@serialkiller and @AgentTine You guys are the last, school today so it might be a few days to the next round
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@serialkiller and @AgentTine 2day notice
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Beautiful round as always.
Vote 1: I should probably not ignore that very unsettling wildfire right next to my doorstep, but instead we will try to befriend the animal buddies so we may burn together 
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AgentTineToday at 8:22 AM
Vote: Construct tall barriers out of logs and sticks in order to keep out enemy Hunters and keep ours in. Also have people patrol said barriers (aka we’re just making fences
Just so its all in one place for me
A lot of you are very close to qualifying as the transition to civilization and getting that coveted second vote that would rise the word count from 300 to like 500
Round 4: Beginnings of a Revolution
By this time period, it would appear that a growing number of known tribes had adopted basic farming techniques, or at least that of planting and harvesting berries and beans, or in the domestication of animals. More distinct species, such as that of the Lobos gene have been spotted in the graves near that of the Eastern tribes, and evidence of semi permanent structures have been discovered in several locations.
@agenttine- Akeer
Vote: Structures (19)
Structures
Akeer
Following the domestication of the Hunter friends, the Akeer have come to the realization that their process of making nests may be worth replicating among the Akeer.
The Hunters, used to being raided by other Hunters and predators, have taken to creating little barricades around their nesting sites, using sticks or other objects to make approaching the nest stealthy difficult, including clearing away grass and placing rocks to injure feet, both improving visibility and limiting movement, and small obstacles that prevent easy ways of getting in even past the rock objects. Hunters will escort friendly Hunters, and their Akeek masters, through the rocks to prevent injuries.
While Akeer have had ways of dealing with intruders in the past, they have taken to utilizing this technique on a wider scale. First, they have cleared away the grass surrounding the village, enhancing their lines of sight. Next, they have cut down trees both in the plans and back towards the hills, bundled grasses, and sharpened rocks. They have created a series of obstacles and sharpened ground to prevent easy approach to the village, unless one knows the path, which both the Akeer and the Hunters do. Some of the Akeer have been tasked with monitoring the obstacles and areas of approach, keeping a lookout for non friendly Hunter packs
With their village secure, the Akeer have taken to closing off small cropings around the surrounding area for their own use, preventing other animals from eating the bushes the Akeer have claimed as their own for food.
The Akeer have begun to name the Hunters that they grow up with, and even marking them as to be distinct from each other and the hostile hunters, helping differentiate between the two. The intertwining relationship has had a positive effect on the overall morale of the group.
In a lucky twist of fate, there has been the discovery of outcropping of trees and even a freshwater pool, a grassland oasis nearby. Akeer have taken to building a few fences to limit the ability of animals of getting in, allowing easier resupplies on the lake and the bushes, as well as possibly constructing more permanente places
Stability: Sturdy (3)
Power: Tiny (1)
Previous Votes
Previous Votes: North (18), Ranged Weapons (10), Deal with the Hunters (20)
@jellyfishmon- Olyamata
Vote: Search for Water to the West (14)
Olyamata
The Olyamata leadership have come up with a plan. Utilizing their newer smaller storage containers, they will pick their people up and move further into the forest in order to find a more permanent source of water. All able bodied Olyamata, from the youngest (and eldest) Matian to all the Mata, will be tasked with carrying a portion of the Tribes supplies or their youngest. Any who could not or would not, will be left behind. This has sent the Olyamata into a frenzy, creating as many of the now familiar backpacks as they could, tasking the hunter and gather groups with finding a new path through the forest, using their previous experience. Finally, with as much either packed in the smaller bags, or with small portions of the population set aside for the carrying of the larger containers, the Olyamata are set to begin their journey.
Unfortunately, not all will be joining them, as some of the most elderly, the weakest, and others are not able to contribute their own to the journey, they will have to be left behind. This does not create much discord within the group, as it is only natural in Olyamata culture to leave them behind. Not heartless, they will be left with whatever supplies the Olyamata cannot carry on their own.
And so they begin their journey westward, ever followed by the strange Forest Jumpers, who have somehow taken to the Olyamata, and even warn the forward scouts on more than one occasion when they were about to lead the group to dangerous cliff sides. An odd relationship forming there, with the scouts gifting the Forest Jumpers some food in exchange for their warnings.
Eventually the Olyamata have journed deep into the forest, for a decent amount of time finding only more trees, which are getting thicker, and more intensive. Luckily, these trees provide a good amount of food, so the Olyamata have not had any real worries. Unfortunately, there is no sign of any large river, though for now the Olyamata are resting beside a fairly decent stream, larger across than a single Olyamata, but which only goes up to the midthigh of most of the Mata. It is a good place to rest, restock, and decide if journey into the increasingly difficult to navigate forest is worth it.
Stability: Solid (2)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous Votes: West (17), Storage Containers (7), Portable Storage (16)
@immortaldragon- Khurissa
Vote: Check the River (10)
Khurissa
The plan to check the river was simple enough, Khurissa would approach, set down some small game as bait, and smack the water with sticks and rocks until whatever was scaring their friends would come out. Doing it near the crossing to allow them sight of any large creature before it strikes the surface. After this, however, nothing happened. Now more curious than ever, the Khurissa attempted to replicate the experiment further from the crossing, perhaps it is too close to the shore. Again nothing.
Angst and curious, more varied methods are tried, from throwing larger rocks, leaving larger kills, and louder shouting, maybe attempting to scare whatever is there. Whatever the methods, the friendly creatures would still not approach the river, nor would anything unfriendly come out. As it was getting late, many had decided that the morrow would be a better time to try again. But all the hard work and in the hot desert sun had made a few sweaty and parched. As such, they approached the river proper to refresh themselves and clean off. While the sun was out, nothing was seen in the river. As it crested behind a hill, and as the rather young Khurissa went from simple cleaning to playing in the river, they perhaps did not notice as the various sounds of animals ceased. Nor did they see the shapes that now floated just barely cresting the surface, odd fans of skin pushed up, with whatever they were attached to beneath.
Luckily for them, they were not the first target of the night, as just before the strike was to be had, a bird came down to the river, and was therefore the first victim of the night to the creature, missing the young Khurissa for the bird. The shock was over quickly, and the young Khurissa quickly left the river as the struggling sounds of the bird and the creature echoed through the night. After it was finished, the creature approached the shore, and the Khurissa fled rather than wait for those crests to come upon the land.
Stability: Solid (2)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: East (20), Go with the Flow (8), Scout the River (18)
@omnipotentfnarr- Ack Nan
Vote: Agriculture (16)
Agriculture
Ack Nan
The birds gifts, while appreciated, are still a little gross. As such, it is not entirely uncommon to wait until the gifting bird is out of sight before throwing the seeds away. Luckily for the Ack Nan, one person did not do that, or at least not in the same way. After the death of one of the Birds, who happened to be a relatively close friend to the hunter, he decided to honor him by burying him with the same seeds he once was gifted. When he later can to the grave, he was surprised to see that the seeds had sprouted into small plants.
The man quickly spread the word to the others of the Ack Nan, and in the fertile aftermath of the flood, no better area was had, and soon enough the already green valley became even greener. Various types of plants sprouted up, most of them various types of berry bushes. This discovery has lead to an explosion of Ack Nan food supplies, especially in the fertile valley they live within, and the various remaining streams within the valley. The bushes also help the friendly Bird population boom, they now have ready access to more food thanks for the most part to the Ack Nan.
The Ack Nan now have the means to produce their own food stuff, and an able and willing ally in the Birds that now find their nests closer and closer to the Ack Nan village, which is itself surrounded by bushes of berries. The Birds help even more by preventing rodents and small game from eating the berry bushes, mostly by eating them.
Stability: Sturdy (3)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: Stay in the Valley (20), Agriculture (7), Domesticate the Birds (17)
@serialkiller- Kometenvolk
Vote: Domesticate the buddies to burn (14)
Domestication
Komentenvolk
The Komentenvolk can be called many things, and one of the biggest is persistent. The first time they found the strange creatures, the creatures were less than appreciative of having their dinner interrupted, and fled. The second time they were still drinking their water, and were frightened in such a way that they hissed, then fled. The third time they were laying and basking in the sun, after a long days hunt. This time they ran toward the Kometenvolk scouts, who fled themselves. The fourth time, the Kometenvolk scouts held their ground, and it was the creature who fled. By the 8th time, both sides had been tired of the charade, and they stopped interacting with each other.
One day, whilst on a supply run to the local Oasi, the Komentenvolk decided to rest themselves, after all the Oasi had trees for shelter, it was a long and hot days, the water was cool, and most of the larger animals were gone. And so they rested. Mothers chatting by the water, Fathers stabbing their spears in the pond looking for small animals, and young children shrieking their fun shriek as they played with each other in the waters.
It was this sight that the animals, in their packs and families returned too. Hunters, strong and fishing, Mothers caring for their young, and children playing. And this time it was not the Komentenvolk who approached, but the creatures. And not the adults, but the young who made first contact. A juvenile creature, perhaps just in their early adolescence, approached a Komentenvolk who was only barely out of their kid years. The child had caught a fish with their bare hands, much to the delight of her siblings, and even more to the delight of the creature, who after the long journey was hungry. Approaching carefully, they shifted their skin flaps to the colour of request, and the young child, ever curious, approached back. Seeing its intelligent, hungry eyes look towards the fish in her hands, the child presented it to the creature, who gratefully ate it. It then made a pleased noise, which attracted the attention of both its pack, and the Komentenvolk. And that was the sight they all came to, that of a young child lying with its arms around a grateful sleepy creature. Napping in the afternoon sun. And so the two began to relate to each other, as hunters, and as families searching the harsh desert sun for friends. And so they would continue to do so together.
While the creatures accept the Kometenvolk, and especially the young whom they have maternal instincts to care for, they are still relatively independent, and are not quite at the size needed to carry the Kometenvolk across the desert, through they are helpful guides to finding the various oasi they come across.
Stability: Solid: (2)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: East (8), Animal Friends (11), Retry Animal Search (17)
@robotrannic -Poopoopeepee
Vote: Agriculture (20)
Agriculture
poopoopeepee
The poopoopeepee have a curious problem, a plant that helps dealing with pain. The problem, when access is lost people become lethargic and sometimes angry, and reserves are getting low. The solution, put them into dirt and see what happens! Lucky for the Poopoopeepee, the plant that provides pain relief is in fact a weed, and both grows quickly and easily. Moreso, it turns out that the ones that were picked were in fact just not ripe, when left in the ground for a longer time it shifts from being the flower it is recognized as to an almost bulbous plant that still provides the same benefits as before, with none of the drawbacks!
This new strain of the plant, when harvested at the right time, and boiled in water, turns into a sweet tasting concoction that provides the drinker with vigor, allowing them to work harder, longer, and faster than previously. It also gives them a limited out of body experience, which gives a sense of near euphoria to their dedicated tasks, even when that task is intellectual. In even better news, after the drugs affects have left the system, people do not feel any more drawn to the plant as before, only experiencing minor headaches and not any of the aggressiveness that had come to characterize it before. Its ready access has made it a daily ritual to drink the plant in the morning before going off to their daily tasks.
In even more good news, the plant actually promotes the growth of nearby plants when it is not harvested at its ripest, as one late harvest showed. The plant would die rather quickly, but those around it would grow up faster and have more plentiful yieldings. As such, the drug plant can be put between berry bushes, and after its yielding it will boost the number of berries the other plants would produce. This has greatly increased the foodstuff of the Poopoopeepee.
Stability: Sturdy (3)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: Northwest (12), Continue NorthWest (17), Rehab (12)
@teaking- Oprectim Tribe
Vote: Structures (5)
Oprectim
The Oprectim may be the favored ones of the Gods, and they may promote innovation with their people, but sadly innovation is not always a good thing. For example, the creation of a series of obstacles to prevent wild creatures from getting to their berry bushes, as well as to keep in the Giopeks should have been a good thing, which would provide them with ample resources and prevent its degradation.
Unfortunately that is not exactly what happened, while the fences around the berry plants worked in theory, helping with crop production, stopping most of the forest creatures above a certain size from getting in, ect. It did not, however, prevent the smaller creatures, the rats and rodents, from getting into the crops. Now with their predators ironically on the other side of the fence, the small rodents wreaked havoc on the crops, killing a good portion of them. But don’t worry, those poor predators did not go hungry, for the pens containing the Giopeks were improperly made, which allowed the predators to get in while preventing the Giopeks from getting out. The poor fatfurs did not have enough space to use their horns, and a good number were killed in the night before the Oprectim knew what was happening.
Luckily, the Oprectim had the foresight to create not a single pen or crop field, but multiple spread out through the area surrounding their village, and while there was an unfortunate loss, there is still plenty of food and supplies. This has hurt the moral of the group though, who question whose bright idea it was to put a pen next to the forest where predators, live, and where these predators they’ve didn’t know existed until now could have possibly escaped their notice.
Stability: Solid (2)
Power: Tiny (1)
Religion: Oprectimishva
previous votes
Previous votes: West (14), Agriculture (20), Found Oprectimishva (Star Gods) (20)
@MisterMustachio- BeastMen
Vote: Improve Hunting (18)
BeastMen
The BeastMen are the best hunters in the world, always have been, always will be. They will not allow such creatures as the Hunters to threaten them!!! And so they will create new ways to deal with the creatures. If the Beastmen are good at one thing, it is killing, and kill they will. And so they have come up with new ways to kill these pathetic creatures. The most prominent of these inventions is the sling, a simple tool of tanned skinned hides of the hunters, stick, and sharpened stone. These tools can help throw stones far harder and further than a Beastman’s arm, and strike with truer aim.
Using their new tool, the Beastmen are able to challenge the Hunters from further away, and to drive them away from their gathering parties without risking direct confrontation. This has also helped the Beastmen secure their kills, both with their ability to make kills from further away without risking detection of their prey before doing damage to their legs or heads and slowing them for future attacks, and on the Hunters themselves, hitting them with the sharpened rocks while still well out of their reach, causing them to leave or die.
Noticing this, some Beastmen, those who pride themselves on being Hunters of Hunters have taken to deliberately laying traps beyond the simple traps they used to be. Rather, they will wait until the pack decides to bring the food to their nests, and follow the Hunters as stealthy as they can. There they will come across the nests the Hunters create. Clever creatures, used to pack warfare and other predators of the forest, they will often create obstacles around their little nests, digging up nearby grass for better line of sight, small sticks they would break if stepped on, and finding the sharpest rocks they can to injure the feet of hunters getting close to their pack. Unfortunately for these clever creatures, these tools are useful for creatures that have to get close. The Beastmen can kill from a distance. And so they do. Noticing that the Hunters often leave and enter through the same small patch which lacks the rocks and sticks, the Beastmen will start flinging their rocks from the opposite end, injuring some of the Hunters, the others would rush from their nest to the predefined path, right into the waiting spears of the other Beastmen. And so in one attack a whole pack would die, their bodies food for the apex hunter of the plains.
This tactic has greatly decreased the local Hunter population, even accounting for their movement from the north. While they are still occasionally spotted, they now longer operate in the large packs that they used to, and avoid the Beastmen like the epidemic they are. This has improved the moral and food stuff of the Beastmen, and key members of the Hunter hunting groups are now prominent members of Beastmen society.
Stability: Solid (2)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: North (14), Search for Herds (18), Hunt the Hunters (10)
@blackink- Morbus
Vote: Improve Tools (using the dead) (15)
Morbus
Even in the afterlife, the dead have their uses. Noone understands the utility of death as the Morbus Tribe. To them, none of the dead shall go without its use, every part of the body shall be used in some form or another to sustain the Morbus and their daily activities. The bones to become hammers, to be broken into pieces fine enough for needles, the muscles, eaten, or to provide the basic sinew for thread, the pelts to become the clothes that the Morbus wear. Animals pelts, though already a thing, become a symbol of status, hunters able to wear that of their greatest prey, the leaders to wear one of the most majestic elk, the others to wear that of several small games cobbled together. To look to the Morbus is to see how much they revere one by what animal they wear. And that animals are a part of who they are, each one representing their connection to not only nature, but the end result of life, death. Each must craft their own from their own kills, their own hands.
To be Morbus is to know that death is everywhere, but even in death you have your use, and to be dead is not the end but the inevitability of the next life as well. This has increased the moral of the group, who have been struggling with death ever since the murder had taken place. They have even come into contact with the killers, not as they were but as they are, long dead from starvation and of the elements, away from the hearth that would have provided for them. Their discovery is a bittersweet mercy, and they are buried near the graves of their victims, the ultimate reminder that we all end up the same in the end.
Stability: Stable (1)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: Southeast (11), Continue SouthEast (7), Settle on the Hills (13)
@positivetower- Kurichen
Vote: Agriculture (17)
Agriculture
Kurichen
The Kurichen have made a solemn vow in the wake of abandoning their fellows to the elements in their pursuit of finding safe haven in the west. Never again will they harm a living creature, unless in the defense of one’s self.
To make realize this vow, the people must be able to provide for themselves through means outside that of the previous hunting. Lucky for the Kurichen they have happened upon the ideal spot to attempt such a thing. The river they have arrived at has plenty of plants available to harvest, the little berries and strange colored small ovals providing much of the nutrition needed to get through the day.
Moreso, the plants are easy to replicate, as one lucky Kurichen found out, after he had not eaten one night, he awoke to find that the strange ovals had grown, with smaller ovals growing off of it. Pulling off the smaller ovals, the bigger oval was even more delicious than before. Once again the next morning the smaller ovals had grown larger, and the biggest ones had once again began sprouting small ovals. Brining this news to the others, the Kurichen have begun to harvest these strange self replicating ovals, eating them for their nutrition and planting others to grow on the riverbed.
Stability: Solid (2)
Power: Tiny (1)
previous votes
Previous votes: Northwest (10), Decide to go West (3), Continue West (20)
If anyone has any questions, comments, advice, etc there is a new discord at https://discord.gg/eAQQznf, feel free to join us
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With our enemy weakened and weary, we may focus on building our own home.
Vote: Develop structures.
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Woohoo, so close!
Once we’re ready, settle down our first major capital.
Our influx of resources from farming should create a boost of population, enticing us to create permanent housing structure, since moving will be such a hassle. Plus, we can’t take our crops with us, so we might as well stay with them!
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Love the round nice work 
Action: This place will have to work, start setting up camp and look around the area for any tumorous plants that we can start to grow and eat.
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Thanks for the round! 
Vote: Alright, seems these mysterious creatures (now named Varynissa) are only active at certain times. We will start training our Tenhafen (the large creatures) companions to cross at the crossing so we may cross the river together by showing them that these times are safe. We will take however long is necessary to make sure they are comfortable.
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Thanks for the round skyguy, will try to use in the future what you have told me
“The tribe knows that for the forest, after death comes life, winter gives step to spring, but can the death of the forest be worked in such a way that it is reborn with more strength?[…]” -Craukras the berry gatherer, towards the council of the Morbus tribe. Earliest oral legend about plant domestication.
Action: Examine the nearby wood in search of dead trees to be cut and harvest, and spread the seeds and small pieces of the living trees to the cleared lands.
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Hope y’all are having fun. If anyone has any questions comments concerns or want to world build feel free to join the discord or pm me
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Kurichen* litterally unplayable
whhoops, hopefully fixed now haha. Sorry bout that. Also theres no sad face emoji, what even is this forum
Action:We must create new and stronger weapons in order to defend our new land
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vote: invent simple houses.
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i just made a miracle drug plant
declare the plant as our god and create art for it while making permanent shelter
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Just so y’all know, when a vote is composed of multiple parts, or is more complex, the outcome will vary more wildly, and a portion of the vote may go well while the second part may not, or even have negative effects (such as founding a religion and also creating shrines)
I was talking to a few people whi have suggested moving from tge forum to discord. I’m open to both but I’m curious what y all think. So it’ll be a poll and if you guys have any other ideas feel free to share them
- Yes move to discord
- No stay on forum
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Vote: Start intentionally planting some of the local grasses that look like they can be made edible through some process.
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