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[Strik3r]

((According to the key, there are 5 chaos rifts of varying sizes, yet on the map I;m only finding one. Can anyone tell me where the other 4 are? The only one I’m finding is the one at the Chaos Coalition, near the Black Quagnate
Edit: found the Chaos Coalition’s other rift to the north of the continent, so now I’m looking for the other 3, if anyone can just say which nations/tribes they are near that would be good))

((I think there are really only two Chaos Rifts active at this time. There are are other things on the legend that don't exist in the world yet, for example there are no "Great Trees" and no Craters marked on the map yet, same is the case with Chaos Rifts of any level other than level 2. Level 2 is the level of most rifts opened by Aetherials, Level 1 is something openable by a human, with significant effort and Level 5 are apocalyptic super-mega rifts. The key is just there incase any of the other levels of chaos rift does happen. Of course if you need a rift somewhere, you can just place it there, but sure, lets say there are a few level 1 rifts situated in the wildernesses of larger, more significant nations, for espionage and observation purposes.))

YEAR 290.1

The Aetherials in south, near the Black Qhanganate have discovered the berserk lemon tree, amused by the thrashing tree with a killcount, the Aetherials have noted that such trees might be good defensive measure back at their main domain in the north. Roll to see how successful the Aetheirals are at creating more murderous fruit trees in the north.

[TankKit]

Year 290.6
Khagatai hurried back to his lands as quickly as possible after deploying the greenskins against the slugmen - it would keep the slugmen distracted for long enough, but the greenskins would also hold a deep hatred for him once the spells wore off and they realised what he had done to them. Besides, he had much bigger things to worry about.
 
After many years of planning, the 3rd Crusade had begun. A combined force of all the human kingdoms except Thairmar joined with a sizeable army of Dalaian mercenaries eager to secure their own crusader state in the Qhaganate launched an offensive on the fort at the far east of the Qhaganates border(Gharlor was offered a chance to reclaim some of the lost Sandstone lands, but didn't trust the crusaders to actually return all of the land to him and was more concerned with ensuring the security of his new state). If they could secure that fort quickly and without having to put it under siege, which had grown to be quite sizeable and built of stone, they would be able to use it is a base of operations for their further conquest of the rest of the Qhaganate. (Roll for the success of the first assault.)

In the west, the Red Court army was far smaller than the eastern crusader army. However, it was mostly made up of powerful mages, with a variety of races from all across the world forming the primary melee fighting force. It immediately began marching towards the portal - if they could somehow disable or even destroy it, that would greatly hamper the Qhaganates ability to reinforce any casualties they took.

Finally, there were the mysterious paladin and the Miragians. Over time, they had come to an agreement - Khagatai was the head of the snake that was the Black Qhaganate and he still had no heir. If they killed him, there was a very good chance that the entire Qhaganate would completely collapse. Still, they couldn't risk attacking him when he was in a strong position - they would wait to see how the situation developed and, if they saw the opportunity, they would throw the entirety of their force towards Khagatai and whatever was between them. (I'm not sure if a conditional roll like this is allowed, but if the Qhaganate rolls a 5 or lower then the Miragians attack and roll for success of assassinating him.)

Meanwhile, Khagatai had little outside help. He had been able to gather together a few especially greedy mercenaries , but for the most part he would have to rely purely on what he had already. Slugmen made up sizeable portion of his army, as he had spent a great deal of effort to put more of the military under his control in case the Aetherials ever abandoned him, but for the most part his strength was in the numbers granted to him by the Chaos Coalition. He had a vast army of corrupted beasts and a steady stream of reinforcements came pouring through from the portal, and he had reinforced his eastern fort to the point that the crusaders couldn't ignore it, so he decided to focus his efforts on the people who had begun this fight - the Red Courts army would have to go soon if he was to win this so-called 'crusade'

Rather than face the Red Courts army directly in battle, he trusted in the time his eastern fort would give him. He spread his forces out over a great distance, ordering them to slowly pull back from lands the hostile army was entering and return to lands the army was leaving, effectively surrounding it and cutting it off from any hope of reinforcements or resupply. The army allowed it to happen.

This unnerved Khagatai. Worried that they might have something he hadn't anticipated, he decided to be careful and slowly wear down the army as it travelled towards the portal, constantly ordering small raids from any random direction he could think off and destroying supplies as the Arythia got closer to them. As it turned out, Arythia and her army of mages had managed to secure a portable, constantly refilling source of food and water through the use of complicated magically enchanted wagons and buckets - while Khagatai's army was forced to slowly go through its supplies and eventually leave to resupply like a normal army, she didn't have to worry about it at all, leaving her army well fed and in high morale. She also began raising more and more beasts from corpses they found and even the very sand itself, growing steadily larger as it got closer to the portal. It would be very difficult to wear her army down through attrition. (Roll for success of Khagatai's raids with a negative modifier to Khagatai's roll.)

(Anyone else think it would be kind of ironic if the Red Court, which was established in the 2nd Crusade, was destroyed in the 3rd Crusade?)

[Strik3r]

Year 290.6
Khagatai hurried back to his lands as quickly as possible after deploying the greenskins against the slugmen - it would keep the slugmen distracted for long enough, but the greenskins would also hold a deep hatred for him once the spells wore off and they realised what he had done to them. Besides, he had much bigger things to worry about.
 
After many years of planning, the 3rd Crusade had begun. A combined force of all the human kingdoms except Thairmar joined with a sizeable army of Dalaian mercenaries eager to secure their own crusader state in the Qhaganate launched an offensive on the fort at the far east of the Qhaganates border(Gharlor was offered a chance to reclaim some of the lost Sandstone lands, but didn't trust the crusaders to actually return all of the land to him and was more concerned with ensuring the security of his new state). If they could secure that fort quickly and without having to put it under siege, which had grown to be quite sizeable and built of stone, they would be able to use it is a base of operations for their further conquest of the rest of the Qhaganate. (Roll for the success of the first assault.)

In the west, the Red Court army was far smaller than the eastern crusader army. However, it was mostly made up of powerful mages, with a variety of races from all across the world forming the primary melee fighting force. It immediately began marching towards the portal - if they could somehow disable or even destroy it, that would greatly hamper the Qhaganates ability to reinforce any casualties they took.

Finally, there were the mysterious paladin and the Miragians. Over time, they had come to an agreement - Khagatai was the head of the snake that was the Black Qhaganate and he still had no heir. If they killed him, there was a very good chance that the entire Qhaganate would completely collapse. Still, they couldn't risk attacking him when he was in a strong position - they would wait to see how the situation developed and, if they saw the opportunity, they would throw the entirety of their force towards Khagatai and whatever was between them. (I'm not sure if a conditional roll like this is allowed, but if the Qhaganate rolls a 5 or lower then the Miragians attack and roll for success of assassinating him.)

Meanwhile, Khagatai had little outside help. He had been able to gather together a few especially greedy mercenaries , but for the most part he would have to rely purely on what he had already. Slugmen made up sizeable portion of his army, as he had spent a great deal of effort to put more of the military under his control in case the Aetherials ever abandoned him, but for the most part his strength was in the numbers granted to him by the Chaos Coalition. He had a vast army of corrupted beasts and a steady stream of reinforcements came pouring through from the portal, and he had reinforced his eastern fort to the point that the crusaders couldn't ignore it, so he decided to focus his efforts on the people who had begun this fight - the Red Courts army would have to go soon if he was to win this so-called 'crusade'

Rather than face the Red Courts army directly in battle, he trusted in the time his eastern fort would give him. He spread his forces out over a great distance, ordering them to slowly pull back from lands the hostile army was entering and return to lands the army was leaving, effectively surrounding it and cutting it off from any hope of reinforcements or resupply. The army allowed it to happen.

This unnerved Khagatai. Worried that they might have something he hadn't anticipated, he decided to be careful and slowly wear down the army as it travelled towards the portal, constantly ordering small raids from any random direction he could think off and destroying supplies as the Arythia got closer to them. As it turned out, Arythia and her army of mages had managed to secure a portable, constantly refilling source of food and water through the use of complicated magically enchanted wagons and buckets - while Khagatai's army was forced to slowly go through its supplies and eventually leave to resupply like a normal army, she didn't have to worry about it at all, leaving her army well fed and in high morale. She also began raising more and more beasts from corpses they found and even the very sand itself, growing steadily larger as it got closer to the portal. It would be very difficult to wear her army down through attrition. (Roll for success of Khagatai's raids with a negative modifier to Khagatai's roll.)

(Anyone else think it would be kind of ironic if the Red Court, which was established in the 2nd Crusade, was destroyed in the 3rd Crusade?)

((You sure you wanna do this? Even if the third crusade fails, any potential line of non-hostile communication with either the Black Qhanganate or the Aetherials will be cut off, and should the crusade succeed, whatever masses of Chaos Crystals the crusade will surely produce will be the last accessible ones in the world. If the Crusaders are successful early on, and the Aetherials are feeling especially spiteful, and think that Khagatai has no chance they may abandon him, and take their armies of Aetherials and Dragons with them.

Because the decision whether to or not to launch the third crusade will probably shape the 4th century, im going to wait on this a bit. Regardless of the outcome, a sacrifice will be made to save the southern nations from one of the two threats. As such, the launch of the 3rd crusade has been postponed to year 300.6, if no intervention to stop the crusade is taken before then, the crusade will proceed as written, with minor alterations. im just giving a chance to others to do things before the 3rd crusade is launched and the south is left to the disease.))

[TankKit]

I'm glad you caught on to the potential effects this crusade will have on the world and the dangerous situation Khagatai is in. Yes, I am sure I want to do this - it's far more entertaining than a cold war. And I happily accept any attempt at halting the crusade - the whole point of the game is that anyone can change anything, after all, and it would be equally as entertaining to see humans and slugmen try to engage in diplomatic talks with demons.

[King Zultan]

Year 291: Over the years the Bleg have noticed the snakes in the nearby swamps acting strangely and have began fortifying the areas adjacent to them in case they decide to attack their citizens.

[Strik3r]

Notices

Year 290-292
Mi'akl begins pioneering a new school of magic with the sole purpose of utilizing Demons for battle, a new school which he calls "Shaping", because it is easier to draw resonance from a Demonic realm and make one from scratch than trying to tame independent Demons.

Ok, im going to ask right away, is this an anime?

Rolls

The Spined Viper's evolution through cannibalism

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1d20=18
With it voracious apetite and at times, outright hunting for others of its kind, The Spined Viper has been growing rapidly. And with every kill it makes, it becomes a better hunter, more capable at hunting down others of its kind and makes it desire the next kill even more for the boon it will surely grant it. Its a self perpetuating loop that has seen the Spined Viper far far outgrow its peers in both size and in wit, decimating an impressive amount of the islands' Serpent population in the process.

The Aetherials attempt to produce more murder-fruit trees

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1d20=8Despite the Aetherials' AND the Chaos Giants' best efforts to mutate trees in their domain in a specific way using either pure Chaos energy or Wild Magic(Chaos/Earth) magic, their efforts yield few fruits. There are many mutations with partial success, trees that thrash around, but rips itself apart doing it, stone trees that produce very, very dense fruit... or amusingly in one case, a tree that screams incessantly.

However, none of their attempts result in a proper murder-tree.

YEAR 290.2

Aquatic Gondola has been a curiousity for the Lizardman traders within Refugio Guerra. From what they've been able to gather, its been mostly sitting in port gathering dust and that it was an experimental submarine ship created by the University. And during one of the Sultan's grand feasts, one of the heads of one of the merchant's guilds suggested an interesting idea to the Sultan: "If one ship may sail underwater, why could not another sail in the skies? a sky-ship?" With too much wine in his system, the Sultan thought it was a brilliant idea and vowed to build a ship that can "sail on the clouds", an oath. And drunken or not, the Jahtari take their oaths dead seriously.

Now the brightest minds of the Jahtari Sultanate are left to figure out how to do just that. Thankfully, they've collectively come up with a plan:

Even though their knowledge of Flyrite is limited, they're almost certain that large "wings" could be made of sheets of the material, Attached to the hull of a typical water-borne ship but the hull should be big, there is no point to building a small vessel if you can just build one of them, they would need the finest shipwrights in the world to build a suitable hull.. Finally, they would need a way to actually lift and keep the ship in the sky, and they suspect that the University may be able to help them with that. Finally they would need to build a sky-dock for the ship, a big tower that an airship can dock at, because such a ship could not be landed just anywhere, only on designated sky-docks or on the edges of floating islands and they will need someone to design the sky-dock to make sure it is well made and safe. While they could dock the ship on the edge of Dragolia, above Refugio Guerra, the Lizardmen intend to recoup the costs by using it as a transport vessel for goods and passengers. So the skydock will be built on neutral land between the land of the Sultanate, the Bleg, Refugio Guerra and the Avarian Empire (who they're hoping will take it as a sign of goodwill and open trade with them).

Over the coming years, they will be contacting other nations to request their collaboration with building the Sky-Ship and its dock.

Meanwhile
One of the Jahtari's mystics has awoken from his meditation in panic, babbling ominous nonsense like "It will be our end", "the last voyage", "they wont let it continue" and "the gravest offence imaginable" over and over again.

(The Sky-Ship is marked on the map because they're essentially dreadnaught hulls fitted with everything need to make them fly, as such, they are unique. The Sail Color indicates the nation it belongs to, and the wing color indicates whether it is a economic ship(Green) or a military one(Red)

Summary

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

YEAR 289, Unraveller
The serpents on the dual islands in the lakes grow and evolve rapidly by cannibalizing each other, and one of them, a spined viper has grown to be the largest and most cunning of them all.

Year 290-292, Lidku
Yarlac Drem, the former court mage of Thairmer turned Necromancer finds an apprentice named Mi'akl, who pioneers a new school of magic called "Shaping"... something about making demons from the resonance of demonic realms.

YEAR 290.1, Strik3r
The Aetherials attempt to produce more murder-fruit trees and despite producing many odd mutated fruit trees along the way, do not succeed in producing in even a single murder-tree.

Year 291, King Zultan
the Bleg have began fortifying the areas adjacent to the lake with dual islands because the snakes on it have been behaving oddly.

YEAR 291.1, Strik3r (Update)
The Jahtari Sultanate has begun building an sky-ship and a skydock for it.

Spoiler: Map and Legend Updated (click to show/hide)

=> Link to The Encyclopedia/Quick Guide <=

[TamerVirus]

Year 291.2- The Great Ruby resurfaces in the possession of the eccentric and flamboyant Dalian slugman mobster  P. M. Martin, a crew boss that has risen through the ranks of the Nisvanis syndicate. The corrupt officials who retrieved the gem from Kaas were merely acting as middlemen. P.M. Martin, unlike his criminal peers, has made his wealth not through the trafficking the increasingly scarce vision dust but by leveraging his uncanny business acumen in running a series of successful gambling dens, brothels, and taverns in Dalai. He puts the gem as the centerpiece of what he calls The Menagerie of Oddities, a showcase of artifacts and other oddities. Outside of the privately curated University collections, The Menagerie is one of the first public museums in any known urban center.

 In the recent years, the crime-lord Nisvanis has hidden himself further and further from the public eye; even refusing personal audience with his own lieutenants. Communicating primarily through letters and missives, it has been years since anyone has personally seen the slugman. This rise in decentralized authority, coupled by the skyrocketing rise in price for vision dust has given rise to factional infighting within the criminal enterprise as different crews jockey for a decreasing supply coming out of the Red Court. New recruits occasionally question how it’s even possible that Nisvanis still leads, what with organizational lore asserting his leadership since The Gatherings founding over a hundred years ago. This line of questioning always goes nowhere and is promptly forgotten , without fail. How bizzare.

[Detoxicated]

Year 291.5
After several years of researching the different branches of Research to Fight the Purple Leaf Disease have become more advanced. The Chaos coalition has come Up with several theoretical methods on how to create synthesized Chaos Crystals, though many of them require massive amounts of resources. The improvement of the Red Leaf Strain has been successful too, AS with the right arcane ointments its spreading rate can be greatly improved. The healing Waters of the HCE are possible too, though they need massive structures for their creation yet.
AS the use of the new protective suits becomes feasible, the University Holds a Vote on what Project to Support wholeheartedly.
Roll for which Research will get Access to More research,: Red Strain, Synthetic Chaos Crystals, Healing Waters

Refugio Guerra, inspired by the Lizardmen, is delighted with the Idea of an air Shop and Begins their own construction of a humoungus Transporter ship.

Under the Guidance of the Batperson Druid, music based Magic is honed and improved within the batperson tribes. This creates the ability to settle the Land More easily which bringa its own Problems. Soon different Factions emerges and a shism between the tribes ist created. One Side is interested in becoming godlike architects of the universe. The other Side rather wants to use Magic to be Used for healing and good and have IT ne Used by few Well adjusted people WHO can hold this responsibility.

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

Year 291.85
Jothgar's 90-year-old son, Inlavar, one of the dwarves who got involved in the "Gold" incident, is walking along a corridor in a library in his home settlement when he hears loud, incomprehensible crackling to his right. Upon investigating the crackling, he stumbles through a blue vortex - a portal of some kind. On the other side is, oddly enough, the Great Scar University (which Inlavar has never heard of). Much confused, Inlavar asks the locals, "What's going on? Where am I?!"

As far as they know, the University's head teachers/magi/whatnot didn't make it. Thus, some of the University's more competent magi investigate the portal. When they attempt to decipher what it is, however, the portal begins sputtering; it seems unstable.
Roll for whether the portal stays open; also roll for how much information said magi are able to gather.

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

((Also, whatever that rune is directly below and to the left of the rift near the Chaos Coalition, I can't find a nation for it on the map legend. Said rune seems to have a w and a ^ in it, with the ^ above the w. What does said rune signify, and is it in fact on the legend and I'm just unobservant?))

[Naturegirl1999]

((Also, whatever that rune is directly below and to the left of the rift near the Chaos Coalition, I can't find a nation for it on the map legend. Said rune seems to have a w and a ^ in it, with the ^ above the w. What does said rune signify, and is it in fact on the legend and I'm just unobservant?))

((The Black Quagnate, look under the South Legends section))

[Lidku]

Ok, im going to ask right away, is this an anime?

((No, not everything I add has to do with anime. Even if it was related to some concept from anime I'm not sure how it would be relevant regardless))

Year 292

Archwizards from the Kingdom of Ukalia attempt to devise a cure of the Purple Leaf disease after news of it reach the Kingdom proper. They will utilize potent Restoration magic to achieve this, going around to every village, town, and city of the continent south of Ukalia.

Roll to see how successful they are

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

((The Black Quagnate, look under the South Legends section))

((I am indeed unobservant. Ah well. ))

[Naturegirl1999]

((The Black Quagnate, look under the South Legends section))

((I am indeed unobservant. Ah well. ))

((It’s ok, I thought there were more Chaos rifts because I assumed that the key had only what was on the map, I did something with a “smallest chaos rift” that turned out to not exist, so good thing the invalid thing was ignored))

Year 291.86
The Purple Leaves on the conscious host connect to one of the purple vines, allowing it communicate with the ones connected to two hosts. It can be possible to control hosts, causing us to spread better by making hosts move. My current one is getting better at preventing me from spreading, are you, through these vines, able to coordinate? Share thoughts? Information? Or is this only getting to the hosts connected by the vines I’m connecting to? Moving our host? We’re connected to another.Yes, in our case, it seems one vine connects us to each other. The idea was to spread towards uninflected potential hosts, but that didn’t work, just connecting to those already having another of us. I suppose we could try moving our hosts, hopefully without giving control to them in the process. You mentioned your host waking up? Yes, the idea was to get it to start moving and infecting others in the process, however, mine is a scholar, and thus has lots of will and resists my attempts at control when it comes to infecting others. Eventually, I think he might render me unable to control him eventually. My host heard about non-hosts trying to find ways of killing us. I remember I tried growing bulbs to spread pollen through the wind, however one of the non-hosts covered its face before pollen could get in, then burned them. I remember that too, it was painful. My host knows about something called Vision Dust, she heard that it was dangerous and scrambles thoughts into smaller ones. It doesn’t sound good. I’m glad there’s no scrambler drugs here, or any drugs, for that matter. You said your host is awake, but it’s not moving right now. That’s sleeping, I think your hosts are doing that too, though for much longer, mine will wake up in hours, whatever those mean. Can we remain connected when your host wakes up? If he doesn’t struggle right when waking up, sure, how far away are your hosts? Maybe one of them can move towards the other one, allowing a thicker vine between them? As it stands I worry mine could break your connecting vine, which one of your hosts is closest to mine? Maybe I can use my host’s body while he sleeps to help with making it so your connecting vine can be thicker. I can try waking my host up, my vine partner can keep their host asleep. Can you help me wake her without letting her have control? I can try, so from what I figured out, if you block a chemical from getting to the brain, the host will wake up shortly. What’s this? What’s this purple thing? Careful, that’s me. What? You’re that voice that’s been talking to another, now there’s a third one? Can I go to where you connect to the other one? There’s a lot of vines here. Yep, a third voice, be careful where you step. Ugh...why am I stuck to...Cool it, I’m helping another of my kind learn how to work with a moving host. Why, so they can leave the area and find other people to infect? Hi, are you the host who resists control the third voice is talking about? It seems the voices have failed in some plans? Their plan is to have everyone have these purple leaves and vines and such stuck to everyone. At least here, everyone already has them so I can’t risk spreading it. Oh hi, so you’re the scholar with high will your plant’s been talking about, right now, my vine partner is helping their host reach mine so we can make a thicker, albeit shorter vine.Be careful, let me thicken the vine gradually as you walk. Sorry, there seems to be someone there. “Hi, you’re not the vine partner, are you?” “Vine partner? How long have you had these? No I’m not a vine partner, my infection connected to it though.” ”Infection? This is a plant, a weird plant, but still a plant. Do you think of plants as infecting the ground? Mr. Scholar?” “That’s not my name, it’s...” *sigh* “I forgot it while thoughts wandered, when I was unable to move, unable to call for help, I never thought I would ever move again until my “plant” let me. I guess you can call me Mr. Scholar now since I don’t have my name anymore and I doubt my plant bothered to remember it. Sure we can meet your “vine partner” and wake him up”

They follow the vine to where the other host is connected, when the vine partners saw each other, the vine was about 6 feet away from host to host, and 3 feet in diameter. Shortly after, the other host woke up. “It seems no one’s coming then, we need to stay here then, connected with...Oh, this is my mouth now?” The newly awakened host stands and turns towards this vine partner. ”So you’re the one who I’ve received bits of dreams from? Who’s the one who doesn’t have a vine?” ”Yep, I’ve seen some of your dreams as well, mostly about the vines connecting us” “I came here so that these new leaf tubes can’t spread pollen and infect other people. I think you two should disconnect that vine.” What? No, we need it! The vine is what holds us together, without it, we’ll be lost. You mentioned a name, We tend not to need those since we connected, but your connection seems temporary if you move wrong. Mr. Scholar, I was a construction worker before the pollen found me, so I shall be Mr. Constructor.” ”Keeping this new name finding method, I’m Miss Botanist.”
Mr. Scholar breaks the small stems connecting him to the vine.
“Well, at least we’re not alone anymore”

[Strik3r]

((The Black Quagnate, look under the South Legends section))

((I am indeed unobservant. Ah well. ))

((It’s ok, I thought there were more Chaos rifts because I assumed that the key had only what was on the map, I did something with a “smallest chaos rift” that turned out to not exist, so good thing the invalid thing was ignored))

((Actually it wasn't.... Since the main rift in the north was the ONLY active rift at the time, the action targeted THAT one, since it was technically the smallest one that matched the conditions

I mentioned that in the turn's summary.
Can i get some correspondence here: Does anyone actually read the summaries? Even if nobody does, i'll still keep them around because they're good reference for me.
Should i just start quoting each post to affirm them and explain things when needed? It would be alot more work, but at least then i'd get all the information to people that needs to get to them.))