NationStates Jolt Archive

(OOC: this was done a while back ((last April i think)) to mixed results, in the way that it got off the ground flew for a while and then slowly died, so i'm gonna start another similar one and see if that one dies aswell, oki so we all take a group of nomadic settlers and evolve our people from there, of course the map is that of the real world no changes involved, the only act of god i'll allow is that of your civilisation being started, oh and non-humans are allowed, so i'll start, join in anytime don't take too much land, or start with too many people, oh and don't advance too quickly, OOC thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=431898))

and so it was that the Warrior gods looked down upon the land and they saw that it was empty "well what use is a land if it has no people?" Kotto the god of war and reperation asked, he was answered by Kadun, the god of gods "This land shall be hence forth known as Kaduna, and the people shall prosper from it, let it be done!" And so with Kaduns booming voice a group of 5 men and 5 women were placed onto the land, they found themselves surrounded by mountains.

(OOC: Scotland taken)

Scotland: Kaduna
Italy: Taledonia
Red Temple: Mekong Delta
Parthini: Bahrain
Scandinavian Peninsula: Proud Marxists
Atlantis: The Scandinavians
Scilly: Adamistaan

OCC: Kaduna is kinda of the same thread that Taledonia and if it is I will play.

(OOC: totally the same, cept this time i am Kaduna, not Spooty pretending to be Kaduna)

OCC: Can I be the Eternia civilization again?

OCC: Can I be the Eternia civilization again?

(OOC: sure)

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In the steaming jungles of the Mekong Delta, 5 men and 5 women appeared.

Three of the women set to work weaving nets from reeds, and then begin casting these nets into the silt-rich river to collect fish. Three of the men and one of the women set to work clearing away dead trees and branches, brush, and bamboo. They used only their hands, for they had no tools.

And two men, with a woman, begin heading up river looking for stone.

Their Nameless God was pleased.

OOC: Where are the rules for this? I'm assuming this is like Empire Earth or Age of Empires, but if not...

OOC: Where are the rules for this? I'm assuming this is like Empire Earth or Age of Empires, but if not...

(OOC: all in the first post, yeah its a basic assembly of all the god simulation games, everything from the Civilisation series to the EE series)

(OOC: Yeah yeah, I'm in! Oh and by the way, since you guys and me seem to like these kind of RPs, what would you guys think of making a sort of ancient or medievil earth? Or region? We could draw up a map and everything. TG me if you have any comments about that. By the way, province of Latium, a.k.a the land around Rome, is now taken.)

IC:

The gods looked down at their creation, the world that would host the many children of the gods. They already had placed animals on the landscape, but it was time to place their sons and daughters. Thus, the sons of Mars the god of war were placed on the earth, and placed under the protection of Jupiter, the king of all gods. So began the start of the Taledonian people.

They weren't many, only a few thousand, but they would frow and prosper in time. Thanks to the devine gifts given by the gods, the Taledonians knew how to build tools, and stone and brick masonry. They knew how to mine the surface, as well as dig into mountains to extract the resources there and they knew how to farm and create fire. They knew of the wheel, and had a language and alphabet too. But most importantly, being the sons of Mars, they knew how to build weapons and armor, as well as how to fight and hunt. The gods had also given them the knowledge to be lumberjacks, and cut down the local pine forests to help create things like spears, bows and arrows, and many many tools. They could also build boats, which they would use on the river that Taledon was being built on.

And so began the creation of the first city, Taledon. The city that would one day rule the world, and bring peace, order, and the gods favor with them. It was a glorious day indeed.

The Kaduna travelled to the mountains and began to take from them stone, and with this stone they forged the basics of tools, the axe, to cut the nearby forests, the spear to hunt wild creatures and the chisel, to cut away rocks.

OOC: Hmmmm. Those rules sets are pretty different (at least Civ is vs. the "Ages" series). I haven't played Civ in a while (and not the newest version ever), but I have played all the Age of Kings/Empires/Mythology games, and Empire Earth (save EE2).

I'm going to basically assume a combination of AOK/AOC/AOM/EE, then, maybe tossing in a Civ idea every so often. That means that I'll assume:

My five people have (or will soon have, through resource collection) enough raw materials to construct a primitive town/city centre (really a resource collection point and culture centre). I'm also assuming Paleolithic technology, as in EE.

Once enough bamboo and brush had been gathered, one man among the group of four collecting wood continued that task, while the other three returned with the wood to a spot near one of the river's many channels, close to but not directly on the sea. There, they paced off ground for a settlement, cleared it, and began erecting huts. They used branches and fallen limbs to fashion dome-shaped structures, and then wove reeds through the open spaces to keep out the elements. At the top of each structure they left a smoke-hole, and in the centre of each structure they dug shallow fire pits.

Upstream, the group of three found a generous outcropping of rock and built a small set of lean-to structures from nearby dead-fall lashed together with grasses, in order to provide themselves with shelter while they worked to dig the stone out of the living earth. Using wood wedges and stone hammers, it was gruelling work. Still, in time, small amounts of stone were prized free and floated downriver on crude rafts to the emerging settlement. Here, they would be fashioned into simple but necessary items: stones to line the great community cooking pit, hearths to hold food in preparation for cooking, and - of the greatest importance of all - small stone representations of these people's Nameless God, whom they barely understood, but whose power and majesty was all around them, and whose Divine Will guided their every action, whether they knew it or not.

Before long their settlement was completed, providing the focal point for these people's lives, as well as shelter from elements, wild animals, and - although none had yet been seen - strange people who were believed to live elsewhere in the great, green world. As its completion exhausted most of the available wood, the three builders rejoined the single man gathering bamboo, brush, and dead-fall, and worked hard to quickly replenish the supply of all-important building material.

We'll leave them to chop wood, hew stone, and fish for a while...

(OOC: Well, if this is anything like my 2(or was it 3?) RPs that I did, then this is basically set starting at the time or ancient egypt/greece/rome, then if it doesn't die, moves into medievil but takes a long time to do so.)

Edit: Scratch that. I want the island of Bahrain. I'll make a post soon.

(ooc: is any part of europe accpetable?)

(ooc: is any part of europe accpetable?)

(OOC: anywhere thats not yet taken is acceptable, but not too large)

Completion of the first building in Taledon left the populus with a sense of pride and joy. They had built a small white brick house, with red concrete tiles for a roof. It was a simple house, or what would be simple in future. A rectangular design. This building was designated as the governor's house, and so had a small stone masoned wall built around it with a wooden gate for entry.

But there was one big problem that arose from the building, who would be the governor? At that time, there was no established government, and order was kept by the largest families. But these were nomadic ways, and not worthy of the sons of Mars. They were a civilised peoples, and could not follow a nomadic government. So it was decided that the largest family, the Auleri, would govern the population and the city. The leader of the household of the Auleri, Maximus Auleri, was made governor of the small settlement, and moved into the house with his family.

He was not to disappoint his people, so his first ruling was that every family would go off and build their own houses, and this was done, but the governor's house was still the largest, and the most luxurious. In a few months, every family had set up a brick house, and the city was now officially born.

(ooc: then i claim the peninsula in nothern europe, i forget its name, but its got scandinavia and such. ill post when i have more time

As winter crept in the Kadun felt the cold wind around their valley, and so it was done, that the Kadun built a house from wood and furs, they rested warm away from the harsh and bitter cold, but it was not enough they needed somthing else to take away the weather.

OCC: Sorry I meant to post this earlier, but I had to post this earlie so please okay let us develop a date syestem where we all begin on this ios the first year of time.

Their upon deep within the land prepared for them by the Highest One looked down on the land he created for his people and was pleased and their in the middle of his land (think Atlantis contienet area with just my adjustments to it) 396 of his people awoke each of them in groups of 44 which were nine and they would be the nine houses of their people the first people to awake developed their tongue as they talked and made it up as they went along and they would later become of the First and Greatest house of their people. After they awoke the other houses in order of their houses and they would in this land all of them would be happy.

Around their land was a great mountain range which would protect them and their were only a few openings in it and outside of their mountains were a few miles of coastline. As they talked forth they named themselves the Eternai and their were great and happy though they were few now, but they were eager to bring children into the bliss and beauty of their land.

OCC: Sorry I meant to post this earlier, but I had to post this earlie so please okay let us develop a date syestem where we all begin on this ios the first year of time.
(think Atlantis contienet area with just my adjustments to it)

(OOC: what you mean by, Atlantis continent? Oh and 1 day, 1 year)

OCC: Yes I mean Atlantis contienet area only with a few adjustments of my own.

OCC: Yes I mean Atlantis contienet area only with a few adjustments of my own.

(OOC: I looked up Atlantis on Wiki, i found only the Lost City, so, um could you give me a general location of where the Atlantis continent is...)

This is it basically expet without the city where it is and mountains are all aournd it.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/hif/img/atlmap.jpg

OCC: Can you please update me unto the list of countries.

OOC: Are we going to make an offline RP?

IC: A man awoke. He had never awoken before. He was nearly 5 and a half feet tall. He was dark skinned and has dustyblonde hair. He stood up. Then he walked up a hill to a single palm tree. There, he lifted his arms to the sky and shouted.

Nearly 4 dozen others like him woke up. They looked around and walked towards the hill. Then the first man led them down to the shoreline. There, the man stepped into the clear ocean. He could see little fish swimming around his legs. He snatched at them, but they just scurried away. Becoming frustrated, the man stomped and went back ashore. The other people were saddened because their leader could not catch a fish.

Suddenly, one of the others picked up a rock. He walked into the water and waited for the fish to begin swimming around his legs and then he dropped the rock on the fish. The fish was caught! The young man picked up the flailing fish and held it in the air. The others cheered! Thus, the new people had learned to fish.

OOC: Ok well I have nothing to do, so my people are going to advance further.

IC: After the boy had taught the group how to fish with a stone, each person grabbed their own rock and began to fish. Soon a large pile of fish had been created on the shoreline. The first man was pleased with his followers. However, he became hungry. He took a rock and bit on it. It hurt. He decided that it was not for quenching his hunger. Then he looked at the fish. He took a bite, and decided that even though it did not taste good, it was better than the rock. Then the most terrifying sound was heard.

From the sea came a large black shadow that roared and flashed. The women screamed and the men shuddered. The first man overcame his fear and began to pick up the fish that were in the pile. He would not let this vile shadow take what he and his people had worked so hard to get. Other people began to come to their senses and followed what he was doing. They carried them to the palm trees at the top of the hill.

As they were doing this, a leaf fell. Another man saw this and had an idea. The fish that were being carried by hand were falling on the ground. He picked up the leaf and brought it to the pile of fish. Then he began to place fish on the leaf. When no more could fit, he carried the leaf up the hill. He then took off nearly 10 times what the others carried and placed it on the new pile under the trees. Many others saw the wisdom is such a thing and followed suit.

Soon however, the shadow came closer. A flash of light even hit the ground near a person. Everyone carrying fish dropped theirs and ran to the cover. Suddenly, water, like in the sea, began to fall from the sky. However this water was sweet, unlike the water in the sea. A woman then began to place one of the leaves on the ground and let the sweet water be collected. Thus, the men of the tribe decided that women were equal to men and could come up with ideas just as easily.

On the bottom of the slope, a woman sighed. She had picked up a whole leafload of fish but had to drop it because of the shadow. She stared at it and groaned. Suddenly, a flash hit the pile of fish. She shrieked and when the flash disappeared, her fish were covered in red! She yelled and pointed at them. The group of people became exited and stared in wonderment at the redness.

Soon, the sweet water disappeared and the shadow was conquered by the light. The people cheered and ran to collect their fish. The sweet water woman showed her idea to the first man and he was pleased. The woman who witnessed the redness on the fish ran to inspect. Her fish were now warm and charred. She had tried eating the fish earlier and did not like it. Now, the wondered what the difference was with these darker fish. She took a bite and smiled. These new, darker fish tasted good! She shouted for the first man to come and he tried it. He had that same smile on his face. Soon, all of the people had tried it and enjoyed it. Now, the woman decided that instead of fishing she was going to try to figure out how to copy the flashes from the shadow.

Everyone on here, please go check this out: Ancient Earth (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=431929)

Should be fun if lots of people sign up, so go do so fast so you can get the spot you want.

Time passed...

The bounty of the Great River (Tonlé Thom) was good. The fish were inexhaustible, and so the People always had something to eat. The reeds that grew up around the river were many, and made good ropes, nets, mats, and baskets. There was much dead-fall, especially after great storms would roll in from the East, and bamboo grew everywhere.

As there was much food, soon there were many children. These children grew up to join their parents along the banks of the Great River or in the nearby hills, gathering wood and stone. More huts were built all around the community cooking pit, and the people were happy, because they had shelter from the rain.

The wood gatherers soon found that they could work faster if, like the stone gatherers, they built a small camp of their own, to serve as a place to collect the wood and season it before bringing it back to the settlement. They built a small fire-pit and were able to remain for days on end before returning back to their kin, singing and carrying huge bundles of wood, bound together with the great reed mats woven by the fisher folk.

In time, there were so many people and so much work to do around the settlement that some people simply stayed there, and never left to gather food or stone or wood. These people were not despised by the others, for they also toiled on behalf of the People. They took over the making of rope, nets, mats, and baskets from the fisher folks, and made crude litters of wood for the wood gatherers, and repaired or built huts and other structures so that the settlement - now a genuine town - could keep growing and prospering.

But something told them that there was Something Else that they had to do.

One evening, while all were gathered around the fire, the Elders - led by the First Ten People - began to talk about what they should do next. Soon all the rest of the People joined in.

"If we lash reeds and wood together," one offered, "We could go out onto the Great Sea and catch fish there. There must be many fish - huge fish - in the Great Sea. Sometimes we see their bodies wash up on the land."

"We would need more wood for that," replied another. "We should clear a wider path up into the jungle to make it easier to bring wood back, so that we can have more of it."

"There are many pigs in the jungle," said one younger man. "We could catch them and kill them, and they would bring us much food."

"Birds, too!" exclaimed a younger girl. "There are many birds, and we could catch them with nets, the way we catch fish."

"So many choices," said an old man. "But maybe we are not the ones to choose."

"Who else is there?" asked another man.

"I do not know. But In my dreams, I hear ... Something. I think there is ... Some One, and we should do what this Some One asks us, because that is why we are here."

The rest fell silent. "But where is this Some One? How do we hear ... see ... know ... what this Some One wants of us?"

"Maybe," said the old man, "We should make this Some One a place to live, and cook this Some One a great feast, and offer it to this Some One in exchange for Wisdom. Maybe then this Some One will come, and tell us what to do."

They all agreed, and went on to agree that the place they would make would be better than any of the structures they had built. It would be made of wood and reeds, yes - but also stone. It would be a sign of their respect for this ... Some One. And then this Some One would come, and guide them.

The following morning, on a high place overlooking their settlement, they began to build a Temple.

OOC: In AOM/EE terms, we now have a Town Centre, several Homes, a Temple and (from AOK/AOC/AOM) a Mining Camp and a Lumber Camp.

When the Temple was finished, they held a great feast, hoping that this Some One would come. But the night grew long, and nothing happened. Soon most of the People returned to their huts, but a few stayed on as the great fire died, under the stars. They slept.

In the morning, they hurried down to the settlement, where everyone else was getting ready to work. "We know why no one came! There is something else we need!"

The People gathered around them and asked, "How do you know this? Who told you?"

"In our sleep we saw it," said one of the group, a girl. "We all did." The rest nodded.

They turned and shook their heads, dismissively, and began to get to their various duties. But the same old man who had told them to build a temple stayed on and asked them, "What did you see?"

"We saw a gleaming yellow metal, and a place where it comes out of the earth," said one of the boys. "We have to go get this metal."

The old man nodded. "In my dream, I saw things made of something like this metal, gleaming like fire. But I do not know what it was. Now I do. Do you think you can find this place, and bring back some of the yellow metal?"

"Yes," said another of the group, this one a girl. "Do you want us to go there?"

"Yes, but be careful," said the old man. "Go and bring back this bright metal."

The Kadun gathered together the flock's of Sheep that lived around their territories, they built up a large round wall and placed the flocks inside it, they could breed the Sheep and feast on the fattest, they could then use the skin to insulate their hut's.

Many days they journeyed up the river. Past the stone quarry, where the stone gatherers were working, across the Great River and back again, through dense jungles full of dangers, they walked. Once, a young man was attack by a crocodile from as he went down to fetch water, but his cries of alarm brought the others to his rescue, and they chased the beast off with rocks and sharp branches. During the fight, another boy noticed that the branch he has seized from near their fire, grown black and hard from the flame, did not break like many of the others' branches, and he told the others. Soon, they all had such branches, chosen among the straightest and strongest they could find.

OOC: We now have fire-hardened spears. Not a weapon in EE, but one that should be (Primitive Pierce Weapon)

(OOC: you don't nessesarily have to go by EE tech, be as diverse as possible, but not too diverse)

At last they came to a place where the Great River widened into a Great Lake (Tonlé Sap). The place was silty and the water was shallow, but there were unimaginable quantities of fish and birds.

"This would be a good place to live," said one of the boys.

"We are here to find the yellow metal," a girl reminded him.

"So we will find the yellow metal, and then we can come back here and live," offered the boy. "It is a good place."

They continued along the shore of the Great Lake until they found a stream that flowed down into it from the hills to the West. Here, the stopped to make a fire for the night. A few of them went down to the shore to catch some fish, while others gathered wood and still others fresh water from the stream, since the waters of the lake were muddy.

One of the girls who went to the stream knelt down by its bank and began filling several animal bladders. As she sat, she marvelled at the way the stream-bed sparkled, but she did not linger, as the water was needed.

They ate well that night, and slept comfortably. When the morning came, the went to collect more food and water for the coming day's journey. It was then, in the rays of the morning sun, coming in across the Great Lake, that the same girl returned to the stream, knelt by its bank, began filling the bladders - and then let out a cry.

The others came running, thinking that she had been attacked by some wild animal, but when the found her, she had buried her hands in the sandy bottom of the stream.

"Look!" she cried, and lifted her hands.

They gasped. What had looked like sand was really silt made up of very fine stones. Many of these stones gleamed in the morning lite, some in red, some in blue. And in the midst of it all, in the sand itself, there was a yellow glow.

It took them a while to figure out how to sift the gleaming stones and yellow metal from the sand, but eventually they found that by washing the water around on a large, flat rock, they could separate out the shiny stones and the bright metal. They quickly set up a more permanent camp and began to harvest what they'd found.

After a few days, they realised that this would be much more work than they'd imagined. It would also take more time. That was when the boy who had wanted to settle by the southern tip of the Great Lake, where it joined the Great River, suggested that maybe they should build another settlement.

"There are half a dozen of us - almost as many as started the settlement back home," he noted. "We could build a settlement, and then tell our families back home how many fish and birds are here. Some would come to join us."

"And the Temple?" asked the girl who had found the metal and the stones. "What of that?"

"We'll take the yellow metal and the stones back, like we promised," he replied. "But we could build another Temple here if we wanted. Surely the ... Some One ... would be happier with two homes than one!"

And so they did. They gathered wood, cleared land, and built a settlement of their own, not far from the stream. After that, they built another camp for the woodcutters, and then more huts, as others came to join them.

In time, they sent the metal, which they called “gold”, and the stones, which they called “gems”, back to the Temple, to adorn it as the old man had seen in his dream, and make it fit for that Some One they wanted to meet.

And the Nameless One was pleased.

A second Settlement (not yet a Town Centre), another Lumber Camp, a mining Camp, and more people. With the gold (jewels count as gold in my book), stone, wood, and food, and with two structures built, my people can now advanced to the Neolithic (or “Stone” Age). That will permit us to build a Dock (where Rafts can be built) and an Archery Range (where archers can be trained), as well as to develop stone weapons and tools (axes and stone-tipped spears), so that we are no longer limited to training Clubmen at our Barracks (should we build one).

We still haven't evolved our own culture yet. That will happen when I give my People a Name.
...you don't nessesarily have to go by EE tech, be as diverse as possible, but not too diverse...I'm using EE as a guide, not a straight-jacket. You'll notice that I have Lumber Camps and Mining Camps. I'll add a Smithy when I move to the Copper Age, and there will be other AOK/AOC/AOM structures.

Also, now that I have a Temple and can train Priests (why else would I need gold? <S>), I will have to decide what AOM elements I will introduce. I think that my people will gain favor by building monuments (like AOM's Egyptians), since Southeast Asia is the home of some spectacular ones.

As for Civ stuff, that will arrive when I get more urban.

At last they came to a place where the Great River widened into a Great Lake (Tonlé Sap)...OOC: Geography experts will notice that my first settlement was in the Mekong Delta (where the Funan culture emerged). My second settlement was in Cambodia (home of the Khmer culture), so this represents an expansion. It will be a while before I expand again, but not too long a while.

The Eternai contructed nine mighty upon a tall and mighty mountain, tall, and fair towers to repersent the nine houses and to be the centers of their people. Around the towers the Eternia built a mighty wall many feet tall and many feet wide as to be strong agianst the ravages of war and time. Amongst the Eternia came a tall being and fairer then even the Eternai and he was stronger and more wise than any of them. His skill in craft was greater was unrivaled in the world. These traits had been gifted to him as a powers from his father as he had been created by the Highest One to be leader of the Eternia and amongst them he was most loved and charished of his children.

Upon the top of the mountain of the nine towers the Eternia contructed a wonderous and massivepalace for their leader. There he began to forge nine stones for each of the nine houses as to bring eternal light to the land of the Eternai. After a long and extremly exhuastive labour he forged them succesfully and fully. With their completion he called a great meeting of his people where from a high place on his palace he unveiled the nine stones which stunned and amazed his people, then forth came the leaders of each of the nine houses and instead of taking them they commited them to the service of their lord.

The Kadun found themselves one day put to test by the Warrior gods, the Sheep had been simple to kill but this beast that had now stood before them was indeed the most terryfying sight, the Strongest of them did fight the beast and after much blood was spilt the beast was subdued, it was a grand time and the skin was shared around the clan did rejoice for they had passed the gods test.

The Eternia having grown to limits in there cities a large griup of people knowing of the sea as some of them had seen it set out to found a great city on the coast and to sail the wide and open oceans and seas of the world exploring it. Also in another direction set out a lesser host of people to the mountains to dig for copper, gold, tin, and silver.

OCC: Take note that they are searching for copper and tin which make bronze.

OOC:Could I have start off at sically and expand from there?

I love games like civilization and Empire Earth and I thought a RP like them would be cool.

any if so this is how I start:

IC: The olive skinned nomadic peoples who populate the small Island of Sically begin there ascent to a civilization when two seperate tribes became one and settle in the foot hills of Mt.Etna.

Soon after the initial union between the two tribes and the beging on the settlement a small camp was built slightly higher in the hills of Mt.Etna and the young civalisation decide to begin to mine the preciouse metles as a tribute to there benevolent god.

Many years passed...

The People learned to shape flints into knives, arrowheads, and wedges. The wegdes in particular proved to be of tremendous value, especially after a wood gatherer realized that he could cut deeper and faster by binding a wedge to the end of a stick, making a simple axe.

Armed with these axes, wood gatherers - or rather, wood cutters, for that is what they now did - began to clear the jungle along a path between the two settlements, so that the golden metal and the precious gems could be brought down to the mouth of the river more easily, since the Great River had many impassable sections.

The gems and the gold soon adorned the Temple, and a few older men were selected to keep the Sacred House they had built in good repair. These men soon took to wearing robes, and had many dreams - a sign that ... Some One ... had come and spoken to them , if only in their sleep. Soon everyone began to understand that this was how they were instructed by ... Some One ... on what they ought to do.

At the mouth of the Great River, a dock was constructed, in a place where it was sheltered from the waves and let had easy access both to the sea and the river. The wood cutters, armed with their axes, could now bring logs down to the river and float them to the dock. There, they would be laid atop other logs, well off the ground, for seasoning. Other me would then use axes and wedges to cut these logs into smaller sections and then lash these smaller sections together with strong rope, made from reeds, to make rafts that could float out into the sea.

At first these rafts didn't travel very far. The men and women on them used poles to move them about, just as they did the smaller rafts they now pushed around the delta, catching fish or netting birds. But soon someone discovered that a strong wooden could be erected from a raft, and a large straw mat lashed to it, and that this allowed the raft to move with the wind. Soon the fishermen were ranging far up and down the coast, and out to sea.

OOC: We have now arrived at EE's Stone Age, which means we are just moments away from discovering Agriculture. We now begin to train Priests and build Rafts (both Fishing and Transport Rafts, in EE terms), which expands our range into the South China Sea and provides us access to a great deal more food. Aside from Priests, though, we still lack any "military" units. This will soon change.

The Kadun had tasted combat, and they had liked it, it had to be done once more, but there was none to fight but themselves, and so men were sent off over the mountains out to find beasts that could be fought, the first hunts had began.

The Eternia from the mountains sent down a carvan full of copper, tin, gold, silver, and the new strange substance to them bronze. The Eternia began to mold the metals into beuatiful works of arts, but no weapons as in there land they had no enemies to fight with. In the capital the Eternia began to use shapes to represent numbers in trade. The Eternia on the coast began to build ships that possed sails and masts. In these ships a small fleet of Eternia ships sailed to the Canary islands.

The axes and hammers of the wood cutters and raft builders were copied by the stone gatherers, save that these new hammers were bigger and sturdier, and required two hands to wield. Soon the stone gatherers were moving beyond simple gathering to stone cutting, which allowed them to prize loose even bigger pieces.

Upstream, near the Great Lake, the inhabitants of the new settlement continued to mine the precious metal and gems. As they sifted the silt at the bottom of the river, they began to realise that the yellow metal was carried downstream by the rushing waters. By following the stream to its headwaters and digging there, they were able to find the vein of gold that was the source of all the dust that washed downstream.

Following in the footsteps of the stone cutters, the gold miners built a small camp to support their mining efforts. This increased the flow of gold still further, and the Temple grew rich.

At the settlement, a wonderful discovery was made: during the rainy season, the Great River actually reversed course from all the falling rain and poured into the Great Lake. Then, as the year went by, the Great Lake would gradually shrink in size, exposing silt around its shores. A profusion of plants grew along these silty shores, and birds beyond count lived among them. Some of the women discovered that some of the plants were good to eat, and brought their seeds back to the new settlement.

Then came a storm, and many fishermen were caught away from shore and swept out to sea. Their wives and children cried, and made offerings at the Temple, asking ... Some One ... to bring them safely home.

Days came and went, and the people despaired. Then, suddenly, a fishwife casting nets upon the river saw the sails of the missing fishermen. They had returned! Their prayers had been answered!

The People held a feast for the fishermen, who were somewhat ashamed to have lost most of their catch in the storm and been forced to eat the rest. But soon all awkwardness gave way to excitement as the men related their strange tale.

They had been blown east by the coming storm, which had been to strong for them to overcome. They feared they would drown, but when the storm broke they found themselves off a strange coast. There were high mountains and marshes full of birds and many strange animals in the trees. And there were crocodiles, so many the men feared to step ashore.

The made their way along the coast to the South, staying in the shallows because the wind was against them. As they travelled south the islands became dominated by mountains, some so tall that they broke into the clouds. The mountains scared the fishermen, but they kept on going.

Eventually they ran out of food and fresh water, although that took a while because they trapped the falling rain and drank it. Then they saw a waterfall and many, many birds wheeling around the cliff over which it tumbled. Where there were birds, there were eggs, they reasoned, and so the went ashore.

They filled their skins, and found many eggs, and netted some birds, but with nightfall they grew scared. They thought the saw shapes in the darkness and heard voices on the air. Frightened, they stayed close to their fire on the shore through the night, only venturing forth in the morning to fetch more wood and some grasses with which to fashion more rope, having lost much of theirs in the storm.

They were almost about to tell each other that their fears of the previous night were groundless when one of them found footprints. Not animal tracks, but footprints, those of a small person. They wondered if it was a child, but that didn't matter. Where there were children, there were older people, and they were not at all sure if the people of these lands were safe. They rapidly finished gathering provisions and put back out to sea.

Later that day, their luck changed. A fresh breeze arose in the South, from across the mountainous island, and soon they were riding North and West. They hoped this would take them home, and their hearts were filled with joy when they found the familiar cape at the very tip of the Great River's delta.

Some of the people were worried. If the fishermen could travel to these distant islands, could their people travel to the delta? A council of the Elders was convened, and they quickly decided to build a watch tower near the dock, and to keep someone there to look out for the strangers from across the sea.

Of course, no strangers came, and soon the tower's use had changed. A tall beam was erected at the top of the tower and a reed mat was tied there for the fishermen to see. This would warn them if the wind shifted, so they would be less likely to be blown out to sea again. In addition, torches were gathered and placed where they could be lashed to the tower after dark, in case a fishing boat was too long coming back. In this way the fishermen were safer, and life returned to normal.

But sometimes, children - or even older people - would climb the tower and look East, and wonder.

OOC: Much invented and discovered here. The islands are Borneo and Java, of course. The tower is a standard Primitive Tower, useful only as a vantage point. The mallet developed by the stone cutters is EE's Hafted Tools research breakthrough (+15% stone gathering), and I'm probably going to assign the people of this region additional cultural benefits in stone work (since the peoples of Southeast Asia built extensively in stone). The discovery of the abundance of the Tonlé Sap's shores is the seed (no pun intended) for Agriculture (and BTW, the Tonlé Sap really does back up in the rainy season, flooding with silt and making it just like the Nile Valley so far as agriculture goes).

After many hard years of working, the accomplishments of a developping civilisation was shown. Taledon, the great city, the city that would stand for ages, the eternal city devoted to the gods. It now spanded on both sides of the river, with several stone arc bridges connection the two sides. It was a thriving metropolis.

Houses everywhere, as well as markets, great temples to the gods and glorious golden and marble statues of the great people within the short history of the Taledonians. The many blacksmith shops putting black smoke up into the air, the 7 docks on both sides of the river bank, the many military installations, the stables, the magnificent roads that not only spanded the city, but out into the countryside also. And then the most glorious structure of all, the Imperial Palace. A four story high stone and marble behemoth, with the many trees, gardens and pavilions lining the grass around it behind it's large concrete walls. And the balcony of the palace looked out upon the large open square of cement, where the Taledonian flag was raised in the middle, and the many shops and stalls of the days market. All this, ecompassed within the huge epic stone walls, that went to the heavens in hight, and were as thick as the oldest of oak trees. These large walls, complete with many high towers every couple 50 meters. The towers with 5 archers each, and many archers patrolling the parapets already. Within the city itself, thousands of guards, which were called Praetorians, marched around in perfect formation, depicting their disciplin and extreme training.

The city could be seen from miles around, and if you could still see the city, you were on Taledonian controlled land. Various forts and outposts filled with the thousands of legionaries that made up the glorious legions of the Empire protected the hundreds of farms, plantations, mines and other industries that were not found in the city.

This was the glory, the pride, the ultimate achievement of human life. Hundreds of thousands of people living within a great city, dedicated to the gods. But it was not enough, soon, the legions would move out and expand the Empires borders, and new cities would be created in the likeness of Taledon, and order would be brought to the earth. This was the destiny of the Taledonian people, and by the gods it would be fulfilled.

The Eternia sucessfully completed their first writing and number syestems. Using these they wrote down all of their knowledge and all of their accomplishemnts. The ships of the Eternia became ever taller and wider and the masts and sails became massive. Their ships began to come to the shores of Morocco and the Iberian Penisaula. Their the Eternao all fled before as the light of their eyes and faces frigthened them as the Eternia had lived and gazed upon the light of the nine stones.

The fishermen who worked along the river were the first to notice that the mud would sometimes bake hard in the heat of the sun, but few made anything of it. Things always dried out in the sun, after all.

But one day a fish wife slipped and hurt her leg. She was forced to stay back in the settlement, weaving nets and cooking for the others. It was in this capacity that she came to the cooking pit one day to prepare some food for her clan.

As she cooked the fish, her thoughts wandered. She looked at the fire, and then at the edge of the fire-pit, and saw that the clay there was cracked like the mud down by the river. This was nothing very special, because the cooking pit was out in the sun, and the sun always made the mud crack.

But then she noticed that some water that dropped into the dirt near the fire-pit dried up quickly, much more quickly than water usually dried up under the sun. Why had it done that? she wondered.

Out of curiosity, she took a fire-hardened stick and poked at the dirt around the fire. "Why is the dirt in the fire-pit so hard?" she asked another of the women, one who always cooked and never went down to the river to fish.

"It just is," the other said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Has it always been like that?" asked the fish wife?

"No," said the other woman, puzzled. "But it became that way. Why?"

The fish wife wondered.

Late one night, when she was a little better, but still not strong enough to fish, the fish wife went to the river and scooped several handfuls of river mud into her wicker basket. She then came back to the fire, which was still going.

She took the mud out, a handful at a time, and heaped it in a pile by the fire. Some others who saw her laughed at her. "Eating mud?" they said. "Tell us how it tastes!"

She ignored them, and watched the mud dry. She found that the closer it was to the fire, the faster it dried. She took a stick and pulled some coals out, and put them next to her mud, and blew on them to make them hot. The mud dried very, very quickly - and when she went to crumble it, she found that the mud that had been hottest was harder to crumble than the rest.

The following night she went to a place where she knew there was some thick, heavy clay. She had played with that clay when she was young. Now, just like when she was a little girl, she scooped up a great deal of it, using a knife. She put it in her basket and went back to the fire.

This time there was more pointing, more mocking, more jokes at her expense. She ignored them. She fashioned the clay into shapes and pushed the pieces into the fire. When she pulled them out several minutes later, they were almost as hard as stone.

A young boy came and sat down beside her. She handed him some clay, and then took some in her hands, and made a small stick person. She then put his person and hers in the fire. The boy cried out and nearly burned himself trying to fetch his clay figure. but she held him back.

"Wait," she said.

They waited. After a while, she withdrew the two figures and made sure they were cool. She handed the boy his, and the boy's eyes grew wide.

More nights passed, and her experiments continued. Soon, the others stopped laughing at her and just watched in amazement.

OOC: Not a part of EE (or any other game), but with this tale I've invented the Kiln (precussor to the Smithy) and Pottery (better food storage).

The Eternia began to teach the inhabintants of these lands as now they frequently came and taught them much such as advanced farming techbniques and how to build homes to withstand the weather. One day a few Eternia ships came to Scotland on a prolonged vovage. There the they found signs of the Kaduna and from these the ships decided to sail further northward and deeper into Scotland.

There the heard rumors of the Kaduna

(OOC: how could they have heard rumors without having meeting the Kaduna?)

A Storm hit the Kadunese camp, it blew apart the Kadun's small huts and killed a few of the women not on the hunt, after the weather settled they found trees melting with great orange aura, they believed this to be the work of the Warrior gods, they found the great aura could be transferred from tree to tree, they bought the aura to the camp, it provided warmth and lit the dark nights, they had discovered fire.

OCC: Actually I was implying meeting local tribes and they told them of Kaduna.

OCC: Actually I was implying meeting local tribes and they told them of Kaduna.

(OOC: there are local tribes now?! When did this happen, i am the local tribe!!! What the shit AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!)

OCC: Sorry, sorry i thought that the world was inhabitied by other people's and that your tribe didn't dominate all of Scotland I will edit the post.

OCC: Sorry, sorry i thought that the world was inhabitied by other people's and that your tribe didn't dominate all of Scotland I will edit the post.

(OOC: it is inhabited by other tribes, it just so happens that these other tribes are potential players, i have claimed Scotland therfore i am the Scottish local tribe, if someone chooses England, then they will be the English local tribe etc....)

OCC: Got it.

(OOC: I realise that you use OCC not OOC, whats with that?)

OCC:I use it as 'out of content criteria.'

It was time. The hares had been gutted, and the portents clear as day. It was a message from the gods, it was time. The Emperor ordered legions to move out in the North and South to conquer the rest of the Italian peninsuala. It would be only a matter of time until it was conquered, and the swarms of settlers and merchants and map makers going with the legions will have new cities set up in no time.

It was summer and the warm weather did not suit the Kadunese, they needed to move, it seemed that the weather got cooler as they got higher up a mountain, of course they eventually reached to a point that they bagan to loose all sense of reality, it was then decided that they would instead travel to the north and find cool there.

The ships of the Eternia sailed to a northern bay to rest and make a port for furture Eternia expeditions more northward and eastwards. Back in the Eternia homeland their a large host of people headed westwards to extablish a new city on the western coastline.

OOC: Gone until Monday, but with luck I'll have a bunch of posts when I get back. Hopefully, I can get to the Copper Age or even the Bronze Age!

That, and start some serious wonder-building...

The Eternia entered the Mediterrean and sailed to the Italian coast near the mouth of the river Tiber and ther they began to land on the shore donned in their bronze armor and bear their bronze weapons and shields incase of attack.

Italy had been secured by the Legions, and 8 new cities were under construction. 5 north of Taledon, and 3 south. All was good in the Empire.

But near Taledon's main port at the Tiber, a foreign ship landed close by. So a force of 200 heavy cavalry was sent to investigate. In case it was invaders, because from that close, they could clearly see the city of Taledon.

The Eternia marched forward to within speaking distance of the Taledonian force. There a dipolmat and mulitple guards were sent to the force and the diplomat said," We come here merely as heralds and diplomats of the Eternia people."

The Kaduna found another settlement up north, they sent three men out to introduce the species, they hoped that this would not shock a potential ally, these men were possibly sent by the warrior gods, they timidly walked down to the settlement

(OOC: me meeting the Scandinavians)

The Eternia hailed for them to o come closer to their camp.

The group of 3 men and a woman walked down to the settlement, they introduced themselves hoping that the others spoke the same language.

The Eternia extremly gifted in tongues heard their language and picked it up as they went along and then one of them said to them after learning most of their tongue," Are you the inhabtis of this land."

OCC: Are your people a different race then humans?

(OOC: Sort of human, basically evolved Wolves)

"this land? Do you mean to say that there is more land out there?" The obvious leader of the group asked, the rest of the group were frightened, if there were more land then the Warrior gods did not trust them enough to be told about the rest of the land.

OCC: Alright thanks for telling me.

The leader of the expedtion said," Yes the world is many many times larger than your lands and our own land is far larger than this."

A state of culture shock emerged over the group, "you mean, that we are not alone?" This could be bad news, the Warrior gods could have other chosen, others stronger and more capable.

"We have sailed the great sea and we know it waters and there are many other peoples who are mighty and strong, but your people seem to be amongst the strongest we have encontured," one of them said trying to relieve them.

This is where it began, the Warrior Priests first shining, "you mean that we are the strongest out of the world? Including yourselves?"

"Nay, we were born and nurtured under the light of the nine stones. Yet also we have yet seen the entire world and we know that there many different types of beings," they said in response.

Nay, we were born and nutured.

(OOC: holy crap! A civilisation of eunuchs? :P)

These people were obviously powerful, they would make great allies "Would you like to become a friend of our nation? So that we may both prosper?"

'We agree, but we would like ot ask you also would you like to come and dwell in our homeland where there are many mountains, high hill, and wide plains where you may dwell?" they asked.

"We would send only certain peoples for this is the home that the Warrior Gods blessed us with, and so we must stay to show our thanks to the gods."

OCC: Nope I got that from a line a in LOTR and also no they reproduce like humans, but they are born and have the immortality of LOTR elves and also they nine stones are basically my version ot the two trees.

The Eternia responded," We will be willing to take you to our homeland as a messanger t o your people of it's peace and beauty."

OCC: Nope I got that from a line a in LOTR and also no they reproduce like humans, but they are born and have the immortality of LOTR elves and also they nine stones are basically my version ot the two trees.

(OOC: yeah, but you spelt it wrong, it's meant to be

we were born and nurtured

but you put

we were born and nutured

nutred being close to the word Neutered meaning having your bollox lopped off, aka eunuchs, so your civilisation were a bunch of eunuchs, lol, i thought it was funny)

"as said before, we will send 2 men and 2 women, the warrior gods will deem it dishonourable to have left this land which they carved for us, 6 of us will stay to tend the land and remain as a nation!"

OCC: Sorry about that, I must have forgotten one of the r's when typing.

The Eternia lead them to the ship and brought them aboard it and departed their homeland. There they witnessed they joy, bliss, and beauty of the land which was above all others of the land. Then after a while they returned them to their homeland bearing gifts of gold, silver, and percious stones that were given to them by the Eternia