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[TricMagic]

Shape(Water) Ward(Wood) Attack(Air) (2): TricMagic, Madman
Windforged Steel (2): Madman, TricMagic
Runic Chanter's Steelmaking (-)
Chanter Prep Class (-)

[Talion]

Design Phase

Runic System Experiment: Shape(Water) Ward(Wood) Attack(Air)

New Chant Discovered: Shape(Water) Ward(Wood) Attack(Air) - Gathering of Poison
At first, we had difficulty identifying what this chant was for. Only when used in the presence of plants known to have poisonous properties did its use become clear. This chant gathers poison mana from such plants, slowly detoxifying them and focusing the poison in a sphere in front of the chanter. When the chant ends this sphere drops to the ground splashing those nearby with poisonous residue. The poisonous residue is changeable depending on the poisons gathered, but tends to produce rashes rather than more serious symptoms.

Design: Windforged Steel

To create proper arms and armor for our soldiers, we first build larger furnaces than ever before, heated by large fires and great bellows, melting iron and allowing impurities to run off the top, before pouring the molten remainder down into casting basins to make ingots for our smiths.

To improve this process, we start by making a few runes to hold mana for some of our Chanters, we can directly apply the Wind chant to steelmaking. We can replace or augment bellows with Chanters, creating greater heat in our forges. By doing the same thing in front of a sort of "waterfall" of the resulting liquid iron, we can literally blow almost all the impurities out of the iron.

Providing such pure iron to our smiths makes their jobs much easier---they do not have to heat and hammer iron into wrought iron, instead they simply make use of their own preexisting charcoal-heated forges to add the desired carbon content to the iron, making perfect steels for any purpose.

Roll: 4 (Normal)

Windforged Steel is a material superior to any thus far produced, only from the Star nation have we seen its like. Our Windforged Steel is a blue metal that serves as an upgrade to all our iron equipment. Already our smiths wouldn’t dream of wasting their talents on mere iron when the chanters are available to direct their efforts towards our new blue steel. Our Chanters believe it is perhaps possible to make this steel lighter somehow, but they have not yet devised a method to do so.
Cost: National Expense (Land 1, Mana 9) - As infrastructure, only 1 is required.

Hint Token: Use of Runes Applied to Objects; otherwise known as: Enchanting

The Wood Element is perhaps not the most intuitive path to take towards the imbuement of magic into objects. What of Earth or Fire after all. Yet when one considers the passage of life, carving through terrain and reinforcing it against more natural forces. It is then that one realises that it is life that imbues meaning into the meaningless. Transferring power to that which once had none.

Follow the path of Wood and all the power and meaning of mana shall be offered up to your tools.

It is now Autumn, Turn -2 Revision Phase
This turn is a double turn, so you may take 2 actions each phase. There will be no Battle phase.

Spoiler: Rune Skills (click to show/hide)

Rune Skills are a measure of your nation’s understanding of the Runes. They are measured as Unskilled, Apprentice, Adept and Master. You cannot make use of Meanings or Elements until you have at least an Apprentice level understanding of them.

Meaning
Shape - Apprentice
Attack - Apprentice
Ward - Apprentice
Form - Unskilled
Control - Unskilled

Terrestrial Element
Air - Master - Chanting, Fate
Fire - Apprentice
Earth - Apprentice
Water - Apprentice
Wood - Apprentice (Path to Enchanting)

Celestial Element
Fate - Unskilled

Spoiler: Discoveries (click to show/hide)

Discoveries are magical effects you have discovered that you can put to practical use inside Designs.

Chants
Shape(Air), Ward(Air), Attack(Air) - Wind
An expulsion of wind directly away from the chanter. The wind generated is quite strong and grows more powerful the more mana is used to empower the chanter.
(Air Mastery) Our Chanters may direct the Wind as they will.

Shape(Air), Attack(Earth), Ward(Fire) - Wind of Embers
This chant transmutes the wind into embers like the sparks escaping a bonfire directed forward away from the speaker. If these embers land upon suitable kindling they can start fires, but they do not seem overly harmful on their own.
(Air Mastery) Our Chanters may direct the Wind as they will.

Shape(Earth), Attack(Fire), Ward(Air) - Spike of Smoke
A chant that concentrates smoke into a spike before projecting it forwards away from the speaker. The smoke does not disperse nor does it cause much damage on impact, instead forming into a cloud. It is possible to choke on it if the target remains within the effect for long enough.

Shape(Water) Ward(Wood) Attack(Air) - Gathering of Poison
Draws poison from the environment into a single mass. The effect of the poison depends on what is gathered, but usually only results in rashes or other minor side effects.

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

Mundane Equipment
Longsword: A double-edged blade and a cruciform hilt. A versatile weapon capable of cuts, slices and thrusts. Requires training to wield, can be used one or two handed.
Expensive (Land 2, Ore 2)

War Axe: Can be used as a tool in a pinch, this is a single-handed weapon that does well against heavily armoured foes. Can be used with minimal training.
Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

Wooden Shield: Couples well with an axe, cheap, easy to replace. Works best in heavy melee. Can be used with minimal training.
Cheap (Land 1)

Pavise Shields: Metal reinforced, wooden shields designed to be worn on the back to protect a crossbowman while they reload their crossbow.
Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

Hide Armour: Constructed from the hides of sheep. Turns aside weak blows.
Cheap (Land 1)

Scale Mail: Scales of iron on a leather hide backing.
Expensive (Land 2, Ore 2)

Light Crossbow: Based on the bow and mounted horizontally on a frame. Powerful, but reloading is slow and dangerous. Each crossbow has been standardised, allowing even lesser skilled crafters to build a functional weapon of war.
Cheap (Land 2)

Standard: A flag used to identify units and maintain order in battle.
Cheap (Land 1)

War Cart: A four wheeled cart used to carry crossbowmen to battle. Unfortunately the lack of horses on the island leaves it unusable at the moment.
Expensive (Land 3)

Magical Equipment
Wind Cart: A four wheeled cart with a hollow cylinder in the back. This cart is designed to be crewed by a Chanter who is capable of propelling the cart at walking speed using a variant of the Wind Chant.
Expensive (Land 3, Mana 3)

Windforged Steel: All metal equipment has been improved with access to Windforged Steel. It has a blue colouration.
National Expense (Land 1, Mana 9) - Infrastructure

[TricMagic]

Windforged Shield Additions- Blue Shell:

Using the Wooden Shields as a base, Metal is cooled over the front of the wood, shaped into a shell that makes it far stronger against attacks.


Jumonji yari:

Using the flag pole as a base idea.

A spearhead with a metal collar that connects to a wooden shaft. The Spear has a Crescent pointing toward the enemy, and the spear as a whole is sharpened on every blade side. Good for catching longer blades, deflecting attacks, or ripping through enemy ranks.

Spoiler: Image of head (click to show/hide)

Jumonji yari spearhead with metal collar; note the long tang, approx. equal to the blade-length

[TricMagic]

WindScale Armor:

Creating plates of small metal circles in the forge, we then pin them to squares of thick leather. Those squares are then tied together to form light armor, that protects the front, back, hips, and shoulders, while not effecting movement in the least.

[TricMagic]

Gathering of Lye:

It is by now, well known that we produce a lot of ash. It's also a fact that ash comes from wood like products. What would happen if we used this spell?

By using Gathering of Poison on the ash we produce, we create this sort of caustic substance that eats away at flesh. In addition, it seems that when we mix it with some water, we get something that allows us to tan the skins we have, making them tougher, more flexible, and easy to work with. This means we can more easily create armor that normally uses untreated hides.

This "Lye" is dangerous to work with, but very useful in "Leather Production".

[Madman198237]

Brigantine Armor
Based on our Hide Armor and/or the woolen cloths our people most certainly wear, Brigantine Armor takes the next great step in armor technology: cleaning the sheep carcasses before wearing them Using wool and/or linen woven into thick cloth as armor, backed with metal (steel in this case) strips. Multiple layers of this cloth, in armor form referred to as a Gambeson, replaces the backing in Scale Armor, to make it further resistant to blunt impacts. Brigantine armor is based on gambesons, but has small strips or plates of steel sewn between two layers of the gambeson, providing added protection to the vital organs and adding resistance to the sorts of cutting blows (using unusually razor-sharp weapons) that are the best way to deal with gambeson-clad soldiers.

Northman's Shield
Based on our wooden shields, the Northman's Shield is basically an upgrade like our Pavise Shield-it adds steel reinforcement strips around the edges. However, it is a much nicer shield, because it's made of carefully-seasoned hardwoods to give it added durability. The shield has a forearm strap near the center and a handhold closer to the outer edge. The shields are painted by their owners, which not only look cool but also make it easy to identify friends even in fairly-dark conditions. Oh, and the boss is not just a plain steel boss, instead it has a metal spike the size of a spearhead protruding from it. The spike is shaped like a bodkin-point arrow, to pop links in mail or punch through gaps in armor and cause maximum damage to any poor sucker who gets in the way of a Loji charge.

[TricMagic]

Vote

Brigantine Armor
Based on our Hide Armor and/or the woolen cloths our people most certainly wear, Brigantine Armor takes the next great step in armor technology: cleaning the sheep carcasses before wearing them Using wool and/or linen woven into thick cloth as armor, backed with metal (steel in this case) strips. Multiple layers of this cloth, in armor form referred to as a Gambeson, replaces the backing in Scale Armor, to make it further resistant to blunt impacts. Brigantine armor is based on gambesons, but has small strips or plates of steel sewn between two layers of the gambeson, providing added protection to the vital organs and adding resistance to the sorts of cutting blows (using unusually razor-sharp weapons) that are the best way to deal with gambeson-clad soldiers.

Northman's Shield
Based on our wooden shields, the Northman's Shield is basically an upgrade like our Pavise Shield-it adds steel reinforcement strips around the edges. However, it is a much nicer shield, because it's made of carefully-seasoned hardwoods to give it added durability. The shield has a forearm strap near the center and a handhold closer to the outer edge. The shields are painted by their owners, which not only look cool but also make it easy to identify friends even in fairly-dark conditions. Oh, and the boss is not just a plain steel boss, instead it has a metal spike the size of a spearhead protruding from it. The spike is shaped like a bodkin-point arrow, to pop links in mail or punch through gaps in armor and cause maximum damage to any poor sucker who gets in the way of a Loji charge.

+! to both.

[Doomblade187]

In.

[Talion]

Revision Phase

Brigantine Armor

Based on our Hide Armor and/or the woolen cloths our people most certainly wear, Brigantine Armor takes the next great step in armor technology: cleaning the sheep carcasses before wearing them Using wool and/or linen woven into thick cloth as armor, backed with metal (steel in this case) strips. Multiple layers of this cloth, in armor form referred to as a Gambeson, replaces the backing in Scale Armor, to make it further resistant to blunt impacts. Brigantine armor is based on gambesons, but has small strips or plates of steel sewn between two layers of the gambeson, providing added protection to the vital organs and adding resistance to the sorts of cutting blows (using unusually razor-sharp weapons) that are the best way to deal with gambeson-clad soldiers.

Roll: 2 (Normal)

Our first true improvement to our traditional armour does not go smoothly. Out of a desire to keep costs down we reduced the amount of cloth and steel used by creating windows to show off the muscles of our proud warriors. Likewise hiding our glorious Windforged Steel beneath simple cloth seemed like a blasphemous denial of our faith in the holy metal. Let our men show their faith as proud gladiators before the eyes of the Goddess.
Cost: Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

Northman's Shield

Based on our wooden shields, the Northman's Shield is basically an upgrade like our Pavise Shield-it adds steel reinforcement strips around the edges. However, it is a much nicer shield, because it's made of carefully-seasoned hardwoods to give it added durability. The shield has a forearm strap near the center and a handhold closer to the outer edge. The shields are painted by their owners, which not only look cool but also make it easy to identify friends even in fairly-dark conditions. Oh, and the boss is not just a plain steel boss, instead it has a metal spike the size of a spearhead protruding from it. The spike is shaped like a bodkin-point arrow, to pop links in mail or punch through gaps in armor and cause maximum damage to any poor sucker who gets in the way of a Loji charge.

Roll: 4 (Normal)

These new shields for our warriors are another fine example of Loji know how. Those with the skill to paint them without tainting the holy Steel of the spiked boss are already in high demand. Naturally, we destroy the wood of the shield, clean the holy boss and start again in the event that the painter fails.
Cost: Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

It is now Winter, Turn -1 Discovery Phase
You may declare one phase a double phase this turn. The Battle Phase will contain some scouting information.

Event: A National Flag
In joining together to defeat the heresy of the Star, we have until now not thought about who it is we are or will become. No longer, a flag will be our first step on the road to declare ourselves forever worthy.

A nation that marches to war needs a flag to represent it. Design a flag for the proud land of Loji. The nation with the best flag will receive a hint token.

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

Mundane Equipment
Longsword: A double-edged blade and a cruciform hilt. A versatile weapon capable of cuts, slices and thrusts. Requires training to wield, can be used one or two handed.
Expensive (Land 2, Ore 2)

War Axe: Can be used as a tool in a pinch, this is a single-handed weapon that does well against heavily armoured foes. Can be used with minimal training.
Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

Wooden Shield: Couples well with an axe, cheap, easy to replace. Works best in heavy melee. Can be used with minimal training.
Cheap (Land 1)

Pavise Shields: Metal reinforced, wooden shields designed to be worn on the back to protect a crossbowman while they reload their crossbow.
Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

Northman’s Shield: A round wooden shield with a metal spiked boss. This shield is reinforced with metal around the edges. These shields are carefully painted with unique designs to help identify the hero who wields it.
Cheap (Land 2, Ore 1)

Hide Armour: Constructed from the hides of sheep. Turns aside weak blows.
Cheap (Land 1)

Gladiator Armour: Strips of Windforged Steel cushioned by wool and linen. Designed to show off the muscles of our proud warriors and less to protect them in battle. Those vital spots the armour does cover receive superior protection to the previous furs.
Cheap (Land 1, Ore 1)

Scale Mail: Scales of iron on a leather hide backing.
Expensive (Land 2, Ore 2)

Light Crossbow: Based on the bow and mounted horizontally on a frame. Powerful, but reloading is slow and dangerous. Each crossbow has been standardised, allowing even lesser skilled crafters to build a functional weapon of war.
Cheap (Land 2)

Standard: A flag used to identify units and maintain order in battle.
Cheap (Land 1)

War Cart: A four wheeled cart used to carry crossbowmen to battle. Unfortunately the lack of horses on the island leaves it unusable at the moment.
Expensive (Land 3)

Magical Equipment
Wind Cart: A four wheeled cart with a hollow cylinder in the back. This cart is designed to be crewed by a Chanter who is capable of propelling the cart at walking speed using a variant of the Wind Chant.
Expensive (Land 3, Mana 3)

Windforged Steel: All metal equipment has been improved with access to Windforged Steel. It has a blue colouration.
National Expense (Land 1, Mana 9) - Infrastructure

[TricMagic]

Discovery Phase most obviously.

Further our mastery of Wood, as well as unlock Fate.

On that note, I have an idea for the flag that incorporates wood(Tree), air(blue), and stars(white-silver).



Not the best with trees.. Assuming the star can be recolored depending on Fate's color.

[Madman198237]

Dangit, of all the silly problems to have. Well, luckily it's a simple revision to solve the armor problem, and the shield turned out well (Even if we are, for some reason, hyper-focused on the divinity of some colored and not-yet-any-more-magical steel).

We now have steel axes which should be pretty much perfect for our needs for now, we have steel scale armor which is likewise perfect for our warrior class or elites or whatever, plus we also have longswords which are similarly good for said warrior class.

I think the double Discovery phase will in fact be our best bet, despite the possible things we might get to accomplish using a double Design phase. For instance, we could probably design a Chanter school of some kind to allow them to employ what Chants we have, probably in logistical and supportive roles rather than attempting direct defense or offense right now. For instance, Chanters can summon breezes to cool men as they march even in the hottest weather, and summon smoke to obscure movements on the battlefield, increasing the enemy's response time compared to our own, giving us the tactical advantage.

[Doomblade187]

Investigate: Fate (1) Doomblade
Form(Fire), Shape(Water), Attack (Water): (1) Doomblade

Do we need to investigste the meanings before using them? If so, ws should investigate Form.

Hoping to get a stream of fire from the research phase. Do we know what ward does?

[TricMagic]

Investigate: Fate (1) Doomblade
Form(Fire), Shape(Water), Attack (Water): (1) Doomblade

Do we need to investigste the meanings before using them? If so, ws should investigate Form.

Hoping to get a stream of fire from the research phase. Do we know what ward does?

General, and we do have a Discord link in the Core thread.

Also.. We want enchanting, since there is plenty we can do with it.

Investigate: Fate (1) Doomblade
Form(Fire), Shape(Water), Attack (Water): (1) Doomblade

Discover Fate and Master Wood: (2) TricMagic, Madman

And yes, we do need to. We kinda chose our path last turn. We can focus on Form next discovery phase. And hint tokens can be spent on new combinations.

We spent a Hint to discover what is needed to get enchantment, and it's Wood.

As for that combination, that seems more like a boiling hot water stream. Attack tends to use the element in question.

[Doomblade187]

Investigate Fate, Form(Fire), Shape(Water), Attack (Fire): (0)

Discover Fate and Master Wood: (3) TricMagic, Madman,
Doomblade

I will go along with the master plan for now, thank you for the rune feedback.

Please don't strikethrough my votes. I consider it impolite.

[Madman198237]

Investigate Fate, Form(Fire), Shape(Water), Attack (Fire): (0)

Discover Fate and Master Wood: (3) TricMagic, Madman, Doomblade

Not only is it impolite it's also....cheating I suppose is an appropriate word here. Of course, this does mean that we have chosen this to be our doubled phase this turn.