Coalitions

Babylon

Kill Not Confirmed: A major job recently entrusted to the Babylonian Universal Mercenary Shop (BUMS), to assassinate a Georgian government leader, has failed miserably. In fact, the assassins dispatched by BUMS failed to find their target al all! This is, of course, highly embarrassing for BUMS, and hardly likely to attract new clients.

• Option 1: Target acquisition was our failing here. We failed to confirm that our target was even present where we had assumed his was before sending our assassins. Clearly, we need better intelligence capabilities.

• Option 2: Maybe the issue was in trying to kill a man through such a finicky, precise method? Bombs, wildfires, and plagues kill men just fine, and they don't even require us to know exactly where our target is first!

• Option 3: This was clearly a special case. Our existing methods work perfectly fine most of the time; no need to change everything up because of a single fluke.

• Option 4: Maybe we just aren't cut out for the contract killing business? We should stick to what we do best: selling mercenaries to others via an unintuitive, rigged bidding process!

Byzantium

Not So "Grand" After All, Huh: Our enemies are collapsing before us! Aegyptus has more-or-less surrendered, Georgia's pathetic attempt at an invasion was firmly rebuffed, and Oman still struggles to take a single province of ours in a straight fight! The self-styled "Grand Coalition" has petered out into nothingness! Roma Invicta!

• Option 1: Time to finish the fight. CHARGE!

• Option 2: Hey, let's not be so hasty. War is good for business, and we don't want to suddenly drive all our armourers, siege engineers, and warhorse breeders into bankruptcy. Glory to the military-industrial complex!

• Option 3: This momentary weakness of our enemies in merely a ploy to lull us into a false sense of security! We'd best be on our guard for any tricksy tricks.

• Option 4: If we're winning our wars, why put any more effort into them? I'm sure there's other things to devote our efforts to, like, I dunno, philharmonic orchestras or something.

Egypt

Egypt Eternal: Our centuries long war against the Turkey Bird oppressors has come to its inevitable conclusion. The flightless birdmen menace have finally been driven out of glorious km.t! And none of our god-bureaucrats have had their mortal avatars destroyed recently, either. Glorij bij!

• Option 1: Peace is a lie. The Turkey Birds have been driven out for now, but they will undoubtedly be back. There's no time to waste in readying our defences.

• Option 2: Peace, you say? If we're not wasting our budget fighting a war, let's spend it on money-multiplying pyramid schemes instead. I like money.

• Option 3: Our philosophers, sages, and wise men have been sorely neglected in the previous period of strife. This was necessary during those times, but now it is not.

• Option 4: You know, just because we signed a peace treaty with the Turkey Birds, doesn't mean that we have to be peaceful to them. It just means that we have to not get caught in the act.

Georgia

Eater of All: The period of civil strife has ended in a quick and just conclusion Benevolent Despot King Bert Khan the Devourer has established himself as the new King of Georgia! Hail to the King! Death to those who criticize his culinary peculiarities!

• Option 1: Omnomnom! Humans are tasty. De-licious!

• Option 2: While humans are indeed delicious, we are also fighting a war. Unfortunately, eating must take a secondary priority to commanding our troops in battle.

• Option 3: Battle? The generals can deal with battles. That's what I pay them for, of course. I shall set my sights on researching new culinary advances, perhaps by acquiring and devouring the famed "left earlobe of AQ".

• Option 4: What kind of madman eats other people! This crazed King must be deposed at once, so a non-lunatic may rule our kingdom!

Oman

Oh man, inheritance: Oh man, the previous Sultan was murdered! Oh man, that means we have to groom his heir to take the throne. Oh man, what kind of education do we want our Sultan-to-be to recieve?

• Option 1: Oh man, we're at war. Our new Sultan should train in generalship and military tictacs, of course.

• Option 2: Oh man, assassins, spies and, traitors are everywhere. Our new Sultan should train in intrigue and self-defence, of course.

• Option 3: Oh man, raising a kid takes a long time and lots of work. Let's just offer the post of Sultan to the highest bidder.

• Option 4: Oh man, we don't need no stinking Sultan telling us what to do. Let's turn this regency council into a junta!

Persia

BUMS 2.0: We aren't doing nothing, except occasionally stealing our friends' troops, or failing to enthrone puppet kings in Georgia. Everyone else if off fighting wars and launching successful coups and shit, and we're just sitting in our corner being irrelevant. Can Persia into relevance once more?

• Option 1: To infinity, and beyond! The nations of the world will tremble at the sight of our techy gizmos!

• Option 2: To war! Our enemies will tremble at the feat of our stolen armies! [Nominate another faction] [Warning war etc etc]

• Option 3: Stealing, you say? Those BUMS guys from Babylon make a killing off of selling their shady services. Maybe we should try mastering the art of stealing shit, and get rich ourselves?

• Option 4: Doing anything rash will make people notice us! We can't have them jolted out of their complacency towards us. Business as usual, it is.

Phoenicia

Wut: After the untimely death of the Tyrian Guildmaster Balthazar, this dude calling himself "Randy" declared himself Emperor of Phoenicia, and abolished the Tyrian Guild. Is this really the path we wish to travel?

• Option 1: Yes! Glory to Emperor Randy! Glory to the Phoenician Empire! Death to the Tyrian Guild!

• Option 2: No! Glory to the Tryian Guild! The Emperor shall abdicate from his post, and the Tyrian Guild will be restored under a new Guildmaster!

• Option 3: Uh, shouldn't we deal with our existing problems before dealing with internal disputes? The Omani menace has occupied most of our cities, after all, and we can't really allow them to capture any more.

• Option 4: Ohshit, our cities! CHARGE!

City-States

All of them

Generic City-State Event: I'm a city-state, so by definition, I don't have a lot of cities. But I can have a lot of other thing, right? [Note: I may or may not get around to writing full city-state events in the near future. If I do, feel free to choose either an option from this event, or an option from your city-state's specific event. If having unique city-state events is something that you really want, please pingspam Aime and she'll get on my case about writing them.]

• Option 1: A lot of monies!

• Option 2: A lot of armies!

• Option 3: A lot of sneakiness!

• Option 4: A lot of antiplot!