Had to try the dice~

Present.

My body is ready.

>>21287417
Let us begin!

Rolled 5, 6, 6 = 17

I have returned!

hello

My anus is ready

Aha, and in the last thread we prepared for war. So, I suggest we start focusing on getting ready for war in the future. The Lion Tribe is at least on board and I am sure we can convince the River Brothers once they meet the tribe.

>>21287895
OR, or, better yet, we get some diplomacy going, and try to set up a trade network with the new tribe. See if we can maybe get a look at that silver. Maybe make some pretty necklaces and such for Yeneth or Chani.

Turn Report

Population: 355 (138 elders and children)
Food: 6/15
Morale: 6/15

Known Food Sources: Depleted deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes
Known Resources: Tall timbers (5 days away), Clay (2 days away), Malachite (2 days away, over the river)
Technology: Copper spears and knives, advanced stone and wood tools, hide-working, fish-spears, clay pots, crude cold-weather clothes, basic rafts, serviceable bows, copper tools, hollow-log canoes, Copper scale jackets, basic plank shields, Crude carts
Science: Family wisdom, basic natural lore, crude wound care, basic food preservation, basic navigation, crude map-making, crude agriculture, the wheel, basic animal husbandry, natural medicine,
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, crude wooden palisade
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, Crude Instruments, Rough berry liqueur, Tribal Militia, Crude ideograms

Moon 8

Known Landmarks
A river beside the village
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Open grasslands
Distant mountains
Distant river

>>21287935
The crops are ripe and ready for harvesting outside the village.

As a reminder; no-one has ever bothered to gather from the flowering fruit tree glade that the tribe discovered. This reminder is only here because someone asked about it last thread. I wouldn't bring it up otherwise.

Action Points: THREE

A) Send out scouts (specify direction)
B) Send some hunters out to hunt game and catch fish
C) Gather resources (not food)
D) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
E) Hold a cultural event (specify)
F) Craft specific objects
G) Send envoys to another tribe
H) Other
I) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

Rolled 6, 3, 6 = 15

>>21287934
This, I'm sure what's his name will come around after we present the benefits of a united tribe to him. Maybe impress that even as a nation his tribe would retain its identity.

And for the love of god no slaves.

>>21287975
I had an idea after last week, that maybe we could teach the lion tribe and the riverbrothers about writing, in our language. That way we could possibly start a letter/postal service of sorts- you know, send letter requests and invitations instead of sending a whole party down there. Might be useful. Though, for this turn, I'm going
H) Harvest them crops
H) Pick those flowering fruit trees
F) Continue construction on the large pen.

>>21287934
If he is willing to join us then there is no need for war, but if he is not then we shall need to make him. We must simply show him the benefits of being united under the banner wolfsbane, and the consequences of not doing so.

B) Harvest those crops
B) Go gather from that glade
D) Do that thing I mentioned last thread where we give the Elders access to the forges and metal and just let them go hog wild. Basically we expend more material than normal on research for a more risky but possible reward.

>>21288028
I like this idea, and we already finished the pen.

Rolled 1, 4, 6 = 11

>>21288070
Seconding this one.

>>21288070

im ok with this

>>21288084
That's what I thought at first, but I'm not sure.

In between the great fishing and gathering expeditions, the tribe also sets to work, trying to construct a pen to house deer in. The end result looks like it will be almost as tall and robust as the village walls..! And just as laborious to construct.

So I'm not sure if we're finished, or still building. Britfag, care to shed some light on the situation?

>>21287975
B) get crops
B) check the flowering glade then pick the fruit
The pen for the deer is done so

D) What spine snapper said

>>21288128
Sorry. I should have been clearer; the pen is not yet finished, no. You'll need to put in another turn or two.

The Wise Ones (I really should make the distinction: Elders are not exclusively Wise Ones and Wise Ones are not all Elders) are given the run of the forges for the moon, but try as they might and despite more than a few risky experiments, they simply cannot improve on the tribe's pre-existing methods for working copper. The general consensus among the Wise Ones is that the metal is simply too soft. Even routine work quickly wares down tools and weapons and the only reason many of the tribes copper items are still functional are because the metal is soft enough to bend back into shape again.

The rest of the village busies itself by taking in the harvest and fetching fruit from the trees in the glade. There's a small selection, but most are a soft, teardrop-shaped fruit that is actually quite tasty. It certainly makes a nice change from the grains. Several of the tribe have actually been ill after trying to ingest them. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the bouts of vomiting or diarrhea and no lingering effects, but some people just can't stomach them well. Yet another time, they might (under duress) eat the grains again and suffer no ill effects.

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>>21288435
Turn Report

Population: 355 (138 elders and children)
Food: 9/15
Morale: 6/15

Known Food Sources: Depleted deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes
Known Resources: Tall timbers (5 days away), Clay (2 days away), Malachite (2 days away, over the river)
Technology: Copper spears and knives, advanced stone and wood tools, hide-working, fish-spears, clay pots, crude cold-weather clothes, basic rafts, serviceable bows, copper tools, hollow-log canoes, Copper scale jackets, basic plank shields, Crude carts
Science: Family wisdom, basic natural lore, crude wound care, basic food preservation, basic navigation, crude map-making, crude agriculture, the wheel, basic animal husbandry, natural medicine,
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, crude wooden palisade
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, Crude Instruments, Rough berry liqueur, Tribal Militia, Crude ideograms

Moon 9

Known Landmarks
A river beside the village
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Open grasslands
Distant mountains
Distant river

> Forgot the pic

>>21288449
Action Points: THREE

A) Send out scouts (specify direction)
B) Send some hunters out to hunt game and catch fish
C) Gather resources (not food)
D) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
E) Hold a cultural event (specify)
F) Craft specific objects
G) Send envoys to another tribe
H) Other
I) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

>>21288454
D) Have the wise ones look into these strange fruits. History has shown that what seems bad at first later turns out to be very beneficial. This could help us research medicine. Maybe.
F) Continue building the deer pen
G) Go teach the Lion Tribe writing, with the intention of making a postal service to further unify the two tribes.

>>21288454
If we are going to try and make this new tribe like us why not give him something he doesn't have. Jewelry

D) Jewelry
F) continue on the pin
C) gather malachite cause we need it to make pretty stones on the jewelry.

>>21288435
D) Try to come up with an idea of how to make the metal harder.
G) Send a group to the Lion Lords (they might have encountered some kind of harder metal and could give us ideas, also to discuss the structure of the joint military)
F) Build that fence.

>>21288496
They have no other metal besides copper

>>21288487
Should have been clearer there. I'm very sorry. It's the GRAIN that is causing the sickness. The fruit is sweet and good to eat, by all accounts.

we probably need to find tin to improve our metal working

F) build the pen
G) teach the lion tribe writing
A) search the hills near the lion tribe for any new resources, hopefully metals

>>21288514

also, we could search the hills and mountains to the north, if anyone thinks thats a better spot

>>21288508
I know, but we need them to come up with the idea that we need multiple metals.

Also, we still need military organization, so I say we go anyway.

Guys read the last thread we already taught the lion people our writing system I made sure of that last time.

>>21288509
Ah, that was my bad, well, we definitely need to look into this now. Now it's a serious threat. Just change my vote from fruit to grain, and seconding A) search the lion tribe hills. Might be something good, who knows.

Rolled 2, 5, 3 = 10

>>21288496
Seconding

>>21288537
Well if so, then let's go and propose the postal system. I'm sure they'll be happy to not have a whole band of diplomats come walking through their place every time we wanna talk.

>>21288588
THE POST MUST GO THROUGH

>>21288514
Thirded

>>21288689
Four-sted

>>21288704
We already taught them writing.

>>21288709

change the writing to the postal service thing

Rolled 6, 3, 1 = 10

>>21288727
This

>>21288727
Are new players allowed and if so 6 thd

>>21288745
Lets discuss military organization while we're there too.

The tribe sets to work on the pen for the deer again, this time managing to get the entire rudimentary structure built. For an animal pen, it is ridiculously high and strong, but it should do the job well!

A scout group sets out to explore the hills near the Lion Tribe. Despite vigorous and thorough searching, they are unable to find any new metals there, or any other source of copper. It seems the deposits near the Lion Tribe are the only ones nearby, though they should be sufficient for the tribe's needs.

A small group of the Wise Ones visit the Lion Tribe village with the proposal for a mailing system, but the idea is shot down almost immediately. The ideograms the tribes use are too cumbersome for any real correspondence, not enough of the tribes are interested in learning how to write and there is no real method of marking thing down, except charcoal on skins, which wastes a valuable resource and can very easily be lost to water damage or smudging, unless very carefully kept.

The bouts of illness from eating the harvest of grain continue, more of an annoyance than anything, but the sickness is unpleasant enough that no-one wants to eat the grain except when given no other choice.

Towards the end of the moon, storm clouds start to gather in the sky and thunder rolls out. Foul weather is nothing unusual, but for some reason, this storm sets everyone on edge. Tempers fray, the tribe keeps checking behind them as a feeling of unease creeps over everyone. The storm lasts nearly a full five days before abating, but the damage to everyone's spirits is done.

>>21288823
Turn Report

Population: 355 (138 elders and children)
Food: 8/15
Morale: 5/15

Known Food Sources: Depleted deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes
Known Resources: Tall timbers (5 days away), Clay (2 days away), Malachite (2 days away, over the river)
Technology: Copper spears and knives, advanced stone and wood tools, hide-working, fish-spears, clay pots, crude cold-weather clothes, basic rafts, serviceable bows, copper tools, hollow-log canoes, Copper scale jackets, basic plank shields, Crude carts
Science: Family wisdom, basic natural lore, crude wound care, basic food preservation, basic navigation, crude map-making, crude agriculture, the wheel, basic animal husbandry, natural medicine,
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, crude wooden palisade
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, Crude Instruments, Rough berry liqueur, Tribal Militia, Crude ideograms

Moon 10

Known Landmarks
A river beside the village
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Open grasslands
Distant mountains
Distant river

>>21288835
Action Points: THREE

A) Send out scouts (specify direction)
B) Send some hunters out to hunt game and catch fish
C) Gather resources (not food)
D) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
E) Hold a cultural event (specify)
F) Craft specific objects
G) Send envoys to another tribe
H) Other
I) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

>>21288842
I wanted to scout the northern hills, but we're in winter now, correct?

D) lets try and figure out whats wrong with the grain
I) lets see what the elders wanna do

>>21288842
I think it would be helpful to get jewelry one to give yeneth so that she can give us her gift and two too impress other tribes and give gifts.

C) malachite
H) have rina and the wise ones try and figure out what is wrong with the grains.
F) continue to build the animal pen

>>21288881
moons 10-12 are winter

>>21288895

thought so

>>21288842
D) Try and figure out what is wrong with the grain.
H) Commune with Groza and ask him if we were to go to war with the other tribe who he would support in the endeavor.
F) Animal pen

>>21288884
Second
And shame about the postal system. Guess we're still a long way way off.

>>21288936
Yeah, the pictograms are really simplistic. If we can find someone with better ones maybe we can improve more quickly (Our best bet is that super down river trading city)

>>21288936
Third

>>21288884


D. Figure out them grains if possible.
F. He deer enclosure
I. Lets get to rocking on what the elders think should be going on.

>>21288951
Something to write on and to write with too.

>>21289009
Pardon, the deer enclosure. Unnecessary post is corrective at the least.

>>21288951
Agreed. From what we've seen, the possibilities are endless there. We should really get down there and start talking about trade before the cold season come.

>>21289066
No doubt. I'm sure just through visiting we are sure to pick up something useful as far as information or technology and that is all the more reason to not declare war on them for no reason whatsoever.

>>21289188
Also Agreed.

>>21288895
Wait, so 7-9 are fall? I thought we were in summer now, I must be way off. And didn't we say we were going to have a festival with all the other tribes at the end of summer or spring or something? Or is that next year?

Might be a wild guess, but perhaps the tribe we just met might help us figure out what's wrong with our grain. After all, their deity is a harvest god, surely they can know more than us.

>>21289252
We will have a festival at the end of winter.

>>21289188
I'm not talking about the ones down river, I'm talking about the ones those guys trade with even farther down.

>>21289258
Sounds like a good guess to me. Perhaps we could even get Perwan, I think that was their harvest god, at some point. Who knows?

>>21289258
That's a great point. We will definitely have to come with something substantial to offer though.

>>21289293
After all, I've been playing this game for enough tome to know the shenanigans Brit's up to.

>>21289311
We could offer our writing, maybe? After all, it's not very dangerous to give something like this, it's not like we'd be giving military secrets.

Question to britfag
Did the boy we sent to the other tribe ever return?

>>21289311
That is why I want to give them the jewelry.

>>21289330
Possibly, though I'm not sure we should come there with just technology, as I said before, we don't know how advanced these people are yet, so maybe something like what Felix said before, jewelry, valuables.

>>21289330
Only down side to that idea is that they probably do have a more sophisticated writing style, honestly. One of the first things that trade brings about is the need of some form or writing to log transactions, stocks, etc as well as measurements, I'd imagine.

>>21289374
Kinda makes sense, since the dude seemed vain and all that.

>>21289402
Hey, vain or not, we know they sure do like shiny things.

The deer pen was already fully constructed last moon. The tribe spends this moon tending to the cows and conducting a few repairs on their pen.

A small group from the village head out to the copper despots near the Lion Tribe, returning with a few cartloads of malachite ore, though no-one was happy about working so far from home in the cold.

Rina is upstream at this time of year, tending to the needs of her goddess. When the tribe asks for he help and expertise, she surprises everyone by refusing! She claims that her knowledge would be of little use with regards to the crops and that she has been neglecting Chani and her shrine far too much lately. She hopes the tribe understands and grants her this time for her goddess.

The Wise Ones do their best to figure out the reason the grain has been causing problems. The idea comes to them in a flash of inspiration - the grain itself isn't bad, it just hasn't been prepared properly, like trying to eat a nut still in the shell, or meat without cooking it properly. They don't know what the right way might be and consider it best if the tribe in general finds out, as their experimentation is simply too small-scale for such a range of possibilities.

>>21289458
We need a morale boost.

>>21289364
Funny you should mention Mikuhla

>>21289458
The winter snows now lying upon the ground, the village has a slightly un-expected visitor! Clad in her usual black skins and with the copper arrowhead still around her neck, her snow-white hair streaming behind her like a miniature blizzard, Khoine, the goddess of snow, pays a visit to the tribe. She seems concerned however and the reason for this is abruptly made clear. "Where is Mikuhla?"

How will the tribe respond?
> Specifics, as always please.
A) The truth
B) Lie and say he's elsewhere
C) Lie and say he's gone
D) Refuse to say anything
E) Other

>>21289510
A) Tell her exactly where he has gone and tell her he will be back soon.

Also invite her in to spend some time with our Elders, tell her stories of our village and what not. Make her feel welcome.

>>21289522
Second

>>21289481
we could try and wait out the winter for the festival with the other tribes. I remember when I first started we honored Hrunti and held a hunt for a hibernating bear.

>>21289510
We need to think about this before we answer being that mikuhla is the one that talked her down could this make her emotional again.

>>21289522
Thirded.

"We know this won't be easy to accept, but as part of our bargain with the Sun Goddess Mikuhla had to travel and visit another tribe to learn their ways. He won't be gone for long, I assure you, but remember the embrace you two shared when first you met. How gentle and welcoming it was. The joy of finally being free to walk and talk amongst people who desire your friendship without hurting them. Were it not for the Sun Goddess and her necklace, which you still wear, none of it would have been possible. While it does not help the pain of your separation, know that you are still welcome here with open arms and that he will return before much longer and the two of you will be together again."

>>21289624
I figured a little bit of fluff might make her not go into a rage and bring about a horrible blizzard again out of despair.

>>21289624
I like it. That's some damn good fluff.

>>21289624
> THIS kind of fluff is what I like to see! May not work, but still, this is the kind of stuff that can turn a potentially bad outcome into something good.

Khoine is shocked by the news of Mikuhla's departure and weeps bitterly at the news. Between her sobs, she chokes out that she didn't even get a chance to say goodbye. Without a shrine, it seems, she can only walk the land while there is snow on the ground. When no-one is able to tell her precisely when Mikuhla may return, she leaves in a hurry, running off into the wilderness as a slow, steady snow starts to fall on the village. The lookout at the top of the tower reports a great cloud of snow, howling like a blizzard, speeding away at a great pace. At a guess, the tribe presumes that Khoine has left to seek out Mikuhla.

>>21289788
Turn Report

Population: 355 (138 elders and children)
Food: 7/15
Morale: 5/15

Known Food Sources: Depleted deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes
Known Resources: Tall timbers (5 days away), Clay (2 days away), Malachite (2 days away, over the river)
Technology: Copper spears and knives, advanced stone and wood tools, hide-working, fish-spears, clay pots, crude cold-weather clothes, basic rafts, serviceable bows, copper tools, hollow-log canoes, Copper scale jackets, basic plank shields, Crude carts
Science: Family wisdom, basic natural lore, crude wound care, basic food preservation, basic navigation, crude map-making, crude agriculture, the wheel, basic animal husbandry, natural medicine,
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, crude wooden palisade
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, Crude Instruments, Rough berry liqueur, Tribal Militia, Crude ideograms

Moon 11

Known Landmarks
A river beside the village
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Open grasslands
Distant mountains
Distant river

>>21289796
Action Points: THREE

A) Send out scouts (specify direction)
B) Send some hunters out to hunt game and catch fish
C) Gather resources (not food)
D) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
E) Hold a cultural event (specify)
F) Craft specific objects
G) Send envoys to another tribe
H) Other
I) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

>>21289801
C. Whatever resources we need for F.
F. Perhaps we should work on a temple for Khione. If for no other reason so that as soon as Mikuhla returns we can tell her and she can come visit then and there.
H. Have the villagers experiment with the grain. And tell them to eat what they make. Winter is not a time for waste!

>>21289801
D) find out how to make jewelry out of copper.
D)find out different ways to eat the grains
F) build a shrine for khione

>>21289829
For the grain I suggest we boil it, that method retains the most nutrients and will make them palatable. Along with some meat and such, it's stew time!

>>21289841
I second this.

Is that every one.

>>21289841
Second

>>21289841
Thirded, we really need to build that shrine

>>21290004
Four-sted

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> Technically, the grains would be a cultural thing, but I suppose it's not that obvious, so I'll let it slide.

After some intense experimentation, the tribe finally manages a way to make the grains palatable! It's laborious as anything, but first they need to be peeled of their skins, then mashed flat and allowed to dry. It takes a whole moon before this is hit upon, simply due to the time involved. Once they're ready, they can be boiled into a thick mixture that, while not particularly tasty, is perfectly edible.

With little else to do, a few of the tribe set to work making small trinkets from copper. The medallions they make and thread onto strings of animal sinew flash in the light and look very pretty, so are prized by the tribe.

Feeling sorry for Khoine, some others of the tribe take some of the stored wood and start to put together a rudimentary shrine for her within the village. Lacking the goddess herself however, or any priest to guide them, the building is little more than a small altar with a roof to keep the snow off. At least, due to its simple design, it is done within one moon.

>>21290322
Turn Report

Population: 355 (138 elders and children)
Food: 6/15
Morale: 5/15

Known Food Sources: Depleted deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes
Known Resources: Tall timbers (5 days away), Clay (2 days away), Malachite (2 days away, over the river)
Technology: Copper spears and knives, advanced stone and wood tools, hide-working, fish-spears, clay pots, crude cold-weather clothes, basic rafts, serviceable bows, copper tools, hollow-log canoes, Copper scale jackets, basic plank shields, Crude carts
Science: Family wisdom, basic natural lore, crude wound care, basic food preservation, basic navigation, crude map-making, crude agriculture, the wheel, basic animal husbandry, natural medicine,
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, crude wooden palisade
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, crude instruments, rough berry liqueur, tribal militia, crude ideograms, primitive copper trinkets

Moon 11

Known Landmarks
A river beside the village
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Open grasslands
Distant mountains
Distant river

>>21290343
Aaaand I think we'll leave it there for tonight... Huh; I don't feel like we've got too much done, but the thread's certainly longer than some we've had. Maybe it was the lack of arguments today? Not that I mind discussion, of course. To be honest, I'm loving watching everyone argue out their course of action and fall unwittingly into my traps!

I hope you all enjoyed tonight and look forward to seeing you all again next time! The next thread will be on Saturday, at 1630 EST. Have a good one ladies and gents. Are there any questions before I go?

>>21290381
Nope nighty night.

>>21290381
so long and thanks for all the fish