(IR) 1st ooc-thread of the 5th IR (open)

[Edena_of_Neith]

To everyone in the 5th IR

Edena_of_Neith here.

- I have an e-mail now. It's on the megapost. Feel free to contact me at anytime. Hey there, all!

- I've updated the megapost. (I haven't tried placing it in sblocks yet: I will experiment with doing that.)
- Please check your power listed in the megapost. (Remember it's near the start of page 1 of this thread.)
If you want a change in your power, tell me here on this thread. If you want an addition or additional description of your power, tell me.
I could use your power's colors, if you have selected them. I will list them on the megapost.

- I was still puzzling through Serpenteye's original rules, posted on page 13 of the previous thread. Add in all the questions and errata posted since then, and I am literally buried alive.
Rather than attempt to understand all the questions and subsequent answers, I am going to read Serpenteye's new rules (when he posts them) and then play my power by ear. (A nice way of saying: I'm going to play as if I knew what I was doing, when I don't know the first thing about what I'm doing, and hope the results aren't disastrous! You know, sorta like your first game of Diplomacy, Axis and Allies, RISK, Star Fleet Battles, Battletech, Vampire the Masquerade, and ... D&D was like?)

- I am requesting a Minor Faction in addition to my Major Faction, the Drow of the Flanaess. Here is the Minor Faction, and why I am claiming it:

- The Empire of the Yuan-Ti covers a sizeable region in interior Hempmonaland, where the Yuan-ti have long lived in peace and isolation. The recent events, however, have changed all that: The Devils have come with their agenda of ruin, to stir up and cause war among all the peoples of Oerth. Now the Yuan-ti are threatened, and they intend to respond.
The Yuan-ti are a famous reptilian humanoid race of legend (from N1: Against the Cult of the Reptile God), are chaotic evil, and it is thought that they once ruled the Oerth (or at least a large part of it) before humanity came and usurped the world from them. The Yuan-ti dream of restoring their ancient glory, but in recent millennia they have been decrepit and their empire decayed.
- The Empire of the Yuan-ti is a homebrew nation of my own creation. It existed in the 3rd IR. It could have officially existed in interior Hempmonaland: N1 suggests that this might be the case. However, I am not sure of that.
- The Yuan-Ti, while not adding much power to the IR, will add diversity. Too many humans out there powermongering. Time to get some lizard folk into the mix. The human usurpation of Oerth shall not stand!
- Melkor and Guilt Puppy think they have Hempmonland (which is a small continent: it is smaller than the Flanaess) all to themselves, with their trolls and Scarlet Brotherhood. I wish to throw a monkey wrench into their neat little conclave down there. They will find that they cannot live in peace down in that tropical paradise! (Well, ok, they can live in peace, but the Yuan-ti intend to dictate the terms of that peace. )
- The yuan-ti are chaotic evil, a race of schemers and plotters, who dislike their fellow surface races, considering them usurpers and evil. Very much like the drow. Therefore, I believe they are one of the very few surface races the drow would be able to ally with. If the Empire of the Yuan-Ti in central Hempmonland (off-map to the southeast) is granted to me, they will be considered to be in alliance with the Drow Dirty Dozen.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

To Rikandur

You asked if the alliance between Iuz and the Drow was holding.

IC, Eclavdra answers this, personally, to Iuz, stating:

Of course we are your loyal allies and servants, your Magnificence. Only an idiot - or an elf - would not ally with Iuz the All Powerful.

(to emphasize this, she kisses his withered feet in homage.)

Iuz, your Divinity, why not use your power to break Ivid and his armies out of the shield surrounding Rauxes? Break the shield: free Ivid and his hosts! I'm quite sure Ivid would be of great use to us. After all, he will seek vengeance on his enemies, who are our enemies. The slime of Aerdi and Nyrond, who have ever plotted against you!

(In other words, Rikandur, I'm recommending you claim Ivid and the City of Rauxes! Heh. Do you know about Ivid? If not, I can fill you in on a few juicy details. )

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

To Thomas: A big time thank you

The megapost has been sblocked!
It is a megapost no more.

I am betting I could now put 10 times as much information in the post, compared to what currently exists, without lengthening the onscreen size of the post at all.
Unless the sblock text loads ENWorld as much as visible text, in which case I cannot, because I don't want to overload ENWorld.

Anyways, a big thank you, Thomas. Because that makes reading of the roster much easier, and affords more privacy to people. Thank you for showing me how sblocks work.

Yours Sincerely
Edena_of_Neith

 

[James Heard]

Newer Document Versions

This is just to point people to page 2 of the thread where I've updated all of the documents (.doc and zipped .rtf) with the newest information. Everyone's faction information should be up to date I hope, and I attempted to translate a few of the discussions with Serpenteye into the rules section of the document. I haven't added any more addendums about troop movements and such, mostly because I have a feeling that not everything has been said about such things and I'd rather plop everything of a similar nature down into the thing at once because I'm a lazy so and so.

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

The megapost has been sblocked!
It is a megapost no more.

And creatively sblocked, no less! My thought was to just put the whole thing behind one, but this is much better. Easy to find what you want and access it.

 

[Airwhale]

Way past my sleep-time here (too much coffeine and sudden waking up in the middle of the night, doh).

Well, anyway, wanted to say hello. I am still reading the rules (and reserving any questions about them for later). Where is the newest set of them, btw.
This time around I copy-paste them.

Airwhale, feel free to finalize the claim and alignment thing.
Good/neutral faction right?

Serpentseye, we indeed play Spacejammers.

Yep, that's sounds right to me!(we have been communicating by e-mail) The short version of who we are is the nation/alliance(/maybe even trading house)! that won the war of grayspace 10 years ago. The evil races have been wiped out of the sphere, and now we are very concerned about what is currently happening in Oerth.

Give us a couple days and we will come up with something more detailed =)

Also, I get the feeling I actually understand the rules now! So, maybe I can help answer questions.

This is gonna be fun =)

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Oh they have, have they?
Well ... we evil races of the world of Oerth will have to do something about this situation, won't we?

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

You know, now that I actually know what it is, I feel silly for not claiming the Yeomanry sooner. It's the one democratic nation on Oerth. Duh! Silly Tom.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Thomas, there is some confusion on the map.

Consider:

Eluvan has picked the League of Athyr as his power and thus controls Keoland. I see Keoland on the map in bright blue.
Yet Eluvan hasn't yet picked a color for his power. I have the color specification for his power as UNKNOWN.

Your color, Thomas, is bright blue. So the Yeomanry should be in bright blue. Yet it seems your color has been taken by Eluvan, who hasn't picked a color yet.

This confusion extends to Knight Otu's holdings of Aerdi. They are in brown on the map, yet the color chart for the map states his faction is yellow-greenish (or dark yellow, it's a bit hard for me to tell.)

 

[Airwhale]

Oh they have, have they?
Well ... we evil races of the world of Oerth will have to do something about this situation, won't we?

Vesharess,

Now, you are a drow in the underdark, I am a gnome in grayspace. I think we both know we have more pressing concerns right now then attacking each other.

Unless you want war of course! You will find our spacefairing Mages, warriors, dragons and storm giants to be no less of a challenge when shrunk, I am sure.
Perhaps we could even convince some of your neighbors to join us in a spot of drow hunting!

But again... I'm sure we both have more pressing concerns at the moment.

Please excuse my shortened signature, as busness calls.

Ranzo Nobnook Zookrick Glimkor Fudle Daergel Roytwiss Wayjon Dimbwyn Lindnig Jebo Loopgel Ellyo Nerzig Wimtwiss Nobji Junior.