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[Iituem]

Heheh.  I shall neither confirm nor deny the existence of the Hatcuri, but you can't play as one. 

Ophelia and Everett, if a touch short, seem fine by me.  I'll start working on the intro pages.

[micelus]

Naaah. Course not. That would be absurd. I've finished my sheet btw; if I'm not in I guess I can read those secret reports. :p

[Digital Hellhound]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Father Lothan Longroth
Description: Father Longroth is a tall, gangly man, with ashen, pockmarked skin. Despite his gaunt appearance, a tremendous inner fire rages on within Longroth, a strength of presence and vigor noted by all who know him. His eyes are narrow, sharp and lit with a fanatic's spirit. His clothes are rather common, though woven with simple ornamental patterns and buttons, fit for a working life.
Background:
The Longroths are a sprawling and influential family of ranchers and farmers on the border of the Weylands and Miring. Always an independent lot, and with plenty of Weylander blood running through their veins, they have always been poor subjects of the rulers of Miring or its component kingdoms. The Longroths learn hard living from the womb, working their land and their herds in spite of poor soil, weather and raids of the northmen. Like many of his kin, Lothan was gripped by religious fervor in the face of this - the Cyclist faith, lingering on even in the face of suppression and strife. Still, at the same time he was always possessed of a certain wanderlust and thirst for new experience - news of a new land, with no church to look after men's minds, sent him packing for the first ship to leave his blasted, wartorn homeland and family.

Lothan is a fanatic in his Cyclist faith, but his methods are still to speak first and burn only in the face of unrepentant and vile practices - he is content to leave believers of most faiths be, if only because he believes he can convert them to the true faith over time. As such, he is eager to listen to and converse with heretics and heathens to gain knowledge of their faith which he can then disprove and shoot down. As a remote village priest, he was never indoctrinated into strict orthodoxy, especially with the fragmented state of Cyclism, and as such holds various personal interpretations and views on the tenets of his faith.

As much as a priest, Lothan is a shepherd, rancher, farmer. He has been brought up to both work and to be in charge of any patch of land. He knows how to command a household and a congregation alike. A life in hard lands has left him rather pessimistic about this agrarian life - but faith will see one through even if the cold takes the crops and raiders the herds; an attitude unlikely to change despite the richness of Hatcur soil.
Reason for Emigrating: To bring faith to a new land, wanderlust
Specialism: Mercantile
Starting Package: Wealth

There we go. What the 'true faith' is yet to be decided. It is now Cyclism. Hmmmm.

[Iituem]

Driving to Lincolnshire tomorrow, so this may not start until Monday.  Fair warning.

[a1s]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Father Lothan Longroth
Description: Father Longroth is a tall, gangly man, with ashen, pockmarked skin. Despite his gaunt appearance, a tremendous inner fire rages on within Longroth, a strength of presence and vigor noted by all who know him. His eyes are narrow, sharp and lit with a fanatic's spirit. His clothes are rather common, though woven with simple ornamental patterns and buttons, fit for a working life.
Background:
The Longroths are a sprawling and influential family of ranchers and farmers on the border of the Weylands and Miring. Always an independent lot, and with plenty of Weylander blood running through their veins, they have always been poor subjects of the rulers of Miring or its component kingdoms. The Longroths learn hard living from the womb, working their land and their herds in spite of poor soil, weather and raids of the northmen. Like many of his kin, Lothan was gripped by religious fervor in the face of this - the Cyclist faith, lingering on even in the face of suppression and strife. Still, at the same time he was always possessed of a certain wanderlust and thirst for new experience - news of a new land, with no church to look after men's minds, sent him packing for the first ship to leave his blasted, wartorn homeland and family.

Lothan is a fanatic in his Cyclist faith, but his methods are still to speak first and burn only in the face of unrepentant and vile practices - he is content to leave believers of most faiths be, if only because he believes he can convert them to the true faith over time. As such, he is eager to listen to and converse with heretics and heathens to gain knowledge of their faith which he can then disprove and shoot down.

As much as a priest, Lothan is a shepherd, rancher, farmer. He has been brought up to both work and to be in charge of any patch of land. He knows how to command a household and a congregation alike. A life in hard lands has left him rather pessimistic about this agrarian life - but faith will see one through even if the cold takes the crops and raiders the herds; an attitude unlikely to change despite the richness of Hatcur soil.
Reason for Emigrating: To bring faith to a new land, wanderlust
Specialism: Mercantile
Starting Package: Wealth

Totally not telling you what to do, but the Knowledge package allows you to start with 3 priests already in play.

[Criptfeind]

Wealth package allows you start with, and keep paying for the upkeep of, four. (Although admittedly by that metric knowledge lets you start with 5...)

[a1s]

Wealth package allows you start with, and keep paying for the upkeep of, four.

Kinda. It would take a turn to make them. But that is peanuts compared to the fact that there probably aren't 4 monasteries (remember 1 specialist/turn, that's priests and scholars combined) in New Sheepstead, to say nothing about you being able to use them all.

[Digital Hellhound]

Religion isn't the sole focus of my character, and it seemed more fitting to have Wealth instead of Knowledge with the background - he comes from a powerful, but rural, non-noble family. He was just a village priest. I can see how Knowledge could be fluffed even so, but Wealth it is.

[Criptfeind]

By the way, were we suppose to attach our Mercantile to a resource or is it just a general thing?

[a1s]

It's implied that you do. But it's a bit hard to tell.

A mercantile specialism will grant a bonus to any industries of its type you own or run in a city, so long as you are resident there.

[Iituem]

To a resource, yes.  Forgive me for not elaborating.  The resource you pick will grant you a bonus to production of that resource, and to Workshops converting that resource.  e.g. You have a Wool specialty.  Your Looms produce 4 Wool instead of 3 Wool per turn, and Workshops you own produce 4 Goods from Wool instead of 3, or if it is producing, say, 3 Goods from 3 Iron, allows you to add production of another Good from Wool.

Father Longroth:  I've assigned you a Wool specialty at present.  This should put in a favourable position at game start.

Working on the turn now that I've got a free evening.  Game start should be this evening.

Edit:  It's late, and the start's not done yet.  Start tomorrow instead.

[a1s]

if it is producing, say, 3 Goods from 3 Iron, allows you to add production of another Good from Wool.

Wait. Can a workshop only produce goods from one type of resource per turn?

Trade questions:
is there trade with the outside world?
Can you elaborate on how caravan/ship routes work? Do they start transporting on the same turn you declare them? What happens if you cancel the route? (if something bad, can you modify resource composition, without changing the destination points? i.e. it was 2 Goods, 2 Grain <->4 Iron and now you want 1 Good, 3 Grain <->3 Iron)
It says workshops sell goods for 5 gold, and that other infrastructures buy goods for 5 gold from traders. Is that more of a guideline, or are traders just chumps/altruists?
In fact, since you can produce goods out of any resource you want (except horses and food.), and everyone produces food, is trade even going to be a a thing?

[Digital Hellhound]

Wool was what I'd have chosen anyway, so wonderful.

[Aseaheru]

A1s, Wood, iron and wool will probably all be traded.

[Criptfeind]

I had assumed that the way it would work would be sorta like, the towns will automatically do the process where they take in a raw resource, make it into a goods, and then use it. With the prices in a npc only line being basically meaningless, since it's the town paying the town and it just takes it's own money. But the prices being important when a player takes part in the line, that the town will buy goods for 5, and that workshops will buy resources for 2 (and sell for 5 if the trader wants to move the goods to a town that they own things in so that town can make stuff) and that player workshops can buy goods for 2 from whatever npc resource gathering infrastructure exists then sell it for 5 (or best of all probably, the player making resources, then making them into goods, then selling them for five in pure profit)

Although the questions I have, do players need to pay for the goods that their infrastructure uses, or does the town pick up that cost (thus making it profitable to just sell to yourself to extract money from the town...) and can you selectively give goods to infrastructure (such as your own infrastructure) for free if there isn't enough money/goods in town to keep them running?