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  • [Team AC] The 50 golden years

    Team Alpha Centauri is pleased to tell you all about the prosperous years we've had. The story will be posted in 4 parts, so stay tuned.

    For more info about our team, should anyone be interested to join, see this thread


    The 50 golden years
    ================================

    During the years, which would normally be remembered as 900-850 BC,
    in a land, known to some, home to few and unheard of for others,
    something happened.

    Ofcourse, it didn't happen in those turns alone. The things we will talk
    about take a lot of preparation, dedication and luck. Although, in our
    case it had nothing to do with luck.


    The oracle
    -----------
    It all started out when one of our scouts was hunting a lion. During the
    pursuit, the lion tripped and fell into a crack in the earth. The lion was
    not dead, and crawled out of it. However, he seemed to have forgotten he
    was being hunted and started to imitate birds. The poor animal didn't
    realise the lack of wings would prevent him to fly and while trying hard,
    he would never whistle like a bird either. As this animal was clearly
    possessed, our brave scout killed it, buried it and hunted an other lion
    to bring home for dinner. The next days, two of his emotions were fighting
    for control. Fear and curiosity. Ultimately, fear vanished and curiosity
    took hold of him. He moved towards the crack, scented the weird smell and
    took a nap. When he woke up, he went home and everything he did seemed
    weird and like a deja-vu. As days went by, he went to that crack every
    day, he told friends about and it quickly became a crowded place. Once
    gone there, nobody could let a day pass without stopping by. A few weeks
    later, somebody died. It was an old man, who would probably have died
    also if he had been at home that day, but things weren't so clear at that
    time. From that moment on, old men were not allowed anymore at the site.
    It didn't take long for that order to change into old people and men. So,
    only young girls were allowed the pleasures of being out of this world
    for a while.

    Now, we had a meeting place for young girls, so we needed to protect them.
    That's why we started a massive project to guard them. When completed,
    the girls were very very happy and during a celebration for the end of the
    construction, people were all very enlightened. We went home full of new
    ideas about the next big thing. For most of us, the morning after was a
    shock to learn we either had it all wrong, we re-invented something which
    existed for long or something completely useless. As it later turned out,
    eventually one person's idea was really worthwhile and useful. Due to this,
    we decided to call our building "The Oracle".

    Somebody also decided to imprison the most beautiful young girls in there.
    We are still searching for somebody to blame for not mounting a rebellion
    against this stupid law.


    But, we are diverting from our course. It also turned out this oracle
    became known to people we had never heard of. People from far away started
    to visit us and the city name of Beijing travelled across the country.
    ... to be continued ...
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  • #2
    Well told.


    RP:
    Team Banana salutes you and congratulates the Alpha Centurians.

    Vivu Yang!!!
    Vivu La Banano!!!
    /RP
    Banano Laŭrajta Registaro en Ekzilo - Bananoj gismorte!| Cows O' Plenty|Wish List For ciV | Ming on Spammers: ...And, how do you know that I'm not just spamming by answering him |"This is all about peace; and in the quest for peace you have none." -my son wise beyond his years

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    • #3
      part 2
      Imhotep & his tomb
      -------------------
      While most of our people were occupied with building the oracle, some were
      needed to teach them how to work efficiently, how to build a nice functional
      temple, etc... As the years passed by, our leaders got better and better at
      this. Eventually, one of them became much better than the others. His name
      was Imhotep. Whenever he ordered someone to do something for the oracle,
      the work was finished almost instantly. His name quickly became known and
      the son-of-a-god status was given to him very soon. Once the oracle was
      finished, he wanted to show how good he really was at building things.

      He built us a completely useless "thing" in the dessert. What he did was
      very impressive. Something 3 times as big, high, and heavy as the oracle
      was built in almost no time. He called it a "Pyramid". Sadly though,
      building it had taken so much of him, he didn't live much longer. While
      it might have been perfectly clear to him, none of us knew what we could
      do with that "pyramid",so we ended up using it as a tomb for his creator.
      We all hope he's happy with that and we didn't anger him.

      We're reasonably sure he's happy with that, as some time later we discovered
      some new ways of keeping or people happy, just by pretending to have a
      democratic government or pretending to fight against terrorism. Some also
      report to have found a way to make people build things a lot faster by not
      enslaving them to do so, but by rewarding them with gold for it. We have
      not yet tried that last approach, and most are very sceptical about its
      effectiveness.

      Just like with the oracle, this pyramid became known to foreigners and
      the name of Beijing spreaded out even further.
      ... to be continued ...
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      • #4
        part 3

        Yangism
        --------------
        Not everybody was very interested to work for Imhotep though. Some of our
        people preferred to sit on the ground all day, looking at the sky. They
        don't really harm anyone, so we don't bother them either. Suddenly though,
        not long after the dead of Imhotep, a few of them came running towards the
        city center. They were talking about seeing ghosts, about a far away sun,
        called Alpha Centauri, about civilizations much more advanced than us,
        about how the planet was ruled by just one man, Sheng-Ji Yang. While we
        usually ignore those sky-watchers, this time they seemed to convince some
        of our people they were telling the truth. As with all stories, details
        which were left out initially, were filled in, and it turned out this
        Yang person had chosen our tribe to become his representative on earth.
        He will guide us and tell us what we need to know to establish world
        domination here on earth, just like he did way up there. Some of our
        brightest people argumented we might need more than his encouragement to
        actually be able to dominate the earth, and we might even fail! However,
        it seems the mighty Yang had an answer for this too. He'll guard a
        dedicated place for us on his planet and should the earth-domination
        not come as planned, he promised to pick us up and let us live happy and
        forever next to him.

        Well, that last argument was incounterable for all of us, and from that
        day on, we all praise the mighty Yang. We still haven't heard any concrete
        guidelines about how to dominate the earth, but we have faith! He will not
        let us down!

        ... to be continued...
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        • #5
          Vivu Yang!
          USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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          • #6
            And so it came to pass that the same hunter who discovered that sniffing crack is a very pleasant thing, one day sniffed too much and started running towards the sun screaming: "I believe I can fly!". He ran and ran for many days waking up with the sun and only getting some rest when sun set.

            Of course, eventually his mind got free from the foul influences of that crazy crack stuff. He found himself in a fertile valley with all kinds of life. According to his hunter habit, he started to explore the valley and one morning upon stopping to drink from a stream of clear, sparkling water, he heard screams coming from the forest up-stream. He ran towards the spot and encountered a bear who was climbing a tree on whose branch a girl sat (and was obviously the source of crazy screaming).

            Without wasting a second he drew his shiny new copper knife, ran to the bear the latter still not noticing him and stuck that copper knife deep into as.. erm back-side of the bear. The bear roared in great pain and hasted away taking with him the dagger.

            The girl was very thankful for saving her life and invited the hunter to come with her to her village. The villagers where in awe of the young hunter upon hearing that he had single-handedly dealt with the bear. The village shaman, being the most thankful, as the girl was his daughter, asked what else besides the girl he wanted. Hunter, being rather surprised by the sudden and straightforward marriage proposal could only say that he'd like his knife back.

            To that shaman answered that they make the best knives known and soon he was doing his mystical and magical stuff. To hunters surprise, the shaman was able to take metal and make it flow like a river by heating it and then turn back into metal by cooling it. Hunter had never seen such a feat before and asked what would it take to learn such magic. To that shaman answered "Take my daughter for wife and you have that magic with you". Hunter didn't really get the joke, but once he get home with his new wife, she revealed that she's no less adapt in those magics than her father as he had taught her everything he knew.

            Some regarded her mastery a witchcraft and herself a demonic creature, but the wise men of centaurians saw the importance of this new skill and came to learn from her.

            Soon, every man being smart enough knew how to cast metal and they did it both for purpose and as entertainment, creating various forms and figures for ritual use and for kids to play with.

            Over time these artifacts accumulated and became a burden to store or transport, so the tribe elders devised a great way to get rid of those old pieces of bronze - they were collected and piece by piece re-cast in parts of another figure - a statue of a man, but much much bigger in size. It was in these fruitful years of 900-850 when the last part - head of the statue was cast and the statue constructed just off the sea coast on a shallow bank.

            Asked what is the purpose of such a big statue looking seawards the tribe elders answered that this is the statue of The One True Yang, who is looking for any enemies in the sea and protecting the city from pirates and other dangerous sea creatures.

            Upon hearing this, one of the kids said 'Cool!'. No one knows what does it mean, but common people now call the statue Coolosus (well, not in vicinity of preachers of Yangism, of course).
            -- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
            -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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            • #7

              RP:
              Cool! May your Coolosus Yang forever stand straight and keep his vigilent eye on the seas for the Malbonaj, protecting all the Boneco of Nia Kontinento.
              /RP
              Banano Laŭrajta Registaro en Ekzilo - Bananoj gismorte!| Cows O' Plenty|Wish List For ciV | Ming on Spammers: ...And, how do you know that I'm not just spamming by answering him |"This is all about peace; and in the quest for peace you have none." -my son wise beyond his years

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Daddy-O

                RP:
                Cool! May your Coolosus Yang forever stand straight and keep his vigilent eye on the seas for the Malbonaj, protecting all the Boneco of Nia Kontinento.
                /RP
                They are the enemey now. We no longer praise the traitors.
                USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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                • #9

                  RP:
                  Agreed & Amen!

                  Povus la yang ŝrump.
                  Morto yang!

                  Vivu la Banano!!!!!!!
                  /RP
                  Banano Laŭrajta Registaro en Ekzilo - Bananoj gismorte!| Cows O' Plenty|Wish List For ciV | Ming on Spammers: ...And, how do you know that I'm not just spamming by answering him |"This is all about peace; and in the quest for peace you have none." -my son wise beyond his years

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                  • #10
                    And an other addition here


                    "Sir, the workers report that the fields are clear. The lumber will be transfered to our stocks soon"
                    "What should we do with it?"
                    "We could make a great bonfire, and sing songs, and we call it ... woodstock"
                    "Yeah, and get drunk as pigs as last time? Dream on."
                    "Umm, ok then... Here's an idea - a friend of mine, being a sailor says that the light from Coolossus is very nice when sailing along the trade route, whilst it be higher and brighter, it'd make sailing even easier. Our wine..erm..horse imports would certainly not suffer from it."
                    "You and your drinking obsession! Be gone!"

                    a few minutes later ...

                    "You there! Yes, you, you and you too, get those oxen online! I want this wood to the port. Move it, move it!"

                    A mere 300 years after "The 50 Golden Years", a higher tower was completed next to the Coolossus. Sailing has become very easy and profitable in the area now, with the addition of this second guiding light.


                    For The Glory of the One Yang,
                    Team Alpha Centauri

                    I should add most of this text was composed by forestersof. I posted it because he's on holiday now, but credit should go to him.
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                    • #11
                      Cool!Well told.

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