Ascendant - Game On!

[Shigure]

Renojustin said:
Sauromatia lays claim to the sacred Neck. The ancestral homes of Old Sauromatia lay on the banks of the vast Middle Sea. Once a proud people lived there in shining cities.

Then Stravinsky the phoenix god came down and took the form of a stork. He gathered the wise old men of the proud city together, and challenged them to a game. He showed the men his golden-red rubies the size of kiwis, and then they knew greed.

Stravinsky used the air itself to move his cards and trick the men, and before long, he had won all the men's monies. But Stravinsky was a cruel god, and he offered the men one last "chance" to get their gold and jewels back.

Goober the Witch King, the Swamplord himself, rose and took the trickster's challenge and bet the ancient lands of the Neck against the shadows and trickery of Stravinsky. The challenge was simple.

"Heads or tails?" Stravinsky squawked - the stork suddenly burst into flame, cackling and howling like a thing of both the fire and the wind.

And a tritoness was carried in screaming by four monstrous black apes in metal armors, their immense figures sleek and dangerous. They readied their razor-sharp falchions as she struggled to breathe through drying gills.

This is the best manufactured casus belli I have ever seen. I'm not sure what the deal with the tritoness is, but everything you say about Stravinsky is absolutely true, especially the bit about the rubies.

Kailasa gave me a smack to the face last turn as well, but I ended up killing a good 60-70%% of what I lost in gold, and still expanding. It looked pretty bad till the end, but then my archers fired one last time before breaking, and shot up a squad of Yavanas pretty well.

Throw a large army of low-protection archers at a nation with strong earth mages, and the results are predictable.

[Renojustin]

We can afford these rates to conquer the ape people, whereas the flower of your demigod leadership falters and dies against easily replacable mortal men... your soldiers wane of disease and poison and fewer and fewer smile at your Phyrric victory over their cookfires at night.

Still we didn't expect our little probe to actually be repulsed. Though we are surprised you called it a large army.

[Zenzei]

I just checked the server and looks like Arco, Tir and Abysia are about to stale.

[lch]

Zenzei said:
I just checked the server and looks like Arco, Tir and Abysia are about to stale.

You're past the early game, turns take more time to prepare now. I propose to increase the timer to 48 hours, which we'll eventually have to do sooner or later, anyway.

[Renojustin]

I would say that turns are easily done in 5 to 10, 20 minutes tops right now. I would vote against increasing the timer.

But we'll see; if there's a few people who'd rather have 48 hour turns, that's fine. If someone wants an extention, that's cool too.

I think that everyone is still pretty excited to play in what for most of us is our first multiplayer game.

[Mozkito]

An extension wouldnt be that bad, as long as nobody stales, and do their turns as fast as possible?

I just got a new job, so that, on top of possible school? Imma be swamped w/ things to do. So an extension would be nice, but not necessarily necessary

[secretperson]

Personally I can't get enough of the MP experience and turns come a bit slower than i'd like. However, I realize other people may have a busier schedule than I currently do and staling turns is no fun. I think it's fine if people need an extension or if we need to switch to 48 hours. I just hope that in general the cases where the longer timer is needed are an exception, but that's just the eager geek inside me talking

[Wrana]

And what the story with tritoness actually meant?
And, Darkwind, if he meant that he wars with Kailasa and Atlantis, he should call it - "Two stones with one bird"!

[kasnavada]

Claire nearly forgot to give her orders... but did just in time.

[Darkwind]

. . . Abysia is going to take over Forest of Gun? That is my province, and it appears that since C'tis has realized its dilemma(attack me and Marverni attacks, attack Marverni and I attack), it will stay mine for at least a little while.