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TURN THIRTEEN
1st Young Man, 2nd PAC. The Rising Star shines brightly.
>AE
War true and proper as come at last to Amun, no longer simple skirmishes over the Abraamites they had taken in, but outright war. The faithful of Amun are called up to fight for the gods, the High Lord and the country. These new recruits will be trained by the scant survivors from the attack at the Passage in tactics best suited against the corpsemen. When the armies return victorious against this foe, they too will be taught these things.
The army of Lord Toraten, having been speared in the back by an unknown band of Irreechi thugs, limps with their dead and wounded back towards the Lake, met with refreshed troops led by Lord Vitalsin as they approach the jungle. But they are followed close behind.
>AH
Pharakhan Anemhotep is faced with a difficult decision which stems from the strange disappointment he feels in his people. He had read and reread all of the data gathered from dissection studies, puzzling over the apparent lack of unique features in them. His advisers assure him that the divinity of the Ahmosi is in the blood, something they cannot study as closely as gristle & gizzard. Nevertheless his mind is made up, the eugenic laws must be pushed younger still, infants & babes are to be screened. He will root out weakness from the earliest possible stages! With this in mind he tasks the priests and breeders with increasing the fertility of those now fewer allowed to bear sons & daughters of Ahmose. The winds of fate, drifting around the studies of symmetry and equivalence, work their way into the wombs of many pregnant women. The birthrate of twins booms, but not without balance; One child is always stronger than the other, noticeably so in most cases. [A second improvement and I will allow 3 armies per city max.]
>AU
As more of Nabu-Ki-Uru and her surrounds are built of stone, the streets of the capital lined with cobbles, and even the poor beginning to use stone alongside the usual mudbrick, the wealthy of the city are a little perturbed at this loss of a status symbol. Quarrymen & masons, haulers & engineers, all are consulted on methods possible on cutting and moving greater stones than currently possible. Perhaps they take inspiration from the far-off temple of the crocodiles, or perhaps of two ancient obelisks that still stand in the country. In any case, systems of levers & rollers, of pulleys & cranes are established to move enormous stones previously considered immovable onto the building sites of those who can afford such grand plans.
