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[Vanigo]

Status update is up.

[Strife26]

Lot's of spoilers, but most of the sections are pretty short.

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Lots of interesting stuffs happened this year. Some high-ranking researcher type found an old tome describing the zefie city Refuge. The zefies are greatly interested in seeing what they can learn from the past.

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Alastair: Okay. I’ve browsed through the copy of the Refuge records. I think that we can get some useful stuff out of it. First issue, smaller cities.
Zefie Advisor A: We’ve put considerable effort behind setting up semi-autonomous cities.
Alastair: Refuge wasn’t the only fortification up at the time, see if we can get anything from it.
Zefie Advisor A: Yes sir!
Alastair: Next research topic, I read these descriptions of mines with some interest. Apparently, the underground mine system for the city was extensive, and the entrances were contained within the walls. A lot of living space was underground. Using tunnels for housing is an issue for another year. However, these mines were apparently productive to an extreme. I want teams on the layout of the Refuge mines to boost out own mine production. Especially if it can work with our colony group.
Zefie Advisor A: Very well.
Alastair: I’m unsure if we want to send our next colony group this year, so I think that we’ll hold off for a while on it. I want to make sure that we don’t have any kinks with the system yet.
Zefie Statician E: Okay then, shall I start sending out feelers for next year’s settlers then?
Alastair: Sure. I’d like to meet with the researcher who found this tome and realized its significance. May I ask who he is?
Zefie Advisor A: She’s one of our top people, but she likes to keep things on the down low, so to say. She just flits around from team to team, making major contributions. She thinks that having much of an official status would be counter productive.
Zefie Scribe: Does she have a name at least?
Zefie Advisor A: It’s Sage actually. After the plant.

Zefie Mason: I’ll get someone to fix the wall right after this then.

Alastair: I also want better defenses for Fortress. Tikhon, look at the Refuge keep design and start working on our own defenses.
Tikhon: Certainly.

Alastair: Finally, we’re standardizing our military procedure. Cia and I will be working on this. However, I want the carnivorous plants that we faced dealt with. The 2nd and 3rd will be attacking them with their iron weaponry. The 7th will be in reserve.

Cia: I see. To war then.
Alastair: The third claims to have fucked them up badly last time, hopefully this will be more of a minor skirmish. Besides, they have actual weaponry this time around.

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5) Farm the River Plains (20 Food)
1) Work Hill 3 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 silver)
1) Work Hill 18 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 stone)
1) Work Forest 7 )2 wood, 1 food)
1) Work Mountain 12 (1 stone, 1 iron)
1) Work Mountain 11 (2 stone)

2) Make clothes (-4 wool, +4 clothes)
1) Train Horses (-1 food)* If a zefie scout unit only takes 50 horses to raise, then I finish the fortress instead here*
3) Build one iron halberd set and one set of iron armor (-2 iron)

3) Build a keep (4/5 labor completed, -4 stone)

5) Research (see below)

Assorted equipment shuffling and stuff (see below)

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25 food prouced (23 fortress, 2 from colony)
23 eaten for normal things
2 for luxury
1 possible for horses
no change or -1 from stocks.

2 wool produced
4 wool used
1 wool remaining

3 wood produced (1 from colony)
4 stocked

1 silver produced
2 silver remaining.

1 iron produced
2 used
none stocked.

4 stone produced
4 used
3 stocked

4 clothes produced
2 used for luxury
4 stored.

4 trinkets stored

+1 morale luxury
+1 shrine
+1 Genial

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Research notes (prepared by Zefie Advisor A)
3) Sub-cities (5. Previous. Research.) – We’ll be looking into our previous avenues of research and examining the Refuge records. Let’s make some progress this year!!
2) Deep Mining – Refuge got lots more iron from their mines per year than we did. Even with the proposed colony area, more iron is better. Not to mention the possibilities in using silver for currency plans. If we can get better mines, it’ll help the industry of Fortress considerably.

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Military notes:
The 5th bowpuff company will be issued newly trained horses and saddles from our stockpiles to become the 5th scout company. The 1st warrior will be returning to Fortress and getting new iron polearms and iron armor. The 5th will be issued with their old spears.

The 2nd, 3rd, and 7th will be attacking the carnivaplants. We’re not sure if they are still around, but recon in force of the general area where the 3rd was attacked. General Alastair will be overseeing the operation. The 2nd and 3rd will make their way slowly through the forests. If at all possible, they will work against any hostile plants from one direction. The 7th will be held in reserve in case a retreat path must be broken, or for any other use, that Alastair sees fit.

The 6th scout company will be heading on an extended scouting operation south. They will be making notes on the land and looking for other civilizations.

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Military specializations:
Zefie Guardsmen:
Equipped with Iron Hand Weapon and a wooden shield.
Traditionally the guardsmen fought only in defense of their home cities, usually acting more of a police force than anything else.
Examples: 2nd and 3rd Warrior Companies are Zefie Guardsmen.

Zefie Regular:
Equipped with Iron Polearms and Light Iron Armor
The standard troop in the army. Attacks in formation with halberds and is protected by armor.
The 1st will be one after this turn.

Zefie Scout:
Equipped with horses, zefie saddles, bows, and wooden spears.
The zefie scouts are jack-of-all-trades light cavalry. Primarily interested in finding new territory, their weapons are more for defense against animals than against organized opposition. However, their maneuverability allows them to get into firing positions on hostile flanks, while the natural fighting power of their mounts is complemented by their wooden spears.
The 6th is one, the 5th will be one after this turn

Zefie Cavalry
Equipped with horses, war chariots, and wooden spears.
Not yet armed with effective weaponry, the heavy cavalry depends on their impact value (and the spikes on their mounts) more than their spears. They are useful as a means of evacuating other units.

[RPB]

Amnarchis looked up from his work at the sound of approaching footsteps and sighed. A soldier stood in the doorway, dressed in full military gear. The Patriarch recognized the younger man as Thedrassus, a guard officer who had been attracting increasing amounts of influence within the militia, many of whom were calling on him to assume the position of commander general.

"Congratulations on your promotion, 'General.'"

"It is well that you recognize my de facto status, Patriarch. I have come to discuss the expedition that I am planning to mount."

Amnarchis rubbed his eyes wearily; he was getting too old for this. Research efforts weren't progressing as quickly as he would have liked, and for once he found himself missing Ramades and his hard-headed practicality. Unfortunately the engineer was too busy with his new and improved mining schemes. "I must tell you that I was not looking forward to this. I will not stop you, though."

"The Patriarch is wise, seeing as he technically has neither the authority nor the means to stop us."

"Do not patronize me, General. You have considerable pull within the guards, I know this, but you still need resources to supply your expedition. Which, if I guess your intent, is what you have come here for." Thedrassus inclined his head, acknowledging the mark. "Very well; I suppose the people expect it. It will take some time to make preparations, though. I trust you are not leaving immediately?"

"Of course not; you are not the only one among us with any foresight. Not only do we need food and equipment, I must raise new companies for the militia--I do not propose to leave the city defenseless, Patriarch."

"Good. I will see to it that whatever resources you require will be put at your disposal. Good day, General."

Thedrassus bowed briefly and strode out the door; the Asykos were never ones to stand on pleasantries or ceremony. Amnarchis had to admit that he almost looked forward to this new task as a change of pace, although he had noticed among the people an unseemly anticipation for the prospect of such a martial exercise. He sighed again and went back to work.

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Land usage:
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, +4 food/+1 wood/+1 leather)
1 labor: work tile 18 (mined windmill iron hills, +1 food/+1 wool/+2 iron)

Research:
3 labor: continue research on more advanced machinery

Construction:
3 labor (+50%): build deep mine on tile 18 (mined windmill iron hills, -2 wood)

Military workshops:
4 labor (+100%): produce iron shields (1.5 labor, -1 iron), magic weapons (2 labor, -1 iron/-1 gold)

Training:
Outfit a second unit of magic swordsmen with iron shields and magic swords
Also: If I'm not mistaken there are two units of leather armor left over from the hunters when they switched their armor; the magic swordsmen should be equipped with these

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

[Luke_Prowler]

The debriefing was rather short and uninformative. It appered that the scouts had not found anything of much value, although at least they were mot attacked. It would depend on John if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Jen moved towards John's office (if you can call it that), with her 'report'. she never quire understood why John would try to make so much effort into creating order in a city that practicly worshiped chaos. She shruged. So long as she was alive and had food in her and a weapon beside her she was fine. She just worrys about John sometimes.

Jen walks into the office, and finds several stacks of leather all around. "John? What's going on" John poked his head around one of the stacks.

"We're running put of storage, they tell me" John answered. He was able to navigate the room, and meet Jen face to face. "Do you have the report?"

Jen handed the report over "Are you ok? you looked stressed"

"Ya I'm fine, I just" and with that Luke simply mumbled off, returning to his office and closing the door behind him. Jen sighed. He needs a vaction. Hell, she needs a vacation.

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6 workforce harvest tiles 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11 (17 food, 3 wood, 1 stone, 1 wool, 1 leather, 1 spice)
2 workforce build Stables (-2 wood)
2 workforce research Settlement (town building)
3 workforce research Medicine
2 workforce irrigate tile 4

Special Orders:
Give the clothing we have in storage to the population

Net gain:
17 food, 3 wood, 1 stone, 1 wool, 1 leather, 1 spice (good lord)
-17 food (consumed)
-2 wood (Stables)
-2 Clothing (Luxury)
1 wood, 1 stone, 1 wool, 1 leather, 1 spice. -2 clothing

Stored goods:
11 food
2 wood
13 leather
5 spice
3 wool
3 leather armor

[Pandarsenic]

Posting now....

0A. Research Beast Riding
0E. Scout for new resources with Swordsmen-Grenadiers with General
0G. ^That
1-11. Work Tiles 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18 (18 F, 1 Tin, 1 Copper, 2 Wool, 2 Wood, 3 Stone, 1 Ember Rose, 4 Money)
12-14. Research Beast Riding
15, 16. Finish irrigating Tile 3

If I have time for RP I'll get that up too.

[Vanigo]

Status update will be later, as is becoming usual.

Neo-Tyrgani

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The Neo-Tyrgani work out the details of riding gigavores. Keeping them promises to be expensive. They look for resources, but don't find any. They do some other stuff.
The resource tribute from the goblins arrives in the city, but technology transfer seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Tamed Gigavores researched!
    Produce Gigavores (with beast pens)
        2 food, 1 wool or leather
Morale returns to 6
Population grows to 17,468
Irrigation complete
2 glowing mushrooms, 1 iron, 2 gold recieved in tribute
1 food, 1 tin, 1 copper, 2 wool, 1 iron, 2 wood, 3 stone, 1 ember rose, 2 glowing mushrooms stored
8+4+2 gold collected, 8 spent.

Zefies

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(You forgot to spend the wood for polearms)
The zefies, through a stroke of luck, discover a source of strange gems in the hills west of town. Pale blue diamonds, glowing with a faint inner light simply fall from the sky from time to time, and though they shatter if left on the ground for more than a few days, a quick and lucky prospector can gather a few. The zefies aren't really sure what to make of this, beyond the obvious: they're shiny.
The zefie military reorganization goes well. The results of the attack on the carnivorous plants are more mixed. The zefies' shortspears aren't that effective against plants, but in the end the immobile monsters can't stop the zefies from clearing a firebreak and burning the whole grove to the ground. The zefies scouting to the south find the headwaters of the river in a mountain range. They cross the mountains and find that the mountain range widens and continues to their east, with foothills to the west.
Back at home, things are looking up for those who want a new home. Plans for a larger, more independent outpost have been drafted and finalized, and people are beginning to volunteer for another colonization expedition.

Random event: Resource found!
    Sky diamonds in tile 17
    +1 sky diamonds (can be used for jewelry)
    No mine needed
City-states researched!
Population grows to 24,215
Zefie guardsmen standardized (9M/5/15/1)
1st company retrains to Zefie Regulars (9M/8/20/1 first strike 0)
5th company retrains to Zefie Scouts (6M/4/15/2 first strike 1)
Zefie cavalry standardized (6M/3/20/2 impact 6)
3 wood, 1 silver, 2 clothes stored; 1 food, 2 wool, 1 iron spent
16 money collected, 7+3 spent

Zrlv

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The Zrlv researchers finish their study of cartography and produce a map of the lands Zrlv has explored (which I will get to you shortly). They're making some headway on deeper mining operations and more sophisticated machinery, but it's slow going.
Meanwhile, the force headed north finds no lizardmen, but they do discover a town of halflings nestled along the river. They note its location and bypass it to continue their search.

Mapmaking researched!
Morale returns to 6
Population grows to 19,620
Watermill built
1 stone, 4 wool, 1 leather, 1 iron, 1 glowing truffle stored
8+4+1 gold collected, 3+2 spent

Jericho
Fuck all happens.

Asykos

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The people of Antemnon prepare to explore beyond their sanctuary for the first time in living memory, and the city almost, but does not quite bustle with activity. The iron mine is expanded, as is the city's military, and scholars continue their investigations into new forms of machinery.

Population grows to 16,150
Deep mine completed
Magic swordsmen upgraded (12M/8/20/1)
Magic swordsmen trained (12M/8/20/1)
3 wool, 2 stone, 1 leather stored; 1 wood, 1 gold spent
10 money collected, 4 spent

Baneriant

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Life is okay in Ragt'ich. The populace is happy and less unproductive than usual, and if nothing particularly noteworthy happens, well, no news is good news.
The city's researchers continue to work on the thorny issue of colonization, and also look into ways to prevent the diseases that are endemic to any city. They make no breakthroughs in either area.

Morale increases to 8!
Population grows to 17,416
Production bonus! 17 labor available
Irrigation built
1 wood, 1 stone, 1 wool, 1 leather, 1 spice stored; 2 clothing spent
12 money collected, 4 spent

Edit: Oops, forgot to take 100 people out of Antemnon for the second unit of swordsmen.

[Nirur Torir]

Yes. The long-awaited turn at last!

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1st laborer work city's mushroom farm (+3 food)
2nd laborer work mountain/river tile 5 (+3 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 (+4 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: +20 food, +3 stone, +4 wool, +1 wood, +1 leather, +1 iron ore, +1 glowing mushroom, +1 money

10th laborer makes clothing (-2 wool)
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th laborers build watermill on glowing mushrooms + mountain/river tile 15 (-2 stone, -1 wood)
15th, 16th, 17th laborers researches mechanics
18th, 19th laborer researches deep mining.
Explorer takes one company of warriors south, looking for stuff.

Luxaries:
Shrine = +1 morale
2 glowing mushrooms = +1 morale
2 clothing = +1 morale
+3 morale total

Tribute:
-2 gold

Net resources:
20 food - 20 food eaten
3 stone + 8 stone from storage - 2 stone used = 9 stone stored
4 wool + 37 wool from storage - 2 used = 39 wool stored
1 wood + 5 wood in storage - 1 wood used = 5 wood stored
1 leather + 7 leather in storage = 8 leather stored
1 iron ore + 2 iron ore in storage = 3 iron ore stored
1 glowing mushroom + 2 in storage - 2 used = 1 stored

8+4+1[13] gold collected - 2(tribute)-3(military)[5] + 30 Stored = 38 gold stored

Glrk'nr listened intently to Stozuagun Halflings? Those short, weak human-like creatures? Did they spot you? The general shook his head indicating no. Good, we'll leave them alone for a few more years until we're done building watermills. They will be a good test for our blood mages.

These maps are quite useful. I'll send Xengbubukza south this year, we'll look for the lizardmen after we train some more wolf riders.

Tell Kazastrugu to work harder on improving iron production. The faster we get more iron, the faster we can destroy the lizardmen. They will be completely destroyed for what they did to us.

[mainiac]

Well don't I feel stupid for taking the time to write up a lengthy rp.

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"Then tell me, young Crito, what thought have you given to the defenses of this young colony?"
Bonnie had been making these jabs all afternoon, disguised as idle banter.  A few paces away,
Brennan was doing his best to ignore the conversation she was having with his student.
"Why, I have concerned myself with more humble affairs, Bonnie."
"Ah, my friend, you are too humble!  After all, it falls upon you to travel to this young colony
where the other scholars will not tread.  Not even wise Brennan there, those his name be exaulted
seems to care as much as you.  Who could then hope to surpass your wisdom as a scholar regarding,
this colony?"
"I suppose no one could." Crito replied, surpressing a giggle.
"Then it would seem that there is no reason to fear for the safety of the colony, wise Crito.
If not even a wise scholar like yourself is worried with the cities defense, then there must be
no danger.  Truly, I can not think of a single enemy that aims to harm the colony.  I guess the
colony is perfectly safe."
"Ah... I see what you are implying, Bonnie.  But what of dangers that we know nothing about?  We
do not know what is menacing the mother city of Jericho, but we see fit to protect it with giant walls.
I see now, what you have taught me, it is the danger we do not know that is most dangerous!"
"But, wise Crito, I must ask, are not the walls of Jericho the greatest we can make?"
"But of course, Bonnie."
"And does Jericho not need a more vigorous defense then this colony?"
"It goes without saying, Bonnie!"
"Why then is Jericho more important?"
"Clearly, Jericho is more important then the colony will be.  Jericho has many more people.  She is
more wealthy.  She survived through the Age of Sorrows, clearly Jericho is the be guarded most carefully."
"But why, wise Crito, is Jericho more important?"
"I suppose it is because Jericho has stood for longer."
"So the importance is?"
"Why, it's the walls.  The walls of Jericho have protected us.  Now your wisdom becomes clear, Bonnie."
"But Crito, I have no wisdom but to state the obvious.  What is it you have discovered?"
"Clearly, it is the walls of Jericho that have allowed this great city to be created.  So the most
important thing to do is not to protect Jericho, but to build a mighty wall around the colony.  Then
the colony too can grow into a mighty and wealthy city in time."
"SHUT UP!  Godsdammit Bonnie, shut up already!"
Bonnie turned in surprise to see an indignant Brennan storming over to her.
"Who the hell do you think you are, coming into my library and starting a fight?" he demanded.
Bonnie cooly replied "I was unaware that I was starting a fight."
"Like hell, you are!  You are trying to get me to leave Jericho!"
"I thought you hadn't noticed."
"I can take a hint, thank you very much.  Why don't you take a hint and butt the hell out?"
"That's what I tried to do, Brennus!  For months, you and Anselm have been expecting me to take sides!"
"Well, looks like you finally have!"
"Brennan," Bonnie leaned in close now and hissed angrily.  "I might be the last damn person in this city not to take a side!
  Everywhere you go in this town, people are talking about you, Anselm and your stupid little spat!"
"Stupid spat?" Indignantly Anselm thumped his chest and gestured widely.  "Anselm's cronies at the granary are
working people like serfs!  Something you haven't hesitated to get rich off of!  You wetbacks have it easy at the
seaside!  The old families and the tribals on the river are getting squeeze dry!"
Leaning so close that they were nearly touching, Bonnie retorted with a three word demand in a drawn out,
defiant tone,
"AND... SO... WHAT?"
There was a pause in which neither spoke and they looked around to see that Brennan's students had vacated.
After taking in the empty room, Brennus returned his glare to Bonnie and poked her in the chest
"I'm going to damn well stop them, that's what!"
"You...!" snatching Brennan's hands away, Bonnie threw the surprised man much bigger then herself backwards where he landed
with a surprise on one of his drafting tables while Bonnie stood over him, holding his garments like a vice.
"...bloody idiot!  Take a look at the city, Brennan!  You'll have a fight soon enough but what are you going to change?
Use that famous wisdom of yours, Brennan!  The city is too crowded, too many cooks in too small a kitchen!  What's going to fix
that?  You starting a fight with Anselm?  Or you getting aboard my ship and helping the tribals start a new city down south?"
Ignoring Anselms protests, Bonnie walked off to leave him to make up his mind.

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Two inland expeditions are sent to explore potential building sites along the known
coastline.  They are looking along any rivers they know and ideally want to build
the city on a hill.

Harvest:(9 labor)
River plains: 3 labor +12 food
Ocean: 2 labor +6 food +1 pearls
Archery Camp: 1 labor +2 food +1 wood +1 leather
Iron Mine: 1 labor +1 stone, 1 Iron
Hill Quarry: 2 labor +2 stone, +2 wool, +2 food
Total: 9 labor, +22 food +1 pearls +2 stone +2 wool +1 wood +1 leather

Crafting (4 labor)
2 cloth (-2 wool)

Research (5 labor)
3 research on engineering
2 research on animal husbandry

Construction: none

Settlers made: 5 labor
(-5 food, -5 wood)

Food Report:
22 harvested
21 eaten
5 used
2 luxury

Stocks:
stock (changes)
1 food (+22 -26)
5 pearls (+1)
4 jewelry (-)
1 wool (+2 -2)
2 cloth (+2)
8 stone (+3)
2 wood (+1)
878 S&P (markets take a dip in light of the library fire)

Morale: 6
+1 Governor
+1 shrine
-1 crowding

[Vanigo]

Okay, the status update is up, as is Nirur Torir's map. Nirur, I hope you weren't expecting anything fancy.

[Strife26]

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Zefies were quite happy. Decent city-states?! A settlement group was starting to form to go work the newly discovered iron deposits. After that, there was talk of a second city to the south.

Alastair: Heh. We’ll have to worry more about not having enough zefies stay in Fortress instead of finding settlers.

Zefie Advisor A: Zefie spirit really is a wonderful thing, isn’t it sir?

Alastair: Tikhon, you’ll end up at the second city, you know that, right?

Tikhon: More things to build there than here. The keep’ll be finished this year.

Alastair: Okay then. Just army and scouting things to deal with.

Bea :We also have plans to do some work with the area where sky-gems are being found.

Alastair: Interesting things we’ll need as much luxury as possible once we get a second city up. The more people, the better.

Zefie Advisor A: Aren’t you curious about where they’re coming from?

Tikhon: It does defy our normal understanding.

Alastair: It’s interesting, I’ll grant you that. Do you know what I find more interesting? Polearms. Armor. Shields. Better metal to make them. Better mines to make more of them. If we have extra effort later, we can look into these gems. Not now though.

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5) Farm the River Plains (+ 20 Food)
1) Farm Plain 14 (+3 food)
1) Work Iron Mines on 12 (+1 iron, +1 stone)
1) Work Mountain 11 (+2 stone)
1) Work Forest 7 (+2 wood, +1 food)
1) Work Hill 17 (1 wool, 1 gem, 1 food)
1) Work Hill 3 (1 silver, 1 wool, 1 food)
1) Work Hill 18 (+1 stone, +1 wool, +1 food)

3) Build a pasture on 17 (-1 wood)
0) Finish Keep

1) Make clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)

5)Form Colonization Group (-5 food, -2 stone, -3 wood)
5) Research (See below)

Colony Input (+1 wood, +2 food)

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End results:

Food: 24 (+3)
Iron: 2 (+1)
Stone:5 (+2)
Wood: 2 (-1)
Wool: 2 (+1)
Gems: 1 (+1)
Silver: 3 (+1)
Clothes: 4 (+0; 2 for luxury)

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Research notes (Prepared by Iggine, Zefie Researcher)
3) Deep Mining: (2 previous) We made some more progress, but we’d like to get this working. The strategic implications of better mining are . . . good. And stuff. We could double our iron production, which would allow us to properly arm one unit per year.

2) Steel: (2 Previous) Better metal is good. Additional combat effectiveness would be highly beneficial. Additionally, if we can get knowledge of better metal now, we won’t have to issue everyone iron weapons, followed by steel weaponry.

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Military Stuff:

1st Warrior (Zefie Regular; Iron Polearms, Wood Shields, Iron Armor): Go to the discovered iron and find a specific spot for the colony. Dig in, prep the way for the colonists.

2nd Warrior (Zefie Guardsmen; Iron Hand Weapons, Wooden Shields): Tasked with local defense of Fortress.

3rd Warrior (Zefie Guardsmen; Iron Hand Weapons, Wooden Shields): Relieve the fourth at the wood colony. Take over its defense.

4th Warrior (Wooden Spears; Wooden Shields): Return to Fortress after being Relieved by the 3rd. Prepare to be retrained as Guardsmen.

5th Scout (Zefie Scout; Wooden Spears, Wooden Shields, Short bows, Horses, Zefie Saddles): Extended scouting to the West. Looking for civilizations and interesting resources.

6th Scout (Wooden Spears, Short bows, Horses, Zefie Saddles): Detailed scouting of southern area, looking for somewhere with pretty significant supplies of farmable land. Preferably at least five river plains, none of which are on the inner ring. Somewhere where I can fill the entire inside with sprawl but still have some farming going on.

7th Cavalry (Wooden Spears, Horses, War Chariots): Tasked with local defense of Fortress.

[Luke_Prowler]

"An intervention?"

"Yes, an intervention"

Three figures stood in a circle, hidden in the shadow of an old tree. Such behaviors would seem odd and suspicous else where, but in the city of Ragt'ich, not only was that normal, there was at least four other groups under the same tree. The three mentioned earlier were nither stranger nor conspiriters, but our three favorites advisors.

"I do not believe that we have any right to intrude into John's life" said Richard. His old red coat has been mended lately, and now he look much more formal.

Jen frowned. "You've seen him. He's not himself. "

"He's been busy. Running a city is a hard thing to do, expecally one where politic are often fatal"

"Have you talked to him lately?"

"Just the regular orders. feed the people, put effort into research, keep everyone happy. same stuff...well..."

"Well what?"

"You know the silver mine we never touch? John gave an order to have some of it mined"

As the two senior officers kept talking, the engineer Tom simply listened to the others, until he finally interrupted. "Why did you guys bring me along?"

Jen smiled "No reason. Just thought it would be funny to waste your time"

After that Tom simply left Join the government they said, you become important and successful, they said. this is a waste of my education Tom though, and was soon gone

Spoiler: budget (click to show/hide)

8 workforce harvest tiles 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 (20 food, 4 wood, 1 leather, 1 spice, 1 silver, 2 wool)
1 workforce create 2 clothing (-2 wool)
2 workforce research Settlement (town building)
3 workforce research medicine
2 workforce train 2 horse(s) (-2 food)
1 workforce build 1 set of wooden spears

special orders: give 2 clothing to population

net gain:
(20 food, 4 wood, 1 leather, 1 spice, 1 silver, 2 wool)
-18 food (consumed)
-2 food (horses)
-2 wool (clothing)
4 wood, 1 leather, 1 spice, 1 silver, 2 horses

Stored goods:
11 food
6 wood
14 leather
6 spice
3 wool
3 leather armor
1 stone
1 silver
2 horses

[RPB]

Preparations for the unprecedented expedition proceed apace. Non-perishable food is stockpiled and valuable trading goods are gathered to deal with peaceful outsiders. Troops are gathered and trained with newly forged weapons to deal with less peaceful outsiders. Thedrassus opts to equip his fledgling infantry command with lightweight leather armor for mobility rather than waiting on the workshops to produce heavier metal armor.

Finally, at last all stands in readiness. It is a day of solemn occasion; most of the city is keenly interested in the band of troops about to venture into the unknown, although there is little in the way of displays of excitement or celebration. The sight of the supply train gathering provisions by the market square is the closest thing to a ceremony the expedition receives, but manages to attract a fair amount of quiet attention nonetheless. Thedrassus makes the most of the opportunity by forming up into rank and column for a final march out through the city gates, displaying an uncommon amount of showmanship with this impromptu almost-parade.

Amnarchis watches the procession from the stairs of the hilltop New Library with some regret before returning to work; the sight of all the manpower and resources that went into the expedition simply march out of the city gates is not a particularly pleasant one for the Patriarch, especially with research progress at a stall. The mills now dotting the city's surrounding were doing an excellent job keeping the city fed and warehouses well-stocked, but with the population still slowly growing it was unclear how much longer their output would be able to keep up, especially as ongoing construction projects continue to tie up manpower in spite of the efforts of the magical workshop.

With Ramades unavailable to lend his practical engineering expertise, the Patriarch found himself relying more and more on his former pupil Mesthones and his work on animation. If mundane machinery failed to provide any further progress, perhaps a more magical approach could supply a way.

Spoiler: Crunch (click to show/hide)

Land usage:
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 animated mill gold mountains, +2 gold/+1 stone)
1 labor: work tile 18 (deep-mined windmill iron hills, +2 food/+1 wool/+2 iron)

Research:
5 labor: further research on improvements to machinery, including further applications for animated machines if practical

Construction:
3 labor (+50%): build deep mine on tile 16 (mined animated mill gold mountains, -2 wood)

Military workshops:
1 labor (+100%): produce wooden bows (-1 wood, -1 labor)

Military orders:
One swordsmen unit and both existing archer units explore to the northeast along the river, under the command of General Thedrassus
The expedition should carry 2 units each of food and gold for supplies/trading purposes

Training:
Outfit a new unit of archers with bows

Gross production: +18 food/+5 stone/+3 wool/+2 iron/+2 wood/+2 gold/+1 leather
Consumption: -17 food/-3 wood (2 food/gold being held by exploration party for now)
Net output: +5 stone/+3 wool/+2 iron/+2 gold/-1 wood (from storage); (2 food/gold from storage going out with exploration party)

[Pandarsenic]

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Turn soon. <_<;

[Vanigo]

Neo-Tyrgani

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Too late!

Zefies

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Zefie researchers continue their work with mining and metallurgy. Their mining efforts are progressing slowly, but they have learned a great deal about engineering in general, which is sure to help. Their experiments with metallurgy have not, however, met with any notable success.
The new keep is completed, a strong fortification watching over the city center.
The zefie scouts sent west return in the fall. They discovered a pass through the mountains leading south, but continued west rather than exploring it. West of the pass, they found more mountains to the south, foothills, and plains to the north. They also discovered a fertile hollow in the hills surrounding a pristine spring. They were harried by strange burrowing creatures that ambushed them from below, but fought them off with little trouble.
The scouts sent south had more difficulty. They encountered and were attacked by a force of orcish horsemen shortly after crossing the mountains. They were able to defeat the attackers, and located a cave system they believe the orcs came from, but were forced to retreat by additional orcish forces.
Civilian life continues as usual, and a second colonization group is preparing to head out to the recently discovered iron deposits. Sky diamond collection is proceeding well, as prospectors of varying levels of sanity search the fields.

Engineering discovered!
Population grows to 25,910 -5000 = 20,910
Production bonus! 22 labor available
Resources... yeah, what you said.
Keep finished
Pasture built
18 money collected, 7+3 spent

Zrlv

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Life goes on for the goblins of Zrlv. Kazastrugu and his researchers learn a great deal about more sophisticated mechanical devices, and are ready to build a windmill to improve iron production. The deep mining plans aren't quite ready, but they're getting close.
The scouts sent south find that the eastern river flows south and then bends to the west in the plains south of the foothills. They cross the river and explore the plains, and discover the edge of a forest to the southeast. (I'd rather not give you a new map every turn; it's nontrivial, but if you feel the need I'll get it to you.)
Things are getting more crowded in the city. Disciplinary problems are on the rise, and population growth is slowing further.

Mechanics researched!
Morale rises to 8, then drops to 7 from overcrowding! (No production bonus.)
Population grows to 20,601
Overcrowding! -4% growth, -1 morale
Watermill built
Gold and resources: What you said.

Jericho

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(Okay, you're trying to spend 23 labor, but you only have 20. I'm just going to say the settlers are only partially complete.)
Jericho is bustling with excitement as the settlers prepare to set out on their expedition. The people are divided as to whether the new settlement or the reduction in the crowding problem is more exciting, but it is of course a good-natured debate. The city's researchers, meanwhile, continue their work, and manage to tame several flocks of sheep, although few people do more than note this in passing.
The exploratory expeditions, meanwhile, set out along the only two rivers that have been discovered so far, one of which is the one the city sits along. Northeast of the city, this river flows through rolling hills with little to distinguish them. The river at the great bay, however, flows between two great forests, and the river mouth looks to be a promising city site, with fertile plains, good moorage, and thick forests nearby.

Animal taming researched!
Morale drops to 6!
Population grows to 20,436
Settlers partially complete: 3 labor needed
1 pearls, 2 clothes, 3 stone stored; 4 wood, 4 food used
20 money collected, 3 spent

Asykos

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The people of Antemnon see off their expedition, then pragmatically return to work. The city's researchers have a productive year, producing powerful crossbows and horse-drawn vehicles. They're sure both could be animated, as well, although they haven't worked out the details of that yet. The city's other production goes as expected. The gold mine is expanded, and another unit of archers is armed (although not armored).
Later in the year, the explorers return. They report that the river heads northeast only a short way before bending to the southeast. They followed it for some distance, leaving the foothills and exploring the plains beyond. Nothing of note was found.

Crossbows researched!
    Produce crossbows (1 iron, 1 wood, 4 labor)
Horse-drawn vehicles reseached!
Population grows to 16,373
Bowmen trained (5R/2/10/1 first strike 1)
Resources: Yeah, that.
12 money collected; 5 spent

Baneriant

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Ragt'ich is its usual seedy self, although a bit richer as silver begins to flow into the city. Little of note occurs, other than the efforts of the city's researchers. They finally come up with a byzantine system they think will allow colonies to be more or less kept in line.

Imperial colonization researched!
Population grows to 18,286
Production bonus! 18 labor available
2 horses, 1 spears prepared
Resources: yeah, that
10 money collected, 4 spent

[Strife26]

Thank you for the update!!
Yay!

Status update at some point in the future?