Legendary Ordeals - Isokron Wins!

[Lingchih]

Wasn't there going to be further elaboration on the new ordeal here, Burn?

[Lingchih]

Gimpy here agains,

I had a dream, in which Shung the very large but dead pretender, asked me to call out to you all for voting for him. Heck, can't hurt eh, pantokrater knows he needs the help.

So vote for Shung, and set him free.

Gimpy the Goblin Chief

[Burnsaber]

Ordeal for turn 16-21

Originally Posted by Lingchih

Wasn't there going to be further elaboration on the new ordeal here, Burn?

Yeah, but if the turn is going to host around 2-3 am in the morning, I'm not going stay awake until that moment just to post something in the interwebs. These things come with certain delays.

On another note, I added Conquest Point tally up in the first post.

Originally Posted by The Pantokrator

It has come the time test your skills of intrique and politics for the future pantokrator does not only need strenght but also a silver tongue. Because if your court consists of Sepraphs, Chayots and Asmegs, one has to be completely in control or face their wrath.

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Before turn 20, each one of you must vote for an another nation. You are free to vote whoever you want and whatever criteria you want to use (a'k'a you can sell your vote for the highest bitter, buy them, strongarm other players for them "Vote me or else!", etc...). Following rules and prices apply for the voting:

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Any player who still is in the game can vote, but a player who is not in control of his capital is not eligble for a win.
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Players can also "court" me to boost their vote count, but this counts as a request for a boon. (a'k'a you can trade your boon request for this ordeal for a single vote for you) -> NOTE that doing this does NOT count as your vote, you still need to vote for an another player.
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If a player does not cast a vote by turn 20, he will be penalized by two boons from his boon count.

The prices for the Ordeal are as follows (ties are broken by the boon count of the nations in question):

1st place: Mantle of the Divine Servant (very powerful magical item, gold, gems and the ability to see the boon count of each nation upon request)
2nd place: Treasure of the Lord of the Rings (magical items, gold)
3rd place: Legacy of the Hoburg Hero (magical items)

[Lingchih]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Ordeal for turn 16-21


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Any player who still is in the game can vote, but a player who is not in control of his capital is not eligble for a win.

That's Bullsh

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Lingchih

That's Bullsh

Likely a misunderstanding, let me clarify. When I say "capital" I mean the fortress in your capital province. If your capital is under siege, you are still in control of your capital and can still get the rewards for this ordeal.

This rule was implemented to prevent no-brainer "vote dumping" to the nation that is likely to be gone by turn 25. I mean, you need to have access to a laboratory in order to get the items and to get use out of the gems that are rewarded. If the top prize would just almost automatically go to the guy with one province left, it would render the whole voting process and all of the politicing involved pretty meaningless.

Of course, as per rules stand, you can dumb your vote to a nation that's obviously a goner, but if that nation is not eligble for the win on turn 21 when the votes are counted, the win might go to the nation that you *really* don't want to win.

[Baalz]

The boys'll be happy to toss their vote to the highest bidder.

[Isokron]

Are the votes cast publicly or how can someone buyi^w ehrm campaigning for votes see that he succeeded ?

If they are public we would like to offer 5 nature or death gems per vote, limited to 4 votes per gemtype so vote fast.

Also as a one off offer we offer a vote for a vote.

[militarist]

If publicity or deal control will be possible somehow, ASHDOD offers 10 GEMS for vote, or vote for vote exchange.
The type of gems will be determined by us, or during negotiations.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Isokron

Are the votes cast publicly or how can someone buyi^w ehrm campaigning for votes see that he succeeded ?

Teaches me to write an Ordeal post from school (and away from my notes).

Votes will be made public on turn 21.

(don't worry, the next couple ordeals will be quite simpler)

[Gregstrom]

R'lyeh are willing to offer a vote exchange and/or buy votes with gems. For that matter, if you don't want a land-based neighbour to get a big chunk of treasure then cast a vote our way.

In addition, we freely promise that any nation voting for us won't be first in line for sudden and seemingly random outbreaks of insanity and extremely unpleasant nightmares among the populace.