Points of Departure: Turn 23
Only two battles, and the Dreamlands lost both. Man did not march against us, but both of our invasion forces (against indies and Abysia) got thrown back.
Starspawn priest Uzumna – introduced in the beginning - is getting pretty good in summoning Void beings. He also took an unexpected vacation. All pray Cthulhu he will be back with his mind in one piece.
Abysia is expected to launch the second attack against my province next to their capital. Because of this, the Starspawn council needs to weight options available very carefully.
Either the Dreamlands challenge the Abysia's might very next turn, or we try to outmanouver them by attacking random provinces around their small kingdom – provinces they cannot hope to defend while trying to conquer back provinces sacked before. This could, in longer run, exhaust the development of their nation (it is slowing down already) leading into their fall to the hands of their stronger neighbours. For example Midgård in the North-West and Patala in the East.
We chose to launch an invasion against an Abysia's province North of our foothold. Just incase they come on us with slightly weak forces, one Starspawn mage teleports in to the province under our control scripted to cast Sailor's Deaths and then Retreat. If we are lucky, he retreats North to meet the expeditionary forces.
The first Cursed Captain starts forging his own gear. I was wondering if the list could look like this (it's still an early sketch):
Naming these high seas' jewels properly is also important. We intent using them as wolf packs behind the enemy lines, and every single one should have a name worth his salt. The list looks like this:
Anything else come to mind? I still have to think about Aeron the Damphair... he doesnt seem to belong into this group. Maybe, if he was the prophet...
Maybe we should also summon few Black Servants to join the scourges of the high seas, for example to carry extra gems, bottles of living water and Fear items. Black Servants got nice Stealth, I remind you.
Rumor has it Marignon is sieging Gath's capital (the Gath player left the nation behind few turns ago), which made me study the map a little bit more. I found out that Patala seems to have grown into unspeakable dimensions.
On other things, the Dreamlands keep searching for magic sites, preaches and tries to figure out how to drown hordes of useless cultists.