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>>37754446
>+/- Economic Development: The Merfolk want Metal?
>They very briefly came onto land. They didn't talk, the dry air seemed to bother them greatly, and they didn't appear comfortable or experienced walking upright- often oping out to walk on all fours when not in the presence of others. They came with abnormal and disturbing pieces of Bone and Coral Art work, they came with fish and kelp, and they even came with Ocarinas- all these things they traded for Metal Tools and Metal Weapons.


>+/- Environmental Development: Local Extinction of the Boiling Lizard
>Despite it's impressive and intimidating size and it's name-sake ability to puff out it's throat and expel a torrent of hot boiling water- these magnificent qualities and abilities were not enough to save it from disappearing into the analogs of history. Once native to your home island- it dwelled upon the plains you graze livestock on and nested within the hot volcanic rocks you now quarry for housing and use for iron production. It may still exist within the Southern continent (where humid weather and geothermal activity is optimal), but within your own lands it only exists as a faint echo of a more primitive time.

You know how it goes from here!
Roll 3 Actions: 2 actions, 1 Idea
Actions are d20, Ideas are d100.

>>37754446
Yes!

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>37754536
Develop the idea of riding mammoths

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>37754536
Action: work on carpentry

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>37754536
Develop mining equipment.

Rolled 8 (1d20)

Action: work on animal husbandry

Rolled 25 (1d100)

Idea: follow gorgon tribes and make a breeding program of our own.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>37754536
I'm up for taking that deal with the merfolk.
Action: Let's dramatically improve the megolith's we've set up for Mycea

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>37754536
Ergonomics

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>37754917
supporting

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>37754446
Idea: From last thread let's take a cutting from Mycea and plant it within the heart of the Arcanum so she can visit our city.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>37754972

no way. we don't want her meeting the elf there just yet.

accept the merfolk deal, and >>37754617

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>37754917
supportan

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>37754674
seconded

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>37754536
Do we have any answer or contact from manticores. I kind of like those death fetishists, and i hope they aren't too steamed about us not giving them lenses... How did the lens thing go?

Otherwise an idea,
Develop plains protection clothing, we need to figure out some lighter fabrics and more coverage if we are to venture further into the plains. wrapping up silk cloth around us to protect us from the sun, but also not to stifle us.

9 posters and 13 votes? someone's samefagging.

hint: it's >>37755114 >>37754953 >>37754917

Rolled 13 (1d20)

establish a colony at the mountain pass to the plains.
either that or on one of the plain's coasts. just a colony somewhere in the plains that we can access easily.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>37755184
I put out a idea and an action, and I voted to support ergonomics.

There's no rule against that.

>>37755184
>>>/out/

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>>37754617
>Develop the idea of riding mammoths
>Roll 87/100
>High End Success.

In between your infrequent trips to the plains over the mountains you've become a little more familiar with the wildlife there and the one that stands out the most to you is the Mammoth.
The Mammoth is without question the largest creature you have ever seen... -on land- It towers above even the tallest of your kind, every step it takes is silent, but lands with such weight it leaves an indentation in the ground, and it's sweeping tusks are so massive they might be as heavy as one of your own Elephants. It is a great, hairless, gray, sweating, mass of muscle and animal.

No one questions that one could ride it; the problem is it doesn't want you to ride it. The only thing the beast seems to tolerate is the presence of a constant cloud of numerous birds and small flying reptiles that flock around it and keep away the flies and parasites.

>>37755301
We might have to domesticate them first...

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>37755301

invent steel. we're still working with shitty iron.

>>37755329
Seems like it.
Damn we tried to run before we learned how to walk... or was it walk before we learned to crawl.

It shouldn't be this hard to RIDE things though...

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>37755301
action: domesticate the mammoths

>>37754972
Too dangerous. I'm afraid if the elf finds her he will want to take her with him.

>>37755579
Wait until we can roll again or it won't count.

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>>37754632
>Action: work on carpentry
>Roll 12/20
>Above Average Success +Gorgon Influence

You don't have much in the way of Furniture or personal effects- maybe some tools, some dishware, a couple of pots and personal sets of clothing and some shoes... But furniture? Furniture has yet to catch on; the most advanced form of furniture would have to be Tables, Shelves, or large cold stones shaped and brought in to sit on.

This is slowly starting to change though since your closest neighbor; The gorgon empire DOES in fact have furniture and you take examples from them making your own: Bamboo mats, Beds on bamboo frames with woven pillows and sheets all stuffed with soft feathery down... Interestingly enough you've also managed to develop Bamboo Tables, Chairs, and other replicas of previously stone furniture.

>+Furniture Developed
>Furniture seems like a no brainer, but it does actually require skill and patience to make and it doesn't help that your people are so LARGE and HEAVY. Small personal items and effects though are becoming common since they make life just a little more pleasant; but beyond mats, pillows, and blankets- "traditional" furniture doesn't remain that popular.

>>37755678
Maybe we can develop super fluffy futons.

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>>37755726
I'm half wondering if we'll develop giant bowl chairs.

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>37755678

we still didn't do much exploring. get the navy to map the coastline of the mainland.

>>37755834
sssoooosh... its okay. just wait till op says roll and we'll roll.

Shouldn't we introduce Akalade to Mycea and act as mediators so it wouldn't be awkward?

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We have domesticated raptors, right? Could we breed them for fluffy feathers? They are basically giant chickens.

We should do a general domestication roll to specialize animals we already have.

So are we accepting the merfolf deal?

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>>37754674
>Develop mining equipment.
>Roll 16/20
>High end Success. +Gorgon Influence +Geomancy -Racial aversion to HARD work

Mining is hard. Mining is in fact VERY hard: it requires laborious effort, sometimes you have to go underground, it's hot, it's dirty, it's tiring and awful work and frankly your people don't much care for it. Which is ironic due to their affinity for working with Metal.

At any rate: Currently Geomancy and Hydromancy have been the only acceptable methods to collect metals. large chunks of Iron deep beneath the earth can be called forth through the use of even rudimentary Hymns and Gold can be siphoned from rivers or blasted away from hillsides and sediments using water....Access to Silver and precious Gems though remain restricted to physical labor and within the Gorgon Empire.... Well, it did.

Your people have been paying careful attention to the industrial methods of the Gorgons; though they are at times cruel and a little unkind you cannot deny the end results: Women sent with pointed axes, Helmets, oil fed lanterns, dive into muddy holes and hill sides to extract all manner of metal and gems. Silver however remains very valuable as it must be seperated and processed using Alchemy and dangerous chemicals- a process that remains oblivious to your people.

>+Primitive Mining Equipment Developed
>Though you lack the sophistication; you DO have a gross proximity of the tools and knowledge necessary to mine for Iron and precious gems. TRUE mining however remains extremely unpopular, Silver extraction is beyond your people and for the most part most "mundane" metal extraction is gained through strip mining the faces of cliffs or the mainland mountain sides.

>>37755970
I donn't think they should meet yet. Maybe we could tell her about him and what he's here to do though. But I'd like to see us have a few more interactions with her before any decision has to be made on this whole situation.

>>37756072
I think we got the Fancy Royal Moths last time we tried a roll like that. I agree, we need raptor pets. Messager Raptors

>>37756086
we've had... mixed realations with merfolk. I mean we've been pretty chill for the last couple of centuries. But our first encounter with them involved us dropping Peace-Monoliths to the ocean, and getting an angry letter back. We also incurred the wroth of the "Deep Eye" once, but again we've since ironed that out.

Recently they've been playing the role of this "Informed" race, they're aware of things we aren't, they gave us Akalade, and told us what to do with him, and its been working out.

There's something... uncomfortable about our peaceful relationship, especially since we don't know why they want metal.

>>37756129
I think we'd all like to have different kinds of raptors, moths, elephants, etc to preform different roles.

>>37756096

here's a thought. we manipulate the elements by dancing. that's pretty similar to Avatar. and their earthbenders can develop earthsense as a subset. I'm thinking, if we can do that ourselves and use it to detect the metal veins underground, we'd be pretty much rolling in bitches.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>37756096
>use hydromancy + metal and bamboo pipes to create a hydro-magitech strip mine

>>37756121
True, after all Mycea was terribly abused by elves for her resources and Akalade wants to restore his planet by most likely using her. And I'm not sure if we told Akalade to be nice to her s/he would listen, Akalade does really want to revive his/hers planet.

>>37756274
Do not roll until rolls are called for.

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>>37754911
>>37755105
>>37756086

>The Merfolk deal
The Merfolk deal isn't really a "deal". They're mostly only doing it on a personal/discreet level in the sense that they've been awkwardly crawling onto land in an effort to acquire as much metal as possible while scurrying back into the ocean.

>>37755137
>Do we have any answer or contact from manticores. I kind of like those death fetishists, and i hope they aren't too steamed about us not giving them lenses... How did the lens thing go?

We eventually sort of agreed that no one should have access to the Lens: The lens will be eventually leaked out though since you can't keep it forever; but at the time all Gorgons remain placated since "well at least no one gets it."

>What About the Manticore Tribe
The Manticore tribe is currently VERY interested in Mycea- they are perhaps a little TOO interested in Mycea.

You guys may roll for new Actions now.
Oh, and remember: just "talking" to characters/factions/people doesn't require a roll.

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>37756293
Ergonomics

>>37756274
YOU AM PLAY GODS

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>37756293
Domesticate Mammoths.

Maybe work on our already domesticated animals too. Like fluffy pillow raptors or better tasting elephants.

>>37756293
>they've been awkwardly crawling onto land in an effort to acquire as much metal as possible while scurrying back into the ocean.

So they're ... stealing? or trying to "Mine" things themselves?

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>37756293
Develope magical tools to make mining (and other work) easier.

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>37756293
Implement color coding.

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>>37756340
>>37756332
Okay.

>>37756307
What does this even fucking mean? Voting against.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>37756293
Idea: research more of pre-elven contact gorgon cultures, help spread these to the empire and tribes. Maybe by showing them that they all have common ancestry they'll work together and be friendlier

>>37756340
CYCLOPEAN INDUSTRY BEST IN WORLD!

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>37756293
Idea: Using arches and geomancy think of way to keep improving the sepant bridge for travel

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>37756293
Rolling for dem breeding programs.

>>37756358
Ergonomics means designing things so that they're easier to use. An ergonomically designed chair would be easier to sit in for example

>>37756340

so much support. all of my support.

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>>37756293
Introduce our elf friend to dinosaur and spider tribe.

He is an anthropologist, right?

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Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>37756293
Develop desert/plains clothing. Stuff that covers all and protects you from the suns rays. Clothes that are breathable. If we are to continue into the plains we need to cover up.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>37756340
Supporting that roll

>>37756293
Fund a joint colony of Cyclopes Gorgons and southerners to the grasslands

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>37756293
Idea: attempt to set up a megolith to Air, but it is a shape that the wind will frow through to make music, like the ocarina

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>37756434
>Fund a joint colony of Cyclopes Gorgons and southerners to the grasslands

Supporting. COLONIZE EVERYTHING

>>37756358
Ergonomics is the "study of usage" basically. Something that didn't really develop until after industrial era.

Basically making things comfortable or easy to use.

A horizontal bar on a door you're meant to push is an ergonomic design, as it physically leads you to pushing the door.

>>37756358
Ergonomics = designing shit to not cause you permanent damage on long run and also be comfy as fuck.

Lot of the industry would fuck you up in few years because of unergonomic work enviroments

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>>37756414
need a drawfag to remove those eyebrows and give them all one eye

We really need to contact the Changelings in the grassland

>>37756340
dice+1d20
supporting

>>37756377
SEKAIICHI

>>37756452
we really need to see if we can come into contact with the Changelings (or white humanoids) again, they seem pretty cool, ant people... seem creepy.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>37756522
If we befriend the Ant people they could be of great economic value. Imagine them helping build ever larger buildings, their hives mining the ores and stones for our lazy asses

Ok
>>37756293
Try to contact the Ants or Changelings

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>37756340
supportan

>>37756484
It actually existed long before that, but it wasn't until industrial era that it's value was reckognized.

Earliest forms of ergonomics was a stone chair designed after a shape left in mud by a person who lied down on it.

>>37756564
The changelings portrayed the ants as bad, from what I remember, but we should probably get both sides' view.

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>37756514
sorry my bad

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>37756452
Thirded

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>trusting changelings

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>>37756504
Happy to oblige D. Oswald Heist.

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>>37756713
10/10 fucking perfect
now if only it didn't have that watermark

>>37756564
my big problem with the ants is similar to the problem i have with the Merfolk and elves, they seem a touch... alien. What we've seen of the Antpeople, they disemboweled and carried a mammoth off, and tried to pry the gold and shiny bits off our monument.

>>37756761
The changelings were the ones who vandalized our monument. They left pieces of antpeople all over the place.

>>37756814
I say we should murder them all indiscriminately.

>>37756850
Like the Parrats?

You monster

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>>37756814
I thought it was the ants, if the scratches and battle was anything to suggest. Plus the fact the drawing there had "changlings" offering the gifts.

>>37756850
quiet you.

>>37756750
Yes. If Only.

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>>37756332
>Domestication and Animal Husbandry Roll
>Roll 20/20
>Complete and Total Success

Currently your livestock include: Banana Rats, Peccaries, Elephants, Triceratops, Raptors, Chickens, and Silk Moths and it's been this way for a while now.. but with time, cultural interaction, and breeding efforts they've become noticeably more different than their wild varieties. Rats, Chickens, Peccaries are all significantly fatter, more pot-bellied, and docile as they've always been kept at home in pens and are a constant for any household. Raptors have become significantly more obedient and have developed into a very fine hunting animal- responding to commands and perfectly comfortable perched on a hand or shoulder. Triceratops have seen the most variety though: muscular and well built breeds for physical labor and fatter more.. "simple" breeds for meat and eggs. Elephants however simply live a little TOO long and age a little TOO slowly to be develop diverse breeds.. but Domesticated elephants are as a rule of thumb; friendlier, possess MUCH thicker tusks, and produce more milk and more offspring.

You've gone a little crazy with "fancy" Moths due to their popularity as pets: they display an absolute dazzling variety of colour, wing-shape, pattern, size, and have become uncharacteristically.. docile and responsive- they they even actively seek attention.

>+Improved Animal Husbandry Achieved
>Animal husbandry is no longer a mystery for your people: They know what sex does and they know how to single out and breed better or ideal physical qualities into animals. This has a number of potentially beneficial economic and food production benefits: increase egg, meat, milk, production as well as quality control.

>Cyclopean tools obsolete cheap labour
>Gorgon empire becomes almost bankrupt
>Late gorgon empress venerated for her foresight on saving the empire from complete economical collapse by abolishing slavery

>>37756904
No domesticated mammoths?

>>37756938

I think he's not done writing until he tells us to roll.

>>37756904
Wonder if this means they understand the problems with inbreeding now? since they can see them arise from animal husbandry, some of the incest should start puttering out.

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>>37756889
I have the weirdest boner right now.

>>37757008
Maybe. It was never a big problem though.

What are some more economic improvements we can develop? How can guilds be improved? Are bonds/stocks a good idea?

>>37757008
>problems with inbreeding
its fiiiiiine.

>>37756882
Parrats were made up by cyclops in order to lure gorgons to be part of their military

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>>37756889
wonderful

save'd

hope OP uses in the future

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Are moths going to be the new parrats?

>>37757038
True, we never had concentrated breeding lines because we don't have prestigious families or royalty. But its best to avoid if possible, helps negative traits die out and keeps the population more healthy.

>>37757069
Administration, get a small tax going and you can use it to spend on projects or social care.
But if in doubt, build infrastructure. E.g. postal service.

>>37757008
Polygamous society that fucks anything.
There really will never be enough generations of same family cyclopses that inbreeding becomes an issue

>>37757146

even non-sapient creatures know not to fuck their siblings by instinct. most of them, anyway.

>>37757135
No, as long as we don't try to give them advanced intelligence they should remain loveable and fluffy pets.

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>>37757135
Most likely no.....at least not yet.

>>37757069
We don't have banking or standard currency.
Our currency is not bound to anything tangible yet.

>>37757248
So a banking guild?

>>37757248
make it golden

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>>37757181
I don't think its siblings thats the problem (as thats just common sense and yes, instinct). It might be more cousin and nephew fucking that's the problem. I wish I had more historical products of incest than just Henri-Toulouse Lautrec, to reference for problems.

>>37757248
Frankly its more stable as it is since the organic degeneration keeps inflation and rampant wealth accumulation at bay.

The important thing in economy is that the money flows. Banks would not be a good fit.

>>37757290
Gold doesn't have the same connotation of value. It's just a pretty decoration for cyclopes. They value things like food, labor and the products there of. That's why ivory rings are good because it takes skill to carve them

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>>37757248
>>37757265
I don't think we really need to worry about currency

our main concerns should be improving the lives of our people with improving the lives of those around us as a comforting secondary goal

money doesn't really do anything to help either of these things

>>37757265
National bank. NEVER let the value of your currency be determined outside goverment.

I'm thinking we should improve our fashion. Develop buttons, belts, pockets, collars, sunhats, straps, ect...

is any of the civ quest even slightly related?

>>37757248
we have Elephant Rings as our currency at the moment, which again isn't bad. It takes a while to harvest, can only be harvested once, and yeah decays after a while.

Its primative but it works for us right now.

>>37757290
But we use gold for magic.

>>37757324
I just want to get another golden age going so we can work on another wonder or new technological level.

>>37757325
At that point its just the gov, which is fine, really we need to improve administration for our civ.

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>>37757349
that's fine but also doesn't require money

the level of cyclopean HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG is killing me

>>37757336
Doesn't really decay if it's properly handled.
Afterall, dinosaur bones have lasted to our days.

>>37757371
Mageocracy is good enough.
We could toss some bureaucracy and constitutions in there and it's golden

>>37757403
Dinosaur bones have been in solid rock for the vast majority of that time. Common use will wear them down, accidentally crushed, weather heat and cold exposure, all will take their toll. Even if its 50 years, at the rate they are generated its not a problem.

Bright side is, its hard as hell if not impossible to counterfeit, and impossible to flood the market with as an economic warfare tool.

>>37757476
A constitution is a good idea.

Also, we could have separation of powers. Not necessarily into a president, congress, and supreme court; but certainly into something that suits cyclops culture.

>>37757476
I am not saying changing the gov type, just improve its management ability so it does not have to all be arranged by the same person and tasks can be divided up and done more efficiently.

>>37757517
I think its not needed yet, since no one holds undisputed sway over the whole, and there are no political parties to speak of.

>>37757517
We've suggested it before but we've suggested various councils before.

Like we currently have one big LUMP Magocracy. But what if it was split between Mages who do research, and scholars that know history and law? what if there was a council of tradesmen/craftsmen to help overview economic things.

I say we keep our currency in such a way that it is actually usable in cyclopean life.

This way, an inflation does also decrease the costs of certain products that are related to gold and ivory

>>37757517

we probably should make some sort of governmental bodies to represent the craftsmen, the farmers, the miners, etc.

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>>37756340
>Develope magical tools to make mining (and other work) easier.
>Roll 20/20
>Complete and total success. +Akalade's influence, +Notes on Mycea, +Blind sage scrolls

They aren't often mentioned and they've always been on the side lines of history and documentation- mired by tragedy, accidents, and mysticism.. The Arcanists, The Enchanters, The few brave circles of Clyclopean men and women who work in discretion scanning over bamboo scrolls and taking quick peeks at second-hand copies of the scrolls of the Blind Sages.

Your people don't possess a distinction between Science and Magic; as they don't even recognize or understand Science the way Modern man would. Arcanists have begun to blur this line.

>+Technological Magical Development: Advanced Mediums: Bells, Tuning Fork,
>Your current mediums are woefully simple and primitive; they do not possess the sophistication necessary for complicated and sufficiently advanced hymns that are necessary to entail and extrapolate on the universe and reality. Bells; forged with Gold and Iron often with a wooden handle- The Bell is an extremely powerful and resounding medium capable of producing powerful and long-lasting Hymns. The bell's qualities can also be changed depending on what material it's made of, what inscriptions it possesses, and how large it is- bigger bell, bigger noise. The Bell though has the potential to be weaponized.
The tuning fork is an incredibly obscure and difficult tool to produce, but it's use and value cannot be denied. With a simple flick- it is capable of holding, purifying, aligning, and measuring the very tones that allow and carry forth the songs and hymns that make sung magic possible. It greatly increases the safety, accuracy, of singing powerful Hymns and facilitates Choruses.

Part 2 incoming.

>>37757372
I'm looking at that image but I just can't quite understand whats going on with the right ones hair. Are those supposed to be sideways bunny ears?

>>37757577
So maybe keep the mageocracy, just divide it by occupation?

>>37757624
Mage colleges?

>>37757488
Ehh, we really don't have any dating methods yet. How would we tell dinosaur bones from ground-down mammoth nones, for instance?

>>37757578
>The Bell though has the potential to be weaponized.
Fuck. Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT8xt6XDs_U

>>37757645
ground down is useless, the ivory is carved with patterns and images. Old dinosaur bones will have a different texture, weight, density and strength compared to it. You don't need to date the stuff to know ivory and bone apart.

>>37757488
It will, but not really an issue until a lifetime has passed and they can be ground into various products if they suffer wear and tear and also covered with protective substances that make them airtight.

>>37757624

I just want each class of citizen to be able to voice their requests and complaints on an official level. In my head, the farmers have a council that govern the rules for farming and a head farming chancellor that directly talks to the mages or a sub-bureau if the mages prove unable to handle that much work. same with all the other major professions.

>>37757695

he said mammoth bones, not mammoth ivory.

>>37757714
That's exactly what we should do.

Though, maybe we should also allow non-mage gorgon leaders to have their own deliberative body as well. A sort of lower legislature.

>>37757714
Well, I think you basically just ask a mage and they'll pass it on and you dont need to worry about the bureaucracy

>>37757738
And? the entire discussion was about how long ivory will last, and it will not last as long as fossilized bone. Powdered is not used as currency, they are carved rings or discs.

>>37757700
But at that point in time you can just say that all treated is not valid currency.

>>37757744

I've actually been having that thought for the previous three threads. The gorgon population of our magocracy is pretty much as high as the cyclops population. it's pretty clear that we don't currently treat them as second-class citizens or anything, but it's still mean a lot to make that an official thing.

>>37757738
Linked wrong post

>>37757811
Aren't there gorgons on the sage council already?

>>37757811
If there is no problem, don't try to fix it. We are still rolling dice here.

>>37757811
Pretty sure there are gorgon priestesses that do sort of qualify as mageocracy members.

All you really need is just enough magical talent to qualify

>>37757844
There are, but they probably aren't anywhere as good as cyclops mages.

>>37757811
Separating gorgon and cyclops legislatures might lead to different cultural identities. As long as there's not a big divide between our people I wouldn't suggest it.

>>37757912
and if there's not, that just goes to say they're not ready yet

>>37757868
Agreed. It's not as if our form of government has actually caused us any problems yet. Until it does I don't see why we should be trying to meddle with it.

OP, what are our people complaining about?

Are there any current problems, besides the recession?

>>37757928

I'm not saying they shouldn't have any rights, but even IRL where here is only one species in the governments, we need to write laws that only concern a portion of the population (men and women).

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>>37757578

>+Technological Magical Development: FIRST VEHICLE: Flying Pot
The Flying pot is a seemingly awkward and benign looking device that belays it's true sophistication. A tall clay inscribed pot that is large and deep enough to fit perhaps 1 or 2 cyclops; possess four very strong "pronged" legs that allow it to comfortable stand upon the ground, it's most explicit feature though seems to be the complex inner-working of iron and gold piping that act as both it's frame and to the trained eye- explain it's true function.

Using a slow and meticulously cooking, crafting, and molding process; the hollowed out Iron and Gold pipes are safely embedded within the walls of the pot, but even before that the pipes are enscribed and finished with a complex series of arching, ingrained, and convoluted inner-working and routing patterns. These pipes feed into the "cock-pit" of the pot.

Essentially: One sings into the pipes and the Pot flies. Particularly lazy or people unfamiliar with Hymns may alternatively attach a Bell to the pipe and ring it. As long as a tune is being carried and echoed through the pipes- the pot is capable of clumsy and sluggish flight.

The Flying pot is INCREDIBLY expensive to make, it is clumsy, it is slow- and it has obvious blatant problems/dangers attached to it's design- but that pales when compared to the amazement of getting to hover and scoot around. Even Akalade is impressed by this invention.

((If you need a real world example- it's a lot like a hot air balloon.))

>>37757714
Too much specialization in an economy can lead to artificial barriers to entry in an industry, leading to artificial price increases. Flower shop license requirements come to mind.

>>37757917
Well, maybe we should try to increase/effectivize magical education for our young, gorgon and cyclops? Formalized schools and such?

By the by, i imagine some of our chants are like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PvZGVPiJU

>>37758025
I was kind of imagining our chants more like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3C7H_xvwHs
but that might be my inner ten year old talking.

>>37758011
>The Flying pot is INCREDIBLY expensive to make, it is clumsy, it is slow- and it has obvious blatant problems/dangers attached to it's design- but that pales when compared to the amazement of getting to hover and scoot around.

That about sums up science really

>>37758006
>any rights

I meant to write "the same rights".

>>37758011

if we can make a cheaper version that does nothing but hover just a bit off the floor while an elephant drags it around, we'll have the best caravans ever.

>>37758022
I could get behind that idea. Some form of formal education is fairly overdue.

>>37758086
That's along the lines of what I think they sound like. Although I think our voices would sound much higher pitched than that, given that our race is fairly androgenous for a fair portion of their lives.

>>37758011
Oh man, just wait till we can make something that indefinitely play a Hymn, then we'll have REAL flying vehicles.

>>37758196
Think its dependable, their size would naturally lower the voice of both genders.

>>37758222
Music boxes will be a huge deal.

>>37758210

we really need to invest in enchantment. we have really awesome magic. I'm betting we can also have pretty awesome magic devices.

>>37758252
Oops, that was for >>37758210 naturally.

>>37758006
Please don't push this forward.
You're very close into wandering to thread derailing territory with that talk

>Take a ride to the Gorgon Empire
Time to spark a space race?

>>37758336
Screw space race. I wanna land on Zizz!

>>37758364
Sssssh, you'll anger it again!

>>37758364
You know, our people have never written odyssys, such great epic sagas and stories are also brilliant for vastly expanding the vocabulary of the language as well as imparting cultural ideals like hard work, bravery and family values.

>>37758364
>tfw we make another Weeping Sage-level powerful Cyclopes with our magical shenanigans.
>He/she mind-melds with a Zizz

>>37758430
we haven't quite got Epics and Odysseys in the sense of the ancient greeks, mostly because we haven't quite embroiled ourselves in a 'great war' that needed fighting, and telling stories about, no 'great conflict' to win and then tell a story about RETURNING from it.

We have stories of great importance like that, but they're very much smaller scale or more peaceable. I think Journey To the Mainland was one, and how our people found the Gorgons would be part of it.

>>37758448
>bad roll
>mind meld fails
>You have angered the Zizz.jpg

We can cross the deep ocean now. We can fly over it. What the hell would be over that ocean?

We should make more Heroes.

>>37758497
We have spirits and monsters, the whole story of the zizz, the parrats, etc.
You don't need a war to write about for an epic. Any adventure, well written enough, will do. Its just important to get the literacy tradition down.

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>>37756370
>Idea: research more of pre-elven contact gorgon cultures, help spread these to the empire and tribes.
>Roll 94
>Near complete Success +Tribal Gorgons, -Overshadowed by Gorgon Empire

The Elves cultural impact on the Gorgon's has had deep seated ramifications on their civilization and the various splintered factions that have developed. Even the Tribes that exist today have primarily defined their culture and differences through a mixture of Elven stipulations and contemporary Cyclopean and Gorgon influences.. The New Gorgon empire though has been picking up the slack and redefining themselves from the holes left behind.
You find your biggest and most interesting lead in some of the most Obscure places though.

>The Manticore Tribe: Druidic Necromancy
The Manticore tribe has developed an almost obsessive fascination with Mycea and after study and observation it's revealed that they pay honor and homage to her in part due to her obscured ancient origins. Gorgons may have originally adapted some form of fungal druidism that was originally introduced by some being akin to Mycea but was later weaponized and corrupted into contemporary Necromancy.

>Grown from the Bodies of Gods
The debate remains inconclusive, but there is evidence to support that the gorgons origin myth of the world being born and nurtured upon the accumulated death of countless gods; you've seen it before, the fossilized remains of truly and utterly titanic beings making up landmarks- The Snake bridge is a testament to that.

Either way your people look at it- Gorgon History seem to be defined by a recognition of Death and the Fall of great things.

>>37758549
Think about it, we can have a truely titanic epic by crossing the deep ocean in a Floating Pot. We need to make Floating pots in the shape of boats, it may coast lot's but imagine Airships in this time period

>>37758549
Hell the entire story of Beowulf is about monster slaying and moral lesson. Something we have due to the spirits we have to hunt on a regular basis.

>>37758601

or those rib-like things to the east, which we can't investigate because ZIZZ

>>37758722
Zizz ignore the hell out of us unless we try contact or talk with them, and nothing they've done has been hostile except the time we stole their feathers. Frankly if you got shot and your hair stolen, you'de be pissed too.

>>37758661
>>37758658
I concur with the decision for a grand exploration of the world. Maybe our next wonder should be a floating craft of moderate size that will allow for long exploratory trips to bring back knowledge of the world to the Home

>>37758813

then why haven't we looted the shit out of that place

>>37758850
Because anons got scared after said episode and never went back. Im all for building an observatory and studying the zizz so it does not happen again and we learn more.

I feel like we should develop some kind of magical protections for Mycea. I feel like something bad is about to happen to her.

>>37758893
So we should research ornithology?

>>37758936
well we already have access to hawk sporting through the gorgons, shouldn't be too hard to establish.

>>37758893
I barely know this quest. buuut it sounds like you guys were way back in ancient times doing weird things and ran off after basically scalping them alive.

Maybe they cooled off? I dunno sounds like a long time has passed. maybe going with a peace offering could open the way.

Where are we on naval technology? The pastebin says we're still on longships. It may be easier to travel the Deep ocean with magical boats than magical pots.

>>37759026
Zizz is a giant bird, so big that "Zizz" in means large, big, giant, etc. in our language.

>>37759123
We should move to caravels soon.

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>Develop further into the Hot, dry, grassland plains over the hills.
>Roll 76/100
>Roll 18/20
>Odd High Rolls. +Overwhelming Census

You've only been making short trips into the plains to refurbish, repair, and re-stock the monolith in hopes that something interesting would happen a long the lines of established contact.. but results continue to be a mix of defacement, attempts at looting, but every so often there are pieces of gold ?coins? left behind and an interesting variety of fruits and produce.
The mining village on the other side of the mountain as well as the numerous farming villages that have sprouted up within Mycea's Grove though have facilitated more interest in exploration and travel into the plains and in time a few of your people have even come to appreciate it's foreign qualities and frequent in on a regular basis; wearing fine silk clothing to provide cool shade and cover from the unrelenting sun as well as numerous other small changes: leather shoes, drinking skins, and even some small poems or quips that bring forth refreshing cold water.

>+Unique Political Opportunity: The Changeling wish to know your motives.
The growing interest is mutual though and one day the inevitable happens, but it happens on beneficial terms: A small group of White beings upon the backs of their striped antler-less deer ?Quagga? ride up to meet some of your people tending to the Monolith. They do not speak, they hold still at a respectable and safe distance. Their entire bodies are hidden within white thin cloaks of fabric with only their deep black eyes and white faces peeking out.

Each one in turn raises a featureless limb that morphs and molds like clay to form an arm and hand- revealing their chalky white flesh.
Half of them are raising up unusual "Curved" blades made of some foreign metal.
Half of them are raising up what you immediately recognize as some form of Flatbread.

>Why have you come? For Blade or Bread?
>Pick one.

>>37759026
Zizz is basically a god-spirit beast of the air and sky. They literally control the element of air on this world and can force air elemental's to GTFO from miles away.

Their size blots out the sun, these things eat sea monsters. An ancient hunter decided to try hunt one, shot it with an arrow and knocked off a grand total of 3 feathers. It didn't even realize what had happened until the council tried to chant to the feathers, alerting the bird to what had happened. Shit hit the fan (go read it, its quite good). We did get sail tech from it though so.

>>37759188
Bread pls, let's not go to war.

>>37759188

that's a no-brainer. bread.

>>37759188
>Bread

>>37759203
Well then. Thats my nightmare fuel for the night thank you. I am going to be terrorized by godking birds.

Its gonna be the hitchcock movie all over again

>>37759188
Hm. This seems obvious. I suppose we should go with Bread.

>>37759188
Bread. We've not come to fight anything. Maybe try to ask them about the Ants

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>>37759188
Bread.

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>>37759188

>>37759188
>>Develop further into the Hot, dry, grassland plains over the hills.
>>Roll 76/100
>>Roll 18/20
Um... I'll say blade to be contrarian.
But also kind of hoping they're offering something to trade.

Bread might imply we want to eat everything, like the Ant People. hope bread wins.

>>37759188
Bread

>>37759188
>bread
>Attempt to peacefully share fruit-booze with them

>>37759188
>Sing

So what tech advancements are you hoping for? I'm thinking about improved communications.

>>37759188
So these are literal CHANGElings. Clay shapeshifters

>>37759521
I want to try for shamanism. Things like guardian spirits and spirit contracts/deals.

>>37759521
sustainable hovertech. Would allow for faster transportation of goods and vehicles, less strain on beasts of burden

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>>37759296
>>37759285
>>37759269
>>37759262
>>37759258

After what feels like hours of tension- your people nervously point over to the beings holding the Bread and there is a brief pause before their limbs visibly slide and slink back into their cloaks a long with their blades and before long they are all holding up bread. You see the lower portion of their cloaks "bump" the sides of their steeds and they slowly and cautiously advanced towards your Monolith to join your people to continue interaction.

There is a very brief attempt to open vocal communication; but it's made immediate that both sides has absolutely NO idea what the other is saying and there are no similarities what so ever between your two species languages. You are completely and utterly foreign to one another.

The universal language though is food and drink and without second guessing one another you unanimously decide to share a meal together and hopefully some amount of information and intent could be shared: distinct variants of Fruit, Bread, Meat, and Drink are brought out from both of your respective cultures. The Changelings find your finely marbled Dinosaur meat delicious, savory, and in generous quantities, they are pleased by the variety of appetizing and flavorful mushrooms and fine your Fruit alcohol to be very pleasing. Your people as well delight in the sheer variety of both Flat and leavened breads the Changelings have brought, they delight in the unusual sour slightly tangy tasting yellow edible wheel, as well the accompanying rich stew of vegetables and roots- the drink they bring isn't to your taste.. some kind of sour, astringent, red fluid? But you drink it to be polite.

You don't understand what they're saying, but they've also brought with them BOOKS; pictures and images printed on some kind of ?paper? They read aloud to you and show you the pictures: Cities, Beings, People, and Animals- of which you immediately recognize one being the Zizz.

>>37759521
More advanced magic. Shielding, scrying, teleportation. Things like that.

>>37759666
Were going to invent the hover train, were the boiler is used to turn fans and bellows to supply the air for the levitation tubes and the thrust to go forward. Wonder how loud it would be.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

rolling not to soil our pants at the sight of the almighty Zizz

>>37759726
awesome! We're not all dead. Can we roll actions/ideas btw?
We should try to learn to communicate with the Changlings.

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>>37759726

Everyone is well fed, comfortable, and stories and crude drawings are being exchange as well as a lot of "hand charades".

>Now would be an excellent time to try and attempt to ask questions or try and establish some diplomacy rolls or whatever you have on mind for this specific moment.
>After which will conclude this brief encounter and move on.

>>37759893
We need to try and ask about the Zizz, and the Ants.

>>37759893
Ask their situation with the antpeople.

>>37759893
I guess just be cordial? So long as they do not attack us and trade is opened it should be fine. Though i would still be weary, these people are obviously up to bloodshed if they so wish, with how they hijacked this monolith from the antfolk.

>>37759893
Offer trade for CHEESE and BOOKS for Dino meat and unfertilized eggs.

Ask about the Zizz and Ants

>>37759893
>Try to ask them what some of their customs/favorite sports
>Ask about the Zizz

>>37759893
Lets ask them about where they live.
Or what is up with the ants?
Do they have "homes".
What is the lay of the land?
Do they want to hang out more often?

>>37759893
see if they want to play soccer?
or sing some camp songs?

try to get the basics of their language. yes, no, sword, bread, changeling, cyclops, Zizz, Parrat, and so forth.

>>37759893
Try to keep them away from Mycea for now.

>>37760042
Might be a thing to build a wall around Mycea of some form. Not to hem her in, but at least to make sure we can protect her core body if we need to. Course we should also get clippings so we can have some of her back on the home island, good back up.

or before we make presumptions we could just ask Mycea what she knows of the changelings (and the ants)

>>37760121
supporting this, after we talk to the changlings

>>37754446

OP you really need to get a twitter. I miss this thread until now.

>>37760313
The thread usual comes around 5 pm EST, but I have missed the thread a couple of time.

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>Ask about the Zizz.
You Draw attention to their depiction of what you've come to know as the "Zizz" and they are quick to acknowledge that you must have clearly seen it before. Within their book the Zizz's depiction takes up two entire pages: it is a large red bird, it visibly blocks out the sun, and is accompanied by what appears to be lightning. They go on to demonstrate through arm waving, drawing in the dirt, and making sound effects that the Zizz has frequented their part of the world and through it's sheer size and presence has brought forth terrifying and destructive thunder storms and terrible winds. They go on further to explain how it's presence has kept them from building or settling the flat plain- not for fear of the bird, but of the Storm it brings.

>Ask about the Ant people.
Their attitude becomes incredibly "dutiful" and they morph fingers to wave back and forth. They regal you about the constant conflict between their people and the Ant people- how the Ant people are the ones who hold control over the open plains and deserts with their large mounds and complex labyrinth-like underground dwellings. They give the impression the Ant people are a thoughtless, callous, unromantic and ABUNDANT people.

>Be Cordial.
After the questionnaire, you exchange gifts: You give them some left over unfertilized dinosaur eggs you had been saving and are amused by how their dark eyes seem to widen when you hand them the head sized eggs, you also gladly give them some of your dried dinosaur meat since they seemed to have a taste for the uniquely marbled fatty and savory flesh. They in turn give you the Book they had read to you and another edible yellow wheel.

The exchange is then adjourned. The changelings quietly pack their things, slide over to the sides of their riding beasts and.. ?slither? onto their backs. They grab their reins and turn around to wave back at your people before riding off.

You never once saw what they looked like underneath their cloaks

>>37760415
advanced slime-clay people

>>37760415
Look at them, villianizing the Ant People. I'm definitly going to take that with a grain of salt.

>>37760415
So changlings are nomadic?
Man we should see if a few of them want to take a tour of our lands some time. Might give them a chance to enjoy sendentary lifestyles.

Now we gotta find the Ant People.

>>37760415

I want to set up a colony on the coast on this side of the mountain. Lots of space to grow.

>>37760647
A Monolith of Air might be able to help keep the air calm around the colony

>>37760647
>>37760756

Can I get more support for this? Consensus might help a lot knowing the dice.

>>37760756
Maybe if we make that tech, maybe the changelings could feel confortable enough to settle proper.

Also I just realized... we got a "Book" as in... Bound leather and paper. rather than... weird bamboo scrolls and plates and whatnot.

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>>37760083
>>37760042
>>37760121

SPEAKING OF MYCEA

>+New Event+: Mycea holds Divine Assembly
>Mycea has temporarily closed and sealed off access to her personal chambers only mentioning that she needs to "Host a small private party between some of my neighbors; do not worry it won't take long, so please don't worry." Her presence in the form of her "shoots" and extensions are ironically enough still assisting and interacting with people as if nothing is happening- but her "true" body is indeed locked away and access to her main structure is being denied.
>She even goes so far as to have her "shoots" very gently and carefully pick anyone up and carry anyone anyway who comes too close- all the while apologizing profusely before setting them down, hugging them and sliding back into her growth.
>In the proceeding nights their appears to be a dull glow coming from both the bottom and the top of her growth and despite no one having seen anyone coming or going from the structure- on particularly quiet nights different voices can be heard from within.

You may now roll for 2 new Actions and 1 new Idea.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>37760815

Set up a colony on the other side of the mountains by the coast.

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>37760815
For monolith of Air

>>37760798
I'll back it. the nomads seem nice enough and we should have some method of watching the new lands. We might even manage to encourage the changlings to join us if we give them safe haven. It sounded like they're always moving to avoid the ant men's wrath.

>>37760836
>>37760823

Support

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>37760815
Backing this>>37760798

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>37760815
Spirit Guardians/Shamanism. Kind of like japanese area gods and spirits

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>37760871
Shrines and the like too

Rolled 1, 20 = 21 (2d20)

>>37760815
Hm... any chance we could listen in on this "private" conversation? I could abandon this action if need be.

I suggest setting up a colony in the grasslands, maybe even a trade route.

>>37760913
What the hell are those rolls?

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>37760815
>>37760871
Supporting.

>>37760871
>>37760900

damn, least the help roll will mitigate any disasters.

>>37760913
What did you just do? God damnit.

>>37760949
Total Failure and Total Success all in the same breath it seems.

But that said i wouldn't mind abandoning the "first roll" just cause it was a curious idea. asking if it was "possible"

Rolled 39 (1d100)

improve enchantment

let's have some magical architecture going on guys

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>37760871
Supporting

Rolled 16, 7 = 23 (2d20)

>>37760815
Set up colony of Cyclops and gorgons, invite Changelings if they want

Build a monolith of air to calm the Zizz storms locally
hopefully that doesn't piss off the Zizz

Rolled 11 (1d20)

continue to develop carpentry with wood, leathers

>>37760815
Idea: Perhaps we can get a understanding of what lies in the rest of our world from Akalade, especially since he's from space, he must have a whole map of all the continents.

>>37760913
If she needs to be alone that's fine. We should trust her.

>>37760994
You're not helping!

>>37761025
Fuck forgot to roll.

>>37760994
God dammit what are you doing?

>>37761043
Hah. reminds me of that episode of reboot where everyone got retarded except the kid.

>WE ARE HELPING WE ARE HELPING!

>>37760994

Pukgai!

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>37761055
>>37761025

Still forgot weird.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>37760815
Try to locate the antpeople.

>>37761072
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a1EHStEbqU
thanks for the memory anon.
(they even have one eye the lot of them)

>>37760815
make elephants/ mamoth hybrid (and ride it if it's work)

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>>37760823
>>37760859
>>37760867

>Establish a Colony on the Coast just beyond the Mountains.
>Roll 74/100
>Just short of 75. Interesting results.

Farther north, beyond the mountains, just due east until the coast can finally be seen- there's a Jungle. The Jungle beyond the Mountains is quite similar to the jungles your people have called home since the dawn of time upon your indigenous islands: There's a variety of the short elephants you've become so familiar with- though they remain wild and untamed, there's a number of deer, birds, and even smaller dinosaurs such as Raptors- You eventually even spot a Manticore.

Yes, it all seems like business as usual and just another jungle.. until you reach the Water. The Waters are where it dwells. It is FAT. It is HAIRLESS. It's often seen yawning it's mouth wide open to display a set of TUSKS. At dawn and dusk you see them crawl up from the waters; carrying their pudgy bodies on chubby little back legs and massive, muscular, knuckle-walking clenched meat fists.

They're content to graze on foliage, fruit, grasses, and the mangrove trees on the coast- all of which they clasp and tear down like paper with their chubby primitive hands.. but they still intimidate your people.

>The Hippo is a large, semi-aquatic, knuckle-walking herbivore. It congregates in large herds within any body of water it can find and is one of the most dangerous megafauna native to the plains.

>>37761384
We must tame them

For the Collective

>>37761384
>is one of the most delicious megafauna native to the plains

FTFY

>>37761431
No. Hippos are mean. Leave them be. Maybe hunt them from time to time, or have preserves, but I doubt we can tame hippos.

>>37761431
why we should tame everything we set our eye on?

>>37761490
because the planet is ours Anon it is fate

>>37761490
Because Cyclops love every living being on their planet. Everything has it's place. Even the Parrats did before our tampering.

>>37761447
Hippos are real big dicks though. if you provoke one (which is hilariously easy) they will happily FUCK YOUR SHIT UP.

The effects would probably be migrated against a cyclops but they're still pretty dangerous and foul tempered. don't let their appearance fool you.

Obviously you bunch are gonna squee over it anyway but I fucking warned you bro I WARNED YOU BOUT THE HIPPOS BRO!

I WARNED YOU

>>37761490
That's not accurate. Take the sauropods for example. It's been around for a while, but no attempted to domesticate it has been made.

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>>37760836
>For monolith of Air
>Roll 13/20
>Above Average Success +Census Reached.


The Elemental spirit of Air has always been the one most illusive to your people; The songs, poems, and hymns of the Air are some of your people's most obscurest..... But with the recent reminder of the Ancient and partially forgotten Zizz... Familiarizing yourself with the Song of Air could prove a sound long term decision.

Support into the plains does not remain within the "majority" so the construction of Air Megaliths is something only taken upon and set out by a handful of Cyclopes who most frequent the passage over the mountains and into the plains. The Megaliths are of simple Mountain stone rolled out into the plains and fit into dug pegs before they're smoothed and finished on the spot with discreet and humble inscriptions. They do not possess any metal, no iron, and no gold- they are short, only waist height to a cyclopes, and they are usually set up in lines adjacent to roads or paths.

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>>37761543
Finished off the vectored version of the island cyclopean, now with more "W".

This may sound morbid, but why don't we hunt the hippos instead? They're tough, provide a challenge, and we have yet to hunt something large and aggressive ever sense the Boiling Lizard went extinct in our part of the region.

>>37761817
No real reason to. Food is pretty plentiful already and there are much safer animals to hunt around here.

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>>37761810
here's a version with classic colors.

>>37762077
I guess its more of a matter of challenge or sport.
I remember when we first hunted a boiling lizard, we got Heroes out of it. Hunting hippos might be a similar situation.

>>37762473
Thank you based anon!

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>Shrines for Spirits, Elements, Gods and all manner of worship.
>Roll 44/100
>DOUBLES met with overwhelming failure.
>+Interesting Results+

Your people have always had a rich and developed cultural attachment to building great stone structures to the various Gods, Elements, and all manner of nature spirits- it's come to the point where it's simply second nature for communities to drag out a giant rock to show respect for some presence or another.

You've always started to have something of a slight "monster" problem what with the occasionally Humbawumba eating everything, Grassmen being ignored until they're a problem, and the horror that the Tikibaling brings. In an Effort to solve this problem you've started erecting "smaller" more personalized megaliths- little tiny shrines that can be placed even inside homes and dwellings, so as to protect from malicious spirits.
This has caused unforeseen consequences:

>-Spiritual Development: New Monster: Food Elemental
>The Food Elemental is a spirit possessing a piece of "food" which can be anything from a piece of fruit, loaf of bread, or even an entire bowl of stew. The Food will sprout small legs and sometimes tiny arms and proceed to cause havoc and mischief until it is killed or eaten. Food elementals cannot possess preserved food or food that has not be "harvested". Exposure to Salt will kill them.

>Poverty Beast
>The Poverty beast is a monster that takes the form of an emaciated, sad-looking tapir with humanoid arms and a long monitor lizard tail. Wherever it goes it brings bad luck, misfortune, and economic turmoil: food rots and people lose money. The Poverty beast is attracted to affluent places. It can be defeated using generosity, but it can also be killed. If it is defeated with gifts; it will break apart and waft away into a vapor of soul. If it is killed though it reveals it's true origins; falling apart into a rotting mass of animals killed by neglect or abuse.

>>37762550
>that dog

>>37762550
How is a 44 an overwhelming failure?

>>37762608
it was a failed roll in the first place, and also someone rolled a 1 when trying to support. Plus the dubs are in the lower quarter. And dubs always provide "interesting results".

>>37762550
We need to settle our monster troubles, not with monster hunters but with virtues and good will.

>>37762739
And maybe some animal shelters.

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>>37762739
Exorcists and Priests man.
Saying good riddance to monsters and demons, with a lot less violence.

>>37762550
>animals killed by neglect or abuse.
;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMiCpwZtfs

>>37762777
>>37762813
rolling for shelters, exorcists/priests, and studying monsters/demons next round

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>>37760913
>Listen in on this "private" conversation
>>37761039
>If she needs to be alone that's fine. We should trust her.
>Roll 20/20
>Success, met with respectful and good intentions.


Despite Myceas explicit request for privacy... some things are inevitably heard within her private meetings and on the quietest nights where not even the wind blows and the darkness is accompanied by the dull glow of her growth hosting some strange other-worldly happenings.. some of your people manage to make out some the tail end of the discussion, but only broken up bits and pieces.

You can clearly make out the familiar Voice of Mycea:
>"What of the Children? I will not let any harm come to them."
>"They have Akalade though, we can't ignore it-"
>"I Don't not CARE about that great writhing beast- He is no longer relevant, his time is over and he will be consumed as is the natur-"

You also manage to recognize the voice of the Hydra Mother:
>"The Great Progenitor will not be pleased."
>"He could prove useful."
>"I agree, The children-"
>"But the Moon has been-"
>"I can't help you Mycea, use have to ask them."

>You can choose to confront Mycea after this post but it will lead into a "quest" development similar to when you opened the pod, I.E: Easing into this weeks session ending and turns will be taken at the span of Months/Weeks.
>Would you like to? Y/N

>>37763050
Y
We've not yet had any large fight or other cultural touchstone; this could be it.

>>37763050
Yes...
I feel we must at least figure out what she wants...

Was this a conversation amongst gods? For the destiny of the creatures below?

Who's the great writhing beast? The Eye Below?

Who's here and talking? Will Akalade be okay?

>>37763050
Yes

Possibly bring Akalade along. Don't put him in any danger, I just think he should meet Myceas.

>>37763050
I wanted exorcists, but this can be interesting.
Yes.

>>37763050
>N
She wouldn't betray us or harm us. She'll come to us in time if there is something troubling her.

Could they be talking about cyclops-gorgon children? Or is it us, the children of the great progenitor, or some other race?

>>37763626
>Cyclops-Gogon Children
God damn, this is up there with "Riding Something" in terms of stuff we wanna do.

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>Yes, Confront Mycea when she has finished her meeting.

You wait until the end of the Month; when the "meetings" have stopped, she's unsealed and opened up her personal quarters, and is once again accepting and hosting guests within her confines.
You bring with you a large and sizable entourage consisting of the Sage Council as well as a few prominent members of the more mundane but no less concerned Cyclopean/Gorgon Citizens as well as a small host of neighboring Tribal and Empire gorgons who had become concerned.

She graciously accepts and leads you all inside, letting off a soft, warm, laugh while quipping, "Look at all my visitors- I'm so popular today; I hadn't imagined you would all miss me so much.. I have some tea and some lovely shelf mushro-" She is cut off when you tell her you overheard. She hugs herself and becomes visibly distressed as her cheery attitude slowly dissolves and turns into one of dread.

She begins, "I do not expect you to completely understand, but you mustn't listen to the Followers of the great Progenitor. The.. "Merpeople" as you call them are being lead-astray by a being that does not have their best interests at heart- they have mistaken him for something benign and natural when he in reality he is a figment, a memory, of a very ancient time before plants, animals, worlds, elements or even Gods- He is one of many Morbid dreams from an entity that long predates creation and reality." She pauses for a moment to collect her composure and thoughts- she had slowly begun to hiccup, tears welling in her eyes and visibly becoming progressively more uncomfortable.

(part 2 incoming, then choices)

>>37763790
>Merpeople" as you call them are being lead-astray by a being that does not have their best interests at heart
I knew we couldn't trust them.
No one goes from Hating our guts to "being friendly" that fast.
Especially at the behest of a "Deep Eye".

>>37763790
I hope we didn't hurt her feelings...

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Finished off some vectorized gorgon numerals guys.

I neglected to include the pronunciation guide at the moment.

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>>37763790
She begins again, "I will not do as he says. I will not bend down to intimidation. He is frightened. He is frightened because life, the natural world: You, Me, The Grass, The Insects, The World snake and even the Hydra Mother- we are all part of the Natural world. We are birthed from abominations, we are the rotting maggots within the body that is one great cosmic horror after another as we consume their flesh, gnash and crack their bones, rend their innards, and split their eldritch souls into countless minuscule fragments to spark an innumerable and endless amount of life to further extend creation."

There is a long pause as she extends herself and sends out shoots to accompany everyone; holding their hand, taking a breath, and continuing. "I love you." She slowly repeats each word once more, "I. Love. You. I love all of you and because I love you I will not let him have you. The Great progenitor thinks that he will be able to shepard the sympathies of the beings that are most reminiscent of his flesh: The Merpeople, The Cyclopes, he's even tried the Changelings at one point, but I hear the creature you've been calling the "Zizz" interfered."

Her tone becomes slightly more serious, she's gained all of her composure and it seems she means business at this point, "I need Akalade. The Hydra Mother once came to you before to ask for him, but the murder of her physical form at the hands of "Elves" has made her unconvincing and weak and she has not yet reincarnated... I need Akalade. He and his people are fools; they have sterilized their world, enslaved their gods, and killed their beasts, but he needs to play his role to my specifications and not to the Great Progenitors."

She kisses each attendant on the forehead and the cheek,
"I need Akalade. Please Trust me."

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>>37764335

What will you decide?

You might want to talk this one over.

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Fuck

I trust her

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>>37764425
Will Akalade be harmed?

>>37764335
>>37764425
This so heavy.
But I think we can trust her. We did save her life and bring her family and friendship after what sounds like eons of enslavement and abuse by the elves.

>>37764425
I vote to trust her.

>>37764425
I trust her too, but there are quite a few things to consider.

First of all... Akalade, is he truly an agent of The Deep Eye/Great Progenitor? or merely a pawn. I wouldn't want to give him to Mycea or the other gods if it means there is the possibility he could come to harm... We need to talk to him and her about this.

But she is right, the Great Progenitor is something to be afraid of, and something dangerous. He is a beast of Guile, and a dangerous creature. He might even be the antithesis of Cyclopean life, despite our... well Origination from him.

He is an Individual, a sole eye, that dominates the wills of others. We believe in the virtues of many eyes, many wills, working together, we commune, we put many wills to one purpose, not use one will to rule over many.

He seems to be trying to manipulate us and the merfolk already. He's threatened us in the past, to concede with "peace".

I wonder if we should ask Akelade about this. He did mention serving a Queen.

>>37764335
But will Akalade will be unharmed? He may be "that guy" but he's still a part of us. But what of "sending him/her back to the moon"?

>>37764663
He might be, but what if it's for the greater good?

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>>37764708
We swore to protect him. And all he wants to do is learn about us.

>>37764734
And all she wants to do is protect us, and the merfolk, and the changlings, and all the others the progenitor is trying to lead astray.

>>37764788
We'll agree to bring him, but if he's in any kind of possible harm or death we'll have to find an alternative.

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The progenitor wants to reclaim the life that sprouted from him. We must not allow this.

The Elves must not be allowed to harvest our world and destroy it like they did theirs

>>37764916
inb4 The Elves are from planet Mechonis and the progenitor is Zanza. It's Akalade time!

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>>37764663
>>37764661
>>37764598
>>37764524

She is once again pleased and enamored by the ever present compassion and selflessness your people continue to exhibit without a moment of hesitation, "This is why I love you. Your first question was one of concern and this is how I know I can trust you."

Her form slowly slinks back into the confines of her growth, you see mass, vegetation, and fungal flesh convulse and flex before she "slides" back out slightly damp and holding what appears to be a small, hair-covered, pod cradled in her arms. "I am aware of Akalade's mission and objective: he wishes to revitalize his world and bring back it's growth.. but his people are ignorant and they are selfish- his plain will ultimately fail because it does not matter if he heals their land- their character would lead to them repeating their mistakes. The Progenitor is riding on this. He cannot consume a living world."

She beckons a Cyclopes to take the pod from her and a handful eagerly stumble over one another to eagerly oblige, she begins to blush profusely when it is picked up, "T-this is one of my spores. It is what Akalade Desires; with it you could potentially revitalize entire continents with rich plant and fungal growth as seen in my grove."

She Instructs you further, "If you wish me to spare Akalade; you must convince him to give the Pod he used to ascend down from the moon to me. I will then infect it with my spores and launch it into the Ocean and at the Progenitor- It will infect him, poison him, rot him from the inside out, before consuming his flesh. I will then be able to assist Akalade with his World, but only after."

>>37765068
Okay.

I guess the loss of his pod is acceptable.

After all, I kinda felt a lunar mission is a good late game objective. We'll get Akalade home. He just might be a bit late.

>>37765068
Knowing him, Akalade will be all to eager to this terms to revive his planet and serve his queen. But like Mycea say, his people have to change in order for this to be effective.

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come home
go into the water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVs3qprmSw

>>37765068
>>37765115
Agreed.

It's not often that a race can rejuvenate a dying demi-god then help them consume a progenitor titan to ascend further into godhood

>>37765068
I'll agree to this.