Tribe Civ Quest

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>tfw wen u post te rong map

>>1745842
lets settle in the forrested peninsula north of the desert

>>1746132
So pick a color and a name for your tribe

>>1746182
PINK!

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>>1745842
Tribe called Skadites, with color blue, living where I marked the blue star

I'll settle in the snowy region in the north. Color will be black and we'll call ourselves The Argonites

>>1746599
Research: Fire
Action: Scout the area around us
Law: Establish a democracy, elections are held every 10 turns. Next election is coming next turn

>>1746715
what tribe are you?

>>1746715
By the way, I'm claiming coast of sourthern island as red

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One thing I lacked to mention are the tribe sheets.

Here's an example. There are three boxes to begin with. As you progress you add more boxes and settlements and resources you have on it. For now the three boxes are character traits you wish your people to have. It could range from manifest destiny to warlike to worshipers of the sun. It doesn't matter. If you chose something like god king and explain: it'll make it easier for the people to do tasks for us if they believe our king is a god, then I'll make it so that they work harder and are more devout in how well they complete their tasks, understand?

>>1746723
what's the tribes name?

>>1746599
Skadites
Research: Look into making fire
Action: Go downhill looking mainly for rivers but recording anything of interest

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>>1746727
Finished sheet

>>1745842
Tribe Name: Skhol
Location: Northernmost Island Grasslands
Color: Silver
Isolationist - Skhols tend not to get involved with other tribes, for better or for worse.
Number Theorists- Skhols have an unnatural obsession with numbers, and this serves as a sort of religion for the otherwise secularized tribe.
Philosopher Kings - Skhols are ruled by a trio (3 is a significant number in Skhol culture) of the most capable philosopher, scientist, and mathematician.

>>1746727
The name is Imperium
Traits:
- Blessed by Fortuna: We are naturally very lucky
- Seed of life: We reproduce faster than the rest
- Hephaestus favour: The tools we make are of better quality

Tribe Name: Isles of Trog
Location: The 4 farmost east islands and the eastern hook
Color: purple

>>1746900
1. Seafareres. Sailors & Fishers, Trogs are a sea bound race.
2. Religious polytheist worshippers of the sea.
3. Communal society led by elders and a chief

Is that enough tribes OP

>>1746900
>the blue
Instead of the hook... I can take the 3 islands on the very west of the map (assuming it wraps) if that's ok... so the 7 really small islands

>>1746971
Are you on discord?
Because if you aren't then your tribe won't be accepted

>>1746995
>>1746900

Just claim one island you stupid niggers

>>1746831
>>1746900
quick reminder to go on discord so I can make a channel for you

>>1746831
the furthest island to the left? All the grasslands are at a similar height.

Additionally guys put your traits in a tribe sheet like the Skadites did>>1746778

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>>1747323
This spot

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>>1747378
>>1747323
Here's the sheet.

>>1747395
are you in the discord dude.

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Alright guy, now the games begin, Post your turns in reply to this post:

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correction

>>1747405
turn here >>1746742

>>1747405
Research: The Skhols develop a rudimentary writing system--symbols inscribed on dried clay tablets to record transactions of goods.
Action: The Skhols explore their surrounding area, taking note of the fauna and resources.

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The tribe of imperium struggling to find some form of leadership have decided to hold an election. This way the person they believe most capable to lead will be able to protect them from harm and lead them to greatness.

They scout the area searching for materials and resources, they find tall trees, light grey soil that sticks together, a few rivers, a couple of berry bushes, and they see a few animals. There a birds of course, there were small mammals that jumped into the river, a deer, as well as something else larger that ran away from them.

The season is spring and everybody is glad to escape the cold, remembering the last winter that took many lives. Maybe this year would be a good year to prepare for the upcoming winter. Unfortunately they have no means to preserve food over a long period of time.

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In an attempt to leave trail markers on hunting paths, the skhols have decided to leave marks on the ground or out of the nature around them to symbolize different things. They lack clay to write words on and they have no need to record things yet. However they have created a way to record numbers using symbols written in dirt and on charcoal. Some children have written how many seasons they've been alive for on their bodies in charcoal.

Other symbols used for hunting include rocks stacked on top of each other to represent paths towards watering holes. Additionally two pieces of wood stuck in the ground as an X represent a trap set in the area.

In terms of animals and fauna they attempt to draw their shapes on the backs of their tribemates. They look somewhat wonky, but capture the essential elements of the animals.

There are large mammals bigger than two men stacked together. They walk together in herds.

There are swamp creatures that lurk in the small lagoons and swamps that litter the prarie as well as several avian species.

In terms of flora, it's mostly just grass. No trees in the area. There are however many rocks lying about, probably dragged to the surface from the last glacier receding. They look hard to enough to use as shelter.
The land itself is flat and dry. Occasionally you will see small lakes or creeks, but not large bodies of water. It's know in the winter which is coming in a few months, the land will be completely frozen over.

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The skatalites have spend much time researching fire usage. They understand how it can be made and what I can do. They don't worship, but rather respect it. Additionally they understand slash and burn hunting, which means that they cut down plants and burn forests in order to create grazing land for animals as well as driving them out of protected forest into the arms of the hunter.

They find many rivers to the south down the mountain, as well as many animals. Some of which seem friendly.
One of them is around the size of a small pony, and seems to be unafraid of the scrawny bipeds
One is a bird that keeps its distance, but watches the people

The other animals seem wary or even hostile. There are large catllike beasts that have hunted down a few of the villagers.

>>1747528
Research: Using texts and science of our religion expand education of writing and mathematics in our tribe.
Action: Form two militia groups one stays on home defence the other heads down the mountains to look for wood.

Research: How many are we?! This is all a mess! There has to be order! They learn basic maths
Action: We make wood spears

>>1747550
*fishing

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Turn 2

Research: Using texts and science of our religion expand education of writing and mathematics in our tribe.
Action: Form two militia groups one stays on home defence the other heads down the mountains to look for wood.
Similar to the skhols the skadites understand the concept of symbolism. They realize that they can make things that stand for other things. However like the skhols, they don't know what to put down as symbols. They could write on cave walls in charcoal, but that is hard to transport and hard to read. They would write on clay tablets, but they lack the understanding of what clay is. They also don't know how to tan leather, so writing on there is unlikely as of now.

They also decide since that they are still new to the land and have predators around them, they should split into two groups to defend the village and also look for wood.
Additionally as to how resources work, basically as long as you are connected to the resource you can build things with it. There are no set numbers but there is a basic logic to how it works. Like if you pick up a few rocks you can't build the pyramids. Be reasonable.

Research: The Skhols refine their system of numbers and counting. Now there will be three symbols, the first (▽) symbolizing 1, the second (◠) symbolizing 12, and the third (⸮) symbolizing 144. Numbers shall be written by grouping together these symbols to make the appropriate amount, with the smaller values being grouped on the left. For example, 37, which is 3 twelves and 1 one, will be written as ▽◠◠◠. 63 will be written as ▽▽▽◠◠◠◠◠.

Action: The Skhols build basic shelters, using wood from trees for the walls and grass/leaves for the rooves.

Turn 2
Imperium
>>1747550
Yet again there has been found a need for mathematics. But yet again they lack the proper means of preserving the information. In the language they now have words for large numbers, but they lack a place to put them. There are satisfied with tally marks in the dirt.
The population numbers at 241. There are 149 women and the rest are male. 23 of these women are past the age of childcarrying and 14 are too young to bear children. Not how I didn't say under 18, I said too young to bear children. There are

>>1747571
How many branches per walls? How many leaves per roof? How many walls (3)? How many windows (3)? How many doors (3)?

Turn 2
Skhols
>>1747571

The skhols now have a complex number system that is compact, workable, and useful. Unfortunately even the people who made it don't understand it. It's too confusing at their education level. Multiplication is beyond their grasp while addition is just fine. Either way, it works well enough.

Lacking trees the skhols can't build shelters and have to make do with several animal skins. They do collect a lot of grass and leaves.

They find large seeds in the grass that taste kind of gross.

>>1747569
Action: Use bait tactics to draw in the cat-like predators, equip the home defence militia with rocks for bashing and throwing at them.
Research: Have researchers find out how to sharpen rocks for use in dissection of dead beasts and villagers

>>1747590
Research: Fearing the Winter come before they can build shelter, the Skhols investigate several possible sources of building materials, including thatched grasses, wet earth from the lakes, and bushes.

Research: The Skhols attempt to domesticate the large mammals that travel in herds. They could be an effective source of meat in the coming winter.

Research: Kiln. This will help with making fires with higher temperature.
Law: Let's appoint someone in charge of fishing to get food automatically

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>>1747608
Turn 3:

The Skadites in an attempt to remove the cat predators from their land use bait tactics using leftover meal scraps to lure in the cats, then attacking them with stone projectiles. Unfortunately it doesn't work. The cats simply run away after the first volley of stones. They are injured, but there's nobody willing to pursue an offence after them after the attacks.

In order to cut up meat from a hunt, the Skadites have started using broken rocks that have a sharp edge. When those break, they find a new rock and smash it against a stone wall and pick up any shards they get. It's crude, but it works.

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>>1747620
The skhols find many useful materials. They find more grasses, they find sticky grey dirt in lakes, they find that mixing dirt and thatched grass and baking bricks of it in fire makes a good building material. They also find more rocks skattered around as well as gigantic rib bones the size of a large hut.

The skhol attempt to make friends with the mammoths. It doesn't work. Accidently people try to befriend the seemingly friendly midget mammoths. But they aren't midgets. They're children. Many people die from the enraged mother. They take the bodies and bury them into a mound. They have learned however the babies have a fondness for healthy green shoots of young grass.

Turn 3
Imperium
>>1747626
The village has figured out they can contain heat if they use some sort of box. They lack anything airtight, and wood will just burn in fire. So they stack a bunch of rocks together and light a fire inside. Unfortunately it doesn't burn very much because it lacks oxygen, but at the same time heat can escape from air holes in the cracks in between rocks.

Using the fishing spears made in the last turn by cutting a single spear into a trident in order to increase the amount of space that it can pierce, fishing is much easier. They assign 1 man to fish as much as he can to feed the village. He can catch a few fish an hour, but it's not enough to feed anyone outside his own family.

>>1747636
Action: Second militia group gathers wood to send to the village.
Action: Build igloos out of ice for housing and storage

Action: The Skhols build huts out of the adobe they discovered in the previous month.

Action: The Skhols perform a census, to find out their precise numbers.

>>1747694
are you aware that the ice is only there for half the year in the winter?

Research: Teach people how to work clay
Action: Send more people to scout around

>>1747711
Change first action to
Action: Form a third militia group and task them with taking chipped rocks down to the forest, building tools such as axes with plant life to bind rock to sticks

>>1747726
I mean second action

>>1747705
The skhols spend the month firing brick after brick in order to build homes in the plainsland. They are still attempting to befriend the mammoths, and some of them are more friendly, however none are willing to separate from the herd.

The numbers of the skhols is 153. With 94 women. It's inscribed on the walls in the cave. Too many men have died to mammoths

>>1747726
Turn 4
The skadites along with protecting their village has been amassing a large collection of rocks, tools, wood, and food. These tools help collect even more rock and wood. However not enough time has been alloted to hunting and many men are going hungry. The women can only gather so much food.

If you're people are hungry they won't work as much and some may even desert or lay waste to your cities.

>>1747722
Turn 4

One day an imperium child is playing with dirt in the riverbed. He makes a ball and throws in the fire. It spurks and pops and he laughs. He throws more and more in until his mother calls him for food. He goes to sleep and when he wakes up in the morning, he finds the clay has hardened! He tries to wet it again, but it refuses to change shape. Several adults notice and are interested. They already understand basketweaving with grasses and how they can be used to carry food, but they have nothing that can be used to transport water or animal fat besides organs. This would be useful to preserve food all winter.

More people go hunting and scout around for resources. They find several tubers in the ground as well as more deer. Some of the deers are particularly interesting because they seem friendly to people. They will eat out of the hands of people, which is especially interesting because these creatures are known to be especially flighty.

A couple of fruit trees have been found as well, but the most interesting tree is one that when stabbed, will leak a very very slightly sweet liquid from inside of it. People want to gather this liquid and finally with the invention of pottery, can harvest it.

>>1747748
Action: Use slash and burn hunting in the forest, using gathered sticks as torches, have militia groups two and 3 engage in melee when close and ranged combat when far.
Action: Have militia group 3 haft stone chips onto rock to create spears, have group 3 occasionally hunt passing by animals

>>1747797
*stone chips onto sticks

Research: More complex math
Action: Start getting that sweet liquid poured and transported. Try to boil it, and after cooling off, have someone try it

Research: With a need for added protection and warmth, the Skhols develop better leather armors for their hunters.

Research: The Skhols find that prepared animal skins can be used as writing material.

Turn 5
>>1747797
In an attempt to gain more food the skadites spend a whole month hunting for food. Now they have much meat, but how will they preserve it?

>>1747839
Turn 5
Now that they have clay, numbers can be inscribed. Since they have not designated an actual set way to write numbers, they are all signified with pictures of food, and tally marks. However it is hard to count and read this way

By using the pottery bowls to heat their food, they can now boil things without fear of fire. They collect as much as they can and boil it. It looks brown and acts like a thick liquid. It tastes very sweet! It is now coveted as an expensive luxury... However a large amount of liquid just fell on the ground from the tree.

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>>1747855
using the massive surplus of mammoth skins from dead mammoths, the skhols have learned to make clothing that is warm in the winter and protects them from some damage. The animals skins can also be stripped of fur, and thinned out by use of stretching. The leather remains untanned and the only known way of writing is charcoal, or a watery charcoal solution that doesn't work so effectively.

>>1747856
Action: Use fire to smoke the meats drying and preserving them, automatically do this with meat in the future
Action: Send a militia group to look for the sea, have them escort a research team trying to research salt

Research: Imperials have started to realize that if we piur water into crops they will grow faster
Action: Using the roman numbers, make tablets every turn with the total population, the rate of people being born every turn, the amount of people employed vs unemployed & the amount of people who are doing different kind of jobs among the employed

Research: With something to write on, but little to write with, the Skhols develop inks and/or dyes from vegetation/berries/animal blood.

Law: Appoint someone to keep track of births and deaths, and in so doing keep track of the male/female population of the tribe.

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>>1747898
Using fire and a cave in the mountain, meat is dried out and preserved and buried in the far back which reaches temperatures similar to a freezer even in the summer.

One group of militia men was sent to search for water, and on the way down they found an area of land that contains fresh water by way of river as well as a valley below sea level next to it. If a settlement was placed here it could produce salt by way of evaporation ponds.

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>>1747933
Turn 6
The skhols using blood attemp to make a effective ink. There is not much shrubbery around the plains area, but there are many berry bushes known to be in the tundra further north. Anyway, the animal blood works well to make signs, and it washes away well with water so the leather can be reused, but effective dyes are lacking with the resources they have.

In the meantime to keep track of the number of people in the tribe there is a scribe that is assigned the position of keeping track of numbers such as how much meat or people are in the village. A glorified inventory manager.

Research: The Skhols further develop their symbolic written language to include more abstract and nuanced concepts, making them akin to hieroglyphs.
Action: In preparation for the mammoths that will be tamed any minute now, the Skhols build a suitable enclosure to keep them in.

>>1747905
Change the research to learning how to make axes

>>1747986
Action: Set up a settlement by the valley, using it as a base for a fishing and salt industry, with fish being salted and smoked quickly due to this.
Research: Trap construction

Any lurkers able to take over Imperium, Imperium's anon is going to sleep

>>1748159
Anon 2.0 (aka Coercion) is substituting me thanks

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>>1747905
The imperials in order to fell more trees and make more structures with them have developed a new tool. Previously instead of using a single handheld rock to chop away at trees, an "axe" is used to cut away at it faster. It works more effectively by utilizing a swing to multiply force.

Using a new version of tallys called "numerals" they are more able to accurately represent numbers and therefore can count and record more effectively.

Imperium:
Research axes
Gather resources for building

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Remember as you move forward in history you actions have reactions and consequences. As you remove forest, you make way for plains. As plains come in new animals come in etc.

>>1748216
Need to add axes to tech?

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>>1748232

And at this point we will take a break. Good job for today, and when we get back tomorrow we'll move towards the next step: Organized government, colonization, and exploration

>>1748228
Cool. That's a lot of lumber lol

Research: The wood burns too fast and it's inefficient. If Imperials could find another material that's better for it...?
Action: Make some fences around the plains

>>1748228
Skadites do this >>1748148

>>1748107
>>1748228

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>>1750685
Turn 7
In order to use wood more efficiently the imperials are searching for another source for fire. So they've been burning whatever they could find in order to use less wood. They don't really have a plan and due to this it might take a while.

With the wood they do have, they decide to fence off the rest of their land. There are a few wolves in the area so to protect themselves the Imperials add a wooden fence with their surplus of wood. In addition to discovering axes they also understand basic carpentry with joints and lashings. Nails don't exist yet, however dowels and pine resin do. Additionally with the terracing of plains land comes a new unexpected feature. People who cut the wood and made the fences are now claiming the pieces of grassland as their own and are building small grass huts in the land. They claim it belongs to them and their family and refuse to let others use it.

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>>1751340
The salt fields are large, however one problem has arrisen. Although the winters in the land freeze the upper layer of the mountain, the winters further down the mountain lead to a monsoon season. The salt fields won't produce salt because the rainy weather won't let it dry. Thankfully due good research in firemaking, some of the salt can dry by throwing the slushy mixture in fire, at the same time it's hard to collect because it lacks a container to hold the salt in. The fishing industry is fine, the rivers are overflowing with fish, but spears can only catch so much. It seems there are more efficient ways right around the corner. It seems animals in the area are disappearing. Winter has arrived and they may have been over hunted this season.

In order to bypass this several new traps have been invented. One of the interesting ones is called a pitfall trap. It's especially dangerous because some people from our tribe have almost fallen in them. Thankfully we put up symbols next to them so people are aware of their location.

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>>1751365
Turn 7
The skhols develop their written language, it goes by fast, however it is extremely difficult to read. There are far too many symbols and it is far too confusing. It's more akin to a series of drawings rather than a language. Many villagers are questioning the purpose of these writings. One man angrily asks:
"What is the point of these writings? Only numbers make any sense. Numbers help us record. Writing our words and reading them is more difficult than it's worth. A true man would not need to write anything, for with a stronger mind he can remember many things."

The skhols are interested in keeping the mammoths in an enclosed habitat. But they have no idea where to put them. They dig a deep hole and hope it'll work. A regular fence would be too small and not even hold an mammoth. They are out of ideas for an enclosure.

>>1751428
Skadites
Research: Look into rope making with plant material
Action: Make variety of tools, chisels, hammers and rods with a slim rope attached and a basic hook at the end

>>1751455
Hmm, indeed. As you say, only numbers make any sense.
However, additional writings enhance the meaning of these numbers, to allow to distinguish between, for example, 153 people or 153 men.
And the most capable and strong-minded men will have the most well-organized records, including not only numbers but symbols which give the numbers additional meaning and context.

Research: The Skhols develop stone tools such as scrapers and hand-axes.

Action: The Skhols have another go at carefully... very carefully enticing some mammoths to live in the enclosure. And then proceed to be extremely careful about these and any other mammoths for the rest of the month.

Research: Animal breeding
Action: Capture some animals! Deers look promising!

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>>1751505
Due to experience from making spears and other tools, the Skadites have plenty of experience with making new kinds of tools. They also have a surplus of animal bones.They create chisels and hammers and harpoons.

It's questionable as to what harpoons will be used for, as they haven't found any large marine creatures yet.

There are a few grasses in the area that seem promising to use as a type of rope. Previously animal tendons had been used, but they are too few and too costly. Rope used from grasses aren't as strong but are far cheaper and easy to reproduce.

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>>1751518
Turn 8

The mammoths seem much more accommodating this time. They are much more willing to break off from the pack, especially the adults who lack children. They seem much more friendly and less wary of humans. Although less so than the children. They get close to the hole.... And walk back to the herd. Oh well. We're getting closer.

Meanwhile, winter has been sneaking on us and we haven't even noticed. The ice hasn't arrived yet, but the cold has. Thankfully leather tanning and basic clothing has shielded us from the brunt of the attacks as well as fire. We even built some tools to help us efficiently process the mammoths like hand-axes and scrapers. Our shelters also keep heat in very efficiently. And thanks to our baking of the bricks, there is no water in them. If they froze during the night, houses would come crashing down when they cracked.

The most surprising thing that happened is by far one of the children. One of the younger ones, a child of a brick layer, wandered off and towards the mammoth heard.The mammoths, now becoming sacred beasts seemed deadly to the villagers and as such they gave him a funeral rite ahead of time. Imagine the shock when he is seen the next day, riding on the back of the largest mammoth in the herd. He laughs and waves, and is later seen sleeping in their warm fur.

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>>1751524
Turn 8

It's getting colder. The search for new fuel has not turned anything good. However charcoal has been discovered. Some of the wood had been buried in the ground, and the fire had burned it, as it had turned black, but it could somehow still catch alight. This doesn't solve the fuel crisis as there is still wood needed to make charcoal, but it is an interesting development. Recently one of the children caught a rat and has been caring for it. The adults are interested and have been looking at the larger animals and wondering if they too could be tamed. The friendly deer seem interesting, and they trapped one of them in one of the fenced off areas, but the deer simply jumped the 6 ft tall enclosure.

It looks like enclosing the deer is harder than it seems.

>>1751579
Action: Make pots with rocks and chisels, some of which to store salt for use.
Action: Climb trees for fruit and search for nuts and berries, gather seeds and sort them by appearance, putting seeds of similar appearance in pots

Research: If we put salt into fish, maybe it will rot more slowly?
Action: Make huts using rocks, clay and wood to make houses. All houses must have a kiln

>>1751592
Action: The third time is the charm! We will entice them with the chutes they enjoy, and designate several of our own as the official Mammoth-keepers, including the Miracle Child who rides the mammoth.

Research: Clay hardening techniques similar to those used in making Adobe are learned to be used to make pottery.

>>1751641
Turn 9

The skadites using chisels, hammers, pickaxes, and torches, mine out rocks from a small cave to make it larger. Using the rocks broken from it, they carve small pots to store salt.

Collecting small plants and materials has proven very effective. The berries spoil faster, however the nuts and seeds seem hardy crops. One nut is large and tastes especially pungent. Instead of eating it raw, people grind it up and eat it sparingly with meat. It tastes like a mix of fat, and peanut butter.

As a byproduct of gathering crops, a new kind of textile for making rope has been discovered. It's a kind of small flowering plant around a foot tall. It has fibers perfect for making rope, and it even has seeds in it. Unfortunately most of the seeds had dropped in mid summer, so there aren't any more left, but it's a good crop nonetheless.

Another useful crop is around 2 feet tall and is a bushlike crop. It sprouts several buds with a number of seeds inside. The seeds are very moist, but dry out fast. It seems like this is a good crop to be preserved in winter and the chaff is very attractive to animals.

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Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>1751660
The Skhols again attempt to tame the mammoth.
Starting roll is you need >100
child is +10
food is +20
previous attempts +20

therefore you need >50.
If it's greater than 50 you successfully tame mammoths.

The material used for making adobe is attempted to be transferred over to make pottery. Sadly the dirt isn't as strong, but it is watertight. They pick out as much impurities like rocks and sift the rest of it out in a straw basket. Then the take the silt and remove much of the water. The take the silt and roll it into a snake, the snake is then coiled into the shape of a straw, but more fat. A second snake is rolled then coiled into a circle. More silt is used and you have a cup-like figure. It works, but it's fairly fragile.

>>1751644

Thanks to previous experiences with kilns, pottery, and building a new kiln has been developed that is much more efficient. It can reach much higher temperatures. An indoor kiln has been developed, but unfortunately the fire itself can't be as hot as it needs to be because homes inside the villages are made of brush. In fact having fires inside of the homes is incredibly dangerous because they are crowded together and have flammable material everywhere.

The fisheries are doing well, the fish is coming out at a steady rate with no decline in sight. People are getting sick of fish and there is a surplus. So to offset this, people are smoking it using fire to dry it out. People remember a white rock that would suck out liquids and there is a search for it.

The deer taming is going well. It's a common sight for them to enter the village and beg for food. They will generally follow people around as well. Touching them is much harder still. They are prone to running.

>>1751785
Action: The Skhols send out a party of explorers and scribes to catalogue and record the different species of animals and plants that exist in the surrounding areas.

Action: The Skhols continue their attempts to tame the sacred beasts known as mammoths. We were so close last month, they just need that final push!

>>1751757
Action: Get some people hunting again, this time have them set bait for traps and chase animals into traps.
Research: Begin dissection of animals to learn more about them and find more uses

Research: Maybe if we burn the fishes a bit in the fire they might taste better?
Action: Gather as much wood as possible for the winter

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>1751858

The scribes bring their writing tools and fill all of their parchment to the brim with information. There are of course the mamoths, there are vultures, as well as smaller birds of prey, rabbits, moles, worms that consume dead bodies, flies and their maggots, alpine leeks, around 13 wild grasses of around the same size with barley being the largest. There are no deer, but there are large wolves the size of cows, there are ants, beetles, there are a few berry bushes as well as several ground vegetables. There is even one plant that is like a vine, climbing the bones of dead mammoths. We assume it's something they eat, but we can't be sure. It smells nice and sugary.

Child +10
Food +20
Pervious Tries +30
Need >40

>>1751859
turn 10
The skadites hunt again, but the area seems to be becoming depleted of animals. The doesn't go well. Traps are set, but no animals have been caught yet.

To more effectively use the animals caught, people use the bones for tools, the bladder for canteens, the liver, heart, lungs, eyes, brain, and cartilage are all eaten. The large intestine is burned, but the small intestine can be used with blood for blood sausages. The teeth are worn for decorative purposes along with the skull. Claws are turned into hooks for fishing.

>>1751876
Winter is here.

Imperium is still working towards preserving fish. Thankfully plenty of wood has been preserved and fish is plentiful. However people can't leave their huts because they lack clothing for the cruel winter months. The deer still come around, but people are beginning to dislike them. One man even threw a rock at one.

>>1751987
Skadites
Research: Learn about building and construction
Action: Cut lumber with axes to build shelters

>>1751971
Action: This time for sure! The Skhols continue in their efforts to tame the mammoths.

Action: The Skhols send out a second team to collect baskets of samples of each of the flora catalogued in the previous expedition. The berries are of particular importance due to the possiblity of their use in dyes or ink. As this is simple gathering, women should suffice. However, this team should be especially well-guarded by our best men, due to the danger of animal attacks.

Research: String
Research: An alphabet with rules for writing

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>>1752044

The skadites having more free time due to winter decide to learn everything they can about wood. They understand the grains, the understand the presence of water and how to bend wood, it's flexibility and rigidity, and they learn complicated wooden joints that can be kept together using purified pine resin. People wish there were tools strong and sharp enough to cut the wood effectively. Using stone tools is more like bashing the wood than actual cutting. But cutting trees is much more easy because they now understand to cut at an angle to cut with the grain.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>1752058


Once again efforts to tame the mammoth pursue,
Child +10
Food +20
Pervious Tries +40
Need >30

The skhols collect every piece of plant matter that exists. Thankfully due to being on the opposite side of the globe, it is the beginning of summer rather than the start of winter compared to the other tribes. Nature is blooming and it is the perfect time to start preparing for the harsh winter.

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>>1754661
Turn 11
Imperiums winter is going well. They are well stocked with fuel and fish for winter. The vases and urns are doing well to keep the seeds and fruits dry this winter as well.

In the villagers free time they experiment with vines and plants to make twine. The winter has frozen most plants, but there is enough to make do.

One trouble in the village is that food is going missing. Somebody swears there was an extra urn full of salt, but another says it never existed. The numbers are somewhat useful, but there are too many vague symbols to depict what is what. In an attempt to make it easier to read the symbols, the elders come up with a plan to "draw words". This involves making a picture for every sound, drastically decreasing the amount of symbols needed to be memorized. Unfortunately there are many sounds so currently there are upwards of 200~ letters.

(If you look at english we have tons of words that combine letters to make "new letters" for example: Mountain. Why don't we say Mount-ain? Like plantain but with a mount before it? It's because people want less letters, but some sounds in our language don't fit exactly to the letters we have. In spanish they use accents and ~ i forget what it's called to explain differences in sound.)

>>1754754
Law: The Skhols begin to number their days. They create a concept known as "season", and each season is divided into THREE periods known as "months".

Action: The Skhols... try to... tame the mammoths...

haha

>>1754743
Law: Determine leaders of militia groups by a non lethal tournament using sticks, have the strongest of all lead the entire tribe.
Action: Scout out areas east and west of deforested area, set traps while scouting

>>1754773
Research: Bows
Research: Make fishing nets

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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>1754778
Child +10
Food +20
Pervious Tries +50
Need >20

Ez right?

Anyway the year is now divided in 4 seasons named after the seasons in the skhol area of the world. Spring, Summer, Early winter, and Deep Winter. It's based off the lunar cycle as well where there are 3 rotations of the lunar cycle in each season.

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>>1754804
A new game has been developed using sticks to determine the leaders of society. It is called.. Lacrosse. The head of the pyramid is decided in a golf tournament, another useful game using sticks that is nonlethal.

The new militia leaders eager to prove their worth begin scouting new areas of the land around them. Several of them find useful things, one man is walking in the woods when he is surrounded by a warm mist. He can barely see, and then he steps in a puddle. He sighs in relief and then he realizes the puddle is warm, he pulls on his foot but it is being sucked into whatever this thing is, he trips and falls into the puddle...

And realizes he's fallen into a hot spring.

The other leaders find cools stuff too:
-obsidian rocks
-tide pools with lots of shellfish
-rivers
-and some cool plants

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>>1754861
Turn 12

Thanks to learning about wood, the people of Imperium are brimming with ideas. One woman is using the bow as a kind of slingshot, where the flexibility throws a rock attached to a string. She is cast down as mentally retarded and stoned to death. A smart man says: "hey why don't I tie off the end here on the other side, and make it shoot wood?" Thus the bow was invented.

Meanwhile the string is also being utilized effectivly as fishing gear. Weaving skills for basketry are being used to weave fishing nets. These are different than regular basket traps, because they are much larger, and therefore need bigger holes, to let water move through it. if water couldn't move, then the net would break apart. now fish can be herded using a combination of nets and spears to make a maze guiding fish, or it can be used to catch fish in droves. It would be much more easy to catch fish on a platform though...

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>1754886
Action: The Skhol finally learn to tame the mammoths. Probably.
Action: The Skhol build a leather tannery to the north of the village.

>>1754905
Research: Herbalism and the cool new plants
Research: Surgery and surgical tools

Research: Improve language even further
Research: Improve mathematics (III)

>>1755001
*writing

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>1754945
Turn 13
You need above fucking 10. can you do it

The skhol decide that instead of performing home tannery using animal innards. It would be much safer to do it further away, to prevent the spread of disease as well as producing more and better quality hide. IT's too bad that they don't have the manpower to spare so it will take a few turns to get the manpower to finish the building(1/6)

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>>1754976
Turn 13
The skadites are now pursuing an academic attempt to help treat warriors wounded by the harsh animals around them. Using the sweet smelling flowering plant. It is cut prematurely, then the liquid is dried. The powder can be inhaled or burnt, and the fumes help prevent pain. Some of the youth have been using it recreationally, but it is much more effective as an anesthetic. One of the trees sprouts a nut that kills upon eating it. However the poison can be leached out in water and used as a mild disinfectant.

More tools have also been invented. Using obsidian tools, human flesh is easily cut without as much....gore. Complicated surgery is much more easy, especially with the string being used as stitches. There isn't so much experience with surgery, but as time goes by, medicine should advance.

>>1755001
Turn 13

The alphabet is improved an made easier with 50 less letters than before.

Math is now more commonly used and multiplication is possible.

>>1755026
Research: Domestication
Action: Look for animals in new area

>>1755015
Action: The skhols are finally successful in taming the mammoths

Law: The sons of the most respected members of society are now formally taught by the elders the written language and mathematics of the Skhol, as well as miscellaneous other topics.

Research: Sandals
Research: Woodcutting skills

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>1755031

Turn 14

The skadites decide to take time to care for the plants and animals around them to become more suited to them. They don't really understand the artificial selection, but they understand that parents and children have similar traits.

They try to domesticate the small pony:

Need > or = 100

They also look for new animals to the further spread areas. In the sea they find squids, sharks, and whales. The whales are the most friendly and push swimmers in the water around. To the east they find more catlike beasts as well as large birds that can't fly. The the west they find mammals the size of goats that let out bloodcurdling shrieks that scare anybody alone at night.

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Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>1755037

The skhols attempt to tame the mammoths again. I can't put it lower than 10.
Need >10

The law is passed, and culture has changed as well. With many sons no longer involved with the family trade, many seek their own fortune, as miners, hunters, inventors, whatever will earn them riches.

>>1757041

The skhols finally after years manage to tame the mammoths. Unfortunately it's almost winter, and this means the mammoth herd is about to move down south to avoid the cold. Hopefully the captured mammoths will stay. Even if some of the mammoths do stay, what's to say they don't leave out of hunger? Either way, food is necessary for winter.

The season is Early Winter for the skhols.

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>>1755062

Turn 14

The tribe of Imperium needs footwear. Walking on two feet has worked fine so far, but to walk longer distances to the forest to cut trees, and to walk on bare rock and brambles necessitates some protection of the soles.To this end, they create the sandall. It's very simple. A piece of leather attached to the feet with animal sinew. It's still somewhat weak, but with time and skill, the techniques will improve.

Craftsmanship with axes has only progressed. The tribe has begun sculpting with wood and can create giant sculptures out of whole logs. They contain faces of animals and spirits as well as important people in the village and are believed to bring good luck. Tables and stools have also been made using joinery and pine resin. Nails still don't exist.

One interesting thing made during this time is a boat. These are simple dugout canoes made by carving and burning a log. It's fairly simple, and in the small lagoons and shallow slowmoving parts of the river it works fine. But in the ocean it falls over at the smallest wave. Too bad.

>>1757065
Action: Make some canoes
Research: Navigation directions looking at the stars

>>1757031
Research: The strongest way to the heart is good food, find out favorite foods of animals to get along better with them
Action: Search for metal ore

>>1757048
Law: Make the most respected family into official Mammoth Keepers. This respected position will ensure the health, safety, and effective use of our tamed mammoths.
Law: Institute an annual festival to celebrate this most historic event that the Skhols were finally able to successfully tame mammoths.
Tribe: More construction work is done on the tannery north of town.

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>>1757106

Turn 15

Spring has sprung in the village of Imperium and the entire village is in a haze.
In the interest of fishing and the ocean they build canoes and it has become a past time to fish and relax. At night, people become interested in watching the stars from their canoes. They create pictures from the stars and give them names so that others understand which stars they're talking about. The stars look stationary as well, but people are beginning to notice that they all rotate around one star. The second brightest star in the sky. Aside from the moon.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>1757141

The skadites for a day watch the small horses. They eat a similar diet to the people. They eat berries, nuts, and grasses. But with the grasses they seem to have an affinity for the chaff, which humans can't eat.

They are particularly enamored to honey dripping from the nest as well as anything sugary.

One of the major problems in the village is that stone tools break quickly. Obsidian is sharp. but fragile. We a strong rock. So we go search for strong rocks.

Due to covering the land twice with actions I'll give you +20 to your search. You would regularly need 70+ depending on what you were finding,(eg grass is easy but gold is hard), so you need >50 and you find lead ore)

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>>1757193

Turn 15

The skhols are elated to finally become allies with the mammoths. They are large beasts with plenty of fur, large tusks, milk, and plenty of milk.

They have been worshiped as beasts of life for years and now they are one with the skhol.

In celebration of this event the skhols have decided to create a new festival to honor this communion. No mammoths shall be slaughtered or eaten this month in the middle of winter. On the holy day during the full moon when it's almost as bright as day and the northern lights come out, all their favorite foods shall be given to them and all instruments made from the mammoth shall be played in memory of their sacrifice.

This festival is all organized by the Mammoth Keepers. With the head of the organization being the family that houses the child who tamed the mammoths. Their job is to take care of the mammoths.

With mammoths power, many things we couldn't do will now be possible. Travelling longer distances, carrying more things, as well as the sheer workpower that can only be called.....well... mammoth-like.

The drawside is that mammoths require a large amount of calories that at the moment we can't provide. We need to produce more food, or change to a new location with fertile grasslands. Unfortunately most of the tribe is settled in this area so moving now is likely to start some revolt.

Additionally the tannery is now complete! Thanks to the free hands in winter it was completed early. It might be time to slaughter too, because we don't have much food left and the deep winter hasn't even begun yet.

>>1757450
Research: The Skhol develop a weapon for hunting - a long shaft with a sharp stone head at one end. This weapon can be used for thrusting, but was designed to be thrown to kill birds and other difficult prey.
Research: The Skhol find that a similar implement can be used to catch fish at the lake and also the coast.
Action: Seeing their stores grow low, the Skhol send out another team to forage, this time taking only what is edible.

>>1757379
Action: Domesticate ponies using knowledge of their favourite food
Action: Search for metal ore

Action: Make those fences 10 feet higher. Make also a little porch for them
Action: Catch some animals!