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[Vanigo]

"Now then, failure of a messenger. You will tell me why you had the new farmland created in the wrong place."

Hey, it's not my fault. Those mushrooms move. You've seen it yourself!
(I'd just fix it, but, well, this is more fun anyway.)

[mainiac]

In those heady days it seemed like there was nothing we could not do.  It started so small, perhaps it seems even petty to those reading this in history.  We had reopened the quarry nearest to town and fearfully waited in expectation of the raiders to come attack our encampment as they had in the past.  But days went by with no raiders coming. 
Every day we would rise from our sleep and look out at the quarry in astonishment, seeing that the harsh land we had known was finally softening.  For a time, we were amazed that our labors were capable of shaping this land, making it a better place to live in.  But then the realization sunk in an a new spirit was arisen among every tribe of Jericho.  We were not meant to cower behind our walls any longer.  It was time for us to tame this land.
The petty shrine that Anselm had proposed was cast aside like a childhood toy, not something we needed to be concerned with any longer.  No, instead we would make a proper edifice to honor the gods, something twice as large as the crude sanctuary we had thought to begin.  Eagerly, the more distant quarries were opened as well, that we might have a proper supply of stone for this great project.
But was it not natural that it was our leading citizens who's idea's would hold the most weight?  The spirits of my countryfolk were admirable, but they did not have the brilliant vision which the goddess had gifted unto me.  As the chief architect of the temple, my name was among the ranks of the exhaulted.  With the glories of the merciful gods behind my name, I was able to convince the people to embark in yet another project, more audacious then the first...

-A recounting by Brennan the Sage of Jerico

(note: in my previous turn, I specified making a quarry in the mountains, not the hills.  I'm assuming here that order went through as I stated, not as was drawn.)

3 labor is devoted to food gathering along the river as before(+9 food)
3 labor is spent working the hills with their new quarries (+2 food, +2 wool, +4 stone)
1 labor wants to be lumberjacks! (+1 food, +1 wood)
2 labor does stone construction (-3 stone) (+3 construction)
1 labor does wood construction (-1 wood) (+1 construction)

Constructed: Stone Shrine
1 of 4 stone work for machinists shop
1 of 2 wood work for machinists shop

Carried over: 1 stone, 1 wool

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

On the heels of this latest discovery, the League of Natural Philosophers has announced it's intentions to discover more miraculous technologies, aside from that it has failed in putting up a united front regarding just what it is they are investigating. With loud explosions and the sounds of fighting and extremely loud obscenities coming from the Hall of Learning, it does not look like they agree on very much.

Turning to economics, governor Crunchil Mustrun has announced the massive success of his harvesting plan and his intent to continue it. With the success of the plan many are starting to wonder if there is a way to store food for a lengthy period without it going rotten. An answer to this from the Natural Philosophers is not forthcoming.

On the lighter side, with the strange rain of fish reported last week it looks like Fernsworthy will be having a most delicious dinner of rock and soil tonight. Record crowds have turned up to witness the event. When Nomindarmus was pressed on his thoughts of his victory he replied: GOOGOOG'JOOB I AM THE WALRUS!

(same as last turn)

[Vanigo]

Turn 2 is complete!

Asykos:

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Amnarchis' research goes well. He unearths several texts relating to the irrigation of farmlands, and he and his researchers are able to work out the implementation of these techniques with little trouble.
No food is stored in the granaries this year, but the population is still well-fed and content. The quarrying efforts yield unexpected fruit: A deposit of high-quality flint is unearthed, which Ramades says can be used to make fine tools and weapons. The quarry will be ready to begin work in the spring, producing both normal stone and fine flint.

Farming researched!
Quarry built
Resource discovered: Flint! (Units using wooden spears and bows get +1 attack)
1 wood, 1 wool stored
Population grows to 10,816

Zefies:

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The year's harvest goes as smoothly as before, and the quarries are built with few complications. Tikhon puts a great deal of effort into designing the tracks, providing both an efficient way to move stone down the mountain and a fun recreational area. He also, however, issues dire warnings about the dangers of doing both at the same time.
By the winter, the slides are in use - a few of the immigrants have devised wooden sleds to replace the currently-banned stone ones. A few purists scoff, but most zefies agree that they are much safer and easier to control.

Quarries completed
Irrigation completed
1 wool stored
Population grows to 11,236

Neo-Tyrgani:

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The year passes uneventfully save for the slow but steady stream of refugees. The irrigation project is completed as planned, and the quarry is ready before the first snows - no mean feat high in the mountains!
The year's harvest goes well. Many of the new refugees prove more adept at the task than the tribesmen, which sparks a bit of resentment, but not enough to be particularly worrisome.
Dremmur Sai, while exploring the Citadel in his free time, comes across a few pieces of a strange material he calls 'glass'. It's hard and waterproof, and he says that it seems much better for his alchemical work than the clay and stone tools he's been using. Unfortunately, he has no idea how the stuff is made.
(I'm assuming the construction research was just a copy-and-paste error.)

Quarry completed
Irrigation completed
2 wool, 1 wood, 1 stone stored
Population grows to 10,816

Zrlv:

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The First Spearmen are dispatched on their scouting expedition in the early spring. They return only a few months later, however, much reduced in numbers. General Stozuagun explains that they got as far south as the edge of the mountains before they began encountering huge packs of wolf-like monstrosities. He shows you a trophy they brought back with them. It resembles a huge wolf, but has a mane of porcupine-like quills which Stozuagun explains are poisonous. While they were able to beat back the beasts, they took heavy casualties, and Stozuagun felt he had no choice but to return to the city. He immediately sets about conscripting replacement soldiers, and by the time winter rolls around the First Spearmen are a viable fighting force again.
Otherwise, the year is uneventful. The cave farm is completed as planned, and the harvest goes well, while the construction of the shrine is on schedule.

General Stozuagun's special ability revealed: We have reserves! (Units recover faster in cities)
Cave farm completed
Shrine construction started
4 wool, 3 stone stored
Population grows to 10,652

Jericho:

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The year goes more or less as planned for the Jerrans. Brennan eagerly oversaw the production of the workshop being built for him and his assistants, and the shrine was built in time for harvest celebrations. The quarries bring huge amounts of stone back to the city, and the farmers along the river produce rich harvests.

Shrine completed
Machinist's shop construction started
Morale increases to 7
1 stone, 1 wool stored
Population grows to 11,130

Lamrinkus:

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The city's natural philosophers, unable to settle on a topic of research, go off in multiple directions. To the widespread surprise of the populace, they wind up developing two separate breakthroughs! One group has figured out a way of launching small spears long distances. The launchers, which they call bows, have better range and can fire faster than spears can be thrown. Even more excitingly, a team of blacks have rediscovered magical techniques used to pacify wild animals. They believe these spells could be used to tame some of the beasts that plague the wilderness.

Random event: Technological progress!
Archery researched!
Beast Taming researched! (Details are in the reference section of the instructions.)
2 wool, 3 wood stored
Population grows to 10,609

[Pandarsenic]

Yeah, that was an error. I forgot to change that bottom part.

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"It's fascinating," Shi Shotan whispered, his voice hushed, in awe of the material Dremmeur Sai had brought in."

"Is it not?" the High Elder agreed, staring at it. He'd placed it in a small stand after cutting his finger on the edge of it. "It's clear, and while it shatters easily, it's much more resistant to the chemicals I've tested it with than my previous containers."

"Does the old library speak of it at all?" Shi Shotan asked reverently.

"The Old Tyrgani knew it as 'glass,' and it was the key to their alchemy labs. We now know the missing component in the alchemical labs we've opened!" Dremmeur's excitement was palpable. "I must study it! I must!"

"I shall allocate to you the efforts of 2000 of our finest men for research; I cannot spare you any more until we've unlocked the stairwell to the shrine atop the Citadel."

"I understand," Dremmeur said, the elder's face split in a wide grin. "I am grateful for your assistance. Oh, the possibilities!"

Spoiler: Numbers (click to show/hide)

1. Work Tile 10 (4 food)
2. Work Tile 11 (7 food)
3. Work Tile 9 (9 food, 1 wool)
4. Work Tile 13 (10 food, 1 wool, 1 wood)
5. Work Tile 18 (11 food, 1 wool, 1 wood, 2 stone)
6. Labor and one stone to complete half the Construction unsealing of a Chapel/Shrine atop the Citadel (11 food, 1 wool, 1 wood, 1 stone)
7. Labor to Irrigate Tile 11.
8. Labor to Irrigate Tile 11.
9. Labor to Research Glass
10. Labor to Research Glass

[RPB]

Pleased at the results of his researches, Amnarchis sets out to put the city's newfound understanding of irrigation into action. The sheer scale of the work leaves few workers to grow the crops the city needs, so he orders the grain stockpiles allocated to the workers in the fields. The sight of the granaries being emptied is a source of concern, but the prospect of seeing them filled faster than ever spurs the citizenry to work.

Meanwhile Ramades leaves his pupils to continue the work of excavation while he himself resumes leadership of the now-vacated Halls of Learning. His studies into wooden construction having given him some insight into the physical properties of wood, he claims to have an understanding of some of the simple projectile weapons described in the Great Library's archives. While his fellow Asykos are less enthusiastic about weapons development, the principle seems intriguing enough to inspire diligent assistance in his research.

Spoiler: crunch (click to show/hide)

2 labor: irrigate tile 1 (river plains)
2 labor: quarry tile 6 (river hills)
1 labor: work tile 1 (river plains, +3 food)
1 labor: work tile 5 (quarried river hills, +2 food/+1 stone/+1 wool)
1 labor: work tile 6 (river hills, +2 food/+1 wool)
1 labor: work tile 8 (river forest, +2 food/+1 wood)
2 labor: research Archery

Net production: 9 food, 2 wool, 1 stone, 1 wood. Shortfall of 2 food covered by food from granary.

[mainiac]

The workshop I proposed was not all that magnificent a building.  I certainly was not foolish enough to risk the gods wrath by making it more splendid then the nearby shrine to their honor.  But the workshop became a new heart for our town, giving life to all sorts of ideas.  I must confess that at first, the workshop seemed to do more distraction then good.  These mechanisms of mine drew many an intruiged hillman or woodsmen away from the countryside.  But the fanciful idea's of the year before we're translated into firm ideas.  Then, eagerly, these idea's started to be turned into reality...

6 harvesters:
3 labor works the river
1 works the hills
1 works the mountains
1 goes fishing

(+12 food, +3 stone, +1 wool)


5 builders:
4 labor builds from stone (+6 construction)
1 labor builds from wood (+1 construction)

(complete machinists shop: 4 construction, -1 stone, (1 stone and 1 wood provided previous turn))
(clothiers workshops built: 2 construction, -2 stone)
(start on woodcutters village: 1 construction, -1 stone)

[Strife26]

The extra zefies had come with an interesting concept. Hypothetically speaking, if food production was increased, overall production could be boosted, along with (hypothetically) the population.
Tikhon: It sounds like a good idea. Boosted production is never a bad thing.
Alastair: And a capability to get more zefies in a safeish place is better.
Tikhon: How much of a boost in food production would be needed?
Zefie Advisor A: We’d need to boost production to 162%.
<Stunned silence>

Alastair: How many zefies would be needed to grow that much food?
Zefie Advisor A: I dunno.
Tikhon: You calculated a percentage point figure which we may or may not when we may or may not have math, but you can’t tell us how many zefies it’d take?
Zefie Advisor B: Over half of them sir. 6,000 to be exact.
Zefie Advisor A shuffles off awkwardly.

Alastair: Very well. Figure it out. I’d also like plans to be made to increase our learning capability. No one here knows whether or not anyone knows if we can make swords. Math wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
Zefie Advisor C: I’ll draw up plans for an ‘wikipedia connection’ immediately sire.
Zefie Advisor C is smacked by Zefie Advisor D.
Zefie Advisor C: “OW!”
Zefie Advisor C swings wildly, hitting B.
A good natured and harmless scrimmage breaks out.

Tikhon: Maybe drawing up plans for containment of our advisors would be a good idea.
Alastair: Should we call it ‘advisor containment area?’
Tikhon: How about the Hall of Learning?

A shoe went flying from the crowd, straight towards Alastair! The hardened warrior watched it come. Time seemed to slow. Alastair bent over backwards. The shoe passed right over his head.
Zefie Advisor A: But zefies don’t really have heads. And we don’t wear shoes!!

Agricultural Team: 2 labor to irrigate 5.
Zefies farm 1, and 5 for 8 food.
Zefies farm 5, 8, and 15 for 9 more food.
Zefies work 7 for one food and one wood
Zefies quarry 10 for 2 stone
Two Zefies build the Hall of learning out of solid stone.

Extra Rations for the zefies!!
18 food -18 food = 0 food left over
+ 1 wood (1 total)
+ 2 stone - 2 (0 left)
+ 0 wool (1 left)
+ Hall of learning

[mainiac]

bump

[Nirur Torir]

Spoiler: OOC Actions (click to show/hide)

1st laborer - Work at the mushroom farm in the city (+3 food)
2nd laborer - Work tile 5 (+2 food, +1 stone)
3rd laborer - Work tile 6 (+3 food, +1 wool)
4th laborer - Work tile 9 (+1 food, +1 wood)
5th laborer - Work tile 18 (+2 food, +1 wool)
6th laborer - Finish shrine (-1 stone)
7th, 8th laborers - Build a Hall of Learning (-2 stone)
9th laborer - Create wooden spears (-1 wood)
10th laborer - Create wooden shield (-1 wood. It should be there, but you didn't note it.)
Send explorer and 1st Spearmen Company to begin exploring to the north this time.
Have general train some warriors.

Total goods:
11 food produced - 11 eaten.
1 stone produced + 3 stored - 3 used = 1 stone remaining.
2 wool produced + 4 wool stored = 6 wool remaining.
1 wood produced + 1 wood stored - 2 wood used = 0 wood remaining.

Grlk'nr was meeting with his advisers. "You're right, of course, Stozuagun. We do need more soldiers. Go ahead and draft the strongest laborers you can find, and have whichever arms you want for them made."

"Of course." The general bowed and left, leaving only the Xungbubukza with Grlk'nr.

"We shouldn't have listened to that cowardly rebel. Of course he wouldn't have told us where the leader was. Take the spearmen, and explore to the north this time. I also approve of your other idea; order whichever laborers you choose to build your 'special project' before you leave."

[Vanigo]

NewerMartianEmperor, we're still waiting for your turn. Two days before you idle.

[Vanigo]

Okay, NME is officially idle this turn. As for everyone else:

Neo-Tyrgani

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(Uh-oh. I didn't notice this earlier, but you're trying to get food out of a quarried mountain tile. I'm afraid you're looking at famine.)

The year's harvest proved insufficent to feed the city's growing appetite, and with the granary empty, the Neo-Tyrgani were gripped by famine. Morale plummeted, and the city's population shrank as tribesmen returned to their nomadic roots and left the city in search of food. While the lowered population eventually stabilized the situation, the damage had been done.
Not all the news of the year was as bad, fortunately. Construction of the shrine access went well, and while it still needs some work, workers are already starting to clear out the shrine and prepare it for use. Dremmeur's work was a limited success. He figured out how to make a somewhat cruder form of glass out of clean sand, but has found no way of shaping it into anything useful - it's too hard to carve with stone tools, and when molten is too hot to work with wood. However, he has unearthed enough ancient glassware to set up a working laboratory.

Famine!
Population drops to 9816!
Morale drops to 3!
Dremmeur Sai's special ability revealed: Improvisation!
    Allows construction of an Alchemist's Lab without Glass technology
Irrigation completed
1 wood, 1 wool, 1 stone stored
Production penalty! 8 labor available next turn.

Asykos

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Ill fortune struck the people of Antemnon this year. A wave of disease swept through the city, killing hundreds of citizens. The Asykos' trademark stoicism prevented any panic, fortunately, and the plague seems to have passed as quickly as it came.
The year otherwise went well. Ramades produced a working bow early in the summer, and spent the remainder of the year experimenting with the best way to aim and fire the things. He feels he has, if not mastered their use, at least learned more than enough to make them effective weapons for hunting or war. The irrigation and quarrying along the river went according to plan, and between the harvest and the food from the granary, no one went hungry.

Random event: Disease!
700 people killed!
-1 morale (countered by stoicism)!
Archery researched!
Irrigation completed
Quarry completed
Population drops to 10,520
2 wool, 1 stone, 1 wood stored

Jericho

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Even before the Jerrans' mechanic's workshop was completed, useful devices began to take form. Winches, pulleys, and cranes promised to make future construction faster and easier. A cluster of tailors' shops also took form, promising the citizenry easy access to clothing in the future.

Mechanic's workshop built
Clothiers' workshops built
Population grows to 11,797
1 wool stored, 1 stone removed from storage

Zefies

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The well-fed zefies turned to the construction of their new hall of learning with a will. It was a grand structure, and, while padded walls were deemed unnecessary, it was heavily reinforced against explosions - just in case. The city's population also grew, as immigrants found their way to the fertile valley and zefies reproduced by whatever inscrutable method they used.

Hall of learning built
Population grows to 12,022
Morale increases to 8
Bonus production! 13 labor available next turn.
1 wood stored

Zrlv

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Stozuagun, perhaps displeased with the survivability of his spearmen, had large wooden shields made for his new troops. They were pleased with this innovation - their bloodlust didn't really extend to their own blood.
Construction in the city went well. The shrine, with its huge central statue of Glrk'nr, was opened to the citizenry, and the hall of learning was ready to house whatever secretive research the goblin sages pursued.
Xungbubuzka and the spearmen set off to the north this time. They find that the river Glrk'nr sits by leads off to the north in a valley, and the foothills and mountains give way to open plains a ways further. They see no sign of civilization.

Population grows to 11147
Warriors trained
Shrine built
Hall of learning built
Morale increases to 6
4 wool stored, 2 stone, 1 wood spent

Also:
At mainiac's suggestion, I'm changing the way extra food and luxury resources work. Each point of a luxury resources gives 10 luxury points, and each extra food gives 2. Every luxury point raises morale by 1 for 1000 people.

[Pandarsenic]

DREMMEUR IS AWESOME.

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"I hope you realize how awesome I am," Dremmeur declared to Shi Shotan.

"Really? Why?"

"I figured out how to construct an Alchemical Lab without glass."

"You are awesome," Shi Shotan agreed. "Unfortunately, part of your expansion plans included attempting to farm a quarry last year."

"Oh. That's why so many of our workers left?"

"Yeah..."

"I see. I'm sorry, I was just so caught up in my excitement. I'll go over our numbers extra carefully. You should have alerted me sooner."

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1. Finish Shrine Access
2. Work 10 (4 food)
3. Work 11 (8 food)
4. Work 9 (10 food, 1 wool)
5. Work 13 (11 food, 1 wool, 1 wood)
6. Work 18 (11 food, 1 wool, 1 wood, 2 stone, -1 stone for shrine)
7. Construct Alchemist's Lab (1/4), expend 1 wood and 1 stone (thus, no net change in wood or stone storage this year)
8. Construct Alchemist's Lab (2/4)

[Strife26]

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Zefie Advisor A: I’d like a loaf of bread please.
Zefie Shopkeeper B: That’ll be one half of a chicken.
Zefie Advisor A: All I have is my research stuff.
Zefie Shopkeeper B: There’s a stand over there that might be able to get you a one-half chicken certificate.

Zefie Advisor A: Can I get a one-half chicken certificate for my research paper?
Zefie Shopkeeper C: I only take vodka payments.

Zefie Barkeep D: I’d accept firewood . . .

Zefie Advisor A: Is there anyway that I can get some logs to trade for vodka to trade for chickens?
Zefie Lumberdude E: I’d happily sell you some wood for a loaf of bread.
Zefie Advisor A: GAH!

Tikhon: What do I have for suggestions today?
Zefie Secretary: Pretty big stack sir.
Tikhon: The wheelbarrow’s a nice touch, I have to say.
Zefie Secretary: I need the wheelbarrow back sir, it’s a rental.
Tikhon: Dump the pile in the corner I guess.

Alastair enters.
Alastair: What’s with the stack of papers?
Tikhon: Suggestions from our advisors.
Alastair: Lot’s of good ideas then?
Tikhon: They all seem to want us to look into trade, it seems.
Alastair: I was thinking that we need a granary, we’d be helpless in a siege. Can we do both?
Tikhon: Not if we spend half of our guys on farming.

Zefie Advisor A: Good news bosses. We apparently complificated wrong last year. We can use clothes making to vastly reduce the extra amount of food needed.
Tikhon: That’s very good news.
Alastair: But zefies don’t need clothes. Or shoes.
Zefie Advisor A: Sashes are all the rage right now, sir.
Alastair: Very well, make it happen then.
Zefie Advisor A: I’ll get a research team together right away sir.
Tikhon: For the granary, trade, or clothes?
Zefie Advisor A: Errrrr.
Tikhon: You’ll cover trade. I’ll draw up plans for a granary. Alastair, have fun designing sashes.

Exit Zefie Advisor A and Tikhon
Alastair: But what IS a sash?

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2 units farm 1 & 6. (8 food)
2 units farm 5 & 8. (6 food)
1 unit works 3         (1 food, 1 wool)
   15 food produced - 13 needed
   2 extra food = 4 luxury points.

1 unit makes clothes (-1 wool)
2 units irrigate tile 5

1 unit mines 10 (2 stone)
2 units build a granary (-2 stone)
1 unit mines 11
1 unit looks at trade

15 food - 13, -2 = 0
1 wood + 0 = 1
1 wool + 1 - 1 = 1
0 stone + 4 -2 = 2

14 luxury
   10 clothes
   4 food
+ Granary

[mainiac]

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RP!
The town was hardly recognizable from a scarce few years ago.  Energy and optimism that we hadn't known were missing in the past were now evident on every citizens face.  Our efforts were transforming.  And yet there was a sense that something was still lacking.  And lacking that called me to the waterside where I sat for lonely our staring out towards that expanse...

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Stats!
3 work the river
2 have a forest picnic
1 works the mountain
1 goes fishing

1 guy makes cloth

2 guys build w/ stone +1 bonus for R.S.
1 guy builds w/ wood
+1 bonus from workshop

finish the woodcutters village (1 labor)
build a fishing village (2 labor)
build a hall of learning (2 labor)