**TREBIZOND ACTIONS FOR PART 12**


**DIPLOMACY**


ALLIANCE : Byzantium

DEFENSIVE PACT : Byzantium

NON-AGGRESSION PACT : Byzantium, Egypt, Georgia, Jerusalem

FRIENDSHIP : Byzantium, Georgia Jerusalem

OPEN BORDERS : Byzantium

WAR : Whoever Byzantium’s at war with

PEACE : Whoever Byzantium’s at peace with

DEMAND TRIBUTE : Jerusalem, Mecca (I took the event  part 1 that lets me do this)

OFFER VASSALIZATION : Byzantium

OFFER TRIBUTE : Byzantium, Georgia, Egypt, Babylon

NO ACTIVITY : [Everyone not mentioned above]

RECEIVE: 2 units of workers from Byzantium

**IN-GAME CITY-STATE RELATIONS**

ALLIES : Byzantium

ANGRY : Persia

WAR : None

NEUTRAL : [Everyone else]

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**EVENT**


Option 2: We can’t expand outwards before expanding inwards

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**CITY CONTROL**

/u/Frodo0201 : Trebizond

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**ACTION POINTS**

10 AP Total (6 base, 2 from Jerusalem, 2 from Mecca)

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**TREASURY**


2870 Gold

+1600 Gold from being CS

+1600 from Jerusalem Tribute

+1600 from Mecca Tribute

7670 Gold

-7200 Gold

470 Gold remaining

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**PLOTS**

Plot Bonuses:

+6 from Laodice production

**Plot 1 : War Never Changes**

RP: This world war had raged for as long as anyone could remember, and asking the average citizen on the streets of Trebizond, no one even knew why it had started. But the war had become a part of their daily lives, and they were used to it, at least until recently. The general populace had gotten used to the troops drilling in the squares, and the mandatory defense drills in the case of an attack on the city. None of them ever actually expected the war to reach them, however. As the war drew on and on and all they ever saw from the war was a death count, they began to doubt it even being real. That is, until they heard what had happened in the homeland of their friends the Byzantines. Reports had always come from the South and East of battles and war, but all of a sudden there were reports from the west, from Constantinople itself even, of armed dissidents storming the royal palace and forcing the Imperator to evacuate. The reports said that these dissidents had had help from the government of Persia, who had equipped and trained the rebels. It was clear they didn’t even care for winning the war, they just wanted to sow chaos, at least according to the media. As one of the forerunning newspapers said, “The Persians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to burn everybody else, and nobody was going to burn them. At Ancyra, Heraclea, Constantinople, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naïve theory into operation.” They believed themselves untouchable while they burned the homes of the innocent women and children of the soldiers. Well it was time to take a stand. They didn’t attack our homes in Trebizond, but if they struck Constantinople who knows what the next target could be. WIth this in mind, the newly crowned and inexperienced Alexios I decided to strike back at Persia, using similar tactics to those of his predecessor.
	He would send spies and special operatives that were under cover as traders to Ecbatana, one of the core cities and jewels of the Persian Empire. They would sneak into the town under the pretext of delivering a shipment of Laodice, which they would bring with them. This would also be used to bribe the guards if they seemed suspicious of the intent of these traders. From there the men would get accustomed to the layout of the town, where the population and industrial centers were, where the markets were, etc. One thing they would be sure to keep an eye out for would be munitions storages. The war effort demanded a large supply of bullets and explosives that would be hurled at Byzantine soldiers, and they would need to be stored somewhere before being shipped to the front. Once these were all located and scouted out, the men would get to work enacting their plan of vengeance on the populace of Ecbatana.
All of them would begin by settling into the town, either as merchants or refugees looking for safety. The men disguised as merchants would deal the Laodice, being sure to make connections with the arms dealers and industrial leaders of the city. The ‘refugees’ would settle into the tenements and trade Morpheus and the more potent, more illegal variations of Laodice. For both this would set them up in positions of relative influence, and once this was achieved they would enact the final stage of their plan.
The ‘merchants’, using their connections with arms dealers would go on tours of munitions depots/ warehouses to look at the wares under the pretense of buying weapons to sell for their own ends. Once inside they would summon mercenaries who they had paid previously to storm the warehouses and take them over, hopefully more or less concurrently across the city. Once they had control of these depots, they would light fires inside and run out of town as fast as possible to escape, leaving behind the most brave and foolhardy to make sure the fires caught and began to spread. While this happened the ‘refugees’ would use the connections they had made to gather together bundles of firewood and other flammable material. They told their helpers that it was charity for the poor, to keep them warm through the long cold nights of winter on the plateaus of Central Persia. These bundles would then be delivered to each of the tenements throughout the poor side of town. Once there, instead of being distributed they would be placed in doorways and lit on fire, to block any escape of the many trapped in the overcrowded, poorly built buildings. These fires would spread up the tenements and from there spread out across the city to meet the fires from exploding arms depots. These would catch across the entire city, hopefully reducing it to a charred husk of what it once was. This city was a bustling metropolis of almost 6 million people, but it would be reduced to mere ashes within the day. This would teach Persia a lesson about messing with the wrong people. They sowed the seeds of war, and now, they are going to reap the results

Invested: Laodice plot bonus, 4000 gold, 6 AP

Result: Ecbatana is razed to the ground

**Plot 2: War of the Worlds**

[REDACTED] RP: Moreauines looked up from the book he had been reading with a smile. It was from the new genre the commoners called “sci-fi” and was about invaders from the stars that came to the world to try and destroy it. They were monstrosities that towered above the skyline and shot fire from their eyes, similar to the fire ships of old Byzantium. He was smiling at this because, as most good literature did, it gave him an idea of how to advance with his current project. Long ago he had mastered the vivisection techniques to turn an animal into a humanoid, but perhaps he could turn an animal into an alien? These monsters were tall on spindly legs, which matched only one creature he had ever heard of. In the lands of Africa, on the outskirts of the Egyptian Empire, there were reports of creatures with similar characteristics to this, that were called giraffes. He had no interest in leaving his island to go investigate them, but fortunately his friends in Byzantium had supplied him with slaves, sorry, “assistants”, to help him in whatever work was necessary. He would send a group of these assistants to Egypt and capture some giraffes, to bring back to his island. He was sure to tell them to bring back at least one male and female, so they could breed and prevent having to make return trips across the known world. Once he had a supply of these giraffes, it was necessary to figure out how to turn them into death machines. Moreauines set to work on one as soon as it was delivered to his lab, using Laodice as a painkiller and emotional depressant, as he had with Panacea back in the olden days. With the creature in a tupor and unable to feel the pain of experimentation, Moreauines cut into it, to try and make it more alien and fitting to his needs. One of the identifying qualities of these tripod aliens from the book was tentacles, so by splicing the giraffe body with the tentacles of both jellyfish and octopus, he created a tall creature that could both grasp and attack without having to bend down. So that it could be controlled and perhaps be useful in the future, he also set up a kind of platform connected to the head of the giraffe that could be stood on and even mounted with small firearms if needed. To reinforce it as the creatures neck couldn’t normally hold this weight, he spliced in the muscles of an elephant all along the creatures neck, to strengthen it and be able to hold up a platform. This took many attempts but was eventually successful. It was unclear what purpose this being would serve immediately, so Moreauines had a kind of a zoo made to house his monstrosities, in the case they would ever need to be used. He also kept meticulous notes in the case that one of these would ever be needed to be created again.
	Now that it was proven that these kind of creatures could be created, Moreauines knew that he could make others. He would have a whole menagerie of monstrosities, and they would serve him and his people for the glory of Trebizond.

Invested: /u/Frodo0201, 4 AP, 3200 gold

Result: Creation of a Longneck, a creature that will be used in the Moreau Project, as well as the ability to create more in the future. Plot Preparation for the next stage of the Moreau Project. [END REDACTED]