Total War: Seas of Change IC

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Turn 4

Rengu looks out to his growing flock. Many had come to his temple barges in the last seasons. Remnants of Turtle Riders and Raiders both looking for a place to call home. The weak were culled to slake the Great Undying Ones eternal thirst while the rest were properly educated on the Greatness of the Undying.

Finally, after years of sacrifices and artifice, the time had come for the chains holding down the Undying One to be loosened. The divinities left his god beneath the oceans, to forever struggle to free themself and rise to the Godsea once more. If it took the Great Preacher another hundred years to unleash the Undying then he would make that sacrifice.

He looks out at his feet, the great Temple Barge he rode on filled with three dozen of his most zealous, most powerful, and most loyal followers. He stood on a small podium built into the prow of the ship, not the highest point or the largest but the one able to view the prisons of the oceans as they traveled.

“LOYAL FOLLOWERS OF THE UNDYING! WE STAND HERE AT THE LEDGE OF A LONG ROAD!”

It had been some time since he had seen the truth in his youth, pulled by a riptide deep into the sea. Only surviving due to an underwater cave appearing before him. He made his way within, subsisting on the dank water and plentiful shellfish within, slowly growing weaker.

The Undying had reached out to him, guided Rengu to an ancient artifact deep within the cave and promising both power and life.

“POWERFUL WE HAVE BECOME, US ADHERENTS TO UNDEATH. DEATH CANNOT CLAIM US, LIFE CANNOT BREAK US. WE STAND ABOVE IT ALL!”

The staff he wielded even now had saved him. The staff kept him alive as he swam out of the save into the depths, being crushed to death and drowning as he went but not dying. He emerged from the waters half dead, half alive, yet not quite either.
His tribe had rejoiced upon finding him alive and well but when he spoke to them of the ways of the Undying they cast him out, only a few of the tribe seeing the truth of the world through his eyes. His first and still most zealous followers.

They set sail into the oceans and started to spread the word.

“ALL THOSE THAT CALL THE FIVE SEAS THEIR HOME SHALL NOW WITNESS THE POWER OF THE UNDYING ONE. OUR GODS POWER SHALL RIPPLE THROUGH THE SEA AND ALL SHALL PARTAKE OF HIS POWER OR SUFFER HIS WRATH.”

Spoiler: Rise of the Drowned (Event)

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The Undying Congregation have sacrificed the blood of many to empower their god and he rattled the chains to the five oceans. His power his at its strongest right now and the priests of the seas can channel it with ease. The fallen god needs to be restrained lest his very essence infect the islands of the seas themselves.

Spoiler

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All Undying One Below Blessings are 3 Priests cost. Communal Priest/Dreamer/Warrior event, 21 Stats/VIPs/Items no villagers. If not completed then for every two points failed a random occupied island will get a Curse of One Below.

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The Sunken Eye Raiders had lived by one rule to survive the aftermath of the primal storm and subsequent dangerous waters, 'don't sail in disturbed waters'. They avoided the established tribes, did not make waves, and really just tried not to piss people off while surviving on the scraps of the seas. They didn't thrive but they stayed under the radar and survived.

Then they broke their one rule, trading with the great tribes for food and resources. Only months after the first trade they came under attack strange dreams from beyond and compulsions breaking the wills of the hardy raiders. They lost several key members of the fleet and when they begged for help they found not making waves also meant not making allies to aid them. They found themselves alone when the wolves came.

They were savaged brutally through the dream, their enemies making no more attempts to try and pretend this was anything other then an attack. Then as their fleet was splintering from the attacks on their minds the wolves came in their war canoes and with spears aplenty. The Children of the Sun sailed into their midst, spears and oars flashing both. The Children were brutal and left nothing behind, taking all they could from the Fleets stores and remaining peoples.

At the end of it all the seas themselves stilled and they left no trace behind as they sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Sunken Raiders Destroyed

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This new half of the year sees the winds rising once more. The Primal Storm may have been the greatest of its kind but there are constant storms from the depths of the Divine Sea, home of the living storm.

Despite prayers and sacrifices from all over to Tahiso the storm does not stop growing. The storm will continue but in his magnanimous benevolence the Great Tahiso has revealed that the storm is coming but refuses to stop it.

The gods are angered that mortals dare to loosen the chains of their restrained fallen member. They punish all mortals for the sins of the few and work to remove all their works from the seas, returning them to the pristine prison they once were.

Spoiler: Coming Storm

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The storm comes once more. After all parts of the EoT are resolved the storm will take effect. The base effect of every storm is the tribe loses 1d4 villagers and 1 Building is broken (Requires 5 Craft to repair). If a tribe has no building it loses a caste member at random.

Every Storm also has a special effect added to it from the list below. Each effect only happens once a game.
- Storm of Wrath
- Storm of Scouring
- Storm of Exploration
- Storm of Challenges
- Storm of Gods

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Leaderboard

Rank	Conquest	Exploration	Prosperity
First	Children of the Sun	Raxitakra	Coral Singers
Second	Alu'li Hunters	Endless Gaze	Kahealahana Holt
Third	Coral Singers	Kahealahana Holt	Alu'Li Hunters

The Tribes in first Each gain 1 VP.

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First Place with VP is the Children of the Sun

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EoTs due Sunday April 18th at Midnight