rolled 9 = 9

Rolling for alchemy.

rolled 5 = 5

Happy holidays Quest Lord, making the bonus roll.

Damnit, I was about to go to bed... But if this is the last one until the New Year, I must stay up for it...

Month: GEMLIE

TRESURY
Gold Incoming 23.92
Gold Outgoing 1.6
Gold Profits 22.32
Total Gold 103.055
Debt 0

STOCKPILES
Lumber Cut 60
Lumber Used 53.8
Lumber Created 6.2
Lumber Stockpile 40.9
Max Stockpile 200
Stockpile Spare 159.1

Food Grown 55
Food Hunted 20.8
Food Eaten 22.7
Food Brewed 3
Excess Food 50.1
Excess Stored 40
Excess Wasted 10.1
Food Stockpile 65
Max Food 200
Stockpile Spare 135

Ale Brewed 3
Ale Drunk 0
Ale Created 3
Ale Stockpile 16
Max Stockpile 200
Stockpile Spare 184

Stone Quarried 9
Stone Used 0
Stone Gained 9
Stone Stockpile 31.8
Max Stone 1000
Stockpile Spare 968.2

POPULACE 121
Workers 92 Peasants 64 Hunters 8 Peat Gatherers 20 Builders 63
Soldiers 14 Men at Arms 5 Yeomen 7
Milita on duty 2 Peasant Milita 0 Manhunters 2

Indentured Criminals 2 Quarry 2 Quarry Deaths 1
Average Work Level 2 Work level 2

Advisors 11

NET GROWTH 0
Growth 3
1 local lad of age, and 2 migrants
Deaths 3
2 die of old age/illness and another in a mishap gathering peat.

>>7253400
Merry Xmas.

Look's like our gold stores are piling up, we're going to need to need to find some goods to purchase.

We should probably look into more fundraising efforts, I suspect - peat's OK as a cash cow but if we're going to have to fortify and arm up, that's likely to cost serious moneys.

What are the current state of our Keep's defences? Poll Leold and DOOOOOBS, see how defensible they think things are.

Also, if Sylem's got enough of a hate-on to send bandits to burn down our villages, he's probably going to try again since his last effort was unsuccessful. Making sure the granary and other buildings important to the estate's operation are well-guarded should be a priority.

>>7253426
Adding.

>>7253462
+1 bonus to your alchemy roll :)

LIVESTOCK 29
Cattle 10

Goats 16

Horses 3
Riding 3

TOOLS AND SUPPLIES
Carts 3 Quarry 0 Peat 3
Ropes 3 Used 3 Spare 0
Small Ropes (1d5) 3 Used 3 Spare 0
Medium Ropes (1d15) 0 Used 0 Spare 0
Fuses 3
Magic Scroll 1 Months to tranlation 2
Hunting Scroll 1 Taught 1 Untaught 0
Spearheads (steel) 25 Used 12 Unused 13
Crude bows 3
Crude knives 11
LAND
Turnip Patches 30 Units Turnips 15
Rice Plots 10 Units Rice 40 Months to harvest 0

Also, again, I need to know where you wanted that tannery. If you don't answer this thread, I'll put it in somewhere random, by dice roll. And where do you want the cattle sheds?

WORK
PEASANTS 64
UNASSIGNED 0
HERDING 3
Goat Herding 2
Cattle Heading 1
FARMING 50
Turnip Farming 30
Rice Farming 20
GATHERING 6
Gathering Wood 6
Quarrying Stone 15

PRODUCING 3
Brewing 3
OTHER 2
Renovating Town 2

BUILDERS 63
Cattleshed 63 Rate 2.2 Draught 4 Carts 0 Ropes 3
Total 500 Progress/Month 161.4 Total Done 161.4 Total Remaining 338.6 Rope Bonus 14
Lumber Used 53.8 Stone Used 0
HUNTERS 8
Unassigned Hunters 0
Hunting 8
Searching Forest 0
Manhunters 2

PEAT GATHERERS 20
Gathering Peat 20 Peat Gathered 29.9 Peat Price (gold) 0.8 Profit made 23.92
Carts 3
LODGINGS 207 Total Spare Room 42 Homeless 0
VILLAGE 120 Huts (5) 24 Share Houses (10) 0
Some Room Lodgers 100 Room Spare 20
THOM'S MERCY 60 Huts (5) 0 Share Houses (10) 6
Some Room Lodgers 50 Room Spare 10
KEEP 27
KEEP ROOMS 13 Poor Rooms (1) 3 Decent Rooms (1) 5 Good Rooms 5
Poor Rooms Spare 3 Decent Rooms Spare 3 Good Rooms Spare 0
Some Room Lodgers 7 Rooms Spare 6
BARRACKS 14 Size 20 Soldiers 14
Some Room Spare Room 6

HIRED 2 Total Cost 1.6
Dan Ganawb 1 Cost/Mason 0.5
Urist 1 Cost 1
Harry 1 Cost 0.1

INDENTURED CRIMINALS 2 Total guards needed. 1
Yet to be assigned 0 Guards 0 Escaped 0
Quarry 2 Guards 0.4 Escaped 0 Worked to death 1

>>7253597

I think the best place for the tannery is in the north-west, near the swamps. That way the wind only blows the tannery smell over inhabited areas when it'd be blowing swamp-stink anyway.

Cattle shed... wherever's convenient for taking the grazing animals out to graze. Close enough to a village that it's easy to keep an eye on it.

I assume the map's not particularly to scale?

>>7253597
I thought we already decided that the tannery was to go up next to the swamp, so that any smell from the tannery would reach us only if swamp stink would anyways. As for the sheds, I vote in between the peasant's village and the keep, closer to the village.

Leold is back right? Did he purchase the services of any skilled workers with the money we gave him?

Other news:

Peat went down a silver again. so it's 8s a unit.

Aegon and Baldric are spare, anything to get them to do?

Leold is back, and he's brought back a few hopeful tradesmen who want to sign up. A carpenter, a horticulturist, a miner, and a mage. The mage doesn't want to sign up long term, but is for 20g will check your land for any good ores, or for any other magical disturbances. He's a Mallemancer, so he specialises in metals, ores and such.

Honestly, there's not too much going on. We are really waiting on our Uncle to get back with some skilled laborers hopefully, and Urist to return with some goods.

The only thing I really see that we could address ask Harry what the hell he's been up to these past two months. We spared his life, and even gave him a job. Has he just been sitting on his arse the past couple of months, or has he you know, actually done something?

>>7253632
Ok, done and done if there's no opposition

>>7253623
It is to the yay scale. Where 1cm on the map is about
yay far on the ground.

So no, not to scale.

>>7253695

Fantastic. I imagine the mage is likely to be well worth the price - set him and the miner to survey the area, finding places that have useful ores that can most readily be extracted.

Also, if we're going to be mining and presumably refining ore, it might be best to start stockpiling peat or other fuel for use in smelting.

Can the carpenter help speed up construction time on buildings, or is he more into furniture carpentry?

We're running out of space at the keep, it has to be said - some kind of residence for the estate's skilled workers might be sensible.

>>7253695

Sign on the carpenter and horticulturist, for their prices and a demonstration of their abilities first, of course. The mage is non-mining guild right? If I remember the mining guild wanted to send down one of their mages down to us for a 50/50 split of our ores.

>>7253711 here. >>7253695
Seems I spoke too soon.

We want to hire ALL of them. But we shall try to haggle prices first.

Have Baldric help with town renovations, and I'm struggling to try to remember who Aegon is.

>>7253744
I also do not remember who Aegon, and we really shouldn't have Baldric working on renovations. Crazy little bugger thinks washing basins are hats.

>>7253743
ask for*

>>7253761
>we really shouldn't have Baldric working on renovations. Crazy little bugger thinks washing basins are hats.
We were also told that he was the SMARTEST of the peasants.

Scary thought isn't it?

>>7253761

Aegon is the bard who won the singing contest at the spring fair, and got taken on as staff. He's really very good.

>>7253782
Yes, we should really build a school after all the other necessary projects are complete.

>>7253739
Furniture, etc, is his forte. But he could help at that as well.

>>7253743
Non guild. Journyman mage, so he's not a master yet (far from it).

>>7253744

>>7253761
Aegon is the bard/minstrel. Sings sagas, swings swords and doesn't afraid of anyone.

Have Aegon work on composing a song detailing our adventures so far.

LORD QUEST MOTHERFUCKER! SHIT YEAH!

What kind of salaries are the carpenter, horticulturist, and miner looking for?

>>7253819
Is furniture required to upgrade rooms in the fort?

How is our merchant dwarf friend doing? Have we sent him out yet and if so we need to make sure he is also looking to pick up more carts (plus the animal to move it). Can get cattle and carts at the same time!

Prices for the tradies:
Carpenter: 2s

>>7253711
Past 2 months? You caught him at the end of last month.

He's been integrating himself with the peasantry, he's a bit surprised at the size of the place, he was expecting you to have more people, cities and such. He's not much a country lad, but he likes the people. "They're honest like. All funny, won't stab you for a silver, and loyal like a mutt. They all say good stuff 'bout you, you'll be the most liked lord this side of the ocean, and possibly on the far side of it too."

Do we have any upcoming events where it'd be good to have Aegon impress the nobles with finely-crafted songs and tales? If not, he can work on his own compositions.

Or! Have him compose a catchy and comical ditty that's a thinly-veiled tale of Lord Sylem's villainous misdeeds, with special emphasis on how dangerous it is to have any kind of dealing with him, how he's treacherous, conniving, backstabbing, fickle, inconstant, capricious, and generally too crazy to trust at all.

I recommend basic pallisades to be constructed around the main village proper, with well enough room to include future expansion, as well as several watch towers in key locations: specifically at least one at each main directional point, South to the river, West to the swamp, North to Thom's Mercy and East to the forest.

>>7253865
It'll help improve them.

Miner wants a silver a month, horticulturist wants a gold a month.

>>7253885
You have, and he's looking for animals, and grabbing the ring. He'll be back before the month is over.

>>7253918

What kind of effects can we expect to see from the horticulturist's work? What's he offering?

>>7253904
We should make them out of stone from our Quarry. This way we have a much stronger setup.

>>7253918
Right, we can afford that. Have the carpenter work on building furniture for the keep's rooms. Start him at the worst rooms and move up to the better rooms. Get the horticulturist to begin work on cold resistant and longer lasting strains of our crops.

>>7253900

I should've said - the point of this musical character-assassination is to undermine any kind of support or sympathy that Sylem might enjoy, and get merchants wary of trading with him. If Sylem's as crazy and draconian towards his own peasants as he is towards visitors there's likely a good bit of resentment festering in his lands, so this song could become an underground folk hit.

>>7253946
I am fine with this.

>>7253946
Thirding.

Also, are we hiring the mage? I vote yes. But once again, with a haggle roll first from Smyatt.

>>7253918
Let's use magic carrier pigeons to get him to bring back a varied collection of seeds as well. Herbs and vegetables and whatnot.

Let's hire the entire group, but haggle with the mage, and he must sign a contract declaring confidentiality.

I second the idea of our bard producing a song in opposition to Sylem. Hopefully we can spread it around.

Send an envoy to Sheff. As I recall, he was in the midst of construction. Our envoy should offer good rates on stone. This offer should extend to wealthy merchants and other people of note within Sheff's lands.

A wall and watchtowers sounds good, though at the moment we should keep them simple. A wooden palisade, yes. If we make it a square barrier, than a simple watchtower in each corner, or if the wall is more rounded, then one at each direction, NSE and W sounds good.

We need to make our domain more inviting so as to attract more immigrants. Lately we haven't had any net gains in population growth. For that end, we need more attractive amenities, but more importantly, we need more jobs. Undertaking enhanced building projects could free up room in which we could advertise the need for immigration, as well as new opportunities. Newcomers can help with the various construction projects we've come up with, and once things are squared away, begin work in the new fields of work we create.

>>7253927
He'll work on improving the strains of the crops, removing diseased crops, etc. He can advise on matters to do with plants and crops. General agricultural stuff basically. He's scholar level around here, most people know shit about crops except how to farm them. Also can research agricultural stuffs.

>>7253932

Stone walls would likely take longer to construct, during which time they'd be pretty much useless.

I'd recommend starting with a ditch-and-rampart setup, then pallisades, then reinforce/replace that with stone once we've quarried enough of it.

>>7253975
This. Go for basic and immediate first. Upgrade as time progresses.

Right, I think we're good for a new month then Lord.

>>7253974

That sounds pretty good. If he can identify crops that'd be suited to the land we have available then he'll be worth his wage.

I'm in favour of hiring the mage subject to haggling and, as mentioned, confidentiality.

Can we hold off on building discussion plans? After all, we can't actually BUILD anything else until the shed is done in another two months.

If we get the other shit done quicker, we can get progress months quicker, and in two months time, THEN we can see what we want to build.

Let's make some rolls OP, and them advance to the next month.

>>7253904
You have a crude barricade up, but it's just that. Crude.

>>7253971
He's looking for veggies too.

Roll d20 for haggle roll. Aiming low.

Sheff has his own quarries, and actually sells stone outside of seakay.


Confidentiality is assumed he states. "After all, I wouldn't want to irritate our lordship here."

>>7253971

USE THE RING!

rolled 1 = 1

>>7254006
Haggle

>>7254020
I love you sir.

>>7254020
:D

OUTSTANDINFG!

>>7254020
Fuck yes. You sir are god.

>>7254020

Holy fucking shit.

>>7254020
That's the first good roll I've had this quest.

>>7254038

Just don't touch combat rolls. D:

>>7254020
A roll THAT good has to give us an increase in negotiation skills.

>>7254020
You manage to convince him to work for 10g, and Smyatt gets a +1 bonus to his haggle skill.

Since Sheff has his own quarries, send the envoy to Lyan. Same rules as before. Good prices to him, wealthy merchants, and other persons of note. For that matter, send him to any other nearby domain, except of course for Sylem's. He'd do well to stear clear of his land. Don't even get close.

>>7254062
From now on, any time we send someone out. They should also always have a secondary mission of recruiting more people. Skilled laborers and peasantry. Both will be needed.

>>7254058
>Smyatt gets a +1 bonus to his haggle skill

That is great.

You know Aegon should probably also construct a song advertising our awesome village and promote increased migration.

>>7254080
This goes well with my earlier suggestion of advertising our land as one of prosperity and opportunity. As well, he should spread the song about Sylem that our bard should have written by now.

Shit. More packing. Gah! nightmares.

Gonna have to call this one off guys :(

Merry Xmas

>>7254117
Merry Christmas, see you next year.

>>7254117
nooooooooooooooooo.

See you after New Years QL.

>>7254117
Marry Xmas to you too.

>>7254117

Oh well, we got a bit done.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year. :D

False alarm guys. We're back on the air! Back to getting this spreadsheet to do craftsmen. . .

FUCK YEAH!

My suggestions still stand.

Also, look into crossbows. Plus, use some of our peat to make an emergency cache of fire bombs. A dozen or so. Large water balloon sized.

>>7254174
Sweet.

We just need to make sure everyone is hired. The carpenter fixes up the keep. The horticulturist makes crops with more stamina. The miner goes out and assists the mage.

Also, after Leold rests for the remaining of the month, send him out to look for prospectus merchants looking to buy stone, as well as search for new workers and peasants.

Am I missing anything else guys?

>>7254202
And by peat bombs, I mean pack tightly together peat soaked in lamp oil or a similar substance.

>>7254204
Aegon to work on composing ballads about the greatness of our little town.

Collaborate with our more intelligent advisers in production of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron

Did OP trick us?

>>7254292
I... do not know.

Well this is confusing.

It's such a fine quest, I don't mind being left in the lurch like this!

Shall I archive this thread, or does somebody else want to?

I'd say our biggest concern right now is our size. We need more people, and in turn a larger military force. The situation with Sylem WILL come to blows eventually. A dozen soldiers and a mediocre militia will not cut it.

>>7254202
Erik tells you crossbows are expensive, and need specially trained troops.

>>7254204
Done.

>>7254213
Oil? You don't have any of that.

>>7254237
You're still gonna need a smithery and a smith to smelt it into anything useful.

>>7254331
>>7254331
It's already been archived. Hopefully we'll add more later.

>>7254336
That'll come later, but being a source of iron, even a quality such as this, is better than nothing. Having a small stockpile of our own will be good.

>>7254292
>>7254300
>>7254325
>>7254331
Sorry, trying to gett the spredsheet to like the craftspeople. I need a teknikal mekboy of some kind.

>>7254332
We're probably not going to get large enough ourselves before the battle comes, but we've forged strong alliances, hopefully we can receive enough aid to make it an even battle.

>>7254353
You can get some of the peat people to start gathering this as well, as opposed to getting peat if you like. You'll want a place to store it though. It's rust resistant and that, so an open stockpile will work for a while.

>>7254380
The spear heads was a good purchase. Assuming we'll be on defense, which seems likely, we'll be at the advantage. We won't know exactly when the attack will occur, or what it will entail, but it will be on our ground which we've hopefully prepared in advance.

With planning and effective preperation, we can whittle down an attacking force immensely, at least cutting their morale. Peat firebombs was a good idea, but I guess we have no flammable oils to work with. Having a wall, even crude, with a small trench encircling the outer perimeter should help keep them away, while watch towers, hopefully with trained bowmen, should help at first. That is of course if we build those.

Beyond that, we don't have anything of real value save our friendly forces. But in the case of us being attacked, which as I've said, seems most likely, they'll be of no use, since it would take weeks for their forces to gather and arrive at our village, where we'll already have been executed.

>>7254391
Would this cut into our peat income?

>>7253400
Just found this series. Thank you Quest Lord for an awesome game.

>>7254391
Have some of them begin to gather it. For now, we can store it in the small storage area in the keep.

>>7254419
Yes. You could sell the bog iron, but iron itself isn't as hard to find around here, due to much less demand.

>>7254421
Cheers

>>7254425
Numbers people!

5 to gather peat. It'll cut our peat income by 25%, but we aren't currently hurting for money, and iron could prove very helpful in the future.

>>7254415
Sheff and the Kingdom of Seakay are only a few days on horseback.

>>7254460
If iron is already common in the marketplace with low demand, might it not be more economically viable to just buy the iron?

How much would a unit of iron cost, Quest Lord?

>>7254463
Yes. But we're a tiny village, with a crude wooden wall. Sheff is a few days away, but his army isn't standing, I'm sure. To gather them would take a day at least. Probably more. To march to us would take several.

We don't know Sylem's capacity for war, but we can assume it is enough to crush us. We must assume this. Three, four, or five days is an impossible amount of time to expect to survive an assault and siege.

Not to mention guys, the value of peat is dropping steadily. I believe we may be flooding the market place.

>>7254463
But most of their forces wouldn't be on horseback and they'd need to be mobilised. By the time Sylem was knocking on our door it's too late to ask for help.

To get help from allies we'd need an early warning system. Spies would be one option, befriending Lords whose land he'd need to march through another.

>>7254483
He has a small standing army, and a much larger force he can mobilise.

Also, this is fantasy, so expect your heroes/advisors to do decently.

>>7254494
His nextdoor neighbour, who is your mate, his enemy and has spies like flies. You'll get some warning.

Well then let's advance!

>>7254538
>has spies like flies

Wait. Just to be clear.

Are we talking about like, Australian fly density, or a country that doesn't have about a billion more flies than people?

>>7254542
As soon as I get these spreadsheets doing what they should

Almost there. Just doing the horticulture guy. You can speed him up by giving him help btw.

Can we get a larger map of a wider area, including the immediate territories bordering our own?

Also, let's send a gift to Sheff. A barrel of rice wine. We did make some of that, didn't we? If not, let's. I'm not talking about using our entire surplus. I mean using a little bit for a one time thing to test it out.

>>7254559
Uh, well, let's work in conjunction with the horticulturalist, using our minor alchemy skills.

>>7254587
>>7254590
NEVER!

Ok, NEW MONTH
Month: OREGUST

TRESURY
Last month's gold 103.055
Gold Incoming 23.92
Gold Outgoing 5.2
Gold Profits 8.72
Total Gold 111.775
Debt 0
To brother 0
One Time Costs 10
Mallemancer 10

STOCKPILES
LUMBER
Lumber Cut 60
Lumber Used 53.8
Lumber Created 6.2
Lumber Stockpile 40.9
Max Stockpile 200
Stockpile Spare 159.1

FOOD
Food Grown 55
Food Hunted 20.8
Food Eaten 23.8
Food Brewed 3
Excess Food 49
Excess Stored 40
Excess Wasted 9
Food Stockpile 65
Max Food 200
Stockpile Spare 135

SKINS
Skins Gathered 20.8
Skins Used 0
Skins Created 20.8
Skins Stockpile 0
Max Skin Stockpile 0
Stockpile Spare 0
Leather Created 0
Leather Stockpile 0
Max Leather Stock 0

ALE
Ale Brewed 3
Ale Drunk 0
Ale Created 3
Ale Stockpile 16
Max Stockpile 200
Stockpile Spare 184

STONE
Stone Quarried 7
Stone Used 0
Stone Gained 7
Stone Stockpile 31.8
Max Stone 1000
Stockpile Spare 968.2

POPULACE 124
Workers 92 Peasants 64 Hunters 8 Peat Gatherers 20 Builders 63
Soldiers 14 Men at Arms 5 Yeomen 7
Milita on duty 2 Peasant Milita 0 Manhunters 2
Craftsmen 2 Carpenter 1 Miners 1
Indentured Criminals 2 Quarry 2 Quarry Deaths 1
Advisors 11

NET GROWTH 1
Growth 3
2 local lads and one migrant.
Deaths 2
1 old age, one case of bogrot. Not a catching disease.

WHOOPS, forgot to update stockpiles. Done here:
STOCKPILES
LUMBER FOOD SKINS ALE STONE
Last months lumber Last months food Skins Gathered 20.8 Ale Brewed 3 Stone Quarried 7
Lumber Cut 60 Food Grown 55 Skins Used 0 Ale Drunk 0 Stone Used 0
Lumber Used 53.8 Food Hunted 20.8 Skins Created 20.8 Ale Created 3 Stone Gained 7
Lumber Created 6.2 Food Eaten 23.8 Skins Stockpile 0 Ale Stockpile 19 Stone Stockpile 38.8
Lumber Stockpile 47.1 Food Brewed 3 Max Skin Stockpile 0 Max Stockpile 200 Max Stone 1000
Max Stockpile 200 Excess Food 49 Stockpile Spare 0 Stockpile Spare 181 Stockpile Spare 961.2
Stockpile Spare 152.9 Excess Stored 40 Leather Created 0
Excess Wasted 9 Leather Stockpile 0
Food Stockpile 105 Max Leather Stock 0
Max Food 200
Stockpile Spare 95

>>7254629
>Gold Incoming 23.92
>Gold Outgoing 5.2
>Gold Profits 8.72

wat

I take it you meant to type 13.92 in.

TOOLS AND SUPPLIES
Carts 3 Quarry 0 Peat 3
Ropes 3 Used 3 Spare 0
Small Ropes (1d5) 3 Used 3 Spare 0
Medium Ropes (1d15) 0 Used 0 Spare 0
Fuses 3
Magic Scroll 1 Months to tranlation 2
Hunting Scroll 1 Taught 1 Untaught 0
Spearheads (steel) 25 Used 12 Unused 13
Crude bows 3
Crude knives 11
LAND
Turnip Patches 30 Units Turnips 15
Rice Plots 10 Units Rice 0 Months to harvest 3

WORK
PEASANTS 64 NEW PEASANTS 0
UNASSIGNED 0
HERDING 3
Goat Herding 2 Goats Tended 16 Goats Escape 0
Cattle Heading 1 Cattle Tended 10 Cattle Escape 0
FARMING 50
Turnip Farming 30
Rice Farming 20
GATHERING 6
Gathering Wood 6
Quarrying Stone 15 Work Done 7 Ropes 0 Rope Bonus 0
Criminal Bonus 4
PRODUCING 3
Brewing 3
MILITIA 0
Basic Peasant Militia 0
OTHER 2
Renovating Town 2 Carpenters bonus 2 Renovations total 4

BUILDERS 63
Cattleshed 63 Rate 2.2 Draught 4 Carts 0 Ropes 3
Total 500 Progress/Month 161.4 Total Done 161.4 Total Remaining 338.6 Rope Bonus 14
Lumber Used 53.8 Stone Used 0

HUNTERS 8
Unassigned Hunters 0
Hunting 8
Searching Forest 0
Manhunters 2

CARPENTERS 1
Unassigned Carpenters 0
Decent Furniture 0
Helping Build 0
Renovating 1

MINERS 1
Unassigned Miners 1
Digging Mine 0 Rate 5 Draught 0 Carts 0 Ropes 0
Total 100 Progress/Month 0 Total Done Total Remaining 100 Rope Bonus 0
Lumber Used 0 Stone Used

PEAT GATHERERS 20
Gathering Peat 20 Peat Gathered 29.9 Peat Price (gold) 0.8 Profit made 23.92
Carts 3

>>7254629
I suggest we invest in a chocolatier business.

>>7254656
Somebody forgot to take 10 from the one time expenditures. Thou must resit Accountacy 101.

LODGINGS 207 Total Spare Room 42 Homeless 0
VILLAGE 120 Huts (5) 24 Share Houses (10) 0
Some Room Lodgers 100 Room Spare 20
THOM'S MERCY 60 Huts (5) 0 Share Houses (10) 6
Some Room Lodgers 50 Room Spare 10
KEEP 27
KEEP ROOMS 13 Poor Rooms (1) 3 Decent Rooms (1) 5 Good Rooms 5
Poor Rooms Spare 3 Decent Rooms Spare 3 Good Rooms Spare 0
Some Room Lodgers 7 Rooms Spare 6
BARRACKS 14 Size 20 Soldiers 14
Some Room Spare Room 6

HIRED 5 Total Cost Overall 5.2
ADVISORS 3 Total Cost 1.6
Dan Ganawb 1 Cost/Mason 0.5
Urist 1 Cost 1
Harry 1 Cost 0.1
CRAFTSPEOPLE 2 Total Cost 0.2
Carpenters 1 Cost 0.1
Miner 1 Cost 0.1
INDENTURED CRIMINALS 1 Total guards needed. 1
Yet to be assigned 0 Guards 0 Escaped 0
Quarry 1 Guards 0.2 Escaped 0 Worked to death 1

EVENTS:
Building finished. Fuck, I forgot to do that too before. Well, it's done, new project?

>>7254682
Wait, no, i thought it was 300, not 500. . . Ignore that, ybuilding progress is as:"

BUILDERS 63
Cattleshed 63 Rate 2.2 Draught 4 Carts 0 Ropes 3
Total 500 Progress/Month 161.4 Total Done 322.8 Total Remaining 177.2 Rope Bonus 14
Lumber Used 53.8 Stone Used 0

>>7254659
Urist was supposed to arrive at the end of last month, he's back right?

Man, you've got to simplify these monthly update posts.

But, I don't know. Go on like we've been doing.

>>7254688

How long until the carpenter's renovations on the keep rooms improve their quality?

Have the miner follow the mage who's looking for ore, as of now we don't really know of any ore deposits besides the swamp iron and I don't think he'd serve us best there.

Assign the new worker to building the cattle shed.

>>7254474
Unknown, you'd have to find a buyer. We're probably looking at a silver for a unit of iron though.

>>7254558
I'm aussie, and we're talking density like the phrase of speach, not real world density, or your european density. You don't have real flies over there any ways.

>>7254675
Indeed, I just changed it so 1 time costs count there.

>>7254573
Can I get a 2nd? Alchemy =/= horticulture, so you'd be as handy as a peasant, though you'd learn faster. Help will be to look through the fields for rotting ones, odd ones, big ones, and to the labour part of his job.

>>7254565
Sure, not right away, I'll have it for next thread if I remember. You have Seakay to the south, no-one in particular to the north and west, Lyann to the southeast, Sylem east of him, and the area to the direct east and northeast is owned by the Gorns, the Dukes of the Westerlands. The current Duke is Ara, an old miser who has recently taken on from his hierless brother Itsa. Major nobility who Lyann and Sylem owe their alegence to, sits under the King of Erondia, in power.

We need to expand further north. If we consolidate the land to the north, we can later expand to the west without conflict with other lords. At least within our kingdom.

>>7254717
It'll go up noticeably at the end of the month. Still gotta make the spreadsheet do that. I'm trying to get all the math handled by XL...

>>7254706
It's all copy pasted from an XL spreadsheet, just skim over them and your advisers will alert you to any important issues (running low on x, etc.)

>>7254732
Done.

rolled 19 = 19

Before the next advance, we need to know:

What the mage and miner say. If Urist has returned. Uh, any pressing issues? OH, ROLL FOR ALCHEMY!

>>7254757
Holy shit!

>>7254757
OH YEAH!

>>7254757
I roll a 1 when I want to aim low, a 19 when I want to aim high. Everything's coming up Anon.

>>7254774
(Your girlfriend is pregnant)

((It might even be yours))

>>7254757
Alchemy maxed.

You know everything Erik does, which isn't much. YOu'll need to find another teacher if you want to continue next month.

>>7254751
It's swapland all to the west, and northwards it gets rockier and crappier.

Well now we can impress the fuck out of Sheff's daughter. Let's send some booze or wine or what the fuck ever we have to Sheff's keep or whatever, along with a note detailing the bandit activity by Sylem and our expectation of war in the future.

>>7254798
This seems appropriate.

>>7254798
>>7254800
Meh. Sylem and Lyann have been feuding and fussing for a while.Additionally Sheff wants regional stability, not war.

I doubt he'd be impressed with us running to him with every little piece of news or the idea of us escalating conflicts in the region.

Not that I'm saying that we shouldn't throw Sylem over a barrel and fuck him for all he's worth, but we don't need to be shoving that right under Sheff's nose. Also, Sarah is already pretty impressed with us. We'll have opportunities to do this appropriately, all this rushing just seems like it would end poorly.

>>7254798
She's got a library to learn from. You have Erik, who hasn't read extensively on the matter and only owns a few odd scrolls. You can learn faster then her with a teacher but she has new material for a fair while. . .

Erik says your ale won't impress, in the slightest. Also, he advises that outright war is unlikely unless he's really irritated at you, it's expensive. Raids and banditry however is doable and cheap.

>>7254831
Not to mention that whenever we slip into a fist person encounter things go really slowly.

Well then let's advance time!

Could we get training in battlefield tactics from Leold? Let's also check how Aegon's writing is coming along and for Urist's return/arrival of that hunting priest.

maybe we could ask the mage for some training of some sort or maybe give us something to start on?

>>7254861
Leold was a low ranking officer, who knew small scale warfare tactics. YOu could learn from him in further months if you like.

No news on the hunting preist yet. Don't keep asking, they're rare, you'll get one if you do well on the hidden roll for events I'm doing. I might unhide it from here on in though. d5, good event on a 5, bad event on a 1. If oyu get an event then a further d20 to find how good/bad, and what it is.

>>7254896
Learn from Leold then, probably won't find any alchemists in the coming months.

>>7254896
Note I've rolled for this month (hidden) already, I'll start asking in the new month though.

>>7254889
Not his schtick. And Mages are usually a kind of sorcerer/wizard who have both innate and trained magics, the trained magics generally unique to them, as it's to focus their own sorcery. Only the best of the sorcerers are picked to apprentice to a mage, as it's a lot of work. They're often very focused depending on what their innate magic is like. Also, mages only teach mages with similar magics, meaning they're even rarer. Journyman mages are a lucky find, and wander about doing odd jobs like journyman wizards or sorcerers, but will charge omre, are rarer and often more specialised in their magics. This guy does metal magic. That's it.

Well, would it be more beneficial to work with Leold instructing, and Doobs practicing with us? Could possibly also improve Doobs capability?

>>7254906
d8 for leold teaching you his stuff. He's not as good as Erik at teaching see.

rolled 3 = 3

Training

We should probably ask Erik about the nearest alchemy teacher or where we could obtain some scrolls on the subject. Other then that a new month sounds good.

>>7254951
Progress noted.

>>7254954
He says that alchemy is a little pracitced art in Erondia, and is actually outlawed in some regions. The FAR east has alchemists of note (note this is a loooooooooooong way away) as do the eastern dwarves (north and east, closerm then the far east, but still pretty dman far away). Scrolls are easier to find, most major libraries should have some. The Westerlands are easy on alchemists, but they're not in great demand, as gold created by alchemy is illegal tender, and as such not worth nearly as much. It's more expencive to hire an alchemist capable of creating gold then the gold is worth, as by that stage they have other uses. Their scrolls are around though, as they were fashionable some time ago, and their writings remain.

We might want to take Stark out hunting to make sure he matures properly. How is he looking now anyway?

Timeskip?

rolled 2 + 1 = 3

I'm gonna call it here(ish) for the night guys, new month first thing next thread. But first URIST RETURNS.

He comes back, with the ring of inspiration. Roll is the bonus it gives to inspiring people.

He's found 5 plots worth of "seeds", etc. which store easily for:
Potatoes
Carrots

and he's bought a bull and some cattle. (3 cows, a calf and a bull).

He brought in a few migrants from the south as well.

In addition to this, he found something you might like.
"M'lord, I'm pleased to anounce I've bought you an alchemancer's kit. Only a basic one, but it's in good nick and I've got a guarantee on it, if it fails and you can show it was a flaw in the kit. Want to give it a go?"

>>7255098
Awesome dwarf is awesome.

>>7255098
So what does our bonus actually do?

>>7255011
He's growing, and fast. I'm assuming you're spending a little time each month hunting, etc. What you roll for is what you spend your work hours that month doing.

Now, you've got a free alchemy test. In the future these will take a week (-1 from your roll for the month, can stack) or a month for a slow test (+5 on the alchemy roll).

You can experiment to increase your skill the hard way, or can do any alchemists tasks you learn. At the moment you know experimentation, and ash to lye. However you can't make commercial amounts of lye solo, and don't have the stuff to do it largescale.

All of these are a roll to get under your alchemy skill (5) with the worst result always failing, until you're skill is double the skill needed.

Simple expeirment (d8)
Hard Experiment (d12)
Ash to Lye (d6)
You can do a dangerous experiment which will give a +1 modifier to any passes, but a -1 modifyer to fails. A result of 0 (nat 1 with -1 mod) will result an a serious faliure, and will likely HURT (d10+3 on crit fail table)
Any critical faliures otherwise will roll a d5 on the alchemy critical fail chart, wanting low.

No pigs or chickens?

>>7255141
Can add it to any roll when inspiring people is wanted. Feel free to ask for rolls in order to achieve something, it will give a chance of failiure, but also epic success.

>>7255196
He claims they were unusually expensive, and not worth the money at the present time.

>>7255111
He's a trader, mainly of junk, basic supplies and food, stuff he cal sell to villages, and some minor lords/knights like you. This acquisition was something he got from another dwarven trader he knows who'd imported it from the Tojo Isles (to the south of Erondia, an Erondian provice, technically, like you but taxed heavily for their goods. Smugglers get some stuff out cheap though, like this kit.

>>7255180
Talk it up, choose one to roll, then I'm off to bed.

A successful experiment will increace alchemy knowledge, a fail will do nothing. HArder experiemts have bigger bonuses.

>>7255268
I vote ash to lye. May as well start with something we can't really fuck up.

rolled 1 = 1

If there is no objection, I am rollan so Quest Lord can go to bed.

>>7255313
AND A GOOD EXPERIMENT WAS HAD BY ALL

>>7255313
GREAT SUCESS!
Alchemy score increased by 0.1, and a small amount of lyre was procured for your alchemy set (+1 bonus on next experent roll)

Note that 0.1 isn't much, but not as little as it sounds. Without a teacher or scrolls, 0.1 is equal to a small experiment normal success.

Whelp, that's me done for tonight, Merry Xmas all. Someone get the archive on the way out, also, what pokemon would Kamina have? Pic possibly related.

SIMON! YOUR BEEDRILL IS THE BEEDRILL TO PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

Night all and merry Xmas. Cheers again.

>>7255432
BYE QL!

Have fun on your trip.

rolled 11 = 11

>>7255399
We're on a fuckin' roll here, I'm gonna roll d12 on a dangerous hard experiment to see if we in. Feel free to add that -1 luck ring if it's available

>>7255635
Thank god QL said we were finished for the night...