Enter the Maelstrom

[Draugr]

Ashgar75

Don't forget to Join the Game in the Game Queue.

For Clarification for us new people, we can join once we have our Kingdom, and our region.  is that correct, or do we just choose our Kingdom and the regions will be assigned based on the draft???

Yes once you have drafted both you can and should sign up in the game queue

[Ashgar75]

1 Hector - The Cimmerians, Crown Islands
2 Rellgar - Untamed lands
3 Rytek - kyrnn
4 Morgan Kane - The Diamond Coast
5 DuPont - Mythgar
6 Ashgar75 - Darkover
7 Canticar - Swordcoast
8 Drogo - Nyvaria
9 Dragur - Amazon, Pellinor
10 VballMichael - Druids, Triumvia
11 Strylian -Ranger, Zamora
12 Son of Conan - Red Dragons, Zanthia

Drogo, you are up!

[Drogo]

I'll play the Elves

[Ashgar75]

1 Hector - The Cimmerians, Crown Islands
2 Rellgar - Untamed lands
3 Rytek - kyrnn
4 Morgan Kane - The Diamond Coast
5 DuPont - Mythgar
6 Ashgar75 - Darkover
7 Canticar - Swordcoast
8 Drogo - Elves, Nyvaria
9 Dragur - Amazon, Pellinor
10 VballMichael - Druids, Triumvia
11 Strylian -Ranger, Zamora
12 Son of Conan - Red Dragons, Zanthia

Canticar, you are up.

[gkmetty]

Canticar will take Lizard Men

[Ashgar75]

1 Hector - The Cimmerians, Crown Islands
2 Rellgar - Untamed lands
3 Rytek - kyrnn
4 Morgan Kane - The Diamond Coast
5 DuPont - Mythgar
6 Ashgar75 - Sacred Order, Darkover
7 Canticar - Lizard Men, Swordcoast
8 Drogo - Elves, Nyvaria
9 Dragur - Amazon, Pellinor
10 VballMichael - Druids, Triumvia
11 Strylian -Ranger, Zamora
12 Son of Conan - Red Dragons, Zanthia

Dupont, you are up.

[Ry Vor]

Good to see the activity level up - thanks Ashgar and Strylian for getting us going.

Once again, interesting to see the choices in kingdoms and regions.  A surprise through the drafted games so far is how often the few selected mage kingdoms take capital regions.

Ashgar, what is your novel about?  Heroic fantasy set in the world of Alamaze?

[Ashgar75]

Good to see the activity level up - thanks Ashgar and Strylian for getting us going.

Once again, interesting to see the choices in kingdoms and regions.  A surprise through the drafted games so far is how often the few selected mage kingdoms take capital regions.

Ashgar, what is your novel about?  Heroic fantasy set in the world of Alamaze?

If i had more experience with Alamaze, then maybe that would be a possibility.  I am writing my first novel and it is a Space Science Fiction.  I am currently at 49,135 words and have set my goal for 150,000 words.  After editing I imagine it will be closer to 100,000 come publishing.  I plan to self publish mid 2020.  

I was tempted to try a magic kingdom or I am really thinking of trying the Underworld, but with what I am reading, I decided to try a Military kingdom for my first venture into the MaelStrom!

Here is my rough draft of the prologue.  I am working to get the story out then will go back with re-writes and editing.  

Prologue:

The coffee splashed onto the edge of the name plaque mounted to the Captains desk.  The plaque read “HPS Queensbridge”. Captain Joseph Hearn’s was startled when he felt the transition out of FTL (Faster Than Light) and into normal space. The coffee spilling confirmed that this transition was less than what he would expect from his bridge crew aboard the HPS Queensbridge.  

His shock was not due to the fact that the transition was sloppy, but that it was early.  It was just over four hours early to be exact.  He sat at his desk wondering what could cause something like this as it had never occurred during his twenty-six years in space. Captains who failed to maintain their Mercer Drives knew it could cost them their career or worse, their life. He was better than that.  His crew was better than that. Not to mention, this was the Flagship Passenger Transport for one of the wealthiest conglomerates in the Republic.  The HPS Queensbridge belonged to the Empire Shipping Corporation. As such, it had been equipped with state of the art systems and subroutines.  Each system had redundancies built into it to prevent mishaps like this one.  Shock slowly turned to curiosity, and curiosity turned to caution.  It was caution that broke him from his stupor and got him moving.

Before his hand made it to the com unit mounted to his desk, it chimed with a call from the bridge.  He pressed the acceptance key. First officer Lumley appeared on his holo.  “Sir, we have unexpectedly dropped out of FTL and request your presence on the Bridge”.  His First Officer was a seasoned veteran. If they were facing peril, he would not hesitate to activate the proper protocols.  No alarms were triggered, No protocols had been activated. He simply sounded perplexed and at a loss.  Captain Hearn’s needed answers and he would only find them on the bridge. Nodding at him he replied “ Acknowledged, on my way.”,


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Hope you enjoyed.

[DuPont]

Well, I was between the DW and the AN, but I'll be nice to Rellgar and take the AN.

[Ashgar75]

1 Hector - The Cimmerians, Crown Islands
2 Rellgar - Untamed lands
3 Rytek - kyrnn
4 Morgan Kane - The Diamond Coast
5 DuPont - Ancients, Mythgar
6 Ashgar75 - Sacred Order, Darkover
7 Canticar - Lizard Men, Swordcoast
8 Drogo - Elves, Nyvaria
9 Dragur - Amazon, Pellinor
10 VballMichael - Druids, Triumvia
11 Strylian -Ranger, Zamora
12 Son of Conan - Red Dragons, Zanthia

Morgan Kane, your up.