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[Kanil]

Annnnnnd my character inexplicably jumps off her raft and drowns. I guess I give up now.

[Robsoie]

Finally a Njerpez warrior that i was prepared to fight this time


Then for fun i asked in the nearby village


I wonder why

[Sharp]

You monster!

This is what I did



and how did I pay him for his help?



... it was mainly my dog which killed his friend anyway.

[Robsoie]

That game is insane

[Sharp]

To be fair I got a bit paranoid with sleeping with him around so I decided to terminate his service.... permanently.

[Robsoie]

I didn't even knew you could get a Njerpez around without him trying to kill you on sight

Anyways, finally after nearly 2 months , my character completed my 1st house in this game


Building a single wall tile was taking much more times than i thought, and so i had to get a lot of food to balance the hunger increases from the work load (thanks to my recently learned fisher ritual, it helped)

But how dreadfull those interruptions can be "you feel suspicious", nearly 8 hours of work wasted for nothing each time.

[Azated]

Winter just hit. Fortunately, I'd barely managed to get my house built in time.

I also set up a trap fence blocking the route between a large island and the mainlaind. A reindeer and a stag was a comforting reward for my efforts.

Not long after I finished drying the meat from the stag, entire herds of reindeer started charging through my camp. I've seen somewhere between 20 and 25 in less than two ingame days. One of them stumbled into a fox trap and gave me a chance to smack it with a rock until it decided to die and give me its sweet, sweet hide.

[alamoes]

So I've spawned with all of my farming tools out in the middle.  The purple Njerks are out east.  Directly to the north of my little tiny settlement  they have a camp.  I did not notice until I found f6.     I'm still alive, but terrified, because it is my first game of this not demoed. 

[jester]

Might help some people, doors count as walls but they only take a few boards to build and are built alot quicker than walls

[Sharp]

I didn't even knew you could get a Njerpez around without him trying to kill you on sight
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But how dreadfull those interruptions can be "you feel suspicious", nearly 8 hours of work wasted for nothing each time.

It's a little bug, I dunno if it works if you sneak up on them and then try and talk to them but for me when I encoutered him and map zoomed in he was 4 tiles away and I had my (executioner)axe instead of arrow readied so I decided to talk before doing anything and it seemed he was fairly sociable.

I will have to try this on a war camp and get them to fight each other.

[Robsoie]

Maybe there's a peacefull faction (probably very small amongst the warmongering ones) within the Njerpez tribes and you just found and unfortunately lost their diplomat

[Sharp]

His diplomatic immunity was revoked.

[Moogie]

Storytime!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Boy, that was close... I nearly didn't make it back.

I was returning from a week-long trip to a distant tribe to trade furs for tools. On my way back, I spotted a Njerk scout slowly making his way towards my settlement. Not an unusual sight; I get them wandering in every few weeks, but I can usually take them out swiftly with a combination of Grandmaster stealth, and a Masterwork longbow I'd gotten from a foreign trader some months ago.

I was weighed down with trade goods, but I decided to deal with him before heading back. I zoomed in to his square; he was standing in a flat, open clearing, his back to me. I entered stealth and took a step, but he turned and noticed me immediately. At this point, I realised I'd left something rather important at home: my stack of arrows. I had one arrow in my inventory. I hesitated for a moment, started to move in close with a spear readied, but changed my mind after a couple of steps and pulled out my bow instead.

This wrecklessness he took to his advantage, and as I fumbled with my gear, he loosed an arrow true and deep into my stomach. It broke in me, and I started bleeding- badly. I fired my one arrow back and caught him in the leg. He stumbled and fell. This time, I wasted no time charging forwards to engage him in melee, but I was leaving a thick trail of blood and fielding a massive skill penalty from the combined bloodloss and injury. We traded a few blows and I had difficulty dropping him, but a lucky counterstrike knocked him unconscious, and I finished it by thrusting my spear clean through his eyesocket. He was dead. I was slipping away.

I quickly took his shoes and ripped them up into a bandage. My physician skill was terrible, but I had to stop the bleeding. Now. By sheer luck, I'd picked a few sweet grass leaves in the village I'd traded with earlier, and used them to enhance the effect of the treatment. The result was messy, but servicable.

Now I just had to make it home, but that wouldn't be easy... I'd chosen the worst possible time to make this trip. The month ticked over into November, and Winter arrived with a sudden, bitter chill. As I trudged through the marshland, my warmth dropped from Cold, to Bitterly Cold, to Freezing. Having had no real idea when Winter would kick in, I'd left my warm clothes at home. I wondered if I'd even make it back before I started getting frostbite, and I didn't think my body could take much more injury...

But eventually, miraculously, the house came into view. I threw open the door, headed straight to the shed and got dressed up in my best fur gear. Then I threw some firewood on the fireplace and climbed into bed to rest and heal. Home. The numbness gradually left my body, and I started to feel the depth of my wound for the first time...

It's going to be a long Winter.

[sluissa]

Nice story. Good luck healing. As long as you're prepared though, winter is a good time to do things like heal, as you don't have much to do except sit around, rest, and if you've got spare wood, do some crafts. If you're not prepared though... good luck surviving.

[Moogie]

Well stocked, thankfully. Plenty of smoked meats, lots of fur (in case I need more bandages), nice warm house, and my trading trip was successful in aquiring the tools I needed.

The only thing I didn't find was a dog, so I have no early warning system against approaching predators.