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Nuclear Elvis said:
Blue Monday.
So there I am, casually starting a CK2 game as a lowly Count in Lombardy, partly because I intend to divorce a Lombard Princess to get the achievement, and play the game and still be a Lombard in 1300 and beyond, for that other Lombard achievement. There should be a 3rd achievement for marrying a Lombard Princess after 1300, and staying married for 50 years. I should know - I'm married to a Lombard in real life (although she's not exactly a Princess, more like a Shieldmaiden with Martial of 25 and Intrigue of 35).

Ok so I'm in the typical white-tiled Lombardy, right? That's all I expect. White-tiled Lombardy, until 1300. And then something happens, and you may not believe in Fate or that life truly has no coincidences, but still, here goes - I'm listening (and somewhat watching) Music Television (MTV) Classic channel, where I have discovered they actually play Music Videos again - after all these years, I'm finally seeing and hearing Music again on MTV instead of some wacked out social experimental show, and since I'm really enjoying the music, the channel puts on:

- New Order, Blue Monday ('88 version).

And then it happens, my screen turns blue, totally blue, as I'm zoomed in on Lombardy's Northern counties only, and then it goes insta-blue, because the internal revolt that had been going for an untold number of game years, apparently resulted in West Francia's King usurping all of Lombardy. In all my CK2 games, I've never seen this before, where West Francia stays intact from game start, and grows to subsume Lombardy. Bear in mind, Lombardy was kicking it - I was always Joining War to help my Lombardy King, and we together were dominating (I'd taken over 3x Counties along the way and just shy of being Duke except I'm stuck in Milano just North of the King who also held the Duchy title). We'd taken Barcelona Duchy, actually taking it to the Muslims in early game, instead of the other way around, which is why West Francia on this screenshot is creeping into Spain. Oh, just before this screenshot, the King of Lombardy died, and his sister took over, who is the Duchess mentioned in the pop-up message in top-right.

But I still wonder - was it MTV spinning "Blue Monday" that did this to me? And, as reminder, today is Monday.
Enjoy the Blue...of the map. And enjoy your Monday, wherever you are.
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P.S. If you really want a more "Interesting" song about the color blue, along with quite a backstory about the performing artist who sings the song, check out "Love is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu)" by Claudine Longet. Oh, speaking of difficult marriages - don't marry Claudine. Spider didn't earn the "Achievement" but maybe Andy Williams did, and the Rolling Stones wrote a song about her (titled "Claudine" of course). If you don't know what I'm talking about - you need to get to know Claudine Longet. She was actually good in the Peter Sellers movie "The Party" - a movie that was essentially banned from broadcast TV.

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I've seen that a lot of times. Karloman dies, Karl gets it and then goes on to take Lombardy from Desiderius. I think You might get Lombardy back if you get the Kingdom of Italy on a Lombard character again, but I am unsure, been too long since I last played that.
 
olivenkranz said:
I've seen that a lot of times. Karloman dies, Karl gets it and then goes on to take Lombardy from Desiderius. I think You might get Lombardy back if you get the Kingdom of Italy on a Lombard character again, but I am unsure, been too long since I last played that.
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Is it especially triggered by Lombardy king/queen being Excommunicated also? That dynamic was in play also, after I viewed all the messages in background, that the King of Lombardy was Excommunicated, and then after he died from personal combat, the newly-crowned Queen of Lombardy was immediately Excommunicated also (I guess the Pope hated the whole family). She's the one appearing as if only a Duke in the upper right message, after she lost title as Queen of Lombardy.
 
Nuclear Elvis said:
Is it especially triggered by Lombardy king/queen being Excommunicated also? That dynamic was in play also, after I viewed all the messages in background, that the King of Lombardy was Excommunicated, and then after he died from personal combat, the newly-crowned Queen of Lombardy was immediately Excommunicated also (I guess the Pope hated the whole family). She's the one appearing as if only a Duke in the upper right message, after she lost title as Queen of Lombardy.
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It's rather easy for the King/Queen of Lombardy/Italy to be recipients of excommunication since they often hold de jure Papal States territory (which the Pope no likey!).
 
Poliut said:
It's rather easy for the King/Queen of Lombardy/Italy to be recipients of excommunication since they often hold de jure Papal States territory (which the Pope no likey!).
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Thanks for that reminder, I forgot about that Game Start condition in Lombardy. Somebody stuck the sign "Excommunicate Me" on the backs of Lombardy royals.
 
The Ghost of Anowed.
Apparently, my Main Character was visited today by the Ghost of Anowed who died yesterday under suspicious circumstances. Anowed was clearly confused in her ghostly state, and instead of telling me about who murdered her, she instead proceeded to complain about her husband's fidelity. This is clearly a Chaste Ghost (or is this her former demonic power that has been released?).

FYI, my mouse cursor is hovering over the skull at bottom right of her picture, and the pop-up text bar bottom right of that is where you'll see her Death date in contrast to today's game date.

And you know what's a bit eerie about this one? Look at the main pop-up picture, for the female image at top center. Does almost look like a ghost, in my opinion.
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P.S. In case anyone was wondering, the reason there is a yellow-outline for the middle box pop-up for response options, is because the main character has the Just trait. I was actually disappointed that she was killed off, as I had married her with her two prior children, to Folquin (who was also a widower in my Court) as both NPCs have separate bloodlines and I was farming for growing bloodlines into my Court to then bring into my Dynasty, but their marriage lasted all of about 2 months, probably because Anowed was demon possessed and assumedly hated by her new spouse and many members of my court.
 
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Nuclear Elvis said:
The Ghost of Anowed.
Apparently, my Main Character was visited today by the Ghost of Anowed who died yesterday under suspicious circumstances. Anowed was clearly confused in her ghostly state, and instead of telling me about who murdered her, she instead proceeded to complain about her husband's fidelity. This is clearly a Chaste Ghost (or is this her former demonic power that has been released?).

FYI, my mouse cursor is hovering over the skull at bottom right of her picture, and the pop-up text bar bottom right of that is where you'll see her Death date in contrast to today's game date.

And you know what's a bit eerie about this one? Look at the main pop-up picture, for the female image at top center. Does almost look like a ghost, in my opinion.
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The Ghost of Anowed Past
 
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This is possibly the worst choice of nomad settlement I've ever seen.

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Congratulations! You are now a single-county Jewish ruler. You claim to be Duke of Kiev, but you seem to be a bit geographically confused. Ah well. You have an unusually large army for your size (10k)... but unfortunately you're surrounded by a huge Catholic HRE (50k army size). And they have "uncontrolled vassal wars", so you also need to worry about all those vassal dukes. I'll be surprised if you last 3 years.

In case anyone fancies a challenge, I've attached the save. (EDIT: OK, attaching didn't work, so I'll host it instead.) De-ironman-ing it is left as an exercise for the reader. (I tried, twice, and failed both times, so I'm not going to continue spending time on something probably no-one will ever use.) Bonus points if you stay Jewish and independent.
 
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This is definitely "mixed luck".

Unlucky: The Black Death started in 1105, when the earliest possible date is 1100.
Neutral / My choice: The Black Death starts right next to my capital. Oops, forgot about that!
Lucky: Something else paused the game, so I could enter seclusion the moment before it actually hit my capital.

Welp, time to watch the world suffer from the comfort of my high walls and underfloor heating...

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Unlucky: The Black Death started in 1105, when the earliest possible date is 1100
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much more likely than you would think, the way Delayed Dynamic works is it rolls a 1% chance of the black death happening every month after 1100, this means there is a 50% chance you will see the black death in the first 5 years.
 
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I had to check, just in case this bug is still in CleanSlate, but it's fixed there. The problem is that vanilla checks realm members with a secret religion equal to the true religion the top liege of the leader of the society (so you obviously qualify), instead of realm members with the same secret religion as the leader of the secret religious society (Bernahaddin in this case) who aren't in the secret religious society. For clarity, someone's 'true religion' is their secret religion if they have one, and otherwise their normal, public religion.
 
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