((Ok, let’s hope there are not to much confusion or objections about my action this turn.
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Can't wait to try out your plans Armok! 
Also, once the golems find the tombs of the alchemist and runemaster golems, we could include some more powerful magic to whatever you have in mind...
Just one question... Is this C.A.R.P. project gonna turn out to be a giant tungsten carp, or is it just the name? I hope its a carp, so that we'll rule all the rives of the world
It seems ore thought are very much alike on these subjects!
It will be SOOOO awesome! I can’t wait either!
Yea, but we must be careful whit overpowering, especially whit the stronger magic, even whit our current tech just combining it it is still near being overpowered. A magic that adds energy up on pile like that is for example the only thing missing to build a lightsaber fuelled by molten uranium and !!elf!! blood… (the substance blood, not needing to kill them.)
The C.A.R.P. as I had imagined it is more like some giant hunter-killer robot thing whit weapons as hands and made from titanium, but we could just give that model another name and give C.A.R.P. to something actually carplike… Ooh, ooh! I got a really god idea for a carp golem, but it requires the Thelash hovering magic to work. (Not blending the souls by keeping it two separate structures…) Flying carp hiding in water OR MAGMA!
MOAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
We’ll do that, now I need another name for the first idea I got…
However, don’t thing “giant tungsten”, tungsten is rare and expensive and can only be used to do kinda smallish things, or reinforcing/details of bigger things. To a lesser extent the same whit titanium, the techy metals are mostly for small stuff or elite troops or Special things.
I think I have a tendency to twist ALL words Jamini, including to my get annoyance my own; it’s just lack of language skills.
As for giants magic… Maybe a weapon whit lightning in it, have it return to the owner after throwing and you have Mjölner.
If you are gonna beat up the tech and magic stuff I don’t think a berserker mushroom would be enough. What WOULD be awesome is if the giants have a potion similar to the one in Asterix and Obelix… I would almost consider that balanced considering what the other races have.
Any response about letting mountain civs traverse mountain squares? The actual reason I ask is so the giants could attack me, all those defences on the tower are kind of useless if the only way in is a tunnel ANYWAYS.))
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Turn 26: (Winter)(?)
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((the “new” !!elf!! settlement is just the (...+hamlet) part of Ariquemera, it got lost in map copying three turns ago.))Efil-inira: 42 !!elves!! (hamlet) (+-0 since last turn)
Ariquemera: 120 !!elves!! (town+hamlet) (+2 since last turn)
In armies/expeditions: 3 !!elves!!
Other: 2 working/travelling between Ariquemera and Efil-inira.
Total: 171 !!elves!!
((Fothacema negotiates whit Dracon.
Iranineleni sobs in the giant’s fire-pit.
Amizoimi live happily whit the Zefies, and is beginning to learn some common. (70% complete.)
Efil-inira has stagnated.
The new tower in Efil-inira is now 95m.
“The Great Façade of Efil-inira” begun, sealing/deconstruction of old city 35% complete, building the castle 5% complete, needed parts for castle ordered from Ariquemera.
More or less ALL resources are spent on establishing communications whit the golems this turn.))
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. (Captured and “enslaved” by storm giants.)
Amizoimi, scout/diplomat: skilled scout, skilled ranger, talented bow!!elf!!, talented diplomat, novice middlemanagement, novice cartographer. (negotiating whit the Zefies.)
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About !!elven!! numbers and units:
Math is done in base 2, 8 or 64, 8 is most common for common uses, for computer use they can adapt so well to binary that some computer people use it for other stuff to, and the elven 64 letter alpabet is used for ordering stuff like everybody else but they recognize it as counting in another base more easily and it is used for math jokes and such stuff, as well as numbering in algebra and varius other uses. Yes, it is much more complicated than the decimal system, why cant civs just use hexadecimal for everything?
The elven year is 256 days long, and is split up in four seasons each 64 days long, each day is split into 256 standard Time Units.
Time is written in the format [year in base 8][symbol for season (I’ll use first two letters (Sp, Su, Au, Wi)][day of season in base 64 (“alphabetical”)]-[time units since midnight in base 8]
I’ll however write it all in base 10, because I’m lazy.
Other stuff for the sake of simplicity use the old European SI system.
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((This is what would have been written in an encyclopaedia 20 years later or so, so if the !!elves!! get wiped out we’ve got a temporal paradox on our hands))
Encyclopaedia Efil-inira, on The Great First Contact Madness:
“Like an epidemic of madness it spread thought Ariquemera, everyone had been exited over the 55 flashes, but this was a real MESSAGE! From the moment the observer in the tower saw it, the operator at the computer saw it, anyone heard of it they went wild. An all-erasing excitement and wonder that completely overshadowed any individual personality and filled them whit an irresistible urge to work on The Project. After a week everyone was under the spell, and the not much can be known for certain.
Three months later everyone more or less simultaneously woke up from unconsciousness, in a state of near starvation, leaning over their terminals that were covered in dust. In The Ariquemera Main Computer they found complete dictionaries over the golem language, as well as all sorts of grammar guides, lists of expressions and other stuff, as well as instructions about the code that was used for transmitting the message, what is now called the Standard Optical Code, there were also several executable files, for grammatically flawless translation between the languages ((Yes, perfect translation program, no babblefish here. A wizard did it.)), and for controlling devices to sending the code. These programs still trouble scholars whit their perfection and optimization, and what little could be reverse engineered led to major revolutions in computer science. There were also documents found that have revolutionized many fields in mathematics and basically created linguistic mathematics. The programs created are still used as a definition for grammatical correctness in both languages.
There had been no maintenance or mining work done during the crisis, and no food had been eaten.
What we know about what happened during the madness is scraped together mainly from computer input logs.
The time 7Wi12-9 the original message was received, by the end of that day ca 45 of the inhabitants were bound by the spell.
The time 7Wi19-56 optical communications whit the city was lost as the Great Tower simply went dark, we have seen from computer logs that was whit the exception of the communication whit the golem tower.
Time 7Wi21 is the date of the last dated journal entry that could be found, by a miner that thought is was demons that possessed his comrades, all other dates are those automatically recorded by computer systems.
Up to around 7Wi32 it seems they were just working whit optics, analyzing, and decryption in a rather normal mater and whit quite a bit better results than expected considering the limiting material, but after that the abnormal stuff started.
After that point most of the computer logs are somehow corrupted crashing any system trying to read them, half of the others say random and impossible things, and the rest are not to much use. It seems however that very strange things were going on, and at one point the entire computer was shut down for 3 days.
At around 7Wi49 to 54 the various useful files about the language appear to have been added.
Then at 7Wi51-37 all input stopped, most agree the reason for this was everyone going into a strange kind of sleep or coma, at 7Wi51-39 an executable program (according to the logs finalTouch.exe) ran itself, did some minor changes to various translation-related files, and deleted itself.
At time 8Sp3-29 everyone woke up from the strange sleep, and after a few days everyone had eaten and infrastructure including communications whit Efil-inira had been re-established.
At 8Sp9-60 a new attempt at communications was made…“ ((… this however is for the next turn as you can see spring.))
((Something whatever is made to get some slight more data for the communications, but most is still some strange magic. No actual communications are sent however and near the end of the turn the tower goes completely black, a few days into the next turn it will go on again and an actual message sent.))
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