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[OmnipotentGrue]

You are the leader of a small group of individuals that has been sent away to the new world to establish and maintain a great citadel for the Empire. Of course, you are only a small group now, meaning you will have to start small - but soon enough, people will come, and your village shall grow into a township, and that township into a city, and that city into a great metropolis!

After your long trek through a great mountain range, you finally find salvation - an amazing field that stretches on for miles, it's rolling hills covered with wild flowers of varying colours. It is truly a sight to behold. In the distance you can just barely make out a shimmering lake, and east of that a huge forest. You slowly start your climb down the precarious mountain path, excited about the new prospect of life.

Almost immediately after feeling the soft earth beneath your feet, a powerful force knocks you off of them again! You look back and get a glimpse of what knocked you down - bandits on horseback! It's an ambush! They kill your pack mules and steal half of your food and drink supplies, all while you are forced to cower, backs against the cliff face. It all happens so fast, and within seconds you are left alone in the wilderness with barely enough supplies to last you two weeks. As you hear a wolf's howl somewhere across the plains, the sun is quickly setting in the blue sky and you realize that this place, as beautiful as it seems, is no paradise.

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Welcome, one and all, to You Are a Village! Will you lead your brave sons and daughters to glory for the Empire, or will your hamlet crumble beneath the cold grip of the new world?

Please choose a starting location:

Spoiler: Note - Please Read (click to show/hide)

-We will be using a time system based on Fine Control Days (FCD) and Committed Control Days (CCD) - The first 7 days of a month will be FCDs, which you can use to work on simple tasks for your village, like searching for new flora or fauna, scouting the land, etc, whereas CCDs consist of the next week, where larger scale tasks, such as building structures, or even seiging a site will be completed much quicker than during FCDs. Of course, you can still start building structures during FCDs, but this will take much longer and you will not be able to do any other tasks during these times. The readers will then have the option of FCDs or CCDs for the next 2 weeks of that month.
-1 year = 12 months = 48 weeks (4 weeks per month, 7 days per week, 3 months per season)
-The time taken to complete an action will be dictated by me (unless you can give me a good reason to use a different amount of time).
-On the same note, the amount of time and materials used to create, build or collect something will also be dictated by me (unless you can sway me as stated above).
-1 tile = 0.60 kilometers (Half a mile). Therefore, it takes roughly 40 minutes to cross 2 tiles if traveling with beasts of burden, or 20 minutes for a group of people.
-I will be using RANDOM.ORG.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

-8 men
-5 women
-10 wood
-10 cloth
-2 weeks worth of food and clean water
-2 cows
-3 pigs

[Toaster]

At the southeast corner of the big forest, there are two single tile trees hanging out.  One tile south of the west one.

Spoiler: Marked location for clarity (click to show/hide)

Shouldn't this me in Forum Games instead of RTD?

[Neyvn]

Yeah this should so be in Forum games cause its not fully a RTD I don't think...

At the southeast corner of the big forest, there are two single tile trees hanging out.  One tile south of the west one.

I like this spot...

[Toaster]

I added a picture to make it more obvious.  That spot has pretty good access to everything- river, trees, and the eventual need for the lake and mountains.

What's the approximate scale of the map?

[Shades]

I think one further square south than that, equidistant between that tree and the river. Although the original description seems to imply we are way up in the north west so that might be a trek away. If it's a long distance I'd recommend we setup camp elsewhere, maybe where the lake curves into the forests west side.

[Toaster]

Thinking ahead, we need to concentrate on three things at first- water, food, and shelter, in that order.  Water should be easy, with the river being close by- if it's not good water, we're probably hosed from the get-go.  Second, we need to secure a food supply.  Foraging in the forest plus milking the livestock should get us through the first month, at least- enough to get real crops started.  Hopefully there are fish in the river as well.  Finally, shelter.  We should be able to scavenge up enough supplies to throw together a few tents or lean-tos to give us a place to sleep.  That'll hold us until we can build more permanent shelter.

Basically, we try to get the three most basic needs covered quickly, so we can then focus on more permanent solutions to the problems we face.

[Shades]

Add some form of fire to that list, we don't want those wolves getting too close and with luck that would aid in keeping them at bay.

[OmnipotentGrue]

Wow, you guys are putting a lot of thought into this, that's good  Also, do you think I should move this to Forum Games? I was going to roll for each action you chose...

Edit: I have school, so there won't be an update for a while, sorry guys.

[V-Norrec]

I think it would still fall under Forum Games not RTD.  RTD usually involves taking control of one person and almost always has an element of combat in it so that you must Roll To Dodge.  If we're just in control of a village though then we would have a hard time with the whole rolling to dodge part. (The village dodges and lands in the lake.*glub glub* you die)

[mcclay]

well, who cares/ i agree wiht toasters choice so let's get going.

[OmnipotentGrue]

Okay then, I'm back and I have no assignments due any time soon so I can dedicate most of my time to this.

What's the approximate scale of the map?

1 tile = 0.60 kilometers (Half a mile). Therefore, it takes roughly 40 minutes to cross 2 tiles if traveling with beasts of burden, or 20 minutes for a group of people.

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Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

After discussing your options with the rest of your group, you decide on a small flat of land you can see just past the large forest. You head off towards there, but the sun has already set and your vision is impaired. It would be dangerous to continue on like this, and so you are forced to set up camp.



Time: 8:40 PM

It is night.

(The yellow 'X' is you.)

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Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

-8 men
-5 women
-10 wood
-10 cloth
-2 weeks worth of food and clean water
-2 cows
-3 pigs

What do you choose to do?

[Shades]

I'm confused, an update is a week but a night lasts two updates?
Does it consume two weeks worth of food as that would cause us problems.

Also I think we shouldn't travel to the original target now, that looks like it will be well over another week of travel and food is short enough as it is.

[OmnipotentGrue]

I'm confused, an update is a week but a night lasts two updates?
Does it consume two weeks worth of food as that would cause us problems.

Also I think we shouldn't travel to the original target now, that looks like it will be well over another week of travel and food is short enough as it is.

Ugh, I totally keep forgetting these things. Damn, this time system is so screwed up right now... I'll probably stop updating until I can figure out a good way to do this, sorry guys. I was thinking about dragging this out really long and having 1 update as half a day, but then crops would take ages to grow... It's hard trying to think of a system where I can keep the long term actions and the short term actions together, but not have the time all muddled up... if any of you know of a good working system, it would be really helpful so that I can properly start this.

Edit: Re-reading over my previous posts has shown me that it makes a lot less sense then I actually thought it did. I mean, I knew it was screwed, but it's really badly screwed. I think I might have to mess around with my previous posts to amend this massive mistake.

But at least we're off to a good start.

Edit 2:

Spoiler: Super duper rule edit: (click to show/hide)

-1 month = 4 weeks = 30 updates
-1 tile = 0.60 kilometers (Half a mile). Therefore, it takes roughly 40 minutes to cross 2 tiles if traveling with beasts of burden, or 20 minutes for a group of people.

So yeah, I'm hoping this will work. 1 update = 1 day (I realize that for it to get to month 2 it will probably take 3/4 of a month real time, but hopefully it shouldn't). The time taken will complete an action will just depend on it's real life equivalent - fishing may take up 3/4 of a day, at most, woodcutting may take up a whole day, etc, but all these things will depend on A) how many men you have working on a task and B) how generous the dice are feeling. Crops will grow on a seasonal basis (just like in real life - 4 months = 1 season), and yes, I realize that it may take some time then for food, but don't worry, I can assure you that the harvest will be plentiful. In the meantime, though, I will try to not let your people die from starvation, as fishing and hunting will be good alternatives to farming. So there you have it. Don't worry about all that night-time junk, it doesn't matter now, I'll just introduce events as I see fit.

Edit 3: Feel free to re-read my previous post, as it now shows the time!

[Neyvn]

What about if we can use Days to do Fine Detail jobs but can do Major jobs that are able to be done without Fine Control only on the beginning of a week and it takes a week...

For example, the first week of Month one we spend 7 updates doing fine detail work and then for week two we do Major jobs that need alot of time and alot of commitment, then we can either choose to use the next week after that for more Major Jobs or start doing some Fine control and so on...

[OmnipotentGrue]

What about if we can use Days to do Fine Detail jobs but can do Major jobs that are able to be done without Fine Control only on the beginning of a week and it takes a week...

For example, the first week of Month one we spend 7 updates doing fine detail work and then for week two we do Major jobs that need alot of time and alot of commitment, then we can either choose to use the next week after that for more Major Jobs or start doing some Fine control and so on...

Hmmm, I actually quite like this idea. Of course, this wouldn't leave a lot of room for having multiple types of jobs being done at the same time if you consider the future of your settlement e.g. when you have 100 citizens, if we use this system you won't be able to, say, construct a temple while controlling your other citizens.