Outpost Builder

[WhirdCheese]

Your caravan has stopped. You set out four weeks ago and have eaten most of the food that the King gave you. Along with 39 peasants, coming with to avoid debts or for personal gain, and 10 of the Kings private soldiers. The forest surrounds you except to the south and southwest where plains roll. As you have traveled most of the peasants have been avoiding the 4 of you while the soldiers have been staying in the wagon provided for them. Stores are running low and all you have for shelter is some wagons. Close examination of the area shows a large number of footprints, though no one here recognizes what types of creatures they are from. As people begin to unload you realize that they are all looking to you for guidance. With hope you'll be able to build up your defenses before whatever these tracks came from return, but without a consolidated effort from all of you civic leaders things will go south fairly quickly.

Map

Stores

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40 Food
10 Wood
5 Stone
0 Iron

Followers

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Gradius 9 Commoners
Hadrian 10 Commoners
Brenard 10 Commoners
Frank 9 Commoners

Requests of City Members

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A Barracks - Guardsmen

Known Constructions

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Wagon - 5 Wood Can move 5 spaces per turn Provides poor cover for 5
Hut - 3 Wood Provides Adequate cover for 8
Barracks - 10 Wood Provides Adequate cover for 20 only usable by soldiers
Wood Wall - 3 Wood Creates 10' section of wall.

[I'mBob]

Brenard gathers his followers.
"I need 4 people who are strong enough to gather wood, 3 more who can construct and 3 for farming or gathering food somehow."

He commands his building squad to build 2 huts with the wood from the stores/they new chopped wood.
The wood gathering squad will gather wood in the forest, and the food gathering squad will search for source of food like bushes and trees. He commands his followers to call him if anything special happens.

He then talks to the 3 leaders that are with him. "I sent some of my followers to gather wood and some to construct huts and some more to gather food. I suggest you should send yours to mining and more food as we wont survive long without it. "

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What tools do our town have? Can they chop wood and make farms?
Also, this is a co-op game from what I understand, we are all on the same place and we need to work together, right? Or am I wrong?

[Theis2]

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Brenard gathers his followers.
"I need 4 people who are strong enough to gather wood, 3 more who can construct and 3 for farming or gathering food somehow."

He commands his building squad to build 2 huts with the wood from the stores/they new chopped wood.
The wood gathering squad will gather wood in the forest, and the food gathering squad will search for source of food like bushes and trees. He commands his followers to call him if anything special happens.

He then talks to the 3 leaders that are with him. "I sent some of my followers to gather wood and some to construct huts and some more to gather food. I suggest you should send yours to mining and more food as we wont survive long without it. "

What tools do our town have? Can they chop wood and make farms?
Also, this is a co-op game from what I understand, we are all on the same place and we need to work together, right? Or am I wrong?

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You should leave the constructing to me primarely, since I should have the tools and the skills for it

Frank glances around him before looking at the others. Shall we begin construction here or push a bit further?

Frank glances at the ressources available (how many wagons do we have already? And are they big enough for 5 people to sleep in?) We need a lot more wood before we an house everyone, so someone should gather some more if we intend to stay.
He waits for the other to chime in with the idea of staying, and if it is agreed upon he will start instructing people on how to construct the huts most efficiently and help with it himself.

[CroverusRaven]

Gradius feels that the most important thing is to have the soldiers housed and training. "Alright folks, lets get five of you on building a Barracks for the soldiers. They can best train us from any early monster attacks. Two of you start gathering more wood and two of you look for food."

He turns to the other leaders. "We should set up here. If we push further we will waste resources."

[ttwig]

Hadrian will assign 5 commoners to scouting the area and 5 towards either gathering wood or stone if a source of stone is found. Hadrian himself will work on developing techniques to build with stone.

[WhirdCheese]

Nothing goes wrong as the your followers spread out and begin to gather or build. The soldiers take up defensive positions though two of them go north. A large haul of food and wood is brought in to maintain the outpost as Hadrian's followers bring in a trifling of stone. A quick count shows 36 commoners. Another brings the same result. A search is formed for the missing two and after a half days search they are found attempting to return to camp while one of them is hobbling one one foot, the other missing due to a "freak woodcutting accident". Apparently they went to a nearby Forest and one wasn't paying attention as they brought a tree down. The leaders manage to recall how to build a wall out of stone. It's slightly more sturdy than a wooden wall, but still requires some wood for a framework.

Also a Commoner leads a tiny mutiny and takes the loyalty of two commoners from each of you and implants himself in the leaders circle.

Map

Stores

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7 Food
6 Wood
10 Stone
0 Iron

Followers

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Gradius 7 Commoners 1 injured
Hadrian 8 Commoners
Brenard 8 Commoners
Frank 7 Commoners
Elendithas 7 Commoners

Requests of City Members

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Known Constructions

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Wagon - 5 Wood Can move 5 spaces per turn Provides poor cover for 5
Hut - 3 Wood Provides Adequate cover for 8
Barracks - 10 Wood Provides Adequate cover for 20 only usable by soldiers
Wood Wall - 3 Wood Creates 10' section of wall.
Stone Wall - 3 stone 1Wood Creates 10' section of wall

[Nerre]

Arthurus arrives with his group, who were busy hunting some prey last night on their way to the new outpost. This is why they arrived so late. They start providing as much food to the others as they can afford to share without starving themselves. Since they didn't sleep last night , they start building a hut (as many as requiered, the rest will gather food). They also take one unit of stone to build a stone chimney, so they can make a fire inside the hut without risking to burn it down.
If they got enough time, they will build a second hut. 8 man building, with Arthurus helping and supervising them so they hopefully won't hurt themselves.

[I'mBob]

"We are going to need much more food." Brenard sends 5 of his man to food gathering, and the other 3 to wood collecting.


"The others should build things and gather more stuff. I think we should start making walls here and there, we can't know what lurks in this place..."

[Theis2]

Gradius we have limited resources and while I appreciate the thought of having a barrack for the soldiers I would rather use what wood we do have to house everyone.
It doesn't matter if we have well trained warriors if we can't protect us from the weather or what else mother nature decides to throw at us.

Frank then continues to gather whoever feel like listening to him for the moment and starts to speak.
"I guess many of you have noticed how our supply of food has been dwindling fast. The current building projects won't matter if we starve to death so I want you to drop them for now and search the area for food. Once we have gathered enough food to last for some time, then we can devote our time for other projects. But for now, we need food. So grab your equipment for hunting and foraging and get out there and stay sharp.
Oh, if you find something you suspect are edible but aren't certain, avoid touching it directly and keep it apart from what we know is edible.

With these words he dismisses the people and continue ┬┤what he does best, and keep working on the housing. (The goal is for every commoner to have a place to sleep, then a barrack for the warriors)

[Alavar]

Is there room for another player?
If yes, then Elendithas and his followers start hunting (and, if there is water nerby - fishing) (5) and start a vegetable garden (2)

[BadgeAddict]

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Is there room for another player?
If yes, then Elendithas and his followers start hunting (and, if there is water nerby - fishing) (5) and start a vegetable garden (2)

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Check out the recruitment thread, cheese closed this game after a fifth person joined.

[Nolandking]

Is there room for another player?
If yes, then Elendithas and his followers start hunting (and, if there is water nerby - fishing) (5) and start a vegetable garden (2)

You just hijack my character that i created. I dont appreciate that

Elendithas nod his head in argeement to Frank.

"Yes we should focus on feeding and housing the people before we build Barracks. The flock need to have roof over their head and food in their mouth or they will catch disease."

Elendithas speak to his faithful flock.

"Children of Pelor (Dont know what god they whorship but i decide to go with 4e dnd god) the amount food that Pelor bless us with is dwindling and we need to seach for food so that we can survive to worship him for lending us here to live."

After telling his follower to search for food Elendithas go with them to help and watch over his faithful flock.

(7 follower gathering food)

[CroverusRaven]

"I'd much rather have the soldiers' allegiance and cooperation as much as possible. My men will continue constructing the barracks as I ordered them. The injured man will rest in one of the wagons for now. The remaining two will join in hunting for food."

Gradius then proceeds to meet with each of the soldiers one at a time, learning what each of them has been trained in as far as weapons and armour, and any techniques they know. If any of them have unused training he gathers them, determines if they are strong enough and starts teaching them how to hit harder than usual at the sacrifice of a little accuracy. (Teaching them Power Attack if they have unspent Feats and Str 13 or higher.) He does basic combat drills with the other soldiers, scheduling a very specific routine of guard duty, practice, and rest.

(5 followers are building the barracks still, 2 are gathering food. The 1 injured man is resting)

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What exactly IS the map? Cause I have no idea what it is supposed to represent. And can we get a progress bar on how long it will be until different constructions are finished? I noticed the soldiers are no longer requesting the barracks now that I started building it. Also, do the soldiers give their allegiance to anyone?

[Nerre]

"Strange" says Arthurus to his hunters. Before we came and noticed that they nearly run out of food, nobody seemed to care. "Well, better to much than too little food." he says to the other commanders.

[ttwig]

Hadrian will send 4 commoners to gather food while he and the other four will look into finding new sources of food, more renewable or consistent sources of food, and any other useful plants using his skills in knowledge nature and knowledge local.

[Alavar]

Is there room for another player?
If yes, then Elendithas and his followers start hunting (and, if there is water nerby - fishing) (5) and start a vegetable garden (2)

You just hijack my character that i created. I dont appreciate that

Elendithas nod his head in argeement to Frank.

"Yes we should focus on feeding and housing the people before we build Barracks. The flock need to have roof over their head and food in their mouth or they will catch disease."

Elendithas speak to his faithful flock.

"Children of Pelor (Dont know what god they whorship but i decide to go with 4e dnd god) the amount food that Pelor bless us with is dwindling and we need to seach for food so that we can survive to worship him for lending us here to live."

After telling his follower to search for food Elendithas go with them to help and watch over his faithful flock.

(7 follower gathering food)

Sorry.

[Alavar]

Errrr... I hope that game didn't die becauso of my mistake?

[CroverusRaven]

I mean, I've given my followers their orders. I'm waiting to see what the GM says happens.

[Nerre]

Another game bites the dust? Come on, at least tell us what is on. PC defect? No internet? No time anymore?