Notices and Summary:Year 356.8
I knew your turn was going to be good and its as every bit as awesome as i expected.
I assume you don't need the Antars to be locked anymore, so i'll remove the lock now.
Year 356.9
((The purple and red leaves are not locked, nor is the Host))
Correct. Everything is "Unlocked" unless a request is made to "Lock" something specifically.
TURNS:
(Yellow Pixel : Year 356.
Astara, the Goddess of Hope, Friendship and Solidarity is discovered, accidentally by one of the dragons from Vilutra's Enclave.
(Naturegirl1999 : Year 356.9)
Streamland and Zalalastan work together to burn a barrier to stop the Purple leaves from spreading there... Mostly Zalalastan.
The Host starts traveling south again, towards the Foxfolk.
(King Zultan : Year 357.1)
The Bleg attempt to design a way to launch explosive barrels, and with the help of Tahar, produce designs for Trebuchets that can launch explosive barrels, and a whole lot more.
(Strik3r : YEAR 357.5)
Tiél and Επιστάταa travel northward, to the now-abandoned Moon Tower.
At the same time, the other Elysian Nomads have begun traveling south.
WORLD STATE:
The Cloudrock Clan continues on its Sky-Island building.
The "Construction" of the Chaos Coalitions Rift is complete.
The Construction of the Jahtari Sky-ship, The White Tower's Channel and The Sky-Bridge has progressed.
Rolls Kingdoms of Zalalastan and Arghila Attempt to burn forests to slow the Purple Leaf Disease2d20=16+4=20
Burning down a vast stretch of land was nothing new for Zalalastan, they had done it before for the same reasons, to halt the Purple Leaf Disease and that burned land held the disease back back for a long long time. But now, it had finally overflowed the barrier. Endless hordes of infected animals, nowhere within the infection was safe, aside from the Red leaf disease, which has begun to spread more rapidly over the last few years for unknown reasons. An envoy was sent to the White Tower, to recruit powerful Arch Fire-Magi and Wizards, offering vast sums of wealth for their aid and the Magi did heed the call. Vast swathes of the forests west of Zalalastan and Arghila were burnt to the ground in mere days, a thick clouds of smoke rising from the raging firestorm. Nothing was spared.
Arghila however, fared far worse in their efforts. They barely had any idea what they were doing going to burn down the land with torches in hand. Many of the Arghilans were caught in the middle of the fires, becoming trapped and succumbing to the flames. They were successful in burning down some of the forests, at the cost of their own lives. Thankfully Zalalastan was able to make up for Arghila's incompetency in this regard.
The Bleg attempt to design a way to launch explosive barrels1d20=16
Alone, the Bleg might have had difficulty in designing a siege engine from nothing, but with Tahar and his enclave around, the Bleg managed to convince him to aid them. Not wanting to see the Bleg risk their lives toying with explosive powder, Tahar agrees to help them.
The resulting device of Tahar's research was siege engine consisting of a long arm and a counterweight on the other end, a device that he called a "Trebuchet". After several revisions and the reduction in power, to prevent the fuse from going out during flight due to excessive airspeed, finally a weapon that can be made and operated by Bleg was produced. While the western nations might have cannons, there is no cannon that can launch an explosive barrel, or any explosive for that matter. And while the range isn't great, its still more devastating than a cannon, and should barrels run out, Trebuchets can be loaded with large rocks.
YEAR 357.5
Tiél and Επιστάταa (whom Tiél has taken to calling "Eíra") have begun their travels northward, traveling first to the Moon Tower, a tower whose construction had supposedly begun more than thirty years ago and was fraught with delay after delay and endless mistakes was eventually completed. However, it the wake of its completion, no one knew what to do with it, whatever purpose it sought to serve, gone.
As such, the majestic tower has been left abandoned, a wayshrine for travelers to climb and admire the land from up high and so that they may find their way.
And so did the two. The tower's exterior near the bottom bore many marks of some kind of vandalism and subsequent attempts to rectify the damage. Names are carved into the stones, some marked with a Jahtari symbol meaning "Death". From the top however, one could see many things. The great Skydock of the Jahtari, far off, barely above tbe horizon and the new Sky-ship being built on top of it. The swamps of the Bleg, to the south and their Grand Ziggurat. To the north, one could just barely see the glowing star held between the two great branches of the White Tree of Elysium, The rest of the tree, and Elysium, was occluded by the curvature of the world. To the west and below, one could just barely see the islands of the Moss Trolls, a place that no Elysian has yet visited.
Atop the Moon Tower they spent the night, and Tiél atop Επιστάταa, together looking toward the north, toward Elysium and the University and conversing on matters both mundane and mystical. Of how little seems to happen as of late, of how every being on Dragolia seems to have been stricken by a sense of foreboding dread. Looking upon the barely visible orb of the White Tree, conversation turned to the Elysium, Tiél telling Επιστάταa how in five years, the Elysians' third cycle would be coming to a close, and the fourth will begin. Επιστάταa was made nervous by this talk of cycles, but Tiél assured her that the "cycles" are nothing more than a measure of time, each beginning of a cycle was a time of celebration for the Elysians. Tiél's thoughts turned to all the Elysians that were now far away from their home on Elysium.
Meanwhile the Elysian Nomads have at last begun to move again after many years on Bleg soil. Despite Tahar's many warnings to not go toward the south, the Elysians are steadfast and resolute in their decision to continue traveling. Still, they have decided to travel southwest, intending to avoid the southern, trap laden swamps, that are now even more filled with traps than before as well as give the Vasilikos' islands a wide berth as they travel south.
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