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[FallacyofUrist]

Ritual: Ritual of Divine luck and blessings bestowed upon us by the great Shai, Goddess of Fate and Destiny, purveyor of Fortune, long may she find us in favor.

This is a multi step ritual designed to please Shai, Goddess of Fate and Destiny, through sacrifice, ceremony, and chanting. At the beginning of each season, the best goat in all Nafuna shall be selected. It will be fed, cleaned and sedated for it's role in the Ritual, where it will be sacrificed, and it's blood and entrails used to form a grand ritual circle. Priests shall clasp hands with blood of the goat while the entrails are used to surround the dead goat. Incense shall be placed around the goat at 4 equi distant points, and set alight. At this point, all priests present shall begin chanting in praise of Shai, Goddess of Fate and Destiny, extolling her virtues, of which there are many. This is all to be lead by the high priest, standing over the goat. When the incense has burned half way, the circles will close together, until all incense is gone.  At this time all chanting will cease except for the high priest, who will finish the final rites. This is the end of the Ritual of Divine luck and blessings bestowed upon us by the great Shai, Goddess of Fate and Destiny, purveyor of Fortune, long may she find us in favor.

It looks like this is working.
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Sparkrifle Barrel Molds:
We've developed a mold-based technique that makes the barrel of our absolutely wonderful Sparkrifle capable of being crafted by anyone who can pour metal. The molds we need to do this still need to be made by our smiths, but each mold can be used multiple times, saving us much effort and hopefully removing the complexity of our Sparkrifle.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Sparkrifle Barrel Molds:
We've developed a mold-based technique that makes the barrel of our absolutely wonderful Sparkrifle capable of being crafted by anyone who can pour metal. The molds we need to do this still need to be made by our smiths, but each mold can be used multiple times, saving us much effort and hopefully removing the complexity of our Sparkrifle.

Pirate has stated in the discord the [complex] tag requires a turn or two for an event to remove them, sadly.  He has stated that if we go for smoothbores, we are able to remove the tag, though.

[Thanik]

Since no one's done it yet, I thought I'd post two ideas hanging around on discord. Most of us have come to the agreement that making a smoothbore variant of the Reseph is the best option for this turn, but I thought I'd put the other option up for later use or as a reference for next turn, depending on how things turn out. (Right now I need to write the cannon revision)

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore
Seeing his fellow artisans weren't as skilled as him, Reseph drew up another version of his novel rifle lacking rifling, so as to outfit the entire Nafuni Royal Army, hoping this would make the process significantly easier for other smiths and craftsmen. While he was working on the rifle, he re-engineered the lock so that there's no excess pan exposed below the frizzen, which helps prevent channeling of water into the pan and allows the rifle to be reliably used in foul weather conditions. Additionally, he experimented with different shaped rounds so as to get a feel for which shape had the best ballistic properties - with the goal of increasing the accuracy of his rifles now that the bulk of the troops would be utilizing smoothbores.

[Taricus]

Minni Balls
Up until this point our ammunition for our rifles has been lead balls. However the gunpower residue and the relative difficulty of loading the ammunition means that the current rifles aren't as accurate or fast firing as we'd like them to be, even considering the fact they are muzzle-loaded. The relatively aerodynamic rounds, of which have a rounded cone in the front and have a hollow cone in the bottom to allow it to be more packed against the powder in the barrel, have three lubricated grooves to help it get optimal performance from the rifling. Additionally, the hollow packed bottom deforms the hollow end of the bullet, allowing it to 'grip' onto the rifling and use it to it's best advantage. The only thing is that a special ramrod needs to be used to reload the rifle without damaging the bullet (Which is included as part of this revision)

he best part for our riflemen is that, due to the packing of the powder and the fact the bullet grips into the rifle grooves means they don't have to clean them as obsessively.

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore (1): Thanik
Minni Balls (1): Taricus

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

The Smoothbore includes the modifications to bullet designs that would result in gaining Minnie balls (though Thanik/Nikola could be more explicit on this point) while also giving us cheap firearms and doing both in such a way they would be extremely easy while providing devastating effect.  I see no reason not to vote for it.

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore (2): Thanik, Zanzetkuken
Minni Balls (1): Taricus

[Detoxicated]

Im in.

i say we should develop replacement parts so guns can be produced quicker and cheaper while also easing broken gun problems.
 

[Taricus]

Requires industrialisation, which is happening by event.

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore (4): Thanik, Zanzetkuken, Taricus, TheFantasticMrFox
Minni Balls (0):

[Detoxicated]

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore (5): Thanik, Zanzetkuken, Taricus, TheFantasticMrFox, Detoxicated
Minni Balls (0):

[Funk]

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore (6): Thanik, Zanzetkuken, Taricus, TheFantasticMrFox, Detoxicated, Funk
Minni Balls (0):

[VoidSlayer]

Breech Loading Narmer

A sliding door is added to the base of the Narmer, just in front of the combustion chamber.  This allows a prepackaged round to be inserted before sliding shut and being secured with a cross-bar (or two).  This requires steel parts to keep the door from exploding, but dramatically increases the rate of fire, particularly useful with the scattershot rounds, with multiple rounds being fired before the enemy closes.

[piratejoe]

Very Hard 6 (Would have been hard without the attempt to add minni ball)
Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore: The Smoothbore is a easier to make gun that has been called a musket by the British ambassador. However, much like a arrow without fletchings it is much less accurate then the good old tried and true rifle version. Still, it should be noted that the smoothbore version is faster to reload then the rifled version, and as such, it can fire more often. Another thing to note, is that the varying improvements to it, being simple enough to apply as a standard to all rifles, these improvements being the frizzen covering the pan better, and the new shot that was made, which is refereed as the Reseph Ball. It should be noted however, that it is different from the foreign Minni ball that has been mentioned in the past by our friends from Europe, although its effects are similar, the main difference being it has more of a cone shape at the top then a dome like the minni ball and the top is more pointed. Using such ammo is also able to be loaded into our rifles faster as well.

Once again, you have gained the Pharoah's favor. It is now the battle Phase.

[Light forger]

Swamps:
Villages (1): Lightforger
Mountains (1): Lightforger

[Talion]

Swamps:
Villages (2): Lightforger, Talion
Mountains (2): Lightforger, Talion

[Detoxicated]

Swamps:
Villages (3): Lightforger, Talion, Detoxicated
Mountains (3): Lightforger, Talion,Detoxicated

[Thanik]

Swamps:
Villages (4): Lightforger, Talion, Detoxicated, Thanik
Mountains (4): Lightforger, Talion, Detoxicated, Thanik

Scarab-Ankh Motif Flag (1): Thanik