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[Kogan Loloklam]

Well,

A month has 30 days in it. there are 3 months in a season. Some things, such as herding, require a constant presence throughout the entire season. Other things, such as foraging and hunting, take up a set number of days per attempt. My game has lots of failures and low odds for success in a lot of things unless you relentlessly train in the skill. As such, you gain little for each attempt but enough over the course of the entire season.
This is why Tack is able to execute all his actions but a single word, watch the herd, can eat up so much time.

It appears Ahra and Nix continue to do the buffalo drop instead of working with the herd, so here's the turn. Amazingly, it doesn't pan out at all for them. Nix has the Mokoli warrior's luck this season. Seems like everything around him isn't doing so well.

Tack, what happens to last year's staff in the ritual?

Spoiler: El-Effhichen (click to show/hide)

The tribe celebrated a child's ascended to womanhood.
A Male Child was born to a former slave couple. There were difficulties. Tak'am manages to save the baby through application of Medicine. Even with Tak'ams medicines and rituals, the Woman does not survive. It was a former slave whom was bought with a husband. The husband killed himself a few days later.
A little girl was playing with the yurt supports and brought it down on herself. While nobody else was hurt, she was horribly mangled. Tak'am did his best, but she didn't make it.
Small boy caught an Illness. Tak'am was unable to contain the illness and 14 more catch it. Due to Tak'am's skills as a healer, only two more people are lost to the illness. The second oldest child (the next one to ascend to womanhood) and Nix's new wife.

The herd increased by 1187 sheep and 121 goats.
65 sheep are slaughtered for the month feeding and the ritual.
182 sheep either wandered off, fell to predators, or died from other preventable causes due to there not being enough people to keep track of them all

Micelus paints the hides that Nix gives him. He continues to learn the Kodana and Daluche languages. He fails to breed the deer like creatures. Sylis, having grown up in the El Clan, becomes familiar with weaving. While she isn't the best, she isn't bad either. Micelus's infant daughter, however, doesn't seem to grasp the complexities of not chewing on wool. Maybe next year. You assist Tak'am in his instruction of the children this year. I am certain he appreciates it, as he had the spring ritual to prepare for. You attempt to find out what the slaves are good at, but it doesn't seem to be anything that your tribe currently does. In fact, all they were generally used for was mixing Adobe and constructing the structures. He assists in herding the herd.

Azkul trades his hides for some sheep. The chief gives 3 sheep for the 5 hides. He assists in herding the herd.

Ahra and Nix do a buffalo drop. They find a single herd. As hard as they try, they are not successful in managing the herd into a drop. It gets away. They search without success for additional herds.

Tak'am doesn't have a totem made, so he has nothing to trade. He did not have time to make one prior to the group departing. Micelus allows him to examine one of his recorders. Tak'am continues his basic instructions. He also attempts to ensure the new Daluche members catch up in weaving and carding the El-Effhichen way. He continues to instruct his apprintice, although the El-Effhichen generally aren't familiar with rainfall patterns (they are nomadic herdsmen, not farmers). He also begins learing about the Kodana langauge and history third-hand through the new members of the tribe. He also does the spring ritual.

Micelus's Holdings:
Sylis (Wife)
INFANT Daughter
96 Sheep
13 Goats
19.9 Lbs of Paints
5 Painted hides of Good Quality
10 Wood "Recorders" of Good Quality

Azkul's Holdings:
Wife
3 Sheep

Tak'am's Holdings:
Tak'anya (Wife)
Apprentice

Nix's Holdings:
5 Hides

Ahra's Holdings:
Wife

Tribal Assets:
No Territory
A large Tribal Yurt
35 Villagers
Sheep Herd of 1340 (+170 Privately owned not included)
Goat Herd of 181 (+13 Privately owned not included)
Food for 3 Months
880 Lbs Wool
5 50' Wool Ropes
2 Bound Deer-like creatures

The Gokenloa do not fish this season. They fish in the summer, and sometimes hunt sharks in the winter if food supplies are low. Spring is for planting.

Spoiler: Gokanloa (click to show/hide)

The Tribe plows and seeds the fields.

Tribal Assets:
Friendly raft of Sea Otters nearby that help the tribe fish
1 Village of 36 people.
30 Acres of Farmland (Planted)
2 10-Man Spearfishing Canoes
13.5 Months of Food

Fire's Holdings:
A Small Hut
Otter Totem

Noka's Holdings:
A Small Hut

There is no more questioning Mokoli's suitability. The blood of his ancesters clearly flows strong in him, with his defeat of the challenger. Though there are still other things the tribe might do if he doesn't increase their food stocks somehow.

Spoiler: Mokoli (click to show/hide)

The Mokoli travel generally southwards. The Kovan thinks them dead, so they don't encounter any great patrols. At one point they feel eyes on them, but nobody appears to cause them problems. They eventually get to a point where the nature of the trees and environment starts to change. They find a nice hill and begin to setup fortifications.

The Women are moderately successful in their foraging efforts, and do an exceptional job considering they are bound and uncooperative. The men aren't quite so successful. The tribe manages to scrape together just enough with their month of stocks to feed themselves during the journey. With Mafun's efforts, four of the women seem to have accepted their fate. Two remain defiant. The spear usage for the primarrily club-wielding Mokoli did not go well. Also getting equipment for all the hunters with just you weaving and no stockpiled vines wasn't successful. A few of them did get spearholding baskets. Most did not. Both the men and the Women were a little too occupied to learn to make a passable basket. Your group is not nomadic by nature and the traveling made it just about impossible to teach this stuff. The men did seem to find it a little insulting.

One of the warriors has asked Mafun what he intends to do with the women (Distribute them to the tribe, take one for yourself then distribute the rest, kill and eat them all, make them public property, sell them to another tribe nearby, free them and see what happens, make them fight to the death in an improvised ring, exc.) (Them as a group, not them as individuals. Please no graphic details. Thanks )

The grumbling got worse and Mafun was challenged for leadership of the Mokoli. They exchanged several blows but each seemed to be holding their own, until the warrior made a mistake. In an effort to hurt Mafun he lowered his shield to a bad angle. Mafun took advantage of it. He grazed the shield and smacked the warrior on the head. The warrior went down at an odd angle. He partially landed on his shield. it splintered and his head was severed. The head rolled to a stop in an odd position. One of the warriors kicked it and saw that the bones in one section had been caved in by the force of Mafun's blow. The warriors looked at Mafun with a new respect and all the grumbling ceased.

Mafun's Holdings:
Tribal Leadership of the Mokoli

Village Assets:
1 Fortified village of 24 people

(Edit: Forgot to mention it. NRDL, your clothes are now bone reinforced.)
(Edit 2: Nrdl, if you want, there is a new Adult female in the tribe. You could have a new wife.)

[Azkul]

Watch over the herd

[Ahra]

guard the herd and track the damn escapees down, thank god for sheep going in herd

[Tack]

Eh, we're already at the spring meet, aren't we?
If we are, I'll change my turn. Watch this space.

Also, the old staff is buried with the offal, sorry I didn't mention that.
And I guess I continue with my many duties, and arrange for a fellow tribesman to adopt the newborn.

As for my apprentice, my next area of instruction is recognizing medicinal and poisonous flora.
I'll also get him to help gather helpful herbs autonomously when he's not being taught or otherwise busy.

[micelus]

Hurry towards the Clanmeet. Adopt the slave-baby as my own. Get Sylis to weave some woolen clothes.Learn to play a recorder. See if any of the slaves know how to use them, if so, give them one.Kill of 20 sheep and harvest their wool (personal flock).Once again try to breed the deer.Ask the hunters to try to bring capture animals.

Also, NDRL might be away for three months. You migh want to turn his character into a NPC.

[Yoink]

Wait, how many men and women do the Mokoli have? And damnit, why did I not think of vines. THE VINES. I FORGOT THE VINES.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I'll take into account that NRDL will be away and not wait on his turns. All characters that don't give orders are effectively NPCs for the season. Doing the bare minimum to ensure the tribe survives.
Ahra, the "lost sheep" represent those that couldn't be "hunted down". Killed by predation or accident, or worse fates. Lost and the meat spoiled. Attrition for not having enough control for the herd size.
As for going to the Clanmeet, Unless Tak'am wants to make an issue of it, the chief feels his obligation to deliver the sheep is pressing. It was really less of a loan that must be repaid and more of a honor-gift thing that allowed the tribe to survive. It'd be a mortal insult on the rest of the clans to not make good on the word for repayment. So yea, if you don't intend to make the clanmeet, make it convincing. Otherwise you arrive at the start of Summer.

Mokoli Population:
Chieftain Mafun, 17 Male Warriors, 6 Former Almache women (2 are still actively resisting)
Total of 24. 18 men, 6 women.

[Yoink]

Simple solution: The two still resisting get shared out amongst the tribe, whilst the others, the more accepting ones, actually get some rights.
Still thinking of what else to do.

[NRDL]

I'm not gone yet, I'll be gone tomorrow.

Continue helping to get more food by either hunting or whatever, get married, and pray that she doesn't die.

[Tack]

Thanks Kogan.

I'll reluctantly allow people to go to the clan-meet, seeing as that'd be a horrifically big abuse of my power- as I don't have that much more power than the shaman of the other clans... yet.

But I'd like to keep the sick people away from the other people. They're fine to be around animals, if they're well enough to move- but they have to keep away from the yurt.
How many hides do we need to make a new tent?

[micelus]

Hey, what exactly is stopping us from settling down besides tradition? If we can just settle down, then I think I have an idea to become terribly overpowered.

[Tack]

Well, we've got the basics of better house-building so far. We could visit some other tribes, get up a strong knowledge base, and then we'd be way ahead when we did decide to settle down.

[micelus]

Yeah, pretty much. All we really need to do know is collect more knowledge and try to convince the Clan to join us.

[Tack]

Except, the spring ritual is kind of based around a nomadic tribe. So that'll need some changes. Plus we need to find a place to settle.
Plus, neither of us is the chief.

How old is the chief?

[NRDL]

I sense assassination in the near future...