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

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

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:



















I hope, you enjoyed, your QK

[Chirurgeon]

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

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

LOL! Yes I enjoyed it indeed! Reminds of Asterix.

[Dooz]

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!

[Lysimachos]

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

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Good to see you're back!

[Reality=Chaos]

Lookling Good, looking very good

[Obelics]

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...

waiting to see the first chapter!
salut!

[Ludens]

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

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

[MerlinusCDXX]

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...

waiting to see the first chapter!
salut!

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


@ Quirinus Kuhlmann

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

[Lysimachos]

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/

I have the gimp, too, but i'm a total amateur 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

[Belisarius12]

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

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

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.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Great start, looking forward to updates.

[Belisarius12]

thanks i forgot to say this thread is great

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

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:

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

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

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

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

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!

[Lysimachos]

A lot of people really should cool down a bit

[V.T. Marvin]

Excellent job, Quirinus!

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!

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

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

School of Obelics
School of Kuhlmann
School of the Waste
School of the Divine Eyebrow
...

[Chirurgeon]

I particulary like the area of Mounted Juggernaughts :) This is awesome stuff

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

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.

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

[Ayce]

This is going to get messy!

[Wolfman]

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

[Chirurgeon]

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!!

[Lovejoy]

hahaha love it!

[Lysimachos]

Woooohooooo!