Sorry if I sometimes seem to react slowly, I don’t, I just write extremely slowly and try not to do anything when I feel stressed due to quality considerations…
Also, if you haven’t noticed it I just did that my posts increase in obsessive-compulsiveness for every turn. Is this good or bad?
This post is LOOOONG.))
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Turn 19(?):
Efil-inira: 42 !!elves!! (hamlet) (+-0 since last turn)
Ariquemera: 60 !!elves!! (grows to Village) (+10 since last turn)
In armies/expeditions: 2 !!elves!!
Other: 14 working/travelling between Ariquemera and Efil-inira.
Total: 116 !!elves!!
((Fothacema meets whit dracon patrol.
Iranineleni "negotiates", currently unconscious due to pain. (Nhiphanter, please Will I have to wait for eternity?)
Amizoimi, meets whit Zefies.
Efil-inira has some slight improvements in infrastructure again, but not really anything worth mentioning, a few traps and some stuff utilizing Ariquemeran tech.
The new tower in Efil-inira is now 20m.
Some of various building and science done in Ariquemera:
The great tower is constructed to about 75m so far, whit a 360 degrees balcony at 60m for observation and communication, or just looking at the fantastic mountain view.))
List of important people:
Acathiima, hero and leader of Efil-inira: Legendary organizer, skilled bow!!elf!! (Doing paperwork and ruling from The Seat of Authority, in Efil-inira.)
Yanenirica-Awidi, advisor and secretary of Acathiima: professional lawyer, professional diplomat, legendary organizer, master politician, legendary liar, legendary flatterer. (Doing paperwork and ruling by The Seat of Authority, in Efil-inira.)
Ilecaaye, ground-breaking geologist: grand-master miner, grand legendary geologist, talented metalworker, master chemist, skilled mechanic, master mathematician. (Making science in Ariquemera.)
Fothacema, scout/diplomat: professional scout, skilled ranger, talented diplomat (negotiating whit the Dracon.)
Iranineleni, lawyer: professional lawyer, professional diplomat, skilled organizer, novice politician, dabbling jackass, dabbling scout. (“Talking” whit the giants (still…))
Amizoimi, scout/diplomat: skilled scout, skilled ranger, talented bow!!elf!!, talented diplomat, novice middlemanagement, novice cartographer. (negotiating whit the Zefies.)
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The diplomatic new species encounter greeting codex plate of Efil-inira:
The DNSEGCP ((Pronounce that! )) is standard issue for diplomats in case the shuld encounter an unknown civelisation, and it is to be read aloud to any first encontered representative of that civ.
The plate itself is an aluminium tablet about 30x50cm and 4-5mm thick; it is titled “-Diplomatic New Species Encounter Greeting Codex of Efil-inira-” and has the Efil-inira symbol of a tree made from fire engraved at the bottom together whit the signature of The Seat of Authority (currently Acathiima, if this is the first of my posts you read.), and also on the backside. All work is of the highest quality and all the text high formal calligraphy. Each plate is a work of art.
The text:
““-Diplomatic New Species Encounter Greeting Codex of Efil-inira-
Greetings fellow being(s), I am <insert>, representative of Efil-inira, The boiling tear, and !!elvenkind!!.
I come in peace, and hope that our races will have a long and prosperous future of trade and alliance.
Bring me to your leader, or representative whit authority thereof, so that I can exchange information and establish lasting bounds between our civilisations.
((Snip. I will post the rest some other day, the rest is not as important really, and I have to do more than tis in this post.))”
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((I hope I am doing this right and not misinterpreting your chars or civ…))
quote:
Felu strained his poor eyes and eventually made out a humanoid figure. Except, it seemed to be on FIRE?!? 'QUICK THE POOR CREATURE'S BURNING! SOMEONE GET A BUCKET OF WATER!"
((The Zefies do not understand the DF elven I asume and the !!elves!! not Zefie language nor any “common”, so communications might be a problem unless you have translation magic.I am doing all these from both sides, as to convey as much info as possible.))
Amizoimi was trekking along the edge of the forest, but staying always on the cliffs as to net set fire to the trees.
Suddenly he herd the sound of voices from beyond a nearby hill, he was overcome whit glee! He had virtually already succeeded his mission and much faster than he could have imagined running towards him!
He turned towards the sound, smiling, and saw the most adorably cute creature he had seen in ages.
It was big ball of compact black fluff about a metre tall, or so it seemed, it had huge eyes and small stumpy legs, he also noticed it held some kind of bucket thing that he didn’t pay much attention to other than as evidence it was indeed a civilised sentiment. ((I hope this description is right, otherwise please correct me))
He was overcome by an impulse to hug it hard and cuddle it, and spread his arms out to do so, then he realised to his disappointment that would probably fry it.
Instead he greeted it in a friendly and cheerful voice; “Hello wonderful fellow creature! Sadly you probably shouldn’t come any closer or you might harm yourself due to my temperature.”
Then he remembered the training, pulled out his DNSEGCP plate, and began to read aloud an a more formal but just as friendly tune.
When he had come so far as “...bring me to your leader and...” the creature stopped about two meters from him and spilled the bucketful of water over him.
Amizoimi was completely caught by surprise, but he had elven agility on his side and in one fluid motion he:
1) Dodged the water flying over him.
2) Made a backwards roll abaut 3 meters.
3) Drew his ¤Titanium bow¤.
4) Lit and nocked a magnesium tipped arrow. ((I think the word is nocked, but I’m not a native speaker so…))
5) Aimed at the creature, but didn’t fire.
And then he just stood there, eyes wide of surprise, confusion, and maybe even fear or sad disappointment.
Felu soon got a bucket of water from one of his soldiers and immediately started running towards the poor thing, shouting to get its attention.
Soon he lost it as he ran down from the high hill but he kept running, and soon he passed up another hill, and almost stumbled upon it 50m or so away, he kept running, but couldn’t help to see a few very strange things.
It was indeed a humanoid, specifically an elf, but as noted it was on fire, but didn’t seem bothered by it, and it also had very strange metal equipment from material he had never even herd of. ((this might need changing as I vaguely remember him coming from a high tech background, would he recognize things like titanium, tungsten, aluminium, and uranium at sight?))
The creature turned towards him, and seemed indeed very happy to see him, it spoke some words in a strange tongue, then seemed to remember something and pulled forth a plate of a strange silvery metal. ((aluminium))
It began to read from the plate in the same strange language, it sounded ritual or formal, but still friendly.
He was finally there, and emptied the bucket over the !!elf!!, most because that was what he set out to do and he did it whiteout thinking.
The !!elf!! dodged the water whit an amazing stunt the put it much further away and whit and arrow that shone like the sun pointed towards him, and when he got over the blinding of the bright light he saw its look, like if he had committed some kind of treason and/or attacked it.
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[/QUOTE] Fothacema saw them coming for awhile, though the fact that they flew through the air to meet him was a bit surprising. There was six of them, all armed and wearing light armor. They circled warily at a distance for awhile then they all split up and landed in a circular fashion around the elf, but they still kept their distance.
"State your business...elf." the dracon leading the group said, with his clawed hand close to his weapon.
Fothacema woke up and looked through the half opaque *green glass roof*, he was very surprised and happy to see strange winged lizard like humanoids descended and souround the camp, he dressed quickly and crawled out through the entrance, greeting them whit open arms.’
He was a bit surprised by the harse tune of their greeting, but discarded it as their vocal biology making then incapable of sounding otherwise.
“Greetings scaled friends! How happy I am to once more lay eyes upon faces behind which intelligence resides! I am Fothacema of Efil-inira and a diplomat sent out to contact new races, it seems I have succeeded! Let us haste to your city that I saw and celebrate this joyful union of species!”
((The !!elves!! don’t understand common, that I assume the Dracon uses, and I am quite sure the Dracon doesn’t understand Dwarf Fortress elven, so you’ll probably need that spell.))