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[EuchreJack]

The dragon choice is also one that can be voted on. No matter what we choose we don't end up coming to Dragon Pass early, for obvious reasons.

Oh, then Neutral on dragons (I don't want to fight dragons).

[birdy51]

+1 to Carp Clan and Dragon based Neutrality!

[MachinaMandala]

REMOVE DRAGON.

Middle option for land.

Carp Clan.

[Harry Baldman]

Sponge Clan sounds pretty good. And let's remain neutral on dragons, keep an open mind and all that.

[A Thing]

I erred on the side of more so we have lots more then we'll probably need.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In a short length game all we have to do is make a tribe and stay leader of it for 10 years, which is lame so we're going to try and become the titular King (Queen?) of Dragon Pass.

Left to right on the clan ring: Ernalda, Eurmal (trickster god,) Vinga (femwarriors,) Barntar (farming,) Lhankor Mhy, Issaries (trade,) Orlanth. We're going to have to reorganize this ring, since as a Orlanth clan we need a ring leader that worships Orlanth mainly.

Since Chalana Arroy wants us not to raid, I decided not to put any magic in war. If we get attacked we can still use our leftover magic though.

This is the main screen, and not much is going on in it right now. We don't have any blessings (not sure why) and everyone is doing okay (except for those four sick farmers.)

All of the buttons on the side are fairly straightforward, and most of them I'm not going to show off now as we really don't have much to see in them. The only one that I've messed with that you won't see is the farming screen, in which I just made us use more of our massive land since, you know, we can.

Despite being called magic this is really the religion screen. We've set up three shrines already (the bigger the shrine/temple the more blessings) for Orlanth, Lhankor Mhy, and Ernalda respectively. You can see our blessing from Lhankor Mhy here and I'll list out the other two:

• Bless Crops: Improves yield.
• Rain: Helps raise our crops.

Mhmmm, food.

So this is where we see all of the clans we know and send out expeditions. We have two alliances, Heran and Wildcat. And we have two feuds: one with Hendart which hates us so much we can't really see their name, and another with Karandoli which hates us so much they settled near the Praxians. The big Colymar blob is a tribe of several clans and we really should not start trouble with any of them. 

This screen contains a bunch of lore stuff we need to know for heroquests. I'm not entirely sure what is added by knowing the details or secrets of a story, but I'm pretty sure it means we do it better. All of the other stuff is extra.

Anyway, with that out of the way I'm going to take my first action and reorganize the clan ring.

Humankt is the god of death. He fights the undead, therefore, he is cool.

Our trickster kinda sucks but I'm not going to have a ring without a trickster.

No events occurred after reorganizing so I send out a caravan to establish a trade route with our ally Wildcat

No events occur so I sacrifice to Orlanth for mysteries so we can build him a bigger temple (and hopefully get one of his war blessings.)

We don't get what we want.

The caravan comes back and we get 6 goods in gifts and....

We get our first event. Since this is a fairly important choice, I'm putting it up to vote.

[Arcvasti]

Accept the offer of peace

We're in no state to fight two clans and also all the other hostile things. This also saves us the trouble of waltzing over and giving them cows to stop bugging us.

[Sirus]

Agreed. Since they're relatively close by, we may want to consider opening trade with them as well.

Also, damn. I seriously thought Lhankor Mhy was a god of crafting. Sadly, none of his/her/its blessings seem to affect crafting at all.

[A Thing]

Since there seems to be a confusion on which god does what, here's the in-game overview. You may notice that one of the chaos gods, Malia, was in our magic list. She's bad news. Let's try to avoid her.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Being the wonderful people that we are, we immediately regift their gifts to us and give them a basket to top it off.

They love it.

The clan becomes optimistic after realizing that we just made peace with one cows worth of goods.

This'll continue sometime tomorrow, nothing really else to vote on right now. Fire season is the best time to raid, but for previously mentioned reason we're not raiding this year. Seasons are very important in this game and the main thing you need to know about them is: Sea=planting, Fire=raiding, Earth=harvesting, storm=maybe raiding if you're lucky, dark=hide in your huts.

As a bonus, here's the foreigners lore bit since it includes dwarfs (yes there are dwarfs in this game, no they are not what you expect.) I'm going to start sprinkling this in now as a bit of Orlanthi culture is lost without me showing the ring members thoughts (which I don't because there are too many of them.)

[Arcvasti]

You could just display the ring members' opinions with normal text instead of going for images.

E.G.

Garstal: These people are clearly elves in diguise! Don't trust their gifts!
Ernaldamia: Bad King Urgrain was once given a deliciously fat cow. Suspicious of its bounty, he had both it and the gift-givers burned alive.

[MachinaMandala]

Since there seems to be a confusion on which god does what, here's the in-game overview. You may notice that one of the chaos gods, Malia, was in our magic list. She's bad news. Let's try to avoid her.

Spoiler: Useless Glorantha Lore (click to show/hide)

Malia isn't actually Chaotic. She's associated with Chaos (so she's bad news) but she's not actually Chaotic in and of herself. Obviously, almost everyone hates her since she helped bring Chaos into the world, so people don't like entreating her ever.

[hostergaard]

Hooo, boy! Been a while since I played this game, its awesome tough.

I seem to remember that I found out that if you send one of your leaders to explore Mount Kero Fin he might get an event that increase his magic abilities. I think there was a way to increase the likelihood of this even but I can't remember.  I just remember that I kept doing it til everyone had enormous magic powers and since the amount of magic you receive each year is based on your leaders magic my tribe had magic out the wazoo. I pretty much blasted my way trough the game by liberal application of magic. Battles aint no tang when you can drown the enemy with enough magic to kill a god.

I suggest sending our trickster there since he is so bad. If you are lucky he may actually become useful. If he dies, oh well.

[A Thing]

You could just display the ring members' opinions with normal text instead of going for images.

E.G.

Garstal: These people are clearly elves in diguise! Don't trust their gifts!
Ernaldamia: Bad King Urgrain was once given a deliciously fat cow. Suspicious of its bounty, he had both it and the gift-givers burned alive.

Sounds like a plan!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Same as last screenshot.

Baranwolf: Both the farmers and the weaponthanes are satisfied
Branbrig: I think a feast is in order...
Ferena: No one is qualified to act as a Healer on the ring. A worshipper of Chalana Arroy lets us perform healing rituals.
Derik: With the external threats we face, (wot?) it would be prudent to reorganize as a war clan.
Yorsar: A good leader must be sure to heed the voice of the people.
Orlgandi: The more gods represented on the clan ring, the better. Dude, everyone worships a different god here, what do you want exactly?
Varmand: I can't add to what's been said.

Since we seem to be in a decently stable condition I'm going to sacrifice about 15 goods to Issaries so we can get his craft blessings (trade=craft I think.)

We get spare grain, which isn't the worst, but could definitely be better.

And this is why we're playing this game. Also, here you can also see the benefit of a diverse clan ring as we've got two extra options to deal with zombie dad here.

Baranwolf: Normally squabbles within a bloodline are not the business of the clan ring. This is not a normal case.
Branbrig: The dead are resolute, but stupid.
Ferena: Killing someone who is already dead can be difficult.
Derik: In Nallinda's Saga, a priestess lays a dead cousin back to rest.
Yorsar: Sometimes the dead bear tidings. But this one just wants pie.
Orlgandi: What did we do wrong in the funeral rites?
Varmand: Undead! Bring me my sword! (not a paraphrase)

So going through the choices, I think sacrificing to our ancestors is the best idea. I think the other options are a bit too unpredictable (Varmand might say he's able to kill him, but ancestors are not something to be trifled with,) and just telling them to deal with it is pretty awful. Let's see how it goes.

We lost one magic but made everyone happy, so I think that wasn't that bad of a resolution.

We build a shrine to Issaries and enter earth season. I'm going to try sacrificing again to get a better blessing from him.

Ten goods spent and we got silvertongue which seems a lot better then spare grain. We shouldn't be trading for food unless we are literally starving.

I send a expedition to trundle about our tula for cool stuff.

And somehow we get attacked by Tusk Riders and lose a dude.

Baranwolf: Thadart was very skilled with weapons. Even though he was not a weaponthane, we should honor him as one.
Branbrig: King Vingkot disappeared many times, and those of weak confidence thought him slain. But each time he came back, hungry and wanting his dinner, having miraculously escaped death.
Ferena: We should sacrifice in Thadart's honor.
Derik: By Elmal's fiery locks we must find him!
Yorsar: A poem has more power to stir the heart than an ordinary speech, or even a generous gift.
Orlgandi: We should give gifts to Thadart's relatives.
Varmand: If only we knew the location of the Tusk Rider lair - then we could courageously risk our lives to recover Thadart's bones!

I'll offer a little bit of a spoiler here and say this event leads to one of my favorite sub-plots in the game so I'm not going to choose this for you guys. Don't worry about ruining a good storyline, there's more then enough other ones for us to see if this one gets derailed.

[Sirus]

I like the war party idea, but I'm also worried that it would count as "raiding" and so displease that one god.

Let's not give up on Thadart. If he was a skilled warrior, perhaps he managed to get away from the vile boar-riders.

[NRDL]

Let's not give up on Thadart. If he was a skilled warrior, perhaps he managed to get away from the vile boar-riders.

+1

[A Thing]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Everyone is comforted by the decision and...

We get another event.

Baranwolf: Elgane's mother knows more than she tells, ask further about her daughter.
Branbrig: I say split the rock open - see what is inside!
Ferena: When in doubt, consult the gods.
Derik: Sometimes the spirits speak in strange ways.
Yorsar: If she wants to make offerings, the known gods would appreciate it.
Orlgandi: Send for shamans to see if she has a gift.
Varmand: Shamans converse with the spirit realm too. Maybe they could train her in their ways.

Since this could easily be a good or bad spirit, I think the best first option here is to inquire further.

Welp, let's just let her do her thing.

Her death was so tragic we actually lost clan magic from this.

With this terrible news we are thrown into dark season. Let's hope we can actually get a caravan through the snow to get some food.

Seasons.