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[Knight Otu]

Spoiler: Skik's Vision (click to show/hide)

"The details of Algrathon's imprisonment."
The details of Algrathon's imprisonment? Imprisonment? Skik's sight swirls and rotates for quite a bit, and when her vision returns to normal, she sees scenes she had seen before. The claw and the eye, outside of the egg. The casual strike against fishes that drew too close by accident. The systematic destruction of the brainspawn, a potential foe, when they deliberately approached. The encouraging light of the chamber within the egg as Algrathon heals.

The egg isn't Algrathon's prison. It is his sanctuary.

The vision changes. Dull, blurry, indistinct. A creature that must be Algrathon, facing... a Haskanara? No, Skik realizes. It only appears as one because she is onlooking. A devastating strike from the "Haskanara"'s sword hits Algrathon, and he begins to disintegrate. Another scene change. The two creatures face each other again, but this time the other one is... gray, and Algrathon not quite healed, maybe. Another devastating strike reduces Algrathon to pretty much the state Skik saw him in. And then a ...wave. Many creatures are indiscriminately given the ability to get away from the Grey, and Algrathon seizes it.
A final change. Haskanara building something that Skik can't identify. Other creatures that look vaguely familiar. A possible future Skethorum creates something that would aid in imprisoning Algrathon? It seems that way. And overhead, the Haskanaran star shines brightly...

Spoiler: IronyOwl's Haskanara (click to show/hide)

The apartment complex is completed on schedule, though research has suffered for it a bit. The fourth legion returns with the news that the goblins are not interested in trading the worgs, as they call the wolf creatures. In fact, the relationship between the worgs and goblins seems less like one of domestication as first thought, but one of alliance.
The first legion meanwhile travels through a forest eastwards from Lactosia and to the great mountains of the north, as they find themselves surrounded by a small contingent of badly-armed, but apparently quite stealthy ratmen...

Clothing and jewelry created and provided to population.
Apartments completed
Integrated Excavations needs more research
Deep Fishing needs a bit more research
Tidal Mastery needs some more research
Fifth Legion trained

Taxation provides 16.5+5 money. Military requires 5 money in upkeep.
Received 2 Mushrooms in trade.

Morale is at 6. Population growth is 2%, adding 432 people.
Population is now at 22,071. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 2%)
24 labor units will be available next turn, with [7/10] in the excess labor pool.
22 food will be needed this turn. 2.3 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Warehouse: 2/20 wood, 3/20 wool, 6/20 Stone, 6/20 copper, 1/20 tin, 3/20 bronze, 1/20 silver, 1 leather armor, 4 Mushrooms, 3.3/20 Clothing, 1.7/20 silver jewelry
  Granary: 16/20 Food
  Treasury: 37

  Buildings:
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Docks
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Library
    Marketplace
    Military Workshop
    Mint
    Observatory
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Tombs

  Leaders:
    Astronomer Skik
    Explorer Skiin
      Special Ability: Master Archer
    Scientist Skan

  Military:
     Trained First Legion (Scouts) <A2/D2/R3[3/-]/H21/S3/M8/Ab:Far Shot>
     Trained Second Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>
     Trained Third Legion <A2/D2/R3[3/-]/H21/S3/M8/Ab:Far Shot>
     Trained Fourth Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>
     Trained Fifth Legion <A6/D5/H21/S3/M8>

  Technologies:
    Advanced Ship Construction
    Animal Training
    Archery
    Astral Magic
    Astral Theory
    Astronomy
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Deep Mining
    Engineering
    Farming
    Fishing
    Great Ship Construction
    Literacy
    Mechanics
    Metalcrafting
    Mining
    Museums
    Organized Religion
    Residential Planning
    Sailing
    Trade
    Tactics: Far Shot

Spoiler: Cheddarius's Lactosians (click to show/hide)

Airag manages to find just the right amount of powder to create some at least crude firearms that don't blast away the user's arms or explode into their faces. As work is done in the expansion of the fields and in quarrying, a large quantity of precious stone is found, ruby to be exact.
The Infantry, in checking the maps, decides to explore the forest between the northern and eastern mountain range, which turns out to give way to a plain again in the north-north-east. Seeing smoke in the distance, they carefully draw closer, and determine that there is a walled city under siege by large humanoids.

Jewelry created and provided to the populance.
Quarries on tile 6 and 1 completed, replacing irrigation. Resource found on tile 6- rubies.
3-Field farm on tile 9 completed.
Taxation provides 18 money. Military requires 2 money in upkeep
Firearms researched
Explosives need more research

Morale is at 9. Population growth is 6%, adding 1428 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus.
Population is now at 25,233. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 3%, Morale by -1.)
29 labor units will be available next turn, with [2/10] in the excess labor pool.
25 food will be needed this turn. 2.6 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Warehouse: 1/20 wood, 1/20 wool, 3/20 bstone, 4/20 Iron, 6/20 silver, 0/20 Strong Iron, 0.1/20 clothes, 1/20 silver jewelry
  Granary: 14 food
  Treasury: 60 money
  Herds: -

  Buildings:
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Heavy Smelter
    Library
    Marketplace
    Mechanic's Workshop
    Military Workshop
    Museum
    Music Hall
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Tombs

  Military
    Lactosian Infantry <A5/D5/H10/S3/M7/Ab:Shield Wall>
    Heavy Scouts <A7/D7/H22/S1/M7/Ab:->

  Leaders:
    Engineer Dr. Donlan
    Governor Cheddarius
      Special Ability: Hope for the future
    Sage Airag
      Special Ability: Librarian

  Technologies:
    Agriculture
    Alchemy
    Blast Powder
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Deep Mining
    Engineering
    Farming
    Firearms
    Horseback Riding
    Improved Agriculture
    Literacy
    Metalcrafting
    Metallurgy
    Mining
    Music
    Residential Planning
    Steelmaking
    Trade
    Tactics: Shield Wall

Firearms
  Allows Muskets (2 labor, 1 strong iron create 1 musket; better range and base attack than bows, no separate ammunition; Military workshop applies)

Spoiler: Vanigo's Eredor (click to show/hide)

The archers travel northwards to the merfolk settlement, and find them open to talks of trade. The merfolk are quite interested in building materials. Coral, they say, is rather susceptible and hard to work with. Gold piques their interest as well. They say that they can easily catch food and find pearls. They are not quite certain that they can provide the Eredor with special technological knowledge, but are confident that they can provide information about the coastlines.
The explorers to the south have some problems with a prolonged coastal storm that impedes their progress, but their exploration confirms the existence of a gulf in the region, bending back south-west, and of the large mountain range that seems to cover much of the land

2-Field Farm on tile 6 completed
Apartment Houses completed
School completed
Weaponry created
Clothing and Jewelry created and provided to population.
Taxation provides 18 money. Military requires 3 money in upkeep.
Horseback Riding researched
Organized Religion researched

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 5.5%, adding 1329 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus
Population is now at 25,510. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 1.5%.)
28 labor units will be available next turn, with [6/10] in the excess labor pool.
25 food will be needed this turn. 2.6 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Treasury: 40.5
  Granary: 15/20 food
  Warehouse: 1/20 wood, 2/20 gold, 0.8/20 Clothing, 0.7/20 Gold jewelry, 1/20 iron
  Herds: 1 badger

  Buildings
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Constructor's Guild
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Library
    Marketplace
    Mechanic's Workshop
    Military Workshop
    School
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Statue Park (10 statues)
    Tinkerer's Shop
    Tombs

  Military
    Trained Spearman Brigade <A5/D4/H17/S3/M7>
    Trained Pikemen <A5*/D2/H15/S3/M8>
    Trained First Archer Company <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H17/S3/M8>
    Second Archer Company <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H16/S3/M7>

  Caster units
    Constructor <5 mp>

  Leaders:
    Engineer Fret Rikend
    Sage Heron Redson

  Technologies:
    Agriculture
    Animal Taming
    Archery
    Basic Artifíce
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Construction Magic
    Deep Mining
    Earth Dowsing
    Education
    Engineering
    Farming
    Horseback Riding
    Literacy
    Metalcrafting
    Mining
    Organized Religion
    Sculpture
    Theory of Elemental Earth
    Trade

Spoiler: abculatter_2's Enlightened (click to show/hide)

The Shining City becomes lifelier in a dark way, as more elephant units are trained and more children than ever are born. Yet, everything seems to revolve around one thing...

Clothing and jewelry created and provided to populance
Truths Unknowable needs more research.
Taxation provides 12 money. Military requires 8 money in upkeep.

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 4%, adding 675 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus.
Population is now at 17,567. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 2%.)
19 labor units will be available next turn, with [6/10] in the excess labor pool.
17 food will be needed this turn. 1.8 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Treasury: 33 money
  Granary: 13 food
  Warehouse: 17/20 wool, 7 stone, 1 gold, 2.3 clothing, 0.6 gold jewelry
  Herds: .5 elephants, 1 firedancer

  Buildings
    Clothier's Workshop
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Idols of the Unknown
    Library
    Marketplace
    Military School
    Military Workshop
    Palisade on City Hex
    Shrine
    Temple

  Military
    Trained Obsidian's Call (A6/D4/H11/S3/M7/Ab:-) (Wooden spears with obsidian, wooden shields)
    Trained Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H21/S3/M9/Ab:-)
    Trained Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H21/S3/M9/Ab:-)
    Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H20/S3/M8/Ab:-)
    Ornate Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H22/S3/M8/Ab:-)
    Trained Unveilers (A6/D4/H11/S3/M7/Ab:-) (Wooden spears with obsidian, wooden shields)

  Leaders:
    General
    High Priest -The Chosen One-

  Technologies:
    Animal Training
    Beast Taming
    Blessing of the Unknown
    Construction
    Engineering
    Enlightenment (Unique; Prerequisite for magical technologies)
    Landscape Stripping
    Literacy
    Mining
    Organized Religion
    The Shallow of the Unknown
    Trade

[Cheddarius]

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

Spend 10 money to get 1 more labor point: 30 labor available

30 labor left, 14 food, 4 iron, 1 wool, 3 stone, 6 silver, 1 wood, 0.1 clothes, 1.0 silver jewelry

Work tile 2: 6 food
Work tile 3: 6 food
Work tile 7: 1 food, 2 wool
Work tile 9: 5 food
Work tile 12: 6 food
Work tile 16: 1 stone, 2 silver
Work tile 18: 1 food, 1 stone, 2 iron
Trade for 3 gold from giants: 3 gold, -3 iron

23 labor left, 39 food, 3 iron, 3 wool, 5 stone, 3 gold, 8 silver, 1 wood, 0.1 clothes, 1.0 silver jewelry

Build Pasture in tile 6: 1 wood, 3 labor
Build Two-Field Farm in tile 10: 4 labor
Build Three-Field Farm in tile 10: 3 labor
Total labor: 10. With Mechanic's Workshop: 8 labor, 1 wood

5 research Education
3 research Explosives

1.5 make 3 clothes: 3 wool
3.5 make 3.5 silver jewelry: 3.5 silver
3 make 3 gold jewelry: 3 gold

Heavy Scouts defend Great Lactosia
Lactosian Infantry head to the Haskanaran city, then head southwest if they have enough time, searching for a city of cultists rumored to be there, and rumored to have riches of gold and elephants.

0 labor left, 39 food, 3 iron, 5 stone, 4.5 silver, 3.1 clothes, 4.5 silver jewelry, 3 gold jewelry

Use 25 food to feed populace
Use 2.6 clothes to raise morale
Use 2.6 silver jewelry to raise morale
Use 2.6 gold jewelry to raise morale
Use 2 spirituality and 3 food to raise morale

0 labor left, 11 food, 3 iron, 5 stone, 4.5 silver, 0.5 clothes, 1.9 silver jewelry, 0.4 gold jewelry

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

The Lactosians were overjoyed by the discovery of rubies in the Far Pastures, but even better was the discovery of the giants' civilization. Cheap iron from the mines could be sold to them for a profit of gold; they needed military equipment desperately to supply their soldiers. And the Lactosians needed gold desperately; the population expansion, even with the apartments, had caused morale and immigration to drop. Gold jewelry was purchased to raise morale, and a pasture was built, to supply wool for clothing for the same purpose. Ruby jewelry would be useful, but gold jewelry was slightly more efficient, and so the Deep Mine was delayed.

Meanwhile, a new Three-Field Farm was built, and a granary was planned for the next year, if there was extra labor. The Lactosians' technologies allowed them to build many more farms and thus feast on surplus food, raising morale even more. However, this would require more farms, and more food storage.

The new Music Hall, along with a large influx in immigration, had boosted production by the equivalent of four thousand men. Even with this new labor, there was a small shortage. The new population required a large quantity of food. Luxury resources consumed labor in production and gathering. Much work was needed for the new buildings, and a large quantity of labor was also needed for research. In the end, the granary was depleted to let all the projects be completed while also keeping the population's accustomed level of luxury the same, in order to save labor operating the music hall.

Airag's crew of eight thousand worked hard to finish the new explosives, and also to create blueprints for a school that would make research much faster. Airag had theorized about a way to attach the gunpowder to the bullet itself in order to make loading faster, and to stabilize the bullet in order to improve accuracy, but these would have to wait until next year or later, as would construction of a school and perhaps an alchemist's workshop.

Spoiler: Lactosian Canon (click to show/hide)

The city is called Great Lactosia.
The citizens are called Lactosians.

One Lactosian mass unit - that is, unit of wood, stone, metal, food, or other heavy substance - is called a "wheel".

The river is called the Stilton River.
The mountains at 16-18 are the Hills of Iron.
The forest at 4, 5, 14, 15 is the Southern Woods.
The plains are called the Bountiful Plains.
The hills are called the Far Pastures.

Lactosian Infantry is led by Commander Asiago.
Heavy Scouts is led by Commander Gjetost.


Efficiencies:
Rubies and strong Iron/steel traded for gold: 3 labor, 2 lux
Iron for gold: 3 labor, 2 lux + 1 stone
Clothing: 2 labor, 2 lux + 1 food
Food: 2 labor, 2 lux
Silver: 2 labor, 2 lux

[Vanigo]

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

"Quit wasting time hauling that stuff by hand and get some wheelbarrows, you idiot! And get someone over here to smooth the floor while you're at it!"
"No, stop! The cavern floor around the altar must be unworked stone!"
"All right, get some planks to put down around here then."
"No! Wood is only allowed in the surface portions of the temple! Roots are good for soil, but the enemy of timeless stone!"
"What, you want us to haul that huge altar down here on this damp, uneven floor? How many broken ankles do you want with that?"
This was Fret and Terrek's fourth argument of the day. Construction of the temple was not going smoothly.


"Gonna be a real pain getting these wagons over the mountains."
"Yeah, but we got a workable route. Not good, but workable. And the badgers will help a lot."
Lian Knockrun, a gnomish merchant, was preparing to take a caravan north to trade with the merfolk. The fact that a fairly significant mountain range was in the way was, in her mind, a minor issue. There was stone and wood to be sold, and pearls to be bought, and, by god, she was going to do it. Cavon Predrian, her partner, was less sanguine. Or perhaps more realistic. It depended on who you asked.
"Oh, I didn't say we can't do it. We can. I'm just saying we're gonna hate ourselves for doing it. 'Till we get there, anyway."
"Bah. It'll be worth it. You'll see."
"Probably. I'm coming along, aren't I? Don't kid yourself about how hard it's going to be, though. Wish we could do it with just pack badgers; that wouldn't be too bad."
"Can't haul stone without wagons; you know that."
"I know it. I just don't like it."
"Baby."

Five weeks later, the caravan was mostly stopped at a dried-out river bed that was far too soft and uneven for the wagons. Mostly, because Cavon and Lian, along with the rest of the caravan, were busy trying to disassemble the wagons, carry the pieces across, and put them back together on the other side.
"Dammit, Cavon, how did I let you talk me into this?"

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend 2 badgers for 1 labor
29 labor available

5) Work 4, 5, 6, 14, 15 (20 food)
2) Work 1, 18 (3 food, 2 gold, 3 wool, 1 stone, 1 badgers)
1) Work 8 (2 stone, 2 iron)
1) Work 13 (2 food, 1 wood)
1) Work 7 (1 food, 2 stone)
1) Work 3 (1 food, 2 wood)
Cast Mage's Mine for 1 gold
27 food, 5 stone, 3 wood, 3 wool, 3 gold, 2 iron, 1 badgers

5) Research mechanics, improved agriculture, cartography
(Cartography should be pretty self-explanatory, I hope. Maybe throw in a bonus to exploration and/or locating resources.)
Spend 8 gold for +50% research

8 labor->11 construction
2) Build stables (-2 wood)
4) Build temple (-4 stone, -4 money)
4) Build two-field farms on 15
1) Start two-field farms on 4

1) Make clothing (-2 wool, +2 clothing)
1) Make gold jewelry (-2 gold, +2 jewelry)

3) Train constructors (-2 gold)

Trade 1 stone, 2 wood for 2 pearls

1st Archers patrol and explore north mountain range
Spearmen explore east
2nd archers train

Use 2.6 clothing, 2.6 jewelry, 2 spirituality, 1 entertainment for luxury

+2 food, -1 wood, -1 gold, +2 iron, +1 wool, -.6 clothing, -.6 jewelry, -1 badgers (+2 pearls, or is that next turn?)

[IronyOwl]

Haskanara, Year 20

Spoiler: Outrage (click to show/hide)

  Skiin was furious. Skan had seen him frustrated, but Skiin didn't get angry over very much.
  "Nobody attacks the Legions," he growled, "I want them enslaved."
  Skan was somewhat taken aback.
  "You didn't react this way when the brainspawn attacked. Why now?"
  "The brainspawn are monsters. We can kill them or we can ignore them. The ratmen are masquerading as people. They had weapons, they had organization, and they surprised me when I wanted to talk. Now we're going to send a response."
  Skan sighed, considering the matter. Attacking the Legions was no small matter, certainly, but he was concerned about the repercussions.
  "What if they're small tribes? You might have-"
  "Do you really believe that?" Skiin interrupted abruptly.
  Skan was again taken aback. Normally Skiin wasn't so blunt.
  "I don't know, but we can't let anger get the better of us, Skiin. If there's a chance things aren't what they seem, we need to consider that chance, even if we ultimately ignore it."
  "Then we'll find out how organized they are, won't we?" This time Skiin was calmer, his words less an ultimatum and more a statement. Skan paused a moment.
  "I suppose that's true," he said reluctantly. Their fourth contact with another race was going poorly.
  Still, Skan thought, if they wanted war they'd get war. He hated to admit it, but Skiin's campaign against the ratmen would likely be very informative, and he was right that an attack like that couldn't just be ignored.
  He sighed wistfully, thinking of the ship they wouldn't be able to build for years. Someday things would be calmer, and they would be able to focus on more noble endeavors, like exploring the seas. Until then, when war beckoned, the Haskanara would march.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend 10 Money for 1 Labor
1) Work Tile 1 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
2) Work Tile 2 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
3) Work Tile 5 - Forest/Woodcutting Village = 1 Food, 2 Wood
4) Work Tile 6 - Hills/Silver/Mine = 1 Food, 1 Wool, 1 Silver
5) Work Tile 7 - Plains/River/Irrigation = 5 Food
6) Work Tile 8 - Mountain/Copper/Deep Mine/Windmill = 2 Stone, 2 Copper
7) Work Tile 10 - Ocean/Wharf = 3 Food
8 ) Work Tile 16 - Forest/Hunter's Camp = 1 Food, 1 Wood, 1 Leather
9) Work Tile 17 - Hills/Tin/Mine = 1 Food, 1 Wool, 1 Tin
Subtotals: 22 Food, 3 Wood, 2 Stone, 2 Wool, 1 Leather, 2 Copper, 1 Silver, 1 Tin

10,11) Build Hunter's Camp on Tile 15 - Forest (-2 Wood, ready for next turn)

12,13,14,15) Build Temple (-4 Stone, ready for next turn)

16) Make Bronze Scimitars (-1 Bronze, +1 Bronze Scimitars)
17) Make Bronze Shields (-1 Bronze, +1 Bronze Shield)

18,19) Make Clothing (-4 Wool, +4 Clothing)
20) Make Silver Jewelry (-1 Silver, +1 Silver Jewelry)

21,22,23) Research Integrated Excavations

24) Research Deep Fishing

25,*) Research Tidal Mastery

*: Skik's Research

Skik casts Vision from the Stars: "Possible allies and servants of Skethorum."

The First Legion returns to Skethorum, rests, and travels with the Fifth Legion back to where the ratmen were encountered. They proceed to sweep the area, aggressively searching for ratmen to battle. Their first priority is to fight ratmen, with taking prisoners being a nice bonus and killing them being a side effect of fighting them. They sweep anywhere they think ratmen might be, but their ideal target is finding some sort of village or warren. They're willing to talk to any ratmen that want to, but they'd best make this clear quickly. The Legions are done with diplomacy.

The Third Legion will escort the mushroom shipment, as well as bringing a unit of clothing to exchange for more mushrooms.

The Fifth Legion will travel with the First Legion, providing valuable support in melee.


Raise Sixth Legion using Flexible Heavy Bronze Armor, Bronze Scimitars, Bronze Shields


Taxation provides 16.5+5 Money.
Military requires 5 Money in upkeep.
Labor costs 10 Labor.

Net Gain: 6.5 Money

Luxury Needed: 2.3
Luxury Produced:
2.3 Clothing
2.0 Spirituality + 0.3 Silver Jewelry
2.3 Mushrooms
(+3 Morale)

Food Produced: 22
Food Consumed: 22

Receive 3 Mushrooms in trade. Lose 1 Clothing in trade.

Warehouse: 3/20 Wood, 4/20 Stone, 1/20 Wool, 1/20 Leather, 8/20 Copper, 2/20 Tin, 1/20 Bronze, 1/20 Silver, 1 leather armor, 4.7 Mushrooms, 4/20 Clothing, 2.4/20 Silver Jewelry
Granary: 16/20 Food
Treasury: 43.5

[abculatter_2]

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

The Chosen one stared outward. Before him, the amber fields of his childhood were near-motionless in the dim, silvery light of a half-moon. Of the army of hundreds which lay before him, only the occasional involuntary movement betrayed their prescence. Not a single sound could be heard in the thickness of night.

Suddenly, like a blinding flash cast upon the pitch dark, He spoke,
"This, is the first step. The beginning of paradise's awakening, of the eternal bliss of the Unknown. This, too, is our first plunge into the darkness of uncertainty, for indeed, neither the Blessed of the temples, nor I or any of the Exalted, nor even the Great Unknown One himself can see any more then a hazy shadow in this path of the future. There will be death, that much can we unveil, the path will seem hard and fruitless, our efforts futile, but we must, neigh, we SHALL prevail! We are the chosen of the Unknown! His blessings course through the veins of us all, his silent heart beats its fire into our souls, and ours alone, for we are the ones destined to bring forth his vision! We are the bringers of paradise eternal, the harbingers of a halcyon so bountiful that gods shall bow to its beauty and splendor!"

And again, the night grew quiet and thick as the army marched with a fiery fervor toward lands unknown.

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

1) Work hex 1 (3 food, 1 wool)
2) Work hex 2 (4 food)
3) Work hex 3 (4 food)
4) Work hex 4 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 gold)
5) Work hex 9 (2 food, .5 elephants)
6) Work hex 12 (3 food, 1 wool)
7) Work hex 14 (3 stone)
Work hex 15 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 iron)

+18 food, +4 wool, +3 stone, +.5 elephants, +1 gold, +1 iron

9) Make clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)
10) Make clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)
11) Research (Truths Unknowable)
12) Research (Truths Unknowble)
13) Researh (Truths Unknowable)
14) Reserch  (Truths Unknowable)
15) Make gold jewlry (-1 gold, +1 jewlery)
16) Make Blessed Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)
17) Make Blessed Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)
18) Make Blessed Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)
19) Make Blessed Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)

All elephants plus the Unveilers move north-east, toward the city of the crab-men, lead by the Chosen One advised by his General (both attachted to the Ornate Spear Elephants). Bring two Blessed Obsidian.

[Knight Otu]

(Turn includes very basic area maps.
For the future, please remember that trade goods only appear in the next turn. I let this go through to not delay the turn even more.
In addition, note this excerpt from the rules: "If you have more than three luxury goods, further bonuses become harder to get; each additional point of morale takes two different resources.")

Spoiler: Skik's Vision (click to show/hide)

"Possible allies and servants of Skethorum."
Possible allies and servants of Skethorum.? Who might they be? Skik sees again a scene she recognizes, the one with the Lactosians, the giants and dwarves, and other people populating this world... except a few of them are missing or somewhat transparent. The ratmen, very transparent. The Lactosians, quite visible, maybe somewhat transparent, but their darker-skinned brethren, nowhere to be found.

Spoiler: IronyOwl's Haskanara (click to show/hide)

The First and Fifth Legion return to the place of the ratmen battle, but only find the remains of the battle, and no signs of ratmen settlement.
The goblins caution the Haskanara that they can't easily trade 3 units of mushrooms a turn, and they don't want to dig into their stocks too much.

Random event - Technological Breakthrough! Sea Farming researched!
Clothing and jewelry created and provided to population.
Hunter's Camp on tile 15 completed.
Temple completed
Integrated Excavations Researched
Deep Fishing Researched
Tidal Mastery Researched
Sixth Legion raised

Taxation provides 16.5+5 money. Military requires 5 money in upkeep.
Received 3 Mushrooms in trade.

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 4%, adding 432 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus
Population is now at 22,953. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 2%)
27 labor units will be available next turn, with [7/10] in the excess labor pool.
23 food will be needed this turn. 2.3 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Warehouse: 3/20 wood, 1/20 wool, 4/20 Stone, 1/20 leather, 8/20 copper, 2/20 tin, 1/20 bronze, 1/20 silver, 1 leather armor, 4.7 Mushrooms, 4/20 Clothing, 2.4/20 silver jewelry
  Granary: 16/20 Food
  Treasury: 43.5

  Buildings:
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Docks
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Library
    Marketplace
    Military Workshop
    Mint
    Observatory
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Temple
    Tombs

  Leaders:
    Astronomer Skik
    Explorer Skiin
      Special Ability: Master Archer
    Scientist Skan

  Military:
     Trained First Legion (Scouts) <A2/D2/R3[3/-]/H17(21)/S3/M8/Ab:Far Shot>
     Trained Second Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>
     Trained Third Legion <A2/D2/R3[3/-]/H21/S3/M8/Ab:Far Shot>
     Trained Fourth Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>
     Trained Fifth Legion <A6/D5/H21/S3/M8>
     Sixth Legion <A6/D5/H22/S2/M6>

  Technologies:
    Advanced Ship Construction
    Animal Training
    Archery
    Astral Magic
    Astral Theory
    Astronomy
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Deep Fishing
    Deep Mining
    Engineering
    Farming
    Fishing
    Great Ship Construction
    Integrated Excavations
    Literacy
    Mechanics
    Metalcrafting
    Mining
    Museums
    Organized Religion
    Residential Planning
    Sailing
    Sea Farming
    Tidal Mastery
    Trade
    Tactics: Far Shot


Deep Fishing
  Requires Fishing, Metalcrafting
  Allows Deep Fisheries

Deep Fishery
  Requires Fishing
  Ocean/Lake
  2 wood, 2 labor
  +1 food


Integrated Excavations
  Requires Deep Mining, Mechanics
  Allows mines and quarries to stack. Whichever improvement is built second costs an additional 2 labor.


Sea Farming
  Requires Deep Fishing
  Allows Sea Farms

Sea Farms
  Ocean/Lake
  Requires special resource present
  1 wood, 3 labor
  +1 of the special resource
 

Tidal Mastery
  Allows Sailor's Friend, Tidecraft

Sailor's Friend
  1 mp
  The ship transporting the caster gets +2 speed this turn.

Tidecraft
  4 mp
  Cast when working a lake or ocean tile with a special resource, this spell adds another 1 unit of that resource.

Spoiler: Cheddarius' Lactosians (click to show/hide)

Asiago leads the infantry to where rumors say lies the city of gold and elephanta. At least, some of the way. Reaching the point where the coast bends southwards, the Lactosians see a large army of elephants and spearmen approaching. Some parts of the rumor certainly are true, then.

Random Event - Technological Breakthrough! Mechanics researched!
Clothing and Jewelry created and provided to the populance.
Pasture on tile 1 completed, replacing quarry (I am assuming here that you do not want to pasture your rubies)
3-Field farm on tile 10 completed.
Taxation provides 19.5 money. Military requires 2 money in upkeep
Explosives Researched
Education researched

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 4%, adding 1009 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus.
Population is now at 26,242. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 3%, Morale by -1.)
29 labor units will be available next turn, with [4/10] in the excess labor pool.
26 food will be needed this turn. 2.7 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Warehouse: 5/20 stone, 3/20 Iron, 4.5/20 silver, 0/20 Strong Iron, 0.5/20 clothes, 1.9/20 silver jewelry, 2.4/20 gold jewelry
  Granary: 14 food
  Treasury: 69.5 money
  Herds: -

  Buildings:
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Heavy Smelter
    Library
    Marketplace
    Mechanic's Workshop
    Military Workshop
    Museum
    Music Hall
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Tombs

  Military
    Lactosian Infantry <A5/D5/H10/S3/M7/Ab:Shield Wall>
    Heavy Scouts <A7/D7/H22/S1/M7/Ab:->

  Leaders:
    Engineer Dr. Donlan
    Governor Cheddarius
      Special Ability: Hope for the future
    Sage Airag
      Special Ability: Librarian

  Technologies:
    Agriculture
    Alchemy
    Blast Powder
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Deep Mining
    Education
    Engineering
    Explosives
    Farming
    Firearms
    Horseback Riding
    Improved Agriculture
    Literacy
    Mechanics
    Metalcrafting
    Metallurgy
    Mining
    Music
    Residential Planning
    Steelmaking
    Trade
    Tactics: Shield Wall

Explosives
  Allows Bombs (1 labor, stone, 1 strong iron create 1 bomb; strong area damage, but must set in advance to avoid damaging own troop)
  Mines, deep mines, quarries, and great quarries cost 1 labor less to build, but provide lower chance to find resources if built this way.

Spoiler: Vanigo's Eredor (click to show/hide)

The first archers explore the mountains to the north and scout out some convenient passes for the wagons to move through, finding no particular enemies.
The spearmen travel east and find a large-ish forest hugging the eastern mountain range on the northern portions, while also meeting a rag-tag band of dwarven refugees, about 900 souls large. Their miners accidentally dug into a dragon's cave, they say, and now they are trying to settle a new home. Hearing about Rennad, they decide to move there.

Random Event: 900 Immigrants
2-Field Farm on tile 15 completed
2-Field Farm on tile 4 needs 3 more labor
Stables completed
Temple completed
Clothing and Jewelry created and provided to population.
Taxation provides 19.5 money. Military requires 4 money in upkeep.
Mechanics researched
Improved Agriculture needs some more research
Received 2 pearls in trade.

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 5.5%, adding 1403 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus
Population is now at 27,813. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 1.5%.)
31 labor units will be available next turn, with [4/10] in the excess labor pool.
28 food will be needed this turn. 2.8 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Treasury: 48
  Granary: 15/20 food
  Warehouse: 1/20 gold, 0.2/20 Clothing, 0.1/20 Gold jewelry, 2/20 iron, 2/20 pearls
  Herds: -

  Buildings
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Constructor's Guild
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Library
    Marketplace
    Mechanic's Workshop
    Military Workshop
    School
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Stables
    Statue Park (10 statues)
    Temple
    Tinkerer's Shop
    Tombs

  Military
    Trained Spearman Brigade <A5/D4/H17/S3/M7>
    Trained Pikemen <A5*/D2/H15/S3/M8>
    Trained First Archer Company <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H17/S3/M8>
    Trained Second Archer Company <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H17/S3/M8>

  Caster units
    First Constructor <5 mp>
    Second Constructor <5 mp>

  Leaders:
    Engineer Fret Rikend
    Sage Heron Redson

  Technologies:
    Agriculture
    Animal Taming
    Archery
    Basic Artifíce
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Construction Magic
    Deep Mining
    Earth Dowsing
    Education
    Engineering
    Farming
    Horseback Riding
    Literacy
    Metalcrafting
    Mining
    Organized Religion
    Sculpture
    Theory of Elemental Earth
    Trade

Spoiler: abculatter_2's Enlightened (click to show/hide)

Taking the majority of troops out of the city, the nameless general finds that the paths taken by the small troop of Unveilers aren't quite well navigable for a full army of elephants, yet still manages to make it to the place of the shore where the coast bends eastwards. There, the general sees a small group of well-equipped warriors - humans, not crabs - that may ne an expeditionary force.

Clothing created and provided to populance
Truths Unknowable researched.
Taxation provides 13.5 money. Military requires 14 money in upkeep.

Morale is at 7. Population growth is 3%, adding 527 people.
Population is now at 18,094. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 2%.)
18 labor units will be available next turn, with [7/10] in the excess labor pool.
18 food will be needed this turn. 1.9 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Treasury: 33.5 money
  Granary: 16 food
  Warehouse: 17/20 wool, 6 stone, 1 gold, 1 moonlit iron, 4.5 clothing, 1.6 gold jewelry, 2/20 blessed obsidian
  Herds: 1 elephants, 1 firedancer

  Buildings
    Clothier's Workshop
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Idols of the Unknown
    Library
    Marketplace
    Military School
    Military Workshop
    Palisade on City Hex
    Shrine
    Temple

  Military
    Trained Obsidian's Call (A6/D4/H11/S3/M7/Ab:-) (Wooden spears with obsidian, wooden shields)

  Away
    Trained Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H21/S3/M9/Ab:-)
    Trained Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H21/S3/M9/Ab:-)
    Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H20/S3/M8/Ab:-)
    Ornate Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H22/S3/M8/Ab:-)
    Trained Unveilers (A6/D4/H11/S3/M7/Ab:-) (Wooden spears with obsidian, wooden shields)
    2 blessed obsidian

  Leaders:
    General
    High Priest -The Chosen One-

  Technologies:
    Animal Training
    Beast Taming
    Blessing of the Unknown
    Construction
    Engineering
    Enlightenment (Unique; Prerequisite for magical technologies)
    Landscape Stripping
    Literacy
    Mining
    Organized Religion
    The Shallow of the Unknown
    Trade
    Truths Unknowable


Truths Unknowable
  If I tell you, they are no longer unknowble, are they?

  ...

  Allows Blessing of Blood, Anoint Blood Revelers

Blessing of Blood
  2 mp
  When cast on a combat unit in the same battle, allows that unit to sacrifice 6 health for a +1 magic bonus to morale and attack.
  Bonuses of the same name don't stack

Anoint Blood Revelers
  4 mp
  This spell can't be cast while any unit has the Blood Reveler ability.
  Must be cast on a unit in a city with a temple.
  The unit gains the Blood Reveler ability. When reduced to half health, it gets +1 to attack and defense. If any other unit in the same battle is reduced to half health or less, the blood revelers get a +1 bonus to attack and defense.

[abculatter_2]

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

1) Work hex 1 (3 food, 1 wool)
2) Work hex 2 (4 food)
3) Work hex 3 (4 food)
4) Work hex 4 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 gold)
5) Work hex 8 (2 food, .5 elephants)
6) Work hex 11 (3 food, 1 wool)
7) Work hex 13 (3 stone)
Work hex 14 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 iron)
9) Work hex 5 (2 food, 1 fire dancers)

+ 20 food, +4 wool, +1 gold, +1 iron, +3 stone, +1 fire dancers, +.5 elephants

10) Make clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)
11) Make clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)
12) Build Smithy (-1 stone)
13) Build Smithy (-1 stone)
14) Build Smithy (-1 iron)
15) Make Jewelry (-1 gold, +1 jewelry)
16) Make Jewelry (-1 gold, +1 jewelry)
17) Bless Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 blessed obsidian)
18) Bless Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 blessed obsidian)

Army: Greet the soldiers, determine if they're friend or foe. Have most of the army stay behind, out of sight and notice save the Ornate Spear Elephants, upon which the Chosen One will ride into the city and greet the leader of these peculiar people.

[Cheddarius]

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

Spend 10 money to get 1 more labor point: 30 labor available

30 labor left, 14 food, 3 iron, 5 stone, 4.5 silver, 0.5 clothes, 1.9 silver jewelry, 2.4 gold jewelry

Work tile 1: 2 food, 2 wool
Work tile 2: 6 food
Work tile 3: 6 food
Work tile 7: 1 food, 2 wool
Work tile 9: 5 food
Work tile 10: 5 food
Work tile 12: 6 food
Work tile 18: 1 food, 1 stone, 2 iron
Trade 3 iron for 3 gold from giants: 3 gold, -3 iron
Trade 2 food for the map from giants: -2 food

22 labor left, 44 food, 2 iron, 6 stone, 4.5 silver, 3 gold, 4 wool, 0.5 clothes, 1.9 silver jewelry, 2.4 gold jewelry

Build School: 3 labor, 3 stone, 5 money
Build Granary: 2 labor, 2 stone
Build Irrigation in tile 11: 2 labor
Build Two-Field Farm in tile 11: 4 labor
Build Three-Field Farm in tile 11: 3 labor
Total labor: 14. With Mechanic's Workshop: 11 labor, 5 stone, 5 money

6 research Medicines
2 research Percussion Caps

2 make 4 clothes: 4 wool
1 make 1 silver jewelry: 1 silver

Heavy Scouts defend Great Lactosia
Lactosian Infantry head northwest, bringing food for a long trip

22 labor left, 44 food, 2 iron, 2 stone, 5.5 silver, 3 gold, 4.5 clothes, 2.9 silver jewelry, 2.4 gold jewelry

Use 26 food to feed populace
Use 2.7 clothes to raise morale
Use 2.7 silver jewelry to raise morale
Use 2 spirituality and 0.6 gold jewelry to raise morale

0 labor left, 18 food, 2 iron, 2 stone, 6.5 silver, 1.8 clothes, 0.2 silver jewelry, 1.8 gold jewelry

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

The people of Great Lactosia lived in the lap of luxury. They received yearly stipends of money, jewelry, and good woolen clothes. There was a shrine, and tombs, and a music hall they could visit. Many of the Lactosians took shifts doing research instead of toiling in the fields. They had grown so accustomed to these luxuries, in fact, that a new luxury would not satisfy them - they needed two. Musing on the issue, Cheddarius decided that this was a blessing in disguise. After all, already three thousand or more labored each year to produce jewelry, and it raised morale only enough to provide about a thousand more men worth of work. Not needing to grub for the dregs of luxuries would free up much work for other things.

And they did work on other things, many other things. This year alone, they accomplished many of their goals from the years before. A mighty school was erected to speed research. A new Three-Field Farm was created, which would allow the Lactosians to have many feasts instead of mining for labor-intensive silver. A granary was created as well, to store surplus food. The Lactosians still wanted more farms, and perhaps a deep mine for rubies or an alchemist's workshop, but these were insignificant compared to what they had accomplished this year.

Asiago's men, cheered by the luxuries, worked hard on new research. Asiago had discovered, in the realm of alchemy, that certain compounds could affect human behavior. He attempted to learn more about these, and with his army of scientists, he tried to perfect a compound that would let workers work harder. He also did research into a different compound that was extremely volatile; he wondered if, perhaps, he could use it to ignite a bullet's gunpowder, thus encapsulating the bullet, gunpowder, and ignition into one small package and preventing the long reloading time of their current muskets.

Spoiler: Lactosian Canon (click to show/hide)

The city is called Great Lactosia.
The citizens are called Lactosians.

One Lactosian mass unit - that is, unit of wood, stone, metal, food, or other heavy substance - is called a "wheel".

The river is called the Stilton River.
The mountains at 16-18 are the Hills of Iron.
The forest at 4, 5, 14, 15 is the Southern Woods.
The plains are called the Bountiful Plains.
The hills are called the Far Pastures.

Lactosian Infantry is led by Commander Asiago.
Heavy Scouts is led by Commander Gjetost.
The Lactosian diplomat is called Penbryn.


Efficiencies:
Rubies and strong Iron/steel traded for gold: 3 labor, 2 lux
Silver: 3 labor, 2 lux + 1 stone
Iron for gold: 3 labor, 2 lux + 1 stone + 1 food
Food: 2 labor, 2 lux
Music: 1 labor, 1 lux
Clothing: 2 labor, 2 lux + 1 food

[IronyOwl]

Haskanara, Year 21

Spoiler: Gathered (click to show/hide)

  With the technological breakthroughs pouring in, all of Skethorum came to life in celebration and toil. Soon, their lack of stone and food would be dealt with for good, and their efforts towards magic would take physical form. The proud Haskanara worked with the knowledge that they were entering a new age of prosperity.

  Meanwhile, the Legions gathered to consider their strategy. With the ratmen elusive, and therefore probably just roving bands, it seemed their would be no vindictive crusade; they were vermin after all, and that seemed the end of it. Mentions of slavery still spread through many discussions, but came to little without a foe to enslave.
  The controversial strategy of sharpening the Legions against the brainspawn was discussed as well. Fear of reprisal was not an overt concern, but any force powerful enough to fell a deranger might not gain much from sweeping aside the lesser varieties. With a proper exploratory vessel perhaps years away, where Skiin's rangers might best direct their efforts came to the fore, and the brainspawn continued to be an interesting possibility.

  The great thinkers, meanwhile, planned out a brighter future through unlikely paths, seeking to refine farming enough to focus on true learning.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend 10 Money on 1 Labor
1) Work Tile 1 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
2) Work Tile 2 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
3) Work Tile 5 - Forest/Woodcutting Village = 1 Food, 2 Wood
4) Work Tile 6 - Hills/Silver/Mine = 1 Food, 1 Wool, 1 Silver
5) Work Tile 7 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
6) Work Tile 8 - Mountain/Copper/Deep Mine/Windmill = 2 Stone, 2 Copper
7) Work Tile 15 - Forest/Hunter's Camp = 1 Food, 1 Wood, 1 Leather
8 ) Work Tile 16 - Forest/Hunter's Camp = 2 Food, 1 Wood
9) Work Tile 17 - Hills/Tin/Mine = 1 Food, 1 Wool, 1 Tin
Subtotals: 21 Food, 2 Wool, 1 Leather, 4 Wood, 2 Stone, 2 Copper, 1 Silver, 1 Tin

10,11) Build Deep Fishery on Tile 10 - Ocean/Wharf (-2 Wood, ready for next turn)

12,13,14) Build Sea Farm on Tile 11 - Ocean/Red Pearl (-1 Wood, ready for next turn)

15,16,17,18 ) Build Quarry on Tile 8 - Mountain/Copper/Deep Mine/Windmill (ready for next turn)

19,20,21,22) Build Quarry on Tile 6 - Hills/Silver/Mine (ready for next turn)

23) Make Clothing (-2 Wool, +2 Clothing)

24,25,26) Research Agriculture

27,28 ) Research Longbows (allows production of Longbows, which have better range than normal bows)

*) Research Dream Walking (Astral tech; allows Message of the Stars, spell to permit communication with a being at night; increases caster mana)

*:Skik's research

Skik casts Vision from the Stars: "The great bulky reptile of destruction."

The First and Fifth Legions will reluctantly return home, a bit calmer now.

The Second Legion will escort the mushroom shipment.

The Sixth Legion will train.


Taxation provides 16.5+5 Money.
Military requires 6 Money in upkeep. Labor costs 10 Money.
Net Income: +5.5

Food Produced: 21
Food Consumed: 23

Luxury Required: 2.3
Luxury Produced:
2.3 Spirituality
2.3 Clothing
2.0 Mushrooms + 0.3 Silver Jewelry
(+3 Morale)

Receive 2 Mushrooms in trade.

Warehouse: 4/20 Wood, 1/20 Wool, 6/20 Stone, 2/20 Leather, 10/20 Copper, 3/20 Tin, 1/20 Bronze, 1/20 Silver, 1 leather armor, 4.7 Mushrooms, 3.7/20 Clothing, 2.1/20 Silver Jewelry
Granary: 14/20 Food
Treasury: 49

[Vanigo]

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

"Didn't we just have this conversation a couple years ago?" Heron was talking with Fret about relieving the overcrowding they anticipated the city would be seeing in a year or two. Again.
"Yep. The city's growing fast, and with the refugees added to the mix..."
"We can't keep this up for long. We'll have to start some colonies or something soon. Which means we'll have to figure out how to manage it. Which means I'm going to need more researchers. Which means we'll have to figure out how to manage them."
"Vicious cycle, huh?"

There was more than one dwarven tavern in Rennad by this time, which was a good thing, because they were all packed. The ale wasn't quite up to the standards you'd expect in a real dwarven city, but the refugees, most of whom had been sober for months, weren't inclined to care.
"So the dragon comes tearing into the city-"
"Wait, it came through the mineshafts? Couldn't be much of a dragon if it fit through there."
"Nah, that was just what set it off. It came in through the front gates. Bowled right over the soldiers there. It comes tearing in, belching fire left and right, everyone's screaming and trying to run, but it's hard, since the damn things' right by the gate. Lotta people tried to get around it. Some of 'em made it."
"That not what you did, then?"
"Nah. I ran down to the mines, into the dragon's lair, and slipped out that way while the damned lizard was busy in the city."
"Hah! Swipe anything while you were there?"
"You better believe it!"
Like most bar stories, of course, this was somewhat embellished. Or perhaps fabricated entirely. No one really cared.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend 8 gold for extra research

5) Work 4, 5, 6, 14, 15 (21 food)
2) Work 1, 18 (3 food, 2 gold, 3 wool, 1 stone, 1 badgers)
1) Work 8 (2 stone, 2 iron)
1) Work 3 (1 food, 2 wood)
1) Work 7 (1 food, 2 stone)
10 labor total
Total: 26 food, 2 gold, 2 iron, 3 wool, 5 stone, 2 wood, 1 badgers

2) Search for special resources around the city

8 labor -> 11 construction +2 arcane servitor
3) Finish two-field farms on 4
4) Build two-field farms on 14
4) Build windmill on 1 (-1 wood, -2 stone, -1 wool)
2) Start pasture on 2

5) Research Improved Agriculture, Museums, Sanitation
(I figure overcrowding relief probably gets harder after the first time, so I'm thinking sewers should help with the morale penalty but not population growth.)

1.5) Make gold jewelry (-3 gold, +3 jewelry)
1.5) Make clothing (-3 wool, +3 clothing)
1) Make bows (-1 wood)
0.5) Make iron arrows (-1 iron)
1.5) Make flexible light iron armor (-1 iron)

Raise unit of mounted archers (Badgers, bows, iron arrows, flexible light iron armor)
1st archers explore south along coast
2nd archers explore around peninsula for unusual resources
Spearmen explore east along edge of mountains (staying a reasonable distance away from dragon lair)

Trade 3 stone for 3 food
Offer to teach the merfolk about construction or sculpture or literacy or something in exchange for maps

Use clothing, 1.8 gold jewelry + 1 entertainment, spirituality for luxury
+1 food (after caravan arrives), +1 wood, -1 wool, -1 gold, +0.2 clothing, +1.2 gold jewelry

[Knight Otu]

(World map updates pending no longer)

Spoiler: Skik's Vision (click to show/hide)

"The great bulky reptile of destruction."
The great bulky reptile of destruction? What is it? What can it do? Skik sees the sun set backwards several times, and then gazes upon the reptile as it battles a person looking like a Lactosian woman. The beast breathes fire on her and assaults her with tooth and claw while the woman defends with what appears to be magic, yet in the end, the woman is knocked down and the reptile flies away.
Shortly thereafter, Skik sees the reptile in a forest settlement, setting it ablaze, then audibly demanding tribute on the threat of further destruction upon its return. After a flurry of light and dark, the dragon again descends on the settlement destroying what is left, with the wounded Lactosian defending a swirling gate that wasn't there before. Only when the gate itself collapses does the woman allow herself to be defeated.
A longer flurry of light and dark happens, and Skik finds herself in a cave filled with riches, with the reptile, or maybe one quite similar to it, sleeping on said riches. The scene is disturbed as a hole appears a few feet over the ground - miners have struck the cavern, small humanoids with beards. They first look around in surprise, then greed, then horror as the creature descends on them. After killing them, it performs some gestures, and leaves the cave.
Skik finds it at large gates defended by similar small humanoids, and sees them slaughtered just as the miners. The dragon, as Skik understands the shouts, spares few, and fewer get away, whether through the gates or the mines. The survivors are forced to toil under the dragon's watchful eyes.

Spoiler: IronyOwl's Haskanara (click to show/hide)

No one is quite sure how it started. Some claim they couldn't see the Haskanaran Star anymore, despite Skik's assurance that it is still there in the skies. Some claim to have heard Odammon's death scream, yet the Odammites deny hearing something like that. The fact remains though that a strange panic grips Skethorum that no one seems to be able to lift.
The second legion arrives home with the corpse of brainspawn-touched spider that the goblins had killed, who, remembering that the Haskanara had wanted to examine the basic brainspawn, gifted the corpse to the Haskanara. Later in the year, a small caravan arrives, carried on ornately-decorated elephants. The Haskanarans recognize the strange traders that had appeared a few years prior.

Random event - Social turmoil - -1 morale for three turns. <1/3>
Clothing created and provided to population.
Deep Fishery on tile 10 completed.
Sea Farm on tile 11 completed.
Quarries on tile 6 and 8 completed.

Agriculture needs a bit more research
Longbows needs a bit more research
Dreamwalking needs more research
Sixth Legion trained

Taxation provides 16.5+5 money. Military requires 5 money in upkeep.
Received 3 Mushrooms in trade.

Morale is at 7. Population growth is 3%, adding 688 people.
Population is now at 23,641. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 2%)
26 labor units will be available next turn, with [3/10] in the excess labor pool.
24 food will be needed this turn. 2.4 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Warehouse: 4/20 wood, 1/20 wool, 6/20 Stone, 2/20 leather, 10/20 copper, 3/20 tin, 1/20 bronze, 2/20 silver, 1 leather armor, 4.7 Mushrooms, 3.7/20 Clothing, 2.1/20 silver jewelry
  Granary: 15/20 Food
  Treasury: 49

  Buildings:
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Docks
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Library
    Marketplace
    Military Workshop
    Mint
    Observatory
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Temple
    Tombs

  Leaders:
    Astronomer Skik
    Explorer Skiin
      Special Ability: Master Archer
    Scientist Skan

  Military:
     Trained First Legion (Scouts) <A2/D2/R3[3/-]/H17(21)/S3/M8/Ab:Far Shot>
     Trained Second Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>
     Trained Third Legion <A2/D2/R3[3/-]/H21/S3/M8/Ab:Far Shot>
     Trained Fourth Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>
     Trained Fifth Legion <A6/D5/H21/S3/M8>
     Trained Sixth Legion <A6/D5/H23/S2/M7>

  Technologies:
    Advanced Ship Construction
    Animal Training
    Archery
    Astral Magic
    Astral Theory
    Astronomy
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Deep Fishing
    Deep Mining
    Engineering
    Farming
    Fishing
    Great Ship Construction
    Integrated Excavations
    Literacy
    Mechanics
    Metalcrafting
    Mining
    Museums
    Organized Religion
    Residential Planning
    Sailing
    Sea Farming
    Tidal Mastery
    Trade
    Tactics: Far Shot

Spoiler: Cheddarius' Lactosians (click to show/hide)

The Lactosian Infantry moves northeast, into the vast mountain chain, but they find little in the way of passes that would allow traveling swiftly through them. Some of the medical research that Airag performs trickles down to the common population, and the Lactosians are healthier than ever.

Clothing and Jewelry created and provided to the populance.
3-Field farm on tile 11 completed.
School and second granary completed.
Taxation provides 19.5 money. Military requires 2 money in upkeep
Improved Firearms needs more research
Medicine researched

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 4%, adding 1049 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus.
Population is now at 27,291. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 3%, Morale by -1.)
30 labor units will be available next turn, with [6/10] in the excess labor pool.
27 food will be needed this turn. 2.8 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Warehouse: 1/20 stone, 2/20 Iron, 3.5/20 silver, 3/20 gold, 0/20 Strong Iron, 1.8/20 clothes, 0.2/20 silver jewelry, 1.8/20 gold jewelry
  Granary: 17/40 food
  Treasury: 77 money
  Herds: -

  Buildings:
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Granary x2
    Hall of Learning
    Heavy Smelter
    Library
    Marketplace
    Mechanic's Workshop
    Military Workshop
    Museum
    Music Hall
    School
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Tombs

  Military
    Heavy Scouts <A7/D7/H22/S1/M7/Ab:->

  Away (1/1 food)
    Lactosian Infantry <A5/D5/H10/S3/M7/Ab:Shield Wall>

  Leaders:
    Engineer Dr. Donlan
    Governor Cheddarius
      Special Ability: Hope for the future
    Sage Airag
      Special Ability: Librarian

  Technologies:
    Agriculture
    Alchemy
    Blast Powder
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Deep Mining
    Education
    Engineering
    Explosives
    Farming
    Firearms
    Horseback Riding
    Improved Agriculture
    Literacy
    Mechanics
    Medicines
    Metalcrafting
    Metallurgy
    Mining
    Music
    Residential Planning
    Steelmaking
    Trade
    Tactics: Shield Wall

Medicines
  Population growth increases by 0.3%.
  Allows Medical Laboratory
  Allows Adrenaline, Antihemorrhagic

Medical Laboratory
  Requires Medicines
  3 labor, 5 stone, 12 money
  Allows production of Medics (3 compounds, 6 money, 2 labor); Medics can share compounds.

Adrenaline
  1 compound
  Given to an accompanied unit, that unit gets a +1 chemical bonus to attack or to speed for the turn.

Antihemorrhagic
 2 compounds
 Given to an accompanied unit, that unit heals 5 damage.

Spoiler: Vanigo's Eredor (click to show/hide)

The teams examining the city's resources don't find anything special this time around, but the second archers report that a Tokk sensed a large vein of metal on the northern side of the Eredor mountains, though they are uncertain just what metal.
The merfolk are willing to provide a map of the shorelines they know of for the blueprints of Sculpture, though they caution the Eredor that they haven't explored the shorelines of the continent completely, and haven't travelled far from the coast either. Powerful things lurk in the seas.
The first archers travel along the coast at a good pace, crossing a few rivers and noting several places that may make a good colony, if sparse on woodland. The spearmen meanwhile give the northern tip of the mountain chain a wide berth, finding that the forest extends even farther east.

2-Field Farms on tiles 4 and 14 completed
Windmill on tile 1 completed
Pasture on tile 2 needs 1 wood, 1 labor
Clothing and Jewelry created and provided to population.
Taxation provides 21 money. Military requires 4 money in upkeep. Casters require 6 money in upkeep
Museums need a bit more research
Improved Agriculture Researched
Sanitation needs more research
Received 3 food in trade.
Mounted Archers raised

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 5.5%, adding 1529 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus
Population is now at 29,342. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 1.5%.)
32 labor units will be available next turn, with [7/10] in the excess labor pool.
29 food will be needed this turn. 3.0 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Treasury: 55
  Granary: 15/20 food
  Warehouse: 1/20 gold, 0.4/20 Clothing, 1.3/20 Gold jewelry, 2/20 iron, 2/20 pearls
  Herds: -

  Buildings
    Apartment Houses
    Clothier's Workshop
    Constructor's Guild
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Library
    Marketplace
    Mechanic's Workshop
    Military Workshop
    School
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Stables
    Statue Park (10 statues)
    Temple
    Tinkerer's Shop
    Tombs

  Military
    Trained Spearman Brigade <A5/D4/H17/S3/M7>
    Trained Pikemen <A5*/D2/H15/S3/M8>
    Trained First Archer Company <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H17/S3/M8>
    Trained Second Archer Company <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H17/S3/M8>
    Mounted Archers <A2/D2/R5[2/10]/H19/S5/M8>

  Caster units
    First Constructor <5 mp>
    Second Constructor <5 mp>

  Leaders:
    Engineer Fret Rikend
    Sage Heron Redson

  Technologies:
    Agriculture
    Animal Taming
    Archery
    Basic Artifíce
    Ceremonial Burial
    Construction
    Construction Magic
    Deep Mining
    Earth Dowsing
    Education
    Engineering
    Farming
    Horseback Riding
    Literacy
    Metalcrafting
    Mining
    Organized Religion
    Sculpture
    Theory of Elemental Earth
    Trade

Spoiler: abculatter_2's Enlightened (click to show/hide)

Leaving the rest of the army at a strategic point, the ornate elephants carrying the Chosen One and the general splendidly arrive at the crab city.

Clothing and jewelry created and provided to populance
Smithy completed
Taxation provides 13.5 money. Military requires 14 money in upkeep.

Morale is at 8. Population growth is 4%, adding 723 people. Morale is high enough for a labor bonus.
Population is now at 18,817. (Overcrowding! Population growth is reduced by 2%.)
21 labor units will be available next turn, with [5/10] in the excess labor pool.
19 food will be needed this turn. 1.9 luxury units are needed to raise morale.

  Treasury: 33 money
  Granary: 18 food
  Warehouse: 15/20 wool, 7 stone, 1 moonlit iron, 6.6 clothing, 1.7 gold jewelry, 4/20 blessed obsidian
  Herds: 1.5 elephants, 2 firedancer

  Buildings
    Clothier's Workshop
    Granary
    Hall of Learning
    Idols of the Unknown
    Library
    Marketplace
    Military School
    Military Workshop
    Palisade on City Hex
    Shrine
    Smithy
    Temple

  Military
    Trained Obsidian's Call (A6/D4/H11/S3/M7/Ab:-) (Wooden spears with obsidian, wooden shields)

  Away
    Trained Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H21/S3/M9/Ab:-)
    Trained Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H21/S3/M9/Ab:-)
    Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H20/S3/M8/Ab:-)
    Ornate Spear Elephants (A7/D4/H22/S3/M8/Ab:-)
    Trained Unveilers (A6/D4/H11/S3/M7/Ab:-) (Wooden spears with obsidian, wooden shields)
    2 blessed obsidian

  Leaders:
    General
    High Priest -The Chosen One-

  Technologies:
    Animal Training
    Beast Taming
    Blessing of the Unknown
    Construction
    Engineering
    Enlightenment (Unique; Prerequisite for magical technologies)
    Landscape Stripping
    Literacy
    Mining
    Organized Religion
    The Shallow of the Unknown
    Trade
    Truths Unknowable

[IronyOwl]

Haskanara, Year 22

Spoiler: Agitated (click to show/hide)

  With the Haskanara agitated for no discernible reason, the leaders of the city do what they can, focusing on food and military in the hopes of allaying their fears. Though few believe it will truly calm the populace, the leadership feels strengthening the army and stuffing the granaries will at least stop things from getting worse.
  Much to the disturbance of all, however, it seems the civilians' panic may not have been baseless after all, as the city's defenders rally to counter a previously unknown foe- one that has arrived in disturbing force.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend 10 Money for 1 Labor
1) Work Tile 1 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
2) Work Tile 2 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
3) Work Tile 5 - Forest/Woodcutting Village = 1 Food, 2 Wood
4) Work Tile 6 - Hills/Silver/Mine/Quarry = 1 Food, 1 Wool, 1 Silver, 1 Stone
5) Work Tile 7 - Plains/River/Irrigation/Watermill = 5 Food
6) Work Tile 8 - Mountains/Copper/Deep Mine/Quarry/Windmill = 2 Copper, 3 Stone
7) Work Tile 10 - Ocean/Wharf/Deep Fishery = 4 Food
8 ) Work Tile 11 - Ocean/Red Pearl/Sea Farm = 2 Food, 2 Red Pearls
9) Work Tile 15 - Forest/Hunter's Camp = 1 Food, 1 Leather, 1 Wood
10) Work Tile 16 - Forest/Hunter's Camp = 2 Food, 1 Wood
11) Work Tile 17 - Hills/Tin/Mine = 1 Food, 1 Wool, 1 Tin
Subtotals: 27 Food, 4 Wood, 4 Stone, 2 Wool, 1 Leather, 2 Copper, 1 Silver, 1 Tin, 2 Red Pearls

12,13,14,15) Build Quarry on Tile 17 - Hills/Tin/Mine (ready for next turn)

16) Smelt Bronze (-1 Copper, -1 Tin, +2 Bronze)
17,18,19) Forge Flexible Light Bronze Worg Barding and Flexible Light Bronze Armor (-2 Bronze, +2 Flexible Light Bronze Armor)

20) Make Bows (-1 Wood, +1 Bows)

21,22) Build Granary (-2 Stone, ready for next turn)

23) Research Agriculture
24) Research Longbows
25,26,27) Research next crowding-reducing tech (presumably aqueducts, sewers, or bathhouses, but Advanced Residential planning is fine too)
*) Research Dreamwalking

*: Skik's research

Skik casts Vision From The Stars: "What would likely happen if the Haskanara cordially greeted the great flying reptile?"

The Sixth Legion escorts the Mushroom shipment, if they can do so while still participating in the battle. They or the unarmed caravan also take a unit of copper to gift to the goblins, and wish them the best of luck in reigniting their magic.

Seventh Legion raised using Flexible Light Bronze Armor and Bows

Taxation provides 18+5 Money. Military requires 6 Money in upkeep.
Receive 2 Mushrooms in trade.
Give away 1 Copper.

Morale Needed: 2.4
Morale Provided:
2.4 Spirituality
2.4 Clothing
2.0 Mushrooms + 0.4 Silver Jewelry
[+3 Morale]

Food Produced: 27
Food Consumed: 24

Warehouse: 7/20 Wood, 8/20 Stone, 3/20 Wool, 3/20 Leather, 10/20 Copper, 3/20 Tin, 1/20 Bronze, 3/20 Silver, 1 leather armor, 4.7 Mushrooms, 1.3/20 Clothing, 1.7/20 Silver Jewelry, 2/20 Red Pearls, 1 Flexible Light Bronze Worg Barding
Granary: 18/20 Food
Treasury: 66

[Cheddarius]

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

Spend 10 money to get 1 more labor point: 31 labor available
Spend 8 money to get +50% research and improved breakthrough chance
31 labor left, 18 food, 2 iron, 1 stone, 3 gold, 3.5 silver, 1.8 clothes, 0.2 silver jewelry, 1.8 gold jewelry

Work tile 1: 2 food, 2 wool
Work tile 2: 6 food
Work tile 3: 6 food
Work tile 4: 1 food, 2 wood
Work tile 7: 1 food, 2 wool
Work tile 8: 1 food, 2 wood
Work tile 9: 5 food
Work tile 10: 5 food
Work tile 11: 5 food
Work tile 12: 6 food
Work tile 16: 1 stone, 2 silver
Work tile 17: 2 stone
Work tile 18: 1 food, 1 stone, 2 iron

Trade 3 gold and 3 silver for 12 wood and 4 stone from giants

18 labor left, 57 food, 4 iron, 4 wood, 5 stone, 4 wool, 2.5 silver, 1.8 clothes, 0.2 silver jewelry, 1.8 gold jewelry

Build Medical Laboratory: 3 labor, 5 stone, 12 money
Build Irrigation in tile 13: 2 labor
Build Two-Field Farm in tile 13: 4 labor
Total labor: 9. With Mechanic's Workshop: 7 labor, 5 stone, 12 money

2 research Improved Firearms
4 research Improved Medicines
2 research Sculpture

1 operate Music Hall
2 make 4 clothes: 4 wool

Heavy Scouts stay in Great Lactosia and train the Shield Wall tactic
Lactosian Infantry head further northwest

0 labor left, 57 food, 4 iron, 4 wood, 2.5 silver, 5.8 clothes, 0.2 silver jewelry, 1.8 gold jewelry

Use 27 food to feed populace
Use 2.8 clothes to raise morale
Use 9 food and 1 music to raise morale
Use 2 spirituality and 0.2 silver jewelry and 0.6 gold jewelry to raise morale

Get 4 stone and 12 wood from giants

0 labor left, 21 food, 4 iron, 4 stone, 16 wood, 2.5 silver, 3 clothes, 1.2 gold jewelry

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

The new school improved research immensely, and the Lactosians expected to finish two researches this year, with some work on another. Airag's medical researchers attempted to find some compound that would boost productivity. They had found some promising leads into drugs that would improve morale; however, this would come at a cost of possible dependency. In addition, they had thought of creating drugs that would lower the need for sleep, but these would also have repercussions. Airag, however, insisted that no new medical technology come at a cost to the people, and had his researchers focus on drugs that would not harm the people, even if they were less effective. Meanwhile, he also directed more research on better weapons to defend Great Lactosia from invaders, and a sculpture park to lighten the cost of luxuries.

The Lactosians had seen the power of other armies. They were determined to keep up with their neighbors and create a strong defense that would repel invaders. They shipped surplus precious metals and jewelry to the giants, receiving wood and stone in return. As soon as the goods arrived, the Lactosians would work at the smelters and furnaces, churning out powerful new equipment for musketeers - muskets, broad steel tower-shields, light and flexible steel armor. The troops would soon be accompanied by alchemists, who would augment their abilities with powerful compounds.

To prepare for this production, the Lactosians used surplus labor to create extra woolen clothes, so that they would not have to next year. Food was stored as well, to defend against famine as well as serve as a luxury. A Two-Field Farm was built to bring in ever more cheap food. New improvements and buildings were planned, but none were quite as important as building up the military. A sculpture park would reduce the need for luxuries. An alchemist's workshop would allow the Lactosians to supply cannons and grenades for  new farm would also be useful, but the Lactosians already produced far more food than they could use. A military school was planned if the Lactosians could find a general; a deep mine for rubies would only be created if the Lactosians truly had nothing better to do. However, these were not very important, and the Lactosians were glad that they had completed their main goals.

Spoiler: Lactosian Canon (click to show/hide)

The city is called Great Lactosia.
The citizens are called Lactosians.

One Lactosian mass unit - that is, unit of wood, stone, metal, food, or other heavy substance - is called a "wheel".

The river is called the Stilton River.
The mountains at 16-18 are the Hills of Iron.
The forest at 4, 5, 14, 15 is the Southern Woods.
The plains are called the Bountiful Plains.
The hills are called the Far Pastures.

Lactosian Infantry is led by Commander Asiago.
Heavy Scouts is led by Commander Gjetost.
The Lactosian diplomat is called Penbryn.


Efficiencies:
Rubies and strong Iron/steel traded for gold: 3 labor, 2 lux
Silver: 3 labor, 2 lux + 1 stone
Iron for gold: 3 labor, 2 lux + 1 stone + 1 food
Stored-silver: 2 labor, 2 lux
Food: 2 labor, 2 lux
Music: 1 labor, 1 lux
Clothing: 2 labor, 2 lux + 1 food

[Vanigo]

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

Rennad was bustling, as it was most days. A casual observer might easily underestimate the city's size - the surface of the city was criss-crossed by roads and liberally studded with two- and three-story buildings, giving it the appearance of a good-sized town, but the bulk of the city was underground.
Which makes designing a sewer much harder, Heron grumbled to himself. Getting water to the city wasn't terribly hard; Fret had already designed a suitable aquaeduct. The trick was getting it back out. The sewer tunnels had to be deeper than anything that drained into them, but if he buried them too deep there would be nowhere for them to empty out.
"Some sort of modification of the mine pumps, maybe? But they'd have to handle much more, much dirtier water."
"Wouldn't have to go up as far, though," one of his assistants pointed out.
"True, but I don't see how we could keep them from clogging. Mine seepage isn't clean, but sewage is a whole different kettle of stew."
"Eew."
"I guess we could always just build a really long drainage tunnel."
"Might be the best solution... how long would it have to be, though? What kind of grade do we need to keep sewage flowing? Have to run some tests."
"Eew."
"Why are you even on this project?"
"I like it when things are clean."

The council chambers were tense. The current topic was a contentious one, which had been argued back and forth for over a year now.
"So what are we going to do about this dragon?"
"Go kill it!"
"Our military's not that much stronger than the dwarves' was, you know. We could probably fight it off if it came here, but if the dragon's the one with the defensive positon..."
"Expand the army!"
"Improve the army!"
"Build walls!"
"It can fly, you idiot."
"Study fire resistance magic!"
In the end, as usual, nothing much changed from the current plans. A watchtower would be built to keep an eye out for the beast, and research to improve the army would be carried out. (Researchers were already picking the brains of the dwarven refugees who knew anything about metallurgy, in fact. None of them was an expert, unfortunately, but hopes were high that they could get a leg up nonetheless.) The army would not be expanded this year, but future expansion was planned as better equipment was designed. Iron and wood were to be stockpiled for this purpose.
Three weeks later, the same argument broke out again, which was actually a bit longer than average.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend 8 money on extra research

5) Work 4, 5, 6, 14, 15 (23 food)
2) Work 1, 18 (3 food, 3 gold, 3 wool, 1 stone, 1 badgers)
1) Work 8 (2 stone, 2 iron)
2) Work 3, 3 (2 food, 4 wood)
1) Work 7 (1 food, 2 stone)
10 labor total
Total: 29 food, 3 gold, 2 iron, 3 wool, 5 stone, 2 wood, 1 badgers

11 labor->15 construction +2 arcane servitor
12)Build three-field farms on 4, 5, 6, 15
3) Build watchtower (-2 stone)
2) Build woodcutting village on 16 (-2 stone)

5)Research Museums, Sanitation, Metallurgy
1.5) Make gold jewelry (-3 gold, +3 jewelry)
1.5) Make clothing (-3 wool, +3 clothing)

2) Look for special resources

Give badgers to spearmen
Train mounted archers
Send pikemen exploring south along the edge of the mountains
Send 2nd archers across mountains safely south of dragon lair
Send 1st archers north to identify the metal ores, then return.

Use spirituality, clothing, 2 jewelry + 1 entertainment for luxury

+2 iron, +1 stone, +4 wood, +1 gold jewelry

[abculatter_2]

Spoiler: RP (click to show/hide)

The prey draws near...
Smell their fear...
For darkness comes tonight!

Destroy the light...
Be the blight...
Purge all who dare not believe!

Their heads we shall cleave...
This bastard age shall take its leave...
And I shall rise once again!

kill. Them. ALL!

The Chosen One rolled these over in his head a few times.
I never knew you could be poetic. You should really do that more, it's far more interesting then your typical vague orders and attempts at human emotion...

Spoiler: Turn (click to show/hide)

1) Work hex 1 (3 food, 1 wool)
2) Work hex 11 (3 food, 1 wool)
3) Work hex 2 (4 food)
4) Work hex 3 (4 food)
5) Work hex 4 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 gold)
6) Work hex 14 (1 food, 1 wool, 1 iron)
7) Work hex 5 (2 food, 1 fire dancers)
Work hex 8 (2 food, .5 elephants)
9) Work hex 13 (3 stone)
10) Work hex 18 (2 food, 2 wood)

22 food, 4 wool, 2 wood, 3 stone, 1 fire dancers, .5 elephants, 1 gold, 1 iron

11) Research (Deep Mining)
12) Research (Deep Mining)
13) Research (Deep Mining)
14) Research (Find better ways to call the Unknown One's blessings (MOAR SPELLS))
15) Research (Find better ways to call the Unknown One's blessings (MOAR SPELLS))

16) Bless Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)
17) Bless Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)
18) Bless Obsidian (-1 stone, +1 Blessed Obsidian)
19) Make Jewelry (-1 gold, +1 jewelry)
20) Make Clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)
21) Make Clothes (-2 wool, +2 clothes)