Jump 263: Wakfu

Jump #263: Wakfu
>Eight of Wands (Swiftness): A sudden release of raw power, cutting through confusion and indecision, and setting things in motion.
Welp, time to go villain, I suppose.
>Age: 16
>Location: Amakna
>Race: Foggernaut
>Identity: Bounty Hunter (-100)
Well, one must start somewhere, no?
>Combat Training (Free, Bounty Hunter)
Knowing how to fight is one thing, but being the match of fifty people in a brawl? HELL yes.
>Willpower (800)
Some days, I wonder if I have enough willpower perks. Some day, I'll know for sure.
>Cooking (600)
Never underestimate the value of a good, well-cooked meal!
>Sailing (300)
Sure, I already know how to sail, but having more knowledge is preferable to less. Not to mention more knowledge when it comes to the local seas. There will be a great deal of sailing in my future.
>Above The Law (0, Bounty Hunter)
This... is not going to help me right now. But it will help me in the event that I accidentally destroy anyone's cabbages.

So. Wakfu! The plot here is interesting, the locals widely varied, the various societies throughout the world pretty damn neat.

Let's conquer it. Seriously, let's just conquer it. If the gods don't agree, then they should step in directly. Oh look, they're NOT stepping in directly, so screw them. Worship whatever gods you wish, as long as you render under Caesar. Or Crux, as the case may be.

Of course while the initial conquest of Amakna that happened after being here for a year was decidedly militaristic, but after that's done, we started pushing for politics and aiming to absorb various islands into what is rapidly becoming an economic powerhouse. Results varied and were not initially positive, but the empire was a place that heavily promotes travel to other parts of the budding empire, and pays rather well for anyone who works for it directly. And while a couple of idiots decided to attack the empire (and were promptly absorbed into it after being stomped flat, because why should I hold back just because they're holding the idiot ball), things here are quite safe. One could travel by gate to major settlements, or if you're wanting to relax or travel more inexpensively, take a boat or one of the new airships that are being rolled out.

Makes for some awfully nice sounding propaganda, doesn't it?

It would have been nice if Brakmar hadn't attempted to launch some sort of preemptive attack, but it's only fair to expect them to do that when they came across intelligence that proved that the empire was planning an attack and building up soldiers. If only they hadn't launched an attack on a peaceful airship port, mistaking the zeppelins for military craft! Yes, that got the empire up in arms, and we quickly had a justified war on our hands. Sufokia... well, it's hard to say if they were simply in the way or actively colluded because we had technologies that they didn't.

Our war machine geared up, but our objectives were straight forward - we were going to conquer and absorb those two nations, but keep pillaging to a minimum. March in as heroes, under a heroic banner, but keep our conduct reasonable. For the most part it even worked, and we didn't so much attack Sufokia directly so much as carve a supply line into it - once Brakamr collapsed after years of conflict (and oh, did it deserve to collapse) Sufokia sued for peace.

And so nearly half the world came under the banner of an empire that hadn't existed until five years before.

From that point, every effort was focused on rebuilding and making life worthwhile. It's a song and dance I've done many times before, and I've gotten it down to a science. The only variables are the locals, and the locals here were surprisingly amicable, so it went far more smoothly than it had any right to be. And a government structure was left behind when I left that vaguely resembled the UK's, sans a hereditary monarch, instead the military's leader taking that spot (which remained strictly advisory).

Also, on Armistice Day, a rock fell from the sky and shattered the mountain that the Ogrest was on, destroying him QUITE thoroughly in the process and turning his little mountain into an an archipelago of obsidian. Because clearly the gods here don't have the stones to do what must be done. I, on the other hand, can deliver. Of course, everyone bickers to this day as to which of their gods did the deed; I'll never tell.

Overall, I'd say that was not half bad. Aside from the constant assassination attempts from various would-be heroes, who I usually would bop in the head and go 'hey, stop for a second and look at what we're doing here'.

It probably doesn't help that I called Yugo a field mouse before I bopped him on the head, did it? At least I didn't use my bat. I'm saving that for Highlander, because it's going to be hilarious to use a baseball bat when everyone else has masterwork heirloom swords and the like.