Veritas - MA, CBM, PBEM - Started

[Meursy]

No worries Jazzepi, thanks for the info.

I thought Valerius was looking after that kind of thing!

[Valerius]

Yes, I am the admin for the game. As far as I know there's no way to postpone hosting on the llamaserver without having the admin password.

I mostly agree with Jazzepi. I can't say I've never sent reminders to people to send in their turns, especially if the game has been on hold and they may not have realized it resumed, but if you regularly do this it becomes frustrating for the rest of the players. I do try to check my PMs and the game thread as close to hosting as possible in case someone has asked for a delay.

[Jazzepi]

Woops! Sorry about the confusion. I got this thread confused with another one that I'm actually the admin for D:

Jazzepi

[Meursy]

Hi guys,

Seems that llamaserver is acting up a bit, I've been trying to submit my turn for a while now, but I got a weird email saying my file wasn't accepted because no pretender was attached, and then another email saying the turn was hosting in 5 hours.

Currently the game status game says the game will host in about 4 and a half hours, but I have to go to sleep now and won't be able to send a turn for about 10 hours.

I notice a couple of other players are probably experiencing the same problem.

To be safe can we delay at least 12 hours?

Cheers,
Meursy

[Valerius]

I've delayed hosting until 17:35 GMT Tuesday. Hopefully things will be working ok by then.

[Meursy]

While we all come to terms with the gaping void the downing of the llamaserver has left in our lives, I thought it might be time to add a little flava to the game thread, which seems to be rather lacking at this stage. This is part one of what could be called 'The Caelum Wars', or my personal preference 'The Battle for Middle Berth', which besides being a catchy play on a phrase drawn from a popular collection of fantasy novels (no prizes for knowing which), does kind of make sense because the battle happened in the middle of the map, and was Caelum's final foothold of any substance in the world of Veritas.

The observant reader will notice that this Part 1 has nothing to do with battles. It's just the setup. Part 2 is on the way shortly!

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A woman walked amongst the trees of the silent forest. Towering oaks and bending willows loomed over her as she walked along the rich loamy soil beneath her feet. She smiled in simple delight at the beauty of the forest around her, and her eyes were as deep and blue as the purest mountain stream. She breathed in deeply. There was a scent of moisture in the air that reached right down into the lungs.
Traversing a rounded moss-riddled boulder, she came upon a stretch of cracked and sunken earth. Patches of reeds still clinging tenaciously to their posts confirmed that a river had flowed this way not so long ago.
A look of concern suggested itself momentarily in her expression, but did little to disturb the air of equanimity she carried about herself like a cloak. A familiar smile crossed her lips again, and as the breeze played about the upper reaches of the forest about her as she reached for the great pitcher that was ever at her side and poured. Water splashed over the hem of her skirts but she did not seem to mind. Instead she laughed with a child’s delight, and the breeze now picked at her flowing raven-black hair.
The water continued to gush forth from the earthenware pitcher, far beyond what any container of such a size could conceivably hold, and with great energy and force. Before long the dried stream bed flowed anew, fresh and clear.
The woman now cast her eyes towards the heavens and regarded the grey clouds that had gathered. She smiled again.
Returning her pitcher to her side, she reached high into the branches of a neighbouring pear tree and selected a ripened morsel for herself (for in truth she stood a good two-thirds the height of most of the trees in the clearing). Pleased with the pear she had chosen, which was like a berry to her in proportion, she continued on her journey.
As she did so a large winged creature steadied itself on the branch from which it had observed the goings on in the clearing and took flight.
A light rain began to fall.

[Meursy]

Hi again, Pt 2 is shorter than I expected (and still no battles!). I guess Part 3 will have to cover it.

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A lone winged figure approached a sprawling encampment through an overcast sky. Milling about the camp, which was situated in a clearing surrounding a stony fortress, were a horde of birdmen warriors. Their white-grey feathered limbs were striking against a background dull and brown.
The forward scout swooped down, and with two mighty beats of his wings came to land before a pavilion erected upon a hill overlooking the castle gates.
An elderly Caelum, for that was the name of that race, emerged from parted tent flaps, and addressed the latest arrival.
Though garbed in splendid azure robes of imperial bearing, the man’s skin was leathery and frail, and in aging his hair had faded to a pale shade of blue, the colour of arctic ice floes.
Upon meeting the scout bowed low to his superior, then returned his gaze upward and gave his report. The elder Caelum regarded him with eyes of uncanny hue, and all about the encampment piercing twin globes of silver and gold were to be found.
After some moments the Caelum commander flicked his head to the side in evident annoyance at what he had been told, and then turned to look over his interlocutor’s shoulder at the forest beyond.
A smiling woman emerged.

[Meursy]

While I'm here I just wanted to add that I'll be offline until Sunday evening my time. That's a bit under 48 hours from now, and llamerserver time is currently 15:14.
I mention this because I heard llama will be back from holiday tomorrow. I'm sure everyone's impatient to get back into it, but if we could hold off hosting till (at least) then, that'd be awesome.

Cheers,
Meursy

[Valerius]

Nice write-up, Meursy. Look forward to reading the conclusion.

Also, I'll make sure to delay hosting until at least 23:00 GMT Sunday.

[Valerius]

Ok, the game is resumed. Hosting time has been set for 23:26 GMT Sunday.

Edit: corrected hosting time