The high-council of the round table had a gathering that evening to decide where to build the future capital
Obsolete: Why dont we settle here, in this patch of trees?
Opty: I dont like it. Why is there a river touching EVERYTHING but this God-damn tile were standing on?
Rad: Here is fine I guess, my legs are tired and I dont want to burn off any more precious turns by moving all over the place.
Buildy: Whatever the decision is, I dont care. I just want us to get mining up soon, so we can get production going. If we could get StoneHenge, we could impress the world with our SHINY wonder.
Opty: I dont agree. I think we need animal husbandry first. We have a patch of cows near by, and there is a gold coin on it!
Obsolte: Hmm
but is it a SHINY gold coin? I like shiny things.
Rad: As the Royal Advisor, I advise it MAY be best to get AH researched first because this could show us where horses are. If we get some near by, we could get some SHINY UUs out the gate. This would help us against the nasty barbarians, amongst other things.
Obsolete: The local barbarians, what are they like?
Rad: Those deity barbs, they are the worst kind. They all seem to already have Hunting, Wheel, Aggriculture, and Archery. And they are NOT afraid to pillage and murder with that archery tech either. In fact, they will probably try to over-run us in a few turns. So well need to get some sort of suckers to volunteer for barbarian duty. Give them the title of warrior to make them feel patriotic, that should do the trick.
Buildy: I had a cousin that was a warrior once. He even killed an archer all on his own, but died to an axeman while celebrating over it.
Obsolete: Really Buildy?! I also did have a cousin somewhere in the family tree who died defending vs. a Vandetic Arayan uprising. He actually died first day on his job.
Buildy: Ohh, so he was a warrior too?
Obsolete: No, he was a fast-worker from India.
Buildy: For real? I thought they had attack and defense values of zero.
Obsolete: Why yes, I think you are quite right. But its an easy mistake to make. In fact, it can even happen to anybody.
Buildy: O_o ???
Rad: My Lord, before we get into stories, may I suggest we try to decide on what type of economy we should gear up for.
Opty: Specialist eccon. of course. Nothing else matches for power.
Buildy: Yes, yes of course! And we can build the Mids and get double-power.
Obsolete: Ohh? And whats all this new-age talk I hear about cottages?
Opty: Pfffff! Silly superstition. Theyre really poor tiles, its just that people like to see things grow!
Obsolete: They grow? That sounds interesting.
Rad: But my Lord, you can also make workshops grow too. And 1 hammer is worth at least 3 commerce a piece.
Buildy: Yes, yes! And cottages dont even supply one single hammers for builds, until for many thousands of years. And even then its just 1 silly hammer assuming you even run a bad civic to get it!
Obsolete: Very well, go fetch the financial advisor. Lets see what he has to say on this specialist economy proposal.
After a little commotion, the financial advisor was called for. Eventually, in through the doors approached a peasant looking man.
Obsolete: Well I dont know. He looks like a peasant to me. Who are you really?
Bob: Im Bob. Im the financial advisor. Sorry I am not prestige enough in appearance, but our treasury box has been empty ever since I became empowered to run it. (and even before then!)
Obsolete: Sorry about that, but dont worry, well have plenty of commerce coming your way.
Buildy: Oh yes! We found a commerce piece in the cows plot adjacent to this spot. Well be rich in no time.
Rad: Bob, we have decided to go for a full-blown SE economy. We would like to hear your valuable input on this.
Bob: Oh, I dont know much about that. To be honest I was just hopping we could plant down cottages everywhere. By the way, do you guys know if we can get a financial leader instead? So far I have been unimpressed with this kingdom, and have been looking forward to perhaps forming a coop to get someone with better traits to lead us. If we could just form a small revolution--
Buildy: Danger!! Danger!! Will BOBinson!
Obsolete: Umm, Bob? I AM THE LEADER!
Bob: Whooooops!
Opty: Uh-Oh
Rad: Zoiks!! Rut-roh
There was a very awkward moment as silence fell while everyone stared at Bob, as though he had just made a ludicrous statement as to get the empires power-rating high enough to prevent a deity DoW from Monte or Toku.
Obsolete: You know what Bob? I think its time you get a promotion. I promote you to Bob the Scout!
Bob: What??
Obsolete: Oops, I meant, Bob the Warrior. Think about all the bragging rights that title can earn you.
Buildy: Yes, yes! All those friendly tribal villages you will get to meet, and nice domesticated wild-cats and bears you can pet along the way.
Bob: Excuse me my Lord, but are you aware the life-expectancy for a warrior in deity lands is less than 5 turns? Thats a statistical fact!
Opty: Pfffffft! Recent statistics show that 80% of statistics are proven to be in error.
Buildy: And just think. Many thousands of years from now in the future, people will grow up in large cities in a large empire, all thanks to you. In fact, they wont even know who you were or what you sacrificed for them.
Bob: Uhh--
And with that, the last thing Bob the scout (ahem, warrior) felt was a large kick in the ass as he flew past the city gates. He landed onto a grassland plain, ready to handle his first scout (ahem, warrior) task.
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What will Master Obsolete chose to research next. The ambitious mining, or lucky animal husbandry. Will he order the settler moved to grab a river bonus, or keep it in place? And what fantastic adventures will Bob the Scout
. I mean our brave Master Warrior find himself involved in.
Stay tuned next week
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