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[werty892]

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[Skyrunner]

Eh.. Would you people (king & werty) be OK if you each got a small taskforce to go do something, compared to a venerable armada? xD

Possibly you could align yourself to one leader... or if everyone decides to stick together be there too.

The first post will come by today, I think.

[LordBucket]

Seeing this, Azalyn Kementari speaks:

: Solana Malokov, and werty892 (name?), I offer you positions as my private vassals. Join me and I will allow you to partake of the greatness that my empire is to become. Refuse, and I will slaughter you like cattle and your names will be forgotten to history.

[Skyrunner]

The Exodus

On the edge of the Rift stood the greatest fleet of the world, of all the ages. . .
It was a light to be flung into the future, a seed that hopefully would sprout. The heavenly lord's flag, placed on the highest tower of the city wall, slowly but surely was lowered to half mast. Every single soldier saluted it, including the officers, before the fleet started to take off and move into the Rift.

Just as the last ship took off, the aberrations entered the outer city. The screams of slaughtered people and the horrid cries of the things along with the crashes of wood and stone being broken intertwined themselves to create a macabre fugue of death.

The ships left behind the city, and shifted to the other plane.



From the top:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EvilM / Jamnan Tatarev
Haspen / Argus Kaledos
Agertor / Agertor Archmagus
Sinpwn / Gregorin Atmos
Lillipad / Leonard Fallswood
Doomblade / Entren Armeni
Kingfisher / Solona Malakov
LordBucket / Azalyn Kementari
EagleV / Sergej Genja

Spoiler: Mechanics stuff not needed to know but helpful if you do know (click to show/hide)

Rolls are d20s for large-scale (such as combat) and d6s for small scale (interactions ... etc)

The base stats for a flagship are:

  300 Storage, +3 Speed, +3 short range, - long range, +3 protection

If you picked an attribute, that one is increased by 5, to +8. If you picked Long Range, you got a +5 to long range. The default bonus for long range is '-', meaning you cannot do that at all.

Scouts get a bonus to the scouting roll, and arcane support flagships roll 3d6 to decide actions.

The land is a rolling plain, covered in tall, waving grass and in a depression. Hills are to the 'south' and wrap around to the 'west' and 'east'. The rift was originally oriented to exactly north-south at home, and therefore those are the directions to be used here. A river flows from the hills to the north, and patches of thick forest are here and there.


The fleet is equally divided among the eight fleet leaders:

• 14 civilian ships, with 250 people each, for a total of 3500 people.
  
• 8 scouts
• 4 cruisers
• 4 supply ships with 700 supplies each, for a total of 2800 supplies
• 3 seeders, which can enact large scale terraforming to make the land suitable for farming, or mass plant seeds. Holds 300 seeds each
• 3 lumber clippers, which can construct buildings. Holds 300 building materials.
• 2 strafers
• 2 ping dynamos
• 1 steamer, with 100 fuel
• 1 arcani, with ten mages

Taskforce(s) receive:

• 6 scouts
• 2 cruisers, strafers, and steamers
• 1 supply ship, 1 civilian ship, 1 seeder and 1 lumber clipper

One supply sustains one civilian for one week. The current supplies will last just under a week. The sun is high in the sky at the moment.

Possible actions to do
> Recon, using ping dynamos and/or scouts
> Create a simple base, to unload the civilians from the tightly packed ships, and perhaps creating farming areas.
> Declare war on your comrades
> Move to another area.

The map is as far as the horizon. Considering the fact that you are quite high in the air, that is an impressive area.


For the ease of me GMing, you might want to include the following facts in your action posts:

Name
Current civilians (3500)
Supplies (2800)
Fleet (the above list, and your flagship)
(in the future) Bases, buildings, other stuff.

[Lillipad]

>Send three scouts south on recon

Spoiler: character (click to show/hide)

Name: Leonard Fallswood
Gender/Age: male, 54
Appearance: A tall, muscular, old man. He has short, gray hair he keeps brushed back complemented by a thick, well groomed beard of matching color. Leonard has green eyes, and a scar across his nose. He is never seen without his large, cracked sword, or his war-faded armored coat. He typically walks with a cane outside of combat, but is often seen in sparring and melee combat functioning perfectly without it.
Background: Leonard served as a knight templar and personal soldier of the lord, going off on frequent conquests of foreign nations. He fought seeking only an escape from the mundane, but decided to retire when peace was brought about, rejecting all offers of a promotion to the lord's court. For 15 years he served as the instructor for those seeking to achieve the rank of captain and the right to maintain their own squads. He was called back into service by the demand for heroes, gladly accepting the fight offered to him.
Skills: Navigation, Melee, Reading, Animal Husbandry
Natural Magic: Sky

Flagship name: Rouge Fleur
Flagship type: artillery, military

Spoiler: ships (click to show/hide)

Fleet

• 14 civilian ships(250 people per ship)(3500 people)
  
• 8 scouts
• 4 cruisers
• 4 supply ships(700 supplies per ship)(2800 supplies)
• 3 seeders(terraforming, planting)(300/300 seeds)
• 3 lumber clippers(construction)(300/300 building material)
• 2 strafers
• 2 ping dynamos
• 1 steamer(100 fuel)
• 1 arcani(10 mages)

Rouge Fleur
3 Speed
8 short range
5 long range
3 protection

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[agertor]

Move all east towards the water source. It would be quite pleasing if it is drinkable as we could start farming much more easily over there. As well it seems that I can see an edge to a forest there as well.

Character Sheet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Agertor Archmagus

Gender/Age: 22

Appearance: A young black-haired man with quite the shadow for a beard. He looks like he doesn't sleep too much and his brown eyes look hazed at times. Wearing a black leather jacket, red t-shirt, jeans and a red bandana he wears on his head, he almost looks like a pirate.

Background (optional but helpful): A young revolutionary, his inspiring words had brought many people together before. He works for the people almost all the time and as a result gets little sleep. Commonly declaring himself as a people's champion, he constantly helps those in need in order to inspire and create unity.

Skills : Leadership, Persuasion, Rallying, Stealth

Natural Magic : Life

Flagship name: Liberty's Savior
Flagship type: protection, protection

Ships:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

   
14 civilian ships, with 250 people each, for a total of 3500 people.
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships with 700 supplies each, for a total of 2800 supplies
3 seeders, which can enact large scale terraforming to make the land suitable for farming, or mass plant seeds. Holds 300 seeds each
3 lumber clippers, which can construct buildings. Holds 300 building materials.
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer, with 100 fuel
1 arcani, with ten mages

[Sinpwn]

Sinclair Atmos' fleet immediately heads north, sending the scouts ahead.
Mages and Atmos probe the magic of this world to see if there are any anomalous properties.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fleet
14 civilian ships (3500/3500 civillians)
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships (2800/2800 supplies)
3 seeders (300/300 seeds)
3 lumber clippers (300/300 building material)
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer (100 fuel)
1 arcani (10 mages)
Apathy's Abearance
3 Speed
3 short range
5 long range
8 protection

[Evil Marahadja]

Jamnans Turn

Send a ping dynamo together with a cruiser to scout the the northern forest for any anomalies. If nothing strange is there, move fleet to the eastern part of that forest and set up a simple base of operations. (Aka between the river and the forest.) Start farming and build houses for the civilians. 

Spoiler: Fleet (click to show/hide)

14 civilian ships, with 250 people each, for a total of 3500 people.
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships with 700 supplies each, for a total of 2800 supplies
3 seeders, which can enact large scale terraforming to make the land suitable for farming, or mass plant seeds. Holds 300 seeds each
3 lumber clippers, which can construct buildings. Holds 300 building materials.
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer, with 100 fuel
1 arcani, with ten mages

Spoiler: base
(click to show/hide)

Current civilians (3500)
Supplies (2800)

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Jamnan Tatarev
Gender/Age: Man 25
Appearance: Blue eyes, short brown hair and a rather skinny body. Usually dressed in his pilot uniform. He also have a few burn marks and scares over his body from old battles.

Background: An engineer and pilot at heart. He have served the fleet most of his life and gladly do so. He is quite obsessed with "glory" and "honor" and would rather die than fight another day. His flagship , the Dragonfly is a customised Frigate he built himself. He have an unhealty love for his ship, and to insult it, would probably make Tatarev challenge the poor man in combat.

Skills : Ship Research, Small-ship combat, Ship construction, Leadership in battle.
Natural Magic : Life.

Flagship name: Dragonfly
Flagship type: Military, Military (Frigate class)

I am not really sure what bonuses my flagship gets from being a military ship?

[Haspen]

With the hiss and machinery, Argus himself directed the flagship north, toward the forest, and then north-east, across the river. Four scouts in front of his ships, the rest of fleet right behind him.

Spoiler: stuff (click to show/hide)

Name: Argus Kaledos
Current civilians (3500)
Supplies (2800)
Fleet: Blackhorse (300 Storage, +8 Speed, +8 short range, - long range, +3 protection)
14 civilian ships (3500/3500 civillians)
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships (2800/2800 supplies)
3 seeders (300/300 seeds)
3 lumber clippers (300/300 building material)
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer (100 fuel)
1 arcani (10 mages)

[EagleV]

"Seriously? Everyone is scouting the same area to the north? This won't do. It's inefficient. To the west, lads! Let's see what secrets these hills hold!"

The fleet moves to the west, as fast as the slowest ship allows them to go. The faster scouts, cruisers, dynamos and the Mephisto gather plant and soil samples, then catch up with the fleet.

Spoiler: Sergej Genja (click to show/hide)

Name: Sergej Genja
Gender/Age: Male, 61

Appearance: Sergej looks even older than he is - bent back, thin, but long, white hair, a croocked nose in a wrinkled and pockmarked face, and two dull brown eyes which show the misty onsets of cataract. His left arm is nearly completely limp, but he slightly conceals this by always having his left hand in the pocket of his stained labcoat. Instead of hobbling, he prefers to use whatever swift transport is avialable, both outdoor and indoor, and he is often seen moving around in a jury-rigged weelchair.

Background: Even though age has left some slight marks on his memory, Genja is still one of the more brilliant minds of the civilization. He worked on the rift project before the abberations, and hundreds of research projects before that. Often neglecting or ignoring the personal or mundane, he is in a constant state of curiousness to everything he does not understand completely - which is way more than he would ever admit.
Apart from science, he absolutely clings to efficiency. If he loses his keys, he searches for them in a predefined grid pattern. If he moves somewhere, he takes the shortest and fastest route possible - admiring his surroundings is a waste of time, he would probably not know what buildings border the road to his lab. He always has a notebook at hand, and if he has to wait for something, he is always scribbling equations or theories, or simply solving mathematical problems to keep his mind sharp ("and efficient!") He rarely speaks, but if he does, it's a quick ramble, condensing as much information as possible into a short burst of sounds.

Skills : Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Engineering
Natural Magic : Earth

Flagship name: Mephisto
Flagship type: Speed, Scout

Spoiler: Fleet (click to show/hide)

   
14 civilian ships
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships
3 seeders
3 lumber clippers
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer (Fuel: 100/100)
1 arcani

3500 civilians
10 mages
2800 supplies
900 seeds
900 building materials

[kingfisher1112]

I accept your offer, Lady Avalyn.

[LordBucket]

I accept your offer, Lady Azalyn.

: Excellent, Solana Malokov. Your fealty is accepted.

[LordBucket]

Azalyn Kementari, turn 1


Orders
I and my fleet rush to this location and claim it.



Anyone who challenges me will be fired upon.

Scouting is unnecessary. I am uninterested in what lies here. Only in what I shall cause to be here. Upon arrival, set up camp. Seeder ships will prepare the land for settlement. Combat ships shall remain airbourne in a defensive position.

If we encounter a native presence, induct them into a slave workforce. If they do not submit, destroy them.

Spoiler: Character sheet: Azalyn Kementari (click to show/hide)

Name: Azalyn Kementari
Gender/Age: Female, 16

Appearance: Short, slender, athletic, long red hair, brown eyes. Petite and pretty, with a fierce look in her eyes. Azalyn wears an enchanted white longcoat, a tiara with a large green gem over her third eye, and carries the legendary war staff, Ashtara's Doom

Background: Azalyn is the genetic memory clone of the daughter of a famous general now centuries dead. Originally grown from the few cells remaining after the assassination of the original Azalyn, she has since seen 7 generations of birth and rebirth, each time choosing to destroy her body and pass her memories onto the next generation of clone. While this process gives her access to a great wealth of knowledge and experience, the process is imperfect, and has resulted in a certain degree of emotional instability.

Skills: Persuasion, Personal Combat, Magic, Historical Knowledge
Natural Magic: Sky

Flagship name: Daedalus
Flagship type: Speed, protection

Personality tropes: Axe Crazy, Unfettered, Sociopathic Hero

Spoiler: Fleet and stats (click to show/hide)

Fleet
14 civilian ships
8 scouts
4 cruisers
4 supply ships
3 seeders
3 lumber clippers
2 strafers
2 ping dynamos
1 steamer (Fuel: 100/100)
1 arcani

Vassals
 * Solana Malokov

Stats
3500 civilians
10 mages
2800 supplies
900 seeds
900 building materials

[kingfisher1112]

M'lady, I shall send my taskforce, with your consent, to the narrow part of the river. We shall construct an outpost, to watch out for malicious scum.

[LordBucket]

M'lady, I shall send my taskforce, with your consent, to the narrow part of the river. We shall construct an outpost, to watch out for malicious scum.

: My consent is granted, Solana.


Out of Character Atten Solona:
 If I read the intro post correctly, your taskforce consists of:

 * 6 scouts
 * 2 cruisers
 * 2 strafers
 * 2 steamers
 * 1 supply ship
 * 1 civilian ship
 * 1 seeder
 * 1 lumber clipper

To make things easier for the GM, how about include your character name and fleet/stats in your posts.

Out of Character Atten Players:
Would you add your character name to the beginning of your posts? For example, if you look at mine, there's an avatar and a name in bold. It's very clear who's turn it was. Or, Sinclair. He has his name in bold. Or Sergej, he has his name incorporated to the spoiler tag so you can see it easily. Now look at Jamnan and Agetor: their name is only shown within the spoiler section, so for Skyrunner to even find out who's talking he has to click on it and look around.

Let's make things easy for the GM.

Out of Character Atten Gamemaster:
 * Several of the character colors are similar to each other. Agertor and Lillipad are hard to distinguish, for example. Could we recolor everyone to something more distinct? I claim red.
 * I assume the purple on the mapis the rift? And I assume provisions were made for it to close after we went through?
 * What is the yellowish area to the south? Sand?
 * Can we add a color key to the map?
 * Could we add coordinates to the map? I'm happy using graphics to display movement and locations, but it would be easier for everyone if we could say things like "I send my fleet to position F:12 on the map" and have everyone know exactly where that is.
 * Also...just so you know, your map grid is not uniform. Some squares are 20x20, others are 19x20, some are 19x19 and the grid borders are a mix of colors. Your life will be much easier if you redraw it in even dimensions with solid colors so you can simply use block fills to change map status. For example, open up the map in paint, grab the color of the plain and try to block fill it over the current character positions. There are color leftovers that will require extensive editing to remove. A simple solid-color grid with solid-filled colors in grids would simplify this.

Here are some templates. With the color key right on the map like that you should be able to easily grab a color from the key and block-fill it into grid spaces to change map positions. These templates aren't as pretty as your map because of the lack of gradients, but they'll probably be much easier to work with. Also, I had to guess on the player positions because some of the colors in your map are too similar to easily distinguish which character they're supposed to be. Agertor, for example, was apparently assigned two starting positions.

Spoiler: Sample Map templates (click to show/hide)

Full Map:


Raw grid:


Raw Grid + Key: