YEAR 01
First thing's first: make the settlement a proper one. You instruct your kin to make camp around the oasis. Not a bad call, as nothing can really sneak up on you, forcing any hostile lifeforms to meet you face to face, giving you the defensive edge. Hopefully it won't come to that, and it's not as though you are expecting any trouble. But you've learned to expect the unexpected when it comes to running a tribe. After all, no one saw the Great Threat coming, not even the seers! With the camp settled, you move on to more logistical affairs.
You make note of your supplies. You feed on spiritual energy and water. You've found no spirit sources, but the oasis has more than enough for your tribe of about 100. Especially given that you don't go through water like, well, water. You reckon it won't come to a matter of exhaustion of the oasis, but your advisers and elders will make note of the water supply and alert you should it become dangerously scarce. With your people secure and 'fed', you can find something else to manage.
Your scouts converge in the Meeting Circle, the largest yurt in the settlement, coming to you with a desire to survey the world beyond. You, of course, give the OK, as expansion can't hurt in what seems like a nigh-empty world. They tell you that there isn't much variety of plant life worth noting, and even less animal life. Only the random palm tree and desert grass. Whilst journeying, one scout group finds a cactus plant (or this world's equivalent). They avoid it, due to its aggressive spikes telegraphing a desire to be left alone. Still, such an odd-looking plant in this desert gives the scouts the idea to properly study it some time in the near future.
It is the second scout team that has the most interesting discoveries to report. They've trekked the farthest from the settlement, and have found the desert's edge, where a lush forest that expands for miles with trees as tall as titans sits and stretches beyond the edge. Now, they haven't entered it, as they had to carry their own gear and dealt with several encumbrances. But, nonetheless, their report is one worth mulling on.
Makashin, Journeyman Apprentice of the Surveyors: "Wise One, we have found a dense and beautiful forest a day's journey north. We have travelled by sun and by star, touching the desert's edge. Alas, we have yet to penetrate this forest, but it is far to lush and green for it to be unworthy of survey. Who knows what great rewards await us beyond the leaves and wood?"
+ 'Surveyors' created! Experienced pioneers who live for exploration.+ Found Northern Forest.((I know you're curious as to what the camp looks like. Right now, picture a bunch of yurts, all varying in size and design, dotted around a lake, with the occasional palm tree here and there.))
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Topic: Road to Civilization [SG] (Read 4147 times)