>>1746469
>>Greener forest.
Deutschland über alles.

>>1746469
>>Greener forest.

SELL HONEY. MAKE MONEY.

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>German forest

You find yourself within another forest, this one greener, with more life all around you. Bees and other insects buzz all around you in this much more mellow atmosphere, and you even catch a glimpse of a deer grazing in the distance. You're not here to hunt yet, however.

Once again settling down your belongings and tying up your herd, you scope out a small clearing to build your cabin, and an area adjacent where you'll construct your temporary dwelling.

You're a burly man, and were able to carry everything all this way, so you estimate it shouldn't take you more than a day or so to get your dwelling going, and no more than a week tops to build up a respectable one-room cabin. There is ample wood all around you, but if you desire sturdier or less accessible materials such as stone, bricks, or thatch, you may have to venture out a bit.

Letting the herd graze and finding some suitable branches, you begin to plant makeshift frame for the small mud hut that you will live in the next few days, and think back to the home you left.

>From a wandering tribe, you were born with an independent spirit and had just decided you would settle down somewhere. Mostly alone and in the woods, your 'town' was wherever you all stayed for more than a few weeks.

>Lured by the nearby Romans in Augusta Vindelicorum, you've decided there's a niche to be filled as an economic medium between the fledgling Roman settlements, and the tribes back in Germania. Maybe you just want to be more 'civilized,' or perhaps just want to get closer to the action.

>With a grant from your Lord, you are allowed to settle this land. With enough ambition, maybe your little plot could eventually grow into a thriving Free City within the Holy Roman Empire.

>The Italian city-states have kick-started an age of commerce and wealth. You've struck out on your own to bring this wealth to your part of the greater German region.

>Factories, and industrialization have hit almost all cities in Germany. It might be hard to compete with the new German economic efficiency in the cities, but you've nonetheless decided you want to live on your own.

>>1746703
>The Italian city-states have kick-started an age of commerce and wealth. You've struck out on your own to bring this wealth to your part of the greater German region.

>>1746703
Wait OP I'm reading

>>1746703
>From a wandering tribe
We going to start from the past. Near the Rhine river

>>1746703
>From a wandering tribe, you were born with an independent spirit and had just decided you would settle down somewhere. Mostly alone and in the woods, your 'town' was wherever you all stayed for more than a few weeks.

I'll wait until the top of the hour on the off chance there are a few lurkers who would throw their lot in, then start writing.

>Roman times

More action possible

>>1746789
If I knew you were doing a quest, I would have picked fantasy world.

But as a tribe starting early, we have more of a impact of the future. Hell if we get all the redheads we can. We can make Germany have more redheads in the future.

>>1746793
It's not a civ quest, you're one guy. You can have kids and potentially take their place later.

>>1746795
That's the point. We're one guy, but our actions can change the whole future. I like the idea of being our kids once we are kill.

Also did you ever do quests before this? Since I remember a Baltic tribe one.

>>1746800
I did one before and it got off to a good start but i tried to kms so that put an end to it

>>1746703
From a wandering tribe, you were born with an independent spirit and had just decided you would settle down somewhere. Mostly alone and in the woods, your 'town' was wherever you all stayed for more than a few weeks.

>>1746803
>I tried to kms so that put an end to it
Seems like a common problem with OPs these days. NEET quest, went off to a great start with us being a NEET but wanted to do change. We sold our shit, and was heading to Montana then, OP say he was killing himself and that was the end of the quest.

>>1746806
that was me. i ended up in a ward for two days, i'd rather nor discuss it now though hehelol. writing now.

>>1746809
Kek. Well seems like it's a small world. I was the anon that made the first post of learning German.

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>From a wandering tribe

Originally from the far northeastern corner of Germania, your lot had made its way west to the Rhine, where you had made your departure. With your tribe's blessing, you had departed for greener pastures, to be fruitful and perhaps father your own people. Right now, however, aside from your

>1

"herd" of only two runtish goats, you are alone.

Lost in thought, the days work goes by quickly. You stand back and look at your new dwelling for the next few days, to keep the elements and beasts out. Perhaps once you've established your home, you may move your livestock in, pitiful as they may be. For now, they graze as the sun sets, and you are left contemplating your next move for the following week.

Building the first room of your home sounds like the most logical step, but if all goes well you may have time for some other actions.

>Explore
>Hunt
>Till land for
>Beets
>Wheat
>Write-in

>>1746814
>>Explore
Let's get the laid of the land, to know if their is a water source nearly. A river or a steam, maybe the Rhine river is near us.

Whoops, and I forgot, best of three 1d20's

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>1746817
No d100?

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>>1746819
>20

>>1746819
Yes
>>1746814
>Explore

>>1746814
>>Explore

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>1746817

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>Explore, 20

Working vigorously, the first room of your cabin only takes you the lesser part of three days. Tree stumps litter the newly created field around you, and you have yet an ample supply of logs left over for any other woodworking or construction endeavors you may find yourself up to.

>Completed Cabin
>Gained 6 logs!

You'd stacked them neatly against your new home, then set out to explore the land around you. A quick walk to your west, lo, and behold, the Rhine river. You're settled right on a bend, and actually see an island settled in the center of the water.

A bit to the south, and the forest becomes almost swarmed with bees. There may be bears or wolves lurking about.

Back where you came from in the east, you take a different trail and come across bushes full of dark blue berries. They taste great, and you make sure to carefully cut a few bundles for planting. You could perhaps even come back later, uproot an entire bush or two, and move it. Skip the whole growing process, and maybe it would work?

>Gained three blueberry branches

Going back to the river, you followed it north. The sound of horns and marching was audible, and you decided to turn back. Best not to make yourself known to whoever dwells in these parts without further thought.

Coming back home, the two little goats had moved into your old place, and you swear you heard them getting it on in the middle of the night.

A productive week.

Right now, your home is a great start, but rather barren. Spend the week:

>Building furniture
>Explore up the river, interact with the tribe.
>Try and get those berry bushes moved here
>Try and harness the bees
>Hunt
>Till the land for
>a. beets
>b. wheat
>Build the next part of your home.
>Look for a wife
>Explore across the river
>Fish
>Write-in, anything goes

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>1746829
>Move one blue berry bush. And use the rest to plant them near our land.
Don't take long so
>Till land for beets
Last
>Fish

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1746829
>Try and harness the bees

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>1746833
Support

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>1746833
Sure

>>1746834
Honey would be great, but don't feed us through the winter. Once we have a farm set up

>>1746829
>>Building furniture
make us a bed

gn op

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>Bush, beets, fish, 17

Successfully finding your way back to the bushes, you spend awhile uprooting one, and snipping off the healthier looking branches of some others. Making your way back home, you quickly plop it into a hole you had made for it, filling in the soil around its roots. It looks like it won't die, luckily.

You plant the rest of your branches around this one bush, totaling five in all. It'll take a long time for them to grow, but hopefully the pay-off shall be worth it. You can always go back and collect more bushes, anyways. As you recall, there are three or four left in that clearing, some better looking than the others.

There is not much of a point in a homestead without crops, so you get set on planting some of the seeds from the beets you had brought with you. It takes awhile, but is worth it when you look at your field. They will take ten weeks to reach maturity. Hunting, fishing, gathering, and your current stock will have to sustain you until then.

Finally, you spend the last two days of the week fishing. Wading into the shallows of the Rhine, you had perched, for hours, spear-ready, waiting for fish to swim by your feet.

>Gained four fish. 13lbs total.

Another productive week.

Food: You are only maintaining yourself right now. 15lbs is eaten a week, distributed evenly among your stock in the most efficient manner possible unless you specify otherwise. Fish and meat must be preserved to last more than a few days.

Your assets:
>15lbs fish
>20lbs dried meat, fruit, vegetables
>6 logs
>The tools and means to carry about most survivalist tasks.

Fields:
>Blueberry bush, ripe and ready to harvest.
>5 Blueberry bushes growing, five years til maturity.
>Field of beets, 10 weeks til maturity.


Actions:

>Building furniture
>Build a fire for smoking meat and fish
>Explore up the river, interact with the tribe.
>Move the rest of the bushes
>Try and harness the bees
>Hunt
>Till the land for
>a. wheat
>Build the next part of your home.
>Look for a wife
>Explore across the river
>Fish
>Write-in, anything goes

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>1746845
>Building furniture
>Build a fire for smoking meat and fish
>Move the rest of the bushes

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>1746845
>Build a fire for smoking meat and fish

>>1746845
How many actions are we allowed? Or it's just more actions more time passes?
Also how old are we?

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>1746845
>Move the rest of the bushes

>>1746846
Supporting

>>1746848
Each turn is one week, but you may specify to take a fortnight, month, or season for certain actions in the future, depending on how macro or micro y'all want to play things out.

You may take as many actions as you would like, but their success and effectiveness is to be determined by your roll, and the amount of other actions. If you spent the entire week fishing, you would have wound up with potentially fifty or sixty pounds of fish instead of fifteen, for example.

You're in your late twenties.This is before modern medicine, but that shouldn't matter as long as you don't get bitten by a bear or something hehelol

>>1746851
We're going to stay away from that honey, and combat if we want to live to our 60s

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>Furniture, fire, bushes

First thing's first, which is to get a fire started for smoking your fish, and any other meat you acquire later. Starting the fire takes barely any time at all, but fashioning a sturdy setup you won't have to reset every day takes about most of a day.

>Gained Smoking Fire

It will take years for the bushes to mature, so the earlier you move them the better. Getting all of them takes about a day and a half of steady, hard work, marching back and forth between your site and the now empty place they once resided.

>Three more mature blueberry bushes planted

Finally, you get set on furnishing your home. Taking the rest of the week, you construct a bedframe, a table, two chairs, a sturdier door, and a bench outside by the fire. Finding material soft yet sturdy enough for your bed was nigh impossible. You'll need animal hides or cloth to make it much better than sleeping on the floor.

>Gained furniture

Your assets:
>15lbs fish
>20lbs dried meat, fruit, vegetables
>6 logs
>The tools and means to carry about most survivalist tasks.

Fields:
>Blueberry bush, ripe and ready to harvest.
>5 Blueberry bushes growing, five years til maturity.
>Field of beets, 10 weeks til maturity.

Your assets:
>15lbs fish
>20lbs dried meat, fruit, vegetables
>6 logs
>The tools and means to carry about most survivalist tasks.

Fields:
>Four blueberry bushes, ripe and ready to harvest.
>5 Blueberry bushes growing, 5 years til maturity.
>Field of beets, 9 weeks til maturity.


Actions:

>Explore up the river, interact with the tribe.
>Move the rest of the bushes
>Try and harness the bees
>Hunt
>Till the land for
>a. wheat
>Build the next part of your home.
>Look for a wife
>Explore across the river
>Fish
>Write-in, anything goes


Will be back tomorrow, thanks for playing so far lads.

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>1746857
I had fun. Just make sure you timefame when your going to be on, and the timezone, since our morning and nights are different.

>>1746857
>Till the land for Wheat
>Hunt Deer
>Move the rest of the bushes
>Make Soft Bedding from Deer Skin
Is all the bushes gone? Or not?

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>1746857
>Hunr

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>1746857
>Build Home

>>1746862
Changing vote

Supporting this
>>1746860

>>1746857
GN OP

>>1746857
I'd like to find some dogs for hunting and self defence. They'd be a great warning system if the neighboring tribe tried to crack open our skull while we sleep to steal our shit.

>>1746868
No dogs will be in the area only wolves. Maybe the tribe was dogs. With the tribe we should give them a gift of deer meat as a sign of well being.

Deer weights like 200 lb easy so giving some as a gift will be okay. We need lots of food for the winter.

>>1746809
>NeetM
Well fuck man, glad you're still with us. Thanks for running another game. This one is looking like it's going to shape up to be pretty great too
>>1746860
Supporting this. We should get our bases covered agriculturally, and make sure we've got enough smoked meat to last us. Expanding and improving our home next turn should also be a good idea. Hopefully we can eventually develop a bit of a cellar for better storage

>>1746860
>>1746857
Supporting

>>1746857
>>Hunt
An island on the Rhine... We actually might be pretty close to where I live IRL.

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I will be updating periodically across the day, and have made a pastebin with relevant information to keep everything a bit more clutter-free.
https://pastebin.com/cENh1vRR

>16. Plant wheat, hunt, make bedding, build.

>Wheat 16 - 4 = 12

Farming will be a necessity in order to save yourself time from hunting and fishing. As such, you begin tilling the land next to your beet field, this time for wheat. It's not a simple to grow as beets, and you find that measuring the distance between seeds, and accounting for all the factors of growth you know of takes up more time than perhaps it should. The work is hard, but as the third day passes, you are able to stand back and admire your handiwork.

>Gained 10 Farming & Wheat XP

>16 - 4 = 12. Build.

You get the idea of digging a bit of a cellar within the cool earth to keep your perishables from expiring before you can smoke them. You will be hunting soon anyways, and your almost fish-only diet the past week was quite uncomfortable. Digging next to your cabin until you reach the tough, compact ground a few feet under, you saw some of your logs into planks and construct a simple cellar door that should keep most noisy animals out.

>Gained Cellar, 20 Construction and Carpentry XP
>Lost six logs.


>16 - 4 = 12. Hunt Deer

Finally, you grab your bow and arrows, and set out into the forest to secure your immediate hunger needs. Just one deer could keep you satiated for weeks. Making your way out to the center of the forest about a mile away, you sit and wait in a tree. The sun goes down, you fall asleep, and are awoken by the rustling of some leaves just barely any distance from your perch. A doe and her fawn now graze quietly.

>Shoot the doe
>Shoot the fawn
>Write-in

1d20

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>1748360

>>1748360
>>>Shoot the doe
If we can bag the doe, the fawn will follow us, so we can raise it.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>1748360
Shoot the doe

>>1748360
>Shoot the doe

Only if the Faun looks older than 4-5 months. As before then it needs milk and thus will die without it's mother.

It's better if so, to kill the Faun and spare the mother. Since that maintains the population.


>>1748375
Unlikely but we should limit our effect on the environment where possible and beneficial.

>>1748385
No fawn baby raising :(

>>1748385
1d20 fampai

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>1748360
Doe

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>1748360
>Shoot the fawn
Babies are yummier.

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>Shoot the Doe, 8 - 4 = 4

Distracted by the thought of how cute that baby deer is and how you'd just LOVE to raise it, you accidentally let loose your bowstring too early, and the arrow falls short. Whoops.

>Gained 5 Archery and Ranged XP

The doe is panicked, and sprints away followed close behind by her fawn.

Maybe you can catch up with them?

>Chase
>Give up the hunt

Roll 1d20

**Hunts differentiate from fishing and farming substantially in how they function**

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1748417
>>Chase

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>1748417
>Chase
Humans can out last a deer or any animal.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>1748417
>>Chase

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>18 - 4 = 14. Chase

Leaping down from your tree, you sprint after the deer, determined not to let them get away. After a minute of running, you can hear them again, and seconds later they're visible, having bursted into an open clearing. You have another chance to make a shot, it might be your last.

1D20

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>1748448
Gotta catch them all

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1748448
Nat 20

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>16 - 4 = 12 SHOOT!!

With a sick nasty tactical roll, you draw back your bowstring with your full bodyweight, and the arrow flies across the field, nailing the doe in her hind leg. She's limping, frantically trying to escape, the fawn pacing around not knowing whether to run or stay with his mother.

>Gained 14 Archery & Ranged XP

They go into the treeline, but you're able to follow the heavy footprints and pants of the doe. Eventually, you reach her, collapsed on the ground, moaning, her fawn looking up fearfully at you.

You're quite a ways from your home, but you could probably carry them both back in two long trips, assuming a predator doesn't feast from one in your absence.

>Kill the fawn and doe
>Just the doe
>Write-in

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>1748448

>>1748486
>>Just the doe
Led the Fawn with us using some rope.

>>1748497
Agreed

>>1748486
>Kill the fawn and doe
I wanna raise the fawn, and thus avoid bullying, but as smart as we seem to be, domesticating a deer seems pretty time-consuming, especially after murdering it's mother in front of it. They're stupid as shit, and this one's gonna have some serious trauma, assuming it's even old enough to give it greens

Better to put the thing out of its misery and make good use of it than to have it suffer

>>1748572
Killing it right now causes us two long trips in which wolves can come to eat one of them. Killing the Doe and bringing the Fawn back home alive. Is only one trip. And when we're home we can kill her or not

>>1748606
Sheeeit, hadn't thought of that. you's is smart, anon.
>>1748497
supporting this now

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>1748606
Yeah this.

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>Lead the fawn, kill the doe

Fastening some rope around the fearful fawn's neck, you leash him to a tree as you gut his mother. By the time you're done, a neat pile of internal organs and bloody guts are beside you, and you're left with a 200lb carcass to drag home.

It's extremely awkward both physically and mentally to both lead the fawn and drag the 200lb corpse of his mother the mile and a half you've traveled, but eventually you make it back home with a bit of daylight left.

You again tie the poor fawn to a tree, and bring him some water in a bucket from the river, which he only laps down once you turn your back.

Having moved the deer's carcass into your cellar, you drag in the table from your house and begin the process of butchering it, piling fresh cuts on top of each other. When you're done, you have

>145lbs venison
>Live fawn

You also are unsure if you were followed during your trip. You discovered bear tracks on your way back to the fawn.

Actions for the week:

>Smoke the meat
>Decide what to do with the fawn
>Find a wife
>Clear more trees
>Make contact with the tribe up the river
>Go fishing
>Build something?
>a. target range
>b. another room
>c. more furniture
>d. improve the cellar
>e. improve the smoke fire
>write-in

>>1748661
>Decide what to do with the fawn
>Smoke the meat
>Make contact with the tribe up the river

>>1748661
>he
Yeah we don't need a Male Fawn. If it was female it would have been a different story,

How much does it eat, Since I want to trade it with the Tribe.
>Decide what to do with the fawn
>Make contact with the tribe up the river
Bring the Fawn with us as a gift.
>Smoke the meat


>>1748688
I say we should give the Fawn to the Tribe, as we're friend and they don't kill us at night.

>>1748695
Why would they want a Faun? Also it took us awhile to move it a mile and a half, god help us moving it to the tribe anytime soon.

>>1748714
I don't want a male Faun. It can be a good gift to the tribe, to not kill us on sight. It was hard since we needed to drag that 200 lb deer.

With that 145 lbs of Venison we can last for like 10 weeks just on the meat.

>>1748661
>smoke the meat
>kill the fawn
>make contact with tribe, bring smoked meat as a gift
>see if we can't at least keep the hide from spoiling
Little guy isn't good for much, and he's really gonna be a hassle to do much of anything other than eat.

Hey QM, how oogabooga are we? Our tools are stone, right?

>>1748733
Why would our tribe kill us on sight?

>>1748743
You're not that oogabooga. At this time, Rome is a small city-state, and you're a part of the early germanic migration. Celts are still populous all over central Europe, and they had metal tools, to give you an idea.

>>1748760
When you say metal: iron, copper or bronze?

The three represent very different levels of metal working and industry in general.

>>1748760
Nice, so we can get up to some shit if we play our cards right. Then yeah, we definitely gotta make nice with this tribe
>>1748767
almost certainly copper or bronze if Rome is a city state still. some of the celts had some fairly advanced shit, but iirc the germanics mostly used copper for a long time, since they weren't great at mining

>>1748758
It's not our tribe. We're from Northen Eastern Germany. We're lots of miles away from our tribe. One one near us is a different tribe.

>>1748760
We're just the average Germanic guy? Blonde Hair blue eyes? I agree with this look. Or even Green eyes.

>>1748777
I know but the fact is what they represent is more important than the tools themselves. The different levels of civilisation required for each is immense.

>>1748777
Mainly this.
>>1748767
Ironworking does exist, but is at this time concentrated in the middle-east and Mediterranean regions. Some celts probably have it, but bronze is still the biggest deal around.

>>1748787
Aye your right, my mistake but I must question why they'd kill us on sight.

>>1748791
Who knows, we can trade with Rome in the future or other people to get better tools.

>>1748798
Just have a gift ready to meet this new tribe. So we can be friends. We have little shit to be raided, so just show a sign of goodwill.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1748661
>Smoke the meat
>Make contact with tribe, bring Fawn as a gift
>Keep hide from rotting we need it for bedding

>>1748791
We should probably make an effort to set up a rudimentary bronze/copper working area, just so we can maintain our tools, and maybe make more if necessary. Shouldn't take more than a good sized little fire pit, a flat rock, and maybe a hammer if we've got one. We can find a stone with enough of a grain to keep our shit sharp, and copper is easy enough to just pound back into shape.

If we've got bronze (assuming we can even distinguish it as anything other than "metal"), then we can theoretically get really good at making tools. Forged bronze is way better than cast, and can get as strong as low-carbon steels

>>1748787
You're strong enough to have set off on your own, meaning you're of an above average build and stature - 5'11, which is very considerably tall for this time period. The average male height in Scandinavia a thousand years later was only barely over 5'8, for reference.

You are from a Germanic tribe, although we have not defined which one yet. They all looked rather different, so you can decide which one later, and how that affects your appearance. You are definitely fair-featured though.


I'll start writing in a bit, doing a few things.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>1748819
Here a roll

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>1748819
fug, forgot the rolls. here's another to make 3

>>1748827
>>1748816
>>1748822
>>1748798
We still got that 18 roll. So the tribe don't kill us on sight. A plus in my book

Also if we look for a wife, we can look for the tallest, smartest one and most good looking one, To make our child better.

Since OP said we will take the place of our kids if we are kill. So let's make them better Characters over time.

>>1748817
If we have copper tools, we just need a decent campfire and a mold and we can repair them. Just melt the broken head and fill the mold or heat them up and shape the head of the weapon back to what it should be.

Bronze, although generally better as a tool material, is far harder to repair once damaged. However it will take longer to break and will work on harder materials far easier.


>>1748841
Multi-generational self-selected eugenics? I'm in.

>>1748841
I see where you're going with the good genes bit, but don't forget that this is /old/ days, so there's every chance that malnutrition or some shit will make it harder to get our kid to be better.

I'm still hoping that the QM will let us slip some low magic shit into the setting. Maybe that way we can make sure we get up to some cool shit eventually
>>1748851
I think the bronze investment will definitely be worth it. The difficulty is relative, seeing as copper is basically just marginally more difficult to work than stiff wax, so I figure just being able to reliably pour and then beat bronze into shape shouldn't be terribly hard. Besides, we've got years to learn.
On the off chance we figure out iron tho, easily the best option. that'll just need a decent furnace and a proper anvil though, so we almost certainly won't be able to get to that from iron ore by ourselves.

>>1748871
>I see where you're going with the good genes bit, but don't forget that this is /old/ days, so there's every chance that malnutrition or some shit will make it harder to get our kid to be better.

Spends some time building up our farm first

>>1748871
We're sort of exempt from the malnutrition thing barring complete disaster though, aren't we? We manage our own food, and have nobody we need to pay taxes to. Kind of like how modern day nobility is pretty tall.

>>1748891
It's winter we have to worry about. It's easy to feed one person but add 2 people and your eating 3 times the food.
We need lots of storage for our food.

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>>1748891
>barring complete disaster
>hehelol
You seem too ready to forget how much the average QM loves suffering, anon. We should certainly strive for the things we're talking about, but please don't tempt fate like that. It's got a terribly dark sense of humor

>>1748816
This

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>18. Smoke meat, ???? fawn, bring gifts to and make contact with the tribe up the Rhine.

Contemplating for a moment why you bothered bringing the fawn back alive, you try and think of some ways to make use of it. You can't really breed deer - too wild, and there are far more efficient animals out there anyways. As a pet, too wiley, and without much use. As a gift? You see little use in the fawn yourself, and would be perplexed if someone gave one to you.

With a sigh, you finish preparing the deer carcass and get the fire ready for smoking. It will likely take days to prepare everything, but luckily it's a task you are barely required to be present for.

>Meat will automatically be smoked at a rate of 120lbs per week. Upgrade smoke fire to boost productivity.
>Gained 120lbs Smoked Venison!

You wrap up the leftovers, and deign it might be time to make contact with the tribe you heard up the river. Perhaps you even speak the same language?

But first, the fawn. His mum is roasting over a fire for a week, so it might be best to just let him sit tied up for awhile, the poor thing. Luckily, he does not cost a tangible amount to maintain.

Making your way back up the river, you again hear the sound of horns and marching. Peering through the brush, smoke becomes visible above the treeline, and you're able to make out the raised stockade of what appears to be a small hamlet. Through the grunts and growls you hear, the residents seem to be performing military drills.

You cautiously approach the gates, gift in hand , and are acknowledged by the man on watch.

Stepping down for a few moments, the sound of drilling pauses a minute, then continues as the gates open and an old man steps out. The animal hides draped across him, long beard and air of authority seem to designate him as either the spiritual or political leader of the tribe.

>Diplomacy roll 18 - 4 = 14

"Greetings,"
parting the cloth on the meat you carry
"I have brought your people a gift, a gesture of goodwill. Fresh from a hunt just recently."

The man continues to look at you, as you continue

"I have built a home for myself some miles away, and heard your drills. I was unsure if you held suzerainty over this land."

With a smile, the man waves for one of his guards to take your gift, and chatters in a melodic language you can't understand. The guard runs back into the hamlet, and comes back out with a package of his own.

Handing it over to you,
>You gain a well-made bronze sword.

Their own gesture of friendliness and goodwill, and a testament to the military nature of their tribe.

Bidding them farewell, you make your way back to your home, and plan your actions for the next week.

>Butcher the fawn
>Find a wife
>Clear more trees
>Make contact with the tribe again
>a. Learn their language
>b. participate in drills
>c. Look for a cutiepie
>d. write-in
>Hunt
>Fish
>Build something
>a. target range
>b. add on to your house
>c. more furniture
>d. improve the cellar.
>e. improve the smoker

>>1749095
You also have the hide of the deer, which you can either trim and use as bedding or clothes, or try to tan it into leather for other similar products.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>1749095
>Well-made bronze sword
Oh yes.

>Clear more trees
>Build Something
>Improve Celler
>Make bedding with Hide

We should fed the Fawn to fatten it up before killing it

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>1749095
well fuck, that's good fortune. Seems we can't understand them, but they seem to like us well enough.
>>1749141
supporting this

We should probably try and learn the language soon enough, seeing as they can probably murder us with extreme ease

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>1749141
Supporting

>>1749095
>Clear more trees
>Clear more trees

>Make contact with the tribe again
>a. Learn their language

>Build something
>c. more furniture


The more trees we clear now, the sooner we can plant more fields and the sooner we have a stable supply of food.

>>1749198
We also need to make sure of the hide before it rots and improve the celler for the meats.

I agree we need more farm land. Next week

>>1749095
Smoke the last of our meat

>>1749243
True, I guess I can support your plan. Shifting from >>1749198 to >>1749141.

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>19. Clear trees, improve cellar, make bedding with hide.

Turning your attention back to your homestead, you decide it's about time you get a good nights' sleep. You trim the deer hide into something manageable and tie it to your bedframe, creating a sort of makeshift cot.

>Gained an actual bed!
>Gained 5 Fur and Crafting XP

You could fluff it up later with something more substantive, but it certainly does well enough for now.

19-4 = 15

As you hunt more, and collect your coming harvest, you will need a larger storage space, especially in preparation for the winter, which looms ever closer. Shovel in hand, you spend three whole days doing nothing but digging, and carve out a whole room about a fourth of the volume of your house above, with a separate smaller compartment for any game or meat you acquire. You also tear off the flimsy cellar door you had built a few weeks ago, and replace it with a much more proper seal which can keep out most types of vermin.

>Cellar upgraded!
>Gained 40 Construction and Carpentry XP!

In the future, you could add shelves, storage containers, or expand the walls even further for additional room.
>For the sake of not adding more variables, storage capacity will also be measured in pounds, rather than volume.
>Cellar capacity is currently 110/2000

Lastly, you set out to clearing some more farmland for future endeavors. You're out of seeds at the moment, but that should be fixed in a little over a month once your first harvest is due, or perhaps you can barter with the tribe up north. Regardless, clearing a whole new space for farmland takes you the rest of the week, and you are left with the logs from eleven trees to show for it.

>Gained 11 logs
>Gained 6 Axe, Melee XP

Possible actions:

>Butcher the fawn
>Clear more trees
>Make contact with the tribe again
>a. Learn their language
>b. participate in drills
>c. Look for a cutiepie
>d. write-in
>Hunt
>Fish
>Build something
>a. target range
>b. add on to your house
>c. more furniture
>d. improve the cellar.
>e. improve the smoker
>Try to irrigate your fields
>Write-in


I think that will have to be it for tonight lads, thanks for playing. I will be back tomorrow at a similar time

>>1749281
Pastebin will be updated some time before then. Will add attributes and a few other features.

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>1749281
Night OP it's been fun.

>Make contact with Tribe again
A Learn Language
>Try to irrigate the fields

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>1749281
>learn the language
>try to irrigate the fields
>hunt
Sleep tight Opee, it's been great

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>1749315
Support

>>1749281
>Clear more trees
>Clear more trees

>Make contact with the tribe again
>a. Learn their language

>Try to irrigate your fields

>>1749281
Clear more trees and
Make contact to learn their language

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>1749286
Nat 20

Rolled 15 (1d20)

Rolling for good fortune.

>>1749281
>Scout for bear
>Try to learn tribes language
>Get tribes help in killing said bear

>>1750614
He been hinting we get killed by the bear. Also highest roll is 10 - 4 due to skills. So we're going to get mauled. In IRL you needed a group of guys armed with spears and bows to take down a bear. They are faster than us, and can climb trees

>>1749315
This

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Dudes, what we do with the fawn is to use it as a bait.
There is or atleast was bear around earlier.
We will build an trap for it and use fawn as a bait.

I'd suggest digging an trap pit with sharp stakes at bottom and fences that lead the bear or other animals into it.

>>1749281
>Scout for bear
>Try to learn tribes language

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>15. Learn the tribe's language

>Learn language. 15 - 4 = 11

Your visit with the foreign, strange-tongued tribe still sits in the back of your mind as you go about your daily duties. From where did they come from? How many others are there like them? Why are they so focused on military drills? What can they teach you?

They can teach you their language, of course - That is the key to all your other questions.

Just before the sun comes up, you begin your march towards the sound of yelling and horns. After a pause, the men at the gates recognize you, and this time one of them greets you rather than the leader of the tribe.

You throw your arms around, pointing at and labeling the trees, the ground, the sky and the sun. Looking at him expectantly, he seems to get the gist of what you're seeking.

Following the guards into the town, the sense of other people reaches you for the first time in weeks. Men working or drilling, the women going about their daily duties, and children running around doing whatever it is children do. It's intriguing.

You're led into and left in a small domicile built into the earth below it, where you wait for a period of time before a guard returns and introduces you to a short, hairy man with plenty of energy in his eyes.

Waving the guard away, he points to himself excitedly.

"I, Arthur."
and with a finger raised at you:

>Name

>>1750939
https://pastebin.com/edit/cENh1vRR

Big updates to game functions in pastebin

>>1750939
Vargthor

>>1750942
pastebin always require logins now?

>>1750949
I'm not sure, I've only just started really using it for this quest.
Reposted it as a guest for the time being, will resolve at the end of today's sessions.

https://pastebin.com/hxRanarL

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>>1750952
Ty
Like the highest roller rules and the skill xp.

>>1750939
Knut

>>1750939
Gerfried

I can't find a single germanic-ish name that sounds good and isn't a meme like Siegfried
>>1750942
Really liking the system you've laid out here. Is it all homebrew? Pretty impressive, regardless.

>>1750944
Rolling for the name

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1750972
well...

>>1750939
Heinrich

>>1750971
Here's one per latin letter I pulled off a list:

Arnulf, Bertram, Conrad, Dierck, Emerich, Friedger, Grimwald, Hartmut, Ingmar, Jendrik, Kurt, Laurin, Meinolf, Norbert, Odo, Poldi, Roland, Siegbald, Thibault, Ulrik, Volbrecht, Willfried, Youenn, Ziga.

>>1750944
Vargthor. Are we Germanic or Scandinavian? We are tall and blond so we might just be Nordic right?

>>1751085
Why not halfandhalf?

>>1751088
Outsider and a halfbreed. I like it. Op, will the name be chosen by roll or majority? I think a majority makes sense.

I like Vargthor a whole lot.

Vargthor is alright, just sounds kinda clunky. I don't think we're getting away from that though, so it'll work
>>1751042
Only one that personally appeals to me is Ulrik

>>1750952
Go with Vargthor

>>1751099
>>1751088
>How about something mixed
Names should represent it too. And having a German first name and a Viking last name would be pretty cool. Though Viking first name is badass.

Ulrik Björnsson,
Roland Thorson,
Magnus Björn Thorsson,
Hrut Thorgrim,
Sieghard Magnusson,
Sigbjorn Rangvaldsson,
Svafar Skalgiesson,
Karl Hroskellsson,

Or something along the lines.

>>1751139
>Roland Thorson,
I like this one
>Karl Hroskellsson,
I like the first name

>>1751139
I feel like Ulrik Bjornsson works pretty well from a purely aesthetic perspective

Ulrik just sounds kinda nice and sturdy without being too "unwiedly" for lack of a better term, and Bjornsson works well enough for signifying our multikulti heritage, and bjorn is just a funny sounding name, so it keeps things from sounding too pre-conceived

Were proper vikings a thing around this time, or was it still proto-vikings?

>>1751142
I like Karl a lot too.

>>1751145
Karl Bjornsson? Or Karl Thorsson? I like Ulrik too but Karl feels more stoic to me.

OP we're not getting anywhere here. Maybe just take your personal favorites out of what we've got

>>1751173
This. Though I think op is busy right now and intentionally had an open ended question for us to fill the time as he is doing whatever.

>>1751177
That sneaky devil!

>>1751177
>>1751173
>>1751181
How about this we pick the first name, anons. We can pick the last name later one.

The favorities are
Karl
Ulrik
Vargthor

>>1751186
Karl

>>1751186
Here is my vote
Karl

>>1751186
Karl works, we'll go with that

>>1751186
Karl!

>>1751186
I like Ulrik, I guess.

Talking about names, isn't Arthur a bit of an interesting name huh? It gets me thinking about if there is magic. Like the ones in old folk lores and what not. Like Beowulf. Or is the story entirely set in the true past and no magic what so ever.

>>1751238
Beowulf, I read that in Highschool years ago. Told in Old English near Denmark, talks about a guy through his life. He slain a dragon and got a horde. He also went under water and fought.

One pregnant female runt goat. One year old. 16 weeks until birth.

Food:
106lbs smoked venison
19lbs dried meat, fruit and vegetables.

Also we have lots of meat.

Worn copper Shovel. Extremely slow
Worn copper Hoe. Extremely slow
Worn Copper Pickaxe. Extremely slow
Dull Copper knives. Extremely slow
And we need to get some bronze from the Tribe. Since we're so slow.

Old Oak Shortbow. -2 to rolls.

And a new bow as well if people want to hunt Bear.
We will last 6 weeks enough for the Beets. And we should pick the blueberries, before they go bad.

>>1751238
We made the mistake of not clearly selecting the fantasy world, but we might be able to get some less intrusive low-magic type stuff if we persuade the QM. Just gotta finf a way to work it into actual history

>>1751299
>>1751238
I came in too late to choose Fantasy world. Maybe it can be set in real life Earth, just make a Harry Potter type magic place.

Or OP can just change the setting since we only know the local area. I'm alright with the switch since I like magic, and magic beings that come with it. Elves, Dwarves, Centaurs and other things.

>>1751299
>>1751306
I mean magic's not real but back then a lot of people believed it was and came up with folk stories where there was magic. A setting based off of the folk stories and have the magic in the setting like it was thought to have been. Nothing too invasive like Harry Potter magic but like shamanistic magic from Celtic, Roman, and Nordic mythology.

>>1751306
Magic races would be neat, but not mandatory. I just want a little more spice than history as we know it, seeing as this could potentially be a nice long story if we aren't retarded. I'd be cool with as little as magic and gods and whatnot being real, but hard to get at

>>1751358
We are near the Rhine. Shit's supposed to be crawling with fairies n shit.

>>1751358
I would like that, get help from the gods, themselves. Small things. I would like magic races, but we don't have too.

>>1751360
>seeing as this could potentially be a nice long story if we aren't retarded.
The story will keep on coming as long as we have kids. Just keep away bears and wolves.

>>1751366
You are the German anon right? You should have tons of lore about the Rhine. I know their is a song about the Rhine.

>>1751375
>>1751366
I'm hoping for a more Vikings, the tv show, style of representation and usage of folk lore. If we do get help from the gods it should be subtle, like how it was represented in the "real" myths.

>>1751425
Rome right now is a city state. So we're like 1,000 years from Viking being a thing. So I think the myths can work.

Op, it's been a few hours now. I'm getting worried. We picked "Karl" as our name.

pls live OP

>>1751752
He's probably at work. He said he'll update around the same time and he updated pretty late last night, then he'll update later tonight. Sorry about making people worry for nothing.

Anyways. Since we have the first name we can probably do last name too since we have the time to vote on it if you guys want. I'm thinking something with Thor or Bjorn in it. Maybe other names like Odinsson or Lokisson. I also like the name of Magnus.

I really hope OP isn't want this to be a short quest because we can run this for a very long time if we do it right.

>>1751903
>Leveling up allows you to spec one point into an attribute. Every ODD level, you may ROLL to acquire a new
genetic trait OR add a perk to your character which will NOT be inherited. Levels are increased by the total amount of XP across all minor (x/10) skills.


Yeah if we just go for genetic trait each time, we can have our kids base power level increase.

I'm here lads, just my sleep schedule is all messed up from my stay. thought I could stay awake and get some done at that point. writing now.

>>1752681
We are here to stay OP

>>1751238
I'll put it an opportunity later to decide if magic does exist due to demand. If it does, however, very, very few people will be capable of using it, and it will contain the most difficult skills to train.

>>1752699
That's exacrly what I wanted, desu. Sounds perfect. And no worries about the schedule, long as we know you're coming back. You're too good at this stuff to lose

>>1752699
>>1752681
I'm erect.

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"I, Karl," you respond concisely.
Arthur smiles and holds out his hand:
"Dia dhuit, Karl!"

"Againn!!" exclaims Karl "Gaaaaiiill," he enunciates, broadly gesturing at the working people through a window.

"Ah, okay. I... Saxon!"
Holding up two fingers and gesturing at yourself, you exclaim "Againn, Saxons," to let him know you understood the word.

You are run through the meaning of most simple words with Arthur - grammar, and such pretty things can come in later. Writing is a skill most do not possess, that you do not even in your native tongue. It can be held off for far later.

By the end of the day, you and Arthur have gotten on great, and their language is no longer so completely alien to you.

>Gained 3/650 fluency in Gallic!
>At 125, you can understand, 300 you can speak, 475 you can read, 600 you can write, and at 650, you can teach, and teach well.

In exchange for some work, you are sure you would be able to stay with these friendly Gauls and receive lessons full-time, every day, checking up on your homestead perhaps occasionally. Maybe you could even learn other skills, or participate in their drills.

>Live among the Gauls. Fastest to fluency. Total immersion.

Alternatively, you can try to find a way to pay or convince Arthur to come teach you at your place, for the same effectiveness minus the stay - but you are currently without money or valuable goods.

>Try to convince Arthur to come with you.
roll 1d20

Lastly, you can trek the four or so miles each day for some lessons. Walking will take up much of your time each day, and the learning speed is the slowest, but you will be able to work on your homestead as you learn. Your proficiency will increase a slight amount automatically each week.

>Lessons

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>1752925
This seems like a big decision.

>Try to convince Arthur to come with you.
roll 1d20
How about giving his family a Fawn for a good?

If the rolls are horrible.
>Live among the Gauls. Fastest to fluency. Total immersion.
I said we should be friendly to the nearly tribe, so come winter we have a people we can trade food with.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>1752925
>Lessons
We just don't have the infrastructure to leave our shit behind right now. Besides, I don't think arthur would just drop whatever he's doing like that for no real gain

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>1752969
supporting

>>1752969
>>1752990
Let's hope my roll, will be good enough to get some lessons.

>>1752699
I mean.. I don't think we should know how to practice magic, or at least this character, but more like there is magical things out there. Like fairies, werewolves(or bears), maybe dragons, and that sort of stuff. Not like "I cast fire ball and it does 8 damage!" But more like "A villager's daughter is missing some of the shamans of the circle believe she was taken by the fae king." Most of it is folk tales and fake stories ("Magic") but some have real magic in it.

>>1752925
I like the Gauls and it would definitely be safer to join their village but we know nothing about their enemies, as they are a militaristic tribe, and if we can stay neutral it might be best in the long run.

>Lessons

Mainly because I like the idea of us becoming a neutral party out in the forest. An outsider. We should also ask to train with Arthur as we try to learn his language. Fastest way to bond with someone is to do something we both like together.

At home we should look into a stronger storage system since we will be away from our home most of the time.

>>1753001
I wouldn't mind staying with the gauls if we already had our shit together. My concern is that if we stayed with them starting now, we'd basically end up a Gaul and not a homesteading saxon

Which, in fairness, wouldn't be terrible. It's just not what I want

>>1753051
>saxon
We should stay a Saxon. Don't lose our culture to the tribe next to us.

If anything once we get a wife, most likely a Gaul, we're going to teach her how to speak in our language

>>1752999
Yeah that roll.. maybe that sick set of trips would do something too.

>>1753051
Like I'm saying they're an unknown right now and I really like the idea of being an outsider too.

>>1753059
We're not too far from our home. If we are so inclined to we could trek back north and find a tribe with suitable women. But if we go the gaulic wife route we should try to find one that reminds us of our Saxon tribe.

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>14 - 4. Convince Arthur, - failure means lessons.

As you go your own ways, Arthur makes a series of gestures, and leads you to a small domicile in the far corner of the hamlet's walls.

"Stay. Teach? Work?" You are able to make out. You've simply too much back at home to work on to make a commitment to live here permanently.

Counter-offering: "Leave. You. Teach." Arthur sighs, and shakes his head negative. It would seem he has too much to do here on his own.

Suddenly Arthur lights up. "Here. Day. Home. Night. Teach," he declares, proud of his idea.

Lessons are a decent middleground. You make plans to show up once a day, and after you get across the concept of what "tomorrow" is to each other, the tomorrows of today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after the day after tomorrow. This would all be, of course, weekly, and you had to count out seven tomorrows to get your point across.

It works well with Arthur, and you are off back to your homestead.

>Gained Gaulish lessons! +7 proficiency weekly, takes some time.

When you arrive, you are greeted by the calm serenity of your home, until you notice the fawn's missing. You had completely forgotten about the little thing. Running around for a few minutes, you eventually come across a trail of blood, and its mangled head dropped unceremoniously behind a tree stump.

When you return, your two goats are baaa'ing nervously, and you are just able to make out the hulk of a MASSIVE bear stomping southwards, out of vision into the forest.

>Grab your sword and bow, follow it.
>Reinforce your goat hut
>Reinforce your cellar
>Reinforce your house.
>Run back to the Gauls
>Write-in

Actions:
>Irrigate your fields
>Gauls
>a. Look for a cutie
>b. Trade
>c. Seek out more lessons in other subjects
>d. Work
>Hunt
>Fish
>Clear trees
>Build
>a. Furniture
>b. Target Range
>c. Practice dummies
>d. Upgrade smoker
>e. Upgrade cellar
>Harvest blueberries
>Explore
>a. up the river, past the gauls
>b. Build a small rowboat to get over the river.
>c. To the south, bees
>d. Back to the east
>Write-in

>>1753094
>Reinforce the goat hut.
>Set Traps for the Bear, dabs of honey we can collect, meat shanks and the like. Hopefully with something ahuman would notice, but not a bear.

Build.
Upgrade Smoker.
Upgrade Cellar.
Practice Dummies.

Of course also do lessons as well.

>>1753125
seconded

>>1753094
Well shit, the bear is threatening and I doubt this is one of the ones that fears humans, especially a single human.

>Reinforce your house.

>Irrigate your fields
>Clear trees
>Clear trees
>d. Upgrade smoker


I'd advise we begin considering creating a perimeter wall of some sort. We can't beat the bear in a fight but if we can make it think we are too much of a bother to eat, it'll leave us alone for the most part. A simple wall of logs on a mound with a trench on the outside would prevent it gaining access easily. Especially if we were to layer it with some spikes or something to make it painful to climb for it.

At the very least it would help secure our home from any other sorts of attackers as well.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>1753094
>Reinforce your house
>Reinforce the goat hut
>>1753125
The traps are probably a good idea, long as we're careful

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>1753094
>>Run back to the Gauls
We can't take down a bear on our own, we need the help of the Gauls.
>>Reinforce your goat hut
>>Set Traps for the Bear, dabs of honey we can collect, meat shanks and the like. Hopefully with something ahuman would notice, but not a bear.

>>1753125
Upgrading things like buildings like your saying take lot more time than a week.

>>1753135
>>1753125
Supporting building the wall and making traps. Bears are usually alone in their endeavors meaning this one should be too.

>build dummies
We don't need to. We have Gauls and we should ask to train melee and archery with Arthur.

Other than that I support.

>>1753135
I support the perimeter wall.

>>1753140
Yeah but think about how awesome a bear pelt would look on our tall muscular literal chad of a saxon. Bet we would get all the Gaulish cuties if we return with a bear pelt mantled on our shoulders and its head as a hood.

Either way we shouldn't run to the Gauls since we shouldn't try to ask them for every problem we face.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>1753159
Very true on all points however we could certainly convince them that such a bear would be a danger to them as well as us. They can move fast and eat a large amount of food so it most likely could intrude into their lands.

Plus, bear meat ain't that bad apparently and I imagine there are some pagan religions that would use it for religious shit. Maybe we can get lucky with their beliefs...

>>1753159
True, our highest roll is 12, so yeah.

>>1753135
>>1753125
Supporting, but no to Dummies

>>1753149
This set of choices

>>1753159
This, desu. I'm afraid if we ask the Gauls for help with this, they'd see us as more of a freeloader than anything.

By all means, we should warn them, but don't ask for help killing it. Besides, it's a good point about killing it
>>1753169
If we managed to pull that off on our own (unlikely), they'd give us massive respect, being such a martial culture

>>1753182
Let's just make a pitfall with spears so the bear fall on top of.

>>1753182
>If we managed to pull that off on our own (unlikely), they'd give us massive respect, being such a martial culture
Well there is nothing to say we can't cheat.


If we were to poison the bear, we could leave it significantly weaker before catching it in a trap (deadfall? Log roll? Pitch and flame? spike pit?) to weaken it further.

Then we just finish the fucked up thing off and skin it.

>>1753169
No, I doubt it. Bears are singular creatures, they wouldn't venture miles away from its hunting grounds and I'd thing the Gauls wouldn't want to trek miles to kill a bear for a literal who from a different tribe. We are on our own the way I see it.

>>1753191
Poison would be useful dealing with the bear as well as trade.

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>12 -4 Trap.

Bears simply will not do. You set to work immediately, and begin the work of a trap large and sturdy enough to stop this giganto-bear.

Digging takes you hours each day, your tomorrowly lessons with Arthur a welcome distraction from your soreness. Eventually, a pit just shy of the depth of your cellar is dug some ways away from your from your home, to ensure you don't accidentally fall in as you fulfill your other duties.

Setting to work over the next day, you sharpen stakes from the logs you've amassed, setting you back.
>3 logs

You dig holes into your big old bear hole, and plant the stakes in, facing upright. You put a few jutting upwards from the walls, for good measure, in case the bear is able to try and climb out.

Waiting a few hours for the soil to settle and hold them in place, you begin the process of gathering small stones, and dropping them in the trap to secure the stakes in place even further to be able to handle the bear's likely massive weight.

Finally, you set out into the woods and gather thin, breakable branches. Perhaps they could support the weight of foxes, or even a wolf cub, but a bear would be an impossibility. Weaving a cover for your trap, you place it over your pit, then cover the whole thing with leaves.

Going into your cellar, you bring out a hefty chunk

>-10lbs smoked venison

of your smoked venison. Hopefully the bear will still be attracted to preserved meat.

Finally, for good measure, to ensure you don't accidentally kill a Gaul, you put up a sign and draw a crude image of a bear and skull.
"Stay away!" is the obvious message.

All of this work unfortunately took you the entire week, sans your lessons.

>+7 Gaulish proficiency!


Actions:
>Irrigate your fields
>Gauls
>a. Look for a cutie
>b. Trade
>c. Seek out more lessons in other subjects
>d. Work
>Hunt
>Fish
>Clear trees
>Build
>a. Furniture
>b. Target Range
>c. Practice dummies
>d. Upgrade smoker
>e. Upgrade cellar
>Harvest blueberries
>Explore
>a. up the river, past the gauls
>b. Build a small rowboat to get over the river.
>c. To the south, bees
>d. Back to the east
>Write-in

>>1753195
>Bears are singular creatures, they wouldn't venture miles away from its hunting grounds
We don't know how large it's hunting grounds are, where it nests and how rich with animals the region is.

>Poison would be useful dealing with the bear as well as trade.
True but people rarely trust the poison master. Better to trade in "medicines" and give very precise warnings about what to not do if you want the person to live. Totally just for safety.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>1753205
>>Irrigate your fields
>>Clear trees
Make the clearing bigger, allowing us to plant more food.

>>1753205
>Clear trees
>d. Upgrade smoker
>e. Upgrade cellar
>Harvest blueberries


I'd advise against doing much work away from our home until the Bear is dead in the pit.

>Forgot
>You gained 100 Traps XP!
>Traps leveled to 2.

>>1753214
Hmmm, the Blueberries are near or at our fields. And we have 8 logs to work with.

How about you add irrigate the fields and I'll can support it

>>1753222
I can agree to that. So the final turn comes out to:

>Clear trees
>>Irrigate your fields
>d. Upgrade smoker
>e. Upgrade cellar
>Harvest blueberries

>>1753210
This On a roll with those rolls man.

>>1753205
>Ask arthur if he can train us in melee and archery.

We should get better with weaponry if the bear isn't dead and just gets pissed off at our attempt at traps.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>1753224
This

>>1753233
Bears survive being shot with bullets and shit all the time for hours after the fact at least, so chances are we ain't going to take it down easily with our wee bronze short sword and a fairly shitty bow.

>>1753233
If the bear is pissed off by our traps, we hide inside our house until it's gone

>>1753240
We still need to know how to defend our homestead. Bears are one thing, men are another.

>>1753247
I want that pelt.

>>1753252
We're going to get that pelt, just wait for it to be kill from blood loss, if he try to kill us after falling in the trap.

>>1753252
Assuming that someone ran into our house and for some reason decided to attack us, we are a physically impressive specimen armed with a good sword.

Unless they are a genuinely good fighter or something, we odd to be fine.


Plus we should focus on getting our home set up entirely and then we can focus on training.

>>1753258
We already have the language lessons. It would make sense to incorporate what both of us enjoy into the lessons. He seems to be a great fighter and we can learn from that. I'm not saying we should add time over at the Gauls, only that we incorporate more. I mean use the resource while we have it.

>>1753272
Fair enough. We can see what happens.

>>1753224
If it wasn't clear I support this.

>>1753272
>>1753294
Also one more roll guys

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>18. Clear trees, irrigate fields, upgrade smoker, harvest blueberries. Ask Arthur about weapons training

>18 - 4 = 14 Clear trees

Now that that's all settled with, you get back to your typical work, and begin clearing the trees surrounding you to make way for more farmland. Your first harvest is due in just about a month, after all. You work efficiently and tirelessly, steadily felling and processing trees for two or three hours each day.

>Gained 13 logs
>Cleared two spaces
>Gained 13 Axe, 13 Melee XP

>18. Irrigate fields.

You figure your crops could use some basic levels of irrigation. Bountiful and quicker harvests await. It's a large project, and you still have other things you wish to accomplish in the week, so digging irrigation canals all the way from the river to your humble abode is a project you do indeed perform well at, but only complete half of.

>Irrigation 1/2 complete.

>Upgrade Smoker.
You imagine you'll have quite the feast on your hands, assuming your bear trap goes according to plan. Not wanting to let any of the meat go to waste, you work and ensure the project is done before the week is over. By the end, your firepit is much wider with a better covering to keep in more smoke, and you have a variety of spits and other instruments for all your meaty needs.

>Smoker upgraded! Level 2. 195lbs smoked a week.
>Further upgrades will require stone or brick.
>Lost 2 logs.
>Gained 30 Construction and 30 Carpentry XP.
>Construction leveled up! 120/400 XP

>Harvest Blueberries

Lastly, you harvest your blueberries. Barely takes any time at all, and when you're done you have about 20 pounds of the stuff overall. You could sell them, or combine them with honey to make jam that should fetch a decent price.
>Gained 20lbs Blueberries!
>12 months til next harvest.
>Gained 20 Bush and Orchardry XP

>Ask Arthur about training

As a contingency plan for the big ol' bear, you'd like to learn how to defend yourself. Arthur, as it turns out, is not a warrior. He enjoys learning, telling jokes, teaching, and eating. The tribe would surely trust you enough to allow you to drill with them now, however.

>Gained 7 Gallic XP

You caught a glimpse of the bear while you were working. It did not seem to be attracted to your trap, and instead was skulking around the vicinity of your goat hut. Perhaps it needs fresher meat?

Actions:
>Irrigate your fields 1/2 complete
>Gauls
>a. Look for a cutie
>b. Trade
>c. Seek out more lessons in other subjects
>d. Work
>Hunt
>Fish
>Clear trees
>Build
>a. Furniture
>b. Target Range
>c. Practice dummies
>d. Upgrade cellar
>Explore
>a. up the river, past the gauls
>b. Build a small rowboat to get over the river.
>c. To the south, bees
>d. Back to the east
>Make bricks
>Quarry stone
>Write-in

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>1753307
>>Irrigate your fields 1/2 complete
>>Upgrade Goat Hut
>>Make a wall

>>1753307
>Hunt
>Irrigate your fields 1/2 complete
>Quarry stone
>Make bricks

>Write-in
Take both the goats with us on our next trip to the Gauls and ask them to keep them safe for now. Explain about the bear and the trap.


Plan is simple, hunt some fresh bloody meat to attract the bear. Finish irrigating the fields and get a few bricks to build a nice chimney into our house or something.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1753317
Luck ran out. Rolling for this.

>>1753328
Good roll.

>>1753327
Seems like something we can do when we go to learn from the Gauls

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>1753317
Supporting

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>17. Irrigation, upgrade goat hut, wall

For the next week, you immediately set to work finishing off your irrigation canals. It gets slightly more complicated than the rather broad and large streams you had dug to reach your homestead. You weave narrower flows of water around your fields, and make sure it's all well set up to receive any new additions you may add in the future.

>Level 1 Irrigation completed!
>All crop harvests are magnified 10% from the base level, and reach maturity one week faster.

>Upgrade Goat Hut 17 - 3 = 14.

You set to work reinforcing your goat's residence - the bear seemed to have it in mind for them. Stripping away the dried and cracked mud from months ago, are about halfway through reinforcing the thing with planks before you notice a glowing pair of eyes watching you from the woods.

The ursine behemoth moves forward heavily, his gait rising from a prowl to a plod, as he gains momentum, eyes firmly transfixed on you.

Snarling, he barrels into a charge.

>Run like shit, anywhere, heck
>Run into your house
>Run into the goat pen
>Run over your bear trap
>Run into a tree
>Grab your sword and be an hero

>>1753317
sounds good.
>>1753327
While I like the sound of making bricks and a stone quarry. We should get a few more basics. Also we should look into trade. training and then finding a wife. Once the bear is done we will have way to much meat we should trade it, so it doesn't go to waste.
And a wall would be great. For animals and we don't know whats out there. But once we do get a wife preferably after winter. Since we should have enough time to learn to communicate and trade and done a few drills so her father knows we can defend her and keep her safe.

>>1753360
>Run over your bear trap

d20's, please.

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>1753369
>Run to our house
Is the house come to the goat pen?
And how far is the trap?

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Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>1753369

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>1753360
He's not looking at us but he's looking at the goats. Grab one and run over to the trap Quickly!

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>1753369
House

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>>1753376
>>1753379
Holy shit.

>>1753376
>20
Supporting

>>1753376
Based

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>>1753373

>>1753376
noice

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>1753360
>Run over your bear trap

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>20. Grab your goat and run over the trap.

"RUN." Shit. In a panic, you grab your goat, the male one because he was yelling the most.

Shaking him around like the baby you never had, you sprint around back and forth your goat shed, avoiding the angry bear, goat kicking at your chest and face screeching in his little animal yelps.

The bear RUNS through the goat shed, completely stepping over the lady-goat, charging after you in a rage.

Thinking fast, you bolt over to the bear trap you had set up, the bear hot on your trail, your nimble human dexterity serving you better than the bear's ferocious charge. As the beast is about to reach you, you leap over your trap, throwing the little goat in the air as you roll onto the other side.

Turning back, just in time, the bear growls and snatches the little thing from the air, before plummeting through your traps cover to a likely certain demise.

The goat's tiny moans are drowned out by the bear's bloodcurdling screams as it is impaled by spikes, every move pinching and pushing at his hide, until it finally breaks and the blood begins to flow.

Panting heavily, you run and grab your bow from beside your home, drawing an arrow before you even return, and letting loose as many as you can towards the bear's head until the noise finally stops, and it and your goats mangled carcass finally stop moving.

Wew, lad.

>Gained 50 ranged and Archery XP
>Gained 50 Dodging XP

You've slain a seven hundred and fifty pound bear.

>Go show the Gauls what a big boy you are
>Set to dragging the thing out of the trap immediately.

>>1753416
>Go show the Gauls what a big boy you are
We need their help to drag this thing out anyways

>>1753416
>You've slain a seven hundred and fifty pound bear.
We can't drag that thing out of there.

>Go show the Gauls what a big boy you are
Do something that animals don't come to eat the bear or goat bodies while we are away.

>>1753415
Another 20

>>1753416
>Go show the Gauls what a big boy you are
LIke >>1753419
said, we can't get the fucker out of there on our own, let alone safely. Let's offer to make it into a feast

>>1753416
just noticed the fucking pic, quality kek was had

you're the best, opie

>>1753422
Feast means the entire bear is brought to them. The tribe will be very impressed, and like you even more than they already do, but you'll be personally without the four-hundred or so pounds of meat you could get from this thing.

>>1753416
Kek that pic