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From the desk of Leto Searchpraise, Junior Apprentice to the Historian’s Guild
23rd Hematite
Year 152 of the Age of Heroes .....

Awesome work Nogoodnames!

I like how you even kept the same art style as the original story. The continuing use of sunflowers is also a nice touch.

It would be nice if Leto can uncover timeless Bob's adventurers.

I think Timeless mentioned he is finishing his write up now.

I guess my official contribution is the single stone from the top of the Intricate Horns of Vanishment, if I can't also contribute the treasures of the Iron-Deep.

Overall I'd like to keep the list of items manageable, and will generally focus on a single item or collection of similar items when describing the treasures (I want to avoid having to list twenty items for each adventurer).  I'll try and be a bit creative with descriptions to acknowledge the accomplishments of adventurers where possible.   

I have also updated the description for the Iron Deep.

so is that a 'yes', I will be playing? lol

I swear, anytime you try to host a basic online competition, some rule hound will come out of the woodwork and confound your expectations of "reasonable interpretation." It's why I wasted like an hour trying to code-ify the rules in the OP. So I think it's only fair you wasted your own time as well.

I do not think I will have the time this week. The concept for this succession game is just too good to ignore however, and I'm certain I'll join at some point in the next weeks.
Just to downplay any expectations, the idea of this succession game is completely opposed to my normal play style. I do not even use the job manager in my games, and I'm usually just fast forwarding stuff at high fps, waiting for children to grow up. (playing multi-generation games with no migrants and low population caps).
About the reasonable interpretation; there was the specific invitation in that rule to try and game it, and I actually thought you might have taken my approach into account. I'll try and be a bit less of a fraudulent swindler during any future attempts  .

I will be counting the barrels and pots that contain any amount of booze, and not the individual units of booze. There might be a way to game this!

Spoiler: Perhaps Cog is out for revenge (click to show/hide)

And he has an undead army of 70 000 necro experiments at his disposal at this site? Interesting.

It is also a question if the rules will allow tossing all those statues in the smelter in the second year. That is possibly the easiest accessible metal right now.

I'm looking forward to the stories, Timeless!

Quote from: Eric Blank on September 20, 2020, 05:21:25 pm

Also, that island in the inland sea appears to have White Gold Tower on it. Do the dragonfires still burn?

I saw that too, and I might have a goal for my adventurer now.

For reference, here is a screenshot of the mountain up close:



I was a bit enthousiastic there with the perfectworldDF map creation tools.

As a reminder we also still have the rather mysterious entry from Timeless Bob first adventure.
That is something people will have to explore during their actual turn though, (this is not historian guild material) I guess to have a chance to find the required items you will need legends mode as well.

Okay,

So we have a number of finished adventures for which the stories have not been written down yet, and for which it is unlikely that this will happen.
We had a solution for this in the first museum game: The Historians Guild!
In the current desperate times I'm calling for this guild to come back together.

For now this is only about the second part of Cathar's turn because he has already clearly indicated that he will not be able to finish the story himself. In the future it might be used on other missing stories as well, the first post in the topic mentions which stories are still in the process of being written.

So what will happen?
Everybody who wants can dive into legends mode, to write your version of the story of Cathar's adventurer. We might end up with many conflicting versions, but that would be part of the fun. His adventurer might even have survived somewhere, or might have deposited something at the museum. Note that the fist part of the adventure has already been written down by Cathar. (the writing and art is excellent)

rules (taken from the original museum game):
1) This is only about telling the history of Cathar's turn, so don't dash of on your own adventures, and post about those, you'll have to wait for your own turn to do that. (you can however search through the museums stacks to see if anything was deposited there, if needed) Try to restrict yourself to legends mode for as much as possible.
2) Everybody can join, you don't have to be on the turn list.
3) No uploading of save games, this will run simultaneously with the main game.
4) You can submit your story/analysis until up to two weeks from this post, it can take any form, art, stories, be creative.

If Cathar decides to return, he can post his official version, and we'll laugh about everything we got wrong.