Muttonhawk

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Muttonhawk PR being in what measure of time?

@Slime

It's years post realta invasion, just like the turn post. Galbar has roughly Earth-like year lengths for simplicity.

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I’m never going to live that terrible Post down am I?

@Lauder

I have recorded everything relevant to the Hain ;)

*corpse continues to rot*

@Scarifar

*Casts gentle repose spell*

Need some inspiration?

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

I decided to update this chunk of the hain timeline, now that we actually have a timeline reference point. Please feel free to help me out with specific orderings. Currently everything is marked 'c.' for circa, seeing as the order matters more than the timespan.

If people would like to help my sanity while this is being added to, please do add a circa year PR on your posts. It's not compulsory but I would be most appreciative.

Also keep in mind that with the new turn system, probably less is going to be crammed into a few years at a time.

Hider

The Blinding Purge and the Bronze Age

0 PR: Logos' realta storm Galbar from all directions. Countless are caught in their indiscriminate fire, marking the largest planetwide massacre in existence. The attacks last for between a few days and a few weeks before stopping.

c. 1 PR: Death of Kyre at the hands of Xos.

c. 1 PR: Tauga the Blowfly, a Jvannic hain, unites a predominantly hain slave community in Xerxes to rebuild the city in Amartia's absence. Coinage is conceived.

c. 1 PR: Amartia returns to Xerxes with the Fallen Victors and assumes control from Tauga in an apparently peaceful handover.

c. 2 PR: Keriss visits Xerxes. Her reputation is recorded.

c. 2 PR: Keriss and Tauga meet.

c. 2 PR: After failed attempts to set the city back to order, Tauga leaves Xerxes with the last sane emigrants. Xerxes is bathed in Amartia's deluge of bloodlust a short time after.

c. 2 PR: Under the guidance of Gerrik Far-Teacher, the tribe of Fibeslay build the world's first lighthouse to receive boats from the East. Chipper superstitions are shaken in the tribe.

c. 3 PR: The armies of Amestris and Xerxes meet to decide the ultimate fate of Amestris. Vestec abducts the city into a massive arena in his Realm of Madness. Lifprasil's cosmic knights win a pyrrhic victory and a hole in the ground remains the only trace of the great city of Xerxes. Tauga the Blowfly is named Marquis of Amestris by Lifprasil.

c. 3 PR: Edda, the marked hain of Toun's will, lands at Loralom.

c. 3 PR: The Loralom Spires burst out of the ground, rallying the hain of Yorum to the Marked Hain Edda and King Akol the Quickhatched.

c. 3 PR: 'The Tragedy of the Scaled Goddess,' a ubiquitous oral hain story is spread following Keriss' tryst with a hain in a village near the Venomweald, resulting in the village's destruction. Versions of the story diverge wildly as to its final act.

c. 3 PR: Gerrick the apprentice brings agriculture, flint and steel sparking, and cold forging to the hain community of Tallgrass in Mesathelassa. After a time, he also independently innovates agriculture, as it had not reached that part of the world by then.

c. 3 PR: The ogre king Ommok invades and occupies hain tribal confederations between the Venomweald and the Shimmering Sea.

c. 3 PR: Xerxian refugees under Tauga inhabit the north-Metatic island of Axotal.

c. 4 PR: Legends of Aihtiraq the Wishdjinn spread.

c. 4 PR: Occult alchemy is spread through sculptors via Teknall's whispers.

c. 4 PR: Stories of Farxus, the Deathbed Counsellor permeate through Hain folklore from those surviving near-death experiences.

c. 4 PR: The Metera Valley community develop worship of the Painter Chiral Phi.

c. 4 PR: Stories of Anthanasios, the half-beast healer, spread throughout Galbar.

c. 4 PR: Urtelem are imparted with mathematically precise Belruarcian rune magic by Teknall. Hain communities previously unprotectable from powerful threats by Urtelem now find their rocky allies much more capable.

c. 5 PR: The Celestial Citadel plummets into the Vetruvian Desert. Vizier Ventus' death causes worldwide instability in weather patterns.

c. 5 PR: Teknall rebuilds the fallen and ruined Celestial Citadel into the Terrestrial Citadel, leaving it for any worthy inhabitants. Clockdog is always worthy.

c. 5 PR: Vestec gathers and remakes Kyre's shattered sword, before granting it to Aeramen, the Djinni Lord of the Hilt, founding the Knight Protectors.

c. 5 PR: Helvana, the Corvian Witch, saves a hain village from a trapped realta.

c. 6 PR: The communities living on Axotal (including the refugees from Xerxes) develop great innovations in ship design, navigation, and metallurgy.

The reason Kyre's death is so early in the piece is basically due to Conata setting out soon after the realta attack and meeting Aeramen. Aeramen mentions that Kyre has been 'quiet' at the time, which was meant to hint that the god had died by that point. Why it took a few years for the current hullabaloo to come around can be put down to divine timescaling.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Somehow, focussing on counting the seconds was more helpful to Sabine than distracting. She had to keep her mind on two things at once, leaving little room for nerves to escalate. She continued her approach until she found her own wide tree trunk to hide behind. One by one, she directed the spheres into individually concealed positions. They settled behind bushes, trees, large rocks, whatever obscured sight from the camp, even if they were still far enough away that the concealment would not be required. The slope up to the camp made hiding easier. Once in respective position, each sphere stilled its vibrations and waited like lost treasures.

Sabine sent two quick vibrations through Ahnasha's ring. She was ready. Now all that was left was to keep watch. She could climb the tree in front of her to get a vantage point, camouflaged as she was, to alert Ahnasha to trouble.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Sabine returned almost silently. She landed amongst the leaves at Ahnasha's feet and, after a moment of concentration, exploded in a green light that obscured her transformation from a raven back to a Breton. She straightened and shivered. A pause later and she made eye contact with Ahnasha. "One of the Orc twins is keeping watch he is still injured. Others are awake as well, including Do'rhajul. I could not see how many. Probably not all of them." Sabine gestured to show the maps again and pointed out the areas of interest. "These two tents are no longer standing. There is another tent here. Everything else is as shown."

Without prompt, Sabine took a step back and retrieved a potion skin from her shoulderbag. Holding the control rod in the crook of one arm, she unstoppered the potion and drank it down quickly. "I will count us down," she said afterwards. "Then we can move."

Before counting, Sabine cast a spell that waved around herself in a purple and blue aura. When it settled a second later, she was camouflaged and presumably undetectable by the wards. "After three. One...two...three...go." Another spell, deep cyan this time, flowed like a wave over the automatons from where Sabine was. Each fell eerily silent as they trundled through the undergrowth. The mission had truly begun.

Sabine went her own way to lead the automatons nearer to the camp. She kept her ears and eyes sharp and her footsteps light. As she approached the enemy camp, she looked out for any movement as well as concealment for her spheres. All the while, she kept a count in her head. She readied to send two small vibrations through to Ahnasha's ring with every minute that passed.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Well, I wrote pretty much this entire thing in one shot over the course of the night.

There will be more and more exciting Marquisate posts eventually, but heads up that this will be my last non-collab post for a while. I'm writing a novel this month and that will take up the vast majority of my creative powers. Also, exams.

tl;dr

T A U G A P O S T I N G

don't steal too much of my tech while I'm gone kthnxbye

@Antarctic Termite

It was only a matter of time. Good luck with your buuk!

@Antarctic Termite Are you doing Nanowrimo?

@Malchivo

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Ugh, I almost forgot about the plan of Sabine doing a flyover. If she won't get much more information than you've already provided, I can edit my post to extend it and start the main phase of the plan properly.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

"I know," Sabine said. She pointed her staff nearby and the spheres rolled up in formation. "The first step first. I will be back in a moment."

Sabine charged a strange spell in both hands. Closing her eyes, she stroked her hands over the air around her until a crescendo of green light flashed. Her body, clothes, and even the control rod instantaneously winked into a fluttering black shape that flew up into the air. Raven Sabine ascended to a height above their heads and glided towards the camp.

She planned to skirt some of the trees around the camp, flying over as quickly as she could before returning. Scouting for any longer than the average bird was too great a risk. Especially in the moonlight.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Sabine returned the hug just as tightly. She nodded to each of Meesei's points. While Meesei's own worry rubbed off on her, the words did centre her. With more determination, Sabine looked intensely back at Meesei and spoke. "I will."

Meanwhile, once Fendros was certain that they were safe on the other end of the portal, he came up behind Ahnasha and put a hand on her shoulder and turned her gently to face him. He had his helmet off, clutched under the crook of his other arm. He smiled. "Show me you can pull this off and I'll have a damned hard time trying to one-up you," he said with some levity, before pulling her into a short kiss. When they pulled away, he ran a thumb over Ahnasha's cheek. "I love you, Ahna. Do what you do best."

Sabine soon strode up in front of the automatons with the staff in one hand and her bonded ring on her finger raised where she could see it. "Let's test the signals," she said. With that, Sabine repeated the various signals they had worked out, announcing them before the pattern of vibrations came through on Ahnasha's ring. Ahnasha would get signals from Sabine to warn her of hazards, to tell her to retreat immediately, to assure that she was safe, to acknowledge a message received, and intermittently while she counted the time left on the enchantment. Ahnasha had similar signals for Sabine if she needed help, when she had planted the book, and other such messages.

"Four minutes and seventeen seconds," Sabine reminded. She gave Ahnasha a look. "Tell me when you are ready and I will keep count."

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Sabine did not hesitate to nod. She was tense enough. "I promise."

She concentrated on directing the spheres under her command through the portal. The memories of the ambush, she realised, were rearing their head. Every second was making her more nervous. She had to focus.

Fendros looked left and right one last time. He and Ahnasha had said their goodbyes and reassurances to Rhazii before they left to muster with the others, but he did not want to take the chance of Rhazii trying anything rash. Fendros wondered how much help it was to keep the mission details from him with all the activity.

"I'm glad those Dwemer things are going in ahead of us in the portal," Janius said as he neared the group. He and Kaleeth were armoured and ready to go with the warriors. "We really ought to keep one with us as a decoy out on missions."

"You're right," Fendros said. He frowned. "At least that is one thing to be comforted by."

Janius clapped Fendros on the shoulder. "Hey, this is on our terms now. Watch, this'll go fine."

"I know."

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

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Wh-what? o-o

And wow, Belru is so generous. So so so generous. I think she's donated the most of any god to Fate's Might Pot

@Kho

Honestly I'm tempted to staunch her might allowance until she becomes a god again.