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[Angle]

Oh- whoops.

[Toaster]

The beginning of winter brings another encounter with the Rak'tar.  We can communicate a bit better with them now, and they brought us some bone carvings as gifts.  They seem to respect us, possibly because we are clearly stronger than them yet have not attacked them.  They seem to have troubles from something, but we are not sure what.

The hunters brought in a decent catch, while the farmers struggled a bit to gather fish.  Mineral gains continued normally, with the ore miners doing best.  The windmill construction started, and is now about 70% completed, due to a couple small delays.

The scouts took one of the crystals to the lizardmen, but no one there had any idea what it was, other than a simple crystal.  On the way back, they got lost in the marsh and were unable to get anything else done.  Two took sick and won't be able to work next month.

We gave one to a king's envoy who was checking on our status.  He said "Hmmm... very interesting.  I'll have to take this with me- I may know someone who could know what this is."  He left and took the crystal with him.

The king sends his thanks, as Ricko reported very favorably on us.  He was quite impressed with the boar, and has sent us a gift!  He sent builders and supplies, who built us 10 units of upgraded housing.  I'm not sure what we need nicer houses for, but they're nice indeed.  What shall we do with them?

Spoiler: Results (click to show/hide)

-102 Food (+32 Fished, +46 Hunted, -180 eaten)
-75 Wood  (+37 Cut, -112 Building)
-20 Stone
+15 Ore

Two scouts injured for the month

Windmill Upgrade 70% complete  (6 units remain)
10 units Nice Housing

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Portal to Home
HQ tent- Houses Portal
Wall (Glorified fence)
Barracks- 13/30 soldiers
Basic Housing- 167/200 civilians
Nice Housing- 0/10 civilians
Farms- 41
Small Silo-  Max 1000 food
Windmill
Miner's Guild - with Inspiring Statue
Sawmill


358 food
59 wood
32 stone
96 ore


0 Laborers
30 Lumberjacks
20 Miners
82 Farmers
30 Hunters
4 Scouts
15 Builders
9 Guards

1 Canoe

Remote site 1:
Quarry - Simple stabilization
Basic road to base

Remote site 2:
Hunting Lodge

Remote site 3:
Ore Mine
Basic road to base

Remote site 4:
Fishing Dock

Spoiler: Area Map (click to show/hide)

[ashton1993]

Appoint a permanent leader and house him there, use the space for diplomatic negotiations, guest housing, artifacts (such as the mason's guild's inspiring statue) and I suppose anybody of high standing in the outpost.

[Terenos]

On about our day, and our standard plans. Hunters hunt, farmers fish. The Windmill lvl 2 is completed on schedule. Lumberjacks cut lumber. Miners gather stone.

Whats this you say? A change? We have a decent stockpile of ore. Our stone supplies are dwindling. We will have need of stone shortly, I am sure. Hence, more stone.

Scouts take this time to rest up, prepare maps and so forth. Guards cover the lumberjacks.

[mcclay]

After we complete the windmill it might be a good idea to make roads to the docks and the hunting lodge.

[stabbymcstabstab]

i say we start train a milta and make some weapons and armor

[Immortal]

Again Terenos has stolen my thoughts, I agree with all that hes said.
I believe we can do without roads though mcclay. Do they really give much of a bonus?
As for that housing, lets just let the villagers decide who gets the housing, anyone with any type of authoritative position should be a candidate. I believe we can do without storing the statue in there, it should be outside for people to admire.

Also we must discuss the next move.
I believe we should consider asking for more people to arrive at the beginning of spring and send some ore home, we will be able to support a few more with the upgraded windmill now. We should upgrade our headquarters next to get our scouts to a safe number, also so we can build that town hall and train the villagers to militia. After that barrack and blacksmith, then a wall!

[ArKFallen]

Agree with Terenos and Immortal.

[Toaster]

The narrator is the leader, though he doesn't actually physically exist in game.  It's assumed he lives in the HQ and eats quantum food.


With the winter cold at its highest, we settled in to recover as we could.  The scouts stayed home to let the ill ones recover and the others to tend to the records.

Our farmers took to the lake again.  While the shore fishing yield was suboptimal, those in the canoe had good results.  The hunters gathered in quite a large amount of food, going a long way to supplementing our food stocks.  The woodcutters and stone miners did what they could to collect  resources, though the forest was not in a yielding mood.

The windmill upgrade was completed without note.  The better equipment and resources should increase all future crop yields.

A messenger came back from the homeland with a short note.  It said...

"Crystal being studied.  It has been passed on to our sages, who seem to think it has potential.  Gather more if you can."

What shall we do now?  Are there more to be gathered at all?

Spoiler: Results (click to show/hide)

-97 Food (+33 Fished, +50 Hunted, -180 eaten)
-6 Wood  (+32 Cut, -38 Building)
-12 Stone

All scouts recovered

Windmill Level 2 completed

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Portal to Home
HQ tent- Houses Portal
Wall (Glorified fence)
Barracks- 13/30 soldiers
Basic Housing- 167/200 civilians
Nice Housing- 0/10 civilians
Farms- 41
Small Silo-  Max 1000 food
Windmill- Level 2
Miner's Guild - with Inspiring Statue
Sawmill


261 food
53 wood
44 stone
96 ore


0 Laborers
30 Lumberjacks
20 Miners
82 Farmers
30 Hunters
4 Scouts
15 Builders
9 Guards

1 Canoe

Remote site 1:
Quarry - Simple stabilization
Basic road to base

Remote site 2:
Hunting Lodge

Remote site 3:
Ore Mine
Basic road to base

Remote site 4:
Fishing Dock

Spoiler: Area Map (click to show/hide)

Year 3 ends next month.  I had a request for yearly stats- what would you like to see?

[mcclay]

send some scouts to the cave to see if they can find more. If possible upgrade the HQ, if not then have everything continue as normal.

[Immortal]

Lets repeat our moves last turn, but the builders help the woodcutters.
Keep the scouts indoors, its still winter and dangerous, we don't have enough scouts for them to scout safely in the winter.
Also we shall upgrade the headquarters next?

[mcclay]

I belive if we do we get more scouts, at least that is what someone said.

[Toaster]

I think upgraded HQ is scouts and builders.

I should probably make sure that's all written down somewhere.

[ArKFallen]

I follow Immortal but I'm not sure if upgrading the HQ is a good idea. It'll take at least 2 months to get the wood and the builders will be tied up another 4 building it and then we don't have enough people to take advantage of it (unless we change a few). Judging by how much of an increase we'll get from the windmill we should probably upgrade the silo first, I say.
Future Idea:When spring rolls around we can send the miners, the guard, and the scouts to check out that cave. I figure this'll set us back a bit but everyone will be more likely to come back, and if the miners are there they'll probably be able to tell if they'll be more crystals (for flavor/realism). Of course we could just split the guard and miners mine and scouts scout, while guards guard both (for results).

[Immortal]

Ark great ideas! Ignore my previous statements about our future plans.
Lets get those Silos upgraded next, and send 50 ore through for people to arrive for spring.
We can also build a few more farms easily enough to deal with the newcomers.
For the crystal search, yes lets send a few miners with those scouts and maybe 2 guards.
After that we'll increase our numbers and then we should wall up and turn defensive. How we defend our selves is to be decided, a wall takes no bodies only many resources, guards would be mobile but require food.. Discuss?

Old comment stands repeat last turn.