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>+Environmental Development: Green Tide
>The Ocean closer to the shores and areas of your islands have slowly started to turn a much healthier and brighter shade of "green" and the deep, empty, shade of blue they once were is beginning to wane. The Reefs within the area are growing larger and expressing richer and more vivid colours. The water seem to overflow with marine life: Plesiosaurs and Seals cover the beaches in unforeseen numbers, fish and shellfish displays such abundance and size that they breach the tide, and flocks of sea birds and pterodactyls seem to be more common than clouds these days- attracted and swarming these large "growths" that wash upon shore- their identities smothered by being covered in the rampant growth of Shellfish, Kelp, and Corals.

>-Mycea's absense is missed. The Keeper of the grove: Kush, goes on a rampage.
Kush was a Keeper of the Grove: an animal blessed by Mycea for their maturity and honor and assigned great power and isolated among their kind to tend to the land. Kush can no longer sense Mycea's presence. Kush is still just a simple Triceratops. Kush's sad bleats of loneliness and confusion echo across the grove; "Why have you abandoned me, my lord? Why?" Kush does not understand, he is an animal. Sadness turns to confusion and confusion fuels frustration and anger. Kush is using his great physical force and innate magical ability to rampage across the land in an effort to receive any kind of acknowledgement from his absent god.

>-Personal development: Akalade shuts himself in.
>Akalade has taken a complete and total heel-turn and despite his fear and paranoia; has isolated himself from everyone and is now hiding within is home and refuses to acknowledge anyone. The people who bring him food and drink notice he's started wearing his suit even within his home and feverishly distracts himself with work. Someone is obviously wrong, but Akalade refuses to tell anyone- or even be seen for that matter.

(Okay, you may roll)

>>38068246
>>38068289

Woops, forgot my Trip; sorry, sorry.

I'll wait a bit for people to siphon in, etc..

Roll are still: Actions d20, Ideas d100. 2 Actions and 1 Idea will be picked/ 3 rolls.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>38068289
Ok a lot going on here. First things first, let us send out sages and heroes to help calm Kush down. We should bring dinosaur tribe gorgons as well if possible.

Maybe we can sing songs to communicate how Mycea has chosen to leave, but can return one day in time.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>38068332
Attempt to Calm Kush.

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>38068332
Study what causes monsters to appear and attempt to solve the problem instead of deal with the symptom of said problem.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>38068289
Study some physics. It'll come in handy.

>>38068289
So should we set up an opposition to demonology?
I mean we're pretty okay with all occult studies as long as they're safe, but Mycea seemed to suggest Demonology is the one that should not be tolerated.

And my question is wether to do this now or later. and wether its an Idea or an Action.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>38068289
Send heroes and diplomats to the manticore and dinosaur tribes. The manticore are probably deep in mourning at the moment- they loved Mycea as much if not more so then us.

We should talk to them about uniting, to act as a counter balance against the gorgon empire. Remind the manticores how Mycea always acted with love and unconditional acceptance to persuade them to stop raiding and other aggressive acts.

Phrase instead that they can still exercise their fearsome mastery of poisons, silent moving, and assassination by working as guides and protecting travelers rather then waylaying them.

Extend to the dinosaurs our economic aid, and convince them that any long standing feuds the two tribes have can be patched up. They will be able to accomplish great things together- the manticores mastery of herbal remedies could be combined with the dinosaurs knowledge of animals in a hundred different ways.

>cyclopean diplomats feel a little bit miffed that the Spider tribe has abandonded their pact of friendship with the dinosaurs that we helped broker

Lurking, maybe I'll post later, still need to catch up on like five threads.

>>38068542
Get ready for some feels anon.

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>38068402
Seconding.

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>38068524
Supporting, maybe we can work that into the >>38068402 command, since A) the dinosaur is a powerful beast the dinosaur tribe respects, and B) because the manticores respect mycea, having a creature blessed by mycea might help create this mutual understanding.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>38068524
Supporting this

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>38068289
try to calm down poor Kush

>>38068507
I think it's an idea. I'm going to post some current things we have been working on.

>Help Akelade adjust after the death of his husband. Protect him.

>Unite the gorgon tribes to act as a counterweight to the Empire

>convince the Mother Hydra to be less dickish

>continue to press influence out into the plains, establish more contact with its inhabitants (changelings, ant men and other unknowns)

>re-establishing contact with mermen. Find out what impact Mycea's actions have had

>try to find some way to resurrect or at least speed the recovery of Mycea

>Integrate occultists into cyclopean society, try to dissuade demonologists from persuing their studies

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>38068289
also, try to dissuade the demonologists (I believe that's the name..sorry if it isn't) from their crazy plans, if it scared Mycea it can't be good...

>>38068576
That's a good idea. I propose we treat
>>38068402
as part of the idea proposed in
>>38068524

A sort of trust building exercise between the gorgon tribes, uniting them in common interest

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How can we help Akalade?

>>38068663
Everyone in support of calming down kush as part of a way to unite the dinosaur and manticore tribes?

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>re-establishing contact with mermen. Find out what impact Mycea's actions have had

"Hey I know we just killed your god, but maybe we can be friends now."

I dunno i think we should hold off for a little bit. I mean before Mycea's plan the merfolk were gathering metal for an unknown purpose. Stuck me as some antagonistic actions.

Maybe we should give them some time, so they can splinter like the Gorgon empire did.

Does comparing the mana from the sun bolt and the mana from mycea require a roll?

>>38068720
I... didn't mean to roll there.

>>38068753
Well what are you using the roll for? Contact with the mermen or something else?

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>38068289
Remember those different movements from last thread? Let's apply them.

Theologists are free to do their thing, so long as they're careful. They should remember the sages that studied the universe and returned blind, wrote a tome, then fell into a comma for the rest of their lives.

Necromancers apply their knowledge to the fields of medicine, agriculture, investigation, and help the dead find rest and the living closure.

Eldritch study forms Occult Police and Exorcists, dealing with monsters, magic, the supernatural, ect.. Their first task is to find out what those necromancers are doing exactly. We can talk to those guys right after.

Rolled 12 (1d20)

Try to find a peaceful solution between the gorgon empire and the Manticore tribe. Explore the greivances between them

>>38068630
>convince the Mother Hydra to be less dickish

We definitely need to do this. Maybe through a play or great work of literature?

Rolled 38 (1d100)

We've formalized the different magic schools right?

Can we get a laboratory or a school set up for them all for their experiments so they don't need to keep hanging out in abandon houses?
I want a magic school

>>38068789
I was just trying to talk about the whole. "Should we talk to the merfolk thing". not trying to roll for anything. But its a good roll might as well use it to support something.

Like maybe >>38068576 this.
Or >>38068807

Or maybe what you said, contacting the merfolk somehow, or checking up on them.

>>38068858
Well pick whichever you like. It is your roll

So I was thinking of one thing we could for those who rever/respect/love Mycea. Since we know she may come back, they could gather round the stone circle on some nights, the one we created to bring her peace while she was healing, and sing songs in it's tune to the stars as a way to let her know she's missed, possibly to update her on big developments for our people, and just to sooth her spirit while she's resting. Possibly as part of a larger holiday/day of mourning.

>>38068898
I'll go with >>38068576 then. This whole roll with Kush needs all the help it can get.

>>38068948
that sounds like a good idea.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

form a city based around love, communication and civility, in honor of Mycea

Rolled 13 (1d20)

ask the dinosaur tribe to help us with calming Kush, because who else?

>>38068996
We already have that. It's Mycea's Grove.

>>38069016
oh whoops..thanks anon, sorry for being a derp.

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>>38068402
>>38068407
>>38068625
>>38068575

>Attempt to Calm down Kush; with the assistance of the Dinosaur Tribe if possible.
>Roll ! 14+14 Twin rolls !
>Kush counter Roll 11
>Success, met with resistance.

Kush is a proud animal: He has outlived many other beasts through the course of generations, he has stood back and watched with unbiased eyes as he's respected the course of nature- watching the sick, weak, and young to be culled, eaten, and left to die- often by the jaws of the Therasaur as it proudly roars over it's kill. This is life. This was his life; his only equals the shivering and waning of fungal trees and tropical palms in the breeze.. and at one point in time; the love and guidance his god Mycea brought him.

Kush is not happy, "What cruel irony is this? I am not fit for this world- why did you make me this way? Why did you bless me with the knowledge of life and death; only to abandon me? You who were supposed to be Eternal? You who were my strength, my moral compass- WHAT SICK JOKE IS THIS?! I DID NOT ASK TO BE ANOINTED."

(Dinosaur Tribe roll and results incoming.))

>>38069062
damn...poor Kush..

>>38069062
nows not the time to get existential kush baby.

maybe in the next round of rolling we should chart out the path of the changling nomads. Establish more "Constant" trade and contact.

So what should we do with Mycea's rotting stalk? I think it'd honor her nature if we simply collected it and used it as fertilizer. She was the demi-god of decay and renewal, after all. Although there might be some greater use for it.

>>38069316
Could quite easily absorb him into our civ as a part of our mycea worship, and explain what happened.

>>38069383
Hold a massive competition to grow the biggest plant using it as fertalizer? Or we could study it.

>>38069383
Isn't it already decaying into mana? Could the mana be used as fertilizer? Maybe we can use it to spread her presence out into the savannah. Using mana to cultivate the arid waste.

>>38069413
The mana seems to be more a benefit to animal life. It was said it doesn't seem to have a visible effect on the land.

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>38068854
>Seconding this roll. But expanding it.

>We need to formalize the Necromancers into the Order of Mycea, have them take over overseeing the fungal forest and the city she ruled over once.

>Other shit we should be doing
1) We need to move our primary population center into Mycea, turn it into a proper bread basket for us.

2) See about fully incorporating the Manticore tribe into our own. We could use their military expertise.

3) Form the Druids into an order specifically to defend against elder god elderitch knowledge.

4) Begin construction of theological observatories in the mountains.

5) Give Fucking Elf boy there the damn seed from Mycea and let him go save his fucking planet.

6) begin forming a coalition between the various races.

7) Up trade with changlings to get an economic boom to make a new temple housing in the center of Mycea, our new wonder.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>38068854
Seconding this.

>>38069532
I don't know about moving the population all the way to Mycea. It's in the gorgon tribe/empire region of the world, and the home islands already have a wonder city in the arcanum

Akelade needs love and understanding. We have to reach him some way or another, to help him. I think he might be tormented by visions of the Deep One

>>38068854
Not so fast. We still need to deal with demonology. It needs to be stopped. It was the last thing Mycea warned us about.

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>>38069062

>Dinosaur Tribe Counter Roll 20
>Complete unquestionable success.

The Cyclopean Citizens and Sage Council of Mycea's Grove are extremely concerned about the well being and fate of Kush; he is to an -extent- part of the legacy of Mycea and his problems are Mycea's problems and therefor your problems.

You don't however get a chance to directly solve the problem as it seems the Dinosaur Tribe has beat you to the chase: An entire procession of Dinosaur Tribe shamans, druids, and holy women had immediately made a pilgrimage to attend to the presence and problem of "kush". They are a cert, honest, and quiet people whom speak through deeds; they make no great entrance and the only way you're made of aware of their coming is the soft chorus of their drums and bells.

They are lead by a massive Gorgon. She is a giant among their kind and towers over them- even taller than some of your own cyclopean people. Her massive frame is supported by lean and taunt muscle, her hair is kept tied and short- along with her snakes, but her most defining trait is the indiscreet air of spirituality that she seems to exume and the large, hanging, black horns that grow from the sides of her heads like the rack on the Dinosaurs her tribe honors.

The Gorgon and Kush briefly exchange glances before they wrestle with one another; their match lasts hours and it ends with the Gorgon grappling kush and laying him down onto his side 'till he is submissive.
Kush is then fed fruits, supple vegetation, meaty fungi, and treated to a small saucer of mana.
His divinity seems to slowly wane: the power he exhumed is relinquished, the awareness and intelligence present in his eyes fades, and his last moments are spent nuzzled in the lap of that Giant Gorgon- being petted, happily bleating, before the strength fades from him and his mortality catches up with him to join his master.
(Happy Triceratop bleats fro reference: youtube.com/watch?v=LNCC6ZYI3SI )

>>38069532
1) No? having the population spread out as is, works fine.
2) Agree, but we would have to turn them more peaceful, our cultures conflict in key areas
3) Might want to expand shamanistic practices for this, druids are more natural world than spiritual, even if it overlaps
4) good idea.
5) i doubt he will open up any time soon
6) kind of already happened for us were it matters, no real need to formalize it until a threat appears
7) Upping trade would do better if we build an outpost on the edge of the savanna to help, or hell, actually invent shoes so roads are easier to travel than soft earth.

>>38069648
Agreed we need to nip that in the bud.

>>38069639
I'm saying moving OURSELVES mostly into it. Mycea was given to US and only Cyclops were allowed permanent residence. We need to cement that control left to us. Invite the Manticores in as full citizens of our empire if they're willing to give up all the rapine and pillaging, we really do need a strong military in case the merpeople come for us.

I'm not saying abandon the Arcanum, I'm saying make Mycea our second big city. It's also more central to our empire.

>>38069677
>7) Upping trade would do better if we build an outpost on the edge of the savanna to help, or hell, actually invent shoes so roads are easier to travel than soft earth.
I like this. We should invent roads and shoes.

>>38069742
Already done.

>>38069532
1) I disagree.
2) I doubt we could support it and there would be massive culture shock.
3) Elder god knowledge wasn't the particularly dangerous one. Demonology is.
4) Sure, but why the mountains?
5) There'd be no point. He has no pod anymore.

>>38069764
>4) Sure, but why the mountains?
Mountain observatories get clearer images of the skies.

>5) There'd be no point. He has no pod anymore.
Thought it was used as a basis for the attack and now we can have it back?

Even if we don't make Mycea THE major population center for ourselves. I still think moving lots of people there to be second only to the Arcanum would be a fantastic idea, since it could produce enough food to allow our population to explode and give us a major economic boom.

>>38069676
Mad respect for that. We couldn't have done that better ourselves

>>38069698
It's already a big city though. And with how much the cyclopeans love Mycea, it's only going to get bigger.

>>38069532
>1

Not super sure about this. I mean, we should definitely develop that area, but we seem to have a lot invested on our starting island and "First" colony. We have the arcanum built there. and we've also got the bone bridge tying them together.

>2)

Now this I'd be quite a fan of. We aren't naturally violent or suspicious but I do predict we may need some military prowess some time in the future, and the Manticores have that in spades. If incorporating them will make us more formidable, maybe we can rub off on them, perhaps culling some of their less palatable tenancies.

>3)

Druids are Eldritch Cultists by nature though, so it strikes me as training "firemen" by giving them a bunch of matches and telling them to burn things to better understand how fire burns things. It may need some "protector" or monster hunter/exorcist caste as well, just to keep things in check.

>4)

Not opposed to this. Like at all. Hell might be an idea to have outposts in the mountains proper especially as we head out into the savannas more.

>5)

We owe him this much anyways. But poor guy has no way to get back any more since we used the ship to murder the Deep Eye.

>6)

Again, a big No brainer. But I don't know if we have the respect quite yet.

>7)

Frankly we should see if we can bring the changlings our way. They're nomadic, and seemed to have mostly dwelled in the desert, wonder how they'd feel about seeing us all settled down? Imagine what it be like for them to taste some of the sedentary lifestyle.

>>38069764
Depending on what they're actually doing, we could re-purpose demonology to study and defend against the 'Red World'.

>>38069824
Dinosaur tribe is pretty bro.

We need to keep their culture distinct from the Empire's.

>>38069868
it's too bad they and the spider tribe didn't grow closer together, considering how we pushed them together.

now who will buy our fancy moths?

>>38069811
There is literally no point moving folks there. we are the only people who live there, and it will develop in population as time goes on anyway. We can restrict others moving in by citing the law of mycea/holy site, for living there anyway. Visiting is fine.

>>38069901
Maybe we should invest in Dinosaur and Manticore cultures?

Pay for their services and encourage them to keep doing what they're doing?

>>38069852
>Now this I'd be quite a fan of. We aren't naturally violent or suspicious but I do predict we may need some military prowess some time in the future, and the Manticores have that in spades. If incorporating them will make us more formidable, maybe we can rub off on them, perhaps culling some of their less palatable tenancies.
The Manticores ALREADY like us a lot. I think they'd be open to the idea of switching from being hated by everyone to having lots of fun and sexy times and permission to beat the crap out of people and things that threaten us?

>Druids are Eldritch Cultists by nature though, so it strikes me as training "firemen" by giving them a bunch of matches and telling them to burn things to better understand how fire burns things. It may need some "protector" or monster hunter/exorcist caste as well, just to keep things in check.
Firemen are trained in how to start fires as well as end them since it's important to know how fire works.

And if we don't move people there, can we atleast spend an action focusing on everyone there making babies and turning it into a massive as fuck bread basket for our people?

>>38069864
Without her guidance, I'd rather we just didn't tamper with it. She wouldn't have told us to leave it alone if there weren't a good reason.

>>38069951
It'd also swell our gorgon population hugely. Something the Hydra Mother might take advantage of at some point.

>>38069967
Agreed

We need to bring the red planet cultists to us, tell them her words on the subject, ask them to justify themselves, then work to convince them this is not the way to help people.

>>38070007
we could say we focus on breeding cyclops primarily?

Besides, from what I've read. The Hydra Mother is a tsunderebro.

>>38069967
>>38070009
Really we need to develop arcane to a degree that it can contain and protect against demonology if shit should go awry, well before even starting its research.

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Guys do we have mudbrick/adobe construction yet? I think that might be crazy useful in the Savannah since we don't quite have as much large slabs of rocks to use, or jungles to take cover in. Building from mud bricks and dirt/water might be our way of getting deeper into that uncharted territory.

>>38070041
Unenforcable and sort of counter to the whole 'free love' culture of the Cyclops.

>>38070077
We're past mudbrick. We build a giant ziggerat city.

>>38070077
We can just use magic to pull homes out of the earth really. And I think we've long had the tech for mudbrick anyway.

>>38070079
true. But really, our halfbreed gorgon population seems primarily loyal to us rather than to the hydramother, so I don't see the issue.

Also, we need to give the sun some respect. Get his guidance on these things.

>>38070077
I think we have mudbrick, not sure if it translates into adobe

With the manticores:
Exert influence to turn their culture into more a sports like affair, and then encourage them to teach it and develop it. A la, Ninja gorgon village.

We're already allied with the Manticores. I don't see a reason to go through the effort of trying to incorporate them.

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>>38070096
>>38070122
>>38070143
True, but we really need to focus that into a more "utilitarian" way if we want to expand into the sunbaked savanna. And yeah Mudbrick doesn't exactly translate into adobe (to my knowledge).

I'd like to see us build up like in that first image, pulling homes from the ground. Maybe even temples like this.

>>38070226
Because the empire and the dinosaurs hunt and kill them, we incorp, we can have a mutually beneficial relationship without a threat to them disappearing. Having sneaky friends is invaluable.

>>38070225
>>38070226
They're not allies, they're friends, and we NEED a strong military incorporated into ourselves to defend against the Merpeople.

We're on much better terms with them than just about anybody else except maybe the Empire, so if we want to preserve and protect them, we need to incorporate.

>>38070261
>>38070226

Plus their knowledge of herbology and necromancy

We just need to help change them from raiders to something more peaceful

>>38070226
well the thing is Manticores have some stuff in their culture that is just straight up iffy if left unchecked. They're approach to leadership ascendancy is "You Kill It, You Keep It". They've got a bit of violence and death fetishism, in their veins, despite it being rooted in some cyclopean philosophical truth (they view death as part of a natural cycle and revere the moon and stars, but as such in their perception unnatural death, like by murder, is okay too.)

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>>38068524

>Alleviate and better understand the political situation with the remaining Gorgon Nations through diplomacy.
>Twin Rolls 7+7
>LUCKY DOUBLE 7'S
>Not success, but not necessarily failure either: Interesting results.

The political situation between the three remaining Gorgon nations/Cultures seems to have become quite heated and tension is slowly rising between the various communities. From what your people understand in their position of an unbiased third party, the following conditions and motivations have been made aware:

>The Manticore Tribe: A new age of brutality.
>"God has blossomed; her voice is silenced and with this she reminds us that death is eternal and inescapable. Just how the Spores of God rain down and cover the land, as our tears once did for the mourning of her absence- we must stand strong; let blood begat more blood, let the art of killing, treachery, and mayhem shine and define give purpose to our lives. The Hydra mother is a false god. She encapsulate mortality." The Manticore tribe has gone into nomadic seclusion; they number in the thousands, but they remain unseen and only come out to trade with your kind or to commit raids against the Gorgon empire. You still remain "friends".

>The Dinosaur Tribe: A new leader brings forth a myriad of progress & aggressive change.
>The Dinosaur tribe doesn't seem to emulate the same herding culture they once were hundreds of years ago: their entire culture now expresses a feeling of military and economic strength as they've begun to be led by a mysterious new chieftain who remains unidentified. They've started purchasing large quantities of Iron from your Civilization (to the point where they've become quite a lucrative trading partner); while building small forts and tending nomadic war camps that seem to be sprouting up. Your relationship with them has grown significantly: trade and contact is lucrative and booming, but they're definitely plotting something.

>>38070283
We have no real allies, the concept, quite like war, has not come up.

Im all for shifting their culture towards a more.. ninja style thing, and incorporating them into our collective. Since it protects them and us.

>>38070283
Most of the time we have no contact with them. We don't even know what the merpeople are doing right now. For all we know we just did them a massive favor. I don't see the need to militarize

>>38070349
Well, this isn't good.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>38070349
>>"God has blossomed; her voice is silenced and with this she reminds us that death is eternal and inescapable. Just how the Spores of God rain down and cover the land, as our tears once did for the mourning of her absence- we must stand strong; let blood begat more blood, let the art of killing, treachery, and mayhem shine and define give purpose to our lives. The Hydra mother is a false god. She encapsulate mortality." The Manticore tribe has gone into nomadic seclusion; they number in the thousands, but they remain unseen and only come out to trade with your kind or to commit raids against the Gorgon empire. You still remain "friends".
We begin to go out to them, try to convert them to a more peaceful path. We need strong defenders for our people, people to teach us how to fight and defend ourselves. They do not have to worship any god they choose not to, but why bring about death when love and good times are so much better? They can follow their creeds in a more peaceful manner with us.

>>38070395
Incoming Manticore V Dino War

>>38070408
wait for more rolls to be called.

>>38070316
I know, which is why incorporating them seems like a really bad idea to me. A lot of their culture, especially since this update, is totally counter to our own.

>>38070316
>"let blood begat more blood, let the art of killing, treachery, and mayhem shine and define give purpose to our lives. The Hydra mother is a false god. She encapsulate mortality."
>>38070349

Yup. Like I said, they like us. But we might not like them. Called it.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>38070408
>>38070349
Remind the gorgons OF ALL TRIBES that Mycea was first and foremost a creature of peace, love and understanding.

(Also we pretty much saved her all by ourselves so give us some respect, come on.)

There's no way she would endorse any kind of war or strife

>>38070349
We need to support the Dinosaur tribe over all others.

We cannot let the Gorgon Empire absorb the dinosaur tribe.

>>38070476
yes but they're sort of "spiritually" aligned. And seem like the most likely to join up with us should we offer. or well.. they "Were" the most likely to join up with us. Past tense.

>>38070408
They just dedicated their entire civ to death and war. How easy or even possible do you think trying to convince them to approach life more like we do is going to be?

>>38070476
Then we just need to push some of our values and ideals. Or mollify some of theirs. Its not a case of never, just a long time.

Teach our version of mycea's teachings.

>>38070518
I don't see that. We have much more in common with the dinosau tribe. And they're now much larger and quite strong, militarily.

>>38070485
Indeed to say that she would try support treachery and mayhem is to dishonor her memory and everything she worked for. I am dissapoint in the manticores

>>38070539
I think we can redeme them. Just like we can redeem those who follow the red planet.

>>38070594
>Cyclops forgive demons and offer them salvation

>>38070485
Frankly I think we should try to prevent/mitigate this war as much as possible.

But should it break out, we avoid taking a side. Go all America on this thing. Wait on the sidelines until it either
>Seems like someone who doesn't have our best interests at heart starts to get the upper hand.
or
>Until we are personally attacked in some way.

A war amongst the gorgons might allow for some change to take place. The Gorgon empire might lose more power, The Hydra Mother could come to depend on us again. The tribes might consolodate their power or ally themselves to eachother (in some form).

>>38070610
Yep. Eventually. One step at a time. First the Manticores and the Demonologists. Then demons themselves.

>>38070594
Maybe, but I don't agree that should be done by just offering them a place in our civ. They're less like us now than they've ever been.

>>38070633
Maybe we should consider researching holy magic and spells that purify.

Can we do some exploration? Where could we go?

>>38070610
I'd rather act on the only information wexhave on them right now and that is that even if their hearts are in the right place, this is something we should turn away from.

>>38070569
We can do both. I'm still rooting for a solution where everyone is friends.

The gorgon tribes and empire pretty much owe us big time

We helped them out when the elves disappeared- we practically were propping up what was left of the old empire. If it wasn't for us the hydra mother would have no one to rule, and would be hundreds of years away from a proper incarnation, if anyone remembered her at all that is

We saved Mycea, we helped revitalized her and supported her while the Manticores were still busy stabbing each other in the backs.

We've been strong trading partners with the dinosaurs and remain committed to preserving their independence

in short- A DEBT IS OWED AND WE HAVE COME TO COLLECT

>>38070674
Explore along the coast of the mainland possible look for Islands?

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>>38068436
>Study the Origins of Monsters: Solve the problem, not the symptoms.
>Roll 13/100
>Comp- 13. ROLLED A 13 ON SPIRIT.
>+Unusual Failure.

Monsters are something of a common occurrence within your society; common enough that one of the obligations of the Sage's council is to deal with the presence of Monsters, either through appeasement or destruction if need be. The problem though is that no one really knows where monsters "come from": Monsters definitely have some sort of connotation or association with culture as monsters seem to be restricted to societies/cultures, with each sufficiently advanced culture somehow "producing" their own.. but their origins remain obscured.

>- Spritiual development: Monsters now present on mainland communities-
>This includes your city on the "tip" as well as Mycea's grove.

>-New Monster: Echoe of Mycea
>This spirit takes the transparent and vague appearence of Mycea's humanoid form. The spirits personal features seem to change from person to person, but they all recognize the being as "Mycea". Typically slowly walking in from the jungle's morning mist, their ethereal forms often draped in a gown of fungal growth; they almost always materialize before the elderly or farmers -causing predictable emotional responses-. Echoes are afraid of fire and exclusive to rural areas within Mycea's grove. There's rumors they kidnap people.

Ahhhlright, that's 3!

Go ahead guys: you may now roll for new actions.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>38070858
once again.

Theologists are free to do their thing, so long as they're careful. They should remember the sages that studied the universe and returned blind, wrote a tome, then fell into a comma for the rest of their lives.

Necromancers apply their knowledge to the fields of medicine, agriculture, investigation, and help the dead find rest and the living closure.

Eldritch study forms Occult Police and Exorcists, dealing with monsters, magic, the supernatural, ect.. Their first task is to find out what those necromancers are doing exactly. We can talk to those guys right after.

>>38070690
>Cyclops get all the gorgons together in a big room and talk
>They start out how proud they are to be friends with all of them, how much they respect and admire their different traits and how much joy it brought them to help whenever and however they could
>but, they say with a hint of sadness, we also can't help but notice how out of all the joy of creation and trade there is beginning to become an undercurrent of hate, of fear and servitude.
>The cyclops remind them how they were once ground under the heel of elven colonialism, and how the cyclops did everything in their power to break them free, and to support them in the years that followed
>Now, to see them restart these ideas makes the cyclops so DISAPPOINTED
>It hurts them to see their friends bicker and squabble, and even more so to see them pursue this course when so many better, brighter options are offered, of how it hurts them to hear that the memory of their dear friend Mycea is being used to support strife and mayhem.
>The cyclops then go on to point out that it would be terrible, simply terrible, to have to watch all the progress made be lost in death and war
>but if the gorgons pursue this course they cannot stop them. They will wait however long it takes- thousands of years if necessary
>And they will pick up the pieces and rebuild the gorgon civilization and perhaps, next time they will be more wise and remember the words of their friends

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>38069589
>>38069532
>>38068854

trying for this again

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>38070858

Explore north along the coast of the mainland

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>38070858
Diplomance Dinosaurs hard! Try to get in on whatever they are planning.

Also, force Akalade to come out of his fucking room.

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>38070858
Try to convince the demonolgy cults to give up their ways.

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>38070890
supporting too

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>38070858
Idea:
Identity tattoos/markings.
Essentially a way to record a person down for official business (e.g. contracts), use in law and judgement, and for family trees.

Everyone gets a family symbol, and their own personal that they design.

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>38070890
I'll support as well.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>38070818
Help Akelade. Get as close to him as he will permit and remind him that he is not alone. he is part of a family. People care and love for him, and want to help him however they can. The faces and names may change but as long as he remains among the cyclopians he will be part of the family and he will always be loved

>>38070890
thats a whole lot of ideas at once man. Maybe limit it to one at a time, maybe one or two of them can succeed. Rather than try them all at once and have them all fail.

>>38070921
So like the facial markings of the Turiens in Mass Effect?

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>38070944
Supporting

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>38070944
helping Akelade

>>38070890
Voting against. Far too many ideas. Some of which are far too vague.

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>38070858
Build a trading post for changelings and ant-people to frequent.

>>38070921

You are trying to make a caste system? Opposing.

Rolled 99 (1d100)

Idea, utilize adobe construction, and create shady homes in the savannas. Perhaps using mana or fungal growth to promote shady trees in the new fronteir.

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>38070952

I just meant that Magic school, everything else can wait

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>38070897
Supporting

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>>38070981
>>38070980
Yes!

>>38070997
Well, I guess there's this too...

Rolled 13 (1d20)

Try to figure out the Changling nomadic path. Establish trade routes. create cities. Maybe invite them into the jungle lands?

>>38070962
Kind of, but the personal symbol can be anywere.

The idea is for official records, contracts, law judgement (having more complex laws, e.g. vs pedophilia) and because its a tattoo or marking, we can use for the marking system for the worst criminals.

>>38070994
No? no castes at all, These are official written names, not spoken ones. This should help immensely in various areas, including law.

>>38070858
see >>38070408
and
>>38070485

>>38070921
Opposing. Runs counter to the strong dislike for individualism inherent in cyclopean culture.

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>38070818
Remind the manticores that Mycea was and always will be a spirit of peace. That her legacy should be one of love and respect, not murder and mayhem. That it hurts us to see them dishonor her memory in such a fashion and that if they continue we will no longer consider them our friends. That if they really wanted to honor Mycea's memory they would work with others, not against them. That cooperation ahs been and always will be more profitable then murder. That WE were the ones who saved Mycea and that they were all too busy stabbing each other in the back at the time. And that we will just have to hand these lenses that allow them to concentrate their magical stares to someone more responsible, like the dinosaurs or the empire, if they don't change their ways

>>38070876
Well I like this.

>>38071029
whats wrong with expanding into the savanna? Hell with a roll that good something especially awesome must happen. Like instantly making a big defensible city? or transplanting some flora?

>>38071034
>>38071049

I say names, they are just symbols that represent that person at that time in history.

The use would also help us to determine the laws of inheritance and genetic diseases among our people.

combine these:
>>38070887
>>38071056
>>38071041

>>38071068
Nothing is wrong with expanding to the savanna, it's just that we can do better than mud bricks.

>>38070890
Opposing. That many ideas at once isn't even allowed. I hope.

>>38070893
Supporting Adventuring.

>>38071098
Not all those ideas, just the primary one at the top of the list. Not all 8 of the damn things.

Also I think we should consolidate our holds on the mountains and jungles before we expand into the savahana

>>38071098
>>38070990
>>38070952

Would the idea be ok with out the second dudes list? I just want a nice school for the magic fields

>>38070890
Opposing. I dislike 1.

>>38071084
I only suggest mudbricks because anything else that we'd usually build with would get harder and harder to come by the further in we get. We have stone slabs because of the mountains and mines nearby. if we go further in, its gonna get harder to cart that up. Plus we summon Stones and minerals from the earth don't we? Imagine just "Singing" houses of adobe into existence. and then building them up fortifying them. We already do awesome stone work, imagine the structures we can make with pragmatic usage of limited resources available.

>>38070897
Supporting. Maybe see about trading for breeding pairs of domesticated animals they have that we don't.

>>38070921
I like it. It gives us a way to identify each other without having to rely on names so it doesn't run counter to collective spirit

>>38070997
opposing until we consolidate and expand our holdings in the jungles and mountains.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>38071170
Forgot my Roll.

>>38071151
We should be ideally rolling for one-twoish idea at a time. That was just a whole big list. If you like something out of said list. Mention it and roll for the idea.
(Some of the things on that list were actions by the way.)

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>38070897
Support

>>38070921
Supporting.

>>38071151
It seems to promote equal study of all the schools. I feel that demonology should be left out.

>>38071155
>>38071151
>>38071098
>>38070990
>>38070952

Guys. Forget all of the ideas in the list. When I wrote that list, I didn't even mean it to be included in the roll. I just wanted to formalize the necromancers to oversee the fungal jungles that Mycea left behind, that's all.

>>38071186
i-i didn't know opposing was a thing.
I'm definitely not against it. Especially if it prevents things like the Parrat Civ extermination.

But "better" cities/convienent building techniques to better live in the frontier? There are worse things to oppose.

>>38071246
Then anon, in future, please clarify properly. Because this is just a confusing mess now.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>38070897
SUPPORTING

DO I need to roll to support?

Rolled 84 (1d100)

Right starting again

Trying to set up a school or Laboratory for the Magic occult schools with the exception of demonology

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>>38071305
Sounds good. Let's talk to the demonologists though about how bad this stuff is coming across to us. Last thing we want to do is push them underground

>>38071305
Ok, now this i can support.

>>38071305
Completely support.

>>38071289
Agh, did my support roll just damage our chances with the dinosaur tribes? I wanted the opposite of that

>>38071289
Well, good thing your roll came way after every other roll, so it shouldn't couunt.

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>38071305
>>38071335
>>38071339
>>38071348

Glad the confusion is all cleared up

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>>38070890
>>38070907
>>38070913
>>38070933
>>38070990

>Formalize and accept the trending schools of magical study from occultism
>Roll 50/100 met with overwhelming census.
>Minimum Success +Racial Bonus, +Cultural Bonus.

Occultism has "slowly" been nipped in the bud through more progressive social efforts: Necromancy, Theology, and Elderitch study are all seeing slow, steady, and "safe" acceptance as well as practice in good and wholesome society. The acceptence and translation of these occultist studies to more formal teachings within the halls and councils of the arcanum have lead to numerous and wide reaching benefits within society:

>+Medicial practices dramatically increased+
>Necromancy is the other half of healing magic and covers many of the problems of using "pure" healing magic to treat problems. Necromancy for example is iconic for it's ability to better assist dentistry; healing magic can cause extremely painful results as teeth are "grown" back; forcing adult teeth to be forced out, become impacted or crooked- it like wise can also grows back "tusks". Necromancy brings "sophistication" to many magical medical practices.

>+Agricultural and Environmental conditions dramatically improved+
>Both Necromancy and proper Elderitch druidic practices provide an awareness of proper crop-rotation methods concerning the complex relationship between fungal and plant growth. Necromancy also allows the creation of FERTILIZERS.

(demonology in next post)

>>38071335
I dunno. For all we know these Demonologists might be straight up possessed. so reasoning with "Demons" trying to control people, about why they as "People" shouldn't consort with "demons" seems kind of like telling a hindu why eating pork is great.

>>38071305
Supporting. But with specific focus on the Necromancers forming into an order called the Order of Mycea, focusing on maintaining her creations in the city and preventing them from getting out of hand.

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>38071305
>>38071401
forgot dice roll.

>>38071401
Solar Priesthood of the Golden Bolt
Cult of the Weeping Sage
and now Order of Mycea.

Goodness we're collecting quite the collection of names of things.

>>38071460
And Wardens of the Ancient Graves for Druids/Elderitch Lore.

>>38071460
The Brotherhood of Crucibles for Alchemy.

>>38071305
I hope you didn't just screw us over by forgetting to leave out demonology the first time.

>>38071560
To be fair demonology sounds really fucking scary, especially if it freaked Mycea out.

It might have something to do with the presence of monsters. The red world is either another planet in our system, or a psychic concurrent reality (a la Emerald Dream) full of horrible things.

That said, should we let her panic and fear taint us? Or should we convert our demonologists into a daring first defense against the darkness?

>>38071776
We find out what they want to achieve first.

>>38071776
We should do what she said. Don't tamper with it. More than panic and fear was the certainty that it was something we should leave alone. We have every reason to trust her on this.

>>38071776
Speaking of Mycea, we should really invest in some more shaman stuff to talk to these ghosts. If they turn out to actually be benign monsters (unlikely, but lets hope) they could be appreciated and much needed guardians.

>>38071889
I bet all of our monster problems have their origin in the Red World and the Mycea spirits are actually some sort of succubi.

>>38071889
That would be a good idea. I'll support it in the next round.

>>38072022
All the more reason to send shamans if true. Though I don't see why it would be. Spirits are part of the natural world here.

>>38072022
If that is the case it might lend some credence to the Red World as some psychic id powered plane of existence a la Event Horizon.

>>38072079
I'd believe that.

The denizens are probably all Cenobites or something.

>>38072098
>>38072079
Maybe the Red World is the Elves world after they killed it? The psychic imprint of whatever progenitor that had created their world

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>>38072175
>the elves we originally encountered are now Dark Elves residing inside the Red World

>>38072234
we really need to ask about the elves to Akelade once he gets out of his funk

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>>38071375

The Demonoligists are not included; they are secluded, they are distinct, and their motives are unusual and the impression and response of Mycea has left a bad taste in the mouth of the Sage council. They agree they can't be ignored, but formal Cyclopean society is benevolent; she says they can be reached, there's no reason to think otherwise.

The Demonoligists are personally addressed by a small portion of the Sage council who make the commute to their little group; They make their home adjacent to the volcanic rock and hills on your home island of all places, so it isn't a "long walk".

They seem to have been in the middle of constructing some sort of door-way; using Geomancy and Pyromancy to bend and mold Obsidian and black volcanic rock to their will before using hand tools to carve finer details and runes. An arduous and tiring procedure- they welcome a break from their work to talk with the Sage council.

The conversation between them is.. brief and quiet; the disapproval of Mycea is mentioned and the Demonoligists look visibly concerned, but they do not display shock or surprise. They remain quiet: answering with short, concise, responses.

The Demonoligists tone is apologetic reluctance; they believe what they are doing is for the best, that they must remain committed and in their own way it seems they may not know the full scope of their actions, but they insist, "The Red World Calls."

>The Demonoligists have agreed to stop their efforts, but they say, "It is inevitable: across every world, across all creation, The Red world Calls."

>>38072266
speaking of which...
>>38070980

>>38072437
If the Red World brings us busty demons, I'm okay with this.

>>38072437
Oh lord they're making a portal

>>38072437
"Yes, but call for what? Friendship, or destruction?"

>>38072437
Find out more about why the rec world calls. Also, dismantle that gate like structure. The consecrate the area.

Also, can we call upon the sun for guidance? Have the demonologists present for the event so if the sun appears, he can address them directly.

>>38072437
>The Demonoligists tone is apologetic reluctance
Weird.
They're weird. But at least it means at least they likely aren't malicious, despite likely malicious evil things that might come from their actions.

>>38072599
We were sure of that. We need more information and the sun's word on this.

>>38072674
Consulting the sun defo needs to happen, along with the moon and stars.

>>38072674
We really don't though. It's a can of worms we don't have to open. We have no reason to believe it would be benificial to study it, only reasons to believe it's harmful.

>>38072792
On the contrary, we could run into other civs who did study it, and would be beneficial as a defensive measure, or maybe a magical fault line split open as a minor portal in this world someplace?

Really we are still too magically immature to even poke it yet, unless we really want a red world portal taking over our home island. (if its there). What ever we do, any portal should be on a remote place from our main lands if its ever built.

>>38072873
let's ask the demonologists to write down what their studies turned up. If it's purely theoretical it can't hurt us and it'll be god to have the knowledge banked if we need it

>>38072792
We need to know enough to make an informed decision. That's why I say we consult the sun, our patron and defender. He would not lead us astray in this matter.

>>38072947
perhaps we could ask the gorgon empress about it ? as the reincarnation of the hydra mother she probably have some insight.

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>>38070921

>Develop Identifying Tattoos
>Roll 96/100
>Success, +But Cultural standards have.. misinterpreted your intentions.

Collectivism exists on an incredibly ingrained level within Cyclopean: to such a degree that having a name is a cultural taboo. People do not have "names", identity is based off of the personal and outwardly context you present within society through actions, skills, and whom one associates with. Personal identity is something very open, fluid, and often changing within society.
It doesn't however impeded quantitative information: Cyclopes can keep records and track people though complex and arbitrary methods that at times can seem completely alien to people not within their society.

This brings the question of Tattoos: personal, permanent, markings and so forth are something of a "loop hole". Cyclopes do indeed enjoy stylizing and complimenting themselves with personal adornment and this does include tattoos. Tattoos however have seen use for two purposes:

>+Non-verbal Casting:Tattoos
>Magic is typically expressed through songs known as Hymns; their chorus affecting and altering the world at the behest of the soul. Tattoos though create an interesting loop hole in that they can express hymns or "cast magic" through non-verbal means via intent of the user.

>+/- Societal Punishment: Tattooing
>Cyclopes do not like to be "truly named"; there's a certain ease of fluidity and casual'ness to their vaguely anonymous society: it greatly assists and provides cohesion between large numbers of people and doesn't allow others to be trivialized or singled out making tension non-existance and feuds next to impossible. To Tattoo someone is a very serious punishment for a very serious crime,as it allows a constant identity and removes someone's cherished freedom of "unbiased judgement". Tattooing is an incredibly harsh punishment as unlike exile or ostracizaion; you often cannot escape tattooing.

>>38072997
At this point, I really don't trust the Hydra Mother to do anything other than further her own interests.

If she likes the Red World, she'll give us bad information.

>>38072873
And what did Mycea say?

>You must stop them because I love you and I know you and I know they are doing what the think is best in their hearts. They need to be stopped

If people won't take the literal word of a God who we know for a fact only had our best interests at heart, then I don't know what to say.

>>38073006

Er, sorry, I made that sound contradictory:

Tattooing as a punishment is basically, "we're going to tattoo you in so you can WEAR what you've done and remind everyone of what an asshole you are."

Vs the more casual/personal tattooing Cyclopes willingly enjoy which is usually just simple iconography that is more vague and expressive.

We're reaching a point where culture has very complicated subtle nuances.

>>38073038
please note:
Other civs may study it. Just because we say no means nothing. Mycea warned us, and she is right, which is why i would not touch it with a barge pole until well into the advanced magics, so we can lock down and reverse anything bad that happens and just generally deal with that shit.
Ignoring it does not stop it existing. We are not the only magical beings on this world. These are simple facts.

>>38073087
Its cool. The none verbal casting will be a great boon to everyone.

>>38073087
Note: does this deal with the pedophillia endemic we have been having?

>>38073087
Maybe the punsihment tattoos go on the face? Around the eye? Some place exceedingly painful, impossible to remove short of blinding yourself, and immediately visible. I find it unlikely that cyclops would otherwise tattoo that area?

>>38073151
I think we should make it apply if it doesn't already. Same for murderers and rapists. These 3 groups undermine the essential trust all cyclops have for one another.

>>38073156
I doubt they would make tattooing itself painful, but yeah it would be in a prominent area- the face, the hands, forearm, etcetera

>>38073121
I don't think we should operate under the assumption that other civs might study, therefore we should too at some point.

We were warned in no uncertain terms that this is something we should not meddle with.

>>38073205
Tattoos are painful. I don't think we can avoid that, especially for facial tattoos I imagine.

>>38073245
Anon, i understand the worry, but the unknown is more sure to bite you in the ass than heavily prepared and cautiously probed known. We don't even have to investigate it much, just enough to see intent and to develop counter measures for if we should ever need them.

>>38073298
And we can probably ask for such measures from the Sun, Moon, and Stars so that we don't have to get much from them otherwise.

>>38073323
Well if they give them to us, then i agree fully not to open the portal and prod the beast. I was speaking generally since we do not know if they will be able to.

>>38073298
Again, she said even if in their hearts they think it best, you must stop them. Even looking into it with the best intentions was warned against.

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>>38070997
>>38070991
>>38070893
>>38071107

>Explore and further develop the Plains/Mainlands just north: Trading post, further upgrades, and more dwellings, etc..
>Roll 99/100
>DOUBLE 99.
>Complete success met with interesting results

The North, beyond the mountains: it is a land defined by arid plains, unusual mounds which mysterious Ant beings seem to reside within, and a mysterious nation and species of morphic chalk-pale beings known as the changelings. The only solace or sign of relief within these lands is the coasts which host flourishing jungles, but are home to a number of dangerous large mammals and dinosaurs.

The Few Cyclopes whom willingly dwell within this Area only do so within close proximity to the road leading beyond the mountain and into the safety of the province of Mycea's Grove: Mostly mining towns, hunting camps, some small agrarian settlements in the jungles and the people whom frequent the trade monolith.

Your presence on the savanna has been growing though and the Changelings that frequent your area have become more and more accustomed to your unusual people. Trade has slowly and steadily grown and has brought an assortment of new and interesting items: Cheese, paper books, illustrated literature, wine, as well as a host of grain breads and vegetables.

The most interesting thing they've brought -though very rarely- is a strange orange tinted metal they use for some of their tools and weapons as well as their distinctly mammalian livestock you've noticed them herd and go to great efforts to protect: Small, noisy, googly-eyed looking deer with rigged horns and beards called a "goat" as well as much LARGER, wide shouldered, deer with long triceratops like horns and black, red, or white hides that they call an "Aurochs".

>>38073428
Look, we need info. If we can't get that without trafficking with the red world? Then we cut this off cold.

>>38073464
I wonder what the cyclops thought of cheese when they first saw it.

>so you mean you let a bucket of milk rot, wait until it's a yellow paste, and then you eat it?

>>38073485
We don't need info, we already know it's bad news. Unless you dare claim that Mycea may have been lying or hiding something.
That makes you a heathen.

>>38073680
I'm saying that even she wouldn't ask us to be blind. We aren't the only ones being called by thus. We have to know enough to fucking defend ourselves.

>>38073680
Info to potentially protect ourselves if we should come across it elsewhere, which in a magical world, is very likely. Are you not getting this concept? Mycea does not dictate what we do, even if we respect her greatly.

>>38073680
Mycea probably has been lying from the start, though. We were foolish to trust her.

>>38073655
>They try cheese, and to their surprise it's delicious
> They decide to experiment with letting other foods rot into pastes
> Cyclops civilization is rife with indigestion and food poisoning over the next few months

>>38073719
We should try to make elephant cheese. And maybe expand into pastries and cakes.

Have we found chocolate yet?

>>38073718
Go to hell.

>>38073680
>Unless you dare claim that Mycea may have been lying or hiding something.
She definitely was hiding the fact that she would die when she would enact her plan. And if it weren't for the fact we eavesdropped on her celestial conversation, she might've been lied to us about what her plan even was too.

I don't think she would've lied or hid stuff from us for malicious intent. But she has indeed, LIED and HIDDEN truths from us.

>>38073719
WE AM PLAY GOD

>>38073718
Actually, direct quote from the OP:

>Hold on, hold on. What if she just did something really bad? What if she and the hydra mother conned us?

When we found Mycea she had been left for dead; a dried out husk of a god that had been physically and mentally abused for possibly centuries at the behest of a more advanced civilization that simply did not respect her beyond her functional use as a tool.
Mycea was saved by you, Mycea was nursed back to health by you, Mycea who had spent a life of abuse, neglect, and manipulation was treated to an insurmountable amount of respect she had never once experienced before in her long, long, life- and you did it without a moments notice and asked for nothing in return.

Mycea lived as she died; for other people, but she at the very least died for the people who actually cared about her. If there were ever a being or faction that truly and completely loved your people- it was Mycea.

>>38073718
If she has its that "better they don't know" kind of lie parents tell their children. Its a santa claus lie, its the "gone to the farm" lie.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1aro0i_cheese-modern-marvels-discovery-history-food-documentary_tv

Food for thought.

>>38073719
>just_as_planned.parrat

>>38073781
>hydra mother
That reminds me. We've still yet to get our "Reward" from the hydra mother for helping Mycea kill the deep eye.

Snake bitch owes us big time.

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>>38073718
>Not trusting Mycea
>Wanting a gate to the Red World

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>>38073858
IT CALLS

>>38073885
Meh. Our snake-ladies are better than that.

>>38073754
it was for our own good, tough, and at her personal loss. We probably should follow her advice blindly, even if it's hard.

>>38073849
I say our reward, when we call on it, should be an end to hostilities after we convince the manticore a to join us As a single culture... Or.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but births between a cyclops male and a forgo female result in a local born gorgon right? Could we ask her to change her people so it's an equal chance of being either parent's race?

>>38073745
Cocoa beans haven't been discovered, at least I don't think so. But elephant cheese sounds delicious. If/when we get around to trading tech with the changelings, we should make sure to ask for cheese making.

>>38073754
Given her reaction, she definitely wasn't trying to fuck us over with the info about the red world.

>>38073849
Can't forget about that. We should make it an action next turn.

>>38073971
>Could we ask her to change her people so it's an equal chance of being either parent's race?

or an hybrid third race that can reproduce with both?

>>38073971
I'll oppose the first paragraph but we've been hoping for the second, or sometthing like it, for what must be millinea by now.

>>38074015
I say we ask her to make it so Gorgons can give birth to children of the race of either parent, left entirely up to chance.

>>38074050
I say no hybrids. Our races will continue to be themselves. Not replace either parent's race.

>>38074095
I hope to either get gorgons to produce something more cyclops-y or outright produce male cyclops.

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>>38070897
>>38068669
>>38070944
>>38070981

>Provide support for Akalade; investigate his emotional distress and or reasoning behind ostracizing himself.
>Roll 18/20
>Overwhelming Success. +Cultural Bonus


A number of people including Akalade's own adopted family have become more and more concerned with his well being and emotional health due to the recent and abrupt change in attitude and behavior. When Akalade originally came here he was xenophobic, mildly racist, and vocally intolerant of the indigenous culture. However, his heart slowly changed, he found love and at some points even stopped wearing his suit outside.
But then he lost love, experienced death, watched as everyone around him grew old and died, and the only thing that remained constant within his life was his work.

You come to Akalade's home to try and find out what's wrong: He's locked himself in and has regrown a kind of protective sealed membrane around his room that's much like the one he originally obsessed over. What can only amount to an "intervention"; Akalade's entire family is there to try and get him to come out of his room.

It takes a while, but Akalade does eventually come out of his room; he's not wearing his suit though, but instead coming out completely covered in a silk blanket he desperately clings to. His little face peeking out is defined by empty sad eyes that seem to have accepted some fate before he slowly lowers his blanket and shows you what has happened to cause such distress. (part 2 incoming)

>>38074015
We should bank it I think. For now let's focus on geting the gorgons to work together and for the hydra mother to be less dickish

>>38074155
That'd be a pretty tough birth though. Even cyclops babies must be pretty damn big.

>>38074188
Could be that those born from gorgon eggs just grow faster after they've hatched and catch up with normal ones?

Also, Gorgons birthing female cyclops and Gorgons alone would work just fine given our lack of monogamy.

>>38074188
Well, maybe cyclops-fathered gorgons have gotten bigger over time.

And don't gorgons lay eggs anyway?

>>38074170
Extra credit? Not a bad idea.
"So remember that favor you said you owed us but never delivered on? Well, we just got all of your tribes to stop fighting and killing each other. Peace, love, yadda yadda yadda."
Narrow eye. "Now about that favor."

>>38074170
Pretty much this.

Now that Akalade and the demon cult are under control, let's resolve the political situation.

Help the Dinosaur tribe with whatever it is planning and show the Hydra Mother she isn't on the right path.

Instead of using our gift for cyclops/gorgon hybrids, which the gods have confirmed as being a bad idea, we should use it to ask for her to be more open, to be kind and receptive. You know, less of a bitch

>>38074170
Reading about the hydra-mother through the threads... I really think she's just tsundere as fuck. She is a fertility and maternity goddess. She just has a really hard time acting like she truly loves others. She apparently feels strong maternal feelings for all sapient beings... I'm willing to bet she's torn up as fuck about having to hurt the manticore tribe, but she's gotta fight them given their culture to protect those who have sworn to her.

>>38074304
Not hybrids, just children of both species.

>>38074308
Maybe she has something like Akelades problem? She has to watch her children die over and over.....

>>38074350
That's what I'm thinking. Read her entry in the beastiary.

>>38074308
>we compose the ultimate lullaby full of ara-ara and love for one's children; one that makes gorgons weep and hug their daughters
>play it to the Hydra Mother

>>38074338
That could backfire. It'd give the Gorgon Empire natural born cyclopean sons.

>>38074472
I don't see how that's a backfire.

>>38074472
Except as far as I know. All cyclops born are between Gorgons who joined us, no cyclops has joined the gorgon empire.

>>38074491
Because cyclopeans are the most powerful spellcasters we know of and the Empire is no stranger to war.

>>38074472
isn't that what we've been trying with our gorgon waifus?

>>38074511
I mean all cyclops-gorgon pairings were between citizens of our empire, not theirs.

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>>38074168

His ears have become much longer and drawn out, folding slightly within themselves much like a deer's, his forehead seems larger- to the point where a flat wide ridge is beginning to form pushing up his teal hair that he's allowed to grown long and unkempt from isolation. What's more; Akalade is beginning to fill out slightly with greater height, lean muscle definition and a very slightly fuller "chest" expressed in his form as well as a vividly bright-blue patterning beginning to develop in the form of square shaped patterning that dot his cheeks, neck, and shoulders like large freckles. Akalade's face is slightly sharper, with subtly more prominent cheek bones- He's very quick to stop below the stomach. He is in no rush to show you what has happened to his genitals.


There's resignation in Akalade's voice, "I have ... spent too much time on this world." He begins to weep, despite there not being any change in his face or distant expression. "I will continue to worsen: I will grow ugly and then I will grow stupid and there is nothing I can do."

>Akalade believes his prolonged exposure to the world's explicit and constant magical radiation in the form of food, drink, and physical interaction with it's indigineous flora and fauna has caused him to "adapt" to his environment.

>He could, also; just be going through his Species' version of puberty, due to the necessary environmental and nutritional methods being met and he's freaking out because his species is "immortal" and most likely do not experience secondary sexual maturity under "normal" conditions.

>It is most likely both.

Either way: Akalade is not used to being an "animal": this is an extremely unusual, confusing, and uncomfortable experience for Akalade right now that disgusts and frightens him.

Do we have access to sugar? Sugarcane or sugar beets?

>>38074594
This one is defiantly a moon question.

>>38074595
taro and sweet potatoes for starches from what I remember
>>38074594
Poor guy... what can we do to help him? Find some way to reverse the change? Help him ease into his transition?

>>38074663
Good idea... we really need to consult with the spirits too, maybe they could tell us about the negative 'monster' phemonena

>>38074594
tell him he is beautiful.

>>38074663
We could also maybe use our improved healing magic to try to help him understand what's happening.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>38074594

Invent Therapy?
Invent a school of Psychology?

>>38074594
We obviously need to comfort him. He is our friend, our companion, above all else. We love him for him, we know he won't become stupider, he has been a font of wisdom to us, a guide, good to us, and his changes will not take away his intellect.

>>38074594
Akalade needs the talk. He's not becoming an animal, he's just growing up, e.t.c.
Try to comfort him by getting explaining the process of puberty to him.

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>>38074594
>Akalade is becoming a girl now.

Okay, we really need to get his mind off things. Can we get him to help us with the Dinosaur tribe? He is an anthropologist, right? Well, go study.

Also, find him another boyfriend. One who will whisper sweet nothings into his ear. Hell, give him a harem of cyclops and gorgons.

Just take his mind off of everything with work and good company. That's all that should matters.

>>38074672
I'd vote to ease the transition. There's no way we should mess with whatever adaptation system he has.

At least he isn't turning into a monster from that Pandorum movie.

>>38074594
Ask him if he wants a hug, and then if there's anything we can do to help

>>38074741
I doubt sexual partners right now is a good idea. let that area, stabalize for now. Leave it be.

distracting him is fine though.

>>38074741
I doubt he'd want any more mates right now. He'd just have to watch them die eventually and he thinks he's hideous anyway.

>>38074728
>>38074721
>>38074713
This. Tell him that whatever is happening is a natural process, that it isn't taking anything away from him, and that we love him no matter what he looks like, so he should love himself too.

>>38074758
He should still be invited to parties and such. Just tell people to maybe lay off the orgies around him.

I think he'll come to accept his changes if we accept them.

>>38074801
It really wouldn't hurt to ask the moon either.

>>38073006
>>38073087
http://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html

>>38074594
So... this makes me wonder. Are Elves Proto-gods? Was Mycea Elf-y before she was a Mushroom Goddess? Or does the "deer-Man" transformation come to every good ol elf at some point, and we just never noticed it until now since most of them were in suits.

>>38074921
I think the elves have some kind of auto-evolution technology/magic, a la the movie Pandorum.

If this planet had species that breathed methane, then elves sent there would eventually breathe methane.

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>>38073745
>>38073987
>Have we found chocolate yet?
YES. Well, no.
You have a Firm, Coral-like Red, Fungus called Chakka or something- It grows in large, hard, formations ontop of other fungi and can be dried and made into powder, etc.. It tastes like spicy chocolate and Gorgons use it to make hot chocolate.
I mentioned in once during Fungal crop research, but you guys never made mention of it.
There is no sugar though.

>>38074248
>And don't gorgons lay eggs anyway?
Yes, they lay 1-2 eggs. Rarely 3. They're about the size of an American Football, but at least they're "egg" shaped, you know?

You guys can go ahead and roll for new actions now.
After this next roll; Mycea's next phase of planning will take effect.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>38074980
Create a civilization wide day of rememberance for Mycea and fully induct her into our pantheon.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>38074980
Preform Diplomancy:
Speak with the Manticore Tribe. Talk with them about the things we learned from Mycea. See about trading with them, maybe trade for breeding pairs of any domesticated animals they have, and ask about taking care of Mycea grove together until Her/His return as S/he will return. It may not be tomorrow or even in are lifetime, but she/he will return and when that day comes she will find us waiting.

Speak with the Snow Cyclopes about trading for breeding pairs of any domesticated animals they have that we don't and if they don't have Boiling Lizard maybe undertake a adventure to capture them together.

Improve relations with the Dinosaur Tribe. Maybe see about trading for breeding pairs of any domesticated or tame creatures they have, learn about magic from each other, and throwing the best party in the history of parties to thank them for helping Kush.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>38074980
Get Akalade to help us with the Dinosaur tribe, so as to keep his mind off his body.

Also, diplomance the Dinosaur tribe and try to see what they're planning. Maybe sell them some of the goods we got from the changelings.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>38074980
Establish an aquatic trading route over the ocean between the main islands and the settlement in the plains. A better influx of resources will allow the development of the plains to go that much more smoothly.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>38074980
We should see about importing and adapting fungal crops

First things first though, I resubmit
>>38070887
>>38071056

Diplomatic overtures among the gorgons, especially the manticores

>>38074980
>They're about the size of an American Football
Gorgon babies must be really fucking tiny then.

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>38074980
Get a closer understanding of the Manticore Tribe, try make them our official allies.

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>38074980
Go to the manticore tribes we can find, ask the, to job us, to put their martial skill to good use protecting and serving the cycle of life and death, rather than expediting it through treachery and deceit. Mycea would not have wanted them to descend into hatred and violence, but to protect the natural life spans of things, not bring about their early ends.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>38074980
Ask the moon about what's happening to Akalade.

>>38075071
Nice 20.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>38074980
Talk to akelade, find out what we can do to help him feel more comfortable. I don't know if this requires a roll or not... but I like the idea of him experiencing some of the gorgon culture

>>38075073
>>38075071

I really hope the 20 links these two, so we can redeem them and make the manticore fully part of us, favored children of Mycea.

>>38075079
Ikr? two twenties in the same thread
>>38075078
poor Akalade can't catch a break....

>>38075071
That won't be seen as a hostile action by the Empire or Dinosaurs at all, will it?

>>38074594

Tell him he is beautiful and give him/her the D.

Rolled 18 (1d100)

IDEA: intergrate fungal crops commonly used by gorgons into our own crops

>>38075093
>>38075019
Seconding. Akalade needs to be our third party scholar.

If anyone can write objectively about what's going on with the gorgons, it's him.

>>38075078
This might not be good.

>Red World picks up the phone.

>>38075078
Oh shit...

>>38075131
We already have fungal crops...

>>38075140
I'm seventh down. I don't think I made the cut anyway.

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>38074980
Create Therapy

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>>38075136
>>38075140
Elven puberty is terrifying.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>38074980
You know... we created hovering pots powered by Hymn right? I wonder what would happen if we took those pots and those hymns and turned them into Horns. Maybe create magic powered Jet Propulsion.

>>38075120
Hopefully not, want the tribes to unite together and set aside their differences so they would grow strong and form a independent union for the Gorgon empire.

>>38075182
I wouldn't go too far on the floating pots.

Let's just use hymns to power wheels and make a train or something.

>>38075197
I like this idea.

>>38075188
That'll be hard to do when we just might've allied with the most bloodthirsty group of the lot.

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>>38075197
Well i'm not quite suggesting floating pots. To my understanding what makes the pots exert enough force to float is done through pipes and hymns reverberating through them correct? what if we used this to make a sort of Funnel to sing into? attaching that funnel to a boat or cart, and then singing into a pipe to propel it foreward?

Its just something that came to me.

>>38075120
>>38075188
I think making them our official allies would include stopping them from waging internecine war with our other allies

OK so far: WE DIPLOMANCY THE FUCK OUT OF THE GORGON TRIBES

Help Akelade feel better

Anything else?

>>38075197
Or invent airships. Kept afloat by the gasbag, propelled by magic.

Off-topic question: Would anyone be interested in a session of Myrmidon Civilization Quest? I've been trying to run it daily, but the fan-base seems to be waning.

>>38075258
We could make our own wind for sails with this idea... I like it

>>38074980
>After this next roll; Mycea's next phase of planning will take effect.
Oh dear. I hope it's a good phase.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>38075078
supporting!!!

>>38075238
I prefer to think we've redeemed them... What with that nat 20.

Anyway, next turn, gong to outdoor an actio. To revitalize industry in Our empire, we'll build up the mines in the mountains, and the farms in Mycea's Domain. Then from there, we should build a giant magic school/temple to Mycea in her domain.

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>38075078
Supporting