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Stalemate or deep strategic planning? Who knows!

Armies to deploy: 2

Nation            #Provinces  #Armies   Max Armies  PI/Turn RP/Turn Party&El  Current
1.Sordland(A)     6           2         7           3       16+4    -         24/80 (Explosive Shells)
2.Tradesmen(D)    7           4         9           3       23     IND (T7)  17/120 (Military Aircraft)
3.Sol(R)          8           4         11          2       12     -         10/50 (Diesel Engines)
4.Vlosavi(A)      5           4         6           3       6       -         10/80 (Radio)
5.Hibernia(D)     9           5         10          4       21      IND (T7)  33/50 (Modern Chemistry)
6.Reval(R)        7           3         11          2       14      -         26/50 (Modern Chemistry)

Populous Provinces:
#3 (Reval)
#7 (Reval)
#16 (Tradesmen)
#26 (-)
#28 (-)
#44 (Sol)

Researched Technologies:
1.Sordland: -
2.Tradesmen: Primitive Aeroplanes
3.Sol: Explosive Shells
4.Vlosavi: -
5.Hibernia: -
6.Reval: -

You decide against hassling the commoners.

2to6

Wagonfuls of gold arrive at the palace! Part of it is stored in the Treasury, while the rest is deployed into hands of skilled managers and governors.

Kingdom of Leror, located behind the mountains in north-east, is attacking the border settlements!

Or is it?

Reports arrive about hooded horsemen pillaging the villages and massacring anyone who is unfortunate enough to get in their way. Surprisingly, the horsemen take no prisoners nor they steal the livestock or plunder the settlements, instead just razing them to the ground.

They wear brightly-colored fabrics and their horses are of unknown, dark breed. Neither the tactics nor costumes nor the horses are anything that Lerorians are known to deploy...

A) This is worrying. We must send adventurers to investigate this strange occurence!
B) Muster the army! We must protect the border!
C) Muster the army! We shall do what Lerorians did upon their border settlements!
D) Muster the diplomats. Surely our distant neighbours can listen to reason?

You hand over the pendant with the mussel.

The elderly man nods and disappears in front of your eyes.

Suddenly feeling very tired, you march back to the bed and quickly fall asleep. In the morning, you can't remember nothing about the meeting except that it did occur...


The winter came and went, for once being uneventful and quite mild, too.

Sitting in the chambers, warming your feet with the fire in the pit, your moment of comfiness is interrupted by the Advisor coming over with the Scrolls of Kingdom Status. You can never get a rest, do you?

Happiness: 4
Population: 4
Economy: 3
Army: 3

You peruse the scrolls and ponder.

A) "Maybe we can press some peasants into the Army?"
B) "Maybe we can tax the peasants a bit harder for extra coin?"
C) "Maybe next year, these numbers will be higher."

You pour Lucifer a tank of Ribesnero. He lets you scan his credchip again.

Today's earnings: 366c
Monthly earnings: 853c/9600c

"Cheers"! "Cheers." They clink their glasses and Lucifer takes a big sip. Moments later, he coughs up.

"Oh, fuck, what is this, piss juice?"

"Told you, it is an acquired taste." Lucifer glares at the white-haired man, who now barely withholds a smug grin, and then puts the tank of Ribesnero away. Adam, in the meanwhile, takes a sip of his own.

"Eugh, fuck. I don't really understand your choice of drinks, man." Lucifer wipes his lips with the sleeve of his jacket and smacks his tongue.

"No, I need, I need a shot of something hot and sweetish to get rid of the aftertaste. Yo, barkeep, what've you got?"

...Hot and sweetish?

Fiery and Sweet? Fiery and Fruity??

A) Get him a shot of Wet Jet
B) Get him a shot of Pneumo
C) Get him a shot of Pontifex
D) "It would be better for you if you gave me something more specific."

Fixed.

You decide to keep the necklace for now.


The light rain and lots of sunlight make it a splendid weather this year.

So much that your nobles clamor for a hunt to be hosted!

"While we, the high ones, hunt for splendid game, let the peasants enjoy a festival!" They say.

A) "Indeed! Time to start preparing!"
B) "We can have a hunt, but commoners need no festivals."
C) "No!"

//Taricus didn't set a topic last turn so I decided to give him those 4 RP for Radios just this once.
//EDIT: Imgur's upload service is exploding, map will be updated when it can.

Vlosavians continue to expand their military infrastructure!

Armies to deploy: 1

Nation            #Provinces  #Armies   Max Armies  PI/Turn RP/Turn Party&El  Current
1.Sordland(A)     6           2         7           3       12+4    -         8/80 (Explosive Shells)
2.Tradesmen(D)    7           3         9           3       17     IND (T7)  0/120 (Military Aircraft)
3.Sol(R)          8           3         11          2       10     -         0/50 (Diesel Engines)
4.Vlosavi(A)      5           3         6           3       6       -         4/80 (Radio)
5.Hibernia(D)     9           6         10          4       12      IND (T7)  12/50 (Modern Chemistry)
6.Reval(R)        7           2         11          2       12      -         12/50 (Modern Chemistry)

Populous Provinces:
#3 (Reval)
#7 (Reval)
#16 (Tradesmen)
#26 (-)
#28 (-)
#44 (Sol)

Researched Technologies:
1.Sordland: -
2.Tradesmen: Primitive Aeroplanes
3.Sol: Explosive Shells
4.Vlosavi: -
5.Hibernia: -
6.Reval: -

"A sea creature wandered out of its waters, and is troubling my lands!"

"Eyes do not see..." Suddenly, the waters around you explode and you see the monstrous sponge, as if you're a bird circling over it. Then you plunge into it, and lose counsciousness.

When you wake up, you're alone on the hill... with a small pendant sitting on your chest. It's a gaudily colored mussel on a dark green reed.

Dressing up and taking your belongings, you wonder if the pendant has any meaning. You take it with you, of course.

Although you're not sure if the sponge has been dealt with, the whole experience has left you with a feeling of... accomplishment. Something tells you it is time to head home.

You prepare for a trip back to your palace.

---

Congratulations! Vindaren has concluded the Epic Quest!

---

You return to the palace, escorted by soldiers of a border-land noble whose domain you've crossed on your way back.

"My liege, the monstrous sponge is gone!" The Advisor and the courtiers regale you with a tale of the sponge disappearing, one morning, in the thick mists that rose up from the ground. It has not been seen since then.

You ask them when that was, and then you count the days back.

The sponge 'disappeared' the very day you spoke with the Sea Man.

People across the Kingdom celebrate the sponge's demise, hailing you as miracle-doer!


Sitting in the library, you turn the mussel-pendant in your hands, the moonlight shining onto it through the open window

You cannot sleep, your mind bothered by the strange pendant. It is as if the thought of the ownership is putting strain on your mind...

A) Let's smash it then, perhaps it is not for me to have.
B) Let's sell it then, maybe it will get me a penny or two?
C) I shall claim it as my own anyway!
D) Let's put it away for now. The answer might come on its own.
E) The books claim that dwarves are masters of jewelry and mysteries, they ought to know what this is. I must send forth a request for them to come!