R'lyeh ~~ Turn 7
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An uneventful month. Auluudh survives yet another battle at the head of his army, again crushing a province of brave shark riders under his slimy abdomen. The battle goes more or less exactly like the last one.
On the other side of the world, Yöt-Webbogoth falls upon yet another triton province, by the name of Blue Water. Here he fights neither the noble amber clan tritons nor the barbarian shark knight tritons: This is a triton republic of coral-towered city states. The forces they muster as they put aside traditional enmities are large, but not large enough.
They die to clouds of poisonous ink and crushing tentacles.
Above the waves, Yöt-Webbogoth's eldritch senses detect a great place of supernatural power: a forest in which time and place are... strange, and where great numbers of strange beings live, somehow without crowding it.
Pangaea.
In the west, Auluudh notes from scouts sent above the waves (imaginary scouts, there are no independent scouts underwater, and fort turns are dear. My scouting is abysmally bad) that the coast is held by a centralized empire. A few mind-probed fishermen identify it as the greater dominion of Arcoscephale.
Messages are dispatched to the beastmen and the philosophers, yet no proof remains... Time and the Dominions 3 messaging interface conquer all.
In the tumbled ruins of Moon Sea, diligent slave mages find the strongest current of them all.
A temple is built, for it is expected to have a beneficial effect on the aboleths' procreative efforts. No more shall be said.
In the uttermost north, a different sort of construction begins:
Deep under the eternal ice, enslaved tritons labour to erect a fortress. The foundation is formed by cyclopean stone blocks, but soon it will be overgrown by the twisted polypal forms of the aboleth mothers.
In R'lyeh, under the two mind lords Eshu Saath and Vkt'Ebph, another army has assembled. Yet the sea is almost completely subjugated. Originally earmarked to attack Koromoo (which the barbarian goatfaced Fomorians insist on calling "the Isle of Balor"), they have a new target that avoids political... complications.
Of course, a different rationale is given...
("We have always been at war with Eastasia")