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Ulaan intends to exploit the planet below following Titus' lead, keeping an eye out for resources/laborers to acquire for the Order. If nothing else, Ulaan, perhaps not the stealthiest in the Order, will keep acolytes and extra hands in line and eagerly help scare/fight off any threats to the expedition (whether from within or without), e.g. useless/unenslavable beasts, lazy acolytes, witnesses not loyal to the Sith, locals zealously guarding resources, &c.

Votes: CA, C

Turn 10: Calibration

Calibration has arrived. What this means is anyone's guess, but little appears to have changed specifically as a result of this...

Dramatic music continued playing in the void as the Champions cut down the lanterns, now known to be pieces of a Name, reclaiming the light of the sun. The lanterns put up an excellent fight, wounding two of the Champions with their full might. Nevertheless, the powerful arms and armor of the Champions, so perfectly tuned against the Light-Thief's nature, made short work of the Lantern Legion's blows. Although the fighting lasted many days and many nights, the thoroughly exhausted Champions triumphed.

Lantern Legion has been struck down!

The Hashmal, the Champion who was once dead but now alive, collected the last of the stolen sunlight and began the long journey back to restore the sun in the name of the Warrior. The Champions parted and began returning instead to their homelands to spread the news about their victory and the impending return of the sun in all its splendor.

The King of Night and his fanatical followers have somehow unleashed Anaxares on a relatively shallow village! The buildings and tunnels are ruined in short order by the crab demon's thrashing, and only a few survive to spread the tale unaffected by its hypnotic gaze. Unexpectedly, no music of note played during this incident. The news does eventually reach the heroes who defeated the King of Night before, and they embark on a quest to defeat this crazed villain more permanently.

A number of deep villages have been subjugated by a strange, previously unseen variety of scaly beastfolk who do not appear to have originated from the surface. What little can be recovered from them mystifies the best of the beastfolk smiths, craftsmen, and artisans, and the general aesthetic of the items matches that of no known tribe. Buoyed by the inspiring songs of the bards, the people hold out hope that the Champions of the Sun will succeed in their mission and finally allow them to return to the surface. Many of the larger towns have set aside some of their grudges and rivalries and cautiously banded together in the interest of defense from the unknown peoples of the deep.

The seas have managed to extract significant concessions from the skies, and a pact to cleanse the world of dry land is sealed with the birth of the Hurricane Anne, who drinks of the oceans to command the winds. With Anne still lingering far out at sea, nearby coastal settlements are completely unaware of the angry cyclone preparing to march on them. The earth hypocritically watches with detached amusement at natural phenomena being given volition and sapience (likely by mischievous Names).

There are sounds of a massive scuffle somewhere.

Once upon a Time Terminal incorporation
(Party hat?)
Lantern Legion Slain by Champions
(Conical being)
(Whistling scolder?)
Snake
Warrior

Hurricane Anne
The Ward(en)
Anaxares
The Hashmal

The Champions of the Sun
The King of Night
Psychotic tornadoes
The liberators

((As a result of the lateness of this update, the next tick has been pushed back 24 hours unless all active players have sent in actions by the usual time.))

Turn 8: A New Leaf

Once upon a Time, ever a great benefactor to mortals, faded into a strange, new power accessible to those who best understood matters of the heart. Chief among the recipients was a small group of questing heroes who defeated the King of Night and released his captives. A tribe of belligerent deep-dwelling beastfolk have taken him in. They appear to be interested in converting all earth into a suitably cavern-like environment and are currently working to uncover the sky creatures' weaknesses.

Having pressed a number of whirlwinds into service as mounts as compensation for their devastating tantrum, the Champions of the Sun are chasing down the strangely stationary lantern throng. The light and heat emanating from the lanterns is almost unbearable, and the remaining Champions would have long been burned to ash if not for the phenomenal skills of their lorekeeper. Preparing for deadly combat, the Champions call on the Warrior, who is undefeated.

The treasurers in an especially prosperous town have devised a system for recording inventories, transactions, tax obligations, and more. Visitors speak highly of this strange magic for allowing a relatively small number of clerks to manage unbelievable swathes of land.

Many beastfolk are touched by news of Once upon a Time's apparently untimely death. They have constructed a monument dedicated to the sacrifices of the Names who cared the most for the well-being of all.

Once upon a Time Terminal incorporation
(Party hat?)
(Thieving lanterns?)
(Conical being)
(Whistling scolder?)
Snake

The Champions of the Sun
The Alive Dead Champion
The King of Night
Psychotic tornadoes

Turn 6: A Quest for an Ancient Sea

A party of peregrine pallbearers noticed that the body of the fallen Champion had gone missing. The King of Night claimed full responsibility and announced a challenge for all who would want to retrieve it, and many beastfolk, still hopeful for the safe return of the Sun's light, traveled to the King's domain to accept the challenge and reclaim the body only to find it a thinly veiled trap. The King of Night's forces managed to confiscate the challengers' arms and armor and imprisoned them as preparation for the true challenge: That the Champions should give the wayfinder to the King of Night in exchange for the freedom of the hostages. Having weighed the two options against each other, the Champions resolved to follow the wayfinder whithersoever it should point and made for an ancient sea said to be full of primordial terrors not entirely unlike Anaxares for some unknown purpose.

A plague of tornadoes has ravaged a forest growing around one of the main passageways into/out of the subterranean world, swallowing up a few beasts and beastfolk and trees. Emboldened by the lack of respone from the Champions of the Sun, many began working to destroy the cover around sinkholes and caverns into the land to the great praise of the forces of the storm. The beastfolk chiefs have sent out couriers to inform the Champions that the living tornadoes broke their agreement, but the couriers are having trouble locating the heroes.

At some point during these confusing events, the body of the crab demon the Champions fought disappeared. Considering its tunnel-collapsing skill and hypnotic gaze his is highly worrying.

Once upon a Time
(Unidentified flying object?)
(Thieving lanterns?)
(Conical being)
(Whistling scolder?)

The Champions of the Sun
The Alive Dead Champion
The King of Night
Psychotic tornadoes

Turn 4: A Quest for Light

The heroes, who now called themselves the Champions of the Sun, took a detour to locate something empowered with the ability to guide them to their goal. Despite following a number of false leads, they are confident in their ability to locate the artifact. They have also developed an aptitude for defeating the intelligent tornadoes who whisked away others before them. Without the fear that an angry tornado could cause them to disappear at any time, the Champions have brokered a truce between the sky and earth for the remainder of their quest. Having recently learned of the existence of the Names from the tornadoes, they call on the Names to help them, claiming that the Sun is the source of all life and power.

Without constant fears of storm damage/siege, beastfolk settlements have grown greatly in size and complexity. Illuminated by fungi and crystals and bustling with busy workers, organized civilization is starting to take root in the labyrinthine caverns created (by) Once upon a Time. Many chiefs have taken to sporting symbols of office crafted from a strange shiny substance said to be made by burning stone.

Up in the skies, the living tornadoes continue to plot the demise of the surface folk now living underground. Among the less outlandish suggestions brought up is simply sucking all the air out of the tunnels. Regardless, rain continues to fall unabated on the oceans, which don't seem to care as much as the earth.

The Veil is almost still. Perhaps the shapes seen in it are the distorted reflections of Lords.

Once upon a Time
(Unidentified flying object?)
(Thieving lanterns?)
(Conical being?)
(Whistling scolder?)

Designs (pick 2)
Runic System Experiment  - Geomancy [Form(Wood), Life(Wood), Control(Wood)] : (2) Happerry, Detoxicated
Runic System Experiment  - Chanting [Form(Air), Shape(Fire), Attack(Shadow)] : (0)
Runic System Experiment  - Alchemy [Ward(Fire), Form(Earth), Life(Water)] : (5) Happerry, Kilojoule Proton, NUKE9.13, Twinwolf, Rockeater
Elite Unit - Mire Monks : (3) Twinwolf, Rockeater, NUKE9.13, Kilojoule Proton