I'm gonna have to very reluctantly declare this dead. It was hilarious and fun, but ended up being too clunky somehow. Probably a few too many players + NPCs + colony mechanics + who was using channelers this turn?
Still, I enjoyed it while it lasted, and I hope everyone else did too. My sincere apologies to everyone who was playing and everyone who never got a chance to play.
Fun facts:
-I'm really disappointed this never came up, but the "other plane" was the inside of a giant worm. That's why it was ALWAYS raining: You were in an absorptive part of its gut. You couldn't tell because it was massive and visibility was crap, but it was shaped like a gigantic tube. Gravity followed the tube around, though, so there weren't any obviously curved walls to find. If it had ever stopped raining you'd have noticed the "sky" was no such thing and been able to figure out the truth.
-It was also a planar nexus, so there were other civs out there. Mainly the fairies, which existed in native and invading empire varieties; the crab was a native Power Rangers style mech for defeating vile invaders. The giant bug that ate hunters was also native, and part of the only major native civ. They had, needless to say, no interest in anything but hunting you for sport.
-Due to being a living thing, the terrain would shift from time to time. Blacktongue actually figured this out because of Miya's tree-dot map; she noticed that the trees were spread out exactly the same on the hill as off it, which wouldn't happen if they'd grown into the hill as it was. She correctly surmised that the terrain must shift here on a fast enough scale for the plant life to not bother adapting to it.
Despite not working out, I'm now tempted to get another mage game going. Any comments on how this one turned out?
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Topic: The Expedition Arcane [ded] (Read 44324 times)