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[Maldevious]

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

Make that +2

[scapheap]

I go for In the thick bog.

[GreatWyrmGold]

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

Make that +2 3

[exolyx]

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

Make that +2 3

Yes.

[Cheesecake]

To the bog!

[Gotdamnmiracle]

"Show me the second one." you say with a few chirps. The group plods along behind you for a good hour, going up and down small hills of varying size before stopping in a small clearing near a large clear pool.

The area is wooded thick with marrow woods and vines run over the top, in an attempt an mimicking the dense canopy of the swamp that you had passed through. You move to the pool as people begin to settle and kneel to drink. You find the water tasty after such a long trek and clean as well as clear. You also see that the pool is deep, reaching further than you can see. The shifliths mewl against their reins, they want to bathe in the water.

As people begin to sit you remain standing. You walk to the beach, stepping through a line of tall grass that seems to be the line separating bog from beach. Sharp stones make up the first part of the beach before quickly turning smaller and more worn and then into sand. The sand is wet and thick between your three talons and the whole beach smells like fish and brine. Shells litter the coast, small clam shells along with a few, more rarely large crab shells. Seaweed washes ashore in large gooey clumps of green and the bang of the ocean on the sand is new and exciting. The sky is clear as you remove your robe, becoming naked, and step into the ocean. The water is cool and very refreshing. You aren't used to swimming against such strange currents but think you see some fish and other interesting things creatures before you return back to your people.

When you return the people are cracking open their rations, leaving them with a supply that is beginning to dwindle. The shaman, 7plow, approaches you. "How do you find this land? Does it suit? Should we ready for travel once more or begin arrangements for more permanent residence? And if so what would those arrangements be?"

What would you do?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ranking system explained:
Alpha:you. You are strangely young to hold such a position of power.
Beta: leadership or more veteran marathoners.
Gamma: Common rabble. Can do things on their own but require supervision from time to time for more complex tasks or just better results.
Delta: Children and the mentally retarded. Can perform menial tasks but can not do more complex things like using some tools or building. Does require supervision from a gamma or higher or they will become sidetracked.
Males: Don't work.

Standing will change as more marathoners are born and as time progresses. I will tell you when there has been a change. There are more than just these few ranks when we get more marathoners. Betas can take on specialties to jobs given by you. They will learn remarkably quickly at what you send them to do. Gammas will learn but not as quickly, taking on more apprentice roles. These guys do have prior experiences.

[Remuthra]

Begin setting camp until we can build something better, have the shaman conduct a ritual of knowledge and blessing.

[Cheesecake]

Begin setting camp until we can build something better, have the shaman conduct a ritual of knowledge and blessing.

  +1

[Gotdamnmiracle]

The shaman cocks her head at you and speaks in a dry voice "I do not think we have the materials for such a ritual. Vision inducing plants would have been a good thing to have taken, but we were already pushed out of our tents before I knew what was happening. I am sure they grow around here though. If you like I can try and speak with some of our ancestors spirits for knowledge... Or someone else if you like... I really don't know what you mean by blessing. There needs to be a specific target of said ritual and contract. Be it the world itself or a tiny beetle. Is this what you wish?"

You pause for a moment to reflect, thinking on what she has told you.

[Remuthra]

Send someone out to go find drugs for the Shaman.
Have the sahman commune with the spirit of the nearby bog.

[Cheesecake]

Also, get some supplies to build basic shelters and try to start a fire.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

You aren't really sure what to make a shelter with. You only brought your animals and a few packs of food along. You and all of your people have grass woven robes that provide a very mild amount of shelter as well as the canopy of the trees has always helped. Nobody will complain of lack of shelter immediately but the glaring sun will begin to get to them after a few months in it's rays. You figure that most of them are already feeling it  after such a hike but are holding their tongues.

You don't have any tools to build more than the most basic shelter right now. The marrow woods don't provide a terrible amount of foliage near their base but you can see their bright red leaves near the weak branches up top. You bet you could get some thatch out of those. There are also some straight branches you see laying around but none are long enough to make any sort of working frame out of.

You tell a beta to get a fire started and he grabs five gammas. They go looking for dry branches and kindling. You figure that should take a good few hours.

You instruct the other beta to gather some thatch and straight branches to be used for poles.

Anything else?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turns will now be posted in month long format so if you want them to make a fire for a month, they will only make a fire for that month. I will post results for the month this next turn.

[Remuthra]

Send the other Beta to bring a team on material gathering duty for things like thatch, support it with some dead wood for now.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Send the other Beta to bring a team on material gathering duty for things like thatch, support it with some dead wood for now.

Edit'd. I looked over your suggestion and assumed that was what you wanted.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

You tell the shaman that you will get the plants if she can instruct some gammas on what to look for and ask her if she could commune with the spirit of the nearby bog and ask for it's blessing to live here. The shaman agrees, walking off to instruct the gammas.

You turn to look onto the water, trying to decide what to do for this month. Where to begin?