New Civilizations (2nd Era, OOC, Always Open )

[Bortslovakia]

And when I start. DO I act as I start at 2975 BC or 3000 BC ad then go from there?

2975 BCE.

[Endem]

I wonder where the town Universal described is on the map to be honest, Nestos and Inperial borders are pretty damn away from each other, is it in Transylvania ( the middle ground between Nestos and Imperium ) or somewhere else?

Today is my birthday,
so I'll be in the company of many of my family and plenty of my friends. So I won't be around here for most of today.

Happy Birthday

[G-Tech Corporation]

Any books, broadsheets, or posters from the Imperium in Sigismund? Want to expand that imaginary library. Of course, we can write about what we see...

You mean Singidum? You probably wouldn't find much other than Bibles, and public notices for merchants of ship arrival times and the like. Serbia won't exactly boast much of a literate populace just yet.

[UniversalCommons]

I wonder where the town Universal described is on the map to be honest, Nestos and Inperial borders are pretty damn away from each other, is it in Transylvania ( the middle ground between Nestos and Imperium ) or somewhere else?

Today is my birthday,
so I'll be in the company of many of my family and plenty of my friends. So I won't be around here for most of today.

Happy Birthday

It is not really an official town. There is a trading post that is expanding at the base of the Vistula. When we first came to Aren, we set up a place to launch the boats further up the road. We never really quite left. It is the exact same place where the rafts went up the river on the first expedition. Basically, it was chosen because there were some traders in amber near the river. We came back and continued trading there. Basically, we don't own it. It is an attractive place on the river where people gather and trade things. Basically, it was an open field where you could pitch tents and get to the river easily, near a major road with farms, hunters, fishermen and traders. We met the local people who traded amber there. It started attracting others, the farmers, the amber traders, the fishermen, the hunters, some of the traders from Aren. We continued trading there. It eventually would become something like a permanent market, or market town (settlement with a market).

It might be somewhere near the base of the Vistula where the modern town of Wisla is not far from the Imperium town of Aren.

The public arrival of ships would be of interest to us as we would be trading. Would they have information on the types of goods?

[Endem]

I wonder where the town Universal described is on the map to be honest, Nestos and Inperial borders are pretty damn away from each other, is it in Transylvania ( the middle ground between Nestos and Imperium ) or somewhere else?


Happy Birthday

It is not really an official town. There is a trading post that is expanding at the base of the Vistula. When we first came to Aren, we set up a place to launch the boats further up the road. We never really quite left. It is the exact same place where the rafts went up the river on the first expedition. Basically, it was chosen because there were some traders in amber near the river. We came back and continued trading there. Basically, we don't own it. It is an attractive place on the river where people gather and trade things. Basically, it was an open field where you could pitch tents and get to the river easily, near a major road with farms, hunters, fishermen and traders. We met the local people who traded amber there. It started attracting others, the farmers, the amber traders, the fishermen, the hunters, some of the traders from Aren. We continued trading there. It eventually would become something like a permanent market, or market town (settlement with a market).

It might be somewhere near the base of the Vistula where the modern town of Wisla is not far from the Imperium town of Aren.

The public arrival of ships would be of interest to us as we would be trading. Would they have information on the types of goods?

Wait, what ships?

[UniversalCommons]

It is not really an official town. There is a trading post that is expanding at the base of the Vistula. When we first came to Aren, we set up a place to launch the boats further up the road. We never really quite left. It is the exact same place where the rafts went up the river on the first expedition. Basically, it was chosen because there were some traders in amber near the river. We came back and continued trading there. Basically, we don't own it. It is an attractive place on the river where people gather and trade things. Basically, it was an open field where you could pitch tents and get to the river easily, near a major road with farms, hunters, fishermen and traders. We met the local people who traded amber there. It started attracting others, the farmers, the amber traders, the fishermen, the hunters, some of the traders from Aren. We continued trading there. It eventually would become something like a permanent market, or market town (settlement with a market).

It might be somewhere near the base of the Vistula where the modern town of Wisla is not far from the Imperium town of Aren

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The public arrival of ships would be of interest to us as we would be trading. Would they have information on the types of goods?

Wait, what ships?

The ships are in Singidun which is on the Danube river. it is separate from the Vistula thread.

[Reatra]

Oh my lord. Y'all.

I just realized, since I live on a university campus and am able to check out books from the even bigger university next door, I think I might be able to get a reconstructed dictionary and grammar of "Proto-Utian", which is probably what's being spoken in most of the Bay Area and Central Valley at this point in history.

I've tried to get it online for months now but... I might be able to finesse it via inter-library loan lmfao.

[Orostan]

Oh my lord. Y'all.

I just realized, since I live on a university campus and am able to check out books from the even bigger university next door, I think I might be able to get a reconstructed dictionary and grammar of "Proto-Utian", which is probably what's being spoken in most of the Bay Area and Central Valley at this point in history.

I've tried to get it online for months now but... I might be able to finesse it via inter-library loan lmfao.

Maybe you'll invent the dictionary in our RP.

[Bortslovakia]

Oh my lord. Y'all.

I just realized, since I live on a university campus and am able to check out books from the even bigger university next door, I think I might be able to get a reconstructed dictionary and grammar of "Proto-Utian", which is probably what's being spoken in most of the Bay Area and Central Valley at this point in history.

I've tried to get it online for months now but... I might be able to finesse it via inter-library loan lmfao.

Maybe you'll invent the dictionary in our RP.

Need a literate population for that to be useful

[Endem]

Wait, what ships?

The ships are in Singidun which is on the Danube river. it is separate from the Vistula thread.

Oh, your ships, wait, why would the arrival of your ships be of interest to you?

[UniversalCommons]

The ships are in Singidun which is on the Danube river. it is separate from the Vistula thread.

Oh, your ships, wait, why would the arrival of your ships be of interest to you?

The arrival of Imperial trade ships in Singidun would interest us because we could see what they are trading as well as how the ships are built.

[Lazarian]

Today is my birthday, so I'll be in the company of many of my family and plenty of my friends. So I won't be around here for most of today.

Happy birthday!

I should be caught up with the timeskip within a few posts. I imagine within 5 years, becoming the ræðumaður (Speaker) of the Region of Viken/Oppland is reasonable? Especially with a little endorsement, perhaps.

[Europa Undivided]

[...] and should you mess with their trade, the Commonwealth.

Oh, yes. Absolutely no touching my sensitive overseas trade, the merchants conducting said trade, or the commercial outposts said merchants operate from.

Otherwise I honestly could not care less about what colour y’all decide to paint the Western European plains in. The Commonwealth honestly has no interest in administering all that rural land.

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Also, that moment when you realise that it's only been a week and the OOC has grown by 46 PAGES

I’m reasonably confident this is the longest-running and most successful RP I’ve ever had the pleasure of participating in.

It does move both quicker than I can write for and slower than I can read, which makes me think maybe I really should work on my English writing...

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This took far longer then it should've

Fascinating, another China... its terribly unfortunate that Hanafuridake decided to retire for an indefinite hiatus, because East Asia seems to finally be livening up a bit...

Hope you two don’t silently quit on us like the last batch of militaristic warlords did.

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Russia won’t stop anyone from using its rivers to get to Asia.

I mean, as I said before. If you intend to establish Russia as we understand it, you’ll have to conquer Novgorod, which means shattering the carefully built Baltic Free Trade Bloc that we’re investing considerable resources into, possibly fighting a fairly major war...

I very much doubt that the Commonwealth will be on speaking terms with Moskva after that.

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Maybe I’ll get to you guys first.

I honestly wouldn’t mind an external power able to meddle in European affairs. Someone needs to break up the stranglehold that the Imperium has on regional diplomacy, and why not China?

The unfortunate realities of distance does mean that it’s unlikely to be soon, though...

There would be no war if I marry the princess of Novgorod.

[Kelmet]

Oh, yes. Absolutely no touching my sensitive overseas trade, the merchants conducting said trade, or the commercial outposts said merchants operate from.

Otherwise I honestly could not care less about what colour y’all decide to paint the Western European plains in. The Commonwealth honestly has no interest in administering all that rural land.

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I’m reasonably confident this is the longest-running and most successful RP I’ve ever had the pleasure of participating in.

It does move both quicker than I can write for and slower than I can read, which makes me think maybe I really should work on my English writing...

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Fascinating, another China... its terribly unfortunate that Hanafuridake decided to retire for an indefinite hiatus, because East Asia seems to finally be livening up a bit...

Hope you two don’t silently quit on us like the last batch of militaristic warlords did.

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I mean, as I said before. If you intend to establish Russia as we understand it, you’ll have to conquer Novgorod, which means shattering the carefully built Baltic Free Trade Bloc that we’re investing considerable resources into, possibly fighting a fairly major war...

I very much doubt that the Commonwealth will be on speaking terms with Moskva after that.

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I honestly wouldn’t mind an external power able to meddle in European affairs. Someone needs to break up the stranglehold that the Imperium has on regional diplomacy, and why not China?

The unfortunate realities of distance does mean that it’s unlikely to be soon, though...

There would be no war if I marry the princess of Novgorod.

Nice

[Reatra]

omg

i just got pdfs of the Proto-Utian Grammar and Dictionary so you know it's ENDONYM TIME

[Endem]

So, I noticed on the map, one of the Islands in Hibernian possession is not named Hibernia, but Polygon 39, has the mighty Polygon empire returned?

[Bortslovakia]

So, I noticed on the map, one of the Islands in Hibernian possession is not named Hibernia, but Polygon 39, has the mighty Polygon empire returned?

!

Ready the defenses men! We may die trying, but we shall prevent the spread of the Polygonians at all cost!

[Ralnis]

Time to start the grind against Uruk.

[Alaroma]

Time to start the grind against Uruk.

Epic.

[Ah-eh-ioh-uh]

Did we just start playing game of thrones?

[Joohan]

FINALLY GOT MY POST UP. Took me way longer to write that then I had intended - and I only got to a third of what it was I had initially planned. After looking over how long the first part had went on though, I decided that the next to parts could wait till a bit later.

Haven't even mentioned Issac, the WEC, Dusk Union, or guns yet...

Am gonna look over today's and yesterday's posts then.

[Alaroma]

FINALLY GOT MY POST UP. Took me way longer to write that then I had intended - and I only got to a third of what it was I had initially planned. After looking over how long the first part had went on though, I decided that the next to parts could wait till a bit later.

Haven't even mentioned Issac, the WEC, Dusk Union, or guns yet...

Am gonna look over today's and yesterday's posts then.

I know that feeling.

[Khasinkonia]

FINALLY GOT MY POST UP. Took me way longer to write that then I had intended - and I only got to a third of what it was I had initially planned. After looking over how long the first part had went on though, I decided that the next to parts could wait till a bit later.

Haven't even mentioned Issac, the WEC, Dusk Union, or guns yet...

Am gonna look over today's and yesterday's posts then.

Hopefully by the time you have your next post up, I'll have another post up to get Issac's attention in the Accantry

[Joohan]

Author Applicaiton
Name: Benjamin Lee Ford
Age: 28
Height and Weight: 6'3 and 120
Skin, hair, and eye description: a bit pale. Black hair and blue eyes.
( Optional ) Picture:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... stored.jpg
9except smaller beard and modern)
Prior Profession: Lawyer and New Politician
Level of education ( specify degrees or noteworthy classes ):
political science degree
Law School JD
Physique description: Benjamin is healthy and his age helps. Although he never focused on being physically strong throughout his life.
Useful skills: Knowledgable of history and survival (Ok at surviving). A great leader and speaker.
National Origin: America
What were you doing prior to falling asleep and awakening in the past?: Debating his political rival.
Description of personality: Ben as a lawyer and politician is a great speaker and is relatively extroverted. Although he is always searching for stuff on the internet. Ben likes to be in positions of importance and he holds fame over wealth. He is very ambitious and has the determination to reach his goals. Despite his short experience, he is a skilled politician and respected on the local level.
Where in the world are you landing?: Rome, Italy
Autobiography/Biography ( paragraph minimum ):
Benjamin Lee Ford was born to a respected political family in Boston, Massachusetts. (NO relation to Henry ford or Charles Lee) He went into the Family Tradition of Law and politics. After a normal childhood, he went to Yale Law School. He did well in yale, passing his Bar Examination. After a few years as a lawyer, he went to for the Boston City Council. His primary election was smooth easily gaining the Republican Nomination. Unfourtently, the General election was more difficult with Boston being mainly Democrat. Luckily he won barely and began working as a legislator,

( Optional on down)
What are your intentions for this RP, what's the long term goal?: Reform a state similar to the Roman Empire in the sense of Legion structure, size, and various characteristics like power across the Mediterranean. Politics will be different tho.
What people or places are you taking inspiration from?: A mix of Caesar and Romulus. Caesar in his expansionism and politics. Romulus in his founding of Rome.
Why did you chose to land where you did?: I love Roman/Italian history and it fits the best with what I'm going for.
What vibe should we get from your civilization and it's culture?: A mix of Roman and Imperium of man. It is Militarstic and has a senate but the senate has no real power and its mainly invested in the King.
What are your character's motivations?: Same as my intentions but also of course to survive.
Theme Song?: "]Imperial March" for now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNv5sPu0C1E
What do you wanna see in this RP? What would make it better?: Hmm, not sure for now. What's the time change again?

Tell me, are you ( in real life ) a politician and or a lawyer? If the answer is no, then you shouldn't put it down as your occupation.

As for skills, what does:

OK at surviving, mean? That's not very specific now is it? What you put in skills, should be abilities and knowledge which you posses that are both unique, relevant to your current situation, and which you possess a degree of expertise at. These should be very specific things, which you actually are knowledgeable in, IRL.

Following that same train of thought, A great leader and speaker. Are we to believe that your author is an objectively great leader and speaker? Are these skills quite unique to him, and provable? If not, please get rid of them. It is quite normal and acceptable if you don't have any particular skills - most people from this current day and age likely wouldn't have any.

As for your bio, knowing that Benjamin Lee Ford is not, actually, a Massachusetts legislator - and that all our Authors are descended from the actual real world, I would suggest that you write a more true to self bio.

[Joohan]

FINALLY GOT MY POST UP. Took me way longer to write that then I had intended - and I only got to a third of what it was I had initially planned. After looking over how long the first part had went on though, I decided that the next to parts could wait till a bit later.

Haven't even mentioned Issac, the WEC, Dusk Union, or guns yet...

Am gonna look over today's and yesterday's posts then.

Hopefully by the time you have your next post up, I'll have another post up to get Issac's attention in the Accantry

Do you have questions about the Accantry and the school?