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[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

There, fixed.

[mainiac]

Incidentally, there is no rule against me irrigating 1, 2, 3 and 6 if I possessed farming.

common sense isn't a rule?

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

As can be seen in none other then DF, apparently not.

[Vanigo]

Okay, everyone's turns are in, and I'm working on your turn reports. First, though, there are a couple things I'd like to address. First, please don't put up a preliminary turn and then go back and edit it to add your RP stuff. There's no prize for getting your turn in first, and it's a bit of a pain to go back and check everyone's posts for edits.
Secondly, I want to clear up when things become available. Resources you harvest, and refined resources you prepare (including weapons and armor) are available for use on the turn they are produced. Everything else - buildings, technologies, terrain improvements, military units, and so on - is not ready for use until the beginning of your next turn. Pandarsenic, this means that you shouldn't be able to build that granary this turn even if you do get Construction, although I'll let it slide this time - if your roll well enough to get Construction this turn, that is.

[Pandarsenic]

Wait, shouldn't that mean I'd complete the Granary but not be able to store my extra food until next turn?

Right, TECHNOLOGIES.

If you want, you can change it to a Clothier's Workshop. :|

[Vanigo]

Zrlv:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The year goes well. The first cave farm is up and running, and your people are well-fed. Births and immigration raise your population some, but nothing like the growth in the past - things seem to be levelling off a bit. There's a bit of muttering about the relative scarcity of meat, but a few public beatings take the edge off of it.
In mid-autumn, Stozuagun announces that he considers his spearmen's training to be complete. They're not much to look at, but they're tough, aggressive, and eager to feast on the flesh of their enemies.

Mushroom farm completed
Spearmen trained
2 wool, 2 stone stored
Population rises to 10,300

Jericho:

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The winter and spring are marked by lively debate about the merits of Governor Anselm's expansion plans. While almost everyone agrees that a new shrine will be a fine addition to the city, there are spirited arguments about where it should be built and what should be built next. Some people advocate a series of fishing wharves along the coast, others irrigation in the valley, some want to build ships and explore the seas... almost every conceivable plan has its proponents. Fortunately, most of the debate is good-spirited and optimistic.
By fall, as the harvest rolls in and the quarries near completion, your populace is cheerful and eager to begin construction on the shrine.

Quarries completed
1 wool stored
Population rises to 10,500

Neo-Tyrgani:

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Your scholars and engineers work feverishly to learn the best ways to construct larger buildings, and seem to be viewing the granary as a full-scale test bed. There's quite a bit of concern about whether the thing will stand up. By harvest time, however, they're fairly confident in their plans. The granary is ready for the first winter storms, and easily weathers them (to the well-hidden relief of its builders), reassuring your people that they've got this construction thing down pat.

Construction researched!
Granary completed
2 wool stored
Population rises to 10,400

Zefies:

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The zefies set about their jobs with their typical enthusiasm. The harvest goes well, and the zefies bringing stone down from the mountains only suffer a few casualties from riding stone blocks like giant toboggans. The shrine is ready for dedication by harvest time.

Shrine completed
Irrigation completed
1 wool stored
Morale rises to 7
Population rises to 10,600

Asykos:

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An outside observer would likely have concluded that the year had passed uneventfully for the Asykos. The harvest went as expected, filling roughly a fifth of the granary, and wood and wool were brought in from the countryside. Within the Hall of Learning and the Great Library, however, things were much more exicing. The scholars of the Asykos quickly grasped the concepts of basic construction, and by the end of the year had begun to tinker with some more advanced engineering, although nothing useful had yet come of the latter.

Construction researched!
4 food, 2 wood, 2 wool stored
Population increases to 10,400

Lamrinkus:

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The philosophers of Kubrinka devise a system of symbols to stand for the words of their language. This system, which they call "writing" quickly spreads among the populace. The whites find it a wonderful way to store important information, and the blacks enjoy scrawling rambling messages on public walls.
The city's farming and herding go quite well. The population is well-fed; they have no way to store significant quantities of food, so they simply eat the excess. Meanwhile, large quantities of wood and stone are brought into the city and stored in the underground tunnels.

(In the future, please refrain from saying you've got the technologies you want. After all, you might not get them. Also, I'm going to insist you have some way of getting water up the mesa before you can irrigate up there.)

Literacy researched!
3 wood, 2 wool stored
Population rises to 10,300

And I'd like to point out, food and luxury consumption rounds up. That means you all need 11 food this turn, and it'll take 2 clothing to get a morale bonus. (Labor rounds down, though.)

[Pandarsenic]

Jericho:

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While almost everyone agrees that a new shrine will be a fine addition to the city, there are spirited arguments about where it should be built and what should be built next.

i c wut u did thar

[Vanigo]

Jericho:

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While almost everyone agrees that a new shrine will be a fine addition to the city, there are spirited arguments about where it should be built and what should be built next.

i c wut u did thar

Uh, wut did I du thar?
Edit: Oh, I see. Completely unintentional, I assure you.

[RPB]

The impressive results of the research spearheaded by Ramades have won him growing acclaim and influence, and the peoples' confidence is bolstered by the growing stockpiles being amassed under the Patriarch's plans. Asykos society is not much given to public jubilation, but the discerning observer might just be able to detect a polite, pleasant buzz running through the city.

Amnarchis himself remains doubtful, however. The grand New Library he envisions will require researchers to staff it, who in turn will need food to feed them. The food piling up in the granary is only a stopgap solution; the city will require improved sources of food. Ramades is sent away from the Halls of Learning and dispatched to oversee construction of a quarry to capitalize on his discoveries, overriding his objections of the importance of his research. The Patriarch himself steps in and heads the research efforts within the Great Library, diverting research away from the increasingly complicated engineering techniques Ramades had been working on in the search for records of improved farming techniques.

Spoiler: Number crunching (click to show/hide)

1 labor: work tile 1 (river plains, +3 food)
1 labor: work tile 2 (plains, +2 food)
1 labor: work tile 7 (plains, +2 food)
1 labor: work tile 8 (river forest, +2 food/+1 wood)
1 labor: work tile 5 (river hills, +2 food/+1 wool)
2 labor: build quarry on tile 5 (river hills)
3 labor: research Farming. I don't know finely we can control research efforts, but in the event Farming is discovered this turn any spillover should be directed back at Engineering if possible.

[Strife26]

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Alastair: It has been a good year for the zefie confederacy. We’ve grown a bit, which presents opportunities and problems. First of all, I am putting a total ban on all stone-sledding activities while we reconsider safety rules. We are considering only allowing a sitting-up and facing-forward position while riding. To aid in the construction of safer tracks, we will be constructing two separate mining/riding areas. Zefies engaged with agricultural production will continue their work, with farm group A now using the irrigation system. The infrastructure squad will work on irrigation up river.
Zefies: Yay!
Zefie Advisor: What about our 600 new citizens, what will they do?
Tikhon: Can we go gather lumber with them?
Alastair: But we’d need at least 1,000 zefies to get a unit of lumber. We might need decimals before long . . .
Tikhon: We haven’t developed decimals though. Do we even have a number system?
Zefies: Discussion amongst self, with large quantity of I donnos.
Alastair: They can form a committee to research safety stuff with the rock slides, I guess.

2 labor units to irrigate tile 5
3 units to farm tiles 1, 5, & 6 (10 food)
1 unit to work hills on 3 (1 food + 1 wool)
4 units to quarry 10 & 11 (Tikhon the engineer with the group on 10)
600 zefies chilling in capital, mostly. Alastair the general among them.

+ 11 food
- 11 food
+ 1 wool

Ending
2 wool

[mainiac]

((this belongs in the discussion, not IC thread, I'm moving it there))

[Vanigo]

You could, I suppose, but then you wouldn't be halfway to your 11th point of labor.

[Pandarsenic]

Wait, I only stored 1 of the 2 wool I gathered?

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

"You're really willing to put off your research?" Shi Shotan asked skeptically. Dremmeur nodded. "You really feel this is that important?"

"Yes," the High Elder replied unhesitatingly. "Absolutely."

"I still don't understand entirely why we need to dig into the mountain through stone to retrieve stone," Shi Shotan replied. He'd said that exact phrase no less than six times now.

"Yes, and you also don't understand why we need to our men to irrigate the eastern river plains."

"Yes, I do. It'll increase their fertility of the land," Shi Shotan protested.

"You're just repeating what I said," Dremmeur Sai replied with a laugh. "Don't worry, though. Once we've established a more solid food source, we can begin storing food in our granary as well as continue my research."

"I see. When will the immigrants be settled in?"

"I imagine they'll be ready to work by the end of the year."

"We're being awfully generous with them. We put the other tribes and our own Falcon of Khas brethren to work immediately."

"Yes, but these are civilians - ordinary people. They're not as tough as tribesmen are, but they are the foundation of a stable society. If we are to rebuild... if we are to become what the Tyrgani of old were... We need them."

Spoiler: Numbers (click to show/hide)

1. Work Tile 10 (3 food)
2. Work Tile 11 (6 food)
3. Work Tile 9 (8 food, 1 wool)
4. Work Tile 13 (9 food, 1 wool, 1 wood)
5. Work Tile 17 (9 food, 1 wool, 1 wood, 1 stone)
6. Work Tile 8 (11 food, 2 wool, 1 wood, 1 stone)
7. Labor to Irrigate Tile 10.
8. Labor to Irrigate Tile 10.
9. Labor to Construct Quarry in Tile 18
10. Labor to Construct Quarry in Tile 18

Subtotals:
1 wood, 1 stone harvested; 1 wood, 1 stone consumed for Granary
2 Wool harvested
11 Food harvested; 10 Food consumed
2 Labor of Research into Construction

Final Totals:
0 Wood, 0 Stone, 1 Food, 2 Wool, 0 Ore
2 Research Points to Construction (before Civ Adjustment, 2.5 after)
1 Granary

Jericho:

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While almost everyone agrees that a new shrine will be a fine addition to the city, there are spirited arguments about where it should be built and what should be built next.

i c wut u did thar

Uh, wut did I du thar?

[Vanigo]

Wait, I only stored 1 of the 2 wool I gathered?

Oh, my mistake. I'll fix that. If anyone else sees something wrong, feel free to point it out.

[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 (+2 food, +1 wool)
4th laborer - Work tile 9 (+1 food, +1 wood)
5th laborer - Work tile 18 (+2 food, +1 wool)
6th laborer - Work tile 15 (+1 food, +1 stone)
7th laborer - Build half a shrine (-1 stone)
8th, 9th, 10th laborers - Build a mushroom farm (tile 6 for real this time. I intended to farm tile 5 eventually anyway.)
Send explorer, general, and 1st Spearmen Company to begin exploring outside the perimeter of the city labor grid.

Goods totals:
11 food produced - 11 food eaten
2 wool stored + 2 wool produced = 4 wool stored
2 stone stored + 2 stone produced - 1 stone used = 3 stone stored
1 wood produced = 1 wood stored

The goblin screamed with agony as the lash of the whip stuck him again and again. The screaming grew weaker with each strike. Grlk'nr grinned cruelly as he whipped the other goblin one more time, then handed the whip to Stozuagun. "Now then, failure of a messenger. You will tell me why you had the new farmland created in the wrong place."

"I d .. I don ..." The goblin sobbed weakly

"Tell me, and you may die now. Otherwise I shall leave you with my friend here, and he is less merciful than I. There is a conspiracy afoot, and you are in on it."

"Vor ... Vorsar. To the .. south. Please ..."

"See? That wasn't so hard. You may kill him now, Stozuagun."

Stozuagun, visably dismayed, stabbed the prisoner in the back with a knife and twisted it until he died. Grlk'nr looked over at the group of young goblins who stood behind him, and pointed at one. Nervously, the chosen goblin stepped forward to hear Glrk'nr's command. "Messenger, you have seen what happens to those who displease me. See that you do not follow that one's fate. Bring me Xungbubukza." As the messenger left, Glrk'nr pointed at the remaining group of messengers. "Ensure that the farming continues as I planned."

-----(Later that day)-----

"And so you see, Xungbubukza, you must be the one find this 'Vorsar.' Stozuagun and his company of spearmen will escort you. Begin your search to the south, but try to circle around the city and explore the areas around the cave network; I have my doubts about the traitor telling the truth of Vorsar's location. Remain on the lookout for anything suspicious or interesting, even if it has nothing to do with Vorsar."

As Xengbubukza and Stozuagun saluted Glrk'nr and left, a small group of laborers entered. "Good, you're here early. The people need to be reminded of who's leading them: me. You will begin work on a grand motivational shrine to me for this purpose. Do not fail."