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[vishdafish]

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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[somemildmanneredidiot]

PTW

[vkiNm]

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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[Ghazkull]

sorry for the delay, was three quarters done, then accidentally deleted the entire update...then decided "fuck it, im getting drunk." Uhm yeah maybe update now...maybe not, depends how much longer i can stay coherent.

EDIT: great also the profiles for your potential wives including their stats vanished...update tomorrow, sorry folks.

[Andres]

it's k

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Take care and also look into Notepad +++ for saving options.

[Ghazkull]

Year 1: 1000 AD - Results

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 he's 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

- The Thralls get to work and build some formidable fences around the settlement. It isn't much but it should keep out some wild animals if anything. In other news the people have decided to name the Settlement: Jomarsted.

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)

- The Young boys aren't the most dangerous but at least they will allow you to put more seasoned men to more useful work.


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

- Thick forests are stretching far inlands and the entire area is quite hilly, noentheless its better farming ground than in Iceland. After travelling further inlands you find some wetlands from which you might drag some bog iron if you are lucky.

[53] You also find an abandoned village. several wooden longhouses stand empty surrounded by some low palisades. Its not shoddy work, you could potentially move in. Some nearby fields lay fallow and you cannot figure out what was planted here.

Spoiler:  Diplomacy (click to show/hide)

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


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

- You could ask Thorfinn to help you out here. He seems like a relatively peacable fellow despite the lattice of scars across his entire body.

Otherwise there would be Asa Ànhár an middle-aged matriarch with a tongue of barbed iron. The woman is quite influential among the villagers and manages to cow even Harald Halftroll, one of the huskarls and a giant of a man.

Finally you could ask Thorleif, the retired godi.

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)

- By the end of the year the tent-city has vanished and been replaced by sturdy houses made from oak. You've never seen so much wood in your life. Back in iceland buildings were made from loose stones and dirt, wood was expensive and something for the obscenely rich. THe only people lacking a proper house now are your warriors and you yourself...you might want to rectify that.

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

- Clearing more of the surrounding forest you make enough space to start up proper farming that can sustain the lot of you. You hav ebrought your own crops from iceland, although you might want to plant indigenous crops too. The wood itself however doesn't bring in even a tenth of what you hoped. It has become quickly apparent that wood is cheap around here and so you only make a smidgen of what you might have made if you would have traded the lumber back to Iceland Reward: 10 Hacksilver

Spoiler: Research (click to show/hide)

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

-[100+9= 109 Critical Success] You find Iron in abundance! The Scouts report of nearby bogs which contain a lot of the stuff and you even found a few surface veins further out. If you had a proper mining expert you could set up some iron mines...

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

-[66+9= 75] There are various useful animals in these areas. Wolves, foxes and beavers should give good pelts, while there are particularly large moose to be found. You even saw a bear, although that one is huge compared to what you are used to. What worries you is a breed of particularly large cat that is sneaking around the camp, like really really large cat that could eat a man. You have heard rumours that such beasts exist in the deserts of Serkland but you didn't expect them here. There also seems to be some particularly large wild sort of cows, roaming further west. You might be able to interbreed these cows with your own and maybe the wolves with your dogs but taming them would take quite some effort and time.

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: ?

- Thorleif is not very suprised when you come to him with the entire Gods business. He tells you that usually the Godi (that is you) is expected to also fulfill duties as priest, but that in recent years there has been a shift and several of the wealthier and more important godis gave the theological business to actual fulltime priests. He offers doing the same and will provide you with a list of things to be done till next year.

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

-Well with 21 years old you are technically old for someone to be still unmarried, luckily you are not the only one. There are in fact three other women of marriageable age you might be interested in. But beware we are not in christian europe. Among vikings women have epractically the same rights as men and while many elect to stay home, many go out and go a-raiding with the rest of the men. You will have to woo these women...

Anyway the three ladies in question are the following:

Mjøll

Corvs "apprentice". The girl apparently showed up one day long after he had retired from the guard and decided to drink himself through the mead and wine stocks of his unfortunate nephew. Now five years later they have hired on with you. The girl has been all around the globe, learning new things, getting to know new people and then murdering thema nd freeing them of their worldly possessions. She also has a rather pious streak, not because she particularly believes in the gods but to offset the shenanigans of her master who apparently is even more impious than you are if one can believe that.

Diplomacy: 12+1 = 13
Martial: 17+1+3 = 21
Stewardship: 6+1 = 7
Intrigue: 4+1= 5
Piety: 11+1+3 = 15
Learning: 6+1 = 7

Trait: Experienced - Has been a viking for several years, ranging across the world, seeing things and killing folks. Oh and robbing them...dont forget the robbing part. (+1 All Stats)

Trait: Devout - She regularly prays and sacrifices to the gods apparently due to some incident involving the house ash of Corvs Nephew, a storm and something along the lines of "THOR YOU WIMP IS THAT EVERYTHING?"...at some point you have to ask that story...(+3 Piety)

Trait: Shieldmaiden - A well trained warrior, she could propably beat you in a square fight...(+3 Martial)



Odd

Odd is...odd. She is a Seidskona. A woman using the rune magic of Odin. She is highly intelligent and propably the only person here more learned than you. She is also one of the most beautiful women you have ever seen

Diplomacy: 12+2 = 14
Martial: 2-2 = 0
Stewardship: 9+2 = 11
Intrigue: 7-2= 5
Piety: 17+2+2 = 21
Learning: 17+4 = 21


Scholar: She loves learning whatever she can (+4 Learning, +2 Piety, -2 Intrigue, -2 Martial)

Seidr: Able to use the mythical rune magic of the Old Gods...or at least claims to  (+2 Stewardship, +2 Piety)

Trait: Attractive – Quite beautiful (+2 Diplomacy)




Asa Ànhár

Asa has survived 3 husbands and four children. At 35 she is almost too old to marry again and at least 15 years older than you. Then again she is good looking and a capable administrator

Diplomacy: 17+3+2 = 22
Martial: 2= 2
Stewardship: 20+3+2 = 25
Intrigue: 12+2= 14
Piety: 11 = 11
Learning: 10= 1ß

Persuasive: With a tongue that can flay a geatish halftroll intosubmission, Asa usually gets her will (+3 Diplomacy, bonus to persuasion checks)
Administrator: Leading a household alone for 20 years gives one considerable experience in organizing things(+3 Stewardship)
Proven Fertility: this woman has already borne four children by 3 different men, she certainly is fertile (+30% fertility)
Matriarch: Once a woman has lived through a few winters, perhaps outlived a few husbands, it’s not uncommon that she remains the eldest and most influential member of her family. The inheritor of many fortunes and many tragedies. A woman in that situation usually takes matters in her own hands. (Stewardship +2, Diplomacy +2, Intrigue +2)

((hmpff couldn't find a proper picture...imagine Jack from Mass Effect only with less tattoos and more clothing))

Well if you don't like either of these three choices you could always wait for new settlers to arrive or actively try and woo women from more important people back in Scandinavia.


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: ?

-[70+9 = 79] With your daily life occupied with organizing and leading the village you spend your free time...working as a smith. Quite successfully, people need nails, tools and things to be fixed on a constant basis, your schedule is full to the brim and so is your silver pouch. In fact, maybe you should consider bringing in an apprentice or two...or maybe making sure that your men are properly outfitted with armor and weapons...Reward: 50 Hacksilver

Choosing time folks: A Wife and a Diplomatic Advisor.

[NRDL]

Wife: Odd, a beautiful diplomatic wife who can use magic and bear children?  Hell yeah.

Diplomacy: Thorfinn, Asa Anhar seems far too domineering to be someone we can use to play nice with other people.

[Taricus]

Diplomacy: Asa Ànhár. While Thorfinn might be more lenient in negotiations, we do have to remember he's also our steward. We start doubling up the workload on him and we can expect efficiency to suffer since he has to manage both. Therefore giving the job to Asa is the best we're going to get. And hey, if she can make a huskarl back down we know she can handle whatever the job may throw at her.

Wife: Either Mjøll or Odd. I can't really decide between the two since both take care of our shortfalls whilst adding extra benefits for us. Consider my vote to be for whichever one of those two is the most popular choice.

[NRDL]

Oh, forgot he was also our steward.  +1 to Asa Anhar then, let's just hope we can keep her from getting too mouthy from potential trade partners and the like.

[Taricus]

I doubt we'd have to worry about that unless they're trying to rip us off.

[vishdafish]

Wife: Odd
Diplomacy: Asa Anhar

(( First, as already pointed out, Thorfinn is already our steward and we dont want him getting too much power and he will work worse if he has both positions. I think that Odd is slightly better as she makes up more for our shortcomings than Mjoll.))

[Taricus]

The problem is that, While she is fertile, her age is a concern. Not much of a window of opportunity to get a heir from her. Sure she has a +30% bonus for it, assuming that the other two are in their early twenties an extra 15 tries with the other two can pretty much overcome that.

Loyalty isn't that much of a concern, since we're vaguely democratic and don't need to worry about someone stabbing us in the back. Stat-wise I'd doubt it works like CKII; Her stats are her own. (Not that she isn't good with those, of course.)

I also wouldn't put it past Asa to start making her own dynasty, considering that she already has a budding one, and trying to grow ours alongside that might prove a little... problematic.

[NRDL]

Unlanded, unconnected wife is best wife. 

[vishdafish]

Hmm... Fair points. Edited vote.