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[abculatter_2]

Sorry about yesterday, guys. I was busier then I thought I would be. On the bright side, I was able to better develop the world, tech tree, and story, which are much better now (in that they actually exist). I'll also be changing some stuff on the starting sheets I've made and possibly the reference post to reflect this.

Also, I like the civ-style population growth idea. I think I'll do that instead.

[abculatter_2]

Alright, everyone's maps have been made and I'm uploading them now. All I have to do is type up starting situations and hand out a few maps and we can start.

[Vanigo]

I'm a bit confused by the startups you've posted so far. You said that tempest-tossed civs started out more advanced than natives, but they seem to be starting with the same number of techs, and the ancient knowledge one doesn't even do anything. Is it a prerequisite for all sorts of useful and easily researched techs that native civs have to work hard to match or something?

[abculatter_2]

I'm a bit confused by the startups you've posted so far. You said that tempest-tossed civs started out more advanced than natives, but they seem to be starting with the same number of techs, and the ancient knowledge one doesn't even do anything. Is it a prerequisite for all sorts of useful and easily researched techs that native civs have to work hard to match or something?

Yes. Also, I'm re-doing start-ups right now. Native-born will have more of an advantage now, while the tempest-tossed start with next to nothing but have the potential to become very powerful.

[Nirur Torir]

Please carefully consider the power of the new morale bonuses with regards to starting options. I'd really rather not have most of my starting bonuses be +morale, and then have morale be of very limited use.

[abculatter_2]

Hmmm...

Okay, I think I need help or a bit more time to develop this... particularly the actual game mechanics...

[IronyOwl]

I could probably help, depending on what you need help with.

[abculatter_2]

I could probably help, depending on what you need help with.

I'll PM you.

[Cheddarius]

Watching. Go Nirur Torir.

[Criptfeind]

Dead?

[abculatter_2]

Dead?

NEVERRRRRR!!!

[Criptfeind]

No really, is it?

[Nirur Torir]

It can't be. My fans are eagerly watching to see my performance.

[abculatter_2]

Spoiler: lemon10, The Nameless (click to show/hide)

Upon stepping from the portal, the first reaction of both you and your comrades are to kiss the ground and sing jubilee, though upon looking about you wonder if you have stepped from one hell to another. A dense tangle of gnarly glass glints at you ferociously, threatening to engulf you all like the maw of a giant beast. Although you are able to hack at it with your sword, you are sure to have many a cut and laceration in your future.

Traits:
Essence Affinity: +1 MP to all spellcasters
Glass Fields: +20% City defense bonus, +15% labor cost for all buildings

City of Sundol
  Population: 2
  Morale: 5

  Storage: 8 food, 1 rusted iron swords

  Buildings
Portal Mark

  Leaders:
Great Sage

  Technologies:
Ancient Knowledge
Mystic Heritage

Spoiler: USEC_OFFICER, Dominion of Likslisk (click to show/hide)

You sense a change... something has sent a ripple across the essence, a harbinger of new times now beginning...

You sense that these new times will test the mettle of the very universe on which you stand, a babe of cataclysm has been conceived... And you are in the best position to smite it before it can come to full realization.

But you are far from prepared...

Traits:
Amalgamate: Military unit stats are randomized, chance of a unit gaining a unique ability upon creation
Mindless: -20% research, +1 Morale

City of Ill'thskz
  Population: 4
  Morale: 6

  Storage: 2 Glass shards

  Buildings
Glass Winnower
Shrine

  Leaders:
General
  Ability: Avatar of Likslisk; increases the morale of attached units, while decreasing enemy morale

  Technologies:
Crude Knowledge of the Essence
Shard Winnowing

Army:
Unruly Mass (5A/0D/3H/3S/5+2M)

Spoiler: Nirur Torir, Holy Empire of Zor (click to show/hide)

You awake with a large number of your followers on the rim of a large valley in a strange, twisted and seemingly barren landscape. The sky above you is a roiling haze of color, brown, black and red predominating though with nearly every other color represented somewhere. You find nothing analogous to a sun, and thus arbitrarily assign your right as east, your left as west, your forward as north, and your backward as south.

To the west, the valley continues, sloping steeply until ending in a massive canyon rimmed with a peculiar tinge of leathery tan. To the north and south, the valley's upper limits can be seen to end with a sudden cliff topped by a gnarly tangle of what can only be identified as greenish-blue glass. To the east, a gargantuan mountain of solid black stone rises ominously, its sides sloping upward with a perfect, artificial smoothness and ending in an abrupt spike.

Traits:
Ordered March: -15% Military Upkeep
Glory of Zor: +1 Morale

City of New Everview
  Population: 2
  Morale: 6

  Storage: 8 food, 1 rusted iron swords

  Buildings
Portal Mark

  Leaders:
Governor

  Technologies:
Ancient Knowledge
Classical Ingenuity

Spoiler: Nevyn, The Tahark Hoard (click to show/hide)

Long ago, your grandfather took this city from the Immortals as they were scattered across the land in a great explosion. This event catapulted the Tahark to glory, and now all fear your might. Your hoard is the most feared force in all the world, this is your glory age.

Though there are rumors that it may be short-lived...

Traits:
Hardy: +10% health
Strong: +1 attack
Nomads: +1 speed
Nomadic Tradition: -20% research

City of Guta Warcamp
  Population: 4
  Morale: 5

 Storage: None

  Buildings
Glass Winnower
Floating Fortress (+30% defense on city tile)

  Leaders:
General

  Technologies:
Foraging
Glass Winnowing

Army:
Choppas (3A/1D/6H/4S/5M) (Glass Choppas, Leather Armor)
Choppas (3A/1D/6H/4S/5M) (Glass Choppas, Leather Armor)

Spoiler: Criptfiend, The Necro-kains (click to show/hide)

You dream of the world, of its happenings and your will within it. It is all the strength you can muster, just to lie here in this pitiful state, watching your race die slowly, agonizingly...

Then, as suddenly as you can sense, you feel a ripple reverberate across this world's magic. It flows within you, your form greedily sapping up  the raw power, and before long...

You awake. For the first time in millennia, you feel once more the feeling of consciousness, that wonderful surge of coming once more to reality, breaking from the prison of your mind.

Then, just as suddenly, the power fades, slowly you sink once more into slumber, and dream furiously of this new happening.
What was that? Where did it come from? Was it merely an anomaly? Some fey imagining? No, that real...

And what of this sudden sense of foreboding? Certainly, surely, you would've received a vision of this as bad as what you feel is coming. Something has been changed... And you can't help but feel that its perpetrator should be destroyed.

Traits:
Slavish: +15% labor, -20% research

City of Holy Sepulcher
  Population: 4
  Morale: 5

  Storage: 1 Glass Shard

  Buildings:
Holy Bastion
Shard Winnower

  Leaders:
Engineer

  Technologies:
Glass Winnowing
Perversion of the Essence

  Army:
Revived Skeletons (2A/0D/5H/3S/5M) (Glass Scimitars)

Spoiler: Vanigo, Gralia (click to show/hide)

At last, at last, oh, sweet, sweet solid ground, at last! For what had seemed like eternity you have been tossed across the endless expanse of chaos between worlds, constant bombardment by eldritch horrors incomprehensible only the least of the hardships you've faced in that hellish half-world! How your mind- or body!- still remains functional is a mystery you do not wish to currently pursue. Now, your newly-materialized stomach is realizing just how long an eternity is, and oh so fortunately you think you see some promising ruins nearby...

Traits:
Disorganized: +15% Military upkeep
Blessings of SCIENCE!!!: +25% research

City of New Gralia Academy
  Population: 2
  Morale: 5

  Storage: 8 food, 1 rusted iron swords

  Buildings:
Blasted Ruins

  Leaders:
Mad Scientist (Provides 1 point of unguided research per turn)

  Technologies:
Ancient Knowledge
Memories of Gralia

Spoiler: Luke_Prowler, The Jade Dagger (click to show/hide)

Deep within the swamp, nothing ever changes, at least not noticeably. The ripples across the Essence are muffled long before they reach the hearts of the Codylidae, leaving them oblivious to any outward change to the universe. To them, business continues as it has for generations.

Traits:
Natural Selection: +1 attack, +1 defense, +10% health
Traditional: -20% research

City of Santrek
  Population: 4
  Morale: 5

  Storage: 2 Adamant Vines

  Buildings:
Shrine to the Swamp Mother
Thresher

  Leaders:
High Priest

  Technologies:
Foraging
Swamp-Dwelling

  Army:
Stalkers (1A/0D/5H/3S/5M) Ab.: Swamp Stalk - Unit becomes much more difficult to detect while in a swamp.

There, isn't that everyone? If so, I'm going to go ahead and make the game post.

Alright, pretty sure that's everything. I know I messed something up, but I'm too tired to care right now. I'm going to sleep after this song is finished.

[Neyvn]

Kinda not liking the fact that you have made them Warhammer Orks... Heck Tolkien orks could do research...