R'lyeh ~~ Turn 16
Chill Carrier:
"Surfing Clouds"
The annoying thing with doing diplomacy over this here forum is that you don't keep your sent messages. So if you didn't remember to screenshot your diplo, it'll be lost in the void. Or at the mercy of your fellow players, anyway. Still better than the in-game system, where you can't even check whether you did or didn't send that declaration of war yet.
Or you could save the screenshots of your diplo in the wrong folder. That's why you can now read last turn's Abysia/R'lyeh diplomatic correspondence now.
Since this turn is otherwise really uneventful, that's not bad actually.
Figure 1: really uneventful turn
Figures 2 and 3: amazing thalassopolitical shenanigans
I'm just grabbing some cheap land here. The dangerous guy is on the other side of the world, right there on the beach.
Since one of the three events was some new research, let's look at that for a second. Conjuration 3, apart from some water summons I'm not planning on using a lot we have:
It's a nice booster spell. Doesn't look like that nice a deal on first glance, but since its area of effect is caster, when a communion master casts it, it'll also benefit all of his slaves. In addition the rather steep cost gets spread around some.
But nice as it is, it's not why I'm researching conjuration at this point. There's a certain spell at the next level which is very interesting for water nations.
Obscuro's job is site searching. And he immediately succeeds: the narrow straits seperating Bolfagon and Maverni Ograthon are home to wild wind spirits that make it impossible to cross by ship. Obscuro devises an illusion-based trap that occasionally lures one of their number into a magical pouch.
And lastly, Auluudh has reached Smallsea, the inappropiately named water province surrounding Tir na n'Og's shores. On the new moon, he and his army will rush ashore and wrest the fertile plains of Pirenna from the evil Lich's grasp.