The voice was raspy and slow and you had to stop humming and scratching yourself and keep your ear close to the darkness to grasp what it was saying.
- Angus does the reports. Who is this creep?
- Ladies and gentlecritters, Angus had a work accident that involved half a million Ulmish warriors and his sorry butt. This hazy, light-averse fellow does replace him as head of the Fomorian Intelligence Service.
I unfolded the large map.
- As you can see, our armies have conquered a not negligible part of the world, but seven other empires dispute the overlordship of Lord Lodhbh. We are fighting the hordes of Machaka for the time being. Provided Lanka and Agartha do not invite us in their ongoing war, we will keep pushing our exploration of the seas and, up North, we will in due time defeat the worshippers of Aithon. The Great White Bull got careless and we have banished him from this dimension for the time being.
- When Mababwe will be ours, we will face the armies of Enkidu warriors of the great city of Ur, and the soldiers of the vile empire of Berytos. How will we defeat those? The question remains open. We have an advantage, though.
On this cue, the Mictlanese ambassador stepped into the front. He was a silent, strong type man, impressive to behold, what will all those feathers and bones and strange weapons.
- Our friends from faraway Mictlan have agreed to an everlasting alliance!
A fat finger punched the map where Ur was rumored to stand.
- THIS IS THE EMPIRE-CRUSHING PINCER TECHNIQUE! THIS TWO THOUSAND YEAR OLD STRATEGIC MOVE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS OF THE COBORLEACH FAMILY!
While we were all nodding our approval, something shadowy entered the Council chamber and began to share news from the East.
- THIS IS A TEMPORARY SETBACK. I KNOW WHERE TO FIND A POTENT FIVE THOUSAND YEAR OLD KINGDOM-KILLING WEAPON.
The rest I learned through indirect sources. The king went across the sea and searched the forest of Obocte until he stumbled on the legendary Silver Sarcophagus. He knocked before opening the age-old tomb and that might have been a mistake, for inside laid in wait a foul entity, Wormfood the Divine Mummy. The glorious heir to the Coborleach family is said to have survived only thanks to some ancient technique called the Invulnerable Flight-Controlled Exit Move.
Fall of Year 4 - 32 provinces, 1899 gold, 556 rp, 37 gems, 21 slaves
So I got the first of probably many 'You killed our God' messages. Aithon had little magic (A2N2E1) and did not buff himself a lot before jumping into the fray.
Mictlan dying of low dominion is bad news. I wonder how it happened.
Ouch, the Silver Sarcophagus event started right after discovery and the Divine Mummy was equipped with an Eye Shield. The King lost his one eye -but that is no big deal thanks to the wound-repairing Gift of Health.
