Pellapnia examines her tribe once more.
Now rested, you look down upon the Niaci once more.
The tribe still seems rather ecstatic from the addition of the sheep, in no small part due to the visions you had shown them. The sheep are fed twice a day, and are now remarkably docile and friendly toward your villagers.
Other than this,the tribe continues much as it always has, with a focus on the gathering of food and supplies. The suggestion of creating a rudimentary mattress seems to have been forgotten amidst all the excitement which accompanied the sheep.
A shame the wolves aren't about anymore, but owls will make a good substitute. Find the most animal loving member of my tribe, and commune with both them and the archer prodigy. Tell them about the owls, and help them tame some for hunting and scouting.
That night, as most of The Snowborn sleep, you appear before the archer prodigy and a young woman simultaneously. They awake within a deep blizzard, where the only light beams off of your body as a guide for them. When they arrive, they drop to their knees, grateful for your appearance. You begin to tell them of the owls, how intelligent and ferocious they are, and how they can be of great use to the village as a whole. You tell them both that as soon as they awake, they are to head out into the plains with an offering of meat, and you will guide them from there. You bid them farewell, and they awake.
The two gather their supplies and set off into the plains beneath the light of the moon. After sometime, they arrive at the area you depicted: sparse trees stand erect amidst thousands of holes in the ground. These holes belong to a species you have deemed "Groundhog": small, stupid rodents which happen to be a favourite of the owl.
*roll*
Within one of the trees, your prodigy's trained eyes spot a reflection of the moon for a brief second before the creature springs into flight. Startled, he nocks an arrow and prepares to fire, but stops himself as he witnesses the creature's graceful dive upon a groundhog which he had yet to see. In a few brief moments, the owl had scooped the creature up and returned to its perch. This must have been the animal you had spoken about, they reasoned.
You decide now to intervene. You insert yourself within the owl's head and mark the two humans the same way the owl would mark its young. It now views them not as a threat, but as a hatchling in need of its mother. It quickly takes flight and heads toward the two people, landing gracefully upon the ground before them.
*roll*
The young female hesitantly extends a small piece of meat towards the owl, which it happily eats. It seems to take a moment to ponder the gift before taking flight again, circling just above the pair's head, hooting loudly. It seems to bid them to follow, and your people comply, setting off after it within the twilight. After a short walk, it perches within a small tree, and hoots again at the two, bidding them up. Your prodigy swiftly climbs the small tree, and is startled to find the owl nuzzling three large eggs. He gently wraps these eggs within a leather hide, which he cradles like a baby as he descends the tree. The owl finds a perch atop
Frost's Menace as the trio sets back off towards town.
"Well then"
Makes a scroll with moving pictures how to farm and sends it to the shamans hut
Within the heavens, you begin to envision a scroll with pictures which move, shifting from scene to scene to show a full story. Once you are satisfied with this scroll, your project your power down through the heavens, forcing the scroll into being, and placing it before your shaman's hut. The noise which accompanied such brute force of your power draws him outside.
*roll*
The shaman lifts the scroll and opens it, and stares in amazement as new images form to replace the old every few moments. It starts with a seed, an object he recognizes from the fruits they commonly eat, being placed within the dirt. The next image shows a man giving it water from his water skin, followed by the plant beginning to sprout. The next image shows a fully grown plant, with a fruit growing on top of it. Finally, a man comes and takes the fruit, eats it, and then replants the seed. The scroll repeats over and over again. Your shaman immediately sends a small group out to bring back a few of these fruits, and when they do, he splits them in half and extracts the seeds. He plants them next to his tent, and instructs the rest of the tribe to do the same when they eat fruits and vegetables. He then orders your finest crafters to begin construction of a case for the scroll, which will become an heirloom for the clan.
The act of creating the scroll from nothing leaves you feeling rather drained.
The Lotus Tribe has learned basic agriculture. They will need time to refine the science if they are to do so on their own.Endion turns his eyes to the pool, checking to see if his people are farming. The answer's probably no. If the answer's no, Endion speaks through the bonfire once more.
"Greetings, tribe of Zekki Zakki. I have heard your discussion of dwellings made of wood. I have some input of my own to add here. They are definitely possible." Project images of log cabins, longhouses, and other wooden buildings into the fire. "They have many benefits. Buildings of wood resist the elements better than tents, are more sturdy in general, can be made larger than tents by many degrees... however, they have one main drawback. They are not portable, unlike a tent, and as such, if the tribe needs to migrate, they cannot bring the wooden buildings with them. There is a solution for this problem, but it does not make the wooden buildings portable, rather, it removes the need, for the most part, for migration by providing a stable food source. This solution is called agriculture."
"As creatures grow through food and water, so do plants. Plants take in water from their roots for drink and sunlight and air through their leaves for food, and thus they grow. Most plants start from a seed, a baby plant, which grows within the earth, if watered, into a plant." Display an animation in the fire of a man taking a seed, planting it in the earth, then watering it. This repeats several times, with the rate of the animation being sped up, until the corn plant finishes growing, at which point the man takes the corn off the stalk, saves several of the corn kernels, cooks the remaining corn, and eats it. The man waits some time, then replants the kernels, which grow into more corn plants... This cycle repeats several time, each time the size of the farm grows.
"Agriculture takes large amounts of time to bear results. This is compensated for by the fact that the products of agriculture, the grains at least, keep very well, taking a long while to become inedible if kept properly. Any questions?"
You cast an eye across your village, and as suspected, can find no signs of agriculture. The fire again roars, doubling in height, signaling your people to come forward and listen.
"Greetings, tribe of Zekki Zakki. I have heard your discussion of dwellings made of wood. I have some input of my own to add here. They are definitely possible."Images of cabins, long houses, wooden homes and shacks begin to dance among the flames. Your people listen in earnest.
*roll*
One of the crafters begins to sketch some of these buildings in the dirt, still paying close attention as he does so.
"They have many benefits. Buildings of wood resist the elements better than tents, are more sturdy in general, can be made larger than tents by many degrees... however, they have one main drawback. They are not portable, unlike a tent, and as such, if the tribe needs to migrate, they cannot bring the wooden buildings with them. There is a solution for this problem, but it does not make the wooden buildings portable, rather, it removes the need, for the most part, for migration by providing a stable food source. This solution is called agriculture."At the word agriculture, the flames briefly calm down, the images of buildings fading away. The tribe listens closely as you speak again.
"As creatures grow through food and water, so do plants. Plants take in water from their roots for drink and sunlight and air through their leaves for food, and thus they grow. Most plants start from a seed, a baby plant, which grows within the earth, if watered, into a plant."The flames begin to play out a time lapse. Your tribe watches closely as a man plants the small seeds of a vegetable into the ground, and begins to water it. The animation begins to speed up, and the same basic actions play out within the flames: the man comes, the man waters the plant, and the plant grows slowly. After many repetitions, the man comes, and instead of just watering the plant, he takes the vegetable which has grown from it. From this plant he harvests more seeds and the cycle begins again, this time with two plants. You speed up the images even more so, and the field is eventually several hundred plants, each with the vegetable from before shown atop it.
"Agriculture takes large amounts of time to bear results. This is compensated for by the fact that the products of agriculture, the grains at least, keep very well, taking a long while to become inedible if kept properly. Any questions?"*roll*
The tribe stays quiet for a long while before the shaman steps forwards, falls to his knees, and begins to speak.
"Oh wise Endion, we understand what you wish of us. We will sow seeds within the earth, so that through your grace and your gift they may grow. However..." He pauses for a few short moments, searching for the proper words, "We do not know of the plant you have showed us, oh mighty Spark. What would you have us plant so that we may build these great tents of the wood you bestowed upon us?"
Even for a god of fire, direct manipulation of the flames over such a period of time has left you feeling somewhat drained.
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