I attempted to colonize the dark island like the good Zorya worshipper I am. Unfortunately I was attacked by... something I wouldn't have expected to find on the dark island... and then discovered I would have to battle it in spirit challenges. This didn't seem so bad... until it spammed out 3 of a card that would hit ALL enemies whenever it attacked. No one directly died from the encounter but we were wounded and night was falling.
In the end we managed to fight our way through bear people and the... things... to get to the valuable reserves of dragon bone and make a powerful idol for our village that would allow us to harvest pretty much anything in the area. The casualties: our god's chosen (a goblin changeling) lost her goblin-son-turned-forest-demon, an experienced harvester died, and one of our founding members (a scavenger that was really more of a witch) died. Incidentally, two of those characters were our best bet at spirit challenges.
The coming turns will either go really well for me or really poorly... if I can get more characters I have access to some amazing resources (dragon bone, quartz, elven wood, furs, all in the same place, plus lots of food). If I can't, well, let's hope I can kit out the current ones to fight well...
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