1) Travel Southwest into the desert, following the coastline. 1 AP
2) Go to one of the pine trees and use my tools to make a hole in the side of the bark. I'd like to collect the pitch that is excreted on a branch to use as a torch to keep me warm. 1 AP
3) Sleep where I can find that's safe. 1 AP
Free Activity
Cook and feed on fish: see first pointed action for where I hope to get my meal from.
Do NOT annoy the elephant: avoid the majestic beast.
Pointed Actions
1) Fish at the weir. Add catch to the smocking rack.
2)Escort the expedition to the west to collect the fruit, using my warrior skills to protect if we are forced to face a hostile engagement. I will focus on guarding her.
3A) Whether I return or still with Thomas and if I am uninjured use the opportunity to collect needed plant material and craft some linen.
3B) If injured gather the needed plant material and craft myself bandages to use on myself.
4) Sleep in the cavern, unless Esprit is still out in which case I will guard her while resting.
Check on the goats. Check for new kids. All goats get moved into the caves at night until we can get a proper palisade up.
Cook and eat venison.
Avoid elephants.
Standard actions (if bees are in the bee bait box)
Hunt deer to the south of us using bola and the new ax i built last turn. @SouthernKing Invite Chat-Vert to join me since she is a hunter also.
Build thick working gloves from the auorch or deer hides and sinew.
Put on the beekeeper's clothes and thick gloves and bring the beebox back to the caves. Build a proper hive using the ax, stone tools, clay, and wood. Take some embers from the fire and place them on fresh green leaves and gently smoke the baitbox. Once the bees are sleepy with smoke, transfer the swarm to the hives. Return the baitbox to the southern site that I took it from so we can try to attract a second hive.
Build a leather poncho with lots of pockets from the deer or auroch hide.
Sleep
Standard actions (if there are no bees in the bee bait box)
Hunt deer to the south of us using bola and the new ax i built last turn. @SouthernKing Invite Chat-Vert to join me since she is a hunter also.
Build thick working gloves from the auorch or deer hides and sinew.
Join the expedition to the west (bringing my bola and knife for protection) but my mission is not to look for fruit; it is to set up the bee bait box closer to the flowers while also looking to find and take an existing hive. Still, stay near the group so we can protect and defend each other. I will dress in my beekeeper's gear and gloves and bring a pottery urn with me (in my satchel). I will drop off the bee bait box near the flowers and follow any bees i find to their hives. Using my protective equipment I will take the bee hive i find and place it in my urn.
Once back at the caves, build a proper hive using the ax, stone tools, clay, and wood. Take some embers from the fire and place them on fresh green leaves and gently smoke the urn with the hive in it. Once the bees are sleepy with smoke, transfer the swarm to the new hive.
1 AP) with Grasses, weave a roll that can be used as a mattress, and as a pack to carry things in
2 AP) gather some of our preserved food
3 AP) Head west towards the red-fruit that we will not be calling a blood fruit because that's way too edge, and not the way we do things.
4 AP) While walking, spend time to (Forage) focusing specifically on cultivable grains and vegetables
5 AP) Rest.
1 AP to join Papa on the hunt. Oo! Sharp objects! Blood! Meat! 1 AP to forage (while we are hunting). Pretty berries! 1 AP to sleep. zzzzzzzz.... zzzzzzzz....
Just finished coordinating the Great Sheep Hunt.
1 AP: Pray to Thenron for guidance on today's shepherding
1 AP: Go forth and shepherd some sheep, using Thenron's guidance
2 AP: Further prayers to Thenron, trying to attune more deeply to the spiritual world using the leylines
1 AP: ZzzzZZZZzzZzz
1 AP: Craft a net from nearby long grasses. Baioreznomat is embarrassed by his poor net from yesterday, and is ready to a
1 AP: Work as a team of four (Baioreznomat, Hale-as-Stone, Sleeps-in-cave, and Lord Thenron) to corral and capture the sheep, stretching the net between two of us and guiding all of the sheep back to the Vale
1 AP: Construct a pen to hold the sheep in using the timber Hale-as-Stone collected
1 AP: Butcher one of the sheep, cook and eat
1 AP: Sleep
Fixtures: cave-side furnace, rock cave entrance (5), fishing weir (5), linen hammock (6), bee box (2), bee hive (5), wood fence (3), smoking rack (4)
Tools: stone tools (2), bone weaving tools (1), three unused torches, rope (1), pickaxe (5), pottery wheel (4), two clay urns (6)
Apparel: beekeeper’s hood (4), beekeeper’s suit (4), auroch gloves (9)
Weapons: stone axe (5), stone/snakeskin bola (1)
Food: two days’ tomatoes (6), two days' jungle mushrooms (4)
Misc: gold nuggets, cured deerhide (3), snakeskin (3), two adult goats, one baby goat
SpoilerAvatars :
Papa Grand-Crinière-Vert
Status: Healthy. Well Fed (+1 AP). Well Rested (+1 AP).
Action Points: 5 AP
Traits: Hunter, Crafty, Toolmaker
Inventory: lizard satchel (3)
Mémère Esprit
Status: Minor Injury (1, bruises). Well Fed (+1). Well Rested (+1 AP).
Action Points: 5 AP
Traits: Forager, Crafty
Inventory: linen (3)
Mana: 1
Listyr
Status: Healthy. Well Fed (+1 AP). Rested. Hot.
Action Points: 4 AP
Traits: Waterborne, Warrior
Inventory: stone spear (3), linen (5)
Angst
Status: Healthy. Well Fed (+1 AP). Rested. Warm.
Action Points: 4 AP
Traits: Handler, Waterborne
Mana: 1
Karma: 1
Chat-Verte
Status: Healthy. Well Fed (+1 AP). Rested.
Action Points: 4 AP
Traits: Hunter, Spelunker
Mana: 1
Papa, you go for your morning routine stroll through the valley and see little buzzing bugs – the bees have finally found your box! You grab the box and take it back to base, heading out with Chat-Verte for hunting before you’ll dive into your bee-related projects.
Chat-Verte and Papa, together you go hunting for deer spotted at the south-western edge of the river valley. With bola and spear, you are careful, but when you pounce, the larger game escape – Papa, you entirely miss the mark, but Chat-Verte, the precocious hunter, scores a kill on a young animal. You bring the deer back to the cave. Chat-Verte, you then head off foraging, but realizing the valley is pretty much exhausted from prior foraging, instead look outside the valley to the north-eastern jungle. There you find mushrooms that from sight and smell you trust are not poisonous or harmful.
Meanwhile Papa, you get to work on the bees! With auroch hide you craft auroch gloves, which are the most finely crafted thing you’ve ever made. You make a bee hive, smoke the bees to sleep, and transfer them, creating a permanent small colony near your base. You then move onto butchering the young deer, which takes time and as such, you do not have the time today to make your poncho.
Mémère and Listyr, you have separate mornings before uniting for the trek westward. Listyr, you go fishing at the weir, but despite your luck and equipment, the fish simply don’t flow. Empty-handed, you head back, and join Mémère, who has crafted a simple linen that could be used as a mattress or makeshift bag. Together you trek west, passing the swamp and the western mountain, before entering a temperate region with new trees. On your way, you encounter a bear, and although Listyr hits it with his spear, in truth, the best course of action is to simply evade and flee, which you succeed at doing. After much searching, Mémère you end up finding the strange red vegetable (or some would say is technically a fruit), and grab all you can in your sack to head back with Listyr.
Angst, your day is a lot simpler – it starts with you falling asleep. After a good rest, you wake up later in the day, and head out to the two goats – calling on the energy of the world, you attempt to push the two goats to mate. Against all odds, with the help of the non-corporeal plane, it seems to have had some effect! Though your overzealous herding did end up causing the goats to damage some of the fencing. By tomorrow a baby goat will join the group. Still pretty tired and a little disoriented, you go back to the cave.
With fish and deer for all, the tribe eats and is satiated with a feast in the evening, before everyone heads to sleep. When you wake up the next day, danger lurks in every direction of the valley.
OOC: Your guys’ turns are now a little complicated, so apologies for inevitable stats errors from here onward – please point out anything that seems off.
Hale-as-Stone
Status: Minor Injury (1, scorpion sting). Well Fed (+1 AP). Well Rested (+1 AP).
Action Points: 4 AP
Traits: Crafty, Sneaky, Shaman
Inventory: stone spear (2), stone tools (1), cured tiger/deer clothes (8), stone axe (4)
Mana: 4
Baioreznomat
Status: Healthy. Well Fed (+1 AP). Well Rested (+1 AP).
Action Points: 5 AP
Traits: Sneaky, Crafty, Butcher
Inventory: cured tiger clothes (4), stone pickaxe (3)
Mana: 2
Sleeps-in-Cave
Status: Minor Injury (1, scorp scrapes), Minor Injury (2, wolf bruises). Well Fed (+1 AP). Rested.
Action Points: 4 AP
Traits: Crafty, Warrior, Sneaky
Inventory: stone spear (1), atlatl (3), stone hoe (3), stone tools (2), linen satchel (7)
Before the day’s great sheep hunt, Baioreznomat and Hale-as-Stone make preparations. Hale-as-Stone, you pray before the figure of Thenron, but after quite a while of contemplation, you feel nothing of the spiritual world – and then the antlers on Thenron’s head fall to the ground, breaking apart. You will not have help on the hunt today. Baioreznomat, you craft a grass net, improving on yesterday’s design – this one shall last longer than the day.
And then the three of you are off – to the north, beyond the ley-lines that define your river valley. As you leave, white apes approach one of your ley-lines, inspecting and tossing it around before panicking at its change of colour and then leaving. You worry that the disturbed stone may create a weak point in your anti-predator defence grid. Moving north, you coordinate, working with the net and other tools, trying to capture as many sheep and shepherd them to base as you can. Hale-as-Stone, you fail repeatedly, losing multiple sheep for the team that were within your collective grasp – has Thenron forsaken you? Is there a god of the grazing animals that you should have worshipped instead? Meanwhile Baioreznomat and Sleeps-in-Caves, you both prove yourselves able handlers. Working together, you net the camp four sheep – all of which you guide toward camp without carrying them manually by net.
With the evening, Baioreznomat, you use up the timber cut before by Hale-as-Stone and create a pen around the cave, enclosing the sheep – it is incredibly rickety and simple (a proper fence or palisade will require more AP and more timber). You then take one of your sheep, and butcher it for its meat, for the entire tribe to feast upon, saving the sheepskin and attached wool for later.
Hale-as-Stone, you return to Thenron. What could have gone wrong? You spend many hours praying, contemplating, attempting to reach the divine – and you succeed. You breach the chasm between the mortal and spiritual planes, and for a time you feel yourself leave your body. You drift above, able to see strange shapes in all directions… and then you return. With all of your spiritual exercise you have become a shaman.
Everyone partakes in the sheep’s meat and sleeps the night – Baioreznomat and Hale-as-Stone on their mattress, and Sleeps-in-Cave on the hard cave floor.
Double A
Status: Healthy. Fed. Well Fed (+1 AP). Overheating (penalty to energetic actions).
Action Points: 4 AP
Traits: Warrior, Crafty, Spearman
Inventory: stone tools (3), stone spear (6), sling (3), crabshell shield (1), rope (4), two days' crocodile meat (2), crocodile skin (3)
Stashed Nearby: fire
This isn't the first time you feel like you lost your soul. Everything seems to freeze and you seem to be without that inner voice that
brings forth all of your thoughts. Though you do not know it, a day has passed for the world, but no time has passed for you.
Spear-Walker
Status: Minor Injury (2, rhino impalements). Fed. Rested. Cold.
Action Points: 3 AP
Traits: Warrior, Spearman, Crafty, Forager, Sneaky
Inventory: stone spear (2), enchanted wreath (2), bearskin tunic (4), bearskin backpack (4), one days' forageables (3), three days' lemons (5)
Stashed Nearby: nothing
You begin your day attempting to exploit nearby trees for pitch to create a torch – it takes time but you are successful enough to make a single torch which you use to keep yourself warm throughout the day. As you travel the plains, toward the desert, keeping to the coast, you feel chills from the northern winds across the sea – you can make out a land beyond the waters. You also feel the sun heating you up, and combined with your torch, you feel better as the day progresses. Despite your efforts to remain sneaky, a panther trails you throughout your journey, until it launches into a sprint – you run yourself, but it’s speed is to much and so instead turn to fight. It claws at your clothing – your wreath, tunic, and backpack are damaged, but you suffer no injuries to your body. You respond with your atlatl and spear after evading a charge, and along with your torch, hurt and scare the panther back across the plains. Your atlatl is damaged beyond repair, as are your stone tools – but you feel like you’ve learned how to evade predators better. You rest on the coast to the sound of the waves.
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Orders due for Monday August 10th!
Patch Notes:
Special Plants
Since thomas.berubeg has started trying to find plants for cultivation, I’d like to let everyone know that there are sixteen high-value plants (cereals, fruits, vegetables, etc.) spread throughout the world. Players will need to explore to find them – these only exist as sprites on the map and have no hidden ones that can be found from searching for hidden things. Avatars that benefit from a diversity of food sources will be healthier and therefore have more Action Points at their disposal.
Check on hive (using my protective gear). Collect any honey in a pottery urn. Collect spare beeswax in a pottery urn.
Cook and eat food along with the village. Combine and divide so we have a wide variety of foods hopefully including tomatoes, mushrooms, goat milk, honey, and fish. Keep the tomato seeds for a garden. Keep the mushroom spore for a garden.
If we (or the goats) are attacked, call for help. Work with the village to beat off any predators using the new spear (or my bola) and harsh words.
Standard actions:
Make a hoe. Hand over the hoe to Thomas for her tomato garden.
Build a spear.
Collect the spores from the mushroom (carefully). Using some of the timber that Thomas felled, the axe, stone tools, and the spore, build a mushroom garden near the cave entrance.
Fish at the weir with Listyr and Angst. Share the fish along with any other food. Smoke any left-overs.
We will maintain a eye to ensure the predators are not to cause harm. Priorities ensuring folk avoid the predators, particularly the tigers. If they dare attack priorities ensuring I have done the first two pointed actions if I must use a costly action to intervene.
Free Activity
I would like to eat some of the fish from the weir today: cook 'em before eating. If the diverse food is organize by Papa then I will partake in the greater joy.
Keep alert in case of attacks. Encourage my fellows to avoid hostility if possible.
Pointed Actions
1) Make a spare spear for the Tit-Trou Stockpile: anyone is free to make use of it for its purpose is to help defend.
2)Join the others fishing at the weir.
3)Craft bedding with the linen.
4)If possible sleep on the bedding: otherwise sleep on cavern floor.
1) Travel to the south-west and use the hill indicated in the picture to get a better vantage point of the area. 1 AP
2) When I arrive to the hill I'd like to try and gather the shiny stones on the hillside and store them in my backpack. 1 AP
3) Sleep on the hilltop, first making sure that I'm well hidden from predators. 1 AP
Coaching beasts: hidden might
Coated in fire hide
Fools would strive to the fight
Against the forest's pride
They look upon us all
With the eyes of judgement
Bringing violent squall For the condemned: torment
The tigers' stare is awe
Fury married patience
That is the forest's law
So say these acquaintance
Majestic eyes of dread
And claws that leaves one dead
With us they will be fed
Will we all hence dispread?
Perhaps they have mercy? They judged us well before Will we be found worthy?
Or they shed us to gore?
Pray they do not attack
Neither the clan or herd
May mercy come our track
By these flamed judges furred
I think I should have 5 AP? I have two +1 modifiers, no -1 modifiers.
Craft stone tools (1 AP): Make fresh tools with the old, nearly broken ones.
Craft torch (1 AP): Make a torch for Baioreznomat using a sheep bone.
Repair Leylines (1 AP, expending Mana as needed): Go around entreating the spirits to renew their agreements.
Squirrel Hunting (1 AP): Take my turn picking off squirrels for supper
Zzzzzz (1 AP)
1) Use the morning to hunt Squirrels with Stone Spear, Sneaking upon then as the strong tiger, then cooking and eating their meat with the mutton
2) Use Stone Axe to chop down nearby timber
3) Mine copper and tin from the cave, by torchlight from Hale-as-Stone.
4) Use the Furnace to melt down the metals. Widen divots in the rock to use as a mold for a spear-head, crafting a Bronze Spear.
5) Sleep
Non-Action: Take time to socialize with the Sheep and learn their habits. Baioreznomat will become a friend to the sheep!
Angst actions
Free - pick up weapon from the stash for potential defense
1 AP to craft a good bed for myself
1 AP to go on the fishing trip
1 AP to meditate on the nature of goats
1 AP to herd - and milk those goats!
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