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Black Robe
Sep 12, 2017

Generic Magic User


Oh, hell yes. :ducksiren:

1) Nyalda
2) Brass Bazaar
3) Our worst danger came later
4) Buseryan
5) The best magicians
6) Farmers
7) Citizens
8) MOTHERDUCKERS


I have no idea what any of these choices mean! This is going to be Fun.

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RedSnapper
Nov 22, 2016

Black Robe posted:

Oh, hell yes. :ducksiren:

I have no idea what any of these choices mean!

That's good. The core of this game's experience is picking what sounds best and suffering the consequences, as your grandfather's ghost comes over to tell you off for breaking a custom you didn't know existed..

Black Robe
Sep 12, 2017

Generic Magic User


RedSnapper posted:

That's good. The core of this game's experience is picking what sounds best and suffering the consequences, as your grandfather's ghost comes over to tell you off for breaking a custom you didn't know existed..

Oh, I know, I'm pretty familiar with KoDP. It's going to be great to not know what any of the 'right' choices are again, though I assume Dread Arenjee is still going to gently caress us over and kick us in the balls whether we pick the 'right' one or not, because Glorantha.

RedSnapper
Nov 22, 2016

Black Robe posted:

I assume Dread Arenjee is still going to gently caress us over and kick us in the balls whether we pick the 'right' one or not, because Glorantha.

As someone who's somehow nearing endgame: gently caress us it will

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013
Note: if you thought KODP was hard, well, compared to Six Ages it is definitely easy mode.

Dakona
May 3, 2014
Oh hell yeah. I was seriously disappointed to see the other Six Ages LP doesn't seem to be rolling any longer. Looking forward to seeing this one!

Leraika posted:

No opinion on the questions, but Untitled Clan Name gets my vote.

Also throwing my support behind this. It's molto bene.

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Henlo, I am very inebriated.

You have until I sober up tomorrow to get your initial votes in, then the game is afoot.

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:
We should name all of our advisor Untitled [God Name] Representative

AnAnonymousIdiot
Sep 14, 2013

Leraika posted:

No opinion on the questions, but Untitled Clan Name gets my vote.

Are we the Riders with No Name?

ArashiKurobara
Mar 22, 2013
1. Nyalda, the great Earth Mother
2. When Erissa first sang the Bone Mending Ballad
3. When the City of Chimes wanted to surrender to the Scorpion Queen
4. Narva, goddess of brewing
5. The best herders
6. Farmers
7. We took them in as citizens
8. Untitled Clan Name

wiegieman
Apr 22, 2010

Royalty is a continuous cutting motion


1. Yelm
2. The Battle of Akashar
3. When the City of Chimes wanted to surrender to the Scorpion Queen
4. Tepekos, god of smiths
5. The most warlike
6. Farmers
7. We took them in as citizens
8. Untitled Clan Name

Kyrosiris
May 24, 2006

You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".



1) Nyalda
2) Seventeen Banner Camp, when wise Relander advised Khorlavus how to ally the bird riders
3) The Ram People marched on the Empire, razing the city of Elempur. We helped the Emperor avenge it
4) Buseryan, god of writing.
5) The best magicians.
6) Goat herders.
7) We took them in as citizens.
8) Untitled Clan Name :bandwagon:


Picked what sounded cool. :shrug:

100 HOGS AGREE
Oct 13, 2007
Grimey Drawer
1 Yelm
2 The Brass Bazaar, where Ekarna acted as broker between Nida Mountain and Gernert's Garden
3 Trolls fled the Underworld to the surface darkness. Always hungry, they tried to devour the herds.
4 Narva, goddess of brewing.
5 The best magicians.
6 Goat herders.
7 We took them in as half-citizens
8 Untitled Clan Name

100 HOGS AGREE fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Oct 26, 2019

Lord Hypnostache
Nov 6, 2009

OATHBREAKER

AnAnonymousIdiot posted:

Are we the Riders with No Name?

And we travel on A Horse With No Name

ManxomeBromide
Jan 29, 2009

old school
We take everyone else's cows and goods and throw them in the lake.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
Oh poo poo, I've never been at the ground floor on any of these!

  • We favored Emperor Yelm.
  • We supported The Battle of Akashar.
  • Our worst danger was the Trolls.
  • We brought along Buseryan, god of writing.
  • Our ancestors were the wealthiest.
  • We found hunters and gatherers.
  • We took slaves in as citizens.
  • We are, of course, the McDuck Clan

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Closing thread.

Compiling votes and having dinner.
Game will start this evening!

:getin:

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Sorry for delay, extracting images and creating art assets takes time!

:siren: Voting Results :siren:
- 26 votes answering every question
- 4 additional votes for just the Clan Name

quote:

1.) Which of the gods did we favour?
9 - Emperor Yelm, shining above the Golden Empire.
17 - Nyalda, the great Earth Mother, whose bounty made sure no one was ever hungry.




2.) Which famous event of the gods did our ancestors support?
2 - The Milk Gift of Busenari, the Cow Mother.
5 - The Battle of Akashar, when shining Elmal saw through the stratagems of the Changer.
6 - Seventeen Banner Camp, when wise Relander advised Khorlavus how to ally the bird riders
1 - When Buseryan engraved the first ledger tracking the planets in motion.
4 - When Erissa first sang the Bone Mending Ballad for Keskor Breng
1 - The Grain Contest of Erkonus, where the barley goddess Pela prevailed over millet and beezil.
2 - The Brass Bazaar, where Ekarna acted as broker between Nida Mountain and Gernert's Garden
5 - When the Werris Mur joined us as citizens




3.) What was the worst danger our ancestors faced at this time?
3 - Trolls fled the Underworld to the surface darkness. Always hungry, they tried to devour the herds.
5 - A great flood drowned the Empire. We helped Anaxial the Sailor build a great ship to save civilisation.
4 - The War of Many Suns, when pretenders to the solar throne fought to assert control over our Golden City, Nivorah.
6 - The Ram People marched on the Empire, razing the city of Elempur. We helped the Emperor avenge it
4 - When the City of Chimes wanted to surrender to the Scorpion Queen, we gave them heart.
4 - Our worst danger came later.




4.) Which god did your bring?
7 - Buseryan, god of writing.
4 - Tepekos, god of smiths.
8 - Narva, goddess of brewing.
5 - Perondeto, god of glassmaking.
2 - Nocheli, goddess of the red-dye insect




5.) Which group was your ancestors?
4 - The most warlike.
5 - The best herders.
1 - The wealthiest.
14 - The best magicians.
2 - The most dissatisfied.




6.) Who did they find on the other side?
11 - Farmers
12 - Goat herders.
3 - Hunters and gatherers.

7.) How did you treat them?
3 - We chased them away.
2 - We took them in as half-citizens.
21 - We took them in as citizens.




8.) What is the name of our new clan?
10 - Untitled Clan Name
9 - Suffering Suns
1 - Big Herd of Everything
1 - Duck Touchers
1 - Eyes Wide Shut
1 - Followers of the Duck
1 - Long Way Clan
1 - McDuck Clan
1 - MOTHERDUCKERS
1 - Newcastle United
1 - Terrible With Names
1 - Weavers of Triump
1 - Y-elmal-io



hmmm too long, gonna have to make a compromise to make it work


And we're officially a Clan! :toot:

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


:ducksiren: :ducksiren:

Sacred Time happens at the start of every year, and we basically need to allocate our magic towards certain aspects of the clan.
Our magic fluctuates, and while it seems like a good idea to go all in, it's better to keep things in reserve if possible; particularly for the first few years.



I've opted to keep things simple, one in everything, as I literally have to remember how to play this style of game.






Goddammit we're literally the loving Moon Moon Clan :cripes:

So! Clan formed! What's our first order of busin..

Does anyone want some beer?

..is obviously removing the bad influences from the Clan Ring.

With that in mind lets take a good long look at the Clan Ring and start moneyballing us into a more favourable starting position.

Hold onto your butts Untitled Clan, we're about to get :siren: TECHNICAL AS poo poo :siren:

Here are the initial options we're presented with

Orange means they're on the Ring
Blue means a unique worship. Not sure if it will have much impact on things.


hmmmmm conditional formatting~

The ingame hints note that things run a bit smoother if all 7 Families are represented on the Ring. So all in all a fun initial spread of abilities at our disposal.

Here is a closer look at the initial members of the Clan Ring.


Couple of things to note here:
- Anyone 60+ is likely to die off after a season or two, so while it's great our Chief has renowned Leadership, he's probably not going to last long.
- Long term we need to invest in the skills or our council as they are replaced due to old age, or ~other reasons~, but we can worry about this later.
- There is a bit of a hole we need to fill for Food representation, because we're about to start setting things up and we want our animals and crops to do well. So "Very Good" isn't going to cut the mustard, at least not in the short term.
- Every other skill has Excellent or better representation!
- Yadrana is young at 24, but her Combat skills are already Excellent. We're going to spend some time training her up later to be our War Chief.
That's good!

- Alakorde and Elgra are also young, but like the majority of millenials they bring nothing to the table in terms of skills.
That's bad!

With these things in mind our primary goal, from a gamification perspective, is to get through through the first few seasons and establish Unknown Clan without too many initial issues. Soooooooooooo...



Say hello to your new Clan Ring!

Father will hear of this!


[The Dasano's will remember that]




The rest of the Day 1 info dump is going to have to wait, because we just got our first event immediately after forming our new Ring!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui6wp7VV9VU

Infinitum fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Oct 28, 2019

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004




Trolls turned Gamari into what she is today, by devouring half of what she used to be

The faster we strike, the better. (1)
Whatever you say George

Trolls eat goats like goats eat grass (4)
Well I'm sure glad we didn't choose Goat herders during clan formati...gently caress

Trolls test my optimism (1)

Trolls are matriarchal, but that doesn't give them the right to attack us. (1)
What the hell does family structure have to do with them eating our goats?! :psyduck:

The Char-Orisae may not receive us well. (2)

Let us hope for today's bad luck to be someone else's (3)

Who are the Char-Orisa in this? They're our neighbours to the North East, who we are neutral with, but they owe us a favour..


What say you Untitled Clan Name?

quote:

1.) Attack
2.) Coordinate an attack with the Char-Orisae
3.) Drive them onto Char-Orisa territory
4.) Hope they attack the Char-Orisa instead.


Some additional info that may help you choose


quote:

:eng101: The numbers next to the Clan Members are what option each of them recommends

Infinitum fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Oct 28, 2019

Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH
Changing recklessly at a bunch of trolls definitely is a good idea

1

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
The Moon Moon Clan should coordinate! 2

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

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WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves
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Attacking during sowing season that the game starts is is a bit annoying. Also we want to be trading with people early not loving them over (intentionally)

PerniciousKnid
Sep 13, 2006
I can't believe you took the trickster off the ring, it's like you don't know us at all.

Also,

quote:

breathlessly arrives to inform you that a party of trolls has arrived
Made me think of D&D subforum.

I vote 2, coordinate. Diplomacy seems to be our tradition.

100 HOGS AGREE
Oct 13, 2007
Grimey Drawer
I can't believe you've taken the Raven off the ring. how dare you

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
Don't worry, Eurmal Raven will have it's revenge.

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Also as a heads up voting periods will be much longer this time around, so expect 12hr+ voting periods.

PerniciousKnid posted:

I can't believe you took the trickster off the ring, it's like you don't know us at all.

Oh I def want one on the ring if possible, Harran from the last game was useful as poo poo and a lot of fun to roleplay.

The issue is Elgra was Fair in 3 categories, and didn't know anything about Food. She was dead weight.
What usually happens, from memory, is that we'll get a fresh batch of potential ring members at the start of every year. If I find a promising trickster they'll make it on.

Alternatively we have Eleen as a Shaman with Excellent Magic, so I'm also keen to keep her around

quote:

breathlessly arrives to inform you that a party of trolls has arrived
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynJcSnLSI4&t=11s

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Justice for Elgra, she just wanted everyone to waste wasted

Co-ordinate an attack and then hopefully the Char-Orisa take more damage than we do

Black Robe
Sep 12, 2017

Generic Magic User


You don't want tricksters for their knowledge, half the time they'll lie anyway.

Clearly the Moon Moon clan would attack the trolls and try not to trip over our feet on the way.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
1 Attack!

Dakona
May 3, 2014
#1

Surely there's no way we can be terribly mauled fighting a bunch've darkness empowered trolls. Surely.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



#1 Charging a bunch of true trolls before their sickness ruined their race? Sounds like a great idea!

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER
2: Coordinate an attack!

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
It wouldn't be a goon LP if we didn't all rush to choose the objectively stupidest option

JanPospisil
Jul 27, 2013

Ask me about Verethragna!
(maybe the portraits are a bit small? I could get you larger files for all three age stages if you wanted.)

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


JanPospisil posted:

(maybe the portraits are a bit small? I could get you larger files for all three age stages if you wanted.)

I have them, I'm just keeping it inline with the previous LP talking head sizes. They're slightly too big atm, I will probably rework them later.

For comparisons sake here is how big the extracted image is


How big they appear ingame


And how big I've currently set them

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

Return the trickster to the ring



1 I guess. How are you going to succeed without a trickster?

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

JanPospisil posted:

(maybe the portraits are a bit small? I could get you larger files for all three age stages if you wanted.)

Jan! :allears:

Vagabong
Mar 2, 2019
2, its no.1 but with marginally lowered risk

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RedSnapper
Nov 22, 2016
2 - coordinate

With luck, Char-Orisae get the worst of it and we'll have an easier time raiding them later..

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