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[Ashsaber]

I need to stop going back so far to find this thread.

Event resolutions
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 Botes - Supply
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Since there were no words to the contrary the SouthTown boat got the supplies as they desired.
Also for the record these boats represent large boxes with a sail and some oars.

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 Horse - Taming
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The Animal Tamers want to tame it and maybe have a breeding stock (according to some of the SouthTown soldiers that saw it it's a lot more vicious than your average horse, though it just might be the wild-ness). However, they don't have a means of securing it.
Well, that and nobody really wants to see the mating process.

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 Mid Turn Updates
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(I'll be doing these smaller ones: Your orders are still in effect)

General

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 Sergei woke up from a nap I didn't know he was taking.
 They started vandalizing the wagons, but now the wagons can be used over the rickety bridge to carry wood from the other side, so that's good.
 Their smiths also want to make coins, but we lack any sort of...local currency standards? I guess? So that's kind of on hold.
 Green Beard sent scouts to warn NorthTown about the honestly very, very real possibility of SouthTown going to kick their ass. Smart of him, now we can claim neutrality and stuff.
 Thanks to the tools we got industry is finally picking up for reals, and we have actual lumber to work with.

 kittehs had his fishercats go to town on the fish with the bone rapier. Amazingly it's working pretty well; the weapons are very fast and despite their fragility they either kill or stun a fish on impact.

 Also kittehs is digging out some mountainside homes. Interesting.

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Event - Magic
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 This is honestly the biggest thing, since Sergei's mages were looking for a means to stabilize summons. I asked around for why a summon needs to be stabilized and, well.
 

Unstable Summons explode.
They explode pretty much at random and, uh, it's not good. Once upon a time some army decided to toss Summons without stabilizers via catapult as some sort of ad hoc weaponry. It worked pretty well until one summon blew up the instant it was summoned.

So anyways, according to the mages we have two methods of stabilizing that's readily available to us.
1. Use a heart for a core. Like "this heart used to belong to this bunny here" heart. Ick.
 Advantage: The summons are superior in every way, in terms of speed, strength, responsiveness, and general usefulness.
 Problem: It's a heart. The core itself will deteriorate at some point and the summon will probably explode at that point unless it is dismissed.

2. Use a charged gem for a core. This is the common method where a mage pumps magic into a gem and then use it as a core.
 Advantage: These summons tend to last a long time before the core needs to be replaced, and with care we can have a lot of summons at once without compromising our amount of cores.
 Downside: These summons tend to be a lot weaker, and don't follow anything beyond simple orders well. The core itself may or may not explode due to badly charged magic (but comparatively it's a lot less damaging than the Summon just going BOOM).

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 Exposition - Cavalry
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 That scout to SouthTown said they had flying horses. We have Avians, which is better?

 After some asking around (including lore about flying horses, them Pegasus)

Pegasi can be ridden by anyone. They generally prefer lighter people in general though.

In terms of combat effectiveness:

Pegasus Cavalry in general
 Pegasi are limiting to being either light or medium melee cavalry (scouting, light engagements)
 Their size limits forces them to make parallel charges or very shallow dive charges.
 Their irregular hover means they can't stay still and shoot. Staying still and melee is stupid and pointless.
 Their movement is practically limited to "glide" and "charge".

vs Traditional Cavalry
 A traditional cavalry hits harder with a charge, but the pegasi can hit from odd angles (much like avians)
 Pegasi can also disengage a lot easier if they get tossed into melee.

vs Avians
 Pegasi can carry more equipment (Medium Pegasi outfit weighs much more than a "Heavy" Avian unit)
 Pegasi have a stronger charge.
 Avians have a more varied charge, and can dive much deeper and be able to pull out without breaking bones.
 Pegasi are more stable in high winds (Avians just get blown about)
 Avians are more maneuver in high winds, those that are used to it anyways (while pegasi just glide about)

Overall
 Probably not something we need to worry about (because Avians) but something to worry about.
 ...Wonder if we can score some giant birds though.

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So, yeah.
Which core should we use?

You can have more orders (they'll be interpreted as "once you're finished with the previous tasks go do this")

[Elephant Parade]

Wait, I'm confused. We have magic now?

If so, order my mages to research spells that increase charge speed.

[evilcherry]

Essentially Necromancy and Golemancy.

Gems for me.

[ICBM pilot]

use hearts they are easier to get and make better things.

[techno65535]

Use some hearts from some freshly slaughtered critters (preferably not fish hearts unless that's all we have) and have the mages make some earth golems to help with bringing the trees into town. Banish the golems once the heart shows significant wear so as to avoid the 'big boom'. Even though Sergei likes big boom.

[Maxinum McDreich]

Gems. I'm worried where it'd go with hearts, though I have no qualms of the animals killed for food and using their hearts.

[10ebbor10]

I'd go for organ recycling too.

Spoiler: Sheet? (click to show/hide)

Player Name: Robert
Race: Ancient Golem (Technically not a race, but anyway. Long ago, they were created by an unknown force as servants. While their civilization has fallen, the golems live on, though their numbers dwindle rapidly. Unlike other constructs, Golems need to eat. They prefer life prey*, or stuff that hasn't died recently. They don't eat prepared food or vegatables, but they don't eat often either.) A golem that doesn't get food in time will slow down and eventually stop, making them easy to destroy.
*The nutritional value doesn't matter, but the inherent magical capability does.
Major Spec: Construction (Could be building, but focusses more on the design and construction of major projects)
Minor Specs:
     -Mining
     -Lumberjacks
     -Building
     -Wizardy (very, very minor fraction. However, golem's are inherently magical, and need magical means for reproduction)

[cheesemcmuffin88]

Memoirs of Green Beard

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The mages made progress they can now form some sort of constructs powered by something. Wait let me go check.There powered by HEARTS !? Ive accepted that these people are strange but that is flat out heresy against all forces of life and Blag rally thee men call them together all faithful servants of Blag. JOIN ME MY BROTHERS AND ALL WHO VALUE LIFE TO EXPUNGE THESE HERITICS FIND THEM ALL OPEN THEIR NECKS BEFORE THEY MAY PRACTICE THEIR FOUL ARTS WITH ME KNOW BROTHERS FOR BLAG[/b

Orders

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Pretty self explanatory
Spread the worship of Blag otherwise

[Elephant Parade]

Memoirs of Green Beard

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The mages made progress they can now form some sort of constructs powered by something. Wait let me go check.There powered by HEARTS !? Ive accepted that these people are strange but that is flat out heresy against all forces of life and Blag rally thee men call them together all faithful servants of Blag. JOIN ME MY BROTHERS AND ALL WHO VALUE LIFE TO EXPUNGE THESE HERITICS FIND THEM ALL OPEN THEIR NECKS BEFORE THEY MAY PRACTICE THEIR FOUL ARTS WITH ME KNOW BROTHERS FOR BLAG[/b

Orders

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Pretty self explanatory
Spread the worship of Blag otherwise

It is a crazy man indeed who speaks code tags.

[Ashsaber]

@Elephant Charge
We've always had magic, but we don't have means of using it offensively (lack spellbooks, wands, staves, what have you)

@evilcherry
Pretty much. :3

@techno65535
I had forgotten fishes have hearts.

@10ebbor10
Welcome~

@cheesemcmuffin88
Technically they're not powered by hearts. Hearts just happen to be the most efficient core. Gems are 2nd most efficient.
I'm going to dial down the civil unrest. It's a little early and riots won't be big enough. -shrug-

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Current Votes are:

Organs: 3
Gems: 2
Not-Organ: 1

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Event - Newcomers
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HOLYSHITWEHAVEWALKINGROCKS

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 Ahem. Right.
 Yesterday a bunch of golems walked into camp. Apparently ever scout failed every check in the history of forever. _{The hell's a check anyway?}
 
 I have to admit, the idea of a summoned creature gaining sentience terrifies me. Most summons are just a giant shaped blob of energy. Imagine if the bread you're about to eat suddenly started singing at you about the subtleties of life. Yeesh.
 In all fairness they're...uh, friendly? It's hard to tell. They're not going bonkers and killing shit so I'm gonna guess they're friendly.

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Event - Summon Familiar
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Votes are currently tallied towards using the abandoned hearts of hunted animals as the core; once the mages finish the final touches the binding can begin in earnest.


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 The New Race - Ancient Golems
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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.

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 Exposition - Summon Familiar
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 Despite being called a "summon" type spell, it's more of a creation type spell. A core is used to stabilize a large amount of magic power with rudimentary capabilities and usefulness.
Command input - requires a mage to act as a handler. However, a single mage can configure many familiars at once.
In Battle - Familiars are driven by command and thus cannot differentiate between friend and foe. Also they explode on destruction if the core is severely damaged. (As in: spear to core -BOOM- knife to core -boom- scratch at core -no boom-).

Average Life Expectancy (Assuming periodic maintenance)
Maintenance = Someone pumping more magic into the core.
Heart Familiar - At best a year.
Gem Familiar - Until the gem breaks. For a noncombat familiar this means they last effectively forever.

  Without maintenance
Heart Familiar - A week, tops. (Heart deteriorates faster due to magical wear and tear. BOOM)
Gem Familiar - A month.

A live heart would work better, but then it would just be..y'know, a bunny, instead of a familiar with a bunny heart core.

Familiars - Combat
-Magic Touch
    Familiars have no physical component besides the core, thus they ignore armor and attack a target's soul directly.
      Problem: This means a sufficiently high morale being can convert a familiar through direct contact.

-Incorporeal
    Familiars are blobs of energy: attacks pass through them.
      Except if it hits the core, then BOOM. (or boom, or no boom)

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 Trivia - Familiar
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 Any object can be used as a core for a familiar. Gems and hearts rank the topmost (with our current magical capabilities) due to (Gems) their inherent ability to contain a large amount of magic and maintain stability and (Hearts) their inherent build as a "center" of a swirling mass of magic, the soul.

 Other attempts to summon a familiar includes using a leaf, or a rock, or the feathers of an Avian. The summon that was created was far too unstable and had a lifespan too short (lasting, at most, a few minutes) to be useful in any real fashion.

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Addendum: Race sizes
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A human <- default (say, 6 ft or so)
A Neko: Slightly smaller than humans in general. Have cat ears, cat tail, retractable claws, and (for a human) unusual hair color. Hide those and they'll be human-ish.
A dwarf: Er...About 3/4? Like a Armokian Dwarf but less competent when intoxicated. Still good at heavy machinery.
An Elf: slightly larger than an average human. Pointy ears, lighter hair color, the usual. Compared to an Armokian Elf they have: Sense of humor.
An Avian: Human size. Lighter than your average human but with stronger muscles. Basically a human with wings, claws instead of fingers (thumbs included), and some feathers. If they wore clothes and trimmed their nails they'd be humans at a convention.
A goblin: Between a dwarf and a Neko. Good at fine crafts (such as jewelry). Nimble fingers. perky ears, slightly lighter skin when washed. (Spends a lot of time indoors/at night).

[cheesemcmuffin88]

I demand this Heresy be snuffed


Orders

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Spread Blag Worship

[Detoxicated]

Playing Name: Milgrin Grumblehorn
Race: Goblins
Squad size: 40
Major specialty: Building

Minor:
Mining
Agriculture
Woodcutting
Toolmaking

Milgrim Grumblehorn stands in front of her people and orders her subordinates around. "Hey, all you builders help the rest of these people there to build their homes, we need to make an impression here."
She continues to ramble about their more violent brethren, then she says to the Woodcutters, "Half of you gather the materials for tools, strong sticks and such, the others try to cut down trees.
Toolmakers, you gather the necessary rocks to build the most basic tools.
Miners, half of you shall gather big rocks, the other half shall smooth them out with some sand and smaller rocks, rubbed against the boulders. As for the farmers, you can set up a fine brown patch of well digged earth, and as you are finished you shall gather some interesting plants for observation."

[cheesemcmuffin88]

Hello Milgrin! It is nice to see new friendly faces around these parts. I give thanks to Blag upon the arrival of your assuredley skilled craftsmen. But I may ask something of you immediatley that would put me forever in your debt. This land is un-holy and defiled foul sorcerers mutilating life to serve their own nefarious means. I belive we can prevent their great mis-use of Blags gifts by educating them upon their faults and teaching them to fear Blag and his power. To do this Blag of course needs to be properly commemorated. The best way to do so would be of course with a temple to blag so if you would be willing to help us and join us in praising the allmighty blag with a construction of a magnificent temple to blag that would be great. I shall provide you blue prints of course if you are so inclined to help

[techno65535]

I can see how using a living heart, or killing something just to get the heart would be sacrilege, but using the hearts of animals already slaughtered, thus cutting down on the waste and using as much of it as possible? Doesn't seem right. Unless Blag is a vegetarian, in which case we should kill all Blag followers because, "Meat is good".

Edit: Note: Not actually saying to kill them as part of an action. >.>

[Ashsaber]

@techno65535
Reminds me slightly of Armokian elves and their trees. Reason is no match for...whatever the elves have.

@10ebbor10
I'd almost forgotten: Give orders for your guys to do.

@All
I'm all for a polytheistic society. Just sayin'. :3

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Minor Trivia - Gods and the GM
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 I'm counting Blag as a lesser deity because he/she/it doesn't have many followers (Who'd worship him outside of a swamp area, really)

 As for influence: Since the world has magic it follows that gods would have an influence upon their believers.

 Deities only give bonuses for simplicity's sake (they won't curse unbelievers, as in)

 Higher belief = more bonus, so for Blag Green Beard and his personal guards would get all 4 bonuses.

 I decide the bonuses because if I were a player given free reign I wouldn't care a lick about balance. :3 (well, I still don't, but I can pretend~ )

 And uh...let's stick with gods with clearly defined domains, yeah?

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Deity bonuses
Blag

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1. Swamp Walk (No penalty in any terrain that's wet and soggy)
2. Resistance to natural poisons. (i.e. Snake venom)
3. Resistance to unnatural poisons. (i.e. An area of effect poison spell)
4. Champion of Blag (Equipped weapon causes heavy unnatural poison damage)