Welcome to the thread of what could be considered the "chronicles of Sirionus", a new-found colony on far-western shorelines, uncharted gorean territory across a vast ocean. Sirionus is a political roleplay / forum-game where we the masses get to influence the decisions made by the administration of Sirionus, there'll be a weekly "poll" to introduce a new "event" about which people can discuss the best course of action, roleplay, and vote on solutions for events to determine the future of Sirionus.
Background:
Sirionus, the name of the new port on the shores of a new continent far across the western ocean of Gor. The Admiral had named the colony after himself. Tyros' had reluctantly approved to send a fleet of people to these newly discovered islands, in the hope that these new lands would bring them riches and an abundance in resources for their future military plans.
The gorean outdoors appeared bland and old compared to these new lush exotic lands. The trees were sturdier, the grass a more endurable green and the wildlife even less untamed than on the mainland of Gor, at least that's what most colonists believed. And who could blame them, as the untamed and untouched nature of these exotic lands would make all that could admire these fresh landscapes for the first time gaze in disbelief.
The first few evenings on the island were celebrated by drinking empty the last few remaining kegs of paga that came shipped with the colonists. The colony started out small, about 250 people and a whole bunch of trade goods, a limited amount of weaponry, a dozen slaves and food supplies, necessary until the peasants would be able to provide the colony with their own grown vegetables and the meat of slaughtered bosks.
After the colony had been setup and the basic workings of the economy had been established by the sweat of the low caste, the cunning of the merchant castes who were secretly trying to make sure they'd make more profit from the colony than Tyros' treasury would, and the coordination of the Caste of Builders things went to a pretty peaceful pace. It wouldn't take long until the first few complaints about the quality of life came to surface. The general population seemed rather upset that they no longer had access to paga, the Caste of Builders was rather detached from the colony and had seen this all mostly as a grand scientific project to establish a perfect economy and they obviously had found it more important to invest in modern architecture for the High Caste buildings, rather than build a paga-industry and a handful of other luxuries that the colonists used to have back in Tyros.
The novelty of an exotic island quickly vanished before the High Castes as well as they started to realize they didn't have access to many of the luxurious goods and services of the city of Tyros either anymore. The beaches lost their appeal after a few swimmers got attacked by striped Grunts (large sharks) and the tea-rooms were quickly filled with the complaints of a lack of large luxurious baths. Some peasants however had found a grand lake and some waterfalls hidden deep into the jungles, but they decided to keep it as a secret before some arrogant Red Castes would chase them away from their little personal paradise and claim the place for themselves.
To make matters worse the entire colony was surprised by a raid upon the farmlands. A few dozen peasants were slaughtered and captured before the totally unsuspecting Red Caste and mercenaries could react to the assault. After torturing one of the captured raiders it turned out that they came from a city called "Tokimasa" somewhere on these unknown lands. The peasants had warned before about sightings of strangers in the forests, but the handful of Initiates had declared it nonsense and even removed the tongue of one of the men that kept going on and on about some men in the forests wearing cloaks made of the fur of the local wildlife. The residents of Sirionus strongly believed they were the first humans to settle in these lands after all.
And as if that was not bad enough, Tyros' soon came to demand part of the resources the colony had produced, only to disappear with it again across the ocean without as much as a thank you. The disgruntled people of the colony were left behind in poverty and the farmers were too frightened to work the fields any further.
And so the story of Sirionus begins. Feel free to post random storylines, backgrounds or some personalities of some people of the colony to this thread and to suggest some future events. I'm playing the "Game Master" of this political RP game and am keeping track of some of the statistics of Sirionus, all you people need to worry about is the storyline and to perhaps convince others for what solutions they should vote.
Only the 3 highest results of this poll will be applied as decisions made by the citizens of Sirionus. Poll ends in 6 days after which the results will be made known... and the story continues. (With better writing next time :p ).
