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[Haika]

well, quality is a factor, a few pictures randomly thrown together in paint, will get less than something nicely done in a 3d.

Finishing up the turn now.

[Haika]

Faden:

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7 pts to research Prancing Pony
4 pts to Mana Storage
4 Mana used in Wood Grin (L14)
1 Mana used to strengthen Wood Grin

K13: 1 Attempts to tame animals

L13: 1 Goes fishing

L14: 1 Uses wood to build a Granary
1 Hunts
1 Moves to K13, taking one unit of wood and using it to build a Granary
Hungry Hunting Hippos move to K13 and hunts

M15:1 Hunts
1 Moves to L15, taking one unit of thatch, which it uses to build a Granary.
1 Uses thatch to build a Granary
1 Uses thatch to create containers for the Healing Salve
1 Herd of Wildebeest is trained to produce milk on command, becoming Gentle Gnu.
1 Herd of Wildebeest is trained in the military arts to become Wardebeest (I'll save that for later) trained to scout out terrain, becoming Survey-Debeest.

The Dandelion Plains are loud.

After the population boom, the noise level had steadily been increasing. First it was only the cries of the newborns, but then their loving parents brought home some beesties. Loud, smelly beesties. Frumplekins shuddered at the thought of those beests. He did not usually mind the lesser species, and had actually converted to Hippoism last week. But the beests were too much. Frumplekins found that several others thought likewise, and decided to leave the main pride. They took to the hills, where they could remain untroubled by beests.

Hippoism, strangely enough, had flourished in the absence of Hippos. The most popular sects held that the Hippos would one day return and trample the creatures of the plains. Only one die-hard traditionalist sect still held out. When the beests were captured, the traditionalists predicted a split in the Hippoist movement, but this split never occured. Devout Hippoists were quick to point out that a split over any creature other than the graceful hippo, let alone the beests, would be "silly" and "not at all likely to happen."

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Nothing special happens this month.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Prancing Pony(7mp from mana storage to cast) - enhances the movement of a target unit allowing them to move one hex further that turn.

You cast Wood Grin. The trees are charmed, and grow extra logs of wood just for your peoples. [+3 wood, -4 mana]

+4 to mana storage

The forest of K13 is dense, but full of wildlife. The group of lions is easily able to find some animals in the area, after a little debate they choose some Moose. The large ungainly deer seem a decent choice. [+1 animal unit(Moose)]

The group in L13 goes fishing, returning with a strong catch. [+3 food]

A group of lions fit together some logs into a log cabin style Granary for L14. This doubles the time it takes for food to decay on the hex. [+granary, -1 wood]

another group on L14 attempts to hunt in the forest. They return with a large catch. [+4 food]

The Last unit, and the hippos move to K13, taking one unit of wood to build another granary. [+granary, -1 wood]

The hippos head into the forest, lumbering along, but managing to kill several deer with their large mouths. [+4 food]

The first unit in M15 hunts, killing some wild animals, and bringing the meat back to the others. [+3 food ]

Another attempts to use some of the thatch to build a granary. However the thatch is hard to work with, and the lions can't seem to get it to work here.

Yet another group weaves some of the thatch into a large ball shaped bottle to hold the salve in. [ remove salve duration, -1 thatch ]

Meanwhile the two Wildebeests begin training. The first is specialised into producing milk, becoming Gentle Gnu, but loosing the ability to do anything but provide milk for a group of milkers. The other trains itself in the ability to survey and scout, breeding for long legs and running endurance. They become Survey-Debeest, and gain the ability to move twice per month.(only surveys at the end however)

Another group grabs up an amount of thatch and runs off to the southwest to build a granary in the hills of L15. [+granary, -1 thatch]

[AI]Another unit, noticing the group moving to L15 without any food, decides to go along with them and do some hunting. [ +2 food ]

[AI] The final group in M15 decides to fall back on the old faithful, and hunts in the savanna. [+3 food]

Note: animal units do not require another unit to train into a new form. Units not given an action will fall under AI control and I move them as I think is best.

Hunger turn!
K13: -3 food[II], -1 food[III]
L13: -2 food[III]
L14: -2 food[-], -2 food[II]
L15: -2 food[III], -1 pop due to starvation
M15: -6 food[III], 1 population resists starvation, -1 Gentle Gnu due to starvation, Survey-Debeests resist.

Population growth:
L14, +1 population
L15, +1 population

Crystal Deposits on M15 generate 1 mp
+2 points for creativity

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Race: Dandy Lions
Magic: Charm
Abilities: first strike defense, hunting bonus, population spell boost
Weaknesses: Double food requirement, no direct damage spells

Points: 4/14
K13: grassland, +forest, +coast
Pop: 1, Animal Units: 2=1(Moose)/1(hunting hippo), Food:3[III], Wood: 0, Granary
L13: hills, +forest, +river, +coast
Pop: 1, Food: 1[III], Wood: 1
L14: grassland, +forest, +coast
Pop: 3, Food: 1[II]/4[III], Wood: 4, Granary
L15: hills, +coast
Pop: 2, Food: 0, Granary
Starting location: M15: grassland, +coast, +medicine herbs, +crystal deposits
Population: 4, Animal Units: 1(Survey-Debeests), Food: 0, Raw Medicinal Leaves: 0, Healing Salve(in containers): 3, Thatch: 3
Total Pop: 12

Known Spells:

Hunting Charm (2mp to cast from mana storage to cast) - will double the yield when cast on a population unit that is hunting that turn.
Summon Fluff(costs 3 mp from mana storage to cast) - calls upon a bit of fluff to act as a unit for the summoner, costs 1mp per turn to maintain.
Wood Grin(4mp from mana storage to cast) - charm the trees themselves into growing logs, provides 1-4 units of wood.
Prancing Pony(7mp from mana storage to cast) - enhances the movement of a target unit allowing them to move one hex further that turn.

Mana Storage: 6
MP: 13

Options for research:
Fish Call(8pts) - fishing blessing, will increase food yields from fishing.
Power of the Pride(15pts) - enhances the yield of a unit set to gather materials.
Summon Bunny(6pts) - charm summon, calls upon some cute widdle bunnies to act as a unit for the summoner, costs 3mp per turn to maintain.

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Kinesen:

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Actions:

C13:

• Send one group to tame the Fire Elementals
• One group works in the Lumbermill, turning as much Wood as possible to Lumber
• One group gather food.
• One group maintain buildings.
B12:

• 2 groups gather food.
Spells:

• Use 2 mp to research the rest of Grilled and Crispy
• Store 5 mp in the Mana Storage.

[Journal of Matis the Explorer (on Schle Tuo: Month Three and Four)]
Day 25 of the Sap Moon:
The primary reports from the hunters indicates that the plains are a suitable place to settle on, so I have decided to move one group of the peasants and two of the Gifted Ones there.

Day 31 of the Sap Moon:
Oh heavens! Something terrible happened. One of the Gifted Ones that was to research Grilled and Crispy went rogue. I'm not entierly sure what happened but the advisors that was taking a break from the maintinance claims that this certain Gifted One was from the group that arrived at the end of the last moon. I tried to get more more information on what happened from these advisors but only words of Fire Elementals and that the other group of peasants now was Grilled and Crispy.

Day 1 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The hard days continues as the Rogue Gifted One finally burned herself out. The peasants really are lost and we spent most of the day burying them outside our camp. I fear for the other two groups that settled down on the plains northwest to us since one of the Gifted Ones I sent with them was from Schle Whan too. I'm starting to feel paranoid but I don't think I trust the new Gifted Ones at all, well, less than I trust the Gifted Ones I had with me.

Day 3 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The days are getting worse. With the accident still fresh in mind and with an untimingly rain falling down a new group came to the camp. I was to hold a meeting with this new group but made sure that any Gifted Ones should announce his or her pressence at once. There was one in the group as I thought. While I still wasn't paranoid enough to detain him without reasons I did let the advisors with most experience on Gifted Ones to evaluate him mentally and physically. They said it wouldn't take many days for a precise report.
The new group consist mainly of scouts, but they say they also have some experience in other fields, such as hunting and archery. This is good news since they say they spotted several Fire Elementals on their way to us. At that moment I made a connection between their report and with what the advisors was spouting the other day. What I thought was a fire spell that killed the peasants was now more likely done by the Fire Elementals, summoned by mistake of the Rogue Gifted One. I decided to take care of the danger at once with the help of the scouts and with luck hopefully capturing them, now with the rain hopefully weakening them.

Send one group in C13 to tame the Fire Elementals.

Day 5 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The menance with the Fire Elementals are still going on and the rain is getting stronger. If this keeps up we will end up sick and weaker until we all... Let us not dwell too much on it. We will need a real shelter of some kind but I have no idea where to start. With luck the carpenters might figure something out.

Day 6 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The report on the new Gifted One is promising, mentally stable and physically healthy if just a bit out of shape. I'm still a bit reluctant to let him start researching with the others so I will keep an eye on him and just let the other Gifted Ones do their job.

Continue to research Grilled and Crispy with 2 mp, and store 5 mp in the Mana Storage.

Day 7 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
I hope all is going well at the plains, I've yet to receive a report from them. Hopefully they are getting enough food from there without any problems.
On our side though the battle still continues between the scouts and Fire Elementals. While the rain do seem have a visible effect on the Fire Elementals the battle report also states that we are taking more casualties than they are. I hope to the heavens we will make this through.

2 groups from B12 gather food.

Day 8 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The carpenters have made a construction plan on a Simple House that would require some Lumber. While the Lumbermill can turn the Wood to Lumber we are not sure how much one group of workers can work with so we will just do what comes natural to us, we improvise.

One group in C13 works in the Lumbermill, turning as much Wood as possible to Lumber.

Day 12 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The rain stopped last night I think and the ground is starting to get really muddy. I don't think it would be smart to fish by the river right now since we can't predict a flash flood so we will have to gather from the vicinity instead. Hopefully the farmers will be getting something good.

One group in C13 gather food.

Day 16 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The Gifted Ones are finally done with researching Grilled and Crispy. With it we should be less reliant on gathering, hunting, fishing and farming, but I think I only will use it in emergencies only. Unfortunately I don't think they can start on a new research project right away so I will let them rest for now. The advisors won't be skipping on work though and with the Fire Elementals still raging around maintaining the Lumbermill is of great importance.     

One group in C13 maintain buildings.

Day 21 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
The battle between the scouts and the two last Fire Elementals are soon to end. We have taken a heavy blow and with the lack of rain now these last two Fire Elementals have been igniting things left and right. The smell of burned flesh is also heavy and it churns my stomach. Hopefully we can turn the tide in our favor of I will have extinguish the flames.
Our carpenters have been working days and nights at the Lumbermill and I hope for good news. The food gathering isn't going as well as I hoped. The advisors really are a handful of crybabies. A broken nail here, sunstroke there and spooked growls everywhere they are going.
That reminds me. We haven't had a visit from our harassing neighbors this moon, probably because of the Fire. I might figure a way to use this knowledge to my aid in the future. Too bad I haven't seen the feline beast this moon either. I might take a group with me to tame it some day.

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!-!Event!-! A freak snowstorm blankets B12, reducing workforce yields across that hex!

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Grilled and Crispy(9 mp from mana storage to cast) - Resource production, summons 0-4 food.

+4 to mana storage

The group sent to tame the fire elementals does it's best, but is unable to contain the creatures. The elementals rampage around the area, burning up 1 unit of stored wood. [-1 wood]

While one group works on keeping the lumber mill from decaying, another group carrys the logs into the mill and gets to work. [+4 lumber, -2 wood]

The last group of humans in the area goes into the jungle to gather food. They find a large field of berries, and bring back enough food for three groups. [+3 food]

Both of the groups in B12 work on pushing through the snow to gather food. Unfortunately the area seems picked over, they do however still manage to find enough to feed one group each. [+2 food]

Hunger turn!
B12: -2 food[III]
C13: -1food[-], -1food, -2food[II]

No population growth this month

Crystal deposits in C13 provide +1 mp
+3 points from creativity


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Race: Human
Magic: Fire
Abilities: bonus to new constructions, direct damage spell bonus
Weaknesses: negative on population strain or resistance, negative to building and resource spells.

Points: 14/14
B12: grassland, +forest, +coast
Pop: 2, Food: 0
Starting location: C13: grassland, +forest(jungle), +river, +coast, +crystal deposits, Fire Elemental Attack!!
Pop: 4, Food: 1[II]/3[III], Wood: 0, Lumber: 4, Lumbermill
Total Population: 6

Known Spells:

Ashes to Ashes (2 mp from mana storage to cast) - when cast produces 1-4 units of resources, at random: charcoal, ashes, soot.
Flame Whisp (3 mp from mana storage to cast) - produces 1 unit of Flame Whisps who act as a population unit with increased attack. Costs 2mp per turn to maintain.
Grilled and Crispy(9 mp from mana storage to cast) - Resource production, summons 0-4 food.

Mana Storage: 10
MP: 7

Options for Starting research:
Flame Arrow(3 pts) - Basic fire attack, limited damage, medium range.
Burning Loins(1 pts) - Increased population growth for next turn when cast
Liquid Stone(13 pts) - Resource production, melts stone away from large boulders into workable shapes, adding some stone to the resource stockpiles.
Lesser Flame Elemental(10 pt) - Fire summon, summons a large group of weak Flame Elementals as a population unit. Costs 2mp per turn to maintain.

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RNG:

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While fortune favors my children at home, the trials they face further out do not bend like to their will like the plants here do. If anything however, this has only strengthened their resolve to continue exploring and master the challenges they face. Perhaps we need to start looking for other ways to deal with the new and unexpected trials we come across. I should make sure that we are prepared for these challenges, and encourage them to continue, for even though the loss of my children hurts me greatly, the growth of their spirits that I see is a wonder in and of itself... I see now that this spirit is something I must foster and raise like my own children, for truly it is a part of them.

Research Blade of Grass
Cast Summon Daoine
Place 11 MP in storage
Put 10 MP towards spellpower.
H9:
One fawn collects wood from the groves.
One fawn trains the unicorns to be ridden and used as mounts, especially in battle.
One fawn studies magic. Not researching a spell, but sort of a meditation thing... attuning itself to the forest, basically.
One fawn maintains the groves
Daoine gather food from the groves.
G8:
One fawn creates a fruit plantation.
One fawn processes existing food.
One fawn gathers food.
One fawn gathers wood.
H10:
All fawns continue to try and calm the elementals down, and ally with them.

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Nothing special happens this month.

A group of random fae run out of the mushroom circle, they deposit 2 small crystal dewdrops at the nearest sleeping fawn's feet. [+2 mana]

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Blade of Grass(costs 1 mp from mana storage to cast)[1 grassland hex required] - blesses a unit to not be effected by negative events for one turn, like a reed bending in a storm.

You cast summon Daoine! The group of pointed hat sprites pop into existance in H9. They form ranks and salute in mock immitation of a battle group. [-4 mana]

+11 to mana storage

One fawn group goes and gathers wood from the forest in H9. [+3 wood]

The Unicorns attempt to train as mounts. however, the unicorns are not very agreeable, and the training dosen't hold just yet.

Another group of Fawns in H9 decide to study the ways of magic. However, lack of practice proves difficult to get hold to strange concepts.

Another fawn maintain the groves, while two(one AI) more gather food. One group manages to bring in 2 bushels of food, while the other brings back even more at three. [+5 food]

The Daoine also scatter into the forest, looking for edible items. Unfortunately the forest is pretty well picked over, they return with only a couple amounts of food. [+1 food, doubled by spell power to +2]

In G8 a group of fawns works on the food, processing and cooking it. However they are unexperienced cooks, and don't manage to produce any prepared meals.

Lacking new food to eat, a second group of fawns go gathering. They find enough to feed thee groups. [+3 food]

Another group looks for wood to build with. They find a windfall of fallen logs! [+4 wood]

Using some of the wood found by the last group, another group builds a fence and attempts to transplant fruit frees. However building isn't a skill the Sylvan are known for, and they don't seem to have the hang of it yet.

In H10, the first unit finally manages to tame the air elementals! [+1 air Elemental unit] Air Elementals make excellent scouts, being able to move 2 hexes at once, and fly over any terrain. No food requirement, but they do cost 5mp per turn to maintain(starts next turn).

[AI]The two remaining population gather food, since the elemental threat has been taken care of. Each brings in 2 bushels of food. [+4 food]

Hunger Turn!
G8 -4 food[II]
H9 -1 food, -4 food[II]
H10 -3 food[III]

Population growth:
Population boon in G8! +3 population.
+1 population in H9

Notice: Overcrowding in G8!

Daoine consume 1 mana in upkeep.
Groves in H9 produce 1 food
+1 points from creativity

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Race: Sylvan
Magic: Nature
Abilities: double magic production, Natural disaster spells
Weaknesses: 3 building per hex limit, terrain control requirement for spells

Points: 3/8
G8: hills, +forest, +coast, +spices
Pop: 7, Food: 3[II]/3[III], Wood: 4
Starting location: H9: grassland, +forest, +coast, +mushroom circle
Pop: 5, Animal Units: 1(unicorn), Magical Summons: 1(daoine), Food: 9[II]/8[III], Wood: 4, Groves: 3
H10: grassland, +forest, +coast,
Pop: 3, Magical Summons: 1(Air Elemental), Food: 1[III]
Total Pop: 15

Known Spells:

Blessing of Oak(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.
Blessing of Fin(6 mp from mana storage to cast)[1 coast required] - Asks the sea to provide fish for the caster, produces 1-4 food units.
Summon Daoine(4 mp from mana storage to cast)[1 mushroom circle required] - summons a pack of mischevious fae to count as a population unit, costs 1 mp per turn to maintain.
Blade of Grass(1 mp from mana storage to cast)[1 grassland hex required] - blesses a unit to not be effected by negative events for one turn, like a reed bending in a storm.

Mana Storage: 14
MP: 30

Options for Starting research:
Mother's Hair(13pt) - resource summon spell, asks plants for useful vines.
Summon Centaur(10pt)[1 hill hex required] - summons a herd of centaur as a population unit with increased ranged attack, costs 5 mp per turn to maintain.
Rain Dance(3pt)[1 coast required] - Basic Nature specific Spell, call upon the spirits of the clouds to increase rainfall on a target.
Changeling(10pt)[4 grassland hex required] - Magical Fae will transplant some children into your population from another civ at random.

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Armok:

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00: Attempt to construct a StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01 from the ore.
01: make cloth.
02: if 04 fiails, try to clear demonic ritual, otherwise try to colect rock
03: construct Wd-4wign-rec-01 out of wood.
04cw: Destroy the demonic ritual!
05r: collect more ore!
06I: help the construction of StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01.

Designs:
Wd-4wign-rec-01: A small golem consisting simply of a spearlike body with four large wings, a basic flying golem, optemized for speed and exploration, and not really able to manipullate physical objects at all. Closest it could get to that is raming stuff, althou that migth be rather effective considering it's sharp nose and extremly elongated profile, it is not it's main purpose.
StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01: A a facility just on the edge of a magma source protruding over it. It contains/is made of stationary golems in that the machinery bolted to the floors and walls have the enchantment and move on their own, and are designed to take advantage of this. Its main component is a huge blast forge using the heat from the magma to melt ores dumping the slag out of the facility to be taken away, and pumping the molten metal out throught pipes to other parts of the facility. It can melt most metals and alloys, producing either bars or coarse cast shapes. As it is automated, it requires no doors, windows, walkways, or safety distances most forges do, making it very compact compared to it's output, in fact there aren't really much walls at all, just tightly packed machinery.

I research living wall, and cast scouts twice, once at 2b and once at 3e. I boost each scout with two power. The rest of the MP go to mana.

Image1: Flying golem:

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!-!Event!-! Part of the mountain in D2 starts to move! Rampaging Earth Elementals are running around trying to destroy things. fortunately, your golems are able to avoid the slow heavy blows. For now at least.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Living wall(2mp from mana storage to cast, and 1 doll) - summons of unit of defensive puppets that will count as an immobile unit of population, requires 2pm per turn to maintain.

You cast Summon scout twice! Two long legged puppets begin to move and await instructions. [-4 mana] Note: the scouts appear at C2, and can normally only move 1 hex a turn, low level scout summon, higher levels will be able to scout further.

+2 mp into power, allows one scout to move an extra space.

+5 to mana storage

The first scout heads southwest into the desert of B2 and searches the area for anything interesting. However, nothing but endless dunes of sand meet the artifical eyes of the scout all the way to the sea.

The second scout, bolstered by the initial spell power, runs past the mountain in C2, heading into E3. There the hills reveal a field of magical poppies, your scout seems uneffected, but others would be put to magical sleep.

00 moves from C2 to D2 and attempts to build a StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01. The rough ore isn't the easiest thing to build with, however the industral golems manage to make do, and build the structure. [StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01 is a golem specific building, that will smelt an unlimited number of ore with only one unit action(to feed the ore into the machine), requires a volcano hex to work]

Since the building is constructed, 06I assists 05r in collecting more ore from the mountainside. 06I finds a full four units, while 05r finds a respectable three chunks. [+7 iron ore]

Back on the home hex, 04cw attempts to get rid of the Demoic ritual before it gets out of hand. And they succeed! The pentagram is broken, and whatever might have happened is finally averted.

02 decides then to work on finding stone resources, they don't manage to find much, but they do find some at least. [+1 stone]

Meanwhile, 03 attempts to create a flying golem body out of wood. And is successful! The Wd-4wign-rec-01, W01 for short, will be able to move 2 hexes at a time, and fly. However, it can only survey without further enhancements.

and finally, but not leastly, 01 finds a flat rock in the grasses to sit down and pull the flax leaves apart, processing them into useable threads. It even manages to produce more than the original leaves in thread, with two useable groups. [-1 flax leaves, +2 flax fiber]

+1 golem in D2 [-1 iron ore, -1 mana from storage]
+2 MP from ancient corpses
+3 points from creativity

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Race: Golem
Magic: Puppetry
Abilities: No food needed, bonus to summons, Telepathy[allows distance mana trading]
Weaknesses: magic and mateirals needed to increase population, dolls needed to cast spells

Points: 7/7
B1: grassland, +coast
Pop: 1(01), Flax Leaves: 0, Flax Fiber: 2
B2: desert, +coast
Pop: 0, Magical Summons: 1(scout)
Starting location: C2: cliffs, +coast, +ancient corpses
Pop: 3(02, 03, 04cw), Dolls: 0, Wood: 1, Ivory: 1, Stone: 1, Wd-4wign-rec-01 golem body
D2: mountain, +coast, +volcano, Earth Elemental Attack!
Pop: 4(00, 05r, 06I), Iron Ore: 7, StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01
E3: hills, +forest, +coast, +sleep poppies
Pop: 0, Magical Summons: 1(scout)
Total Pop: 8

Known Spells:

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.
Summon scout(2mp from mana storage to cast, and 1 doll) - this creates a unit of scouting puppets that count as a unit of population, requires 2mp per turn to maintain.
Living wall(2mp from mana storage to cast, and 1 doll) - summons of unit of defensive puppets that will count as an immobile unit of population, requires 2pm per turn to maintain.

Mana Storage: 7
MP: 10

Options for Starting research:
Summon strider(7pts)[2 doll] - this creates a unit of animal based puppets that count as a unit of population, requires 3mp per turn to maintain.
Burrower(3pts)[1 doll] - creates a small worm made from the doll that will burrow into the earth and return with a random earth based resource(rock, pebble, stone, ore)
Crunch n Munch(10pts)[2 doll] - a huge set of magical jaws will chew through a mountain lowering the mountain hex to a cliff square and providing much stone materials. (does not work on volcano tiles)
Puppet Fish(6pts)[2 doll] - summons of unit of fish puppets that will count as a water unit, requires 4pm per turn to maintain.

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Ed:

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Magic points: 10 into researching egg brood, 1 into mana


I move 3 of the units from H16 to H15, taking all the food on H16 with them. When they get there, they all build farms. The one unit left behind maintains the farms.

Similarly, I leave 1 unit on G15 to maintain the farms, while the rest move north to G14 and build more farms.

One of the units on G13 moves to G12 and builds a farm there. Another moves to H13 and builds a farm there (they each take a unit of food with them). The unit left on G13 maintains the farms there.



We have scoured every inch of this land, and it is certain - we are the greatest living creatures. We have the entire world to ourselves, one isolated place of glory in the endless oceans. We shall capitalise on that: every place in this land shall be settled, every place shall give up its life to sustain ours.

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Nothing special happens this month.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Egg Brood(10mp from mana storage to cast) - instills a massive breeding influx in a chosen unit, to aid in population growth.

+1 to mana storage

Three groups of Chot move from H16, leaving the remaining one to maintain the farm there in the grassland. Upon arriving in H15, the groups work on plowing more farms, the first and third both manage to make some, while the middle group runs into trouble with persistant grasses. [+3 farms]

Along the same lines, three groups head north to G14, leaving the group left behind to maintain the farms in G15. Like the last trio, one of the three fails to make any farms, but unlike the others, both groups in G14 manage to plow three usable fields. [+6 farms]

Leaving a unit to maintain the farms in G13, the first unit heads north with a unit of food further into the mountain and attempts to build some farms up there. The food is a good idea, since the harsh mountainside refuses to allow a plow.

Meanwhile the last unit in G13, takes a unit of food for itself, and moves northeast into H13. There, they also attempt to build farms.  This time more success is encoutered, they manage to plow two fields to useable plots. [+2 farms]

Farms produce food for the Chot. +3, +6, +3, +1, +3, +1, Total gain: 17

Hunger turn!
Your populus enjoys many freshly grown foods.

Population Growth:
+1 population in G12

+1 points from creativity

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Race: Chot
Magic: Regeneration
Abilities: can construct basic buildings without materials, bonus to healing spells
Weaknesses: half population growth, chance of spell misfire

Points: 10/10
Starting location: H14
G12: Mountain, +coast
Pop: 2, Food: 0
G13: Mountain, +coast, +volcano, +volcano ice dome
Pop: 2, Food: 2[III], Ice: 4, 6 farm
G14: Grassland, +coast,
Pop: 3, Food: 3[III], 6 farm
G15: Grassland, +coast, +forest
Pop: 1, Food: 2[II]/3[III], 3 farm
H13: Hills, +coast
Pop: 1, Food: 1[III], 2 farm
H15: Grassland, +coast
Pop: 3, Food: 2/1[II]/3[III],  3 farm
H16: Grassland, +forest, +coast
Pop: 1, Food: 0, 1 farm
Total Pop: 12


Known Spells:

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.
Summon Drone(2 mp from mana storage to cast) - summons a small spider unit by growing it from a chot, costs 2mp per turn to maintain.
Regenerate Meat(4mp from mana storage to cast) - Summons 1-4 units of food, as long as there is 1 unit of food currently in the hex.
Egg Brood(10mp from mana storage to cast) - instills a massive breeding influx in a chosen unit, to aid in population growth.

Mana Storage: 6
MP: 12

Options for Starting research(note, you can only research one spell at a time, surplus mp is then added to your Mana pool):
Stamina Enhance(13pt) - reinforces a target unit's work potential, increasing yield.
Wood Cancer(8pt) - resource spell, causes a tree to go into overdrive, growing a massive growth that is then collected for wood materials.
Minor Mutation(3pt) - Attack spell, cause a target unit to mutate and take damage from skin cancers.
Summon Weaver(9pt) - regen summon, a living clone of a Chot abdomen, these immobile units are able to only do one thing, produce web resources, costs 3mp per turn to maintain.

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100killer9:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Research Spoiled Rotten, cast termite strain
Unit in K8, mine gold
Creeper worms in K8, build creep in K7
Larvae in L8 attempt to become war animals
One unit in L8 tend the farms
A second unit attempts to build a lumber mill
A third unit, look for reflective materials
a fourth unit, work on a food storage building
a fifth and sixth unit, look for more larvae.
The Draati were worried. Nothing bad usually happened to them, but now medusas were attacking. They needed to react. They couldn't directly attack them, but Larvae might be able to. The new larvae were trained to fight. They might not look at the medusa, and thus might not be turned to stone. The Draati also mined gold in the hopes of using its reflective property to turn the medusas' powers against them.
More creep was made near the river. The farms were farmed. More larvae were being looked for. Life was going on normally with the exception of the Medusa attack. But then, Arthyl experienced a particularly bad headache. He hit his head to try and knock out the pain, and instead knocked out something else. The headache dissapeared, and Arthyl remembered pieces of what was happening. He remembered that the headaches were not natural, were meant to cause amnesia, and were caused by something. This wasn't much, but Arthyl ran and offered to knock out whatever was causing the fake headaches of those who wanted it. No one went insane, but no one could truly remember everything, usually only useless fragments of memories.

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nothing special happens this month.

Spell Research completes this turn! You learn a new spell!
Spoiled Rotten(7mp from mana storage to cast) - adds 1-2 duration months to a food item. May consume the food instead.

You cast Termite Strain. The little bugs swarm out of nothingness and head into the forest, eventually they return with a average yield of two full logs of wood, the termites eat one of them, but the other is gathered up by your population. [ +1 wood in L8, -2 mana ]

+1 to mana storage

The unit in K8 gathers up what gold it can with it's bare hands, bringing in a few solid nuggets. [+1 gold nugget]

The Creeper Worms move to K7 and spreads the creep.

The handlers of the Giant larvae in L8 attempt to train their beasts into war animals. However the fat sluggish creatures are less interested in fighting and more interested in eating.

The first group of Draati in L8, works on keeping the farms in working order.

The next group works on building a lumber mill. Failing miserably, the unit turns to try again, looking up straight into the face of the medusas. [-1 population]

The third unit searches desperately for something that is reflective to combat the medusa threat. They find a small cave with a few large quartz deposits, they grab up some crystaline rocks in the hopes that it will be enough. [+1 quartz]

The fourth group works on building a granary to store food. However again the logs make it difficult, at least this group survives.

The last two units look for more larvae to tame. Both units have a fair amount of success, increasing the Larvae count by 2.

Farms produce 4 food in L8

Hunger turn!
L8: -4 food, -4 food[II]
K7: The creeper worms disband due to lack of food.
K8: The group of Draati here manages to survive without starving.

Population Growth:
+1 population in L8
+1 population in K8

+2 points for creativity
Note: in game mechanics you don't need to have a reflective surface to tame or deal with the medusa, just have to have a successful roll on the attempt. It's good rp to try and make weapons to combat them though.

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Race: The Draati
Magic: Plague
Abilities: population limit increase on creep, spell power doubled on spells
Weaknesses: creep required to survive, backlash damage on spells

Points: 12/12
Starting location: L8: grassland, +forest, +coast, +blessed healers, +creep, Medusa Attack!
Pop: 6, Animal Units: 3(Giant Larvae), Food: 4[III], Wood: 6, Quartz: 1, 4 Farms
K7: grassland, +river, +coast, +creep
K8: mountain, +river, +gold, +creep
Pop: 2, Gold Nugget: 1
Total Pop: 8


Known Spells:

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)
Micro cure(1mp from mana storage to cast) - Plague Healing spell, heals minor damage and gives a bonus for one turn to resistance on a single population unit, may fail and cause a unit to take damage.
Common Cold(2mp from mana storage to cast) - will cause a target population unit to break down into sneezing and coughing, and otherwise paralyze it for one turn, may also effect nearby Draati units.
Spoiled Rotten(7mp from mana storage to cast) - adds 1-2 duration months to a food item. May consume the food instead.

Mana Storage: 12
MP: 8

Options for Starting research(note, you can only research one spell at a time, surplus mp is then added to your Mana pool):
Summon Locusts(4pts) - basic plague summon, will summon a cloud of insects that acts as a unit for the caster, costs 2 mp per turn to maintain
Lung Blast(9pts) - plague attack spell, will cause a target population unit to take damage from an airborn virus, May backlash on Draati units nearby.
Strengthen Heart(8pt) - Boosts the endurance of a target unit, allowing it to move 2 hexes this turn.
Stone Decay(12pts) - will turn a selected area to rubble, giving the caster some stone resources.

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Alrighty, new month, another hunger turn passed. Note the additions to mechanics, I did put a little change into the gathering system adding a change to amounts depending on the resource level of the hex.

New Map:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

eep! I hit the character limit. Well this should be interesting. I took out the mechanics changes for now, and will just hope you check the first post for additions.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Is next turn a hunger turn too? What about maintenance?

[Haika]

Is next turn a hunger turn too? What about maintenance?

Next turn is not a hunger turn, only the even ones. Since next turn is #5, no hunger issues, but #6 will have them, so could always plan ahead.

Maintenance is required every turn, 1 population unit per hex, however many buildings are there. Due to your particular building limitations, you might want to look into using tools more, or more magic, as you seem to be stockpiling plenty.

[KineseN]

I still seem to have Grilled and Crispy (2/9) on possible research options.

And bad luck for me getting hit by another disaster event, even if I was lucky enough to survive it.

[Haika]

I still seem to have Grilled and Crispy (2/9) on possible research options.

And bad luck for me getting hit by another disaster event, even if I was lucky enough to survive it.

Right, fixed now. also updated the MP that I forgot there. Let me know if you see anything else strange.

[KineseN]

Actions:

Spells:

• Research Burning Loins with one mp, storing 6 mp in the Mana Storage giving a total of 16 mana
• Summon a Flame Whisp at C12 with three mana and
• Summon a Flame Whisp at C13 with three mana using up a total of 6 mana from the Mana Storage, ending with a total of 10 mana.
C13:

• 2 groups work on two houses
• One maintain buildings
• One group and the Flame Whisp capture the Fire Elemental.
B12:

• One group gather materials
• One group tries to domesticate animals.
B11:

• The Flame Whisp scouts B10.

Spoiler: Journal of Matis the Explorer (on Schle Tuo: Month Four and Five) (click to show/hide)

Day 23 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
I think I approached the Fire Elemental situation in a wrong way. While we were lucky with only a few seriuos casualties the Fire Elementals found a way into our stockpile of Wood. They succseeded in burning a pile of Wood before the combined force of scouts, carpenters and advisors could repel them. The only way to make sure we can capture them is only if we can overwhelm them with numbers and fire power. The only way we could do this would be by summoning our own Flame Whisp. Talking with the Gifted Ones really gives me the willies, but what must be done has to be done. I asked them to to summon a Flame Whisp to help the scouts. They looked at me with eyes void of emotions but they did at least nod. Turning aroud they all gathered together and started to chant. Each word of power resonated with my very soul in a very uncomfortable way so I took my leave. Hopefully this will help.

Summon a Flame Whisp at C13 with three mana and have it and one group capture the Fire Elementals.

Day 26 of the Sprouting Grass Moon:
I finally had a visit from the hunters and peasants I sent last moon. The visitors clothes were in tatters, they were hungry and thirsty and their story almost as sad as ours. They had arrived at the north western plains which in reality was a grassland with idyllic forests all around. The peasants had began their work with farming almost imiedtly and the hunters scouted for useful resorces and game. Only that at mid-moon a sudden Snowstorm swept through the lands forcing the groups to gather food to survive. They were lucky enough to find enough food for all but the Snowstorm did take a few victims. While I couldn't help them personally I could still help them indirectly. I asked for the Gifted Ones again if they could summon a Flame Whisp to the grasslands and they nodded once again. This time one of them spoke. he said that this could work but that it might not work exactly as I had planned it. I didn't care. He nodded again and turned around. I left before they started their chanting.

Summon a Flame Whisp to B11 with three mana and let it scout B10.

Day 3 of the Corn Planting Moon:
The visitors has rested up and look much healthier now. They are to leave in two days with enough provisions to journey back. Hopefully they have an idea on what to do when they get back.
The builders finally had several stacks of fine Lumber to work with. Under their supervision the farmers worked hard to construct simple Houses for us. The advisors are still maintaining the Lumbermill and I've noticed that some of them are getting better at it. Less complains are coming from them too.

2 groups in C13 build Houses and one group maintain buildings.

Day 5 of the Corn Planting Moon:
The visitors are leaving today. I asked them of their plans and all I got was a shrug and a vague answer about wood and stone and some beast of burden. Hopefully it will work out for them. I should question the advisors some time if it would be possible for the Gifted Ones to comunicate over large distance and how they control summons. But I leave it for another day.

one group in B12 gather materials and one group in the same hex tries to domesticate animals.

Day 16 of the Corn Planting Moon:
The days has gone uneventfully. No suprises or even harassment from our friends the primates. I miss them. It's those remaining Fire Elementals fault. Can't even concentrate on the meeting. Advisors asking me if we are good to go. Yes, we are. Dissmissed.

Research Burning Loins with one MP.

Day 21 of the Corn Planting Moon:
I've felt lethargic this moon, it feels like as if my eyelids are hooked to weights and several boulders are resting on my sholders. I have no idea what is wrong with me right now but I need a long rest, one were I won't wake up from at all.

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Will fix spelling errors and such at a later time.

A question I have about boosting researchs, how does it work and how much do I gain from it? Say Liquid Stone (13pt). I use one group and use 7 mp and 5 mana? Or is it in a whole different way?

And If you wan't whenever you have some new game mechanics you introduce you could omit my journal and keep the actions, I wouldn't mind.

[Haika]

I've said this before a couple other times, but to different people.

Mana is for spell casting and magical upkeep only. You cannot put Mana into Power, or Research.

To be able to learn the higher level spells that will cost more and more as we go, you will have to take multiple turns to learn it. You say I want to put 5mp into research for <whatever>, and then I subtract that 5 from the total needed to learn the spell. If there's enough to learn it, you do, and the excess goes into the Mana reserve.

Hope that makes things a little better to understand.

[KineseN]

I've said this before a couple other times, but to different people.

Mana is for spell casting and magical upkeep only. You cannot put Mana into Power, or Research.

To be able to learn the higher level spells that will cost more and more as we go, you will have to take multiple turns to learn it. You say I want to put 5mp into research for <whatever>, and then I subtract that 5 from the total needed to learn the spell. If there's enough to learn it, you do, and the excess goes into the Mana reserve.

Hope that makes things a little better to understand.

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Spoiler: Actions (for a quicker find) (click to show/hide)

One group hunt for food. Two groups gather materials. One group research on Ashes to Ashes, the surplus are stored.

Might have a hard time to post tomorrow but I will do my best.

No worries on the posting. However, don't forget to choose where you want your mp to be split(research, power, or mana). also note that you don't need to have a unit specifically research a spell, unless you wish to boost the mp used for research(not needed at this low research costs, feel free to change that action)
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Aha, ok. Your earlier statement made me think it was possible to do so, but now I know.

[Faden]

6 pts go to research Summon Bunny!
2 Mana used to cast Hunting Charm, 2 pts used to boost the Charm.
5 pts go to Mana Storage

K13: 1 Maintains the granary.
Moose trains to gather wood, becoming a Lumber-Moose
Hungry Hunting Hippo moves to L13 and hunts

L13: 1 Group gathers materials (not wood)

L14: 1 moves to M15, taking 2 wood and building a granary.
1 uses wood to build a lumber mill
1 maintains the granary

L15: 1 searches for materials
1 maintains the granary

M15: 2 units hunt
1 unit gathers medicinal herbs.
1 unit moves to L15, taking 2 salves.
Survey-debeests move to L16 and survey the area

Last month was a hard one for the Dandy Lions. Many groups had neglected the traditionalist ways, building instead of hunting, and they had suffered for it. There was a resurgence of traditionalism on the Dandelion Plains, and an almost complete abandonment of Hippoism, and a mistrust of animals in general. After the death of the Gentle Gnu, they banished the Survey-debeests to the Sparkling Hills.

When they reached the Sparkling Hills, however, Frumplekins turned them away, unwilling to have the smelly beests anywhere near his settlement. They continued onward, into the Mountains of Almost Certain Death Via Hungry Wolves, also known as the Sunny Points.

Away from the homeland, however, Hippoism still flourished. In the Fluffy Forests, especially, where the great Hippos still hunted, the Lions felt safe from everything except their fellow Lions. The near starvation was difficult, certainly, but they had survived! A small group dedicated their efforts to building a shrine to the Hungry Hunting Hippos, complete with spinning blades. After only a few days, however, they became bored of the shrine and converted it to a more practical use.

[ed boy]

two of the units on H15 move to H14 and try to build farms there. They take two units of food with them. Similarly, two of the units on G14 move to G13 and build mines there. They also take two units of food with them. The two units on G12 build farms there. All the units that are by themselves on a tile maintain the farms there.
Magic: research minor mutation for 3 points. 9 points og into mana, taking me to 15. I spend 10 of these to cast egg brood, creating a new unit on G13, which then creates a mine there.

The sun dawns on a new land. Not long ago, our society lay clustered together, bound by our own limitations in a small corner of this land. We have since thrown off these shackles, and we have broken free. All the known world now lies under our dominion. Every place on this land strives for our glory. We shall expand our domain. The legends say that the domain of Guth'okto lies across the endless ocean. We shall bask in the glory of the great mother. Even the great waters shall serve our bidding.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

It seems that the Great Mother has blessed us after all. Despite our earlier misfortune, my children are thriving and doing better than ever. So much better, that they must leave these fertile grasslands in search of new places to live. I see barren peaks to the west, a harsh unforgiving wasteland that we couldn't possibly survive in... but to the south, those same peaks are covered by a new type of tree the likes of which I have never seen before! Clearly these trees must have adapted to their surroundings, to take root where others dare not... and we shall to the same. We must develop new tools and practice new skills to survive these lands, and with Mother's good fortune, we shall spread the bountiful forest to every corner of this land! Then my children can run and play anywhere they wish without fear, and still see all the wonderful things this world has to offer...

Truly, I wonder what is out there. We have barely left the grove, and I have already seen so much. I wonder what we will encounter... All this excitement brings back tales, legends from travelers who occasionally visited out glade many years ago told of Guardian Vines, sections of the forest that were alive and protected it from intruders. Myconids, creatures much like our own Dryads but formed from mushrooms instead of trees and vines, that live in mountain caves instead of the forest... possibly even Treants, living trees that have uprooted themselves and moved of there own free will! I may be alive, but I can not do that... at least, not yet. It seems that this inquisitive spirit of the fawns was worn off even onto me! Heheh...

Research Rain Dance.
Cast Summon Daoine.
Cast Blade of Grass on three fawns in G8.
Cast Blessing of Oak in G8.
Use 4 Spellpower of Blessing on Oak to obtain Sacred Oak.
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Two of the Blade of Grass fawns in G8 head south and survey the land.
the other Blade of Grass fawn in G8 takes three food(two II and one III, and he can last for three turns, right?) and heads northwest, also to survey the land.
Two fawns in G8 work on the fruit plantation.
One fawn in G8 takes a Sacred Oak to H9 and builds a Sacred Altar.
One fawn continues to try and process food.
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One fawn in H9 continues taming the unicorns.
Two fawns in H9 study magic, attuning themselves to the forest.
One fawn maintains the buildings.
One fawn creates bows and arrows out of the wood.
One Daoine collects food, and one maintains the groves.
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Two fawns try and learn magic from the Wind Elemental.
One fawn gathers food.
The Wind Elemental helps teach the fawns wind magic.

[Haika]

No worries on the posting. However, don't forget to choose where you want your mp to be split(research, power, or mana). also note that you don't need to have a unit specifically research a spell, unless you wish to boost the mp used for research(not needed at this low research costs, feel free to change that action)
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Aha, ok. Your earlier statement made me think it was possible to do so, but now I know.

The boost mentioned here would be having a population unit use the main action for the turn as helping research. Like a gather roll, you'd then have a chance of getting 0-4 more research points.

[Armok]

Still waiting for another batch of answers by PM, hopefully they will be more satisfactory.
Meanwhile, I guess I can try to type up a random spinet of RP or two, for a point or two:

These last 30 times have been ones of unparalleled productivity! So much has happened; magical creatures somewhat similar to golems have invaded, and although aggressive we hope to gain much from reverse engineering them. Of the two unit of scouts we utilized one discovered a sand dessert, meaning glass, surrounded by oceans that might act as natural defence. The other discovered something even better; a large forest, and a species of plant that according to the ancient memory can be used to produce latex, oils, and substances to alter the minds of organics!
We can also report that the attempts at thwarting the occult activities reported has been successful. Meanwhile, the Wd-4wign-rec-01 unit has been completed, although not yet animated.

Most importnant howerver, was the succses of the StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01! It's productivity exceeds all expectations! It was a huge success! This lesson learnt, these principles of mass production will be applied to many more processes! It is hard to overstate my satisfaction!
In fact, thinking abaut this almost seems to alter my cognition with stack overflows in many meters, it's making me allmost... rational? Almost... alive? No, error, fault at rune 5835C. allocated buffer, operating parameters renormalized.

Log: Times 90 To 120 Productivity Report Logging Caused Behavior Outside Opperating Parameters, Problem Localized And Fixed, Rebooting...

Edit: Ok, got those answers I wanted, so here's the turn:

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Golems:
00: Feed/maintain StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01.
01: dig a magma channel at b2 from c2
02: go to d2 and build a railway system
03: go to d2, use steel to build StatFac-metCrtFrg-auto-magma-01
04cw: try to disable the elementals, breaking them up and making them unable to do anything but hopefully leaving them intact enough that them magic stays and can be reverse engineered
05r: build magma channels to/on c2, also connecting b2 so all 3 tiles now have magma access.
06I: using steel from the StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01, make Rail-ArmCart-transp-01 golems.
07I: Using steel from the StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01, make DrlDig-RigWrm-mine-01 golems.

StatFac-melter-auto-magma-01-01d2: Produce steel from all the iron ore, in shapes suitable for this turns actions (so rails for the railway, etc.). (if making steel shuld for some reason fail, just make as high quality iron as possible and tasks that would use steel use that instead.)
Scout summon at 2b: if it can travel on the seabed, examine 3b, otherwise disband to save upkeep.
Scout summon at 3e: Explore 4f, and of possible 4e to.

Designs:
StatFac-metCrtFrg-auto-magma-01: A very similar design to the melter, a stationary structure full of tightly packed machinery with golem enhancement working on it's own, and usualy built adjustent to the melter with accses to magma and pipes of molten metal going straight from the melter to the forges. The task is slightly differnet: it takes alredy refined mettal, and there is machinery for molding it much finer, smithing it, cuting it, drawing it into threads, flatening it into cheats, pressing it, bending it, chiping it etc. etc. etc. in short making it into any shape or structure you can imagine, even with complex mechanical parts, or tempered and folded for greater durability.
Rail-ArmCart-transp-01: A rather simple golem, think a self propelled mine cart with a simple arm. These golems can ONLY move on special rails, and can do nothing but hauling materials (or occasionally the smaller varieties of golems, but that carries risks) around, but they are very very fast and good at doing that, much faster than any golem on foot.
DrlDig-RigWrm-mine-01: Another highly specialized golem, this one for mining. It is basically a single rigid cylinder, with a digging head in front (Not this kind, this kind) and outputting gravel and ore at the back for others to pick up. It cant move above ground, it cant even move throughout soft soil, it cant turn fast, and in general cant do anything at all but churn in a roughly straight line throughout rock and ore like it was nothing leaving behind a ugly scar of a tunnel and a ludicrous amount of material.

Magic:
I research burrower. (hopefully the replacing one will be something useful this time, something that sticks.) If posible to do after the first initial casting of the spell i put another two power into the scout at e3, the rest goes to mana.

[Faden]

Hey Haika, is it possible to tame large sea creatures from the coast, or do you have to get onto a blue tile first?