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Sorry for not playing yesterday, got home and didn't feel up to it.

We have just enough magic to put into everything, but if we do so we'll be left at zero. My suggestion is to not put any into mysteries, since the only sacrificing we'll be doing is to get Pathfinder for the year.

>>28348734
Agreed. Are we planning on doing any quests?

And don't worry about it.

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2 magic for the year then.

>>28348769
Ernalda Feeds the Tribe, to counter this year's poor harvest.

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Incredible as it may seem, both the carls and the thanes are in good spirits.

Since we know we want to go exploring off-tula, how about sacrificing for Pathfinder first, then exploring the tula for Sea season?

>>28348916
Yeah. Twenty or thirty cattle should do it.

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>>28348962
The gods work for cheap.

YES! been waiting for this thread.

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Brilliant Leader (in training) takes a group to explore the tula.

>>28349117
He looks like he knows nothing and is named after frozen water that falls from the sky.

>>28349145
After this, we should explore far to the north as well! try to expand out knowledge of all the regions!

Or is there something specifically we want by exploring?

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Our exploration party has made contact with some wind spirits inhabiting the land around Kero Fin, the mountain that is both Orlanth's birthplace and his mother. What do we do about them?

>>28349145
He'll grow up.

>>28349183
Nothing in particular, except maybe some treasures if we're willing to take a risk.

>>28349227
shrine

>>28349227
Invite them! They're friends of our favorite god right?

>>28349227
Yes, let's get some spirit buddies in a shrine.

>>28349227

Invite them to inhabit a shrine.

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How much do we offer them to move in?

>>28349336

60 Cattle, 80 goods?

Or the other way around since we're swimming in cattle (plus annual contributions) right now?

>>28349356
FYI, there's no amount that guarantees success. It's pretty much random whether you get it or not, regardless of how much you sacrifice.

>>28349421

Oh.

Then maybe 10 Cattle and 15 goods.

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As close as I could get it thanks to the idiot sliders.

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Looks like the spirits work for cheap, too. Anyone have a Wind Waker handy?

The Wind Spirit shrine is special; even though it's a standing shrine you have to offer up sacrifices whenever you want its benefits. They're pretty interesting though.

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We found Rodents of Unusual Size on the mountain. I think I know how we'll be handling this, but just in case...

Rubble Runners are awful.

>>28349623
Let the trickster have his fun.

What could possibly go wrong?

>>28349623

Let Orlastor do his thing.

Can he direct them to another enemy clan yet, or do we need an artifact for that?

>>28349541

Wind spirits are sweet as fuuuuck

run orlanthi nobles through every heroquest for stat boosts

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>>28349655
Many things, but today things went wrong for the Jenestni.

>>28349689
The Trickster sends the rats at a random neighbor. Could be an ally, could be a feuding partner, could be a neutral clan who's now going to be pissed as fuck.

>>28349728
That will show them to...ugh, what did they do to us again? False truce?

>>28349728
We didn't like them anyway.

>>28349728

Things are looking grim for the Jenensti.

We should cattle raid them after the truce expires to remind them of simpler times.

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The Greydogs are coming to us with gifts. I think they're trying to convince us not to raid them and take all their land this Dark season.

Also, I haven't been showing it, but Onelisin has a blistering hatred for elves. Is this a Vingan thing, or just her being hilarious?

>>28349758
That was the Anmangarn, the Jenestni just hit us while we were down.

>>28349830
How long do we have to wait?

But either way, the elves were dicks to us too, can we hunt elves? and if we can, how?

Also, when we forming a tribe?

>>28349830

Refuse!

Screw those guys.

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Either way, we aren't indebted one bit to the Greydogs.

>>28349872
This isn't a peace offer, just them not being dicks for once in their miserable lives. Raiding them after accepting could make us look bad, or make the gods upset with us.

The elves do have territory here and we can do elf-centered events if we explore their territory, but we can't attack them since they're not a tribe.

Tribe making happens after you've completed three separate heroquests, as well as the quest The Making of the Storm Tribe.

>>28349830
Kentvent really hates the elves, it seems. Take cow for the greater glory of killing elves!

>>28350000
Gotcha. Well let's go smack them down in Fire season and claim the last of their territory. Then we expand I guess? Explore some more?

I have no idea what else we can do right now except hero questing our future chief up into an awesome leader, and exploring?

>>28350047

It doesn't seem like killing elves is really worth it unless your ancestors did it. They're pretty creepy and can do some really annoying stuff to you whenever.

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Our new Wind Spirit shrine. This is probably the ability we'll be using most. It'd be a lot more useful if we were an Orlanth worshiping clan, but Elmal's our bro.

It's now Fire season. We can go raiding, but perhaps we want to do more exploring. Kero Fin has more secrets, and there's plenty to be found in the northern reaches of Dragon Pass.

>>28350047
Onelisin actually. The speaker's portrait is highlighted.

>>28350139

Let's go exploring the Northern area of Dragon Pass.

Do we still need to do sacrifice for a pathfinder blessing?

>>28350139
Let's explore for as long as we can until dark season.

Then we kick the Grey Dogs out of the area.

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Northward bound! But baby steps, because there's interesting things on the way.

>>28350207
I discovered Pathfinder at the start of the year. We'll activate it next year, for now we're relying on our luck omen.

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No idea who these guys are, but they must have balls of steel to come at us.

>>28350345
They're probably going to realize how fucked they are and try to use magic, so charge them immediately to interrupt.

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Onelisin's become a target. How does she react?

>>28350438
We outnumber them, as well, so we should probably save our magic for later.

>>28350474

How do her stats look like?

>>28350474
I want to see what insane risks do for once. Also we keep ignoring her advice and that's making her angrier over time I bet.

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>>28350492
In this case, it would test her personal magic stat, not the clan's.

>>28350509
Excellent Combat, Very Good everything else relevant.

>>28350583

I'd lean towards fighting bravely, then.

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Not sure if this is a reputation booster, but damn this girl is cool.

>>28350579
I've done insane risks several times previously, it's always ended poorly.

Funny that you mention anger, if we had Urox's Berserker blessing, a lot of these events would include the option of sending the character into a berserk rage. This is a double-edged sword as you'd expect, the Berserker blessing also passively increases the number of people wounded on your side.

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Their blood waters our crops. You might see we captured prisoners.

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Now we decide what to do with them.

1. Letting them go makes the Narri like us more,
2.Taking them as thralls we will not do since we're not thrall-takers
3. Sacrificing them can get us clan magic (but is kind of horrible and sometimes backfires) and
4. Ransoming them gets us five goods per person.

FYI, the Narri are to our Southwest, across the mountain.

>>28350778

Are they close enough for us to claim their land should we choose to attack them sooner or later?

If so, ransom them. If not, let 'em go.

>>28350778
Ransoming seems safest. the Narri liking us is pointless since we can walk all over them.

>>28350718
Damn, they got taken!

>>28350778
I vote freeing regardless. The fuckers got so badly beaten they'll not try this again soon.

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I let them go. And then THIS happened.

>>28350821
They're part of a tribe, and while they don't think much of us, some of their tribemates do. We don't want to invade them.

>>28350842
We killed or hurt every one of their warriors, at the cost of one of our guys dying.

>>28350822
This. I vote we ransom as well.

>>28350931

Charge them, they'll try to use magic to even up the odds.

>>28350931
I think our advantage is significant enough to kill as many as possible, because they'll be driven off no matter what, I want them to be helpless once we win.

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Enothea is one of our young new nobles, and an Odaylan. We've got two young ones, which is interesting since they're somewhat rare.

Ransoming is usually the best resolution for non-thrall taking clans. By the time you can capture auxiliaries you're generally strong enough that only people who hate you are raiding you, and you can get lots of goods for no further effort this way.

>>28351144
I don't know the exact numbers, but I think nobles are stronger than weaponthanes, and weaponthanes are worth 5 footman, so she should be able to win, but she's a woman, so I'd still like to see her combat score. Since she's new, I don't think we'll miss her too much if she fails, so she should hold these guys off.

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And it's just about the most awesome thing.

>>28351189
Just so you know, the second option there was thanks to having Fyrdwomen active.

>>28351243
Stupid kill stealing cottar.

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We got all of their thanes but missed about 20 swordsmen.

I'd like to point out that after the last raid we had four more clan magic in stock. I suspect that releasing the prisoners made the ancestors happy with us.

>>28351299

HAWT DIGGIDY DAMN

That's quite a kill count.

>>28351337
>>28350718

I TAKE THAT BACK, THAT'S A KILL COUNT! HOO BOY!

You guys are doing alright here.

>>28351299
So, what blessings do we have active?

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Fire 2. We could go further north, but there are other areas to explore. Or we could do Ernalda (we'll have enough food for three years even with the poor harvest).

>>28351384
From the top:
Barntar: Vigor
Elmal: Sun, Steadfast
Ernalda: Bless Crops
Humakt: Truesword
Issaries: Silvertongue
Maran Gor: Earthblood
OrlanthL Rain
Tarard Riel: Watchfulness
Vinga: Fyrdwomen
Wind Spirits: N/A

So most of the important ones. We might consider Market from Issaries, and Literacy from Lhankor Mhy.

>>28351457
What are the options to explore and what gives us the coolest stuff?

>>28351475
Well, there's all sorts of stuff around. If you'd like to start meeting more races we want to go just a bit further north. Or we could explore Kero Fin again, there's still treasure and opportunity to be found there.

We've also yet to introduce ourselves to the Marsh Ducks...

Long story short, we've done so little exploring that we'll bump into events and treasure no matter where we go. Pick a direction and I'll send out a group.

>>28351533

Let's go pay the Marsh Ducks a visit, then.

Never hurts to introduce ourselves to powerful Humakti warriors.

>>28351533
Northeast.

>>28351620
Seconded.

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And they're off.

>>28351630
We'll visit Cragspider some other time.

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I love this event. There's a fantastic trick to it.

Accepting the deal gets us fewer sick people and less food loss due to spoilage.

>>28351734
Accept, give them alynx kittens or goods, whichever has the better chance of working.

>>28351734

Let's offer them alynx kittens.

>>28351734
I don't know the trick to it. Sometimes they accept the kittens, but it's rare. Giving them magic seems too steep, and owing them a favour is risky, because we don't know what they can ask for. Maybe offer them livestock? I think they only have cats, but everyone has a use for cows. Maybe their cats need milk?

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I love this event, you almost always can get them to do it for free.

>>28351734
What's the trick?

>>28351863
Is there anything that influences whether they like the kitties, or is it just random?

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Earth 1. If we want to raid in Dark season we only have enough time to explore the Quivin Mountains. We could send off a group on a treasure trading mission now and explore the mountains in Earth 2 (or perform Ernalda Feeds the Tribe).

>>28351862
>>28351867
It's the kittens. There's a good chance that they'll perform the blessing for free, and if it fails you just get kicked back to the suggestion screen to try something else.

>>28351898
Not sure. I've only ever once see it fail.

>>28351973
Explore the mountains. Seems weird that we have a HUGE border with them and havn't scouted it once yet.

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Exploring.

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Our exploration party to the Dragonnewt Wilds (area just north and west of the Orlanthi holdings) has returned with news of a great find: an amazing statue, guarded by dragonnewts. It's a treasure, so we might want it. Whatever happens, we are NOT sending Orstalor to steal the statue.

>>28352325
Isn't this what tricksters are good at?

>>28352325
Hire mercenaries?

Let's get some PCs on our side.

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>>28352362
Actually no, success chances are based on how many people you send and what the leader's stats look like. I think this is a Exploring check, so it's Bargaining and Combat.

>>28352407
They tend to keep it for themselves.

In this case, we're going to keep in in-tula, and send a hero to do the job, with his five best friends.

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Pure magic.

Seriously though, keep the party small. Five thanes with Truesword are more than enough.

>>28352568
Awesome

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I mentioned earlier that we might want to perform Ernalda Feeds the Tribe. Are there any objections to that?

>>28352617
None here.

>>28352617
Nope. just make sure to give us a full description of it in case we have to act through it.

>>28352568
oooo whats the statue do?

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Ernalda Feeds the Tribe then. Anyone have a preference for what reward we ask for? I'd recommend increased crop yields, just to avoid the poor harvest.

>>28352701
Strengthen the future chief. We have food enough for two years even with a poor yield this harvest.

>>28352701
Sounds good.

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Ernalda Feeds the Tribe is an interesting quest. The treasure isn't very good, but the crop yield bonus and the (hidden) passive bonuses to agriculture are fantastic.

On the other hand, there's a neat trick you can use to get something very--Beneva? What are you doing, come back!

>>28352691
Magical things. No idea, I've never been able to find out.

>>28352739
This isn't our future chief unfortunately, he's mountain climbing at the moment. Ernalda can only be performed by a female.

>>28352825
Suffer blows

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If you do something completely against the spirit of the heroquest--like run away in the middle of it, or fail a skill check badly enough--you get dumped in the godsrealm. Generally, this is bad. You don't want to be here, since it means you've failed the quest.

>>28352908
5

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You can run into several gods in the in-between space. Ty Kora Tek, Yinkin, Asrelia, and Gustbran the smith of the gods. Each of these have a chance of getting your quester home, but Gustbran offers a treasure as a souvenir.

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I should have mentioned, we're on rails for this.

Gustbran is working on the Godbone, but you can get that from killing the adventurers. You can trade for it, but we're really interested in the stuff he can make.

>>28352989
You sonofabitch, I knew this heroquest from the last time we did it. I was all hyped to be useful

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Gustbran's Wheel can only be acquired through failing a heroquest. It's absolutely worth it though, because it speeds up your explorers, which incidentally reduces the chance of failure since they are not out as long.

>>28353016
Sorry! I only play through a heroquest once for the thread, since it makes the game go faster for everyone.

My apologies for hijacking control of the game. Dark season is imminent, but first...

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Whatever that Silver Dragon is, it's fucking awesome.

You'll also note Beneva is hurt, the godsrealm is randomized so I wounded up in Yinkin's territory, where he took a bite out of our quester. Cats are jerks.

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We'll do Ernalda next year. As it is, we're practically swimming in food still, which is why I took that detour.

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Keep in mind, this is a dragonkin we're talking about.

>>28353173
I wanna go 4, but I have a bad feeling it could bite us in the ass. 1 would probably be safer.

>>28353206
1 would be safer, but it is worth 100+ goods if you win.

>>28353221
4 then.

Orstalor's not failed us before.

>>28353173
How strong are dragonkin? I take it it's 'we win but lose all of our weapon thanes' type deal?

If so, then 4. Let's risk it.

>>28353244
Yes he has. He trickster'd us when we tried to allign with the rune ducks.

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160 goods get. Praise Eurmal.

>>28353245
Not all, but potentially several. RNG, etc.

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It's now Dark season, which means raiding time for this clan. Who do we want to hi--Greydogs.

>>28353330
You know us so well.

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It's a pity that the Greydogs don't know us half so well.

No wait, that's fun. What are we doing to them this month? Seizing land, or plundering?

>>28353410
Seizing land.

DRIVE THEM OUT!

>>28353432
Seconded.

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Did we raise warriors or bleeding hearts? Get back over there and take the rest of it.

>>28353432
Third.

After this we finish off the jenestni, and we'll have no more immediate enemies if i'm not mistaken.

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Before our warriors made the trip, I had the Greydogs pay for the privilege of us invading their tula.

>>28353472
They're all still there, just on the other side of the mountains.

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Could they have waited to roll over? Oh well. What do we tell them?

>>28353490
I just meant immediate in the sense that they aren't on our doorstep. The rest of our neighbors are shades of neutral making the formation of our forthcoming tribe easier.

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I told them to take a hike. We can't give the Greydogs the boot if we can't invade.

Hang on, are these the same guys the Stag Hearths went to?

>>28353589
Ah, gotcha. Speaking of, we'll want to get our diplomancing on, make the rest of our neighbors friends and allies before then.

>>28353651
sounds good. throwing goods at people solves problems

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But first, we raid the Greydogs again.

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Mission: Complete. As soon as the Jenestni break the pact, we're sending them packing.

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Our new boundaries.

It's now the first month of Storm season. What should we do? If you want to explore, select a landmark or a direction.

Our expedition to the Marsh Ducks has likely failed.

>>28353748
Fuck yeah

Send another expedition to the marsh ducks?

Did our expedition into the mountains ever come back?

Also should we just wipe out the Jenestril and make a tribe with everybody nearby? Or should we be uber dicks, keep them on feud, and then make a tribe with everyone who surrounds them?

>>28353711
What are horses used for anyway?

>>28353748
I vote north.

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We're going to befriend those ducks if it's the last thing we do.

>>28353852
Our mountain expedition did come back, that was the event with the wurm. As for the Jenestni, we'd have to spend an action to officially break the pact, then start raiding.

So the latter, I guess.

>>28353903
You need one horse for every weaponthane, and one for every noble. So roughly 30+thanes. Having fewer than that reduces how many weaponthanes you can field.

>>28353915
We'll do that next.

>>28353903
recruiting weaponthanes requires horses~

we have plently though so its no biggie but at the start they are a limiting factor

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The Greydogs are offering peace. I assume we think it's worth 16 cows a year?

They've moved next to the Fire Quartz on the map here >>28353748.

>>28353990
Might as well.

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>>28354600
They rejected the offer, and hired Stag Hearths to defend them.

I'm most amazed that the Stag Hearths have enough surplus population to provide mercenary services.

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Someone else wants a piece of the clan.

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And our Heroic combat tribal leader gets an event.

>>28354684
Fight bravely, insane risks not worth it.

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Seems promising...

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Too many deaths on our side.

Storm 2. I'm going to leave off here for the night, we'll pick up tomorrow. Hope everyone still in the thread had a good time.

Gotta say, reading this series made me go back and read through the entirety of the Runic Men Saga. It's not quite the same because the pictures are only thumbnails now, but it's a rocking story regardless.

But as much fun as it is watching an avalanche roll uphill, seeing this new tribe struggle to make ends meet is just as compelling.

>>28355434
I honestly enjoy this better. It feels like a more normal experience in going through the game.

Incidentally, what are sheep used for? I know pigs are for food, horses are for weaponthanes, and cows are your credit rating plus emergency rations, but what about sheep?

>>28356519
I think they aid in trade.

Maybe making goods, too.

I've been playing this game since I bought it from the GOG sale, I and think this is a good place to ask: How do I form a tribe? Some people in the thread have mentioned it, and I can see a few clans already in a tribe.

>>28360387
You have to complete 3 seperate hero quests successfully, including one I can't remember the name of (forming of the storm tribe I think?) then you wait for this specific guy to come around and he starts the clan formation event.

>>28356519
Sheep are sacrifices, and also are used as emergency food.

In the iOS version, pigs and sheep are all listed under cattle, since there wasn't much point to them in the first place.

>>28362835
Delicious mutton.

Keeping the thread alive for now. Man, this game is getting good.

>>28365663
Can somebody list our full assets in terms of treasures, crazy events that got us stuff (the silver statue and the spirits in our temple) and such?

>>28366059
I'll make a list of our assets and their origins for the start of the next thread. I've been meaning to do an actual clan history for the OP as well, so I'll do both at the same time.

>>28366198
Cool.

>>28366198
man, I need my fix.

I'd passed over the threads multiple times with a quick evaluation of "gay", but I'm really invested in this now.

>>28367518
Yeah, this game is really great stuff, once you dip in.

Okay, 20 minutes now. Who's ready for another year.

>>28370600
I know I am!

>>28370600
yes
YES

>>28370600
jiggle bells jiggle bells

>>28353091
holy fuck

i never got to that point of the heroquest. usually just gave up once i got cast into the god realm b/c doom

>>28370600
LET'S DO THIS!

Also, has anybody ever thought that this could be converted into an awesome "Champion of Chaos" game?

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Storm 2.

You'll note that we have no sick people for the first time in gods know how long. And people say Yinkin is a useless god.

I think someone suggested exploring? Give me a direction or a landmark.

>>28371175
north east

>>28371175
Let's go NORTH!

Aren't there lake things up there?

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>>28371207
How far northeast?

>>28371261
Not exactly. There's a bunch of areas of interest up north though. Like here, who knows what's waiting here?

I'll take the next suggestion: North or Northeast? There's things to be found in either direction.

>>28371337
North. Strike the earth!

>>28371502
yea lets just go north

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How odd, I don't think we're short on carls.

>>28371502
No spoilers.

>>28371564
Well, we DID just triple our territory.

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This for threw me for a loop, because the Taralings were my neighbors in my last game.

>>28371600
True, but I don't think we increased our farmland.

Oh wait, I think some farmers were automatically reassigned as hunters to patrol the Wildlands we received.

>>28371632
Then we need to get more farmers stat.

And hey, let's increase our farmlands TOO!

Why not? We own the largest plot of land of any of the clans period. Let's own the fuck out of it? Make more and more out of it, exploit it to the maximum we can. More carls, more farmland, more pastures, and let's up our number of hunters too just in case?

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>>28371632
Here's our tula. I'll post specs next, but I want you all to see what the place looks like. We're fully upgraded defensively, and have a good number of shrines and other structures.

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The yearly wrap up. Pity it doesn't show land gains.

Okay.

Do we have any shrines we've not built yet?

Do we have any upgrades for the Tula we could yet purchase?

We need a fuck ton of Karls, let's max exploit our land alright?

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We're going to be swimming in cows before the end of the year.

Assign magic.

>>28371764
Everything but children.

And again, what upgrades for our tula have we not taken yet?

>>28371732
I'm a bit concerned that our population is dipping every single year.

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Only one in mysteries since we have some people who are very good at magic on the ring, that's another bonus to sacrifices working. None in hunting because it's not worth it.

>>28371757
Several. On the other hand, we generally don't want to have too many shrines since they suck up resources fast. We've got most of the important ones.

We've upgraded the tula completely.

Sounds fine, but calling for carls takes an action, as does reassigning land use. Too much land is almost as bad as too little.

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Beast Valley has been found. I'm guessing that we really have seen the last of the previous exploratory party.

>>28371822
Could be a lot of things. It's honestly not a huge issue, so long as we have 400+ working adults. We have about that many, but getting Orlanth's Rattle would help.

I think that we'll want to spend an action calling for immigrants anyway.

>>28371764
>>28371840
Dat reputation. How far along are we on actually forming a tribe?

>>28371890
What does the rattle do? Does it create more children or somehow speed up their growth?

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Praise Arnok, what do we do?

>>28371925
We could start the process as soon as we performed the Making of the Storm Tribe heroquest.

>>28371967
The latter.

>>28371925
think not very much? I think (correct me if im wrong) the plan was to assemble bags of treasure first before forming a tribe because that would push us into middle game and make things abit more difficult

>>28371980
not 4 or 5 b/c ADVENTURE

maybe 3? but thats cause im canadian and polite

>>28371980

Frankly, I'm offended that we're such a mighty and successful clan and haven't performed the Making of the Storm Tribe quest yet. We must do it in the Storm season this year.

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No dice.

>>28372021
We were getting our ass kicked until just last year. Our fortunes had a truly dramatic turnaround that I attribute to the Orlanth and Aroka quest boosting our warriors, and our clan leader having Heroic Combat.

I've also been avoiding the quest to keep things simple for a bit longer.

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Augh, you're an Odaylan, why do you suck at this so much?

We'll be going back there later, with someone who isn't terrible.

>>28372074
The door might be trapped, so let's look around for a back entrance.

>>28372074
>>28372104
Never mind, I didn't think knocking the door would make them give up immediately.

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Sea season. Give me two actions for this month.

>>28372127
It didn't, I just expedited it. Surprised that it didn't work, Odaylans are supposed to have the best chance of finding the passage or treasure.

>>28372074

With that many cattle and that much surplus food, we're never getting our ass kicked. Our Great Sky Father and Bountiful Earth Mother are obviously smiling at us. Destiny is in the air.

Oh, we're back. Actions for Sea?

>>28372153
Things looked VERY different a few days ago. Just goes to show that persistence is the real key to becoming King of Dragon Pass.

Well, that and heroic clan leaders.

>>28372149
Hire more carls

Expand pastures and fields

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We'll offer sheep to go with the land, because we've got well over 2000 of the bastards.

>>28372464
Our land is actually underutilized, we don't need to use more of it.

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Another clan comes to us asking for mercenaries. Neither clan borders us. Neither clan particularly likes us, though the Kardavi like us better. It's currently Sea season.

Completely up to you how we handle this.

>>28372602
The Vostang are closer by a pretty fair margin so I say we should help them out for a reward that will go towards making them an ally.

>>28372726
I'm pretty sure that doing any kind of raiding during Sea or Earth season screws up your harvest. Let's not. Hell, let's warn the Kardavi, they're between us and the Anmangarn.

>>28372780

We have plenty of food. What's the point of building up a huge surplus of food if not so you can make war when your enemies least expect it?

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Went with the Kardavi, we'll need someone to hit once the Jenestni move out and the Vostang just about fit the bill.

>>28372814
Using that huge amount of food to pay for huge amounts of goods?

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Sea 2. Feels pretty good to see things looking so good.

Do we want to send out more explorers, trade for treasures, heroquest or sacrifice for a given blessing?

>>28372892
Sacrifice for the bonus to explorer safety then go check out Kero Fin again. Plenty of nice things there.

>>28372892
I like the sound of EXPLORATION.

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This game has all sorts of neat little details to it you never see.

>>28372992
It sucks that you can't have a temple to Vinga for both Fyrdwomen and Pathfinder

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We're drowning in crotchspawn.

>>28373027
Tell me about it.

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The Vostang are pretty mad. Unlike the Jenestni though, they're going to be bros about it. We have a chance to nip this in the bud, should you so desire.

>>28373098
Compose a poem portraying them as fools.

Because lord knows it was stupid to give us advance notice.

>>28373098
compose a poem portraying them as villains

then raid them in the fire season

>>28373098
Compose a poem praising their honour.
That is the orlanthi way!

>>28373098
I vote for Fools. Because, let's face it, the fuckers are REALLY fucking stupid to warn us.

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I've never managed to make it work, but they're not being dicks about this, so we're going to praise them.

We raid as soon as Dark season starts.


Keep in mind, we can't take their land.

>>28373171
This wasn't here when I hit the button.

>>28373098
Do we have any alliances with anybody? If not, then we want them with:
Gorind
Rune Duck
Mule Deer
Tree Brother
Old Owl

Who should we form a tribe with when the time comes?

>>28373202
>Keep in mind, we can't take their land.
Grab Jinistri first.

Then go raid the fuck out of them, burn fortifications, burn steads. Force them into the dark ages. Also, are they part of a tribe? We might need to get alliances going before we do much to them, and just force them back each time.

>>28373215
I remember seeing a notifier about how the tree brothers were the strongest clan in the valley with the best equipped warriors, so they seem like a good place to start.

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>>28373215
As it happens, we have no nearby allies. We'll have to start making some next year. This year, I think we're exploring.

Pathfinder is up. We're going to Kero Fin this month, where to next month?

Anyone got a link for this?

Rolled 17

>>28373269
Try the dorfs again.

>>28373247
Let's do that then. Rune Ducks too, and we're friends with the Old Owl's right?

4 clans = 1 Tribe right?

We need to start getting friendly with them as well as exploring. Whenever we can send gifts? We should. Until we can get them friendly enough that we propose an alliance.

>>28373269
Back to the dwarf holds?

What're the pink names for? Are they people who don't like us?

>>28373215
RUNE DUCKS

WE MUST ALLY WITH THE RUNE DUCKS IMMEDIATELY

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Elmalandti is off to the mountain again. I'll send someone else to check out Dwarf Valley.

>>28373275
http://www.gog.com/game/king_of_dragon_pass

>>28373294
The bluer a name is, the more they like us, the redder, the less. Pink names are people who we have one chance not to fuck up with.

>>28373269
Rune Ducks first, they're friendliest.

Old Owls don't like us (if Bluer=friendlier, redder=feudier) I say we drive them off for shits and giggles once the Vostangi are put in their fucking place.

Then we ally with the tree brothers.

Then we ally with either Gorind or Mule Deer (how do we find out more about them?)

Anyway. We secure the north ENTIRELY for ourselves and our allies. Everything on the north end of the pass should be OURS.

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Stag Hearths have a new chief.

>>28373294
Whoops, didn't answer the other part: A tribe is a minimum of four clans. You can get more, and there are advantages and disadvantages to it.

>>28373332
Or we could befriend the Owls to give our diplomancers some practice before the midgame. Something to keep in mind!

>>28373332
>Gorind
They're friendlier with us than Mule Deer. I vote for buddying up with them, Tree Brothers, and Rune Ducks for the tribe.

Then we kill off the Old Owls and the Mule Deer.

>>28373363
>Whoops, didn't answer the other part: A tribe is a minimum of four clans. You can get more, and there are advantages and disadvantages to it.
what are they?

Might be a good reason to make a tribe out of everybody currently in the north.

Also, HA! Fucking stag hearth chief died of elves.

Now we know WHY the fuckers were around and why we've not had any more trouble with them. They wanted THOSE fucks.

>>28373363
>being impious in glorantha
....
WHY!?

>>28373401
they like to live dangerous I guess...

>>28373435
ok then.
>electing an impious cheif
DOUBLE WHY

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Oh shit, Greydogs in the tula and they outnumber us.

Most of their replacement army is made of Stag Hearths, wonder how the Stags got the numbers to pull it off.

>>28373378
Can't make a tribe with the Ducks. And each clan has real advantages to bring in, things to offer. Well, except the Raiding Clan. And the Long Planning Clan has terrible events.

>>28373398
Larger tribes can provide more assistance during heroquests, passively provide more goods through inter-tribal trade, each clan can be made to provide a unique tribal benefit during recruitment. Oh, and tribe members like warning you about imminent attacks from forces in their direction.

>>28373401
Maybe he's made of metal?

>>28373321
Cheers

speaking of...
Do you always want to elect the person with highest leadership as chief?

>>28373493
>Can't make a tribe with the Ducks
I think there is a tribe event where the ducks come and demand to be members

>>28373493
just drive them off.

also long planning is terrible? goddammit, they're in my tribe...

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Whew, few losses. I was sweating there.

>>28373507
First and foremost, they should worship your chief god. Highest leadership of those is your best chief, usually.

>>28373536
Right, but you can't form a tribe with them in it. Actually including them tends to be problematic too.

>>28373537
It's mostly their troll-loving. Much more useful to use the trolls as a crop watering mechanism.

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Speaking of ducks, here they are, demanding satisfaction for the dead.

>>28373559
>burned our steads
Grey Dogs, you're in for a WORLD of shit come raiding season.

>>28373574
Pay for thanes price.

>>28373574
Agreed.

But first. Jenestani. Get rid of them.

Then the grey dogs are in for a fucking WORLD of pain.

>>28373574
what rank were the ducks? Don't wan't to overpay.

if no rank given pay them thane weregi;d

>>28373559
For our Tribe, let's get as many clans as we can I guess as long as none of them are long planning.

Treebros definitely. And everyone else sharing our border currently. Let's get super friendly alliances with them. That way we get more warnings for incoming raids.

>>28373614
Most would argue that "They don't deserve any" but they're badass undead slaying warriors. We pay the weregild of thanes to show respect.

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>80 goods
Hurk.

>>28373608
The Jenestni are paying for the privilege of living on a reservation. They'll attack soon enough. In the meantime, let them keep paying us.

>>28373614
The Orlanthi classes don't quite map on to their understanding of Orlanthi ways. There's really no telling how much the appropriate amount is. Paying cottar's gild also satisfies them.

>>28373623
So we want
Tree Brothers
Gorind
Mule Deer
Lonisi
Old Owl

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Brilliant Leader (in-training) sets off to explore.

>>28373649
If we get all of those I'll be impressed.

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Harran reports the obvious.

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Explorations of Kero Fin resulted in a successful off-screen diplomance.

>>28373677
WE WILL MAKE ALLIANCES WITH ALL OF THEM!

WE START ON THIS ASAP!

After we fuck over the Grey Dogs (told you guys we should have done more stead burning and people killing before we took their land, when we had the advantage, would have put them down for a few years).

>>28373708
I think the west is cursed. Let's forget it

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FUCKING HORSE FUCKERS.

>>28373728
The Greydogs moving reset their tula. They artificially boosted their fighting population by RNG fiat, believe me the player never gets that lucky.

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This'll be entertaining.

>>28373748
GODDAMN IT!

Holding action, drive them off.

And We need to focus on getting friends asap. We've been making a rucus, and we NEED allies right now.

Also, how bad are 153 mounted attackers? Is that 153 weapon thanes? maybe we want to use the banner too?

Do tribes have to be formed with those bordering us?

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Fucking bullshit.

Really though, we should almost thank them, we have a horse surplus and we don't make glue in this tribe.

>>28373773
Their exact composition is unknown to us, they're so alien.

>>28373779
Yep.

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If we want people back before Dark season, we need to explore nearby. The Quivin mountains are our best bet.

Before anyone asks, we had a thane die of old age.

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The thanes are complaining about overwork. They should unionize if it's that big a deal to them, but there you go. How do we react to their complaints?

Rolled 11

>>28373843
Lets go with 5. With as much land as we control, plus adding in the last bit from the Jenestni, we have too much area to cover with just ~20 thanes.

>>28373843
4 or 5.

We do need to recruit.

We need to get our population up enormously dude. We should focus on reconsolidating. Kick the greydogs a few times once we can, accept their surendur.

>>28373885
>>28373893
If you want more thanes ASAP, you go with 1. 5 is basically the do-nothing option. 4 loses us a useful noble for several months.

>>28373916
Drawbacks of 1?

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I take it back, taking on new candidates got us three thanes for free. Nice.

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Earth 2. If we want to go raiding, we ought to hold off on the exploring. I'd suggest either heroquesting or enshrining Literacy here.

Rolled 11

>>28374009
Enshrine Literacy. Gotta get them diplomacy buffs early for max use.

Actually, I have to prepare for work. Was hoping we could finish that second year, but it's not to be. I'll start again in nine or so hours. This time we'll get to the end, promise.

Thanks for playing all.

>>28374098
First thing when I get back.

Bump.

This might be a spoiler question, but what are the non-Orlanthi factions in the game, and where are they? I've met the ducks and the Praxians, but that's it/

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Here's the Lhankor Mhy shrine going up. Diplomancy is go.

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A shaman gives us a warning about imminent Chaos action on the tula. He says a sacrifice to Kolat might encourage the God of Winds to help.

We're not sacrificing a treasure, so what do we do about the shaman's warning?

Cows are traditional. But we've got a horse surplus. Flip a coin or something.

>>28378787
five horses (we still have a surplus right?

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The god botherers might not know what to look for, but we do: Clan magic up by one.

>>28378868
Like you wouldn't believe.

>>28378915
Rather than exploring, we should consolidate and get more warriors right? Surplus of horses means more thanes.

We should do that, recruit as many as we can. Same for carls, let's get our population up.

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This is an interesting event. There are a lot of possible bad results, but being a generous host has MANY rewards.

>>28378954
We have 200 horses, give or take. Max weaponthanes that the game can support is something like 30.

>>28379023

lets do 1: invite them in

>>28379023
Oh god, him. Welcome him, then ask for nothing. Anything else, and you have to prepare for unexpected consequences.

>>28379023
invite them in

>>28379023

Invite them in.

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This will spark an event sometime in the future.

>>28379105
Hush, no spoilers.

never could remember when its good to bash the heads of strangers in and steal their stuff or be friends with them :(

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It's now Dark season. We can't raid the Jenestini, so who should we hit instead?