Settlement Name:serenity
Population:300 men, 306 women, 67 kids (Varinian)
59 men, 56 women, 14 kids (tiefling)
Food stuffs: 9 months
Equipment: 300 muskets
21 pistols
5 cannon
21 polearms
50 breast plates
gunpowder for 5,000 shots
200 swords
building tools for 30 workers
105 cows, 13 bulls
130 sheep
210 chickens, 50 roosters
103 pigs
40 horses
21 wolves
31 dogs
3 hippodiles, adolesent
3 giraffe, baby

Welcome back duck.

Cancer thread.

skilled settlers
5 doctor/barbers
2 animal trainers.
5 teachers
73 royal marines
28 fessian mercs
86 standing militia
8 Winged Hussars
14 hunters
15 scouts
59 veteran settlers
30 woodsman
265 farmers
30 cloth maidens
4 architects
70 sailors
2 blacksmiths
5 gunsmiths
5 bell makers
50 Ship builders
128 miners
20 fishers
11 brewer
5 emissaries/diplomats
4 priest of the holy mother
4 tanners


crops:capable of sustaining 1400 settlers for 6 months
Ale for 600 people if they had 1 flaggon a day

Dukes Fort
several houses
stone walls
market place
14 farms
1 windmill
woodsman huts
watch tower (4 militiamen, 4 marines)
Medium shipbuilder
blacksmith
dock

Large transport, Eversor

mining camp (10 marines, 50 miners)

Fort loki
(10 Fessians, 28 marines, 4 cannon)

Goblin settlement Normandy
pop: 270 people
30 standing militia
75 pigs
28 cows
25 horses
capable of supporting 500 people
Income of 1 unit of stone per month
income of 3 unit of lumber per month

Damn, I knew we'd get an increase in crime from that arena. Can we convert some of our unemployed settlers into a police force? Also, good to see you again duck, here's that character information sheet you posted in a picture format.

>>10745547

In addition to that, theres a new character which you hired in Varina.

Captain Umberto Alessandro
Born 421
Nationality: Acran
Race: Goblin
Dynasty rating: 0 (1) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

A relatively run of the mill Mercenary captain, Umberto Alessandro was born in an Acran colony in the far south as well as raised there away from the Acran home isles, but did
not stop him from picking up the well known Acran personality of being a bigot to all 'lesser' races, A superiority complex the size of europa and as stubborn as a mule, but he
does have redeeming qualities, such as being a great naval commander, capable of keeping his crew in place by keeping them fighting against each other instead of plotting
against the officers. Standing at 5'2, he is much taller for your average Goblin which has most probably contributed to the fact he has survived for so long in his profession, and
enabling him to hold his own against his enemies. Scheming, Untrust worthy but a man of the seas, One cannot know what goes through Alessandros mind, other than the fact
he doesn't speak a word of common.

Equipment: Pistol, Pistol, Pistol, Pistol, Pistol, Sabre, Compass, captains clothing, fine hat.

>>10745547

Oh, and no, in order to train a police force you must have police men or investigators in your settlement before you train one.

>>10745547
nice!

Cancer cancer cancer.

>>10745578
I do believe gentlemen that we should build 2 more small warships so we can claim dominance over our local waters.

>>10745578
Updated it.
>>10745585
Damn, well at least we know what to load up the Eversor with when it docks with the mainland again. In the mean time I suggest increasing the concentration of militia paroling the area by about ten men.

>>10745629

In order to build any more ships you need to expand your docks.

>>10745623

If you don't like me, ive put my email up plenty of times and welcomed hate mail.

Any new clues in the case of the stolen heretic corpse?

>>10745728

Nope yet

Also, can we keep posting abit faster than usual, as im not too sure how long ill be able to stay on for.

We should build something this month. Upgrade the hippodile pen and check up on the bell maker's progress so far. Ask the brewers about any new drinks they've developed.

Year 463 of our holy mother, February

A grand feast was held in celebration as well as mourning this month. It started with the bodies of the dead being burnt by the seashore, into the embrace of the holy mother and an hour long prayer session, followed by the grand feast in the town center, during which Captain Petrovski was awarded another medal for his courage and ability to stand fast against such a greater force, along with the baron

The bell has finally been finished and mounted in serenity's church, and wrong out for an hour after the feast, much to the dissent of our hung over citizens but appreciate the gesture anyway. Finally, the Eversor has returned with its cargo, including its Eccentric, awfully annoying Goblin captain we hired.

>>10745864

Um, no new orders the colony this month?

>>10745864
I eagerly await the day we meet a goblin that isn't annoying or won't short change us in transactions on this quest. Anyway, I'd suggest having the duchess go out on a diplomatic mission with the Duke and a check out exactly what kind of crime is going on in Normandy. It might be difficult if she's still breast feeding the kid, but we should be fine.

>>10745864
Lets have our warship escort the new medium transport to the Barcain(spelling?) town we found last year. I believe they were trading stone for wine and cloth?

Also set up a textile mill for all the weavers that just arrived as well as a few fields of cotton.

>>10745940

Just regular crime, muggings, assaults, blackmail, etc

>>10745958
Seconding this, load up with a half a unit of stone. See what we can get for in terms of clothes and wine. I'm thinking we get a small supply of the wine and try to recreate it ourselves and mostly ask for fine clothes for our citizens. The people should be really clean considering all the bathhouses and the sewage system. If we get them dressed nicely we might just become the cleanest colony in these parts.

>>10745864
Also begin loading the Eversor with supplies so we can send her back to Europa next month

Year 463 of our holy mother, March

Setting off in a Medium transport and the 'Vera' as an escort, we arrive at the Bernician colony within a few days. The Duke, Duchess and the Hussar guards are welcomed by the town governer who holds them for a ball in his Palace. They are expected to return next month.

In other news, while Baron Kaufmann manages the management of the settlements, a textile mill has been set up, allowing us a small income of low grade clothing.

+textile mill

I TOLD you to get police force. I TOLD YOU, BRO.

>>10746073

Set up a trade with them so we can do things on a regular basis.Something like we will send 1 unit of stone every other month and expect 1 unit of fine cloth every other month.

Finish loading up the Eversor with gold jewelry, durthweed, and ember drink and send her back to Europa.

>>10746073
I just realized if we want wine we'll probably need grape fields. Can we plant some of those near Serenity?

Ah, you forgot to put link to the archived threads, Duck, due to fuck ups in the tags its hard to find them for newcomers.

>>10746134
Sup/tg/ is down so he doesn't have the links to the past threads.

>>10746134

Sup/tg/ was down when i made the thread.

>>10746115
seconding
>>10746129
good question, can we grow grapes here?
Also, make sure the Eversor picks up some police/investigators in Europe

>>10746073
Also can we stockpile 2 units of gold for an emergency situation?

>>10746205

Not really, too far north. I mean, you CAN, but your wine will be the equivalent to that '4 bottles for just 10 dollars' crap.

>>10746234
may as well keep tradan for wine AND fine cloth then.

We should request more soldiers to replace the fallen.

Also, have we domesticated giraffes yet?

>>10746234
Can't have the perfect climate for everything I suppose.

>>10746289

yes but they are still children

What are our current exports anyhow? Beers, stone, food, wood, and now low quality textiles?

Year 463 of our holy mother, april

With the eversor setting sail for Europa with her cargo of Durthweed, Ember water and jewelry, the small Flotilla has returned from the Bernician colony with a treaty of friendship, and supplies will begin to be sent out to her immediately.

+Prestige.

>>10746404

Oh, and roll 2d20

>>10746404
Can we get the details of the treaty?

Also lets begin construction of another small warship.

>>10746467

again, you do not have enough docks to contruct one.

The treaty is a basic treaty of friendship, increasing relations, allowing trade and such, nothing major.

>>10746508
Can we upgrade either of the docks?

>>10746520

Yes, and roll 2d20

rolled 2, 17 = 19

Rolling.

>>10746508
Oh, lets upgrade the docks at Normandy then. We should also upgrade the farming at Normandy...

No idea how to roll...

Rollin'.

>>10746600
Have I told you about how much I hate life?
Someone remind me never to roll again. It's just too addicting to attempt.

>>10746586
Seconded the dock at Normandy.
Also, 3 plots of Emberberry at Seren, and more crops at Normandy.

Year 463 of our holy mother, May

Disasterous news this month, we've lost almost our entire grain fields to disease! While we still hold food stores for for 3 more months of food and the fields and been re-sewen with seeds, it will be another 6 months before we'll see any harvest.

In other news, another dock has been completed in Normandy.

-Food supply.

>>10746686
Damn, do we have enough food from hunting and fishing to pull through without significant losses due to starvation? Get five more hunters and five more fisherman on duty anyway. Pave our roads with stone if we can.

>>10746716

the local land wouldn't be able to support such a number.

>>10746765
Initiate trade with the tieflings, food for some gold/muskets?

>>10746784

their settlement has constantly been low on food.

>>10746686

Lets load up a month worth of stone and send it to the Bernician colony to trade for food.

Also send an emissary to our orc allies and see if they could possibly trade for food.

>>10746686
Can we sacrifice a bunch of live stock to see if we can get another month of food?

If we can not lets start rationing food now in preparation for hard times ahead.

>>10746877

you'd need to kill about 2/3s of your lifestock to make it until your crops blossom.

>>10746896
Too much of a sacrifice. Let's just see what the colony up the river has to offer and if things get desperate we'll sacrifice the animals.

>>10746940

The Bernician colony is willing to offer to give you enough food that if you go to half rations, you should be able to make it through. In exchange, they want 50 muskets and 1 unit of gold.

>>10746974
What about 3 units of stone instead of 1 unit of gold?

>>10746974
Deal. Man we need a way to prevent this situation if it happens again. Is our meat being preserved with a smoke house or is the excess rotting?

>>10746999
You sir have an excellent idea! Lets build some smoke houses, extra food storehouses, and something so we can preserve fruits/vegetables(no idea what they call the places that make dried fruits)

Year 463 of our holy mother, june.

After trading 50 muskets and a unit of gold, we've been able to prevent disaster in our colony by cutting down rations to half and importing foreign grain. This has signifigantly lowered moral, but not as much as having no food at all

In addition, the Eversor has arrived in europa to find a surprise awaiting in the docks. One of the Barons Elder daughters was awaiting the Eversor, demanding to be let onboard, going to the point of even slapping one of the sailors with the back of her hand.

>>10747069
No.. she stays over there. Last thing we need is an uppity brat to look after.

Eversor passengers:
40 sailors (40)
20 Woodmen (60)
20 Police specialists? (80)
10 Marines (90)
10 Veteran Settles (100)

Cargo:
4-6 Cannons for our new warship
Some extra food for the colony.

>>10747139

When i say elder daughter, i mean around 22-23, not 11 or 12.

>>10746999
Wait a minute. If you guys are having food issues and you don't have any food preservation materials.. that's a big part of your problem. Find ways to smoke, salt, pickle, brine, or ferment just about everything - milk turns into either butter, cheese, or buttermilk, butter has a lot of salt in it to keep it from spoiling so fast, vegetables, fruits, and eggs can be pickled, you can cook foods in fats or honey or sugar, then storing it for a slightly longer time...

The best possible way to do this would be to have a magical type of some sort create a very cold room where food could be stored, but the actual question that should be asked is 'Does your civilization know that freezing their food keeps it from spoiling as fast?' (Not to mention 'Do we know that sort of magic/magic at all?')

>>10747148
Still no... Nobility rarely does good. But then again I am HEAVILY bias from Dorf fort. If the kind orders it though then fine nothing we can do.

UNLESS the baron is looking for someone like her..hmmmmmm

>>10747171

Magic is extremely limited and doesn't have direct effects in this world. There are probably just under a 100 people who have any sort of magic effects about them, most of them passive.

>>10747208
That came out wrong I meant to say if the Baron wants some of his family in our lands....

>>10747253

Barons opinion unknown as the ship is in Europa, he's in New Riata.

>>10747214
Still, the rest of the methods have direct effects on amounts and quality of food. It'd definately be worth the main group figuring out methods to preserve their food longer.

Year 463 of our holy mother, July

The Eversor has set sail for Port Serenity once more with the following onboard

Eversor passengers:
40 sailors (40)
20 Woodmen (60)
20 Police specialists? (80)
10 Marines (90)
10 Veteran Settles (100)

Cargo:
4-6 Cannons for our new warship

In addition the king has awarded you and the captain of the guard more land in Varina for the actions that took place against the savage Stathborn Nation.

In other news, work continues on the new frigate.

When will the frigate be done?

Do the orcs have any food to trade?

>>10747450

Orcs hunt off the land just enough to support themselves, so no. The frigate will be done in 2 months.

Also, roll 2d20

>>10747376
Lets get some people working on finding a way to improve food preservation.

>>10747376
Did he say anything about the tamed Hippodile? Get to work on creating a smokehouse and leather tannery so we can preserve and use everything from our animals.

>>10747532

He already has, and was very pleased. Also, 2d20s people!

How does one roll 2d20?

rolled 16, 13 = 29

>>10747583

read my email field

rolled 15, 5 = 20

-Pray to the Holy Mother.-

rolled 15, 15 = 30

>>10747596
Can we have your roll instead? ;D

>>10747583

put dice+2d20 in the e-mail field.

rolled 1, 20 = 21

>>10747615

Id much rather remove myself from the random event choosing as much as possible.

>>10747376
What does all that land in Varian do for us?

rolled 11, 3 = 14

year 463 of our holy mother, august.

Construction continues on our Frigate, with only one month away from its completion, serenity is becoming a naval power among the colonies.

Several smoking sheds were built in serenity this month, increasing the length of time we can store food and the amount.

Another bandit attack occured today, this time on the ranch. Several cows were herded out by several men in the middle of the night. Several ranchers noticed this and drove off the bandits, but weren't able to retrieve the cattle.

+3 extra months of food supply
-20 cows.

>>10747807
Where they orc bandits?

>>10747807
Fucking bandits. Time for another expedition. But this time have scouting parties with bigger numbers

>>10747807
Damn man, we really need those private investigators and policemen from home.

rolled 14, 17 = 31

>>10747830

The ranchers weren't able to tell what race they were due to night.

>>10747807
Do have a leather tannery yet?

>>10747934

Yes

>>10747807
Argh... nothing much we can do but its still bothering the fff out me.

What is our iron production again? (3 right) What is it being used to make?

>>10748003

bells

>>10747807
Get some more watchtowers going near Normandy. Hopefully their presence should reduce crime in the area. I'm a bit worried that by the time the Eversor gets back the trail of the heretics corpse will be cold though.

>>10748038
Didn't we already make the bell? If so lets make some more breastplates. We can also start stockpiling iron for cannon production.

Year 463 of our holy mother, September

Several scouting parties were sent out into the woods and eventually discovered the bandits. After a quick stand off, the 6 tiefling men from a dorovan settlement surrendered and have been taken in.

In slightly odd news today, there was a rather interesting brawl in the town today. It seems That Baron Kaufmanns daughter, Marie kaufmann, stowed away onboard the ship, and during the voyage subdued Captain Alessandro, taking control of the ship.

When she arrived in port she marched off in full armor into town, yelling out for 'the dog of a man' Kaufmann. Eventually the Baron exited the keep to meet his daughter, where a verbal battle quickly escilated into a full on brawl as Marie Backhanded the baron.

Lasting a full 20 minutes, the two threw punches back and forth at each other, Marie fighting like a man and the Baron treating her like one. Eventually the Baron had to be pulled off his daughter as he had clearly won the fight and was pounding her head into the muddy ground.

When asked about what to do with his daughter, he said that she was no longer his daughter and did not care if she stayed or was sent away.

>>10748170
Those are some serious family issues. We wouldn't happen to have any psychiatrists in the colony would we? Get those two in front of the Duke and ask them what the hell is going on.

>>10748170
What a great family

>>10748170
Ahhhhhhh... shhhiiiiiiii
Lets take them both in to the fortress but keep them in separate rooms. We need to get to the bottom of this!

Send 10 police to Normandy and 5 in Serenity. Use the last 5 to set a police school in Serenity in the fort.

>>10748205

The closest you got is Dr. Mckidd.

The Baron Refusing to be in the same room as his daughter, Marie told the Duke of how that baron had impregnanted her mother, resulting in her, marrying her, and then leaving her 14 years ago in one of the far south colonies, resulting in her mothers death.

>>10748170
>>10748170

Can we upgrade our wood output thanks to the new lumberjacks?

Oh also, i should mention that Marie is half elf, her mother being from Eittensmoor.

>>10748266
Any chance we could make so that they won't fight on sight? It seems his daughter is as much a fighter as he is and could be a valuable asset. Perhaps introduce her to Captain Petrovski

>>10748305
Well that explains why he said he preferred elves earlier.

>>10748334

Physically, yes. They were able to blow off alot of the pent up steam in the fist fight.

Verbally, most likely not.

>>10748374
Ok lets send the daughter to Normandy for a bit. What kind of combat training does she have? Does she have skillz?

I propose we get the baron drunk off his ass and get him to confess he regrets leaving her in the southern colonies. That or at least getting them some sessions under Dr. McKidd with a contingency of marines waiting in the background to break them apart if they get into another fight.

>>10748413

Shes been working as a mercenary for the past 6 years trying to get enough money to find the location of Kaufmann.

Equipment: Suit of steel armor, Poleaxe, Pistol, Lucky charm (Troll tooth)

Lets recruit her into the military under the command of the captain. Maybe way later we can get it so she leads a small team of people (thinking commando style maybe)

Anyone object? Does she object?

>>10748475

She does not object, but usually spits at the shoes of her father whenever she passes him.

Year 463 of our holy mother, October.

After settling things between Marie Kaufmann and Wilhelm Kaufmann, to a degree, she has been inducted into the 1st colonial and is being stationed in Normandy.

Our police force has begun to do its job as the simple induction of it has caused crime rates to drop signifigantly, most notably in normandy. A small jail and training center has been set up in Serenity where another 10 men are in training to be a police officer

+Marie Kaufmann
-crime rate

roll 1d40

>>10748561
In order to fix things forever we need the Baron to sing this song to her... with a few fixes first.

rolled 21 = 21

>>10748561
Rolling.

>>10748593
OOPPSSS.. Forgot the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ

>>10748561
So, how long will it be before we can get them to run an investigation on the big case?

>>10748561

Is the frigate done? Can our hunters go out and get more cattle, horses, whatever for the ranch to make up for the lose of the cattle?

Also bout that iron...

>>10748639

Almost all clues have gone cold, but chances are there will be more heretic scernarios in the future.

We should really start developing the mining settlement into an actual city sometime soon. It'd be nice to have three fully functioning ones in our control.

>>10748657

Iron has been split into sword, musket and iron breast plate making.

The frigate is ready, i just forgot is all.

>>10748748
I'm not looking forward to that. Pray to the holy mother they don't do anything too crazy.

Year 463 of the holy mother, november

Grim news this month

Early on this week, a patrol to the south east went missing, and at the same time one of the signal fires on the watchtowers was lite. When a 10 man forces reached it, the garrison of the watchtower told of how there is a herd of at least 20 hippodiles in the region. that passed straight by their watch tower and into the river serenity.

+colony wide panic

>>10748971
Rally everyone... Send an emissary to the orcs and request aid. We need to find out how to lure the hippodiles out of the river.

>>10748971
Holy fucking shit. Rally the army and call up the baron.

Forgot my hat.

Year 463 of our holy mother, december

As panic continues, regular patrols were made on horse back up the river serenity, looking out for any of the beasts, but it wasn't as simple as that.

On the second week, the hippodiles emerged into serenity out of the river itself while the majority of the men were off on patrols. Panic erupted with people running in terror to their homes, barricading themselves in while the few defenders in town went to try and battle the beasts. First on the scene was a small militia detachment of 7 men and a policeman, who proceeded to fire a volley at a group of 3 eating fish from a market stall. One of the beasts fell, the the thick skin of the other two helped to slow down the rounds that did hit, and they charged into the small group, killing most of them with one the officer and 1 militiaman making it to safety.

A hunter positioned himself in the church tower taking the occasional potshots at them, not killing any but was able to draw their attention to around the church. A small force assembled to the east side of town after about an hour. a total of 40 men, mostly militia and led by baron kaufmann marched into the town and set up a firing line as he went out to lure them in, which did not take long.

>>10749155

Ahaha, if there wasn't a worse time, i got to go RIGHT now. ill finish this up either in 4-8 hours. Terrible sorry folks as this is awfully un-professional of me.

should we archive this?

>>10749300
Do it.

>>10749324

Running back to the line and ducking, the line opened fire at the attacking hippodiles, able to kill just 4 or the 7 attackers, the rest breaking into the line, slaughtering many of the men before any could escape. The baron lead his men back to the Fort with the few men who had found refuge inside covering them, bringing down 2 more of the beasts.

The situation was bad. Captain Petrovski had the majority of the towns garrison were 20km south of the town searching for the beasts where they had been seen, and even with the signal flares egnited it'd take them 5 hours to return. The remains of the garrison were hiding in various buildings and the dukes fort, taking pot shots at the beasts whenever one passed by. It was at this time that Marie Kaufman Marched into town with 4 of the garrison of Normandy on horse back. Armed with just a pistol, musket and PollAxe

Using the other Militia men to cover her, over the period of an hour she went over a constant pattern of advancing, firing a round with her musket, retreating to the militiamen on horse back and finishing whatever Hippodile with either her pistol or pollaxe before reloading a repeating. Over time she slowly wore down the amount of hippodiles in the town, despite being thrown off her horse twice and even being caught in the jaws of one, her armor the only thing preventing her from getting crushed.

By time there was only 3 left in the town they retreated into the waters and back up stream.

-4 marines
-24 militia
+17 Hippodile carcasses.

>>10751608
Those giant bastards. Send some marines lead by the Baron to follow them. Hopefully they're going back to their spawning area and we can kill them all and appropriate their eggs for our hippodile pens.

Erm, are we still playing or did you just want to post that for the night?

>>10751766

I decided to finish it up, considering this now makes it january which is when we usually end. But as usual, Q&A can take place if you'd like, as well as imput onto the setting.

>>10751804
Were Hippodiles going to be such a big piece of the setting or did that just come up due to the quest's audience liking them so much?

>>10751978

I plan to put a fair amount of animals in, including the hippodile, so the colonists would need to stay on their toes. I didn't expect people to like them so much, though.

>>10752023
Are most the animals mixtures of two real world animals like the Hippodile?

>>10752043

Most animals are either real or fictional, but existing fictional creatures, hippodile is likely to be the only original creation when it comes to land fauna.

Anyway, as per usual, my email, send me feedback, hate email, etc.