Mongoose - Starting (at last!)

[llamabeast]

Well really it's more like the _nations_ were lying...

But anyway, as I've discussed both here and in PMs to you, most situations where it is "obvious" to one person that the other lied, the other person doesn't think they did. Miscommunications are common and the cause of much strife.

I actually apply this to life as a whole. If someone seems to have been bad to me or let me down, I normally assume it was a miscommunication (or, just as often, a cultural/background difference which makes the situation seem almost unbelievably different to them - just consider almost all boyfriend/girlfriend issues!). Almost always it was. Very few people are deliberately unpleasant. It's a good policy, saves a lot of hurt feelings and lost friendships.

However, this is a personal thing and not a way of thinking most people adopt, and anyway, I've gone way, waaay off topic. Sorry about that. Guess I'm proud of my optimistic view of the world. My ex-girlfriend always thought I was talking rubbish when I discussed it, but I decided she was just misunderstanding me.

So, enough of that little issue. What's going on in the world of the Mongoose? I believe Ermor has been crushed and gone AI - where will the conquerors turn next?

[Aezeal]

Well I was about the only one posting RP post in here so...

[llamabeast]

Fair point.

[WonderLlama]

Now the evil undead Ermorians have been crushed, and the ice angels have returned to their rightful home atop the icy mountains in the northwest. The alliance of good nations can now be at peace.

The creaturs from the forests of Pangea had interfered. Rumours, which travel far on the winds, claim that they had fallen under the dark spell of Ermor, ensorcelling them to his aid. Hopefully that will end with the disappearance of Ermor. We welcome peace, and we even welcome them to keep the forests they had taken from us. For truly that is more their home than ours.

We have discovered the strange tentacled creatures of R'yleh in the seas off our shores. We know nothing about them; the winds do not blow underneath the waves. We don't know whether they are good or evil, desire peace or war. But we are eager to learn.

We have heard little of the eastern continent, just that it is home to mighty tribes of barbarians. Are there any travellers with tales to tell of those mystical lands?

[Sensori]

So the most ancient of the Starspawns were correct in their predictions. R'lyeh now borders each and every living nation on this world.

A dire portent, perhaps.

But it also holds certain... Possibilities.

We do not have great interest in the goings on of the surface-world as long as our shore-lands and our seas are left untouched by the surface-dwellers. As it stands at time, we have no reason, nor specific desire, for war; unless we are forced to enter one by outside forces. We are content in our areas of control. We are content with our research.

Indeed, we shall remain out of wars unless it is deemed absolutely necessary for us to act.