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Looks like in the end we got off pretty well. Iltani's alive, we still have our piece of Vajra which I"m pretty sure will be useful somehow, we've successfully collaborated with Edem, Marduk and Zeus are gone. All that remains is to return to Babylon and Sekhenun leaving the shit-hole Greece (and Egypt) will be for some time. It's time to actually collect the fruits of our labours in order to be better equipped for new trials - whether that be making babies, giving ourselves a hedge fund of resources, training an army, or gathering knowledge.
And prepare a wormhole... You know, just in case...
Anyway, the masters mentioned that they no longer have any eyes on this world. Does that means all immortals got their power revoked by Zeus during this catastrophe?
Looks like in the end we got off pretty well. Iltani's alive, we still have our piece of Vajra which I"m pretty sure will be useful somehow, we've successfully collaborated with Edem, Marduk and Zeus are gone. All that remains is to return to Babylon and Sekhenun leaving the shit-hole Greece (and Egypt) will be for some time. It's time to actually collect the fruits of our labours in order to be better equipped for new trials - whether that be making babies, giving ourselves a hedge fund of resources, training an army, or gathering knowledge.
Yeah, Zeus tearing a hole in the fabric of reality will really fuck Greece up. Now that Mount Olympus is a desolate wasteland, the Classical Age will definitely never happen. However, I think that Egypt came out somewhat alright, all things considered. I hope that the Middle Kingdom will remain intact because we managed to lure Ares away. From what we know about Akil's grandson, apparently he was some sort of brilliant pharaoh:
Akil's grandson proved to be an even more capable ruler than his grandfather was, and Egypt was thriving.
I hope he managed to survive the siege of Heracleopolis and push the Greeks back. What's the word on Egypt, treave? How did it manage? Is Akil III still alive?
As far as the rift... perhaps we might find a way to mend it, in time. But if the Masters are convinced it's fucked, I'm doubting that Sekhenun/Edem know how to fix it. It's going to be fucked for at least the next few thousand years.
Yeah, Zeus tearing a hole in the fabric of reality will really fuck Greece up. Now that Mount Olympus is a desolate wasteland, the Classical Age will definitely never happen.
Correction: The Grecian Classical Age will never happen. You heard the man: we're on our way to alternate history land. Egypt and Babylon are the dominating cultures now. We, for all intents and purposes, can still found the Roman Empire ourselves and conquer shit as much as we want.
Looks like we made it by the skin of our teeth bros. There's still a pissed off Ares rampaging around, but all things considered not too bad. I'll take this over perma-death or being Zeus's bitch. With Marduk and Zeus out of the picture for now, we're probably one of, if not, THE biggest swinging dick in the world.
Depending on if and how treave handles a possible time-jump for the next chapter, I definitely agree with Tigranes on settling down for a spell. Advance civilization, go to school with Sekhenun, form a coalition of bros with Sek, Edem, and perhaps recruit more, father some children. All worthwhile goals.
Depending on if and how treave handles a possible time-jump for the next chapter, I definitely agree with Tigranes on settling down for a spell. Advance civilization, go to school with Sekhenun, form a coalition of bros with Sek, Edem, and perhaps recruit more, father some TENTACLES. All worthwhile goals.
How exactly are we gaining in power now treave, or is that still to be revealed? I gather eating increases our potential power threshold, but does it do anything other than that? (Besides associated rage + feeding points) Also what's our power level like now? A power update would be interesting if there's much difference from Tjaru where we lost our powers.
The end of the Aegean War marked the beginning of a new era.
The Babylonian Empire, previously held together only by the threat of Marduk's power, began splintering. Each of the city states began demanding more autonomy. The Indus settlements that Marduk had conquered revolted almost instantly upon news of his death. Most of the Sumerian soldiers stationed there to keep the peace joined the natives in their bid for independence. Egypt was in shambles, but the destruction of Olympus sent whatever Greeks remaining fleeing. The Delta was relatively unharmed and under the stewardship of Pharaoh Akilhotep they managed their way to recovery, although the loss of many able-bodied men would slow the efforts for decades to come.
Greece, ascendant before the ruinous war, was devastated by Marduk's armies and the loss of their gods. Their city states were reduced to rubble, and their citizenry scattered all over the Grecian countryside. To add to their woes, from the ruins of Mount Olympus emerged strange beasts. The creatures killed and ate almost any living thing that they could. What they did not eat they dragged back into the black miasma they crawled from. The Greeks took to calling the creatures the Terasphagos. The rift that spawned them became known simply as Olympus, and the name once used for the high seats of the gods became synonymous with that of darkness and despair.
The Terasphagos raided tentatively at first, venturing not far from the twisted wasteland of Olympus, but as months passed, they grew bolder, their attacks spreading as far as the shores of Greece. Men sent in after the Terasphagos never returned from the miasma, and soon the remaining Greeks despaired of ever ridding themselves of these monsters.
In the north, a great kingdom had arisen, united from the barbarian tribes of the north. It was a kingdom of men, and though Gieloth have infiltrated their ranks, they find themselves mysteriously stymied at every corner.
In the east, the Gieloth have finally decided to invade the bountiful eastern kingdoms, full of riches and warm human bodies. It was a gamble for them - if they destroyed the immortals there and ruled the land, they could gain enough critical mass to begin stripping the world of all its resources, and they could then migrate to other worlds.
This was year 0, post-Cataclysm.
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Will edit in character sheet later. As for powers, your current powers will gradually grow in strength as you feed, over many years, but new powers need to be discovered. You need to understand and be able to perceive, for example, how moving and compressing air molecules in one area will affect air pressure and create wind. Not easy.
Character Sheet:
Let's do a score card! It's just to roughly show where Ean stands in relation to the others.
In the north, a great kingdom had arisen, united from the barbarian tribes of the north. It was a kingdom of men, and though Gieloth have infiltrated their ranks, they find themselves mysteriously stymied at every corner.
That's either Shulgi (doubtful, it doesn't seem his M.O), the remaining Immortals from Greece or the Master raising his own forces and "observing in other ways."
In any event, I'm thinking China should probably be our next stop. If the Gieloth start strip-mining us, we're fucked anyway. Besides, Sekhenun is part of a group that found a way to do away with that, so we can get her and her co-conspirators to "talk" sense into the other Gieloth.
But, whatever we do, we can't have another Greece. We may have prevented either Marduk or Zeus from winning, but we lost an entire nation. Not good results.
treave: so, you talking about the Scandinavian kingdoms? Or is the glorious Potatoland finally ascendant?
Edit: although, if it's Russia, as Oscar thinks, I'm all for going there.
Another possibility is that Sgulgi taught humans how to be psykers.
Edit2: Azira, for it is a failure, for the others it is a win. But for me, it is Just. As. Planned.
Will edit in character sheet later. As for powers, your current powers will gradually grow in strength as you feed, over many years, but new powers need to be discovered. You need to understand and be able to perceive, for example, how moving and compressing air molecules in one area will affect air pressure and create wind. Not easy.
And presumably eating gieloth (perhaps immortals also) will increase that power to a more significant degree? Remind me again why we didn't want to feed on Ares' sons?
So, the Marduk/Zeus abomination managed to open a rift in reality and seems to've been sucked into another dimension/reality, but neither are confirmed dead. One or both might return, really, really pissed off, going to hunt down Ean with a vengeance and will probably want to exact revenge upon this mudball as well.
And this is not considering the other things that will be crawling out of the rift soon.
And you guys consider this a win?
Good for you. Having Zeus open a portal back to the Masters isn't a good deal either, but at least Earth and the humans would be safe from Daemons of the Warp.
And presumably eating gieloth (perhaps immortals also) will increase that power to a more significant degree? Remind me again why we didn't want to feed on Ares' sons?
More nutritious, yes. But you do get more tainted if you eat more evil motherfuckers. If you don't control it you might find yourself in a situation where:
A. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD B. SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE C. WAAAAAAAAAAGH!
And presumably eating gieloth (perhaps immortals also) will increase that power to a more significant degree? Remind me again why we didn't want to feed on Ares' sons?
More nutritious, yes. But you do get more tainted if you eat more evil motherfuckers. If you don't control it you might find yourself in a situation where:
A. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD B. SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE C. WAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Well played, treave, very well played. Was there ever a solution that'd bring status quo back? Leaving our Vajra piece in Egypt/with Itlani, allowing Marduk to start consuming Zeus and then intervening before the latter started opening a rift back home?
Try to kill Marduk the hard way and Edem was likely to die if you mess up and he has to save you. Besides that, yeah, once you showed off Vajra things were gonna get ugly. Zeus cannot open any rift with just one piece.
Great, so we basically traded the possibility of a threat to Edem's life for the certainty of Zeus doing dumb stuff with the Vajra. We epicaly fucked up.
