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I'm always around... though so far havent had any reason to post :(

Alright, I'm going to take this over unless someone(or Salaracen appears again) else does by tomorrow. Does anyone mind if I take it over? I'd prefer if someone else did personally, but I will if no one else will.

[[OOC:Who will control beasts :O]]

[[OOC: I should have seen that coming]]

[[OOC: I'm still staying]]

[[OOC: You know I'm still here. XD]]

[[Around]]

Please read this.

Ok, let's get this show on the road. I wasn't sure what Salaracen meant to do with the numbers of people. Now, we have 7 players, and 11 jobs. I'm changing the numbers of people each person is in charge of(100 men are left over for Demonsul to decide what to do with them. To prevent them being stuck into the best job quickly, they will need training(really sorry about this, don't know how to control it otherwise. They can't be retrained). And I'm still wondering what to do with the other dudes. Tell me if you would like an extra job(I want double jobs to be unrelated too)
I don't want Demonsul or Septim to have an extra job(sorry). I may however, merge Captain of the Guard with War Chief and Farmer with Labourer or Blacksmith or something. In fact, I sort of have to, as we're a bit short on numbers. For the moment, just tell me if you want an extra job, and if you want a certain job just say so(doesn't mean you'll get it though).


1 Septim - War chief (Commands infantry and other military captains ie Wilberforce and Hirgon, Controls 90 people)
2 Wilberforce - Head rider(Captain of Cavalry controls 50 people on horses)
3 Hirgon - Hawk eye (Commander of the archer division, Controls 40 archers)
4 Demonsul - Captain of the Vessel 'Our lady', Organizer of the colony. (The boss, commands all 1,000)
5 Wraith - Head mage(Controls 5 mages)
6 Electric - Scholars (Controls 15 people)
7 Rhade - Labourer - (Controls 350 people)
8 ? - Beastmaster (Controls 50 people)
9 ? - Farmer - (Controls 180 people)
10 ? - Captain of the Guard (Law enforcement, Controls 40 guards)
11 ? - Blacksmith (in control of 80 people)

I will do the classes and stuff tomorrow. You're landing now though.

Just a recap of the levels(on level 1):
Level 1: shoreline with some open land scattered with trees, generally obstructing building sites. Some fruit/berry bushes, fishing sites along shoreline, and birds of some sorts come to feed on these sites also.

Level 2: Denser foliage, more bushes and ground based plants. Numerous small animals, with some dog sized animals, mostly non dangerous. Fruit trees, possibly many vegetables.

Level 3: wild lands, muddy, vines, very difficult to navigate through these areas without proper equipment ie machetes and good boots. Animals the size of large dogs and cows roam these areas. A few very large carnivores an herbivores wander in this area. Stinging insects. Don't bother looking for edible vegetation in these sectors.

Level 4: Wilderness, the canopy blocks out the sun and it is quite dark and moist, Swampy and can get to waist deep. Trees are somewhat spaced apart (but only enough to fit a single man with a large pack). Many large insects  live well in this area, including arm sized leeches. Very large herbivores try to spend as little time as possible in these parts, and travel in packs to make it through alive. Packs of medium sized dexterous carnivores on the other hand travel along the branches of trees and felled trees, lunging upon their prey and pulling them into the trees and using the terrain to their advantage.

Level 5: Jungle comes to an abrupt stop, these are plains on which herbivores feed in great numbers. Large and powerful carnivores are the only carnivores that dare to hunt these herbivores. Spend as little time in these places as possible, you may be trampled to death if not quick enough.

Level 6: Ruins, treasure may be within, treasure may also be hexed/cursed.
Animals stay clear away from these sites. Ruins are overgrown with plant life. Ruins vary in size from a single building to a entire city.

Level 7: Warning zones, skulls on spears and shrunken heads warn all who come this way to go back, terrain is similar to level 2

Level 8: No reports back have ever come back from these regions.


The slender vessel skimmed gracefully through the icy waters, slowly grinding to a halt as they heavy anchor touched the bottom of the shallow sea. The people aboard stared in awe at their first sight of land in near a month at sea. They poured off gratefully onto the idyllic continent of Terria, forests and mountains could be seen in the distance. A few small small birds sang sweetly, eating on worms and other such creatures, and pecking at bright red berries from the bushes. Bigger seabirds were to be seen plunging into the sea and rising with a flapping fish, some fortunate to free themselves from the grip of those ferocious talons.
          The crew securely fastened the boat to the cliff, making sure it wouldn't bang into any protruding rocks. They then climbed up the rocks clifflets onto to the open area, sp*beep*ly dotted with bushes. The sun was slowly coming to the end of its journey, the sky beginning to pinken. They carefully planned out where to set up camp, and stumbled along with their meagre provisions.

Right Demonsul, you've to decide where to camp unfortunately. I suppose I better start on some maps. Everyone can make plans as to what to do in future days.(You've got enough food to last 3 more days, and you can make camp from various things around the camp. I suggest Electric studies some of those foodstuffs and birds and such. For scholars, beastmasters and the like, I don't want you to make up incredible creatures or potions or such straight away.)

Demonsul stared across the new land. It was more perfect than he could have thought. A brand new world, a clean slate. A chance to start over.

[[I will just start, it seems a good time to...]]

After spending a little time surveying the land on foot, Demonsul decided the location for the start of the village. He found an open space, along the coast from the landing site. It was mostly clear of trees, and looked inviting. The first zone was only narrow in any case, the second zone was only as far away as the sea. The cliffs were not here, the land reached the sea as a rolling beach.
"We will start here," he declared, and thus was the village location chosen. Only time would tell if it would be successful.

Before long, the ship had sailed up to the beach, and landed properly. The remainder of the village came out, staggering after being at sea so long. The animals could also finally come onto the shore.
Once the laborers had started work on the first meager houses ("Only until something better is available," assured the new head laborer),  Demonsul began planning what to do with this new world. First order of business was food. Demonsul ordered the beastmasters and some of the scholars into the second zone looking for as many food sources and other useful plants as possible. The remaining scholars and the farmers would remain in the first zone, looking for a place to plant the seeds that they had brought, and finding new edible plants.

I'm going to explain the classes in the The Village: Information topic.

These are the new classes. If anyone wants to change to Beastmaster or take it on as an extra job, please tell me. Otherwise it'll just be a NPC.

1 Septim - War chief, Captain of the Guard (Commands infantry, guards and other military captains ie Wilberforce and Hirgon, Controls 90 infantry and 40 guards)
2 Wilberforce - Head rider(Captain of Cavalry controls 50 people on horses)
3 Hirgon - Hawk eye (Commander of the archer division, Controls 40 archers)
4 Demonsul - Captain of the Vessel 'Our lady', Organizer of the colony. (The boss, commands all 1,000)
5 Wraith - Head mage(Controls 5 mages)
6 Electric - Scholar/Farmer (Controls 15 scholars, 180 farmers)
7 Rhade - Labourer/Blacksmith - (Controls 350 labourers, 80 blacksmiths)
8 ? - Beastmaster (Controls 50 beastmasters)

Stats (sorry, just to keep some sort of idea of what's going on)
Population - 1,000(exc. leaders)
Housing - Crude huts
Food - Enough for 5 days(changed my mind), not making any as of yet(sorry Demonsul, I need the farmer to make the guys go out looking for food).
Healthy - The population is healthy.
Employment - 100 unemployed(your job to give the jobs out Demonsul), 90 infantry, 40 guards, 50 cavalry, 40 archers, 5 mages, 15 scholars, 180 farmers, 350 labourers, 80 blacksmiths, 50 beastmasters.
Animals - 50 horses(cavalry)



With the dawn of a new day, the people began to worry about their food supplies. They would dwindle in but a while. But they were awestruck by the beauty of the new world they had discovered, and soon such morbid thoughts of starving disappeared. They gaped open-mouthed at the creatures of the new world they had so f*beep*en, even though they were not all that dissimiliar to ones on the mainland. The florg had disappeared, and Killer had went to look for it the night before, but mostly with the purpose to look at the new creatures of the world, but had not returned. He was nowhere to be seen. Only the beastmasters were down-hearted, the rest had not noticed he was even there. Arrangements were to be made, and there was no time to search for him.

Stats (sorry, just to keep some sort of idea of what's going on)
Population - 1,010(1% per day)
Housing - Crude huts
Food - Enough for 4 days, not making any as of yet.
Health - The population is healthy. They're a bit fed up with the crude huts though.
Employment - 60 unemployed, 90 infantry, 40 guards, 50 cavalry, 40 archers, 5 mages, 15 scholars, 230 farmers, 350 labourers, 80 blacksmiths, 50 beastmasters.
Animals - 50 horses(cavalry)

[The milatary commanders have to catch the animals now. There is a rabbit sort of a creature to catch, but it is fast and shy. You might build traps to catch them. Also, it is Hirgon's job to scout about the place.]

With Killer gone, a young beastmaster by the name of Lanoc stepped into the role. He sat observing the birds cheerfully chirping as they swooped down on unfortunate worms. He took out his a blank log, and began scribbling at a furious pace, in a steady sloping hand.

       The birds here seem to be much the same as on the mainland, but they have shorter and more curved beaks than their counterparts, perhaps as a result of having to catch slightly bigger worms and insects. As of yet, there has been no more discoveries of new animals, much to our misfortune. I also fear that we shall not get a good food supply from these small creatures, unless the people are truly starved. I feel, however, that the scholars and farmers will soon come to an arrangement. There seems to be a plentiful supply of berries, and the birds dine on these and seem fit and healthy, though this may be due to the fact that they could have been here for a great many years. Though I did notice the faint scurrying in the bushes, of a fair sized creature, perhaps akin to a rabbit or such. I feel this matter needs investigating.

[2 days worth. It is a big population after all]
Lanoc looked on with sadness as the rabbit-like creatures were brought in in their scores. He realised, of course, that they had to eat, and they had lived a long and fruitful life. A few live ones were struggling, and Lanoc decided it would be best to keep the few struggling animals alive, all six of them. He was amazed at the amount of them, they must be plentiful in the extreme. He put the live ones into a crude wooden construction, and ordered the beastmasters to regularly feed them to see what they ate, and wondered how they would fare.

[[OOC: 40 Archers, eh?  I'm just going to use 20 for now if that's alright, because I would rather have more effective individuals than greater numbers - it makes more sense for my role.  The rest I'll pick up later, if necessary.]]

 Hirgon ordered his archers to scout about, splitting them into seven groups of three, one of which he would join.  They had orders not to go to far into dangerous land, at least for now...

Stats
Population - 1,020(1% per day)
Housing - Crude huts
Food - Enough for 6 days, not making any as of yet.
Health - The population is healthy. They're even more bit fed up with the crude huts though, with nothing being done.
Employment - 70 unemployed, 90 infantry, 40 guards, 50 cavalry, 40 archers, 5 mages, 15 scholars, 230 farmers, 350 labourers, 80 blacksmiths, 50 beastmasters.
Animals - 50 horses(cavalry), 18 leppits(the rabbit-like creatures, 13 baby ones)


Hirgon and his archers travelled fairly far, just coming to an area where the bushes grow thicker(level 2). They saw nothing much of interest, except some tall trees, fruit dangling off some. A few creatures, dog-sized(a medium sized dog) meadered lazily through the bushes, picking their way carefully to avoid spiky shells of nuts which had fallen to the ground. A few could be seen with some leppits in their mouths. (you can go on further if you want)

Lanoc observed the leppits inside the box-like construction. One of the six was pregnant, and a staggering seventeen of them were born, fairly small creatures. Unfortunately, four soon died, unable to compete with the others. In the new day, he had noticed that the baby ones had grown observably, and one of the older ones had died. From this, he deduced they had a short life-span, but could not be completely sure.

Wilber approaches Septim, whom had returned to his hut. "I know we haven't seen eye to eye, but I promise you on my honour that I will bring back the head of whatever you desire. Deserter, murderer or any creature that threatens our new civilization."

[[After all, we haven't spotted any enemies yet, right?]]

"I see there are some animals, cow sized roaming the muddy and viney area. I'd suggest we chop down the forests, slowly and lure these creatures out with bait. We can then use the cavalry to russtle these creatures to where we can slaughter them easily and use the meat to eat, the hide for clothing and whatever we need."

Ranraac looked up as the man limped in. He was fairly old but Ranraac recognised him from the ship. He discussed important matters a lot and seemed important, but his name eluded Wraith. Wraith motioned for the man to walk over to him. He looked at the wound and asked simply ''How did you get this?'' while Wraith looked around the hut.

It was simple and crude, but good enough for them. Wraith wasn't used to living in luxury anyway. Fali Gorha, Dirki Lon and Fellhand Stori were playing some kind of betting game on an overturned tree stump and the other two were practising their spells.

Ranraac examined the wound closer and whistled for Rimadan and Fali to come over. Rimadan and Joakim were two fairly new mages, however both were brilliant minds and Ranraac wanted them to develop their skills quickly. ''So, you two think you can fix this? And Fali, teach Rimadan what to do and oversee that he performs it correctly.''*

{{For future reference, this is how they are specialised ;p
Fali Gorha - Healing
Rimadan Mahakeem - Healing
Dirki Lon - Necromancy
Fellhand Stori - Fire
Joakim Menol - Mind

Also, sorry if you mentioned how you got that wound before... Can't be *beep*d to look it up :P}}

[[OOC: I didn't, I mentioned my eye being sliced. :-P]]

"I didn't say that you were hot-headed, I said to keep the men under control. If somebody doesn't obey your orders, demote them, do something that will make them fear and respect you," said Valan, "I wasn't insulting you personally..."
Septim then turned to face the mages.
"It was durinig the war with Undelin. I was charging forward at the head of my unit to break the line when I was knocked off by a pikeman. After getting up I drew my blade and began fighting, ordering my men to form a circle. I was shot in the leg by an arrow not long after. It hurt like hell, but I blocked a few blows before grabbing it and ripping the arrow out. That was probably the most pain I've ever felt, passed out from the pain and woke up in the infirmary. Cidel didn't have many mages, and those we did have were used to fight, not to heal. After that I never really felt pain again..." said Valan.

"I can handle it for a week, I've handled it for a few years now, just glad to get it healed so I can be useful off a horse again.", whispered Septim. 
"The name's Valan Septim, by the way," said Septim before getting up, shaking the hands of all the mages present, nodding, and walking out the door.

[[Insert this before Electric's post.  ;-)]]

"Dale, return to the village and guide the Head of Farmers to this area.  The fruit is edible, and the labourers could possibly clear some of the trees for farm land."  The "strange man" returns to the settlement to tell Electric.

Hirgon reorganizes the archers into five groups of four.  "Alright men.  We're going to continue onward, and explore this new territory.  Be sure you've got three days rations for each man, just in case.  This is a woodsman's task, so the groups will be led by Will, Alan, Donovan, Artemis, and myself.  We will explore in five different directions; continue onward for a half a day, and then return to this spot before sundown.  Sometime we'll get around to going deeper into the territory, but for now, we'll best serve the colony by staying close."

[[OOC: Would it be possible to map the territory as it is explored?  If there are no maps being drawn yet, that's fine, but it would be nice to get a general idea of what progress has been made, and make it easier to roleplay, as well as plan where to go next.]]

[[ If you need anyone to fill a deserted position, or need someone to control a neighboring tribe, im lonely ;p]]

[I tried to make a map from Salaracen's one, but it didn't... work... The result was messy, to say the least. So, I shall have to make another map, sorry.]

"Whatyasfadaba!?" Demonsul leapt from his bed. "Oh god, what a nightmare," he said, "it was as if I wasn't even there."

After a while, Demonsul returned to is duty as leader. A new beastmaster had taken over (nothing new there) and more things were being constructed. Demonsul assigned the leftover population to builders o help with the new cabins.

Septim soon approached Demonsul with a solution.
"Back in Cidel, we used this stuff called concrete for our buildings and pillars. It was strong, really strong. I suggest that we use concrete foundations on our food warehouses. That'll prevent 'em from coming up through there..." said Septim.
The mages had done a decent job so far on his leg, and the limp was a lot better. He was able to move faster, and his leg was a little more flexible.

[[OOC: Yeah, because everybody carries the formula for concrete in their pocket. XD]]