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[KineseN]

Ok, I fixed my actions.

[Armok]

Oh, ok.

1 unit surveys the current tile, one surveys the neighbour tile, 1 builds manufacturing infrastructure like workshops, and one make the doll that will be required for lawnmower. All the mp this turn go into researching lawnmower I think.

[100killer9]

Research "Termite Strain"
1 unit build a creep on the starting hex.
1 unit attempt to domesticate animals
1 unit looks for edible plants
1 unit looks for a building material, such as wood.
The 16 Draati had woken up and unburrowed themselves without thinking about it. One Draati tried to remember why they were here. He discussed with the others, and they all seemed to have amnesia. That wasn't the most pressing matter, however. They had no idea where the nearest Mother was.
They discussed amongst themselves, and decided to have Artilya, the strongest female in the group, become the Mother. She burrowed, and shortly reemerged as a giant organic pseudostructure (if that's a real word). However, there was something strange. She couldn't seem to spawn new Draati. But, a thick substance seemed to be oozing out of her. Three other Draati did as the Mother commanded and spread this over the area.
While the Mother was distracted, four Draati went looking for food, four Draati looked for animals they could domesticate, and four Draati looked for building materials. This wasn't an order from the Mother, just basic intelligence kicking in.

[Haika]

Mechanics changes and additions:

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Medicinal Herbs: +1 Population on discovery, +1 healing tools
Crystal Deposits: +2 Mana storage on discovery, +1 MP per turn
Unclaimed Demonic Ritual: Starts countdown to demon attack, becomes demonic portal in 3 turns. [ options: ignore, claim(uses 1 unit to attempt to take over the ritual), destroy(uses 1 unit to attempt to remove the ritual) ]
Ancient Corpses: +2 MP per turn, may be investigated for changes
Blessed Healers: +1 population chance each turn
Draati Creep: +1 population limit for Draati, -1 population limit for everyone else

Unfocused MP at the end of a turn will go into Mana Storage

Food will last unprotected for three turns, after that it will rot and be unavaliable.

Gathering: Units that gather will bring back 0-4 units of the item gathered before modifications.

Population Growth:
Each turn, a hex with at least 1 population unit will have a chance to grow in population. Unmodified this chance will give 0-3 units of population if the terrain allows.

If a population exceeds the limit of a hex after a population increase, you have 1 turn to return that hex to the limit or lower, or turmoil and angry infighting will lower the number of units to the limit at the end of next turn.

Animal Units:
A group of your population that has specialized in controling a tamed group of animals. Limited actions are avaliable, mostly the actions this unit takes must be in connection to it's animal.(build farms, gather milk, possibly hunt, or attack, it all depends on the animal tamed, have an idea? try it and see, if it dosen't work, I'll have it do something else basic like gather food)

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Faden:

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Research Hunting Charm, 2 MP
2 MP To Mana Pool

2 Dandy Lion units hunt, 1 attempts to domesticate animals, 1 surveys the hex

All was quiet on the Dandelion Plains. Not a bird sang; it would have been eaten. Not one ungulate bellowed; it would have been eaten. Not even a single insect chirped; it probably wouldn't have been eaten, but remained silent for dramatic effect.

In the midst of this silence, four groups of Dandy Lions contemplated their next meal. Two groups took the traditional method, relying on charm to lead a prey critter astray into the tall grass, where it would be devoured.

The third group surveyed the terrain, flaunting their petals at the prey animals as they walked past.

In the midst of the fourth group, one Dandy Lion mage had a revolutionary idea. What if they didn't devour every single animal they charmed, but instead kept some for the lean times? The Lions of that group set to work on this immediately.

!-!Event!-! Medicinal Herbs grow in M15, these will produce a boost in population this turn and healing bonuses if gathered and processed.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Hunting Charm ( 2mp from mana storage to cast ) - will double the yield when cast on a population unit that is hunting that turn

Mana Stockpile is increased by 2.

The Hunts go badly, and the two groups are only able to bring back a total of 4 food. [ +4 food units ]

A large group of hippo are sighted near the location of the lions, And the third group splits up, circling them and bringing them into close proximity of the charm aura, effectively taming them. [+1 animal unit, hippo ]

The Hippos make a large amount of grunting and hooting noises as they are herded around the group, distracting the survey, nothing is found.

Population grows by 1.

+3 points awarded for creativity

Kinesen:

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Actions (for a quicker find)]Two groups gather food. Two groups gather materials. Spend 2 mana researching on Ashes to Ashes, 2 mana to the mana reserve.

Journal of Matis the Explorer (on Schle Tuo: Month One)

!-!Event!-! White crystal deposits are found growing near the base of the river. +2 to mana storage on discovery, +1 mp per turn.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Ashes to Ashes ( 2 mp from mana storage to cast ) - when cast produces 1-4 units of resources, at random: charcoal, ashes, soot.

Mana Stockpile is increased by 2.

The first group of food gatherers fish in the river, and return with two units of food, an average catch. The other group heads into the jungle and gathers edible plants to the tune of three units of food. [ +5 food ]

The material gatherers search the riverbank and coast for fallen trees and return with two units of wood each. [ +4 wood ]

No Population growth this turn.

+2 points for creativity

RNG:

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We have lived in this small forest glade for several millennium... it has been a peaceful life, one of contentment. I have seen the forest give birth to countless of my children, see them live and grow, and eventually, return to the forest. Something has changed though... I can feel it in my roots. The flow of magic in this world is changing... and it changes others as well. This latest group of Fawns, born not twenty years ago, are not like the others. They are not content to stay in this glade and live out their lives... they wish to explore. To see the world around them, to experience all the wonders out in the world! Very well... I shall let them do so. They will not go alone, for even though I can not move, I will always be watching over them. I will see the world through their eyes.

Research Blessing of Oak
Send 1 Fawn to scout G8.
Send 1 Fawn to scout H10.
Have 2 Fawns gather edible plants.

!-!Event!-! A group of unicorns seeks out your civilization. They bow their horns in unison, pledging allegance. +1 animal unit[unicorn]

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Blessing of Oak( costs 2 mp from mana storage to cast )[1 forest required] - Asks mother earth to bless wood on the civ, gain 1-4 units of wood on cast.

Mana Stockpile is increased by 6.

The two fawn groups at H9 gather plants, the first having above average returns bringing back three food, while the other has some trouble, and only returns with one. [ +4 food ]

One fawn moves off into G8. They find many hills, and the continuation of the forest and coast. This proves to be more difficult to survey than expected and your scout finds nothing else.

The other scouting fawn moves south into H10. Here the coast and forest continues into more grassland. This much you know, however reports end after that, a sinking feeling alerts you to the loss of the fawns, as a group of wild Air Elementals attacked them from ambush.

No population growth in H9
No population growth in G8

+3 points for creativity

Since you have a need for it, you may spend your 5 points to purchase a mushroom ring on the hex of your choice, but remember it will count towards the 5 landscape limit per hex. And you only need the circle for when you actually cast the spell, not to research.

ed:

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I use 2 power points to research the leg enhancements spell. The other 2 get stored as mana. The 4 units gather and store food.

The great matriarch has spoken. Our time of glory will come soon. Our armies will outmatch the might of all who would oppose us. We shall swarm over this land, and hunt down the lesser beings that would oppose us. This day of glory must be prepared for. When our forces assemble, we must provide for them. They shall hunger, and until they can consume our foes we must sustain them.

Nothing special happens this month.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Leg Enhance( 2 mp from mana storage to cast ) - allows a unit to move 2 hexes during a turn, instead of just a single hex.

Mana Stockpile is increased by 2.

The whole population of the Chot heads out into the hills looking for food. The first group returns with two food units, the second comes with one, the third returns three, and the final group gathers two more food. [ +8 food ]

Your civilization experiences a population boon! [ +2 population in H14, -4 food ]

!! Overcrowding. Your population has exceeded the limit for this hex, if the limit is not met after the next month, you will experience turmoil that will kill off excess units.

+2 points for creativity

Armok:

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1 unit surveys the current tile, one surveys the neighbour tile, 1 builds manufacturing infrastructure like workshops, and one make the doll that will be required for lawnmower. All the mp this turn go into researching lawnmower I think.

Nothing special occurs this month

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
lawnmower( 4mp from mana storage to cast, and 1 doll ) - chews through a forest, removing it from the hex of choice and providing the caster with 1-10 units of wood.

One Golem shifts into action, and begins a methodical patrol of the home area. Upon it's survey, it comes upon a group of satyrs, preforming a demonic ritual around a glowing pentagram. [ +1 demonic ritual ]

The next Golem hesitates, it's orders were to survey a neighbour tile, but no specifics were given. After a moment of internal debate, it shuffles off uphill to the northeast. Here it finds a mountain area, with more coastline, and a volcano. As it searches the area it notices a small ruined dwelling with thin alien looking corpses. [ +1 ancient corpses ]

Having no materials to build any structure or tools, the final two golems begin gathering materials. The first scours the hills for some sparce wood and returns with 2 wood. The other digs into the ground extracting rock materials, it obtains three large stone blocks. [ +2 wood, +3 stone ]

No population gain in either hex, due to lack of stored mana.

100killer9:

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Research "Termite Strain"
1 unit build a creep on the starting hex.
1 unit attempt to domesticate animals
1 unit looks for edible plants
1 unit looks for a building material, such as wood.
The 16 Draati had woken up and unburrowed themselves without thinking about it. One Draati tried to remember why they were here. He discussed with the others, and they all seemed to have amnesia. That wasn't the most pressing matter, however. They had no idea where the nearest Mother was.
They discussed amongst themselves, and decided to have Artilya, the strongest female in the group, become the Mother. She burrowed, and shortly reemerged as a giant organic pseudostructure (if that's a real word). However, there was something strange. She couldn't seem to spawn new Draati. But, a thick substance seemed to be oozing out of her. Three other Draati did as the Mother commanded and spread this over the area.
While the Mother was distracted, four Draati went looking for food, four Draati looked for animals they could domesticate, and four Draati looked for building materials. This wasn't an order from the Mother, just basic intelligence kicking in.

!-!Event!-! Draati healers have an innovative breakthrough, drones from all around flock to the hex to live. [ +1 blessed healers ]

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Termite Strain( 2mp from mana storage to cast ) - creates a cloud of microscopic organisms who gather 1-4 wood and bring back half of what they find to the caster(they eat the other half<-spell backlash)

Mana Stockpile is increased by 2.

The creep oozes out over the grasslands, infecting the ground and boosting the population limit of all Draati in the area. [ +1 creep ]

Meanwhile a group of Draati spot massive larva of some giant moth slowly chewing upon part of the forest, using a system of reward and punishment, some of the larva are tamed. [ +1 animal unit(giant larva) ]

Group three searches to gather food, not finding much, but returning with 1 unit of food. [ +1 food ]

Finally, the last group searches the forest for fallen logs and branches to build with. they return with two groups of building materials. [ +2 wood ]

Population increases by 1 in L8
Bonus! Population increases by 1 in L8

+3 points for creativity

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That's the turn, note, since these are very large, status will be updated in the first post, check there for info(link on this quote).

New Updated Map:

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Let me know if there are any mistakes.

[100killer9]

Wait... A group of healers came to my group? Or did some unit of population of mine become a healer?

[Haika]

Wait... A group of healers came to my group? Or did some unit of population of mine become a healer?

That would be part of your population that wasn't a unit, say elders or children, or people who won't listen to direct orders. Was a random event, I just went with it. Counts as a terrain modifier

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Do I have to use a unit to cast blessing of oak, or can I cast it myself?

Unicorns... hrm. Since I'm obviously not going to use them for food, I can't think of any use for those other than having them assist me in battle... I wonder if they could help out against those elementals. Alternatively... maybe I can domesticate/train/ally with the elementals? Probably need stronger magic to do that, though.

[Haika]

Do I have to use a unit to cast blessing of oak, or can I cast it myself?

Unicorns... hrm. Since I'm obviously not going to use them for food, I can't think of any use for those other than having them assist me in battle... I wonder if they could help out against those elementals. Alternatively... maybe I can domesticate/train/ally with the elementals? Probably need stronger magic to do that, though.

Magic is seperate from the units, yes.

Unicorns can help gather food, or yes, they will probably make a deadly war unit, but would need training.

As for the elementals, they are a hefty negative your scout found on a crit failed survey. You can attempt to kill, scare away, push away, tame, ally, whatever, with another unit, you will have around a 50% chance for it to work, and would only loose your unit if you roll really low.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Losing some of my children was a painful experience for me. Unlike the peaceful sorrow I feel when one of my children returns to the forest, this experience was raw and horrifying. Part of me wanted to draw my children back to this forest, to keep they safe from the outside world... but with the arrival of the unicorns, I can only feel that good things are to come in the future. Because of this, I will not prevent my children from exploring... but I now realize I need to be much more careful in the future.

Research Blessing of Fin
Cast Blessing of Oak
Have the fawn in G8 survey the area.
Have one fawn in H9 build a Grove(Sylvan farm-house hybrid)
Have the other fawn in H9 gather food.
Have the unicorns gather food.

[Armok]

Hmm, I keep geting supprised by how my golems work, we seem to have very different intuitions on it. I think I need a better explanation to what, acording to you, golems are and how they reproduce. also, what exactly is a doll?
Also, what do the golems look like? I asumed the curent ones were generic humanoid clay ones, but that future ones would be much better and more creative designs

I spend 2 mp reserching scouts, I try to eliminate the ritual, and the remaining 3 are put in the mana pool or used for reproduction.

THe alien corpse are brought home and examined by the unit that found it, one goes to the vulcano and try to chanel magma to the hole tile, one try to build and bring to life a golem(s) that consists of a chotliike body with a cargo area similar to that of a pickup truck on it's back and a huge, crane-like arm from the wood, the last unit builds workschops and tools from the rock.

[ed boy]

By the way, just how much does a unit of population represent?

Since I have 6 population, I have 6 magic points (correct me if I'm wrong) and 2 mana I stored last turn.
I will spend 2 of the magic points to research "summon drone"
I will turn 2 of the magic points into mana
I will cast "leg enhancements" twice (consuming my 4 stored mana), using my remaining two magic points to make the spell more powerful.

This increase in population is a sign! Our time of glory will come. Already the swarm grows more numerous, and our current boundaries cannot contain them. But before we can wreak destruction upon our foes, we must find them. For this we shall send out two scouting parties. One shall follow the coast north, and one shall follow the coast south. The regenerists shall invoke the power of Guth'okto upon these parties - they shall travel swifter than all others over the land, and search for resources that can be used to further our glory.

The rest of our population will make a great migration. Half of the remaining population shall travel south to search for food. The increased numbers have left our people hungry. The other shall travel northwest, and search for materials of use there, so we shall be able to create weapons of great might.

[Haika]

Hmm, I keep geting supprised by how my golems work, we seem to have very different intuitions on it. I think I need a better explanation to what, acording to you, golems are and how they reproduce. also, what exactly is a doll?
Also, what do the golems look like? I asumed the curent ones were generic humanoid clay ones, but that future ones would be much better and more creative designs

I spend 2 mp reserching scouts, I try to eliminate the ritual, and the remaining 3 are put in the mana pool or used for reproduction.

THe alien corpse are brought home and examined by the unit that found it, one goes to the vulcano and try to chanel magma to the hole tile, one try to build and bring to life a golem(s) that consists of a chotliike body with a cargo area similar to that of a pickup truck on it's back and a huge, crane-like arm from the wood, the last unit builds workschops and tools from the rock.

The way I see golems as any inanimate object bound together and brought to life by magic.

These golems reproduce by using some materials(wood stone, whatever), to create more golems with magic power stored as mana. So at the end of a turn, if you have surplus materials, and magic power in your mana storage, your golems piece together some more golems. 1-4 per hex that has materials, assuming you don't run out of magic to hold the materials together.

A doll is a generic spell component for puppetry magic. Think a puppet doll, made of brown cloth, no clothes, hair, or any other feature. Your magic focuses on that, and uses it to create the puppets when you cast a spell. Like a tiny golem.

New golems should always start off as generic golems, and will take an action to modify or train the unit into something better. You can use an action to put together a special unit of golems, but remember the material and mana requirement(usually 1 of each resource per golem unit made).

The ritual is a terrain modifier, and requires a population unit to remove or modify in any way. Also, your final unit is trying to do two things at once, do you want to build workshops or craft tools? Those are two different actions.

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By the way, just how much does a unit of population represent?

A unit is just a representation of a group of your population. It may be 5 people it may be 10. It's an ambiguous unit of adults that can do actions.

Since I have 6 population, I have 6 magic points (correct me if I'm wrong) and 2 mana I stored last turn.
I will spend 2 of the magic points to research "summon drone"
I will turn 2 of the magic points into mana
I will cast "leg enhancements" twice (consuming my 4 stored mana), using my remaining two magic points to make the spell more powerful.

Ok, little confusing but I see what you want to do here. The action would be, 2 points research, 2 points POWER, 2 points mana, then casting Leg Enhance twice. That will result in what you want, just a little confusing when you put the power boost after the spell, I had to count several times before I realized what you wanted.


and sorry about all the confusion guys. Hopefully we will beat out some rules and get into a smoother gameplay soon.

[Armok]

I can still have almost all my golems be "special ones" right, and generic ones are just the ones that are not explicitly spent time building? Can I make surplus golem bodies and it simply uses those once pop growth catch up so I don't end up with generics?

I guess the over tasked golem will build some kinds of workshop(s) that don't require much tools to work in then.

[Haika]

I can still have almost all my golems be "special ones" right, and generic ones are just the ones that are not explicitly spent time building? Can I make surplus golem bodies and it simply uses those once pop growth catch up so I don't end up with generics?

I guess the over tasked golem will build some kinds of workshop(s) that don't require much tools to work in then.

I think theoretically you could make special golem bodies, and count those towards your material requirement for the population growth. However, at the same time, you need to use a unit to make the special bodies, and still need materials to make those bodies, so that's really no different than altering a unit to specialize.

General units should be able to do more anyway, you could alter a unit to have sawblades for hands by using some metal ore or something, and sure the unit can cut down trees, but at the same time, so could a normal unit with a tool made from the ore and get the same bonus, so not sure where your going with this. Specialization will probably only come in to play heavily with military units

The rest of our population will make a great migration. Half of the remaining population shall travel south to search for food. The increased numbers have left our people hungry. The other shall travel northwest, and search for materials of use there, so we shall be able to create weapons of great might.

If I read your actions right(didn't get a summary), you want the two scouts blessed with extra movement to head north and south, then the rest of your population to split up and move off the home tile. My question for you is, what do you want to do with the resources there? If you leave things on a hex without at least 1 population unit to watch over it, they will be lost. So let me know if you want to take the stuff with you, or leave somebody there to hold the ground.

[Faden]

Three questions:

1) How do non-mana points work? Do you spend them as mana points, or is there a separate category of things to buy with them?

2) Can you move units and then use them in the hex they move to in the same turn?

3) How do the land values effect the ability to gather?