Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Vanigo]

Just once since discovering the silver, actually. I'll add it in.

[Pandarsenic]

Spoiler: Crunch! (click to show/hide)

1. Work Tile 2
2. ^9
3. ^10
4. ^11
5. ^13
6. ^17
7. ^18
8. Research Explosives (+@Alchemist's Lab)
9. Work Tile 3
10. ^Make Horses
11. Research Mining
12. Research Mining
13. Work Tile 8
Change out Warriors for a unit of swords-and-shields guys. Train hammer team. (Shi Shotan)
Horses continue to scout independently, with orders to avoid conflict.

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

"We need to get some mining operations in place, Sai," Shi Shotan declared.
"But General, I'm almost done with my explosives research, and I-"
"Will be permitted to finish," the General interrupted. "First, you finish that while I return some of the Falcons to the work of translation and reading. Meanwhile, I need to train some soldiers. I've dedicated myself to learning the art of these swords and hammers so as to be a fitting teacher to the troops. Now the time has come to pass on the knowledge."
"Admirable, General Shi Shotan," Dremmeur complimented.
Shi Shotan laughed. "Hardly. I'd expect no less of a commander."

[RPB]

"Surely you can see the usefulness of this avenue of research," Amnarchis says. "Our tools may be crude now, but as they attain greater sophistication they should be able to take up more and more of the menial labor which keeps the city fed and supplied, freeing more of our people up to devote their time to higher pursuits."

"I don't see why you should need to seek my consent," Ramades replies levelly as he surveys his apprentices clearing a patch of woodland. He'd just finished designing a power-assisted saw pit to speed timber processing, and the spot was ideal for harnessing the river's energy. "You are the head of the Library, not I. Besides, as you can see I am already quite dedicated to the development of labor-saving devices. My preferences towards proven technologies should hardly seem questionable."

Spoiler: Crunch (click to show/hide)

1 labor: work tile 1 (irrigated watermill river plains, +5 food)
1 labor: work tile 7 (hunter camp river forest, +3 food/+1 wood/+1 leather)
1 labor: work tile 5 (quarried watermill river hills, +3 food/+1 stone/+1 wool)
1 labor: work tile 6 (quarried watermill river hills, +3 food/+1 stone/+1 wool)
4 labor: build watermill on tile 7 (hunter camp river forest, -2 stone/-1 wood)
5 labor: continue researching practical applications of animated objects, with a view towards producing constructs capable of assisting in labor or production

Gross output: +14 food/+2 stone/+1 wood/+1 leather/+1 wool
Consumption: -14 food/-2 stone/-1 wood
Net: +1 leather/+1 wool

[Luke_Prowler]

Richard watched in silent horror as jen looked over his notes. For a year, he had toiled over this project to not be put in some unconfortable postion (and not the good kind). He has has done so much, even lowering himself to physically work, all to avoid being hung by a hook in a place he would like to keep. He knew that he couldn't be killed for incompedence, but he would not be surprised if John found some way to either off him or put him through some sort of pain (physical, mental, or other).

Jen looked at the notes with interest. She wan't a farmer by any streach, but the research look solid, and the unneeded footnotes were kept to a minimal. Looks like Richard got to leave in one peice. Which is a bit sad. oh well, she has weapons to be made and soldiers to be trained.

"So..." Richard said, attempting to break the awqward silence "have you seen the little shrines that have been making this year?"

"I have" Jen answer as she started on some paper work. She was actually a regular at one shrine, but she keeps it a secret as everytime she tried to give the name of her god, people kept thinking she was worshiping a vegetable. "I have no idea why John would be OK with that." she paused "Where is fearless leader, anyway?"

In some back alley, off the main path, John sat cross legged in a small quite room. a shrine to some anthropomorphic fox was in front of him, probably some sort of god (or goddess, but John wasn't going to check) of trickery and theives. John was not a religious man, but he enjoyed the peace and quiet.

"Leader!"

But nothing lasts long. John was going to turn around and ask the man how he found him, but he could found that he could not find the right words when he saw what was in the man's hands. John was sure what it was, but it was shiny. Have something shiny, reguardless of what it was, was a good way of getting yourself cut up six ways from friday (despite that they don't have a calender yet), and this wasn't more evident as when John had a death grip on the man's throat.

"Where did you find this!?"

"In...the hills..." the man was able to croak before he passed out. With the object in hands, John knew what to do. He had to find more. Well, he had to hide what he had right now, but then he would find more.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

5 workforce harvest tiles 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 (13 food, 2 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice)
2 workforce irrigate tile 3
3 workforce research Mining
1 workfoce build 2 sets of wooden spears (-2 wood)

Other orders:
train two spearmen units

Net gain:
13 food, 2 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice
-13 food (consumed)
-2 wood (spears)
-2 spice (luxery)
+2 leather, -1 spice

Goods stored:
9 leather (For sale, rock bottom prices!)
1 spice

[Vanigo]

Neo-Tyrgani

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(You already have mining; I'm going to assume you'll want those researchers moved to metalworking. Also, if you don't want to tally up resources gathered, please at least keep your resource gathering labor together.)
Dremmeur Sai hasn't yet duplicated the exploding substance he found, but he's started to come up with some other useful things. He's found a liquid that, while it doesn't explode, burns hot and sticky. There's no satisfying boom, but a thin-walled clay pot of the stuff makes an effective throwing weapon nonetheless. He's also found a way to infuse splinters of wood with the firey energies of the ember roses, enabling them to burn for hours. He had discarded this as not being particularly useful, but one of his assistants worked out a holder for these, perfect for a grenadier to light the fuses of his firepots with. He's pleased with their military potential, but notes that huge numbers of them will be needed, and that the city's weapons makers have little experience with such things. While the study of metalworking was less fruitful, a source of another metal, tin, was found north of the city.
General Shi Shotan's training goes according to plan. His warriors take well to their new edged weaponry, and the hammermen look to be effective against shield-bearing enemies. One of his horsemen, meanwhile, is distinguishing himself as an able pathfinder, with a knack for navigation none can match.

New leader emerges: Explorer!
Fire alchemy researched!
    Allows fire grenades (with alchemist's lab)
    1 ember roses, 2 labor; military workshops don't help
Tin discovered!
    With mine: +1 tin
Morale returns to 6
Population grows to 13,867
Warriors upgraded to stone swordsmen (7M/4/15/1)
Hammermen trained (6M/3/15/1)
4 food, 2 wool, 3 stone, 1 ember roses stored

Zefies

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(You can't build urban sprawl in tile 9, only in the hexes adjacent to your city. And I can't figure out why you'd want to, anyway, when tile 4 is right there with no upgrade to replace. I'm putting it there, but if you really want it on the river I'll move it to 1, 5, or 6 for you.)
The zefies set to work expanding their city further, industriously preparing for the population growth they anticipated in years to come. Others work on expanding the quarry near town into a full-fledged silver mine, bringing more wealth into the city. A few look into how to make use of the iron they'd discovered, but they make little headway (or top-of-the-fluffballway, depending on who you ask). Regardless, though, the year was a cheerful and productive one.

Population grows to 19,363
Production bonus! 20 labor available
Irrigation built
Mine built
Stone wall built
Suburb built
1 wood, 2 stone stored
10 money collected, 1 spent

Zrlv

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The military sets off to the south on another wolf-catching expedition, as the city prepares for the wolves they hope to return with. They return frustrated later in the year, saying they found few wolves and no large groups. Xengbubukza believes the population closest to the city may have moved to the south or west, or perhaps they were simply unlucky.
The civilians had better luck, fortunately. Kazastrugu and his researchers experiment with architecture and mechanical contraptions, and produce some useful devices (along with a host of useless ones). They draw up plans for, among other things, a watermill that will produce mechanical power to improve the efficiency of any riverside labor. The city's new smithy is also up and running, and if a few apprentices 'accidentally' fall into the forge from time to time, it's generally agreed that this is a small price to pay for the quality of weapons they turn out. (A few citizens even think it somehow helps, feeling ironworking must be somehow supernatural. They have a remarkable tendency to fall into forges.) The city's population continues to grow, providing new workers to the growing civilization, but the tunnels are starting to become a bit crowded. Everyone knows better than to complain, of course, but it's putting a bit of a damper on further growth.

Engineering discovered!
Population grows to 15,381
Overpopulation! -2% growth
Morale returns to 6
Smithy built
2 wool, 1 wood, 1 leather, 1 glowing mushroom stored

Jericho

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(You can't send the spearmen out until next turn. Also, are you sure you want to make spearmen when you've got shields you could give them? You may have the timing of unit creation mixed up. You can make equipment and give it to a unit in the same turn, but that unit will not be available for use until the next.)
The Jerrans prove to be a resilient people, and as they dry out and rebuild their city they're already looking to improve it further. More weapons are prepared, as plans to build a military and explore the land are drawn up. By the time the next harvest comes around, only a few signs of the previous year's disaster can be seen, and those only if you know where to look.
The city's research goes well. A system of writing is developed, and merchants looking to keep records of their buisness are quick to adopt it. The city's engineers make less progress with their work, but they do learn a thing or two in the rebuilding process.

Literacy discovered!
Population grows to 17,152
Morale returns to 8
Production bonus! 18 labor available.
1 food, 1 pearls, 2 cloth, 4 stone, 2 wood stored
16 money collected, 1 spent

Asykos

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A springtime storm rolls through the city, thunder crashing across the hills. The ruins of the Great Library were repeatedly struck by lighting - over a dozen times, by one count - but when the storm passed no damage was found. It seems to be a good omen, but the ever-practical Asykos pay it no mind.
The year is a productive one nevertheless, though. Another watermill is built in the forest, improving lumber production there. More significantly, the city's researchers discover that gold is not as useless as they thought; it has magical properties that make it ideal for powering magical constructs. They learn to create more vigorous constructs which, while they're far too mindless to do any work on their own, provide a valuable power source for more conventional mechanical devices. By replacing the waterwheel of a mill with a power-generating construct, for instance, they propose a self-driving mill could be created anywhere, providing mechanical power not tied to the river.
Ill fortune strikes the city towards the end of the year, however. A band of raiders arrives on horesback from the south, and roll through the eastern fields as they come, killing those unfortunate enough to be caught and stealing whatever they can find. As they approach the city, the militia greets them with a hail of arrows. The ensuing battle is long and bloody, and the milita takes heavy casualties, but do damage to drive the raiders off. Damage is far less than it could have been, but still significant.

Mechanical constructs researched!
    Increases mechanic's workshop bonus to 50%
    Allows animated mill
        2 wood or stone, 2 gold
        +1 to any resource already produced
        Stacks with most improvements (but not watermills)
Random event: Good omen!
    +1 morale (countered by stoicism)
Raiders!
    300 people killed!
    1 food looted!
    Irrigation in tile 2 destroyed!
    Indecisive battle: no morale effects
Population grows to 13,432
1 food used; 1 leather, 1 wool stored
6 money collected, 1 spent

Baneriant

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(You can't research mining; you don't have construction yet. Or you didn't, anyway.)
The year is not a good one for Ragt'ich. Poor weather leads to a poor harvest, and hundreds leave the city in search of food. Those who remain are demoralized and even more prone to troublemaking than usual. Some hastily-trained spearmen are able to keep the peace, but things are going poorly.
Research is a bit of a bright spot, however. The researchers learn a great deal about building things, and produce an uncharacteristically detailed set of plans for a smokehouse and granary to store food for lean times.

Random event: Poor harvest!
    Plains produce less food
Famine! 3 food missing!
Population drops to 11,972!
Morale drops to 6!
Construction researched!
Irrigation built
2 spearmen trained (4/3/10/1)
2 leather stored; 1 spice used
6 money collected, 4 spent

[RPB]

Whatever lingering tension there remained between the schools of thought represented by Amnarchis and Ramades dissolves in the face of the threat the raiders pose. The learned scholars of the New Library and the hard-headed engineers under Ramades pool their knowledge to erect a workshop to assist the construction of the defensive works that will be needed to protect the city. A few of the hardier citizens are sent up into the mountains, gathering much-needed stone and supplementing the city's food stores with fish. Meanwhile, the peoples' attitude towards the military workshops softens considerably as Arbelos and the other apprentices go to work producing as much military equipment as possible.

Spoiler: Crunch (click to show/hide)

1 labor: work tile 1 (irrigated watermill river plains, +5 food)
1 labor: work tile 5 (quarried watermill river hills, +3 food/+1 stone/+1 wool)
1 labor: work tile 6 (quarried watermill river hills, +3 food/+1 stone/+1 wool)
1 labor: work tile 8 (hunter camp watermill river forest, +3 food/+2 wood/+1 leather)
1 labor: work tile 15 (river mountains, +1 food/+1 stone)
6 labor: build mechanic's workshop (-2 stone/-1 wood)
1 labor: make wooden bows
1 labor: make leather armor

100 pop: train as hunters (bows/leather armor)

Gross output: +15 food/+3 stone/+2 wood/+1 leather/+2 wool
Consumption: -14 food/-2 stone/-2 wood/-1 leather
Net: +2 wool/+1 food/+1 stone

[Nirur Torir]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1st laborer work city's mushroom farm (+3 food)
2nd laborer work mountain/river tile 5 (+2 food, +1 stone)
3rd laborer work hill/river tile 6 (+3 food, +1 wool)
4th laborer work hill tile 7 (+1 food, +1 wool)
5th laborer work forest tile 9 (+2 food, +1 wood, +1 leather)
6th laborer work mountain/river tile 15 (+2 food, +1 stone)
7th laborer work hill/river tile 18 (+3 food, +1 wool, +1 glowing mushroom)
8th laborer work mountain/iron tile 14 (+1 stone, +1 iron ore)
Gross resource intake: +16 food, +2 stone, +3 wool, +1 wood, +1 leather, +1 iron ore, +1 glowing mushroom

9th, 10th, 11th, 12th laborers build water wheel on hill/river tile 6 (-2 stone, -1 wood)
13th, 14th, 15th laborers work on trade research
Explorer and general leaders look even harder for more wolves to capture with the entire military
Net resources:
16 food - 16 food eaten = Only those who like the taste of rats eat them
2 stone + 6 stone from storage - 2 stone used = 6 stone stored
3 wool + 20 wool from storage = 23 wool stored (Lots and lots of wool! YAY!)
1 wood + 5 wood stored - 1 wood used = 5 wood stored
1 leather + 2 leather stored = 3 leather stored
1 iron ore = 1 iron ore stored

Glrk'nr was in another meeting, with various goblins who represented certain factions in the goblin's society. It wasn't necessary for him to even listen to them, but there were less fools trying to kill him if he did act like he was interested in their well-being. Plus, there were occasionally good ideas thrown about, and it helped him keep track of the overly-ambitious.

"...And that's how it works. I believe we could increase our food production by 33%-50% by building water wheels along the river.

Glrk'nr nodded "Very good, begin construction on them at once."

Three more goblins began to speak. After giving the other two harsh kicks, only one remained: a veteran of the failed skirmish against the humans. "...Money. The more important goblins need more meat. The goblins doing more important jobs get more money, to buy more meat." The speaker was met with a hash, emotionless gaze from Glrk'nr "I...er...The military is the most important. They need more money, to buy more meat. If they have more money, more goblins will fight better. The weak humans will die easily before us goblins."

After a few more moments of silent staring, Glrk'nr sighed and gave in. "There is merit to your words. I'll meet with Kazastrugu later and have him figure something out."

After a few minutes of chaotic yelling amongst those gathered, one voice finally won out. "You should send out scouts to find out more of what caused all the disasters." Glrk'nr stared at him. "Yea. Find out what caused them so nothing like that happens again." Despite the continued staring, the oblivious speaker continued "If anything like that happened again, it'd be bad. Many of us would die."

Glrk'nr sighed in annoyance. "No. Just no. This meeting's over." Ignoring the crowd, Glrk'nr stalked off to find Xengbubukza. Sometimes the meetings worked, sometimes they were just an annoyance. Yelling at Xengbubukza to try harder to find more wolf pups would take the edge off his temper, then he could go torment the group of kids that had been found stealing glowing mushrooms.

(Edit - RP and numbers made to match. I hate changing my mind part-way through and forgetting to change something.)

[Strife26]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Zefie Statician E: According to our calculationary devices, if we keep a yearly growth rate of 6%, we won’t hit more overcrowding problems for another 4.5ish years.
Tikhon: How are the feasibility studies coming for extending the wall further?
Alastair: After the barely mitigated disaster last year?
Zefie Advisor A: It’s not MY fault that your nine had a loopy thing on the bottom that made it look like an eight.
Zefie Farmmaster D: I couldn’t of stood it being placed on my fields.
Alastair: Or on a river. Although, it would make it relatively easy to throw certain zefies into said river . . .
<Other zefies edge away>
Alastair: We’re dedicating more stuff to the army this turn. I want two companies of men raised and armed.  The experienced veterans are going to move north.
Cia: Very good sir. Shall I call in their commander?
Alastair: Yes. I’ll brief him on his mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

5) Farm River Plains (20 food)
1) Plain 3 (1 silver (no gold), 1 food, 1 wool)
1) Plain 13 (1 food, 1 wool)
1) Plain 18 (1 food, 1 stone, 1 wool)
1) Forest 7 (1 food, 2 wood)

1) Make clothes (+2 clothes! -2 wool)
2) Sharpen Sticks (+2 spears, -2 wood)
2) Attach handles to logs (+2 shields, -2 wood)

3) Build library (-1 for mechanic’s shop, -3 stone)
2) Research expansion tech
1) Research metal working
Raise 2 companies of zefies, spears and shields for them all.
1st regular company (Zefie Warriors) under Captain Hadrian explore northwards, following the river.

Food:
   23 produced
   20 eaten
   3 surplus
   10 stored

Wool
   3 produced
   2 used
   1 surplus
   1 stored

Clothes:
   2 produced
   2 used (20 luxury/1 morale)
   2 stored

Wood:
   2 produced
   4 used
   -2 reserves
   1 stored

Stone:
   1 produced
   3 used
   -2 reserves
   0 stored

Armament
   2 Wood spears made
   2 Spears issued
   2 Shields made
   2 issued

   No stored military stuff.

Units:
   1st regular (CPT Hadrian): Move north along river on exploration mission. Find suitable areas for logging, mining, and farming. Discern possible threats (raiders). Look for and establish peaceful relations with any sentients.

   2nd regular: Formed
   3rd regular: Formed

[Pandarsenic]

Spoiler: RP coming for flavor in a bit, even if it's too late for whatever. It'll still be there. (click to show/hide)

0A. Dremmeur Sai researches Trade
0E: Explorer Keyiro Mitheinous surveys tiles in the local area (starting with 9. If he can somehow do more, he selects random hills I guess.)
1-7. Work Tiles 2, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, & 18 (15 Food, 1 wool, 1 wood, 3 stone, 1 ember roses,
8-10. Construct Mine at Tile 1
11-12. Construct grenades; Shi Shotan will train the horsemen in their use.
13. Research Trade

[Luke_Prowler]

"How could this have happened!?" John roared at his advisors. Jen and Richard, as well as many faceless minions that work behind the scene, were there to face their leader's wraith. they were afraid of what he would do. Those who have lived through previous leadships knew that what their actions now was a life or death moment.

"Well," said a young worker "the crops had failed, and" but his explanation was cut short when John grabbed the nearest heavy object (Ragt'ich Law, by the Bandit King) was thrown at the poor sap, striking his face and shattering his nose. The others would be enraged to see one of the few sacred relics that they had be mistreated in such a way, but they were too awe struck and horrfied.

"Do you have any solution to this!?"

Richard spoke up, hoping that the next thing thrown would not be something sharp "We do, actually, the"

"Then what are you doing here!? GET TO WORK!" John yelled, and the mob proceed to scramble out of the room, a few trampled but none badly injured. Now alone, john calmed himself down, and slumped into his chair. He looked over to the book that he had thown, in a small puddle of blood. It did not seem to have take much damage, it's leather cover kept its holy pages safe.

"What would you have done?" He asked the book, but it, and the spirit of the bandit king, remained silent.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

6 Workforce harvest tiles 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11 (16 food, 2 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice, 1 wool)
2 workforce build granary (-2 wood)
1 workforce process 2 leather into armor
1 workforce research writing

Other orders:
Equip spearmen with leather armor

Net gain:
16 food, 2 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice, 1 wool
-12 food (eaten)
-4 food (stored)
-2 leather (armor)
-2 wood (Granary)

goods stored
4 food
9 leather (Liqudation sale! Prices slashed in half!)
2 spice
1 wool

[Vanigo]

Mainiac is dropping out due to computer troubles, so I'll have the turn up today. Panda, you have until I finish to get your RP up. Lacking RP is not beneficial.

[Vanigo]

Neo-Tyrgani

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The year is, if nothing else, a memorable one for the Neo-Tyrgani. Production of the new grenades is always exciting, in a don't-try-this-at-home kind of way. More than a few fires are started, but Dremmeur Sai had the sense to have them produced far from the rest of the city, so they are contained fairly easily. Training the horsemen to use the grenades is equally interesting. The men take to the new weapons well. Their horses do not. Horses, it seems, don't really like it when the ground suddenly bursts into flames a few yards away, and it's hard to keep them from panicking even in a training exercise. General Shotan has doubts about whether mounted grenadiers could function at all in an actual battle. Furthermore, it's becoming clear that providing a steady supply of grenades will make grenadiers more expensive to maintain than most other troops.
The city's more conventional tasks go well, however. A tin mine is built, the harvest comes in, and a source of gold is uncovered in the southern hills.

Population grows to 14,560
Resource discovered: Gold!
1 food, 1 wood, 1 wool, 3 stone stored
Fire grenades produced

Zefies

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The zefie explorers head north along the river. They find no people, but as they march away from the mountains they travel through fertile plains and thick forests, rich lands waiting to be exploited.
The exploitation process promises to be difficult, however. Sending people off into the wilderness with tools and a military escort is easy enough, but managing a distant colony is not a simple matter, especially since communications will be slow and possibly unreliable. New methods of government will be needed, and the researchers working on the problem are pretty sure that writing will be critical to whatever they come up with. Less progress is made with metalworking; the zefies working on it are still working on
Meanwhile, the city's production is going well. The military expansion goes according to plan, and the new library is erected in good time. The people, guarded by the city walls and the newly trained warriors, feel happy and secure.
This security is put to the test towards autumn. A group of bandits begins raiding the farmlands west of the city. The newly trained troops are the only ones in the city at the time, so Alastair uses them to defend. The raider seem unwilling to approach the walls, but they are quite capable of ravaging the more distant farms, so Alastair leads his troops out to drive them off. The bandits, armed with wooden projectile-launching devices, pepper the soldiers with arrows as they advance, but once Alastair's forces close they make short work of the enemy. They return with a few prisoners and quite a few captured weapons - not enough to arm a unit, but plenty to study and perhaps replicate.

Minor victory! +1 morale for 1 turn
Population grows to 20,912
Production bonus! 22 labor available
3 food, 1 wool stored; 2 wood, 2 stone spent
Library built
2 warriors trained! (5M/4/15/1)
8 gold collected, 3 spent

Zrlv

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stozuagun and Xungbubukza head out in the spring, and return to the city in mid-summer, with a few cages of wolves in tow. They're quickly turned over to their would-be caretakers, and the warriors settle back into their quarters for a well-deserved rest.
Kazastrugu, for his part, has unearthed a source of silver in the eastern hills, which quickly becomes a de facto currency. Everyone's quite interested in getting their hands on as much of the stuff as they can, and commerce booms. The government, of course, takes its cut off the top to pay the soldiers.
The more mundane concerns of the city go pretty much as expected. Food is brought into the city and eaten, resources are harvested, and the population grows a bit.

Trade researched!
Population grows to 15,842
Resource discovered: Silver!
Waterwheel built
3 wool, 1 iron, 1 leather stored

Asykos

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The people aren't happy to set their research aside, but in the wake of last year's raid everyone recognizes the need for better defenses. Ramades erects a workshop for magically-driven construction engines as he draws up plans for fortifications, and the milita is quickly expanded to better protect the city and its surroundings. The granary, emptied to make up for the food lost to the raiders, begins to refill a bit. Work is as steady as always.

Population grows to 13,969
Mechanic's workshop built
2 wool, 1 food, 1 stone stored
Hunters trained (4R/3/10/1 First strike 1)
6 money collected, 2 spent

Baneriant

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(You can't start storing food until next turn; the granary isn't ready until then. The good news is, with that and the spice you can get a luxury bonus. I've taken the liberty of spending the spice on your behalf.)
The people of Ragt'ich are recovering from the previous year's famine, and, perhaps overcompensating a bit, bring far more food than is needed. When the construction of the new granary proves to be a bit behind schedule, there's nothing to do but eat the excess. The feasting does a great deal to dispel the shadow of the previous year's disaster. The city's granary is finished later in the year, and stands ready for next year's harvest. Leather armor is produced for the city's spearmen, who are quite happy with the extra protection against the small knives so omnipresent on the streets.
Little research is done this year, as an education initiative (of all things) occupies most of the researchers' time. Ragt'ich, miraculously, never completely lost the art of writing, but only a few people still know how it's done. Most of the city's people have always felt that they have better things to do than learn to decode chicken-scratching, but now the city's researchers are starting to think this attitude is hampering their work. By the end of the year, most of the researchers themselves are more-or-less literate, but the population at large is still largely indifferent.

Morale returns to 8
Population grows to 12,372
Production bonus! 12 labor available
Granary built
1 wool stored
7 money collected, 4 spent
Spearmen upgraded to leather spearmen (4M/5/15/1)

[Nirur Torir]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1st laborer work city's mushroom farm (+3 food)
2nd laborer work mountain/river tile 5 (+2 food, +1 stone)
3rd laborer work hill/river tile 6 (+4 food, +1 wool)
4th laborer work forest tile 9 (+2 food, +1 wood, +1 leather)
5th laborer work mountain/river tile 15 (+2 food, +1 stone)
6th laborer work hill/river tile 18 (+3 food, +1 wool, +1 glowing mushroom)
7th laborer work mountain/iron tile 14 (+1 stone, +1 iron ore)
Gross resource intake: +16 food, +2 stone, +2 wool, +1 wood, +1 leather, +1 iron ore, +1 glowing mushroom

8th, 9th, 10th, 11th laborers build water wheel on mountain/river tile 5 (-2 stone, -1 wood)
12th, 13th, 14th, 15th laborers work on wolf riding research.
Explorer and general leaders do whatever it is they do whilst idle. I'd rather not know.
Net resources:
16 food - 16 food eaten = One day I'll get a granary.
2 stone + 6 stone from storage - 2 stone used = 6 stone stored
3 wool + 23 wool from storage = 25 wool stored. I'll throw the rest away. It's starting to annoy me.
1 wood + 5 wood in storage - 1 wood used = 5 wood stored
1 leather + 3 leather in storage = 4 leather stored
1 iron ore + 1 iron ore in storage = 2 iron ore stored
1 glowing mushroom + 2 in storage = 3 stored

Glrk'nr was talking to the three leaders. "Good job capturing the wolves. You know what to do now: learn how to train them to be ridden into battle. With them on our side, the coming battles will be filled with glorious victory.

When you get a moment, look at what the workers have done with the water wheel. It's quite fascinating. I think I'll order another one built."

[Pandarsenic]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Shi Shotan Malchithein, what in the name of Khas made you think it was a good idea to have the horsemen use the grenades?" Dremmeur Sai asked with a groan.

"It wasn't that bad of any idea," Keyiro Mitheinous, Explorer, pointed out. He had begun being invited to their meetings as a full-blooded Falcon of Khas. "We've trained the beasts to attack in spite of walls of spears and such."

"Yes, but spears don't make loud explosions," Shi Shotan added, sounding more than a little frustrated.

"Perhaps we could bring in the commanders of the three wings and consult?" Dremmeur Sai suggested.

"Sure, why not...."

--

"The horses spook too easily when the explosions start... you know that," the leader of the horsemen informed the assembled leaders. Shi Shotan nodded and the man left.

"Hammermen are, perhaps, well-suited to these grenades, sir."

"I see."

"We can throw them from behind our shields as a first volley, so perhaps we would be better-suited, sir."

"We will train the hammermen with them. However, Dremmeur, I believe you've found a possible better form of delivery?"

"Ah, yes. One of my lab assistants was playing around with his sash and we've realized how easy it is to create an old weapon the Tyrgani even considered primitive called a sling. It's simple, but we need time to research how to make it ideal in terms of length, width, weight, and such."

"I see... In the meantime, Keyiro Mitheinous, I want you to accompany the swordsmen on an expedition to find the source of the goblin scum."

"As you command, sir."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

0A. Research Slings (weaponry)
0E. Expedition to find source of goblin attack with swordsmen
0G. Train hammermen with grenades
1-8. Work Tiles 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18 (16 F, 1 Tin, 2 Wool, 2 Wood, 3 Stone, 1 Ember Rose)
9. Research Trade
10. Research Trade
11. Research Slings (weaponry)
12. (1/2) Create grenades
13. (2/2) Create grenades
14. Build Mine at 12 (Use stone wherever possible)

Also, if you could check my harvest numbers, that'd be good, because I may have messed them up... <_<;

Also, a key for all symbol meanings in the first post would be wonderful. :3

[Luke_Prowler]

"ugh" said John, holding his gut as he wobbled back to his office. this had to be the 30th feast that he had been to all year, and he had to have gained at least 20 pounds from the constant partying. because of a small oversight by the builder of the granary, it wouldn't have been finished much later and by then most of the food would have spoiled. So they did what only came natural to them: waste it away in the most amusing way possible. With the excess food and use of some of the spice that wasn't getting much use, feast had become wide spread, John being the guest of honor at most of them.

Although the festivities have made many people happy, he say that those in the army had become bored, so he decided to give thim a mission to head north. Hope most of them are still in shape.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

7 workforce harvest tiles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6,  8, and 11 (18 food, 3 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice, 1 wool)
1 workforce research writing
2 workforce research mining
2 workforce irrigate tile 2

Other Orders:
Jen will take the hunter and spearmen units north

Net gain:
18 food, 3 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice, 1 wool
-13 food (consumed)
-5 food (stored)

goods stored
5 food
3 wood
11 Leather (Going out of business sale! Everything must go!)
2 spice
2 wool

I hope i didn't screw somthing up