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[Nadaka]

The voyage has been long and hard, but it has finally come to an end. On the horizon ahead of you lies the outline of rocky outcroppings, beaches and forests. You have finally reached your destination. You have said goodbye to everyone and everything in your homeland, you are unlikely to ever return. This is your new home.

Archipelago: Colonization

This is a game of exploration, colonization and survival on a chain of islands in a fantasy setting. I am mostly making up the rules as I go along. Yes, I was mostly inspired by reading some of the other threads here like Outpost.

You get to guide the foundation of this colony by voting for the actions taken by the colonists each month. The first 4 people who want to participate may create a boats captain. This captain has the sailor labor, and up to 2 additional labors or special considerations. Captains have a certain degree of plot immunity, the only way they can die in the first two years is if they starve to death or do something really self destructive. If a captains creator asks that he do something, he will do it even if the rest of the players vote for something else. If you choose not to guide your captain, I will make something up.

Each turn is 1 month long. I will try to run 1 turn a day. Anyone may vote on how the colony is to proceed.

Spoiler: Starting conditions: (click to show/hide)

It is early spring.
Next contact with parent civilization is scheduled for early autumn.

55 colonists
5 scouts
10 guards
10 carpenters
20 sailors (this includes any captains)

4 months worth of food (400 units)
wood (150 units)
Items (10 axes, 10 hammers, 10 bows, 10 spears, 10 picks)
Meeting Tent
Basic storage (600/1000)
4 beached boats (can be deconstructed for +50 wood and +15 cloth each)

Morale: 100%

Spoiler: options? (click to show/hide)

Each tile can support as many as 20 constructions. As your colony expands you may have to spread out. Some constructions can only be placed on limited types of terrain, or suffer penalties or bonuses from specific terrain.

Things you can do:
fish
hunt
forage
explore
mine stone
mine metal
build stuff
*offer suggestions


Tools provide a bonus (+) to certain tasks or may be required for certain tasks (*), most of these should be logical.
Axe: +woodgathering +fighting
Bow: +hunting +fighting
Spear: +fishing +fighting
Hammer: *metalwork +construction
Pick: +mining +digging(including building farms)
Shield: +not dieing
Armor: +not dieing
Sword: ++fighting
simple club: +fighting

Colonists can perform most tasks untrained.
Training them makes them better at a specific task, but less adept at other tasks.
*labors are those suggested by players
Labors include, but may not be limited to:
Scout: reveal terrain and resources, locate other civilizations
Hunt: produce food from hunting grounds
Farm: produce food or cloth from farms
Woodcutting: collect resource
woodworking: craft wood tools
Carpentry: construct wood buildings and boats
Mine: collect stone and ore
Metalwork: create tools from ore
Stonework: create tools from stone
Masonry: construct stone buildings
Fish: collect food from fishing sites
Sailor: operate boats
Gaurd: fight enemies and keep the peace
*Priest: placate the whims of the gods?
*General: increase effectivenenss of fighting enemies?
*Architect: improve buildings
*diplomat: improve relations with other civilizations?
*builder: builds?

Spoiler: month 0 (click to show/hide)

Month 0:

Select your culture:
Islander:
Your people have done this many times before. Hopping from island to island you have settled across a vast ocean over the generations. This culture is most similar to the pacific islander or native American in technology and style.

Late Stone Age: Your culture is in the late stone age with some use of copper and other easily accessible metals.

Primitive: You suffer no morale penalty for living in primitive conditions, but advanced constructions and technology gained through trade have an increased cost.

Nature Affinity: You gain a bonus to exploration, hunting and gathering.

Seafaring: You more easily navigate the seas, allowing more frequent contact with your homeland and exploration of the archipelago by sea.

Animist: You gain increased access to nature related magic.

Ra-men:
Your people have left an advanced culture of incredible stone monuments and temples. This culture is most similar to ancient Egypt or Sumeria in technology and style.

Bronze Age: your culture is in the bronze age. This gives you to more advanced technologies like the wheel, sword and metal armor.

Urban: You suffer an increased morale penalty for living in primitive conditions but advanced constructions have a reduced cost.

Heat Affinity: You take no penalties in hot weather, but cold weather causes increased penalties.

Agrarian: You gain a bonus to growing crops but reduced proficiency in combat.

Religious: You have the favor of the gods and have increased access to the elemental magic.

Northmen
Your people come from a savage cold land where every day is a fight for survival. This culture is most similar to the Norse culture in technology and style.

Iron Age: your culture is in the iron age. This gives you access to the most advanced tools and technologies in the world.

Warlike: you gain a bonus in combat, but suffer from frequent internal strife.

Cold Affinity You take no penalties in cold weather, but hot weather causes increased penalties.

[Nadaka]

Spoiler: Basic Buildings (click to show/hide)

Farm-food
5 wood
1 food (seeds)
2 labor
Makes ~4 food/month (5 for Ramen) when placed on good soil

Farm-fiber
5 wood
1 food (seeds)
2 labor
Makes ~2 cloth/month (2.5 for Ramen)

Fish trap *must be on seaside, stream or river
5 wood
2 labor
Makes 1 to 4 food/month (varies by location)

housing-primitive
10 wood or cloth
Houses 10 people in poor comfort

housing-modest *can be built into mountain faces for reduced material cost.
10 wood
Houses 5 people in modest comfort

bridge-minor
20 wood
provides dry passage across a stream

Fence *surrounds a tile and does not count as a construction
30 wood
+defense

Dock *must be on seaside
80 wood or stone
Allows ships to offload without the risk of beaching, can train sailors, fishermen, +fishing.

Hunters lodge *must be in hunting site
20 wood
can train hunters and scouts, +hunting

Lumber Mill
40 wood
can train woodcutters, woodworkers and carpenters, +woodworking, +carpentry

Granary
40 wood
can train farmers, +food storage, +farming

Mine *must be on ore site
40 wood
can train miners, +mining
as large as 4 building

Quarry *must be on stone site
60 wood
can train miners, masons, +mining
as large as 4 buildings

Barracks
60 wood
can train guards and other soldiers, +defense

Guard Tower
15 wood
+defense, early warning

Spoiler: medium buildings (click to show/hide)

housing-urban *can be built into mountain faces for reduced material cost.
15 stone
5 wood
Houses 15 people comfortably

Wall *surrounds a tile and does not count as a construction
60 stone
++ defense

Gatehouse
20 stone
5 wood or metal
++ defense

Stone Tower
20 stone
++defense, early warning

Forge
20 wood, 20 stone, 10 ore
can create metal objects from ore, can train metalworking

Harbor Breakwater
60 stone
Makes harbor safer from hazardous waves and storms

Spoiler: advanced buildings (click to show/hide)

Temple
altar, 100 wood, 100 stone
gain favor of the gods

Spoiler: other constructions (click to show/hide)

Canoe (large)
10 wood
can transport up to 5 people over water at modest speeds.

club
0.5 wood

[Dwarmin]

Captain Rahotep was the first Ra-man to disembark from his galley, the 'Pride of Thoth', landing on the shores of a new land. Frankly, he was glad that any of them had made it. His people had experience building and sailing papyrus rafts up the river, not these monstrous seabound galleys. Storms had taken some, opportunistic sea raiders others. But, they had arrived.

In the holds of his surviving ships, there were settlers-chosen for strong faith and able work sill, along with seeds for growing crops, and with tools and knowledge for building a new colony for the Dynasty.

Rahotep did not allow himself to be bitter. After all, he has served the Pharaoh on the battlefields faithfully, and allowing himself to be caught with that chambermaid in the sacred place was a grave sin. Instead of execution, the Pharoah had in his mercy, spared them both and sent them on this grand journey. It was good to finally be away from all that palace scheming, anyway, and no longer having to hide his love.

Others were disembarking now. They seemed afraid of the new land-these people were farmers, archithects and scholars-not soldiers, not nearly. But he felt they would do well, if given a chance to build in memory of their homeland, and be prepared to defend it.
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Captain Rahotep
Labor 1:Sailor
Labor 2:General
Labor 3:Diplomat

[Taricus]

Captain Thamos, The captain of the 'Isis' Glory', a builder who got send off due to an unfortunate building accident, Placed under the command of Rahotep. He wants to build the finest cities, the most glorious monuments on these islands- Wait, Islands?!

...Well, crap. This is a size limiter. Better buid MORE land then.

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Labour 1: Architect
Labour 2: Builder
Labour 3: Sailor

[Nadaka]

I hadn't thought of it before now, and guess I didn't specify. I was planning for a single culture community, with the votes cast and then people picking out captains if they want. I wouldn't know how to make it work any other way.

So assuming that people vote for Ra-men, your captain is a-ok. Or I need to figure out how to combine dramatically different cultures...

[Taricus]

Did you want us to edit the culture votes in?

And you could have everyone get blown off course or everyone heading to the same islands.

[Nadaka]

Did you want us to edit the culture votes in?

And you could have everyone get blown off course or everyone heading to the same islands.

You don't need to edit your votes in, but you can if you want to. 2 for Ra-men I am assuming?

As for different cultures? I would probably have to run them as separate colonies simply because they clash.

[Taricus]

Yep, Two for the Egypto-Sumerians

[Alternatecash]

Make that three votes. A priest should come along, to ensure that the people don't lose the favor of the gods.

[Nadaka]

Unless I get a whole lot more votes for something else, I am going to make plans for running with the Ra-men.

Alternatecash, if you want, you could designate your captain as a priest. Otherwise, it will have to wait until a temple is built.

The culture is polytheistic but a priest typically dedicates himself to one god and for simplicity sake they are as follows (fire, water, air, earth, life, death). Don't expect miracles just yet, but they may show up eventually.

I would like to get at least one more person interested, but I will do the update sometime tonight.

[Alternatecash]

Oh yes. Setos, a "humble" priest dedicated to the god of Death. Obviously, funeral rites are going to be a priority.

[Nadaka]

Climate:
The air in the early spring here is as cold as the the highlands of your home country on the clearest and driest night. From what you have heard the winters are worse, but thankfully short. You can expect 3 to 5 months of the year to present a challenge to the health and morale of your people. Despite this, you can expect a growing season 8 to 9 months of the year.

Local area:
As your ships approached their final destination you had passed a small desert island surrounded by reefs and shoals. It would have been risky to approach with a fully loaded ship of this size but appeared to offer excellent fishing opportunities. Nearby you have also spotted a mass of kelp and a deep hole that likely houses large schools of fish.

The ships are run aground in the middle of a beach in a calm and protected cove.

The ships are undamaged but are high enough to require significant effort and a high tide to unseat them.

To your immediate east is a moderate sized stream whose more direct path to the sea has been blocked by the dunes and hills farther to the east. The stream is to shallow for your your ships to navigate for any distance. With sufficient effort, the hills can yeald enough flint to produce a few primative stone tools, but not enough to warrant a quarry.

To your southwest along the coastline is a brackish marsh consisting mostly of matted reeds.

To your west is a sparse hardwood forest.

To your north and northeast along the stream appears to be a firtile flood plain bordered by slightly drier prairy.

For now the ships and meeting tent can provide the bare minimum of shelter needed. However, people are eager to stretch their legs and lay down roots in this new land, and the beach is hardly an ideal location for construction.


Notes:
Rule change: 10 buildings per tile is not enough, I'm going to up that to 20.

added tools and labors to first post.

There is still a "slot" open for anyone that wants to put in a character.

And as always, anyone can suggest/vote for how to proceed.

Spoiler: map (click to show/hide)

tiny pic is being stupid, so I am using my web host.

[Taricus]

I say we head to the northeast, Plenty of food to be grown there and a fresh water source would be useful.

[Dwarmin]

Agreed.

[Nadaka]

I have the map up now. Feel free to direct construction, scouting and harvesting.

Scouts can move farther afield than other colonists and take less risks while scouting.
Your carpenters can build wooden structure well.
guards guard well.
The sailors are slightly less useful on land than other colonists, but are going to be needed if ships or canoes are used for exploring/fishing.