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Cold... ...Sleep... ...Time.... ...Light. It has been ages since you, the overlord of your faction, have been revived from your cryogenic stasis. The vast vaults of the huge sleeper ship remain dark and lifeless -- countless beings remain in stasis, the vast majority of ships on board...

TURN 4 is OFFICIALLY OPEN! Keep in mind that before any orders are processed 3 special steps must be done: PROCESS WEALTH FROM MARKET PATRON AUDITS RECRUITMENT/CHANGES IN INFLUENCE (these steps may lead to you wanting to edit your posts to account for new wealth/troops/etc. so get these steps...

TURN THREE IS OPEN!

@Pat: The Ciun create commerce with currency. This will be worth bonus culture points in the next generation, and the hope of dealings shifts relations between peoples from what can be taken to what can be bought. (Civility in the cresh increases) though strange tendrils of thought began to...

@Trektek Down in the Forge, the Great Yaas was working a giant block of quartz, decorated and reinforced with Wyrmbone. @Kent @Heyitsjiwon : With the Argead in presence, meditation swiftly turned towards to mind in the Hall of Eternal fire. Opening the first "eye of the wind" as the Argead...

@Cosmo : The training field was done quickly, as many slaves sought to prove themselves. eager for the elevation from slavery, for the change to come... An ever since it's construction the Epimoni trained, sweat and blood while the slaves watched. Many hoped to prove themselves in the coming...

@Fluff : Hers was a meandering path in the dark before reaching the relative safety of the glasswall... and her followers were groomed, gilded, and garnered with the care and enthusiasm Candy alone could summon. The bad element in her following -- was dealt with harshly, vindictively, and those...

GENERATION TWO: TURN 1 OF 3 -- PACIFICATION OF THE CRESH: The greatest predators in the cresh have been brought low, at least some of them. While the dark without a lantern is almost certain death, the cresh is not as dangerous as it once was, with the festrogs and faceless cowed, and most...

@Kent Sephirah HALL OF ETERNITY A masterpiece of passion that is built with the blood, sweat, tears, and life by the Forbearer of the Sephirah Bloodline - Adam. He wanted to name it "The Shack" but the other Shamans violently refused so he was forced to name it something he thinks is cringe...

@Pat Ciun makes a stone/brick/quartz library filled with shelves of clay tablets documenting the art, culture, history, knowledge, and records of the Dark Cresh for future generations, including an autobiography/manual for Eostre's successor. Camp workers not following Eostre are offered food...

@Twist : Laughing Lantern Lanterns will be hung from the JesterTrees, and a great pyre will be built (Kindling/Sharp Stone), to attract new followers and deter predators. A feast will be set up using blindbird eggs and meat (?) to further incentives new followers. Sharp Stones and Shredded...

@Lazaro1505 : The Huntsmen, using bricks and plaster to create a barricade. Topping off said barricade by making a couple of pit traps (will teach the others about the locations fo said traps to make sure no/little accidents happen) around it and spikes against the wall to help ward off...

@Heyitsjiwon : The Lantern of the Inner Light EFFECTS: The first 2 successful hits on a person in the lantern are considered misses. If this procs enough, this power will degrade. the "Lantern" can hold 5 people comfortably, and 10 cramped. It is filled with Comfortable fiber and sponge, and...

@Trektek : The people of the Smith Build a Great Forge out of clay, bricks and stone. The waste heat is a great comfort to the community, where those without covering to sleep (which was most) rested in the cold dark. The only warmer place in the Quarry it was said was in the Vivaldi Harem...

In the lee of the Knife of Glass, The obsidian outcropping where reigned the Epimoni, where other peoples built towers, and walls, and temples, and monuments -- Aaliyah built a tribute to the only thing she held dear... HER POWER. The Throne of Tyrants did not take long to complete, but it...

@Auriel Maza : TOWER OF BABEL "Why father do we light the quarry and not the lands beyond? Why are our lenses turned down to give the dim to the settlement below, and never turned to the dark of the sky?" Come here, child, and I will tell you the story of Niko the Deliverer -- Who led us all...

GENERATION 1 EVENT: THE FIRST CONSTRUCTIONS While life in the darkness is still incredibly dangerous -- people have begun to settle in small groups and have learned how to survive. With survival and settlement, comes culture and Construction. Each player MAY (but doesn't have to) --...

@Twist : Spora waved the dismembered hand for any and all to follow... lighting the weeds to make a path in the darkness... towards a stand of gnarled twisted leafless trees. The small fires were a dead giveaway to the predators that pursued, but they kept their distance as a growing host of...

With the advent of the camp, and some hours passing... a peace of sorts falls over the darkness. The feeding frenzy of so many newly awakened has reverted to eerie silence and the sound of the gnawing of bones in the panumbra. Perhaps there are cycles of activity for monsters and the wild that...

@Heyitsjiwon @Pat It was on the glass knife that Argead met Eostre -- the pale witch dining on insects and languidly watching the small collections of lanternfolk coalesce under the Glass Knife Hill. Argead had crossed hundreds of yards of uneven terrain to get to the relative safety of the...