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[Xantalos]

((Ah, so you were the friend he mentioned. I see.
Hmm. I very well may have to start a thing on here at some point in the next several years, then.))

[VoidSlayer]

Since we have harsh realities, would it be reasonable to have the Lidsmen do some work in helping to build the settlement?  I am thinking simple labor at a much slower rate then thralls, fishing, hunting, scouting and the like.

[Taricus]

Turn update isn't in just yet. I'm pretty sure we're managing the entire settlement so we've got more manpower for building than that.

[Ghazkull]

Year 1: 1000 AD

It has taken a few weeks but you are all set up. a Veritable tent city has spread around here and people are fishing and hunting so far. No one has gone too far from the camp yet so maybe its time to explore?

Spoiler:  Martial (click to show/hide)

Corv doesn't have a family name, he apparently has no lineage of note but what you know of him is that hes an old Veteran of the Varangian Guard. He brought his nephews family with him here and is currently the leader of the Huscarls. While well in his fourties he should not be underestimated, his axe has a number of notches and looks well worn. You went on a raid with him once and can attest to his skill (Choose 3):

Defenses right now the camp lacks any and all Defenses we should pour some money and effort into these, who knows what might come out of the wilderness, no one has forgotten the rumours of the skraelings...
Cost: 100 Hacksilver or 10 Thralls, 1 Year  Reward: Basic Defenses around the Settlement

Train the Rekkr There is a bunch of young boys around the camp who are idling about. They have neither perspective nor anything to do, make them useful.
Cost: 250 Hacksilver, 1 Year Reward: 20 Rekkr (Young Hotblooded Warriors with some basic equipment)

Train the Leidangr The Leidangr is the volunteer army which consists of the entirety of the male and parts of the female population. Training them and outfitting them properly might be of interest to ensure a safe settlement.
Cost: 500 Hacksilver, 2 Years Reward: Leidangr upgraded from Karls to Lidsmenn

Scout out the Surroundings We do not know whats out there, maybe we should take a look...
Cost: Nothing, 1 Year Reward: Information

Explore the Coast We could also travel along the coast and figure out if there is something useful or interesting to be found...
Cost: Nothing, 1 Year Reward: Information

Spoiler:  Diplomacy (click to show/hide)

At the moment the one responsible is you...you might want to change that... (Choose 1):

Tell Iceland How good it is here Clearly it is awesome here and you totally should tell people in Iceland how the land here is far better surely more people will come.
Cost: One Ship with Crew, 1 Year  Reward: ??

Yeah i'm not cut out for this Maybe you should ask someone else to help you with this...
Cost: Nothing, 1 Year Reward: Choices for Diplomatic Advisors

Spoiler: Stewardship (click to show/hide)

Thorfinn Thorson is a man covered in scars, he arrived here together with his friend, some british freedman...anyway the two know a lot about farming, you figure since the two are richer than the rest of folks here you might want to turn to them for Advice (Choose 2):

Houses! Well folks are camping in tents for now...but clearly people want to live more comfortable, by all means they will build houses on their own but you might expedite the entire process by making it a communal project.
Cost: 500 Hacksilver Reward: Housing for the People (you will recieve tax income)

Clear some Fields You brought crops you bought off the English and sheep and pigs and even some cows to graze but first you need to clear a part of the surrounding woods.
Cost: 100 Hacksilver, 1 Year Reward: Clearing for Fields, One-off Logging Bonus

Logging Industry You are surrounded by vast forests. This is good. All that wood can be felled and later traded to Iceland at a premium. Plus you can also sell it to your own people if you further process it, saving those who do not want to cut trees themselves some time, they can invest in farming or herding.
Cost: 250 Hacksilver, 1 Year Reward: Logging Income

What dwells in yonder Woods? It takes too long for the farms to be set up, why not simply start hunting?
Cost: 250 Hacksilver, 1 Year Reward: Hunting and Pelt Income

Spoiler: Research (click to show/hide)

Well for the moment you are the most learned man in the settlement...you might want to rectify that at one point (Choose 2)

Honey? HONEY! Mead is a rarity in the north, it has to be mostly imported due to the difficulty of cultivating bees. Especially on Iceland bees, honey and mead are very rare. But you are pretty sure you saw quite a lot of them around...hmm maybe you should try and figure a way to get to the honey.
Cost: 50% Chance of Success 1 Year Reward: Honey! You have Honey...

Iron You may be a Blacksmith but even you can't do your job without iron. And there inherent lies the problem. You have brought what you could from Iceland but thats not THAT much. You will run out eventually, maybe you should consider finding a source of Iron or something...
Cost: 50% Chance of Success 1 Year Reward: Information

Foreign Beasts While you have seen some familiar animals there are quite a lot who are not so familiar, further study might be of interest.
Cost: 75% Chance of Success 1 Year Reward: Information

Foreign Plants The Plants are even more important! Maybe you can find some of interest in regards to healing or to farming.
Cost: 75% chance of Success, 1 Year Reward: Information

Spoiler: Piety (click to show/hide)

You don't really know what to do with that...(Choose 1)

Talk to Thorleif Old Thorleif was a godi once, maybe he can help you out?
Cost: 1 Year  Reward: ?

Talk to Horek the White Horek is the odd one here, he worships the White Christ like some of the Thralls...maybe he knows what to do with that religious crap?
Cost: 1 Year Reward: ?

Spoiler:  Intrigue (click to show/hide)

Huh? Intri-what? Stop making words up!

Spoiler: Personal (click to show/hide)

Being the Leader of this Expedition can't consume all of your time now can it? (Choose 2)

Marriage Well technically you are old enough (some would say too old to marry...)
Cost: 1 Year Reward: marriage options

A Trade Well smithing is your passion and when you were not raiding you have been working quite successfully as a smith. Right now you are the only one in the entire village, there might be profit in this
Cost 1 Year Reward: ?

Join the Scouting Well you could always join the people exploring the land if you want...
Cost: 1 Year, requires one of the scouting options to be enabled Reward: ?

Go Hunting While you have never been an avid Hunter, you could still get into it...
Cost: 1 Year Reward: ?

A House! You are the Leader of the Expedition you need your own House...or should it be rhater a longhouse? After all you also have to accommodate all those warriors and you need an assembly hall and you are technically also the religious leader...
Cost: 500 Hacksilver Reward: Longhouse

((the military mentioned so far is your professional army, those guys don't go back to normal jobs...nor do they want to.))

[NRDL]

Changed mah vote.

[VoidSlayer]

Martial
Defenses (10 thralls)
Scout out the Surroundings
Explore the Coast

Dogplomacy? whats that?
Yeah i'm not cut out for this (duuuuuh)

Stewardship
Clear some Fields
What dwells in yonder Woods?

Research
Foreign Plants
Foreign Beasts

Superstitious garbage
Talk to Thorleif

Rest assured in the knowledge we have no enemies!

Personal
Marriage
Go Hunting

I figure we should at least get basic food stuffs and scouting sorted out, we can build things later.  Also find a wife, as that is the very first thing to do, always, if you do not have heirs. 

[TealNinja]

Are we choosing as many as we wish/can afford, or one from each category?  The layout of the post felt a bit iffy.  If one from each category, the top of each of mine will be my priority.

Martial
Defences (100 hacksilver)
Scout the Surroundings

Diplomacy
Get a Diplomat

Stewardship
Logging Industry
Clear some Fields

Research
Foreign Plants
Honey

Piety
Talk to Thorleif

Personal
Marriage
Go Hunting

[Taricus]

Martial:
Defences (10 Thralls)
Scout out the Surroundings
Rekkr Training

Diplomacy:
Yeah i'm not cut out for this (AKA get a chancellor or something.)

Stewardship:
Houses!
Clear some fields

Research
Iron
Foreign Beasts

Piety
Talk to Thorleif

Personal
Marriage
A Trade

We do need to note that we are the only blacksmith. It'll be best for us to stay at the settlement for the time being until we get another blacksmith or two. Hunting isn't going to be too valuable on a large scale unless we know what beasts make for good hunting (Without needlessly killing off our hunters.) And getting a source of iron is a priority since we'll need it for tools and weapons. We should also get around to training the leidangr when we've got the resources for it.

[Andres]

Martial
Defenses (10 thralls)
Scout out the Surroundings
Explore the Coast

Our current military forces are more than adequate enough for basic defence. What we need to know is if there are any nearby potential enemies before said potential enemies stumble upon us.

Diplomacy
Yeah i'm not cut out for this

Stewardship
Houses!
What dwells in yonder Woods?

Houses will need to be built. They serve as protection from the weather - vital for surviving winter or if we suddenly get hit by a storm - and it'll start an economy sooner as people won't be so busy building their own houses. We only have food for a year so we need to get some food immediately or we'll start starving the next turn.

Research
Iron
Foreign Plants

We picked Blacksmith, but that option is practically useless until we get some iron to actually do stuff with. Studying the local flora will tell us what's edible and what's super-extremely poisonous. Our people don't need to do research to tell whether an animal is edible or not, so the hunting action should go fine.

Piety
Talk to Thorleif

Personal
Marriage
Go Hunting

The sooner we marry the better and securing enough food to not start starving next year is worth going hunting ourselves.

[NRDL]

Martial:
Defences (10 Thralls)
Scout out the Surroundings
Rekkr Training

Diplomacy:
Yeah i'm not cut out for this (AKA get a chancellor or something.)

Stewardship:
Houses!
Clear some fields

Research
Iron
Foreign Beasts

Piety
Talk to Thorleif

Personal
Marriage
A Trade

We do need to note that we are the only blacksmith. It'll be best for us to stay at the settlement for the time being until we get another blacksmith or two. Hunting isn't going to be too valuable on a large scale unless we know what beasts make for good hunting (Without needlessly killing off our hunters.) And getting a source of iron is a priority since we'll need it for tools and weapons. We should also get around to training the leidangr when we've got the resources for it.

Since everybody's making their own suggestions, I'm change mine to +1 this, very similar priorities.

[Dermonster]

Oh man this is making its way over to Bay12 now? Ehehehehehehehhehehehheheehhehee. Interesting.

It better be. I've been spamming links to alchohol dynasty to everyone on my steam friend list. I told Adwarf and Adwarf told this guy.

[Ghazkull]

we need one more vote to break all the ties

[NRDL]

What about my vote? Or are you waiting for two external votes to a suggestion?

[Ghazkull]

we need one extra after including yours

[Evil Marahadja]

Martial:
Defences (10 Thralls)
Scout out the Surroundings
Rekkr Training

Diplomacy:
Yeah i'm not cut out for this (AKA get a chancellor or something.)

Stewardship:
Houses!
Clear some fields

Research
Iron
Foreign Beasts

Piety
Talk to Thorleif

Personal
Marriage
A Trade

We do need to note that we are the only blacksmith. It'll be best for us to stay at the settlement for the time being until we get another blacksmith or two. Hunting isn't going to be too valuable on a large scale unless we know what beasts make for good hunting (Without needlessly killing off our hunters.) And getting a source of iron is a priority since we'll need it for tools and weapons. We should also get around to training the leidangr when we've got the resources for it.

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