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[Ghazkull]

Year 2 -Results: 1001 AD

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):


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 and new Options

-[46] You take one of the Snekkjas and a bunch of warriors and travel up and down the coast exploring it. It is acceptable when it comes to fishing although not particularly rich. Not two days travel (via ship that is) and you find more signs of habitation see "Savages" for more information


Scout for the Natives So you found an abandoned village. Maybe you should figure out where its owners have gone off to...
Cost: Nothing, 1 Year Reward: Information and new Options
-[29-4]
see "Savages" for more information

Spoiler:  Diplomacy (click to show/hide)

Asa Ohnehaar (going to use the german translation since i can't do those fancy accents over the a on my keyboard) is belligerent, unfriendly and a suprisingly sensible Diplomat she seems to have learned a few things leading a household all alone (Choose 2):

Trade with Iceland You need goods, maybe its time to put those boats to use and bring some much needed silver into the settlement by trading a bit. For now there is not much worth in trade but we'll see.
Cost: Nothing Duration: 1 Year Reward: New Options, +100 Trade Income with Iceland

- Trade with Iceland goes down smoothly. People are impressed by the lumber you transport although some wonder if its really worth it when lumber comes far closer from Britain or Norway. A man named Leif Eriksson has professed interest in establishing more permanent trade.

+100 Trade Income with Iceland

Come to Vinland we have Old Gods! Leif recently brough all the new rumours from Home and told you that people were force to accept The White Christ. Many are disgruntled. Maybe your traders could also tell them of the new opportunities free of religious opression in the new world.
Cost: Nothing, 1 Year Reward: New Options, influx of immigrants, Relations change with Iceland

- News of a rich land, unclaimed by any man, free of christians [90] causes a regular uproar. People are packing things and moving out by the hundreds, by the thousands even...only to realize there are not enough ships. Which causes an immediate demand in more lumber. Everywhere félagis spring up to gather money, buy lumber and hire talented shipwrights and sailors and navigators. The interest is tremendous and Iceland, despite massive interest in emigration, experiences an economic growth unprecendented before. The news even carry on to Norway, Danemark, the Danelaw and Sweden. A Refuge for pagans and rich lands...this will certainly have some interesting effects in the future.

For now a good fifty families who could buy passage on various ships have arrived. your port is definetly too small for this kind of business.

50 more families have arrived. +100 Trade Income with Iceland, improved relations with the Althing, more consequences

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):

Farming Well now that the fields are cleared you can start proper farming.
Cost: 200 Hacksilver, 1 Year Reward: Farming Income

- In early spring you finally spread the seeds, planting rye, wheat, onions and beets, and more than a few farmers are interested in hiring on your Thralls for farming for them.+100 Farming Income, +50 Thrall Farming

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...


-(got confused by the discussion there and am now resuming you switched to honey) [74+8+10 = 92 Critical Success] Bees! Bees everywhere! You find entire meadows full of them, they are more docile than those back in Europe, domesticating them to mass produce honey for further use is gonna be easy. At least that is what Odd says, who seems very knowledgeable on the matter.
New Options, -50% Cost on Stewardship projects concerning Mead and Honey

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
- [44+8 = 52 Success] You find a variety of strange plants here. Maize is one of them, potatoes another...you might want to plant them. New Options

Spoiler: Piety (click to show/hide)

 Thorleif has been pestering you all year with new ideas for this new colony... (Choose 1)

Talk to Horek the White Horek is the odd one here, he worships the White Christ like some of the Thralls...maybe he can tell you about this Christianism everyone is so upset about...
Cost: 1 Year Reward: ?

- [89] You find yourself talking to Horek quite often. He is a nice fellow. He tells you about the White Christ and how he died for the Sins of humanity, battling against the Hordes of Hell on the last days of humanity (that bit sounds oddly familiar but you can't recall from where). His father is apparently an all-powerful god, who sees everything and can do everything. He also appears to be hating the Norse Gods or generally what Horek  calls "heathen idols and false gods". You find yourself inordinately interested and Horek hands you his most prized possession, a book, more specifically a bible. Sadly you cannot read what is inside there, but you have him read a lot of passages to you.
To the disdain of the pagan community and esppecially Thorleif you spend more and more time under the tutelage of Horek to hear about christianity.
Pagan Relationships lowered, Christian Relationships heightened. More Options. Gains Trait "Interest in Christianity"
((dodged a bullet there did you...one more and you would have outright converted))

Spoiler:  Intrigue (now with options!) (click to show/hide)

With marrying Odd, she comes to you with all these new ideas of how to strengthen your control over the settlement, about scouts and exploring and a myriad of other things. Maybe you should listen to her more closely.

Spoiler: Personal (click to show/hide)

A Steady Job Maybe you should invest even more time into smithing,
Cost 1 Year Reward: ?
- [96+8 = 104] Over the year you spend more time smithing. With the knarrs coming back business pretty much explodes, you make enormous amounts of Silver by selling your goods to the new arrivals and after Leif sees your wares he wants to take some back to Iceland...maybe you should hire a few aprentcies and enlargend the smithy? New Options, 100 Hacksilver

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Spoiler:  Military (click to show/hide)

Troop Morale: Good (75/100)
Troop Organization:

Professional Army

5 Huskarlar (Professional Veteran Warriors, chainmail, helmets, shields, axes, spears and even swords)
10 Vikingar (Professional Warriors, mixed leather and chain, helmets, shields axes and spears)
35 Lidsmenn (Semi-Professional Warriors, leather, helmets, shields and spears)
25 Rekkr (Young men, armed with shields and axes or spears as well as some light padded armor)

The Leidangr

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200 Bondi (Piss Poor Peasants, Old Men, Women and Children, armed with shields and spears)
200 Karlar (Peasants, Grown Men and Women, armed with shields, spears, bows or axes)

Ships
3 Skeids (large warships who can carry 70 to 80 men)
5 Snekkjas (smaller warships who can carry 40 men)
2 Knarrs (merchant ships who can carry up to 24 tons of cargo)

Spoiler:  Treasury (click to show/hide)

Treasury: 190 Silver
Income from Jomarsteds Taxes: 450 Silver
Income from Jomarsteds Farms: 100 Silver
Income from Jomarsteds Thralls: 50 Silver
Income from Iceland Trade: 200 Silver

Upkeep for the Professionals: -220 Silver
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Treasury: 770 Silver

Spoiler:  Jomarsted (click to show/hide)

A Village with a hundred and fifty families, consisting mostly of wooden buildings.
A Military Tent Camp is on a hill at the Outskirts of it.
Jomarsted is surrounded by a wooden fence.
Fields of Wheat,Rye,Onions and beets surround it.

"Savages"-Event is coming up soon.

[NRDL]

The last sentence of the paragraph before the line break just screamed them getting their horny viking on.

[Taricus]

And it's still better than twilight!

And I think our newfound interest in the white christ may just be all the surrounding stuff that was happening around the same time. The people's front of judea is pretty interesting

Anyway, looks like we have the money for a proper house now. Good timing with it too, we already have a couple of extra people to shelter.

[Ghazkull]

Savages

The Ormrs Call is creaking gently in the breeze as your ship rounds the bend into the bay in front of you. Corv, his men and several young boys from the village have accompanied you on this scouting mission.

You took them along as much to have them out of Jomarsted as to train their bodies by having them row. That it was Corv's idea and that his men didn't have to row officialy had nothing to do with that.

You have been steadily sailing closer to the source of smoke on the horizon and the moment you came around the bend you saw that it was a village, even from here you could see that it was clearly not of Norse or European Architecture. They used longhouses but they were different than the ones your people built.

Now the only question remained as to what to do with that village.

"Perfect source for thralls if you ask me. My men have been bored and unruly for the past months, bashing in some heads might restore some discipline and let 'em vent. Plus the boys could use the training."

Corv grins at you broadly, scratching his reddish beard, his smell sweet from mead....where he always got it you can only wonder. Hrolf Half-Troll was nodding enthusiastically. The massive geatish navigator wasn't a man of many words, but then again when you had a face as expressive as his you didn't need much talking.

Odd moves up on the other side next to you, Mjoll standing slightly behind her like a silent shadow. The girl had begun to shadow your fiance for a while now, being all protective about the older woman, since she clearly didn't know how to use a weapon.

"Pah, You would pillage our own village if you had half the chance Corv. Jom, i could consult the runes if they are peaceful. Then we can decide if we want to approach peacefully or attack them."

Corv's Plan: Hang back and wait for the cover of darkness to raid these folks at night.

Odd's Plan: Consult the Runes, then decide

Mjoll's Plan: Attack now.

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[Rolepgeek]

Consulting the runes is never a bad idea. We can always use them to help us get the edge if we want to attack anyway. That's just good strategy, that is.

[Taricus]

Hmm... I'd say that consulting the runes is a decent plan. Though if the result is unclear we go in peacefully, ensuring that our warriors are ready for them to try pulling a funny stunt.

[Aseaheru]

Rune it up

[vishdafish]

Consulting the runes is never a bad idea. We can always use them to help us get the edge if we want to attack anyway. That's just good strategy, that is.

+1 to consulting runes, if they are friendly, we can trade for massive profits.

[Taricus]

I think we might be investing in logging due to the huge demand in iceland what with everyone seemingly ditching it to give a one finger salute to the norwegians.

[Aseaheru]

 We probably also want to get ourselves a proper seat of government, mostly so noone thinks they can just set themselves up as boss.

[Taricus]

Pretty sure our sword works well enough as an incentive not to try anything funny like that.

[Aseaheru]

True, but if we are off on some random scouting expedition...

[Taricus]

Well, isn't that what odd is for?

[Rolepgeek]

True, but if we are off on some random scouting expedition...

If somebody tries to, essentially, take over the colony by force in the <week we'll be gone with most of our men still back there, in a society with a tradition of democracy, we're unpopular enough that we'd be assassinated upon return anyway. We don't need to be paranoid.

[Ghazkull]

Savages Part 2

"Do it."

Odd seats herself and begins unravelling a number of stones with carved runes.

[ ] after several minutes of chanting, praising the gods and a small blood offering from you (by cutting your wrist) she seems to enter a trance.

"By night, the fires bright, the gods of war arise...by day runes to your memory, need of them shall be had."

the voice isn't hers, it is an abyssal whisper unsettling most of you. After all rune magic is a womans purview. The most superstitious invoke odin or spit out against evil. You and Corv merely look on rather confused.

"What the fuck is that s'ppose to mean?" the old varangian exclaims angrily as Odd comes around again, who merely shrugs. "The gods only give the advice they want sometimes its better sometimes its worse, rune casting is a difficult art. Why do you think Odin has not yet prevented Ragnarok despite all the seeing into the future he can do?"

What now?

Corv's Plan: Hang back and wait for the cover of darkness to raid these folks at night.

Diplomatic Approach: Drive up in broad daylight and engage in some heavy-duty diplomacy.

Mjoll's Plan: Attack now.

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