Ancient civ thread

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Where will we settle?

>not giving option for icy fjords with rich fishing grounds to make glorious arian viking tribe

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>>359919
>Icy fjord
+lots of fish
+strong defence, surrounded by mountains and rivers
-extreme winters

>>359919

Accepting write ins lads!

>>359933
Icy fjords are fine, but let's also have a flooded pine forest. Who knows what might lie within it?

>>359933
good job op, its a good sign that you are cool with sugrestions.
1 vote for fjord

>>359933
+1

Can I ask that we be neanderthals? It seems like fun.

Tropical islands?

Let's be seafarers

>>359908
Woods

>>360012
also an option, but thats one of the cool things about the fjord it also gives acsess to the sea by river

>>359908
>Mountainous
Our home will be brutal, harsh, and without mercy. But we will worse.
we will be the aryan mongols

>>360021
mongols were nomadic plain tribes faggot

>>359933
Here

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so op are we going to start or what?

>>359991

Second, but's here something better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

>>360224
hairy frostgiants
i approve

>>360250

Oh my gosh OP, can we play in the year 100,000 BC in a scenario where Gigantopithecus became the actual dominate Hominidae, living in northern China?

My alternate history erection is raging so hard right now.

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>>360272

the historian in me is diamonds

>>360272
>being a damn dirty ape

>>360344

I mean, that quest is already running.

However, this is even more special.

The land around us is harsh, but forgiving. The fish give us sustanance and the mountains offer protection. We are currently trekking through the icy fjord, our people weary from our time in the wilderness.
Remind me, why are you out here looking for a new home?

>Your new chief and his loyal followers were banished from the old tribe for wanting to raid other tribes. Why make something when you can take it from someone else, right?
(Bonus to military and raiding skills)

>Your people fled when you were attacked by a neighbouring tribe. You spent months wondering aimlessly.
(In these months you became skilled in hunting, gathering, healing and building basic structures)

>You left the desert where you originally lived when the water went dry and all the animals migrated. By chance you found this new home.
(Bonus to luck, random events, and all round toughness)

>>360224
>>360272
Sorry lads but my knowledge of the pre historic era isn't strong enough for that.

>>360536
>>You left the desert where you originally lived when the water went dry and all the animals migrated. By chance you found this new home.
But we still aryan words right?
Did we leave the north pole ...

>>360542

You don't have to scrap the idea man.

You won't tear you a new one if you make a mistake.

>>360536
>Your people fled when you were attacked by a neighbouring tribe. You spent months wondering aimlessly.

gotta have some brains to sucseed as a tribe in the harsch cold of the north, for always winter is coming.

plus the real vikings dident start raiding untill they exaustet there natural fish supplys

>>360547
If that's what you want I guess we were Eskimos living in the arctic circle, and went south to find a more lively home.

>>360576
>>360550
>>360224
>>360272

Giant ape Eskimos?

>>360547
>>360576

nor teally eskimos are american indians were ariens are a old clusterfuck of germanic, slavic gaul and other tribes that were driven north by everyone else

>>360536
Suggesting a new idea:

>Your people migrated from inland after a frost destroyed most of your crops.

>>360590
Alternate history bruv
>>360586
Well vote on it, if any would rather be a giant ape species, then shout out.

Also just in general this is alternate history, any mistakes I make, just chalk it up to alternate history.

>>360598
We don't yet have agriculture my friend, we're going to need research

>>360606
im cool with the giant apes, that way we can inslave the inferiour human tribes and feel all superior race^^

>>360615
Then
>your people migrated from inland when their river began to dry up.

okay so
We vikings
Give us the (Bonus to luck,random events, and all round toughness)

Can we start

>>360749
this op seams to be on the slow side, maybe he is working out the details of the stratigic mechanics.
or he is just a lazy faggot.
we will see

>>360781
Nah sorry man just unusually busy, I'll get a move on


Our tribe is part of a species of ape-human hybrids. We tower over the average human, and can muster skull crushing strength. However, we aren't as intelligent as a typical human tribe.

We have arrived in a fjord, deep in the north after months of hard travel, many of our people died along the journey. The area is a deep valley with a wide river running down the middle. The valley is surrounded by Rocky Mountains. There is a forest approximately 2 hours walk from the river.

What should we do?

>A. Begin a settlement down on the banks of the river. (Better protected from the weather by the mountains, but less protective from human attackers)
>B. Settle atop the mountain (Weather will be more brutal, but you will have the defensive edge over any approaching attackers)
>C. Settle in the forest (Food and water is less accessible, but wood and protection is more available. Our ape like people also feel more safe and comfortable in the forest)
>D. Write-in

>>360847
settle at the river banks, for starters food is most important for growth, we can make a logging camp in the forest later

>>360847
we apes now??

Nah

>>360876

Second.

>>360876

Party pooper.

>>360847
>Begin a settlement down on the banks of the river. (Better protected from the weather by the mountains, but less protective from human attackers)

>>360919
You're no fun.

>>360876
>>360987
>>360929
Your people begin clearing shrub from a patch of land down by the banks. The home of your civilisation has been born.

Now we need to decide what to do

>A. send people to begin gathering wood
>B. Send people to gather food+water
>C. Research fire
>D. Research basic canoes
>E. Research shelter
>F. Research tools

Stats:


Turn: 1
People: 35
Religion: none as yet, perhaps it would give your people more motivation if they had something to worship
Technology: none
Resources: none
Military: none
Economy: none
Culture: none

>>361040
>B. Send people to gather food+water
>>361050
Worship Lunas, mad god of rabbits, wealth, stealth, change, the moon, and the tides.

>>361078
What? Where did everyone go?

>>361284
I'm still here, going to bed soon though back in the morning
>>361078
All of the people of the tribe scurry into the water, they cup their furry hands and take deep gulps. They also try to catch fish with their bare hands. Around half are lucky enough to catch them, but that leaves half the tribe hungry. Maybe we should find a better way to get food.

>A. Research fire, the nights are cold
>B. Research agriculture, we are hungry
>C. Collect wood
>D. Research hunting techniques
>E. Write-in

>>361078
One night one of your people is met in a dream by a rabbit with little moons for eyes. The rabbit was laughing madly. In the morning the "dreamer" claims that rabbit moon man gave him special orders to:
>A. Sacrifice someone every full moon to show our devotion
>B. Write-in
>C. Write-in
>D. Write-in

>>361357
>Research fire, the nights are cold
>The mad god wants to smell soup. What even is soup?

>Research fire
>the rabbit ordert that all the men in the tribe need to once a year color and hide 10 eggs each and the woman that finds at least 5 of those eggs then has rights to be that mans mate untill the ritual next year
(we are big furry ape men, so lets have some wierd costoms)

>>362075
Do we even have eggs? Or dye for that matter?

>>362182
dye can be mud if need be, but the eggs are a problem.
well the gods gave our lone prophet his quest so now he has to see were he gets eggs from.

>>361386
>>362075
>research fire
We all remember seeing fire a couple times before when trading with other tribes, so we gather around some sticks and rocks and smash them together for hours with hope something will happen. Just as the sun is setting we finally get a spark, and then a flame. We have fire!!!

+5 xp discovered fire

>new rule: some actions will give you xp, with xp you level up and get evolutionary perks.

The tribe are warm enough during the night, but with everyone working on sticks we have no food, we're all very hungry?
>A. Everyone goes hands fishing in he river
>B. Research nets
>C. Go hunting in woods
>D. Eat the oldest weakest tribe member that contributes nothing


Stats:


Turn: 1
People: 35
Xp: 5/10
Religion: basic religion, the mad rabbit God from the moon
Technology: none
Resources: none
Military: none
Economy: none
Culture: none

The mad gods will is yet to be known. The man that talked to him in a dream is still "channeling" him.

>>363275
split the tribe into a fishing group and a forest foraging group, right now we need go find out how the tribe can sustain itself long enough for us to biuld an actual setilment and start researching things

Eat the old man.

>>363286
canibalism is a bad idea, the tribe will have a big death rate in the first few years wile he have no infrastructure and tech.
they will need every tribe member they have.
plus canibalism leads to what mad cow desease was.

>>363282
You split into two parties, one that searches the forest for food and one that catches fish by hand. The fish group have little luck, catching enough fish to feed maybe 1/4 of the tribe.
The foraging group find a type of red berries. These berries are everywhere, literally thousand of them. But are they safe to eat?

>A. Research red berry plants
>B. Research nets
>C. Research shelters
>D. Write-in

>>363302
"research" the red berrys aka feed some of them to the oldfag, if his immune system can handel them then even the young ones in the tribe can handle them.
wile the old dude sees if he will die or not, the tribe will be split once more.
the quater that was able to eat will start gather wood and craft rudamentary spears to make fisching more efficiant wile the weak triblings need to save there energy.

this way the tribe should have the highest survival chances.
by the way, how long is one turn?
week, month, year?

>>363304
Waiting for more votes

Each turn is different, I'm basing turns on how much happens. So for example if you attack and kill another tribe, over the course of a day, that will be one turn. But also if you research for example metal smithing over the course of a month, that could be one turn. I'll keep track of time elapsed

>>363330
well the time to play is a little shit right now
its like 04:00 in the states and 10:00 in europe during the week.
so dudes are eather sleeping, working, or are neet faggots like me

>>363345
Kek yeah ok well just wait a bit then

>>363302
>A. Research red berry plants
>>363304
Supporting.

>>363458
I support this

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>363304
The tribe is once more divided. Sending our strongest most energetic people to gather sticks and logs to begin crafting basic spears. They spend a day out in the Forrest, and return at sundown with plenty of sticks which they begin sharpening on the rocks. They also brought back some of the red berries.

We tell the oldest weakest man that they're safe to eat and give him handfuls of berries. We now sit tight and wait for a reaction.

Rolling for how severe the berries affected him.

Meanwhile:
>A. Research better weapons
>B. Learn how to build basic structures, things are getting colder
>C. Send scouts out further to get a better understanding of the land
>D. Research agriculture, were hungry
>E. Write-in

>>363503
>54

The berries aren't lethal and the old man lives on. However, the old man says that they have some sort of psychedelic effect, that colours and light were swirling and that he couldn't control his mind or body.

>>363503
Do we have the spears? If so fish.

>>363505
10/10
Drugs

>>363503
>>B. Learn how to build basic structures, things are getting colder

>>363503
devide one last time, after this the tripe hopefully has the beginnings of a food backlog and isent literly living from hand to mouth.

strong people use the spears to fisch for the day, while everyone else tracks to the forest and gathery red berrys.
and in the evening the tribe will hold a feast of fish and trippy berries

>>363509
>>363572
Your people spend the day gathering as usual. Many assigned to spearing fish in the water, and the rest collecting red berries (could use a name!). In the night when the moon rises you feast on charred fish and juicy red berries.
+3xp

The next morning the tribe awaken as the sun rises. Many surprised to see flakes of snow lightly falling down to earth.

Winter must be here

>A. research structures, we need shelter
>B. scout before heavy snows roll in, if we want to understand our surroundings we need to do it before we get snowed in
>C. research better weapons, who knows when another tribe could appear
>D. research basic clothes to supplement your fur
>E. Further research the red berries


Stats:


Turn: 2
People: 35
Xp: 8/10
Religion: basic religion, the mad rabbit God from the moon
Technology: pointy sticks
Resources: none
Military: none
Economy: none
Culture: feasts, drugs

>>363614

time to bunker down

>>363614
>A. research structures, we need shelter
>D. research basic clothes to supplement your fur
Get some pelts and hang them on the walls

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>>363640
seconding this
now that the tribe was able to regain its strengh its time to build a first structure, a communal longhouse would be a good first building to keep everyone protectet from the cold.

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>>363651
no now that i think about it a structure like that is above our paygrade yet.
the best thing we have are a few pionty stricks and we need to be able to properly chop wood to build a house.
ok then lets keep the house in mind as soon as we got ourself some stone axes.
instead lets have our strongest triblings take up there sticks and go out hunting game.
the remaining people can try to figure out how to craft fishbones into simple needles and sinues into thread.
hopefully the hunters will be good enough to get leather and furs for the entire tribe.
one last thing if possible wile out hunting the people could hope to find a cave big enough to hold the tribe in case winter overruns us.

>>363505
By the mad god, these should make his will clear to us!

>>363614
>could use a name
Either describe them better or call them redberries.

>>363708
yea and having found a plant that grows in this enviroment is very usefull if we lern how to grow berry bushes.
right now survival is still top priority, dident experct winter to arive at turn fucking 3

>>363724
how about "little dreamers or sleepy berries"?

>>363731
We could call them raberries if we wanted to include the berries into the religion.

>>363667
>>363644
The tribe decide if we had more fur we would be warmer, so we send out our strongest people with our sharpest sticks to hunt. The hunters return a week later...

>rolling for hunters success +15 to roll for our lucky nature

>>363725
Winter hasn't fully hit us yet, we still have some turns before we feel the full effects


As for the berries, the tribe decide that these berries are a channel to read the rabbit gods will! Eat, and be spoken to!

>>363742
not a bad idea actually, those berries literly saved the tribes life and many coltures used hallucinogens in there religous rituals (shit it is belived that srooms are the reasone why our ancestors made the jump from ape to man in the first place)

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>363747
Forgot to roll

(+10 for our luck)

>>363754
fucking hell we really are lucky.
that will give us a one hell of a headstart in terms of recorses

>>363754
Looks like the tribe is going to be warm and fat for winter.

>>363754
>98

The hunters return after a harsh week, they have killed more deer than they could carry. They have 16 carcasses. Enough meat to last a month.

But what do we do with the fur?

>A. Build a structure, then cover he walls with fur
>B. Create some primitive clothes
>C. Write-in

>>363752
>>363708
The berries, now named Rabberies, are worshipped as the vessel of God! They shall carry gods will down unto us!

+religion

>>363768
>A. Build a structure, then cover he walls with fur
Moon god warns that the silver powder is dangerous for mortals, one of the worst deaths await those that allow it to fall upon their sleeping bodies.

>>363768
have the women make the first atempt at clothing
wile the men fuck around trying to craft our first stone tools

>>363778
Supporting.

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>>363778
and the reasone for this sudden and unapelike spike in creativity.
is that the rabberies the tribe has been eating gave the people long, vivid and awesome dreams, developing there creativity and putting the fear of the rabbit into them.
the mad bunny is a terrefying but helpfull god indeed!

Back in a couple hours. In the meantime vote, and discuss the best way to go.

>I'm always accepting write-ins so if you think of your own idea lemme hear it

somehow i doupt this game will survive when op is so busy that he can post like 4 times per day....

>>363777
Agree with this guy for building structure. God gives one man a vivid dream of post silver snow (shown through the berries as a medium of course) that after the silver dust finishes we must strike out and find none furry people

>>363902
Yes, the small ones for sacrifice, those that worship Sola, the cruel queen of fire, though they may know her by another name.

>>363905
Which reminds me, we need to build tiny stone walls around our fires.

>>363902
>>363905
>>363777
We spend a day researching and constructing sticks with rocks attached to the end, some of the rocks are sharpened to act as an axe. Another day is used having all our people drag logs and sticks back and fourth between the forest and the fjord. And finally a week is used researching and constructing a building. By the end of it all we have a weak but large structure to house our people. Furs covering the walls to keep warm and protect us from the dreaded silver powder!

Weeks pass, we survive on our stockpile of Rabberies, deer, and some fish.

During one of our daily "prayer sessions", the mad God lets his will be known! The mission he has given us is to destroy the evil small humans that pray to Sola. How are we going to set about this?

>wait until winter has passed, then act
>send scouts out to search for the small ones, this is risky given the harsh winter
>write-in

Also


Stats:


Turn: 3
People: 35
Xp: 10/10
Religion: The rabbit God from the moon, to pray to him you must take the holy hallucinogenic berries
Technology: pointy sticks
Resources: abundant meat, abundant furs
Military: none
Economy: none
Culture: feasts, drugs

xp 10/10 pick an perk

>1. Increased strength, to enhance our already overwhelming power
>2. Increased intelligence, makes research faster and more effective
>3. Instant bonus, one of your people found 2 chickens scratching around in the forest. The birds a small amount of food each day! But maybe if they were bred they could do much more...

>>364048
>wait until winter has passed, then act
>2. Increased intelligence, makes research faster and more effective

Did I do this?

>>364048
>send scouts out to search for the small ones, this is risky given the harsh winter
You steal their food and tools and they are good as dead in this cold.

>intelligence

>>366526
Life! This thread needs life!

>>364048
>wait until winter passes
>strength

Who needs tools when you're One Punch Ape?

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>>364048
Pray for strength during the winter anc then act.


As for the evolution I'd like more intelligence.
And later on, can we please shed our fur and emerge as the Norwegian-Swedish masterrace?

Fight with each other in our tent to prepare for war all winter also intelligence

>>367461
>Swedish master race.
Aren't swedes the most self destructive race on the planet?

>>364048
Actually, yes, let's put that point to strenght.
That will open up more early tech options, seeing that we do not need animals or machinery to do lot of the stuff regular people do.

>>366526
I retract this vote because up until cold war, muscle power was needed for almost everything.

More muscle power = greater output from just about everything until automatisation.
The amount of labour needed to achieve things will go down significantly as we can cut down trees, mine and make tools much faster.

Ultimately the reason we use machines is because humans are weak. If we were strong, lot of machines would be unnecessary.

If each of our guys had the strenght of a bull or an elephant, then you'd need artillery to hardcounter us as each of our tribe can merely shape the earth around in moments to create a small fort, which means that they would need to either go in hitting distances to dislodge them or call in artillery.

>>368643
Essentially, because of the mass immigration. Our welfare will fail soon, because of the system shock of having this many immigrants.

>>369258
This person brings up an excellent point, with enough strength we can do the work that humans would need trained elephants or cranes for. Change my vote.

>>370972
Just imagine what we can do with cranes when we get em. They too require muscle to power.

>>364048
Where are you?asking God where he is. Kek

>>375238
Don't worry son. He will answer your prayers.

>>359906
It tis the holy day, moonday, yet again, pray with me that the OP revives.

>>384010
I wonder why OP left us. Were we perhaps too sinful?

>>384785
We have forsaken the op we must all jump into the forgiveness fire so he may return