So tired. So very tired. This will do. Lots of fish, the smell of hogs mixing with the sweet smell of myrrh. This will do.
At the rise of the full moon, the small group of nomads gathered in the valley between the the river and the surrounding hills. A woman came forward and removed a small chip of dark stone from her belt, and with her eyes closed lifted it above her head so the moonshine glowed off the jagged edge.
"Hawm," the crowd murmered in approval and assent.
The woman reached up and took one large matted dred from atop her head, and sawed at it until it came free in her hand. She then made three short cuts in her palm, letting the blood mix with the severed hair. The crowd opened, creating a passage leading to a small hole to the South. She walked slowly, blood dripping from her hand, knelt on the grass and placed the hair in the pit. Two young boys started piling the dirt atop the offering.
Turning to the crowd, she made eye contact with as many of the crowd as she could, took a deep breath, and, in a surprisingly deep voice, declared, "We are settled. Forevermore, we shall live in this valley. Welcome to Carthage, your new home."
"Hawm."
(from http://civisibles.blogspot.com/ )
Various fiction and game commentary on games of Sid Meier's Civilization IV (ciV).
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Current Plan
How things change ... midway through writing the initial stories for the first game (which are still saved, and may someday return), I stumbled upon Fall From Heaven, a fantasy mod for cIV.
Whoops. Haven't played straight cIV since.
So, now I hope to use this site to hold writings inspired by FFH, either from its lore or from games I play.
Whoops. Haven't played straight cIV since.
So, now I hope to use this site to hold writings inspired by FFH, either from its lore or from games I play.
Original Plan
I have wanted to do something that combines writing and cIV for a while. Here is the setup:
I am playing the games with the cIV Gold module.
In each game, I play three civilizations. I'm going alphabetically, but I am excluding some of the civilizations (these games are also preparatory work for a possible mod of my own, and I'm only playing the civs that would make it into that mod). Current game: the Aniyonega, the Assyrians, and the Arabs.
Those three civilizations are kind to each other, but have rules in terms of just how friendly they can be--for example, all tech trades must be roughly equivalent in beakers and must make some sense, etc. I haven't ever had two of my civ's go to war, although it certainly could happen.
I am most interested in the narrative that emerges, not winning. I play on Prince, and am pretty sure I'm average at best.
For these, each civilization will update once every twenty turns. They'll be staggered, so I'm essentially writing an update once every 7 turns or so. Updates may range from incredibly brief to some longer works of narrative fiction, we'll just see how it goes.
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