Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Kogan Loloklam]

Ask the Patriarch where we are currently heading. Reccomend the Clanmeet or the land of the scarab-headed man in the South.
[/b]

Sorry for the confusion... You guys are at the clanmeet, as it is summer. Anything here regarding the clanmeet is assumed to be taking place at the very beginning of the month, as it disperses. Next summer you might not be, as you no longer have any obligations to meet and don't have to attend.

[Yoink]

Oh crap, I forgot about this! Sorry, I'll post my turn once I get back from work!

[Tack]

Hooray!
And here I was beginning to worry.

[Firelordsky]

Make more fishing spears and consult with the Otters.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I really don't want to run this without Yoink's turn, so I'll give him until when I wake up tomorrow. I don't think he plans on trekking 3 months across hostile terrain to attack the Gokanloa, so it should be all nice and ready with the exception of running the Mokoli. Of course it being Sunday, I like to sleep in.

[Yoink]

(Okay, I'm not really sure what we should be doing, but I need to post something! )

Mafun will make sure that any tribespeople who show special promise in either hunting or foraging shall be set primarily to that duty, and the woman who put in the greatest effort in foraging shall be given a special vine necklace woven in the shape of an animal. (Possibly a bear, turtle, tiger or even a bird, depending on what the tribe's seen in their travels!) Also, from now on at the end of every month there shall be a fairly short meeting of all members of the tribe, male and female- apart from guards and lookouts, of course- to discuss how the tribe should continue, what people believe are the priorities for survival, and how to react to various problems. Mafun will listen to his peoples' ideas intently, giving all a chance to speak.

In other orders, hunting and foraging shall continue as the tribe desperately tries to build up a surplus of food. Mafun will try and work out exactly what the women were good at in their previous lives, and any foreigners sighted shall be invited into the village to meet Mafun, as long as they are few and unarmed.
Mafun, seeing no benefits from betrayal in such a situation, shall order his warriors to keep to his promise and let any visitors live, as he tries to speak to them and learn of the surrounding lands. Scouts will continue to search for any resources nearby, and Mafun will open a discussion on hunting techniques at the monthly meeting, allowing people to trade their tips and experiences learnt whilst hunting, passing on whatever they've learned to the others.

Mafun will let the women raise their children as they see fit, but from an early age they shall also be taught Mokab along with their mothers, (Whose lessons obviously continue) and when they're old enough he and the other men shall begin their training with weapons. I imagine this won't happen for a while, though.

If enough large branches can be found, Mafun will order (and help with) the construction of one or two guard towers around the village, to give guards a decent vantage point from which to watch the surroundings.
Not too close to the village, though, or they might end up being a nice vantage point for enemies...
Access to and from the towers can be from both a simple ladder, or strong, knotted ropes leading from the fort to the tower, to allow the guards a quick retreat should their tower come under attack. The ropes can always be cut to deny the enemy their use.

Edit: Added a couple things!

[Kogan Loloklam]

AUTUMN IS DONE!

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

Ahra did not follow any Micelus's orders because I did not see any given for him. I am reading "when the herd is calm" to mean that Ahra is watching the herd full time and doing clothing reinforcement in the meanwhile. As most of the tribe are not hunters, it was fairly easy to reinforce clothing in bone. He reinforced Nix's and Azkul's clothing, and then ran out of hunters.

Azkul, the area you are in is a great plains sort of area. You are not currently next to a forest, mountains, or deserts. There are some rivers winding their way through the territory, but nothing very large. The area is not very geologically active. If you are willing to deliberatly look for a site, you can probably find a source of any of those items within 2 seasons. You could request your tribe go with you during this exploration, otherwise you will need to be concerned with personal food and other items. Your localized searching did not find any sites during the standard tribal movement.

Tack, your apprintice doesn't have any jealousy problems with your daughter currently. It's not like she's old enough to challenge his appearent place as your heir, and even if she was, she's female and therefore not a threat to his position. The Shaman-meet occurs in the same season as the Clanmeet, therefore you went to it in the Summer. It's now Autumn. (Next orders period is for winter)

Nix trains diligently with his spear. His training seems to pay off (he has gained a skill rank in spears.)

Micelus organizes the Former Slave women to make traps, and has the former slave man to help as he watches the sheep. They are exceptionally poor at it, making only two low-quality snares. (Perhaps asking El clan females, who have experience at weaving, might have been more effective?) No hunters went out this season to use the snares, so no attempts to get small animals was done. The chief seemed very uncomfortable about Micelus's decision to teach the women manly arts (ravenry) but doesn't directly oppose his friend. He does take him to the side and request that Micelus stop trying to distract the former slave male from learning to manage the herd effectively, as that directly represents the tribe's livelyhood and therefore his ability to grasp it affects his future position in the tribe (you only have a single male left alive from the former slaves. The chief has him exclusivly working the sheep herds.) Micelus begins attempting to use a set of symbols for things. He has difficulty and makes very little progress. He asks about rumors. One of the individuals says that the Qwem-Al were raided by one of the exiled tribes and they didn't attend the clanmeet because they were tracking the exiled tribe down. You trade your 5 painted hides, 6 redorders, 5 good quality clothing and 3 average quality clothing for another trained crow and 10 lbs of paint. There weren't any interesting animals for sale. There is no market for it, so it's not generally checked when tribes are met. The chief thanks Micelus for the food.

The Chief Slaughtered 52 sheep this season for food. The herd was adequately watched (thanks to Ahra. He was responsible for almost 1/3rd the entire effort.)

Tribal Assets:
No Territory
A large Tribal Yurt
31 Villagers
Sheep Herd of 588 (+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

Ahra's Holdings:
Wife

Azkul's Holdings:
Wife
3 Sheep

Tak'am's Holdings:
Tak'anya (El Clan Wife)
Peyanya
Apprentice

Nix's Holdings:
Wife

Micelus's Holdings:
2 Trained Crows
Sylis
Daughter, Son (Adopted)
76 Sheep
210 Person-Days of Food
13 Goats
29.9 Lbs of Paints
2 Wool Clothes
4 Wood "Recorders" of Good Quality
24 Lbs of Wool

Nice timing firelordsky. Real nice.

Spoiler: Gokanloa (click to show/hide)

The Gokanloa mourn the death of one of their adult males.

Fire makes a batch of fishing spears. He goes to consult the Otters. The otters seem to be content with how things are going, but they worry about the increasing temperature of the warm sea vents in the area. It is a very gradual rise, but they feel as if some disaster is coming soon.

The Gokenloa harvest their crops. They now have over two years of food.

Tribal Assets:
Friendly raft of Sea Otters nearby that help the tribe fish
1 Village of 35 people.
30 Acres of Farmland
2 10-Man Spearfishing Canoes
2 Years of Food

You really need to focus on food. Your hunting did way poorer than I thought they would, but your foragers made up for it by a great deal. You don't have a farming culture, you cannot afford spare labor unless you have a surplus set aside.

Spoiler: Mokoli (click to show/hide)

One of the women have given birth to a baby boy this season. It is clear that the women are expert foragers.
At the meeting, the hunters suggest they will be more successful hunting if they aren't spending so much time building. 2 men and Mafun built two towers near the village. The Women manage to forage up two months worth of food. Your hunters managed to barely scrape up a month of food on their own. Your village survives another season.

Mafun's Holdings:
Tribal Leadership of the Mokoli

Village Assets:
1 Fortified village of 27 people

[Azkul]

Ask the chief for some extra sheep and some food
Leave the tribe with animals, wife and any other villagers who wish to come to try and find a place to settle

[micelus]

That really a good idea Azkul?


I'll write my turn later.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Is it your intent to split the tribe?

(Edit: Please describe your "ideal" location to settle as well, and how far you are willing to travel for it.)

[Yoink]

Come join the Mokoli! Shame we live miles away in the arse-end of NOWHAR.

[Azkul]

Is it your intent to split the tribe?

Yes, try to persuade other villagers to join me


Ideal location would be near a river or some other fresh water source, at least lightly wooded and near a source of clay and stone outcrops. (Other useful useful resources would be preferred, but not vital)
Maximum travel distance is 3 seasons travel


(I do realise that this will probably just be a short lived failure ending in death)

[Kogan Loloklam]

3 Seasons could get you damn near to the Mokoli while searching for that site. Okay, so you prefer wooded. Do you want it heavily wooded nearby, like forest's edge, or just a corpse of trees, like near rivers on the great plains.
Do you want to stay in the Greater El Clan territory?
If you are looking for forests, do you want to be near the border of the Kodana, or further south?


El-Effhichen players, in your turn please specify if you stay with the main tribe or follow Azkul.
Azkul, please let me know what you intent to call your new band.

[Azkul]

3 Seasons could get you damn near to the Mokoli while searching for that site. Okay, so you prefer wooded. Do you want it heavily wooded nearby, like forest's edge, or just a corpse of trees, like near rivers on the great plains.

Fairly heavily wooded (medium), not extremely thick jungle/forest, but fairly heavily wooded

Do you want to stay in the Greater El Clan territory?

No preference, if a good site is found within the territory then so be it

If you are looking for forests, do you want to be near the border of the Kodana, or further south?

Near border of Kodana

Azkul, please let me know what you intent to call your new band.

El-tahnoun

[Kogan Loloklam]

Alright, this season (winter, by the way) you and your wife will separate, along with everyone else who chooses, and travel in the direction to the forest until you find a suitable site. I'll check to see potential likely spots and post them. It'd be nice if I could run the whole El-Effie turn early so I can have this established in advance. So Mice, Ahra, Tack, if you could get back with any actions you intend to do regarding this split quickly I'd appreciate it.