DJ Bonebraker
a.k.a Laura
Okay, here's the nitty-gritty:
Difficulty level is Monarch
Barbarians are Raging
Map is Standard size with 8 civs:
AVALANCHE (me), Rel, Ag, Mil
Shinra, Sci, Ind, Mil
Galbadia, Sci, Mil, Exp
Garden, Sci, Mil, Sea
Ivalice, Rel, Exp, Ag
Ordalia, Sci, Ag, Sea
Lindblum, Sci, Com, Ind
Alexandria, Rel, Mil, Sea
Everything Else is Compeltely random, and Diplomatic Victory is disabled.
So without further Ado, let's get this shindig started!
Prologue: As the firey spectre of the giant Meteor hurled toward the bustling megalopolis of Midgar, Cloud, Tifa, Cid and the rest of AVALANCHE watched from their vantage point on the airship Highwind just when they were about to give up hope, Holy suddenly sprang up from the planet as the world's very life force rose to attack the foreign planetoid. As Holy wrapped around Meteor, there was a blinding flash, followed by an earth-shattering explosion, and that was the last anyone on board remembered.....
I, Hikaro Takayama, Chief Advisor to our august leader, Commander Cloud Strife will endeavor to relate the events of our great nation after the shattering of worlds. My own world seemed to have suffered the same fate as theirs; one minute I was getting ready for work, and the next I wake up in a strange land with strange people. Largely due to my knowledge of military tactics and technichal matters (I was a weapons systems technician in the armed forces of my planet), Cloud saw fit to appoint me as one of his advisors, and as chiev Historian. Also in his council were others, some old friends of his, some whom he'd just met, and even one who he had a....history with. We all had to work together, though to survive in this strange new world....
The survivors had slowly gathered from among the wreckage of the dimesional storm, setting up camp beside a river at the base of the last mountain in a long range. Cloud, the blond, spiky-haired leader gathered his advisors together to make an important announcement. His voice rang out as he spoke, "We have all ended up here today because of things way beyond our control, however, we now have enough surviors gathered to begin rebuilding what was lost. It will take many years of suffering, but we will rise out of the ashes once more. First of all, I need reports from all the advisors on our current status, and where a good place to build a town would be."
Cid Highwind, the Science advisor stood and said, "$***!! We're lucky to be alive, let alone worrying about rebuilding. Unfortunately, we've only managed to recover three of the lost technologies. First of all, many of the people here are animists, so we have shamans who can get us to building shrines, secondly, a number of farmers joined our group, and so we've managed to preserve the techniques of pottery and using ceramic pipes to irrigate our fields. Finally," at this he nods towards Cloud and some of the other advisors, "since we've got so many brave warriors leading our people, we have established a warrior code, and can build bows to train archers. The shamans and me've been lookin' to see what else we can re-discover. Our possibilities are writing, wood working, metal working, mysticism, tribal council, animal domestication and masonry."
After speaking his piece, Cid sits down, and Tifa, the domestic advisor, takes the floor. She says, "Now that we have gathered almost a thousand survivors, we must settle here without delay!!"
At that, a blue-haired warrior wearing strange armour and a long, curved sword by his side stood up and objected, "Negative, some of the villagers said that they spotted what was either the ocean or an extremely large lake just accross this river. I'd advise settling beside the ocean so that we may be better able to explore and search for other survivors."
Cloud nodded and said, "Chief Advisor Takayama has a good point. One we've made contact with others, it would be much easier to trade by boat than over land." Tifa nodded and sat back down. Cloud then turned to look at the next advisor, who was grinning like a cat that had eaten the canary. "Well, looks like you've got some good news for us, Yuffie," he wryly commented.
"You betch!!" Yuffie Kisaragi, shouted leaping into the air. As the youngest advisor, and being naturally hyper, she was prone to outbursts like that. She then regained her composure and said, "My prospecting team has discovered a buttload of precious gems in these mountains, which oughtta make a lot of people around here happy!! I vote that we call them the 'Mineral Mountains' and this river the 'Diamond River'." The other advisors nodded in aggrement, and the mountains and river would bear those names ever since.
Yuna, the Cultural advisor suggested that once the city was built, they should immediately start work on a shrine so that she could recruit more shamans and summoners and increase the frequency of sendings and thus reduce the risk of fiends appearing near the city. She was vetoed, however, by the Sephiroth, the military advisor, and most of the other advisors.
Thus the plan was set into motion to move the main group of settlers accross the Diamond River and build the first city by the sea. In the meantime, a worker party was formed under the leadership of the trade advisor and ordered to build a road to the gem deposits on the mountainside. After the council meeting was adjourned, the group of survivors prepared to break camp for the journey ahead. In commemoration of this momentous event, Commander Cloud decreed that this would be known as the Year 1 after the Apocolypse (1 PA).
The survivors gathered along the Diamond river:
After a long journey and 14 years of hard work, the town of Tifa's 7th Heaven was founded between the Diamond River and the Great sea. Almost immediately, the domestic advisor established a tavern bearing the same name in the basement of the palace, and it was there that most council meetings would take place.
Commander Cloud wating for the rest of the staff to arrive in Tifa's bar in the Palace basement
Immediately West of the new city, ancient ruins and relics of a long-lost civilization were found. Yuffie and Yuna suggested that maybe one day the sacred relics could be enshrined in temples throughout the land, but for now wandering laborers from the city would gawk at the strange stone structures, and work the meager plains nearby for food as well as occasionally pulling up pieces of the rubble for construction projects in the city.
In the meantime, a group of young bucks raring for adventure were being trained as fighters, and once their training was complete, they would be sent to scout the vast unknown territories outside the city. Cid and the local shamans and sooth sayers suggested that after we figured out metal working, we might want to get started on researching Tribal Council since, as Cid put it, the current way of running things was p*** poor, and with the new government in place, everything would run smooter. To help support that, Tifa plowed 90% of all tax revenues into scientific funding, but the new government was still a long ways off.
In 66 PA, the first group of figthers journey forth from the city to scout the surrounding area, while another batch of new recruits enter training. The working party still hasn't finished the road to the gem deposits, mainly due to the rugged charachter of the mountain, but they report that it will be finished shortly.
In 92 PA, the scouts reported bac that they'd found the mouth of the Diamond River beside a solitary mountain, but not much else worth reporting. The mountain was named "The Lonely Mountain" due to its isolaiton from the rest of the mountain range. In addition, the worker party had finished the road to the gems and was told to build a road to where the ruins were, and once there to begin irrigating the fields so that we could get enough people to settle another city.
Thus ends the beginning of our adventure in this new land.
Difficulty level is Monarch
Barbarians are Raging
Map is Standard size with 8 civs:
AVALANCHE (me), Rel, Ag, Mil
Shinra, Sci, Ind, Mil
Galbadia, Sci, Mil, Exp
Garden, Sci, Mil, Sea
Ivalice, Rel, Exp, Ag
Ordalia, Sci, Ag, Sea
Lindblum, Sci, Com, Ind
Alexandria, Rel, Mil, Sea
Everything Else is Compeltely random, and Diplomatic Victory is disabled.
So without further Ado, let's get this shindig started!
The Chronicles of the nation of AVALANCHE following the Great Cataclysm
As recorded by Chief Advisor and Command Scribe, Hikaro Takayama
Prologue: As the firey spectre of the giant Meteor hurled toward the bustling megalopolis of Midgar, Cloud, Tifa, Cid and the rest of AVALANCHE watched from their vantage point on the airship Highwind just when they were about to give up hope, Holy suddenly sprang up from the planet as the world's very life force rose to attack the foreign planetoid. As Holy wrapped around Meteor, there was a blinding flash, followed by an earth-shattering explosion, and that was the last anyone on board remembered.....
Chapter I: A Phoenix From the Ashes is Born
I, Hikaro Takayama, Chief Advisor to our august leader, Commander Cloud Strife will endeavor to relate the events of our great nation after the shattering of worlds. My own world seemed to have suffered the same fate as theirs; one minute I was getting ready for work, and the next I wake up in a strange land with strange people. Largely due to my knowledge of military tactics and technichal matters (I was a weapons systems technician in the armed forces of my planet), Cloud saw fit to appoint me as one of his advisors, and as chiev Historian. Also in his council were others, some old friends of his, some whom he'd just met, and even one who he had a....history with. We all had to work together, though to survive in this strange new world....
The survivors had slowly gathered from among the wreckage of the dimesional storm, setting up camp beside a river at the base of the last mountain in a long range. Cloud, the blond, spiky-haired leader gathered his advisors together to make an important announcement. His voice rang out as he spoke, "We have all ended up here today because of things way beyond our control, however, we now have enough surviors gathered to begin rebuilding what was lost. It will take many years of suffering, but we will rise out of the ashes once more. First of all, I need reports from all the advisors on our current status, and where a good place to build a town would be."
Cid Highwind, the Science advisor stood and said, "$***!! We're lucky to be alive, let alone worrying about rebuilding. Unfortunately, we've only managed to recover three of the lost technologies. First of all, many of the people here are animists, so we have shamans who can get us to building shrines, secondly, a number of farmers joined our group, and so we've managed to preserve the techniques of pottery and using ceramic pipes to irrigate our fields. Finally," at this he nods towards Cloud and some of the other advisors, "since we've got so many brave warriors leading our people, we have established a warrior code, and can build bows to train archers. The shamans and me've been lookin' to see what else we can re-discover. Our possibilities are writing, wood working, metal working, mysticism, tribal council, animal domestication and masonry."
After speaking his piece, Cid sits down, and Tifa, the domestic advisor, takes the floor. She says, "Now that we have gathered almost a thousand survivors, we must settle here without delay!!"
At that, a blue-haired warrior wearing strange armour and a long, curved sword by his side stood up and objected, "Negative, some of the villagers said that they spotted what was either the ocean or an extremely large lake just accross this river. I'd advise settling beside the ocean so that we may be better able to explore and search for other survivors."
Cloud nodded and said, "Chief Advisor Takayama has a good point. One we've made contact with others, it would be much easier to trade by boat than over land." Tifa nodded and sat back down. Cloud then turned to look at the next advisor, who was grinning like a cat that had eaten the canary. "Well, looks like you've got some good news for us, Yuffie," he wryly commented.
"You betch!!" Yuffie Kisaragi, shouted leaping into the air. As the youngest advisor, and being naturally hyper, she was prone to outbursts like that. She then regained her composure and said, "My prospecting team has discovered a buttload of precious gems in these mountains, which oughtta make a lot of people around here happy!! I vote that we call them the 'Mineral Mountains' and this river the 'Diamond River'." The other advisors nodded in aggrement, and the mountains and river would bear those names ever since.
Yuna, the Cultural advisor suggested that once the city was built, they should immediately start work on a shrine so that she could recruit more shamans and summoners and increase the frequency of sendings and thus reduce the risk of fiends appearing near the city. She was vetoed, however, by the Sephiroth, the military advisor, and most of the other advisors.
Thus the plan was set into motion to move the main group of settlers accross the Diamond River and build the first city by the sea. In the meantime, a worker party was formed under the leadership of the trade advisor and ordered to build a road to the gem deposits on the mountainside. After the council meeting was adjourned, the group of survivors prepared to break camp for the journey ahead. In commemoration of this momentous event, Commander Cloud decreed that this would be known as the Year 1 after the Apocolypse (1 PA).
The survivors gathered along the Diamond river:
After a long journey and 14 years of hard work, the town of Tifa's 7th Heaven was founded between the Diamond River and the Great sea. Almost immediately, the domestic advisor established a tavern bearing the same name in the basement of the palace, and it was there that most council meetings would take place.
Commander Cloud wating for the rest of the staff to arrive in Tifa's bar in the Palace basement
Immediately West of the new city, ancient ruins and relics of a long-lost civilization were found. Yuffie and Yuna suggested that maybe one day the sacred relics could be enshrined in temples throughout the land, but for now wandering laborers from the city would gawk at the strange stone structures, and work the meager plains nearby for food as well as occasionally pulling up pieces of the rubble for construction projects in the city.
In the meantime, a group of young bucks raring for adventure were being trained as fighters, and once their training was complete, they would be sent to scout the vast unknown territories outside the city. Cid and the local shamans and sooth sayers suggested that after we figured out metal working, we might want to get started on researching Tribal Council since, as Cid put it, the current way of running things was p*** poor, and with the new government in place, everything would run smooter. To help support that, Tifa plowed 90% of all tax revenues into scientific funding, but the new government was still a long ways off.
In 66 PA, the first group of figthers journey forth from the city to scout the surrounding area, while another batch of new recruits enter training. The working party still hasn't finished the road to the gem deposits, mainly due to the rugged charachter of the mountain, but they report that it will be finished shortly.
In 92 PA, the scouts reported bac that they'd found the mouth of the Diamond River beside a solitary mountain, but not much else worth reporting. The mountain was named "The Lonely Mountain" due to its isolaiton from the rest of the mountain range. In addition, the worker party had finished the road to the gems and was told to build a road to where the ruins were, and once there to begin irrigating the fields so that we could get enough people to settle another city.
Thus ends the beginning of our adventure in this new land.
), they brought back some "eyedrops" that were only worth 25 gil, but with the national treasury only containing 10 gil, every little bit helped. Not long after, Wutai's finishes training its first warrior division which promptly takes up the city's guard duties. The 1st Fighter division proudly marches down the road to Tifa's 7th Heaven for thier triumphant return, banging thier spears against their shields and singing rowdy marching songs. Cid has to cover Yuffie's ears until they've passed into their barracks and out of hearing range. As the fighters departed Wutai, another group of the city's citizens, seeking to escape the crowded conditions of the rapidly growing town, start forming a work party to irrigate the rich rice fields near Wutai.
), and one of the Archers guarding the city are sent to protect the workers.
. A warrior defeats two roaming fiends in the process and levels up.
Bangaa ancient units (Bangaa Trackers) don't require any resource other than Bangaa, so I'm good to go there, and thus I'm cranking out Bangaa trackers, which have the same stats as Warriors, but +1 movement (and they ignore move cost over hills and mountains). I'm also working on cranking out some dinosaur units, since, without Iron, they'll most likely be the best offensive units I'll be able to build all game..... But we'll just have to see what I discover accross the uncharted seas. 
Great story so far, sadly i just noticed this thread.
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