Oh, it was nothing. I realized while reading your stuff that I simply had to adopt some of your practices.
I really wanted to have being noble actually MEAN something, which is why I decided to adopt a tiered system of authority. And you're seeing right through me with my potential storylines. How'd you guess?
Thanks on the seal, too! I made the flag first, then adapted it for the seal.
Ooh, yes. I'm already having a blast playing them, although their lifestyle is sooo difficult to manage. We'll see if they all survive to the end.
Sure, go ahead and take a few of his people! If your kingdom can host them, feel free to write some in. I'm afraid I don't have anyone premade who I can pass on without affecting my plot, but feel free to incorporate him and/or his people in. I can get you a copy of Meslar, the god in question, if you need him, too. I'm sure he'd love the support! I'm glad that he's coming off sympathetic enough that you'd make the offer, by the way. I felt like my last couple of villains were too moustache-twirly, so I wanted to go with someone with more dimensions. The fun thing is that right now, he's the villain in Keika's story... and she's the villain in his.
But anyway! YES, I was so excited to see that Andi had bolts with Galain, although kind of disappointed that she and Darion had absolutely nothing. Both boys would have led to some interesting plot machinations with their families, although this did make the choice easy. And yes, that would've been so sad if she had negative voltage with both boys. Would've made for a very cold marriage. I agree with you about Imelda--she needed a talking-to, and she's not the greatest of parents ever, but her ambition is good and she's not really a bad person at heart.
She's actually really super fun to write!
Absolutely! Plus, I've been building too big, so some of my poor peasants are having trouble.
I feel like the kingdom is too small for it to make sense to establish a university yet. Starting next round, I will be
buying the universities for the points (I want to finish this challenge someday, after all), but I have a plan on when and how they're going to be implemented. So no, Andi and the other teenagers of this generation will not be going to college.
Imelda is the BEST at discretion! ;D
Sure, go ahead! I admit, I stole it myself from a challenge I read a few years back called
Veil's Million Dollar Challenge and its sequel,
Yulia's Five Top Level Businesses. They read as a great, entertaining guide to making money in TS2. Basically all of my business strategies from Clitheroe, at least the succesful ones, come from there.
One of my goals when I set up Clitheroe was to make it have an integrated storyline, with updates that reference each other as the week goes on. Except for seasons. Forget seasons and weather. Yeah, I considered doing it on a day-to-day basis, but decided that would be super annoying. Instead, what I ended up doing was making a .txt document of all the important events I intended to happen for each household that round. It functions as a basic outline, and lets me see what should be referenced when by the other households. Once in a while spontaneous things still slip by that document, though, so if I haven't published the chapter that should hold a reference but doesn't, I'll go back and tweak. For example, when Dienda ended up getting pregnant and the queen showed upon her doorstep, I had to go back and stage a photograph of the queen talking to the paper girl and finding out about it. That wasn't in the original draft. And if I already have published the chapter and therefore can't tweak it? Well... that's the way the cookie crumbles.
That's part of the reason why I try to stay a few chapters ahead of what I've published: so I can make changes!
Anyway, monologuing aside, thanks so much for the comment. I really appreciate how nice and thoughtful it was.
As always, thanks for reading and commenting!