>>4203084
>Elves.
I'm sceptical, but I will follow for now.

>>4203084
Myconid

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Here are the rules for anyone who cares to read them. It's not really necessary.

The only real guideline I have for going forward with developing our civilization is that I ask anons not to try to recreate some past civ. It won't work because it won't be the same and the attempt will just fall flat.

>>4203090
Your skepticism is understandable.
I appreciate your tentative trust.

>>4203084

This is interesting. As always when it comes to civs I'm suspicious (Not least given I've run, and flaked, on more than a few myself) but I'll follow anyhow.

>Dwarves

Dwarves are perfect for a valley, plus who doesn't like technology and industry?

>>4203084
Elf
>>4203114
Are you the Civ faggot?

>>4203123

Nope, I'm nowhere near that bad or notorious thankfully. Its basically been 4 or so over the past year which I ran for a bit but ultimately just lost the drive for. 2 I formally closed, 2 I just ghosted on. None were really memorable in any way.

>>4203084
>CrystalIds

Technical superiority is the key to every great civilization. And Stoneworks would be a huge help early game. Plus, we are rock people. Rock people R O C K, we can invent rock and roll thousand years before our time

>>4203084

Civshitter reporting in

Elves for maximum faggotry

>>4203165
Kys

>>4203084
Fairies

>>4203084
>Lizardmen

Fuck you warm bloods!

>>4203171


no u

>>4203084
Trolls

>>4203191
Guys come on! Let's play a faires, let's find a village, and let's troll villagers,

>>4203191
>>4203232


This is acceptable.

Changing my vote to fairies.

>>4203084
Dryads of course

>>4203084
Elves though Djinnes look awesome.

>>4203084
>CrystalIds
I'm ready for the Techno-sorcery civ

>>4203084
Elf

>>4203084
Crystalids or Faries, whichever has the better chance of winning.

>>4203084
Elves look good. Let's do that

>>4203473
>Crystalids or Faries, whichever has the better chance of winning.
That's a novel way to vote.
I kinda like it.

>>4203084
Elves
What kind of elf are we based on tho. High, dark, forest?

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>>4203084
It's crystalid time!

>>4203090
>Elves
>>4203093
>Myconid
>>4203114
>Dwarves
>>4203123
>Elf 2
>>4203143
>>CrystalIds
>>4203235
>fairies
>>4203191
>Fairies 2
>>4203193
>>Lizardmen
>>4203230
>Trolls
>>4203246
>Dryads
>>4203298
>Elves 3
>>4203421
>>CrystalIds 2
>>4203445
>Elf 4
>>4203473
>Crystalids or Faries 3
>>4203482
>Elves 5
>>4203664
>Elves 6
>>4203879
>crystalid 4

Elves have 6 votes.
Crystalids have 4 votes.

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Elves win!

Let's do Crystal bros, that sounds interesting.

Rolled 3, 3 - 1 = 5 (2d6 - 1)

>>4204656
>Elf Civilization
>Growth 2d6-1
>Offense 4d6
>Defense 4d6
>Mysticism 4d6+1
>Technology 2d6
>Diplomacy 2d6-1

>Technology Development:
Archery (I)

...

Rolling for the initial Population of the settlement.

The elf settlers were lead by someone who remains in charge of their new civilization. Who is it?
>Elf (Male)
>Elf (Female)
>Group

And by what authority do they lead?
>Lineage, their family has always lead
>Religious, the religious leaders command all (Any ideas regarding religion?)
>Merit, they are the best (At what though?)
>Popularity, the other elves chose them to lead
>Will, they wanted the power, took control, and ensure they will keep it

Any Write-In suggestions will be considered.

>>4204752
> Elf (Female)
> Will, they wanted the power, took control, and ensure they will keep it

>>4204752

(Single) fucking huge lizard civ guy here.
Crystalids are nice, but so are dessert elves.

The elf settlers were lead by someone who remains in charge of their new civilization. Who is it?

>Elf (Male)

Menthor
An Ancient elf; white haired and old, even for an elf. He has seen the elf civilization at its height, and will do anything to see its flower bossom again.

And by what authority do they lead?

>wisdom

>>4204752

civshitter here

Elf (male)

Lineage

>>4204752
>> Elf (Female)
>> Will, they wanted the power, took control, and ensure they will keep it

>>4204781
>old, even for an elf.
>>4203664
>What kind of elf are we based on tho. High, dark, forest?
This reminded me.
I wanted to clarify that our elves will be neither D&D nor Tolkien.
They will be ours.
They are not immortal, but they are capable of living much longer lives than humans. So our elf leader might easily remain the same individual throughout the years.
They would be smaller and slightly weaker than humans, so their naturally superior Offense and Defense must come from speed and dexterity or possibly mystical in nature, I would think.

>>4204752

>Elf (Male)

>Lineage, their family has always lead

>>4204752
>Elf (Female)
>Popularity, the other elves chose them to lead

>>4204752

Elf (female)
Will

as for a religion idea, they worship the wind. No sex distinction, both male and female share the same roles and duty inside the religion. Priest often wear small ornament shaped as to indicate the direction and strength of the wind. Practice sky burial and look highly to birds as they can ride the wind and explore the skies

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The leader vote is still open.
I'm just adding two location votes.
Resource and terrain will be tallied independently of each other, and hopefully the final result will make sense.

The elves chose the settlement location for several reasons. Obviously, there was a source of fresh, clean water. There was also a discovered resource in the area. What was it?
>Fertile Soil
>Plentiful Fish
>Large Game
>Rich Minerals
>Abundant Trees
>Lush Pasture
>Various Herbs
>Accessible Stone
>Abundant Food
>Mystical Element
>Write-In

The massive valley extends between two large mountain ranges stretching along the east and west, terminating in a craggy labyrinth of chasms to the north and a rocky sea to the south. There was a wide variety of terrains to settle upon. Where did they settle?
>Mountains
>Plains
>Desert
>Lake
>Hills
>Forest
>Jungle
>Beach
>Caves
>Write-In

If you feel there is some other essential element, consideration, or detail the elves would require in a settlement location, feel free to suggest it.

>>4204862
>Large Game
>Plains

>>4204862

>Fertile Soil
>Plains

This is a good combination for productive agriculture in the future, which in turn can bring all manner of benefits to us.

>>4204752
>Elf (Female)

>Popularity, the other elves chose them to lead

>>4204909
This is good. Supporting

>>4204909

dis gud, support

>>4204752
>Elf (Female)
>Popularity

>>4204862
>Plentiful Fish
>Jungle

Whats with the matriarchy fellas?

>>4204752
>Lineage, their family has always lead

>>4204862
>Mystical Element
>Beach

>>4204862
>Hills
>Various herbs

>>4204764
>Elf (Female) 1
>Will 1
>>4204781
>Elf (Male) 1
>wisdom 1
>>4204791
>Elf (male) 2
>Lineage 1
>>4204798
>Elf (Female) 2
>Will 2
>>4204814
>>Elf (Male) 3
>Lineage 2
>>4204835
>Elf (Female) 3
>Popularity 1
>>4204846
>Elf (female) 4
>Will 3
>>4204873
>Large Game 1
>Plains 1
>>4204909
>Fertile Soil 1
>Plains 2
>>4204927
>Elf (Female) 5
>Popularity 2
>Fertile Soil 2
>Plains 3
>>4204928
>Fertile Soil 3
>Plains 4
>>4204962
>Elf (Female) 6
>Popularity 3
>Plentiful Fish 1
>Jungle 1
>>4205109
>Lineage 3
>Mystical Element 1
>Beach 1
>>4205112
>Hills 1
>Various herbs 1

Just checking in and tallying up what we have so far. Not exactly sure when I should call the vote.

>>4205068
>Whats with the matriarchy fellas?
One could blame it on my image choice, but who's to say?

Dead?

>>4205972
>Dead?
Never.
Just slower to close votes.
Although I think I'll close the votes here soon.

It looks like a popular queen fertile soil plains, but I'll give you a chance to vote.

I will definitely post a full update by 1500 UTC.

>>4204752
>group (elders)
Elves live a long time it just makes sense.

>>4204862
>plentiful fish
>beach

>>4205994
I'd say if you have a good collection of different anons' votes, just go for it.

Don't hold back if it has been a good long while since the last post/vote call on the off-chance one or two more people may or may not respond. Better to keep the momentum up and the updates flowing. To keep people interested and the quest alive is paramount for a new quest. Don't want it to fall off onto page 5 from three-day autosage before the actual game itself gets underway.


For the hell of it though, I think I'll vote:
>Fertile Soil, Plains
Since this is specifically in a valley; I think mid-way in the valley would be good, near by -but not right next to- the river for safety from flooding. And slightly closer to the rocky sea south than the labyrinthine chasms to the north.
Indifferent on the ruler themselves.

Are we pussy elves or are we aggressive elves?

>>4204752
>Elf (Female)
>Will
and
>Fertile Soil
>hills

>>4206276
Closing the vote.

>Elf (Female)
>Will
>Fertile Soil
>Plains

>>4206573

copy that gm. lets scout out the valley, then the plains around.
how is our food?

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>>4206640
>copy that gm. lets scout out the valley, then the plains around.
The Lost "Valley" is massive. Canyon might be a better word, but I liked valley.
Here is an image indicating the scale of most of it with the nearby terrain, also plains with a river to the north, having been lightly scouted.

>how is our food?
Settling has depleted your supplies.

Proper update imminent.

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>Population Tier II: Stable (5 pips)
>Food: {5}-5= 0 Hunger
>Health Tier I
>Morale: ½
>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex
Foraged Food: 1 Hex

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):


Edella Farn stepped out of her tent in the middle of the settlement and looked over her people’s meager settlement in the afternoon sun. Even for one of their race, she was old, but she took pride in her white hair and sparse wrinkles as markers of her cunning and survival.

Her family had always been important to the community, but when the war pushed everyone to flee, she seized the opportunity to take control. Her people had needed drive and direction and she had desired the power and possessed the strong will to ensure she kept it.

She was somewhat dismayed at the simple tented settlement without defenses or stockpiles. Her people had weakened in the travel, taking only what they could carry and they had depleted their food supply.

Fortunately, their settlement had plentiful foraging and good soil, fed by a small tributary from the river to the north. But if they were to spend all their time and effort foraging to keep their bellies full, they would not have time to build up their settlement. It was a problem.

And here came another.
One of the younger scouts came running swiftly across the plains towards her tent. Greeting him with a warmth she did not feel, she was relieved to find that what she had taken for alarm, was actually excitement.

The scouts had spotted strange animals far in the distance to the northwest. They were great flocks of birds, like the many beautiful ones that grace the sacred sky and provide the archers with their feathers.

But these birds had astounded the scouts because they were not only larger than an elf; they also ran upon the ground at great speed across the plain. The scouts had argued over the meaning of this discovery.

Some of the more religious felt they were sacred gifts from the sky, to be revered; while others considered them to be cursed because they were birds and yet did not fly. The more practical among them considered that they could be hunted for meat or even tamed.

They wanted her opinion on the strange new birds and Edella’s attempts to convince them that there were more immediate concerns were unsuccessful. The people were distracted and excited and it was clear she needed to settle the matter before she could direct the community into any action.

...

>>4206810
What does Edella tell them the land birds mean?
>Edella tells them the birds are sacred.
>Edella tells them the birds are cursed.
>Edella tells them the birds are simply another animal, similar but separate from the birds of the sky.
>Write-In

How does Edella tell them they should do with the land birds?
>Land birds should be left alone.
>Land birds should be hunted. (If possible)
>Land birds should be tamed. (If possible)
>Land birds should be worshipped.
>Write-In

You have 1 Actions for the beginning of Spring:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Archer Units

>>4206813
>>Edella tells them the birds are cursed.
>Land birds should be tamed
Explore the north hex

>>4206810

>Edella tells them the birds are simply another animal, similar but separate from the birds of the sky.

Let's avoid any sort of superstition for the moment here, especially given that it may well interfere with any future goals or uses of such creatures.

>Land birds should be tamed. (If possible)

Honestly, pack animals are essential to the development of a proper society, so this is a must.

>Explore - Discover Resource

Explore the hex directly to our north. Let's see what we can find.

>>4206813
>Edella tells them the birds are cursed.
>Land birds should be left alone.

>>4206837

no no, scratch that

>Edella tells them the birds are cursed.
>Land birds should be hunted. (If possible)

erradicate cursed unflying birbs

>>4206836
+1
Land birds could be turned into chicken, giving us a steady food source.

>>4206813

Simply another animal

Tame them

If they cant be tamed we exterminate the whole lot

(But maybe we can eat a few anyway we hungry)

>>4206813
>Edella tells them the birds are simply another animal, similar but separate from the birds of the sky.

>Land birds should be tamed. (If possible)
>But bring bowmen along with any tamers, so any failed taming attempts turn into hunts

If we can farm
>Build Structure
>Irrigation ditch
Else
>Develop Technology: Farming

>>4207110

Mvp

>>4207110
Seems like a good call, supporting.

Rolled 4, 5, 6, 1 = 16 (4d6)

Another animal to tame

>>4206825
>>4206836
Explore

>>4207110
>>4207239
Farm

>>4207233
I'm going to count this as a support for farming to break the tie.

2d6 for Technology Development
2d6 for Growth -1

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>Population Tier III: Growing (11 pips)
>Food: 0 – 11 = -11 Hunger
>Health Tier I
>Morale: ½
>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex
Foraged Food: 1 Hex

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
Farm (0): +1 Food


She was able to convince the others that the land birds were just a local animal and that might be quite useful if they could tame them sometime in the future, but they were neither a curse nor a blessing.
Succeeding in setting that aside, for the time being, Edella directed them to focus on cultivating the fertile soil and starting a farm just north of the settlement camp planting traditional elven produce and a few local grains and root vegetables.

To her delight, they quickly learned the basics of farming and the rich soil already showed promising sprouts. She hoped that soon their food concerns would be a thing of the past and they could work towards strengthening her new settlement.

As the season went on, there was a powerful rainstorm that forced the elves to seek shelter for several days. Afterward, many of the elves were upset by the lost time and damage done by the storm.

Edella Farn is far too shrewd to let their misery go to waste and immediately sees a way to manipulate it towards other ends. She gathers the whole settlement and rallies them to look upon the storm in a new light.
How does she manipulate the situation?
>She convinces them the storm was just a challenge for them to overcome and they have proven their strength, encouraging them to feel pride.
>She directs their focus to how beneficial the storm was to their crops and that what might seem like a bad thing, might actually inspire hope.
>She points out all the ways they could make their settlement more capable of withstanding such storms, inspiring their ambition.

You have 2 Actions for the end of Spring:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 6 Archer Units
>Train 1 to 6 Farmer Units

>>4208012
>She convinces them the storm was just a challenge for them to overcome and they have proven their strength, encouraging them to feel pride.
An elf is nothing if not prideful

>Build Structure
>Farm

>Train 1 to 6 Farmer Units

If I understand it right, each farm gives 1 unit of food per turn, guaranteed, for every level of farming tech, even without active farmer units working them. Is that right?

>>4208119

Supporting.

>>4208119
>If I understand it right, each farm gives 1 unit of food per turn, guaranteed, for every level of farming tech, even without active farmer units working them. Is that right?
Correct.

Also, that is meant to be a choice between 1 to 6 units. You can currently choose to have up to 6, but if want them to have change different units, you'd have retrain them, and if your Pop dips back down to Tier II, all but 3 units would be disabled.

>>4208244

Let's train 3 in that case.

>>4208012

pride! Im hoping for the most arrogant of elves

>>4208012

train 3 archers. train 3 farmers. i feel we are getting too comfortable here. we are not many. a random goblin raid, or even, forgive me for saying this, a h*man, could wipe us out or worse, force us into sex slavery.

we must remain vigilant.

after farms we should build a pallisade around our village.

Since last night's second update was later, I'm keeping the vote open a couple more hours and intend to update at 1800 UTC.

I'd elaborate but I don't understand your system, so I will just support this anon >>4208119

>>4208012
>>4208273

>She points out all the ways they could make their settlement more capable of withstanding such storms, inspiring their ambition.
I'll go with ambition, Edella is ambitious herself hence why she took the power in the first place, plus ambitious people can be manipulated easily.

>Train 3 farmer
Supporting the 3 farmer training

>Gather food
The farms won't be enough to sustain the pop right now, so let's ask hunters to bring back a bit of meat for the time being. Since the weird running birds are not sacred they will *hopefully* be a fine meal.

>>4208295
We definitely should train some archers next round. Even though we haven't seen any h*mans, we should be prepared to engage in preemptive self defense against them or any other race lesser than us. It'd also be useful to have them as units that can scout and do animal taming without having to deal with attacks from large, flightless birds. I've heard those bastards have been aggressive enough to declare war on civilized peoples and win.

Also, supporting training 3 farmers. I thought it was going to be handled by a random roll since I assumed 1 to 6 meant rolling a d6 when I made the post.

Rolled 4, 3 - 1 = 6 (2d6 - 1)

>>4208119
>Pride.
>Build Structure: Farm (0)
>Train 3 Farmer Units

Closing vote and rolling Growth.

I've had an interruption right now but I will post the beginning of the Summer update later today.

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>>4208550

Fucking based elve chad brother

>>4208668

We must build a pallisade
And train 3 archer elves to be royal guards of our Queen.
Hunting = clear archer training. Times in the field on static targets and small group based big game hunts in the surrounding plains.
Who knows if they hunt any, but they will grow accustomed to the area.

Hopefully our food needs will be attained, at minimum.

I assume scouting will occur during hunting

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>>4208956

Should also help with additional scouting in surrouning hexes. We are in the dark. The recruits should be instructed to be as silent as possible.

do we have preference to day/morning/night (moon elves) hunting? (We could put it up to vote or let a roll)

QM?

>Population Tier II: Stable (11 -10 +6 = 7 pips)
>Health Tier 0 (3 -10/2 pips)
>Morale: ½ (0 + ½)
>Food: -5 Hunger (0 –7 + 2)

>Units: 3 Available of 3 Farmers

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex
Foraged Food: 1 Hex

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;

It was effortless to play upon her people's pride and bolster their dwindling confidence by citing their strong elvish survival and her assembled community dispersed feeling confident and proud despite their grumbling bellies. Of course, Edella wanted much more than survival.

She imagined herself "Queen Farn" and flanked by royal guards protected by mighty palisades. She dreamed of scouting teams of elves exploring and patrolling the wide-open plains.

But her dreams are dashed by the harsh reality that her people are starving and miserable. She knew that she had to do something to preserve what little morale was left.

Fortunately, many of her people had developed into skilled farmers and when their first crop was picked, she declared a celebration. The meal was tiny and meager for a banquet, but they enjoyed it like was a feast and sang songs into the night.

What did Edella Farn have the elf civilization celebrate?
>The founding of the civilization
>The hardworking farmers finishing the planting season
>Edella Farn herself, their heroic leader
>Write-In

You have 1 Action for the beginning of Summer:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers to halt the spiral of hunger and low morale
>Do something else more clever

>>4209523
>The founding of the civilization
I'll leave the details to someone who has figured out the systen

Rolled 2, 3 - 1 = 4 (2d6 - 1)

>>4209483
Sorry for the wait.
I will close the vote one this one sooner than usual to give you guys another update with more agency.
Rolling for next turn's Growth now, in fact.
You're backed into a corner of needing to Gather Food or do something really clever this turn or you won't be able to do anything without the dice gods blessing.
Rolling
I knew that a low-morale & low-food combo was really bad but my mistake was that I hadn't realized that I was capable of warning you in advance when it was coming and I didn't. I took some thought to work out the most elegant solution.

>All actions up to this point are dedicated towards getting our food production going on a start that's designed to maximize food
>Civilization about to collapse because nofood
Maybe I have no clue how this system works, but if I'm reading the rules you posted right, then the "gather" action would only net us food equal to our population. Maybe it's different now since we have people who can farm, but I'm thinking of during the start. In other words, we would still be starving (even with the +1 food from the elf trait applies). We clearly can't hunt, since we don't actually have any warriors or bowmen (and I doubt those emu's are gonna be susceptible to persistence hunting).

Also, how did our population explode so fast that our food needs more than doubled in half a season's time? From what I can tell, we shouldn't have even grown from size II to size III, since the pip increase from growth (6) would have been wiped out by the food deficit we were running (-8, or 2*(-5+1). Again, I think I'm seriously misunderstanding the system, but if what I'm looking at is right, there is no series of actions we could have taken that would have resulted in the civ's survival, except maybe being lucky and rolling low on growth rolls so we would have no population growth and thus had been able to get a function farm going.

Posting as a formality, since we don't really have options this turn

>>4209523
>The founding of the civilization
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers to halt the spiral of hunger and low morale

>>4209608
Population is a double-edged sword that sort of manages itself.
The larger Pop is, the more units you can have and the more actions you can take.
But it also increases Hunger, which directly reduces the Population.
So that is basically even.

So the more Food you have, the less hunger reduces Pop and your Pop will grow.

The problem is that Hunger also reduces Health, which then reduces Morale.
Morale Tier is multiplied by Pop Tier to get your number of actions.
So a Morale of 1 turns Pop 2 into 2 Actions.
A Morale of 1/2 turns Pop 2 into 1 Actions.
A Morale of 1/2 turns Pop 1 into 1/2 rounded up to 1 Action.
A Morale of 0 turns Pop 5 into 0 Actions.

Solutions include increasing Food, Increasing Health, decreasing Hunger, or even modifying Morale, although that could be OP so I'd have to be careful with that.

The game is about adding Developments, Structures, and anything else that you can think of to increase stats to get and stay strong and handle whatever problems come along.

You're starting out with nothing and doing well.

I just should have warned you that a Morale 0 was possible and coming, but I hadn't realized that I could predict it without the next turn's growth roll.

>>4209523
>The founding of the civilization
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers to halt the spiral of hunger and low morale

>Population Tier II: Stable (7 -5 +4 = 6 pips)
>Health Tier ½ (3 -5/2 pips)
>Morale: ½ (½ + 0)
>Food: 4 Stockpile (0 – 4 + 6 + 2)

>Units: 3 Available of 3 Farmers
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex
Foraged Food: 1 Hex

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;

The Founding Celebration did the trick and everyone, especially the farmers whose food had gone so appreciated, returned to their tasks with renewed effort and pride. Many elves came up to Edella to thank her and say they were already looking forward to next year's celebration.

Queen Farn allowed herself a period of smug satisfaction. Simply by framing their first crop as part of an annual celebration, she switched their focus from immediate misery to plans for the future.

While walking along the tributary, one of the young elves found a large dead fish washed up on the bank. Clearly having floated from further up the river to the north, the large fish had one bitemark running down the length of it from a very large creature.

Some people were scared of it while others wanted to hunt it down and kill it. And while there still might be more pressing concerns, Edella knew she had to guide her people again.

What does Edella focus their attention on, regarding the creature?
>She reminds them that the creature is taking resources from their territory and encourages them to hate the Fishstealer in anger.
>She reasons and points out that in order to support such a creature, their new home is clearly quite prosperous and has them regard the Mighty River with pride.
>She warns them that the creature might not be alone, that the river could be dangerous, and urges them to treat the Riverbeast with caution.
>Write-In

You have 1 Action for the end of Summer:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 3 Farmers Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 3 Farmers
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into Archer Units

>>4209925
caution
write in
construct some watch/guard towers and a walled off safety area

>>4209925
We have no choice but to go all in on food again or our pop will explode and we will go into another death spiral as our morale drops further to zero. If/when we get another action, we got to build food stores or another food boosting thing (tech or structure). Our only hope seems to be stabilizing at max pop size and building a sufficient food store in time to deal with whatever bullshit QM throws up in the future. Morale losses from starvation means we have to avoid it at all costs.
>anger
>gather with all farmers

>>4209925

Anger, farm hard

>>4209959
Just FYI, quick projections indicate that, if you did nothing regarding food, you would have 2 to 3 Actions through Autumn, but would only get an action during the winter if you roll low on growth during the winter.
So it's not impossible, but winter is coming.

>we got to build food stores or another food boosting thing (tech or structure).
Stores and food development are definitely important.

>>4209959
Supporting

>>4209925
Explore the river more.
>She reasons and points out that in order to support such a creature, their new home is clearly quite prosperous and has them regard the Mighty River with pride.

>>4209942
>caution
>watchtower
>>4209959
>anger
>gather with all farmers
>>4210157
>Anger
>farm hard
>>4210232
>anger
>gather with all farmers
>>4210285
>pride
>Explore the Mighty River

Angry Farmers win the vote.

Rolled 4, 2 - 1 = 5 (2d6 - 1)

>>4210319
Forgot to roll for Growth.

>>4210384

Mediocre

>>4210319

Angry elvish farmers.
And we gon get that fish thief and put some traps down for easy food

>Population Tier III: Growing (6 -0 +5 = 11 pips)
>Health Tier 1 (3 -0 pips)
>Morale: ½ (½ + 0)
>Food: 3 Stockpile (4 – 11 + 6 + 4)

>Units: 3 Available of 3 Farmers
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex
Foraged Food: 1 Hex

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;

Turning her people's fear of whatever it was that bit that fish into anger at a "Fishstealer" worked well. Nothing pulls a community together quite like being against a common enemy.

There were no more sightings or evidence of the Fishstealer, but a few elves still blamed things that went wrong on the Fishstealer. Edella tried to discourage the idle superstition with mixed results.

She thought it was just more superstition when several elves told her that one of the elves in her community was casting magic but she went and spoke with the individual, she found that they actually did have some mystical power, seeing it with her own eyes.

Edella encouraged them to develop their abilities and share any discoveries directly with her. Mysticism could be a powerful tool and she wanted to be the one controlling those who could wield it.

Who was the elf with mystical power?
>A young elf with natural talent and ability, discovering their power
>A dabbling caster who only ever learned a few little things
>An older, knowledgeable caster that never had much power, but had studied mysticism for years.
>Write-In

What form does their mysticism take?
>Compelling the true essence of things
>Calling upon the Sacred Wind
>Channeling power directly from the stars in the heavens
>Achieving unity and harmony with the world around them
>Communing with spirits
>Concentrating their mind over matter
>Write-In

You have 2 Actions for the beginning of Autumn:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 3 Farmers Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 3 Farmers
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into Archer Units

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>>4210529

>A dabbling caster who only ever learned a few little things

>Concentrating their mind over matter

Triomf des willens. Coupling this with the dabbler seems like fun. Growth potential.

>>4210529


>Gather food (cant we recruit more farmers at the same time? Like their sons, cousins, volunteers, going in the fields with them? Like wth are the others doing?)

>build primitive pallisade from felled trees around our village

We need a safe haven during winter, not only to be safe from whatever lurks out there, but also to safeguard our food so no animal steals our supplies on midwinter night.

Just a quick question what is our tech level. Do we have iron/bronze/copper/stone tools?

>>4210529
>A young elf with natural talent and ability, discovering their power
>Concentrating their mind over matter
>BUILD A WALL

>>4210529
>A young elf with natural talent and ability, discovering their power
>Concentrating their mind over matter
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers
>Build Structure
>Farm
I'd like to do something else, but with how our population is constantly exploding, we have no real choice but to go all in on food.

I would personally suggest archers over a wall since we would like ranged combatants to make use of the wall's force multiplier. Archers would also let us do exploration and hunting, which sounds useful. Training them before winter seems pointless, since winter could easily nuke our population back to 3 units (i.e. we'd automatically lose the archers we'd train).

>>4210529
>A young elf with natural talent and ability, discovering their power
>Compelling the true essence of things
Our elves are great, in that they are the closest beings to true reality, and thus can manipulate its very essence.


Actions:
>Gather Food with 3 farmers
>Build Structure
>>Foodstores

We need to get those Food stores up pronto, its already fall, and we'll need a good chunk of food ready before the winter hits and nukes our population into oblivion. Is it possible to encourage our pop to not grow so we don't accidentally push way above our carrying capacity right when the winter hits?


>>4210999
Depends, we might be given the choice to determine what units we get to keep. In that case, we could keep the archers alive and put the farmers on life support. The archers could then hunt during the winter while the farms are unmanned. Then hopefully get back the pop so the farmers don't disband over the course of the winter.

>>4210529
>Write in
>Mind over matter
A seasoned hunter who discovered he had the ability to alter the course of his arrows mid flight by concentrating on them

>Build structure
While i understand why everyone is calling for walls to protect us, i feel that with winter around the corner, some place to stock food like a silo would be a good idea. We're close enough to famine with harvests.

>Gather food with the 3 farmers

>>4211049
I personally think getting food storage running this year isn't worth it, if only because I don't think we will have a food surplus without putting all of our actions into food production. We keep 100% of any food surplus for a single half-season, and I think at our current production we'll burn through all of that since stored food is eaten before currently produced food.

If we could freeze our pips at a certain level, then it would be a completely different story, but that's not something we can do as far as I can tell from looking at the rules and actions available. Based on the rules, it looks like our population will just keep exploding at the rate of 2d6-1 until we hit the maximum, which is 34 I believe (3+6+10+15), so long as there's no food deficit. Speaking of the rules, I don't think we can even build food stores, now that I look at it. I say this because the rules say that "Stores require Dev and Structure", which indicates that we would have to research for it, something we obviously don't have the time/actions to do. Interestingly, the rules also say that we would apparently have to have Hunting Tech level 3 to do bow hunting, which would mean training archers without an external threat is waste of actions.

Again, I may be reading things wrong, so I would like to see anything that would contraindicate this.
Also, I'm switching to
>Compelling the true essence of things

>>4210627
>Do we have iron/bronze/copper/stone tools?
Pretty much just stone tools, although we can advance forward quickly, given the proper resources.

>>4211049
>we might be given the choice to determine what units we get to keep
This is the case.

>>4211132
>We keep 100% of any food surplus for a single half-season
This is true.

>I think at our current production we'll burn through all of that
This is possible, perhaps likely.

>since stored food is eaten before currently produced food.
This is not the case, although I could see it reading that way from the equation.
Gathered Food is considered instantly stored if you have Stores, but is separated in the equation for clarity.
Food is Food.

>If we could freeze our pips at a certain level, then it would be a completely different story, but that's not something we can do as far as I can tell from looking at the rules and actions available.
It's not impossible, but freezing your pipes to exactly where you want them would be some serious Tier 5 mojo of some kind.

>>4211049
>Is it possible to encourage our pop to not grow so we don't accidentally push way above our carrying capacity right when the winter hits?
This, however, is entirely possible.
The system is all about modifiers.
Most Tier I Development can grant +1/-1 pips easily. If the Development is limited to a season, I could see it granting a larger effect, especially if the roll is high.
Something like "Winter Rationing" to grant a reduction of Hunger, or something.
I'm aware that a few pips doesn't seem like much, but scaling it larger would get insane later.

Another angle is that Health can also be affected by Development.

I>4211132
>Based on the rules, it looks like our population will just keep exploding at the rate of 2d6-1 until we hit the maximum, which is 34 I believe (3+6+10+15), so long as there's no food deficit.
Maximum is 35, you forgot the 1 at Tier I.
Well, there's also attrition from attacks or something, but basically correct. But Pop is self regulating until you eliminate food deficit, which is not easy to do.
High Pop without Hunger or Attrition is a very good thing though.

>the rules say that "Stores require Dev and Structure", which indicates that we would have to research for it
This is true.
You need some kind of Technology or Mysticism to help preserve the food.

>the rules also say that we would apparently have to have Hunting Tech level 3 to do bow hunting, which would mean training archers without an external threat is waste of actions.
First, that's just an example of advancing tech, not necessarily applicable to this civ.
Second, the idea there is that you can't just spam Hunting (I), then Hunting (II), then Hunting (III) to get bigger modifiers. You have to combine Technology, Mysticism, Resources, or Structures, to create something new at a higher tier.

If Hunting (I) granted +1 Gather Game and increased range of discovering Game Resource, then Hunting (II): Bow Hunting would grant something additional to that and Archery. Probably +3 Game/Fish Gathering.

Basically, there really is no idea too crazy to work, but the more powerful it is, the more it requires to achieve.
You also don't need to know exactly what you want if you can get the idea across.

Although it is difficult to find enough trees on the plains to build a proper palisade, just saying.

Sorry for the delayed reply, I left the house without my phone today.

>>4210627
>A dabbling caster 1
>mind over matter 1
>Gather food 1
>pallisade 1
>>4210782
>A young elf 1
>mind over matter 2
>BUILD A WALL 2
>_______________ 0
>>4210999
>>4211132
>true essence 1
>A young elf 2
>Gather Food 2
>Build Structure: Farm 1
>>4211049
>true essence 2
>A young elf 3
>Gather Food 3
>Build Structure: Foodstores 1
>>4211100
>Mind over matter 3
>A seasoned hunter 1
>Build structure: Foodstores 2
>Gather food 4
Closing vote soon

>>4212433

>Although it is difficult to find enough trees on the plains to build a proper palisade, just saying.

so if we roll for build a wall what will happen? half a pallisade? A small pallisade? do we have to prioritize certain houses? If so, id say fortify the queen's longhouse and store the food there also.

a mix of wood and dirt? We dont have claybaking researched so no bricks (yet).

>A dabbling caster 1
>mind over matter 1

switching vote to

>Mind over matter 3
>A seasoned hunter 1

sounds really cool

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Rolled 6, 2 - 1 = 7 (2d6 - 1)

>>4212450
>So if we roll for build a wall what will happen? half a pallisade?
I was thinking of a sort of dirt Palisade supported with pointed sticks. I can't find an example and I don't think I ever knew its name.
A palisade around the Foodstores/Queen's home could work too.
If you want defenses done with soil, there's always ditches and motte, with the hope of building a proper palisade later.


Closing the vote.

>>4212559
>I was thinking of a sort of dirt Palisade supported with pointed sticks. I can't find an example and I don't think I ever knew its name.

yea lets go with a hill-fortesque primitive defence. should tell bears and wolves to fuck off and goblins and h*mans to think twice if they come across to enslave

I apologize.
My schedule for the day got changed at the last minute but I will phone post an update as soon as I can type it up properly.

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d6)

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>Population Tier III: Growing (11 -0 +7 = 18 pips)
>Health Tier 1 (3 -0 pips)
>Morale: ½ (½ + 0)
>Food: -5 Hunger (3 – 18 + 6 + 4)

>Units: 3 Available of 3 Farmers
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
Food Storage: Turf House with Root Cellar

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex
Foraged Food: 1 Hex

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (I): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;
Turf House: Food Storage

Speaking with the young elf, Vestan Djagger, Edella first thought him bright and intelligent but doubted his abilities until he made an arrow float into the air simply by using his mind. She was stunned.

He said that he had discovered that he could alter the path of arrows he fired when he was training with the scouts, and he believes that there might more he could do. He brightened visibly at her words of encouragement and Edella hoped he would become as useful as she imagined.

The farmers worked diligently, but others in the village had been working together on digging a large pit in the center of the village and apparently filling it back in. They excitedly showed off their finished work to her when they were done.

Edella was surprised to see it was a rather well-made turf house complete with a root cellar for food storage including several baskets crafted with sticks and thin trees. They wanted her to stay in the house and preside over their food stores.

She didn't have the heart to tell them that they wouldn't have much food to store and instead thanked them very much for all their hard work. Once she'd moved in her few possessions, she found that it actually was much more comfortable than her tent.
It was no palace, but it was a start.

The skywatchers confided in Edella that, while the beginning of the season would be fair, the end of winter would be a harsh one filled with storms. She knew that something needed to be done or they would suffer from serious morale and health problems before winter's end.
Health and Morale are likely to drop to zero, leaving you with no actions for the end of winter unless something is done to prevent it. Farms should prevent a spiral continuing through Spring though.

...

>>4213252
Eager to focus on solving these problems, Edella was frustrated when her people began bickering over religion. Now that their bellies were full they seemed content to focus on more petty problems.

There has always been a conflict between those who favored worshipping the day sky and those who worship the night sky. They came together in a group to ask her what her beliefs were and although she tried to deflect by saying she supported all beliefs but they insisted on knowing what hers were.

What does she say?
>She claims she favors worshipping the day sky, alienating night sky worshippers, and endearing herself to the day sky worshippers.
>She claims she favors worshipping the night sky, alienating the day sky, and endearing herself to the night sky worshippers.
>She tells them the truth, that she simply isn't very religious, alienating the very religious and endearing herself to the minority of the secular elves.
>Write-In

You have 2 Actions for the end of Autumn:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 3 Farmers Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 3 Farmers
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into Archer Units

>>4213254

What does she say?
>Write-in
No matter who it may alienate she will tell this:
Proclaim she favor the dusk, when the sun lose all of it's splendour and wear the red rags of the day. When the world is not yet at night but saying that it's still daylight would be a lie. That moment when the sky is orange and red, sliding toward the blue of night. She find it both relaxing and full of the possibilities of tomorrow.
If anyone ask her her feeling about the dawn or shy she prefer the dusk to it, she will use whatever religious knowledge or any distraction she can think of to drown the question. For the shameful truth is that she would rather sleep through the whole dawn if given the chance (Edella had never been a morning person)

>>4213506
Quality Write-In.

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>>4213254
>>4213506
Though I prefer the dawn to dusk, this is a damn good write in both for reasoning and for characterization.
>Event: Write-In
Perhaps we can shoot the middle for both of them, and go for Twilight Elves. Straddling the two skies and existing in a period where neither the Moon's transient faces nor the Sun's unrelenting gaze have true dominion. A paradoxical period of ordered balance amongst the heavenly bodies, and of unrestrained freedom for the rest of the skies. Evident in how, in this small window of time, the skies are free to show their true beauty and power, stretching its hues in those not otherwise seen.
Perhaps as a more in-character justification, it could be both a way to try to unify the two main faiths under her control, and encourage them to not be limited to the two more linear trains of though. Or as a way for her to have more control on the overall direction things are heading, rather than be forced to fully prescribe to one of the two faiths.


>Otherwise, Actions!
>Gather Food with 3 farmers
We need to get as many pops through the winter as possible.
>Develop Technology: Winter/Weather Protection
As I see it, the three major issues we might face are either: A) External threats from which we'll need defensive troops. Unlikely as we haven't ran into much of anything yet and winter will probably be a slow time for most nations. B) Low food due to no farm output, which could be supplemented by some basic hunting. C) The severe damage harsh winter and weather will cause by the end of the year.

While archers could help deal with the first two, I feel it is too many actions to get those in place. We're not in a place to fully go out and try to take the world by storm yet. Instead, I think it'd be better to try to reign in losses and mellow the winter. Either by making better clothing for our people, making a proper structure that will better insulate them from the cold/rain/snow, or some other method that I'm overlooking. If we do well enough, it might even be enough to improve QoL in general for the entire populace, rather than just a stopgap for these specific harsh conditions.


And two quick questions for OP. If we have no actions, all existing units are basically forced idle and can't act on their own, correct? And: if we converted the farmers into archers, it would take the one action to make archers, and then another to tell them to go hunting, correct?

>>4214140
>>4213506

Supporting this in general (though do twilight elves sleep 2 times a day?)
Im for dawn to dusk night elves.

>>4213254

Hey op? Cant we train more ppl in specific jobs? Like more farmers etc. I dont understand thr system fully. Is there any drawback?

>>4214140

We could skin the birds. Featherclothes fabulous. Not much fuel so how will we heat ourselves?
Perhaps we can insulate the central "palace" with more earth. And we will all huddle around a fire naked or something through the winter.

>>4214476
>>4214481

Obviously not OP sorry hehe

>>4214140
>If we have no actions, all existing units are basically forced idle and can't act on their own, correct?
Correct. And if disabled for two turns, they disband.

>And: if we converted the farmers into archers, it would take the one action to make archers, and then another to tell them to go hunting, correct?
Correct.

>>4214476
>Cant we train more ppl in specific jobs? Like more farmers etc. I dont understand thr system fully. Is there any drawback?
The amount off units you can have is dependent on Pop.
At Pop III, you can have 6 units, but the drawback is that if you drop back down to Pop II, all but 3 units are disabled.

>>4214481
Feather clothes or naked heap.
Both sound elvish.

Rolled 2, 2, 2, 2 = 8 (4d6)

Twilight Elves
Gather Food
"Winter protection"

I will start writing if there are no more votes.
Rolling for Dev and Growth

>>4214635
Our rolls have been awfully mediocre

>>4214692

>Our rolls have been awfully mediocre

we need to sacrifice some goblins to the moon for good harvests or something.

>>4214635
>I will start writing if there are no more votes.

eagerly waiting.

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>Population Tier III: Growing (18 -5 +3 = 16 pips)
>Health Tier 1 (3 -5/2 + 1 pips)
>Morale: ½ (½ + 0)
>Food: -6 Hunger (0 - 16 + 6 +4)

>Units: 3 Available of 3 Farmers
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
Food Storage (I): Turf House with Root Cellar
Feathercraft (I): Feather Cloaks +1 Health

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex; Stockpile (0)
Farmed Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Foraged Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Mystic: Vestan Djagger (Tier 0)

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;
Turf House: Food Storage

Thinking for the briefest of moments, Edella quickly proclaims:
"I favor the dusk when the sun loses all of its splendor and wears the red rags of the day. When the world is not yet at night but saying that it's still daylight would be a falsehood. That moment when the sky is orange and red, sliding toward the blue of night. I find it both relaxing and full of the possibilities of tomorrow."

"That fleeting time straddles the two skies and exists in a period where neither the moon's shifting faces nor the sun's ceaseless gaze have true dominion. It is a paradoxical period of ordered balance amongst the heavenly bodies, and of unrestrained freedom for the rest of the skies. Evident in how, in this small window of time, the skies are free to show their true beauty and power, stretching its hues in those not otherwise seen."

"It is much like our community, with different faiths sharing the same space in sky-blessed harmony. I feel genuinely grateful that we all unified here, seeking that which benefits our people as a whole rather than being limited to single trains of thought and belief."

"Truly, we are children of the dusk."
Edella Farn smiled sagely, meeting each one of her people gathered before her in the eye before they glanced away.

The group dispersed, each elf feeling chagrinned, humbled, and more endeared of their wise leader than ever before.
Edella wondered to herself what they think if they knew a simple truth was that she found sunsets beautiful and despised crawling out her bedroll early enough to see the sunrise.

Not long before the first frost dusted the land, crafters came to Edella to show her what they had made. They had fashioned a number of feathered cloaks from the brown feathers gathered from the land bird's trails and nests.

Skeptical at first, she donned the cloak and found it surprisingly comfortable and warm. Closing her eyes and stroking the feathers, she imagined the cloak a pristine white and herself touring a prosperous community outside of a mighty castle.

Opening her eyes, she signed wistfully. Still, these cloaks might help her one day arrive at her dream community.

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>>4215385
The skywatchers again advised Edella that the storms of late winter will carry over into the Spring. She was confident that her people would not starve and would survive, but she feared that the storms might lower the community's health and morale to a point where nothing might get accomplished during the beginning of the season.
Unless very low Growth is rolled at the right time, Health and Morale are likely to drop to zero, leaving you with no actions for the beginning of Spring unless they get an additional boost. End of Spring should be fine though.

As the cold winds of winter approached, a strange, ancient-looking bird landed on the turf house one morning and seemed incapable of flying away. Roughly the size of a large hawk, its plumage had once been orange but was faded, greyed, and sparse with advanced age.

The elves, normally content to leave birds to their natural ways, asked Edella what they should do, in case this bird was an omen.
Edella examined the clearly dying bird and thought long on the best response.

What does she do with the odd bird?
>She has them compassionately give it food, water, and comfort in its last days.
>She has them honor its free nature and leave it alone as it meets its fate as it will.
>She mercifully ends its life quickly and painlessly so that it no longer has to suffer.
>Write-In

You have 2 Actions for the beginning of Winter:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 3 Farmers Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 3 Farmers
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into Archer Units

>>4215391
>Write-In
Eat the birb take its strength. Obviously it chose us as its worthy successor.

>>4215391
2 things on the rules. First, I would like to confirm that hunger does not stack. I say this given that "negative food is hunger" and the food formula includes "food stored", would imply that. For example, if there was a hunger of 10, then 20 food was made, and 10 was eaten, you would be left with 0 food if it stacks, 10 if it doesn't. Looking at a previous post, it seems like it's "reset" every cycle, but the rules as written support either reading. Sorry if it's unclear, but this system in general is confusing and often counter intuitive. Second, given mysticism covers "metaphysical" development, is that just a euphemistic way of saying "magical" or does it also include philosophy in general consistent with the dictionary definition of the word?

>>4215594
>Looking at a previous post, it seems like it's "reset" every cycle, but the rules as written support either reading.
Step two of how a yourn proceeds should say "Attrition and Hunger are reset."
It's applied to Pop and Health, reset, and then generated by food consumption.
I will fix that when I redo the rules.

>>4215594
>Second, given mysticism covers "metaphysical" development, is that just a euphemistic way of saying "magical" or does it also include philosophy in general consistent with the dictionary definition of the word?
I had not thought of that.
It was intended as "Magic and More".
But certainly *most* philosophy would be covered by Mysticism, I think.

>>4215845
>yourn
turn

>>4215845
In that case

>>4215391
>She mercifully ends its life quickly and painlessly so that it no longer has to suffer.
Probably eat it as well, since we're starving

>Gather Food with 3 Farmers
Get what meager food we can this turn
>Develop Mysticism
Start developing a "survival of the fittest" mentality, which incorporates the idea that our existence is constant struggle. Where life is the continued process of our peoples growing stronger from struggle and death. We're going to be seeing a lot of dead bodies over the winter, so might as well steel ourselves to it. Maybe tie it in with our peoples' developing pride and elven snootiness.

>>4215391
>Event
>She has them honor its free nature and leave it alone as it meets its fate as it will.
Regardless of how we treat the bird, I think burning a part of it in respect and adorning its still-orange plumage on our own feather cloak as a sign of position are good. Who knows, maybe its a phoenix.

>Actions
If farmers can still get food in winter, then
>Gather Food with 3 farmers
If not, then Explore with the three of them, moving out in a outward spiraling circle to get even scouting in all directions.
>Develop Mysticism
We've got fantasy emus/chocobos, feather cloaks, and now this omen bird. I think some sort of bird mysticism could be pretty neat.

>>4215889
We haven't actually gone very pride focused yet, as a race. So far our leader was more encouraging anger vs the fish-stealer than pride.

>>4215889
>Start developing a "survival of the fittest" mentality, which incorporates the idea that our existence is constant struggle
I was thinking of what to call this if it wins, my instinct is to call it:
"Stoic Survivalism", "Survival of the Fittest" or some kind of mangled bird metaphor for survival of the fittest.
Anyone have any thoughts?

>>4215941
>I think some sort of bird mysticism could be pretty neat.
I agree, but I need a little more direction. How would this particular bird mysticism benefit the civilization?

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>>4215941
The phoenix symbolism is a good one, I support going with that if possible. I was basing the pride comment off of the first vote we made back in Spring, and the fact that as elves we're naturally going to be inclined towards that. I'm not married to the idea. I mostly want something that will help our people cope with the inevitable, likely prolonged hardship we're going to face, in a sort of "turning a negative into a positive" way. We'll have constant starvation until we manage to pump enough points into either farming techs (irrigation, crop rotation, etc) or magical enhancements (magic, ain't gotta explain shit) to be able to build a surplus at some future point.

>>4215964
Maybe something to do with eagles as a symbol of a strong, but deft bird that preys on the weak but can go talon to talon with powerful beasts as well. I'm thinking of something like the symbol on the Mexican coat of arms/flag if you're familiar with that. Martial eagle pic included, mostly because it looks cool. As for a name, I dunno. Aquilism/Aquilite or something else directly bird related (Eagleism?!) sounds a bit hokey, and Survivalism is sort of taken. And neither Darwin nor Spencer exist

Not quite sure how far we can go with magic in comparison to tech, but I assume we can't just immediately shape-shift or fly or anything crazy like that without a good bit of investment.

Perhaps some sort of mysticism to go with our already existing feather mantles? Here are just some basic ideas I thought of:
Some basic wind-magic inspired by birds and tying in with our ability to manipulate arrows. Faster movement based on the running and streamlined birds near us. Or if we want something more practical for right here and now to double down on winter survival, a way to harness some of the more fluffy bits of birds to retain heat and repel moisture, or make our mantles feel almost like second skins to better protect our otherwise largely naked forms (just stack health buffs probably).

If anyone else has any ideas or likes one of the ones brought up, go ahead and make the call.

>>4216327

phoenix eagle. eagle is imperial which goes with our pridefulness.

>>4215391

mercykill the bird and eat it to gain its aspect.

>>4215391

farming
+ develop mysticism

i was thinking something stoic/natural selection also, perhaps coupled a bit more with spirituality/meditation. Like bhuddist monks do, they mediate and are controlling their body temperature, metabolism. our ''mystic'' may aid us in this, as he is able to better see through the illusion of the material world.

teach our elves that whatever happens, if you have the will to survive, you will survive.
it is a harsh teacher, but in the end there is the triumph of the will!

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>>4215466
>Eat the birb 1
>>4215889
>She mercifully ends its life quickly and Probably eat it 2
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers 1
>Develop Mysticism: "survival of the fittest" mentality 1
>>4215941
>honor its free nature 1
>Gather Food with 3 farmers 2
>bird mysticism: wind-magic/Faster movement base/ Enhanced Cloaks 1
(All good ideas)
>>4216516
>mercykill the bird and eat it 3
>farming 3
(Gonna assume that's Gather with Farmers unless I'm wrong)
>develop mysticism: will to survive 2

"Eagle's Will to Endure"
How's that for a name?

Rolled 3, 1, 1, 6, 2, 6 = 19 (6d6)

I got called to help with something at 1500 UTC so I'm closing the vote and writing now.

>Population Tier III: Growing (18 -6 +7 = 19 pips)
>Health Tier 1 (3 -3 + 1 pips)
>Morale: 1 (½ + ½)
>Food: -13 Hunger (0 - 19 + 6)

>Units: 4 Available of 3 Farmers and Edella
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)
Edella: See below

>Mysticism Development:
Mental Discipline (I): Eagle's Will to Endure: +½ Morale if Morale <1

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged);
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure
Food Storage (I): Turf House with Root Cellar
Feathercraft (I): Feather Cloaks +1 Health

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex; Stockpile (0)
Farmed Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Foraged Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Mystic: Vestan Djagger (Tier 0)

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;
Turf House: Food Storage

Edella gently gathered the bird in her arms. The sickly bird wasn't scared or uncomfortable and seemed peaceful and accepting.

She looked into its eyes and felt an odd connection. She wasn't much for superstition or sentiment, but she began to wonder if this bird was actually sent here for her people.

At any rate, she was drawing a crowd and needed to act. She started by saying a few words about how the bird was sent as a sign that the elves would carry on its strength now that its flight has ended.

Then, she gently but firmly pressed her thumb to cut off blood supply to the bird's head and it peacefully passed out. She swiftly pulled out her small knife and sliced into the once beautiful bird's breast and cut the still-beating heart out of the bird.
Looking at her people, she ate the bird's heart to carry on its strength.

She extended the body of the bird out to the others in her open palms, intending for them to take what little meat there was and make use of the once-lovely feathers. Her hands, and her whole body it seemed, froze paralyzed.

...

>>4216805
Enduring a pain more intense than anything she had ever experienced, the body of the bird in her hands erupted into bright flames, burning intensely hot as the flesh of her hands charred and sizzled. But the pain of her hands was nothing compared to the agony of the burning pressure inside her chest.

Her back arched and a jet of hot flame as tall as a child erupted from her chest. Finally able to move, she looked down at the white flame as it poured forth from under her ribcage, having burned away all skin and tissue on her left breast.

After an endless eternity, the flames subsided, but the pain did not and she staggered. Her knees threatened to buckle but she refused them.

She would die on her feet.
She would not be cowed by a damn bird.

The pain slipped into a blessed numbness and only then was she aware of her people. They all stood staring, transfixed, except a few elders who were frantically whispering to each other, never taking their eyes off her.

One approached her and gingerly pinched some ash from her hands, which she dumbly realized she was still holding out in front of her. He smeared the ashes across her forehead in a line and said "All praise sky-blessed queen of our people: Edella Farn!"

She wondered hazily why they were praising a dead woman. Looking down at her chest, she saw her exposed, but fully intact, left breast, and the charred remains of one of her only good blouses and sagged with relief.

Absently covering herself with her feather cloak, she wordlessly stepped away to soak her hands in the tributary, plunging her hands in the mercifully frigid waters. Pulling them out, she was astonished to find that they were unharmed.

She was still looking over her hands and chest for any sign of injury when the ripples in the tributary had soothed and she saw her reflection. Her white hair was gone.

In her youth, she had beautiful auburn hair, but the hair she saw reflected back now was redder than any she had ever seen. It was as red as the bird's blood still upon her lips.

She noticed too that some of her hard-earned wrinkles had disappeared. She quickly stood and found that her people had followed her and were watching in awe at a respectful distance.

She commanded them to get back to their work as the winter storms weren't going to wait, using as familiar terms as possible to ground them back to the real world. The elders lingered to speak with her.

They told her of a legendary bird no elf alive had ever seen, called a phoenix, that was said to be reborn in flame any time it died. There was a great deal of discussion about what this could mean, but the truth was that eating the heart of a phoenix was an act never before heard of.

Edella was quick to crush any speculation that she might be immortal though, lest some fool tries to prove it. She was quite pleased with the new reverence she was treated with as well as her new title: "Queen Edella Farn the Phoenix Heart."

...

>>4216811

>Unit: Queen Edella Farn the Phoenix Heart: (Untrained) +1 Able Unit

Queen Farn's transformation spurred an increased interest in mysticism. Many elves wondered what they could do to harden themselves in preparation for the coming winter.

They took to studying with Vestan, meditating, steeling their minds and bodies against hardships, and developing a philosophy of being the bird of prey that takes the blows, heals the broken wing, and then goes on to soar to greater heights.

Those that are fit and strong, endure and survive. Those that fall to weakness along the way are honored for their sacrifice to the community's greater strength.
>Mysticism Development:
Mental Discipline (I): Eagle's Will to Endure: +½ Morale if Morale <1

Reflecting on her experience with the phoenix, Edella was unsure of exactly how she wanted to proceed. She felt like her new status could be exploited for motivating her people to obey, inspiring them religiously, or focusing their efforts on mystical pursuits.

What does she decide to use her new influence for?
>She compels them to obey.
>She inspires them to worship.
>She directs their focus to mystical study.
>Write-In

You have 3 Actions for the end of Winter:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 4 Units Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 4 Units
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into Archer Units

>>4216818

Nice write up OP

>She directs their focus to mystical study.

Find a way -if possible- to reduce metabolism in winter. A sort of semi-winter sleep. So less food is required.

And Its winter? And we are still able to farm/hunt for food?

If yes, then

>3 farm
>explore west (small party of elves)

Specifically look for potential husbandry animals or herds of beasts. Any signs of fire from more intelligent critters also good. Perhaps a stable source for wood.

>tame the big birds

Study the birds, seek to tame. We are phoenix clan! This will greatly aid our exploratory efforts and reach.

>>4216818
>She inspires them to worship.
Farm, farm, farm
Do we a family ourselves?

>>4216818
Damn, that's awesome.
Not just the Phoenix and Queen Edella, but that mysticism upgrade to prevent us from ever having a 0 moral penalty is super good. Now to figure out what to do next.

>>Event
>She directs their focus to mystical study
As great as it would be for Edella to force her people to kneel to her in obedience or worship; it is far better right now for more people to strive for similar mystical prowess so that the nation and people as a whole can make it through the coldest of winters.

>>Actions
Looks like farmers can still get food, so
>3 farmers to farm
>Develop Technology (Animal Husbandry)
>Tame the big birds

>>4217483
+1

>>4216818
>She inspires them to worship.

>Gather Food with 3 Units
As much as possible given the harsh winter conditions. We're starving
>Develop Mysticism: Queen Edella
Let's develop our powers over the phoenix. Maybe do it with Vestan
>Develop Technology
While cooped up inside for the winter, let's consider what works and what doesn't for farming, using previous experience to our benefit. Things like which crops produce the best yields, best times to plant, maybe even the start of selective breeding.

Also, I recommend holding off on exploring for a turn. A previous post said that this part of winter "would be a harsh one filled with storms." Not a good time to go exploring, since we probably won't cover much ground and would likely just lead people to their deaths. The harsh conditions and lack of food also mean that animal taming might not work so well.

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>>4217609
Support

That was a cool scene qm

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>be me
>be running civ thread
>have dying bird subtlely hinted at being a phoenix visit my players civ
>plan to reward them with powerful reagent depending on how they treat it
>tailfeather, ash, or talon
>hope it will inspire magical development
>mfw they eat the bird

>>4217883
MUST EAT MORE BIRBS

>>4216818
study
go hunting

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>>4217883
>be elf tribe queen
>hungry as fuck
>on and off starvation
>bird crashes onto my roof
>it's old, but looks kinda tasty
>mfw eating it

>>4218070
10/10

>>4218070

this be pure gold

>>4217609
Supporting

>>4218070

hahaha

Update when

Rolled 2, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 1, 1 = 22 (8d6)

>>4217152
>mystical study: (reduce metabolism) 1
>3 farm 1
>explore west 1
>tame the big birds 1
>>4217433
>worship 1
>Farm (Gather +7 food) 2
>Farm ____
>Farm ____
(Okay, I just checked my rules, and this needs clarification: A unit can only be used for the same action once per turn. So if you had 5 Actions, you could Gather with farmers, Explore and move Archers, Explore and Discover Game with Archers, and Gather Game with Archers but not Gather with either those Archers or Farmers again. Any questions?)

>>4217483
>mystical study 2
>3 farmers to farm 3
>Develop Technology (Animal Husbandry) 1
>Tame the big birds 1
>>4217574
>mystical study 3
>3 farmers to farm 4
>Develop Technology (Animal Husbandry) 2
>Tame the big birds 2
>>4217609
>worship 2
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers plus Edella 5
>Develop Mysticism: Queen Edella: Phoenix 1
>Develop Technology: Farming (II) 1
>>4217833
>worship 3
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers plus Edella 6
>Develop Mysticism: Queen Edella: Phoenix 2
>Develop Technology: Farming (II) 2
>EAT MORE BIRBS OØ7
>>4219026
>worship 4
>Gather Food with 3 Farmers plus Edella 7
>Develop Mysticism: Queen Edella: Phoenix 3
>Develop Technology: Farming (II) 3

Close vote:
Worship
Gather Food +7
Develop Mysticism: Queen Edella: Phoenix
Develop Technology: Farming (II)

>And Its winter? And we are still able to farm/hunt for food?
You can always hunt (Gather Game) or forage (Gather Foraged Food).
It doesn't make sense for Farmers to be able to Gather Produce/Grain during the winter, but I didn't explicitly limit it so it's a loophole allowed by RAW that I am fluffing as Farmers being superior foragers. Maybe I should just add Foraged to their description.

>"explore west"
West? That seems like an odd choice why would- Wait...
>>4206810
>The scouts had spotted strange animals far in the distance to the northwest.
FUCK!

Confession time: I suffer from East/West dyslexia. I will really try to not screw it up again, and normally I'd switch things around to cover my shame, but that would put the birds in the wrong terrain across the river.
The land birds are in the NorthEAST.
Sorry.

So if I ever say East/West, and it seems like I mean the other, call me out on it.
For whatever reason, I never mix North/South.

>Do we a family ourselves?
I imagine Edella living alone. If she has a family, they are not close. Perhaps nieces and nephews and their children. She does not currently have a mate.

>>4219847
Oops.
Screwed up the formatting, but I'm keeping it for the rolls.

Also, since I'm yammering, on the map, I put the farm icon outside the civilization hex, for aesthetics.
It hasn't come up yet, but there some additional points about hexes I should clarify:
>hexes are 6 miles across
>A resource discovered in hex can be Gathered from each hex surrounding it.
>Farms, and other land-heavy structures, take up more space, so you can only fit 6 in a hex.
>building structures are smaller, so about 60 per hex
>palisades, walls, etc, will have to be constructed in each hex separately

So, when you build Palisades, I'll need to know if you want the farms to physically been physically placed inside the civ hex so they're protected all in one hex, or outside so you have more expansion room but need to build multiple defense structures.
I can see the benefits of both and it certainly doesn't need to be decided now.
I'm leaving the farm icons up for now, for aesthetics.

>>4219847
Also, I roll dice in order of Actions listed and the Growth is always last.
So:

>Mysticism: 2, 2, 4, 6, + 1 = 15
>Technology: 2, 4 = 6
>Growth: 1, 1 - 1 = 1

Sorry for the lateness. I had a 21 hour day yesterday and I slept through my alarm. Update in about an hour, I literally just woke up.

>Population Tier II: Stable (19 -13 +1 = 7 pips)
>Health Tier 1 (3 -6½ + 1 pips)
>Morale: ½ (0 + ½)
>Food: 0 Hunger (0 - 7 + 7)

>Units: 4 Available of 3 Farmers and Edella
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)
Queen Edella Farn the Phoenix Heart: Firestarter: Either +1 Offense, -1 Attrition, or +1 Gather Mystical Element; Used once per turn; +1 Able Unit;

>Mysticism Development:
Pyrokinesis: (10 Pyro pips)
Phoenix Flame (I): Either +1 Offense, -1 Attrition, or +1 Gather Mystical Element; Used once per turn per structure or unit (Firestarter) (+15 Pyro pips)

Mental Discipline: (10 MD pips)
Eagle's Will to Endure (I): +½ Morale if Morale <1 (12 MD pips)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged); (10 +19 "Archery" pips)

Feathercraft (I): Feather Cloaks +1; (10 +4 "Feathercraft" pips)

Agriculture: (10 Agri pips)
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure (+15 Agri pips; 5 more needed for Farming(II))
Food Storage (I): Turf House with Root Cellar + 1 Health (+2 Agri pips)

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex; Stockpile (0)
Farmed Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Foraged Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Mystic: Vestan Djagger (Tier I)
Mystic: Edella Farn (Tier I)

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
2 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;
Turf House: Food Storage

Edella allowed her people to foster a belief that she has become divine, if not immortal. Slowly, as the winter weather confines them, they began to openly revere and worship her.

One talented crafter carved a dramatized depiction of her taking the Phoenix's heart on the wall of the root cellar. Many elves came to send their prayers to the sky through thoughts of her instead of directly to the wind or sky.

Edella was flattered and pleased by the attention, but at times with her people would listen more to her words than adore her for what she is. She was far from complaining though.

In her increased spare time, Queen Farn started studying with Vestan like the other elves. She already had a will like iron, but she wanted to see if she could get in touch with the strange power of the phoenix.

One day while meditating with everyone, she startled and shocked them all by igniting the floor mat with the power of her mind, calling upon the mystical energy of the phoenix.

She soon was able to create fierce flames to burn a target, gentle flames to warm the cold, or a single gentle orange flicker in her hand that did not burn her palm but waxed and waned in relation to her proximity to what she was informed by sages were unseen mystical elements.

She found herself instructing loyal acolytes how to reach into themselves and connect with their inner flame. A rare few were able to start meager flickers and wisps, but the ability was there and the flames could be stoked.

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>>4220413
The wisest and most intelligent sages amongst the elves, kept indoors by the weather, began working on a method of cycling crops in an ordered progression to increase yield and make the farm fields more productive. Unfortunately, their plans were still incomplete by the time spring planting needed to begin.
You need to roll five more pips reach the cumulative threshold for Farming (II) which, in this particular case, would automatically upgrade your farms.

The farmers work tirelessly, doing their best to pull everything they can forage from the land and not a single elf goes hungry or was in danger, save one.

One scout wandered away from the rest after spotting something through an approaching storm. The rest were unable to find him and forced to come back without him.

The missing scout's family wanted to head out looking for him but were not well equipped to do so. The scouts were willing to search for him but doubted that they could find him until after the snowstorm passed.

What does Edella tell them to do?
>She orders them not to search for him, he chose his path and can return or not by his own bravery.
>She allows the family to search, risking their health out of kindness.
>She asks their scouts to search for him immediately out If a sense of honor.
>She has the scouts search when the storm passes and they can return safely.
>She searches for him herself, trusting in her newfound phoenix flame and spirituality.
>Write-In

You have 1 Action for the beginning of Spring:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 4 Units Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 4 Units
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into other Units

When I went to upgrade the Farming Technology, I realized that I had been handling Development Tier and pips wrong, but if I ran it as RAW dictated, it would be too harsh for beginning civilizations. So I added a new rule: Any new Development tree begun gets a free 10 pips automatically.
So:
Farming created a new tree, "Agriculture", and got 10 pips plus what was rolled.
Feathercraft created a new, unnamed tree and got 10 pips plus what was rolled.
Food Storage was added to the existing Agriculture tree and its 2 rolled pips are in addition to the 10 Agriculture pips.
This way, beginning level development succeeds, but advanced development is relatively difficult.
If it feels like our elves' technology is developing slowly, remember that they have the second-lowest Technology stat.

Tier 2 Developments require 30 pips, which would include the base 10 for the tree plus the total cumulative rolls for development.
So, Phoenix Flame (II) would be "10 + 15 +4d6+1" and therefore guaranteed on that roll, where Food Storage (II) would be "10 + 2 + 2d6" and necessarily need at least one more one roll to advance.
You can Develop the same thing twice in one turn.
You only need to combine additional Resource, Structure, Development, etc on once on the Development roll towards the next tier.

All of this might be more clear and intuitive once I can make and post a Development Tree infographic.

>>4220417
>She searches for him herself, trusting in her newfound phoenix flame and spirituality.

>Gather Food with all available Units

What does "+1 Gather Mystical Element" mean on Phoenix Flame (I)? Would that be for us finding magical reagents in the wild or something?

>>4220542
>What does "+1 Gather Mystical Element" mean on Phoenix Flame (I)? Would that be for us finding magical reagents in the wild or something?
If you Discover a "Mystical Element" Resource like you have with, Fertile Soil or Foraged Food, or establish one like you did with Farmed Food, units with Phoenix Flame can Gather +1 like Archers or Farmers Gather Food.

(BTW the default title for a unit with just Phoenix Flame is Firestarter)

Finding Resources would be "+1 Discover X"
I did fluff it to sound like she's better at finding it, though, so the confusion is understandable. Thanks for asking so I could clarify.

>>4220648
Obviously me, just dropped my name.

>>4220417
>She asks their scouts to search for him immediately out If a sense of honor.
>Explore - Discover Resource

>>4220417
>She orders them not to search for him, he chose his path and can return or not by his own bravery.
Explore northern hex

>>4220726
>Explore - Discover Resource
Which hex?

>>4220803
>Explore northern hex
Discover Resources in the hex just north of civ?
Or Explore moving unit(s) north [Along what 3 hex path?] to reveal more map?

>>4220823
just explore the three closest tiles on this side of the river northeast-ish

>>4220417
>>Event
Torn between Bravery and Spirituality. On the one hand, the fool set out on his own and we shouldn't be risking more people for his sake. Plus I like the idea of our elves being brave, crazy, fire-eating dusk elves. On other hand, our mysticism score and spirituality tie in well with each other, and getting a buff for our phoenix-magic would be pretty awesome. The snow-phoenix matches with that idea as well.

If someone can think of a clever write in for this, that'd be cool. Best I can think is that Edella goes out on her own to find him using spirituality to guide herself, but when she finds him she makes the scout take the lead and figure his own path out of this mess. Make him eat a bird or something and get blizzard powers out of it.


>>Action
>Build Structure: Farm
I think getting at least one more out will help extensively, as it gives a better baseline and will help for the rest of the season, letting our farmers do something else or retrain. Seems like our food situation is also balanced out with hunger at 0 right now, so we can afford to build up a bit more rather than force all our farmers to farm again. Though I'd like to build defenses and scout some more, I think that can wait for end of spring when we'll have more actions and the weather will be more conducive to building and scouting.

>>4221087
I would say our food situation is better, but still not so great. We balanced out last turn, but only from spending an action. Our food economy is mostly action reliant. Building a farm or exploring instead will put us into an expected deficit of 7+6-2, or -11 food if I understand the ordering right (pop+growth-produced). We're still expected to starve if we gather food, but less, so hopefully the penalty will be less severe and we'll have more than 1 action next turn (to do real shit with). I think if we can build some more farms and finish the second tier of farming tech, we'll be in a good spot to explore and expand with a lot of actions and units. I could be wrong though

Rolled 3, 4 = 7 (2d4)

>>4220542
>herself 1
>Gather Food with all available Units 1
>>4220726
>scouts to search for him immediately 1
>Explore - Discover Resource 1
>>4220803
>can return or not by his own bravery 1
>Explore northern hex 1
(Three closest tiles on this side of the river northeast-ish)
>>4221087
>between Bravery and Spirituality 1
>Build Structure: Farm 1

Closing vote.
Rolling to break the tie.

Rolled 4, 2 - 1 = 5 (2d6 - 1)

>>4221466
Bravery
Farm

Writing

Once again, I apologize for the delay.
My writing got interrupted and I lost track of the time. I think I have a solution for most of these delays going forward. Except when reworking the rules when needed, that's always a time sink.

>Population Tier III: Growing (7 -0 +5 = 12 pips)
>Health Tier 2 (3 -0 + 1 pips)
>Morale: 1
>Food: -9 Hunger (0 - 12 + 3)

>Units: 4 of 7 Available: 3 Farmers and Edella
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)
Queen Edella Farn the Phoenix Heart: Firestarter: Either +1 Offense, -1 Attrition, or +1 Gather Mystical Element; Used once per turn; +1 Able Unit;

>Mysticism Development:
Pyrokinesis: (10 Pyro pips)
Phoenix Flame (I): Either +1 Offense, -1 Attrition, or +1 Gather Mystical Element; Used once per turn per structure or unit (Firestarter) (+15 Pyro pips)

Mental Discipline: (10 MD pips)
Eagle's Will to Endure (I): +½ Morale if Morale <1 (12 MD pips)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged); (10 +19 "Archery" pips)

Feathercraft (I): Feather Cloaks +1; (10 +4 "Feathercraft" pips)

Agriculture: (10 Agri pips)
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure (+15 Agri pips; 5 more needed for Farming(II))
Food Storage (I): Turf House with Root Cellar + 1 Health (+2 Agri pips)

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex; Stockpile (0)
Farmed Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Foraged Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Mystic: Vestan Djagger (Tier I)
Mystic: Edella Farn (Tier I)
Warrior: Hakken Brassclaw (Tier 0)

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (0):
3 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;
Turf House (0): Food Storage

The lost elf's family took solace as their divine queen comforted them personally but Edella ordered everyone to stay inside and not risk their lives by going out into the storm looking for him. The storm ended up lasting three days and few had any hope that they would see him again until the Spring thaw revealed his body.

In the morning, a day after the storm ended, scouts spotted him trudging through the snow approaching the village clutching a sickle in one frostbitten hand. He collapsed shortly after he reached the edge of the village.

He slept for days with a fierce fever and his hand was terribly damaged, costing him most of the fingers and leaving him with barely any ability to move it when he finally did awake. He never spoke about what had happened out in the snow and it remained unclear if he didn't remember or if he just did not wish to speak of it.

The sickle he brought back was brass and very old but mostly untarnished and proved that other people had been in these plains in years past. The crafters had a clever idea with what to do with the blade and set to work immediately.

His friends and family noted that Hakken, the one-handed elf, had become quieter than he was before, but more stoic and fearless than ever. When Queen Edella bestowed upon him the gift that the crafters had made, he simply took it and said "Thank you."

...

>>4222481
The skilled crafters had molded the sickle into a polished brass bladed hook that was secured to his hand with leather straps. It had a curved leather sheath that allowed him to safely grip objects but removed quickly be removed to use the blade as an impressive tool or even a weapon if needed.

He was on his feet and asking to return to scouting within days and the elves around the village took to calling him "Hakken Brassclaw". He responded to his new name the way he responded to everything, with calm, quiet stoicism.

As soon as the ground thawed, Edella expected her hard-working farmers to immediately sow seeds in the farms, but they impressed her by also starting another farm on the northeast side of the settlement.

While they were sowing the new field, the farmers spotted an animal stalking them from the dry grass. Clearly emaciated from the dry grass, it resembled a cat like the bird-killers that used to be tolerated for keeping away vermin before the resettlement.

However, this new animal was much larger, nearly waist-high, and had been stalking the farmers as prey. Its light yellow coat, mottled with many circular brown spots, had allowed it to blend in with the tall dry grass seamlessly and was only spotted by chance.

One farmer threw some stones at it and, as it bolted, the farmers were at first relieved at its skittish nature. Then they watched as it flew across the plains fast as a hawk, disappearing over the horizon in moments.

The sages might have doubted the account of such a large, rapidly moving cat easily capable of running down an elf if all the farmers had not described the same creature. The unknown beast seemed to be hunting alone, but the fearful among the farmers speculated that it could have been an outcast from a nearby pack or, worse, simply been scouting for new hunting grounds for its pack.

Some of the farmers wanted scouts to watch over them while they toil as protection from the beast. Less than enthusiastic about watching farmers work all day, every day, on the off chance the beast returns, the scouts wanted to hunt down the beast and kill it, despite its speed.

Regardless of whatever danger the beast might pose to farmers who scared it off with a rock, Edella saw that the beast might also scare off the land birds, or Bodenave as a few sages started calling them. She had plans for those birds and did not like the idea of an overgrown rat-eater spoiling them.

...

>>4222492
She immediately commanded that no child be allowed to wander unattended until the danger was resolved. The people praise her divine and benevolent wisdom.

But as for the beast itself, there were a few different possibilities. She wished she could just kill the beast and be done with it, but she knew she had to carefully make the proper response for the her growing settlement.

How does Edella respond to the perceived threat of the predator beast?
>She orders the farmers to return to work, chastising them for showing such fear of one sighting of a skittish beast and urges them to be brave.
>She has the scout leader assign the most under-performing scout the tedious duty of guarding the farmers, turning the drain of manpower into something practical.
>She gives the scouts a full ten-day to track and kill the beast, learn if there's a pack, and return safely over satisfying their pride.
>She sends the scouts on a patrol to observe to ensure their land birds are not being harassed by beast, and if they are, to seek justice.
>Write-In

You have 3 Actions for the end of Spring:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 4 Units Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 4 Units
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into other Units
>Train 3 new units

>>4222497
>She gives the scouts a full ten-day to track and kill the beast, learn if there's a pack, and return safely over satisfying their pride.

>Develop Technology Farming(II)
>Develop Mysticism Phoenix Flame (II)
>Gather Food with 4 Units

>>4222497
>>She gives the scouts a full ten-day to track and kill the beast, learn if there's a pack, and return safely over satisfying their pride.

>>4222673
Supporting

>>4222497
>>Event
>She gives the scouts a full ten-day to track and kill the beast, learn if there's a pack, and return safely over satisfying their pride.

>>Actions
>Gather Food with 4 units
Seems like we need to get around 9ish units of food if we don't want to get hit super hard next turn.
>Develop Technology: Farming(II)
>Develop Technology: Earthen Defences, if we need it for basic defences, otherwise, >Build Structure: Basic Earthen Defences for capital hex

>>4223272
this

>>4223272
+1
first defense "building" could maye be a watchtower on a mound of sorts. to spot cats and redjaws

>>4223272
Support

Rolled 2, 2, 5, 5, 1, 6 = 21 (6d6)

>>4222673
Vote closed

>scouts 1
>Develop Technology Farming(II) 1
>Develop Mysticism Phoenix Flame (II) 1
>Gather Food with 4 Units 1
>>4222838
>scouts 2
>>4223164
>scouts 3
>Develop Technology Farming(II) 2
>Develop Mysticism Phoenix Flame (II) 2
>Gather Food with 4 Units 2
>>4223272
>scouts 4
>Gather Food with 4 units 3
>Develop Technology: Farming(II) 3
>Develop Technology: Earthen Defences 1
>>4223358
>scouts 5
>Gather Food with 4 units 4
>Develop Technology: Farming(II) 4
>Develop Technology: Earthen Defences 2
>>4223430
>scouts 6
>Gather Food with 4 units 5
>Develop Technology: Farming(II) 5
>Develop Technology: Earthen Defences 3
>>4223721
>scouts 7
>Gather Food with 4 units 6
>Develop Technology: Farming(II) 6
>Develop Technology: Earthen Defences 4

Scouts
Gather Food with 4 units
Develop Technology: Farming(II)
Develop Technology: Earthen Defences

Writing

>>4223881
>Need 5 to get Farming (II)
>Roll 4
Damn Luddite elves

>Population Tier II: Stable (12 -9 +6 = 9 pips)
>Health Tier 0 (3 -9/2 + 1 pips)
>Morale: 1 (0 + ½ + ½)
>Food: 1 Stores (0 -9 + 7 + 3)

>Units: 4 of 7 Available: 3 Farmers and Edella
Farmer: +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain)
Queen Edella Farn the Phoenix Heart: Firestarter: Either +1 Offense, -1 Attrition or +1 Gather Mystical Element; Used once per turn; +1 Able Unit;

>Mysticism Development:
Pyrokinesis: (10 Pyro pips)
Phoenix Flame (I): Either +1 Offense, -1 Attrition, or +1 Gather Mystical Element; Used once per turn per structure or unit (Firestarter) (+15 Pyro pips)

Mental Discipline: (10 MD pips)
Eagle's Will to Endure (I): +½ Morale if Morale <1 (12 MD pips)

>Technology Development:
Archery (I): +1 to Gather (Game/Fish); +1 to Offense (Ranged); (10 +19 "Archery" pips)

Earthen Defences (I): Earthen Wall +1 Defense Structure (10 + 10 Earthen Defences pips)

Feathercraft (I): Feather Cloaks +1 Health; (10 +4 "Feathercraft" pips)

Agriculture: (10 Agri pips)
Farming (I): +1 to Gather (Produce/Grain) with Farm Structure (+19 Agri pips; 1 more needed for Farming(II))
Food Storage (I): Turf House with Root Cellar + 1 Health (+2 Agri pips)

Hunting (0): (+9 pips)

>Resources:
Fertile Soil: 1 Hex; Stockpile (0)
Farmed Food: 1 Hex; Stores (1)
Foraged Food: 1 Hex; Stores (0)
Mystic: Vestan Djagger (Tier I)
Mystic: Edella Farn (Tier I)
Warrior: Hakken Brassclaw (Tier 0)

>Structures:
Elf Settlement (I): +1 Defense
3 x Farm (0): +1 Food Spring/Summer; +2 Autumn;
Turf House (0): Food Storage

...

>>4223991
Edella sent the scouts out for a ten-day, not really expecting much. After eight days, they returned to find their home defended with a sizeable earthen wall with a small ditch and steep slope outside, a gentle slope inside, and menacing with spikes of wood.

A young elf training to be scout was manning the wall, watching for them, and showed them the entrance. They entered the village, surprising everyone with the dead beast they carried.

The scouts had tracked the beast for days, found it, watched it for a day and a half, and when it became clear that the beast had no pack nor was there any sign of one, they killed it with their arrows. Its superior speed didn't save it from elven archery.

They marveled at its size and beautiful spotted coat. The crafters wanted to make it into a cloak, but the creature was far too skinny.

They ended up making a simple but lovely wall decoration of the pelt and presented it to Queen Edella at the Summer Founding Feast. The farmers' hard work and steady improvement yielded enough food to feed everyone and still have some left over for the stores.

At the celebration, an elder flutist performed a hauntingly beautiful song inspired by the events of the past year. Everyone loved it and it became quite popular, often sung by the common elves as they worked, although it did not sound as equally beautiful it was sung by everyone.

What was the song about?

>The discovery of the Bodenave and this land's endless wonder.
>The sinister legacy of the fishstealer's treachery.
>The phoenix-like soaring rise of their glorious queen to divinity.
>The return of Hakken Brassclaw as a dauntless hero.
>The threat of the spotted beast and the scouts' recent triumph.
>Write-In

You have 2 Actions for the beginning of Spring:
Clever Write-In actions may be incorporated into one of the standard actions:
>Explore - Discover Resource
>Explore - Move 1 to 4 Units Speed 3
>Gather Food with 1 to 4 Units
>Gather Resource
>Develop Mysticism
>Develop Technology
>Build Structure
>Train 1 to 3 Farmers into other Units

>>4223995
can we gather food 2x?
if not food and explore- discover resource

>>4223998
We can't, but if we get farming tech 2 we'll increase how much food we'll get per turn permanently. It's guaranteed this turn since we just missed it before by just 1 point.

>>4223995
>The threat of the spotted beast and the scouts' recent triumph.

>Develop Technology Farming II
>Gather Food with 4 Units

>>4224117
+1

>>4223998
>explore- discover resource
Any time you Explore you have to tell me where.
Discover Resource needs to be in a bordered hex, one you've been to.
Explore Move needs a path of (default 3) hexes to move a unit through, turning them into bordered, explored hexes.

>>4223995
>>Event
>The discovery of the Bodenave and this land's endless wonder.
The sense of wonder will do well for us when we get to explode next turn. Plus its cozy.

>>Action
>Gather Food with 4 Units
>Develop Technology Farming II

>>4223995
>The phoenix-like soaring rise of their glorious queen to divinity.
>Develop Technology Farming II
>Gather Food with 4 Units

>>4224176
ok but i wanna develop farming 2 and gather food instead

>>4223995
>The discovery of the Bodenave and this land's endless wonder.

>>4224117
Support

Rolled 5, 4, 3, 5 = 17 (4d6)

>>4224117
>triumph 1
>Develop Technology Farming II 1
>Gather Food with 4 Units 1
>>4224139
>triumph 2
>Develop Technology Farming II 2
>Gather Food with 4 Units 2
>>4224447
>wonder 1
>Gather Food with 4 Units 3
>Develop Technology Farming II 3
>>4224509
>divinity 1
>Develop Technology Farming II 4
>Gather Food with 4 Units 4
>>4224781
>develop farming II 5
>gather food 5
>>4224784
>wonder 2
>>4225330
>triumph 3
>Develop Technology Farming II 6
>Gather Food with 4 Units 6

Vote closed
Triumph over the spotted beast
Develop Technology Farming II
Gather Food with 4 Units