Only
Cait Sith makes land this turn, the other gods staying dormant.
Morbus considers exploding to transcend his essence into a tribe, but makes no clear final decision.
Two other tribes do form, however, crowding into the central swampjungleocean and furnishing ample ground for future conflict...
The
Plains Humans, overcome by newfound joy, put slightly less effort into foraging than they should have and only come up with
11 units of food. They will probably be able to make up the excess next turn, but it does mean that they have no excess to sacrifice to
Phlattus! The two worshippers content themselves with another low droning prayer-chant instead. Meanwhile, three other Humans invest their effort into studying the mysterious tendency of plants to sprout around places where food has been dumped. Making use of their newfound awareness of empiricism, they draw up an ambitious plan involving saving scraps of their rations to lay out in designated plots in varying conditions, but are unable to complete the experiment this turn. The plots of eyeballs, rocks, and flower petals fail to produce interesting results, even when placed underwater, on rotting hides, or buried in the dirt; seeds are on the list for future testing, but, since they're so tasty, they've been put off for last to avoid unnecessarily wasting food...
The
Catfish, appalled at the waste they have experienced last month, dedicate their finest minds to the study of food storage. The idea of clearing a dedicated area of seabed to stockpile food comes quickly, but the question of how to deal with the unique challenges imposed by their watery environment continues to vex. It's clear that some kind of superstructure is necessary to exclude scavengers and keep food from simply floating away, but the researchers are divided on how best to accomplish this; a majority feel that the underwater caves of the coral reef region should be explored and exploited for the purpose, while a couple of visionaries/lunatics have proposed the possibility of mimicking the corals to create your own artificial caves somehow. A great deal of argument ensues. In the meantime, the more productive members of Catfish society collect a total of
15 units of food; however, they are unable to actively increase their population without assigning workers to the task. After all, though storks are excellent waders, they still can't reach the bottom of the ocean without drowning.
The Catfish have learned how to clear stockpiles for one population's labour each. These stockpiles help keep food from getting lost, but are not exceptionally effective at preventing spoilage over the long term and have an effectiveness malus underwater. Still, they are a stepping stone to better forms of storage.The
Platipeople also have hard luck with foraging this time, collecting only
10 units of food. They fail to specify
where they are planning to gather materials, and so default to their home tile, but have no luck with that either, unfortunately. Still, the effort spent searching out those ten units teaches them a little something about the ways of the plains, putting them
just over the edge for an increase to their foraging level! Hopefully this will make it easier to make up their deficit in the next turn.
The
Retha, whom I keep mistaking as 'Rethi' in my head, manage to beat the average in foraging this turn, pulling in the necessary
12 units of food in total. The additional experience also
increases their foraging level. On top of that, three Retha set out to learn the properties of the inedible things lying around their swamp, discovering various materials of potential use in the process.
The Retha can now gather either 'resources' generally or specific materials. Materials which may be gathered include, but are not necessarily limited to, wood, stone, dirt, and inedible plants.The Retha foraging in F8u notice nothing unusual, but do hear the faint sounds of some sort of new animal in the distance.
The
Mountain Zebras also meet their basic requirements of
12 units of food, while studying intently to improve their foraging technique.
The
Fruit Foraging Forest Folk arise just west of the navel of the world, quickly being adopted by the regional deity. They only manage to turn up
10 units of food on their home tile, but they, too, devote a little special effort to improving their ability over the future.
Lastly, the
Gremlins come into being in another part of the southern swamp, turning up a sum of
11 units of food with their initial efforts and also adding four investigation points to their Foraging ++ tech, an event for which I am completely out of descriptive phrases.
Oddly enough, the Gremlins foraging in F8u find some of the swamp paths already tracked through and picked over, and hear strange animal noises in the distance; they have no idea why this might be.
Cait Sith gains 2 power from worship, but spends 3.
Phlattus gains 2 power from worship.Morbus gains 1 power from worship.
keymountainjunglefreshwater bodyopen oceanbasic beachplainwet landsswampier wet landsvolcanokelp forestcoral reefestuaryravineforestmeadowGodsCait Sith:
5 PowerPhlattus:
5 PowerMorbus:
6 PowerTribesPlain Plains Humans at B4t:
12 Population, 1 starving!- (C) Sustainable Foraging
- (I) INSPIRATION: Sacred Sites
- (I) Sowing [3 IP]
Catfish at F6r:
12 Population, 2 Food- (E) Foraging ++ [1 IP]
- (I) INSPIRATION: Underwater Food Storage
- (I) INSPIRATION: Spelunking
- (C) Stockpiles
Platipeople at C3s:
12 Population, 2 starving!- (I) INSPIRATION: Hunting Tools
- (C) Materials 1
Retha at F8t:
12 PopulationMountain Zebras at G7s:
12 PopulationFruit People at F6s:
12 Population, 2 starving!Gremlins at E8u:
12 Population, 1 starving!
New general population ability: Workers may try actively to increase a tribe's population. This requires at least two workers to succeed unless you wish to present a convincing case that your tribe reproduce asexually. (Doing so would have other consequences.)New divine ability: A god may spend power equal to ¼ of a tribe's current population to increase that tribe's population by one without having to go through the hassle of biological reproduction! Might this have other side effects?I also reordered the Plains Humans and Catfish in order to match the original order of joining and the order you're listed in my notes. I don't know how I got you backward in the first place.
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Topic: Hexahood (Gridhood, but hexa.) Turn 7 (Read 8564 times)