Newbie game 2 [Started]

Potatoman · #1 February 9th, 2007, 09:59 PM

The spice must flow!

Foodstamp · #2 February 10th, 2007, 01:49 AM

Cathbad leaned forward, elbows on the alchemist table, fingers rubbing his temples. "This time...something felt different."

He had been working from this same laboratory for the past few months, trying to shore up the defense of Eastern Pangaea, casting rituals day in and day out, but something this time was out of place.

As he rubbed his head, Cathbad became lost in thought. A moment of rest, a moment to day dream, a luxury not had in many years for the master druid. Cathbad thought back to the days of the Sidhe in his homeland, the mighty Tuatha had ruled then, before the Pantokrator destroyed everything.

Day dreaming turned to meditation. "Ah yes, there is indeed something different." Cathbad walked over to a scrying pool near the center of the room. He peered into the water, and caught his own reflection for a moment, startled by the many wrinkles that had settled on his face in the past few years.

With a wave of his hand, he casted his own reflection aside and the surface of the water began to glow, translucent. A moment in time captured in the ripples of the water, a thin white strand could be seen against a black background. Energies swirled around this strand before they inevitably became absorbed.

"The Arcane Nexus." Cathbad whispered, as if speaking those words would attract the attention of the Eater of Gods himself.

"It would seem Rlyeh wishes to dominate us all with the casting of one single spell." Shaking his head, with a slight smile, Cathbad wondered what the leaders of the other nations were thinking right now, or if they even knew the spell had been cast.

Cathbad walked to the lone window of the laboratory and looked out upon the swamp to the west, and the sun setting behind the massive cyprus trees. "Everything moves so rapidly now, in the blink of an eye, a friend can become an enemy...or even an enemy can turn into a friend."

Foodstamp · #3 February 11th, 2007, 12:13 AM

Pangaea is now trading for Nature gems! I have several hundred gems of various shapes and sizes to trade for nature gems. My primary stockpiles include air gems, fire gems and earth gems.
I am willing to trade these gems for nature gems on a 1 to 1 basis. Send me a private message if you are interested in trading

Zrave · #4 February 11th, 2007, 05:51 PM

I've ran out of gold, gems, armies, and land, so I am going AI the turn after this one.

gg all, I learned a lot

Foodstamp · #5 February 11th, 2007, 05:59 PM

Zrave,

Judging by the graphs, and the bit of scrying I did during your war, you put up a stellar defense. Watching how you used your mages inspired me to try kailasa in another MP game. Very well played, I hope we meet again in another MP game, maybe in a little closer proximity so we can wage war against one another!

Potatoman · #6 February 11th, 2007, 06:22 PM

Very well played Zrave, I learned a lot battling you!

RamsHead · #7 February 15th, 2007, 04:37 PM

I suggest that we incease the time to 48 hour quickhost.

Unrelated to the above, yay, I finally got a national hero!

Potatoman · #8 February 15th, 2007, 06:02 PM

In the sky above Wynna, below the glaring eyes of seven cursed stars, a shroud of gray smoke is rising. Beneath that smoke lies Mount Kailasa, the famed celestial mountain and last butress of the Devata, which burns under an arcane fire that cannot be quenched and that inexorably chars the very stones of the mountain to ash. The soul of the mountain was shattered along with the power of its master; only the husk remains to burn beneath R'yleh's spell.

The people who venerated Kailasa, too, are gone. Their cities sit abandoned beneath the burning mountain, being slowly reclaimed by the hungry forests. Occasionally a Mind Lord of R'yleh may slither through the ruins, going about it's inscrutable buisness, but even members of the Great Race are reluctant to stay long beneath the shadow of the burning mountain. Evil Stars still hang in the sky above that place, and the Horrors visit frequently. The time of the Devata is past and the last vestiges of their presence on this world are being consumed by the forces which gave them birth.

But for the few in this land who survived the endless attrition of the war between R'yleh and Kailasa, the constant famine and leprosy, the pillaging undead, and the final, terrible cataclysm, there is hope. Forces are gathering, alliances are squaring off, and apotheosis draws near. When the new pantheon ascends, peace will finally come and the true gods will, at last, have reason to repair this world that have brought so close to destruction.