Notices and Summary:((Sorry, had a big creative block for the past few days))
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TURNS:
( King Zultan : Year 359 )
People have begun to flee from Thairmar, but most who want to are not willing to take the risk of traveling outside Thairmar.
( Strik3r : Year 359.1 )
Thanks to a particularly gluttonous Dalaian diplomat. It has been discovered that the nectar produced by the Antar nurse caste is incredibly delicious and has some mild mood altering effects.
Dalai managed to convice the Antars to export some of the nectar to them. Said nectar has earned itself the nickname "Ambrosia"
( Naturegirl1999 : Year 359.2 )
The Host continues south, reaching the purple leafed portion of the Foxfolk, resulting in the red leaves spreading far within the foxfolk lands.
Some of the Vasilikos have begun to develop some kind of parasites(?) under their scales. They've begun calling these "white blood thieves".
( Yellow Pixel: Year 359.3 )
P.M. Martin develops an ingenos scheme to get unpaid labor. It works far better than expected.
( TamerVirus : Year 360 )
With sales of Vision Dust dropping due to Ambrosia, Nisvanis' Syndicate wants in on its trade.
A crew headed by Rio Duran sets out to capture whatever is producing the Ambrosia. Manage to barely capture a single Antar nurse and still haven't figured out how to make it produce significant quantities of Ambrosia.
With the threat of Eightstone put to rest, the Magi of the University reconnect Dalai to their network of arcane portals.
( Naturegirl1999: Year 360.1 )
A chaos wisp finds its way into the Dorathian Kingdom near the river split near the border with Hamsterfolk Kingfom. it was eaten by a fish thinking it was an insect. This fish grew chaos crystals until it died, sinking to the bottom as it grew more crystals. As a result, there is now a small chaos crystal underwater at a river junction.
WORLD STATE:
The Cloudrock Clan continues on its Sky-Island building.
The Elysian Nomads continue on their travel southward.
The Purple Leaf Disease has spread within unmitigated regions.
The Red Leaf Disease has spread.
Rolls People flee from Thairmar1d20=3
The amount of people that actually flee Thairmar is very small, most want to do it, but most are unwilling to risk it, considering that trying to leave Thairmar right now runs a very real risk of being infected by the disease and then there'll be no one to help them. Currently, being inside Thairmar is safer than trying to flee it, especially now that infected wildlife has been spotted closer and closer to the coast. Thairmar is almost surrounded by the disease.
Those few that do take the risk, walk along the northern coast, to the grasslands and valleys of Streamland. However, they are still not allowed into Streamland, as is still very much refusing refugees from Thairmar, over sixty years on. There are enough of them to perhaps build a village, and a big one at that. But not enough to significantly decrease the population density of Thairmar.
Red Leaf Disease spread in Foxfolk lands1d20=18
Despite The Purple Leaf Disease in the Foxfolk lands being unable to spread to wild animals, the main method by which The Host was able to spread it so quickly elsewhere. However, it turned out to be unnecessary as when The Host reached a vilage near the border, overtaken by the Purple Leaves and spread the Red Leaves to them. When the Villagers found themselves freed from the Purple Leaves control by the Red Leaves, they ran toward other villages, towns and cities to the south, overjoyed. It caused an obvious chain reaction that saw the Red Leaf Disease take over a large swathe of the land.
P.M. Martin's Contract2d20=20!+5
((Good ol' indentured servitude))
P.M. Martin's scheme was one crafted with exceptional understanding of peoples' behavior and couldn't have been timed better if he tried. He expected far fewer Dalaians to sign on the contract than the amount that actually did. So much so that P.M. Martin's agents had to stop recruiting for a while, until they found a solution to the amount of desperate people signing on. They couldn't fit all of the people they wanted onto the ships, and almost no one wanted to take up fishing in Eudenland. Hearing of this P.M. Martin was fairly certain that the people of Dalai were so desperate, he could've just made them sign themselves into straight slavery, iron collars and all, and he'd still get just as many "applicants".
It was then that he came out with a solution to the agents' problem, and sent out a revised version of the contract, subtly altered to include a clause that the
Dalian Mercantile Flow Company may assign signers to any job that they want. Either working for
Dalian Mercantile Flow Company or contracted out to anyone else, making them pay P.M. Martin's Company for cheap labor. As expected, the recruitment did not significantly decrease as a result of these changes.
Dalai however, will likely have some more difficulty reclaiming its old lands now.
Rio Duran's crew attempts to capture a Nurse Antar1d20=11
While the lands of the Antar are not closed to outsiders, the place is hardly a tourist trap, being seemingly overrun with giant bugs of all descriptions. Rio and his crew figured that the best way to disguise themselves was as "The smart people", That is, scholars and magi, pretending to study the various mutated insects that sprung up in the Antars' land along with them. There were plenty such researchers, but Rio and his crew stuck out like a sore thumb amongst them.
But Rio and the bunch are nothing if not street-smart, despite the general secrecy of it, they managed to unravel the chain of production for the highly prized amber substance, Ambrosia. The crew didn't really care that their mission had just become one of kidnapping, it wasn't exactly their expertise but how hard can it be, right? With the Antars starting to trade the stuff, a network to distribute Ambrosia over their lands has formed, with a certain amount of the leftovers being traded away to Dalai. However, the Antar of the Nurse caste were not specifically guarded at the time, the Antars did not foresee anyone wanting to kidnap them.
Still, the kidnapping was hardly a clean one, as Rio's crew was caught... well they just ran through busy streets holding an obviously distressed Antar Nurse above their heads and running as fast as their legs could carry. Several members of Rio's crew were lost in the kidnapping, most of them dying to members of the Antars' guardian caste, the white ones with wings. Those that didn't die, "merely" got their limbs sawed off by a high pressure jet of water from the guardians' magical attacks.
However, Rio and about half of his crew got away, tossed the Antar into a cage and took off in a horse-drawn wagon. However this wasn't the end of their troubles, while they had succeeded in kidnapping an Antar Nurse and locking in some cellar, where it would be nearly impossible to find. They kept it fed, barely, but no matter what the thugs did to it, it would not produce Ambrosia in any significant quantity. In fact, harming the thing would cause it to produce even less Ambrosia. Rio's crew went through a lot of trouble to kidnap the Antar nurse, so they've kept it around while they try to figure out how to get it to produce more Ambrosia.
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