The Elements - A NRP Game Players and their nations/civilizations RP in a fantasy themed world. *this game will be going on hiatus until further notice on December 21st, join at your own discretion* Previous Threads http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3636731/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3678802/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3723090/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3767352/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3806665/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3861557/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3887644/ ( >>3887644 ) If you wish to join please contact me on discord through this link, the attached discord is also a server dedicated to nrp games in general and through it several games have been organized smoothly. Discord: https://discord.gg/v8DCrWu >>3906926 A small team of soldiers, primarily made up of veterans and strong willed newcomers is formed who train under the influence of the empowering little sun. It is found that over time exposure can increase how long the energy retained can last with some managing to burn bright for long enough without exposure to be able to take the trip from the expedition site to Tumar to Satturnico and back 10 times before loosing brightness over the course of another 2 full round trips until the brightness has faded to normal levels thus the absorption clock has reset back so that he will need to retrain under exposure in order to regain his former power retainment levels. After several failed preliminary expeditions one of them manages to come back with usable information. They tell of the ruins to the south of satturnico, of those strange ruins whose appearance is jagged and foreboding for the ruins are outwardly seen to be a circle of thorny protrusions which curve inward as spikes covered in spikes. The inside of the ruin is lightly scouted and within the circle there is revealed to be an area of dense meaty foliage of an unknown variety whose flesh was unable to be preserved on the trip back due to the necessity of leaving. At the center of this foliage lies a great structure which closely resembles a great cooking pot, the beings of the beyond are seen to have lit a fire bellow it and into the pot they have dumped seemingly random assortments of things including the husks of previous expedition teams (including one which was seemingly still alive when he was dumped in), the meaty foliage, what seem to be spices, rocks, metals and even a live bear cub which they mix together over the great flames bellow the pot in order to produce some sort of gooey broth of an unknown composition. After seeing these sights the team rushes back for they feared for their lives and most agree that such a decision was the right one to make, hopefully once the pylons are expanded into these ruins the issue of the beings of beyond will disappear just as they do in the other areas which fall under the pylons normally. >>3906947 With the harvest of the first phosphate boosted crop in a long time the army finds its supplies not only just at the level they need in order to simply get by but beyond that to the point where they can feel comfortable in how much they get to eat. This is contrasted by their new adversary, the Pirate Coalition which has taken root in the city of Kuro. It is a collection of raiders, smugglers and corrupt lords who took advantage of the chaos and through that formed their own power base which they seek to maintain, while the general civilian population of their domain doesn't like the pirates all that much they do however resent the government in Koza for losing the mines for so long and thus have major elements who work alongside the Pirate Coalition in order to resist what they see as a government which has failed them, although that is not to discredit the sizable portion of their civilian population which still holds its loyalty to the true tarnish empire of the north. The only proper entryway the northern tarnish army has to go is through southern waters and their journey is denied by the southern tarn, as compensation the southern tarn offer a decent professional force drawn from their own army to help with defending the mine and clearing out rebels along with the promise of giving the rights to the salt mines north of Kohai along with the fishing rights around the salt mine to the northern tarn once the rebels have been crushed and the region is secured. The southern tarn have built 2 fortresses, fort Kalt (east of the Kohai salt mines) and fort Koav (near Kuro) in order to act as a defensive zone so that pirates will be deterred from raiding southern waters. Further major minotaur raiding is halted in the north of the phosphate mines, though the salt mine up there is still under heavy minotaur occupation, with even a cease and desist order being sent by the minotaur king arguing against tarnish siege of the local salt mine from their occupation due to how the tarn have bigger issues to attend to, he threatens the tarn with the idea that he will be "forced" to reinforce the mine with an army which is fully capable of going on the offensive against the tarn since unlike the generic raiders his forces are much more organized and thus something to be feared and reckoned with. >>3907076 After much time of tarnish long ranged superiority the fewer long distance heavy weaponry utilized by the oni can finally outrange the many tarn pieces. Though without more totu/tizta reinforcements the oni will never be able to match or exceed the pure quantity of fire the tarn can preform the more pinpoint and individually heavier weapons the oni use for this can make up for this by focusing more on taking out artillery and dense packs of infantry instead of using just heavy, less pinpoint bombardments as the tarn do. With this information known it can be seen that the oni's bombardments are more to be used as strategic battle weapons than as massed fire siege ready weapons as the tarn do. The first ever full implementation of this brand new theory of artillery shows itself to work well as the previous constant bombardment of the area just inside of and outside of the walls of tonglo is repelled as the tarn find their positions compromised by emplacements they themselves cannot bombard, thus they are forced back to out of range areas. More plants from across the known world are brought for study, among them are a few which were previously overlooked are brought over and successfully grown in oni soil. Although none of these new plants have any strategic or major economic value besides being another luxury crop for consumption by the upper classes. Many of the lightweight and efficient chest plate and under armor designs employed by the burned men and metal men are adapted for the oni and made to resist the foes these newly equipped oni are set to face. The reinforcements from the other nations arrives. (please give a full list of all sent reinforcements when you wish to use them so that this process can be streamlined on my end) >>3907094 Among the lesser kings a small battlefield - just outside of the remains of a larger battle - is dug out and examined by the oni. (the other presented areas did not yield anything greatly useful) Within this site are discovered the remains of many small to medium sized mechanical things whose internal workings are both to complicated and not intact enough to be replicated, along with this discovery within what seems to have been an explosive barrel utilized by these things which did not fully explode is found a fine black dust which burns with a special kind of explosiveness. The composition of this material is unknown and replication is thought to be currently impossible but the potential of such a substance cannot be fully understated. Other weaponry which cannot be replicated is also uncovered as well, no truly unique alloys are discovered among the wretchage. >>3908357 After a hasty train ride the soldiers manage to get into haze but a few hours before the track into the city was compromised by invading metal men forces. ( >>3915521 ) Much loot is already in the possession of the ogres involved although those who consume metallic flesh (much to the chagrin of some) only really find an increase in the toughness of their skin and bones but not any very useful abilities to be gained besides that. The local culinary dishes are also found to be lacking as the regional diet consists mostly of vegetables and pork while the only interesting food item discovered to yield newly discovered effects from the region would have to be silver water (a kind of drug produced in the misty mountain) which gives ogres a much greater sense of patience, active thought, calmness and a far increased level of spatial awareness at the cost of slightly slower reaction times and a slower perception of time. (to an ogre under its effects 5 seconds seems more like 6) (already responded to by the mycete creep) The armies are at a standstill as the volters are figuring out what to make of their proposal but everybody is in position and are ready to fight at the sound of the horn. >>3908959 The Iron Empire continues pushing into the hills but have stopped themselves just short of the current zone of sonarii control at least for the time being The Iron Empire themselves has sent a message proposing cooperation between the two empires in order to move all undesired haze born iron men to sonarii owned domains from newly conquered areas so that the sonarii can not carry the burden of thinking they have neglected a people they like and so that the iron empire can streamline its reintegration process. Reports of anti-air weaponry being set up outside of the city of haze reaches the leadership of the sonarii. Sonarii and Iron men clash in the contested zone, over time it can be seen that the iron men are going to be a much more difficult to crack enemy than the lightly armored totu as their troops wear armor which is heavy and even have a few machines among them which are interestingly very similar to the tankettes used by the burned men, except they are larger and seem to be powered by metal bending. Metal men are also found to be very deadly in melee combat as their short ranged projectile technique of accelerating metal flechette can fairly easily shred through the relatively fragile wings of the sonarii along with penetrating the lighter areas of armor on the soldiers. The concept of armoring sonarii with more metal armor is turned down due to how this could very easily be used against them. The Tizta Queen herself shows her cognitive prowess when she designs a fairly strong cannon system which does not involve metal and instead uses hollowed out tree trunks made from the legendarily strong cedars of the necrotic tundra >>3910669 The biggest problem found with the countless tizta is not a lack of food shipments nor the enemy itself but instead the blistering cold of the tundra which is encouraged by the vile sorcery of the Ice Giants. Already several tizta regiments who went to fight in more isolated groupings are rediscovered as frozen corpses stuck in the death throes of an ended in the cold. >>3909604 (ok) >>3909657 With the introduction of better cold weather equipment and training the volters can now confidently brave the growing blizzard around Balora. It is found that flashbangs are best used during the night as the blinding white landscape of many parts of the tundra has made the ice giants used to blinding lights during the day. Using them during the night also allows for better troop coordination over fairly long distances as the bangs can be seen from a great distance. >>3909679 >>3911332 Resources meant to go towards kazval are partially redirected in order to raise an army to go south in order to aid haze, this action has formed a new divide so soon after the focus of all volters had been put towards war as most do not see the iron empire as something worth fighting at least when compared to the vile Ice Giants, this sentiment even exists amongst the soldiers as they were expecting to "go and take down the icy menace" instead of what they have been ordered to do, that is to go down and face a foe they have only recently learned about... but if it is the will of Thuna that these nutritious looking fiends must be taken down then so be it... *Transmission from the Iron Empire* >The citizens of the false nation of haze are under no real threat, they are rightful members of the Second Iron Empire and their stay under the degenerate leadership of that vile misty mountain has only caused them to stagnate as a nation. The march of progress cannot be halted and will especially never be stopped by a bunch of angry relics from a dead world, we will never wish for full out war and will refrain from attacking your coasts until the city of Haze has fallen, if by then you have regained your sanity we are fully open to making amends to each other and entering into a pact of mutual respect... or at the very least mutual apathy. We hope, for the sake of all our citizens both static and metallic alike that your nation stops this madness before it makes a mistake it will truly regret. Hail to the Iron Guide and glory to the empire, may fate's hand handle you gently. As a show of strength the Iron Empire reveals its fortress Mithrilshield which was made from an ancient ruined fortress, upon it the Iron men have implemented mighty kinetic guns with a claimed range of the horizon, they also claim to have implemented many seabed rods designed to ground the fortress against electric attacks. >>3909919 With the opening of a large portion of sea in and around Salmencero sea bound trade taking advantage of the regional winds begins in order to ferry trade to and fro the region in a way much faster during certain times of the year when compared to traditional land routes. This brings wealth and ships to the fledgling hive of Salmancero. With the exception of a fairly large tract of land in the former north western region of the swamp which has been reserved for swamp sheep ranching (swamp sheep meat is pretty popular among the upper classes) the swamp has finally been drained, although the water saturation of the soil is still making hive building a bit difficult in the region, thus it remains an easily controlled area from the seats of Hinga perhaps forever bound to simply provide food for its master hive. To the west of Salmencero it seems that the the pylons expand far beyond what was expected, but in these waters wasps are not alone for great metal islands float about in this sea, already one Hingashi ship has gone missing in the region. Perhaps sending a ship designed for diplomacy from Salmencero could help to establish a good first contact if these islands do hold any sort of sentience within them... and gaining some uncontested fishing rights could be nice as well. >>3910511 Besides a few stubborn vestiges which may be considering joining with the tizta the entire continent is now clear of purebred totu. But these new migrants along with all the new totu who are being born at a constant rate are probably going to desire more land to call their own, and what is really the difference to them between settling in a strange new uncolonized land and settling in a strange new colonized land? Using a system of springs and gears a way to generate the force necessary to move wheels along is discovered, this can be used to move along artillery when crystals are not available to provide lift. Along with this a locking mechanism is developed so that pieces don't get pushed around by the force of their own rounds being fired. >>3911900 The Iron Guide sends a counter message stating that Haze was born out of heresy and traitorism and that a nation cannot ever be righteous if it does not have a noble birth. He also states that a separation even one which instead involves puppetry will not suffice and that they cannot trust the "sickly goatmen" with the responsibility of raising new generations of people not of their own which previously they had hardly even known existed. >>3913426 To the east another mind, the mind of the older eastern forest which has refused to join its prickled brethren. It speaks of where the creep may be able to find the creatures they seek, to find them the creep must go far south past the spirit benders and a great desert or through the mountains where the creep will find the creatures it craves. It also mentions how now all around the creep the land has been taken by other races and thus the only way it can hope to expand is through land already taken by other peoples. To grow the land needs fertilizer, and to get it blood must be shed, and since that mind is content it wishes for the mycete creep to figure out where it wants to slay. >>3915521 The ogres find much work around them, to the south they find the minotaurs who are quick to forget about former feuds when it comes to hiring for raids, near to them they find the oni who readily hire the versitile ogre mercenaries. They also discover the tumar and the tarn who between them may soon be in mutual conflict... The prayers to the maw give the butcher strength, and in their mission they seem to be much more lucky than when they don't. The ogres in haze are technically trapped at the moment but the loot to be found helps to sooth fears of being overrun. To the south the pylons expand, this is thought to be due to a minotaur expansion. >>3919674 Along with moving them to the island the far north also finds itself to be a ready haven for refugees. With more hunting proportionally available to them the stockpiles in balora can be more effectively tapped in the long term. The cryomancers are ready, at the command of the jarl they will ride to wherever he wishes a wall to be built. In the thinning blizzard in balora the jarl fights off sonarii and tizta raids. The southern waters have been lost to joint volter forces, the coast is now where most of the skirmishes are taking place.