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[Luke_Prowler]

[good lord, Strife]

"Ah, archery. The sport of kings" pronounced Richard as he aimed his bow. He let the arrow go, it flew in a gentle arc, and hit...the ground, in front of the target.

"Then I guess it's good you're not in charge around here" John joked, as he readied his own bow, and hitting the target where on a normal human would be called a 'liver'. As he took another arrow, he saw a movement from the corner of his eyes.

"ha ha" said Richard, firing again, and this time a hit. "Don't you have a meeting?" John did not seem to be listening, as he fire another arrow, flying over the target and disappering into a tree "You missed"

"Did I now?" asked John, and withen seconds a would-be assassain fell out of the tree, an arrow between the eyes. "Come on, we have a meeting to go to."

---

"So then" asked John "what are the reports?"

Looking through some paper, Richard reported (well, what else?) "There have been some complaints that there is a lack of transport, especially when bringing in our supplies. there are creatures that have been found in the plains that some of the farmers use, and i think we should divert our research to taming them."

"I think we should put our research into improving our weapons." interrupted Jen "As stated in my debrief from our exploration north, our foe were using some kind of stone tipped spears, and if we can recreate that, then we can fight our targets with better ease."

John listened to the proposals, then looked over to the new Engineer "What about you?"

"I just want to build something big"

"OK then"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

5 workforce harvest tiles 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 (14 food, 2 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice)
1 workforce research Flint Weaponry
1 workforce resaerch Horse Back-Riding
4 workforce build Library (couldn't think of a IC reason to build one)(-3 wood)
1 workforce build bows

Other orders:
One Bowman units made (-1 wooden bow, -1 leather armor)
Use 2 spice

Net gain
14 food, 2 wood, 2 leather, 1 spice
-14 food (consumed)
-4 wood (library, bows)
-2 spice (luxury)
-2 wood, +2 leather, -1 spice

Stored goods:
5 food
12 Leather
2 spice
2 wool
1 leather armor

[Pandarsenic]

Vanigo, this is what you get for letting us see those numbers, ever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

0A. Research Animal Taming
0E. Expedition to find animals big enough to possibly ride without a fear of fire with Hammer/Grenade Unit
0G. Train grenadiers with staff slings
1-10. Work Tiles 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, Complete mine at 16, 17, 18 (16 F, 1 Tin, 2 Wool, 2 Wood, 3 Stone, 1 Ember Rose, 4 Money)
11-13. Produce Staff-slings x2
14. Research Animal Taming
15. Research Animal Taming

Spoiler: The Hunt (click to show/hide)

"Take it down!" Keyiro Mitheinous yelled, bringing his shield in front of him. An enormous ivory tusk slammed through the shield, just above his arm. He released it, letting the hanging shield block his assailant's eye. "Jack! Jack, get on it!"

"Oy sah, I'm gettin' on tha bahstad ah roight!" a pale, bald officer replied. He ran at the beast - a six-foot-tall tusked omnivore with wicked tusks and horns - and leaped onto its back in a single bound. The beast bucked and roared, and Tyrgani officer Jack Cheshire roared as well, hanging from the beast by its horns. The ground shook as the beast's clawed feet slammed to the ground. "Gotcha bitch!" the Wolf yelled, flicking a wrist to unfold the hood he'd pulled from his belt. As the beast finished another primal roar, Jack Cheshire slid the hood back over its face; it immediately froze. "Tha's how iss done, sah!" Cheshire yelled, saluting Keyiro from his position atop the stone-still beast.

Spoiler: The Meeting (click to show/hide)

"So, how comes the seeking of a HOLY SHIT!" Shi Shotan yelled, observing as Jack Cheshire led in his hooded captive.

"Fascinating... what is that?" Dremmeur Sai asked, inspecting the beast.

"We call 'em gigavores on account'a th'ain't a thing the monster ain't inclined t'try eatin', sah," Cheshire explained.

Shi Shotan frowned. "That accent. You're not a Falcon, are you?"

"No sah, Autumn Wolf until Neo-Tyrg took us in." He displayed the traditional tattoo of his former tribe on his left arm.

"Mmmm. I see. Well, you're going to meet with a Falcon of Khas and learn how to speak proper Khasi and Tyrgani. Now, why precisely does that hood keep it from attacking? Surely it knows where we are."

"Oh, iss not attackin' not on accounta tha hood, sah," Cheshire explained. Everyon in the room flinched as he whipped the hood off, sliding it off the tusks and horns. The gigavore sniffed and sat back on its hind legs. "This'n's domesticated, sah." He pulled some wheat crackers from his pockets and held them to the gigavore, which gently licked the crackers up with its tongue.

"Keyiro Mitheinous, how long ago did he do this?" Dremmeur Sai demanded, obviously irritated he hadn't been aware of this sooner.

"Lord Elder, I didn't know!" the Explorer declared defensively. "I merely told him to care for the gigavore until we could meet!" All eyes in the room turned on Cheshire.

"Well, 'tis no' as if 'twas difficult, sah," he said with a shrug.

Spoiler: Citadel Training Grounds (click to show/hide)

"Soldiers! You've all been trained with our fire grenades. But what are the two greatest weaknesses of this weapon, can anyone tell me?"

"Sir!"

"Your name and tribe, soldier?"

"Cyrus Voystolk, Black Oak Tribe, sir."

"And what are the problems?"

"We have no way to fight back at close range and we can't throw the grenades especially far. Sir."

"Exactly," Shi Shotan replied with a smile. "The first problem... some of our soldiers will be solving that by having hammers and using the fire grenades as a first-strike mechanism. We have a different solution for your unit. These." He rolled his foot over a sling-staff and kicked it up into his hand. "And with the second problem solved, the first becomes irrelevant.

"Welcome to the First Tyrgani Dedicated Grenadier Regiment."

[RPB]

The atmosphere in Antemnon grows tense. The city had always played host to a dizzying array of conflicting ideas and theories, but the levelheaded Asykos had always been willing to push aside their many philosophical difference in deference to more practical matters. With the streets becoming more and more crowded, however, they find their patience wearing thin. A cold silence greets Amnarchis whenever he walks about; each year seems to see more and more labors toiling to feed a smaller and smaller group of elect researchers, in direct contrast to the bright new future the Patriarch had promised the New Library would bring.

The troubles seem to be coming to a head over one thing more than anything else: gold. With more and more of the limited gold supply going into magical construction and research it becomes scarcer and scarcer in circulation. Parchment, clay tablets, and other tokens start seeing use as stand-ins for the now-rare gold coins that once flowed freely, straining the trust of even the most open-minded among them.

Even the small bits of gold still in use begin to dwindle as independent researchers put it to personal use in their own magical experiments--a worrying trend, given how many of these same sages participated in developing animated weaponry. Unsurprisingly, Arbelos and the other military artisans are getting ample use out of the new forges, working on constructing armor reinforced with iron plates. The ever-increasing military focus fails to reassure some among the Asykos, however; among the city's relatively well-educated working classes discussion begins to spread about the possibility of military oppression.

"Day after day, month after month we toil to build weapons and fortifications to repel an enemy we have not seen in years. Where are these dread raiders now? For all we know they died in the wilderness long ago."

"It is our own strong hands that fill the granaries and warehouses of the city. Why then do we not enjoy more of the fruits of our labor?"

"Ah, but you are yet young. You do not remember the old days, scratching out a meager subsistence in the hills. Today we have canals and waterwheels to ease the work along; we feed more people with less land and less work than ever before."

"Feed them for what? So that they may live a life of luxury, surrounded by stone walls and armed guards? Such was the way of the old empires, that crumbled under the weight of their sins. Yet even now we are repeating their same mistakes."

Noticing the growing discontent, Amnarchis realizes something must be done. In the libraries and workshops swords are literally beaten into plowshares as he calls for scholars to pursue ways to cultivate better living. Meanwhile Ramades, now a diehard convert to the ways of magical machines, puts the products of the new gold mine back into use for animated pumps, pulleys, and other mining equipment in the hopes of supplying even more gold for the city's growing needs.

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 (quarried watermill river mountains, +2 food/+2 stone)
1 labor: work tile 16 (mined gold mountains, +1 stone/+1 gold)
1 labor: work tile 18 (mined iron hills, +1 food/+1 wool/+1 iron)
3 (?) labor (+50%): build animated mill on tile 16 (mined gold mountains, -2 stone/-2 gold)
3 labor (+100%): build two sets of light iron armor and outfit current archers with them
2 labor: research ways to improve production of food or gold

Gross output: +17 food/+4 stone/+3 wool/+2 wood/+1 gold/+1 iron/+1 leather
Consumption: -16 food/-2 stone/-2 gold/-2 iron
Net output: +1 food/+2 stone/+3 wool/+2 wood/+1 leather/-1 gold (from storage)/-1 iron (from storage)

[mainiac]

Harvest:(8 labor)
River plains: 3 labor +12 food
Ocean: 2 labor +6 food +1 pearls
Hills: 1 labor +1 food +1 stone +1 wool
Lumber Camp: 1 labor +1 food +2 wood
Archery Camp: 1 labor +1 food +1 wood +1 leather
Total: 7 labor, +21 food +1 pearls +1 stone +1 wool +3 wood +1 leather

Crafting (2 labor)
2 cloth (-2 wool)
wooden shields (-1 wood)

Research (3 labor)
3 research in Metalworking

Construction (4 labor, 3 bonus labor)
Library (-3 stone 4 labor)
Ship (2 wood, 3 labor)

Food Report:
20 harvested
18 needed
0 luxury
2 stored

Stocks:
stock (changes)
5 pearls (+1)
1 jewelry (-)
1 wool (+1 -2)
1 cloth (+2 -2)
1 stone (+1 -3)
2 wood (+3 -2)
956 S&P (markets reopen with heavy trading but little overall movement)

Morale: 7
+1 Governor
+1 shrine
+1 luxury
18 luxury from 2 cloth

Growth:
+6% morale
-2% crowding

[Vanigo]

(conspicuous lack of RP and, in fact, complete sentences)

Seriously, stop doing this. It pisses me off, which is why I double the odds of nasty shit happening to you when you do it. I don't expect you to have your A-game going every turn, but please put in a little effort.

[mainiac]

Sorry, stuff has been a little hectic and everyone else had already posted.  I'm in a college that has classes year round, which I doubt is true of most of the rest of us.

[Vanigo]

Sorry, stuff has been a little hectic and everyone else had already posted.  I'm in a college that has classes year round, which I doubt is true of most of the rest of us.

Yeah, I'm sorry I snapped at you. I don't mind that it was late, and I don't really mind that it was rushed, I'd just have liked to have seen a token sentence or two in there, or at least some sort of acknowledgment that something important was missing from your turn.
On a semi-related note, I should probably say that it's getting late and I don't really have time to update the OP. I'll get it tomorrow evening.

Neo-Tyrgani

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Neo-Tyrgani have an eventful year, to say the least. Somewhere between three and seven gigavores break loose at one time or another, depending on who's doing the counting. They're a bit hard to tell apart. The damage is fairly minimal, since they were quite sensibly housed well away from the city, but they certainly get the town talking. By the end of the year their handlers have them... contained, but it'll be some time before they can be trained to do anything useful, if it proves possible at all. It is confirmed, however, that they have no particular fear of fire. Or much of anything else.
Research into handling more mundane creatures goes well, however. Both sheep and cattle are found and tamed, giving Neo-Tyrgani an unusual variety in their herdstock. The staff slings, meanwhile, are performing as expected. Their volleys aren't as concentrated as the point-blank barrages the hammermen use, but they can start firing at much longer ranges.

Animal Taming researched!
    Special resource discovered: Cattle!
    Pastures can produce leather instead of wool or food
    Herds of cattle may be traded or stolen, giving this ability to other civs
Population grows to 16,115
Overcrowding: -2% pop growth
1 tin, 3 stone, 1 ember rose stored
7+4 money collected, 6 spent

Zefies

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The zefies have no legs. You cannot ride a horse with no legs. You can, however, ride a chariot, and they make some pretty nice ones, with cupholders and leather upholstery. And spikes. Lots of spikes. The same principles prove useful for making wagons capable of carrying heavy loads over moderately tough terrain. The latter development promises to be helpful to zefie colonists, especially since, having no discernable digestive system, they aren't prone to dysentry. The original colonization plans called for large amounts of wood being brought along to set up initial infrastructure, but the improved transportation the wagons offer will allow stone to be brought over any but the most mountainous terrain, so stone can be substituted for much of the wood.
The zefies also got horses somewhere. They're not really sure when this happened.
Meanwhile, the Zefie military steps up their patrols of the region as their new ranged companies train at home, while the First Company conducts a more detailed survey of the river in search of good colonization sites. They find a fertile bend in the river along the edge of a thick forest, which they think will be ideal for woodworking. After sending word back to the city, they dig in and keep an eye out for any transient threats the area may attract. Nothing shows itself.
The Third Company saw a bit more action, stumbling across some sort of grove of carnivorous plants. The ensuing fiasco wasn't a battle in any traditional sense of the word, but that doesn't stop the survivors from declaring victory when they return home mostly intact.

Horse-drawn vehicles researched!
    Allows stables
    Allows war chariots (1 wood, 1 food, 2 labor, mechanic's workshop and military workshops do not apply)
    Allows settler production to substitute up to 2 stone for an equal amount of wood
Population grows to 24,904
6 food, 2 wood, 1 iron, 4 clothes, 1 silver trinkets stored; 2 wool used
Granary built
Watchtower built
Bowmen trained! (4R/2/10/1, first strike 1)
16 money collected, 6 spent

Zlrv

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The newly formed company of wolf riders is the talk of the town, and the subject of considerable resentment from the suddenly marginalized veterans. Disciplinary measures are harsh as always, of course, so the brawls seldom result in casualties.
Kazastrugu is still struggling with the problems inherent to applying blood to weapons. He's come up with a blood-seeking rune that he can apply to slightly oversized arrowheads, but, while he's managed to extend the effects from a few hours to a couple days, he still can't get anything like a permanent enchantment. The best solution he's been able to come up with is to train a small cadre of runeworkers (and their blood sources) to accompany military expeditions and keep the runes fresh. They would no doubt demand high wages, but he thinks that with further research he could develop more directly offensive spells so the mages could contribute during battle as well as beforehand. He's working on a training curriculum, but it's not yet ready.

Morale increases to 8!
Production bonus! 18 labor available next turn
Population grows to 17,712
Wolfriders trained (11M/6/20/2 First strike 0)
3 stone, 1 wool, 1 leather stored; 1 iron, 1 glowing mushroom used
8 money collected, 4 spent

Jericho

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Jerrans... do stuff, apparently. There's a new ship, and a library, and the people are as happy as ever.

Galley constructed!
1 pearls, 1 wood stored; 1 wool, 2 stone used
Wooden shields made
Population grows to 18,009 (Morale is 8, not 7. The base is 5.)
Production bonus! 19 labor available

Asykos

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The mood of the city is as muted as ever, but careful observation would reveal that the people feel secure and not particularly outgoing. The increased flow of gold from the newly-enchanted mine is a source of some excitement, and the milita is pleased with their new equipment, but on the whole the people are quietly pleased with a not-particularly-eventful year.
Research continues as usual. The city's scholars, looking to further increase the availability of useful metals, are studying ways to dig deeper mines to get at less accesible mineral deposits, and are currently hard at work on pumps to deal with groundwater seepage.

1 food, 2 stone, 3 wool, 2 wood, 1 leather stored; 1 gold, 1 iron used
Hunters upgraded to Archers (5R/5/15/1 first strike 1)
Population grows to 15,410
Animated mill built
7 money collected, 2 spent

Baneriant

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Ragt'ich's researchers examine the handful of looted spears brought back from the raid a couple years ago, and quickly come to the following conclusion: "That's some pretty nice rock." There doesn't seem to be any particular trick to it, and the people of Baneriant know how to work with stone well enough; it seems it's just a matter of finding the right stone to work with. They search the hills to no avail; it seems that hight-quality flint is simply not available locally. The people working on horseback riding have somewhat more success. They've 'acquired' a herd of horses somehow, and are working out training and riding techniques. They're getting there, but they're not there yet. Most of the city's relatively intellectual crowd is rumored to be preoccupied with some sort of book return mafia, whatever that means.
Meanwhile, the man on the street is no more or less likely to get randomly shanked as he expects. Spicy food experiences a brief, unexplained surge in popularity, but not much else of note happens.

Morale increases to 8
Production bonus! 14 labor available
Population grows to 14,907
2 leather stored; 2 wood, 1 spice used
Hunters trained (5R/3/10/1 first strike 1)
8 money collected, 6 spent

[Pandarsenic]

Where are the cattle?

[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, +1 glowing mushroom)
6th laborer work hill/river tile 18 (+3 food, +1 wool)
7th laborer work mountain/iron tile 14 (+1 stone, +1 iron ore)
8th laborer work hill tile 7 (+1 food, +1 wool)
9th laborer work hill tile 10 (+1 food, +1 wool, +1 money)
Gross resource intake: +18 food, +3 stone, +4 wool, +1 wood, +1 leather, +1 iron ore, +1 glowing mushroom, +1 money

10th laborer makes 2 clothing (-2 wool)
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th laborers build watermill on hills/river tile 18 (-2 stone, -1 wood)
15th laborer builds wooden shields (-1 wood)
16th laborer builds wooden spears (-1 wood)
17th laborer builds leather armor (-1 leather)
18th laborer continues research on blood rune magic.
General leader and entire military attacks Neo-Tyrgani
Train warrior squad

Luxaries:
2 glowing mushrooms used = +1
2 clothing used = +1

Net resources:
18 food - 18 food eaten
3 stone + 8 stone from storage - 2 stone used = 9 stone stored
3 wool + 28 wool from storage - 2 wool used = 29 wool stored
1 wood + 5 wood in storage - 3 wood used = 3 wood stored
1 leather + 5 leather in storage - 1 leather used = 5 leather stored
1 iron ore + 0 iron ore in storage = 1 iron ore stored
1 glowing mushroom + 3 in storage - 2 used = 2 stored
2 clothing - 2 clothing used = 0

Glrk'nr, Stozuagun, and the military's squad leaders met in a war meeting to discuss their final plans. Glrk'nr spoke first. "There's no time to finish blood rune research, nor will we need it for this battle now that we have heavy cavalry. We will strike now. The human military will be defeated before the day is out. Stozuagun?"

"If we strike fast enough and destroy their military completely, the humans should outright surrender. I know some of you feel like you won't get to fight because of the newly trained wolf riders, but your role in the battle will be critical."

Glrk'nr spoke once more. "This battle is important, and so we'll win. Now go, fight on for the glory of Zrlv!"

The military left the room, and Glrk'nr went out to start training a squad of warriors. It was better not to leave his city undefended./i]

[Vanigo]

Where are the cattle?

Nowhere in particular. They have legs; they move around.

[Pandarsenic]

Mmkay.

I'll make my turn when the first page is updated.
*Back to LCS*

[NUKE9.13]

Where are the cattle?

Nowhere in particular. They have legs; they move around.

Wait wait wait.
The giant carnivorous monsters, are they the cattle?

[Pandarsenic]

Where are the cattle?

Nowhere in particular. They have legs; they move around.

Wait wait wait.
The giant carnivorous monsters, are they the cattle?

No, the giant OMNIVOROUS monsters are called gigavores. Cattle are cattle.

[Vanigo]

Okay, the OP is updated.

By the way, I seem to have forgotten to offer iron arrows to those of you with metalworking. They can be given to archers in place of the wooden arrows they get free, and cost 2 labor and 0.5 iron (rounded up if you're making an odd number). Naturally, they don't stack with the flint/obsidian attack bonus.

[Pandarsenic]

Awesome.

Also, Vanigo, you are amazing. Just so you know.