And it's probably a good thing we didn't do it, foreign translation would have cost a fortune!
While it doesn't solve the technical issues, I think there's a straightforward solution to that -- give the community the resources to handle that part. Have the event log get generated, then plug it through "story-style" files written by the community to generate the final tale. Is it a lot of work? I imagine it is -- but I *do* think it's well within the community's abilities.
A secondary benefit of that would be the ability to use different style-files for different races.

Yeah, I don't hold out much hope for the EG to be released, but it's such a cool idea.