could, I bet." Rory threw down the gauntlet.
The Techpriest frowned, "It is good that he is dead then." The Techpriest had escorted Rory out of the cathedral after that.
Gerald Antweiler, the Champion of Norwich, is rumored to still be "alive" in the Infinity Circuit. The psyker slain hundreds of Londoners and nearly a dozen of London's most powerful psykers when they attempted to take the cathedral twelve years ago. The duel between the future Imperial Patriarch and The Champion had been climatic. Rory still remembered that cool summer day....
Arkos had one spear left, the others broken by the Champion's hammer. The future patriarch charged the Champion with the spear, sidestepped an overhand one-handed swing of the mighty warhammer and ducked Gerald's defensive backhand. The spear pierced the armor and belly of the Champion. Such a wound, while devastating, could be fixed and the Champion still had fight in him. With spear stuck in armor and flesh, Arkos seemed good as dead as the hammer rose again.
But it wasn't a normal spear. The spearhead was a high-tech weapon, designed for piercing armor and filling the wearer with the same liquid used in the shadow weaver. Liquid sprayed from hundreds of microscopic tubes and formed a thread, linked together by magnetic-gravitic clamps that were repelled by the spearhead's magnet. The web shredded organs, flesh, and bones. Rory didn't see that; it was all inside the armor. He heard about that later. What Rory saw was Gerald raising his warhammer....and it sliding out of his hands to land with a heavy thud signaling the end of Norwich's resistance against London.
The memory pained Rory. He had been part of the militia holding up in the fortress cathedral. When Gerald died, the fighting spirit in the defenders died with him.
Rory finished his prayer, rose, and left the dark of the cathedral to the light and cold of the winter afternoon. The garrison had been allowed to leave, but many in that garrison died in the last twelve years due to heresy, blasphemy, illegal possession of firearms or explosives, and a slew of other charges. Rory had kept his nose clean partly because he knew (he just knew) that the Inquisition would be waiting for him to slip so they can catch him in a night web when he falls. If the Inquisition came for him, they will come in the middle of the night while he slept and drag him to wherever heresy was dealt with.
But that was only partly. Rory wondered how his life would have turned out, or ended, if he hadn't meant his future fiance and wife in a bread line a few weeks after the end of the war. If not for her, and the children, he probably would be screaming his confessions to heresy and whatever other crimes he had "committed". Or, more likely, he would be killed by soldiers with an assault rifle in his hands that were still widely available in late-80s.
With a quick, silent prayer, Rory went home to his family.
2999
The Norwich Mechanical Cathedral changed hands more times than countable on the hands of every Techpriest in the cathedral, mostly during the early period of the Third Dark Age after the collapse of the British government centuries ago. Pagans, Catholics, Protestants, or secular bandits were usually the takers. The year 2987 was the first time a cult held the city, but Rory would never call it a cult out loud. Rory prayed in solitude in an enclave. Officially to the "machine spirits", which are real strangely enough. Unofficially, he prayed to the same deity his father prayed to, and his father before him, and so on. The language may have changed, from "Atomic English" a thousand years ago, to Low Gothic English, to the current High Gothic English, but the sentiment was the same.
Rory didn't risk even mouthing the prayer in fear a camera watched in the enclave or a microphone.
When the Norwich Republic fell to the Kingdom of London in 2987, one of the first things the theocracy did was expand the infrastructure for the Infinity Circuit. When Rory dies, the Techpriests remind him weekly, his soul will not ascend to the heavens, but descend to power the country and the country's machines of war.
That conversation happened a few months ago, and was plainly uncomfortable for both the Techpriest and Rory. "You're saying that spirits actually do power London's death machines?" Rory had asked. "The 'machine spirits'?"
"Yes. This is how it works."
"Even the souls of the people of Norwich?" The Priest nodded. "There were, and probably still are, a lot of people not happy with London. In the stories, the machine spirits controlled machines. Why haven't we heard of a Vyper firing on Londoners or Soldier-Inquisitors?"
"The stories are true, but only strong spirits can exert power over machines."
"The Champion of Norwich could, I bet." Rory threw down the gauntlet.
The Techpriest frowned, "It is good that he is dead then." The Techpriest had escorted Rory out of the cathedral after that.
Gerald Antweiler, the Champion of Norwich, is rumored to still be "alive" in the Infinity Circuit. The psyker slain hundreds of Londoners and nearly a dozen of London's most powerful psykers when they attempted to take the cathedral twelve years ago. The duel between the future Imperial Patriarch and The Champion had been climatic. Rory still remembered that cool summer day....
Arkos had one spear left, the others broken by the Champion's hammer. The future patriarch charged the Champion with the spear, sidestepped an overhand one-handed swing of the mighty warhammer and ducked Gerald's defensive backhand. The spear pierced the armor and belly of the Champion. Such a wound, while devastating, could be fixed and the Champion still had fight in him. With spear stuck in armor and flesh, Arkos seemed good as dead as the hammer rose again.
But it wasn't a normal spear. The spearhead was a high-tech weapon, designed for piercing armor and filling the wearer with the same liquid used in the shadow weaver. Liquid sprayed from hundreds of microscopic tubes and formed a thread, linked together by magnetic-gravitic clamps that were repelled by the spearhead's magnet. The web shredded organs, flesh, and bones. Rory didn't see that; it was all inside the armor. He heard about that later. What Rory saw was Gerald raising his warhammer....and it sliding out of his hands to land with a heavy thud signaling the end of Norwich's resistance against London.
The memory pained Rory. He had been part of the militia holding up in the fortress cathedral. When Gerald died, the fighting spirit in the defenders died with him.
Rory finished his prayer, rose, and left the dark of the cathedral to the light and cold of the winter afternoon. The garrison had been allowed to leave, but many in that garrison died in the last twelve years due to heresy, blasphemy, illegal possession of firearms or explosives, and a slew of other charges. Rory had kept his nose clean partly because he knew (he just knew) that the Inquisition would be waiting for him to slip so they can catch him in a night web when he falls. If the Inquisition came for him, they will come in the middle of the night while he slept and drag him to wherever heresy was dealt with.
But that was only partly. Rory wondered how his life would have turned out, or ended, if he hadn't meant his future fiance and wife in a bread line a few weeks after the end of the war. If not for her, and the children, he probably would be screaming his confessions to heresy and whatever other crimes he had "committed". Or, more likely, he would be killed by soldiers with an assault rifle in his hands that were still widely available in late-80s.
With a quick, silent prayer, Rory went home to his family.
You said ten.
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If I wanted that, I'd secretly give one of you a T20 nuke. 
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If I wanted that, I'd secretly give one of you a T20 nuke.
Wait, the others WEREN'T meant to know about that? Whoops.
If I wanted that, I'd secretly give one of you a T20 nuke.
I promise I'd use it.
DroopyTofu
Double Bass Double Bass
Pre-emptive claim on the land around Chicago. I'll write the story within 24 hours. If I somehow missed that Chicago is taken, I'll start in Seattle area instead.
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Spoiler :
Note: In the event a player wishes to take an area an NPC is in, I will move the NPC somewhere else.
Since I think the influx of new players is more or less ebbing, this is a prototype of the NPC map. I reasoned to make NPCs a white-gray(as if to further emphasise their neutrality).
I tried to avoid boxing any one player in, hence why I made it so they don't border any player in the regions they start in.
There is a high concentration in China and India, but need I really explain why?
While Thorvald will be managing the NPCs' foreign policy(to some extent, as long as it doesn't interfere with the game mechanics), their actual hardcoded choices will either be controlled by the rules or myself, to keep things stable. He is of course, free to redelegate any NPCs he's not interested in back to myself.
NPC expansion, furthermore, will pretty much be limited to their starting region. This is why they are all the same color, as there's one NPC per region.
christos200
Never tell me the odds
One minute, Thorvald is still playing the game?
If yes, he should not be allowed to control the NPC's. If you give Thorvald the control of NPC's, I will quit. Why? Because as player, he has some goals and will use the NPC's to succeed. However the GM has no goals to win the game so he can be netural.
If yes, he should not be allowed to control the NPC's. If you give Thorvald the control of NPC's, I will quit. Why? Because as player, he has some goals and will use the NPC's to succeed. However the GM has no goals to win the game so he can be netural.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
christos200
Never tell me the odds
The thing is that I dont trust Thorvald. Not in an MP game and not when he plays a Chinese state that want me dead.
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Thorvald can't really direct the NPCs to do anything(as I note there). He will primarily characterise them. In some cases he will have more control over them, but for the most part they are under my control(unless they are your client, in which case it's shared control).
This is why I call it the "head of state" and "head of government" method. Thorvald will present the overall appearance of the nation and direct its foreign policy and military(to an extent), while I control the internal affairs of each nation. He cannot make use of their spies anymore than anyone else can; minor power agents are 100% defensive.
If there did appear to be a clear conflict of interest I would naturally get involved and veto it. (Thorvald is a fairly honorable individual overall though, so I wouldn't fear this issue)
Never mind, they are still NPCs at the end of the day and follow NPC rules. If you coup the nation, you are the one controlling it, even if he personifies it. If China coups say, Shanghai, Shanghai can't just magically break off. Shanghai will need to do as you say.
If it makes you more comfortable, I can always control the NPCs in and around China myself to minimise conflict of interest. Thorvald's goals appear to be all be centered in China, so the rest of the world is no issue.
This is why I call it the "head of state" and "head of government" method. Thorvald will present the overall appearance of the nation and direct its foreign policy and military(to an extent), while I control the internal affairs of each nation. He cannot make use of their spies anymore than anyone else can; minor power agents are 100% defensive.
If there did appear to be a clear conflict of interest I would naturally get involved and veto it. (Thorvald is a fairly honorable individual overall though, so I wouldn't fear this issue)
Never mind, they are still NPCs at the end of the day and follow NPC rules. If you coup the nation, you are the one controlling it, even if he personifies it. If China coups say, Shanghai, Shanghai can't just magically break off. Shanghai will need to do as you say.
If it makes you more comfortable, I can always control the NPCs in and around China myself to minimise conflict of interest. Thorvald's goals appear to be all be centered in China, so the rest of the world is no issue.
christos200
Never tell me the odds
That would make it better. I just dont feel well when a player who wants my nation destroyed can control the foreign policy of all NPC's.
Also why Thorvald and not some other palyer? Why not JoanK? Why not someone else who has free time? Why Thorvald?
Also what if I coup a state (and I dont say in public that '' This state is now my puppet state''), would he not learn about it? Also what if I want to ally with an NPC at secret against him?
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Thorvald has experience personifying a boatload of NPCs, as in IOT IV: Aftermath.
Furthermore, he offered.
Originally he wanted to try 100% control, but I reasoned it'd be best he just give them personalities and direct their foreign policies.Thirdly, knowing his taste in humor, can anyone really hope to top the hilarity taco we're about to be served? His plan was to have each of the Downfall gang manage their own empires. (The running gag is Hitler and Fegelein are going to go to war on Turn 1)
Unless you are an NGO, your assumption of control is public. If you staged a coup against Madagascar that put a pro-German government in power instead of a pro-Chinese one, the world would think it was the Germans that did it, not you. No one besides me would know it was you.
Another non-issue. As it stands minor NPCs don't really conduct diplomacy. Even with Thorvald in charge they are relatively simple(and thank God - can you imagine managing all 80 if they had complexities?).
Though really, this issue is resolved if I just manage the Chinese NPCs myself. No conflict of interest. You two can kill eachother without fear of one having an unfair advantage.
christos200
Never tell me the odds
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In MPR he powergamed to defeat me! I was in civil war and I send 4 armies to defeat 2. Guess who won? the 2 armies. Next turn I send 2 armies against 1 rebel army. Guess who won? the 1 army. Guess what? All NPC's were against me and supported the enemy. Guess what? Once I lost those tow battles, suddenly the western part of my nation also revolted. And Guess what? I told Thorvald to have the NPC's rebels to take control of the USSR and then in2 or 3 turns to RNG elections? the rebels refused.
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I will quit if he has control over NPC's.
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In MPR he powergamed to defeat me! I was in civil war and I send 4 armies to defeat 2. Guess who won? the 2 armies. Next turn I send 2 armies against 1 rebel army. Guess who won? the 1 army. Guess what? All NPC's were against me and supported the enemy. Guess what? Once I lost those tow battles, suddenly the western part of my nation also revolted. And Guess what? I told Thorvald to have the NPC's rebels to take control of the USSR and then in2 or 3 turns to RNG elections? the rebels refused.
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I will quit if he has control over NPC's.
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What if he's just allowed to RP as them(read: this has no real effect on the game)? That sounds like what he was really aiming for, and that would make this game all the more entertaining for everyone else.
christos200
Never tell me the odds
Ok, but if one NPC votes agaisnt me in a resolution or delcares war on me or allies with Union of China, i will quit.
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I also want to RP some NPC's. Why I cant?
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I also want to RP some NPC's. Why I cant?
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