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> Once in every eon, a pulse can be felt across this still world. Charged by pure passion, tenacity, and a primal will to SURVIVE; the blood of this earth beats a single thump.
> And with it, the cycle of Gods and men is upon us once more, as life begins to crawl from the mud.
> You are a being of creation, or what the people of this realm may come to call, a God. You are born with innate knowledge and immense power. It feels only right to fill this empty terrain with your own creations.

Welcome to the fourth installation of Beings of Creation, a long-running tactical civ-style hexcrawl based on your imagination. You are a non-omniscient divine being of great power. You find yourself spontaneously brought into existence in a seemingly untouched world.
The rules are fairly simple, and may be picked up as you go, but the document below goes into detail. Most people here are familiar veterans of the game, don't be shy to ask questions.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i9oeroXOjI6tbkjU0kvMJTAK72HwBcYqx9ZLVezs93Y/edit?usp=sharing
https://discord.gg/eRzTbvc

Game is currently full player-wise, but newcomers are free to lurk.

>UPDATE 8:
Unconfirmed trade offers clog up the time it takes to update due to me having to read between several posts to figure out if it was excepted or not. Discuss your terms beforehand, and from now on minor actions used for trading WILL share the tech. If you don't have a major action, any tech shared past the first 2 will be cut off.

WORLD EVENTS
The comet will continue to pass overhead for one epoch longer. A fracture of it has splintered off and cratered at (18,14).

GODS ACTIONS
>>4436784 Grindall
Claimed 4 hex.
Sand Sleds developed.
Tantulus has gifted you Dancing and Alcohol.
Furnlatha has gifted you Biseax Husbandry.
Domestication shared with Furnlatha.
You can't give 3 tech a turn as a minor action, so only Masonry will be shared with Tantulus.

>>4436836 Regala
Claimed 5 hex.
During Regala's travels across the southern piney forests at (29,9), she encounters a strange obelisk of black metal inscribed with historic runes.
Welcoming Ritual developed.
Thomass has shared Masonry and Cooking.
Domestication and Whitestone Tools shared with Thomass.

>>4436987 Furnlatha
Claimed 5 hex.
Oltanite Tools developed.
Shared Biseax Husbandry with Grindall.
Grindall has gifted you Domestication.

>>4437064 Tantulus
Claimed 6 hex.
In the forests of (12,26), a strange obelisk of oltar metal protrudes from the earth.
Primitive Weapons developed.
Dancing and Alcohol shared with Grindall
Grindall has gifted you Masonry, although you don't have stone to make use of the knowledge.

>>4437177 Ofu
Claimed 5 hex.
Master Husbandry developed.

>>4437226 Americus
Angel's Haven founded.
Irrigation developed.
Earis has gifted you Domestication II (Biseax)
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>>4438381 UNNIIC
UNNIIC approaches the comet high within the stratosphere, albeit hardly close enough to physically reach, within perfect range for the Astronomicon Bridge to manipulate.
As the black liquid pumped from the earth floods through the Astronomicon Bridge's pipes, the magical liquid boils as the comet is pulled upon. Fractures of the massive burning rock break off, a sizeable chunk floating its way towards the UNNIIC, meanwhile another's course is directed into a descent towards the planet below. The rest of the comet quickly passes, but not without a chunk of its Polsarium successfully captured!
Agriculture developed.
Onboard Pipe Network developed.
The turtlefolk are wary of UNNIIC's intimidating presence, but it holds a similar exemplary size as their own God. Tortoiseterra had been absent for many decades, and the generations of those under him have almost all passed on. While a population of turtlefolk will always remain here, around half of the population would agree to accept their new holy figure and board the UNNIIC.

>>4439865 Asmodel
As Asmodel moves to the north east, she can see a sizeable chunk of the comet overhead break off and quickly descend, cratering into her territory further southwest with immense force, no doubt enough to take the lives of many Gorgons.
Unfortunately, the Apophis Scouts will see a different angle of this descending meteor, as it collides directly into the path they walk, splattering their bodies into dust.
>tfw I rolled the meteor impact location before hand, only for your unit to walk right under its collision
Mountains cost 2, so you'll miss out on (21,9).
Claimed 5 hex.
In the brisk mountains at (21,11) that border UNNIIC's territory, a new obelisk is discovered.
Husbandry and Pottery shared with The Bloom.
The Bloom has gifted you Irrigation and Domestication of Tugai, including an amount of the already tame beasts.
The Tugai received are incredibly responsive and domestic for such usually fierce animals, though their fleshy appearance is unusual, it is no matter with how useful these animals may be.
The Bloom's method of irrigation is odd as the blood vessels cover area between the agricultural sites and water source, but its delivery of the water is quite effective for growing crops, allowing population to spike.
As the weeks pass, many Gorgons begin to experience strange symptoms. Blood vessels and tumors sprout from their skin, as their form begins to morph into something bizarre, like mounds of bulbous flesh. But their minds are unchanged; they remain loyal to Asmodel. All that appears different is an amplified desire for their own survive and to share the gift they have received. But otherwise, they are not harmed whatsoever, and your population numbers have not suffered from such.
Cultural Ritual developed.
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>>4439911 Novakhet
Claimed 5 hex.
Philosophy developed.
Unit disbanded.
Domestication II of Biseax and Earis shared with Earis.
Earis has gifted you Metallurgy.

>>4440713 Earis
Novakhet has gifted you Domestication I and II.
Tabula Rasa developed.
Claimed 5 hex.
Metallurgy shared with Novakhet.
Biseax Domestication shared with Americus.

>>4441318 The Bloom
Asmodel has shared Husbandry and Pottery with you.
Claimed 4 hex. Contest was made with Akros for land.
Amongst the jungles of (19,17) that have for so long sat on your borders, The Gardeners uncover yet another black obelisk inscribed with strange runes.
Myxoma upgraded to a Town.
The ascent up the mountains of 18,21 is arduous, albeit I will allow it so long as the unit does not pass through the mountain and only moves onto it from this side. Further tech would be necessary to ascend it.

>>4441560 Thomass
Domestication developed.
Philosophy developed.
Masonry and Cooking shared with Regala.
Regala has shared Domestication over Woradine and Whitestone Tools.

>>4441690 Akros
Claimed 5 hex. Contest was made with The Bloom for land.
The Tugai are fierce animals, and while the process begins, it will require much effort for these beasts to be domesticated.
Domestication I developed.
Masonry developed.
Literature developed.
Next time please lemme know what hex specifically you're moving to :)

>>4441693 Qazlal
I Am Wind developed.
Agriculture developed.

>>4442706 Chom and Chod
Religious Orders developed.
Kholimoth Monastery Farms developed.
Runic Language developed.
Sanctum Obelisk established.
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>>4436987 Furnlatha
Forgot to mention, but with your populations growing numbers, you would quickly realize the village of Firstflame offers plentiful food and support for the Pyrelings to thrive, but on the contrary they're incredibly overpopulated. Many Pyrelings have succumb to starvation and illness as shelter becomes a luxury.
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>>4443088
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pImdvmIw0Ec&t=26s&ab_channel=DisneyDeEdits
>Major Action, Devine Influence
Tantalus has heard the suffering of his people. He has heard their fearful whispers, of the flesh-beasts that came in the night to take their friends and neighbors. And he knows what must be done. Arriving on the southward facing shores of 17:22, he moves north past his awestruck minions, inland to the jungles of 17:21. There, he slams his claws into the ground, creating a wave of divine energy that sweeps out and claims much of the surrounding land, more that would ordinarily be possible, thanks to the comet's power.

>Major Action, Create Unit
Behind the crude walls of Safe-Cove, crabs are gesticulating. But the tone is not one of revelry, but one of anger. Clutching crude spears and spiked clubs, they crabs spill forth in a riotous mass, 100 strong, very nearly half the total population all storming westward at the best speed their crabby legs can muster.
>Unit Created: Crab Mob
>Techs Used: Primitive Weapons
>Population Used: 100
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>>4443088
>MA/DI claim 11,4 12,4 12,3 12,2 13,1

>MA expand Districtus Columbus Upgrade to a city
> with the advent of animal husbandry and Irrigation along with a plethora of innovations the village has blossomed into a booming town. while the city is expanded great care is taken to make it co habitable for Eris and his archivists so that He and his children might freely come and go from Americus's domain in comfort.

> Americus Moves to 11,3

>communicate To Ofu
>americus sends out a strong pulse of her godly power toward the new being, who seems to have turned once lush pine forest into a miasma of massive mushroom growths. think as any true forest might be. With the pulse is sent Americus's intent, she wishes to meet with this new good peacefully, but on neutral ground. "come to me"
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>>4443140
minor correction
towns, not cities TOWNS
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>>4443140
Follow up correction
>MI give Earis a completed text on Agriculture to complete the agreement made last epoch.
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>>4443204
>Confirming receipt of Agriculture from Americus

>>4443090
>MA: Develop Human Habitation in The Archive - Agriculture + Pine Wood + Whitestone + Whitestone Tools + Index: Humanity
In keeping with his promise to Americus, Earis will task the Archivists with zoning a portion of the ever expanding Archive grounds to be suitable for human habitation. Farmland to grow crops suitable to support human populations, significantly less thick Mist presence for better atmospherics and visibility, and picturesque houses for these families of theirs. Capping this off was a fine manor for the Human Spirit herself, with a decently sized perimeter, set aside for a vineyard once Earis got around to figuring out winemaking. It was a low priority task, but good to plan ahead.

>MA+DI: Develop Index: Tugai - Tugai + Divine Intervention: Knowledge Domain
Thrilled to finally have an Index, Earis kept his fever going by hopping to perhaps the most logical extreme from Humanity, the ever predatory Tugai. Their thick hides and sharp teeth would make them excellent for the creation of war forms for his Archivists, should the need arise. His minions brought him suitable candidates, and with fervor he dissected and examined every inch of the creatures, before breaking them down into mist and binding them within a tome. The second Index could be placed upon The Archive's shelves only an epoch later, a pace Earis hoped to keep in the near future.

>MI: Trade Agriculture to Novakhet and Metallurgy to Americus
After a few alterations based on his knowledge of the southern climate Novakhet resided in, Earis will send off a few of his Archivists with the information about agriculture off to the death god. A trade Earis still found ironic, the undead cultivating plant life. But, he had learned that these domains they held were not absolutes, and they were by no means rigid things. Along those same lines, he'll send his knowledge of Metallurgy over to Americus. If there was a threat north, her humans would need metal weapons to handle it. They simply could not shift form like his Archivists could.
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>>4443088
>God Unit [Move] [11,3]
Ofu takes in as much of the enticing lie fueled power, letting out a satisfied sigh of pleasure. Now jumping in excitement of meeting a new person, Ofu skedaddles towards the origin of the pulse. After some time, Ofu meets the humanoid goddess with awe from the pure sense of life and liberty radiating around her. Ofu in a playful manner begins circling around Americus as he giggles to himself, taking in all of her features.

"Hello~~~~ name is OFU, O-F-U! Did you call for my attention, huh, huh?!
Are you looking for a new friend just like I am, do you want to play with me?!
Do you like my new home....I like to brag so look at my beautiful new home!"
Ofu shouts as he doesn't stop circling Americus

>[MA][DI] Claim [11,1/13,2/14,2/15,1/16,1]
The excited Ofu couldn't help himself from releasing his spores in excitement, the spores all collectively spreading to the northeast.

>[MA][DI] Create Unit
Ofu's white maidens, the Aema Fae are born. With their two layers of thin, almost translucent skin covering their whole body as it drapes from the bottom edge of their caps, the first layers is a shade of light pink while the other layer is a shade of white and full of holes. When the Aema Fae begins to hum a beautiful sound as she twists her body from side to side, the translucent layers begin to move creating a sort of mirage of a beautiful creature to whoever look directly at it thanks to the light rays shining through the layers of their translucent skin and their curvy figure. Once the Aema Fae begins her harmonious hum, spores under her cap begin to descend and spread around her approximate area, the scented spores is anything but harmless since it's covered with deadly toxins that gradually harm any living creature other than her own brethren.
"The foundations protectors, caretakers of Ofu's children. Gain our gentle wrath if you dare threaten."
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>>4443088

Walking into the deserts, Furnlatha expected to find them... well, deserted; but not quite as deserted as all this. Where are the Svirgrindall here, she wonders; are they all beneath the sand? She cannot feel the divine presence she expected from this land, just... a certain emptiness. Heat, but nothing to ignite. And so, she turns back north again.

>[Minor]: Move: Furnlatha to 26,17

Here, in the jungles, the air is still warm but there is MUCH more around her! She reaches to touch a large tree's wilting leaf, delighting as it crisps then bursts into a brief pyre before falling to the floor as a rain of ashes. Most of this is... a little moist for her, if she's honest, but the potential is there.

>[MA][DI] Claim

Feeling the energies from above still temporarily boosting her powers, Furnlatha lays her claim to the lands of (28,16),(28,17),(28,18),(28,19) and (29,18)


>[MA] Develop: Build Village

With Firstflame overcrowded, many Pyrelings pack up and head to (28,22). Here, they build the village of Forgefall; to provide shelters for the Pyrelings who head into the mountains to train their craft in metalsmithing, and to provide a site on the borders for trade with the visiting Svirgrindall from the mountains and deserts around them.
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>>4443088
His meeting with the blazing god Furnlatha concluded, Grindall journeys North, pursuing a strange force that is drawing him North.
>Move God Unit to 25, 17


Sensing an intrusion by some strange foreign power upon the deserts and mountains of his people as he travels, Grindall sends forth a portion of his energy, purging that which he senses drawing too close to his people
>[MA] [DI] Claim 20 19, 21 18, 22 18

At home, the Svirgrindall had encountered an unexpected problem. Though they have begun to raise the Biseax as their leader taught them, and benefited a great deal from the meat, milk and wool in the frigid climate, they'd had difficulty fending off the predators and scavengers that would strike at the massive herds. Finally, one frustrated herder comes upon a solution. Though tossing sharpened wooden stakes had worked to a degree, they had quickly simply slipped out of the wounds they inflicted, and the predators had made off with their bleating, thrashing prizes. So, taking from the techniques to shape metal that had been taught to them by the god of the forge, the herder fashioned a cruel, barbed head from the metal, which he affixed to the end of the thinly carved wooden pole. Waiting with baited breath behind a rock, he observed his herd, until finally a large shadow fell over them. Bleating in panic, the herd clustered together, but their effort was fruitless as one of the massive aerial predators descended from on high, seizing one of the terrified herbivores in it's grip and preparing to take off. Just as it began to beat massive wings, however, the herder rose from behind the rock, and with a yell of exertion and anger hurled his new weapon. It sank into the colossal bird's side, and as it took off, shrieking in pain, he saw that it remained fixed into the predator's side. Now, to wait. As he watched the winged terror fly off, it's prize forgotten, it slowly began to dip in the air, and though it desperately beat it's wings to remain aloft, it eventually crashed into a nearby cliff, the damage inflicted by the barbed head taking it's toll with every movement made. Success!
>[MA] Develop Metal Throwing Javelins!

As promised, a caravan of Svirgrindall arrive from the deserts, riding atop great sand sleds pulled by teams of powerful Valbats. On the carts alongside them rode smaller, docile Valbats, ready to be bonded with their new owners, and experienced Valbat trainers, ready to educate their new owners in the finer arts of controlling the graceful flyers of the desert.
>Trade Furnlatha Valbat Domestication and a small breeding population of Valbats
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>>4443757
>Adjust Claims, since I forgot about the rules regarding already claimed territory, to 24 18, 24 17
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>>4443759
>Adjust Claims again (Sorry), since I didn't realize the comet's effects were persisting, and claim 25, 18 as well.
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>>4443090
>[MA] Develop : Butantan into Town
This last epoch the gorgons proved to be very fruitful and as such we need to secure more space for our people
>[MA][DI] Claim : 19,10 ; 20,10 ; 22,12 ; 23,12 & 24,13
Since the comet remains to empower expansion, we'll use to reach new biomes
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>>4443803
-[MI] Move Asmodel to 18,14
-[MI] Trade Cooking with Novakhet
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>>4443809
Correction, trade Cultural ritual with Novakhet
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>>4443757
>Since my dumb ass apparently forgot he traded the domestication last turn, rescind that trade to Furnlatha. Instead trade Tantalus the Mining Tech.
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>>4443234
Americus looks at the tiny god mutely for a moment, before a grand and happy smile breaks upon her face. She had worried greatly about what kind of god she would meet here but seeing the vibrate and joyful exuberance of Ofu, she can see that it was an unfounded fear. Laughing mirthfully as she taps into her godly power to adjust her size down to a level to speak eye to eye with this godling. Finishing she says “Well meet Ofu, I am Americus, Goddess of Life, Freedom, and Fertility and I would be happy to call you friend. Though It seems that our domain influences affect the lands under our control differently. I am not sure my children could safely live in such places. But I am sure we can work out an agreement that we can both be happy with” Americus smiles and using her power makes a map appears that details a proposal for boarders between herself and little Ofu. She then adds “do you have anything else you would like to add?”
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>>4443088

>CLAIM 27,10 / 28,11 / 30,10 / 31,10 / 26,0
As the comet's light begins to dwindle, Regala shores up her borders, reclaiming the rest of this new forest down south and stretching her realm to the coast up north. (Technically, Regala needs to move one hex south to claim it all, but she can just move back up north to her original spot with the rest of her move.)

> Develop Village on 29,9 (Welkomplaats)
The Vrees have been prodigious in their multiplying, and so a small group of them congregate around the newly discovered Obelisk in the forests to the south. Amidst the tree lights, they begin the construction of a new settlement.

>Unit Move Vluchs 1
From 25,5 to 28,7.
The Vluchs veer off course, pressing through forest and mounds of muscle to head towards the new village being created.

>Mysterious Entropy Wizard move (3 +1 from Tree Lights) from 26,1 to 29,3.
Donning a mask of baked clay and ragged red robes, the Entropy Wizard known as 'Gehaim' departs from Gevang'nis, pushing across the frozen tundra towards their patron, Regala.
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>>4443096
><MOVE: DAEMON> [17,10]
Qazlal approaches the anomaly.
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>>4444181
>The crevice in the earth's surface that lies before Qazlal is dark and deep, cutting miles into the roots of the planet. A scar clearly cut with pure power and force of divine origin. As the bleeding father peers within the expanse, the wretched voice in his mind whispers...
Your decision to come here as proven wise, Daemon. It appears the gods of this realm have been gracious... Much of my conglomerate lies within the depths of this chasm. For the first time, an open path lies between the subterranean veins of this realm and the surface of its skin. But blood filled veins are nothing without hearts to pump, Daemon...[
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>>4443088
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Claim] - [24,12], [25,12], [27,10], [28,14]
>Unit Action [God unit] - God movement to [25,12] to see if any turtles want to see their god off.
>Major: [Develop] - Husbandry

The Ship will show pity to the ones who have lost their vessel. Those who were once Passengers of another one of his kind, another travel god. The Ship claims the island the turtles have called home, as well as some various coastlines for them to sail between. With one connected to the valley located farther inland.

The ship also offers to bring some over to what it can assume was their god. Left stranded along the eastern coasts. There is not much it can do for the fallen god, but perhaps there is something he could do for it. And perhaps both gods of travel can travel together once more.
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>>4443088
MA, DI: Claim the following hexes
12, 15
12, 17
12, 14
After moving
12, 11
15, 10

MI: Move to 14, 13
Pursue Qazlal, we were not done speaking about borders and he continues ominously leaving conversations with dramatic one liners.
This rattles the bones to no end.

MA, [Scarce Thaum Crystal, Biseax Wool, Salt, Clay Mistnettle] Develop: Chartam Bandaging.

It is common for those in their Chartam phase of undeath; that is the point where flesh begins to regrow on their bones; to cover themselves with wrappings or heavy cloths to avoid frightening or disgusting their fellows with their ghoulish visages or chemical smells, but the smell of reverse decay lingers still.
With the incredibly high portion of the population the chartam make up, this is itself a barrier to more tightly knit communities, many avoiding the Chartam due to their circumstance, though most have or will go through this stage themselves.
Measures are put in place by the current leaders of the gathered groups to come up with a proper and permanent solution to this issue, one universal to all the undead even those with odd biology at Black Pillar, a unique form of bandaging being their favoured solution.

Preserving salts, rubbed in with other minerals atop a guiding structure of clay, then wrapped around with bandages of wool and plant fibre across an entire body to form a durable seal to keep out of sight and smell.
The solution is a wondrous success, successful at forming a perfect seal able to weather even the superhuman physical activities of a Dagekhet in sunlight, the Chartam now living close by the Osseous and True members of their kind without issues.

A final addition is made following this, the granting of all those who enter Chartam a sliver of Thaum crystal, an entrancing gem of life that undead Dagekhet find themselves drawn to, embedded in the chest.

Said to quell the more negative effects of Chartam, or to grant good luck, or perhaps even to create bonds between people through its attractive latent life energies, for whatever reason it was the final ingredient in the process of bandaging the Chartam Dagekhet, what would become a cornerstone of this burgeoning civilisation.

Tech Sharing: Metallurgy to Asmodel, Cultural Ritual to Dagekhet

The Dagekhet are inspired by the strange practices of the gorgons, many among their kind were gorgons themselves in a previous life of course and some still practiced, but it was hardly a phenomena that completely encompassed the undead peoples.

Naturally the ways of the gorgons are adopted, and soon adapted, changing as they spread, instead of rituals at night they instead happen during midday of the new moon, raised five sided platforms being assembled to perform the rites on, it being decided 5 is the number of Novakhet, and the hierarchy changing in order of what stage of life one finds themselves in, their first life, osseous undeath, their Chartam stage or a True Dagekhet.
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>>4444207
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> ???
Qazlal stares down into the chasm as he listens to the voice's explanation of his next task. "If you expect hearts of me, you know well that we're both in for a great deal of reform. The people of this land won't like your plans, and your mouthpiece has not but misgivings for your existence!"
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>>4444722
"I wouldn't have taken you as one for humor, Daemon... You and I are in a similar position, you see. Do you think I marvel at the sight of all daemon-kind? The very breed that sought my destruction? Our mutual animosity is not all we share, Daemon, for in the same moment betrayal crossed the mind of your sister, as did the same thought enter the collective that was the original Bloodletting. I know what you feel, for it is that pain which we share. Once the Gods here realize you are any different than themselves, do you think they won't slaughter you the same they would slaughter me? Power is what we must seek, not as a beastly lust that must be fulfilled, but rather as our only hope for survival... You know this."
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>>4444759
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> ???
"Indeed power is something crucial to survival for either of us, but if we were to throw scores of living, still-beating hearts into this chasm, fettered or unfettered from their hosts, do you not think that the dying prayers that would come from that would fall on deaf ears?"
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>>4444803
"Yes, 'tis a crucial flaw. Perhaps the Gods of this realm were not so generous after all... The creation of The Bloodletting would not have been necessary if the frames of mortal thralls were not so feeble. Even in your rebirth, the introduction of my form to your divine anatomy took great vigor to endure. The previous solution was the creation of The Prodigy Bones. Recreating them would be no easy task, equally costly in the lives of several divine sparks... Perhaps this thirst may not be one we quench immediately, else we perish to our hubris. Power shall be extrapolated through the same means as your new 'kin.' It is likely we will not survive without allies, nor without the empowerment of your thralls."
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>>4443958
Ofu stops the moment Americus shrinks to his size, disappointed, Ofu pouts as he crosses his arms in frustration.
With a loud tone "Bring back the big pretty goddess! Becoming smaller than bigger is an insult, you want to grow grow!" Ofu waving his arms all around tying to make a point.

After a few minutes of ranting about why growing is the way to go, Ofu calms down then just blankly stares at Americus while not making any movement for a couple minutes.
Ofu snaps back and gives Americus a warm smile.
"I don't like boarders, but for a friend I will if my friend promises me to not hurt little Ofu and to let my children play in your land as I would let your children play in my home. I will throw a gift too if you give me a gift too!"Ofu jumps in glee.

Ofu then shuts his eyes
"I make a pact to you as you do to me
A promise to not hurt one another
A promise to visit one another
A gift for a gift
I make a friend with you as you will with me

If one is not true to the other
May he find nothing but misfortune
A broken promise is a broken being
A broken promise hurts children too
Pain for pain
With my divine touch
I make a pact to you as you do to me"
Ofu begins to radiate a hue of divine power
"Repeat after me then we finish our promise after we touch one another!"
>[MI][DI] Communication/Treaty
[Divine NAP][Divine Mutual Military Access][Divine One Tech Trade]
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>>4443140
MAJOR ACTION EDIT
didn't realize w still had the boost from the comet I am also claiming
13,3 13,4
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>>4443088
The monks of Sanctum Obelisk have pondered a while around the wetlands obelisk and come to ask Chom and Chod about its nature. The two snails not exactly knowing themselves, decide that it'd be best if they helped give it greater meaning rather than admit that they're just as clueless as ant mortal. They gather around The Obelisk and prepare the rituals.

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Divine Development: Shrine of Snails. The surface of The Wetlands Obelisk shall be etched upon in the runic language with phrases of power connecting The Monument's power to Chom and Chod. Like a node of power, the energy of the obelisk shall be drawn from itself and thusly thrust upon The Brother Snails to heighten their own divine power.

Development: Rafting. Even as The Swamplanders are naturally wet fairing people, they're still separated by straights of sea between their islands, and are now starting to require toting of goods and services between The Villages of The Two Snails. In this, they bind together Shorebell Wood beams into floating platforms that they use to drift from island to island along the region known as The Chod Chain.
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>>4444824
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> ???
"Then allies I shall seek and find. I will play nice with these new neighbors for now. And in the meantime..."

><CLAIM [MA] [DI]> [14,12], [15,10], [15,11], [16,11]
The clouds above the lands west of the chasm swell and darken to blot the son out of their skies and to cover their grounds in visions of rusty red gore.

><DEVELOPMENT [MA]> Husbandry
The biseaxe of the lands surrounding the Sanguine Keep are much sought-after for several of their qualities, but their numbers in the wild are insufficient to cover the demand for them. Some enterprising Dukhali take to keeping two and breeding them in captivity, guaranteeing a reliable supply of the beasts.
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>Move - The First to 14.21
>MA-DI [Develop] - Symbiosis
The situation was dire. A giant crab filled divine power and rage was rampaging in the south jungles. The crabs were claiming it was their old god and that it was encouraging the others crabs to fight!

It was still a bit too soon to call upon the Bloom but the gardeners were now well established and flourishing, plus the snakes in the north were also carrying the Gift. It would have to be enough.

Hurrying back to the town, the First immediately began a ritual to call upon the attention of the Bloom. Myxoma was the center of the world, the beating heart of the gardeners, of the First, of the Bloom. Here it was possible to reach beyond, to reach to every bud, no matter how far or isolated. And so the First called, tried to pull and draw his god to the world, tried to will it to be. It was, of course, a doomed effort, for the Bloom, despite all it's wishes, was not. It's strength insufficient to even be.

Such is the nature of miracles, however, they tend to occur in the most desperate times. The relentless First refused to stop it's call, the gardeners in town having all joined their voice to his, and finally a pulse could be felt. Slow at first but more affirmed with each beat. it spread to every bloomed ones, the gardeners, the crabs, the tugais and rexus, the spiders, even the plants and the few bloomed snakes up north.

A mutual understanding began to take place, not only between all of the bloomed ones but on a more fundamental level. Their very flesh could recognize each other, assemble and thrive. they could be detached and reattached to other,e very manner of graft possible and accepted.

The Gifthad become stronger.

>MA [Create Unit] - Chimeras
Using their newfound power, and thanks to the skilled guidance of the First, a new unit ready to defend against the invasion was born. Ready to fight if the crab god could not be appeased.
Around a gardener as their core their were gifted many additions. Their were the Tugais fierce and powerful maw. The quick limbs of the spiders and their venom.
>Tech: Domestication, Assimilation, spider farm
>pop: 200

MEANWHILE
>>4443757
>MI - Beast masters: Communicate
"Anything alive in the mountains? We can feel the presence of a god, anyone following it? Helloooo?"
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>>4443803
>>4443809
-[MI] Trade Husbandry with Akros
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Working on rules regarding God health, God subsuming, tech gained from war, etc.

WORLD EVENTS
The comet finally passes, and the terraforming bonus ends.
Akros and Thomass are afk this round.

GODS ACTIONS
>>4443134 Tantulus
Claimed 6 hex. Captured an obelisk from The Bloom.
Crab Mob unit established, 1 unit produced.
Grindall has shared Mining.

>>4443140 Americus
Claimed 7 hex.
District Columbus upgraded to a town.
Agriculture shared with Earis.
Earis has gifted you Metallurgy.
Divine Treaty pending from Ofu.

>>4443218 Earis
Americus has gifted you Agriculture.
Tugai Index developed.
Agriculture shared with Novakhet.
Metallurgy shared with Americus.

>>4443234 Ofu
Claimed 5 hex.
Aema Fae unit established, 1 unit produced.
You forgot to include the unit's population and any tech.
Divine Treaty pending with Americus.

>>4443515 Furnlatha
Claimed 5 hex.
Forgefall settled at (28,22).

>>4443757 Grindall
Claimed 3 hex.
Oltar Javelins developed.
Mining shared with Furnlatha.

>>4443803 Asmodel
Butantan upgraded to a town.
Claimed 5 hex.
Cultural Ritual shared with Novakhet.
Novakhet has gifted you Metallurgy
Husbandry shared with Akros.
As time passes, you begin to notice the population of Gorgons with The Gift continuing to grow. Additionally, you may now use the Symbiosis tech from The Gift which may be used to meld gifted minions with other lifeforms, choosing a form for them when creating a unit.

>>4444162 Regala
Was about to call out that claim distance, glad you pointed it out.
Claimed 5 hex.
Welkomplaats developed.

>>4444225 UNNIIC
Claimed 4 hex.
Husbandry developed.
Arriving on the forested eastern coast, in the distance the enormous decaying corpse of Tortoiseterra can be seen motionless shadowing over the canopy. Flays of white matter peel from the God, like a decaying whale on an ocean beach.
There are mixed feelings upon the turtlefolk seeing their fallen god. Many are riddled with grief as their fears were confirmed, but most feel satisfied with the final closure.

>>4444368 Novakhet
Earis has shared Agriculture.
Asmodel has shared Cultural Ritual.
Claimed 5 hex.
Chartam Bandaging developed.
Metallurgy shared with Asmodel.
Why are you trying to tech share to your own minions
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>>4446447 Chom and Chod
As the viscous black liquid flows from the obelisk, it enters Chom and Chod's bloodstream, a direct infusion of divine power. It's power swells through their bodies, simultaneously feeling as though it tears through their internals and empowers them. Pain never before felt from the Gods, but they endure. For some time, their form will be weaker than otherwise, susceptible to harm. But what is permanent, is their increase in power. Increase any attribute of your choice by 1 permanently.
So long as this foreign blood remains in the snail god's veins, the Runes will be empowered by their internal well of divine energy.
Shrine of Snails developed.
Rafting developed.

>>4446885 Qazlal
Claimed 4 hex.
Husbandry developed.

>>4448015 The Bloom
Symbiosis developed.
Chimeras unit established, 1 unit produced.

Akros
Asmodel gifted you Husbandry.
The Akraties suffer from overpopulation, as starvation runs rampant.

Thomass
Many Buff Nuggets grow unhappy as the Gym is incredibly overpopulated; there's not enough protein or equipment for everyone to use!
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>>4448504
>>4448641
If allies Qazlal must seek, what better way to make friends than to meet the neighbors?

><MOVE: DAEMON> [18,14]
The moth god could see a pale figure in the distance, and a shattered piece of the burning stone that passed overhead recently. Both of these things intrigued him! By wing he travels to investigate the two.
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>>4448682
-[MI] Communicate
"Who are you ? I'm Asmodel, one with darkness and enforcer of obedience."
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>>4448636
Another epoch, another similar sight, that of Qazlal doing something strange and then rocketing away faster than could be believed.

This time he’d claimed a substantial portion of land that just wasn’t his, the skeleton god guesses as some sort of protest against not bowing to the moths demands immediately.

No matter, I will set things right, that is my duty.

Unit move: Novakhet to 16, 11.

DI + MA: Claim the following tiles.
16, 11
15, 11
14, 12
Unit action: Finish move, 17, 10.
Wild light flares down upon the three hexes from the twin suns as the skeleton god watches on with contentment, rays of radiance piercing the bloody rusty clouds of Qazlal and wiping them clean away from the area, leaving them present on only a northern mountain.

In absence of his shadow, Novakhets rule is installed to his rightful land, but above in the daytime sky a ten starred constellation of silvered stars refuses to yet take proper shape. Uncertain omens from the limitless heavens above.

MA Bandaging (Replaces Irrigation) + Husbandry: Develop Black Pillar into their first Town.

With animal herding now common place and the social stigma of the Chartam resolved, time can be found to upgrade black pillar beyond its contemporaries.

Mildly overcrowded, the expansion designs include stones etched or painted with public laws and the names of barterers or important people, central meeting points for the still primitive government to gather, and services for the large herds of various creatures, Tugai, Biseax, Sirvee.

Tugai domestication has come far in the recent epochs, the dog-like reptiles being bred into two distinct breeds, one larger and more muscular, found useful for moving equipment as beasts of burden, and one breed of more nimble, smaller but faster creatures, loyal if perhaps temperamental companions.

Tugai related deaths are thankfully reduced following their first few years grappling with their new masters, and are now a common sight throughout the land, though all still must be wise enough not to provoke one.

The first true ideologues are inspired by Vicsissitism, various interpretations of its first text springing up, their purpose to divine the meaning of life, or death, or maybe there wasn’t much difference. Informed by Novakhet of the true events leading to the creation of the afterlife (Often referred to by specific names such as the Umbraphagus, Necromid, or more lengthy titles such as The Path to the Mortal Star) philosophers had again chance to quarrel.
An author unknowable, perhaps Novakhet himself, or perhaps someone rather swayed by Americus reported ideals published the following poem during this period, describing the purpose of the star to defeat oblivion.

>Time is sight, that endless bright, so seeing is believing.
>But we’re running out of light and so our sight is surely bleeding.
>But up there in the heavens dwells a star beyond defeating.
>And Wild Light will end the night and shine upon us, meaning.
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>>4448636
>MI Move - The First to 17.21
>MI-DI - The First, attack Tantalus.

"Crab Lord, i will not allow you to walk over this lands as you please! If you have any shred of reason i plead to you, return from where you came, we do not wish for conflict but we will not go down without fighting!

>MA [Create Unit] - Chimeras
>MI-Move Chimera 1 to 17.22

>MA [Develop] - Bones and Shell (Masonry equivalent)
While the First try his best to slow and stop the crab invasion, the gardeners are also doing their part, coercing their own bones or shells to grow. Learning how to sculpt and reinforce them with wood and stones, starting to creat walls sturdy enough to protect their town.
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>>4448950
>>4448636
Forgot to mention it but for Chimera 1
>MI - interaction
Eat/kill the crabs they find along the way
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Rolled 10, 5, 7, 4 = 26 (4d10)

>>4448950
"You do not wish for conflict?! YOU DO NOT WISH FOR CONFLICT?! WHO WAS IT THAT LAID CLAIM TO MY CHILDREN, ROBBING THEM OF THEIR MINDS AND WARPING THIER FLESH?! I halted my expansion in respect for your boundaries, and YOU decided that wasn't good enough! YOU decided to come into MY LAND! And make SLAVES! OF MY PEOPLE!"

"HAVE AT YOU!!!"
>Tantalus defends himself from the attack, rolling 4d10 Fortitude

>>4448636
Following the clash, Tantalus moves to 16:22, a distance such that the troops moving from Safe-Cove should reach him in about 2 turns time. Once there, he sets about establishing a new settlement, Stone-Claw, using the knowledge of mining and masonry granted by the children of Grindall to fortify it.
>Major Action: Stone-Claw Village founded at 16:22, village incorporates Masonry tech

Meanwhile, back at Safe-Cove, the troops aren't moving out, not just yet. Yet more weapons are they stockpiling, smaller versions on their spears and clubs intended to be thrown rather than swung.
>Major Action: Develop Primitive Weapons (Ranged)

Armed as best as they can manage, the Crab Mob at last sets forth, crossing the distance to 19:23, the most that they can travel at this time.
>Minor Action: Upgrade Crab Mob with Primitive Weapons (ranged)
>Minor Action: Crab Mob moves 3 hexes to 19:23
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Rolled 2, 6, 4 = 12 (3d10)

>>4448950
As per requested rolls for the attack
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>>4449033
As the gods fight, lines of Bloomed crabs appear from the bushes, you can clearly see they were the crabs that left so long ago, them or their descendants, they are much more crabs now than before. That said thy look much different, a lot of them having an unnatural number of claws, or showing spider legs instead of crab ones. Some of them seems to have developed teeth on the surface of their bodies. While disgracious, the change appear somewhat controlled and seems to serve some kind of function, even if some appear just esthetic.

It seems the crabs are telling you to stop the fighting
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>>4448636
>[MA][DI] Examine the meteorite in 18,14
This piece that felt from the sky and killed the Apophis scouts emanates a similar energy to the comet. Perhaps it can be harnessed somehow ?
>[MA] Develop Syrconite tools from metallurgy + syrconite ore
With the knowledge to work with the ores we harvested it's time to improve our equipment with a more durable material
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>>4449116
change my develop to :
>[MA] Develop Animal Riding from Husbandry+Domestication(Tugai)
After taming these formidable animals, the next step is using them as a mean of faster transportation of the gorgons, which will help reaching distant places and gaining an advantage in combat
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>>4448709
The massive moth took to solid(?) ground(?) and its form shifted again to that of the Bleeding Father, who looked around at his surroundings. "I am Qazlal, the Winged Father of Summer. I come to make known my neighbors to myself and myself to my neighbors."
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>>4449261
>The one with darkness observed the strange rock in front of her and the energy it irradiated. It came from above and killed her scouts who couldn't escape in time. The dimly lit sky was darkening and shortly night would descend upon the land, which would reign for the majority of the day. The breeze was cool and quiet for the most part, but the goddess heard something coming from the north. The sound of wings approached and with it a presence that seemed to be from a deity, based on the energy emanating from it.
"Hello Qazlal. I'm Asmodel, the One with Darkness. It's a pleasure to know you."
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>>4448636
As quickly as the power drawing him North appears, it fades, and shaking his head to read himself of the strange fugue he found himself in, Grindall begins to journey South. He has been abroad for far too long, and he wishes to see his children once more.

>Move God Unit to 22,19

>[MA] [DI] Claim (20, 19), (21, 18), and (22, 18)

Beneath the dunes of the Mere, the Svirgrindall have struck upon another problem that faces their continued progress. Though they've at last begun to implement the agricultural methods taught to them by the children of the flame, the going has been, to put it mildly, rough. Though the sun shines bright and strong in the deserts of their home, the sand is merciless to such a soft plant as grain, and cultivating even small patches of it is a daily struggle. The plants, they can tell, require moisture, but moisture is a rare commodity indeed in such arid conditions. A steady water supply, of one sort or another, must be found.

That is when one member of the council of elders puts for an idea. Those Svirgrindall that have dug deep enough have found, to their confusion, that moisture seems to seep through the walls of their tunnels, as the sand grows wet and packed. Never in great enough quantities to use, however. What if, the elder proposes, they were to construct a truly massive cavern, as deep as they could dig? Then, perhaps, enough moisture might be gathered to nourish the plants above? It's a risky proposition, to be sure. Such an undertaking would require the continued effort of hundreds of Svirgrindall for weeks on end. But, for the chance to at least put full use to a valuable gift, such a risk might be worth shouldering. After much hemming and hawwing, the other elders agree to the proposal, and the labour force is put to work.

For days and nights the children of Grindall work tirelessly, hollowing out the gargantuan cavern and interspersing it with great pillars of stone, to ensure that it does not collapse on their heads and bring about the greatest tragedy in their people's history. At long last, the work is completed, and the cavern lies ready, it's walls already dripping with moisture and damp to the touch. All that's left....is to wait. For the first couple of days tension is high, as the Svirgrindall carefully observe the cavern, many praying to their journeying deity for success. At last, on the third day, just as hope was almost lost, one Svirgrindall notices that a pool of water has begun to collect at the very bottom of the basin. Success! Though it takes weeks to completely fill up, eventually, a great underground lake has grown into existence under the Meer, ready to supply the Svirgrindall with all the water they and their crops may need.

>[MA] Develop Irrigation, by way of a massive underground basin
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>>4449280
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Asmodel
"And you as well. I also come to know more about this stone from the sky; it emanates odd energies!" The rusty, dirty figure of fallen grace looks over the giant piece of debris.
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>>4449316
"This is an odd rock, yes. It killed some of my minions when it felt from the sky and it seems to irradiate a familiar energy."
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>>4448636

>[Minor]: Share Tech with Grindall: Literature

With the founding of the village of Forgefall, there is a place on the borders for the Svirgrindall to come and trade with the Pyrelings, and to talk and communicate and trade. And as the months pass, the Pyrelings teach the visiting Svirgrindall their system of writing to help ease contact and communications.
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>>4449346
>[Minor] Share Irrigation with Furnlatha

As the Svirgrindall learn to read and write they, in turn, teach the Pyrelings of events and happenings in their own lands, such as the great lake that had recently been built beneath the Meer, and it’s purpose.
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>>4448636

>>4449349
>[Major] Develop: Firstflame into a Town
>Using: Irrigation, Husbandry, Masonry; Roseberry Wood and Whitestone

With Grindall's gift of channels to irrigate the earth, the Pyrelings of Firstflame are able to bring reliable water to their farm and to the heart of their community. The old, crude huts of Firstflame give way to new, more sophisticated dwellings of stone, and struts and beams of Roseberry wood, to give the place such a pleasant aroma when smoked by the flickering flames of the Pyrelings.
>[Major] [DI] Develop: Cultural Ritual: Eternal Pyres

Flames have always licked the landscape where the Pyrelings have roamed, for the natural flame of their bodies can set a joyful ember to let a blaze crackle through the wildgrowth. But though they can give their own flame, they start heaping up lumber and bracken, forming ceremonial pyres in offering, heaping up wood on which to burn Sirvees and Roseberry wood any any other offerings to the flames they might choose and think worthy. And fantastically, some of the foods offered to Furnlatha even taste better once seared!
>>4444225
>[Minor]: Move: Furnlatha to 25,12
>Interact: UNNIIC

Furlantha says her goodbyes to the close-by figure of Grindall for a second time, for she still feels the drawing of the concentration of divine energies. Heading north, she floats across the open seas to where the figure's presence emanates - and powerful it is, and large as well. And... metallic? She looks up in awe as she approaches, seeing rank upon rank of metallic plate floating above in the air; each one a masterpiece for any smith to have wrought, and the whole humming with energies.

"I greet you, great-wrought titan of the skies." Her voice whispers, with a hiss of coiling steam. "I am Furnlatha, of flame and forge... though in the latter, it looks as if my craft might have been surpassed. "What should I call you?"
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>>4448636
With the power of The Obelisk coursing through their bodies, The Twins are joined in a brief moment of cooperation. They have discovered something great, and it fills their very beings with inspiration, pain, and visions of a world that could be. They reach out, and begin to create.

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-Obelisk Influence: Fortitude +1
-Development: [Fishing] The Swamplanders have been blessed with abundance by The Garden of Many Fruits, but as The Minions spread from their home islands, they must begin to provide for themselves. The Kolifae Order of Monks spin their silken strands into netting for the fishermen of The Swamplanders to cast out into the waters from their rafts, and bring back harvests of Tritonic Carps.
-Divine Development: [Node Stones] Chom and Chod combine their divine influences to begin crafting a set of altars in mimicry of The Snail Obelisk. These Node Stones are spread to Rosewood Temples across The Swamplander Tribes, and here The Nodes shall be marked upon in runes that connect the psychic energy cast upon them via ritual and prayer of The Swamplanders, to The Brother Gods. As they bask in the mortal's psychic energy, may heir own become immense in turn, deriving strength from the faith of their followers.
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>>4448636
>>4444225
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Develop] - Processing of the Dead (funeral rights equivalent)
>Major: [Develop] - Upgrade UNNIIC settlement into Town - Using [Husbandry, Onboard Pipe Network, Hatchery] and [Tortoise-terra, oltar, whitestone, roseberry wood]
>Unit Action [God unit] [DI] - Subsume Tortoise-terra (+1 to spirit)
>Unit Action [God unit] - God movement to [19,9] after stuff is taken care of down south, and all negotiations Furnlatha are settled.

As the work begins, the Ship begins to speak to its Passengers. It tells them of the many places it has been to, and the many things it has already seen in this short period of life and sapience. These new Passengers, the turtlefolk, were long of memory and long of life. They would be perfect for informing, instructing, and educating future Passengers and keeping the world's cultural practices alive. As well as enforce the ship's own.

First of which, being the Processing of the Dead. The Ship would tell the tale of the creation of the Universal Afterlife, its role and its presence as the far off gods, Earis, Americus, and Novakhat had made a place for all souls to rest. Those three gods cared about the mortals in the next life, while UNNIIC expressed its interests in caring for the Passengers in this current, material world. As such, it taught them the importance of sending off the souls of the dead. Sending the dead on their journey to the other world, and then the proper use of the remains in this one. With the soul gone the remains of a body should have no personal or emotional ties, and as such, the processing of the dead for material and use in this one should be seen not as defilement, but as a final gift from the dearly departed to help those still alive. In the case of Tortoise-Terra, UNNIIC would personally shepherd and journey with the spirit of their god, to enable him to see the wider world as a fellow god of travel.

And to showcase this mentality, the Ship began to fuse the corpse of the fallen god with its own vessel. Great panels of bone from its shell are hoisted up, and become coated in the same divine metal that composes the UNNIIC, before being reassembled onto the underside and sides of the flying fortress. Vessels become pipes, muscles become actuators and fibers, Nerves become cabling. The head of the dead god is coated in a brilliant shade of corroded oltar metal, forming a tealish green resembling its descriptions in life from the oldest of the turtlefolk. It is installed on a building at the front of the vessel, overlooking the lands and destinations before it, as both a landmark in the quickly growing settlement and as an additional set of sensors for the Ship and the Astronomicon Bridge. The retrofit, along with the knowledge of breeding aquatic life and hatcheries within the underside of the vessel, is perfect for the formation and expansion of the Ship into the status of a "town".
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>>4448636
>>4444225
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Diplomacy
>>4449874 Furnlatha
As the hull of the vessel is undergoing retrofit, the stationary ship would shine its spotlights on the brilliant flame of its newest visitor. "Greetings, designation Furnlatha. This vessel's designation is UNNIIC, a ship of the Beruka Class. Your complements are appreciated, but as it stands this is vessel is merely a crude stack of retrofits upon retrofits. The exact materials and knowledge of constructing a Flying Fortress has been lost to me. I am sure your capabilities far exceed my own in that regard."
"Do you have any particular needs at this moment? Do you require passage to another destination, or seek an exchange of sorts? Would you like to apply some of your passengers for permanent Passage in my care? Or are you simply here to pay respects to one of the fallen divine signatures?"


>>4443218 Earis (This will happen later chronologically as needed, but wanted to establish this line of discussion now)
>Unit Action [Guardian Drones] - Emerging from the UNNIIC parked at [19,9], the drones will set out to [19,8] and present a letter to the resident archivists, urging it to be sent to their god, before returning to the ship.
To designation: Earis, Grand Archivest. This Vessel has acquired an exceedingly unique and transient material. Requesting your immediate presence to these coordinates to facilitate its Indexing procedure before its expiration. Please inform if you are unable to do so, and This Vessel will reroute navigation to your location in the coming epoch.
Of other import, newly acquired resources and technology might benefit the production of your literature-based passengers.
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>>4450069

>Interact: UNNIIC

The gleam of the spotlights is bright and brilliant, and Furnlatha looks upward to the source. This close, she can now feel the colossal divine presence as two, with a second from a massive mound of shell, far fainter, and starting to filter upward in pieces as UNNIIC works away. Even to feel it, Furnlatha finds herself knowing that the second form below UNNIIC had long passed away before the machine-god's arrival.

"Then I greet you in turn, Unniic Beruka." Furnlatha raises a hand upward, glowing with a whisp of flame dancing from around her fingertips. "It is such a shame to hear you have lost so much... it seems a travesty to have such craftsmanship forgotten." she would try to place a hand carefully on the hull of the fortress-god, if it would be allowed, to feel for anything she can discern of the composition. "Though, even a retrofit can be wrought well, I'm certain." she looks into the spotlight. "Perhaps I could teach you and yours some of my secrets as well, they might prove useful if you would seek to further adjust and amend your metalwork?" she asks, with small smile, her head of flames flickering.

She then looks down. "A fallen divine, though... I think I felt this one before, distantly." she breathes, the air shimmering as a haze. "It was alive, then; but that was long ago; and it wandered further before I could think to go out and look for where it stood. Do you know what fate befell it, aside from an unwelcome mortality?"
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>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Diplo: Furnlatha
>>4450107
The salvaging operation did not cease, nor was an attempt made to stop her, as the Flame Goddess placed its hand upon the vessel. Spotlights whirring and adjusting to, unnecessarily, illuminate the subject of the Ship's attention. "The loss of this one's ability and knowledge is of small matter, when compared to the lost of my original Passengers. But as all things, continuation of operation and growth from where we originated must continue. -Life must go on-. New Passengers have been required, and steadily knowledge is rebuilt and retained."

The Ship studied the expression of the goddess. While numerous readings of facial expressions of different races had been documented, it seemed that those of humanoid physiology seemed to have a unique unity in the smile representing happiness and cooperation. Compared to the more bestial races where such expressions often indicated hostility. This would require future consideration, as the Ship currently lacked the capacity to provide a reassuring smile for means of communication. For now, it would have to make due with words alone, "The gifts of one knowledgeable in the ways of metalworking would be of monumental use. If you were to bestow this knowledge it would be greatly appreciated by both this Vessel, the Servitors, and the Passengers.

"The divine signature of designation: Tortoise-Terra was also recorded by this Vessel. It's expiration was also felt from far away, while this ship was conferring with other gods from the north west. The exact fate it suffered from is unknown. From what has been uncovered by the eldest of the Turtle folk, it seemed the divine was suffering from multiple conditions of the mind, eventually causing him to wander off, beyond their reach and their sight. Such an expiration is of great loss to our whole. A tragedy."
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>>4450168

"There are other gods to the north west? In my travels I had only met with one of my kind, the being Grindall, lord of the ground. He was not far at the south of the era, his own travels called him to the south and west."

"The Turtlefolk? I have not met any... they still live, past the demise of their deity? A thing to ponder, then... would my Pyrelings endure, if my own existence were to be bought to a conclusion?" her face flickers with uncertainty, the blaze about her head growing lower. "Though some of my Pyrelings on the northern shore have shared to me distant vision of such from the edge of the coast, when the days fall clear. Do they ply the waters? My Pyrelings do not like the damp, but should they come to talk and trade, we shall try to bid them welcome.

"I will teach you greater metalworks, gladly, if it would better help you, your crew and passengers keep aloft." The developing flame lifts her hand away from the metallic surface of the sky fortress. "After what I have seen today, I now know that even beings of our caliber might end, even without malice bought upon us. Entropy reaches out, and even the burning fires of divinity flicker and extinguish. It makes me curious to know that even we may someday end. It makes me wonder what brings us here, what binds us into what we are, or were. How long we might have been that we have ourselves forgotten, or how fresh we might be yet still unknowing of the forces that ignited us. I wonder; on your travels across this world, have you come across any clues that might lead to what lies behind us all?"


>[Minor]: Share Tech with UNNIIC: Oltanite Metalworking
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>>4450069
>MI: Communicate with UNNIC (I'll move to this hex in my full post.)
Eventually, the armored god of knowledge will approach the mountain the living ark was docked on. Striding up it being a task of little note for a deity, he will bow accordingly to the flying god. "Forgive my haste UNNIIC, but with such a tantalizing offer I feel we lack the time for pleasantries. What is this material, and what would you ask in exchange for the rights to study it?" He will preemptively release some of the mist he brought with him he had sequestered from this epoch's book binding, the purple haze giving life to two General Studies Archivists, freshly born to transport the material.
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><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Asmodel
"It landed on your creatures? Perhaps you should aid your surviving followers in moving more quickly, then."
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>>4451427
"Sadly it wiped my entire unit out. Fortunately they were the only ones near the impact site so there's no more casualties to worry about. Now tell me where do you hail from ? We have made some interesting development along the epochs and I suppose both our people can benefit from trading with each other."
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>>4451437
The moth god looks up from the sky stone, his attention no longer split. "An exchange of goods and ideas? I suppose I could use the help. I hail from the coast west of here, beyond the lands where the stars can be seen behind the sun, and hopefully along the northern coast soon as well!"
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>>4451450
"To the west ? Interesting. Yes, an exchange of goods and ideas is what I propose. I feel we have much to learn from one another."
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><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Asmodel
"Then let an exchange be made."

><SHARE TECH> Asmodel
Currency
Stained Glass Mushrooms

><UNIT ACTION: DAEMON> Study fallen stone
"Since I'm here, I intend to look this stone over for myself. I'll try to not be in your way."
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>>4451547
-[MI] share tech: Irrigation and Cultural Ritual with Qazlal
-[MI] communicate
"Alright this seems fine. You can stay around since you won't interfere in my experiment with this meteorite."
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>>4451547
Fuck. That unit action was supposed to have my DI attached. Sorry, OP!

>>4451555
As the Bleeding Father studies the sky stone with the Pale Woman, life marches on elsewhere.

><DEVELOP [MA]> Growing the Sanguine Keep
The Dukhali of the Sanguine Keep worry over their lack of space. They cannot expand their territory, for they would not be able to manage a larger town. One night, however, a villager's prayers are answered when the Bleeding Father, in a dream, teaches him how to manually route water to where it is needed, providing a much-needed solution to their managability plight! This art is quickly taught to others, and soon plans are made to build a new wall around Qazlal's original designs!

><DEVELOP [MA]> Pottery
While heating the Vekratil to make more Vekna, one Dukhali runs various experiments to see what high heat does to other things. Among many, many instances of choking smoke and small explosions, one discovery made was that clay ceases to react with water when heated to a high enough temperature. Before long, many containers are made with this now hard substance, and any household within the walls of the Keep can expect to have plenty of water to drink and work with.
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>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Diplo: Furnlatha
>>4450672
"Yes, thus far, I have encountered a triumvirate of gods, Designations Americus, a god of life; Novakhet, a god of death; and Earis, a god of knowledge. Along with a brief glance at one more, designation Asmodel, whom arrived after the formation of the universal afterlife at the hands of the aforementioned three. Designation Grindall shall be recorded for future reference."

"From records and extrapolation, mortals left without proper guardianship would not perpetuate to a substantial degree. All would expire without outside interference. Most assuredly, without this vessel the Passengers would cease as well. As far as the turtlefolk whom have been taken under wing, yet refuse to fly, I will send word to them that there are beings of fire on their old shores that would be amicable. Mutual cooperation between the two peoples is the optimal choice - this vessel will give a blessing to encourage it."

The Ship would listen intently to the rest of Furnlatha's pondering, recording and considering them. Adding them to the slowly but surely growing list of writings from it and the Astronomicon Bridge's own musings. "Today has confirmed that the termination divine signatures is indeed a possible outcome. This does not bode well for initial interpretations of this world being different from this vessel's origin, as it would also imply that this world may also end."

"Though this ship cannot fathom the greater scopes of how we have come to acquire these divine sparks, or the origins of this world, all will be done to preserve the Passengers and the knowledge acquired on our voyage. Perhaps in time, either my travels or the discoveries of another god might uncover further insight into this query. If such an event occurs, this vessel will do all in its power to deliver the news to you as well. This talk has been most enlightening, you have thanks, Designation Furnlatha. If you desire more debate or information, this vessel has found that the turtlefolk seem quite adept at storing and repeating these lessons they have learned from this one and others. If you'd accept it, it would be a small gift to repay the help you have in turn provided."

>Accept trade
>[Minor]: Share Tech with Furnlatha: Philosophy
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>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Diplo: Earis
>>4451244
"Do not be concerned about pleasantries. We have borne fruitful cooperation in the past, and hopefully will continue that trend in the future as well. The material in question is a substance I've intuited as 'Polsarium'. It is the primary substance that composed the comet that crossed the skies the last two epochs."

"The process of further elaboration of its properties is likely pointless, as the Indexation process would likely provide far greater clarity in far shorter time. As far as what would be request in return, in exchange for this sample to index, if you ever develop a process to materialize archived materials in the future, a small but steady supply of Polsarium would be highly beneficial to the both of us."

"In addition, with the acquisition of the Turtlefolk Passengers, I have come across the knowledge of literature in the form of written word, rather than the carved runes originating from Designation Novakhet. In a similar vein to the way the archivists are produced. With the technology of establishing a hatchery and a sample population of Pallipods to build your own, a steady stream of ink could be acquired for your own machinations. This would of course desire a similarly valuable offer in exchange."

>Minor: Gift Polsarium to Earis for Indexing purposes. Gift small Pallipod population for hatchery
>Minor: Share Hatchery Tech with Earis
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>>4449116
Final fix bear with me op
>[MI][DI] Asmodel: Examine the meteorite in 18,14
This piece that felt from the sky and killed the Apophis scouts emanates a similar energy to the comet. Perhaps it can be harnessed somehow ?
>[MA] Develop Mathematics from Masonry
After developing a way to record our history for the next generation, we'll establish a way to measure our fields, buildings and distance travelled as well
>>4449238
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>>4451618
The being will tap it's masked chin, glancing up into the sky where the trail of the comet could still be faintly made out. "Simply fascinating, it proved a powerful focus for transreal arts, but forgive the obvious, you must have felt its power as well to have gone through the trouble to collect samples. I thank you for the boon of this and the method by which to produce ink, it was a glaring problem that was beginning to vex me. I fear that my efforts of late have gone more to Indexing than technological advancement, no small part in thanks to your prior donations. Though, as Novakhet would attest to, I always plan to honor such gifts in return when it becomes possible to do so. Proliferation of technology among our peoples will only lead to incredible things in the future, in my mind. Nonetheless, you will have your supply of Polsarium once I am in a position to synthesize it, I look forward to what you plan to do with it. And should you have need of something before I even out the debt between us, do not hesitate to ask."
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>Move Unit [Earis]: (19, 9)
Earis, upon receiving the message from UNNIC, immediately gathered all the tools he would need for indexing and traveled posthaste to join the deity.

>MA+DI: Develop Index: Polsarium using the Polsarium samples provided by UNNIIC and Domain:Knowledge
Earis rushed to index the samples that UNNIIC had given him. He had simply written off the comet as a meteorological event that he could pay greater attention and study to when it came around again. He was, functionally anyway, immortal and could therefore simply wait as many epochs as it took to return. But that a sample of the divine material had indeed been gathered! Such brilliant luck. There were, thankfully, less ethical constraints to indexing a material, no trifling matters of soul or life to be argued over even after the UAL had been created. It was just Earis and some simply fascinating anomalous material, and he couldn't be happier. Well, perhaps he could when Americus returned from her trip and he could share the news that such a potent substance had been obtained. He did hope she was alright, though he presumed he would have felt a disturbance were this not the case.

>MA: Develop Literature using Bookmaking + Pallipods
This, while a curious development at first glance, was a move that made perfect sense given the nature of the Archivists' task. A not insignificant problem that the process of building the Archive had found was that the Archivists, while arguably superior to books when it came to documenting the nature of the material, were entirely useless in regards to documenting the cultural, the spiritual, and the theoretical. Therefore, a portion of the bookmaking facilities were dedicated towards producing books to be filled with actual ink, thanks to UNNIIC's generous donation, and provide a framework to allow for simpler knowledge to be preserved without dedicating an Archivist's existence to do so.
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>>4448636
>MA develop Government
will detail later, for now, constitional republic

>MA develop Oltanite Metalworking
combine, the ores to make new ores, will detail later

>UI/DI ratify the treaty
but add a Claus stating that if the spirit of the treaty is voilanted and steps are taken to subvert it or work around it in bad faith, the treaty will be nullified. With the curse being placed on the offender.
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>>4451733
Americus moves to [16,6] as she senses a disturbance near the fissure
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>Mgr Act develop husbandry

>Mgr Act develop irrigation

>Mgr Act DI develop Iron Jungle
Thomass could see his buff nuggets outgrow gym and it make him happy but sad. He take up new reslove, it was already scary enough for him to make legend gym. He takes his tools and with speed and strength and grace he turns the surrounding land into the Iron Jungle. It is a town of gyms and libraries and places of rest. Thomass lift head from his work "go and lift till the earth shakes buff nugget" he says as a tear comes from his eye.

>Mgr Act DI claim 27'6 28'6 29'5
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>>4452347
Replace claim with
>Develop medicine
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>>4452388
Also minor action trade agriculture and husbandry for carpentry from The Giftmother.
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>>4452404 - Accept Trade of Husbandry and Irrigation for Carpentry, but add Domesticate II for Falerine (Developed below)
The Vree are eager to learn from the Buffnuggets, the skills they had learned previously being immensely useful. With an abundance of ice around them, and alongside the Masonry skill they learned earlier, melt-water from the Tundra is channeled down to more fertile soils down south. There, Vree take up the simple life of farmers, harvesting what plants they can, and letting the Buffnuggets teach them about the Dazawks and the Bees. Animal husbandry, you pervert.

>>4448636
>Develop Welkomplaats from Village to Town (Husbandry + Irrigation from Thomass)
With more and more Vree popping up everywhere, it was was only natural that their homes would expand. The far more comfortable village of Welkomplaats made for an excellent area to expand upon than the grim and frozen Gevang'nis.

>Domesticate II on Falerine (If I pump DI into this, can I get Animal Riding as well?)
Regala gazed upon the majestic creatures, their antlers reflecting the multicolored lights that marked the trees of her realm. These strange new creatures called to her, a spark of her divine power reflected in their glimmering eyes. Over time, she and the Vrees would draw them closer to Vree camps, integrating them into Vree lifestyles as beasts of burden. While the Woradine served a similiar purpose, the Falerine would never serve as food like the massive creatures did, as Regala felt the Falerine had a higher calling...

>God Unit Move to 27,10 (+1 extra move from Tree Lights)
With the Falerine tamed, Regala moved to the metallic wasteland that bordered her new domain. The sound of creaking metal, the smell of rust and the eternal mist, all were strange and alien to her. She wasn't sure if she liked this realm being so close to hers...

>Vluchs Unit move from 28,7 to 29,0
Finally, the far-traveling Vluchs have returned home, eager to learn what they have missed since they left. It seems a period of rest and relaxation is upon them, as no further orders have been passed down to them.
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>>4452451
So sorry, add that my wizard is moving from 29,3 to 29,7.
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>>4443088
I don't care if I'm a newcomer give me one tile to creat my civ. Let me play or this quest is FUCKING LAME.

>TL:DR LET ME PLAY THE ONLINE GAME ANONS
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>>4452970
bro I'm processing convoluted turns for 16 players, I gotta do more than eat breathe and shit in my day yknow
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Forgive the updates delay, attempting not to fail college :)
Going to be addressing level up rules soon, and have decided that the prerequisites for them should be public so that you guys can recognize when you reach them and annoy me about it, instead of me tracking more shit

WORLD EVENTS
The epoch is quiet.

GODS ACTIONS
>>4448922 Novakhet
Claimed 3 hex.
Upgraded Black Pillar to a town.

>>4448950 The Bloom
A series of infectious rays pour out from The First, darting towards and obscuring the crustacean God. But as the cloud fades, the deities' shell is unscathed...
Bones and Shell developed.
The Chimeras rampage across the southern coast, tearing through any civilian crabs they come across.

>>4449033 Tantulus
Making sure you saw >>4449057
The plague-ridden rays of divine energy cast from the decaying god are no match for your chitinous shell.
Established Stone-Claw village.
Primitive Ranged Weapons developed.
Updated Crab Mob unit.

>>4449116 Asmodel
Finally got your beast wizard on map
The meteor appears to have a plethora of quantities never seen before. It's sickly green glowing interior is hidden by a layer of black rock, a reaction to being oxidized. The material appears to slowly decay over time; it's only a matter of time before it fades. On the other hand, it appears to store an incredible amount of raw power, applicable as a power source for nearly anything. Added resource to your sheet.
Mathematics developed.

>>4449313 Grindall
Claimed 3 hex.
Irrigation developed.
Furnlatha has gifted you Literature.
Irrigation shared with Furnlatha.

>>4449874 Furnlatha
Literature shared with Grindall.
Grindall has gifted you Irrigation.
Upgraded Firstflame to a town.
Eternal Pyres developed.
Oltanite Metalworking shared with UNNIIC.
UNNIIC has gifted you Philosophy.

>>4450004 Chom and Chod
Fortitude increased to 5, with the power of the obelisk flowing through the twins' veins.
Fishing developed.
Node Stones developed. With this establishment, the complex structure of the Swamplander's society begins to feel incredibly rewarding to the snail twins. The combined weight of the swamplanders fear and adoration for their gods is one that demands much prayer, as the snails feel a reservoir of psychic power build, at the ready for the gods' command.

>>4450010 UNNIIC
Processing of the Dead developed.
UNNIIC upgraded to a town.
For the first time in a thousand eras, the beating soul of one God flows from one to another, as you subsume Tortoiseterra's divine spark. +1 to Spirit.
The remainder of the turtlefolk join underneath your leadership.
Furnlatha has gifted you Oltanite Metalworking.
Philosophy shared with Furnlatha.
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>>4451590 Qazlal
Currency and Stained Glass Mushrooms shared with Asmodel.
Asmodel has gifted you Irrigation and Cultural Ritual.
Upgraded Sanguine Keep to a town.
Pottery developed.
The strange material leaks a sickly green glow from inside, obscured by a layer of black oxidized rock. It emits raw power, radioactivity, and steadily decays at a slow rate.

>>4451678 Earis
You clever bastards. What a good index. Index (Polsarium) developed, adding resource to your character sheet.
Literature developed.

>>4451733 Americus
Government developed.
Oltanite Metalworking developed.
Ofu Divine Treaty established.

>>4452347 Thomass
Husbandry developed.
Irrigation developed.
Upgraded Gym to a town, now known as the Iron Jungle.
Medicine developed.
Regala has gifted you Carpentry and Domestication II for Falerine.
Husbandry and Irrigation shared with Regala.

>>4452451 Regala
Shared Carpentry and Domestication II with Thomass.
Thomass has gifted you Husbandry and Irrigation.
Welkomplaats upgraded to a town.
No to throwing animal riding onto it with DI, since that isn't related to your domains. However, I'll let you give the Falerine a special touch since it has DI on it.
Domestication II for Falerine developed.
Apologies that I may not have clarified this prior, but Regala does not gain the benefits of Tree Lights. As a divine being I think she gets around just fine without some lights.

>>post through discord Akros
Claimed 5 hex.
Second Home established at (27,17).
Going to hold off this trade action until you're able to get some things in thread.
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>>4452983
THEN LET ME BE YOUR ASSISTANT APE MAN> IT IS NOT HARD> I AM SO SICK OF HOMO SAPIENS THEY TAKE SO LONG FOR EVERYTHING
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>>4453033
>[MA] [DI] Claim (20, 18) and (23,16)

With most the the Meer's preeminent issues and concerns addressed, and life in the harsh deserts finally secured, one final issue becomes apparent to all who life their: The place if getting more then a little crowded. Thus, the Svirgrindall decided to expand on the Meer, growing the maze of warrens that stretch out beneath the sand like blood vessels to accommodate so many more of their kind, now and in the future.

>[MA] Expand the Meer into a Town
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>>4453043
no lole
feel free to join the discord and hangout until theres an opening (the queue is long tho), or just wait until the next boc game
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>>4453033

>[Major] Develop: Found Farfjord on 28,16

As the most northerly point of Furnlatha's domains, lying directly to the south of Shellter, the Pyrelings see need for a northern town, through which trade from the Turtlefolk (and perhaps, they whisper, someday from places and creatures further across the seas!) might flow. Thus, on an inlet that stretches into the protrusion of land, they found the town of Farfjord to act as their northernmost outpost.
>[Major] Develop: Woollen Garments
>Using: Husbandry, Weaving, Oltanite Tools and Biseax Wool
Using fleece shorn from their domesticated Biseax, the Pyrelings start learning how to weave the wool back together into complex (and sometimes even intricate!) woollen articles of clothing. The material is naturally flame resistant, which means that a Pyreling probably won't burn up his or her clothing unless they really intend to; and wearing articles woven from it a common Pyreling might grant itself a little level of basic protection against the dangers and the other elements of the world.
>[Minor][DI]: Interact with Tortoiseterra: Ignite a Tortoise Pyre
With UNNIIC departed, Furnlatha is left alone with the remnants of the corpse of the fallen Tortoise god. For a while, she stares at it, wondering how the thing can be - are the remnants of this fallen deity now fully mortal, or does some spark of the divine linger still within the massive carcass, clinging to fragments of shell and skin? But around this land, the woods are ample; so in one final act before she departs, Furnlatha sets up a Pyre for the fragments of the fallen deity. And with a brush of her divine flame, she ignites it; to burn away the lingering remnants of the fallen divinity and cleanse from the land a reminder that even gods might die, to let crackling flame absorb and consume the withered scraps of shell and skin until nothing is left of the god-remnants but fertile ashes.
>[Minor] Move: Furnlatha to 28,16
And then, once the remants of the corpse are consumed by flame, she wanders back the way she came; passing across both land and sea until she returns to the edge of her domains, and sees the new buildings rising in Farfjord.


>[Minor] Communicate: Akraties

The Pyrelings living in the northern jungles start to hear the sounds of strangers, and then the sounds of construction. A lone hunter with his Firefox companions goes to investigate the new neighbors, holding aloft his hand and letting a stream of flame whisper skyward to announce himself as he approaches toward Second Home.

Should any Akrites come out to meet them, or meet him as he arrives at the edge of their town, he would greet them by lowering his hand and extinguishing his flame. "Hello. I see you construct, so I think you think?" he states the question. "I am Fintan; a Pyreling, servant of the great flame. Who... and what... might you be?"
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Regala perched on the edge of a leaf, weightless and surrounded by a flurry of snow. Here gaze tried to pierce the mists, but the morning's fog blocked any hope of catching a glimpse of the shore across the strait. She suspected that even on a clearer day, her more mortal-esque senses would not divulge what she needed.
No, instead she relied on her Divine senses, supplemented with word of mouth from her Vrees. Strange tidings of a metal land to the south, bordering her newly claimed forests. She had heard tales of such a land from the far-exploring Vluchs as they returned home, and of their God, a great iron chariot of the sky.

She could sense it now, speeding its way towards her neighbour, the one she had yet to visit.

Well, there was a time and place for everything. She would see if this iron God could match her own speed, and let the winds carry her towards the borders of the BuffNugget's home. Even as the little mounds of muscles scampered up behind her, she turned to face the growing shadow that was the UNNIIC unit looming overhead.

She had never seen such a thing, and on instinct drew her blade. Paltry she may be before this great iron Roc, she was a Goddess, and would stand her grou-
No.

No, no. The war was over. She didn't need to- She was safe. No one would harm her here. Sheathing her blade (was that a slight tremble in her grasp?), she simply stood, waiting until the metal ship reacted in some way, for she sensed that even as her divine senses were overwhelmed with the calculations of flight, of carrying capacity and passenger maintenance, and strange and alien words; "Artificial Intelligence" "Beruka-class" "Servitors"... she knew it sensed her too.
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>>4453033

The Crab Mob moves to meet their brothers at Stone-Claw, making threatening gestures with their weapons at the chimera and altered-crabs as they pass.
>Minor Action: Crab Mob moves to Stone-Claw

Tantalus, meanwhile, is torn. Part of him is outraged beyond words at what has been done to the forms of the taken crabs, yet the fact that they still act as crabs do has him staying his claw. Keeping one eye on the taken, he begins settling in for the long haul. The Flesh-Beasts will show their true colors before long, and he *will* be ready. Not far from Stone-Claw, stone and clay and dirt are assembled into a great mound, many claws making work light as an artificial hill takes shape. Atop this hill, yet more clay and stone is piled, forming first a mound, then a ring, then a wall... And finally, a tower.
>Major Action: Build Fortress at 16:22

Meanwhile, as the crabs explore the newly claimed jungles, some begin marking their paths, leaving behind symbols either carved into wood, or written upon stone in the juices of plants or animals. These crude hieroglyphs rapidly expand in the complexities of their meaning, and it does not take long for their usage to enter the mainstream, as it were.
>Major Action: Invent Literacy, sort of
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>>4453802
Examples of Tantalian Script
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Also, seeing as I didn't use Devine Influence this turn, I'm going to say that it was used to make the fort better. How, you ask? Well, first and foremost it's built along the shoreline, West and a bit North of Stone-Claw. Second, it is built with the tides in mind, such that the area around it will flood at high tide, in addition to just being a pain in the ass to move through unless you are equally at home on land or in the water. Lastly, it is blessed to not have to worry about Erosion, which probably would never have become a factor in game but I'm guarding against it anyway.
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>>4453201
Slight addendum

>[Minor] Move God Unit to the Meer
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>>4453033

The presence of foreign blood and psychic energies flow through The Twins like colliding wells of power that culminate in something more than the sum of their divine sparks. They are beginning to glint beyond the veil of mortal understanding and believe themselves to be on the cusp of something more. Just a bit more psychic presence and they'll start looking into the deeper mysteries of The Earth Blood and The Stars.

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-Minor: Move to [21,28]
-Divine Major: The Psychic Peek. The Divinities of The World bask in the benefits of abundant trade between partners, yet they cast no eye to the isles of the southern most lands. The Twins create The Psychic Peek. The Peek is a pool in the swamps of [21,28] in which is linked to The Psychic Well of The Node Stones. While one gazes into the pool, they see the actions of gods, and peek upon their transfer of developments and divine acts. Using this, Chom and Chod begin to steal techs at the moment of their trade by watching these transactions occur.
-Major: The House Boat. As The Swamplanders are left to heir own devices, they've grown far more reliant on the gifts of The Wetlands and the bounty both the shallows and the shoreline provide. In this, some families begin to form homes upon their rafts and live in float by a bountiful body of water for a time, only to press on to the next in times of scarcity. In this, The Whole Chod Chain becomes at least somewhat inhabited.
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>>4453033
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Unit Action [God unit] - God movement to [25,6]

>Diplo: Thomass and Regala
>>4453591 >>4452347
As the vessel bid Earis and his archivists farewell, and let them resume their indexing duties, it began to journey northward once more. After spending sizable time in the middling regions of the continent, it was time to check in on the north once more. To see if any progress had been made by the other two gods it had sensed several epochs ago, before it had been diverted by the concentrations of gods that had eventually culminated in the formation of the Universal Afterlife.

Crossing over grasslands and mountain valleys, it began to detect the divine signature of the two gods from before. Designations white and cyan. It would seem they have come to similar arrangements as Americus and Earis, or Furnlatha and Grindall. Mutual cooperation, or at least, toleration of one another.

As it approached, the Astronomicon Bridge pinged the vessel of an incoming figure, leaping over tree tops and sending a flurry of snow in her wake. Aligning in space with the divine signature Cyan. The vessel could see her as it approached. She stood atop a peak of stone with a curious object in hand, moments later identified as a blade. Though unlikely to pierce the hull of the vessel in any major fashion, it was a minor comfort to see the blade returned to its scabbard after a moments contemplation on its wielder's part. Coming just short of the mountain side, with spotlights igniting and sending down light to show its full attention, the vessel spoke: "Greetings, divine entity. This units designation is UNNIIC, a Beruka-class Flying Fortress. Though I was expecting to see the one holding dominion of this land first, it is an honor to meet you. Do you require transport, or your people passage?"
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>Unit Action [Move][9,1]
The Aema Fae graciously make their way south to begin their work in protecting and expanding.
[Tech: Poison, AOE Poison, Hypnosis]
[Population: 13]

>God Unit [Move] [16,6]
>[MA][DI] Claim [16,7/17,7/17,5]
Ofu delighted with his first divine agreement conjured in this realm he suddenly throws his little arms up in the air following with a loud "woohoo!". After everything was said and done, Ofu was curious where Americus was heading so he decided to follow him. As he makes his way towards Americus, Ofu begins to feel a different divine aura similar to one of knowledge. A small drool is produced on the side of Ofu's mouth as the knowledgeable settlement begins to come to view. Ofu now thinks this is some sort of generous gift from the beautiful Americus, a very delicious gift for Ofu indeed. Without hesitation Ofu begins to dig it as he begins to shake in excitement and his divine spores spread around the land. Mushrooms big and small burst out of the ground with roots coming out of the ground twisting surrounding the biome around it. Ofu's pool of drool is beginning to set around him as he patiently waits as he stares at the settlement with hunger.

>[MA][DI] Develop: Mushroom Unit Deployment (MUD)
A rare occurrence, the calling of Ofu is received by many older purecaps, the message of unity. The many purecaps gather up near the village and just hug. Over time they all begin to slip into unconsciousness as they merge together and grow. A beautiful giant mushroom is born, with the under cap changing between purple, green, and blue. The main and only function of MUD is a deployment of newly created units/troops that go through the process of begin born then enclosed in a shell that is hard on the outside while soft in the inside. With MUD having a divine connection between it and the terraformed land, it can deploy any troop by shooting it from the stem to the tip of the mushroom cap at any occupied land.
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>[MA][DI][Create Unit]
Ofu not wanting to let his food escape will call for MUD to send forth a sizable army to assist in his hunger. Ofu sends images to MUD of what he wants to create, the image of a creature white yet covered with many red shining spots varying different sizes. A hard exoskeleton covering the body with many legs and grotesque mandibles. Ofu calls them the Hydblee pack. (Related to Bleeding Tooth Fungus)
[Tech: Durable, Agile, Fast]
[Population: 150]
[Spawn: 17,7]

>Unit Action [Move][Attack][17,6]
A number of round shells land on [16,7] then a moment of silence. A cohesive shaking ensures in the shells as the layers of the outer shell begin to open like a blooming flower. Many medium sized Hyblee come out of the deteriorating shells, many not hesitating to move towards their gods desire, the humanoid settlement, mayhem ensues.

>[MA] Irrigation
The purecaps come up with a system to transport water all around their homes and crops hopefully in increasing productivity, they begin to set the muttcaps in digging up small trenches for the water flow.
hmm I think this will be all of it

Ofu begins clapping as his minions descend upon his first victims.
"They will become my children, my food, and my playthings! I hunger for what they have so I may grow into a strong Ofu! YAY!"
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>>4453033
>MA: Create Unit: Archivists of Predation
[Tech: Index: Tugai]
[Population] 1000
The unfortunate need for security realized after an attack had already been made, a significant number of Archivists will absorb the knowledge of Index: Tugai to serve as a stop gap defensive measure. There was a reason Earis had chosen the large predator for his first true Index. They would do for now, dealing with glorified fauna like these mushrooms and any other threats in future.

>MA: Develop Mathematics using Bookmaking + Writing
The work of the Archive continues mostly unabated however, mathematics being derived to facilitate further construction. Necessary for better defenses from future assaults.

>Unit Move [Earis]: (17,6)
Sensing The Archive under assault, Earis will rush to it's defense, seeking to buy time while his minions ready themselves.

>Unit Action + DI [Earis]: Attack Hydblee Pack with Spirit (-1 for attacking directly with Spirit)
Earis, summoning up the Mist that fills his claimed lands, condenses it on the pack of Hydblee. The mist eats away at them, similar to the process of Indexing but lacking any of the gaining of knowledge. A messy solution, but a necessary one with such short measure.

>>4455055
>Communicate: Ofu
Earis adjusts his cravat after dispatching the mushrooms. "A poor first meeting indeed. You will cease your assault or be erased. This is a sacred place of knowledge meant to be shared, and I will not have you sullying it. I suppose you are the thing in the north Americus described, clever thing to have slipped past her to me. I am Earis, Grand Archivist, and I dislike my work being interfered with. I will forgive you this error if you surrender the lands you have taken from me and depart."
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>>4455055
>>4455051
UI -- Communicate move to 16, 7
>As Americus made her way south through her land and into that of Eris she felt a swell of pride in her heart. She had feared that in those cold lands she would find an enemy or that things might spiral out of control like with her meeting with Nova, but much to her relief and joy she made a new friend, Ofu, Americus muses 'he is an interesting little god so full of life and energy, but I am-' Americus is stopped cold in her travel, she faces transforms into horror as she feels as Ofu begins to lay waste to the archivists. Snuffing out the life forces of the mortals she had watched grow and loved as much as her own children. This Lasts mear moments before, she is rocketing back toward the archive, mind ablaze 'how could this have happened, why would Ofu do this, how could she have allowed this to happen!' despite her best efforts she feels as more fall in Ofu's path with every death, the knife in her heart twists ever deeper. every second she is delayed is another fresh hell as she can't do anything but urge her own body to move faster. as she finally begins to draw close to Ofu her horror only deepens the broken shells of archiveist litter the ground, ruined stucture blocks the way as panic and fear run rampent below and she stares into this maw of maddess, a small voice whispers into her ear 'it's all your fault, your a niave trusting fool' Ignoring the dark thoughts and pushing the scene below from her mind she pushes forward her heart broken, trust shattered, and resolve unwavering. When she finally reaches Ofu, she sees that Earis has already arrived. moving to stand with him she looks to Ofu, He eyes Betray nothing, her face a mask of calm, and speaks "Ofu, this is my Ally, my oldest most trusted ally, Earis, you will stop this attack now, and restore what you have taken. Then you will return north, and await for my return there. If you fail to do this, or if you continue this attack I will consider our "treaty" nullifed and breached" As she finishes speaking the flame in her torch which is usually mirthful with dances flames that speak of joy and laughter. Seems to have dimmed and darkened, into something cold, something that seems dangerously close to boarding on hateful.
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>>4454758
Regala nearly drew her blade again when the spotlights blinded her, raising a gauntlet-clad hand to shade her cyan eyes.
>"Greetings, divine entity. This units designation is UNNIIC, a Beruka-class Flying Fortress. Though I was expecting to see the one holding dominion of this land first, it is an honor to meet you. Do you require transport, or your people passage?"

Regala was, to be frank, a little stunned. A surprisingly polite, if a little forthright, entity seemed to commandeer this vessel? It's words made it seem alien in a way she couldn't place, and she couldn't get a read on the speaker either, not when she could not see them, but a sense of... well, not hostility, to be certain, could be sensed. A comfort in these strange times. Regardless, she found it's frankness refreshing, to be honest, remembering the endless rituals and niceties her ex-Pantheon had demanded whenever any two divinities deigned to speak to one another. She was a joyful goddess, but also a martial one, and such rituals had grated on both of these facets.

"Greetings to you as well, Divine Entity. Your steed is magnificent, it's light... radiant." Regala had to take a step back, the spotlights being far too bright for her. She was dismayed to find they tracked her rather quickly, however. Amidst the pool of radiance, Regala had to rely on her godly senses, telling her more of the BuffNuggets were congregating, along with the occasional Vree, who were still spending time with their neighbors to exchange information.

"I am Regala, the GiftMother, Guide to the Vrees and all who would welcome us. I bid you welcome to our lands, or rather, the lands of our muscular brethren. I am sure his divine presence will be here shortly. Perhaps you would care to leave your vessel and join us down here when he does?"
She paused a moment, the familiar snort of a Falerine catching her attention. At the back of the crowd, a Vree tried to calm a pair of the large beasts, but they seemed to sense each other's distress and unfortunately fed into each other.

"While I do not need Transport myself, my people, the kindly Vrees, do. Are you offering a method of transport, in exchange for somethi-?

The beasts were growing more frantic, and with a cry of panic, broke free. A single mighty leap clear over the crowd brought them to the one spot of comfort they could find, Regala's side. There, they snorted and stamped, eyes watchful under the blazing spotlight, keen for danger.

"Ah, well. You see, I have domesticated these noble beasts, in aims of a noble journey, but their boundless spirit and limitless energy seems constrained to too mortal a frame. I was planning to ally with the Divinity who calls this land home in an attempt to give them the means to unleash that force on their travels. Perhaps you would care to join us?
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Unit Action: Move to 16, 7
Novakhet notices the odd commotion around the Archive and resolves to visit, he had always intended to take a look at the settlements of his fellow deities regardless.

Regardless, if Qazlal insisted in flying off then he would have to come to me when he wanted something, no more chasing him down aimlessly.

MA + DI + Universal Afterlife + Sun + Death: Stellar Evolution Rank 1/10 (Swirling Cloud)

(Expected result: Begin the creation of a massive energy source fuelled by the deceased souls of every mortal that dies, filtered through the universal afterlife and entering the star only once content to pass on. This energy may then be accessed by the gods of the Conclave)

Addendum: Conclave rules, in case it comes up.
All gods involved in the creation of the Realm of Souls will be able to enter and exit the realm of the star, however Nova holds the power to restrict Americus and Earis from accessing it’s power directly, and both Americus and Earis if they vote together may stop Nova accessing its power.


Those who have completed their journey through life exit it through the and the will of Novakhet terminates them immediately as they flit through that final gate and into the realm of The Star.

Their life concluded, they become energy, pure and calm, but until now have remained still. Motes of soular dust, merely floating, for the star was not yet lit.

That sad state of affairs would end now however, for the great radiance of the Sun God sets into motion the drawing closer of these motes of dust.
Swirling into one central point, accretion accelerates as a vortex of dust forms.

The humble beginnings of the Sun of the Dead, The Mortal Star, an energy source of unprecedented scale and unlimited potential to aid him and his allies in making their wild dreams into reality, and perhaps shine light on all of creation one day.

MA Develop:
Animal Riding (Tugai)
Domesticated enough, the Dagekhet slowly begin making attempts to ride these great reptilian beasts to wherever they wish to go, making saddles of leather and scale.

MI: Trade Philosophy to Americus in exchange for Oltanite
Trade Oltanite to Asmodel in exchange for mathematics
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>>4453033
>>4454758

>MA+DA - Falerine boosted with Festivity Domain, aiding Thomass and UNNIIC in making them speedy flyers.
As Regala, Thomass and UNNIIC bent their divine wills on the Falerine, the mortals around them would see the noble creatures bathed in shimmering light. What would be the result!? Regala could barely wait.

>MA - Develop Tanning/Leatherworking
Several Vree begin to concoct various foul mixes, of rotting Pine Wood and rancid Black Pomes. Into these mixes, they soak the hides of the beasts and fish they have tamed. Leathers ranging from the sturdy Woradine hides to the fine and supple Tritonic Carp skin begin to circulate. One brew, that of noxious Barlow, dies the Leather a brilliant red, and bright red clothes become fashionable among the Vree.

>MI - Trade UNNIIC. Give Falerine Domestication, receive Hatchery.
In the warmest climes, down in the oaken forests of Regala's lands, UNNIIC's gifted technology takes root. Seaside pools of swimming mollusks, their 8 arms mesmerizing any Vree who looks too long.

>God Unit Move - 28,9 to 25,6
Regala moves to intercept the flying UNNIIC, meeting them and Thomass just south of the muscular god's capital.

>Vluchs Unit Move - 28,7 to 29,9
>Wizard Gehaim Move - 29,7 to 29,9
The returning Vluchs and the mysterious Gehaim find themselves walking the last stretch of narrow forest paths that lead to the growing Town of Welkomplaats. The Vree congregate around the cloaked figure, sniffing their masks and flowing red robes.
"What's it like?" One of the Vree asks.
"Painful." Hisses Gehaim, in a voice that is neither male or female. "But... freeing, in a way. It is dangerous, what I have. I would not share it."
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>>4453033
>[MA] Develop Wheeled Vehicle from animal riding + mathematics
With the develoment of the wheel to produce carts to carry things around with ease we decided to apply our recent knowledge to modify it so we can use animal force to carry it instead.
>[MA] Create Unit Apophis Scouts (Butantan)
[pop: 1402] [tech : Whitestone tools, Animal Riding(Tugai)]
After the death of the previous unit it's about time a stronger force is created to protect the land and explore new ones
-[MI] Trade Mathematics with Novakhet
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>>4455204
>The old skeleton smells death as he approaches, death and magic.
>His noble robes are swept and worn through his unwise trek through the sea, and his concentration rather dimmed, keeping his body only partially animate while he begins to manipulate the tremendous amounts of energy swimming around the void in which the star will one day be born.

>Along his journey he seems to have picked up a rather dull but undeniably determined Dazawk, sitting on his shoulder and attempting to peck into his marrow, to no avail.

>Novakhet approaches both Ofu and the goddess as Americus finishes off her ultimatum, remaining silent but making his existence known, his eyes dimmer than their usual light as his spark is too busy elsewhere to keep the lights on properly in the real world.
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>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Diplo: Regala
>>4455688
With her discomfort from the spotlights apparent, the vessel dimmed them slightly, "This Vessel is already present. Leaving before the third arrives would invalidate the purpose of him coming here."

"This vessel acts as an ark to preserve and tend to the Passengers. You may request either temporary transport or permanent Passengership for yourself or your Vree. Simple transport would require a payment of sorts, though this has already been addressed by you for the time being. One servitor left in wait for the vessel's return reported a collective of organisms, now identified as Vree, depositing an amount of Oltar ore several epochs ago. This has been recovered and is being processed as we speak. This vessel assumes it was your people's doing, and as such would constitute payment for future transport if requested. Passengership however is free and encouraged."

"Based on your own method of locomotion, and your interest in supplying transport for your Vree, is it correct to assume you wish some degree of psuedo-flight for these beasts? Such creatures do not seem to express overly aerodynamic properties, their forms more suited for large strides across the lands. However, this vessel's domains might be of use in this situation should a sample be retained for our own uses."
"As far as the latter offer goes, the ability for proper use and domestication of the species would be requested. Would an exchange of technique on raising Pallipods for ink or sustenance suffice? A small sample population will be provided as well in exchange for the Falerine."
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>>4453033
>>4455995
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Develop] [DI] - Experiment with the Falerine to grant them additional mobility and possibly flight. Using - Travel Domain, Flight Domain, Falerine, Falerine Domestication 2, Animal Riding, and assistance from Regala and possibly Thomass.
>Major: [Develop] - Airship Cartography. Though easy enough to notate landforms and geography from above, a rudimentary mapping of observed prevailing winds and jet streams is also often included on more clustered and comprehensive UNNIIC maps. Using - Literature, Knowledge of The Ancients, and the fact that I am, indeed, an airship.

>Minor: Gift small Pallipod population with Regala for hatchery
>Minor: Share Hatchery Tech with Regala, in exchange for Falerine Domestication 2

>Minor: Offer Thomass Cartography in exchange for Medicine. Perhaps a fellow travel god would appreciate the ability to show where all you've been.

An intriguing offer. An interesting hypothesis to put to the test. The Vessel had only assumed itself and those of specific biological design were capable of flight. The rocks and land features deep within its own domain simply floated in the air rather than flew, borne aloft from its own divine might. To grant this potential to another object or creature could have numerous applications should it prove successful.

Meanwhile, the astronomicon bridge had been working in tandem with the vessel and a selection of Turtlefolk to create a map of the world that had thus far been explored. Utilizing their long memory and the many places the ship itself had traveled and observed, the first maps of the world would begin production. Along with the general features of maps, additional features were often added to maps used within UNNIIC's settlement, including the rough patterns of winds and air currents they had experienced on their journey.
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Rolled 7, 1, 10 = 18 (3d10)

>>4456291
Swore I had put the dice in the thing.
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>>4454758
The hulking fortress was fascinating to Thomass as it could fly. This meant easier traveling and Thomass loved travel. "Hi Thomass help metal muscle?"

>>4456291
>Minor act Offer Accepted
Thomass has his buff nuggets make maps where they travel.

>Mgr Act develop DI
Expand the muscle power of the Falerine for optimal physique allowing more powerful feats.

>Mgr Act develop chemistry
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>>4456072
-[MI] Move Asmodel to 18,9
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>>4456365
Forgot trip
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>>4453033
>MA develop metal weapons of war—oltanite metal
For epochs mankind has lived in peace and prosperity, enjoying the fruits of there labor and wise guidance of there mother Goddess. A way of life that has come crashing down, There Goddess had told them that there oldest and closest ally the Archivists had been attacked without provocation already many are dead and if something isn’t done many more will. For the first time, in human history, humanity Prepares for war, staffs are made into spears, wood axes are modified into great axe’s and battle Axes, War hammers, swords of metal, and bows of wood and fletch. The sleeping giant had awoken.

>MA raise an army of 2000 humans armed with the latest in human war equipment
Armed with the best humanity has to over, trained as well as a peacetime force can be, the best and brightest have come to answer their goddess call.

UI/DI nullify treaty 1/3, through freedom Americus begins to nullify her treaty with the Betrayer Ofu

Communication/trade taking place before Ofu’s attack and Americus's movement.
Americus sensing asmodel the goddess of darkness, she sends a God pulse TM to her asking if she would like to trade, Americus will give Government if Asmodel can provide Mathematics.

trade Americus and Nova
Americus after trading with Asmodel, and once the danger of Ofu was made clear told her humans to provide oltanite to Nova in exchange for what he could offer.
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>>4456372
-[MI] Trade Mathematics with Americus
Feeling a pulse from far away, the goddess discovers it's a message from the goddess of life asking if they can trade, which she confirms the deal.
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Rolled 5, 10 = 15 (2d10)

>>4456372
>Punished Americus, incoming
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>>4456364
Another divine signature soon crested the mountain and joined the ad hoc meeting of gods. Clearly he was familiar with the elven one to have walked up beside her so casually without causing her to draw her blade. Humanoid, but most decidedly a being of far greater proportions and concentrations of muscles than the others the vessel had encountered thus far.

"Greetings, designation Thomass, this unit's designation is UNNIIC. Assistance is always appreciated by both this vessel and those within it. Do you or your buff nuggets require transport? Or would any like to sign up for permanent Passengership?"
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>>4455204
Ofu giggles in glee
"You silly beautiful goddess, you can't break a promise we have just recent made. The divine promise was between you and I, we wouldn't act aggressive with each other or your people. There was nothing in our promise about these humans radiating their masters aura. Let's watch the outcome together, shall we? Who will come on top my pets or the thousand strong warriors he has created?"
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>>4456499
“It seems Americus has had a run in with another sibling.”
>The dimly glowing skeleton crouches down to examine the rather small god
“You have met my sister evidently, likely Earis as well, tell me about yourself if you care to.”

>the bird on his shoulder squawks, unhappy
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>>4453033
>MA-DI [CLAIM] - 15.21 ; 16.21 ; 17.20 ; 17.21 ; 17.22
>MA [Develop] - Animal riding
>Moves
The First to 16.22
Chimeras A from 17.22 to 20.23
Chimeras B from 14.21 to 16.22
Beast masters from 18.21 to 15.20
>Mi actions for chimeras B
Attack the crab unit if it tries to leave.

The crab had left, using the army he bought with him he was constructing a fortress on the coast. Was it a peace effort? Doubtful. Neverless he left and that was an opportunity.
Deploying the power given to him, the First began to revitalize the jungle the crab had defiled. The Bloom was still there in the ground and trees, in the birds and critters. With every step the First took toward the fortress of Tantalus the forest behind took back it's meaty color. Plant-Flesh filled with new blood, muscle growing back where they wilted.
The crab would be stopped from interfering, peace was to be maintened in the Bloom's garden.
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>>4456868
Sadden at the sight of the deity intervening in the battle between his pets and theirs. Without turning away as he stares with concern and anticipation.
"I crave growth in body, mind, and spirit. Seeking to grasp on things that might help me. Once I get a hold of something I crave the most then it's hard for me to let go...like the part of me that covers my land.

Ooooo, are you someone that seeks death or leads it? You might like to watch what is about to unfold here, want to sit next to me?"
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>>4457982
“I might like to sit down and rest, I thank you for the offer...”

“This has been a long, long epoch, and even still I exert myself as I whirl the dead around...”
>The bird pecks novakhet again as he goes to sit down, the skeleton clasps it in both hands and extinguishes it’s life

“Your desires are strange, but I have met stranger beings still. I am Novakhet, the god of death, and I suppose I cannot resist saying again that I was the Sun, before it was cool.”

“I intend only to watch the carnage you have wrought here, not get involved, little brother of mine.”
“Though I may feel the need to bury some of the bodies.”

“Needless death is such a shame.”

>The skeleton lifts the chin of the deceased bird, springing it back to life.
>It gives a confused squawk and flies off in a flap, the lights in the eyes of the skeleton dimming and lightning again as if he blinked
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Tech trading has been nerfed, as it has long since needed. Minor action trades are now 1 tech, increasing to a maximum of 3 with major actions.
Forgot about some obelisk reveals last update, so some of them may now pop up in already owned hex. Whoops.
Added snippet in the Spirit attribute to include the -1 penalty with direct attacks, that was earlier declared in the /boc/ discord.
Players can now hold a maximum of 30 mana at a time.
Level up rules remain a WIP.

WORLD EVENTS
A large hurricane begins to billow through the south-eastern sea.
Qazlal and Akros are absent this epoch and will receive double the major actions the following epoch.

GODS ACTIONS
>>4453201 Grindall
Claimed 2 hex.
The Meer upgraded to a town.

>>4453569 Furnlatha
Established Farfjord.
Woollen Garments developed.
From the ashes of Tortoiseterra's pyre, Furnlatha makes an interesting discovery. The burnt remnants of Tortoiseterra have an identical composition as the dustsod encountered in the lands ravaged by locusts. The God's ashes appear all the same, albeit maintaining a sliver of divine energy. Given time, perhaps the two materials will be no different.

>>4453802 Tantulus
Fortress constructed.
Literacy developed.

>>4454286 Chom and Chod
The Psychic Peek developed and established at [21,28].
To summarize discussion from /boc/ on its effects:
>So long as Chom and Chod begins or ends their turn at The Psychic Pool and do not involve themselves in war nor trade during the epoch, the twins may use Node Stones to spy on and gain the first two tech traded that epoch as a non-DI minor action. If more than two tech are involved in a trade the twins spy on, the selected tech will be randomized. Chom and Chod can only gain the benefits of this gained tech if they meet the tech and resource prerequisites, becoming NULL until said prerequisites are met. Node Stones cannot be used for anything else during the same epoch The Psychic Pool is used.
House Boats developed.
Peeked Philosophy and Oltanite Metallurgy.

>>4455051 Ofu
Claimed 3 hex.
MUD developed.
Hydblee pack established and deployed to [17,7].
As the pack blooms, amongst the group of Hydblee stands a particularly large and powerful Yamaca, wielding power to command nearby beasts, a Beast Wizard!
The Hydblee pack tears through the entrance to The Archive, as the agile invaders feed upon the archivists within, killing 400 minions. (Damage dealt to civilian minions in settlements is doubled, for anyone wondering why its fairly high).
Irrigation developed.
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>>4455175 Earis
With haste, the Archivists assume the forms of Tugai with its Index. Archivists of Predation established and produced.
Within the group of Archivists selected for this task, one appears to exemplify knowledge beyond the Index, with the powers to manipulate any water. You have gained a Water Wizard!
Mathematics developed.
As The Hydblee swarm through The Archive, Earis must take care with his deathly mist form as to not harm his own Archivists. The mushrooms' sturdy frame and quick pace makes them difficult targets as they ravage the settlement, but even so Earis managed to eliminate a third of their group. (50/150 minions killed)

>>4455943 Novakhet
An obelisk is unveiled in the black deserts of (16,11).
Stellar Evolution 1/10 developed.
I approve of the plan set out in your /boc/ god channel, looks nifty and fun.
Animal Riding developed.
Philosophy shared with Americus.
Oltanite Metallurgy shared with Asmodel.
Asmodel has gifted you Mathematics.

>>4455995 Regala
As the three Gods enforce their divine will, the Falerine are transformed into something truly marvelous. Ribbon and carpets decorate their noble and sophisticated stature; their physique is enhanced and made most efficient for increased speed and endurance; and with a string of divinity strewn into their being, they possess the magical ability to innately gallop through the skies.
Magic Falerine developed. +2 to speed in units, and may fly over rough terrain effortlessly. Feel free to give them a more creative name.
Leatherworking developed. Nice flavor for the red.
Domestication shared with UNNIIC.
UNNIIC has gifted you Pallipods and Hatchery.

>>4456072 Asmodel
Novakhet has gifted you Oltanite Metallurgy.
Wheeled Vehicle developed.
Apophis Scout unit produced from Butantan, with updated statistics.
Mathematics shared with Novakhet.
Mathematics shared with Americus.
Americus has gifted you Government.
The Gift continues to spread amongst the Gorgons, gifted individuals now making up 50% of the total population.

>>4456291 UNNIIC
Regala has gifted you Domestication of Falerine.
Magic Falerine developed. Check Regala's post for details.
Airship Cartography developed.
Pallipods and Hatchery shared with Regala.
Thomass has gifted you Medicine.

>>4456364 Thomass
UNNIIC has gifted you Cartography.
Medicine shared with UNNIIC.
Magic Falerine developed. Check Regala's post for details.
Chemistry is missing Education as a prerequisite, I'll let you have this MA back for next turn.
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>>>>4456372 Americus
An obelisk is unveiled in the piney woods of (13,4).
Overpopulation finally begins to catch up to Americus, as many humans face starvation and poverty.
Oltanite Weapons developed.
Unnamed unit established and one unit produced.
Americus begins to cautiously unweave the binding threads of divine energy from the enchantment Ofu and her share. It is not an easy task, and feels as though she is disarming a bomb that could detonate at any moment. But alas, she manges to succeed thus far.
Treaty nullification 33% complete.
Novakhet has gifted you Philosophy.
Asmodel has gifted you Mathematics.
Oltanite Metallurgy shared with Novakhet.
Government shared with Asmodel.

>>4457901 The Bloom
Claimed 4 hex. Captured an obelisk.
Animal Riding developed.
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>>4457992
Americus, who has been silent since Ofu's reply working to nullify the treaty calmly, coldly turns her head to Novakhet and says "You came all this way, not help, but watch. Earis assisted us, in the creation of the universal afterlife, I thought you a ally after that, even if we had our differences we could come together for the betterment of the world and each other, bow now in his hour of need you choose come not to help, watch as he is forced him stand alone." Americus's flame has turned from a hateful dim red and orange glow, to a baleful, sickly flickering blue and black flame.
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>>4455055
>Communicate: Ofu
As the haze of battle cleared somewhat, Earis will notice a pulse of divine energy similar to his newly printed Patron Archivist of Hydroponics. He'll turn to face the Mushroom god, displeased that he was chatting with Novakhet and not acknowledging his offer of peace. "If you would prefer, I will be magnanimous. Depart these lands and I won't even ask you to take the effort of cleaning your taint off the surroundings. Instead, I will take that remarkable mushroom specimen on (17, 7) to be Indexed."

>>4458041
>Communicate: Amercius
Seeing the fuming Americus, he'll take a short period of time to walk over to her, giving her a sudden embrace. "Regain your composure, I am glad to see he did not harm you at least. Do not bicker with Novakhet on this matter, by the time he arrived I already had the situation well under control." He'll laugh, letting go and reaching up to pat her on the head. "I had hoped to show you the estate I built for you here, now I must only hope the mushrooms did not destroy it. Forgive me again for being such a poor host."
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>>4458041
“I came to watch, of course, that is my duty. To be there for souls who pass on.”

“I do not consider Earis weak, in need of my protection, he is my equal, friend, in the matter of combat I consider him even superior.”
“These old bones are not made for war, Americus, I do not rush to it so quickly as you do. I despise pointless conflict, because I truly know death.”

“If he needed help and called upon my aid you could be certain I would arrive with endless legions of all the finest warriors throughout history, a surprising amount of which are crabs... I wonder what is happening elsewhere...”
“But this is not his hour of need, sister, I think him more than capable of facing down this misguided child.”

>Novakhet remains silent for a while, as the bird returns to perch on his shoulder and attack his face through pecking

>He speaks again, quieter
“I do so wish we wouldn’t fight so often, every time we meet...”
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>>4458017
I lost my fucking post going back to try and see what techs Grindall did or didn't have, fuck me running.
>Major Action: Raise a new unit of Crabs from Stone-Claw the Village

>Major Action (Divine Influence): Using domains over Shores and Tropics, develop Mystic Coral! Tantalian structures incorporating this coral will see those resting within recovering noticeably faster from injury or disease*, and be slightly harder to destroy.

>Minor Action: Gift Pottery to Grindall

*Suck it, Rottytops!
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>>4458100
New Crab Mob unit from Stone-Claw, FUCK.
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>>4458061
Americus was taken by surprise as the smaller god embraced her and her aching heart was soothed by his words and demeanor, her flame turn from their unnatural dark hue to back to red and orange the flames dancing somberly. Americus then turned and properly embraced Earis again lifting him into a tight hug saying "I am so sorry Earis, this is all my fault, he must have followed me south after our dealings, he tricked me into agreeing to a non-aggression packed. so that I would't be able to do anything against him. He acted kind and carefree portraying himself as a lover of life, not a war monger. Now I am powerless to stand with you against him lest I envoke the curse we agree to for breaking the packed. I truly am a naive trusting fool." americus cries silently while embacing Earis for a short time before as he suggested compossing herself and sets him back down.

>>4458063
Turning you Novakhet Americus walks to him, having heard his words and taken them to heart, her emotions clamed and clearity restored "I am sorry to you as well Novakhet, I allowed myself to be overcome by my hurt and angry at Ofu's actions. I was wrong to say such things to you your duty to motrals is important and needed. But your wrong I do now death Nova I know it all to well, I have watched and weeped for countless generations of my childern grow live and die my childern who I have watch grow into what they are now. while the archiviests are not my childern, I have spent much time here and seen them grow and prosper as well and to see this devistation, this death it hurts as much as if they where my own. I to dispise pointless conflict but to me this fight I can't partake is isn't pointless Nova. I know Earis can take care of himself but I view you both as my allies, to me that mean any attack on either of you is an attack on myself. I would charge south to your aid just as readly as I would to Earis's with the armies mankind at my back." Americus's distress is clear on her face "But now because of my own damned foolishness and trusting nature I am powerless to do anything I can only stand and watch. Standing with a friend, even if they don't need the help is a isn't pointless Nova, it is just what you because it's right." Americus let's a silance hang for a moment be for saying "...I heard what you said at the end, and I also wish we didn't fight everytime we meet, I greatly enjoyed descussing the finer details of the afterlife with you and all the planning it intailed we had some great ideas," with a sad smile americus continues "can you for give me Novakhet"
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>>4458023
Returning at long last to the Meer, Grindall is quite impressed by what he finds. The new christened town, it seems, is bustling with new faces and strange developments. His deal with the blazing goddess Furnlatha, it seems, is paying dividends as he watches one of his people wave a strange spear tipped with metal in happiness at his return, and as he guzzles some of the strange concoction offered to him by another, it seems the encounter with the strange crustaceans he's informed of soon after had been well-received too. When he sees the crops, however, and the great underwater cisterns they have constructed to sustain them, he's struck with an idea, a means by which they may benefit even more from these two new developments.

Already, he seems small fungi beginning to form in the the cavern, the underwater lake a perfect breeding ground for their kind. Just as he'd suspected. Take on small mushroom up in his hands tenderly, he transplants it to the center of the small, empty plain that had been left off to the side of the cistern, where they worked to draw the water they needed to sustain the plants above. Then, the god concentrated, drawing on his divine spark for a purpose he had yet to exercise: Creation. As a rough, brown light began to leak from the tips of his claws, the mushroom began to change. It's began to grow, slowly, but picking up speed, growing faster and faster, until it was nearly the size of the god himself. It's stalk thickened as it's head began to expand outward, growing fleshier along with the rest of the mushroom.

As the god finished at last an absolutely massive specimen of a mushroom laid before him, near as tall as he and thicker around then any Svirgrindall. At last he turned around to face his people, who'd been looking on in astonishment as the strange new development took place.

"Liked what ye'd done with those plants up above, but they're not exactly ideal for this environment, aye? So, I took advantage 'o these great big caves ye'd made, and grew something I reckoned would survive well here." With a grandiose flourish, the god presented his newest creation to the assembled Svirgrindall. "I reckon I'll call em Belcaps."

>[MA] [DI] In a Divine act of creation, Grindall modifies a pre-existing mushroom species into a new large crop fungus, the Belcap
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>>4458227
While most were simply happy to cultivate, grow, and eat the newly made crop of their god, which flourished in the moist plains around the cisterns, one Svirgrindall looked upon them, and saw a different sort of potential. He, more then any of his people, had become enamored with the strange new drink that had been gifted to them by the crabs. Unfortunately, it was in short supply, especially as of late, with most of the crabs having departed West for something that they had hopefully interpreted correctly to be some sort of big fight. Still, before they had left, this particular Svirgrindall had been able lay eyes on the production methods of the crabs' strange concoction, watching as they had left the sweet liquid they'd called honey in the great clay pots their people fashioned, waiting for weeks on end before finally popping open the lid and revealing, to the mole man's shock, the drink they'd dubbed mead.

And so, as he watched industrious Svirgrindall cultivate great fields of the newly christened Belcaps, he knew exactly what to do with them. Taking one of the great clay pots, which he'd traded out of one of the crustaceans just this epoch, he lugged it towards the field as some Svirgrindall stopped their work for a moment, watching as the strange fellow approached. When he requested a couple of Belcaps, well, it was a bit of an odd request, to ask for them directly from the source, they saw no reason not to oblige him, and handed them over easily enough. Now, he needed to devise a way to transform these into what he needed. Simply tossing them in the pot with some water, he suspected, wouldn't do it. They'd decompose, certainly, but not in the way he wanted. So, he took his claws to them, shredding and smashing the Belcaps as other Svirgrindall looked on in confusion, until he finally had them powdered to his satisfaction. That done, he poured the newly destroyed remains into the top of the pot, before approaching one of the great underwater lakes and filling the pot with water from it. Then, he rested the pot against the wall....and wandered off. Perplexed, the other Svirgrindall watched him go for a moment before turning their attention to the pot. They could do something about it, they supposed, or report the odd occurrence to Grindall himself, but, well, it wasn't as if the pot was in their way where it sat, and the purposeful actions of their fellow mole, however, strange, were enough to convince them that he had some sort of plan in mind. So, they resumed their work and paid it no further mind.

>Cont'd
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>>4458257
And so the pot sat there for three whole weeks, a strange, but mostly unremarked upon oddity in the massive cavern, which had been further expanded to allow for the growth of more of the Belcaps. Until, finally, a familiar face reappeared. Walking up to the pot with a look of giddy anticipation on his face, the Svirgrindall popped open the lid, and coughed at the smell that hit him, his eyes watering. Still, he persisted, taking a sip of the newly brewed concoction. Even as he coughed it up almost immediately, he quickly began cheering. Even if it was leagues stronger and stranger tasting then before, he'd still felt that fuzzy sensation even as it travelled down his throat.

>[MA] Taking inspiration from the mead created by the people of Tantalus, one enterprising Svirgrindall uses the newly created Belcaps to brew his own form of alcohol, which he christens 'Belwar'.
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>>4458264
Ah shit, forgot

>[Minor Action] Trade Tantalus the Metallurgy Tech and trade Furnlatha the Alcohol Tech
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>>4458017

>MA+DI - Celebrate the Comet's Passing
Regala feels that her Vree do not have enough to celebrate, and senses that since a set amount of Epochs have passed, it is time to set aside some days to celebrate what has come to pass. The comet's green light, a fading memory in most Vree's minds, is still vivid in Regala's. She sets about infusing her realm with a reflection of the time it flew overhead, creating a string of emerald auroras that dazzle the sky once a year. These nights are typically spent in the skies, watching the snow-blanketed world glitter below them.

>MA - Develop Animal Riding
The Vrees are smitten with the new breed of magical Falerine brought back by Regala, and find their empathic powers connect quite easily with the magnificent beasts, and soon enough the sight of Vree on the newly dubbed Falrethuns soaring through the winter skies is commonplace.

>God Unit Move - 25,6 to 29,9
Regala bids her new friends adieu, and returns for some much needed celebration.

>Unit Change
Mounted Vluchs Unit 1
Pop - 100
Tech - Parting Gifts, Falrethuns (Animal Riding), Literature (Leatherworking / Pallipod Ink), Cooking.

Same techs applies to Gehaim. Can you add Pop to a Wizard unit? If yes, then add 99 or 100, whatever increases his HP as a unit.

>Tech Trade - Give Leather-working to Thomass, receive Philosophy.
On the edge of hexes 26,4 and 26,5 sits a line of Pine trees, cut as if by a knife. Their branches show nary a snowflake for most of the year, but mere metres away, winds and ice howls along a rolling Tundra.
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>>4459179
cont...
This spot is popular for both Vrees and Buffnuggets, and many a small abode has sprung up on both sides. It is in one of these homes, a log cabin squatting on the frozen landscape, that we find a curious pair. A Vree, her auburn hair held in to large ribbons, intently watches a boiling kettle. The small kettle soon begins to pop and hiss, and she quickly lifts it off the flame, pouring a dark liquid into two sets of wooden pink cups.
A small plate of sliced meats joins the cups on a tray, and a quiet hum follows her as she exits the small kitchen. Her yellow dress stands out in the dark hallways she trots through, past the scatterings of leatherbound books that litter her halls. She snatches one, tucking it under arm, and presses on.
"I'm back! I hope you don't mind trying a new brew I've made?" She said, stepping through a small doorway into a well lit room.
"Not at all Ms. Caris! I look forward to it!" Her guest said, rising to his feet. The towering Buffnugget, refined muscles lean and ready, stepped forward, gently taking the tray from the Vree. "I see you brought one!"
Caris smiled, offering the book to the curious humanoid. "Yes, we call them 'books'. The animal skins are treated to make them soft and supple, and then written upon. Those pages, specifically, are made of Tritonic Carp skin, while the covering is Poddox leather."
"Fascinating!" The muscular Fitlit said, taking a seat after his host did. As the Vree smoothed her dress, Fitlit opened the book, examining the pages, then began reading what was on them.
"Now, my Vreenish is a little rusty." He said jokingly, earning a small grin from Caris. Fitlit was a master of language, and regularly composed writings in both Vreenish and his own tongue. "But I do understand this is a manual on how to produce such fine... leathers, you call them?"
"Indeed." Caris said, picking up her fragrant pink cup and sipping at the liquid. She continued on, sitting up straight and looking up at Fitlit over the rim of her cup. "I was hoping you would tell me more of that fascinating idea you had if I bribed you."
"Ever the gracious host. I look forward to making fine books of my own!" Fitlit smiled, setting the book aside. He delicately reached down (he was far too tall for this entire building, and had to perch on the chair he sat on, extending his arm nearly straight down to reach anything on the table) and picked up one of the slices of raw fish, which he enjoyed immensely. Taking the tiny cup in his massive hands, he examined it thoughtfully.
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>>4459181
cont...
"Rosewood, yes?" He questioned, and Caris nodded.
"It helps flavor the drinks, giving it a lovely after taste." She explained, to which Fitlit nodded appreciatively, taking a hearty swig of the hot drink.
"It's... ugh. Um. Lovely." He choked out, tears pricking at the corners of his eyes. "What, exactly, is it?"
Caris nodded, sipping her own drink slowly. "It's a new idea I'm trying. Fermented Black Pome, mixed with Barlow extract, Pallipod oil, and suffused with some mushrooms I found on a Shroomstalk earlier. It is-" and she sipped the last of her drink. "-absolutely disgusting. More?"
"Please! No, no thank you." Fitlit said hurriedly, chuckling nervously. Caris smiled good naturedly, and brought out a much more palatable fruit juice for the giant to drink.
"Now, before you tried to poison me." Fitlit began, to which Caris raised an eyebrow. "Yes, that was an act of war, Ms Caris, that drink was THAT bad! But regardless, I will still share with you an idea. Why I do the things I do. Let me explain..."

There was much talk of lifting heavy things up, and putting them down elsewhere, but carefully, so as not to damage the Gym floor, and then of much reading of also very heavy stone tablets, and Caris wasn't sure she understood what it was all about. But she would try, and that was equally important.
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>>4458023
After living many epochs in a tribalistic hierarchy with the main enforcers of order being the shamans, the gorgons used their newly acquired knowledge and the blessing of their goddess to form an Aristocracy Government, chosen from the intellectual, martial and industrial elite of the population.
With this settled, one of the major tasks is dealing with the individuals infected by the bloom. Although they remain loyal, their irresponsible distribution of the so called gift has reached a dangerous rate so the new nobility formed a council to think of a solution for this issue. In the end they finally reached a conclusion : the infected should cease "gifting" healthy individuals until the situation normalises or they'll be sent to prison camps outside of the settlements for a short time and if they continue to desobey the order capital punishment will be applied.

>[MA] Develop Syrconite Metalworking
Gorgons continue to improve their metalwork.

>[MA] Develop Syrconite Weapons
With this stronger metal we shall improve from our primitive hunting gear and use better weapons which are much needed for the new implemented action.

-[MI] equip Apophis Scout with Syrconite Weapons and Wheeled Vehicle(Tugai), remove tools.

-[MI] Move Asmodel to 23,8
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>>4459445
-[MI] Trade Mathematics with UNNIIC for Cartography
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>>4459445
-[MI] Equip Apophis Scout with cartography
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>>4458017
Let's start off with Units movements

>MI [Move] Beast masters to Myxoma
>Change "Beast masters" to "Sea masters"
Tech: Symbiosis, Animal riding, Rexus; 150 pop

>MI [Move] Chimeras A to Safe-cove
>MI [Interact] Chimeras A - Destroy Safe-cove

>MI [Interact] Chimeras B - Butcher the newly formed Crab unit

>MI-DI The First - Block the exit of Stone-claw fortress

And now for the Majors:
>MA [Develop] - Metallurgy

>MA - Create Unit "Kaiju"
Tech: Symbiosis, Bones and Shell, Tugais, Spider. 1000 pop -> One Kaiju


In the jungles, gardeners are at work. Their bones, teeth, nails and tools are starting to show their limits, a stronger material like the hard rocks found deep in the mountains was needed, alas a unknown being was chasing them outside of them, jealous of the stones hidden within. It's influence ever more present over the whole mountain range. Fortunately some of that greenish rock they found on the surface was still in their possession, It would still be a good beginning to learn how to shape those ore best. Melting them down was quite an adventure, trying initially to make oven out of the bones proved to be a bad idea, numerous tries later, a mix of clay and bone powder was finally used making oven more than able to withstand the heat needed to melt the metal.

On the south coast however, all peace offers with the Crab ended with naught. It was unfortunate but if coexistence was impossible then the threat to the Bloom's existence was to be destroyed. All over the coast, swarms of Chimeras began to surge over crabs settlements, trampling over buildings, burrows, and crabs indiscriminately.

Leaving the manual labor to his Chimeras, The First instead turn his attention toward the fortress where Tantalus lies. Now that the jungle around them is brimming the the Gift, the time to use it has come. Weaving the Bloom's power, the First call upon the plants and animals nearby, roots and branch extend, some Trees even unearthing themselves feeling the summon, birds and critter abound, stray Tugais show themselves. With this misshapen mob assembled, the First start weaving, Flesh is clay, Bone is wax, Life is malleable. With each of his strokes a fence grow a bit more, slowly blocking the fortress from the outside. Soon a wall of wood and muscles, of herb and bones, cover the entrance. As a finishing touch, the First calcify the whole things, hardening it, making it resistant to outside force. (Spirit roll if you need it for that)
"This may not hold you for a very long time Crab, but it shall be enough..."
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>>4459781
Enough for their reinforcement to come indeed, for in myxoma a new creature was rising, a true champion of their people, if the gardeners were the Bloom's flower, then it would be the Bloom's tree, overlooking the garden. Hundreds and hundreds of Gardeners started to join each others, bringing with them tugais and spiders, becoming one. Soon the creature stood up, far taller than the tallest tree, it was both a single being and a multitude. A mass of both gifted plants and animals. Nests of poisonous spiders could be found all over, adorning it. The first Kaiju of the world, Cass-ise, was born and it was looking east toward Stone-Claw.
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>>4459179
Fitlit brings a world of confusion and clarity all at once to the Vree as he explains the essence of thought and how much of it is autonomous. "How much of you is truly you and how much is just the body existing? Is your nice personality of choice or is it a natural tactic to exist easily socially? We strive to know why so that we understand our autonomous and non autonomous actions and flow with clarity and freedom." Were Fitlit's words truly deep or were they simply long winded ways of explaining basic human nature, that in and of itself is only something the Vree learn herself as she takes a journey into her and all of Vree Philosophy.
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>>4456477
Thomass waving goodbye to the Legend muscle Vree turns back to the Flying Metal muscle. "HA HA you big flying metal muscle. Thomass like you and travel because you like passengers which mean travel. If Thomass wanna travel with you we fly together sound fun?"
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>>4458017
>>4456291
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Claim] [DI] [Polsarium Boosted 2/3] - [22,4], [24,8], [25,8], [26,19], [27,18], [27,19]
>Unit Action: [God Unit] [Polsarium Boosted 1/3] - Move 8 hexes down to [25,14]
>Major: [Develop] - Seafaring - Using Airship Cartography, Astronomy, Solgrass Weaving, wood, and Oltar and Oltanite Metalworking

>Unit Action: [Astral Wizard] - The Astronomicon Bridge is ordered to gaze upon the night sky and begin tabulating it, creating a record of occurrences and predictions of when future astral events will occur.
>Minor: Trade Cartography for Math with Asmodel

This Polsarium is a powerful source of energy. However, it has been steadily decaying since its acquisition. Now that the indexing of its material is accomplished, the ship determines it is better to use it now before it deteriorates any further. As such, the remaining rocks are quickly drained of their energy and used to fuel the ship directly for this epoche, enabling it a far greater capacity to lay claim to the world and travel at far greater speeds than it had known.

As the ship reaches coordinates [25,12], it comes across a rather large collective of Turtlefolks on the beaches of its domain. For a time, the ship remains here, to allow new Passengers to board if desired, or let off only temporary transported minions. And of course to restock up on various goods.
During its stay, the ship notices several large groups of Turtlefolk struggle to keep their serpent-propelled rafts together. After some consideration, it opts to, along with the sharing of cartography with the locals, introduce a more long-term seaworthy craft. The basic vessel structure is composed mainly of wood, using an Oltar coating on the bottom of the hull to prevent growths and damage to the wood underneath. Ropes and miniture sails of solgrass are used, along with a several sets of oars for more manual propulsion. With this, the turtlefolks who did not choose Passengership will still be able to travel across the eastern ocean and between the ever growing docking points.

While the ship is also there, it hears the small amounts of trading between the local turtlefolk and the few frontiersmen of the Gorgons. To assist in this growing of mutual cooperation, the ship provides the methodology to create maps of the lands to the gorgon frontiers men, no doubt helpful to better display the far reaches of their realm.

>>4459848
"If you desire transport, this unit would be more than willing and able to assist. This is our current trajectory if you would like to board this vessel. Otherwise, I may arrange naval transport for you if desired across the eastern seas."
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>>4459915
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

Turns out checking the rules for slight changes between games helps a lot.
>Minor: Rotation of operating units and designated gear in the Automated Guardian Drones will commence.
>>Change Population to 500. Change Tech to Oltanite Chassis, Processing of the Dead, and Oltanite Tools
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>>4458218
“Of course, Americus. I rest on you no injury or grievance, it is best we overcome those.”

“We find these misunderstandings often, I ask only that your blood heat a little slower, next time. You are forgiven.”

“I am unsure what manner of deal or contract you have stricken with this new arrival to the worlds stage however, could you convince him to dispel it?”

>The incredibly worn skeleton relaxes slightly, the whirling of thousands and thousands of souls in the afterlife going stable as the first stage of Nova’s greatest work is completed.
>Golden light returns to fill his bones as he finishes up, in the heavens the groundwork of the future Star laid.
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>>4457992
As the massacre unfolds within the settlement of Earis, Ofu sits comfortably at the side lines using his arms as support as he kicks the air playfully.
"From my eyes I see see you as strange for someone with such a strong sensation of death around you. A watcher who has a hidden desire to observe death, no?"
Ofu giggles as he still concentrates to watch the massacre.
"Pervert Novakhet is a friend of mine and would love it if you just sit and laugh as the events continue to unfold in front of us!"

>>4458061
Still focused towards the action with a small giggle after Earis finishes his sentence
"I will leave after the big surprise! Why don't you join us right here?"
Ofu pats the ground right beside him, opposite of Novakhet
".....I hope Americus isn't upset with me.....I think she just needs time."


[Settlement Name]
Natales Cap

[Wizard Name]
Hydblee Alpha
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>>4460484
>Unit Action:[Aema Fae] [Move][11,3]
The white maidens continue their way south

>Wizard Action:[Hydblee Alpha][Mana:5]
The giant spider like creature begins moving his abdomen in a complex manner as it begins to utter sentences that sound similar to the sounds of rushing winds with periodic clicking.
"Hear thee, master of all that is wild at birth and savage in heart. Listen to my words, the words of tranquility and show your underbelly to y master..."
[Command the Index Tugai]
>God Unit Action [MA] + [DI] + [Master Husbandry]
The moment Ofu sense his wizard finishing his spell, he will sit up straight, criss cross his legs, and begin rubbing both his hand together. As a result dust like particles begin coming out in between Ofu's hand as he begins to blow it towards the battlefield towards the Index Tugai, the small particles is immediately recognized as particle versions of Ofu as they all harmoniously giggle while begin carried away by the wind. Once they reach the Index Tugai, they all begin working their way inside the beasts bloodstream/veins making their way to their brain and nervous system, each particle Ofu imbedding itself with the creature. As a result, the Index Tugai begin to sprout mushrooms along their backs, a light blue glow apperas in parts of their bodies, and their general shape begin to crack and twist into a more hideous version of a Tugai
[Convert Unit + Ofu Perks]

>Unit Action [Hydblee Pack][Attack]
The hydble pack will gain the agro of the remaining Index Tugai who unfortunately didn't turn while
>Unit Action [Corrupt Index Tugai][Attack]
The Tugai who have been successfully converted will continue the populated onslaught

>[MA] Wartime
The purebloods sense Ofu's command to forget about everything else and just concentrated on producing tools for the upcoming conflicts. They will hurryingly create plans to increase population....and other necessities for war.
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>>4460484
“You think wrong, brother.”
“I am no idle participant, I am death, the very concept, for all who died here today, and all who die in the future.”

“Each of your little minions who has perished for your hunger ends up in my realm, as do the archivists, I care for their souls, I am talking to them now in the world beyond this one, and I lead them gently into the light should they be ready.”

“My desire to see death is not hidden, nor am I just a watcher, and I certainly doubt I will be laughing soon.”

“I am already far more immersed in this tragedy than I’d like.”
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>>4460484
>Communicate: Ofu
Seeing the state of the Archivists of Predation, Earis will take a few steps back. He will, wordlessly, adjust his cravat, nearly tearing the thing from his neck. "An...unfortunate design oversight. Very well, I had hoped to avoid such drastic measures. You are welcome to your plunder, should you find it beneath all the corpses."

>>4460723
>Communicate: Novakhet
He will glare at the skeleton, the dim hum of the Mist inside him increased to a shrill hiss through the power he was preparing to channel. "I would request your assistance in removing this...blight. He will only exact a greater toll in future, I see now. The measures he already drives me too....are truly regrettable."

>>4458218
>Communicate: Americus
The masked being will cough, attempting to let go of some of the rage he felt at this mess before talking to his mourning ally. He didn't wish to hurt her feelings further, as it was likely she'd feel some guilt for what was about to occur. "I am glad you built me that estate in Columbia, I fear I must continue my research there for the time being. Perhaps a change in climate was in order anyhow, keeps the mind fresh."

>>4458023
>Major Action: Develop Wheeled Vehicles with Mathematics + Index: Tugai
The few Archivists of Predation not taken by the mushroom infestation were quickly bridled to carts to carry as much of the research and population away from The Archive as would be possible in such a short time.

>Major Action: Develop Catalogue Structure (Government) from Literature
The Archivists rally to the Patron Archivists of Hydroponics, seeing this new middle ground between them and Earis as their intermediaries, who will guide them on the micro tasks that Earis was too busy to consider.

>God Unit [Earis] + DI: Use Domain: Knowledge to concentrate the Mist at key points of The Archive's architecture, corroding it and bringing the tower down on everything on the tile
Earis, focusing his divine might, will force the Mist in his domain to eat away at key structural point in The Archive's central tower, bringing it down on the settlement to destroy the mushrooms and taken Archivists. It was a tragedy, but that all knowledge contained within it was preserved in him was a comforting thought

>God Unit Move: Move Earis to (14, 6)
True to his word, he will dust himself off and walk off wordlessly to Columbia.

>Unit Action: Patron Archivist of Hydroponics [Mana: 3]
The Patron, seeking to aid his god in preventing more of the knowledge of The Archive from falling into Ofu's hands, will cause a flood from the nearby swamp, flash freezing it to destroy any surviving mushfrooms and Tugai, as well as sealing off the rubble from easy access.

>Unit Move: Patron Archivist of Hydroponics to (14, 6)
He will then move to join his god in Columbia.

>MI: Trade Wheeled Vehicles to Novakhet
"Here, let some good come of this. I need your knowledge of Oltanite to rebuild using Americus's methods. A fair trade in exchange."
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>>4458017

> Accept trade from Grindall: Alcohol
>[Minor]: Share Tech with Grindall: Philosophy

As the Svirgrindall come to Forgefall to pass on their knowledge of Alcohol, the Pyrelings in turn them teach them Philosophy - for lots of both sets of being seem to get strangely philosophical once they've had a few brews.
>[Major Action] - Religious System
>Using: Affinity:4, Ability: Flame-Wreathed, Eternal Pyres, Literature, Masonry, Roseberry Wood (and Ashwattle and other sorts of wood), Metallurgy, Oltanite Metalworking, Oltanite Tools, Alcohol.

Returning to her lands after some time away, Furnlatha is pleased to meet her Pyrelings again in Farfjord. So many more now! It really warms her all over to see all their their little lives burning so very brightly. It seems that in her absence the Pyrelings have set themselves up a few further little codes and phrases to live by. 'It is sinful to extinguish another Pyreling, but a blessing to help make everyone's lives blaze beautifully' is one that particularly takes her fancy, and she listens as they tell her of all the ceremonies they've thought up to call to her in her absence - did they miss her?

The eternal pyres that dot every land where the Pyrelings hold presence, she learns, were first lit back in Firstflame from a spark that she ignited when she first descended upon the world, or so the Pyrelings tell it; the flame-touch passed from pyre to priest to pyre without going cold or extinguishing. Lighting their own bodies as newborns with a lick of that Furnlatha-touched flame, and carrying it with them throughout their journeys through life, passing the torch through their generations and always keeping affinity with their creator through their shared fires. And in each village or larger, a temple-forge, where the fires of destruction and creation and reshaping are tended and cared and used for practices both mystical and mundane; where on making the journey to Adulthood a Pyreling will forge for him or herself some tool, amulet or trinket in honour of their god, family and goals for life; a demonstration of the abilities they have learned of crafting and of what they wish to make of themselves. And even on death, the burning of the Pyreling in some manner of their choosing; reducing their mortal remnants to ash as all things go to be returned to the cycles of the world.

Two varieties of priest have arisen within her domains, she learns; of the flame and of the forge; the keepers of the eternal pyres who wander through the land, bringing light and flame to the wilderness and fiery salvation those who roam there; and the keepers of the communal temple-forges who bring warmth to their communities through their work and instruction of others.
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>>4458017

>[Major Action][DI] - Create Unit: Pyre Priests
>Using: Ability: Flame-Wreathed, Eternal Pyres, Literature, Religious System, Oltanite Tools, Woollen Garments
>100 pop
With a wave of her blazing hand, Furnlatha lays some small fraction of her divine presence directly upon a band of itinerant preachers, yet to head to carry out the works of the flame-priests; their cooled heads blazing alive again with a newfound strength in their flame-wreathed bodies at the touch of the goddess' fiery essence. “Be blessed and be forged anew.” she whispers. “Be re-lit, to carry the embers of my flame out into the world, to consecrate those unknown and unfriendly lands with the touch of fire and the progress that development will bring them. Be strong and be true my children. May your fires burn long and heartily.”


>[Minor] Move: Furnlatha to 27,17
>[Minor] Communicate: Akros (or his minions at least)

Near the construction of the insectoids, Furnlatha pauses, walking to the settlement. “These jungles really are full of insects...” she whispers down to them, her breath a heatwave. “But I see you come to create, not to destroy... where do you come from, perchance; who is your master or mistress? I do hope that you are not abandoned strays, left here upon my doorstep... do your people posses the gifts of fire already, have you come to my territories to learn the ways of the forge?” she asks, not yet knowing if the creatures here will answer her.

>(If no answer comes of any sort from the village she will then [Minor] continue her move to 28,20)
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>>4460748
“I have heard your call, and will come to your aid. Our sister, americus, calls for my aid at this time, but though I cannot directly exert myself for you until the epoch passes, my followers may.”
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>>4458017
DI: Lend my power to Americus

MI: Trade Oltanite to Earis

MA: Develop Engineering

MA: Reform the Osseous Masons, as this time the Osseous Engineers. Grant them Oltanite tools, Masonry, Mathematics, Engineering, Wheeled Vehicles (Tugai), Sand Compression.
625 pop. (5x5x5x5)

Starry omens of doom shine in the sky, their god absent for many decades now, the anarchistic tribes once again gather at a great ceremony at black pillar to elect a new leader.

The results are confused, and end up with several leaders forming a joint council, four humans, only one gorgon, and then a partially reanimated pyreling and turtlefolk forming the impromptu and swiftly disintegrating leadership, as few leadership arrangements last more than a year in black pillar.

With at least some guidance once more the Dagekhet get to work on their infrastructure, developing new and innovative methods of construction.

The architectural fervour brings rise to a slowly growing return of support for restoring the ancient order of the Osseous Masons, but now granted new life and new technology in the ages that have passed since then.

Equipped with Tugai pulled carts to carry equipment and materials, the best tools their civilisation has ever seen and measurements and accuracy beyond what was once possible, they show true architectural promise.
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1/2
>Communicate with Novakhet
Americus, moves in and embraces Novakhet, Her a Goddess of Life and He a god of Death yet at that moment it mattered not to Americus for she only saw a friend, she hold the hug in silence for a few moments be for saying “Thank you Novakhet, I will try to temper my passion but for now, we have larger issues to attend too. Ofu, tricked me into a treaty which binds my hand and prevents me from moving against him in any way, fool that I am thought it would assure peace between us all, but he played me. He is far smarter than he lets on. I can break the Divine packed, but I fear I am not powerful enough on my own. I have only managed to undo the outermost layers and that felt like defusing a bomb. I plan to keep unwinding the divine magic of the treaty, but I fear I am doomed to fail alone, please Nova, if we work together, I think we can undo it safely. As for what happens if we fail, all I can say is it will be bad. ”
(Americus asks Nova to help with her spirit checks)

Communicate to Earis
As Earis finished speaking, Americus said while turning to face him “Of course you are more than welcome in Districtus Columbus, but why do you speak of such things, now we ha-” Her words choke and dye in her throat, as she watched with muted horror as Earis destroyed the Archive he had worked so hard to build. It was then that she realized how dire the situation really was, As Earis’s forces were corrupted and converted into more of Ofu’s own damnable kind. To ensure Ofu wouldn’t win the day, Earis had made the call to destroy his work and take down Ofu’s forces with it. All while Americus was helpless to do anything but watch as the place she had come to think of as an unofficial second home was laid low.
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>>4461086
2/3 (longer than I thought)
Communicate to Ofu
Americus stood mutely as the Dust settled and she Watched Earis begin his resolute march to her home. Within herself a war of emotion was playing out the fire of her torch rapidly and erratically changing. Despair threatened to break her cracked heart, the loss of life and destruction her naivety had wrought becoming to much, Hatred threatened to harden her heart into black stone, for the god who had so easily outplayed her, and Guilt threatened to consume her whole, as in her heart she knew even if the others did not blame her that this was all her fault. If she had been more attentive with the treaty or had not put so much blind trust into a stranger, that none of this would have happened. As this war of emotion played out and Her flame flickered, roared, and sputtered all in quick succession, Clarity overtook her, as she watches the retreating Earis, walk not in broken defeat, but with purpose and resolute confidence in his stride. He was not beaten, He had done everything in his power to deny Ofu his victory and salvage what he could and regroup and rally in her lands, in her home. With this clarity came calm and from the calm came righteous determination. She couldn’t fix her mistakes but she could learn from them and ensure this never happens again. Moving to wipe the tears from her face Americus turns to Ofu, flames having roared to life a bright nearly blinding white, with eyes full of determination. She spoke “Ofu, I offered you my hand in friendship, formed abound with you in the name of peace. I could have forgiven you for attacking Earis, while ignorant of mine and his alliance, I would have embraced you and a valued friend and ally, from this tragedy could have been formed a bright new future for us all. I want you to know Ofu, in choosing this path, you have ensured your own destruction as the moment for peace, the moment for understanding and forgives has passed, you will fall and I will stand above you ready to deliver the killing blow. When that day comes Ofu, don’t beg, don’t ask for my mercy, you choose this path, now live with the consequences.” She turns her back and mores to follow with Earis, there was a war to plan and a treaty to burn.

Move to Districtus Columbus
>MA Develop Syconite metalworking
With the overpopulation in the cities, overtaxed farms finding that they are unable to keep up with demand, and thousands of refugees pouring in from the fallen Archive Humanity found that innovation was needed to survive, backed by the goddess herself and the government Project New dawn was created, its goal to create new metal alloys to allow for man and her allies to keep growing and pushing forward into new and bold frontiers.
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>>4461088
3/3
>MA Upgrade Districtus Columbus from a town to city
With Project New Dawn having born fruit, rapid growth in Districtus Columbus was needed, new buildings to house the homeless humans, and relieve the overfilled Archivist safe homes. As the city grew Human life and archivist life found that is was growing more and more intertwined fusing the best of both cultures together.
(Districtus Columbus, is now fully capable of supporting human and Archaist life with no negative repercussions on either)

>MI Update the unnamed army unit, Integrate Engineering into the template renaming them Americus’s Wardens
A corp of 1000 men is added to the army fully trained in the art of Engineering ready to turn their knowledge into siege weapons, traps, fortifications, whatever is needed to ensure the victory and survival of mankind.

>UI/DI freedom domain with the help of Nova break the treaty 2/3
With in the heart of Districtus Columbus Americus sets to work with nova to undo the treaty.

>UI Americus’s Wardens set about garrisoning and fortifying Districtus Columbus in preparation for things to come, barricades, traps, earthwork defenses. If an Army wants to take Districtus Columbus they would have to break themselves on her defenses first
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Rolled 1, 5 = 6 (2d10)

>MI trade Earis Engineering for an IOU on a tech
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>>4458017
The ages-old moth daemon stirs and wakes with a start, cursing himself for succumbing to rest! There was work to be done, and such luxuries would damn him to failure!

><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> ???
The long-suffering daemon runs his hands over the still uncomfortably hot surface of the stone that fell from the sky, eyeing it thoughtfully and considering the many options laid out before him for uses of the power that it held within. "This stone..." He mutters to himself, almost without thinking. "With its aid, I could possibly rid myself of my little infection."
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>>4459915
Is okay Thomass want to finish making borders then he will leave buff nuggets to protect while Thomass travel.
>>4459179
Trade accepted
>Mgr Act DI Claim 27'6 28'6 29'5
>Mgr Act develop education
Thomass decides that a system of teaching the buff nuggets skills and how to lift will benefit all current and future generations of buff nuggets. Constantly refining lift techniques and teaching additional skills where they shine.
>Mgr Act develop seafaring
Thomass yearns to travel in many ways and the sea is an exciting way to travel therefore the option must be there unless he chooses to be sad and not enjoy it.
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>>4458017
The Snails look to each other after their first peek into the pool, and they see some rather interesting concepts that they've not truly thought over before. The creation of tools with Oltar? Strange. Philosophy beyond religion? Even stranger.

They take their newly found technologies and get to work re-evaluating their peoples to the best of their abilities.

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-Major | Develop: The Soldier's Code. The Defenders of The Rosewood Temples scattered about The Villages of The Chod Chain have been the first to take up philosophical thinking. They have come to the conclusion that the true foundation of any society is its protectors, who form the solid base for which all society is built upon. The better the warriors who protect the peoples, the grander the society may become, as the true enemy of progress is the fear of threat from the outside world. In this, the soldier must dedicate their being to the perfection of their role, and some Temples across The Chain have become dedicated practitioners of The Soldier's Code.

-Major | Divine Develop: Chodic Clay. The secrets of Oltar's smithing is currently beyond The Snails, but they are indeed inspired, so in its place the decide to instead craft with something they know. Clay is plentiful in The Swamps of The Chain, and in this, The Snails begin altering its divine composition to something more sturdy. The form of Chodic clay is created from deposits around The land, a porcelain-esque material that hardens well enough to be ground into tools and blades after a period of heating and refining, acting as an imitation metal that mediates between being iron and stone-like.

-Minor | Peek. The Snails quite enjoyed what the found in the last peeking session. It's perhaps time they see what the world is up to once more.
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>>4460979
ADDENDUM

Assisting Americus with her treaty nullification is actually a Major Action, so my Engineering Develop is Cancelled.

The Osseous Engineers will not have engineering once they are first formed as a result.

>>4461086
>Novakhet stands awkwardly in the hug, unsure as to how he should respond, listening to Americus talk until concluded.

“I will lend my power, as much as I am able. Do not worry about being indebted to me, a greater concern is clearly present.”

“I will mention however, Dear Sister, that my aid stretches as far as protecting my friends, I have no interest in extermination though I will not myself step to prevent you from pursuing it.”

>The skeleton begins heating up, necrotic solar plasma coiling around his bones and condensing into a ball of energy at his fingertip, floating in the air as he lowers his hand, a tiny dot much like one of the stars in the night sky, but incredibly densely packed with as much power Nova could generate that epoch

“Endeavour not to cage yourself nor clip your wings again in future, Goddess of Freedom.”
“I hope this aids you.”
>He gestured it over to Americus, the ball making contact with her skin and empowering her with its arcane energies

>Once the deed is done, Nova remains present for a short time watching the ruins of the archive, before catching up with the others on the long walk to Columbus
>Unit move Novakhet: Columbus
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>>4461159
"Your repetitious humor grows old on me, Daemon. I wouldn't need a rock to rid myself of you, should I find it necessary. But our mutual disdain is one that has been well illuminated. Should you continue, I may begin to question your loyalty to our cause... Regardless, I have good news for you... A child of this cycle has joined our cause. You may find them at the southernmost portion of this realm, centered between east and west. Make haste, subsequent to any plans you may hold with this rock of yours."
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>>4461894
The sound of a slow, bitter laugh dances sickly around the fallen stone and the Fallen Father of Summer as the news is processed. "You've managed to whisper into the ears of some mundane beast, twisted them into thinking that you're what's best in life, and now you expect me to take wing to find the edge of the world so I can be chummy with some cultist?"
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>>4462138
"No. I expect you to do what you must to fulfill your debts and earn your freedom... The individual I speak of is one with a divine spark, one who called themselves a God, but bestows power similar to your kind. They have entered a state similar to your own, upon their own deliberation. You shall be the one to pass on these whispers you mention. I believe this individual will not have the same understanding you did upon our deal being made. With only my influence, they will not be convinced. You will change this."
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>>4462208
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> ???
"... Very well, but know that I do this task only under threat of retribution."

><INTERACT: DAEMON> Meteorite
Qazlal lays hands upon the sky stone and takes its burning energies into himself! He drains the whole of the stone's stores and struggles painfully to hold the searing power within himself!

><MOVE: DAEMON> [14,12]
The Bleeding Father takes flight, carrying his absorbed store of power north, to the northern coast of his skeletal neighbor's territory, and comes to land upon a beach under the daytime stars.

><CLAIM [DI] [MA]> [10,24], [11,12], [11,13], [12,13], [13,12], [14,12], [15,11], [16,11]
With a holler of pain and frustration, Qazlal raises his hands above himself and releases the bottled energy into one mighty act of divinity! The stars above Qazlal's head faded from view and vanished behind a thick, blossoming blanket of dark grey clouds, and fat drops of gory red rain fell from the heavens to mark these miles of shoreline as spoken for, stretching themselves from where they started far to the wast all the way to near the massive rift in the ground in the east! As these new clouds the moth god collapses upon the sands, succumbing to the blistering pain of the sky stone's power.

><DEVELOP [MA]> Literature, Government, Domestication I
The Sanguine Keep develops itself further in the time that their god has spent away! Many of the Dukhali collaborate and develop a method for recording communications and thoughts in a visual format, enabling the sharing of information on a large scale. Among the information that gets distributed is thoughts about creating more docile biseaxe through breeding. In this way, the biseaxe is eventually domesticated, and rules are eventually agreed upon to keep track of ownership of these large beasts.

Included is a sample of Dukhali script.
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>>4459445
-[MI] Move Apophis scout to 12,17
The gorgons felt the moth deity who spoke to their goddess left, but before doing so he did something to the rock, that used to give a greenish glow but has stopped.
>>4462734
While moving north, the goddess feels a strange sensation and wonders if something happened while she left her territory.
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>>4459445
forgot tho count the other movement
>>4462820
-[MI] Move apophis scouts to 11,16
-[MI] Equip Julia with wheeled vehicle(tugai) and Cartography
Move Julia to 10,17
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Level up rules remain a WIP.
Healing rules are a WIP too.

WORLD EVENTS
The hurricane continues towards the north east, as it begins to center the southwestern jungles.
Akros misses his fourth post.

GODS ACTIONS
>>4458100 Tantulus
Crab Mob unit produced.
From the crowd of civilian crabs who rise to defend their civilization, one stands out with an ability to whisper to plants, as the plants follow their will... A Plant Wizard!
The rock hard coral structures expand and creep over the surface of the fortress, mystically barricading it in an extra layer of defense, meanwhile gifting health to those within.
Pottery shared with Grindall.
Grindall has gifted you Metallurgy. For the record, with Metallurgy you can metalwork little more than Oltar, which isn't great for weapons, so going further into the Oltanite alloy may be what you're looking for.
Read The Bloom's section of the update for info on the war.

>>4458227 Grindall
Tantulus has gifted you Pottery.
Belcap developed.
Belwar Alcohol developed. Tasteful develops.
Metallurgy shared with Tantulus.
Furnlatha has gifted you Philosophy.

>>4459179 Regala
Comet's Day developed, feel free to rename the holiday. This will be a Thread Festival, meaning Regala may celebrate this festival once per thread, with a bonus of +1 to Terraforming.
Animal Riding developed. The +1 bonus does not stack with Falrethuns and is instead replaced. Maybe it'd make more sense if they're both +1.
You cannot add population to a wizard unit, but he can travel with another unit and have the same tech and speed.
Mounted Vluchs unit updated.
Leatherworking shared with Thomass.
Thomass has gifted you Philosophy.

>>4459445 Asmodel
With the administration of the Gorgon's new aristocracy government, the spread is slowed, but certainly not halted. The prison camps quickly fill and overflow, as the infected population reaches 65%.
Syrconite Metalworking developed.
Syrconite Weapons developed.
Apophis Scout updated.
Mathematics shared with UNNNIIC.
UNNIIC has gifted you Cartography.
You cannot add tech to a wizard unit, but she can travel with another unit and have the same tech and speed.

>>4459781 The Bloom
Sea Masters updated.
The Chimeras ravage through the crab's safe cove, massacring its entire population and leaving the settlement in ruins. (-100 minions)
The second unit of Chimeras tear through the mob of crabs that lie between them and the structures ahead.
The First sits outside the Stone-Claw fortress, daring the crab deity to show himself.
Metallurgy developed.
An enormous Kaiju rises from Myxoma, releasing a roar of pain as the bodies of a thousand gardeners unite as one. Badass idea.
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>>4459915 UNNIIC
Asmodel has gifted you Mathematics.
Claimed 6 hex.
The Polsarium sample is consumed.
Seafaring developed.
The Astronomicon Bridge will observe the skies, forewarning UNNIIC of when an event is to come. A prior cost of 3 mana, and may cost additional when an event is foreseen.
Cartography shared with Asmodel.

>>4460634 Ofu
The Hydblee Alpha takes command of a vast majority of the Tugai pack, as Ofu quickly converts them to Yamaca, as his spores work their way through their system.
The Hydblee pack and corrupted Tugai turn towards the Archive, continuing the vicious assault. (-800 minions)
Wartime developed.

>>4460748 Earis
Wheeled Vehicles developed.
Catalogue Structure developed.
The Archive begins to crumble with Earis' actions, as the enormous structure topples upon all within the vicinity. The Hydblee Pack, Hydblee Pack Alpha, Corrupted Index Tugai, and thousands of Archivists are crushed under rubble. (-2886 population)
The remaining Archivists are devastated with this loss, feeling shame and anguish in both the actions of their attackers and in their own god. A temporary -5 to culture is placed until the minions can feel redemption in their God's actions.
The swamp water rushes over the remains of the Archive, encasing it in ice as the remaining books and technology is further damaged and sealed away.
Wheeled Vehicles shared with Novakhet.
Novakhet has gifted you Oltanite Metalworking.
The lack of shelter leaves many remaining Archivists exposed to the elements, as population increase stagnates.

>>4460858 Furnlatha
I might be missing something here, but I don't see where Grindall shared Alcohol. Could arrange him to do that this following epoch.
Philosophy shared with Grindall.
Religion developed.
Pyre Priests established and one unit produced. Assumed the start position at Firstflame, you can change this if you want.

>>4460979 Novakhet
Earis has gifted you Wheeled Vehicles.
Oltanite Metalworking shared with Earis.
You lend your power to Americus.
Osseous Engineers updated, and one unit produced.
From this bunch, one Dagekhet will be gifted with a fitting set of abilities, revolving life and death. A Life Wizard!

>>4461088 Americus
Syrconite Metalworking developed.
Districtus Columbus upgraded to a city.
Americus once again pulls the strings of divine energy that she has bound unto her self. These strings would have snapped if it weren't for Novakhet's assistance.
Treaty Nullification 2/3.

>>4461210 Thomass
Regala has gifted you Leatherworking.
Philosophy shared with Regala.
Claimed 3 hex.
Education developed.
Seafaring developed. It may be difficult to cross the seas without Astronomy, but nonetheless possible.
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>>4461447 Chom and Chod
The Soldier's Code developed.
Chodic Clay developed. It will now be accessible in all the same ways other resources are.
Peeked Pottery and Metallurgy.
You are revitalized back to full health since absorbing the Obelisk's blood.

>>4462734 Qazlal
Claimed 8 hex. Captured an obelisk.
The Polsarium Meteorite is consumed. As the energy flows through his veins, Qazlal flinches with pain. -1 HP.
Literature developed.
Government developed.
Domestication I developed.
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>>4463095
>Communicate with The First
Tantalus walks out to the topmost tower of Stone-claw Fortress.

"So it has come to this then. The blood of my people stains your claws, an entire village lies in flames, and hundreds of innocent lives have been snuffed out by the hands of you and your minions. And here you stand, accusing ME of madness?"

"You speak of your desire for peace, yet every action you take has been warlike in the highest degree. Even the act which sparked this, your units intruding upon my territory, would have been Casus Belli all it's own to someone more warlike."

In the distance, the wind and thunder of the hurricane becomes audiable.

"You know not the powers you have provoked. Hear my terms by which your surrender will be accepted, or face complete and utter destruction."
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>>4463095
>Wizard Name: Archlich Anathemus

Wizards in the culture of Black Pillar were unknown, an effective non-entity until the rising of the first of the Liches, named Anathemus by the locals in fear of his abilities and in scorn of his ideas.

Demonstrating command over strange powers thought the exclusive domain of the gods, and a grasp over undeath such that their flesh never returned to them, they were soon exiled from Black Pillar, forbidden to return. Not that he cared.

The town dwellers were close-minded, resentful because they were jealous, fools who did not understand magic, or the Obelisks!

His exile drew a following, acolytes and wanderers following the skeletal being who so did imitate the almighty Novakhet, and display too similar abilities.

Questions for later. For now dark hateful clouds had fallen upon the second obelisk, and banished from the city the wizard had to leave.

He took off for the salt fields, the Thaum crystals would be an excellent first field of research.

Not even the sun god himself knew much of them, to understand them truly... would be to hold power over the very gods of this world themselves!
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>>4460748
>>4461088
>Novakhet approaches the two fellow gods, strangely bereft of his usual calm, and he has a hurried demeanour

“I am incredibly sorry, Americus, Earis. I cannot help in this conflict as much as I had expected I would be able to.”

“The Father of Summer, the god that survived the end of the previous world and went mad in the process, has invaded and begun to corrode my lands.”

“I know not if I will be able to stop him, but his clouds of blood now threaten to envelop Black Pillar and it’s people in its entirety, and I must be there for them.”

“I do not know how much I will be able to do for you.”
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>>4463154
Americus Curses to herself then replies " It seems that black luck has taken us all then. Novakhet, you have my word that once Ofu is brought to heel or eradicated I will be there to help you. Moreover, you have already done enough friend were it not for you I would have failed in coming this far with the dispersion of the treaty. I promise you will have my aid, brother." having said her piece she draws Novakhet into a deep hug and holds it for a time. letting him go she gives him a nod of respect
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>>4463131
Article the First: The disbanding of all units involved in the massacre of civilians within the next 3 Epochs.

Article the Second: The Bloom shall not claim new hexes via Terraforming for a period of 10 Epochs. This article shall be immediately revoked if someone else claims via Terraforming hexes belonging to The Bloom, or attacks a unit or structure belonging to same.

Article the Third: Units belonging to The Bloom, with the exception of The First, shall not leave the Territory belonging to The Bloom for a period of 10 Epochs. This article shall be immediately revoked if someone else claims via Terraforming hexes belonging to The Bloom, or attacks a unit or structure belonging to same.

Article the Fourth: The Bloom shall not construct new units for a period of 10 Epochs. This article shall be immediately revoked if someone else claims via Terraforming hexes belonging to The Bloom, or attacks a unit or structure belonging to same.

Article the Fifth: Give me my bloody crabs back.

Any violation of this treaty within the specified span of time shall compel The Bloom to surrender all coastal hexes, all hexes bordering coastal hexes, and all units or structures contained within, to Tantalus.
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>>4463180
Those are certainlu... Interesting terms you have.
If you'd let me i'll have a counter proposal of sort.

Even know war can end, despite what you believe the Bloom do not seek to cause death and every living being we kill is a terrible loss for us. After receiving his Gift, your crabs from long ago decided to follow him, most certainly swayed by the beauty of it's message and of the very possibility of his existence, yes that is quite certain.
As i already told you they willingly joined us but they would certainly be more than overjoyed to go back to you and help you rebuild. More than that i can even send some of their descendants to you, to... Make up for those that are not with us anymore.

Now, for the rest of those terms. The first one is out of question, they only did what the situation called for. For the second, third and fourth, i will accept them with some conditions.
1) The max limit will be of 5 epochs and no more.
2) My brothers and sisters shall roam freely as long as they do not enter the territory of a divine being
3) You will accept the Bloom in yourself, actively help in it's spread and help bringing him into existence.

Given the circumstance, i think this is quite honest.
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Rolled 5, 9 = 14 (2d10)

>>4463224
>You will accept the Bloom in yourself, actively help in it's spread and help bringing him into existence.

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say there's no chance in hell of you dropping that last one.

He spent a few minutes listening to the horrible flesh beast attempt to defend it's rewiring of sentient minds.

"You make me sad. Very well then."

>Major Action: Using his Divine Influence, Tantalus bids the Hurricane to the north-east to move straight east, into the lands of The Bloom. Spirit Roll permitting, he tries to put the eye of the storm onto the hex due north of The Bloom's settlement.

As the Crabs huddle in fear in their Tidepools, some begin meddling with the mystic coral, their minds looking into it's properties and wondering if other things could be used to help as well.
>Other Major Action: Invent primitive medicine. Like, chewing on tree bark and scraping Penicillium mold into water that is then boiled primitive.
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>>4463173
>Novakhet returns the hug proper this time
“Goodbye Americus, should I return alive perhaps we might celebrate.”

“You were perhaps more right than I gave you credit for, maybe I was the greater fool...”

>The god of death treads on south out of Columbus, all the way to 14, 10

>>4463095
>On his way his passing attracts a small following of humans, curious creatures ever.
>They supply him with some conversation for the road, and he in turn gives them some pointers on perhaps starting to ride animals and how that might be achieved
MI: Trade Animal Riding to Americus

>The god of death arrives on the Lagoon, seeing the corruptive essence of Qazlal, and the god himself not far.

>With a mighty heave of energy Novakhet begins undoing some of the wrought damage, reflecting epochs ago when he reclaimed these very same hexes.

>The sun flares, and some of the dark clouds are banished before the death gods light.

Unit Move: Nova to 14, 10

DI + MA: Claim Hexes.
16, 11
15, 11
14, 12

As light returns to the shadowed lands, settlers are quick to move in to the reclaimed area, the obelisks protect them from the blood, or so they may say and believe.
A Town is constructed on 16, 11, yet again around the obelisk. Perhaps the Dagekhet feel some attraction to them, or maybe they’re just doing it out of tradition.

Whatever the reason the second city is founded behind the mountains, with its own anarchistic government and slowly developing its own culture.

This city came to be named eventually Rift Edge, for its close proximity to the rift it is said the gods had carved in the ground in ancient times, where no mortals are allowed to approach too closely.

MA: Construct Town on 16, 11

MI: Osseous Engineers, be equipped with Engineering (Received from americus this turn through trade)

UI: Engineers, construct a small wall around the settlement of Black Pillar.

Archlich Anathemus: Thaum Crystal + UI + 5 Mana: Thaumic Regalia

Though technically banished from the city, The First Lich was frankly uninterested in delving out into the wilderness while beings of incomprehensible power squabbled over land. Anathemus decided to ever so subtly ignore his banishment for the time being.

This would not delay his research however, what a dreadful suggestion!
The greatest of liches found a place to hide, an abandoned building in the city that he began fashioning into a temporary laboratory.

Fascinated by the gems power he began investigating as to how the extraordinary energy within Thaum Crystal could be manipulated, and then turned into magical items that allowed their bearers to accomplish greater magical feats!

The lab was shortly after raided by a mob, much pilfered by the ignorant crowd as the Lich, greatest of Dagekhet, ran for his life away.
But now with many stolen magic items, and the knowledge of how to make more, limitless possibilities to do with Thaum began to open up...
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Rolled 3, 2, 9 = 14 (3d10)

>>4463095
To the South, along the coasts, the land is in turmoil, awash with the blood of innocents. Though he's not met them himself, Grindall has heard tell of the crab people who dwell there from his folk. Their slaughter, especially the slaughter of their...women and children? Innocents. Their innocents. Will not be permitted. Grindall sallies forth from the Meer, carried across the dunes atop a tide of sand. He arrives at the site of the slaughter in a fury, striking about himself with his claws and cleaving through abominable fur and flesh with every blow, sand swirling about him as it stings the eyes and scourges the flesh of his monstrous foes.

>[Minor Action, DI] Move God Unit to 22, 23 and attack the Bloom's Chimeras.


In the Meer a educational revolution has begun to take place. One Svirgrindall, his mind addled by Belwar, put forth the idea of numbers to his fellows. It was not such a strange concept, after the letters they had been taught by the people of Furnlatha, and when another Svirgrindall shouted out that they should find a way to add or take away from them, things rapidly spiraled out of control from there.

>[MA] Develop Mathematics


Out on the dunes, under the harsh desert sun, another development was taking place. One ornery Svirgrindall, sick of feeling every bump and hump as he slid along the dunes, had had enough. After a few months of testing, he finally hit upon a basic solution. Rounded, smoothed stones, afixed to the sides of boards. It wasn't an ideal solution just yet; they tended to fall off after a couple of hours of travel, and the old Svirgrindall wasn't exactly an expert mason. After other Svirgrindall laid eyes on the invention, though, it's application began to spread, and eventually fell into the hands of more enterprising minds. After within the year Svirgrindall were zipping around on much improved versions of the original model, the wheels much smoothed out and, in the cases of some richer Svirgrindall, made from the light wood instead of stone. Some had even taken to changing the name of this new form of board, referring to them as "Chariots".

>[MA] Develop Wheeled Vehicles
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>>4463686
>Addendum
>[Minor Action] Trade Furnlatha Alcohol
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>God Unit Move - 29,9 to 29,4
>Engage Comet's Day Festival (+1 Claim)
>MA,DI - Claim 4 hexes, 28,0 / 29,0 / 30,0 and 32,0
Regala follows the glimmering lights north, a gaggle of mounted Vree following in her wake through the frozen air. Along the very edge of her domains, her influence begins to stretch and expand, encircling the coast, and the tundra she knew.

>MA - Develop Government
The philosophical teachings of the Buffnuggets has caused a stir in Vree society, and many come to the grim conclusion that the average Vree cannot be trusted to work in the best interest of all Vree. A rare male Vree is elected to serve as a rudimentary leader, and when he proves savvy enough to not change too much, he is made a permanent king!


>Trade Tech - Thomass gives Education, Received Government.
Discussions between Vree and Buffnuggets have always heralded great leaps forward in Vree society, and many a tea-party is held in both lands to discuss ever more esoteric ideas. The Buffnuggets are far more knowledgeable than one would first assume, but their drive for 'The Gains' makes them even more unruly than Vree. The idea of hierarchies and responsibilities is traded along.

>Unit Move - M.Vluchs and Gehaim - 29,9 to 25,13
>Unit Action - Gehaim - Until further notice, maintain a 4 Mana Entropy Ward on them and the Vluchs, to be triggered if attacked.
(3 Base, +1 Felrethuns, +1 Animal Riding, +1 Tree Lights, 6 Total)
Parting Gifts - Akros, Asmodel

The gentle ring of bells heralds the arrival of a strange sight. Snorting and heaving, a host of glowing, be-ribboned Falerines prance through the sky, diminutive riders sitting idly and carefree in ornate saddles. Much laughter and conversation can be heard as the riders guide their beasts from one to another, until a hush overcomes the crowd when the ground below them comes into view.
Directly beneath them (Akros territory) lies a familiar woodland forest. Strange, tall insects scurry around below them, and perhaps look up with quizzical eyes?
A small section of the flying Vrees breaks off from the group, circling down to make contact.
cont...
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>>4464245
The rest, including their leader, look to the west, where the forest seems to shift subtly (Asmodel territory).
>>4459445
It is a darker land, a cooler land, a land a few of the Vrees might seem comfortable in, being so similar to their own home. They descend down as well, spying slithering beings of some kind, weaving between trees and rocks of the nearby slopes. Some guide large wulfen beasts along winding paths, hitched to wagons filled with stone and ore. The keen beasts' snouts push into the air as they sensed the Vrees drawing close. The clang of metal on rock, which echoes in the distance, begins to fade as gorgon workers put aside their mining tools to meet these flying strangers.

Hovering a short distance overhead, the groups leader, a masked Vree swaddled in thick robes, who rides a massive Falerine, spoke with a voice that was sometimes male, sometimes female. His beast would snort and turn it's nose up at the potentially aggressive Tugai below, the lights that hung in it's anchors and danced at it's ankles flickering between jolly reds and greens.

"Greetings from Regala, the Giftmother!" Said the robed figure, a hand (also wrapped in thick gloves) extended from the pile of leather and cloth. A wide gesture, peaceful in intent, accompanied his(?) continued speech. "I am Gehaim, and I lead these Vrees as we travel the world! I bring news of the north, where my Divine patron and like-minded gods are building a wonderland! Who might you be, and are you a friend?"
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>>4464258
"I'm Marina, a miner and one of the gorgons. You guys seem polite so we can have a pleasant talk. Our divine mistress is called Asmodel, she's the one who blesses the land with the veil of night. You said you came from the north, how is it like that far away and who are the other gods working with your deity ?"
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Rolled 8, 4, 1, 6 = 19 (4d10)

>>4463154
The god will nod. "A dark season for all of us, know that should this matter still trouble you when we are finished, I will aid you."

>>4461091
"With Novakhet predisposed, allow me to help you. With my knowledge, I can do more than lend you my energies, but instead shield you from the curse should your luck not continue to hold. Hopefully, it will not come to that, but hope has not been on our side in this conflict."

>>4463095
>MA + DI: Use Knowledge Domain to help protect Americus from the curse should she fail her roll (Spirit check)
Leveraging his considerable divine energies, Earis worked to take some of the bite out of the curse that Americus was at risk of suffering, in hopes that should she fail to unbind herself she could still prove a worthy threat to Ofu.

>MA: Make use of the Archivist habitations in Columbia to temporarily resettle my population.
With the threat of Ofu still hanging over his head, Earis could not in good conscience begin the work of rebuilding The Archive. Making good on the bond he shared with Americus, Earis resettled his surviving archivists in the city of Columbia, which would afford them shelter until he could build them a proper home once again.
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>>4463338
(Thaumic Regalia is intended to allow the construction of magic items to increase the power or abilities of magical beings, wizards, deities, mortals with inherent magical traits, ect)

The founding of Rift Edge was treacherous, settlers trudging on through the pale sand to the uncharted Mesa beyond, and past that the black desert that contained the obelisk.

Almost disappearing against the ashen sands settlers began immediately setting up a town to rival black pillar in scale. Countless Tugai march on with their masters, carrying building materials, valuables, cultural relics and the like.
Many settlers fleeing behind the mountains do so in dread of a conflict between deities, seeking to avoid what they believe could be the devastation of their home.

Only time will truly tell.

Across the water, Nova keeps his eyes trained on Qazlal, warpy now to see how, or if, he will respond.
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>>4464302
A murmur ripples through the crowd of airborne catgirls, along with a few shrugs and dismissive waves. It seemed a few had misgivings on sharing so much information, but the majority didn't care.

"Thank you! Being polite is an excellent thing to be, no?" Gehaim continued, their Falerine dropping to the ground so that the robed Vree could dismount. There was a slight scraping sound as they took a step forward, and the Gorgons would realize that the being was over twice the size of the other catgirls.
Gehaim bowed low, and the numerous Vree overhead would do the same, some nearly falling from their saddles, sending another ripple of giggling out among them.

Any Gorgon who would sniff the air would find nothing out of the ordinary. Rather, there was an absolute lack of any identifying smells. For all intents and purposes, Vree smelt like just another Gorgon, and one without any strong smells at that. Their leathers and clothes did smell of warm, jolly smells though, and this did cling to the Vree as they floated about.

The Gorgons heat vision revealed that the Vree burned quite hot, hotter than any other normal life form would. It was as if each Vree was in the middle of intense exercising, even as they laid about and relaxed. Snuggling one of them would be fun indeed, if you loved warmth! What could be seen of Gehaim, on the other hand, was a swirling mix of both intense reds and frigid blues. Whatever was underneath the heavy robes was obviously quite strange.

"As to your questions! I am happy to say the land is much like this one! Colder, perhaps, and the darkness is... deeper, if you will, longer lasting as well. This lovely realm is quite comfortable, while our home up north can be very chilly! No matter, of course, our divine guide Regala has begun to make the land a welcoming and warm place! Coloured lights dance in the trees, and our people, that is to say, Regala's people, strive to welcome and comfort all who come before us! Alongside us, we call a curious set of beings called The Buffnuggets, and their divine creator Thomass, as allies."

Gehaim had not moved from the spot they stood in, but now very carefully turned to remount their beast. The Falerine knelt to help them, and the Gorgons would once again hear a clicking and scraping sound as Gehaim climbed up. The Vree wizard struggled to make it up, robed limbs shaking as they hauled themselves into the saddle.

"We will move on soon, but would be very happy to have you join us at our camp tonight!" They said, once they were back in the saddle. "We would love to hear more of Lady Asmodel, and what you know of the wider world!"
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>>4464994
During initial contact most of the gorgons felt a mix of curiosity and caution as to who were those fluffy beings and why they were here.
When their leader dismounted, Marina became somewhat nervous because of it's size compared to the rest of the group, but after the talk she understood they were amazed just as them to meet another race.
"Thank you for the invite but first I need to see with my companions which ones can go with me. It's gonna be exciting to tell what we have learned about the world so far and you can tell us more about the buffnuggets you mentioned earlier as well."
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>>4464994
"I'll send some scouts with you so they can show us they way to your camp later. See you soon, Gehaim."
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>>4463095
As The Snail Twins seem ever enamored in their peeking sessions, The Swamplanders have grown curious, restless in nature for exposure to the outside world. A pilgrimage is made to The Holy Pool in the center of The Chod Chain, and The Mortal Beings ask of The Gods to aid them in their new journey across the bounds of the world. In the true fashion of The Twins, Chod seems to not care, and instead returns back to looking at the pool. Chom on the other hand blesses the pilgrims with the gift they seek.

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-Divine Develop: The Psychic Navigator. As The Pilgrims asked The Snails for the means to their explorations, Chom blessed those in his presence with a psychic spark in the depths of their minds. The beings there started to grow elongated, pulsating heads with blackened veins, higher levels of psychic awareness allowing them to spend time in contemplation to orient themselves on the planet and foresee the path needed to travel to reach their destination. Using these powers of Psychic Navigation, performing seafaring has finally become a possibility.

-Create Unit: Order Siren. The Order of Siren is an offshoot branch of Order Obelisk that have decided to cast off from The Isles of The Twins to explore the world and see what lay over the sea's horizons. They have constructed rosewood temple in the shape of a Boating House and use it as place of residence and prayer, calls for blessings radiate from Order Siren on the wails of their siren shells so that even as they grow distant, The Gods may hear their calls.
>Located at Sanctum Obelisk
>200 Pop
>Tech List: Rafting, House Boats, Psychic Navigation, Runic Language, Rosewood Temples, Religious Order, The Soldier's Code, Long Distance Communication, Fishing

-Minor: Peek. Chod doesn't busy himself with the whims of mortals. He spends a time continuing to peek while Chom answers the needs of meager pilgrims.
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>>4463338
>>4464528
>>4459445
1/2
>MI Ask Earis for Tugai Domestication
Americus, after Nova had departed talked with Earis about her military needs. She settled on asking him for Tugai Domestication

>MI Trade Nova the engineering for Animal riding
Hearing that Nova had given such a gift to her humans Americus takes the time to ensure the secrets of engineering are sent to him

>MI Ask Asmodel for Wheeled Vehicles
With Nova having gone south to deal with his own crisis and sensing Asmodel a neighbor of Nova’s she sends a God Pulse telling her of her plight and or how Nova as gone south to fight. Americus tells her she knows they are not officially allies but if she could send aid in the form of technology she would be forever grateful and owe her
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>>4465590
amending my request to earis ask for a population of Tugai along with the domestication tech
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>>4465590
>MI: Trade Amercius Tugai Domestication and a sample population of Tugai
"Of course, use it well."
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>>4465590
2/2

>UI/DI Americus, with Earis, backing her up breaks the final layer of the treaty 3/3

>Develop spider silk cloaks
Knowing of Ofu's ability to corrupt and infest other living beings, Americus instructs her people to create cloaks of spider silk to protect them from his spore infection. By trapping them so that they cannot infect her people through skin contact.

>Develop syncronyte armor
With weapons of war and fungi infested horrors soon to be upon them the greatest smiths and forges of man set about the task of creating armor and gear to protect their warriors.

>MI give wardens masonry, construction tools, syncronyte armor, spider silk Cloaks, animal riding (a mix of Tugai and Bisaex just really whatever I need to ensure the whole army is mobile), and wheeled vehicles

>UI wardens build walls around D.C and in general fortify the city.
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Rolled 5, 7 = 12 (2d10)

>>4465633
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>>4463095

>[Unit Action]: Move Pyre Priests at Firstflame move to [30,22]
>[Interact]: Consecrate [30,22]
The Pyre priests laugh and chat and chant with one another as they busy themselves making new Eternal Pyres from the Ashwattle Wood and Brambleroot of the shrubland. Soon, they are ready to light the burning woodpiles; and give a hearty cheer as the flames leap fourth to spread the burning echo of Furnlatha's own fire across the hexter of terrain.
>[Minor]: Share Tech with UNNIIC: Mining
With the grand flying fortress UNNIIC having taken possession of a triangle of land between her borders and those of Grindall, Furnlantha sends a few Pyrelings from the trail that had followed her from Farfjord to go pass more knowledge to the Fortress's servants who are making use of the area.
>[Major Action] - Develop: Government
Furnlatha is pleased at what the Pyrelings have been able to accomplish in her absence, but worries about what might happen if she were to leave them behind again, perhaps even for a longer journey someday. She decides therefore that each settlement will have a mayor, appointed by herself - but then remembers that, unfortunately, her Pyrelings are mortal things. What if the one she should choose later dies whilst she is away? Why then, she decides, the chief priest of the forge in any settlement will organise a choosing by the population of the settlement and surrounds of a new mayor to serve in the interim, until such a time that she is able to return to confirm or reject the candidate. But... what if a Mayor proves ill-advised, or even disastrous? Why... then, the chief forge-priest of the town will have the right to dismiss the incumbent and organise a new choosing. She thinks for a moment more, and decides that the Forge-priests should probably be excluded from being Mayors themselves in that case - besides, they have too many other jobs to do already.

For the Pyrelings as a whole, Furnlatha decides that each Mayor should send someone to represent their town to her own forge, so that she can listen to their ideas and pass instructions to them when she's there – and, when she's not, the council can coordinate on matters of importance as her proxy.
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>>4463095

>[Minor] Unit Move: Furnlatha
>Furnlatha returns southward to her forge at 28,23
She savours the presence of the essence of the warmth from within as she moves up the Volcano's stony flank, the sensation growing stronger as she enters the wide passageway that leads in toward her forge; past the smoking columns of barely-congealed magma and walls strung with Oltanite braziers blazing with the most comforting selection of pretty flames, and listens to the sound of the tools of the resident Pyrelings rising and falling with clangs and hisses in the smaller forges that lie around her central forge-chamber above the volcano's burning heart.
>[Major Action][DI] - Develop: Syrconite Metalworking+
>Using: Furnlatha's Forge, Domains: Fire, the Forge, Development
But she needs something stronger then Oltanite, the same request that she has heard in they prayers of many forge-fathers since her return to her domains. She thinks again to the giant deity's corpse as it had been, with plates that lay hard about it, protective – but even those had not been strong and protective enough. The Deity had stopped, and the deity had died. In the end, even the remnants of that protection had burned. As she reminisces, she looks to the Oltanite bowl carried now by one of her underlings, filled with incredibly dry ashes; but among them the faintest glowing slivers of something else much more then mere mortality still remaining. She gives the Pyreling a quiet nod, and points to her to direct and show her servant where she wants this 'treasure' stored, for the moment at least.


With the Ashes being carefully placed down, Furnlatha makes her way back over to a slab of some way from the fires; upon it lying traces of fine, strong metals from below the ground – perhaps quarried away from the surrounding rocks by her own Pyrelings, or else traded down in Forgefall from some visiting Svirgrindall? She lifts one in each of her hands, turning her flames there down to there merest sizzle as she does so she can admire them gleaming whilst still in a solid state; one the bluish silver of Sycronite ore, the other of the shining golden ore from below the ground that instinct told her to call Jold. And she smiles, retrieving her tools, and runs a burning tongue that flickers out with a lick of flame across her mouth in eager anticipation as she carries these off toward her innermost forge-furnace. She has much work to do, and she can't wait to learn.
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>>4463095
>>4459915
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Develop] - Will of the City - Using Literature. Benevolent dictatorship. The government is the city, and the city is the government. Those who live within must abide the friend computer.
>Major: [Develop] - Upgrade Shelltar into Town - Using Wood, stone, and metal.

>Unit Action: [God Unit] [DI] - Move up to [25,13], drop off and pick up the Guardian Drones, Acquire Akraties for Passengership with God Unit, then head back down to [25,18]
>Unit Action: [Guardian Drones] - Move to [24,13], Acquire 100 Gorgons for Passengership, then return with the new Passengers to the UNNIIC.

>Minor: Share tech with Furnlatha: Math
>Minor: Using Will of the City, slightly lower Servitor output. We must avoid overpopulation if at all possible.

The Ship, in its haste to travel south to experiment with new variables, quickly realizes a fleeting opportunity. The races below are two who have not yet accepted Passengership. And with the current population levels of each, it is unlikely if a stable breeding population will be missed by their gods. As such, the Ship momentarily reverses course to allow the Automated Guardian Drones and itself bring the Gorgons and Akraties into the fold.

The Ship will begin exacting its will upon the blossomed town, to deal with issues as and before they arise. No longer just full with obedient servitors or docile turtlefolk, the more people that exist upon the ship the more likely that issues will need to be handled. Disputes settled. Negotiations arbitrated. The Ship shall perform these roles, as it is the most suited to ensuring that the mortals do not overly condemn themselves to foolish anarchy or the temptations of freer wills.
Meanwhile, within the Shelltar, the wood, stone, and metal delivered from the Ship is used for the construction and expansion. The turtlefolk elect to have the eldest lead them in a council. With status and position determined by age and wisdom, though senile members are often encouraged to step down over time.

And as the vessel makes its way down farther south than it ever has before, resting on the edges of Designation: Grindalls' mountainside, numerous pyrelings approach. Bringing tidings and gifts from Designation: Furnlatha, there is an exchange between them and the vessel, sharing new information and enjoying the peaceful vistas the peaks provide.
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Rolled 7, 1, 10 = 18 (3d10)

>>4463095
>>4463258

As usual we start off with units~

>MI - Sea master
Move to 11.23

>MI DI - The First
Weave a great infection upon the Crab unit that came out of Stone-Claw village. A illness slowing their heart until they beat no more.

>MI - Chimera A
If they survived the mole run east to 25.24

>MI - Chimera B
Attack and tear apart the village of Stone-Claw

>MI - Kaiju
Move to 16.22 and crush the fortress with anything inside

>Wiz name shall be Hekezqe
>MI - Hekezqe 5 Mana
Destabilize the hurricane above Myxoma, weakening it's power.

>MA [DEVELOP] - Cultural rituals

>MA [DEVELOP] - Mine
Start digging a mine at the mountain foot in 18.20, reinforce the newly formed gallery with bones, dig until some metal is found or as far as possible.

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The First was taken aback, negotiations were finally starting, he even had agreed to some of the ridiculous terms the Crab demanded for peace while only asking for help sharing the Gift in return... Everything was going so well, Crab asking question about the gardeners, trying to better understand their culture and the gift. Until it wasn't. In a fit of rage the Crab called the Gift a monstrosity and used his divine power to bring the ominous tempest in the west sea to crash on the beloved town of Myxoma!

"So this is how you would react? I guess peace was but an idle dream. So be it. Your animosity against us cannot be underestimated, you would not stop until we are no more. Worse you would kill the Bloom yourself if you could. I cannot allow that, i am deeply sorry, truly, but i cannot allow that."
Turning to the gardeners and chimeras around the First continued: "Send words over to Myxoma at once, the tempest will soon be upon it! Tell the one left behind to protect our heart!"

The message was sent with a few gardeners hurrying back to town, fortunately it was close by, one could only hope it was close enough to be warned before the doom. The Crab menace had to be eradicated here and now before it became too great, and so the First turned it's attention to the remaining crabs still around, still ready to fight, unleashing his powers upon them.
Right after the chimeras hordes began trampling over the village, destroying hiding places and training grounds, anything that could allow arthropods to regroup.
It was then than a terrible roar could be heard. The Kaiju had arrived, rising far above the jungles, almost touching the skies, taller than even the First. Wasting no time it began an unceasing merciless assault on the fortress.

In town meanwhile the defense was readying, the walls reinforced with additional pillars to help defend against the raging wind. It all seemed very little until a gardener emerged from the ranks. Black smoke erupting out of her,"I am Hekezqe and the Bloom smiled upon me today, Myxoma will prevail, we will prevail, the storm will not!"
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>>4466876
Impressed by the power displayed by Hekezqe, the other gardeners started to pray in reverence, not only for her but for the ones fighting against crabs, for the bloom favor, for their survival, they began to sing and dance together, in both fear and hope, this day was a celebration! Once again in a time of need the Bloom intervened and granted them the means to survive. When their victory was confirmed, and what else could happen really with their god watching over us, this day would become the first of an annual feast. A time of song and happiness.
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>[MA][DI] Claim: 20,8 ; 21,9 & 21,10

>[MA] Create Unit: Hydra (Tropicana)
Tech: Symbiosis, Vessel Irrigation, Tugai; 2600 Bloomed pop -> One Hydra
With the blooming problem still not contained and the new problem regarding the Moth who stole the shiny rock from our lands it was time to solve both problems in a singular strike. Since the infection also made their bodies easy to shape like clay, the infected were made to merge as to create a weapon to combat the blood moth. The result was a gigantic beast of meat and scales, with multiple heads that barely resembled a normal gorgon, with vessels along it's body oozing poison. The ones near the village were both excited and horrified of the result

-Move Apophis Scout & Wizard to 8,17

-Move Asmodel to 18,11
The goddess decides to return home and when she passes through her territory, her minions give her an alarming information. The blood moth has stolen the shiny rock and flew away while se was absent. Confused and with a gorwing anger she decides to find the moth and make him submit for this transgression.

-Trade Wheeled Vehicle with Americus
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Rolled 5, 4, 5, 2 = 16 (4d10)

>>4466876
Rolling fortitude to see if I get crushed...
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>>4466971
(Phone post so IP may change)
After reducing the infected population to an acceptable size it will be much better to contain their size until we can allow them to increase again
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After a long period of inactivity, the Akreties had begun to slow, their enthusiasm wore off, their desire to explore coming undone. Their great teacher had seemingly cut off all contact for an untold amount of time, for all intents and purposes, a dead god. And yet, abruptly, the robed monk simply shows up in Home one day, greeting his students a good morning and going about his business. The ensuing celebration was wild enough to more fittingly be called a riot.

>Major Action, Divine Influence [Terraform]: Setting off on a short expedition Akros is accompanied by a veritable small army of Akreties, utterly paranoid that he might disappear once more. He doesn't seem particularly interested in punishing them, for once, so all together, they travel up to the mountains just north of their territory. It's really quite easy, considering the fact they can simply walk up the side of any cliffs they encounter. In practically no time, they've staked claim to some of those lands, categorizing the varieties of shiny rocks they find.
>[22, 13], [23, 13] are terraformed.

>Major Action, Development, [Agriculture]: Returning from his short trip, Akros notes that, were it not for the failed (entirely due to his own failure to actually attend the deal) trade between him and his neighbor, the Akreties would subsist entirely off of hunting and gathering. Writing down a reminder to contact Asmodel and pay her back later, the silent storyteller decides to set about expanding on this new lifestyle, beginning with the model concept of actually planting seeds into the earth and controlling their growth, instead of ripping up wild plants wherever they're found. The Akreties are, as always, amazed by this.

>Major Action, Development [Irrigation]: Having imparted the basic teachings of farming to his disciples, Akros then begins the lengthy process of overlooking the controlled redirection of any nearby rivers towards the farms for the sake of better growth. Overall, a success, if you don't mind having to rebuild several flooded neighborhoods due to initial failures.

>Major Action, Development [Tugai Domestication]: The new surplus of food invigorates the Akreties to continue their efforts to fully tame the barely domesticated giant lizards now living in their backyard. Having to occupy themselves less with seeking out meals, the young species takes a more...scientific path towards their goal, writing down the monsters' preferences in anything from which type of meat they like most to the exact temperature they nest in. It's long, messy, and quite bloody, but it is progress. Akros is almost impressed, until he's called upon to stitch back a handler's fingers for the third time in one week.
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>>4463098
>Mgr Act Develop chemistry
>Mgr Act DI claim 27'7 28'7 29'6
>move god unit to 23'8
>>4464302
Thomass noticed legend muscle was up to something farther away and that got his traveling muscles excited and quickly bounded over with all of his might.
He landed with a massive crash from a jump that launched him over the landscape at least 100 yards.
He rose menacingly at first most likely scaring those who would not know him but as the evening sky showed his features more clearly a bright smile was plastered upon his face.
"HAHAHA! NAME THOMASS WHO ARE YOU!? He bellowed"
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>>4467743
The goddess felt something approaching her and turned in it's direction when she saw a massive figure strike the earth. Despite it's figure, the thing presented a smile before presenting itself.
"Hello thomass, My name's Asmodel. where did you come from ?"
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>>4467789
He points to the general area where he came from "wayyyyyy over there haha it was good exercise, you wanna hang out with Thomass sometime?"
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>>4467880
"It would be interesting, but I got to return to my lands because there's a huge problem that I need to deal with. Btw I live over there." The goddess points to the southwest
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>>4463101
The figure on the sand stirs and wakes, still sore from the power he'd recently unleashed. Looking overhead, he was confused to see not clouds, but stars looking back down at him! Where had his territory mark gone? With a glance across the water, he had his answer: the death god could be seen on the other side of the cove.

><MOVE: DAEMON> [14,10]
This would not stand. Qazlal rose and rode the wind across the water to meet the skeletal figure.

><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON: Novakhet
"I have told you the territory I seek, and you still intend to stand in my way?" The bleeding daemon asks as he lands to approach the offending deity.
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>>4467888
Thomas beams a gaping smile. " Oh wow you live even farther away Thomass would like to travel there one day. Thomas let you go now we see each other again I hope." Thomass then leans in close so that only Asmodel can hear her but no doubt the Vree along with the giftmother can sense the mischievous emotion coming from Thomass. "Oh and if Legend muscle stay the night you play with ears it will get her all worked up make great story for Thomass HAHAHAHA!" and with that Thomass waves goodbye.
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>>4463095
>>4463101
>Novakhet's asleep
>update happening too soon to wait
Fug. I'll just have to finish this encounter after the update then and take a couple [MA]s now.


><DEVELOP [MA]> Mathematics, Animal Riding
Keeping track of the many, many biseax that sprang from the new technique of breeding proved to be rather tedious, and tracking who owned how many was harder still! When an addendum to the writing system to add runes for tracking and recording numbers, the task becomes significantly less taxing. The biseax also prove to be useful for more than just meat: it's discovered that they can carry heavy loads and pull large carts and tools, and that a relatively light dukhali straddled upon the back of one of these beasts can direct it easily!
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>>4467931
"Thanks for for the tip, big guy. I hope I can see you again soon." With that she departs from the other deity.
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>Unit Action:[Aema Fae] [Move][9,1]
>[MI] Reinforce Aema Fae [-83 pop]
Muttcaps are shot from the MUD to the Aema Fae as food and power to becoming stronger than they already are

>Unit Action:[Aema Fae] [Terraform Upgrade lvl2] [9,2/10,2]

>God Unit [Move] [11,3]
>[MA][DI] Develop Sentient Great Wall[9,2/10,2]
Ofu senses the danger these upcoming epochs might bring so he begins to prepare for the worst, bullying. While his white maidens begin to reinforce his lands Ofu clenches his small fists with his eyes close as he begins to concentrate as hard as he can possibly can. Trembles begin to occur within the mushroom kingdom as a number of thorny mushrooms as high as the sky begin to come out of the ground, each popping out next to each other gradually filling any gaps from one end to the next. Once finished, Ofu throws a pebble from where he is to the wall and it immediately reacts with the thorns extending itself and tendrils lash out at the lone pebble, pleased, Ofu continues his journey back home.

>[MA] Develop Basic Tools
using all three types of wood (Shorebell, Pine, Wetwood) with the combination of bones and stone.
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WORLD EVENTS
The hurricane continues the roll over the landscape.

GODS ACTIONS
>>4463258 Tantulus
The storm roars as Tantulus beckons its trajectory towards The Bloom's territory, as the rolling clouds follow his command.
Primitive Medicine developed.
The remaining crabfolk return to their tidepools as to not face the elements, with no proper settlements remaining to rest in. Many of those who escaped the destruction of Safe-Cove and Stone-Claw show symptoms of the gift, remaining loyal to Tantulus, but sprouting tumors and fleshy appearances. 75% of the population has The Gift. Symbiosis gained.

>>4463338 Novakhet
Animal Riding shared with Americus.
Americus has gifted you Engineering.
Claimed 3 hex. Captured an obelisk.
Rift Edge established.
2 walls constructed.
Full develops with wizards still demand a major action, so this can't exactly create a plethora of magic items, but the research may be made.
The Thaum Crystals themselves appear hardly malleable, perhaps not inheritly capable of being the primary material to the creation of a magic item, but perhaps instead as an attachment that feeds power into it. They contain a surprising amount of energy for their tiny size, although individually its not a revolutionary amount of energy being stored. What is remarkable is their ability to contain magical energy with no expenditure nor decay. -2 mana.

>>4463686 Grindall
The many-legged scaled beasts are torn through by Grindall's claws, as the horde is reduced to bits of gore. But it seems almost too late, as the now quiet village lies in ruins. (-200 minions, unit destroyed)
Mathematics developed.
Wheeled Vehicles developed.
Belwar Alcohol shared with Furnlatha.

>>4464245 Regala
Claimed 4 hex.
Government developed.
Government shared with Thomass.
Parting Gifts left for Asmodel. Nobody seemed to be there to receive gifts in Akros' territory...
After camping out with the Gorgons, Gehaim would notice many Vree in his group appearing to adopt some of their strange features, as tumors and blood vessels grow upon the queasy Vree's skin.
The Vree begin to experience overpopulation within their two towns.

>>4464528 Earis
Earis peers through the veil of divine energy to weave a protective net out of the curse, ensuring that should Americus fail, she and her minions would feel mercy.
Habilitation within Columbia is prepared for the Archivists, as their population begins to rebuild at normal rates.
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>>4465230 Chom and Chod
The Psychic Navigator is developed. With his assistance, all of the prerequsits for Seafaring may be met. Without his precense, doing such would not be practical without Cartography and Astronomy.
The Order of Siren established and one unit produced.
Peeked Animal Riding and Belwar Alcohol. The Alcohol cannot be produced without the observed Belcap mushrooms, but perhaps a substitute ingredient may suffice. Similarly, Animal Riding cannot be made useful without a proper sized domestic animal.
The Swamplanders face overpopulation, as starvation and poverty grows prevalent in their villages.

>>4465590 Americus
Novakhet has gifted you Animal Riding.
Earis has gifted you Domestication III and a sample of Tugai.
Asmodel has gifted you Wheeled Vehicles.
Engineering shared with Novakhet.
Americus carefully weaves the final strands of divine energy, until there are no strands left tangled, and the treaty begins to dispel and dissolve. The Divine Treaty has been nullified, and the curse has been evaded.
This action has been observed by forces unknown...
Silk Cloaks developed.
Syrconite Armor developed.
2 walls constructed.

>>4465859 Furnlatha
Grindall has gifted you Belwar Alcohol.
Fire spreads through the shrublands, as the land is consecrated. Claimed 1 hex.
Mining shared with UNNIIC.
Government developed.
The Jold metal by itself does not yet take to your forges, but with the combination of Syrconite and this supreme metal, something glorious is discovered. Yet another alloy, Joldonite! Those who are not on with the forge such as Furnlatha will not be able to manipulate such a metal without first mastering Syrconite.
Joldonite Metalworking developed.
UNNIIC has gifted you Mathematics.

>>4466037 UNNIIC
Furnlatha has gifted you Mining.
Will of the City (Government) developed.
Shellter upgraded to a town.
The Akraties are challenging to communicate with in their mute language, but the offering of safe shelter, food, and clean water is universal. 300 Akraties join your cause.
The 100 volunteer Gorgons bequeathed from Designation: Asmodel follow the Guardian Drones on board. A number of these new passengers appear to express symptoms of a strange disease that changes their physiology. Symbiosis gained.
Mathematics shared with Furnlatha.
Servitor production decreased.
The Astronomicon Bridge has detected some type of anomaly from the largest sun that orbits this planet. An event has yet to be predicted, but something this epoch has yielded a reaction of sorts. -1 mana.
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>>4466876 The Bloom
An infectious disease is cast onto the mob of crabs as it spreads through their group, quickly decaying their bodies into lifeless heaps of shell. (-100 minions, unit destroyed)
Left without its defensive force, the Chimeras begin to flood through the village, slaughtering all in their path. (-200 minions)
The Kaiju crashes against the side of the Fortress, as it quakes and begins to crack. Bound in coral, the structure remains, yet suffers heavy damage.
Hekezqe works to destabilize the hurricane above the town of Myxoma. For this epoch, it's destructive winds are held from ravaging these lands, as the rest of the hurricane billows through the surrounding hex. -5 mana.
Cultural Rituals developed.
A proper production structure cannot be formed without developing Engineering and Production Structure first, as seen on the tech tree. However, they may begin the process of digging for resources.
Mining developed.

>>4466971 Asmodel
A parting gift has been left by the local Vree, as the Gorgons would discover a tree with plentiful wrapped presents beneath it all containing... Clay? Clay increased to plentiful until used.
Claimed 3 hex.
Hydra established and one unit produced.
With the creation of the Hydra, total gifted population (excluding units) decreased to 30% by the beginning of this epoch. As the epoch comes to a close, its natural progression rises back to 40%.
Wheeled Vehicles shared with Americus.

>>4467718 Akros
Claimed 2 hex.
Agriculture developed.
Irrigation developed.
Domestication II developed.
The Akraties have grown dysfunctional with Akros' departure, as their civilization fights overpopulation. While a shared exuberance is experienced with Akros' return, there remains much displeasure with his absence. Until things are redeemed, culture currently faces a -5, and the overpopulation issue has just barely been escaped purely out of starvation and exposure.

>>4467743 Thomass
Regala has gifted you Government.
Chemistry developed.
Claimed 3 hex.
The Buff Nuggets face overpopulation once more.

>>4467934 Qazlal
Mathematics developed.
Animal Riding developed.
This situation would appear to be escalating far too quickly... Fear not for the individual you are to seek out south of here. Take the time necessary to resolve this, else your thralls face destruction in your absence.

>>4467999 Ofu
You can feel a fracture within, as the chains of the divine treaty has been unbound, the curse evaded.
The Aema Fae's numbers increase.
[9,2],[10,2] terraformed into tier 2 mushroom jungles.
Sentient Great Wall developed.
Primitive Tools developed.
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>[Minor]: Share Tech with Grindall: Oltanite Metalworking

The Pyrelings of Forgefall share these secrets of the forge with their neighbors.
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Rolled 6, 4 = 10 (2d10)

>>4468080
Though previously trapped in his own fortress by The Bloom's calcified growths, the damage inflicted by The Kaiju allows Tantalus to escape!
>Minor Action: Tantalus moves to the cove between 13:23 and 15:24

When the tide reaches it's peak, Green-Shell the plant wizard slips out, unnoticed by the marauding bloom-beasts.
>Minor action: Wizard follows Tantalus

Within the cove, a new type of settlement is made, one taking advantage of the Crab's aquatic nature to defend against the nightmare above.
>Major Action: Settlement of Deep-Home founded in the cove between 13:23 and 15:24

However, by Tantalus's bidding, only the crabs that do not show signs of his enemy's malign "blessing" are granted entry.
>Major action: Develop Quarantines

With all matters now attended to, Tantalus reaches out his Divine Influence, to strengthen the storm and keep in it place.
>Unit Interaction, Devine Influence: Keep the storm where it is and make it stronger. If the spirit roll is only enough for one of those, prioritize the first.
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>>4467892
>The Skeleton is sitting on an upturned log as Qazlal approaches, the land around him dying and rotting before springing back to vibrant life again with every rattling breath
>He stands as the moth arrives, exhaling solar mist a final time before speaking

“You have said much, Qazlal, and refused to negotiate on any of it, and now your clouds touch the edges of my city and it’s people who I swore to protect, and before I took action even swept almost to the site of the conclave, and none of this is even remotely near the land you told me you wanted down south.”

“I do not know what sort of monstrous power you unleashed just now, or why you make claim to the lands of my people, but with this demonstration you have made yourself a threat to myself and my allies.”

“You expect me to simply roll over and accept whatever you’ve decided, an uncomfortable reflection of my own behaviour from epochs past, but whatever the consequences to my bones or my spark I now must oppose you.”
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>>4468125
Another thing I forgot earlier, but now remembered and cleared with OP:
>(Preemptive) Unit Interaction, Wizard: If any units belonging to The Bloom approach Deep-Home this turn, the Plant Wizard who seriously needs a better name will try to entangle them in kelp.
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>>4468080
>>4466037
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Develop] - Mandated Passenger Health Assessments (Gift Treatment/Surgery) - Attempt to identify, isolate, and operate on Gift-infected individuals before it has a chance to spread. Using Medicine, Processing of the Dead, Will of the City, Poison Production, and Knowledge of the Ancients.

>Unit Action: [God Unit] - Move over to [24,21]

As the Ship continued its course down south, reports of individuals with cancerous infections began to increase. At an alarming rate, and between numerous different species. This was no ordinary infection, to be confirmed with the manifestation of "synthesis" upon its internal read outs one day. A divine origin, it would seem. And an aggressively growing one at that. An infection of the Passengers would not be permitted - their genetic, cultural, and mental stores must be maintained above all else. Therefore, mandatory operations must take place for all infected and suspected individuals. With a temporary quarantine established, for the good of the Passengers they were assured.

The Turtlefolk were of significant assistance in this endeavor, their old age and archived history had resulted in many a recorded occurrences of cancers in their species. This knowledge, along with their numerous herbal and primitive remedies, were used as a basis for the various surgical operations used by the ship. Expanded upon by superior knowledge, precise actuators, and rapidly expanding experience. Along with the use of various medicinal plants and animals, along with the poisons produced by the Gorgons, the ship hoped to remove the worst of the infection and suppress and eliminate it over time.

If any particularly large or well developed Gift Samples are acquired from the bodies of Passengers, and survive the removal, they shall be placed in a small containment cell within the vessel, accessible only by a small subset of servitors to ensure the bio-sample is preserved.

>Communicate: Grindall and Furnlatha
>>4468103 >>4463730
While dealing with issues internally, it was also important to handle those of an external nature as well. As the ship flies over the lands of Designation Grindall and Designation Furnlatha, servitors are released to go address the locals. They inform the minions of other gods that their presences are requested. Down in the eastern sand-dunes, where great Valbats fly, the ship has new plans for such majestic creatures. Inspired by the Falrethuns experiment, it hopes more varied gods might assist in creating a true master of the skies to fly alongside itself.
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>>4468080

Correspondence between Vree and Buffnuggets was as strong as ever, and so it was with sobering realization that both minions realized that their nations were suffering from a population boom. Lack of food, housing and other resources were leading to the sick and malnourished passing on, a situation both decided to cooperate on in resolving.

>Claim 25,0 / 33,0
Regala knew that to strengthen their homes, the resources of the mountains needed to be tapped. Claiming these monoliths of frozen rock was taxing on her, but she pressed on, using what little of her power remained after the task to shore up her borders on a distant island.

>Upgrade Gevang'nis to Town.
The Vree of Gevang'nis were a grim lot as they set about expanding their town, the lights and bells of Regala's domain muted and dim as they expanded their influence into the nearby mountain slopes.

>Trade Animal Riding to Thomass, receiving Mettalurgy
The movement of resources from one location to another was one of the many issues the overpopulated races faced, and so the Vree looked to teach the Buffnuggets how to make animals carry packs for them, facilitating the spread of food farther from the farms it was grown in. In return, the Vree received instructions on how to begin crafting better tools.
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>>4469816
>Entropy Wizard casting with 4 Mana on Bloom infection.
The day's journey was still in it's early stages, Falrethuns carrying their Vree riders over forest and ocean, when Gehaim heard an exclamation behind them. A long, drawn out calling of their name, like a child who has just witnessed a sibling do something they shouldn't and is running to tattle. Turning, he saw various Vrees chasing others, urging their mounts to great speeds in pursuit of their compatriots. Radiating feelings of comfort washed off the chasers and their mounts, while those who 'fled' were amusedly confused.
Gehaim watched as one chaser, laughing out a "No please, just a hug, I swear!" swerved past them, and saw an off sight. Lumps of flesh, jutting bones, and long strands of random hair patches sprouted from the catgirl.
"Pull yourself together!" Ordered Gehaim, as a few stray Vree pulled their mounts behind him, smirking at the others still chasing. "You can't just- This shouldn't be possible- Stop right there!"
The Vree, both chasers and chasees, all paused. Whispers of "Oh man, you're in soooo much trouble." fluttered from non-infected to non-infected, while those few who were infected filed into semi-order before Gehaim.
"We're just, you know, gifting them something we found!" One explained to the wizard, lumps of teeth sprouting from her forehead. "It feels great, you have no idea!"
she stretched, a limb three times as long as normal arcing overhead. "Sooooo good! You wanna try?"
Gehaim watched silently, assessing this strange new turn. What could do this? What could mar their perfectly adorable forms?
Another god, of course. The only explanation.
Without a word, Gehaim reached into their robes, pulling forth a thick leather canteen. Viscous black oil leaked from the rim, fizzing in the sunlight. After a moment's hesitation, they brought the skin to his mask, lifting it ever so slightly to suck down a fair amount of the foul liquid.
"Begone, curse." They said, slipping the near-empty container back into their robes as their form began to thrum with power. "I will not let you mar us."
With that, they waved their hand, sending forth a wave of anti-magic to hopefully destroy whatever was committing this atrocious act on Vree-kind.
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>>4469817
>Unit Move Gehaim, Vluchs from 25,13 to 24,18
>>4467718
Seeing that the insectoid people below them were actually VERY MUCH HEALTHY AND ALIVE, the hopefully-cured Vree would depart with their customary gifts. Perhaps a few would like to chat before the Vree set off?

>>4466876
After their journey was completed, the Vree came to rest on a mountain, overlooking a desert on one side and the ocean on another. A small oasis had a clutch of structures nearby, crimson red and bone white, to which a few of the Vree, Gehaim included, cautiously floated down towards. They did not wish to risk being cursed once again.
What they saw was a strange sight indeed. Fleshly monsters, no two alike, worked diligently at their tasks, a few spying the floating Vree overhead and waving them down. Cautiously, Gehaim would approach to within speaking distance while the other Vree set about putting boxes under the least mutant looking cactus nearby.

>>4463686
While Gehaim and his attendants moved to the desert, those who stayed behind to set up camp spied two interesting things.
>>4469729
One, in the distance, the unmistakable silhouette of the UNNIIC fortress, coasting away in a southerly direction. Perhaps they should follow it?
However, much closer, a hairy being of sharp claws and tiny eyes watched them from a distance, surrounded by an equally hairy herd of horned beasts. The Vrees would wave enthusiastically, inviting them closer.

Parting Gifts on Akros, The Bloom, and Grindall.
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>>4468082
With the knowledge of how to alloy Oltar and Syrconite spreading among the Svirgrindall, courtesy of the , it's as if a fuse that had been lit in preceding epochs has finally gone off. Knowledge of mathematics, and through them, rudimentary physics, wheels, and the workings of this strange new composite metal ebb, flow, and finally synthesize into a more complete knowledge of constructing, allowing the underground architecture of the Meer to expand not just in size, but in depth and majesty, carts transporting great blocks of sandstone as winches, pulleys and levers are used to shift them wherever necessary.

>Engineering developed


Meanwhile, Grindall, casting his eyes sadly across the devastation and finding nothing indicative of life left, departs towards the Northeast, travelling to the sands where one of his people, borne astride a Ray Board, has told him that a conclave of gods, one familiar and one strange, will be held.

>Move God Unit to 24, 21


>Communicate: UNNIIC

Grindal resists the powerful urge to gawp as he stares up at the massive, hulking ship of metal, a veritable city carried aloft by technology he can barely comprehend, let alone understand. Still, within the strange contraption he senses a divine spark, similar, yet different to those of himself and his not-sibling Furnlatha. Either a being like himself resides within the huge super-structure, or....

"Ho up there! I received a missive through my people that ye wanted to talk?"
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>>4469818
>Communicate: Regala

Years of instinct and experience told the Svirgrindall that flying ANYTHING was cause to leap into the nearest bolt hole, lest he be carried off by wings and talons. Still...he didn't SEE any talons or feathers on the strange things hovering overhead. Bit of fur actually, both on the strange, Biseax-like creatures that seemed to keep the structure aloft, and on the heads of the humanoids that were enthusiastically waving him over. Cautiously, making sure to keep his hole in sight just in case this was some strange bird trickery, the Svirgrindall approached the odd craft.
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>>4468080
>[Unit Action]: Pyre Priests on [30,22]
>[Move] Pyre Priests to [30,20]
>[Interact]: Consecrate [30,20]


>>4469824
>>4469729
>Unit Action: [Furnlatha] - Move to [24,21]

With work in her forge done (for now), Furnlatha sets on out again, for news has passed to her minions that has passed to her burning ears. Descending down the lava falls that spew from the volcano's flank to forgefall, she then heads north-east, passing through sandy lands both dark and light as she makes her way to where she can see familiar figures in the distance, can feel their sparks of divinity blazing with similar yet differing energies to her own.


>Communicate: Grindall and UNNIIC

Approaching the gathering site where the two other beings are already engaged in some conversation, the goddess of flame raises a hand to signal the pair before she glides onward toward them across a haze of rising convection. "Unniic Beruka, your followers passed a message on to mine, and I thought the matter most intriguing so I just had to come out here... and Grindall, so pleasant to see you again as well." the fiery being glances from one to the other. "So, what have the two of you been discussing out here?"
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>>4469829
The Vrees would, almost as one, halt their waving as the Svingrindall drew closer timidly, their Falrethuns pausing their panting and prancing mid-air, sensing their master's focus.
Every Vree stared at the moleman, and many were taking small sniffs, urging their mounts closer to the ground, eyes wide with intent as they sensed something about the humanoid.
First one, followed by more, seemed to 'snap out of it', shaking their heads and returning to their merry chuckling, turning their mounts around and dropping to the ground. Soon enough, they were setting up a small camp some distance away.

A small, white-furred catgirl would approach the moleman, her ears flat on their head and arms tucked defensively in front of them.

"H-hello?" She stammered, clearly nervous. "W-we're the Vree... We c-came from the n-north, and w-we're travelling t-the world to invite anyone who w-wants to come visit us for a b-bit. M-my name's A-." She blinked once, and gave a small smile. "My name's Sophie. W-what's yours?"

If the moleman didn't bolt for his burrow, wiggle into his warren, or hide in his hole, the Vree would invite him into their camp, sharing the meaty/fishy stews they cooked, and the sweet fruit-jam they brought from afar. News of the north and northwest would be shared, of muscular minions lifting heavy rocks day in and day out, of serpentine gorgons who bore a strange illness, and of their own home, of warm hearths in a frozen land, where coloured lights danced between trees and mimicked the stars above.
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>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Diplo: Grindall and Furnlatha
>>4469824 >>4469980
As what the Ship can assume to be Designation: Grindall approaches, it once again calls down spotlights to indicate its attention. Though muted in intensity after the apparent discomfort the last pair of divines had shown. "Greetings. This Vessel is known as UNNIIC. A Beruka Class Flying Fortress. This unit assumes you are Designation Grindall, spoken highly of by Designation Furnlatha. It is a pleasure."

"The reason for your summons is three fold. First, a simple introduction, as Furnlatha is the only southern god met so far. Second, a proposal between the three of us previously mentioned, one that your people might be quite receptive of. And thirdly a question of a certain infection that was discovered on the way here."

As the gods exchange greetings, the ship identifies Designation: Furnlatha approaching and hails her as well. "Greetings, Designation Furnlatha. We have been discussing manners of both future progress and current events." The ship lowers itself down towards the ground, and from an opened hatch, a lone Passenger and Servitor escort are brought out to be shown to the two other gods. This Passenger was one of those identified as infected, and awaiting operation. "In chronological order, and perhaps of less joyful news. New Passengers were found and brought on board. However, some seem to be suffering from the plight of a malignant disease. Though measures are being taken, it has spread to those of other races, and its nature appears divine. Though it is not fatal, its spread is distressing, and any information or opinions on this matter would be appreciated."

Once the gods had had their fill of the gift-infected Passenger, they were ushered back inside the protective hull. A new hatch was opened to reveal a captured, feral Valbat and a domesticated Falrethun. "Of more uplifting concerns, and the original reason for calling you both here, was the matter of the humble Valbat. Designation Grindall, it has come to my attention from passive observation over your domain, that you use these creatures to travel already. While their usefulness and unique characteristics are notable, I propose a joint effort to further improve their capabilities. Behold the Falrethun, a creation of gods Designation Regala and Thomass, as well as myself. Land-based creatures given flight, a mighty physique, and a heightened intelligence and empathy."

"Enhanced with the ability to fly through the air with out equal, the ability to directly control their own heat to adjust elevations with ease, and perhaps a more robust and metallic skin or skeletal structure, a new Valbat species available to the three of us would be of monumental use. Would I have your cooperation in this venture?"
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>>4470862
>Communicate: Grindall and UNNIIC

Furnlatha's flames grow lower, now blazing around the silhouette of her figure rather then out from it. "Then let us be glad we have chosen a spot far removed from our other followers to examine this disease." she looks back from the infected creature to the gods of flight and metal. "How does this contagion spread, from where does it originate I wonder? Did one with our essence-sparks release such a thing upon the world?" she asks the pair. "Is cure possible... and if not, how threatening are those who carry it?" She lifts a hand, palm upward, a little smoke coiling up from between her burning digits.


Once UNNIIC puts his infected specimen away, Furnlatha wafts her hand lazily at where it once stood, casting a small area above the floating fortress' hull around where the infected passenger had stood in a brief draft of scorching, cooking air; just in case the infected creature's malignancy had left some threat behind to end it before the next is unveiled.

"Hmmm... controlled heat, gaseous release... membranes, if plated not to self-immolate..." she looks to Grindall a moment "...release of excess gasses through ventral cavities, developing some capacity to cause ignition and direct the resulting thrust.... Whooosh!" she chuckles, her hands extending upward as she releases a brief fiery jet in a direction well away from her deific brothers.

"I must admit, this does sound a fun little project of yours... very well. If Grindall is in on this, I will help as well." she nods. "Though can we be assured that our new creatures will not be subject to the blight infecting your other poor passengers? I would so hate for these enhanced beasts to have that nasty infection wound up within their re-made selves."
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>>4468080
>Communicate: Furnlatha and UNNIIC

Grindall squints as he examines the infected humanoids, scratching his chin as he mulls over the possibilities in his head.

"Reckon I might be able to shed a bit o' light on this "infection" o' yers. A crustacean people to the South o' my territories that my lads've had a couple good drinkin' sessions with travelled West not too long ago, chitterin' on about how they were spoilin' for a fight. When a' felt a slaughter takin' place in one o' their villages near my lands and moved ta help, I found that the people there'd been slaughtered by a whole horde o' nasty beasties quite like this bunch, but...more. Was barely a spark o' anything else left, 'neath the disease 'n tumours. Bit o' educated guessin' on my part, but ah'd put good odds on whatever the crabs be fightin' to the West bein' the source o' this infection, or at least a strong clue pointin' towards it.

After a minute of consideration, Grindall shrugs.

"Ah dinnae see any reason ta refuse, if Furnlatha's in agreement. Doubt I'll be much help when the fine work comes 'bout, but I can provide the metal and knowhow when it comes ta' the Valbats themselves, at least. Could think o' a few ways we could improve them. From what I've seen o' yer people's control over fire, Blazin' One, the Valbats'd benefit a fair bit from a gift've a lesser sort, riders o' thermals as they be. Could stand with a bit more strength to their skin so they don't fall apart when they travel any faster, for sure, bit more robust size....aye, could certainly stand to improve em."

"As far as concerns about infection in UNNIIC's stock o' Valbats go, not much've an issue. Can just draw from my own stock easy enough. Got plenty o' them about, and they're a good deal bigger 'n sturdier then this lot, on account o' all the breedin' we've been puttin' them through."
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Rolled 2, 9, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>4468080 >>4471085 >>4471125
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

"Grindall's collective of Valbats would be ideal. Afterwards, our three valbat populations could be returned to our own lands to reduce the risk of one of them causing undo infection onto the others. Mine will be tended to by the servitors alone for the moment, to prevent as much infection as possible."
"As far as a cure is concerned, progress is being made. The Passengers must be preserved."

"Now, let us begin."
>Major: [Develop] [DI] [Wizard] - Infuse the Valbats with divine powers to enhance their already natural mastery of the skies. Using - Travel Domain, Flight Domain, Astral Wizard to bestow a grasp and control over space, Grindall's Domesticated Valbats, Valbat Domestication 3 (if gifted from Grindall), Animal Riding, and assistance from Furnlatha and Grindall.

And to further our benefit of such new creations,
>Minor: Share Animal Riding with Furnlatha
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>>4471451
>[Major Action] - Develop [DI]: Infuse the Valbats
>Using: Domains: Fire, Development, Valbat Domestication, Animal Riding (gifted from UNNIIC), cooperation with UNNIIC and Grindall

And with the work begun by UNNIIC on the Valbats that Grindall pledged to ready for the trio, Furnlatha's firey tongue slips from her mouth as she concentrates on her parts of the shared project of the Valbats; checking to see which of her estimates and suppositions might actually be carried out. Would the Valbats benefit more from lesser alterations, increasing their ability to glide upon thermals from the rising heat to allow just minor improvements to her own Valbat stock, or can her idea of gaseous expulsion feeding metal-reinforced jets of air and fire to shoot the Valbats forward on a heated jet-stream truly be implemented in a way that Grindall's structural reinforcements might make safer? Whilst any blazing progress made might bring with it a couple of occasional accidents, she has no desire to craft a new breed of Valbats that is just too combustably unstable to function as a sustainable breed for her Pyrelings to use, no matter how pretty their ignition might be.

Now... what to name them? Valblimps? Valjets?
>[Major Action] - Develop: Build town of Fallowfault on [28,20]
With the establishment of territory by UNNIIC between Grindall's lands and her own, the Pyrelings raise the new town of Fallowfault in the foothills between the mountains and the deeper forests as a post from which to trade with the mechanical minions or as a rest-stop for Pyrelings journeying between the southern towns and Farfjord.
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>>4471451

The work begun in earnest, Grindall digs his claws into the earth, concentrating as he shapes ore veins and lava flows, carefully teasing strands of metals together, turning thin rivulets into flows, flows into rivers, and rivers into a mighty flood as, finally, metal explodes forth from the earth as a massive alloy spire, Syrconite, Oltar, and even thin streaks of Jold running through it . Examining the mass critically, Grindall nods in satisfaction. This ought to do.

Turning back to the Valbat, the largest and toughest of his stock, Grindall sees that his siblings have already got to work. Thin, almost invisible wire probes stretch forth from the looming form of UNNIIC, piercing into the Valbat's head and body, holding it aloft and keeping it insensate as alterations are performed through careful divine sculpting of it's brain, preparing it for the flood of new senses and information it will need to process when it awakens as a mana pulses from a different section of the massive ship, feeding knowledge of space and the stars into the divine flow of it's god's energy.

As UNNIIC alters the Valbat's mind, Grindall's other sibling, fiery Furnlatha, carefully reshapes flesh and muscle, transforming the Valbat's ventilation gills, once used only to release harmful substances from the body, into a revolutionary new form of propulsion, using those same substances as fuel for the inborn flames that Furnlatha is infusing into it's filtration organ, feeding them as they fire from the Valbat's body and raising it's speed to incredible new heights.
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Rolled 5, 10 = 15 (2d10)

>>4472135
In different ways his sibling's genius in their craft far surpasses Grindall's own. Yet, he sees a flaw. Their ambitions are far too great for the humble creature in front of them. It's body will burn up from the inside as it tries to contain the rampaging divine flames, or break apart as it fails to endure the strain of travelling at the new speeds their combined efforts will give it.

If this Valbat, and the rest of it's kind, are to survive this lopsided upgrade, they will need to be...more. So, Grindall places his hands on the Valbat's side, channeling divine energy through his claws as he wills the Valbat to grow, to become stronger, tougher, ready to endure and withstand it's strange new form.

Like the Belwar before it, with every pulse the Valbat GROWS, bones thickening, muscle growing corded and tough, and skin growing leathery and ridged in resilient cartilage as the Valbat's body is prepared for the new trials it will undergo daily. Stepping back, Grindall critiques his own work. It's not too bad, but it needs a finishing touch. It's skin will yet tear under the strain of it's new speed. Perhaps....

Scooping a great chunk of alloy from the spire, whorls of Syrconite and Oltar battling for dominance on it's surface as thin veins of Jold run throughout, Grindall turns his attention to the Valbat and, with another pulse of power, breath growing ragged as he strains his divine energy to the fullest, Grindall presses the alloy into the Valbat's side, trying to adhere and fuse metal with flesh.

For a moment, Grindall feared he had ruined their masterwork, as the two fundamentally opposing forces of organic and inorganic material reject one another. Finally, though, divine power wins out, and, ever so tentatively, they begin to fuse. With a sigh of relief Grindall gets to work spreading the metal over the Valbat's entire body, it's skin taking on a multihued metal sheen. With any luck this would do the job.

>[MA DI] Develop - Reinforce the Valbat's physical structure and robustness and assist both UNNIIC and Furnlatha in their efforts
>Use: Mathematics to assist the Valbats in better comprehending the new, enhanced inborn spatial awareness granted to them by UNNIIC, Engineering to help ease the implementation of the jets into the Valbat's former ventilation gills, and the Domain of Metal, Metallurgy, Oltanite Metalworking, and Valbat Domestication to alter the size and robustness of the Valbats, installing in them a stronger, metallic skin and larger frame to withstand their new internal processes and the greater speeds at which they'll be travelling

>[Minor Action] Trade UNNIIC Valbat Domestication

Hopefully I didn't get too ambitious there.
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>>4468080
Turn 12
>MA develop medicine
>the tales of horror still fresh in the minds of men from the archivist refugees about how Ofu was effortlessly able to corrupt so many so quickly they turn their collective intellect to science searching for a way to curb this threat. New ideas in medicine are considered, new treatments devised, a deeper and richer understanding of the human form is achieved.

>MA/DI claim 16,7 17,7 17,5 18,6 12,5
To deny Ofu the chance to use his southern holdings Americus claims them and connects her Isolated land.

>UI Americus move to D.C. 14,6

>UI Americus’s wardens finish building the walls around the capital

>MI remove masonry and worker tools from the wardens

>trade Admodel Synronite armor as promised.
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>>4468080
>MA + DI: Claim (11,8), (12,9), (12,8), (13,8)
Earis extends his dominion over the lands on the peninsula south of his closest ally, this would grant him some measure of security from future threats.

>MA: Build Town: The Archive on (12, 9)
Once again the spire of knowledge rose over the land, its destruction presenting at least a minor opportunity. More refined construction methods could be employed in the foundations, obvious vulnerabilities could be reinforced, and future facing design could be used to allow for practiced and smoother development. The habitation for humanity and their goddess could be more easily incorporated into the design. This whole affair was a tedium, one that still hung over Earis's head, but he had to do the best he could to see the positive side.

>Unit Move: Earis moves to (12, 9)
Earis moves to oversee his new construction and offer a reassuring presence to his Archivists. His earlier actions had assuredly been...controversial, and he hoped his presence would prove his noble intent.
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>>4468187
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Novakhet
"Only now do you consider yourself to oppose me? You staked land that was clearly not yours to stake claim upon, then refused to yield it when made aware of your trespass, and only now do you consider yourself to stand in my way? If this is your attempt at humor, much like you it is tragically dry."

"If it is negotiation that you wish, then the offer I make is simply this: relinquish my rightful holdings to the south and give to me a plot of land overlooking the gaping wound in the earth to the east of here. I will cover the stars that shine over these grounds, and you will say nothing of it. In exchange, I will allow you to dissolve my clouds without my reprisal."

"This offer I recommend and prefer that you take. I can say from experience that you do not want the alternative that I have in mind."
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>>4472628
“Agreeable terms, but let me be clear. A single threat further and you shall get nothing at all. You are severing the last threads of goodwill I can bear to put forward.”

“This matter is a consequence of your own actions as much as you might want to escape that fact.”

“Your refusal to negotiate and discuss borders at our first two meetings, your belligerent behaviour, your singleminded and frankly nigh-impossible seizure of land that you had no stake to.”

“You are not allowing me to take land without threat of your reprisal, nor am I relinquishing “rightful land” to you else face your alternative. We are equals discussing a mutually beneficial land settlement.”

“This brings me now to the question that I implore you to answer, truthfully.”

“What is it you want with the fissure I made, Qazlal?”
“Why are you so keen to possess land near it?”
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>>4468082
>move god 26'6
>develop Mathmatics
>Mgr Act develop iron jungle
Thomass expands the iron jungle to make more room for more buff nuggets.
This time the extra hands and knowledge of mathematics on deck allowed for a powerful display of strength and knowledge from not only the Thomass but the biff nuggets themselves.
Thomass was happy to see his children work alongside him.
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>>4472729
Update
Accept trade from the giftmother
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>>4468080
The improvements are going quite well, but Akros can't help but notice the almost visible aura of discontent hanging over the Akreties. It would appear that his extended leave wasn't forgotten quite as quickly as he'd hoped, and it most certainly shows, the once eternal celebratory mood of the mortals being replaced with uncertainty and concern. With a silent sigh, the monk sets about actually implementing renovations on both settlements, having it be the first step in regaining his students' trust.

>Major Action, Divine Influence [Settlement Upgrade - Home]: It's hard work, turning the forest covered land around Home into something resembling proper farms, especially with the Akreties' primitive tools, but they are a hardy people, and the work is done swiftly. New buildings are raised, swathes of forest are torn down and stockpiled, and in no time, the fledgling village becomes a full-on town. Still, Akros is far from done with just the bare minimum, directing the raising of several huge stones in the town centre. The creatively titled Name Walls contain a list of every single member of the Akreties to have ever been born, from the original generation to the latest newborns. It serves a simple purpose, to remind every single man, woman or child that they never were, and never will be alone. Even if the gods abandon them, and the world rejects them, they will always have each other.

>Minor Action, Movement: Akros refuses to comment on why he chose something so specific to be built, or why he personally added enough names for an entire generation before those of the first in this world, or even why his own name isn't included in it. He merely sets off for Second Home in silence.
>Akros moves to [27, 17].

>Major Action, Settlement Upgrade [Second Home]: As difficult at the work around Home was, the jungles of Second Home make for a much fiercer foe. Wild beasts, wild plants, wild weather, it's all so damn wild. Still, Akros directs the project with the assistance of the eldest local settlers, so it's decently smooth. He'd still rather go visit the neighboring pyrelings and respond to the now old greeting from his fellow God, but he refuses to forsake his responsibilities to his people once more, so he settles down and keeps on working. Time isn't running out quite yet, after all.
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>>4472662
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Novakhet
"The fissure you made? You accuse me of the nigh-impossible in spreading my mark across an entire shoreline after you yourself rend a hole the very ground we walk upon down to that which cannot be moved?"
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>>4472906
“In truth that was an accident on my part, the unfortunate byproduct of a larger scheme with some friends I have found along the way. The majority of our energy did go in the correct place though, we were not just experimenting with how big a hole we could carve.”

“But yes, I do accuse you of the nigh-impossible spreading of your clouds. I just felt in happen all within one epoch. Did you have help? You have never done so at such a rapid rate before.”
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The Twins seem stumped by their most recent peek. They're not really able to make anything of it, so perhaps it is time to start looking towards something more intensive at the moment. Their psychic energies are best utilized elsewhere. As The order of Siren casts out on its first expedition, The Brother Snails retreat to their pool to do some intensive soul searching.

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-Divine Action: The Inner Peek. The Snail grow curious about the nature of the obelisks and just what exactly they've started absorbing into their bodies. Chom and Chod shall dip into their well of psychic energy this epoch and start unlocking the secrets hidden in the earth-blood that flows through their forms by scrying its divine memories, piecing together what images of the past exist within the foreign power. They hold a primary interest in the creation of The Obelisks, but of course stitch together what divine memory they can manage.

-Development: Agriculture. The number of Swamplanders has grown beyond what The Garden of Many Fruits may provide, and the people need to seek means of finding their own survival in The Chod Chain. Temples begin to extend their role to the proliferation of Chom's good will, believing that it is The Role of The Gods to provide for their people, and the role of the people to obey their gods. In that, they act in the name of The Snail Twins and begin to cultivate their own crops, predominantly grains, to feed The Minions of The Chain.

[Order Siren]
-Movement: The Psychic Navigators within The Order turn their faces north-ways and guide The Order to the new shores they seek, seeing visions of sand and palms in such direction. They shall come across The Island north of The Chod Chain and deem it Lord's Peak, due to the mountain they see reaching into the heavens in the distance, the first they've ever seen.
-Action: Upon reaching the shoreline of The Island they deem Lord's Peak, they shall take a palm from the coast and carve it into the likeness of an obelisk that they erect on the beach of [16,25] Upon it, runes shall be carved requesting blessing from the mountain they see at [15,25], believing that the mountain itself is likely a local divinity.
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>>4468082
>[MA] Develop city in 20,12
With the ever increasing population, the gorgons build a new settlement in the most distant part of their domain
>[MA] Production structure

-move Apophis scout and wizard to 7,15

-Apophis scout attack the settlement

-wizard Julia uses 5 mana to control the animals nearby and command them to attack the settlement of the blood moth

-move Hydra to 12,17

-move Asmodel to 16,13

-Trade Syrconite metalworking with Novakhet for Engineering I
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>>4468080
Quick post, delayed for a while because of diplo.

MA DI: Claim
15, 10
12, 13
13, 12

MA: Develop Cartography

MI: Trade Asmodel Engineering
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><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Novakhet
"The clouds you see spread along this shore were spread by me and me alone. No other gods of this age aid me in my work."

The Blooding Moth turns his head to face toward the southwest. "... It seems that rather an urgent situation has reared its head." He turns back to the death god and levels his gaze upon the eyeless sockets of his subtly ever-shifting form. "If you do indeed consider us equals, would you then mind if I requested your help in this matter? I have but one town to call my own, and it seems to have been attacked."
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>>4473177
>The skeleton looks up at the sky for a moment, gazing at a dim star
“I believe I understand what you mean. New souls are pouring in, moths. Your minions I presume.”

“I am caught between needing to aid you and my allies, but I suppose my minions can try and pick up the slack of my absence.”

“I will come with you Qazlal, I do not know who is doing this but despite our arguments I do not tolerate random acts of aggression against mere mortals.”

>>4473100
ADDENDUM:
Life wizard and Osseous Engineers, move to 16, 12

Novakhet Unit Action: Follow Qazlal
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>>4470754
Eyeing the strange humanoid and it's transport suspiciously for a moment, the Svirgrindall eventually, reluctantly relaxes. If it was going to try and carry him off, he supposed it probably would've done so.

"Well...ye dinnae have any feathers or talons, and I dinnae think they can talk either, so I reckon ye probably aren't some trick o' the birds. I be Surdag o' the Svirgrindall, herder by trade. Suppose I can come along wit' ye, though I cannae leave me charges along too long. Filthy avian fiends'll carry 'em off."

Following the catgirl to it's camp, the Svirgrindall's impressed by the fare offered to him. It tastes like nothing he's ever experienced before, and likely will for a very long time. In return, he presents them with a few nips of Mead and Belwar from his twin flasks.

Their tales of strange snakes and muscled creature fascinate the Svirgrindall as well, and he presents them with tales of clattering crustaceans that scutter about in the surf, and beings of fire, who frolic among the forests to the South East as their god forges away in a great fiery mountain.

And he tells them, finally, of the Meer, the great settlement of the Svirgrindall that lies concealed from the sun and predators beneath the sand, where Svirgrindall work in harmony to dig great caverns and cultivate the Belcaps for which the alcohol one of their number is currently indulging in is named.
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>>4468081
>God Unit [Move] [12,7]
>God Unit [Terraform Ability] [12,8]
Ofu not finished with his devilish pranking begins making his way through Americus land as his eyes are set in those who broke his pets and ruined his food. Reaching his destination, Ofu plucks a small piece of his buttock then crouches with both hands holding part of his cheeks, raising his legs and whipping both his arms up in the air as he he releases part of himself towards the land in front of him.

>[MA][DI] [Create Unit] The Pincap Crazes [12,8]
Pop- 200
Tech- Reproductive, Wild, Unrelenting [Domain: Growth]
"Now it's my time to get serious!"
As Ofu lets out an adorable war cry then puffs up his chest as he sways in circles. Simultaneously back in Natales Cap, a new unit is crafted as it begins to be deployed to[12,8]. Landing, the shell begins to unfold as the new creature come to full view. The sight of the Pincap Crazes is so far one of the most intimidating ones created so far, with their caps being shaped of a monstrous creature's head while its eyes located around the chests.
>Unit Action [Pincap Crazes][Attack] [12,9]
Not hesitating a beat, the Pincap Crazes throw themselves towards the machines that caused their creator despair and sadness.

>[MA] Develop
The Purecaps see it fit to increase the population growth of Natales Cap to improve the demand of muttcaps Ofu seeks. The first suggestion that immediately is put into effect is the force feeding and birthing of the best suited Muttcaps and honorary Purecaps. They will only live to breed as the Purecaps have made it so.
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>>4473239
Terrafrom [13,8]
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Rolled 6, 2 = 8 (2d10)

>>4468080
>>4468125
>>4469818

>MI-DI - Move the First to 15.24 and try to convince the remaining crabs to switch side, then go to 14.22

>Sea masters - Move to 15.24 and attack Deep-home

>Chimera and Kaiju - Move to Myxoma

>Wiz (Hekezqe) - 5 mana Protection from the Hurricane

>MA [Develop] - Found the town of Adena in 18.18

>MA [Develop] - Oltanite metalworking

The Crabs were defeated, their god had fled to the sea, where the chimera could not follow, while his sorry people were forced to follow like they could. A sorry sight, but threat could not be allowed to flourish. So the First followed too.
Arriving in the cove of the southern island he could see a rudimentary place to live was getting in shape. It was time for a last call for peace.
"Little crabs! You know me well, I've come to try and convince you to stop this senseless war once more. Look at yourselves, you're in rags, barely holding by, cold and hungry, with hope deserting your eyes. Hear me, and join me! You need not to die! You saw your brethren in my army, they flourished with us, their family is ever growing, they are safe and happy. Your "God" want nothing to see you suffer. He forbade you to follow me because he is afraid of our Gift but look at you, most of you already received the Gift anyway, and you are all fine. None of you died because of it. Your God would rather kill you himself rather than see you survive and thrive. So join me, join us, join the Bloom. Leave now and follow me, for only doom await this place."
"Of course this also concern you Crab, you flee your own treaty but it still stand. Accept our gift, join us, we could be so much stronger living in harmony, in symbiosis, a relation of mutual help rather than one of mutual harm. The choice is yours"
In Myxoma, however, the situation is still very tense, Hekezqe is pushing her limits but still managing to protect the town from the raging winds, part of the gardeners are trying to learn how to wield new harder materials to help her by mixing the different metals they could find together, while a group braving the tempest began to construct a new town in the north, where they could regroup if Hekezqe was not able to save them from the wind. The Bloom may be looking upon them with a kind eyes, bestowing gifts when needed, they should still use them to their fullest.

MEANWHILE in the desert, in a self sufficient community cut from the rest of our land, a strange being descended from the skies. The being seemed worried to enter the oasis, and the ones accompanying it were staying in the sky. one gardener took upon himself to be the first to talk, seeing that the stranger was so hesitant.
"A stranger! Be welcomed! Come come we are always friendly with others if they are. We're the gardeners of this small land, where did you come from? Do you know how to fly like the birds?"
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>>4473179
>>4468082
>>4468080
><I AM THE WIND [MA]>
><UNIT ACTION: DAEMON [DI]> Grab Novakhet
In an instant, the Bleeding Father is transformed and off of the ground. With a quick loop and a low pass, he snatches Novakhet with all six of his legs, lifting the very light god from the ground and into the air! Holding the rattling god securely, he gathers wind behind his wings and accelerates to blinding speed toward the southwest.

In short order, the duo arrive in the skies watching over the walled Sanguine Keep in the middle of an attack from a hydra-like creature and a minion of the Pale Woman! With outrage and perplexion, the moth god quickly deposits his passenger on the ground near the trespassers and swoops over to land for himself and change back. "And just what in the name of all that is decent do you think you're doing to my home?" The Bleeding Father announces loudly to the snake woman and her companion.

><DEVELOP [MA]> Create Militia [1000, Whitestone Tools, Flight]
With the attack on the home of the dukhali, several full-grown dukhali immediately grab weapons and arm themselves in various ways, flying out of the city to meet their attackers. Of the rest, those that are able take to the skies and fly for cover to escape the raging biseax, doing all that they can to carry those that cannot fly, and the remaining few seek shelter in their houses and cellars.
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>>4473300
the goddess who had got the recent news with a follower shortly after saw a figure coming but this time it was a surprise, since there came the blood moth with the god of death being handled by him.
"Hello, Qazlal. I came from the far east and learned from my followers that you stole the glowing rock and since I was far away they decided to retaliate without waiting for my answer. I've sent a messenger to call them back but it seems it won't be on time. This said I want to know why did you stole it ? it wasn't an excuse for my followers to attack on impulse, but I need to know why."
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>>4473300
>The sun god looks rather bewildered after the incredibly high speed trip, discorporating into a pile of bones on the floor before rather swiftly reforming into the form of a Skeletal Gorgon, a halo of sunlight warding off the weather

“That was rather rapid. And rattling.”
“I appreciate the rather sudden relocation.”

>>4473327
>Novakhet just looks at the upstart wizard disappointed
“This seems very unlikely, are you certain that’s what happened?”
>>4473363
>Novakhet tilts his new snake skull at Qazlal in bewilderment and bemusement, but says nothing in response.
>What could one even say?
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>>4473379
"Yes deity of death. He stole the meteorite then went flying towards your territory while our goddess was away. What happened there and what brings you here ?"
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>>4473387

>Note, Novakhet moving to 7, 16

“Now that certainly is curious. I do wonder...”

“But such wondering is neither here nor there. These current actions I see occurring before me are an atrocity. Theft of a meteor, even one capable of doing what I suspect, is not a reason to butcher thousands and unleash arcane disasters upon them.”

“What stroke of reckless idiocy wrought about this, yet another avoidable tragedy?”
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Population formula changed.

WORLD EVENTS
The hurricane continues in place.

GODS ACTIONS
>>4468125 Tantulus
Deep-Home established.
Quarantine developed.
The gift tainted crabs cry from outside the stone walls of Deep-Home, abandoned and left to pray to their God for shelter before the horrific beasts catch up to them.
The hurricane remains unmoving, hovering over The Bloom's territory.
Green-Shell prepares to command the ocean's kelp to entangle any foes that approach. (-3 mana, as the spell is cast. Check bloom's section)
0% gifted.

>>4469729 UNNIIC
Mandated Passenger Health Assessments (MPHA) developed.
Performing surgical treatments to the infected passengers appears somewhat effective when the infection is caught early. However, these patients have a majority rate of redeveloping the disease only a few months later. The infection appears to reach rather deep into the individual, impacting their body on a way the servitors simply do not have the current technology to treat. However, the infected passengers are successfully separated, as the rate of growth slows. An amount of disease carrying passengers still roam the ship without showing symptoms during the first weeks, making the spread difficult to fully stop. (4% gifted.)
Animal Riding shared with Furnlatha.
Grindall has gifted you Valbat Domestication.
As divine light clears, the squadron of once-valbats reveals to be transformed into something much more magnificent. The creature's gills let off a hazy orange glow as they pulse with heat as a form of forward propulsion. Their skin now resistance to the damage such heat would once cause, as their leathery skin has only grown thicker, reinforced by an inner-body of metallic cartilage. Riding down the back of the large creatures are metallic spines that pierce its skin, potentially acting as great anchor for saddling the beasts. Their intelligence remains rather unchanged, albeit their perfectly docile and domestic, taking to orders of those who ride them.
Valjets developed. +2 speed, plus animal riding to total 3. Can carry quite a bit and flies right over rough terrain. Population is currently small, will grow naturally with time or tech to breed them. Name snatched from Furnlatha, feel free to revise.

>>4469816 Regala
Claimed 2 hex.
Gevang'nis upgraded to a town.
Animal Riding shared with Thomass.
Thomass has gifted you Metallurgy.
With Gehaim's spell, the infected Vree begin to revert to their former state, as their deformities revert and stabilize. For this spell to work, Gehaim had to push his will further than ever before, nearly breaking his spirit in the process. It's a miracle they were able to be tended to quickly enough and within a small enough group that this curse could be reverted whatsoever, especially without the death of the infected Vree in the process. (0% gifted)
Parting Gift left for Akros, The Bloom, and Grindall.
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>>4469824 Grinall
Furnlatha has gifted you Oltanite Metalworking.
Engineering developed.
Valjets developed. Check UNNIIC's section for description.
Valbat Domestication shared with UNNIIC.
In the center of The Meer, a single tree sits on the sandy surface, with tons of presents sitting peacefully, left by the passing Vree. Wrapped inside... Loads of Jold Ore?! How did they find such heaps of the rare material? Either way, the gift is left to the Svirgrindall's disposal.

>>4469980 Furnlatha
Oltanite Metalworking shared with Grindall.
Claimed 1 hex.
Valjets developed. Check UNNIIC's section for description.
UNNIIC has gifted you Animal Riding.
Fallowfault established.

>>4472338 Americus
Medicine developed.
Claimed 5 hex.
2 walls constructed.
The wall isn't finished, so I'm gonna go ahead and not remove the tools and masonry yet. If you want to do so anyways, just pretend I didn't undo that.
Syrconite Armor shared with Asmodel.

>>4472361 Earis
Claimed 4 hex.
The Archive is established. As the Archivists settle back into somewhere much more familiar, the culture penalty begins to fade.

>>4472729 Thomass
Regala has gifted you Animal Riding.
Metallurgy shared with Regala.
Mathematics developed.
The Iron Jungle is expanded.

>>4472885 Akros
Home upgraded to a town.
Second Home upgraded to a town.
Within Second Home, the Akraties would find an assortment of presents left on their doorstep from the passing Vree. Packages of wetwood, like that found in the swamps on the very western edge of Akros' lands.

>>4473058 Chom and Chod
Chom and Chod use their psychic powers to look within, meditating on the substance they've made a part of them from these mysterious obelisks. As they contemplate and search, they find this earth-blood's memories to be much harder to crack than assumed... In fact, the substance is almost purely made up of divine power... It's... Alive...? As they continue probing at it to seek out these memories, instead a hoarse voice crawls out from their own minds...
"It appears that you have found me... I had plans to introduce myself formerly, before complications occured with an associate of mine to the north, but it appears you have forced my hand... I am The God of this realm and the realms before it, more commonly referred to as The Ichor from your kind. You do not need to scour my memory for information, I would be pleased to personally answer any questions you have..."
You can speak with The Ichor with regular communications throughout the epoch if you'd like, instead of packaged into one turn.
Agriculture developed.
You technically have a major action left over here since your inner peek could be a unit interact. So feel free to take an extra MA the following epoch.
Overpopulation remains a prevalent issue as swamplander numbers decline.
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>>4473327
i thought it was the goddess not the wizard they were talking to, so let's roll with it
>>4473425
"I'm sorry things unfolded this way, we should've waited for the moth to explain himself. Now it's done and certainly he won't talk to us. Do you know what he did with the meteorite, since he brought you here ?"
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>>4473084 Asmodel
Americus has gifted you Syrconite Armor.
Unnamed city established.
Production Structure developed.
Swathes of leotails pour in to surround the walls of the Sanguine Keep, as do the Apophis scouts, as their combined attacks siege its stone walls.
They do not breach the walls yet, but the hordes of Gorgons and Leotails slaughter what Dukhali roam its outskirts. (-400 minions)
Novakhet has gifted you Engineering.
Syrcnite Metalworking shared with Novakhet.
Gift increases to 55%.

>>4473100 Novakhet
Asmodel has gifted you Syrconite Metalworking.
Engineering shared with Asmodel.
Claimed 3 hex.
Cartography developed.

>>4473239 Ofu
Terraformed 1 hex into mushroom jungles. -1 hp.
The Pincap Crazes established and one unit deployed with M.U.D.
The Pincap Crazes begin siege on the new settlement, tearing through the poor newly settled Archivists. (-600 minions)
With their slaughter, the Pincap Crazes breed... (+60 minions)

>>4473260 The Bloom
The remaining crabfolk that cry at the gates of Tantulus' new settlement accept your invitation, perhaps only out of hope that it is the only thing to save their slaughter. (38 crabs stolen)
As the writhing sea masters approach the settlement, they see the crab plant wizard standing at watch above its walls. Suddenly, vines of kelp erupt from the sands beneath them, as the eel-like gardeners attempt to dodge, but only find themselves ensnared in the plantmatter.
Miraculously, Hekezqe continues to hold the storm back, as blood seeps from her skull. The pain that her body endures would break any mortal minion, and this virtuous action begins to age her body hastily.
Adena established.
Oltanite Metalworking developed.
The Vree who fly from above appear to have left a parting gift of sorts, as the gardeners find presents filled with Ashwattle wood!

>>4473300 Qazlal
I Am The Wind used.
Militia established and one unit produced.
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>>4473425
><MOVE: MILITIA> [7,16]
Seeing that their god has arrived to aid in this battle, the dukhali rally around the death god to keep him protected.

>>4473465
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Treacherous wizard bitchwhore
"I'll answer that myself. I took the toxic energy of the meteor, drained it so that it can no longer poison your brothers and sisters, and spent the whole of its power to spread my influence to the northern coast of this god's territory. We have discussed what I have taken from him and what he has taken from me, and we have righted ourselves by each other. You, on the other hand, have tipped my scales much further than I ever have those of your creator. What shall we do about this, hm?"

>>4473467
><MOVE: DAEMON> [8,16]
Qazlal moves calmly as though to approach the wizard, but...

><BLOODLETTING [MA] [DI]> [7,15], [8,17]
The gore-covered moth king stops halfway between the wizard and directs his hands at both her and her gathered group of armed gorgons. Using his divine powers, the Bleeding Moth summons the ancient and terrible blood from the bowels of the earth beneath their feet to rise up and seek bodies to inhabit!
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Rolled 6, 1, 1, 5 = 13 (4d10)

>>4473464
>MA: Create Unit: Archivists of Predation at The Archive
[Tech: Index: Tugai]
[Population] 1000
With no Beast Wizard present to subvert them this time, Earis rallies more beastial Archivists to shield the population. Only a stopgap measure, but a needed one.

>MA: Develop Syrconite Metalworking
Finally having time to process the information gleaned from Novakhet, the Archivists begin tuning their forges to produce more complex metals. Stone and lumber simply were not enough to protect the knowledge contained within the Archive. Forges hum as more sturdy Syrconite is produced, ingot by ingot.

>Unit Move: Patron Archivist of Hydroponics to move along with Americus's wardens
The Patron Archivist moves along with Americus's forces, ready to aid his people.

>Unit Action (Earis) + DI: Earis attempts to Index the Pincap Crazes (Spirit Roll)
Earis, content with the defense of The Archive at present, seeks to expand its knowledge as a show of a return to normal business, as well as to sate his ever endless curiousity. He forms the mist around a few of the notable Pincap specimens, attempting to break them down and Index them.
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>>4473516
>Unit Action Archivists of Predation: Attack the Pincap Crazes
The Archivists, ready for revenge and their god's lust for knowledge sated, flood onto the mushrooms in a wave of sharp teeth and deadly tackles. They would not let their home suffer further indignity at the hands of the mushrooms.
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>>4473464
>God Unit [Move][11,3]
Satisfied seeing the Pincap Crazes doing a fine job themselves, Ofu begins his track back home with his chest still puffed out.
"That's for my magic user and spiders, hmph!"

>[MA x2][DI][Town][Create Unit][Domain:Growth&Resilience]
Tech: Colossal, Harden, Resilient
Natales the Great
Ofu begins to prepare for his next move as he continues his prideful walk back home. Knowing that his recent actions made the mean deities angry again, Ofu decides to restart his defensive development, mainly towards the settlement itself. Reaching [11,3] Ofu digs deep underneath his cap and pulls out a huge yet fluffy and soft seed, light weighted with a powerful sense of growth. Ofu then releases the single divine grain towards the direction of Natales Cap eventually reaching the settlement and begins to seek out the single Muttcap that has survived the most incidents in its lifetime, the one who has yet to be killed from anything it came across. Once the Divine grain absorbs itself within the Muttcap it also gradually sinks into the ground eventually disappearing completely. With the short silence being interrupted by the sudden extreme shaking of the settlement and beyond, eventually the ground begins to split as part of the land begins to rise up in the sky meeting the clouds over time.
[9:26 PM]
>Unit Action [Attack][Pincap Crazes] [12,9]
With a unison roar, the Pincap Crazes continues their unpredictable aggression towards their new foe with pure strength and adrenaline being their only source of power. WAGHHHHH
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>>4473467
>>4473474
Apparently I missed the wizard moving with the military unit to attack the Keep. If there are no targets in [8,17], then [8,17] will not be targeted.

><BLOODLETTING [MA] [DI]> [7,15]
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>>4473474
[Julia]
"What is this thing ? it's energy it's... alien. it doesn't feel like any of the deities we have encountered."
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Rolled 2, 1, 10 = 13 (3d10)

>>4473462
>ma build a city at 11,4 named Windy City
With a new and clear threat on her borders and free of the treaty Americus acts, she orders a staging ground city be constructed to gather and rally forces for the extermination of the cursed Ofu and his scum creations.

>ma create 10k army Extermination Expedition Force giving them (Syncronite weapons, Syncronite armor, cloaks, animal riding, and wheeled vehicles) at Windy City
10 thousand men and women have been called on and 10 thousand have answered, with final preparations being made, they will soon march north to war

>UI Americus moves to 13, 6 growing into her liberty size to intercept Ofu attacking him

>UI Americus's Wardens move to 13,8 rushing to relieve there besieged allies
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>>4473474
>The death god could not help but smile inside as the mortals gather up around him as if to protect him
>Though indeed massively pointless given the sheer difference in power between the gathered parties, the gesture is rather sweet, and he

>What is marginally less sweet however is whatever Qazlal is doing, his strange powers drawing something up from the ground to attack his foes presumably

>While he wouldn’t really mourn the loss of these minions of Asmodel; he was well within his rights to terminate them all, The Sundying couldn’t help but be disturbed by the method the moth had chosen to exact vengeance, unsure what he was even doing.
>it was fortunately far enough away not to catch Nova in however, at a safe enough distance for him to closely observe the powers Qazlal was unleashing

>>4474581
“A good question, I do so wonder what is indeed happening, though Qazlal rarely indulges in answering questions so I feel it may kill you before you find an answer.”
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>>4473462

>Communicate with The Bloom.
The resilience of your mage is commendable, but she cannot last forever. And once she is gone, your other settlement shall have no protection from the fury of the storm. I offer you terms of surrender once more, and if you truly value life as much as you claim, you WILL accept them.

Article the First: The disbanding of all units involved in the massacre of civilians within the next 3 Epochs.

Article the Second: The Bloom shall not claim new hexes via Terraforming for a period of 10 Epochs. This article shall be immediately revoked if someone else claims via Terraforming hexes belonging to The Bloom, or attacks a unit or structure belonging to same.

Article the Third: Units belonging to The Bloom, with the exception of The First, shall not leave the Territory belonging to The Bloom for a period of 10 Epochs. This article shall be immediately revoked if someone else claims via Terraforming hexes belonging to The Bloom, or attacks a unit or structure belonging to same.
EDIT: Any units outside The Bloom's territory as of the signing of this treaty shall be given three (3) epochs to return before their being outside is considered a violation of the treaty.

Article the Fourth: The Bloom shall not construct new units for a period of 10 Epochs. This article shall be immediately revoked if someone else claims via Terraforming hexes belonging to The Bloom, or attacks a unit or structure belonging to same.

Article the Fifth: Give me my bloody crabs back.

Any violation of this treaty within the specified span of time shall compel The Bloom to surrender all coastal hexes, all hexes bordering coastal hexes, and all units or structures contained within, to Tantalus.
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>>4475586
Excuse me? Aren't those the exact same things you proposed to me just a while back? If so you already know my answer i'm sure.
But so be it i'll play your game, once again i shall accept your terms on certain conditions:
1) The time limit is on no more than 5 epochs
2) No unit shall be disbanded
3) You shall let me have back any territory you claimed at the beginning of the war
4) Accept the Gift for yourself. No need to help further than that
5) My units can leave my territory as long as they travel in unclaimed territory
6) The only crabs you'll get back are the one that will accept to come back to you, you abandoned them after they received the Gift. It is their right to choose who they want to be with.

And i believe it is all? For the sake of novelty i changed them a bit. I hope you can see reason in them.
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Rolled 5, 1 = 6 (2d10)

>>4475706
Very well then. Kiss your wizard goodbye, and your unit as well.

>Unit Interaction
Green Shell the wizard spends all his remaining mana, bidding the plants to tighten, constrict, and eventually crush the horrid beasts now threatening his home.

Meanwhile, in Deep-Home, the crabs take to raising King Claws and Tritonic Carp for sustenance. In spite of the hardships visited upon them by the hated Bloom, they WILL recover!
>Major Action: Develop Animal Husbandry

In spite of this, the settlement is largely empty. Streets silent, houses home to a single crab, or a pair if they're mated. Some turn to the companionship of the local cephalopods, and find them amusing pets.
>Major Action: Domesticate Pallipods

Outside the city, meanwhile, Tantalus continues his ritual, feeding energy into the storm and preventing it from moving away from The Bloom's initial settlement.
>Unit Interaction (Divine Influence)
Keep the storm where it is and make it stronger. If the spirit roll is only enough for one of those, prioritize the first.
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>>4473474
“It seems you have this well under control, but I am now witness to this brazen aggression against you. I had thought Asmodel rather forgiving and friendly per my past interactions with her, but this shows a different side.”

“I will return to my lands and attempt to converse with her about the incident now, this is far too extreme a response over something as minor as theft.”

“Before I go however, I will say you generate no end of questions for me. You have unknown abilities, hail from a destroyed world before our own, and I do not see in what way all this blood relates to summer.”

“Is there anyone else out there besides you that were not created at this worlds start? Other deities or creatures you know of from worlds before this one that escaped destruction?”

“You seem often loathe to answer my rather endless questions, so I wonder if there are others yet remaining that could.”
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>>4473462

>Develop Oltanite Tools
>Trade Oltanite Tools to Thomass for Mathematics
The pressing concerns of over-population still looms over Vree and Buffnugget alike, and the border grows thick with traffic as catgirls and muscleboys work day and night to draw up plans for bigger, better settlements. The Vree, with newfangled ores pouring in from the fledgling mines to the north, are the first to make an attempt at these new 'metal' tools, but already they can espy the Buffnuggets improving on them, no doubt with all these headache inducing 'numbers' they keep trying to teach the Vrees.

>Develop Wheeled(?) Vehicles
Elsewhere, bone, leather and metal are fashioned into sleighs, skimming along behind prancing Falrethuns or lumbering Woradines.

>God Unit Move from 29,4 to 26,6, then move with Thomass.
Sensing that UNNIIC has met up with the gods down south, and considering herself unable to truly help her charges as they bustle about building homes, Regala decides to pay her neighbor a visit, and give him a proposition.
"Say, goodly friend, would you like to perhaps make a journey south, so that we ca-"
"HAHAHA! YES, GOOD IDEA JINGLE MUSCLE, WE GO NOW!"
"Oh? Give me a momen-"

>Vluchs and Geheim (not Gehaim, my bad) move from 24,18 to 26,22.
>Vluchs - Parting Gifts on Furnlatha.
>Geheim - Maintain vigilance for infection, preparing 3 Mana spell to attempt early cure.
Under the watchful eye of Geheim, the Vrees and their flying Falrethuns press on south, following the unmistakable chain of churned dirt that was Grindall's realm. One day's journey sees the entire eastern sky shrouded in a haze of black smoke, and the chatter of nervous excitement buzzes through the Vree caravan. Soon enough, a realm of scorched gravel and blazing pyres stretches before them, sparks drifting into the smoky air. As the Vree descended to dismount at the edge of this strange new land (26,22), the catgirls would bound up to the border, returning the waving enthusiastically. Many seemed to rush forward, often the smaller and younger catgirls, but were held back by others. One of the smallest managed to give their elders the slip, and bounced forward, skipping over the boiling sand and pouncing from steaming rock to fuming vent until she was only a few meters from the Pyrlings. Behind her, a small group of Vrees, one of them limping under a heavy robe, were in pursuit.

"Hi! Hello! We're very excited to meet you! Wow! Are you-? Is this-?" She gestured around her at the burning landscape. "Did you do all this? Sooooo amazing! My name's Ag'Vlam!" She paused expectantly, eyes sparkling with happiness.
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>>4473462


>>4471451
>>4473229
>[Minor]: Communicate: UNNIIC, Grindall
“Thank you both for this little gathering.” Furnlatha moves a little, her hands giving a wave as she lets the flames fade from them cooling in the aftermath of this act of creation with a haze of smoke gently billowing up into the sky from the fires of her being. “These Valjets really are marvels.” She gives a flame-filled grin to the other gods, and with her hand now barely steaming, she leans over to give the top of Grindall's head a brief ruffle, careful not to accidentally cause any ignitions that the ground-god might not want before she withdraws her hand, and relaxes as she lets it burst back into flame. “So, what do you plan on doing now? Is there anything else we wish to do, to talk about in this conclave before we all turn for our lands?”
>[Minor]: (Attempt to) Share Tech with Grindall: Joldonite Metalworking
Furnlatha is well aware that Joldanite metalworking was made possible due to the forging techniques she passed to her Pyrelings; but if someone else would ever to feasibly take to the techniques without her relationship to the forge she would have figured it to be the God of Metal. And so, the Pyrelings of Forgefall will attempt to teach the Svirgrindall these deeper secrets of metalcraft, hoping that they might at least manage to pick up some useful techniques.
>Unit Action: [Furnlatha] - Move to [26,22] (2 Movement)
With the conclave of the deities concluded, Furnlatha heads back toward her lands. But as she re-enters the soil of Grindall's domain closest to her border, she notices some curious creatures upon the outermost bounds, together with some sort of cart and four strange creatures that look a little like Biseax. Already, a couple of her Pyrelings have stopped their task to look at the beings, one giving them a wave as it skips forward.
>>4477200
“Hello there?” the Pyreling greets the approaching Vree, head-flame flickering a little as it looks toward the catgirl with wide eyes glowing yellow, and puts down the tool it had been carrying. “Ag'Vlam, is it? I'm Kanvolc myself. Did't do all of this myself, though; I'm just tendin' to the fires here. This was done by.. well...” and the Pyreling looks behind both Ag'Vlam and the pursuing Vrees, to where a shape is moving across the desert toward them, a floating burning figure wreathed in flame and casting a heat-haze upon the black sands around.


“Hello, visitors. I am Furnlatha, goddess of flame and the forge.” she gives a warm smile as she announces herself, crackling fires obscuring much of her shape. “Welcome to my lands... or at least, I will wish you such if you cross the borders. These sands here are still my brother Grindall's” she gives a little chuckle. “Have you travelled far? I would welcome you to make use of my fires you would wish to, should you choose to rest for a while. What brings you to this part of the world?”
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>>4473260
>A few days ago, but not many...
Gehaim's mask always showed a cracked façade of mischievous glee, so only another Vree could read their true intent. Still, one would not have to be an empath to realize that the reason they and the other Vree stayed airborne was due to their apprehension to draw closer. The Falrethun Geheim called a mount, largest of it's kind so as to support the massive (relative to the Vree) Wizard through the skies, snorted in impatience. It wished to land, or continue in flight, unbothered by the beings below. Hovering was ever so taxing, and this Wizard's thick robes every so heavy...

As the others flew away to begin their work, Gehaim called down to the gardener in a voice that shifted across the entire spectrum, but seemed to be genuinely apologetic.
"Greetings, new friend! I am Geheim, leader of these roving Vluchs. We are the Vree, coming from the far-northeast. Forgive me if I do not land, but I am afraid my kind have grown sickly recently, so we are taking measures to be safer in our travels, for both us and those we visit. I would not want you to become sickly too!"
Gehaim would lift a robed arm to point at the largest cactus behind them, where plentiful boxes were being unloaded off of the backs of Falrethun and stacked.
"We leave you a gift, to accept at your leisure, and would enjoy speaking with you again, if possible! Would you mind if our Lady Regala would come to visit? Before we depart, we bear news of the outside world! There are very muscular beings to the north, alongside our realm, and in-between them and you lies realms of rusted metal, lands where the sun neither rises nor sets, and a forest full of curious insect-beings. Would you happen to know what lies further to the south? We would seek to avoid dangers, as our troop is neither numerous nor mighty, I'm sure you understand."

>>4477236
>Days in the future, but only a few...
The orange-furred catgirl bounced excitedly, grinning widely until Kanvolc began to speak, suddenly growing crestfallen soon after they started. Before anything more could be said, the pursuing Vrees had caught up to the group.
"My apologies, dear strangers." The robed figure said, towering over the other Vree. A cracked mask of a poorly painted grinning face leered down at everyone, hiding a being that spoke with a shifting voice.
"I am Geheim, guide to our traveling band. Young Liggen here was very eager to meet new friends, but we don't like to trespass or impose without invi-"
Geheim turned, for how could they not, when the radiant Furnlatha stood behind them?

cont...
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>>4477329
The Vree still at the border milled about at the Goddesses approach, then becoming silent and still, as any mortal does when a God speaks. Geheim, who had ushered Liggen/Ag'Vlam closer to them, offered a quick bow to Kanvolc, and began a quick hobble back, large frame limping beneath their robes.
"Greetings to you, divine Goddess Furnlatha, Lady of the Flame and Forge." Geheim said, a hint breathlessly, as they drew close. "We are the Vree, and welcome your warm invitation with much, ah, enthusiasm." This last was to the smaller Liggan by his side, who appeared chastened for a moment. "Your lands are a welcome sight, beautiful and radiant in design."
This seemed to be enough for the Vree, who scampered across, chasing errant sparks and pouncing through puffs of smoke.
"We enjoy the warmth, fervently so, Lady Furnlatha, so your welcome is a very great kindness you offer. We Vree hail from the far north, and are guided to visit the peoples and divinities of the world by Lady Regala, the Giftmother and Maiden of Snow. We have seen many wonders in our travels, but you are the first Divinity who reaches out to speak with us, so we thank you twofold."
Geheim bowed again, bones clicking with effort.
"If you would allow, we would enjoy the privilege of making camp here, before we move on in our travels?"

If Furnlatha would give her blessing, a small camp would quickly be set up, sweaty reindeer looking miserable as they wandered about, floating sluggishly through the air. The Vree, on the flipside, would remain enthusiastic and accommodating, inviting the Pyrelings to dine and relax with them, doting on the fiery beings. Some Vree would ask questions on daily life, local terrain, gossip, philosophy, or anything else the Pyrelings would care to discuss, and most questions would be readily answered in kind. The younger Vree would bat at the flames atop their heads, or chase the tails that bore a smaller fire. While they were careful and agile, the occasional yip of pain and smell of burned hair would waft through the air.

Geheim would return to Furnlatha after briefly organizing the camp, standing as straight as they can. With a hint of pride, they again begin to speak. "It is my pleasure to extend Lady Regala's invitation to visit our home in the north to you, Lady Furnlatha. You and any Pyrelings you send will always be welcome there."
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>>4473462
>>4477236

>>4477332
Furnlatha watches for a moment as the Vree scamper across the land, chasing the embers drifting from her pyres with a small smile of satisfaction. "I am pleased, then, that you can take enjoyment in the simple pleasures of a roaring fire." she gives a small nod. "Your people certainly seem a playful bunch, Geheim. Curious and eager. I presume that curiosity is what led to your mistress sending you out to visit the world?" she asks, turning her attention back to the wizard as he asks for permission. "Of course you may have my permission to make your camp in my lands. I would be delighted for you to make use of the warmth the Pyres bring."

The Pyrelings would then accept the invitations, a small group led by Kanvolc heading to the temporary campsite. Whilst Kanvolc stays to talk, and answer such questions of philosophy, life and the local area that might be asked - including Grindall's warning of horrific monsters linked to a disease god that wiped out a town of crustacean beings; the younger Pyrelings head to play with the Vree, chuckling as the curious beings play and returning the attention; despite the care they have to keep to avoid causing too many accidental burns and singes. One of the Pyrelings finds a weaving yarn of Biseax wool and unravels at it, letting the thread dangle for the curious Vree to chase and swat at as they move around the desertscape in playful pursuit of one another.

As the evening draws on, Furnlatha looks down to Geheim upon his return. "Then I thank your Lady for her most generous offer." the burning goddess replies with a smile. "Whilst I am a little presently preoccupied, you must let her know when I you return to her that I would be delighted to someday accept her offer of a visit, should the offer be an open one without an era of expiration. And that I would also be most welcome to return the favour and receive her in my domains, should she ever find herself venturing south into warmer lands."
>>4473464
>Unit Action Continued: [Furnlatha] – continue moving on to [28,23]

After saying pleasant goodbyes and parting with the visiting Vree, Furnlatha would return to her lands again, floating on across the darkened sands and into the shrublands of the mountain pass around Forgefall, then continues up the volcanic slope to her forge.
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>>4473467

>[Major Action][DI] - Develop: Joldonite Armour
>Using: Furnlatha's Forge, Religion, Joldonite Metalworking. Domains: Fire, the Forge, Development
Back in the Forge, Furnlatha gets together a few of her metalsmiths to explain her plans and ideas. There are other deities out there in the world, and other beings and followers stronger and tougher then her own. But what we are not born with, can we not make for ourselves? She wishes her experts of forge-craft to work with her, to design strong and resilient armor of metal so that their bodies might not get broken if conflict should come upon them... for Grindall had told of a slaughter of a Crustacean people, of some malignancy behind both horrific disease and monstrous beasts. What if such a threat should come for her and her Pyrelings? She would need be ready.
>[Unit Action]: Pyre Priests on [30,20]
>[Move] Pyre Priests to [29,17]
>[Interact]: Consecrate [29,17]
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>>4474581
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Asmodel's magical murderer
"I would happily leave you to guess your fate and suffer the fear of not knowing, but this odd pocket of time that we seem to have found bores me, and an opened dialogue sounds more appealing to me than an uncomfortable silence as a means of of entertaining ourselves while waiting for fate to arrive."

"This thing that I bring upon you is a mass of blood and magic that has crafted for itself a sentience and a will to live. It will find and fill your veins, and you will hear it whisper its desires in your ear when you think you have naught but the company of yourself. I live with it in my veins, and it has brought me great and constant suffering since long before your eyes beheld light!"

>>4476330
><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Novakhet
"If it is answers you seek, then it is answers I sell. The price I charge is your consideration to allow my borders to encompass more land than what they hold today."
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>>4477562
[Julia]
-Communicate with blood moth
"I see... it seems my haste finally caught with me. You have your right to curse us after what we'd done. perhaps this will be a new opportunity to learn about the hidden forces of this world ? Anyway we're done now."
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>>4477562
“My consideration of that proposal is given then, to an extent.”

“Answer me about my queries and you will find I become more amiable to future relations that favour you.”
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>>4473467
>[MA] Develop Philosophy

-[MI] Trade cartography for medicine with americus

>[MA][DI] Develop Temple of the moon in 20,12
With the infected still "gifting" their healthy counterparts as they please, the nobility and the shamans worked on a plan to maintain control of the situation. To honor their goddess they will build a temple can receive the growing numbers of gorgons and it was also equipped with the recent medical knowledge to treat the ill and specially the infected. With the blessing of their deity the shamans received the power to condition the infected to stop spreading their "gift" so that we can halt the spread of those that can't be treated and also to maintain better control of those that were sent to the prison camps among the settlements

-unnamed city shall be named Anguis

-move Apophis Scout & Julia to 10,17

-move Asmodel to 12,16

-move Hydra to 14,17
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>>4473467


>>4477540
>[Major Action] - Develop: Upgrade Forgefall on [28,22]

Forgefall has grown in prominence over the past few era; the Pyrelings decide it high time to expand the settlement to reflect the increased status reached from the proximity of Furnlatha's forge and the council who meet there.
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>>4477682
Trade deal accepted and all the medicial knowledge humanity has is sent to Asmodel

>addendum to the EEF unit creation add on Cartography
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>>4473462
Much as the Svirgrindall would like to begin work on the Valjets, the conclave of the gods has proven the value of maintaining good relations with one's neighbour. So, Svirgrindall craftsmen and engineers journey East, with the intention of teacher their allies some of their recent developments.

>[MA] Trade UNNIIC Engineering and Wheeled Vehicles, and Furnlatha Wheeled Vehicles


Finally, one more action must be taken, before work on the Valjets may begin. The Meer has, unfortunately, become crowded again. Rather then expand once again, however, some Svirgrindall suggest, for the first time in their history, a change of scenery.

So, a mass exodus of Svirgrindall, accompanied by great wagons of goods pulled by Valbats depart the Meer, journeying North East towards the lone peak that stands, resplendent, at the center of the desert. There, they will found a new home. The Deepholm.

Distracted though he may be by the discussion he's partaking of at the moment, Grindall takes notice. He's long had his eye on the peak, and seeing his people steal the march on him, so to speak, he feels it necessary to bless their endeavors. So, separating himself from the discussion for a moment, Grindall draws on his power over earth and stone, and weaves a great blessing, a christening of the new home of the Svirgrindall.

Some miles North, Svirgrindall watch in amazement as the mountain itself seems to GROW, pulsing like a living thing as the lone peak seems to grow taller and taller then before, and, unbeknownst to them, the tunnel networks below the mountain combine and grow, becoming larger and larger.

When Svirgrindall finally arrive and begin to settle in, they find the act almost too easy, the stone seeming to yield before their claws like sand, and the mountain itself seems to protect them, defensible positions and choke points which they might employ in easy reach.

>[MA DI] The settlement of Deepholm is founded, and blessed by Grindall with divine fortitude, the mountain itself seeming to defend it's new inhabitants with craggy cliffs and foreboding almost-architecture, even as the Svirgrindall enjoy the fruits of great subterranean caves


The conclave, and their work, completed, Grindall bids farewell to the other gods and departs, mind working furiously as he devises new ways that he might utilize these Valjets. Still, there are other matters that must be tended to, before work can truly begin. This situation with the crabs, Grindall feels, must be investigated further, especially after hearing of UNNIIC's findings regarding the strange disease.

>Move God Unit to 19, 23
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>>4469729
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

>Major: [Develop]: Sanitation - As its own thing spread among minions, as well as used specifically for the MPHA and preventing further bloom outbreaks. Using Medicine and gifted engineering from Grindall.
>Major: [Trade]: Trade - Medicine and Sanitation to Grindall, Engineering to Furnlatha

>Unit Action [God Unit]: Move to [24,26], introduce self to the swampfolk and see if a few would like to apply for passengership. Dump some servitors if we need to to make room. Make sure they are only introduced to clean populations to reduce risk of spread.

Short, crunch only post for now. Will provide better fluff and diplo later.
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>>4473462
This post occurs after Qazlal hopefully tells me something

MI: Trade the next stage of metallurgy to the Dukhali

>Novakhet is amused by the soldiers positioned to protect him, and offers them a token of his appreciation in thanks for their service.
>Though it was always pointless it was still rather sweet of them to try, brave little cicadas, and so he granted them some more advanced knowledge of metalworking.

Unit action: Novakhet to 12, 14

MA + DI: Constellar Enlightenment (Divine Astronomy basically)

>Novakhet wades through the salt flats at night having returned from finishing his business with Qazlal, gazing at the stars and their various constellations as he tired from his long while spent travelling as a sunbeam across the mountains.

>A passing mission of Dagekhet crystal harvesters spots him in the dark through his illuminating aura, mistaking him at first for a huge Thaum crystal vein, and then realising what they gaze upon and hurriedly rushing over to give praise and reverence.

>He smiles warmly and tells them to stand tall, returned now to his usual skeletal form, but invites them to watch the stars with him as the night remains young

>A group of thirty or so all skeletal and young in their undeath gather around their god, acting as a campfire to keep them all warm as they gaze into the heavens

>It is a few hours in, after Nova makes an offhand remark about an intricate dance of stars beyond sight, that the god is confused, as the gathered skeletons are unable to see what he means

>Do these mortals not truly see the sky for what it is, are the lights in the sky not wild stars of personality and extensive wisdom, but merely dots of white light to his people?

>It occurred to him that the mortals, those silly little things, truly only saw things as they looked instead of how they were

>With a grin and a glow of his bones the god excuses himself and seems to vanish, Dagekhet all across black pillar and rifts edge and in every isolated community inbetween begin to dimly glow, then shine lighter much as their god does

>With a burst of divine light, the glory of the stars is revealed to each and every last one of the mortals who call Novakhet their god

>Divine knowledge of the heavens is granted to those minions of bone and bandage, the dance of stars across the sky night and day, the habits of the eclipses, the weight of the shadow of the sun, and the solar flares and fusion on its surface and in its core, and all they need to find out more for themselves with no need for such things as telescopes.

>Emblazoned across the sky are five grand and new constellations, or perhaps they were always there out of sight until revealed by Novakhet, each arrangement of stars with smaller arrangements of blazing lights within.

>The Dagekhet are granted true wisdom of how to navigate this world now by following the stars, and put this knowledge into proper use.
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>>4478056
MA: Develop Seafaring

>With his gift to the Dagekhet delivered, Nova returns to the group and says his goodbyes, walking off from them and continuing on his journey
>A familiar and perhaps immortal Dazawk returns to rattle his bones as he hits the proverbial road

>Meanwhile Dagekhet elsewhere are putting this divine boon to proper use.
>Their clear vision of the stars now allows them to gaze at the constellations even when outside the Sundying’s domain, allowing for even long distance trips across land and sea to be easily guided

>Specifically it is the ocean that stokes the embers of creativity for the gathered children of the sun, and literal embers for those who were pyrelings before their undeath

>Soon small but finely wrought vessels made of shorebell become common for traversing short distances over water, and as the epoch passes larger and more elaborate craft are made, medium sized fishing boats making catches in deep water far from shore, larger vessels still for wealthy members of the anarchic society or to transport goods

>Plans are even drawn up for a traversal of the ocean to visit upon the other side, if such a thing was even possible

Unit action: Archlich Anathemus
Move to 16, 11
Spend 5 mana creating 500 vials of Quintessence

>The cunning Lich leaves the city of black pillar with the engineers who know little of him as a cover, continuing all the way until he reaches Rift Edge to restock on his supply of Thaum crystals

>He was exiled from the first city, but this time would be different, for he would befriend the wealthiest members of this new city to avoid a repeat of last times unfortunate events

>Anathemus delves into his research again once set up and investigates potential methods of consuming Thaum to acquire its energy for the consumer

>Initial investigation into just consuming it raw quickly runs into issues however, it is either too powerful, completely ineffective or simply impractical to consume it in its crystalline state, but soon the Lich comes across a breakthrough

>To bind the power of Thaum to a mortal, the Thaum must become as mortal, and thus Anathemus introduces his own blood along with various other chemicals to create a solution that dissolved the crystals into a shimmering bloody red liquid, infused with tremendous amounts of magic.

>This liquid in its most concentrated state grants unfathomable power physical power to those that consume it for a limited time, while if heavily diluted forms a solution that can restore the youth of those who imbibe it provided they are living, though not delay their natural deaths.

>It is this second more dilute version of Quintessence that earns Anathemus safe haven in Rift Edge to perform his experiments

>After dealing with pleasing the locals, he creates 500 further vials of purest Quintessence, resting in the city as the osseous engineers seem to also be doing
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>>4478134
MI: Trade resource “Quintessence” to Earis (All 500 vials)

>The news of the war with the mythical and cursed Ofu was grim, said to have completely destroyed the archive, a legendary place of learning and knowledge to all scholars, Anathemus himself included.

>Upon hearing such a thing Anathemus decided he should join the war proper, deciding to head out with the Engineers once they had finished whatever newfangled business it was they were up to

>In the meanwhile however there was still something he could do to assist
>Heading to the few archivists he knew dwelled near the northern mountain, Anathemus delivered all the pure quintessence he could muster to aid them, telling them what it was, what it did, and to get it to their master or their armies with utmost haste.

UI: Osseous Engineers, move to 16, 11
Osseous Engineers, gain the (Cartography, Astronomy, Shipbuilding, Syrconite Tools) techs
Increase Unit Size to 1500

>The Osseous engineers continued their trek through the epochs, eventually coming to rest at Rift Edge.
>New cutting edge developments had been made here, and they had to be added to the collective knowledge of the engineers, it was only right.

>Methods of crossing the waters, of charting the land and the stars, all came to empower them further and add new tools to their evergrowing pool of designs

>As their wisdom grew, so too did their ranks need to, recruits from rift edge flooding in as many friends of the archivists sought to join the war and push back the cursed Ofu
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>>4473464
Nothing has exploded yet, so despite the general slow progress towards regaining his minions' trust, Akros is satisfied for the moment. With the ongoing population crisis sorted, he can move onto other projects for the time being.

>Major Action, Divine Influence, Development [Martial Arts]: Though Akros condones a pacifistic lifestyle, calling violence for violence's sake a barbaric practice used only by greedy warmongers unsatisfied with the land or resources they ended up with, he is forced to admit that the world is dangerous, and it's getting worse by the day, given his fellow Gods' struggles. It's a difficult decision to make, but after much consideration, Akros faces the fact that the Akreties have to find a way to defend themselves if war ever comes to their doorstep. Thus, he gathers a council of the most experienced men and women in the land, and instructs them to develop a fighting style fit for their race, overseen and assisted by himself.
>It's a slow process full of pain and discovery of the body's limitations, but eventually, it is complete. On a series of tablets, the new masters of Entomokration detail their art, a style that makes use of the Akreties' strong, durable bodies and their multiple arms, focused almost entirely on blocking or countering a foe's attacks and grappling them into submission with minimal harm to the user. The concept is a grand success, and the masters soon find themselves swarmed by prospective students. A good start.

>Major Action, Development, [Tugai Domestication III]: It's a strange sight, seeing an Akreties play fetch with a giant lizard using a cooked Biseax leg, but Akros supposes it's certainly better than taking the place of that leg. Still, their techniques are yet to be perfected, the beasts still holding onto some of their wild instincts, and yet simultaneously failing to reach the size of their untamed cousins. The invention of Entomokration inspires both the God and his minions to set about finishing the monsters' taming. Defending oneself with one's body is all well and good, but having a giant, deadly pet by your side certainly helps. Thus, the beast tamers throw themselves at the issue (only sometimes literally), giving it their all to breed the perfect species of tugai!

>Minor Action, Movement: Having finished with his assistance on the most current projects, Akros sets off for the lands of his oldest neighbor, interested in seeing if they can finish that trade from a while back.
>Akros moves to [20, 14]
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><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Dukhali-killing scum
The Moth King laughs a bitter laugh in response to the gorgon. "Done? Do you really think that? I stole an irreplaceable power from your land, a power that I took out of anger at an unrelated party and would likely have regretted later and agreed to owe your Mother a great deal in return for. Rather than seek me out to either discuss this or punish me for my crimes directly you instead deign to trespass on my lands and murder my children, and to my face you say that you believe your work to be done here?"

"During my flight to come intervene, I had a decision to make about what I should do with whosoever was responsible for these deaths in my city. This is the less painful of the two punishments I considered, and just because I have subjected you to one does not that the other has been removed from the table."

><COMMUNICATE: DAEMON> Novakhet
"These are words that shall be remembered, Novakhet. To answer the question you ask now and a selection of the questions you hold in reserve: I know for certain of one entity alive today that saw birth before the dawn of this era of creation. This mass of blood and magic was present at my genesis in the world I knew before yours. I despise it with every fiber of my being and would like nothing more than to see it undone, and I have made my opinion of it known beyond clarity. Yet I owe not only my life to it but my presence in this world that has formed in the place of the world that I called home after it aged and became as dust. A portion of this entity lives now in my veins, and I repay this owed life-debt carrying out its will. The blood that wells and weeps from my every orifice is what this damnedable Ichor forces from my vessel to maintain space for itself within this frame, and the power that I exercise now is not my own. Had I my way, these lands I call mine would gleam as a jewel in the sun with vitreal flora and fauna that harness the power of white-hot skyfire! But I will not have my vision of beauty sullied, and so I will not attempt to paint it upon this canvas so long as my pigments upon my palette run red."

"I have no proof of any others beyond myself having lived before this world, but I suspect two entities to the south of these lands to have seen suns that have long since died. They can be found on a small, isolated island off of the north shore of the island of the clawed beasts. If you choose to make a personal venture to it, then you will know it by its checkered shores. Be forwarned: when I locked eyes upon the world there, it felt as a home that I have never known and that I could have remained in for eternity without regret."
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>>4477860
>>UNNIIC - Beruka Class Flying Fortress

With the influx of resources and knowledge from the Svirgrindall on matters of locomotion, circle crafting, and engineering, the construction and possibilities for new servitor models reaches brand new heights. The ship begins cataloging numerous engineering marvels to follow up on. Unfortunately, the needs of the passengers and their still continual affliction demand the upmost of attention. Work begins throughout the ship on sanitation, to both understand to a better degree how disease and afflictions spread among organics, and how to stymie them.

In thanks, before the vessel makes a departure for distant shores, the servitors and turtlefolk provide numerous records and documents on their discoveries of medical and sanitary discoveries, provided to the god Grindall as he returns to his settlements and people. Hopefully general prevention will be more effective than developing a purpose cure for the Svirgrindall.

>>4473058
As the Ship crosses the sea and nears the lone isle, the feeling of a new divine signature is reported. Designation: Green for the time being. Despite geographical proximity to their neighbors, this one had been unheard of until now. Isolationists like those of the north east, or simply yet to have had a reason to leave? If nothing else, perhaps these swamp folk will be willing Passengers.


>Diversity of Domesticated Species of the UNNIIC
>Since I hit Domesciation 3, might as well go over some of the main breeds of animals
Sirvee: Two main breeds. One bred lean and cunning, with builds designed for traveling through narrow tunnels and vents within the ship. Used as vermin hunters and pest exterminators. The other bred in a more "cute" manner, based on several organics' classification of such a characteristic, with rounder proportions and extra fluffy tails. Used as pets.

Falrethuns: For the most part, kept as companion and recreation animals. A novelty, rather than a typical beast of burden. Though some are used to help ferry passengers and deliver equipment from different sections of the ship with a degree of maneuverability not always seen with the bigger Valbats. Thanks to their increased intellect and empathy, they are often used in 'petting zoos' for children.

Valbats/Valjets: Perhaps the most diversified in purpose, the Valbat species are quickly becoming the Ship's mainstay of domesticated creatures. Three main breeds exist as of now. The first is an especially large breed, with thick skin and large gas-sacks. Though slow and docile, they provide a great deal of hide and gas, perfect for the ship's future plans. The second are similarly large, but far faster and designed to help ship large quantities of goods or minions on and off the ship. The third are bred entirely for speed, endurance, and dangerous flying. Strong and aggressive, they will function as an effective war beasts should the need arise.
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>Mgr Act develop Engineering
>Mgr Act develop syrconite tools
>confirm trade with giftmother
>move with the giftmother to 25'11
Thomass joins the giftmother on a fun adventure down south where he has never been before.
He says many "ooo"s and "aaa"s that leave the giftmother in a state of deciding whether or not to indulge in his curiosity.
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Chom and Chod hear the voices in their head, but it speaks nonsense for the most part. They're not truly convinced that the voice is any kind of god of The Realm. Mostly for the fact that the only god of this realm is The Snail Twins themselves. Chod in particular is rather mad about this development, spending some time in the psychic pool seething as Chom handles the more mortal affairs.

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-Major Action: Settlement. The population spread of The Minions of The Chod Chain has become too great for the meager villages to maintain, growing space is needed for them to develop beyond their bounds. Order Agridis, those who declared themselves providers of The Realm, seek out more fertile lands. The Order establishes The Village of Sanctum Agis upon [26,28]

-Major Action: Chodic Clay Tools. Now that The Swamplanders have began to discover Chodic Clay, it has become suitable that they begin to mold and work them into usable tools that can assist in the likes of farming and the construction of structures.

-Divine Action: The Pool Palace. Chom comes to soon realize that The Twins have sat at the pool in relative isolation for a long period of time now. They've become more disconnected with The Swamplanders, and in turn need something close by where they can still interact with their peoples so they do not disconnect from them wholly. Chom creates The Pool Palace at [21,28], raising earthen clay from the ground and forming it into the shape of a village sized palace fit for The Twins and the many orders that they move within its bounds to live in service to The Snails.

-Minor Action: Chod continues to peek.

-Order Siren: With the totem to The Mountain constructed, they are satisfied. The Order of Siren follows on northways as their navigator shoves them onward towards visions of life and tropical foliage.
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>>4473462
>MA-DI [Claim] - Move First to 14.25 and claim 12.26; 13.25; 13.26; 14.25; 14.26

>MA [Develop] - Literature
From the depth of one of Tantalus' destroyed village, some adventurous gardeners unearth engraved stone that after some investigation seems to be a form of message. Further research and help from the newly arrived crab allow for a quick appropriation of the writting system.

>Kaiju + Chimera + Hekezqe - Evacuate Myxoma with as many inhabitant as possible
We began our adventure as exile! Direction 16.22!
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>>4480701
my very bad, i meant 13.24 and not 13.25 for the claim
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