lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
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- Waxahachie tx
I'd rather have the tomb ready before we die that way we can be entombed (possibly in crystal) before we start to rot.
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
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A year of mourning at the very least. A monarch death has a big impact on society. Been too long to remember clearly but the death of a family member of the British Royal Family caused some big economic turmoil. Heck if the Queen dies, I heard it would be the most disruptive event that Britain would have experience for a long time.
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- USA
I imagine it will be something that Questor will give us eventually especially now that we've been talking about it. And we are getting up there in age now. Though we are only 49 so barring any unforeseen event we got a good 30 years at minimum I would hope.
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lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
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- Waxahachie tx
Mid 60s at oldest.
lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
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- Waxahachie tx
Probably a good idea.
Markala
Hannor & Polycho Shipper
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- At the Junction of Angst and Fluff
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! Let's Upgrade our Empire's Healthcare so FUCKING MUCH that Garrick&Co live to a Century Or Longer! X3
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Is it considered an Upgrade if you never had it to begin with?🤔
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- Hell, or at least the closest place to it
Not so much for the dogs I feel as the Griffons and Crystal Ponies. They will mourn certainly, and they will grieve. But their loyalty is to the Tribe and Pack. They will survive and continue for the whole.
i mean.... magic counts?
Agreed. I'm thinking consul ship of the army durning the war when it comes, plus ruling one of the provinces or a major hand on the council eventually
lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
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- Waxahachie tx
Technically we already have.
He asked the "Average lifespan of rulers in medieval times". That was usually around 60.
I give us 65-75 with the healthcare reforms. With the identification of diseases and their causes it will make death by disease much less likely.
The main issue we have to worry about is wounds getting infected (even small cuts can kill if an infection set in in those days), internal injuries, toxic "cures", and normal items being actually very deadly (an example is make up in medieval times was very toxic along with asbestos usage being another big one).
Those were the other main causes of death aside from flat out disease.
Personally i am expecting us to die to an infected wound or an internal injury finally killing us (they lacked a way to diagnose some internal injuries that kill slowly or only become dangerous with tine).
There are many points where we can get a cut that gets infected (training, playing with our kids, on pur mountain of paperwork, etc) and with the number of battles we have been in an internal injury of some form is very plausible.
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- colombia
and there is no chance that the descendant will not abuse their god-like status for the sake of power
the entire concept of ''normal being with absolute power'' is asking for problems ,maybe not now but eventually
lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
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- Waxahachie tx
Dude, we are already in that situation as the HIGHEST AND ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY IN THE EMPIRE.
Kind of to late to avoid that.
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- colombia
we are a emperor,but with a god status our descendants gett white card to do anything they want,everything fine and dandy untill the neron of our bloodline is born
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- Hell, or at least the closest place to it
Fool. You have no idea what you have unleashed on the earth.
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You're right. Considering the amount of technological progress we did in little over two decades. We have done more than a century worth of innovation due to the glory that is hindsight. I can only shudder to imagine how much we'll continue to grow in a century. Let alone to modern MLP Times.
For in the grim, distant future.
Harmony is still overrated.
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Of course, as per the rules of any civilization. Everything must eventually decline or fall from from grace.
Speaking of RNG
A joke idea I had for a shrine of the 'God of Luck' is that we take the entombed in crystal idea and surround him with statues of dice that holds special magic. That if a devout follower comes to his shrine and tell a good story, doesn't matter if it's real or not. If his spirit enjoy the story told, he'll grant his follower a special 'boon' with the dice to increase the chance of any decision they may make to yield good results.
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lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
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- Waxahachie tx
By that point I fully expect that we will be a super high tech society and either rule the world or have left to colonize other worlds.
Oh I am. My main worry is that, eventually, someone from our line will be stupid, crazy, or incompetent and ruin much of our progress.
If we do a time skip we should at least roll for events that occur during it so as to avoid it just suddenly going to hell in a handbasket without player intervention and there will at least be an understandable "RNG screwed you over" reason for it if it happens.
Also depending on events there may be an event over a timeskip that prevents many innovations from going through.
Either way I think we have established griffons to be the Scientific and Technological masters of the known world for the next few centuries at least if only due to the legacy we (and Archimedes) left behind. After all he has shaped up to be the Starswirl of Technology
Eh, seems a bit to OP to be let through. Maybe add some limitations and rules so it doesn't unbalance the game.
Also from our achievements I doubt we will be remembered for being "Lucky" so much as being a just and fair ruler with compassion for all races.
Hardbeak is probably going to be remembered for his incredible Honor and combat prowess.
Personally I am hoping the Binding Event (AKA when starswirl bound the pony of shadows) happens in hardbeak's lifetime so he can represent a OC element. Specifically Duty. This if it happens would be refined by the tree of harmony into probably something along the lines of Honor or Chivalry.
Archimedes could easily represent Logic or Intelligence which could be refined into, respectively, Knowledge and Wisdom.
Those are just some ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a while and I am really hoping we make contact with Equestria at some point before the binding (which in turn was about a hundred years before nightmare moon).
EDIT: Also, if I remember correctly, the binding took place a decent number of years after the petrification of discord (Starswirl was a grown adult during the petrification with a black beard that was a bit shorter and when he bound the pony of shadows he was getting on in years with a light grey beard that was noticeably longer and more wrinkles.)
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- Louisiana
Empires rise and fall, It is inevitable. To worry about such things is folly. We must concern ourselves with what we can do now. Not about what will happen regardless of our actions in the future.
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Of course, given the joke idea entirely relies on the hive mind being an actual force. Funny enough you're correct that it's somewhat OP as I now realize it reflects how In the early months of this quest (Or a different quest actually) the effect of omakes was so profound and abundant that they had to be nerf a bit. Because people can just make a lot of them to get many boosts.
And huh, I've never knew that about Starswirl. I always did wonder about the chronology during that time period but I stopped watching MLP a long while ago. Anyhow I'm on the same boat of wanting to meet Equestria as well.
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- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
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- He/Him
I considered that, but I decided that it isn't good enough. We really haven't been putting any symbolic importance in to Griffonstone at all - which I even pointed out when I arrived in this thread when asking about why there was never an available decision to start a project for rebuilding and resettling Griffonstone (before the memorial revived it naturally). That, plus the fact that this empire is different in both creed and technically in dynasty by way of how house lines work, makes me desire to start fresh from the chains of the past. We are a different Gryphonian Empire. A new empire for a new age.
I wasn't saying not to do one royal catacomb. I was saying IF we don't have a Royal Catacombs. Look back at my post.
To be honest, no. Struggle and decline make for very interesting settings to read about. For me, I prefer them over rising empires - especially when you consider that quests typically have relentless rise.
Any timeskip should probably be handled in the same way Paths of Civilization handled it's lightning rounds that went from the Early Iron Age to the year 1800.