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[IronyOwl]

((Thanks. :3))

[IronyOwl]

Re-poke.

[Nirur Torir]

I wanted to update yesterday, but the forums were quite dead.

[wer6]

Hm, same problem here.

[Nirur Torir]

{4} - Unen manages to design a working backpack-sized device for converting stored magic into thrust. It's fairly heavy and each stores enough power for about a ten minute flight. They allow a great deal of speed, but have low maneuverability at any speed more than an average run. They cannot recharge while in-use ((I'm not going to allow jetpack perma-flight)). They are very difficult to make, but he thinks he could make a simpler design.
{5} - Unen's Belt of Total Destruction works wonderfully. It is not for use near allies, but it utterly devastates a large area around the user. He can personally create three belts over two weeks, but nobody else can be trusted to get such a web of delicate processes made exactly right.
((I'll post full access to the Quicktopic board after this is over. Remind me if I don't.))

{1}, {3} - The weather turns too terrible for outdoor work, and Zedas huddles miserably in an over-packed dwelling, scribbling luxurious ship drawings. The storm eventually ends, and he convinces a few people to start working on ships.

{-} - Ari spends a few hours looking over the colony's power grid. She doesn't see any good way to improve the power diverting system. ((I'm abstracting it as fully efficient power transport that instantly goes where it's needed, for most anything other than absurdly large spikes of power use.))
{3}, {2} - She then spends the month setting up three generators to act as a weather ward for the future port. They won't help much against a hurricane, but should be able to divert weak storms around three decently sized ships.

{4} - Edna takes a team of wizards, and commandeers the Trailsapper for a trip back to the fifth island. Her creation of the central tree goes well enough. It considers itself to be a sort of mother to the colony, and has a sort of altar/bed at the top where people without magic may sleep to communicate with it through dreams. It thinks very slowly, being a plant, is not smart, and has no common sense. It is quite loyal to Edna. It is overly cheerful.
{3} - She grows normal house-trees around the central tree, and teaches it how to control them to grow more.
One night, a wild beast chews a hole large enough to crawl through into the ship's hull. It's a mild inconvenience, but will reduce the Trailsapper's cargo capacity until proper facilities are built on the main colony to repair it, and the vehicle is no longer water-tight.

{2}+1=3 - Basic dock facilities are finally constructed.
{1}+1=2 - The weather interferes, and Gordon only manages to make enough housing for another fifty people.


New mission: Colonialist Fervor
Establish an outpost on island five and the infrastructure to ferry resources back to the main settlement.
Turns left: 2
Reward: Morale, based on time taken.
Penalty: Morale.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

{1}, {1} - Work on a ship finally starts, in parallel with ship facilities. Flooding from melted snow upriver destroys all progress at the end of the month, as well as many tools, much to everybody's frustration. Ari's generators survived with minimal damage. People now glare at her when the pass in the street, for forgetting to include anti-flooding measures.

Ari's factory build six generators.

Morale is bad.

Players:

IronyOwl's Edna Black, the Mutationist
Fniff's Zedas Piek, the Thanaturge
Tiruin's "Ari" Eloam, the Artificer
Draignean's Gordon Neider, the Geomancer
Lenglon's Unen the Entropist

Spoiler: Colonists (click to show/hide)

Civilian Population: 4492
Government: Pioneer Despotism

Governor Jaegar (Old War Vet, Alcoholic, Demotivating)
Construction Organizer Herbert (Zealot, Slacker, Depressed)

Farmers: 35%
Fishermen: 10%
Lumberjacks: 20%
Construction Workers: 10%
Shipwrights: 10%
Blacksmiths: 5%
Miners: 5%
Wizards: 1%
Government: 4%
20 golem workers

Small circular defensive palisade at the arrival site.
A neat grid of stone roads lies throughout the site.
Neat tent 'districts' for 3200 people.
Constructed wooden houses for 1050 people.
Edna's live house-trees house 600 people. (feeds 20% of housed people)
Molded stone houses for 150 people.

Unbuilt port has weak weather wards protecting space for three ships.

Magical Power Relay Network

Ari's factory.

Food will last for 12 months.
Tools will last for 17 months.

Spoiler: Military (click to show/hide)

1st Battalion
   1st Infantry - 100 veteran musketmen
   2nd Infantry - 125 regular musketmen
   3rd Infantry - 125 green musketmen
   4th support - 35 veteran engineers
   10th Cavalry - 40 regular light cavalry
   20th Artillery - 75 regular gunners (15 light guns)

Munitions predicted to last for 16 light engagements, 8 moderate engagements, or 4 heavy engagements.

Trailsapper, scout zeppelin
   Light internal damage, light hull damage
   Crew: 8/8
   2x ballista
   Carries standard operating supplies of 1 month
   Full load cargo: 1 (2 when repaired)
   Capable of landing anywhere.

Spoiler: Special Resources (click to show/hide)

6x light generators

2x Giant Scorpions
5km of rope
Six crates of assorted mechanisms

Spoiler: Resource Access (click to show/hide)

Colony-wide power network, no unique uses

Material Converter, requires two wizards and a source of the desired resource.

Discovered plentiful iron (Island 5 in southwest chain)
Discovered moderate copper (Island 5 in southwest chain)
Discovered sparse MAGIC_FLOWER1 (Island 5 in southwest chain)
     The flowers do not bloom in winter.

Discovered sparse iron (Island 4 in southwest chain)
Discovered moderate MAGIC_NEWT1 (Island 4 in southwest chain)

Potential in house-tree leaves
     Lengthy efforts required to develop a strain with usable levels.

Spoiler: Player Buildings (click to show/hide)

Unen's Underground Laboratory Bunker for Dangerous Studies
Specialty Laboratory Equipment: +1 to enchantment research rolls if natural roll is above {1}.
Large power Storage and charger - 24% charged
4 empty cells
!Needs doors!
In a clearing in the forest.

Stored: 20 explosive arrows
Prototype Thermal Google Headset


Edna Black's house-tree
Large enough to comfortably house eight people.


Edna Black's living mansion
Large enough to comfortably house one hundred people.


Ari's Factory
Currently tooled for light generators
Usually requires two weeks of re-tooling between jobs. The re-tooling does not require enchanter supervision.
Standard staff of 25 wizards and 300 craftsmen.

In two weeks, after a source of metal is secured:
Can make enough explosive arrows to last 500 soldiers through one light engagement {2x/2.5x/3x with 1/2/3 magic resources}.
Can make enough heat-seeking explosive arrows to last 500 soldiers through two light engagements. {requires magic resources 1.5x/2x with 2/3 magical resources}.
Can make 250 Thermal Goggle Headsets, {Requires Unen} {Requires magic resources}.
Can make 5 High-Speed flight packs, {Requires Unen AND Ari} {Requires 2x magic resources}. Very fast speed, low maneuverability, ten minute flight

In two weeks, with no other resource input:
Can construct 3 light generators, which each produce 1 Baron of power.
Can construct enough power nodes for a colony of 5000 people. {Requires Unen}

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Transporter Node
Teleports 1 unit of resources for 2 baron-months. Each node will automatically be connected to the teleportation web when built. Each outgoing node may only send up to eight units per month. Not for use on living being. May be destroyed, but not removed.
May be built by Ari with two helper wizards and one baron-month of power in two weeks.

Large directed propulsion system
Very efficient and fairly powerful, but not very durable. Oversized on a medium zeppelin.

Unen's Belt of Total Destruction
A single-use belt that devastates the surrounding area with explosions, set precisely so that the user remains untouched. Unen can make three over two weeks.

Could use more "antagonists." Most of them have lost interest.

[IronyOwl]

Edna couldn't stop smiling. It wasn't the brightest star in the sky, but her living colony was off the ground and very enthusiastic. This island was as good as hers, really.

Elsewhere, of course, things were more mixed. The zeppelin had sustained yet more damage, cementing the notion that she was probably going to have to be the one to build an airdock at some point. The terramancer had completed the docks on the mainland, but there was no progress colonyside, and attempts at building ships had resulted only in unadulterated rage, so she might have to handle those two personally as well.

And of course, all of this was just the bare, practical essentials. Nevermind all of the things she needed to do that didn't directly involve this new colony, like completing her half-finished project, expanding her influence, investigating all the bizarre occurrences lately...

Truly, it was a curse to be so blessed with talent. Or talent and ambition, at least.

First things first, make sure whatever chewed its way in got out again before we return home. We don't need containment failures unless they're from cages I assumed would be sufficient.

Find a good spot for some docks on the island and grow some, hopefully out of a saltwater-tolerant variant of my house-trees.
Make an intelligent living saltwater-tolerant covered housetree barge. Ideally, it should be able to communicate with nonmagical, nonsleeping captains (in a limited fashion is fine; beeps or whistles, levers, etc would all be acceptable), and use a modified form of the house-trees' magical burst ability to echolocate. Otherwise I'm fairly open to how much the vessel operates or maintains itself; being able to operate with no human interaction whatsoever would be excellent, anything else on down to being a living hull that still needs manual rigging and ropes and sails and so on would be understandable.

[Lenglon]

Unen, unlike his usual isolated patterns mostly broken up by speaking with Carrie, sought out Ari at lunchtime today, sat down in front of her, and looked at her.

[Tiruin]

Unen, unlike his usual isolated patterns mostly broken up by speaking with Carrie, sought out Ari at lunchtime today, sat down in front of her, and looked at her.

Ari was more than surprised when she turned around to see the silent figure of Unen staring back at her-if it wasn't for his demeanor, she would've suspected another colonist out for her blood.

I mean, who would've predicted a FLOOD of all things? She didn't know there was snow there!

"Hum, erm, sorry for that," she said, coming back to her senses, "Is there something you needed, Unen? I'm trying to think about something that could protect against the force and power of the waves here but all I think is Aikido.

"What do you need?"

[Lenglon]

Unen waits

[Tiruin]

Unen waits

Ari blinks.

"Soooo-...." she said, leaning to the right ever so slowly. Did he have something there? "Whats'up?"

[Draignean]

Continue to bloody expand the bloody housing.

Also, send Milly over to help Ari with the ship building. She's not much of a hand at physical labor, but a few good divinations at the right time could make things a lot more efficient.

[Lenglon]

it should have been obvious...
Unen sighs, then finally speaks.
"What now?"
((No, it wasn't obvious at all, don't worry.))

[Nirur Torir]

((No, it wasn't obvious at all, don't worry.))

((Yes it was. Any random observer could tell.))

A young wizard seated nearby suddenly stands and runs off, holding his nose. An astute observer would note a few drops off blood on the dirt near his former seat. An astute stalker notices his other hand reaching for an interior pocket containing his shipping journal, before he disappears around a corner.

[Lenglon]

((No, it wasn't obvious at all, don't worry.))

((Yes it was. Any random observer could tell.))

A young wizard seated nearby suddenly stands and runs off, holding his nose. An astute observer would note a few drops off blood on the dirt near his former seat. An astute stalker notices his other hand reaching for an interior pocket containing his shipping journal, before he disappears around a corner.

((Nope! Wrong! Unen is simply socially oblivious, not lovestruck ))

[IronyOwl]

((No, it wasn't obvious at all, don't worry.))

((Yes it was. Any random observer could tell.))

A young wizard seated nearby suddenly stands and runs off, holding his nose. An astute observer would note a few drops off blood on the dirt near his former seat. An astute stalker notices his other hand reaching for an interior pocket containing his shipping journal, before he disappears around a corner.

((Nope! Wrong! Unen is simply socially oblivious, not lovestruck ))

((I was totally thinking about saying "Unen: Master of Seduction."

Also this means 100% of the faceless wizards we know about are admirals. Clearly this expedition is beyond doomed.))