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I'm getting pretty busy so I might not update for the next week or so. I might if I have time and I feel like it but don't hold your breath.

I've been thinking about this for a bit so I figured i'd ask. How would you guys feel about pausing things in the village and having something like Turn 49.1 where it's just the scout party. Have a bit of a mini-adventure?

I'd probably keep stuff with the hunters going too since I've never been happy with the way the timescale messes up hunting (I'd rather it happened off-screen in 3-6 turns but that'd mess with your exploration of the local area).

EDIT: I'll see if i can figure out some exposition for you guys. For now i'll just let you know that this is a different life cult with a different god.

Turn 49:

Site:
Gargle tends to his assistant by telling him to vomit into the pit. He assures his assistant that vomit is aloud since it hasn't been 'used' yet.

You take the time to inspect your hats. They appear to be fine but have eaten a lot of the grass in their small enclosure. You grab a hand full of grass from outside and put it in for them to eat.

The Woodworkers move onto another tree but discover it has fruit in it. They decide to chop down the one next to it instead.

SouthWest(pond):
The Goblin makes sure the deerple doesn't get away and then sinks the spear deeper to finish the job.

The ridge-back is watching Jaymi and the other Human and growling at them in warning.

The scout party has arrived:
The Scouting party has arrived at the life temple.large amounts of land around the temple have been cleared to make way for farmland, much of it recently harvested. What appear to be priests are working the fields. Catching the final hours of sunlight.

There is a ring structure that encompasses the tree. The roof is made of large sheets of cloth and the rest of the structure appears to be made from the wood of ash-trees like the ones the party came across on the way here. It appears that there are either ramps or staircases that lead to the structure on the other side of the trunk.

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Inventory:

Scouting Party:

Tasks:

Population:

Settler's Wants:

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Informative post.

Sorry, I meant to talk about lighting in the last update but it totally slipped my mind. Which is insane since there is about 5 pages dedicated to it.

Also about the drake thing. I think none of them are remotely drake-like since I know what animals I was thinking of when I drew them. To help settle this here they are:

Ridgeback: Tuskless boar/bear
Tusker/bogbull/whatever: wolf/boar
Stoneface: Cow/bear/bus/banthacow (if you remember what that is you deserve a high-five)

Nothing you've seen has scales, it's all fur so far.

Don't try and take that as an indicator of their intelligence or anything. That's just where my inspiration for physical appearance came from/what I think they look like.

I'm feeling a bit to tired to do an update but i'll get on it tomorrow.

Turn 47:

Site:
You give the Rapn one pelt and 4 wood in exchange for the two bags of springnuts.(+5xp)

You ask the Rapn if the nuts could grow here as you make the exchange. He tells you that those nuts would never grow as the green parts have been removed. Apparently the nuts originally have two parts and both of them are needed for a plant to grow. Since the green bits aren't tasty and have no use to the northerners they get removed. At least that is how the Rapn thinks it works. He's no farmer.

If you did have some full springnuts he's not sure if they'd grow since it isn't near the southern coast. These nuts came from Greenshallow. (information post has been updated)

You have him take a look inside the bag of seeds some of the villagers brought with them. Out of the five varieties he recognizes two. You have about 10 units of full springnuts (30 actual nuts) and 5 units (10 actual seeds) of something he thinks are turbish seeds. Turbishes taste foul but you can squeeze them for oil.  That leaves you with another 40 units of unidentified seeds.

You ask him why the idol is worth so much. He tells you it is of the finest craftsmanship money can buy. It doesn't look very impressive to you.

The Rapn asks if your business is done.

Rapn Wares:

Rapn Offers:

Monty goes over to the Mason and they discuss plans to make a statue of Fellhawk's astral form, which is of course a hawk (only deader). They set aside 5 stone for the task.

Tagracka has a bit of a headache now.

The Carpenter takes 3 wood and begins to make a sign.

SouthWest(pond):
The ridge-back to the south shows unexpected speed and tackles one of the fleeing deerple. Sinking it's teeth into the animals shoulder. Some of the deeples have stopped to avoid going near the Ridge-back but the one Jaymi speared charges forward regardless.

The goblin takes his spear from the ground and takes advantage of the fact that some of the deerples collided and manages to spear one of them in the midsection as it is trying to get up.

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Inventory:

Scouting Party:

Tasks:

Population:

Settler's Wants:

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Informative post.

Are the springnuts a food source? 30 nuts doesn't seem like it would sustain someone for any length of time, unless they're huge. Are they more of a snack for the wealthy rather than a staple food?

It's 30 units of nuts which is 6 meals. They are a bit of a middle ground in terms of status symbol but they are worth more on the northern side of the mountain because they only grow in the south.

We should also greet the traders and ask the name of their fine beast.

If you guys want to do this I'll do the naming instead of you.

Also I put the animal in the information post. It might interest you to see a front view.

Probably update tonight (about 4 hours from now or so).