I've been away and work has been halting until the last week, but back in action now! Synrec has updated his great Tactical Battle system. It has taken me a while to reimplement the battles and the initial abilities and effects. The system is working better than before now.

The initial opening engagement, with your orcs, pitted against Smallfolk oppressors, is over. It is time to grow your orc domain. First, I have been working on the Embassy Hotel, in the Smallfolk capital, Great Rest. Here will be a hub, allowing your orcs to communicate with the nations of the other races.

You have, of course, commandeered the upper floor. Find your friend Grumbol in the bath giving his beloved boar, Porclin, a good scrub. The Shamaniac, Loon, in a deep commune with his god, Krog, develops a fascination with dwarven lava lamps.

Along the lower floor, you will find rooms used as embassies. Your goblin pal, Gobba, has let success get to his head and trashed one of the rooms.

The room below is used by an elf, a scar-ridden duellist who has rejected the once famous elven appreciation of beauty, though still possesses ties to nature and the forests.

Next door is the room used as a dwarven embassy. Dwarven society has become one of crazed excess. Hobbies include the addicting inhalation of noxious underworld gasses, and, of course, the excessive consumption of the ever-ubiquitous grog. Some dwarves have even gone through procedures to infuse the rock of their Mountain onto their own bodies.

One of the human nations, the Silver Rose, also uses a room. From here, the human ambassador warily keeps an eye on the new orc nation, assessing the threat posed and how it can be exploited to her benefit.

From here, the opportunities to explore other parts of the world map will become available. I plan to add variables charting the opinion of other nations, which will decide various outcomes when you eventually decide to explore further flung parts of the world now that you have subjugated the Smallfolk realms.

As always, this is a WIP and everything could change.