The world according to the Royal Pontic Satrapy of Ankyra / A Pontos midgame story

Hello everybody,

since I finished my Koinon Hellon Story on the old EB 0.8 built, the game proceeded incredibly and I kept playing it with joy, though I was not active on the forums. Now I'm going to try another one. Unfortunately I suffer from a chronical lack of time, so I probably can not update it too often. But anyway, here is the prologue:


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I hope, you enjoyed, your QK

Oh man have I been waiting for this!!! I reread TWATTKH and loved it for the second time!! Man this looks good. Awesome job :)

LOL! Yes I enjoyed it indeed! Reminds of Asterix. :2thumbsup:

Wow... I honestly didn't think we'd ever get to see another one Q. I'm very glad I was wrong.

You still got it my man! :2thumbsup:

That's a very creative approach you are following. I also like the skillful graphics work. Has to be a lot of work. ~:thumb:

Good to see you're back!

Lookling Good, looking very good

ah Quirinus, you, Vtmarvin, me and Lapo Gianni, should give a name to our school, like the architects in the XX century, i dont know things like school of Vienna, school of Paris, or Munchen etc...:laugh4:

waiting to see the first chapter!
salut!

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Many thanks for the warm welcome back to all of you guys!
Chirurgeon: You heaping the KH-story out of the forums basement for one more time finally motivated me to start over again.
Nixalsverdrus, Wonderland, Markus Aurelius, R=C and Ludens: Good to see you again too!
Lysimachos: The graphics are made up with the kind of tricky freeware "TheGimp2". I finally found a very useful step by step tutorial to make speech-bubbles with the Gimp. If someone is interested, here's the link:

http://gtfw.smackjeeves.com/comics/1...sizing-part-1/

Obelics: I'm truly honoured....School of Otanes, the teller? He's kind of a style-shaping roots character in this tiny literary subgenre.

Greetings, QK

PS: Out of topic: If someone is interested in the life of the real Quirinus Kuhlmann (who was a really unique and completely crazy poet and self-proclaimed prophet of the 17. century) and can understand the german language, here is an essay I wrote about him:

http://www.hanebuechlein.de/kleingei...e/kuhlmann.pdf

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ah Quirinus, you, Vtmarvin, me and Lapo Gianni, should give a name to our school, like the architects in the XX century, i dont know things like school of Vienna, school of Paris, or Munchen etc...:laugh4:

waiting to see the first chapter!
salut!

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You could call it Academie Novella Graphica. Why that name? Because everything sounds fancier when you combine bad French and worse Latin.
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@ Quirinus Kuhlmann

your AAR is good so far, lookin' forward to your next update.

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Lysimachos: The graphics are made up with the kind of tricky freeware "TheGimp2". I finally found a very useful step by step tutorial to make speech-bubbles with the Gimp. If someone is interested, here's the link:

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I have the gimp, too, but i'm a total amateur :laugh4: I'll surely have a look at that link. Knowledge is power and perhaps some day i'll have the opportunity to use this power ~;)

how do you see a city i have only seen them in battles

You go into the city menue, look for the small button called "Settlement details"on the left side. Then in that menue there are three small buttons. One of them is called "show settlement on battle map" or something. Click that and the city will unfold.

Great start, looking forward to updates. :grin:

thanks i forgot to say this thread is great

Hello, Tellos, Belisarius and Merlinus, salute to you too for reading, posting and giving support and motivation!

Now, while the first chapter is under heavy construction, but a still a few days away from being posted, here's a little something to give you an overview:


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The Wasted Dwarflands... you seem to be on the road again.:grin:

Btw I always thought Quirinus Kuhlmann were you. I'm quite surprised to find out he was a poet in reality...:coffeenews:

No, I am not and Im glad about it. Kuhlmann was a true and unique maniac,
who proclaimed himself as "Kühlmonarch" and son of the son of god. He really wanted to cool down all humankind in the sense of refreshing them. (This had something to do with his name and the apostel Paulus, who said something about refreshing cristianity in one of his letters)
Ironically in the end he Kuhlmann was burned in a hot fire 1689 in Moscow for wild heretic propaganda-action (which was true). He's not completely forgotten, because his poetry is really interesting (at least for germanists), so that in fact expressionist poets in the early 20th century were accused to write like "the madman Kuhlmann" by their conservative counterparts.
But enough of that.
First update is constantly growing and a lot of time.consuming fun!

A lot of people really should cool down a bit:laugh4:

Excellent job, Quirinus!:2thumbsup:

I love the idea of focusing on the plot from the POV of the agents, looking forward to the next chapter!

I wish you a lot of time at your disposal for doing this, you will need it!:beam: :yes:

On a side note: School of Otanes seems really appropriate name for what you and Obelics are doing. :bow::rtwyes:

School of Obelics
School of Kuhlmann
School of the Waste
School of the Divine Eyebrow
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I particulary like the area of Mounted Juggernaughts :) This is awesome stuff

Thanks and cheers to all of you! In a few minutes, the next update will be posted. I decided not to call it "Back in the RPSofA", because the heros of Gaul did not make it to arrive their in time to meet the end of the chapter.

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This is going to get messy!

reads the title of the thread. I must be dreaming. Reads the AAR. YEEEEAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! YEEESS! QK is back! GIGGITY GIGGITY GIGGITY GIGGITY GOO!

Drinking wine + your AAR = pissing myself laughing. Good god man you got a gift. If I have a bad day I will just read your stuff. Awesome job. And I am glad I rummaged through the AAR closet and found the old TWATKH AAR. I am glad I made you write once again!!

hahaha love it! :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

Woooohooooo!

Superb stuff.

Thanx again for the feedback an encouragement, which is very welcome and truely the salt in the soup.
I'm a bit exhausted now, but will continue the work after a short break, because it's so so fun messing around with the graphics and stuff.
(On the other hand, making this one prevents me from playing the game, because I didn't manage to reach the present point in the current campaign with the story jet. And playing the game would be also exausting, as you probably all know.)
See you soon!

"f'in nope" <----hilarious. good stuff.

I especially like the little Roman that says he isn't there. Great stuff.

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: Hilarious, QK the younger. I especially like the royal orders in verse form. And Nouvellecousinix.:2thumbsup:

Welcome, paullus and Korlon, I'm glad, that you dig the kind of humour, which is executed here!
Nixalsverdrus: It were no royal orders but holy orders by Lugos, the sun god
himself, who will appear to his devoted worshipper Geraint from time to time and give advice to him in poetical form.
Anyway, Chapter two is under construction now and will hopefully be posted tomorrow.

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No I mean the orders of Anaphas Kianos. Just hilarious, and also the reply of Laodikeos. The first bubble makes me think of Rumpelstilzchen, and the reply of Darth Vader. Why do I have Darth Vader in my mind when I read that? Though I never saw these films in English.:2thumbsup:

I see, my dear Nixalsverdrus. But these orders of the king became a poem by accident. I think I was very tired and didn't notice the rhyme, while writing it. But as I look at it now, I say: Yes it's a poem.
Maybe you think of Darth Vader, because that tragical hero of the dark side crawled inside the minds of us all and somehow survived there for good.
By the way, here is a link to a nice little youtube video, that shows us the master as an angry native speaker of the dialect of cologne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFxGLir5-cQ

Many thanx for feedback! I start to upload the new update in a minute.

Ok, here's the second chapter. Next one will take a little bit longer due to the usual time problems. But anyway, hope you enjoy this one:

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what a funny little narrator..:laugh4:

Yes indeed. It' Quirinus Kuhlmann (the older). The image shows original QK of the 17th century. It was used by him as kind of buisness card, mostly for fundraising in his religious struggle to cool down all humankind. Really weird story with him, but true.

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: It gets funnier even. But why is the Pontic god called Zeus-Brontos? Really good and excellent photoshopping, QK the younger. Btw it was me who gave you your new nickname, right?:stupido2:

LOL @ modesty patch!

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LOL @ modesty patch!

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Ditto!

Nixalsverdrus: You are right, He's called Zeus Bronton, not Brontos, my mistake, I just mixed it up. Here's an image of his temple:

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Yes, and it was also you, who gave me the new nickname!

Ayce: You are right too: I included the patch, because I wanted the story not to become too messy with all those naked men. They have to weir pants now, wether they want or not. They live in a "civilized" kingdom and have to make compromises in their behaviour.

By the way, if someone is interested in a Pontos-Savegame, 223 BC, with two Aeduan Family Members that were bribed under heavy use of the add_money cheat, aqnd with extremely dangerous ptolemaians at the borders, here it is:
http://www.axifile.com/?7996687

Unfortunately the (recruitible) Lesser King Kyros is not in this save. I have him in another one, wich I can't use anymore, because I forgot to save, when I messed around with it to get screenshots. Now in this other save, the High King is captured by the Ptolemaians in a fort without a chance to be saved.
Does somedy know, if it's possible, to export a character from one savegame and implement it in another? Kyros would be thankful.

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Nixalsverdrus: You are right, He's called Zeus Bronton, not Brontos, my mistake, I just mixed it up.

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Ah, I didn't knew that god. I thoght it was one of your notorious inventions, creating a god like a Brontosaurus or something like that...:laugh4:

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Unfortunately the (recruitible) Lesser King Kyros is not in this save. I have him in another one, wich I can't use anymore, because I forgot to save, when I messed around with it to get screenshots. Now in this other save, the High King is captured by the Ptolemaians in a fort without a chance to be saved.
Does somedy know, if it's possible, to export a character from one savegame and implement it in another? Kyros would be thankful.

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I don't think so but if anyone knows it's MarcusAureliusAntoninus.

Sure there is: High king Kyros just gotta be a bit on the heroic side tonight:
http://rtw.heavengames.com/rtw/info/cheats/index.shtml

• open the RTW console and type auto_win attacker
• sally from his fort & autocalc the battle.
• cover it up neatly ~;)

This stuff get's even more hilarious and great. " the triumvirate kingdom of Galatia in the Royal pontic satrapy of anatolia" :rofl:

Thank you for the quick help, Tellos Athenaios, I think that'll do it, though I didn't want to cheat anymore in this game. But to keep the Lesser King on track, I'll do it again.

Thank you too, RC!

Congratulations! Your AAR has officially invaded my dream. Last night, I had a man in my dream who kept saying "I'm not here!" Repeatedly mind you.

Oh, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, Korlon. And if he should come back, don't care too much about that man. He speaks the truth, he's simply "not here" (nor anywhere else).
In fact it's an honour for me, that my story ivaded your dream!

just remember, if you have a funny little man for a narrator who was burned at the stake in russia, then expact him to invade your dreams

When I read the last chapter, I laughed out loud behind my computer. Now that is something that doens't happen very often.

Great AAR ~:thumb: . Please continue!

Don't worry, will be continued, but will always take a little time. Also, thanks to Tellos Athenaios, I have now a proper save with High King Anaphas and Lesser King Kyros, from where the adventure can start.

Great! I eagerly await the to see what adventures will befall upon our mighty heroes.

"Who am I!" really good staff, I like comic-styled AARs which tend to be/are very funny. Greetz from Regensburg nach Bonn, mit feiner Nadel gestickt die Geschichte, Respekt! ~:cheers:

Well how's life in the RPS of A?

Oh, life's just how it is over there! Struggles, evil emperours, juggernauts and poetry.
Dear Tellos, I'm glad that you are asking for a new update. It took a little time, because I was very busy with my dayjob in the last weeks, but now finally it's done and I'll post it in a minute.

Hello everybody!
It took a little time, but finally here is the third chapter of this story. Hope you enjoy!

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Priceless.:2thumbsup: I hope to hear of Levy-Phalanx-Sergeant Parmenides again!:laugh4:

Great! :2thumbsup:

Nixalsverdrus: Mmh, I think Parmenides got drafted again by the High-King and is on the way to Antiochia, mumbling disrespectful statements into his helmet. So hopefully we will see him again in the next chapter.

Tellos Athenaios: Thank you!

It's great how you use all that traits in the story, even the rebel general gets a "background".

Hilarious stuff! One of the best comedy aars I've seen for any game. :yes:

LOL!!! For nakedness and fanatism!! RABOOOOH!!!!
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Thank you for the kind replys!

Aldaemon and Methusaleah: Welcome to the story!

Lysimachos: I think this is what usually happens, when anyone "seriously" plays EB: You create several backgrounds for the characters and peoples in your mind and that makes the time float away so unstoppable, while you act around in this world, which is both self-created and determined by the game. I sometimes play EB together with a friend. That even more fun, because you can figure out the storyline together and mess around wth the characters.

Now, this last update is about barely 4 hours of gameplay and making it up took me much more time.Have to be careful, for the storyline is in danger to be split in too many parts, so that nobody would understand what's going on.

And Casticos became a poet. That was not planned, but now it is as it is...

what a funny little story indeed!! and is the King really about t be duped?!

The king is planning to stamp his name into the great book of history by subjugating the Ptolemaian Empire in a glourious Alexander-like campain. It's immortality in the memory of mankind, that he wants. He's not a modest man, as you know.
About the dangers coming with his plan he naturally thinks not. He's also not really a clever guy.I don't know what will happen, but I'm shure there will come hard times for Geraint.
I don't now the word "duped" means, so I'm not shure, if this answers your question properly.

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The king is planning to stamp his name into the great book of history by subjugating the Ptolemaian Empire in a glourious Alexander-like campain. It's immortality in the memory of mankind, that he wants. He's not a modest man, as you know.
About the dangers coming with his plan he naturally thinks not. He's also not really a clever guy.I don't know what will happen, but I'm shure there will come hard times for Geraint.
I don't now the word "duped" means, so I'm not shure, if this answers your question properly.

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actually you answere 1/2 of it. duped= fooled, o tricked (b that guy in the crimea). thanks! keep up the good work:2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

can't wait for the next chapter :beam:

Dear ezekiel, I'm sorry to say, that you'll have to wait a little bit longer, because by now I can't run the game due to serious problems with my graphic card and not time to solve it, not to talk about playing the game and fixing another update.

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Dear ezekiel, I'm sorry to say, that you'll have to wait a little bit longer, because by now I can't run the game due to serious problems with my graphic card and not time to solve it, not to talk about playing the game and fixing another update.

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i will just have to find other ways to entertain myself ~:handball:

It is a shame that such a hillarious story fell off the first page!:shame:

Any luck with your graphic card? I would love to see this story continue! :2thumbsup:

And any luck with having some children from your adopted celtic generals?

Dear V.T.,

thank you for your kind request. Unfortunately my problems with the new graphic card semm to be an endless story. It has something to do with the nv04.dll-case, which gave me several bluescrees and frustrating hours in search of a solution in the last weeks, trying out different cards and drivers and so on. It's weird, sometimes everything works for hours, sometimes evil breakdowns happen.
But besides that, after a period of thinking it over, I had to decide not to go on with the story, because it simply costs too much time and energy, so that other projects in the sphere of unprofitable creative writing, that I'm on at the moment, would seriously suffer.
I'm not feeling too proud about that, because the AAR was quite promising and I also promised to go on with it, but it seems that I bit off more than I can swallow.
I also want to thank all the others, who followed the story.

Greetings, QK

Ive just read through the whole story, included the varius intra-chapter posts, very rare case for me (not cause im a sort of a snob or things like this, just cause to follow an on-screen story in english for me it's really hard, and after a while i feel really "exhausted", the better word to express it), but i must say that this flowed so well, i didn't felt any "weight", it had not any ingenuousness, and it keep me interested to read more... that's all is needed in a good thing, gave me a really good hour. What a pity for your last post... but you can always take it back as you feel inspired, when you wish and when you want...

salut!

EDIT: also i have to check if there is somethink translated in italian about QK, you got me curious!

Pity. Good luck with writing, anyway!
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Epic aar.

Argh! Just when I discover this great AAR, it has to die...

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Dear V.T.,

thank you for your kind request. Unfortunately my problems with the new graphic card semm to be an endless story. It has something to do with the nv04.dll-case, which gave me several bluescrees and frustrating hours in search of a solution in the last weeks, trying out different cards and drivers and so on. It's weird, sometimes everything works for hours, sometimes evil breakdowns happen.

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Could it possibly be your RAM?

Obelics:
I think you're right, I always can start over again, when I feel like it. Anyway, thank you for you're detailed feedback, it's highly appreciated! (Especially because it comes from you)

Warmaster and Ludens, my thanks for you too

Rilder: Yes, could be my ram too. The problem is definetly not EB-Related, because it also occures in vanilla RTW, so I didn't ask for technical help here. I will take care about it, but not today, as I'm recovering from a party last night. Thank you for your help! (I think we should'nt go further into details, because the AAR forums are not the proper place for it.)