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Azkanan

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Re: Clash of Empires: Take 2
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2015, 02:11:53 am »

How much do you want us to provide histories of our entire races, and how much should we leave that up to you?

Knock yourselves out.
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Re: Clash of Empires: Take 2
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2015, 08:23:41 am »

Anything else we need to do before we get started?
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« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2015, 08:51:13 am »

Poke the GM into starting the game? I'm pretty sure we're all set and just waiting for the game to begin.
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« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2015, 03:34:04 pm »

Preparing Uranus now.
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« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2015, 03:50:19 pm »

Year 567, Spring
After an early, cruel, winter, the manfolk, crocfolk, gnomefolk and all inbetween, survived. Some better than others, others not so much.

The winter had come early, striking in the tail-end of the sun period, killing crops and starving game.
Great beasts had either fell into early slumber, or with a half-filled belly, struck out at less easy prey.
Dragons had crept from the mountains over the winter, giants had raided villages, giant earthsnakes
had demolished expanses of remaining agricultural fields.

With natural beasts creeping from their caves and dens and the world reflowering, the dangers of winter
had passed. Dragons still roamed and the world was still full of danger; but at least, the worst of the
raiding, dragonfires, deaths and ruin had passed.


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« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2015, 04:34:42 pm »

Upon the Spring day, as flowers blossom and fresh cool rains overcome the land, Greinol, who had grimly looked at the prospects of the tribe had called out for all to gather, for all to collaborate, for the future, and to end the evil that reigns upon them.
With a thought to unite the peoples and work in highlands sprung to his mind, the rolling hills and greenest of the grass could be the home that his peoples had always awaited for "Fellow peoples, descendants of the great fae! We have strived upon this winter, and we shall strive in the many futures after us. With might and faith, mind and adventure, we shall walk upon the many meadows, and prance upon the greatest of hills! The greatest of rivers among the grand valley! To where we know the mountains and know the ocean, with the forests to our backs and the horizon to our face, we shall go there and see what awaits us!"

March towards highlands and hills, preferably near a river and forest
Then attempt to settle the area. Dedicate several of our peoples to attempt to bless others and the land, but most importantly warding danger from our people
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« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2015, 04:37:58 pm »

The Bonescale tribe was quite pleased with its location and began setting up a settlement. Using their war axes they began felling trees and building log cabins about thirty feet from the shore. Those who had spears or swords were sent to gather food for the tribe. Some went fishing while others hunted. They were instructed to scout out the area while hunting.
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« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2015, 05:16:54 pm »

March towards highlands and hills, preferably near a river and forest
Then attempt to settle the area. Dedicate several of our peoples to attempt to bless others and the land, but most importantly warding danger from our people


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The band of peoples follow their leader heartily with grass and roots between their stumpy toes and the sun on their face - when it breaks through the glowing foliage. The island is an old place, with old trees and old waters. Each and every tree has seen a thousand lives of the great and small.

With such ancestry, the gnomish folk are sensitive to the auras and energy of such natural places - and as such, the lack of being, and further to that, the corruption of such places.

Eventually, they happen across a place not without and not of corruption, but instead a beautiful rocky, deeply rooted place of oak and pine. The Corruption of the bad spirits has not been here. Yet.

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« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2015, 05:24:48 pm »

The Bonescale tribe was quite pleased with its location and began setting up a settlement. Using their war axes they began felling trees and building log cabins about thirty feet from the shore. Those who had spears or swords were sent to gather food for the tribe. Some went fishing while others hunted. They were instructed to scout out the area while hunting.

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Whilst the main clansmen felled trees and worked wood, shaping it into structures, others scouted and gathered provisions.

Shortly whilst scouting to the south-east through wetland and low woods, the crocomen on the scouting mission have fallen across a hamlet of manfolk; men, women and children; settled at the foot of a great pike of stone that led upwards into mountain ranges in the distance. They have as of yet not been spotted as they peak over a ridge of old, mossy granite.

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« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2015, 06:20:22 pm »

The Stonefire tribe, directed as it was towards the refinement and use of lime, needed both a source of lime and the kilns to fire it. This meant that spring would be a busy time, and if they were going to make any progress in the coming months they would need to search for limestone deposits or find a fabled lime beach, whose white sands were alchemically similar to limestone. Essentially all other work waited on the discovery of a location suitable to their chemical interests.
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« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2015, 08:40:57 pm »

Upon his scouts return Marrow decides that he must learn more of these men before sending an diplomat. Marrow sends his sneakiest three crocomen, dark of color, light of foot, and smaller in stature, to observe the ways of these men. The rest of the tribe is tasked with the creation of stone plows for the fields and weapons in case the men are hostile.
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« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2015, 09:00:38 pm »

The Madrea smiles as she shoos the children off, softness of expression betraying the annoyance in her voice. She did want some peace though, as they worked eastward. Her feet were sore from walking, but all of their feet were. No use complaining about it. Some of the women had seen horses in the plains, and their husbands had requested the privilege of trying to fetch them. It would take a few days, that was true. But they had the food for it, at the moment, and new animals would be welcome. She decided to let them, and called over her niece, Juniea, to let them know. Around an hour later, as they began making camp, the hunting parties set out led by their huntmistresses, and the baskets of food were sorted and counted, those men would set out. Hopefuly they would bring back horses from the expedition, and perhaps even some meat as well.

The Mother had told her, in the winds and the stones and the flames, that the east was bountiful. Here, it was good, but they could not sustain themselves here. Not easily. The ground could not be tamed well, and the rivers, while full, were few, though they followed one now. The Madrea settled down at one of the fires, fed by the fallen and dead branches of the few trees they'd come across in their journey this day, and the droppings of the beasts they led and the beasts they followed. She relaxed as she sat, watching the sun set, and began to pray, humming softly as some of the clanswomen began to drum. She asked the Mother for her portents, that night. The moon would be full; it was usually the best time to ask. What would she read in the stars, what wisdom dripped from the fire, or the swirls of smoke above it? She was the only one who could tell, and even she felt as though she scarcely knew what she was doing to Listen to their goddess, half the time. Ah well. It was a good night, and the Mother's people were, for the moment, warm and full through the night. With Her guidance, that would last.
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« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2015, 09:13:33 pm »

For all that represents the gnomish people, we must preserve this land, we must prosper and give to the world once it had given to us.
Greinol looked upon the beautiful area and merely knelt, the other gnomes had then followed suit. Greinol had then after reciting a personal prayer, had stood up again and directed his brethren and fellow gnomes.

"Brethren! We must establish sanctuary, to create a land for which it would prosper for a great many of generations! Make your homes, create you shrines, and bless the land! We must ward what is now our home from our enemies! For what is haunting our peoples are the darkness that threatens us all, hobble and strike together! For what is here shall become the pillars of what we are, for it is home. This is out only land, the one's before us! We shall not compromise with the strides away from what we fear! We stand here and construct! So I must ask, give all your body to what you work for, and all your mind for your faith, for we must unite all the life that we shall live among, and please the great spirits that we strive for! This is a new age for us, and it shall be for the world around us!"

Have about 23 gnomes set to the task of constructing homes, whether it be installed into trees, built into hills, or built up with wood and plant matter. Have the remaining 10 gnomes search for food, scout the area whilst doing so, and attempt to befriend the local wildlife.
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« Reply #28 on: September 26, 2015, 01:52:44 am »

The Tasngar regarded the surroundings with curiosity. The area was peaceful, sure, and the people have had enough of nomadism. In their case it would be considered astute to survey the surroundings before trying to settle down, at the very least to find a good settlement sites. Along with that, more food would be necessary, even in an oversupply.

First, a part of Tasngar scouts the local area, looking primarily for good settlement spots but otherwise the tribe had good knowledge of their surroundings.

Secondly, A party of hunters and foragers set off to look for food for the tribe, to ensure it has more than enough to eat.
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« Reply #29 on: September 26, 2015, 02:29:41 am »

The Stonefire tribe, directed as it was towards the refinement and use of lime, needed both a source of lime and the kilns to fire it. This meant that spring would be a busy time, and if they were going to make any progress in the coming months they would need to search for limestone deposits or find a fabled lime beach, whose white sands were alchemically similar to limestone. Essentially all other work waited on the discovery of a location suitable to their chemical interests.

Heading south-west from the lakes, which were like a pair of craters, surrounded by gradually inclining rough terrain, laced with streams and subsequent greenery, the gnomes tested soils with liquid solutions to guide them in a practiced pattern of direction by soil quality. Eventually the soil become stone, and eventually from that, stone and normal lime.14 The eventual discovery of this was found a meer few miles away from where they had set off from.



(I'm going to start posting the dice figure (out of 20) as Sup next to the relative event. I'll post more when I get home tonight).
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