Turn 3Ship of Freaks's Cyan HumansStocks: 1 Food
Structures: 1 Town, 2 Farms
Population: 4 Population
Technologies: Field Agriculture, Preservation
Grek's Red KoboldsStocks: 1 Food
Structures: 1 Kobold Cave, 1 Fishery
Population: 1
Technologies: Theft, Fish Domestication
Immortal's Green DwarvesStocks: 2 Food
Structures: 1 Subterranean Farm
Population: 1
Technologies: Mining, Subterranean Farming
Terenos's Purple HalflingsStocks: 0 Food
Structures: 1 Farm
Population: 1
Technologies: Field Agriculture, Fish Domestication, Woodcutting
Terra's Pink ElvesStocks: 1 Food
Structures: 1 Village, 1 Fishery
Population: 2
Technologies: Preservation, Fish Domestication
Megabeast HordesGolden Dragon: The Crown of Unconditional Loyalty, 1 Dwarf Population, 1 Halfling Population, 1 Food
The Kraken: The Seaman's Pearl
The Roc: 3 Roc Eggs
Goings onCovered in soot, a few broken families of Halflings emerge from their Hobbit holes. Having hid or been trapped for several days beneath the earth without food, they are desperately hungry and dehydrated. One of the Hobbits who has retained most of his strength is a humble farmer named Terenos. Terenos attempts to motivate the other Halflings to build a farm and get to work before they all starve, but they are too weak. The brave Halfling, having heard of a Kobold clan to the northeast, sets off on a long journey in an attempt to seek their aid. After a journey of nearly a week, during which Terenos had a close encounter with a mountain lion and caught a glimpse of the gigantic monster known as the Roc. During the night, drenched in seawater, he stumbled through the brush into the meeting area outside of the Kobold's main living cave where there was a campfire and several Kobolds sat around it cooking fish and telling stories. The Hobbit collapsed right in front of the Kobolds, who poked him with a stick before trying to drag his hefty body onto the fire. Chief GruGru Rak (roughly translated to the Elvish "Grek") barked at them to halt and to let him talk to the intruder before they cooked him. Chief Grek slapped the Hobbit hard across his chubby (but still somehow very gaunt) face, waking him. The Hobbit was too weak to stand, but he spoke to the Kobold chief. Terenos told a vivid tale of the dragon's attack (which soon gathered the collective unbroken attention of every Kobold present) and explained his people's famine. Grek was very interested in the so-called "fields" that Terenos described in his stories and asked the Hobbit to tell him how they worked. Terenos told him now was not the time and that fields couldn't exist on the Kobolds' rocky domain anyway. Grek was about to slit the Halfling's throat with his stone dagger, not seeing how any transaction with the poor Hobbits could benefit his tribe. Terenos saw Grek reaching into his robes and made the impressive offer of ten times whatever food the Kobolds would lend him. Grek raised an eyebrow and threw a sack of left-over fish from the day's catch at the Hobbit and told him to get on his way. As the Hobbit walked back into the forest, the Chief warned him that if his debt was not repaid in a timely fashion, he would let his subjects taste roasted Halfling. After a long and tireless journey home (although it was easier due to his experience traveling the route and the fish in his stomach), Terenos finally arrived at the scorched plains that were his home and hoisted the bag of fish high (as high as a Hobbit can) above his head. The few remaining Halflings who hadn't given up and died during his absence savagely swarmed Tereno, who dropped the bag and let them have at it. The fish was gone in little over a minute. Now that they had regained some strength, the new leader of the Halflings instructed them where to plant their few remaining seeds. Terenos swore vengeance against the Dragon, not knowing that on the other side of the world the Dwarves were doing exactly the same.
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Topic: High Fantasy Conquest: Game Two (Read 25366 times)