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[Gotdamnmiracle]

Roger.

13spear, your open eyes and keenness to the world has made you great. You have climbed and climbed calculating each moment clambering from a small pupa mulling around in the mire to wrestling your enemies to the ground. 8Loom never expected it, the strongest of the group and most dextrous she expected to rule until she died but you saw. With eyes wide open you watched her, stalked her, waited until she was weak and then challenged her. With her mind belabored with worry and her body encumbered with stress, when the males finally were hatched from your plotting and the split was launched she never had a chance. Many supplies and bodies were stolen. Sadly no warriors deemed to go "stating their oath to protect the chief".

You now lead a small band and have settled for the night on a small dry patch still in the valley of defiling. Your shaman tells you to the north is chilling hills, the south holds searing coasts, the east holds long plains, the west is from where you originated.

Where to, fearless?

Spoiler:  Personal Effects (click to show/hide)

Part of the ceremony of ruling is to cast out all you attained under all  past leaders. Nothing.

Spoiler:  Holdings (click to show/hide)

8 Shifliths (Salamanders the size of a large dog. Animals bred for meat and companionship.)
An ample amount of food.

Spoiler:  Population (click to show/hide)

1 Alpha (yourself)
2 beta
12 gamma
8 Delta
1 Shaman
2 Males

Spoiler:  Residents of note (click to show/hide)

 None yet.

[Jbg97]

After this they will usually remove their sex organs.

...do girl shamans get their ovaries ripped out Temple of Doom style?

[Gotdamnmiracle]

After this they will usually remove their sex organs.

...do girl shamans get their ovaries ripped out Temple of Doom style?

They do it themselves. Closer to Apocalypto.

[jaass]

Head south

[Remuthra]

To the Northlands!

[kaian-a-coel]

Veradores

Art of Domination there?

Also south.

[Maldevious]

Definitely South.

[10ebbor10]

Rimwards

[Cheesecake]

I vote the south.

[javierpwn]

Eastwards!

[GreatWyrmGold]

West, because why not.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Veradores

Art of Domination there?

Also south.

Whoops! That was supposed to be a V. Vevadores.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

"Southwards."

The tribe marches on.

It is strange watching the marathon in their natural habitat. Their size is used specifically because they will walk through the swampy waters as well as swim, keeping above the water, giving them the illusion of being only a few feet tall.

The trek is long. The thick canopy begins to clear more and more as you walk and the land begins to shift, dipping less and less into the deep muck. Eventually the valley turns into an enclosure, open to a large mud colored brook. Moss, lichens, and a strange detravores clings to fallen leaves over the wide, slow moving, shallow stream, like a skin, formed over a cooled soup.

The sun shines, for the first time for most marathoners, bright and strong. The red moon in the sky casts a strange glow on the world as the sound of waves becomes clearer and clearer. The smell of brine and sea vegetation mixes with the acidic dank smell of the bogs creating a strange aroma. The winds begin to sting with salty spray and blistering heat. Most of the marathoners are hot and remove their robes because of the activity in such humidity and glare. Some of the lower ranks begin to complain about the lack of shade and the heat as the party comes to a stop. A beta a a few gammas are sent out to scout for interesting areas.

After a week or two food has begun to dwindle a little and the tribe has found a few locations that seem fit.

Directly on the coast of a black rock beach, near a stone ridge, there is a large open space with little growing save for thick grass and a few trees, ground is hard.

On the bogs edge, near a small pool, and a black sand beach, a small open clearing reaches back from the edge, ground is unlevel.

In the thick bog, along one of the thin tributaries branches, a long walk from the beach, only very tiny clearings without clearing trees, dips into muck from place to place.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Last beginning choice for a while I promise.

[kaian-a-coel]

I'll vote for the Bog's Edge myself.

[Remuthra]

I'll vote for the Bog's Edge myself.

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