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How fun is SPAMKINGDOM series?

Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.
Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.
A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.
3/6
Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.
I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

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Author Topic: SPAMKINGDOM#: Emperor Houlandin IV of Methiant-Cydwyl!  (Read 787694 times)

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12135 on: June 11, 2018, 02:49:54 am »

Do we really need another fing state of the guy.

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12136 on: June 11, 2018, 02:58:09 am »

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12137 on: June 11, 2018, 07:25:03 am »

You decide to sponsor the sculptor - you issued that Edict for a reason - and express your hopes that his newest sculpture will be a true masterpiece.

A week later, after checking your body several times and finding no bloody stains on your clothes and bed, you are faced with obvious conclusion while your bedchamber maidens squee with joy. You're pregnant once more! It seems that nature can find a way even if time spent in bed with Cyl can be measured in hours per year, at most.

How about writing him a letter?

A) Obviously, he needs to be informed.
B) Let's surprise him this time.
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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12138 on: June 11, 2018, 07:28:39 am »

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« Reply #12139 on: June 11, 2018, 07:34:09 am »

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12140 on: June 11, 2018, 07:46:01 am »

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Damnit people, this is why I said to keep the truce. Because now everyone's ganging up on the cats.
Also, don't forget to contact your local Eldritch Being(s), so that they can help with our mission to destroy the universe.

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12141 on: June 11, 2018, 08:02:19 am »

//Just noticed I forgot about Springwine again; the roll was in 2to5 range.

You send Cyl a letter.

1177 AD, Late Winter

And a response arrives. If nothing stops him, Cyl will arrive in first days of Autumn to witness the birth of his next child.

Also, the Cartography school has been set up and the wise heads and brave explorers within its walls are already updating the royal map and considering a map-making expedition.

1177 AD, End of the Year

The blizzard rages outside the palace today, a perfect backdrop for the routine visit from Advisor and Scrolls of Kingdom Status.

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1, 4to6(4to6)

Happiness: 7
Population: 6
Economy: 5
Army: 5
Imp.Authority: +1

"Unfortunately, Lady Empress, this year the Army saw few recruits coming to refill the ranks decimated by the bloody conflict against Rosamana and her lizard raiders."

"However, your Authority is still high. Do you wish to issue an Edict?"

A) Yeh.
B) Naw.
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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12142 on: June 11, 2018, 08:06:34 am »

A - Lets see if there are any new options recently.
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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12143 on: June 11, 2018, 08:14:10 am »

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BIRDS.

Also started a Let's Play, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses

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« Reply #12144 on: June 11, 2018, 08:24:25 am »

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« Reply #12145 on: June 11, 2018, 08:25:43 am »

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Damnit people, this is why I said to keep the truce. Because now everyone's ganging up on the cats.
Also, don't forget to contact your local Eldritch Being(s), so that they can help with our mission to destroy the universe.

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12146 on: June 11, 2018, 08:31:26 am »

MILITARY EDICTS:

Matters of military hierarchy, philosophy of war and development of military tech.

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BUREAUCRATIC EDICTS:

Matters of administration and government.

Issue the Bill of Rights:
A standarized code of basic laws of the common peoples. Even if peasants will have nothing else left, they will always have their basic freedoms, helping ease their minds in times of emergency - and perhaps allow the spirit of liberty and humanism to blossom (for good or worse).

Establish Passage Tax: (once in effect: 1142 - 1169 AD)
All those travelers, adventurers, merchants and others are moving through the country for free! Let's establish a tax for those entering and leaving our country - this will earn us nice profits each year, although it might slow down immigration and convince some merchants to seek passage through elsewhere.

CULTURAL EDICTS:

Matters of religion, culture and art.

Proclaim Religious Equality: (once in effect: 1135 - 1172 AD)
Travelers, merchants, immigrants; they all bring new beliefs and philosophies into the country. Rather than fight those foreign influences, it might be best to allow all peoples free worship on equal level no matter the size and beliefs of the congregation, to help all different worshippers achieve a certain degree to harmony and peace.
ENFORCED REVOCATION: Prevents this Edict from being choosen again for at least 10 years after revocation.

Establish Religion Tax: (once in effect: 1154 - 1172 AD)
Various congregations are given away territories and various tax exemptions for those. With erosion of religious influences upon the state, its prime opportunity to dip our hand into prime source of income that is donations and tithes gathered by those numerous cults present in the empire. It will surely not please them, and, by extension, your subjects.
ENFORCED REVOCATION: Prevents this Edict from being choosen again for at least 10 years after revocation.

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REVOKE EDICT: Revokes a previously implemented edict, either to cut spending, appease some disgruntled subjects, or both. On the other hand, it might tick off some other peoples, potentially causing a deadly cascade of discontent.

Late Spring, 1135 AD: Established the Fireblood Court:
Creation of a specialized military branch devoted purely to development of Fireblood arms to ensure they are aplenty and of best designs around. This will allow to centralize the production, research and budgeting of Fireblood weaponry rather than having some errant alchemists and engineers running around, trying to make things happen.

End of Year 1139 AD: Established Recruitment Offices:
Mandatory training for youths is a good thing, but after bloodier-than-usual wars, there might be shortage of men to replenish the ranks. If we were to expand on the royal bureaucracy to include offices for traveling civilian recruiters and offer citizenship grants for mercenaries and travelers looking for a new home, our Army could refill its ranks much faster.

End of Year 1140 AD: Established The Council of Statesmen:
Creation of a small council of governmental officials who will be tasked with helping the government run smoother alongside traditional advisors, and, of course, the monarch himself. This will help strengthen the Imperial Authority, even in dire times, and help pass edicts quicker, although giving even more political power away from the throne than in the past might become a source of troubles one day.

End of Year 1146 AD: Established Diplomatic Corps:
Creation of a small but highly professional cabinet of diplomats and ambassadors that would visit neighbouring countries on regular basis to strengthen ties with nearby rulers and their nobles, and maybe even develop favorable treaties with them.

Summer 1152 AD: Issued the Codex of Training Regimen:
A set of efficient (and slightly draconian) requirements and practices of training to ensure that the Army gets only the best recruits of them all. This will make the Army much better in combat, although there might be a problem to fill yearly recruitment quotas sometimes.

End of Year 1153 AD: Established the Shadowranks:
Politics often involve underhanded tactics. A castle full of commoner staff and visiting foreigners just asks for a disaster to occur. Let's have the military form a professional division of most loyal of soldiers, who would protect the Emperor, his family and important state officials, during the day, night, war, peace, revelries of festivals and monotony of daily life.

End of Year 1156 AD: Expanded Primogeniture Law:
A string of bad luck can render a monarch without a male heir or cause succession debates. Rather than risk some unpleasant consequences of such a situation, it might be better to allow a skilled female to ascend to the throne, especially if she is as good at matters of the governance as any other ruler.

End of Year 1158 AD: Enacted Settlement Policy:
Guarantee that those willing to settle in previously undeveloped lands or territories yet unclaimed by any nation will be given a certain amount of money to help further their effort. However, this might cause a severe drain on the Treasury, especially during times of sudden, mass migrations to the countryside.

End of Year 1159 AD: Introduced Elective Succession Laws:
Sometimes a firstborn might be below average in terms of his skills to rule the nation, but there might be no other alternatives left, even amongst females. Elective Succession will allow the monarch to select the most skilled to inherit the throne, even a distant (or foreign!) relative of the successor, although this might cause problems with less gifted yet highly ambitious relatives of the next ruler, as well as local nobility.

Late Autumn, 1160 AD: Proclaimed Dissolution of Cloisters:
There are some faiths that are living and dwelling in estates and keeps that once belonged to the Crown, hoarding wealth within! We should force them out, restoring the important buildings to our governance as well as profiting from the stored treasures. Obviously, the worshippers of the faiths in question will be angry about this.

End of Year 1164 AD: Established The Royal House of Learning:
Scholars scribbling down books in secluded libraries and scriptories should be a thing of the past! Let's instead establish a centre of learning, where those of intellect can exchange ideas and educate those willing to learn. It will help the nation develop technologically, although maintenance of this beacon of enlightenment will obviously require yearly costs.

End of Year 1166 AD: Adopted Fireblood Infantry Tactics:
Fireblood weapons are currently slow to load and rather inaccurate, but even one in dozen of shots is bound to hit someone. Some believe that infantry should be given hand-held Fireblood weapons, which would be fired en masse against the enemy before melee combat, while horsemen equipped with melee weapons attack the flanks in glorious charges or mows down those who were lucky to survive the rain of hot iron.

End of Year 1167 AD: Established Imperial Trade Commission:
To ensure stricter and better control of trade in the Empire and through its borders, an imperial guild of trade and commerce should be created. Its officials will keep an ever-vigilant eye on market trends, supply and demand, as well as establish and maintain favorable tariffs and taxes on goods, and help our merchants gain upper hand over foreigners. Hopefully, they will avoid price gouging, corruption, favoritism and other nasty things.

End of Year 1174 AD: Endorsed State Patronage of Arts:
To help develop the nation culturally, set aside certain amount of budget money to sponsor sculptors, poets, musicians and painters. It will be a constant drain on the Treasury, but think of how prestigious your nation will become, what with those masterpieces of art popping left and right!

End of Year 1176 AD: Established Royal School of Cartography:
People come from near and far, yet we know little of the places they visit, the royal scribes clinging to rumors, hearsays and random tales of strangers. A proper society of cartographers and scholars at the House of Learning could help expand our knowledge about the region, and the continent - who knows, maybe entire world in the far future!
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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12147 on: June 11, 2018, 08:38:48 am »

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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12148 on: June 11, 2018, 08:40:44 am »

Welllll

Revoke Council of Statesmen

An opportunity to arrogate more power (back) to the throne, you say?!
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Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« Reply #12149 on: June 11, 2018, 08:46:59 am »

No, also we don't want to have a war of succession so no revoking the council
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