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Project Completed - Colossus attendants' training Even without Munkherel, None proceeds apace with the training and soon Buris has memorized a host of symbols and started to understand basic principles of the Colossus's death-in-life. She is a giant made of metal, and she needs sunlight to stay awake and move. But the fire in the sky steals her light before she has enough, and so she slumbers. But None knows how to protect her light. It takes at least two, preferably three, but None assures Buris that it would be easy (if time-consuming). She knows enough to lead or assist in the ritual now. Projects:  Raid the north (0) , Construct the Celestial Temple (5)Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Project Completed Raid the north Zaaya is resplendent in her return. She is draped in the white cloth of the northerners-- a hundred different strips all tied in bows and ribbons around her chest and arms and head--and it whips behind her like a live beast as she rides. Her captives (so many captives!) are half-dead from the trek back and can barely keep up with the horses they are tied to. They are weak and sickly and hungry and injured but they are hers. And, as far as she's concerned, they're just as good as those owned by the Ziyarites. Some think they would make a good sacrifice in the new temple.   Spring Week 10 quote:Where are you storing your food? Why is this a risky place to store things? The Ziyarites do as they did out in the steppes with food stores kept in the central most yurt. Or, hut, in this case. The thralls, hungry as they are, try and stay far from that location though. Their eyes watch the swamp instead for the things that such an opulent collection might attract.  Action Start a Project: Prayers are lifted. Speeches are crafted. Compromises discussed. Spears sharpened. One way or another, the tribe will come together again.  Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (4), Unite the People(4) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (0)
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Spring - Week 11quote:Theres a giant, man-made structure on the map. Where is it? Why is it abandoned? The landscape of giant wheels and pipes to the southeast have long been a mystery. Supposedly they turned poison into sweet water, but some legends say they were used to turn water into food for the metal servants of our ancients. In any case, no one has ever seen water come from its pipes, no matter how much it has rained within its open pits, and nothing good grows near its grounds. To eat from an animal who has eaten near the strange metal and concrete grounds is to risk death, or so the stories say---why risk seeing if it's true when so many other hunting grounds exist?  Taking 1 Contempt in response to human sacrifice proposal. Action - Journey to the Colossus The night's sky fires begin again. Amid the bickering over sacrificing captives, enslaving them, or what have you, None packs his strange cans of food, a mysterious locked box, and other supplies into his wheeled metal vehicle. Buris packs her own supplies and the metal conveyance leaves with a loud reverberation and dirt kicked into the air. Munkherel tells those who ask that the plan was to hurry to the Colossus as soon as the burning lights had begun.   Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (3), Unite the People (3), Journey to the Colossus (1) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Spring Week 12quote:Whats the most hideous thing in the area?  Action Start a Project: We have lost our way trading food for shelter with an outsider, were we driven momentarily insane by dark spirits? Monkh, Sarangerel and half-a-dozen others not preoccupied with the slaves ride out after his metal chariot, spear and bow in hand.   Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (2), Unite the People (2), Journey to the Colossus (0) , Kill None (1)Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Project Completed - Journey to the Colossus 
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Spring Week 13quote:What group has the highest status in the community? What must people do to gain inclusion? There are adults, there are children, and there are horses. Everything and everyone else in the world is below acknowledgment. Below contempt. Sub-human. We let ourselves forget that. We should have used None has an educational opportunity; we should have tied his hands together and made him run and had the young ones practice with their bows on a moving target. We will make things right. Action Discover something new: Golit of the Ziyarites is deeply disturbed by what he has learned from the thralls. They speak in hushed tones of a black lake in the middle of the swamp. One without a bottom. They say that's where the monsters are born and behemoth older than time still slumbers.   Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (1), Unite the People (1), Kill None (0), Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Project Completed: Lights flare up the Colossus, and Sarangerel is far too level-headed to carry on the attack under such eerie circumstances. The others follow her lead and turn back - all except Monkh, who charges on, urged by ancient warnings echoing in his head. That's the last they see of the old man. Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (1), Unite the People (1) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Summer - Week Onequote:Predators and bad omens are afoot. What measures do you take to keep everyone safe and under surveillance? The bog beasts go wild the day after the Colossus begins pulsing with light. The Blue Promise Breakers ignore them, and the beasts do likewise, but the Ziyarites find defending themselves a full-time task. After Kurik and Daneel are each gravely wounded, the Ziyarites unyoke their horses from the fields and ride hard for the Dome. They shut themselves in with provisions and plot their return. The stirring of the Colossus wakes other beasts, too. Strange and vicious creatures burst out from boltholes all over the steppes, dark snake-like things with legs and venomous fangs and claws. The traditionalists lose a few horses at first, but thankfully no people die. The village carefully monitors any sign of disturbance in the earth near their yurts and begin to engage in regular patrols to kill the walking serpents wherever they find them.  Action - Discover Something New While fortified in the Dome, Urlaan in his boredom explores the lower levels. He comes across an odd black object with a small pulsing red light. When he touches it, a glass aperture turns blue-white and moving images appear before him! He passes his hands through the people and things in the air, and they are as ghosts. The black box speaks, gibberish at first, but then something close to our community's language. And it flashes pictures of the wheels and pipes, speaking of how it transforms bad water into good, and how the Dome somehow gives the wheels and pipes the strength to work.   Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (1), Unite the People (1) Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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OOC: We're now in Summer, which has a card that tells you to draw and discard the next 2 cards (going into Autumn if need be). Since our game ends in Autumn, we might discard the Mist Shepherds (endgame) card. If that happens to you, take your first turn as normal and take another turn ending the game. Do so even if there are projects that would have finished on your first turn, or if you start a discussion on your first turn. The game ends immediately when the Mist Shepherds arrive. Just list the season and week, quote the card text, and post the final map no narration or description. Personally I like to link some music, but that's up to you. Summer Week 2 quote:A headstrong community member decides to put one of their ideas in motion.  Action Hold a Discussion: All our efforts have failed and only led us here, to the ghosts of our past. We should go back to our people, heads bowed, and ask for forgiveness.  Projects: Construct the Celestial Temple (0) , Unite the People (0) , Subdue the former Ziyarite slaves (4)Abundances: hunting birds, laws (Ziyarites only), grazing land Scarcities: laws (traditionalists only), morale (Ziyarites only) Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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"Who are our people anymore? Are these new shrines and conquests part of our past moving forward, or are they innovations that have removed us from the ways of our ancestors?"
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"I am tired."
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Are both of you waiting for the other to complete their project or something similar?
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Project Completed - Construct the Celestial Temple The last paint is applied and braziers redolent of incense are passed throughout the interior. Aspas declared herself High Priestess and welcomes all who wish to commune with the heavenly court and our honored ancestors to attend services.
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Project Completed -- Unite the People Armed with bow and spear, warriors from each faction ride out. Forgiveness is neither asked for nor is it given. No concessions or debates are made out on the steppes. In fact, nothing is said was said at all. The people stare at one another and wait for the other side to speak or to strike or to do something. Finally, a traditionalist horse steps forward to nuzzle her Ziyarite sister and that's all it takes. The warriors ride together as one people and it is good. It is as it is supposed to be. The Ziyarites return to the fold expecting to be humbled. They are unaware of how their was absence was actually missed.  Summer Week 3 quote:A contingent within the community demands to be heard. Who are they? What are they asking for? The still grieving Lisandru and Munkherel travel from yurt to yurt. They carry knives and ask for oaths of kinship and unity. They do not want to listen to complaints of too many rules or too few. They expect compromise from both factions and are willing to fight those who do not see "reason." Action Start a Project: Several pillars of the community --Sarangerel, Golit, Aspas, and Ziya in particular-- are moved by Lisandru and Munkerel's words. Meetings are held at the Celestial Temple to discuss what went wrong, why the people split, and what can be done so it never happens again. They pray to the gods for guidance. The sky is purple.   Projects: Subdue the former Ziyarite slaves (4), Create Laws (2) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land Scarcities: laws Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Summer - Week 4quote:A project finishes early. Project Completed - New Code of Laws Perhaps the heavenly court has blessed our people. Perhaps the spirits of our ancestors fill the void of our traditions with forgotten wisdom, bubbling up unexpectedly from our mouths and deeds. Or perhaps it is simply that the skies are clear, our horses swift, and the world full of splendor and spoils yet to be taken. Whatever the cause, our Sarangerel, Golit, Aspas, Ziya, and the other notables of our reunited community quickly come to agreement on a new set of laws for our people. We adopt a code with basic precepts that draw broad outlines and leave much interpretation to the community for specific instances. Paramount is that the life of one of our own is sacrosanct, and our horses after that, and never shall we take the life of either in any circumstance. Outsiders and slaves are subject to whim and have no rights. Action - Discover Something New Rousing from its slumber, the Colossus raises its arms to the sky. Beacons flash all through the week, spears of light splitting the black even so far as our yurts lie. And one day, the lights stop and new terrible, wondrous things are in the sky. The Colossus is not alone. Slowly its companions move through the sky, cycling up and down the border between us and the boglands, over and over.   Projects: Subdue the former Ziyarite slaves (3) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land Scarcities: laws Contempt: UnCO3 (2), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1) ibntumart fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Note that if a card makes a project finish early, whoever drew the card finishes the project.
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Sorry for the late turn, didn't see the updated project! Dropping 1 Contempt. Summer Week 5 quote:Summer is a time for conquest and the gathering of might. Start a Project related to military readiness and conquest.  Action Discover Something New: It seems that None, in his haste, left behind some of his foreign scribblings and ancient texts. They're only fragments, but they may be of use to us.   Projects: Subdue the former Ziyarite slaves (1), Draw up evacuation plans (2) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land Scarcities: laws Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1) UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jun 26, 2016 |
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Summer Week 6quote:A project finishes early. Which one? Why? Completed Project -- Subdue the former Ziyarite slaves Though the trail was old, Zaaya and her warriors were able to track the remaining Blue Promise Breakers from the abandoned Ziyarite homestead west towards the Colossus. It was unclear if they were helping dig the living metal monstrosity from the mud by choice or coercion. It was clear, though, that the Colossus was stuck. And that it was impossibly huge. The warriors watched from a distance with mouths agape and even Zaaya hesitated to spur a charge towards the rusted beast the size of a mountain. And the terrible things in the sky? It seemed dangerous. Suicidally dangerous. So they waited until nightfall, lit their arrows on fire, and set the Blue Promise Breaker encampment aflame from afar. For they are still warriors.  Action Start a Discussion: "I believe it is a matter of if not when. The Colossus will awaken. But must we leave? Could we not perhaps lure it into the Black Lake? It is supposedly bottomless."  Projects: Draw up evacuation plans (1) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land Scarcities: laws Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1) Tyrannosaurus fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 26, 2016 |
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Are you mad? EDIT: Just realised I forgot to include a project time for my last project - I've edited it into my previous post. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jun 26, 2016 |
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Summer - Week 7quote:An unattended situation becomes problematic and scary. What is it? How does it go awry? We wake to Monkh's desecrated corpse inside our temple. That night they repay our arrows of fire a thousandfold, with a wall of fire reaching to the sky across our eastern and northern borders. The Demons who patrolled the bog have moved to our lands, and their black eyes spit red flame over the tall grasses of the steppes. The Line itself bubbles and melts, filling the air with an unholy stench. To our horror, it becomes clear they are moving in a giant circle around us, slowly spiralling inward to box us in.  Action -Discover Something New The earth shakes. Through the distance we see a different set of lights and hear the cheers of the Blue Promise Breakers from across the plains. The Colossus is awake.   Projects: Draw up evacuation plans (0) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic Scarcities: none Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Project Completed: The former Ziyarites take a prominent role in the frantic discussions of who will go when, and what will happen to the excess animals and thralls, but the debate comes to a deadly halt when someone asks who, exactly, will lead the rearguard. All eyes lock on Zaaya and go wide as she uncomfortably turns away. After a tense moment, Sarangerel volunteers instead. This precipitates a heated, yet muttered debate with many shifty glances at the de facto war-leader, but Sarangerel brushes them off with a simple statement: The old ride ahead of the young. Summer Week 8 quote:Something goes foul and supplies are ruined.  Action Start a Project: Sarangerel finds one of the few remaining horses, snatches up an unwilling Munkherel, and rides as hard as she can for the South. Perhaps with the notes, and the knowledge, they can... they could... perhaps.  Projects: Sarangerel and Munkherel escape (1) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Summer Week 9quote:Outsiders arrive in the area. Why are they a threat? How are they vulnerable? They have power and speed and fire. The only thing we possess is numbers for we are many and the demons are few. But perhaps we also have the favor of the gods. How else would a hunting bird bring down a demon?  The man inside the demon lives. But not for long.  Action Start a Project: Buris grows concerned with None's evasiveness. She misses her people but he just says, "We're so close" in his broken patois. And little more.   Projects: Sarangerel and Munkherel escape (0) , Buris discovers the truth (1)Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Project Completed: The pair skirt the walls of fire toward the Nest. They hope only for momentary shelter, but instead find a rope ladder hanging down from the bulk above. With a little work, they climb up to reach it. The stench inside is almost unbearable - but they soon find signs that someone was able to bear it. Tins of the same sort that None carried. Plates of seeds left out for the birds, mostly-eaten. Notes, boxes, and strange machines similar to that of the dome. What was he doing here?  Projects: Buris discovers the truth (1) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1) UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Summer - Week 10quote:You discover a cache of supplies or resources. The grey glass on the strange box flickers to life when Munkherel accidentally taps one of the odd runes on the grey board before it. Sounds and images come alive on the suddenly vibrant window, and to her and Sangerel's surprise, they see the Colossus, the Demons, and other strange giants made of metal and magic. The insides of each are shown, and the pair realize they are not alive: each has a person enter and somehow guide the metal beasts as one would a horse, directing it here and there, and ordering it to battle at will. They have enemies, too, armored men of blue and grey that live in the skies and come when the speaking black box elsewhere in the room has its dials moved until a certain pair of sigils appear.  Project Started - Evacuate to the West We cannot beat the flying Demons or their masters while our horses are dead and homes burning. To fight not would be stupid, not brave. The ring of fire does not yet close off the Unknown West. By foot or by what horses are left, and despite the snakes that walk and anger of the Blue Promise Breakers, we must flee. Many of us pack up what little we can bear, bereft of horses as most are, and leave with a few yurts and the hope we can scavenge food from the land to supplement our meager supplies. So we begin the hurried migration west, skirting above the boglands.   Projects: Buris discovers the truth (0) , Flee to the West (2)Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic, knowledge of the enemy Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Project Completed: Buris discovers the truth Buris moves the leg. The leg moves the Colossus. The Colossus is important. And so Buris knows that she is important. That same need for relevancy that drove Zaaya to war brought Buris to None. From her screens she can see around her, see that there are lights in the distance, see that there are strange people celebrating her every movement, see a frightened horse with hooves aflame... She begins prying into the machinery. Wires hiss, cables snap, electronics spark, and she doesn't stop not even when her fingers begin to bleed. Not even as None pounds on the door. 
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Summer Week 11quote:The eldest among you is very sick. Caring for them and searching for a cure requires the help of the entire community.  Action Start a Project: Perhaps we can fight fire with ice. Munkherel makes use of her training and calls out to the demons' enemies above if nothing else, making them aware that someone is out there. The two can only pray that the enemy of our enemy is our friend...   Projects: Flee to the West (2), Call down the demons' enemies (1) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic, knowledge of the enemy Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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OOC: Just to clarify something, if you draw the Mist Shepherds card normally (not by discarding it due to the 'summer is fleeting' card) and:
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Summer Week 12quote:Summer is fleeting. We ride. Action -- Stare a Project: The young Tuul, napping in her saddle, wakes with a start. She is comforted that her father still leads her horse. She is frightened because in her dream she rode alone. She was the last of us. After a while, she asks her father about his dreams. When we make camp that night, she begins asking others about theirs.  Action Discover something new: Even the earth disagrees with the presence of the demons. South of us, their fires lick something old and metal. Something that remembers afters years and years and years of slumber that it had a purpose; that it was created for a reason --- to explode   Projects: Flee to the West (1), Call down the demons' enemies (0) , Collect dreams (2)Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, panic, knowledge of the enemy Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1) [/quote]
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Project Completed: The blue-grey enemies of the sky-demons hear Munkherel's prayers, and swiftly descend from the night stars. They engage the remaining sky-demons with frightful hostility, and all on the steppe can see the battle unfold. What few closer glimpses people catch of the newcomers reveal little of their allegiance. The riders are they riders? hang strangely stiff and still from their underbellies. The sky is bleeding.   Projects: Flee to the West (1), Collect dreams (2) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, knowledge of the enemy, fear Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1) OOC: I think the next turn should be called Autumn week 2, skipping the discarded Summer 13 and Autumn 1. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jul 1, 2016 |
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Project Completed - Flee to the West Beyond our recently defined borders we move, skirting the blasted earth of the crater and avoiding the boglands to the south. We follow the hoof prints we see, reminding us of those we saw in early spring. And then we are farther west than our people can remember ever going. We find the land slopes more gently than the harsh mountains of the north, and its grass a vibrant green in contrast to its pale cousin on the steppes. We can set up yurts and rest. For now, at least.  Autumn - Week 2 quote:Cold autumn winds drive out your enemies. Remove a threatening force from the map and the area. A gift from the celestial court! Days of mighty winds flow from the mountains down to the steppes, and even from our distance vantage point, we can see the pillars of smoke and fire diminish and finally die. Action - Discussion Now that our land is the home of gods and demons, we must decide whether to stay and trust that the heavens ultimately favor us... or leave this confusion and misery behind to seek a new life in the distant West.  Projects: Collect dreams (1) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, knowledge of the enemy, fear Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Let us go West. If the gods want us, they will find us.
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Autumn Week 3quote:Someone leaves the community after issuing a dire warning. Who? What is that warning?  Action Discover Something New: While the rest of the community debates Aspas' warning, Lisandru cradles Nobody and listlessly watches the streams that cross this new land. He only perks up when he sees something flash beneath the water fish! Dense columns of them, migrating from North to South!   Projects: Collect dreams (0) Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, knowledge of the enemy, fear Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Project Completed -- Collect Dreams Tuul mumurs to herself constantly now. Every waking moment goes to the recitation of the community's dreams. She doesn't want a single one to be forgotten. Even the ones from those who left. Especially the ones from those left. Autumn Week 4 quote:The strongest among you dies. What caused the death? Aspas rode a powerful stallion -- dark and a strong and fast and befitting her station as high priestess. It was in every way healthy and viril and yet, upon crossing back onto the old lands, the beast lay down to rest and never awoke. Her followers look to her for meaning in this sign. She isn't sure what to say.  Action Discover something new: The earth continues to reject the presence of the blasphemous. Smoke rises to the east and dulls the wine-red sky to the color of old blood.   Projects: Abundances: hunting birds, grazing land, knowledge of the enemy, fear Scarcities: horses Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Autumn - Week 5quote:Something goes fowl and supplies are ruined. Many of our falcons still swoop onto the eastern grasslands to find their prey. But the food they bring back is unhealthy, and soon they lose feathers, then strength, then life entirely. Only the falcons feasting on the newly discovered fish stay healthy.  Action - Start a New Project We lost our land, but we have our dreams. We lost our horses, but we have fish. We lost our priestess, but we have faith. We lost our unity, but we came together when we needed. And now we must guarantee our future. Some say that is to stay here a while, but are we simple fishermen or masters of the horse? Some wish to simply go back as Aspas did, but are we dumb beasts to scurry back on instinct or are we blessed with insight to see when a new path is needed? Some say that path is to leave, but Azad says we cannot leave unless we are whole. We need Buris, Aspas, and the others who left. He and a couple of others each take a remaining horse and ride out to try to bring our wayward clanmates back to us.   Projects: Rescue Missing Clanmates (3) Abundances: grazing land, knowledge of the enemy, fear Scarcities: horses, hunting birds Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Autumn Week 6quote:The community works constantly and as a result a project finishes early.  Their shock and joy is indescribable when they find that Sarangerel and Munkherel have returned by themselves! They were far from idle as we escaped they tell everything of their journey to the Nest, how Munkherel spoke to the gods, how they rode North behind the veil of fire and crossed through the mountains hampered by unseemly winds. Their efforts were ceaseless, and finally they came back to us. Lisandru and Munkherel are overjoyed, though some find the tale of calling down the gods dubious.  Of Buris or anyone else, there is no trace. Action Start a Project: Horsemen or fishermen, we will need food to survive in the coming Winter. Our need is doubly urgent now that so many of the birds have died. Given that, the work is slow going fish are clumsily gathered by the spear or the rare net. It's thralls' work, but we have none.   Projects: Prepare food stocks (5) Abundances: grazing land, fear Scarcities: horses, hunting birds Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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Autumn Week 7quote:Disease spreads through the community. There are yellowleaf ferns that grow just off the river. They seem to make the horses sick. They're not deadly but they serve as a reminder that there is much to learn about our future.  Action Start a Project: Thrall work makes for sore hands. It feels unnatural, even if it is for survival. Eyes scan the east and scouts quietly ride further and further each day.  Projects: Prepare food stocks (5), Claim our proper place in this new land (2) Abundances: grazing land, fear Scarcities: horses, hunting birds Contempt: UnCO3 (1), Tyrannosaurus (0), ibntumart (1)
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