The Fall: Turn 24
This turn - as the first of us - Utgård fell. Yomi went AI without a warning a little while ago, and Gath is dropping off soon enough. Caelum has some prospects but administration of the game has failed to change the email address so sub has not been able to step forward.
Abysia is still gathering it's strenght – he did not attack us this turn. We also got a free province North from our bridgehead. There wasnt a single vile demon defending the province. Now that they need to consider attacking two different provinces the likelyhood that they will come first against our staging area has diminished enough so we can plan ahead for a bit further. Also, losing two provinces around forts should mean drastic decline in their resource income – Abysia is a resource hungry nation, right?
The strategy of attrition kicking in, hopefully... Abysia is no doubt struggling but my intention is to keep him alive. As long as they live, others shouldnt pay too much attention on my rising influence.
PD went up to 70, and the teleported Starspawn Mage searches for Astral sites. One mad thrall preaches. We need white candles up fast, Cthulhu damn. Wish we had Wolven Winter up and ready but no. Instead, we over tax the province we just took, buy there PD worth of 6 and leave it for Abysia to take. Shub-Niggurath moves against another indie province, in pursuit of establishing permanent precense in the area.
This golem-inhabited province, at the Easter end of the Isthmus of Abysia, has been intriguing my imagination for awhile now. No-one seems interested in taming the land. If we manage to secure all the provinces around it, the task falls naturally to me. Hope we find something really fancy when we arrive, because I dont know even if Shub-Niggurath dares to execute the attack alone.
This picture should tell everybody the reason why the upkeep costs are rising, and why that is a huge problem for the Dreamlands' ecnomy. The Dreamlands is working hard to gather those who can fight underwater, and to drown those who cant. Otherwise nothing important happened this turn that I know of.
