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Who are we? Our community is perhaps seventy-strong since the war. The Jackals pushed us back to the mountains bordering our steppe, but Winter set in and weakened their resolve. Now, having fought them off, we rebuild once again. We would have much more to build were it not for the fact that we practically live out of the saddle. Our horses serve us well and a skilled rider can cross our territory in a week or two at most. The strong bonds we share make our current predicament even crueller, as the fires of war and cold of winter have scoured their grazing lands to the bone. We don't yet know what to do, and our few laws passed down in fragmentary rhymes give little guidance on such matters. All the while, we're surrounded by reminders of the price a people can pay for making the wrong choices. The titanic ruins of some elder race dot the lonely steppe. Among them are the ones we call the Line a winding path of broken black rock leading from the mountains to the Western marshes and the Colossus a mighty figure of black iron that stands at the end of the Line. The latter stands far taller than the trees, even as it sinks, inch by inch, year by year, into the mud. We can see it from anywhere on the steppe, and sometimes it seems to see us as well. Far above the Colossus and the mountaintops is something stranger still the night sky burns brightly in unseemly colours. Legends tell that long ago it did so only rarely, but now it lights up every month for days at a time. What this sign tells us, we don't know. Perhaps we'll find out. Perhaps we'll build something new. Perhaps we'll survive another year. We don't know.      How do I take my turn? First, you access the Roll20 tabletop and draw a card from the current season's deck. This will tell you to do something, often answer a question. Second, you resolve the oracle instructions, changing the map and performing actions as necessary. Third, you reduce the count of every Project by 1. When a Project reaches 0, it's finished whoever started it describes how it ends. Projects that end prematurely due to the oracle's instructions are described by whoever drew the card. Fourth, you take your own action (unless the oracle says that you don't act this turn) Start a Project, Discover Something New or Hold a Discussion:
Sixth, make a post in the following format: Season and Week Oracle question Resolution to Oracle question, with image if you used one Resolution to finished projects, if you started them Your action, with image if you used one Updated map Projects list (including Projects that reached 0 Weeks this turn) Abundances list Scarcities list Contempt list Game Tips
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Winter Week 1quote:Someone finds a curious opportunity on the edge of the map.  Action Start a Project: She and the scouts set out on horseback the very next day. It should be an easy acquisition after all, there is no prohibition on murder save against your own kin. Action Hold a Discussion: We can't keep all the horses alive through winter. We should sacrifice some so the others feed well enough to be strong come spring.  Projects: Raid on Northern travellers (2) Abundances: Horses Scarcities: Grazing Land, Laws Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 5, 2016 15:42
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Discussion "Like with us, the strong will always survive. If some fall then so be it. We have so little left from the Jackals that I am hesitant to voluntarily lose more."
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Jun 5, 2016 20:28
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"Cull a few for meat, perhaps, but otherwise? We will reclaim our grazing land in spring after all. Let those who survive, survive, and those who do not, take what we can of their cascasses."
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Jun 6, 2016 00:15
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Winter Week 2quote:Now is the time to conserve energy and resources. Sarangerel returns too soon and with a clean, unbloodied spear. But neither she nor her raiders seem distraught. She points to the sky and sings because the birds have returned! Dozens of them circle across the clouds. If the hunting birds are coming back to serve the people then surely this year will be good year.  Action Start a Project: Desiring her own recognition and seeing opportunity, Zayaa inspires a small group of young braves to ride off on their own into the snowy north.  Projects: New raid on Northern travellers (2) Abundances: Horses, Hunting birds Scarcities: Grazing Land, Laws Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 6, 2016 03:23
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Winter - Week 3quote:You see a good omen. Munkherel and her husband Lisandru have twins---a boy and girl---the first in two generations! Both are healthy and born with a full head of dark, coarse hair. They are named Not-Good and Nobody so no evil being steals the community's new luck. Everyone comes to greet the children and marvel.  Action - Discover Something New While exploring the mountainside on horseback, Azad comes across a strange small building with a door that has no knob. A great metal tube runs from within out along the land that is level, then disappears into the very mountainside itself. The tube and building have only the morning's ice upon them, already melting. Azad finds the metal of both tube and building to be pleasantly warm.   Projects: New raid on Northern travellers (1) Abundances: Horses, Hunting birds Scarcities: Grazing Land, Laws Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Winter Week 4quote:An infected outsider arrives, seeking amnesty. Its only when they return to the community that they realise just how dire our need is becoming: Fungal rot has spread through our store of animal feed, leaving our horses with precious little to eat.  Action Start a Project: Warmth is precious in winter. Azad, ever-fearless, plans to return to the strange dome he found and gain entry, by force if necessary.   Projects: New raid on Northern travellers (0), Break into the dome (2) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 6, 2016 12:08
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New Raid on Northern Travelers Zaaya's party returns with bloody spears but the tribe is left unsettled by her tales of victory. The Northern travelers' menfolk were sick and the women sicker still. Her accounts of strange blemishes and postulates and sores match the descriptions of the man coming from the East and so her great prizes--sundry furs and leathers meant to demonstrate her capacity for leadership and war--are thrown into a pile and burned. Angry Zaaya refuses to watch. 
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Jun 6, 2016 13:14
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Winter Week 5quote:A small gang of marauders is making is making its way through local territory. How many are there? What weapons do they carry? Eyes watch the mountains for frequently now and Sarangerel has her scouts roaming it regularly. Her judgement is proven wise. Thirty some odd travelers are spotted traversing single file through the winding passes. No horses. The men drag bundles on makeshift sleds and the women wave sticks beholden with white cloth. The scouts watch and return without making contact.   Action Start a Project: Hunters begin training the eagles for larger "prey." The horses' mobility is limited in the mountains and chasing down stragglers on foot is... unappealing.  Projects: Break into the dome (1), Train the birds to attack men (4) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 6, 2016 14:19
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Winter - Week 6quote:Winter elements leave everyone cold, tired, and miserable.  A sudden blizzard forces everyone to shelter for most of the week. The mountain passes are snowed over and the birds cannot fly in the harsh winds and snow. Action - Discussion Should we continue with our half-remembered oral laws, which allows great liberty, but little responsibility, or strive toward a more permanent and stronger system that more firmly binds us all one to another?  Projects: Break into the dome (1), Train the birds to attack men (4) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 7, 2016 09:50
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We are bound by blood far stronger than any laws. EDIT: Your map's a little zoomed in. Also, remember to add a red dot to Discussion subjects (I've done so for this one, though). UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Jun 7, 2016 10:47
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"Blood law is law. There's... A second part to that but I can't remember the rhyme anymore."
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Jun 7, 2016 12:34
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May we be just, even if we forget the law sometimes.
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Jun 7, 2016 13:42
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Winter Week 7quote:Someone comes up with a plan to ensure safety and comfort in the coldest months.  Action Discover Something New: One of the taller ruins on the steppe we call the Nest. We cannot scale the frame at its base, making it perfect for wild birds to roost in. That the scouts have seen a flickering light on its upper levels in recent nights is beyond our ability to explain.  Projects: Break into the dome (0), Train the birds to attack men (3), Fortify the dome (3) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) Project Completed: While the domes door has no handle, it quickly gives way before a heavy bash. The pipe continues inside, threading through some bizarre machinery before running down into a pitch-black hole in the ground. Warm air rises up; a ladder leads down.  
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Jun 7, 2016 14:46
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Winter Week 8quote:Someone goes missing. They're alone in the winter elements.  Another blizzard rolls down off the mountains like a tidal wave and the world is once more painted white. It lasts for days. Lisandru's horse returns without him. A terrible sign. When the tribe catches brief glimpses of the sky they see it is blood red. A sign even worse. Sarangerel won't risk the horses but Zaaya fearlessly (recklessly) rides out again and again. And, finally, she returns with a prize that earns her her desired recognition. Lisandru "the Lucky" is alive! Everyone rubs his head for luck. Action Discover Something New: Lisandru, lost and alone, found the red tip of a long buried craft from the Time Before. He slept inside and stayed alive.  Projects: Train the birds to attack men (3), Fortify the dome (3) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) 
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Jun 8, 2016 03:06
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Winter - Week 9quote:A headstrong community member takes charge of the communitys work efforts.  Emboldened by success---and perhaps still bitter from the burning of the furs and goods she brought back from the raid last month---Zaaya throws herself into the training of the war birds. At first, the community listens to her input with patience.But she grows impatient with offering suggestions and tries to force herself as leader of the project. By the second day there are only arguments and sabotages. The birds are accidentally set free and Urlaan is forced to lead a group to recover them. Zaaya meanwhile is exiled to work on the everwam dome, where her martial bent and friendship with Azad results in a much quicker completion date. Action - Start a New Project  While riding in the chill and coaxing back the birds that were secure just days prior in the safety of a warm yurt, Urlaan and Ziya muse how this is not the first time Zaaya or others in the community have done whatever they wish sans counsel or forewarning. Sometimes that is good, as with finding Lisandru. Sometimes it is disastrous, as with losing the warbirds. When they finally return at the end of the week, they present the community with a plan to devise rules for important communal tasks. Where the law triplets are useful, they will be kept and expanded; where they make no sense, they will be abandoned. Several other members decide to join this undertaking, though whether to help or hinder who can say? Projects: Train the birds to attack men (3),  Fortify the dome (0), Community rules roundtable (4)Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (0), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) 
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Jun 9, 2016 07:12
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Taking 1 Contempt in response to law-making. Project Completed: When the work on the dome is finished, it's almost... defensible. Defence doesn't come easily to us, though. We'd much rather evade and ambush than sit in one place. Azad thinks differently, and the dome is now a veritable outpost. Our outpost. Winter Week 10 quote:In preparation for the coming year, the community begins a huge undertaking.  Action Hold a Discussion: The weak die out, the strong survive so it is with laws as with animals and people. That we remember laws is already proof of their worth, and we should not meddle in that.  Projects: Community rules roundtable (3), Redefining our borders (6) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 9, 2016 21:10
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"Building outposts. Making laws. Will we be giving up our horses, too, or just every other facet of our lives?"
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Jun 9, 2016 21:55
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We but survive when we should prosper, such is our stubbornness.
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Jun 9, 2016 22:10
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[b]Winter Week 11[/bquote:A great atrocity is revealed.  The tribe is eager to aggressively expand our borders. When facing the winterstorms there is the feeling of helplessness and tininess but riding out and doing something feels right. Even old white-haired Monkh spurs his horse into action. To West, though, he finds not grass but warm stone where snow won't stick and unmoving shadows that are hot to the touch. Human shadows. Ancient memories etched into the ground. Action Hold a Discussion: "Perhaps we have forgotten too much. Some grumble about our laws. Others, our warrior ways. Yet I am old and even I have no memory of this place. We should begin pilgrimages here and erect a shrine to our ancestors."  Projects: Community rules roundtable (2), Redefining our borders (5) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 10, 2016 14:03
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Yes, sanctify this evil place and soothe our ancestors.
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Jun 10, 2016 15:35
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Who knows whose ancestors they were? We don't want to revere our enemies by mistake and offend those of us who have gone, but still watch. No more blessings of twins or hunting birds then!
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Jun 10, 2016 21:51
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Winter - Week 12quote:Winter is harsh, and desperation gives rise to fear mongering. It began when Azad enter Ziya's yurt and mocked the law roundtable. She punched him and her guests threw him out. Zaaya and her brother saw Azad thrown to the ground and kicked, and started attacking the roundtable. Soon the community was in an uproar, with some people angry at Azad's side and others at Ziya's side, some because of blood ties or friendship, and some because of their stance on the legal code efforts. After several days of elders exhorting unity---and lots of random fistfights ending in nights of drinking far too much airag---everyone comes to a grudging peace at a communal feast. (If it could be called a feast, for there was not much food to spare.)  Projects: Community rules roundtable (1), Redefining our borders (4) Abundances: horses, hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 12, 2016 02:57
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Winter Week 13quote:What is winter like in this area?  Action Discover Something New: The weaker horses perish, slowly at first, then more as their food completely runs out. We still have many steeds, but not nearly enough for everyone. The hunting birds are more resilient and less dependent, and survive to see the Spring.   Projects: Community rules roundtable (1), Redefining our borders (4) Abundances: hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) OOC: When the previous card is drawn, nothing happens in that week, including projects advancing - so the timers would have been 2 and 5 on ibntumart's turn.
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Spring Week 1quote:A young boy starts digging in the ground and discovers something unexpected. What is it? It is a tough life and spring is a reminder of that when the fields open up and there is room to ride but not enough horses. Everyone old enough to ride yearn for the freedom it entails. Those too young are just happy to be able to leave the yurts. Bad-Dog digs with his hands in a small, shaded trench where melted snow turned dirt to mud. He finds an old warclub of sorts. The kind that must have been used by giants in the old times. He and the other children try to drag it out but it's far too heavy.  Action Start a project: The spirits are angry. Anyone who touches the shadows would know that for they are hot even at night. Even when there was snow. Azad the Builder is convinced to go build a shrine over the stones so our ancestors have a home again. Have a place where can we meet with them.   Projects: Community rules roundtable (0), Redefining our borders (3), Building a shrine (3) Abundances: hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 13, 2016 14:12
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Project Completed The roundtable finishes their weeks of discussion just as spring has come. Ziya and her companions organize a community meeting and propose innovations such as a revolving council to vote on use of communal resources, and a planning committee for projects, and trying to rediscover the undying word mystery of the ancestors, that trapped the spirit of words onto paper. They are met with derision and even anger. The next morning, Ziya and a quarter of the village leave before dawn's light, taking what they claim is a fair share of the horses and yurts. The Ziyarites say they will come back when the rest of us see reason or they can make us see. At least that leaves us with more feed for the animals left behind.  Spring - Week 2 quote:Someone new arrives. Who? A strange metal conveyance comes across the plains one afternoon. Zaaya and Temujin ride out to meet it and discover it is a vehicle, piloted by a man in unfamiliar clothes and of an unsavory look. He speaks in the tongue of the Jackals', but they can tell it is not natural to him. He opens the back of his car and reveals cans with pictures of food upon it, and when opened, Zaaya and Temujin see that food somewhat resembling the picture is within. They manage to understand he is offering payment for shelter and lead him back to the village.  Action - Discussion: What shall we do about those who left, taking their contributions---misguided as they sometimes were---and horses from our community?  Projects: Redefining our borders (2), Building a shrine (2) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only) Scarcities: grazing land, laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) ibntumart fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 14, 2016 12:27
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We'll see who conquers the most - who feasts the most.
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Jun 14, 2016 13:58
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"You're more likely to control the wind than a horseman. We'll ride together again; in this life or the next."
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Jun 14, 2016 14:15
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Jun 14, 2016 14:26
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Spring Week 3quote:Are there children in your community? If there are, what is their role in the community?  Action Start a Project: Having cast out by themselves, the Ziyarites decide their first move should be to uncover more of our ancestors' secrets. While much of what they left behind is in ruins, the dome is not. What ancient knowledge lies buried there, waiting to be discovered? Besides, the others wouldn't understand it couldn't make use of it. Better to have it in reasonable hands.   Projects: Redefining our borders (1), Building a shrine (1), Investigate below the dome (2) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only) Scarcities: grazing land, laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Spring Week 4 Building a shrine  Our people are not builders but the community comes together for this task. We pile rocks together by hand. Larger ones are dragged by horses. Finally, a shape takes form and a shrine is erected over the hot shadows so they might one day find relief. This will be a place where we might visit our ancestors. Several warriors slice theirs palms and anoint the place with blood. The sky is clear and blue and full of our birds quote:An old piece of machinery is discovered, broken but perhaps repairable. What is it? What would it be useful for? Might we have missed the streaking, fiery ball were the sky not blue for once? Perhaps! It is certainly a good thing that we completed the shrine when we did! Something twisted and metal crashes hard in our steppes. It is destroyed. But inside...  The man is ancient and dead but his armor is sturdy and light and still completely intact. And the longer we leave it out in the sun, the more a glowing green bar in his helmet seems to grow. He was sent to us. We burn his bones with honor and place his skull inside the shrine. Action Discover something new: The crash site. The ground around it is now broken and charred.   Projects: Redefining our borders (0), Investigate below the dome (1) Abundances: hunting birds Scarcities: grazing land, laws, animal feed Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Jun 15, 2016 16:41
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Project Completed: This land is ours, even divided as we are. From the Eastern edge visible from our yurts, at least to the Western tip now marked by the visitor's ashen wound this land belongs to us. Now our horses and livestock can graze in peace. We could believe that, were it not for the arcs of nearly fresh horseshoe prints to the West that our scouts swear they didn't make. Did someone else own this land, before?  Projects: Investigate below the dome (1) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Spring - Week 5quote:Theres another community somewhere on the map. The Ziyarites came from our community, but raided another to build their own. They set their yurts among the the Blue Promise Breaker clan by the bogs, who are peaceful and few, and now are dead or thralls to the Ziyarites. They were farmers and the Ziyarites seem to think that useful. For they have started using horses for dredging bogs and tilling earth, instead of exploring and patroling, and our scouts say they dig spiked trenches around their border to slow or kill horsemen. Curious thing, that kin could become so strange so quickly.  Action -Start a New Project The stranger, who flippantly gives his name as "None," has learned enough of our language to converse in without resorting to Frost Jackal patois. He says he comes from the eastern land beyond the steppes in search of those who held true to the Promise, but does not (or cannot?) explain what that means. But we understand his certainty that the Colossus was a living thing, and more intriguing, could live again. The stranger None shows us papers that he says are its insides and contain the ritual marks to rouse the Colossus from death. He asks for volunteers to train as the Colossus's attendants, a necessary step to determine if the Colossus even can be revived. Buris and Munkherel agree to study under None.   Projects: Investigate below the dome (0) , Colossus attendants' training (4)Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Project Completed: The Ziyarite contingent left behind to explore the under-dome report back with frustrating findings. The ladder extends far below the surface and many small chambers branch off of its central shaft. Most are empty, but some are filled with more of the same machinery as in the dome, or sheaf upon sheaf of writings and drawings written in ancient script. At the bottom, their progress was stymied by an enormous and immovable metal door. A few people were left behind as a temporary garrison, and the rest returned with the news. Spring Week 6 quote:There is a disquieting legend about this place. What is it?  Taking 1 Contempt in response to training Colossus attendants. Action Start a Project: When Azad sees the trenches dug around the Ziyarite camp, he has a flash of inspiration they, and indeed any kind of rift, could be crossed easily and safely if only we carried some simple wooden slats, cut and tied like this, and this... light-weight, portable bridges that could carry the weight of a horse and rider. He immediately starts building more.   Projects: Colossus attendants' training (3), Building portable bridges (1) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Spring Week 7quote:What natural predators roam the area? Are you safe? Out in the steppes, the horseman is the apex predator. A hunter with a good bird can easily take down coyote or even wolf without even resorting to using weapon. The Ziyarites discover life is different in the south. There are big, nasty, armored creatures that lurk unseen in the waters. Big ones whose tough hides resist both arrow and spear. Bigger, older ones that never seemed to stop growing. Ancient ones capable of bringing down both rider and steed with a single bite. The Ziyarites, unwilling to return the the community, drive their thralls to exhaustion digging the protective spikes.  Action Start a Project: Azad and Zaaya grow closer and their friendship coaxes the fire in her heart-- the desire for glory and for recognition--into a full blown conflagration. He speaks often of the Ziyarites and their slaves. She remembers those people in the mountains...   Projects: Colossus attendants' training (2), Building portable bridges (0), Raid the north (2) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0) Tyrannosaurus fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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Project Completed: Azad finishes half a dozen of his portable bridges - easily enough for all the traditionalists to use. Should they need to use them. They should make travel through the mountain passes easier, at any rate. Projects: Colossus attendants' training (2), Raid the north (2) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Spring - Week 8quote:A charismatic young girl convinces many to help her with an elaborate scheme. What is it? Who joins her endeavors? Start a project to reflect. Aspas declares that the Celestial Court has made their will known, sending signs from the earth, over which we built the shrine, and from heaven itself, with the steel angel hurled down ,whose skull we reverently placed with our honored dead. They are pleased with our strong and unbending spirit, our determination to know our borders that we may exert mastery over all within them. We have had shamans and healers who work part-time among other roles, but Aspas hearkens back to the legends of priestess-warriors from time of old. She calls for the revival of the priestly caste at least, and her fervor is infection (especially among the young women of our community). The first step is to build a suitable temple.  Action - Discover Something New Golit of the Ziyarites notice that the Blue Promise Breakers have clothing made from the armored bog beasts; moreover, none of their survivors bear any mark of missing limbs or bite scars. The beasts seem to avoid them entirely, but it is not till they beat a couple of them severely that they spill the reason why. They take their infants to an undergound cave on the easternmost edge of the bog-land, where the Binding Light Dancer gives its blessing to those of the clan so that the beasts of the land obey them. Deesa and Golit travel to the entrance, guided by a Blue Promise Breaker thrall, and Deesa enters with him. But only her severed head exits, and the thrall within taunts Golit, proclaiming that only the Dancer's servants may enter and live. The Ziyarites are much frightened at this secret power.   Projects: Colossus attendants' training (1), Raid the north (1), Construct the Celestial Temple (6) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Spring Week 9quote:You see a bad omen. What is it? Action Hold a Discussion: What did we do to deserve this?!  Projects: Colossus attendants' training (0) , Raid the north (0) , Construct the Celestial Temple (5)Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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The twin is now but one, a clear sign that those who are the same should be as one, not divided, or ruin follows.
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"The people have become divided. We must show those who left the babe. They must return. ... Or we must join them."
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