Squirrel Sect [Stone age] [Riot Quest] [Squirrels Cultivating]

You did not die, and the spider made it's offer.
Yeeeeessssss. But that can be said for the whole team. Did it ignore me completely? Did it roll it's many eyes and complain about another lunatic infatuated with itself? Did I amuse it with being the only one armed with a gift and a confession instead of weapons enough to make that offer in the first place? How'd it take the bug and flower bouquet? Is there anything about my body it seemed to study more? I need details so my little furry guy knows how to alter his approach! Does he have a shot at all?!
 
Yeeeeessssss. But that can be said for the whole team. Did it ignore me completely? Did it roll it's many eyes and complain about another lunatic infatuated with itself? Did I amuse it with being the only one armed with a gift and a confession instead of weapons enough to make that offer in the first place? How'd it take the bug and flower bouquet? Is there anything about my body it seemed to study more? I need details so my little furry guy knows how to alter his approach! Does he have a shot at all?!

The amount of money it takes to make me write squirrel on Spider romance is not a lot but it's more than this quest is going to make.
 
Congratulations, @Zedalb . You refused to give a flat 'no' and now you've turned it into a bidding war. :V

Oh, I know! Give an extremely high amount and see if they match it. If they can't, you won't have to actually write it. If they do and actually pay up, you'll manage to score a major payday out of this nonsense!
 
In theory, someone could look into that 'deep burrows' thing and see if we might have a way to get more protective shelter that doesn't require wood.
There's a lot of small experimental stuff we can do to try and find alternate or superior paths to defending ourselves. Another would be looking for small holes or branches that are tangled closer together in the trees.

These are experiments though, so we need people mostly piling on getting the known solution done. A few of us are currently experimenting with combat and your experimenting with you're Dao. We'll have to see what this all amounts to.

Someone searching for natural shelter though might be nice. I suspect it will be a stop gap though.
 
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I'd be willing to write ~10k words establishing the spider as a character, if that helps any.
Please do!

[X]Gather bugs for the Spider (0/100)
Adhoc vote count started by Doccer on Mar 9, 2024 at 1:38 AM, finished with 197 posts and 66 votes.
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    [X] Wood Spear Costs 5 Wood: Improves combat ability. (Every 4 progress makes on spear)
    [X] Awaken Other Squirrels (Costs 1 Qi Acorn every 5 progress awakens 1 additional squirrel)
    [X] Wood Mastery 1 [71/100]
    [X] Gather Qi Acorns
    [X]Clean out the disgusting Black impurities [0/50]
    [X]Gather wood
    [X] Awaken Squirrels
    [X] Cultivate
    [X]Guard from the owls (Very Dangerous)
    [X]Gather from the fallen long (Double Wood gain for the first 2 action to use it)
    [X] Take up a Torch: (Dangerous but at least one flame must reach the sect or the expedition will fail)
    [X] Stone Structures [16/50]
    [X] Trap Mastery 1
    [x] Cordage Mastery 2 [122/200]
    [X]Gather Food
    -[X]Guard from the owls (Very Dangerous)
    [X] Cultivate: (Cost 1 Qi Acorn and requires an omake. Omake still grants reroll.)
    [X] Cultivate upon the energy in the area. (Insanely Dangerous but great potential rewards) (For if you have a Dao already)
    [X] Train Archery
    [X] Gather Qi
    [X] Militia organization
    [X] Use Dao of Awareness to keep alert for the Owl's approach so the Squirrels can be alerted of and be prepared for their approach.
    [X] make Squirrel Fu
    [X] Mushroom farm Burrow: [23/50] (Cost 10 wood, and 10 food)
    [X] Build Mushroom Farm
    [X]Gather Leaves
    [X]Gather bugs for the Spider (0/100)
    [X] Ghosts and Faith [65/X?] (Progress can only be made on turns in which squirrels die.
    [X] Ghosts and Faith
    [X]GUARD LORD: Gain a Trait "Guard Lord"
    [X] Clean Impurities
    [X] Poison Pouch: Cost 1 Poison and 1 Cloth: Every 1 progress makes one.
    [X] Armor Mastery 1 [0/50]
    [X] Cultivate upon the Lightning energy in the area. (Insanely Dangerous but great potential rewards)
    [X] Cultivate upon the Fire energy in the area. (Insanely Dangerous but great potential rewards)
    [X] Try to protect the torch bearers and feed the torch as need (Help get the flame back alive)
    [X] Stone Mastery 1 [27/100]
    [X] DISCOVERED TREASURE: Choose between a communal treasure that will help the tribe or a stronger treasure that will help only one squirrel.
    [X] Try to protect the torch bearers and feed the torch as need (Help get the flame back alive) x2
    [X] Name: Darx
    [X]Gather Poison Arrows
Doccer threw 1 10-faced dice. Total: 8
8 8
 
[X] Wood Spear Costs 5 Wood: Improves combat ability. (Every 4 progress makes on spear)

This squirrel had finally gathered enough qi, and thus intellect and will, to benefit the collective. It awoke to a massacre. Over a dozen squirrels dead, a sizable portion of the collective, and four of them being the strongest squirrels, the cultivators. And another attack will occur tonight.

The squirrel would love to research, to create knowledge that will benefit the collective forevermore as it is built off of and improved. But that requires that there still be a collective. Research often does not have immediate benefits, as learning about spears does not mean one can benefit from it them first being made.

The collective must survive, and the collective is under threat. Something must be done to relieve the situation. And thus, the squirrel steeled himself as he started making spears.

Edit: Wait, there was a wood shortage? Well, we sure made a lot of spears.

The squirrel soon learned the value of consulting the collective, even awakening this late into the day. It grabbed some wood and made quite a few good spears, only to realize how little wood was left, as several of the collective had a similar idea, working together to attempt to outfit every squirrel with a spear.
KSn5Ynoh threw 2 10-faced dice. Reason: Spears Total: 15
7 7 8 8
 
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