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[Kashyyk]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kingdom Name: Anglaterre
Kingdom Location: Central with rolling countryside and temperate grasslands, forests and hills. Other terrain bleeds in from neighbouring territories.
Kingdom Race: Boring humans
Kingdom Background: The quintessential medieval kingdom, with strong stone castles inhabited by knights of noble birth, leading companies of stalwart men in shining maille to protect the hardworking common folk in their villages and towns. Lavish feasts and fantastic festivals are common place, and the upper classes have any excellent luge. We'll gloss over how the lower classes get significantly less events in their honour, and how all their produce is taxed to pay for the rich and their lifestyle. It's not like they're real people anyway.
Kingdom Tags: Robust Economy
Leader Name: King Philip the Just
Leader Appearance: Tall, broad shouldered and with a winning smile, he was clearly a lady's man in his youth. Short brown hair and a trimmed beard frame his face and ornate court robes compete the ensemble.
Leader Background: The eldest son of the previous king, Philip was naturally next in line to the throne. In his youth he roamed the known world, striking down evil, rescuing damsels and winning every best smile award he came across. After saving an exceptionally beautiful princess (whom he later married) he started taking on a more administrative role in preparation for his succession.

[bloop_bleep]

Spoiler: My kingdom (click to show/hide)

Kingdom Name: Pikromyria
Kingdom Location: Deep within the mountain ranges.
Kingdom Race: Pikromyrians are essentially heads attached to 12 two-foot-long tentacles, which are evenly spaced around their body. They have four eyes on their heads (again evenly spaced) and are roughly the size of humans. They breathe through their skin, like frogs. Their skin color can vary, and occasionally they have extra or missing tentacles/eyes.
Kingdom Background: Pikromyrians are an ancient race which emerged from the depths of the caves thousands of years ago. Over time, they began building a civilization for themselves, learning how to make machines and utilize their surroundings for their benefit. Lacking any outside contact with other races, the use for a military was negligible, so whatever forces they have are either strictly for domestic purposes, or leftovers from the wars between tribes years ago. However, the extreme application of automation throughout industry has kickstarted the economy to unprecedented efficiency.
Kingdom Tags: Lagging Military, Advanced Economy
Leader Name: Arguzshikopilin is the rough transliteration to English.
Leader Appearance: Arguzshikopilin isn't that unique, as far as four-eyed tentacle monsters go. He has purplish, almost pink skin.
Leader Background: Arguzshikopilin was a manager of a certain very famous engineering project back in the day, and was elected to the Senate by the People, and then was elected by the Senate to the title of Imperator. (Senate and Imperator are English translations; the real words for them are some kind of unintelligible gibberish.) He will serve for 5 more years until the Senate elects a new Imperator.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I do not have planes or computers or other complex technologies like that. I'm going more for a steampunk feeling.

[sprinkled chariot]

PTW and to join in waitlist as well

[bloop_bleep]

So, when are we starting? Will there be both IC and OOC threads or just this one?

[Blood_Librarian]

I'm assuming a generic fantasy setting, I can change it if its a low magic setting.

Spoiler: High Vallus (click to show/hide)

Kingdom Name:High Vallus
Kingdom Location: In the Ash Lands of a recently active Volcano, hopefully with a empty desert/wasteland in between them and forest that was afflicted with some type of horrific disaster.
Kingdom Race:A close relative to Forest Elves. Desert Elves are tall and beheld with dark "fair" skin and usually blond hair cut short, if properly fed. They usually aren't, all things considered.
Kingdom Background: A large group of elves with their typical equipment and supplies, emigrating from a fallen forest drove. Hardy and desensitized to the tragedies of the forest, they adopted their aloof presence with a aspect of bare survival. Most have a distinct bias against the thing forced them away from their homeland. They live in the ash lands of a recently active volcano, eking out an existence farming what they can, and attempting to strike the Earth for materials. Health problems are common, but these elves are prone to adaption, and their shooken up society has settled nicely, all things considered. Most elves are used to a spontaniously created religion, which revolves around religious self fufillment fulfillment through mental and physical training then anything else, while more rowdy individuals are exiled to the mines or sent to a solitary life in the military equivalent to train themselves out of weakness.

Although the current leader is from a military origin in terms of her rise to power, she is more then a warlord, and the very small, but exceedingly trained military reflects that. The dozens of tent cities that had sprung up in the outskirts of the (as of yet unnamed) volcano are rife with Elven art and culture, while dozens of mining shafts are dug into the barren earths, supervised by foreign miners and done with foreign techniques and Elven Criminals. The elves import most of the food they get to supplant their doomed forest farms, in exchange for the various "enchanted elven goods" (Metal/stone/bone) along with the few exotic elven weaponry they could produce with metals (Metal War-Bows, Mage equipment/ foci, Etc) Foreigners are usually welcomed, although the strict rules often result in large numbers of people enslaved in what is essentially mining camps. Unconfirmed reports of less scrupulous individuals hiring bands of bandits to capture travelers and other such rabble are often overlooked by the houses and the society at large.

the current leader is often accused of gimping the military, by only allowing so few into the numbers, but she refuses to compromise the young nation for what she claims is wasted posturing. Her push and focus on socioeconomic change has resulted in a booming economy and a society that is relatively robust.


Kingdom Tags: See below, you have 2 points to spend at first
robust culture(1)
lagging military(-1)
accelerating economy (2)

Leader Name: Han'Qerr of House Mieros
Leader Appearance: An impressively regal elf, she stands at a surprisingly short 5'4, with a fit form and usually has a back-scabbard on her back, which contains a steel broadsword,Runed and humming in power, even at formal occasions were she would otherwise be wearing regal clothing.
Leader Background: When the great calamity of the Tree Grove  occurred, she had led her relatively small commandant of military forces in an exodus away from the doomed lands, through the terrible wastelands along with the thousands of those who chose to fled with the foolish caraven leaders rule, and for decades they had churned through the desert, as more and more died from the depraved conditions until they had ended up at the end of the line, where the volcano had detonated, further lowering the numbers of the group. The Caravan leaders were lynched, and the group settled on the teetering end of what may be extinction, and a half dozen more decades later, the sprawling tent cities could finally be called a nation.

[escaped lurker]

Posting to watch - those interlocking mechanics, look quite interesting, if not promising.

[UristMcChladni]

I'm going to have an IC thread up later tonight, and I'll make this the OOC. I'm virtually done with the post right now, but prior engagements will delay its release for several hours.

I ended up taking the five that I previously mentioned, as well as Blood_Librarian. The rest will be added to a waitlist. I made this choice purely because the details in their description would make it very easy for me to write for them.

This first post will set the scene for your kingdoms as they stand right now, and tell you about the surroundings. You can act based off of something that is described, or take any other action you feel fits. I'm not trying to box people in.

[☼Another☼]

Posting to watch - those interlocking mechanics, look quite interesting, if not promising.

[Blood_Librarian]

Thank you so much for letting me in!

one question I do have to ask, Do you plan on one united magic system or similar?

[UristMcChladni]

The IC is posted. For right now, I'm keeping each kingdom in their own spoiler. If kingdoms choose to make their actions public, or any other information, that is there prerogative. Until that point, please do not view other players' spoilers.

The map, such as it is, should give relative ideas of where people are. If you have an issue with where you are placed for whatever reason, let me know. My artistic skill should be beyond, or more likely below, reproach.

If you choose to engage in covert diplomacy, please CC me on the pms. This is so that I can clarify questions as they arise, and also so that, if I choose to write up previous turns as a short synopsis, I can directly quote exchanges.

Please submit your turn within 2 days of a turn being posted, and I will attempt to have a post within 1 day of the last response. If I can't accomplish that, I'll let you know as far in advance as I can. If two days have passed without a post, your kingdom will simply be simulated for a turn. If your kingdom is run as an AI for more than three turns (one week of unexplained absence), it may either be given to a new player, or otherwise removed. If you do need to take an extended absence, let me know and I'll just simulate your empire for the intervening turns.

one question I do have to ask, Do you plan on one united magic system or similar?

Right now we have everything from eldritch horrors to immortal vampires. I'd rather leave the magic up to the players to flesh out for the moment, just so we don't end up constructing something that doesn't work for everyone. In general, if I don't have a set system when you want to do something, you can probably take some liberties with how it works. So, in short, not in particular, I don't plan to do a unified magic system.

[Imic]

I'm writing my turn, It'll be done in a wee bit.

[Blood_Librarian]

You messed up the OOC Link for the IC thread, what you posted was this

This is the IC thread for Markov’s Kingdoms. Much more detail is contained in the [link=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168542.0]OOC thread[/link].

When its supposed to be like this

OOC Thread

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[url=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168542.0]OOC Thread[/url]
Can you also put the OOC Thread link into the IC threads original post? it makes it easier to navigate.

IC Thread

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[url=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168542.0]IC Thread[/url]

[UristMcChladni]

You messed up the OOC Link for the IC thread, what you posted was this

This is the IC thread for Markov’s Kingdoms. Much more detail is contained in the [link=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168542.0]OOC thread[/link].

When its supposed to be like this

OOC Thread

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[url=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168542.0]OOC Thread[/url]
Can you also put the OOC Thread link into the IC threads original post? it makes it easier to navigate.

IC Thread

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[url=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168542.0]IC Thread[/url]

Done and done. For whatever reason I typed it correctly in one post and not the other, but it is fixed now.

[Blood_Librarian]

We're just waiting on the last 2/3 people to post, right?

[UristMcChladni]

We're just waiting on the last 2/3 people to post, right?

Nope, we're just waiting on me. I've got all the rolls done, and I'm part way through writing it up. I'll post the next turn in an hour, maybe two.