RE: Crisis Cycles
07-11-2020, 12:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-16-2020, 01:58 PM by ProfessorLizzard.)
Commander Rhybet, a notable Krokar Commander has performed a grand coup against Slubdin! It was a surprise strike, and the people loyal to the erstwhile Praetor has been felled or captured. Slubdin was put on a trial, and executed for his crimes against halfism. His metal leg has been put out on display as a memento of all, to see what happens to all evil men. The praetorite's capital was moved to Hoppor, and it is now ruled from the military academy of the Cult Of The Half Star.
Rhybet orders apologies to be sent to Half Star, and petitioned him to help them fight evil. Half Star tells them that they are the farthest away from forgiveness: he can not condone this bloody coup. They must look inwards and to the sky, to find mercy. Perhaps if Karkosa itself was attacked again, he would help. He lets the envoys leave unharmed, full of big sadness and regrets.
The ghouls of the deep swarm the surface en masse. Each pack has a different banner, representing the different faction of the deep: Deep Koon, Koonkia, KOON, New Koon, Frontier Koon, Wet Koon, and finally, Wormwatch. Some of the ghouls, and most of their leaders have beautiful hair and skin. All of the ghouls are making promises to help and save everyone from the threat of Half Star. This actually ends up causing panic in most of the major cities, but there is no attempt at harming these curious creatures. The ghouls are pretty miffed about this, so they feel they must try further. They contact Aculadray...
They also sent many gifts and treasure to Gildrak Hold, as an apology of how Koon handled the dwarves (killing them to become Ghouls, very rude). Gildrak Hold, being a large number of independent holds, each with their own king claiming to be the true king of Gildrak Hold... felt touched about this. Each of them accept the large pile of treasure, and declare their like of ghouls. Maybe... they might even rejoin each other...
Tugad sent an a group of envoys to Karkosa, beseeching the Half Star for forgivness against the Halflings and Halfism. Their envoys were sent back, unharmed. They carry a message of forgiveness, but also, sadness, that even while Tugad was one of the few attackers who did not assault out of greed, but due to blind loyalty, they are not ready to gain their full blessing. Perhaps in the future, they too can enter the gate.
They also penned a very powerful message to the Consul, asking him to give further autonomy to the various regions, and to step down. Many others chimed in, especially the North, and in the end the consul had to relent: significant money was diverted towards autonomous infrastructure, and he promised to step down at the end of the crisis.
Finally, they went to look for their spirit halves... they have erected tents, reminiscent of the ancient Gadesu tribal sacred centers, combined with the stone mounds of ancient Yxtal organized religious practices. And they have been successful! By focusing on their HONOR, they manage to fuse with their sprit half, and become twice as big. They were always big on being honourable... and they still are, but in a more literal way, and woved to fight injustice everywhere, always.
Sogosha, being terrified of a supposed god who can talk via dreams, works hard to hire more priests of protection and perfection to increase their mental defenses. They also spend some of their edict money to increase their marines against more physical threats. Sogosha and Deep Halfism must be protected!
Sogosha has also experimented with Deep Halfism, and unveiled their creation: Wights! Volunteers from Wet Koon have been given the power to be able to perform magic again. See the union of DEEP and SURFACE! They bear both features of the deep, and of the surface, looking very mismatched, but somehow, hauntingly beautiful and ornate. Deep Halfism becomes more popular, as it shows an alternative to Star Halfism...
A large group of Deep Halfists start boarding Sogoshan vessels, hoping to found a new colony. They have heard of some uninhabited volcanic islands to the southwest of the Orokkon Alliance. Perhaps this colony of Nishikoon will be safe from the horrors of Half Star...
Meanwhile, Windrose performs an experiment with combining Listener and Protection magic. The experiment starts promising, the waves of protection magic and listener magic start to interweave... however, there is a terrifying explosion, injuring a lot of priests. This is a very dangerous magic... But right as people were writing off this experiment as impractical, suddenly, a giant glowing Yarthuryay appears. He is very confused! But agrees to help, after the situation has been explained to him.
Aculadray has been sent by Windrose as an ambassador of Friendship towards the ghouls. Little knownst to them, the Ghouls also offered Aculadray ascension, if he puts a good word in their name. Aculadray, being the opportunistic bastards, says "Sure I will ask the orcs to help", waited a few days, and dramatically brought the orc messages of peace. Aculadray now once again has REAL luscious hair, and will be probably around for a long time, centuries...
Together, the ghouls and orcs were prepared to perform war against Half Star and his cronices, in case it made its move...
Yxtal seems to have become terrified, blabbaring about the Horoscopes being wrong. The sea monsters seem to have vanished from republic stores. This is properly a coincidence.
Votu has found a knife on her pillow (which has been burned to ashes). It has "You chose what is wrong. But then you chose what is right. We will be watching, with curiosity, yes?" It is a very long knife.
The Bastion expresses sadness at nobody retrieving their moon caches, and has become less friendly, more isolationist. Well, at least towards the plateau. At the behest of the Druzhul peak dwarves, they have extended ties towards the mysterious Shamir...
Shocking news! Consul Morlians has been stabbed death, along with several members of the Grand Council, and the Praetor Queen Kabrad of Rotpah! There are attached notes about "For the good of the republic!". It seems like that there have been attempts on the lives on every praetor. Onfusedcay only survived because Yarthuryay squished the frog who tried to stab him. He has received a nasty wound though.
Sogosha has expressed extreme displeasure at Tugad and Krokar turning closer to Half Star, especially Krokar, my god we need to do something against them. A lot of councillors agree: it must have been Krokar's mad new government who did this.
Enact war against Krokar? Players who can participate are the Koonkia Ghouls (unofficial affiliate friends), Windrose. If Windrose joins the fight, the Herder Orcs will come along. Torarliar are ready to commit troops. The Rotpah and Consular forces are in disarray, so they can not join. Sogosha and Tugad can not actually participate in the offense, due to how they spent their funds, but they are ready to defend themselves (with Sogosha being more protected).
Rhybet orders apologies to be sent to Half Star, and petitioned him to help them fight evil. Half Star tells them that they are the farthest away from forgiveness: he can not condone this bloody coup. They must look inwards and to the sky, to find mercy. Perhaps if Karkosa itself was attacked again, he would help. He lets the envoys leave unharmed, full of big sadness and regrets.
The ghouls of the deep swarm the surface en masse. Each pack has a different banner, representing the different faction of the deep: Deep Koon, Koonkia, KOON, New Koon, Frontier Koon, Wet Koon, and finally, Wormwatch. Some of the ghouls, and most of their leaders have beautiful hair and skin. All of the ghouls are making promises to help and save everyone from the threat of Half Star. This actually ends up causing panic in most of the major cities, but there is no attempt at harming these curious creatures. The ghouls are pretty miffed about this, so they feel they must try further. They contact Aculadray...
They also sent many gifts and treasure to Gildrak Hold, as an apology of how Koon handled the dwarves (killing them to become Ghouls, very rude). Gildrak Hold, being a large number of independent holds, each with their own king claiming to be the true king of Gildrak Hold... felt touched about this. Each of them accept the large pile of treasure, and declare their like of ghouls. Maybe... they might even rejoin each other...
Tugad sent an a group of envoys to Karkosa, beseeching the Half Star for forgivness against the Halflings and Halfism. Their envoys were sent back, unharmed. They carry a message of forgiveness, but also, sadness, that even while Tugad was one of the few attackers who did not assault out of greed, but due to blind loyalty, they are not ready to gain their full blessing. Perhaps in the future, they too can enter the gate.
They also penned a very powerful message to the Consul, asking him to give further autonomy to the various regions, and to step down. Many others chimed in, especially the North, and in the end the consul had to relent: significant money was diverted towards autonomous infrastructure, and he promised to step down at the end of the crisis.
Finally, they went to look for their spirit halves... they have erected tents, reminiscent of the ancient Gadesu tribal sacred centers, combined with the stone mounds of ancient Yxtal organized religious practices. And they have been successful! By focusing on their HONOR, they manage to fuse with their sprit half, and become twice as big. They were always big on being honourable... and they still are, but in a more literal way, and woved to fight injustice everywhere, always.
Sogosha, being terrified of a supposed god who can talk via dreams, works hard to hire more priests of protection and perfection to increase their mental defenses. They also spend some of their edict money to increase their marines against more physical threats. Sogosha and Deep Halfism must be protected!
Sogosha has also experimented with Deep Halfism, and unveiled their creation: Wights! Volunteers from Wet Koon have been given the power to be able to perform magic again. See the union of DEEP and SURFACE! They bear both features of the deep, and of the surface, looking very mismatched, but somehow, hauntingly beautiful and ornate. Deep Halfism becomes more popular, as it shows an alternative to Star Halfism...
A large group of Deep Halfists start boarding Sogoshan vessels, hoping to found a new colony. They have heard of some uninhabited volcanic islands to the southwest of the Orokkon Alliance. Perhaps this colony of Nishikoon will be safe from the horrors of Half Star...
Meanwhile, Windrose performs an experiment with combining Listener and Protection magic. The experiment starts promising, the waves of protection magic and listener magic start to interweave... however, there is a terrifying explosion, injuring a lot of priests. This is a very dangerous magic... But right as people were writing off this experiment as impractical, suddenly, a giant glowing Yarthuryay appears. He is very confused! But agrees to help, after the situation has been explained to him.
Aculadray has been sent by Windrose as an ambassador of Friendship towards the ghouls. Little knownst to them, the Ghouls also offered Aculadray ascension, if he puts a good word in their name. Aculadray, being the opportunistic bastards, says "Sure I will ask the orcs to help", waited a few days, and dramatically brought the orc messages of peace. Aculadray now once again has REAL luscious hair, and will be probably around for a long time, centuries...
Together, the ghouls and orcs were prepared to perform war against Half Star and his cronices, in case it made its move...
Yxtal seems to have become terrified, blabbaring about the Horoscopes being wrong. The sea monsters seem to have vanished from republic stores. This is properly a coincidence.
Votu has found a knife on her pillow (which has been burned to ashes). It has "You chose what is wrong. But then you chose what is right. We will be watching, with curiosity, yes?" It is a very long knife.
The Bastion expresses sadness at nobody retrieving their moon caches, and has become less friendly, more isolationist. Well, at least towards the plateau. At the behest of the Druzhul peak dwarves, they have extended ties towards the mysterious Shamir...
Shocking news! Consul Morlians has been stabbed death, along with several members of the Grand Council, and the Praetor Queen Kabrad of Rotpah! There are attached notes about "For the good of the republic!". It seems like that there have been attempts on the lives on every praetor. Onfusedcay only survived because Yarthuryay squished the frog who tried to stab him. He has received a nasty wound though.
Sogosha has expressed extreme displeasure at Tugad and Krokar turning closer to Half Star, especially Krokar, my god we need to do something against them. A lot of councillors agree: it must have been Krokar's mad new government who did this.
Enact war against Krokar? Players who can participate are the Koonkia Ghouls (unofficial affiliate friends), Windrose. If Windrose joins the fight, the Herder Orcs will come along. Torarliar are ready to commit troops. The Rotpah and Consular forces are in disarray, so they can not join. Sogosha and Tugad can not actually participate in the offense, due to how they spent their funds, but they are ready to defend themselves (with Sogosha being more protected).