Empire 7: Into the Depths IC Thread

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Eternal Spring
Turn 4 (Years 10-12)
Polar Bear Faction

Queen Violet of the Violent Thorns

Dip: 3
Mil: 3
Ego: 9
Fai: 6
Inf: 5

Next Round: +2 Eco (capped at 10)

Actions:
Buy TP 2 of Gravelglass (self support) in region 68 2d6+10
Buy TP 1 Coral Dye (self support) In region 59 2d6+11
Buy TP 2 Coral Dye (self support) In region 59 2d6+11
Buy TP 3 Coral Dye (self support) In region 59 2d6+11
Impress TP 57 with 57 and 58. 2d6+10

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Genus Taxonomia Gelidum Mare Contribution

It takes quite a while for the Medusa of the Eternal Spring to finally collect their bearings and finish negotiations, but finish it they do. In part because promoting their wildlife is good for business and good for the flourishing of popularity. Many have heart of the Jellyfish that live here, and the larger plant like creatures that spawned from them, the sapient collective plant superstructures.

Less have heard of the Rainbow Rivers. Pieces of flora formed of simple seaweed and plants whose primary feature is that they are of different pigmentation. Often times they change pigmentation like a chameleon, especially when placed against different objects.

They aren't numerous enough to be traded away, and are grown in treasured troves. In truth they are a genetic mutation of Riverweeds, who have pigmentation in line with the beds, and adjust within those colors. These riverweeds though have a propensity to become much more vibrant, but that is a defect in nature normally. Their propensity to glow wild colors makes them more visible when they shouldn't be, when one of their natural assets is their ability to hide.

It's a genetic mutation that truthfully would have died out, if not for the intervention and careful curation of the intelligent species. These things have plenty of use in elaborate communication and decoration and long term signaling. Plus, for cases like these, for outsiders, they make a fantastic exhibit to show off. Along with the normal Riverweeds, who these people also seemed strangely interested in as well.


Write up Great Project (3 action)
[The Crypt Of Mamomos]
The rocks began to resemble a temple. Nothing like the giant tribe sponsored temples that laid around the rest of the region, but it felt wonderous in its own unique way. It appeared more to be a nest, than anything else. Gilded in rocks, in shinies, in gold and gems and jewels of the kind that seemed worthless to the Medusa, but that the other, smaller minded races held so near and dear. String too, from woven seaweed. Something special and precious to behold. And, right at the center, was to go a giant egg.

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One Medusa took this whole 'religious' thing more seriously than the rest. Unification. Power. The means by which species interacted with each other. It was steadily starting to make sense, to this one. The other Medusa didn't get it, focusing on more paltry things, assets, resources. The literal currency itself was the power, it was the very means by which the other races connected to each other. Words were cheap, but time and again, what motivated the non-hive mind races was this concept. It was transmitted from one end, and like a neuron transmitting a signal, the receiving end produced an outcome.

When Violet (she refused to call that Medusa 'queen') started pulling the merchants and resources under her sway, it was not because she did negotiation or friendly chatter better than her predecessor. The Violent Violet was childish, and barely managed to not be enough of an annoyance to get uprooted. No, it was because she understood the power of Coin. Shell. Whatever material thing or want the given entity wanted, she provided, and took up a greater surplus in return.

Soon enough, this Medusa would show them the true underlying nature of the supposed, quote unquote, 'non-hive mind species'.

(write up some fluff for [Task] Begin work on the Genus Taxonomia Gelidum Mare [1/5])


NonAction
Purchase protection for 1 Treasure for my region.
Borrow 2 Treasure from the Abyssal Stewards.
Give support to SEN buying out TP 3 of Region 51 Jellyfish, for a to-be-decided favor, and in the hopes of building good relations (especially in the hopes of getting the warlike people to not go stomping around inside areas the Eternal Spring has interest in)


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Region 51 (Magma Falls) (Capital) (Fortress) (City)
Holy Sites: Eternal Communion / Eternal Communion / Eternal Communion
Resource (Immortal Jellyfish) ESP / ESP / Open / City(ESP) (x2)
TP 1 of 55 Chelonian Hunters
TP 1 of 57 Woven Seaweed
TP 1 of 58 Warped Shells (x2)

Merchant Supports
Region 51, 58, 59, 68


Treasure: 1
Passive Treasure Income: +2 (+2) (-1)
Soldiers: 0