Civ quest, from Primal to Empire

>>1192160
Elf, because there will be never an Elf game on qst because memes.

Ruins, because it plays to our strengths.

>>1192160
Orc
Plains

>>1192166
Okay, I'll second that.

>>1192166
Sounds interesting. Thirded.

>>1192166
>>1192173
>>1192198
Race: Elves
Zone: Ruins

Stats:
Food: 0
Wealth: 0
Tp: 2
Pop: 100
Magic school (s): 1 free

>First there was a tribe, 100 of them arrived from.. somewhere, tales so old that nobody can remember but something bunched theese 100 together in the ruins of a once mighty and powerfull people, the knowledge of the place drew in the savage elves of the wild who banded together there, united under the magical promise of glory

>The ruins offer great insight and knowledge but not much elves, the hunters of the tribe hunt with slings and sticks trough the ruins, barely catching enough to feed the young as the old die, keeping the population mostly static, there has to be something done about this

>With the 100 came a shaman of a odd skill that nobody else has but him, he knows how to break the laws of physics, but in what way? (Choose a magic class, first vote gets it)

>With our people's heads filled with mighty large ideas, what should we look to?

>the Earth? (+2 food)
>or
>the Stars? (+2 Tp)

>>1192218
>The Stars.
We are long lived and infertile creatures. The food we gather shall sustain our growth for now.

>>1192218

Forgot to say, for action decidions three votes count for a pass,
exept when stated differently

>>1192218
>>the Stars? (+2 Tp)
Gotta play those strengths.
I don't know what the magic classes are, could you provide a bit more explanation on that?

>>1192227
Sorry, should have explained it more

its a 3x3 system,

Life/nature - Death
Fire - Water/Ice
Stone - Wind

+ more in later ages

And it's effects are limited to the imagination

>>1192230
>Water/Ice

(Is it too late for me to join?)
Also you should choose the most abstract as the power is
>limited by your own imagination

>>1192248
The magic has been chosen as the Path of Water

>>1192248
+1

>>1192254
I should explain why I chose water, since it decided for everyone.
1: Water is the most important ingredient for life. Even when looking at other planets, the first thing we say is "Does it have water?".
2: All early civilizations were born near rivers.
3: The largest limit to human expansion? A major cause of failed and successful sieges? Access to clean water.
4: Water makes up 2/3 of the human body. It will make up a similar proportion of the bodies of other races I'm sure.
5: Technically this can be handled by others, but the ability to call on rain for crops would be important. Rain, and by extension flooding, can also be tools on the battlefield.
6: Water can be used to spread disease. Similarly, purifying water with magic can be used to limit the danger of parasites, virus' and the like. The ability to purify water ties in with #3
7: The ability to turn any body of water to ice will place entire civilizations at our mercy. If their ports can send goods their economy will collapse. We can also freeze the water in their wells, or get more dirty with these tactics.
tl;dr Water is the most abundant and versatile resource in the world. Control over it gives near limitless uses.

we need one more vote for what to do next, earth or stars

>>1192512
>Stars

>>1192675
>>1192453
>>1192254
>>1192227
>>1192222
>>1192221
Race: Elves
Zone: Ruins

Stats:
Food: 0
Wealth: 0
Tp: 4
Pop: 100
Magic school (s): 1- water

>The first few generations come and go, there is only enough food around for so many people, some die of starvation, other leave in search of better fortune, but those 100 that stay keep hoping for a better future, and for that they have taken to the stars. For many years the people gathered atop the ruins of ainchent buildings and stared at the stars above, searching for inspiration and charting their movements

>The shaman bloodline developed more powerful with time, soon one of theese managed to draw water from the sky and captured it mid air in a grand display of power over nature, the water bows to you, tribal elves

>But not all share your wonder, desperate mothers and starving people come to ask for food, for they cannot live like this forever, all you know is the ruins and the land around it leaving most of your surrounding terretory unexplored

>Should we explore?

>in other news, some elves bring up again the issue of the Earth, they want to see if they can grow plants for their bellies, with so much thinking power from star gazing it would not take very long to master it

>The great minds hower suggest to start making idols and give forms and names to the spirits that shine from above and gift us the power over water

>Agriculture (+2 food)
>or
>Religious Idols (+2Tp)

>>1192743
>Agriculture (+2 food)

>>1192743
>agriculture

>>1192743
Agriculture

>Agriculture (+2 food)

Tbh would be pretty funny to keep doing thinking power stuff. Then once someone visits us we suddenly get gunpowder and heavy machine guns after a year or two research.

>>1192743
>Religious idols
Faith will reward us.

>>1192822
so will being able to eat.

>>1192830
BLASBHEMER!

>>1192755
>>1192784
>>1192785
Race: Elves
Zone: Ruins

Stats:
Food: 3 (-1) = 2
Wealth: 0
Tp: 4
Pop: 100
Magic school (s): 1- water

>The smartest of the elves stepped together and studied the earth, the plants and the seasons, they figured out when it is time to plant the seeds, when to grow the crops and when to store them. Soon the outskirts of the ruins started blooming in fruits and grains that were turned to flour and mush with stones and cooked, feeding the population, and making them happy, the children grow and the elders stay alive longer, promising a growth of population in times to come

>With the aid of the shaman's teachings the water is channeled from the sky when draught and provides for the people, even if there is no water anywhere else (+1 to agriculture food gain)

>Now that food is plenty the elves start picking apart and noticing other interesting ways to improve their lives, for example a gatherer found that if you drop a clump of clay in fire it can become hard, with some brainstorming we could make shapes and bake them into stillness

>Other found out by throwing rocks into fire that some of them actualy start to melt and change shape, as if the fire made it softer, perhaps in the ground there is more of theese rocks to make soft and bend into tools better than bone, wood and rock?

>Meanwhile a hunter has been seen hunting with his sling stretched out over a bent stick and shooting smaller sticks from the string, perhaps a new weapon, better than spear club and sling? Who knows..

>then again the stargazers keep wanting to make the idols, saying the gods will watch over us

What to do next:
>Explore (y/n)

one of theese
>Pottery (+1 wealth, +1 food)
>mining (+3 wealth)
>archery (+1 food, unlocks primitive warriors)
>idols (+2tp)

>>1192987
>Pottery (+1 wealth, +1 food)

>>1192987
Yes explore.

Research mining so that when we make idols they will be bitchin'

>>1192997
Also, yes to exploring.

>>1193005
This

>>1192987
>Explore
Yes

>Pottery
Then we can make ceramic idols and draw star charts on pots and tiles.
Then we can train up archers, whose arrows are as numerous as the stars.

Night here, gonna sleep, reply in 7 hrs

>>1193035
Thank for running. Goodnight.

>>1193035
goodnight op thanks for running

>>1192987
>explore
Yes
>idols
Need that tp

>mining (+3 wealth)