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Now the grandson of Vandal Bloodfur, Undred Bloodfur, rules Kirotr. There has not been a Bonebeak raid since his youth, and the Lord of Kirotr has many winters under his belt. He grooms his son and daughter, Fick and Lisinna, to rule after his passing. The Kirotr army has never been bigger, and threatens to overtax the gentlebeast families of Whitenort. To the northwest are the Snowhare tribes, reclusive but dangerous when provoked, and to the south lies the Rakka Tan Kingdom, a large collection of warrior squirrel clans that have always eyed the Bloodfurs with mistrust.

You are Blackfur, a black furred wildcat found by Undred and raised as his own. You are the commander of the Kirotr army, and you are hated by the other wildcat kin for being an outsider. Today you stand on the battlements, watching the sun rise over the crisp autumn day. The trees have already turned; winter is coming. There is much happening in preparation for the cold seasons. Soldiers are on patrol across the river, while others are collecting the food and craft tax from the farmbeasts and the river-folk. Still others lounge inside Castle Kirotr. As commander, you have many options.

>Go out with the soldiers on patrol
>Go out with the soldiers collecting taxes
>Explore around Kirotr

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>>1682662

Records Parchment

Kirotr Army

Wildcats
Undred Bloodfur- Lord of Kirotr
Ficklefang (Fick) Bloodfur- Son of Undred
Lisinna Bloodfur- Daughter of Undred
Blackfur- Commander
Moloc, Eriff and Ullaysee Feathertaker
Garrum and Sigor Manyeyes
Bilth Onepaw
Tobbi and Seredge Hackles
Petrik Redclaw
Kettum Snowfury

Rats (59)
Stoats (43)
Weasels (50)
Ferrets (41)
Foxes (7)

Gentlebeasts
Farmers-
Molos Family (17)
Redtail Family (15)
Appatt Family (10)
Cheeseks Family (19)
Billow Family (7)
Simmowin Family (12)
Riverfolk-
Thintail Family (11)
Boro Family (14)
Sooter Family (20)
Opine Family (5)
Blackpaw Family (2)

>>1682662
>Go out with soldiers on patrol

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>>1679849
>>1679852
>Ghoul
He gazes at your offer of nuka cola, before composing himself to a brotherhood salute. "I am Head Knight Cain of the Brotherhood of Steel, New Texas Chapter." he breaks off the salute then points to your offer.

A Ghoul. . .Knight. Of the Brotherhood of steel. Now you've seen everything.

"Nuka Cola? Oh fuck yes, gimme that shit."

He takes the drink and guzzles it down, it spils around the tears in his cheeks and lips but he doesn't seem to mind. You offer him some BoS rations.

"No fuck that shit. I've been eating that for decades if i have to see more fucking rations again I'll figure out how to puke. Got anything else?"

>You
[Got some brahmin jerky]

He almost swipes it out of your hand and devours it practically like a feral. When he finishes licking it off his fingers, he speaks.

"Guessing you've seen the green around? It's a long story. But the short of it is everyone is dead except me. Killed by goddamn cultists and those things of theirs."

"Technology. We had some technology. Mostly vault tec prototypes and a couple of new inventions the scribes cooked up. Don't know if any of that shit still exists.

Vault 39? We'd have to check the old computer databanks for that kind of info. Most of our efforts were directed on the Secret Vault than any other, until we blew it up that is."

>What do

>>1682639
Tell me about the cultists. What did they use against you.

Secret Vault? What happened to it?

>>1682653
Supporting. Ask nicely about his ghoul state.

>>1690754
>>Talk to Dorsetshire

Botetime!

>>1690754
>>Talk to Dorsetshire

>>1690754
>>Talk to Dorsetshire

Not all of the news is good. While things seem to be nearing a conclusion in some areas in others they are worsening.
House Kharbos has had a change of government and the recently deposed opposition has fled their capital, taking refuge in the territories nearer to J-D space. House Che'len seemed to be gearing up to take advantage of Kharbos weakened state, to potentially take back territory they'd lost early in the civil war.

That all changed when a combined fleet from both Houses crossed the border into Ruling House territory, headed straight for the capital. While they're not stopping to capture systems or establish forward bases to maintain their advance, smaller forces are conducting attacks on installations along the way.

Made up primarily of a mix of Dominion, Aries and Iratar hardware, the fleet seems to be fielding several new ship classes. Some are simply old Supers Che'len has finally finished upgrading, but others are far more worrying.
Iratar Milli class mobile docks, new Kharbos Bellerophon class heavy cruisers, and an Aries super heavy carrier are surprises but ones you'll get over.

A number of battlecruiser sized ships looking like a curved metallic shell are far more alien. Able to split apart into two halves, a ball of fusion plasma seems to be contained between them. It can then direct a beam of plasma from the sphere to hit targets. This is not Dominion or Faction technology, nor is is Neeran.

Alliance Intel believes the ship to be using an open type fusion reactor identical to one you saw used by terrorists attacking Rioja but scaled up. That attack was determined to be the work of the Kythera, a society theorized to be entirely composed of machines or AIs. They have advanced nanite tech far beyond what the Factions can produce.
It was considered dangerous enough that the Alliance removed nanite samples you had at Rioja rather than risk them falling into Nasidum hands. In hindsight that might have been a good thing.

You've done your part to warn Duke Ber'helum to the danger they could pose.

Between the intelligence reports and other warnings House Helios has decided to initiate AI War protocol across the entire Dominion. Vulnerable lines of communications are being cut and every available fleet within range is now rushing to aid the defense of the Dominion's Capital.

Even with the high bandwidth com relays going offline the capital's communications infrastructure is extensive. It was intended to be powerful enough for the leaders of every House to maintain ties with their homeworlds while visiting the capital. The current dynasty has rarely had the unity necessary to call for a mass gathering of the leaders of every House, but the option has been there. The hundreds of embassies alone would strain the com capacity of most worlds.

Putting a few backup plans into motion you managed to contact Foss before communications were cut. The Mercenary leader will rush his Super Heavy to House Feron space where it will be outfitted with phased siege weaponry. It will take 10 days for them to arrive. With luck this whole thing will have been decided one way or another by then.

"Really? That's... unbelievably bad.
Think of how much people will be willing to pay us for the extra fire support! Yeah sure we'll get to House Feron space. Just make sure they know we're coming and are going to need those guns."

Additional emergency measures have been put into place regarding your family and RSS. Your financial portfolio is also protected with hard copies should the bank archives on Dremine be turned into giant inert blocks.

Baron Alexander Palaiologos will be joining the Ber'helum led force you are currently part of shortly before you reach the capital. With him is Forbearance and his entire fleet. You'll need the firepower of a big ship like that in the fighting about to take place.

"Alert, the following is an emergency transmission for all Dominion Houses and personnel.
AI War protocol is now in effect. All Houses are encouraged to follow AI War protocols for the protection of military and civilian infrastructure.
High bandwidth communications arrays have been disabled. Please restrict FTL communications to essential traffic only.
This message will repeat every 30 minutes."

Several of the more nervous officers and command staff aboard your new ship double check their sidearms. You'd guess one in ten have previously familiarised themselves with the hidden setting on their energy weapons before now. It would probably have been far less if not for your insistence that the House more actively train for its use. It was getting to the point where only handfuls of the old veterans even knew how to set their weapons for it properly.

People of your parent's generation didn't have ready access to powerful anti-tank weapons like the House now does. They were forced to improvise, putting phase rifles on AI war settings then overloading them to disable vehicles. Crews will need to be careful not to accidentally disable the ship with their small arms if you're boarded.

"Sir, Intel is getting reports of combat in Xygen space." Maybourne informs you.

"Figures. Did they break the cease fire?"

"No, they're actually recalling most of their front line fleets towards their core territories to repel an attack taking place there. Intel thinks someone is trying to take out their R&D labs."

That can't be a coincidence.

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>>1682679
FOR HOUSE AND DOMINION

AI WAR EDITION

>>1689127
>Yeah. Maybe you can take some people along.

Discord link appears to be expired?
Here's a permanent one: https://discord.gg/9YZz4bK

>>1689136
Huh. I thought I'd set it to a day. Thanks for the new one.

>>1689127
>Yeah. Maybe you can take some people along.

Look at the ticket.

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>>1692180
You look at the ticket. The ticket reads "1 ticket sewer." How do they get away with being so vague?

>>1692243
Go into sewer

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>>1686724

Espos Revolutionaries.

Their territories are represented by the black zone.

They are Radically Militant Communists. They are fervent technophiles and transhumanists.

>>1686753
Should i have started off with a colony of my own? is that how these typically work

>>1686759

Wouldn't hurt. You might attract more anons...

>>1683163
you mean like a wasps civ or just a lot of people living in close quarters like in soilent green?

>>1683200
I should have specified.
By "Hive" I meant a Hive City ala Warhammer 40k.

>>1683210
sure why not, starting a high tec civ sounds better than a tribe with 5 people and a stick. at least we couldn't roll to build another stupid building for seventy rounds that way.

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Player choice: If everyone selects a race from here, we will use the racial characteristics in game. You are free to be as creative with races as you can however.

Sample civ entry:
>Urtuph,
>Race - Trolls
>Capital – Hanrak (650)
>Villages - Thanwet (150), Korval (200)
>Culture – The trolls of the Island of Urtuph have had a hard life, clinging to subsistence on their inhospitable island. The north is a rocky wasteland, the centre barren hills with little but heather and grass. Winters are cold and the land is constantly swept by chill winds and currents from the north. Only in the south west, where the rest of the island provides a little shield, does the climate approach bearable, where a river runs that does not freeze in winter and trees grow in the swampy valleys.

Constructive Criticism time

The reason the last one wasn't interesting is because it died out like 5 turns in. These things take time for people to grow into it. There aren't rush strategies and this isn't an RTS. Give it time. Consistency will take you further because a nation or civ in this is like having a character in an RPG. You're not going to love it instantly, but you'll like it more and more over time.

Secondly, 4 players is really low. If even 1 person stops playing it will throw off the entire dynamic so you'll either need to be prepared to introduce new people frequently. As for the races, I don't particularly understand what any of these stats are supposed to mean or how they relate at all to your in game actions. Do Orcs take a roll penalty to magic development or do they just get worse results? There's stats without any relation to how those stats play into anything.

I've played a lot of these and I want to see them succeed so I want to identify some of the traps I see early enough for you to fix them.

ok, i will try it

> Sco'tuel
> Race: Insects
> Capital: The Tomb: (700)
> Villiages: Brewic (200), Holmster (100)

> Culture: The hive mind of the Sco'tuels make things fast and clear for everyone. The Tomb located on northen plains, is a never-sleeping effectivity orientated city. The west is a swamp, situable for farming. Centre, covered by a dence forest and wild rivers. Winters ale mild. And climate is bearable for a well adapted race as Sco'tuel.
Its my first time, i hope i did it well

>>1681936
>>Go on the long and gradual path, Forcas probably took this one to see the view.

>>1681993
Its nearly night by the time you reach the top of the mountain. You don't find Forcas but you do find a cave. The cave looks way darker than it should, even for it being night. You enter the cave, making a light to see and quickly come across Forcas who is sleeping by the ever of a fire. You feel tired and can talk to Forcas' in the morning so you also lay down and go to sleep on the dew covered ground. You wake up to Forcas shaking your shoulder.
"Rise and shine"
He hands you a stick skewered with some of the leaves of plants that you saw on your way up the mountain and a little bit of meat.
"Want to explore the cave with me? I heard from Jose and Carolin that it's supposed to be some sort of maze."
>Yes
>No
>Write in

>>1682057
>>Yes
>are you sure it's safe?

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To anyone who is interested in participating in this game: follow this guide to make your character, and then post a reply to [u]THIS POST[/u] with the action >Ready to hunt!

If it wasn't obvious or you're a new player to the thread, feel free to communicate with other players either in the thread or in the irc client here: https://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?server=rizon.mibbit.org&channel=%23Skirmish
You will also find me in there willing to answer any questions on top of sending out previews for what is to come next. Please be kind and courteous.

With that said, I'm giving this 25 minutes as of this post to start the test. In the meantime feel free to ask questions either in here or the irc room, or to converse with other players. Roleplaying is allowed and even encouraged so long as it's fitting to introductions for now.

>>1681540
>ready to hunt!

>>1681704
Whoa, there, slugger! You don't have a weapon, a skillset, or even a face! Get yourself a few in the character generation sheet.

Discord for ease of communication: https://discord.gg/YaxHDpA

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>>1680810
Damn, messed up on the whole title thing.
This is "Apocalypse Tribes Evo 2"

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The Forest Men discover the secrets of Cog Working after some experimentation with the axles of broken down vehicles from The Scrapyard. Soon after they then develop mud bricks to assist in breaking down some of the metals they gather from these scrapped cars, meaning that they now have enough of a metal working infrastructure to start forging iron, though higher level metals such as steel with require even more workmanship on part of the forge workers.

The Tribesmen then go out to start a new outpost near The Southern Bridge, allowing them rather immediate access to The Scrap Yard, and a close trade relation with The Smileys of Wal whenever they pass by, which they do often on their way down into The South Facing Road into The Dead Forest.

The area around the strung up demon corpse seems to be fine at the moment, though the corpse has began to start rotting through the week. It seems that the demon warding may have worked, as they've yet to see any more pop out of the woodwork to try and face them just yet.

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>>1680860

The Kings have shut down their lead mining for the moment, though they do have access to it whenever they may wish to start digging it out again.

The Tribesmen spend their time developing bows and leather as well, having plenty of leather on their side in general with all the unicorns they end out hunting in the wild as well as domesticate.

The more exciting part of their week though comes as they send a group northwards to discover The Dust Lands that lays just above King Territory. The land there is severely dry, and it seems that the earth cracks beneath the feet of the people who walk into its depths. in the grand expanse of heated wasteland though there is one beacon of hope in the distance for water. It's the likes of a single settlement that stands with a wall made of scrap metal surrounding a collection of homes that seem to be mostly built out of just as low quality metals as the wall. That is, all save for one building in the middle that denotes what seems to be a palace-like structure, and upon a period of scouting from a nearby hill, it seems that the ruler of the city lives there. A single man that parades himself about like a king, and controls a ground water pump within the confines of his own courtyard, the same that all the wasteland peasants rely on to drink and water their thirsty crops.

The Scouts return with their findings of this apparent water tyrant.

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>>1682937
A new outfit is what the General wanted you to get, it just seems so silly considering you haven’t given a thought over your outfit, throwing on the same couple shirts and pairs of pants that were washed again and again, courtesy of the General’s manual laundromat.

Now that you actually give it a thought, you can’t help but let your mind wander to all the apocalyptic movies you’ve seen, and how every main character is wearing some stylish outfit, that makes them look like a badass, and you don’t think your Polo and jeans are going to cut it.

Your thoughts about your future outfit are cut short by the truck abruptly stopping, jolting you out of your train of thought. You are at that little fishing village the General talked about, and there you find two boats, one being a fish trawler, maybe 70 feet long at most, and the other being a house boat, about 50 feet in length. Looking at these two ships you’ll have to embark upon and travel upriver with, you were hoping for something a little bigger and more spectacular, but beggars and survivors of an apocalypse have something in common, they can’t be choosers.

A man you don’t recognize, that you assume helped secure the small gaggle of buildings, walks up to you.

“Alright Doctor, these boats have a half tank each, but it should be enough to get there and back, just barely. Which one do you wanna take? The houseboat has a waterbed, though.” He says, trying to humor you, but all you can think about is that fishing trawler and Forest Gump.

>“Give me the Trawler. It’ll be able to carry more cargo on it.”
>“I’ll take the houseboat. It could hold more men just in case something were to happen.”

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>>1682939

>>1682939
>>“Give me the Trawler. It’ll be able to carry more cargo on it.”

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Crawlers Fis’Kiire and Akolon are due for maintenance at a supply base located in the Sarklaeus Desert. We have encountered a heavy Veggie proto-infestation and are currently in a running engagement. Full assault is neither a priority of this mission nor expected of a crew of Cadets.

If you’re just waking up to this mission, some grogginess is acceptable. All we need is for you to remember how to man the fabricators and get your drones moving and doing work.

If you have questions, get them answered soonest by me or your colleagues. For tech support, drop by the #Skirmish channel on Rizon.

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Ambrose and 2 squad making a splash.

Portside needs some propping up to traverse that hill, AKN! FSK, you’re crawling up their ass, hold uuuuuuuu… whew. Nearly took out AKN’s crane there.

Strike fighters en route, Hosei. Cross your fingers. They only have the crawlers to guide them, and no signal at target site.

>Enemy turn incoming

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Dense group like that, fighters'll probably hit something anyway.

Contact with Pump-Kins, AKN. You can handle that kind of damage, but not for too long.

>FSK 26/30
>AKN 26/30
>Commander turn

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>>1680764

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Time for a recovered Goku!

>>1680764
Now, for seven years of peace except for Bojack and Broly.

What with all the Androids including Cell destroyed, that is.