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The world was changing and the People were unsure of what to do. The monsters were gone for now...
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    The world was changing and the People were unsure of what to do. The monsters were gone for now, but who knew when they would return? The old lands may be safe for not, but the villages were in ruin and nobody knew how long the safety would last.

    The old stories claimed that there were times of safety, but the People had only known danger their whole lives. With a brief respite, many of their neighbour felt that maybe finding new lands might be in order to find somewhere permanently safer might be best.

    To discuss this, the majority of the People have gathered in the middle of their village to discuss the future of the People.

    "This is our home and it has been our home forever!" shouts one man, "You would suggest that we just abandon it?"

    "Yes!" exclaims the young hunter, "Everyone knows that the least monsters come from across the ocean so it means sense that the lands across the ocean have the least monsters. And if they have the least monsters, then those lands will be the safest place for us."

    The first man snorts and opens his mouth to berate the hunter further, but a woman with the wrinkles and silver hair of an elder interrupts him, waving a bone in the air to get everyone's attention.

    "The seas are dangerous and while I do not doubt that there is land on the other side of it, I question how safe the journey would be," says the elderly woman, "If we are to move, it would be safe to move along the coast."

    "Surely you don't suggest we head towards the monsters are!" yells an expectant mother, interrupting the elder.

    At the interruption, the People break out into various discussion and bickering. It takes a few minutes before the elderly woman is able to regain control the conversation.

    "I do not dare suggest we head towards the sunset," says the elder, "No, I purpose that we head towards the sunrise. That way has the least number of monsters apart from across the ocean and I remain unconvinced that the reason that we get the fewest monsters from that way is because those lands have the least amount of monsters and not because few monsters are able or willingly to cross the ocean."

    "But this is our home!" shouts the first man, looking angry at all the talk of moving, "We have lived here for all of time and you all suggest that we just throw it away because the monsters haven't attacked for half a generation? Blah. This is madness. How do you know that moving elsewhere won't lead you to your deaths?"

    "How do you know that staying here won't lead to our early deaths?" retorts a young farmer as she steps forward, "I lost both of my parents to monster attacks living here. If moving somewhere else makes so that I don't lose more family to accursed monsters, then I support such an action."

    "He has the right of it you know," says another man, just beginning to get the grey hairs of an elder, "We have lived it forever and who knows what will happen if we move somewhere else. Maybe across the ocean or past the mountains in the sunrise have less monsters, but who knows what waits there? We have homes and farms here and we know that we can survive it. Who knows how much harder it could be to survive in other places?"

    "No one is suggesting that we head towards the forest or up the river or to the mountains in the sunset," says a middle-aged hunter as he leans against his spear as he sticks the shaft into the ground, "I have been across the ocean and I have stepped foot on the lands on the other side many times. We can survive there and it has less monsters than here. Surely the safety of having an ocean between us and the majority of the monsters is worth the risk we will be taking?"

    "I remain unsure," replies the greying man.

    "It seems to be me that we have three options," says the elderly woman before anyone else can speak up, "One, we stay here. Two, we go across the ocean on the hope it will have the least amount of monsters. Three, we head towards the sunrise and pass the mountains, hoping that beyond the mountains will have less monsters."

    There is grumbling and muttering from everyone else at her words, but no one contests that those are the options that lie before the People.

    What do the People decide to do?
    [] Stay in the old lands and rebuild your homes. (River mouth, existing settlement and farmland, ???)
    [] Move to the lands on the other side of the ocean. (???)
    [] Move along the coast until they stop in a forest pass the mountains. (???)
    [] Move along the coast until they stop in grasslands beyond the mountains. (???)

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    Okay, this is a new civ quest where I am using my civ quest rule set for the game mechanics (Oshha's Civ Quest Rules 2.9). It will be in rebooted version of the setting from Chronicles of Nations, but it will have a different map and set in a different region. A rebooted version of the Arthwyd and the old region will exist, but it will be slightly different to the changes in the setting. The region will progress in accord to the canon events of CoN until the formation of the Caermyr Union provided you don't butterfly away the canon events of that region (you will start in a different region).

    The first few choices will be choosing the background of your civ as I intend to skip through most of the stone age until you are close to getting metal. This current vote is solely for your starting location as it will determine where your first settlement will be and what sort of special resource or other bonus that you will find in your initial province.

    Please point out any spelling or grammar mistakes that you spot. Please quote them in the thread and explain what you think is wrong so I know what you are referring to. Feel to ask questions for more details and information.
     
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    [X] Move along the coast until they stop in a forest pass the mountains. (???)

    Wood for boats and exploration.
     
    [X] Move to the lands on the other side of the ocean. (???)

    Get that seafaring tradition, good for coastal trading.
     
    [X] Move along the coast until they stop in a forest pass the mountains. (???)
    A forest sounds interesting.

    Also @Oshha for clarity is it supposed to be a forest past the mountains or a forested pass in the mountains?
     
    [X] Stay in the old lands and rebuild your homes. (River mouth, existing settlement and farmland, ???)
     
    [X] Move along the coast until they stop in a forest pass the mountains. (???)
     
    [X] Move along the coast until they stop in a forest pass the mountains. (???)

    As fun as it might be to try and be stubborn and fight off the monsters, this seems like the most interesting.
    Forest means a lot of trees and big animals while not so much farmland.

    I'm hoping for a lot of forest based food management and animal domestication from this.

    Plus, everyone knows that forests have all the cool magical creatures (like dryads and ents :p)
     
    [X] Move to the lands on the other side of the ocean. (???)
    Adhoc vote count started by Raptor580 on May 12, 2019 at 12:29 AM, finished with 17 posts and 11 votes.
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    [X] Move along the coast until they stop in a forest pass the mountains. (???)

    get boats or go into the mountains…the mountains are good, and so its boating...
     
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