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[A_Curious_Cat]

I may have miscounted (I may have forgotten about the two newest laborers).  We may need 6 more food, and not just 4.


Btw, what happens if we don’t have enough food?

[King Zultan]

"These ghosts ain't gonna do shit!"
Ignore everything that's happening and continue to gather mud.

[Megam0nkey]

Try to find Symbols. If any spirits attack, try to defeat them with the power of mud!

[Imp]

I may have miscounted (I may have forgotten about the two newest laborers).  We may need 6 more food, and not just 4.


Btw, what happens if we don’t have enough food?

Looks like we're gonna find out.

Turn 16 my understanding was that we were gonna need 12 food for the end of turn 17 and that we had 9 as of turn 16.  We had the worker gathering and I allowed him to gather alone for the first time since he started gathering (he had told us about the forest dangers, and we'd recently had the other worker 'break').  I expected that we'd have 10 food at the start of turn 17, and that if I and the worker gathered then we'd have the 12 we needed to meet all food needs;

Anyone else gathering food on turn 17 too would help build up towards the 12 we need for turn 21 (unless more workers are made or something else happened) because if just worker and I gathered turn 17, we'd have the 12 we need but be at 0 food.

Here comes finding out, cause we're gonna be significantly short food I think.

[Imp]

However, turn 16 MMM #277 also gathered food.  He's our +1/+1, the other is the gatherer.

That takes us to 11, we lost 3 to rot and could have more and new issues with the spirits, ignoring the unknown we're at 8 food.

5BoH #293 decided that we should starve and reassigned the foraging worker (!!!!!!) to collecting mud.

CM #297, Imp #299 are both gathering food.  We'll be at 10 if only things I predict and understand happen (hahahahaha).  So we're short 2 unless great stuff occurs; we may have more lost from these angry spirits even this turn.

[A_Curious_Cat]

I’d also like to remind people that, until we get rid of all the symbols, foraging actions have a 50% chance to fail.

[Imp]

I’d also like to remind people that, until we get rid of all the symbols, foraging actions have a 50% chance to fail.

Yeah, 'and get caught in the vortex' sounds pretty bad as well.  I'm hoping the check for find and remove symbols happens before the check to see if we can get food.

I'm also hoping there's no more than 3 symbols, since we lost 3 food.

All that's guesswork/hopework.  Maybe this is my last turn, maybe I'm one of the ones caught in the vortex and this silences me.  If not, hopefully someone doesn't starve because I get food back, and hopefully we all get the symbols found and removed.

[SCREE]

Turn 18
TURNTURNTURN

The clearing erupts in a flurry of activity!

Some Gnomes immediately hide in the mud, while others obstinately continue their daily activities in the understanding that Mud consumes all.

There is a flurry of re-assigning the workers - despite 2 workers having no jobs - which has never happened before. The foraging worker becomes a mud worker, one worker is encouraged to find strange symbols but they outright refuse and one of the unemployed workers is set to brick making. The last layabout gives a toothy grin as his mate is sent off to build hexagonal bricks, feeling nice and cozy inside his fancy house as the clearing erupts into chaos around him.

Mercifully, a bunch of level-headed Gnomes knuckle down and attempt to seek out the strange symbols littering the clearing. It seems the Afflicted worker had been making them, or smearing them with mud to hide them from prying eyes. He sits gibbering to himself in the Healer's Hut, totally unaffected by the herbs hanging around his head.

3 Sets of Strange Symbols are removed and another is found before nightfall, but not destroyed. It is unclear if this is all of them or if more are around the clearing...

Mercifully, one Gnome does manage to bring food back from the forest intact, totally oblivious to the raging vortexes that swirl in the forests and clearings.

Everybody eats (5 + 7) leaving some to go hungry.

A worker has gotten sick from lack of food!
A worker has gotten sick from lack of food!

Without food to rot, the spirits instead descend on the Herb piles!

Event

Spirits are attacking!

Effects
There are angry spirits attacking the clearing!
They are causing food to rot and disrupting your work.
Foraging for food has become more dangerous with a 50% chance to fail and get caught in the vortex.
In order to stop the spirits, the strange symbols must be discovered and removed post haste! Otherwise this is your life now.

Resources:
     ?? / 35 Food [-11]
     ?? / 15 Mud [+2, +0 from sick Workers]
     ?? / 20 Herbs [+1, -2 rot this turn]
     ?? / 10 Flint [ 0 ]
     ?? / 10 Sticks [ 0 ]
     ?? / 10 Planks [ 0 ]
     ?? / 10 Mud Bricks [0, +3 from Workers, +0 from afflicted worker]
     ?? / 10 Crushed Brick [+2]
     ?? / 10 Putrefied Gunk [+2, inedible]
     ?? / 6 Felled Tree [ 0 ]
     1 / ? Strange Symbols

     1 / 3 Flimsy Shovel [1 Use(s) Remaining]
     0 / 3 Flimsy Axe

Workers:
3 / 6 Workers
    1 x Layabout Laborer
    2 x Gatherer - Mud (2x Sick)
    0 x Forager - Food
    3 x Crafter - Bricks (1x Afflicted, Cannot Work)
1 / 1 Wise Man

Buildings:
    4 x Mud Hut, Workers
    1 x Workshop
    2 x Gatherer's Hut - Food (20 x Food protected from Rot, increased Food capacity)
    1 x Healer's Hut (10 x Herbs protected from Rot, increased Herbs capacity)
    1 x Wise Man's Hut (Access to Research)

Researched
Crude Tools (100%)
Big Mud Pile (100%)
Healing Arts (100%)
Think Tank (100%)
Woodworking (100%)
Brick Crushing (100%)

Do one thing:
>[] Forage for Food (chance to gain herbs)
>[] Gather Mud (chance to get flint)
>[] Fell Tree

>[] Find Strange Symbols
>[] Remove Strange Symbols

>[] Heal the Sick (requires: 2 Herbs)
>[] Crush Brick (requires: 1 Brick)

>[] Craft: Mud Brick (requires: 1 Mud)
>[] Craft: Planks (requires: 1 Felled Tree)
>[] Craft: Flimsy Shovel (requires: 1 Stick, 1 Flint)
>[] Craft: Flimsy Palette Knife (requires: 1 Stick, 1 Flint)
>[] Craft: Flimsy Axe (requires: 1 Stick, 1 Flint)

>[]Use Tool: Flimsy Shovel to Gather Mud (can be used twice, by two different players, before breaking. The creator can use it in the same turn it is crafted)
>[]Use Tool: Flimsy Palette Knife to Craft Mud Brick (can be used twice, by two different players, before breaking. The creator can use it in the same turn it is crafted)
>[]Use Tool: Flimsy Axe to Fell Tree (can be used twice, by two different players, before breaking. The creator can use it in the same turn it is crafted)

>[] Research: Crude Weapons [3/10]
>[] Research: Distillation [8/15]
>[] Research: Trapmaking [0/18]
>[] Research: Kiln [0/12]
>[] Research: Punishment [0/10]

>[] Build Hut, Hire Worker/Thinker - please specify (requires: 5 Mud Bricks, homes 1 Worker or 1 Thinker)
>[] Build Cruck House for a Worker/Thinker - please specify (requires: 6 Planks, homes 2 Workers or 2 Thinkers, or 1 of each)
>[] Build Gatherer's Hut (requires: 5 Mud Bricks)
>[] Build Healer's Hut (requires: 7 Mud Bricks)
>[] Build Bigger Mud Pile (requires: 15 Mud)
>[] Build Wise Man's Hut - Research Skill trees, i.e., what researches unlocks what other immediate research (requires: 10 Mud Bricks)
>[] Build: Workshop (requires: 3 felled trees, 3 bricks)
>[] Build: Lumberyard (requires 2 felled trees, 4 planks)

>[] Assign Gatherer's Hut (Food / Mud / Bricks / Flint / Sticks)
>[] Re-assign Gatherer's Hut (Food / Mud / Bricks / Flint / Sticks)

>[]Assign Worker: Forage Food / Gathering Mud / Crafting Brick
>[]Re-assign Worker: Forage Food / Gathering Mud / Crafting Brick - cannot re-assign sick/afflicted worker[/hider]

[Imp]

Find strange symbols.

[Wolfkey]

Remove strange symbols

[Kashyyk]

Remove Strange Symbols

[A_Curious_Cat]

Find Strange Symbols

[Imp]

Spoiler: Observations about things connected to odd worker/wise man behavior, and gnome involvement too. (click to show/hide)

Turn 7, we had the worker gathering mud (back then just 1 worker).  He successfully gathered mud, but that turn we were told:  "You hear faint crying from the woods at night."

Turn 8, "No one has seen the Worker for a while..." and were were told "? x Gatherer - Mud".  It's possible that as turn 7 became turn 8 the first strange symbol was made.

Turn 9, "Not much thought is given to the lost villager, with the exception of one Gnome who goes looking for them. They find them in the shadow of the mud pile. The wide-eyed, sans-sunglasses gatherer was found scratching strange symbols into the ground, which might look pretty if they weren't so horrifying.

The gatherer has gone mute."

We appear to have definitely gained a strange symbol Turn 9.

Turn 10, "You try to slap some sense into the sunglasses-less worker. His face contorts in a soundless wail as he tries to scratch out his own eyes. You make him a brick-maker to cheer him up. He curls up into a ball holding his ears and stays there for the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, it's become very fashionable for Gnomes to pass the time by copying the strange symbols the mute worker was drawing.

[Omited, I fear showing the symbol may affect the game]

Everyone agrees this is a very good idea and they are totally safe. The mud that has been used to build the houses and mostly sits inert in a pile, however, is deeply suspicious and therefor dangerous. The non-mud gatherers have been whispering among themselves and occasionally pointing and everything."

But we had people specifically say during turn 9:

Nirur Torir "Join the mad gatherer in scratching strange symbols.

This is a good idea, almost as good as making bricks, trust me here. It might be a unique opportunity to learn magic."

Megam0nkey "Scratch strange symbols in the ground."

After turn 10, I copy/pasted the symbol (hope that wasn't stupid of me) and noted it looked kinda like the worker's missing sunglasses, so I made him primitive snow goggles.  Nobody else made more symbols (that we can see).

Turn 11, "An effort is made to heal the Worker. A pair of brand new goggles is created with great care, and placed gently on his head. After a while, he stops shaking. He is taken to the healing hut, where another Gnome attempts to heal him with the newly found herbs. A poultice made from them is applied, but the Wise Man shakes his head. He has an inkling that this particular affliction is no bacteria or disease...

The Worker Gnome is up and walking again, but he still refuses to work. He lies in the clearing and cloud watches, far from the woods or the Mud Pits, always with his goggles on. It seems he isn't mute anymore, and those who come near him can sometimes catch him muttering under his breath about a curse.

Nobody notices the Wise Man has gone into a coma. Luckily, this has no effect on the day to day running of the place, so everyone assumes he's just taking a really long nap."

We possibly now have the Wise Man also making new symbols.

Turn 12, no new info about the afflicted worker or the comatose Wise Man, just this possible clue:  "a new Worker moves in. He says the woods have been dangerous lately, with many lost pub-goers never being seen again in the depths of the forest"

Turn 13, only mention is "Another attempt is made to heal the sick worker, but whatever is wrong with him does not seem curable by the physical..."

Turn 14, no info about the afflicted.

Turn 15, no info about the afflicted - but this is as far back as the editing went, to replace # with ? for how much supply we have and the big red notice about angry spirits attacking turn 17.

Turn 16, "More attempts were made to heal the sick worker, but there is something that has disturbed him so deeply that medicine cannot heal him. Something else will have to be attempted... luckily, all the other workers are perfectly healthy.

Some investigative Gnomes return to the Scene of the Crime, aka, where the Worker was found in the mud piles. They re-examine the strange symbols, trying to decipher them. Staring at the symbols causes one's mind to swim after a while, their vision to double and strange shapes to appear on their periphery... must be eye strain.

Anyway, everything is totally fine in the village and absolutely nothing is out of place, weird or spooky in any such matter whatsoever 100%."

So, at that time, the strange symbols that we knew about, that hadn't been hidden, were still there and easy to see.

We also got told, "Had to stop and start this update a couple of times due to IRL stealing my attention unexpectedly sometimes. So welcoming if anyone notices any weirdness with the count today."  And the count is a link to sesame street's 'the count', number of the day 4, a hard to find 4.

We also got told, "Fixed the fact I wasn't counting herbs ,correctly for.. the entire time the Gnomes have had herbs."  I don't know what that error was.

Turn 17, showtime.  "The Wise Man woke up from his coma. The strange symbols around camp start to glow. Are there more of them then you remember?

"The Spirits!" he bellows, "The spirits are angry!!"

A whaling screaming vortex sweeps through the forest and clearing disorientating you!"

"In order to stop the spirits, the strange symbols must be discovered and removed post haste! Otherwise this is your life now."

Turn 18, show continues.  "It seems the Afflicted worker had been making them, or smearing them with mud to hide them from prying eyes. He sits gibbering to himself in the Healer's Hut, totally unaffected by the herbs hanging around his head.

3 Sets of Strange Symbols are removed and another is found before nightfall, but not destroyed. It is unclear if this is all of them or if more are around the clearing..."

"1 / ? Strange Symbols"

So, we know the afflicted worker made at least 1 symbol.  We know that the Wise Man's waking up is connected to the attack.

We don't know if the afflicted worker and/or wise man continue to make strange symbols, but the Wise Man seems sane now.  Apparently we observed the afflicted worker doing something else wrong-bad, so he is sus.

If the afflicted worker made symbols every turn it could, from the start of its disappearance before we knew it was afflicted:

From Turn 8 until turn 17, that would be 10.  It's possible the worker was possessed on Turn 7 (crying in the forest at night?) and 'disappeared' for Turn 8, and made symbols every night since.  He may have made a new one on turn 17, he's still afflicted.

We found that worker again on Turn 9, and found the strange symbol then.  That's not time to make many symbols (presuming they get made 1 per turn, and that the afflicted worker's the source of them... and the only source of them).

But we've already found 4 symbols, and as of this turn 18 removed 3.

I think we have at least 10 total symbols to find and remove, and if the Wise Man actually is the problem - he went into a coma on turn 11.  So from turn 12 to turn 17 - that's 5 turns.  He woke up Turn 17, so he probably is not still making symbols if he made any.

And we have 2 gnomes who said their action was to make symbols on turn 10.  Those may also add to what have to be found and removed.

So, worst case scenario, based on those factors, we have maybe 19 symbols to find and remove.  (12 from the afflicted worker, who could be making a new one every day still; 2 from gnome hands, 5 from coma-affected Wise Man)

Best case scenario, we have only 5 (the symbols the worker and gnomes made are different symbols, our coma-affected Wise Man is actually the issue, what he did while 'possessed').

[FiveBalesOfHay]

That's a lot of symbols.

Heal the sick.

[Nirur Torir]

I don't remember him being mentioned as drawing any symbols on turns he was interacted with, aside turn 9 when he was first found drawing them.

By your list, I count 6 instances of him being unattended or known to be drawing symbols. He might not have done anything turn 18, and just watched the chaos. Plus 2 for our own symbol drawing science actions. As of this post, we have searched for 6 and removed 5. I estimate that we have 2 searches and 3 removals left, but the spirits might calm down before we remove every last symbol.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turn 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17.

Hide and watch the afflicted worker to make sure he's not drawing symbols. Intervene if he does.