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Efil-inira: 56 !!elves!! (Village) (+4 since last turn)
Ariquemera: 9 !!elves!! (Outpost) (+9 since last turn)
In armies/expeditions: 2 !!elves!!
Other: 5 working/travelling between Ariquemera and Efil-inira.
Total: 75 !!elves!! (Two scouts out, The 11 remaining are spread out over the tunnels, digging etc.)
((Fothacema continues east. Iranineleni continues south-west and spots the easternmost giant settlement.
Ariquemera is founded.
Various projects are begun in Ariquemera:
A floodgate contraption that can flush the mines between A. and E. whit pressurized boiling water at will by those in Ariquemera whit the help from a underground spring that was found. Usage of this is hard to control and very likely to cause much damage in Efil-inira when it gets there unless turned of. !!Elves!! will freeze to death in water, even boiling water. Construction of this took much of the turn, but was due to the placement of the found spring very easy considered the benefit, that’s my excuse for it taking only one turn.
A stairway was dug upwards until ground was reached (Ariquemera lies approximately 3 km straight below a medium high mountain peak), and construction was begun on tower. The tower is currently circular ca 20m in diameter, was ca 1m thick, made from solid edgeless obsidian (I’ll just assume most rocks are silicon based and so they BECOME obsidian after the !!elves!! melt it.) and clad whit 10cm of iron for the lowest 10m, there is no door, the only way to get in is from underground. Due to the split workforce and huge scale they have actually only gotten the firs metre or so of the walls constructed.
There has also been construction of housing and various infrastructure, mostly whit windows n over the magma flow.))
List of important people:
Acathiima, (former?) hero and leader of Efil-inira: Legendary organizer, skilled bow!!elf!!
Ilecaaye, ground-breaking geologist (and new hero?): grand-master miner, grand legendary geologist, talented metalworker, master chemist, skilled mechanic.
Fothacema, scout/diplomat: professional scout, skilled ranger, talented diplomat
Iranineleni, lawyer: professional lawyer, professional diplomat, skilled organizer, novice politician, dabbling jackass, dabbling scout.
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Fothacema had been travelling thought identical fields for what felt like more than a year. And for the first time he met an obstacle, namely a river.
He was almost disappointed about how easy that obstacle was to master.
He simple walked alongside it until he reached a small bend in it filled whit sand.
Then he took the sand and built a ¤narrow green glass bridge¤. (Elves have the [NARROW] tag as you know! )
It took about two days, he made a shelter by he side of it to sleep that night, rather nicely integrated under the bridge itself.
Then he continued into more endless fields.
((BTW, I have noticed people removing the ,s I replaced some .s whit, those indicate a trail of green glass shelters that you are VERY likely to come across if you ever go there, so they actually mean something.))
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“Research rapport on the alchemical properties of high temperature life-forms:
Other Notes: these results are truly extraordinary and are going to revolutionize metallurgy!
Salamander: It has been noted that the salamanders blood when mixed into an alloy will drastically rise the melting point of it propotional to the amount, this means even iron or lead can be made safe for handling whiteout risk of the objects melting. The amounts needed are small and can be extracted whiteout harm to the animal.
The formulas for the melting points are: (&&-¤/”)>/ #&/(v>^) %/&[“!]
Hot fire snake: It has been noted that the bodily fluids (not sure if they can be identified as blood yet) of the hot fire snake if mixed whit radioactive substances will continually produce heat in the object when mixed into an alloy.
The formulas for the temperature increase and stabilization points are: /(%=(%)/%) !(”#)¤% //->(EA^¨)
Great fire snake: When the ‘blood’ is alloyed whit radioactive substances it produces light in a similar manner to how that of the hot fire snake produces heat. Some success has been made at altering the colour of the emitted light using trace amounts of various metals.
The formulas for the light emission is: ((xX)?#%/=&&”%=) /(%=(%)/%) CZ¤U(GGI)/”
The emissions when alloying fire snake ‘blood’ I believe is two sides of the same phenomena, probably biomagical, if this can be controlled better we might archive even more extraordinary things.
As soon as safe contact is established whit The Seat of Authority and the diplomacy has been taken care of I will continue whit the resources we have not yet been able to harvest whiteout harm to the animal.
-By Ilecaaye.”
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“Ilecaaye, do you know the one thing gods fear?” Rung a voce like out of the grave, tuneless.
Ilecaaye jumped high and turned around, he had thought he was alone in the lab.
There stood Armok.
“There is a race of demons so greedy and powerful even we gods fear them”
“W-what demons? W-w-what does this have to do whit m-me?”
“They are called Hu-man-kind, and you are becoming far to much like them for my comfort. You shall stop.”
“WHAT?! How am I like a demon?”
“In more ways than you think, Ilecaaye.
Technology.”
“How could a bit of experimentation whit metals possibly threaten a god?”
“In more ways than you think, and I intend for it to remain so.”
Ilecaaye pondered for a while, then he spoke:
“You can’t actually harm me, right now, can you?”
“How DARE you, mortal!”
“And I assume that is one of the pieces of information that I am not allowed to know.”
“You… YOU… !”
Ilecaaye smiled.
“So tell me Armok, what more am I not allowed to know? This?”
And he caught a piece of magnesium on fire and pointed it towards Armok, who backed away, hissing.
“So, this is… interesting, I will figure out more I am not supposed to know, and the gods will bow for !!elvenkind!!! For ME!”
And as he spoke he flared up to higher temperatures, apparently whiteout effort.
“Got another one of your secrets now I think, the power of the mind” He closed his eyes and concentrated.
And suddenly, he remembered. Aeons of pain, and what came before…
His eyes narrowed in anger, and he trusted the magnesium rod towards the face of the god, but Armok had already fled, and the magnesium just melted into the rock where he just had been.
Ilecaaye let out a roar of disappointment, then he immediately got back to his chemical studies, this time whit new power and a furious tempo.
. . .
Armok appeared by the table, eyes wide in fear. After he had caught his breath he shouts straight out to the other gods: “What the HELL are we going to do now!”
“This Ilecaaye is bright, too bright for our safety.”
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Iranineleni climbed over yet another rocky hill, not in any way unlike the hundreds of others he had climbed the latest months. And suddenly a landscape was before him, and he was stunned.
Two things stunned him, first there was a palisade, then there was the clear cut forest.
Murderers.
Iranineleni might be a hypocrite of the worst kind, a lawyer and a coward, he might not have seen trees as long as he could remember…
But he was still an elf.
He roared in rage, flaming at about 3500 degrees Celsius, the ground steamed underneath his feet and… after running down the hillside he realized it was several miles to the settlement, and he slowed down, and went straight towards it whit resolute steps and fire in his eyes.