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Well, again: explorers might go far enough to stumble on the Ayels and get into some trouble with them. If you want that to happen, it happens.

Hah, well I'd have to expand out a bit first (which will happen in the third century), and then it'd be the humans they stumble upon anyway. It's gotten to the point that the Ayels themselves rarely, if ever, leave their section of Qa-Avnel.

I wuld say it should be the work of several hundred years on-and-off to complete an engineering task like a Zaqiri Canal. Consider that the construction of the Pyramids usually took the whole life of the Pharoah for whom they were intended, and marshalled a tremendous amount of resources. Cathedrals in Europe were usually constructed on a less-intense schedule, but the largest could still take 100-200 years to see completion and required huge amounts of labour, wealth and time nonetheless.

Just fyi, I'm going to add in a couple of Human tribes and nations to the world in my next update; I'll try to flesh them out, and you can use them as you like. I'll throw a few bones the way of the Grogar - ancient Empires and all that. The map seems pretty empty, so I'm going to take the liberty of populating it with a few doomed proud human/promethean/bastard sacrifices kingdoms.

Yeah, as far as when I plan for the canal to be finished: its construction starts in 120 A.E. and one of my goals for the Zaqiri is to finish it by 450 A.E. or so. If things go poorly, I could see it not being finished until the second evolution stage.

Saurians aren't bipolar / tsundere at all.

Saurians aren't bipolar / tsundere at all.

I-I'm not trading with you because I like you or anything, b-baka!

*Proceeds to plunder and pillage*

Hey Frengo, can you remind us what general period in human technological/political history you wanted us to end up in? As I read your description, we should be ending up in the general area of what various civilizations in the world looked like around the fall of the Roman Empire. Is that a little later than you had imagined?

...Crap. I just realized I left out the soun'yei incident.

I'll amend that in the next century.

@epicberet Sounds good :) Need some nations to annoy before things get serious late in the phase :D

As an aside:

So, you'll notice I started writing about the canal already. I only did so because there were no complaints so far. HOWEVER:

If the people's tribunal ends up voting, as a whole, against the canal's construction, I think it makes perfect sense to have it break during construction. That could make a fun event to write about, actually.

Also: really giddy to see the next few posts.

If my vote means much, and I suppose since it is a peoples tribunal it does, then I vote for the construction of the canal.

Also, I promise all of you, that the Kobolds and Dwarves are not working together to build giant nuclear powered death robots as of this time, and any claims of such will be met by a legion of miniature nuclear powered death robots storming your place of residence. That is all.

We'll unfortunately have to wait a while for the nuclear death machines.

Got no objections on the Canal.

Hey Frengo, can you remind us what general period in human technological/political history you wanted us to end up in? As I read your description, we should be ending up in the general area of what various civilizations in the world looked like around the fall of the Roman Empire. Is that a little later than you had imagined?

Well all races are different, so it's impossible for me to specify in exact end-state. As prescribed by the introduction to the Ancient Era, races may not use gun powder or anything stronger than iron in mass, as these materials will be in their infancy. Furthermore, no significant worldly inventions that occurred after 400 A.D, may be developed.

Note that the fall of the Roman Empire started a dark age, where the triumph of Christianity over antiquity would forestall human progress for a long period of time (thanks Jesus!). However, in our time line, the Late Ancient Era will be on the threshold of an Exploration Age, where technology is set to drive into medieval-times. Indeed, I envision some of our actual character posts will be concerned with those who first voyaged across the great seas to a new land.

I'm grateful that no one said anything about my unnecessary length on cultural history. I think I've gotten enough of a feel for it to make it brief from now on without cutting it out entirely.

I'm grateful that no one said anything about my unnecessary length on cultural history. I think I've gotten enough of a feel for it to make it brief from now on without cutting it out entirely.

I'm going to be totally honest, I glanced over it. In fact, let me address a quickly emerging issue:

Once again, I underestimated something. This time, it was not the turn's fluidity, but rather, the abundance of information that is being churned out by such enthusiastic and imaginative brains.

Ya see, I'm just one Frengo, with a job, a Mrs, some guineapigs and a house. In short, I've kind of got a life going on outside the Guild.

What this means is, I can't comb over these posts and retain the knowledge effectively; even now, and as Shorticus and ZB could probably vouch for, I'm starting to confuse who has done what. For all I know, one of you has developed a nuclear weapon - honestly, you go read through 12,000 words, all written by different people about different things, and try to keep it all in your noodle!

And so, I'm going to have to ask for us to band together in the policing of things. I know I'm the GM, but I'm also a player, and alas the RP is on too much of a grand scale for working adult to properly govern effectively. My fault, because I should have seen this coming, but hey ho, here we are!

So here's what we'll need to do:

Keep an eye on each other, or more specifically, those you are interacting with. If they do something that concerns you, or even all of us, then make the effort to draw my attention to it. If we all have each other's backs, then no one will inadvertently build a space ship and fly to the moon whilst everyone else is trying to work out what the Hell the moon even is.

Sorry it's come to this, but like I say, It's become a matter of human limitations for me personally lol.

We all cool with this?

@Frengo

That's understandable. From what I've seen so far, I think we're a dependable lot, so I don't think that there will be any too big of anachronisms.

So here's what we'll need to do:

Keep an eye on each other, or more specifically, those you are interacting with. If they do something that concerns you, or even all of us, then make the effort to draw my attention to it. If we all have each other's backs, then no one will inadvertently build a space ship and fly to the moon whilst everyone else is trying to work out what the Hell the moon even is.

Sorry it's come to this, but like I say, It's become a matter of human limitations for me personally lol.

We all cool with this?

But Yossod already knows what the Moons are and how to get there. They're Heaven and you go there when you die if you've been a good servant of God.

But that's understandable. Hell, I would've already mentioned something if I thought it was problematic. So it's really no change whatsoever on my end. :D

You know what my Kobolds need? Faith. They need a religion of some form. I mean, I guess need could be a strong word, they could be completely without belief other than known fact. But that seems boring and unreasonable.

You know what my Kobolds need? Faith. They need a religion of some form. I mean, I guess need could be a strong word, they could be completely without belief other than known fact. But that seems boring and unreasonable.

Well in the next centuries I plan on the Ayelic Council deciding to send missionaries along trade routes. It's not unreasonable for a really determined one to make it to Scalehome. I mean, we're closer to each other than you are to Ulthein.

Keep an eye on each other, or more specifically, those you are interacting with. If they do something that concerns you, or even all of us, then make the effort to draw my attention to it. If we all have each other's backs, then no one will inadvertently build a space ship and fly to the moon whilst everyone else is trying to work out what the Hell the moon even is.

Sorry it's come to this, but like I say, It's become a matter of human limitations for me personally lol.

We all cool with this?

Sounds fine to me.

I personally read everything I can in detail because I love this style of writing. History books are my fetish, yo.

...Wait, what? I didn't say that.