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[10ebbor10]

IC thread

In the time before times, monsters wandered the world. Forgotten horrors, deadly denizens of the primordial plains. In those days, even the Sun was young, and the mountains newly born. A virgin nighsky, enlightened only by the eldest of stars, envelops the dark world. Yet not all is as dark as might seem to be, in caves and shelters animals gather. Together, these protosentient beings manage to survive, and thrive. So ended the Age before time, and started the Age of sentience.

Spoiler: What is this (click to show/hide)

Lead a tribe of beings through the ages, to glory, honor and other stuff. Explore lands, build cities, invent stuff. Semitactical civlike, basically.

Spoiler: Science and development (click to show/hide)

Research is divided in 2 parts: The develoment of new technologies, and the creation of inventions based on these. Technologies* are researched and chosen by the player, and are always fairly broad topic with little direct effect. Researching them is done by the investement of RP points. Each turn, a dice with size equal to a technologies RPcost is rolled and if the result is lower than the total accumulated RP, then the technology is finished.

There are many ways to make discoveries, but their effect is often random. One of the most surefire way to make a discovery is by investing RP in an already discovered technology, using the same system and cost as the one used to research it. When succesfull, the accolated RP is reset and an invention generated.

*And as such, fairly limited in scope. You can't just research fire without previous experience, for example.

Spoiler: Social and civ traits (click to show/hide)

Social and civilzation traits are things that define your nation, but are not considered knowledge, and hence not spread easily. There are many things that can cause these, mostly the things that happen to your people. Not all social traits are positive, and most are 2 edged swords. Social traits can be influenced by the player*, but this is fairly hard to do and can result in rebellion. Some social traits can spread through trade, but the players have no control of this.

All social traits are sortof fluid, and not permanent.

*For example through the use of accumulated Clout

Spoiler: Managing your village/civ (click to show/hide)

A village or civ is defined by 2 things. It's people, and it's buildings.

The people are often the most important things, they let your nation live, do work producing food, IC and a variety of other resources. Most of your pop units will have a standard job, producing a set amount of resources in a building. The others need to be commanded by using Clout, either to take up a job or do something different.  1 Clout allows one to command one 1 pop unit. Exploration, gathering resources from outside your perimeter, some construction, some recruitment all require Clout (basically everything I'd need to roll for)

Buildings can have a variety of functions. Most are unlocked by research and discoveries. Do note that a building doesn't have to be a real building. Certain structures or job positions also apply. Buildings are often worked on by pop units, producing resources. They are constructed using IC.

Spoiler: Overview of resources (click to show/hide)

Food: What people eat
Pop units: The people
Clout: A resource used to change civ traits, as well as command the people
RP: The stuff you use for research
IC: An almagation of construction resources and the capacity to use them
Custom resources: Quite a few things  can be discovered. These often provide a bonus to one of the above, as well as special other stuff.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

Combat is handled by PM battles between turns. Each combat unit has an Attack, Defense, Agility, HP, and tactics stat. The first 4 are pretty self explanatory, the fifth is counted together by the whole army and determines the effectifity of your commands, as well as the chance of routing;

Spoiler: Signup (click to show/hide)

Name:
Nation and species Name:
Description:
Short history:
Clout: 5
Social Traits:
       -Trait 1
       -Trait 2
RP points: 0
Technology 1: [Cost]
       -
       -
Technology 2: [Cost]
       -
       -
Village name:
Short description of surroundings:
Pop: 5
Food: 10
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Buildings: (Employement for 4 people)

Spoiler: Example (click to show/hide)

Name: [You can figure these out on your own, I hope]
Nation and species Name: [You can figure these out on your own, I hope]
Description: [You can figure these out on your own, I hope]
Short history: [You can figure these out on your own, I hope]
Clout: 5
Social Traits:
       -Council of Elders (1 RP point generated per turn)
       -Oral tradition  (1 Clout generated per turn)
RP points: 0
(Stone) Tool making: [20]
       - Hatchet's
       - Skinning
Leatherworking: [Cost: 15]
       - Leather shelters
       - Carrying bags
Village name:
Short description of surroundings:
Pop: 5
Food: 10
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Hunters huts [2/2]       Bonus to organised hunts, +5 foods, +0.2 IC
Stone tool maker [1]   Produces 2 IC
Stone gatherer [1]      Produces rock (Generic resource)

[Brood]

Reserved.

I'll add the sheet once I've had a look at the example.

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Name : Lagend Buria
Nation and Species name : Mithras and Woading
Description : The Woading are humanoid with pale blue skin and red tinged eyes, they almost all have long brown hair and stand at around 6 ft 5, they have an athletic heavily muscled figure.
Lagend is a typical Woading except he's one of the rare few born with platinum blonde hair.
Short History : The Woading are very aggressive constantly fighting amongst themselves for dominance over the village and seeking means to kill or enslave other villages.
They have lived deep within the forests for generations and hate the outside world, the forest is made up of unique trees found nowhere else in the world, Ironwood, Bloodwood, Blackwood, Ghostwood and Ghostwood, all of which is almost completely immune to fire and all other elemental damage.
Clout : 5

Social Traits.
Warlike :  Highly aggressive and brutal warriors.
Masters of the woods : Masters at using the forest and everything in it to there advantage from wood to anaimals.

RP points : 0

Tech 1 : Weapons of war ( 50 )
Blackwood bows. ( Longer range, superior power and lighter. Made of a special wood found only in the woading forest. )
Bloodwood arrows. ( Extremely light but so sharp they can go clean through a 3 ft rock, made of a special wood again only found in the woading forest. )
Tech 2 : Beastmasters.( Masters at hunting, killing and taming animals of all kinds. )
War animals.
Wild animal taming.



Village name : Cocidious
Short description of surroundings : A huge forest of trees of all kinds spreads as far as can be seen in every direction, very thick and some going higher into the sky then the eye can see, the village is built amongst these high places.
It is packed with animals mainly herbivores but with packs of wolves spread out hunting them.
Pop : 5
Food : 10

Warrior hut [1] ( Crafts all the equipment for war )
Beastmasters padoc ( On the ground obviously ) [1] Domesticates captured animals ( Hello wolf army )
Shamonic circle [1] ( +1 clout per turn )
Work hut [1] ( +1 food, +1 rp +1 ic ) ( The place where all the non war work gets done. )

[ragnarok97071]

HELL YES NATION THING.

IN.

[Sorcerer Kail]

Lets reserve the post.

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Name: Hor Tatti vak Ittu - King-Priest Tatti the first.
Nation and species Name: Holy Taaridite Kingdom/ Taaridites
Description: Human-like creatures, with arms, legs and head covered in scale of desert color. They do have from 6 to 8 feet in height and are hairless. Having three sexes and long intercourse's is considered blessing for they take a great pleasure in it. Two of them can give birth to children(keep in mind that they bear not eggs but living child) and sexes are equally common.

Short history: Few know that kingdom was created by creature from age before the times. It enslaved man and chosen few of them to serve as a priests, feeding his sluggish body from bloody sacrifices. But with raise of sentience he was slain and soon priests started to gradually erase his existence from memories. Soon he was nearly forgotten by all but few old books. Priests continued to expand kingdom and soon divided between themselves, and started to wage war between themselves. Yet only few of competitors survived and they called themselves Hor - priest-kings. They decided bring a peace for a time till men were numerous again.
Clout: 5
Social Traits:
       -Theocratic despotism(+1 Clout/turn)
       -Sage priests(+1 RP/turn)
RP points: 0
Technology 1: Primitive Weaponry[30]
       -Bows
       -Spears
       -Shield[0/30]
Technology 2: Wooden architecture[35]
       -Palisade
       -Wooden buildings
Village name: Shakkah
Short description of surroundings: Mostly mountains land, but with few of flatlands shattered by inlets. Heavy forests are covering lower parts of mountains and climate is similar to Italian Peninsula.
Pop: 5
Food: 10
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Buildings: (Employement for 4 people)

Wooden altar(1) - place for sacrifice and worship. +1 Clout
Hunters hut(1) - Bonus to hunting, +1 to Food,
Foragers hut(1) - Bonus to foraging, +1 to Food
Sages huts(1) - Place where sage-priests live and think, +1 RP.

I'd like to get access to bioengeering later in game and make a hybrids from flesh and metal controlled evolution of my race in few different directions. I would breed(later modify genes or guide it) of my workers, soldiers and priests making them stronger, more agile or intelligent depending on need. Similar to Tau Kroot from 40k but not as extreme. If the games happens over years, that's hardly possible, but if turn is longer time then I could do that some day, unless you don't plan to let us research so high tech ever.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Reserved. Give me half an hour, and I'll post. It took a bit long than that.
Giant squids that have it out for whales and worship a volcanic vent in the sea floor.

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Name: Third Arm
Nation and species Name: The Betentacled of the Briny Depths
Description: Super intelligent giant squids. There's not much more to say.
Short history: After thousands of years of getting eaten by whales, they fought back. They attribute this change in attitude to The Eye, a rift in the sea floor that glows bright with magma. A single whale provides lots of food, so they don't need to hunt much. They spent their time thinking, until one member was born with a third arm, a Messenger of The Eye. He spoke of other Eyes, scattered over the sea floor, the discovery of which would bring new knowledge and power.
Clout: 5
Social Traits:
       -The One Hundred Eyes: Each new volcanic undersea vent discovered grants 10 RP.
       -Whale Hunters: +2 food from whales from hunters, +2 attack on whales by hunters
RP points: 0
Technology 1: The Eye [20]
       -Sacrifice things to the Eye for favor: The GM is an amazing person.
       -Cook things in it's heat: +1 food from every 3 food gathered
Technology 2: Kill the whales! [10]
       -Whales taste good: +2 food from whales
       -Die whales, die!: +2 attack and defense when fighting whales
Village name: The Domain
Short description of surroundings: Basically just a flat seafloor covered in silt that suddenly drops several hundred feet down to The Eye.
Pop: 5
Food: 10
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Buildings:
1 Whale Hunter: 10 food every two turns, (100-Vents discovered(VD))/10,000 chance to discover a vent
1 Philosquid: +3 RP every two turns
2 Vent seekers: +1 RP every two turns, (100-VD)/1,000 chance to discover a vent

[10ebbor10]

I'll add the sheet once I've had a look at the example.

Damn, here I hoped I could just steal someone's sheet.

[ragnarok97071]

Working on one, actually. Feel free to steal it.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I'll add the sheet once I've had a look at the example.

Damn, here I hoped I could just steal someone's sheet.

You can steal mine soon. Out of curiosity, does the village have to be on land?

[10ebbor10]

I'll add the sheet once I've had a look at the example.

Damn, here I hoped I could just steal someone's sheet.

You can steal mine soon. Out of curiosity, does the village have to be on land?

If your species can swim, it can be in the water though. That will however have it's consequences (hard to make fire without setting fire to the boat. Or to the underwater grasses.).

Btw, example up. Though it isn't really a good one, so feel free to ignore and be creative.

[Brood]

Do you decide the effects of the social traits or do we decide aslong as it's not to strong?

[10ebbor10]

Do you decide the effects of the social traits or do we decide aslong as it's not to strong?

You decide, but I get to creative with unknown effects. For example, that oral tradition might result in mythifying of events. The Council of Elders might reject certain new discoveries, or have trouble moving with the group/ surviving.

[ragnarok97071]

So yeah, I decided to play the bug people for this one.

This should be... Fun.

Also one of the Social abilities has a negative effect built in. :p They don't rout. They also don't retreat. And stuff.

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Name: She Who Walks In Nightmares
Nation and species Name: The Yxtanph Brood/Yxtanph (icks-tan-if)
Description: The Yxtanph Brood is a strange form of life, one which is almost unique in its... fervor, almost, to evolve. The Yxtanph have a complex life cycle, with multiple generatons having wildlly different body structures in order facilitate growth.
Only a single Yxtanph at a time is capable of reproduction, and this figure is always christened She Who Walks in Nightmares. She Who Walks in Nightmares is the only of the species with a true name other than those specifically given to them by She Whe Walks in Nightmares. Additionally, She Who Walks in Nightmares must always be referred to as She Who Walks in NIghtmares. No abbreviation, nickname, pronoun, or other such construction is to be used when either referring to She Who Walks In NIghtmares or speaking to She Who Walks In Nightmares. This figure also has the most... obvious of the form-changing abilities, that the Yxtanph possess... while the lesser members of the Brood can only change once, when their Vectors first take root, the Queen may do so many times over her life, moving from a passive state (when interacting with others) to an active one (Laying eggs which produce further Vectors) and back again perhaps hundreds of times over her lifetime.
All other forms of Yxtanph, though they may be given other names depending on their form, are referred to as either Vectors (The larval form of the Yxtanph) or Drones (The adult form). A Vector is spawned from an Egg produced by She Who Walks in Nightmares, and resembles nothing more than a large, Chiuaua-sized maggot, with toughened skin over a layer of fat and muscle. For the most part, Vectors are without defense from predators, and one might assume simply by looking at them that they are simply small creatures that the Yxtanph keep around as an emergency food source, until one sees them function. When a suitable creature comes close to a Vector, it releases a chemical which stimulates the brain of the creature, causing it, regardless of physcal satiation level, to suddenly have a strong desire to eat. The Vector then produces itself, inducing the creature to attempt to devour it. the Vector then forces itself down the creature's throat, where it enters its active phase, its skin and muscles layer rupturing, the smaller, more vulnerable life form which it had been protecting before, more akin to a tiny scorpion or perhaps a land-based jellyfish, maes its way free of the Vector and burrows into the new host. It begins to rebuild the body of the host, taking over the nervous functions of the creature soon after the process begins, and then causing it to mutate into a full-fledged drone by influencing the production of new cells so as to create genes that cause the production of several things.
First, all Yxtanph have a chitin-like covering over their bodies, like an insect, though much more flexible, which protects them from harm. Secondly, all Yxtanph are color-blind, and their eyes mutate into compound lenses. A Yxtanph Drone can be bipedal, quadrupedal, or semi-bipedal, determined by the creature which served as the host for the transformation. It can also have tusks, claws, and other such natural weapons, also dependant on the host's base characteristics.
Short history: The Yxtanph that are alive so far, with the exception of a few, are members of a single Hive, which managed to grow quite large, much larger than any such hive before or since. It has begun the unprescedented act of sending small groups of Yxtanph out to found new Hives, something almost unheard of due to the usual competition for Hosts and food.
Clout: 5
Social Traits:
           -No Sense of Self (Armies do not Rout unless ordered to)
      -Hivemind (Generates 1 RP/turn/5 pop)
RP points: 0
Technology 1: Bio-mass Hardening [Cost: 20]
       - Hive Construction
       - Host Containment
Technology 2: Tactics[Cost: 50]
       - Ambush
       - Trap-making
Village name: Ix'Krii'Ne Hive
Short description of surroundings: Ix'Krii'Ne is positioned within a forest, an abundant one, just near the outskirts where it meets a spacious plain. The area around abounds with wildlife, ideal for Yxtanph habitation due to the need for other creatures to serve as Hosts.
Pop: 5
Food: 10
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Buildings:

Gatherer's Gardens [1]   Allows containment of captured creatures from Traps and Hunts (Produces Hosts [General Resource, Needed for Secondary Reproduction] when Hunts are successful)
Hatchery [1]   Allows safe storage for Vectors until a Host can be found for them
Hunter's Chamber [2] Bonus to organized hunts, +5 foods, +0.2 IC

[Brood]

Is that even possible? No army is unbreakable and routing is what happens when you break.
Hell Romans were famed as the most disciplined army in the world and even they could break if you put them under enough pressure.

[ragnarok97071]

Fixed the fluff to better explain it.

it's less discipline and more just that individuals don't recognize themselves as anything more than they are: Just another cog in the machine, not worth more than any other, and nothing next to the good of the hive and She Who Walks in Nightmares.

[10ebbor10]

Is that even possible? No army is unbreakable and routing is what happens when you break.
Hell Romans were famed as the most disciplined army in the world and even they could break if you put them under enough pressure.

Hiveminded insects. Ie, pure warmachines. They simply can't fanthom the idea routing. They don't fear death, and might not even be considered sentient.

Seriously, there are soldier ants who get used as living pincers to construct nests.