4-player ME game - Started!

Amhazair · #1 December 24th, 2006, 08:07 PM

Well, a bit too late to send you an ingame message anymore, as I won't be able to play the current turn ;-)

I'm spending christmas at my parents, and will be back home late tomorrow night (Belgian time) wich means, within 24 hours.

Merry Christmas to all

Amhazair · #2 December 25th, 2006, 08:08 PM

This actually was about two days ago, but with all the christmas stuff I didn't manage to write it before...

The curved knife hung perfectly motionless in the pre-dawn stillness, waiting, raised high in the old and wrinkled, but unshaking, hands of Astaroth, dragon of the faith. The flickering flames of the holy brazier standing in front of him set his shadow moving amongst the holy statues behind him.

In that interminable moment right before sunrise the army stood arrayed in front of the altar, holding it's collective breath, their attention fully focused on the scene in front of them: the dagger, the brazier, the priest.. and the stunningly beautiful maiden lying on the altar.

Then, at long last, the first ray of the raising sun set the dagger ablaze, and it descended in a perfect arc, connecting with the vein visibly pulsing in the maiden's throat. So perfect the cut was executed that the life blood streaming from the wound, the fire fuelling Abysia's citizens, all landed upon the holy brazier. The glowing coals roared to life, an unnaturaly fierce flame leaping from the brazier, roaring the gods approval of the untainted blood. "BAEL'FIR!" the crowd chanted as one, "BAEL'FIR!" the echos reverbrating from the valley walls a mile off.

At the front of his army Kragon smiled a little smile. Astaroth might be old, but he was nowhere near senile yet. Not only had the sacrifice been performed with utter perfection - Not an easy task, since this was the first time in a couple of decades Abyssia had felt the need to send this ultimate plea of help to their god, only dim childhood memories had guided Astaroth in his recreation of the old ceremony - he had also chosen his victim with care: All soldiers had felt sorry for her, waiting for the dagger to fall, and their anger, their outrage for the loss of this fine woman, this dancing flame, would be skillfully canalized by their commanders, fanning the flames burning in their hearts, fuelling their impressive performances on the batllefields, untill they were finally quenched in the blood of our enemies.

He allowed the chanting to go on for some time, and then gave the order to march. The proud Abyssian army struck out due east, towards the bleak and desolate plains of Ermor. Such a fine army this was! Surely not even the cold plains, and even colder hearts of their enemy could stop this army. Surely not.

llamabeast · #3 January 1st, 2007, 07:36 PM

Amhazair, you're a lucky boy, I got home to take my turn about a minute after it hosted! Aargh! Still, I think I was quite lucky and nothing really bad happening, apart from you invading all over the place again. Stupid devils.

Cerlin, this must be getting to be a really strange game for you. I don't think you can really do that much, unless I'm underestimating your cunning, but man are your sea provinces hard to take! I just can't match your shamblers in the water! You have so many of them and none of my magic really works in the water.

Amhazair · #4 January 2nd, 2007, 01:21 PM

A minute... damn that sucks.

I was quite sure you had missed your turn from looking at your (lack of) activity, but I started doubting it when I noticed, amidst the barrage of returning 'random' events raining down on my capital that I had also been struck by an earthquake... seems that one was a real random event then

About Cerlin: It's in my best intrest he remains alive as long as possible, as you'd have a new flank to attack me on if he goes down, but I'm afraid I might dominion kill him sometime soon. I actually stopped blood sacrificing when I realised that

llamabeast · #5 January 3rd, 2007, 08:06 AM

Amhazair, you are one lucky boy. I can't believe you won that! That stupid earthquake! I hope you don't have enough gems to empower another one like that. At least he died on casting it. And if I'd just known that spell existed... maybe I could have cast Twist Fate or Body Ethereal on my communion. Although to be fair it would never have occurred to me you'd cast it, being as I didn't know you had earth magic. Next time...

So, 25 mages down, the battle goes on.

By the way, the only "random event" I've been casting on you is the unrest+60 one, the rest must just have been bad luck! I see you've got that unrest under control now, although all your population are dead. Muwahaha! Crucially you can build your lava warriors again though, which I was really hoping to stop.

Cerlin, I don't mean to be funny, but if you happen to be the last to take a turn, would you mind taking the next one as well? It would just keep the game going slightly quicker. Although come to think of it, maybe you staled, I'm not sure what time the timer ran out.

Amhazair · #6 January 3rd, 2007, 02:13 PM

Phew, I'm so happy I finally found a way to hurt your mages, they had been causing me a LOT of pain... With hindsight I might have been better of sending in a couple less mages of my own, so the earthquake would have cost me less, but I didn't know how effective it would be (never used it before, SP or MP) Anyways, all in all that battle went more or less as expected, now I just have to find a way to gain as much advantage from it as possible. (as you still have an enormous edge in research) (oh, and btw, do you think etherealness protects you from earthquake? I would have thought that would be classed as magic damage, though I admit I have no evidence to base that on. )

As for having earth magic: my warlocks have 100% FEAB and 2x 10% FEAB randoms, so they can get as much as 3E without empowering or items (though only one in 6400 will get all 3 earth picks

), and with earth boots (actually, I captured the pair I was wearing from you aaaages ago) and summon earthpower 2E is enough to cast the earthquake.

And the magical assault on my capitol: I've been getting 2 deadly disease events each turn for the past 10 or so turns, each killing 700 (when Abysia was still densely populate to 400 (now) people, and occasionally diseasing my commanders and troops. That seems quite a long shot to be atributed to bad luck, though I have to admit I searched the manual looking for the spell that did that, and I didn't find it, so I dunno what's causing it... do those bane venom charms of yours get reported to me that way too?)

In any case, I'm having tons of fun this game, I can't believe how long our war has raged on now without someome gaining a decisive upper hand. I love to hate you Ermor

Amhazair · #7 January 5th, 2007, 01:18 PM

I just played my turn, but I'm going home for the bachelor party of the guy my sister's going to mary this weekend, and I'll only be back by sunday early afternoon (CET), so unless one of you is kind enough not to play his until 3 hours before the deadline or so I'll be missing my next turn

But, on the bright side... My little sis is almost getting married