>>24281541
I'm here.

>>24281541
Evening.

>>24281541
Good evening

>>24281541
And I'm here. Ever the late arrival, I am.

>>24282469
Also, remember gents, granary today. We need it because out food loss is ridiculous. I'd suggest building it this turn since next turn will be winter and our tribesmen are little girls about the deep freeze situation.

>>24282512
There are other ways to mitigate food loss, you know. For example, more preservation sciences.

Turn Report for moon 8

Population: 537 (141 elders and children)
Food: Low (Meat EXHAUSTED, Fruit EXHAUSTED, Vegetables low)
Morale: 5/16

Known Food Sources: Average deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes, forest foods,
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, fish traps, baskets
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, rough calendar, crude measurement, basic apiary
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, stone fire-pits, crude ditch-and-wall palisades, half-timber defensive walls
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, crude instruments, rough berry liquor, tribal militia, crude ideograms, primitive copper trinkets, crude clay writing tablets, clay wall-tiles, domesticated wolves

Ongoing projects: Researching stone walls (8 turns in)...

New turn: Moon 9

Known Landmarks
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Natural quarry

>>24282565
EVENT
The salmon run is still ongoing

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) Gather wild food in the forest
E) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
F) Hold a cultural event (specify)
G) Craft specific objects
H) Send envoys to another tribe
I) Other
J) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

I am here.

>>24282581
B. Hunt and Fish with Derrik and Rina. Again.

E. Wise ones into that masonry tech.

G. Granary. We need a proper place to store our food to prevent rampant decay. Yes, sirs.

>>24282652
Seconding

>>24282652
Seconding this.

>>24282652
Rina and Derrik both agree to assist the tribe once more, knowing how winter is on its way and the tribe will need all the supplies they can gather. Together, they manage to bring in an almost excessive amount of food for the tribe.

The wise ones return to, once again, attempting to make some headway with their research into using stone to build. Their progress is still almost at a standstill.

Realising how little headway they are making, some of the tribe's wise ones split their attention and instead focus on a more immediate problem; keeping food safe and free from vermin and rot. They believe that, given a little more time, they can concoct a design for a dedicated storage building, that should cut back on waste, particularly for grains.

>>24283383
I think we should focus research on the food preservation and granary for right now.

>>24283467
I concur, sir.

>>24283467
Would it be wise to focus on more intellectual development during the winter? As mentioned, we know the tribe are bitches about going outside, and they would probably get more head way made into stuff like maths, which could in turn help with some of the masonry problems we have.

>>24283566
Yea, winter is the perfect time for staying at home and doing some homework.

>>24283608
Yeah, now that we have performed a trade action ourselves, we have the basis for math too. Extremely valid point.

>>24283636
Valid point Josh! So many Valid points already.

>>24283873
Gtfo of Britfag's thread.

>>24283873
Lold.
Wrong thread buddy?

EVENT
Just as the entire tribe thinks Gerin and the devouts are gone for good, the warriors make a sudden return! Just as the first few flakes of snow start drifting down from the sky, Gerrin and Sallina and most, though not all, of the devouts return to the village. They immediately set themselves apart from their families, taking timber, tools and clay from the village's supplies (leaving the reserves of lumber and clay rather low) and starting to build a small longhall, near the site of Groza's shrine. Though they do not act distant from their families, it is clear to all that they are much closer to one another now, than to the village.

>>24284086
Great, now we have a religious sect.

>>24284086
Turn Report for moon 9

Population: 537 (141 elders and children)
Food: Abundant (Meat VERY LOW, Vegetables VERY LOW)
Morale: 5/16

Known Food Sources: Average deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes, forest foods,
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, fish traps, baskets
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, rough calendar, crude measurement, basic apiary
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, stone fire-pits, crude ditch-and-wall palisades, half-timber defensive walls
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, crude instruments, rough berry liquor, tribal militia, crude ideograms, primitive copper trinkets, crude clay writing tablets, clay wall-tiles, domesticated wolves

Ongoing projects: Researching stone walls (9 turns in)...

New turn: Moon 10

Known Landmarks
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Natural quarry

>>24284143
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) Gather wild food in the forest
E) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
F) Hold a cultural event (specify)
G) Craft specific objects
H) Send envoys to another tribe
I) Other
J) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

>>24284158
E. Wise ones look into the science of food preservation.

F. Announce the start of a new festival around the Goddess of Winter Khione. Winter shall now be a time of reverence for the many things that have happened to our tribe in the past year and hope for the future.

The hope is that the expanded Priesthood of Khione will go amongst the less fortunate of ours and neighboring tribes and offer assistance during the cold, hard months of winter.

G. Craft the food preservation hut.

>>24284270
Secondiiing. Too bad we don't have the scientific method yet.

>>24284158
Looks like Gerin and the Devouts made it back just in time for Khoinemas!

F)The time has come for a new holiday. A holiday of love. A holiday of snow. A holiday of fertility. A holiday of cheer. A holiday of spirit. This time of year is the time for all the tribe to come together and realize that they are one people. Have the Priesthood go around and help those less fortunate. Encourage others to give gifts to their loved ones.

E.) Food preservation.

G.) Granary.

>>24284310
Seconding for Khoinemas

>>24284270
Second.

I suggest we encourage practice with the bows, we could do with at least a few archers. It would certainly help with the Bear hunting. We do need to improve the bows, but if we have people training with them, it will help when we want to improve them.

>>24284270
I'd like to clarify that we need to get in contact with the other tribes about sending our Priests into their village and such. This first celebration is more for planning than actual implementation. A feast will still be held and all of that good stuff, but we only have one priest of Khione so this year will be our recruitment and training year for the new acolytes. With next year actually being the first year we provide assistance to outside tribes.

This year we focus on ourselves, as it were.

Also, be sure to make it well known that Khoine is a welcome appearance at the feast. To Khoine we gifted a name, and in this time of thanks and forgiveness we wish to express our great sorrow at the loss of Svell

>>24284705
Good catch. I think Khione would be rather pleased to have her priesthood set up to help others through hard times and her blessing would go a long way towards legitimizing our ideas of turning her into a sort of Red Snowflake type of charity.

Hey there, just wanted to ask whether it would be possible to take an active part of if the playerbase is already set. (Sorry for disturbing the game)

>>24285003
Feel free to join, champ. New players are always welcome. I will warn you, however, that sometimes this moves a bit "slow."

And by slow I mean really slow.

>>24285003

Yeah man, head on in!

>>24285003
No worries. There's always room for more! Just join the Mibbit, or not. Folks will be happy to fill you in, but you should be able to pick up current affairs, if not the history of the tribe, fairly quickly.

>>24284270
The wise ones start their work on looking into food preservation and a better storage hut for the village's food. While there are no breakthroughs this moon, they feel they are very close to something significant.

The tribe also announces the Snowstouch festival! Named as such in honour of Khoine, the goddess of snow, the tribe is encouraged to give thanks and remembrance for the year past and to embrace hope for the year ahead, symbolised by the first snowfall. Knowing that the tribe is stronger together than apart, the festival is also a time of community and giving and there is much talk of sending aid to other tribes suffering in the winter. For now though, the festival is only local. Much good food is cooked, fires lit, songs sung and spirits are raised by the slightly more quiet and family-centred festival.

>>24285260
Turn Report for moon 10

Population: 537 (141 elders and children)
Food: Sufficient (Meat CRITICAL, Vegetables VERY LOW)
Morale: 7/16

Known Food Sources: Average deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes, forest foods,
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, fish traps, baskets
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, rough calendar, crude measurement, basic apiary
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, stone fire-pits, crude ditch-and-wall palisades, half-timber defensive walls
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, crude instruments, rough berry liquor, tribal militia, crude ideograms, primitive copper trinkets, crude clay writing tablets, clay wall-tiles, domesticated wolves

Ongoing projects: Researching stone walls (9 turns in)...
Food preservation (1 turn in…)
Better food storage (1 turn in…)

New turn: Moon 11

Known Landmarks
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Natural quarry

>>24285301
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) Gather wild food in the forest
E) Have your wise ones try to solve a problem
F) Hold a cultural event (specify)
G) Craft specific objects
H) Send envoys to another tribe
I) Other
J) Ask the elders for advice (No cost)

>>24285310
E. Continue food preservation.

G. Continue that food storage facility.

I. Expand our priesthoods Any which need expansion, that is. Especially Khione's since it will soon have a new role that will require more than single person to administer.

Also, ask Gerin about their journey and their extended stay in the wilds. Inquire as to what they found out there.

>>24285490
>Expand our priesthoods Any which need expansion, that is.
I think somebody should elaborate that a bit. I feel this is just asking for trouble.

Otherwise seconded.

>>24285490
Seconded.

>>24285490
Seconding everything all the way

>>24285490
>>24285511

Second. In terms of the priest hood we should have an apprentice system.

>>24285511
As I said earlier, the priests need specific roles. Please refer to my post in the last thread Or was it the one before that? for more information. Actually, let me go dig the post up and get back to you on that.

>>24285564
So as far as priesthood goes, we should begin establishing roles for the various temples and religions. Obviously, Groza is going to have the reigns in Warfare. Chani's priests are the Diplomats of the Riverlands, as well as the healers. Hrunti's priests are wise of the forest and of nature, and skilled in hunting all prey, man or beast. Think assassin druids with little powers

Yeneth's priests spread the love, officiating marriages and operating passion houses. Perwan's priests farm the lands and provide the tribe with food. Ermetha, as the Sun-In-Ascent, will take charge of those warriors wishing to rise to power through divinity. Think paladins of Pelor Marnath is the Sun-In-Descent, and his priests are the loremasters and guides to the more subtle magics of the Sun. Now think Clerics

I'm not sure what to do with Khoine though. Maybe her priesthood would act much like Marnath's, only dealing with Winter instead of Sunlight.

>>24285511
I do believe we have a couple deities that only have a single priest or priestess. I meant with this option that we could ensure that in the eventuality that one of them dies, we don't need to train a new replacement from the ground up.

As we ask them to do more and more within our village, it only makes sense that we expand them a bit to meet demands and such to both the village and their respective gods.

I.E. Khione and Chani's priesthoods. They take on pretty good sized roles, or will, so expanding them makes sense.

>>24285551
This, yeah, an apprentice system. Not a full fledged priest.

>>24285593
I would change Chani to Khoine. Chani's priesthood can be used for healing.

>>24285608
Also, due to recent information, we shouldn't expand the Devouts for a while. They can replenish their numbers back up to 32 to make up for their losses during their pilgrimage, but no more than that for the time being.

As they do not hunt/fish/build anything, their continued expansion past their current 32 is becoming a burden to our tribe.

>>24285635
>Khoine
She makes sense because we turned her priesthood into the salvation army, so they will probably be adept at spreading good relations.

Although Yeneth has something going for her as well.

>>24285490
The wise ones make a great breakthrough! First, they find a few pieces of fruit that were dipped in honey during fall, have hardly decayed at all and are, in fact, a lot tastier; this leads them on the path to basic honey preservation!
>Honey preservation is not suitable for all foods, but lowers loss due to decay slightly.
Second, the wise ones come up with a novel idea for a granary, protected from the elements and constructed largely of pottery. Food inside will be kept dry and largely safe from vermin and should lead to it lasting a lot longer!
>The tribe can now construct granaries!

With the tribe enquiring regarding new apprentices to the priesthood, Yeneth's priestess, Naveen, agrees to look for an apprentice to teach the ways of her goddess. Likewise, Rina agrees it is time to look for a young protégée as well. Gerin nods and simply says that he will find his own successor, in time. Derrik has, of course, already chosen his trainees. Mikuhla, meanwhile, happily agrees to chose apprentices, to teach the ways of Ermetha and Marnath; he seems quite eager at the idea, in fact! Khoine's young priestess almost instantly inducts her two closest friends into the service of the snow goddess.

>>24286186
Turn Report for moon 11

Population: 508 (135 elders and children)
Food: Low (Grains low, Meat CRITICAL, Vegetables CRITICAL)
Morale: 7/16

Known Food Sources: Average deer herd, fishing river, wild fruit trees and bushes, forest foods,
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, fish traps, baskets
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, rough calendar, crude measurement, basic apiary, honey preservatives
Architecture: Turf-roof huts, basic carpentry, stone fire-pits, crude ditch-and-wall palisades, half-timber defensive walls, basic granaries
Civil: Family Houses
Culture: Family stories, bone trinkets, heroic reverence, spirit worship, crude instruments, rough berry liquor, tribal militia, crude ideograms, primitive copper trinkets, crude clay writing tablets, clay wall-tiles, domesticated wolves

Ongoing projects: Researching stone walls (9 turns in)...

New turn: Moon 12

Known Landmarks
Rapids downstream
Flowing fruit tree glade
Berry bush thicket
Wolf Oak
Natural quarry

>>24286291
We need to focus on maths on Thursday, I am certain it will help with the stone wall.

>>24286291
And I am afraid, that will have to be all for this evening. I have an early morning.

I hope you all enjoyed the thread today, as every day. Here's to many more in the future! The next thread is at 1600EST, on Thursday 18th.

I hope you all have a good week and hope to see you there!

>>24286454
Wonderful thread as always. See ya on thursday.