Notices
Good god this update was rough and took alot of time for some reason. But i did update the map system, now i can layer heaps of crap on top of one another without a worry in the world, since i now have the entire thing as a GIMP project, neatly split into layers.
(( The turn if the century is so close. Historic! ))
Yeah, and the war, toward which the world has been happily barreling with no attempts to stop it.
There's scantly a year to prevent the war between the Black Qhanganate and the Red Court from happening, and if it does, it WILL doom the south, regardless of its outcome.
Sure, its still worldbuilding, but is this really the worldbuilding that is wanted?
Of course, its up to the players how the world to proceeds, and if this is how its meant to go, then so be it.
I'm going to enjoy it either way.
/villanous monolouge
Rolls
The Dwarves and the University try to investigate the portal
2d20=1!+18
The Dwarves being dwarves have no idea about anything regarding magic, let alone something as complicated as a intra-dimensional gateway, although some would argue that the portal is just a magical tunnel, and that is roughly the dwarves' analysis of it.
However, such a simple view does not do it justince. With plenty of time to inspect and prod at the portal, the magi of the University have come up with a thesis on what the portal is, although several blanks remain in their understanding of it. But what they do know, is that the portal emits Arcane energy that seems to come from nowhere, however, it is known by the University that Arcane energy is fairly predictable, so spontaneous creation of the energy by the portal itself is unlikely, what is more likely, is that the energy is coming from somewhere, and the portal is somehow linked to that somewhere. As Arcane energy is stable and predictable, the portal probably does not need any maintenence, and the sputtering that happens when something passes through, is what the researchers investigating the portal are now calling the "pendulum effect": Energy is needed for something to go through the portal, and that energy is taken out of the entry portal and transferred into the exit portal, and both of the portals pass will the energy back and forth until the energy between them reaches equilibrium due to the losses inherent in the process. The portal itself is less like a "tunnel" and more like a "room", where all of the portals' interiors exist in the same place. "a room you can enter at the University and exit at the dwarven halls, but you can not actually be inside the "room"."
The three big mysteries that remain are: "How was a portal created using Arcane magic?", "Where is the energy to power this portal coming from?" and "How does the portal know where you want to go?"
P. M. Martin hires an alchemist to inspect the Great Ruby.
1d20=11
No matter how much the alchemist poked and prodded at the great ruby, the results are conclusive AND inconclusive at once: It is infact, just a Ruby, that seems to be "growing", which made the Alchemist even more frustrated, because there is no reason an ordinary ruby should be "growing" anything, especially under ordinary circumstances. The Alchemist has no familiarity with magic, but that's the only plausible explanation he had; its magic.
Year 294.5
A strange alteration begins in the heart of the Great Ruby, some time after its foray under the alchemist's lens: a steady increase of size by perhaps half a centimetre every year. Its bumps and ridges continue to develop, converging in unsettling patterns along the gemstone's surface.
As the days, and even months wore on, the Alchemist grew ever more frustrated. He was hired to deliver an explanation for the ruby's strange behaviour, but he didn't have one. The alchemist has a bit of a short temper, and everytime he'd calm down from one of his verbal outbursts, almost as if to mock him, he noticed another bump or crystalline growth on the ruby that wasn't there before.
if there are any "Patterns" on the ruby, they are almost certanly a result of random growth, rather than any directed process.
A curiosity he did notice about the ruby, is that it was always SLIGHTLY warmer than whatever room the Ruby was in, and if he caught one of the growths, mid-growth, then that spot was even warmer for a moment.
Year 294.5
Eventually, one of the dents fills with an orange eye, to the alchemist, it looks like just an orange piece in the dent, but whatever stirs within the ruby is now looking back
((I was unsure whether to simply void these two turns or to try and work them into the ongoing plot of the Great Ruby i have planned out... sorta.... I've chosen the latter.))
((Also, you don't have to add a year number and in fact should not when adding onto another turn, just qoute the original turn.))
Far be it that the Alchemist even noticed the curious eye-like pattern in the ruby in the midst of his verbal outbursts. If there indeed was an eye, he never saw it, and if there IS something living inside the ruby, it closed its eye(s?) again long before the Alchemist had the chance to see it. The only plausible explanation being, that the Alchemist's enraged shouting temporarily woke it, if there is something in there.
Thairmar tries to get an alliance with Black Qhanganate
1d20=11
While Khagatai is mostly unaware of the purple leaf infection, he offers for his black sky-legion to scorch Thairmar with Chaos Flame, (the un-infected parts of course) should Thairmar assist him and the Black Qhanganate in winning the war that is surely brewing, and only should they win, will Khagatai fill is half of the deal, putting Thairmar in a precarious position of having to potentially commit more troops to assist the Black Qhanganate than they would be comfortable with.
Thairmar herbalists try to discover ingredients for Vision Dust
1d20=7
Unfortunately, the production methods and ingridients for Vision Dust are a secret closely guarded by the Syndicate, especially now, where the drug is becoming rarer and thus more lucrative, even more since a large amount of the stock goes to fighting off the disease in their own lands, the infection that was caused by the cultists some years ago. They could not get anyone who is involved in the production of the drug to reveal anything about the components, However, they did imply that producing the drug is their current main priority, and they could always use more manpower to assist in the drug's production, especially the kind of manpower that knows what its doing, since most of the rookies they recruit wouldn't know an apple from a potato.
The Jahtari Sultanate tries to get Streamland to help it bulild a Sky-Ship
1d20=19
Streamland's king, after hearing of the Lizardmen's plan to build a flying ship (and of the drunken oath to do so) had to ask whether the Lizardmen were serious. The Lizardmen gave the king a copy of the plans for both the Sky-ship and the Skydock to convince him to send his nation's greatest shipwrights to assist the Lizardmen in building the ship's hull. Upon seeing these plans, the King remarked that such a thing, if completed would surely revolutionize commerce and that if the Jahtari need his nation's help with bringing to fruition, then his nation's best shipwrights shall assist them in doing so.
The king did notice that according to the plans, another Skydock would be required for the ship to land anywhere on the western continent, and said Streamland will have the first Skydock on the western continent, and that the Dwarves of the Waterstone Clan may be the ones to ask for assistance with designing such a thing.
Vasilikos attempt to sneakily bring back Lizardmen to their island as meals
1d20=14
The Vasilikos are great, stealthy hunters able to easily sneak up on even some of the most observant and vary of the Lizardmen, not to mention peasant farmers on the fields or herbalists out in the woods. However, the Vasilikos overestimated themselves and whatever means they used to bring back the Lizardmen, whether it was alive and incapacitated or dead, it was imperfect and many of the Lizardmen they thought wouldn't be going anywhere aside from their stomachs, got up and escaped while the serpents weren't looking or busy consuming another of their kind. Some of the foolish ones even tried to fight their captors, to varying degrees of success, but none of them that tried to fight made it out alive.
Still, many Lizardmen had to bear watching their kin be consumed by the serpents and visbly grow in size and change in apperance after doing so. Those that did make it out, it's surely a thing that will haunt them forever. The survivors went back to the Sultanate to tell of these massive snakes to the south to the Sultan. In the tongue of the Lizardmen, the Vasilikos would become known as the "Jahtgaro", "Great Snake".
The Greenskin Tribes attempt to expand northward
1d20=16
In the wake of their failed assault on the Celestial Empire and under the guidance of Zornaraugh the need for greater numbers, and territory was obvious.
Thankfully to the north, animals were plentiful and so was wood to build with. Orcs seem to breed rather quickly, some say that it is their constant state of internal rage that fuels this seemingly ceaseless mating and orc children grow rather quickly, meaning nearly every day there are more orcs that are able to work. Goblins... well they're scrawny, but they multiply about just as quickly.
All in all, the Greenskins make a large expansion northward.
Year 296
Nordica expands to cover the entire island the Løkhunds call home.
(Nope, sorry. its too much, they would literally more than quadruple in size. They can't take an entire continent at once. (Yes, Nordica is a continent, technically, due to its size)
Typically, a nation can get anywhere from 50% to a 100% increase in size, if they haven't expanded in a while.)
Year 297
Meanwhile Boran Boriborus, the God who created Mankind, secretly wanted Ki to come back- it was fun watching the mortals duke it out in dramatic high-explosive battles all over the world.
(Yeah that sounds like the exact opposite of Boran haha. He IS the god of mundanity in some sense, after all. If anything he'd want KI, The Stands AND Magic all gone from the world, and just have a nice, boring world without all this fancy schmancy magic crap
)
Dorathian Kingdom attempts diplomatic peace talks with the Hamsterfolk Shamans
1d20=8
The Hamsterfolk shamans are highly displeased with the Dorathian Kingdom's agressive expansionism, and while the Hamsterfolk shamans are typically peaceful and do not condone war, the Shamans demand that the Dorathian Kingdom stop building settlements practically on top of their borders and retract their recent territorial claims bordering their nation. It is yet to be seen how the the Dorathian Kingdom responds to these demands.
The Bleg try to form a joint anti-giant-snake defence with the Jahtari
1d20=8
The Jahtari do not seem to see the giant snakes as much of a threat, despite facing attacks from them in recent years, certanly not enough to dedicate a military force to such a task. A part of the reason may be their massive ongoing construction project to build the Sky-Ship and the skydock, which needs its own defence, from giant snakes, or from bandits. Though it is implied they may well join such a joint-defence if the threat becomes severe enough. Regardless, they promise to at least stay in contact with the Bleg regarding the situation.
Summary
Year 293.4, TankKit
The Waterstone Clan begin to colonise the island just off their coast
Rumours say that the Mithril Clan is fighting a coalition of Clans lead by the Ironswords clan in an attempt to expand their underground empire.
IncompetentFortressMaker, Year 293.5
Both the Waterstone Clan and the University try to investigate the portal.
The dwarves are dwarves and dont know anything about magic.
The University Magi however discover that it is an Arcane portal, it is stable and the sputtering is caused by the portals equalizing their energy, also how the portals actually work... sorta. "its not a tunnel, its a room you cant be inside of"
Year 293.6, TamerVirus, Superdorf, Naturegirl1999
P. M. Martin hires an alchemist to inspect the Great Ruby, however, said Alchemist could not produce an explanation regarding its strange behaviour aside from "Its magic".
Said Alchemist also happens to have a short temper and frequently flies into a rage when frustrated and the Ruby seems to mock him for it by growing even more whenever he does fly off the handle.
Also, the ruby may or may not have something living inside it that has an eye(s)?
Year 293.7-294, Naturegirl1999
Thairmar legitimizes Vision Dust.
Thairmar tries to get an alliance with Black Qhanganate, Khagatai offers to scorch the infected parts of Thairmar, should they win the coming war.
Thairmar's herbalists try to figure out what herbs go into Vision Dust, however, the members of the Syndicate are unwilling to talk, however, it is implied that they're running a shortage of manpower.
YEAR 294.1, Strik3r
The Jahtari Sultanate tries to get Streamland to help it bulild a Sky-Ship and the King agrees to send his nation's best shipwrights to assist them.
The king of Streamland begins building the first Skydock on the western continent, mentions that Dwarves might be able to help with building it.
Year 294.2, Unraveller
Vasilikos are able to sneakily bring back many Lizardmen to their island as meals, however some of them manage to escape or were still strong enough to fight back.
Year 295, Unraveller
The greenskin tribes make a large expansion to the northwest.
Year 296, TheRedwolf
The Kingdom of Nordica expands eastward.
Year 297, Lidku
Vahucci Cult perform experiments on Valkyra's corpse parts and discover that they are one of the few remaining sources of KI.
Begin looking for a way to extract this Ki,
Meanwhile, Boran Boriborus may or may not have lost his mind and started to go against his nature.
Year 297.7, TankKit
The Dorathian kingdom expands to the north, get into conflict with the Hamsterfolk shamans, who demand that the territory be vacated.
Year 298, Detoxicated
The Batpeople have begun building several Towns in their many Islands.
The towns also have musical towers that produce sound when wind blows through them. Each town has its own tune.
Year 299, King Zultan
The Bleg try to form a joint anti-giant-snake defence with the Jahtari but they do not consider the Vasilikos a sufficient threat.