Digging for Nations in the Desert (No SV, You are a Micronation in the End of the World)

[X]Unearth the River: You are going to reconnect the river to its tributary on the Surface. Doing something, and reversing what the Egyptians, at least in theory, did almost 5,000 years ago. (Will begin a large project to bring a river to the surface. Will not have any risk of starting an environmental catastrophe. Will make Drilling for oil harder.) Reward: Sustincene Agriculture, Comercial, will move up to Meh, and can be made to Perfect Levels
 
So I decided to do a roll on Lind and his trouble makers.

D100 => 98 #Lind Troublemaking

D100 => 43 #Lind Troublemaking Crit.

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D100 => 50+25(An Intelligent Man of Duty)=75 #Who Notices

Well, Tom Clancy, I didn't expect you to notice it based on a falsified Insurance Claim.

Well truth is stranger then fiction.
 
[X]Unearth the River: You are going to reconnect the river to its tributary on the Surface. Doing something, and reversing what the Egyptians, at least in theory, did almost 5,000 years ago. (Will begin a large project to bring a river to the surface. Will not have any risk of starting an environmental catastrophe. Will make Drilling for oil harder.) Reward: Sustincene Agriculture, Comercial, will move up to Meh, and can be made to Perfect Levels
 
The Red Tsarina Plots Her Revenge
I decided to write another omake. No idea if it's canon or not though.

The Red Tsarina Plots Her Revenge

Elisebeth Spencer was having a very bad day. Though, to be more accurate, she was having a very bad year. Oh, things had started off so promising when she had managed to set up her Commune of Southern Cambridge within the Bir Tawil Triangle and somehow convinced the Soviets to support her. But then that fucking dyke from the same island of disgusting degenerates that her own damned father had come from had come along and ruined everything! If she hadn't blown up her own base in the nick of time, she would never have managed to escape, and even then, she had nearly died from the blood loss she had incurred. She had spent weeks in a hospital bed, praying that the bitch would die a gruesome death, either killed by her neighbors or by a tribe of savages or by Chinese assassins. But no, not only had Lia Mia survived against all odds, she had fucking prospered.

Elisebeth glared at the TV as it showed Lia Mia making a speech to the United Nations. Who did this pretentious bastard think she was? It should have been her up on that stage, introducing her new commune to the world and extolling the virtues of a revitalized Communist British Empire. Not this disgusting waste of a whore! With one sharp swing, Elisebeth threw the remote so hard at the television that it smashed through the glass screen. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself down as sparks flew from what was left of the TV. Everything was going to be just fine. After all, she had noble blood running through her veins. She was practically destined for glory.

The sound of a ring suddenly cut into her thoughts and her eyes flashed over to the red phone on the table next to her. Her heart pounding in her chest, she pulled the receiver next to her ear. "Hello?"

"Congratulations, Spencer. Looks like all your pestering has paid off. The Premier has agreed to lend you support with your plans to reconquer the Bir Tawil Triangle. You'll get a full debriefing on the details tomorrow morning at 9. Don't be late."

Elisebeth slowly put the phone down and started giggling to herself. Finally, her prayers were being answered! "I'm coming for you, Lia Mia," she whispered, a crazed look in her eyes. "I'm coming for you."
 
Now, wonder how long till she realizes she is being used?
Since after all, her goal is mutually exclusive to the USSR's.
They may share a love of communism, but like hell would they want the UK to become a potential rival.
 
The Red Tsarina Plots Her Revenge
Sorry for the lack of response, I was a bit busy at work.

Amazing, here is a reward!

-[]I wasn't Expecting Reinforcements?
-[]So Are you Telling Me we've got them coming in on Passenger Jets?
-[]You know, when people try to kill me, they don't tend to gloat about their Rep.
Scheduled vote count started by Magoose on Apr 1, 2022 at 10:23 PM, finished with 42 posts and 22 votes.

  • [X]Unearth the River: You are going to reconnect the river to its tributary on the Surface. Doing something, and reversing what the Egyptians, at least in theory, did almost 5,000 years ago. (Will begin a large project to bring a river to the surface. Will not have any risk of starting an environmental catastrophe. Will make Drilling for oil harder.) Reward: Sustincene Agriculture, Comercial, will move up to Meh, and can be made to Perfect Levels
    [X]Unearth the River
    [X]Unearth the River: You are going to reconnect the river to its tributary on the Surface. Doing something, and reversing what the Egyptians, at least in theory, did almost 5,000 years ago. (Will begin a large project to bring a river to the surface. Will not have any risk of starting an environmental catastrophe. Will make Drilling for oil harder.) Reward: Sustenance Agriculture, Commercial, will move up to Meh, and can be made to Perfect Levels
 
Turn 10: Death Is Not the End
Turn 10: Death Is Not the End

You were, frankly, annoyed at the whole thing. It was going by slowly, and you were sure that if it were not for the fact that half the people who were working on this project would rather be wishing to be fighting some foreign war someplace else, they would. This nation of mercenaries and outcasts was willing to listen to you and follow you out from hell, but that is not the point.

Progress was going slow. You had managed to make sure the river was seen, and with some clever working and engineering skills from some refugees, you were able to keep the water from being evaporated.

The effects, at least for the moment, were immediate. Life, fish, and algae were growing, and seaweed and other kelp were beginning to sprout and grow.

It was something.

Now you just needed to discover something amazing!
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The Majestic and Mighty Lands of Wài Tiāntáng, Lords of the War and Desert, Breakers of the Swordsmen.

Official Languages: English, Arabic, Mandarin

National Languages: Mandarin

Head of State:
The Mighty Mercenary Lord of Man, She Who Conquered the Desert and Commander of the Armies. AKA Lord of Generals or Just Lord, Li Mei!

Currency: Yuan, Egyptian Pound.

Population:
6 (Permanent Residents)

Thousands of Mercenaries and their equipment

Industry:
-Mining- Nonexistent
-Light Industry- Bad
-Heavy Industry- Nonexistent
-Oil Industry- Nonexistent
-Computers-Bad

Agriculture:
Commercial-Meh
Sustenance-Meh

Infrastructure:
-Roads- Meh
-Runways- Meh
-Housing- Bad
-Service industries- Nonexistent
-Medical Services- Bad

Military:
1 Li Mei
1 Ma Tang
1 Vasily Aristov
1,000 rifles,
five million rounds of ammo,
10,000 Grenades,
500 pounds of plastic explosives
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Control - 100(You are the one lord and master here. All others bow to you. The rest are just pretenders)

International Recognition- 8 The eyes of the world are upon you. They see you as an experiment that has never been done before in modern times.

History Page- (A Name, Date of Birth, Military Service in Gaungchou, The Outer Heaven Speech, The Proclamation of the UN, Date of Death) (History has been made. Hopefully you survive to see it written by yourself)

Social: (You currently have a +30 to all social rolls)
-[]Balance the Powers: You know for a damn certain fact that there is going to be a war coming your way, and now is the time to see if you can't stop these idiots from killing themselves over little old you. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Offer Humanitarian Observers: The UN Observers are here. Time to give them the Grand Tour (Cost 2 Control)
-[]Author the Soldiers of Fortune: You are in desperate need of money, and the Mercenaries are well and happy for you to rate them, and cut you in on the profit. You are a fair merc after all. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Seeing Red: You wish to not only see the Soviet Union but you wish for them to break bread. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]The True Republic: Botswana wishes to meet with you, to see if you can be seen as a valuable and willing trade partner.(Cost 3 Control)
-[]The Land of the Free: Maybe the United States will see the economic potential of your nation of mercenaries. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Coming together to have some fun: You know what this place needs, a party! You are going to party like it's the end of the world. (Cost 2 Control)
-[]Finding Common Ground: You want to find some nations that will not kill you given the chance.(Cost 3 Control)
-[]Recognition from another International Source You are going to find out just how far the rabbit hole goes in who might accept a micronation as international recognition. (Cost 5 Control)
-[]Millitary Alliances, and other signs of Legitimacy: The Empire of Ethiopia has come to you with an offer. Help to get recognized by the remainder of Africa… in exchange for some much-needed counter-insurgency training. (Cost 5 Control)

Military (+60):
-[]Cyprus Calling (Greek): So some Greek boys want to overthrow the Government and reunify with Greece, that's going to raise some feathers. (Cost 4 Control)
-[]Cyprus Calling (Turkish): So the Turks want you to just, help with a few things, nothing major. Just overthrowing a nation. Dammit, this isn't going to be easy (Cost 4 Control)
-[]That One Security Mission: So you have a simple mission, go to China and Protect a Hong Kong national that is trying to escape. What can go wrong? (Cost 4 Control)
-[]THIS ENDS NOW! (Egypt): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk. (Cost 4 Control)
-[]THIS ENDS NOW! (Sudan!): You are not in the mood for a pisspoor neighbor, run by idiots! You are going to end this civil war, and then you are going to get drunk.(Cost 4 Control)
-[]Peacekeeping the Peacekeepers: You don't trust the Americans. So you're going to keep their peacekeeping operations to your standards. (Cost 7 Control)
-[]Dissuading an Invasion (Russia) So…You are going to invade your little home with that? Fuck em, let them come, let them die! (Cost 10 Control)
-[]Dissuading and Invasion (China): Hi China… Bye China! Hope the Door doesn't kick your ass on the way out! (Cost 10 Control)

Economic (Have +30):
-[]Build up Trade Relations (Egypt): Well, you might as well start to try and look legitimate. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Build up Trade Relations (Sudan) Well, you might as well start to try and look legitimate. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]A True Hospital?: You need to build a building that can be a real hospital for the men? (Cost 9 Control)
-[]Home is Where the Heart Is?: All these mercs are making money and not paying taxes, the least they can do is… Build their own stuff. (Cost 15 Control)
-[]Build up Trade Relations (Other African Nations) Well, you might as well start to try and look legitimate. But this time to places that are not on fire. (Cost 5 Control)
-[]Building up the Fire of Roads: Well there is no time like the present to decide to turn a single patch of desert into something amazing… well even more! (Cost 2 Control)
-[]Census Time: You need a census of who actually lives here? (Cost 2 Control)
-[]Building upward!: You need skyscrapers to really house people. (Cost 12 Control)

Agriculture (Part of Economic)
-[]Keep Developing Sustenance Agriculture: Well the Desert isn't the best place to farm, but it is a start? (Cost 5 Control)
-[]Digging Deeper: You need to find out if there is a way to get to that oil without poisoning one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet. (Cost 5 Control)
-[]Too Deep: You know why the Ancients buried this place? And it scares you? (Cost 5 Control)

Industry (Part of Economic):
-[]Survay The Desert (Minerals): What minerals are there for the taking. (Cost 4 Control)
-[]Survey the Desert (Precious metals): You know there is gold and silver, but what about everything else? (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Preparing for the Factory (Light Industry): Time to start an industry. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure, and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control)
-[]Gather Corporate backers: Perhaps there are some greedy, bloodsucking corporations you can manipulate for your own gain? (Cost 1 Control)

RND (Currently at +40 to the rolls):
-[]Design a New Gun: You want a new gun designed by you. Perhaps one that can stand up to the test of time. (Cost 2 Control)
-[]Copy another Design: When they say that you were mad, well they do say that plagiarism is the (Cost 1 Control)
-[]Create something New(Military): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Create something New(Industry) Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Science the Shit out of Something: Who said that science was something that would be the death of you. (Cost 3 Control)
-[]Building a Chip Factory: The Boys at Apple need some microprocessors. You can build them a place where they can make some. (Cost 5 Control)
-[]Apple Computers, Mercenary Edition: You are going to ask those boys to do something incredible, make a PC for military use, that can survive anything. Hope that works.(Cost 10 Control)

Politics (+10 to rolls):
-[]The KGB Says Hello: Oh, the KGB found you, and aren't trying to recruit you? Oh god, this must be the end of the world. (Cost 1 Control)
-[]It seems that the Americans are Back… Again: American CIA operatives in Egypt, coming to you? This will be interesting at least. (Cost 1 Control)
-[]Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: So, the Islamists want you to do what for them? Win their civil war for them? They better have a damn good offer. (Cost 1 Control)
-[]Ask for a UN Seat: You have recognition, perhaps finally, you can have a real seat at the assembly.(Cost 3 Control)
-[]Terrorists are Freedom Fighters?: You really want to know who the terrorists that might want to hire you are? Just in case.(Cost 4 Control)


[] Li Mei - (RP)
-[] (Write-In three things she does within the next six months.)

AN: Oh and by the way, at the next turn, there will be a roll on whether the idiots decide to invade you.

And how strong those forces are.

Plan format please!
 
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Oh and I did a roll on whether the idiots decided to assassinate you.

A nat 1, and a nat 2 especially.

They are bumbling harder than the CIA trying to off Castro.
 
Oh and I did a roll on whether the idiots decided to assassinate you.

A nat 1, and a nat 2 especially.

They are bumbling harder than the CIA trying to off Castro.
Always glad to hear that.

Could you explicitly state our temporary bonuses and their remaining durations in the update?
In cases of tied bonuses especially it makes sense to give some emphasis to the one we're closer to losing more buffs on but between bonuses from previous turns and the plethora of omake that happened before this turn it'd be a real pain in the rear for me to collate, while I'm guessing you have it somewhere already.
 
Always glad to hear that.

Could you explicitly state our temporary bonuses and their remaining durations in the update?
In cases of tied bonuses especially it makes sense to give some emphasis to the one we're closer to losing more buffs on but between bonuses from previous turns and the plethora of omake that happened before this turn it'd be a real pain in the rear for me to collate, while I'm guessing you have it somewhere already.
I have them on but rnd is the only one that is longer then 1 turn.
 
Definitely take the chips one.
And the computer one.
And the Americans.
And Botswana because they are based, and good people.
And probably the Sudanese civil war. Just split South Sudan off from North Sudan. Once that's done, implement a DMZ.
 
I have them on but rnd is the only one that is longer then 1 turn.
Ok, so between Social and Econ are both decreasing by the same amount next turn?

Regarding the update proper there's also a couple typos, nothing too serious.
Agriculture:
Commercial-Meh
Sustienance-Meh
...
History Page- (A Name, Date of Birth, Military Service in Gauangchou, The Outer Heaven Speech, The Proclamation of the UN, Date of Death) (History has been made. Hopefully you survive to see it written by yourself)
...
-[]Offer Humanitarian Observers: The UN Observers are here. Tieme to give them the Grand Tour
...
-[]The True Republic: Baotswana wishes to meet with you, to see if you can be seen as a valuable and willing trade partner.(Cost 3 Control)

EDIT: Oh! And the Humanitarian Observers thing has no cost
 
We can afford a lot of the expensive options this turn, let's do all the agriculture and industry
 
-[]Apple Computers, Mercenary Edition: You are going to ask those boys to do something incredible, make a PC for military use, that can survive anything. Hope that works.(Cost 10 Control)
"Okey, we are supposed to make a PC expected to survive a battlefield"
"...We aren't miracle workers! We need to keep it small enough for transport, tough enough to not be too delicate, and powerful enough to be useful. In fact, what possible uses are there for them in a warzone?"
"Well, software could be run on it, including possibly games"
"What about Communication?"
"You know they got radio, and that is far more useful in a warzone than a computer can be, it's likely the most useful aspect for now would just be a form of entertainment. hmm..."
"Maybe it would be more feasible if we go minimalist with the ability to play games, and certain possibly military useful features?"
"That still leaves the durability issue, I mean, it is very easy to mess up. I mean, the circuitry alone is easy to render near-useless, making it so even vibrations might be able to kill a computer, at least in theory."
-Meanwhile in the Iron Tiger Secret Facility-
*achoo*
-Back to the conversation-
"Well, with a good design, we could lessen the problems. Though the hardest part is going to be weatherproofing it, considering I doubt they will be happy if it fries due to a bit of liquid seeping in."
A/N: Well. Was kinda inspired. In about 4ish years, the first handheld console would be released IRL. Though I am not exactly sure what features would be useful for military uses.
 
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