Update two
Summer of 751
Summer of 751 sees several changes, one and maybe most important change is the fact that orcs feel themselves more certain thanks to new warriors. Another important change is that village of Gormadash now has several animals. These animals, called „sheep“ are not yet domisticated (so no "milk related products" !) - many of them are chained up and everyone are surrounded by small (but strong) pen - wooden stockade of sorts. Building this stockade did not go easy as many were oppose it and some said that it'd be smarter to simply kill these sheep. Yet it now seems building this stockade was a good idea and it should be enlarged. Most immortals were rather lucky with their actions, then again commoner and specialist factions did not do bad either. Of course there is still left a lot to do, but this season went very well for inexperienced villagers of Gormadash.
(OOC: You guys got ALMOST NO POOR ROLLS, you ... cheaters!)
Chill Bill decided to help out crafters with building and preparing traps. He annoyed several craftsmen with his constant chatter, but in the long run craftsmen were pleased with his actions and help. Thanks to recent events and many wild rabbit families, Bill help was needed to help with trap line semi-daily. Thanks to his constant work, nagging, organizing and running (where does bill get his energy from?!?!) Bill finally learns basic trapping!
These are things what Bill learned to trap
Immortal known under the name of
Luke practices with soldiers – enough to learn „50% of fighting“. Another immortal, named
Gorrik who had „accident with fire“ also practices with soldiers, his accident with fire grants him unique ability to make spears with charred tips – effective and cheap way to improve spear durability. As it is his knowledge, he does not have to share it with rest of the tribe. Despite of keeping his knowledge secret and being forced to spar with Ugag, Gorrik learns 50% of basic fighting and does not get many bruises.
Immortal, known under the name of
Wotepchu Broadhand, continues digging irrigation. He does not shine out from other workers but then again, he does not make many fatal mistakes either. When Wotepchu was not digging, he scouted riverside with few volunteer gatherers and one farmer working as an advisor. Thanks to his abnormal luck, Wotepchu found many useful plants near river and learned „basic herb knowledge“. That means he now knows very few plants what can be eaten or used to treat wounds – of course this means he only knows plants which can be directly applied to a wound. Plants which are need to be boiled or otherwise prepared before eating/using are still a mystery to Wotepch. Among plants he gathered, he also gathered two 2 units of medical herbs, enough plants to improve healing rates of two wounded kinsman.
Ugag, despite of his previous „unlucky“ events decides to spar with soldiers. His little follower does same as
Ugag does –
Ugag succesfully gains one follower. However, one of the young recruits gets a severe wounds, when sword that
Ugag used to practiced with, „flies“ straight into young warriors side. Despite that small „unfortunate“ event,
Ugag learns „50% of basic fighting“. As small and barely mention-worthy „side effect“, craftsmen had to repair shields and swords every time
Ugag and
Little Ugag practiced with them.
Wotepchu gathering squad runs several times into fishermen squad. Same fishing squad that immortal called
Xialo is part of.
Xialo follows and learns how fishermen catch fish and learns "basic fishing with spear". When creatures of night take away one of the „more experienced fisherman“, his friends decide to give his tools to
Xialo. That means
Xialo gains Fishing Net and Fishing Spear.
Xialo learns „Basic Fishing“. There's nothing much do be said about
Xialo hunting trips – he gains nothing but loses nothing.
Wotepchu, is not only immortal who gathers herbs and plants for food – one immortal known under the name of
Gaarth also gathers herbs in the same squad. Unlike Wotepchu,
Gaarth gives many of the plants he gathers to young orc females. As
Gaarth is not very smart, he soon decides to join two actions into one – he looks for plants and hauls dry firewood from forest - at the same time. This action is not smartest action Gaarth could do - as
Gaarth has no bag to carry plants in, plants he manages to bring home have rather poor quality (as he is forced to carry dry logs and plants at the same time. This „minor problem“ is solved soon when one of the Orcish females gifts
Gaarth a „shoulder bag“. At first most orcs laugh at Gaarths bag, but soon they relize that it is very useful thing to carry with meals or gathered plants.
Gaarth gains „Shoulder bag“, Gaarth gains 1/2 female follower.
Maxwell who takes rather long time to decide what to do, eventually decides to practice with soldiers. He is lucky and does not have to practice with Ugag and by the end of season he learns 50% basic fighting.When Maxwell notices Ugag “accidents”, he decides to go for a walk in ruins instead – this is only a safety measure, to avoid “getting hit by Ugag famous flying axe”. His walks in ruins does not take him to huge treasures, as it seems most recoverable stuff has already been dug up. However one of the Maxwell scaveging trips is a success - he trips (and hits his knee) on something, when returning to village and as he takes closer look at what he tripped on ... he smiles. From the ground, piece of sword pommel sticks out – no one would have noticed this and all other orcs simply walked over this but Maxwell clumsiness found him a sword. It takes only half an hour to dig this sword out and find it is in semi-perfect order - only needs cleaning and some minor repairs. Rest of the season does not bring many noticeable findings.
Maxwell practicing
Immortal known under the name of Luke does not find anything in the ruins, but his attempts to help village make his reputation rise back to normal levels among crafters.
Stoll also helps to gather plants and, like most other plant gathers, he too is very successful. He manages to find small field full of eatable plants and many gathered roots can be conserved for rather long period of time. Thanks to this and several other (smaller) finds, he gains respect among farmers and learns 50% of basic herb knowledge. Evenings
Stoll spends with military troops. At least 5 first evenings, on sixth evening he's finally ready for live training and faced off his first training match against
Ugag – who, by accident, manages to break both
Stoll hands. Not only that, but as
Stoll rised back onto his feet, he discovered that
Ugag had broken his shield and his inexperienced fall had damaged spear. To cover up pain and hide tears,
Stoll runs, leaving his broken stuff behind – his „tactical retreat“ is often remembered with laugh among warriors.
Ugag,
luke and
Shuzurn with many other villagers
attempt to catch sheep. They try to surround first herd and capture some sheep with their bare hands, this event is unsuccesful as only caught sheep suffocates when orcs try tie that poor animal up. Orcs then try to scare second herd into small sheep pen and they manage to scare half of the herd (roughly 10 sheep) into specifically built pen – unfortunately they also scare ram into pen, who smacks down small part of a fence and lets most sheep flee, only one is left into pen after orcs manage to close that open gap. Third herd is attempted to catch same way and this time "this method" nets 3 sheep after closing another broken gap. Fourth attempt goes totally „into woods“ as one very angry ram protects his herd and several orcish brothers are forced to seek first aid from the village. Last herd is also protected by rather big and mean ram, who manages to open way for his herd through orcish ranks. Sheep herd, running wild towards „freedom“ suddenly faces a large hole in the ground – unable to stop or slow down, many of them fall into this hole. However some manage to climb up the hole sides before orcish hunters manage to surround this pit. Big ram, following his herd closely behind and seeing them trapped and surrounded orcs charges towards
Ugag and Little
Ugag.
Ugag, who stands his back towards ram, gets rather big blow from ram and falls together with his attacker into the pit. Fighting between
Ugag and Ram goes on for several minutes, until Little
Ugag throws fishermen net onto two fighters. An action what, at first, seemed reasonable soon turned out to be very bad decision – Both of the „gladiators“ get confused within web and manage to tie themselves together, worse yet is fact that
Ugag is forced to kneel on ground and some of the panicked sheep run over him.
Ugag bad luck is reversed by another Immortal known under name of
Shuzurn.
Shuzurn runs downhill and jumps onto net that holds both
Ugag and ram together. After several minutes
Ugag and
Shuzurn manage to tie big and mean ram legs together with piece of a rope. As final day comes to an end, many orcs are leave wounded but many more sheep are closed into this pen. Big Ram is tied into center of the pen and soon sheep gather around him. However this rather small and fixed pen requires constant feeding and care, as one can't simply move pen from one place to another and these sheep are rather far from what we know under "domesticated".
Few of the near-twenty sheep in small pen
EDIT
Elections for Overseer
Clansmen argue and vote. Few heads are smashed in and few leave with bruises but eventually they decide to declare Stoll as Overseer of the clan. There are some who oppose his right to count votes, but most agree that clever Stoll is best choise to fill seat of power.
With his new high position, Stoll gains respect (+1) and fame +2, Stoll gains 3 followers, Stoll gains low respect(+1) among shamans.
OOC:
Fame - how well known your orc is, more known orcs have larger influence among clansmen
Respect - how likely it is that others, specially commoners listen to what you say.
Followers will follow and help their owner, unless instructed otherwise. All followers start out as commoners and they can learn only one speciality. Think of them as you "tribesmen" they do what you say and rarely if ever disagree with you.
