The Mistake Begins
- Location
- Denmark
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The year is 1444 and Europe emerges from a century of shattered states, harrowing plague, countless civil wars, revolts, a Church still reeling from its shattering in the Western Schism and a Holy Roman Empire still weakened by the interregnum that hurt its once-great unity. In the Middle East, the House of Osman has both fought and aided the last remnants of the Romans who still cling on to their Eternal City, now dominating both Asia Minor and the inner lands of Thrace under their unquestioned sovereignty, while further east yet, Shahrukh Amirzadeh rules his father's lands in a tenuous velvet fist compared to the mailed glove of his father, well-aware that his death shall bring a terrible chaos upon the Middle East yet without the power to prevent it. Much further east, the Ashikaga Shogunate remains riven by civil war and terrible conflict, even as the very core of the state breaks down, its last vestiges surviving only in the sacred personage of the Emperor. Overseas from the Shogunate, the Ming Dynasty of China under the Yongle Emperor carefully guards its position, well aware of the might of the northern Oirats but confident in its own power nonetheless. Little do any of these peoples yet know that a world to them wholly new awaits across the Pacific and Atlantic Sea, well-populated by its own peoples as strong and proud as any Prince, Emir or Daimyo.
Right, so, with the fancy intro over, let's talk about what this is.
To pass away the quarantine and my incredible boredom and because my muse for quests has betrayed me, I have decided to run what is known in the Paradox community as an After Action Report or AAR for short. For those unfamiliar with the concept, basically it means I play a Paradox game - in this case Europa Universalis IV - and post it to your amusement in a style reminiscent of effectively a roleplay. However, unlike a normal AAR, this one will be run as a quest, because to be frank, combining an AAR and quests is really easy and it seems fun. You will be taking the role of the leader of whatever country or state you decide to play and turns will take the form of 20-year-intervals in which I play the game according to your specifications given through votes that define the overall path of the country. For very important events, I will also leave the vote up to you instead of making the choice myself, to ensure that you have plenty of choice.
Beyond that, I will also take user motions, by which any given player can tag me and propose a user motion as an alternative or addition to a current vote. If you can then gather three or more supporters (the number of Councilors you can have in Europa Universalis IV), I will put that user motion up for vote. In addition, a user motion may always be introduced separately from the current voting in order to:
So without further ado, the first vote is about where we play. Due to not knowing enough about those regions and the utter lack of anything interesting in them in Europa Universalis IV, the Americas are not going to be a choice here. I could conceivably do the Kingdom of Qusqu, but there's nothing interesting in the region except a long Andean stompfest after some point and then colonizing all of South America due to stupid province sizes, so I won't do that. Mexico is an interesting region but my knowledge of it is significantly less and you're still stuck at the point where all interesting state interaction disappears and you're just hitting colonial piñatas for fat stacks and provinces now and then. Therefore, I have assembled a list of countries which I think are interesting to play, but will allow write-ins in case people are interested in a different game.
Right, so, with the fancy intro over, let's talk about what this is.
To pass away the quarantine and my incredible boredom and because my muse for quests has betrayed me, I have decided to run what is known in the Paradox community as an After Action Report or AAR for short. For those unfamiliar with the concept, basically it means I play a Paradox game - in this case Europa Universalis IV - and post it to your amusement in a style reminiscent of effectively a roleplay. However, unlike a normal AAR, this one will be run as a quest, because to be frank, combining an AAR and quests is really easy and it seems fun. You will be taking the role of the leader of whatever country or state you decide to play and turns will take the form of 20-year-intervals in which I play the game according to your specifications given through votes that define the overall path of the country. For very important events, I will also leave the vote up to you instead of making the choice myself, to ensure that you have plenty of choice.
Beyond that, I will also take user motions, by which any given player can tag me and propose a user motion as an alternative or addition to a current vote. If you can then gather three or more supporters (the number of Councilors you can have in Europa Universalis IV), I will put that user motion up for vote. In addition, a user motion may always be introduced separately from the current voting in order to:
- Declare war on a state.
- Change a government reform.
- Add a geostrategic goal, such as "Acquire a colony in North America", "convert to Zoroastrianism" or "gain control of trade in the English channel".
- Allocate a budget to build buildings of a certain type.
- Mod List
So without further ado, the first vote is about where we play. Due to not knowing enough about those regions and the utter lack of anything interesting in them in Europa Universalis IV, the Americas are not going to be a choice here. I could conceivably do the Kingdom of Qusqu, but there's nothing interesting in the region except a long Andean stompfest after some point and then colonizing all of South America due to stupid province sizes, so I won't do that. Mexico is an interesting region but my knowledge of it is significantly less and you're still stuck at the point where all interesting state interaction disappears and you're just hitting colonial piñatas for fat stacks and provinces now and then. Therefore, I have assembled a list of countries which I think are interesting to play, but will allow write-ins in case people are interested in a different game.
- Country Examples
