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Since Columbia is, even by North American minor standards, something of an afterthought, I was forced to add a few events.
They are not balanced by any stretch of the word.
Oh, and I've created a modified VIP scenario: Columbia is playable by default, and includes all of its national territory. The bits in Montana and Alberta have been added to Idaho for practical reasons.
I've taken a few lumps to compensate that out, but the interest here is going to be in the style, not the content. With any hope it will be as much of an experience to write as it is an experience to play.
For now, I tire. Look here tomorrow and I promise an update.
They are not balanced by any stretch of the word.
Oh, and I've created a modified VIP scenario: Columbia is playable by default, and includes all of its national territory. The bits in Montana and Alberta have been added to Idaho for practical reasons.
I've taken a few lumps to compensate that out, but the interest here is going to be in the style, not the content. With any hope it will be as much of an experience to write as it is an experience to play.
For now, I tire. Look here tomorrow and I promise an update.
In 1835, what would eventually be Victoria Island and was now just the center of the British colonial empire around Oregon was governed by Britain, directly from London, and considered inviolably British territory. And its inhabitants generally considered themselves British subjects.
That is, until they found the Monolith.
The Monolith of Columbia
The people of the island understood that the Monolith wanted them to break off from Britain. England protested vigorously. A war for Columbia would be silly -- after all, there hadn't been that much effort to even map out the territory yet, much less was it at all practical for a battleground.
So a compromise was reached: a best-out-of-three contest between William IV, his sovereign majesty of Britain, and the Monolith, ruler of Columbia and all-around nice inanimate object.
The games were to be held in Athens, but the complication of the monolith being entirely incapable of locomotion got in the way of that. Significantly embarassed, the governments of England and Columbia agred to hold the games in Victoria, where the monolith was.
The first game was an arm-wrestling contest, which William IV won on a technicality due to having arms. With the UK score up one point, the followers of the Monolith had grown nervous.
Then came the next game: physical resemblance to a humongous slab of graphite.
It was not even close, and the score was now tied 1-1. The next round would be the tiebreaker: the staring contest.
The Monolith resumed its position;
and William IV took his.
The Monolith did not move. It seemed Columbia would win with little effort.
But no one had bothered to tell the Monolith -- which, knowing all and seeing all to begin with, should have realized it -- that William IV was a proven champion at the staring contest.
Things were getting heavy.
And William IV seemed to have the upper hand.
In fact, as the Monolith was beginning to lose its composture...
The champion was down! William IV turned his head and threw the match, and thus a new era dawned.
The Monolith inherited all of Britain's technologies, as well as a significant stockpile of machine parts and cash as a going-away present. Columbia was large and in charge. Well, no, not really.
One of the first orders of business: selecting a party to be backed by the Monolith, which now ruled Columbia absolutely. It was not easy.
In fact, it was further compounded by the fact that the Monolith did not speak Spanish, and that seemed to be the language all of the parties of Columbia used.
The Monolith, in its infinite wisdom, found the perfect solution:
The Monolith clearly transcends political parties, and thus has not the first bit of need for them!
Columbia notably had no rich people, and the middle class was represented by a handful of clerics. The population was entirely conservative, but they didn't speak Spanish either, so they were happy enough with direct rule by Monolith.
So it begins...
EDIT: Typos, and the fact that William IV suddenly becomes George IV.
That is, until they found the Monolith.
The Monolith of Columbia
The people of the island understood that the Monolith wanted them to break off from Britain. England protested vigorously. A war for Columbia would be silly -- after all, there hadn't been that much effort to even map out the territory yet, much less was it at all practical for a battleground.
So a compromise was reached: a best-out-of-three contest between William IV, his sovereign majesty of Britain, and the Monolith, ruler of Columbia and all-around nice inanimate object.
The games were to be held in Athens, but the complication of the monolith being entirely incapable of locomotion got in the way of that. Significantly embarassed, the governments of England and Columbia agred to hold the games in Victoria, where the monolith was.
The first game was an arm-wrestling contest, which William IV won on a technicality due to having arms. With the UK score up one point, the followers of the Monolith had grown nervous.
Then came the next game: physical resemblance to a humongous slab of graphite.
It was not even close, and the score was now tied 1-1. The next round would be the tiebreaker: the staring contest.
The Monolith resumed its position;
and William IV took his.
The Monolith did not move. It seemed Columbia would win with little effort.
But no one had bothered to tell the Monolith -- which, knowing all and seeing all to begin with, should have realized it -- that William IV was a proven champion at the staring contest.
Things were getting heavy.
And William IV seemed to have the upper hand.
In fact, as the Monolith was beginning to lose its composture...
The champion was down! William IV turned his head and threw the match, and thus a new era dawned.
The Monolith inherited all of Britain's technologies, as well as a significant stockpile of machine parts and cash as a going-away present. Columbia was large and in charge. Well, no, not really.
One of the first orders of business: selecting a party to be backed by the Monolith, which now ruled Columbia absolutely. It was not easy.
In fact, it was further compounded by the fact that the Monolith did not speak Spanish, and that seemed to be the language all of the parties of Columbia used.
The Monolith, in its infinite wisdom, found the perfect solution:
The Monolith clearly transcends political parties, and thus has not the first bit of need for them!
Columbia notably had no rich people, and the middle class was represented by a handful of clerics. The population was entirely conservative, but they didn't speak Spanish either, so they were happy enough with direct rule by Monolith.
So it begins...
EDIT: Typos, and the fact that William IV suddenly becomes George IV.
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The Monolith is a really cool protagonist for the story, I wonder what plans it has for the future? 
spfisk said:The Monolith is a really cool protagonist for the story, I wonder what plans it has for the future?
It comes from the future. A future where Canadians elect Spaniards, and it wants to put a stop to that :rofl: