Writing in Gunpowder

[Nighthawk419]

I want to write a story about the meeting between 3 of Isabella's top priests and the German High Council... but I have a headache, I'm tired and I don't feel like it next time...

sent to hawklord

 

[Hawklord]

Discovered a Dutch city.

gps

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

I want to write a story about the meeting between 3 of Isabella's top priests and the German High Council... but I have a headache, I'm tired and I don't feel like it next time...

When is next time?

Discovered a Dutch city.

The Germans are eastwards from there.

Barb city found.

GPS.

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

 

[Nighthawk419]

Next time is no later than this Wednesday.

I have the turn and am holding it because I have a new city to talk about as well as the meeting with the Germs. I will get my story together and turn played by Weds...

 

[Nighthawk419]

A new city of Toledo is founded. Up in the north of Madrid, the blue collar workers and archers sent from the crown begin a new settlement in the tundra bordering the frozen icy wastelands north of Spain. Life will be tough for a while in this settlement, but the Queen is pleased that precious metals will soon be mined from the ice and sent to Madrid to be used for increasingly tough battle weapons.

Meanwhile the Queen's top 3 priests arrive home from their meeting with the Germans in Utrecht. Tales of their state libraries and new alphabet quickly spread among the Spanish people. The meeting was prosperous, as knowledge of the world was exchanged and agreements for future peace were negotiated. The Germans want to learn more of the Spanish Islam religion.

(apologies for my delay!)

 

[Hawklord]

gps

Can't seem to find time to continue the story in the other thread.

 

[Eclipse4449]

Still at least for me it is early, I've only just now hooked up horses to that city legions away from my core city group

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

 

[Nighthawk419]

Islam spreads in Toledo... sent on

 

[Hawklord]

Islam also spreads to Evora
The Hawklords don't like things that reduce their control, could be trouble.

gps

 

[Hawklord]

Sent wrong save file at first, corrected

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

A Settler whipped, a Great Scientist (Michael Faraday) born and erecting an Academy, lots of stuff happened in Berlin this decade. Also the colony of Cologne has been founded on the island that now bears the same name to harvest the rich Copper deposits located on it. On the other side of the known world the city state of Ghuzz continues to refuse all outside contact and hunted the Berliner Galley scouting its coasts away.

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

 

[Nighthawk419]

Continued tensions develop between Spain and Portugal, as the Barcelonians post a watch on a hill between the two civilizations, and a Barcolenian militia has been developed, experts in sharpshooting with their arrows...

 

[Hawklord]

The Portuguese watch the clumsy efforts of the Spanish bowmen on the hills. The superior skills of our bowmen is evident in the large stocks of Caribou meat stored in our cities.

gps

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Another group of colonists has been sent from Berlin to secure the area around Mount Sterdam to prevent Germany from being cut off by Russia´s expansion. While the river that springs from it provides highly fertile lands for the Russian and Dutch cities that have been settled along it, the source itself is surrounded by a thick hazardous rainforest making it very difficult to establish larger settlements. Nevertheless the German council insisted on claiming it for its high strategic value and has thus 'encouraged' many a slave to come along with the few volunteers. A sophisticated road system connecting the future fortress with Munich has already been constructed by the descendants of the Russian captives of the war that raged so many generations ago.

Meanwhile the island of Colog has been colonized and Berlin´s finest craftsmen are already working on a way to efficiently mine and distribute the humongous Copper deposits on it. Once the metal is casted into enough weapons to supply all German cities they shall be on par with their Russian rivals again.

Spoiler :

In more downbeat news the great Michael Faratag or Faraday has passed away after a long and fulfilled life. Coming from a long line of Berliner librarians he quickly rose to the top ranks among the city´s sages and became a respected thinker both in Germany and other lands. He played a crucial part in the development of the Alphabet and helped promote it to the Spanish delegation in Utrecht. On his way home he met the Greek tradeswoman Hakademia, whom he fell in love with immediately. Taking her along they married in Hamburg and settled down in his estate near Berlin´s vast corn fields. Unfortunately she died in childbirth few years later, along with his son. Devastated, he became a reclusive for months during which he wrote some of his most important philosophical works. He had become increasingly alienated by the librarian community since his return from the Netherlands, criticizing that they care more for preserving old knowledge than creating new. Thus he decided to use every last bit of his wealth to create a separate institution for learning in his family home, calling it 'Academy' in honor of his late wife. He spent the last years of his life teaching everyone he deemed worthy there, and encouraged his students to think for themselves instead of just repeating what the sages of the library told them to think. As he was the last of his family he decided to hand it down to his best pupils, making them promise to uphold his principles and never stop learning and asking questions.

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

Greek Scout meets France

 

[Nighthawk419]

nothing happened in spain this generation... sent on

 

[Eclipse4449]

GPS to Nighthawk

ok the start of something good has just happened, the Greek are unwilling to trade or discuss much at all, everything is in Red