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[evilcherry]

Now we have proper tools and a trade route lets start an industry.

Kwaa-naa's Tinkerers should start to explore the art of making totems from bone and wood. Start with simple hammers and chisel tools.
Builders should try to help with general deforestation: i.e. felling trees and making them serviceable lumber. Also with improved tools they should be able to build better stone huts, at least before we can figure out how to make houses. We don't have many trees here so we need to improvise.

The Lances should break. No worries. Shock Cavalry are also the most maintainance heavy troops in the world so no problem. That means we also need a backup weapon for lancers, and that means they should equip themselves with a short spear.

Archers should also try to incorporate the new tools into bowmaking procedure, and perhaps make better/more uniform bows.

Recruit more Avians for the lancer corp. Promise them some combat drills and hunting to keep them happy. We need more pages for our best lancers.

I guess you should spend more time on the proper turn.

[Ashsaber]

The proper turn resolves...tonight.

[10ebbor10]

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(inconsistencies should be addressed for the sake of fluff, but they won't affect gameplay.)
-!Lore inconsistency: Sentience = increased magic use. See the magic addendum for estimated summon life length.
 (In other words: They be big magic eaters)
 (If they're created (like our familiars) then they'd be big eaters, if they were gated in then they're, uh, different life forms, I guess)

Give me a rough idea of what these things are: a picture for reference would be nice.

Considering they survived for quite some time, don't naturally explode and have almost no characteristics of summoned creatures, I think I'm going with the gated in explanation. Presumably shackled extra planar entities.
Unless well, souls of being have a high magical energy equivalent, in which case they'd eat those.

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Pretty similar to the standard Discworldian Golem, but with more freedom, and no Asimov law system.

Actions

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Lumberjacks: Gather material for the project
Miners: Help with excavation for the project
Builder: Commence the project

The Project

Find an uninhabited hillsite. Preferably rocky, but normal ground will work to. The Miners dig it out as much as possible, reinforcing the galleries using wood and stone. These galleries serve as the basement and reinforcement of the construction above, which is a several floor wood/stone construction creeping up the hill, using it as reinforcement. Food supplies can be stored in the galleries , while people live above ground.

[Detoxicated]

After giving her speech, Milgrin walks personally to the promoters of Blag. Well seated on the floor, with a stern look on his face she looks the other guildleader in the eye and says: "We shall build a temple, but this will take time and thought, as well as manpower. If you give me thinkers or some extra buildings, I would be more than willing to build a temple. As we would have an agreement I believe we will aid it other in times of need?

After having brought her message to the Blaghumans, she wanders off to the golems.
Awed by their numbers and their appearance, she tells one of them. "If you have a leader I would love to meet him, my dear. I have a proposal for you all to consider."

[Ashsaber]

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Turn 6
Late Spring, Week 4
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Local Map

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All the area shown are "in case of siege this is what we got."

Area Map

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All the area shown are "acceptable to get to within the timeframe allowed.

World Map

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Will be filled out as more scouting occurs.

Blue - Sea route
Black - Land route
Mixed - Need some means to cross both
Straighter lines = faster travel.

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Arrivals

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 About 20 people this week, mainly humans. Also probably from a landlocked village because they were not happy about having to cross our bridges.
 Also, a new goblin guild master showed up this week, goes by the name of Milgrim Grumblehorn. I wonder what horns they grumble about?
 Oh yeah, and the Golems of...I don't even know. Our mages are both fascinated and terrified by them so I guess it's abnormal.
  More abnormal than a walking golem, I mean.
  I want a drink.

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Diplomacy

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 SouthTown's ship showed up, got a resupply, gave us some tools, and sailed off.
 Green Beard sent a scouting party to NorthTown to warn them of SouthTown's ship. We still aren't totally sure SouthTown is headed to the North with violent intentions but it's kind of difficult to believe they aren't.

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Updates

Construction

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Contributors: Kwaa-Naa, Sergei, Milgrim, Rolep

More tents, more of Mick's Communes being erected.

Rolep made what could only be an epically detailed plan of job for his guys (and anybody they could round up) to make a second bridge. This one is made of boats, and is a little precarious to use, especially since the river's gotten a little faster lately.

The rope bridge itself was reinforced with a second set of ropes. It still swings like a, well, thing, but it at least swings less with the new-ish Sergei ButcheredWagons on top of it.

Speaking of Sergei, he's taken those abandoned wagons and cut them down to easier size (small enough to be dragged by one person) in order to carry wood back to base for processing into lumber.

In other news our Lumberjacks are actually Lumberjacks and not Woodjacks anymore.

Sergei's also got his followers to build a goblin...hall? guild hall? A large structure that they use for all their stuff ever. It's gotten some of the basic landwork done but hasn't actually gotten its structure complete. I heard some of the builders complain that they don't have a blueprint but I guess it's a "let's built it as it comes" thing.

The mining tunnels got torches added in, so now all the non-Neko miners can get to work, as a result we now have more gold and silver that's being smelted and just kinda left alone.
The mining tunnels also got air tubes, so everyone can work in there for longer shifts before needing to be hauled out.

We finally got a Still. Everyone really wanted a drink and pitched in, so there's going to a lot of brew come...soon. ish. General consensus is that the Nekos drink less because they're loud and a bit insane while drunk. Nekos are the best party people, but we don't have a space that's not prone to destruction.

Green Beard made some more Catamarans that the fishermen who don't have friends that enjoy a stable platform are using. They're comparatively slower than the canoe but they're, y'know, stable n'shit. So the fisher on it can stab at his leisure. A few of the smarter ones tied them to the dock so they don't have to row. The smarter ones didn't get as much fish as the ones that decided to go out to the sea, though.

Research - General

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Contributors: Mammoth Charge, Sergei

Welp. The first order of the day is the usage of animal hearts as the core for the summoned familiars. The vote was...not overwhelmingly so towards hearts, but the logic being they're more abundant and more powerful won out, I guess.

Green Beard in particular was not happy about it; telling him it wasn't necromancy (since nothing's actually coming back -alive-) helped a tiny bit.

_{If nothing else heart familiars won't be looted if they die in battle}

Also Mammoth Charge wanted, uh. Heavier spears that hit harder, light spears that are lighter, and armor that protects better. He also wants an enchanted charge.

The heavy spears just got heavier. Some other tip they're using? I can't tell.
The light spears got some shaving done on the shaft, so it's lighter. It's a little more fragile though.
Armor just got a second layer. Nothing to do about that.

Sergei got some wooden armor made. Better than leather but eh.

Green Beard got some woven shields. I've seen them in combat and I'm pretty dubious about their ability to stand up to a hit, if only because the Neko vs Neko spar saw the shields ripped to shreds very quickly.

Research - Magic

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 Besides the Summon Familiar thing, Mammoth also wanted that enchanted charge.
 Some of the mages looked into it and...
 They can't really get any real work done until they have more stuff to use, but apparently the concept behind the magic is either
 1. to reduce the weight of the charger until the instant of impact, or
 2. to increase the charge speed of the charger.
 The mages can do both, but it requires more resources (that, honestly, we don't have now), so they're focusing on one field for now.
 
 Personal notes
 Option 1 - Very much pure offense style for our ground bound units (well it's not like their weight is reduced to nothing, but it's still noticeable). The reduced weight would make them easier to intercept mid-charge, but they'd be more dodgy.
 Option 2 - A all rounder bonuses that our air units can use. You run faster so you hit harder. Problem is...running faster into sharp objects may be bad for our health.
 Option 3 - Uh...I guess someone might have a third idea? I dunno.

Research - Vehicles

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Contributors: Green Beard

The Catamaran. Not much else to be said.

Newcomers

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Milgrim Grumblehorn
 -I'm not sure he (she?) saw the tools we have, since one of the first orders was to make basic tools.
 -Or that there are established farms. I guess more can't hurt.
 Then again we don't have tools for everyone, so having more (even if they're basic) can't hurt.
 Also he/she and Green Beard are planning something with that shrine/temple of theirs. It's probably nothing important.
 
Robert
 -The golems were..smaller than the first impression gave. They're also a lot smarter than the average summon.
 Ok, so. Apparently they're creatures that have been gated in from a different location, and as such would be like the humans of that world. A little strange but hey. Although they're not as big as I originally thought they're still too big to fit into the mineshaft.
 
 The golems showed up and began digging into the mountainside for "The Project". I dunno what it is (since the digging has just begun in the past few days) but that Robert dude said it would be very helpful. A handful of Avians are helping out due to general interest in these guys.

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Food

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 Rules
 Avoid overhunting in all areas.
 
 Income
 Surplus - We collect enough or more than we eat.
 Minor overflow - A small amount of collection is thrown out.
 
 Storage
 Enough for a week, assuming zero income.
 
 Gathering fatigue
 Very light across all areas.
 
 Food Variance
 Fairly high, most of it fresh.
 As a result morale is pretty good.

Materials

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 Rules
 Avoid overcollecting in all areas.
 
 Income
 Not Enough - We use more than we take in.
 
 Storage
 Gold - bars
 Silver - bars
 
 Quality
 Low - We have tools but no proper stations.
 
 Tools
 Basic Steel Tools - Everything except farming implements.
 

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Buildings

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 Housing
 Enough - Everyone has tents n'stuff.
 Tents are not proper housing, but take what you can get.
 
 Administration
 None present - Everyone does whatever.
 
 Storage
 Food - room for two months.
 Material - none present.
 
 Farms
 Food - large scale, currently in use.
 Material - small scale, currently in use.
 
 Defense
 Walls - none
 Towers - none
 
 Economy
 Dock - Simple, stationed on river
 
 Other
 Bridge - simple rickety rope bridge.
 Bridge - bridge made of boats
 Shrine to Blag - Swamp god shrine. (Minor Deity)

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Plans

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 Green Beard's mass conversion to Blag against Hearts. (In progress - Indeterminate time)
 Green Beard's NorthTown scouts (approx. 1 week to target)

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Morale

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 Humans - Fair. Entertained by Nekos.
 Elves - Fair. Has adapted to the lack of woodlands, is being affected by heat.
 Nekos - Fair. Heat is getting to them.
 Avians - Fair. Happy about keeping their combat edge. Unhappy about working near water. Strangely fine when it rains.
 Goblins - Fair. I don't know why either. Oh god the sun burns.
 Half-Elves - Fair. Gotten over their self-imposed depression.
 Golems - Unknown. No facial expressions seen.

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Research Progress
Summon Familiar (Promtho) - ABOUT TO FINISH (Final stretch)
Treehouse (Kwaa-naa) - HALTED (No tree)
Type 2 Tree Lances (Kwaa-naa) - FINISHED (Result: small sharpened tree stake with removable tips)
Enchanted Charge (Mammoth Charge) - IN PROGRESS (Requires direction)
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Religion
Blag - 50 followers
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Population
I got someone else to do my census.
169   Elf
221   Neko
139   Avian
124   Human
89   Goblin
42   Half Elf
20   Golem

Total: 804
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Points of attention

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 It's getting hot, and summertime's going to be a little rough on everyone. That said we -are- close to an ocean so it's not going to be that big of a deal.

Events

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 A few days ago the river surged. Wonder what happened.
 
 There's also been a few voices talking about how we need a proper seat of government to make us a formal town. That's...probably not going to happen in a while, but it's nice to know we're trying to get established.

Citizen Wants

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Urgency - Task

Kinda Low - Proper trade route to NorthTown
Kinda Low - Proper trade route to SouthTown
Low - Better houses
Low - Alcohol
V. Low - Heat Relief
V. Low - Defense

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 End of Turn 5
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Now taking orders for Turn 7.
Turn 7 will resolve on Monday.

Scout Event will update on Saturday.
First Summons will also show up on Saturday.

_{As always I may have left something out so point stuff out if you see it. Especially anything you want clarifications on.}

[Elephant Parade]

Option 2. After completion, enchant stone chests with ice magic to keep them cool.

We need refrigerators.

[techno65535]

Hrmm...Thought I was building another root cellar. Oh well, I'll take a guild-hall.

Sergei
I swear. I can't take my eyes off them for a minute. I told them to start on a root cellar and what do they do? They start working on a blasted guild hall! We've barely got any permanent buildings yet and they're already trying to set up a guild...What's that? It'll have scratching posts and lots of high perches with plenty of wind? ...Continue.

......Damnit, that bright spot on the ground is back. I swear one of these days I'm gonna catch it and then it'll be sorry!

Builders continue on guild hall, using fitted stone for first level and lumber for the upper 2 floors. Build it with the idea of being at least 3 stories tall and at minimum a basement. Maybe two.
The axe-nekos should split their time between chopping trees and training with those funny bird people. See if they're willing to work on dual charges with nekos on one side of the target and them on the other. Work out easy to see signals to tell the other during combat to start the charge and arrive at the same time.
Smiths experiment with alloying what metals we have to see if anything with any decent strength can be made.
Mages Make some earth golems with some hearts to help with lumber moving. They should then focus on perfecting wind and lightning magics for 'fun and profit'(tm).

[evilcherry]

Kwaa-naa

So... we practically did nothing. No new bows, no crafts, no lancer corp training. EXCELLENT.

repeat what we wanted last turn. They now have more carrying capacity and should rely less on avian lift power. If needed, try to figure out a cart-able route round that mountain for southtown.

[10ebbor10]

The Project is being build. The project takes priority. All golems* are to aid in it's construction

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Builders: Continue construction of the project
Miners: Continue excavating the project.
Lumberjack's : Continue gathering wood for the project
Magician: Observe the summoning ritual, from a distance.
 

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As you can see, my artistic talent is unsurpassed. Final version includes walls , floors and other trivialities. In short, it's a tower dug into the hellside.

*I might think up a nongeneric name for these guys soon. To avoid confusion with the summon-golems.

[Detoxicated]

Milgrim wakes up again to order her minions around.
"Builders begin building on the temple of blag. Use the smoothed stones we already gathered, use the cut trees as rollers for the biggest rocks. The smartest builders shall work on the temple design, to develop a style looking like this:                   
                           _/\_
                       _/____\_
                     /________\
Miners gather more rocks, and smooth them out, so they can be used for the temple.

Farmers, begin digging small canals to irrigate the farming plots. These canals should be an intricate system giving water to all the fields.

Lumberjack, cut some trees, give one half of the trees to the golems to help with their mine, the other half shall be used to support the construction of the temple.

Make one of the intelligent builders the Chief of Research, and let him experiment to find new ways to transport heavy things, tell him to take inspiration from the sun and the moon.

[evilcherry]

Seeing the followers of the false god of Blag building some kind of unholy temple, Every wing under Kwaa-naa would volunteer to help the new iso-golems to build the the tower-side of the project.

May the spirits of the wind speak to all!

Of course, the new bow, craft industry, and heavy flying cavalry reorganization (i.e. recruiting of pages) will continue.

[Ashsaber]

@Sergei
It wasn't explicitly mentioned (which I be sorry for) but a second root cellar was built.
Food storage was upped to 2 months. :3

@evilcherry
Well I guess I missed something here. :x
The...uh...training happened offscreen?

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Edit - A tad earlier than I wanted but eh.

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 Event - Green Beard's Scouts
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_{Note that everyone can pitch in with ideas for these sections}
The scouts of Green Beard reached what they believe is NorthTown after following the coast line for the past three weeks.
(It is NorthTown, no worries there)

The Town itself gives off a very martial air. A very dilapidated martial air.
The walls are tall and stone-made but blasted in several places.
What structures they can see outside the walls are both reinforced with spikes and missing sections here and there.
The surrounding countryside is burned in multiple places; it feels as if a war was fought here recently, the only thing missing were the corpses that would tell of a small scale siege.

Green Beard's men are not sure if NorthTown is going to be friendly, considering the circumstances, but they do have a mission: Warn NorthTown of SouthTown's invasion fleet (of a single ship). What should they do?

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 Event 2 - The First Summon
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 Welp. Complaints aside the mages are starting the spell to create the first familiars, and then they'll be given a test run.

 I'm going to be here, outside the potential blast radius, because I believe in letting the mages do their thing. Yeah.

 ---*Insert fancy summon graphic here*---

 Woo...wow. That thing is shiny as hell. It's like nearly night and that thing is bright. Like stupid bright. Holy shit it shouldn't be possible to be that bright-oh there it goes. It's now not as bright; like...instead of a barrel of oil it's now just a torch, kind of thing. It's shimmery too.

It's got no real shape, just a sphere-ish thing. I guess it's shape will alter depending on what other objects are bound to it. Oh hey, one of the mages enchanted a set of wooden pieces into it. It's got arms and legs now. neat. So that's how it would grab things(?).

Well, we got...four summons. What should they do as a test run?

[cheesemcmuffin88]

Memoirs of Jimmy The Scout

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Ok Guys so here is the plan. Bob give me your under pants don't ask give them to me. Ok greg tie them on the end of your spear yes i know their disgusting thats why their on your spear. Ok now lets start waving it we are going to walk towards the gate waving it and stop 200 yards away hopefully out of bow range and keep waving the banner till they acknowledge our presence.

Memoirs of Green Beard

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The work of Blags Glorious temple has begun yes Praise be to Blag. Yet some of the Bird Men proclaim us heretics it is they who are heathens no matter though as the temple of Blag is built I must make preparations to establish official priests of Blag. I have sent some of my men to enlist craftsmen of the others here to make the five traditional frog masks for my priests i have set the women upon weaving small cages for us to store the holy frogs and turtles of Blag. I have set more of my men upon digging three ponds on the north west and eastern side of the soon to be temple of Blag I shall consult Mick on how to get water there he has been usefull to Blags Goals and I pray one day he will see the light of Blag and join me as a brother in worship. The final thing is that I myself have set upon wading through the waters of the river to catch the largest frogs and turtles I can find to fill the holy ponds.   

Orders

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 Create 3 Frog masks, A Snapping Turtle mask, and a Gator Mask the three elements of Blag
Weave small three by three pens
Dig ponds on the North East and West Sides of The Temple of Blag
Selectively Catch Turtles and Frogs put in Pens
Any one who has spare Time help with construction of temple or spread the word of Blag

[evilcherry]

Golems should help isogolems. Try to deface Blag's temple, if they find a reason to.

[ICBM pilot]

scouts:run away north town is probably an old fortress that is now run by bandits
golems:use small rocks as fingers
nekos: continue whatever you were doing