Adventure 16: Meta Info
This was a Create Your Own Variant event. The only restriction was that it had to be themed on the holiday season & the emphasis was on a creative report.
After a little thought I came up with something (that quite blatantly owes a debt to the RB24 Big Brother Succession Game) - little Orphan Isabella is out of the orphange living on her own as leader of Spain, she'd like to find her relatives and have a Proper Christmas like children do in all the books she's read. Presents & a big family dinner with everyone there. You know, the sort of tacky Christmas that everyone complains about in the modern world.
So: Every 20 turns it's Christmas. I must give a gift to each AI civ if at all possible. I mustn't adopt a state religion (what? Religion involved in Christmas? Surely not?). I mustn't declare war on any of AI (what? Fight my relatives after taking this long to find them?).
The report is written up as Isabella's diary - one entry every 20 turns on "New Year's Day" (and owes a big debt to Carrot's Epic 8 report).
Unfortunately this was a little too ambitious - I failed to finish the game before the deadline & I haven't even written up the last 2 parts I played (editing the screenshots took a fair chunk of time). I got into a snit with it & didn't post it up in the RB forums on the deadline coz I'd not finished, but now 3 or so months later I'm clearing out my temporary report space in time for Sooooo's unofficial game that's starting about now, so I figured I'd put it up rather than waste all my time. I may've forgotten the nuances of the variant rules now :/
There had been a story line that I was going to try & follow - once I'd found all the AI I was going to have a couple of "good" Christmases, then instigate a war between 2 of the AI (and work out an in character rationale for bribing it if it didn't just kick off). Then get disgusted with Christmas, relatives and the whole shebang, and hopefully pull of a space victory.
On to the first entry! -->