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Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

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Yeah, in the South.

@Joegreenbeen

Go ahead and feel free to post, then.

@Cuddle Pot
I will be responding to you today or tomorrow.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

Looks pretty good to me. The only thing I would ask is for you to specify where in the desert you mean, up north of the river near the tundra or south below the Rokthan and Arsuron? I presume that you mean in the south since you reference a nearby forest.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

First contact, here we go~

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

The Cindorayi, Population: 91, Year 7 IL (Inland), Age of the New Moon

The Path Is Set

It has now been a hundred moons since the Cindorayi first landed, and as the growth of the village of Lunysvet continued, most of them had become accustomed to life on land. Once a Cindorayi saw a bird-like creature flying overhead from the direction of the sea singing. This, some said, was a sign from the sea that told them they had made the right choice. Others said it was just a sign that someone had had a bit too much fruit ferment. The argument stands.

Viktorya, the self-declared chief inventor of the burgeoning Cindorayi civilization, had success in sharpening some large rocks with a harder variety of stone that she found, and upon teaching the method (which required mind-numbing quantities of patience) to her fellow Cindorayi, they began to produce stone axes to replace their pearl tools, made by lashing the stone tightly to thick wooden sticks. With this new tool, the process of cutting down trees became much easier. At one point, Viktorya remarked on how strong buildings would be if they could be built out of stone, and there was a chorus of agreement.

One day, Viktorya arrived at Ekatyrina's cave house, to discuss an important matter.

"Hello, Viktorya. How are you doing this evening?" asked Ekatyrina, as Viktorya knocked on the side of the wall and strode in. Ekatyrina bowed as a sign of respect to the other leader.

"Quite well, I thank you." Viktorya bowed equally deeply. "I have come with a proposal."

"Oh?" Ekatyrina raised her eyebrow. "Go on."

"It is ridiculous for our two villages to remain separately governed, when we are of the same people. We should have one leader."

Ekatyrina nodded, and thought for a second. "How would we decide which one of us it should be, if it should be one of us at all?"

"Let us have a vote, as you described. The Cindorayi people should be the ones to decide, and they are well enough acquainted with both of us to make a logical decision."

"That would make the most sense to me." Ekatyrina's eyes slightly glimmered, as she had little doubt she would win such a vote. "But how would we communicate decisions between our two villages? We must travel several versya to get to it through the forest."

"That is where my idea comes in. We can use the stone axes to cut down all the trees in a narrow... path, if you will, between our villages. A fast Cindorayi would only take minutes to travel it, without all of the trees and underbrush in the way."

"An excellent suggestion." Ekatyrina nodded thoughtfully. "I will tell my village of the plan, and we can begin clearing this path at once."

"I am glad you appreciate it. Thank you for your time," responded Viktorya.

"And thank you for yours." They both bowed to each other, and Viktorya departed as the sun grew lower in the horizon.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

Am I missing something? Their posts look long enough to me. Also, I don't recall there ever being a 14 sentence minimum when we were on the Sporum.

@MangoJuice

It's not an absolute. But there is a tendency of our posts to degrade into:

Statistics and population

-couple lines of text-

Stone tools: 1/8
Cat domestication: 1/6

Civ RPer

I'd just like to ensure a reasonable standard of depth is all. We can't be Precipice of War, with twenty-paragraph long posts.

After all, the Casual label says "a few paragraphs, medium depth".

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

I would really prefer posts that are longer than the two that you guys just posted, at least initially. Fourteen sentences (or roughly two paragraphs) is what I would recommend at a minimum. You don't have to change the ones you have, but just for future reference. Longer posts are always preferable to more frequent ones.

In other news, I plan to post today.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

Glad to see some new people. All your sign-up sheets look quite good. I will update the OP with the new map and races.

Also, we're not planning any time jumps, it's more of a smooth progression of advancement over time. For now the pace of time should be fairly fast, though, since if we did it a couple months at a time we'd be to medieval on page 1000 or so.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

The Cindorayi, Population: 86, Year 5 IL (Inland), Age of the New Moon

Music Under The Moon

As the fire crackled in the shadow of the green canopy that covered the sky, one of the Cindorayi foraging parties made camp in preparation to explore more the following day. Sylvya, one of the females that chose to accompany the foraging party, took a carved piece of wood with twine strings drawn across it off of her back.

"What is that thing you have there, Sylvya?" one of the males asked curiously.

"It makes beautiful sounds," she replied. "Here, let me show you." She took her fingers and began to pluck the strings. The tension of the string caused it to vibrate melodically, and it appeared that having different lengths of string caused it to produce different sounds.

At this point, she had acquired the attention of everyone nearby, and she said, "Here, yesterday I put the Song of the Ancient Empire to the different sounds." She began strumming the small instrument and sang,

"Their fame will never die,
So grieve but do not cry,
Their fame will never die,
Their spirits are in the sky."

At this point the others who knew it broke in, and the chorus grew to pierce the silent black veil of the night.

"From the dark ages they rose,
They knew what no one now knows,
They conquered all their foes,
Their armies marched in rows."

A second chorus arrived, as the Cindorayi repeated the same melody again, this time without words, before proceeding to the final stanza.

"Their great empire is now done,
Of it many songs are sung,
This little song is but one,
It will be sung in every tongue."

"That was beautiful!" exclaimed Natalya, the other female present. "We should make more of them, and we can have many people play at once!" The others snapped their fingers in approval.

Sylvya beamed. "Thank you very much." "I would like to see if I can come up with another idea for a soundmaker as well, if I have time. I'm sure you could make deeper or higher sounds if you changed the way the strings were tied."

"That would be amazing." Natalya nodded in agreement.

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Back in the village, Ekatyrina was examining a crude map of the area as described by the foraging parties. She looked out the small opening of the wood-framed cave she used as her home, out at the several new trees that were growing in front of it. As the Zemlyarodians had suggested, she had placed a few types of fruit in the fertile soil close to the beach and already small trees had sprouted out of the ground with branches she was sure would bear the same types of fruit in a few years' time. However good the fruit was, she knew that no matter how many trees she planted it was unlikely that they could feed the entire village with them. She had asked the foraging parties to keep a lookout for a different type of plant that provided a lot of food and grew compactly, but there was no such luck yet.

Ekatyrina had come to the conclusion that with the addition of the new village of Zemlyarod to their growing civilization, she needed to have a few people to assist her in organizing things. Shylia, a skilled builder, was put in charge of construction and planning out new huts. Andrei, with some dissent from the other females, was put in charge of managing the foraging teams and food. Ekatyrina felt that the person in charge of something should have experience in it, regardless of gender. Finally, Viktorya, a deft thinker and the chief of the other village, was in charge of figuring out new tools to help in their day to day work. Already the simple coral tools they had been using were quickly breaking when used to try to cut down trees or break rocks, so Viktorya was trying to figure out what they could use instead. These three made up what would be considered the first Cindorayi Council.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

Yeah, a three or four day gap won't hurt anything. We haven't even met each other yet.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I have it on good word that oZode is dropping Colombia.

Just as an FYI.

@Dinh AaronMk

Victory for the Federative Republic.

I also hope to do a post covering the election this weekend, with my rekindled interest in RPing.