An Unknown Future

Word had come down from the Sky Stone Tribe, The Foxes were to assemble rafts for the coming times ahead, and so they faithfully set to work, trusting in the Stone Seers' guidance.

For some, the building of rafts was enough, that they felt this was following the guidance of the Sky Stone Tribe, but the vixen who also was in charge of bringing the wisdom of the great Stone Seers to The Foxes pointed out that the guidance offered was always with a purpose. If The Foxes were to create extra rafts, then surely they were meant to use them! It was an idea that sounded right to many and it came from a fox who spent her time consulting with the greatest of the Stone Seers, and so The Foxes took their newly assembled rafts of lashed together branches and set out to explore the edge of the great waters, where the land and ocean met.

Those who sailed away from The Mist, where the land was far too rocky to tread by foot for any reasonable length, found ever increasing cold winds, chaotic waters, and a complete lack of places to safely bring their rafts to the shore for repairs or rest. While the way was difficult and dangerous, it was this very difficulty that began attracting many foxes to hone their skills handling rafts in the most treacherous of waters, causing no end of grumbling from those stuck repairing the rafts back at camp.

The coast towards The Mist, however, turned up far more interesting results.

Shortly past the Great River, The Foxes found a huge bay that took over a day to travel around by paw, with calm waters that not only made navigating rafts through the area simple, but seemed to be greatly appreciated by the fish as they teamed throughout it. And just beyond that bay The Foxes were met with a very strange sight. Whereas away from The Mist, the winds grew colder and the lands higher, towards The Mist, the winds not only grew warmer, but the land lower.

There was what many foxes described as a forest in the ocean!

Though there was land in this strange forest, it was often just barely bellow where the water was, making a nigh unnavigable land mass and waterway where rafts threatened to be torn apart by some plant or debris hidden just beneath the water and traveling by paw was slow, difficult, and likely to lead to foxes getting lost. As such, much of the exploration that way also came to a halt.

While the exploration along the coast had come to a surprisingly brief stop, there was an excitement surrounding seeing where the guidance of the Sky Stone Tribe had led them, and where this would lead them in the future, with many foxes arguing about what they were supposed to do with these discoveries.

Some wished to push into the Ocean Forest. It would undoubtedly push the rafts durability to the breaking point, stopping them from easily being maintained and undoubtedly requiring future generations to rebuild them, but the fascination of what could lie in, or beyond, the forest was incredibly tempting.

Others argued that if they were going to damage the rafts beyond repair anyways, then they should do it training the kits in the Coldward Coast, so as to improve the practice of navigating rafts altogether.

A third group, mostly consisting of those who built the rafts and did not want to spend all their time desperately trying to repair them before they would finally be gone for good, suggested that they should move their camp to the bay, where the fishing would be easy.

Though to this, many pointed out that they would be not only much farther from the Sky Stone Tribe, but from where they were currently getting the rocks for making their tools. Perhaps if they built a camp at both locations, but that required more tools and time than they had at the moment.

In the end, The Foxes decided to...
[][Scout] Use the rafts to explore the Mistward Ocean Forest
[][Scout] Use the rafts to train their kits on the Coldward Wild Oceans
[][Scout] Migrate to the Fish filled bay
[][Scout] Migrate to the Stone Outcrop
[][Scout] Stay put, make tools

Hint: Authority is a stat that represents your ability to control your tribe and those under you.

QM/N: So, a couple of things on this update. First, no moratorium as it isn't generating the needed discussion. Second, updates for next week are going to be Monday-Wednesday-Friday. This second one is to allow players more time to discuss and to give me time to iron out any system problems that pop up and allow me to organize and streamline my update procedure to lessen the burden so that I can make updates more easily.

These are both subject to change, but should last a minimum of one week.