Unnixmatalized corn is lacking in niacin, so if they're relying on that as their primary food then their population will likely be suffering from the pellagra illness something fierce. This is why hominy came into popularity!
You have a powerful alkaline solution right now: limewater. This particular disease isn't likely to become a huge threat to the People. Currently, diets are based on wild rice (10% daily intake of nicine/100 grams), meat, and a mix of nuts and berries. By the time you
really start growing corn en-mass, you'll likely have figured out the trick to treat it with alkaline solutions first.
I like that Ordeal can be used by our own initiative, as opposed to what Trial By Fire would seem to imply.
I.e., the latter relies on a Fire to be trialed by.
Trial By Fire is called that purely because the name is thematically appropriate. It doesn't actually imply a sort of judicial trial by ordeal.
I here a yet in there. The question is, how would traders be seen as in our society at this point in time? In most classical and ancient cultures the merchant classes were eyed with disdain by both the nobility and the peasants as they simply made profits off of the fruits of others works. Would that be the same here?
Traders are mostly seen as people who go to new places and bring back cool stuff. If anything, the People in general are envious of them. Wondrous World means that getting to explore or travel is a huge plus and something everyone would like to do.
Considering all of the troubles the South seems to be giving us, I really want to oust them from the Hundred Isles and built a freaking wall or something from all of that clay. Does Arrow Lake know how to use the clay on their territory?
Nope. You are the first faction to figure out how to make proper fired bricks. Arrow Lake makes use of wattle-and-dab construction to some extent, but they don't really take advantage of the properties of clay.
So this is confirmation that we are indeed in North America. The Sugar Maple tree range is confined to North America, the corn just further confirms it as before the Columbian Exchange, corn was unknown to the old world.
This is does present an interesting question. If you are in Not!North America, how are you going to survive the Not!Old World's diseases and subsequent colonization?
I'm assuming this means that every year ordeals will now be undergone regularly?
What does that mean if our values fuse like in the above vote?
Yes, ordeals will become more regular.
Trial by Fire doesn't meaningfully change Undergo Ordeal as an action, other than by making it more powerful. It doesn't really exacerbate its weakness (that being it costs extra Stability when you lose some).
I wonder though, have we gained any new technologies to build this hill/mound? Such as tamped earth or full stonemasons?
Most of the technologies you'll get is administrative.
Interesting to see that the Peace Seekers and Barrow Builders still appear to be distinct groups rather than one absorbing the other.
@Redium Is vassalage a thing yet?
Vassalage is not quite yet a thing. You need to develop more Hierarchy before that becomes possible.
The fact that they are hunting this far from their territory though is suspicious though.
It's not that far. From the Peace Seeker's camp, it would be like 2-3 days travel.
Quick question though,
@Redium will completing the project also lead to a settlement being formed automatically on the hill or will that have to be a separate action?
Yes. (It will found a settlement.)
I remember there being a map for this story, but I can't find it anymore to see where the Megaproject could potentially be? Did it get accidentally removed, or was it removed for editing purposes?
The map is on Post #2. It will be edited fairly significantly, however. I'm going to have to redraw it since you guys have expanded quite a bit more east than I thought you would.
@Redium Is there any conscious effort we can do to shore up and build up our stability in terms of actions?
Generally? Annual Festival, high likelihood of +1 Stability. Undergo Ordeal is also a good bet (if risky). Flat Arrow Philosophy should give you some 'apply jackboots' options to increase Stability, but that's likely to cause problems with Legitimacy. Legitimacy tends to be your limiting factor. The only way to currently raise it is to get lucky with consecutive good climate rolls. You need to invest in more culture (Annual Festival) to develop the tools to boost Legitimacy.
We also want to remember that it's been explicitly stated that attacking anyone that we've traded with is a really really bad idea unless we have a really good reason for it, or else we're going to develop a reputation as double-dealing backstabbing jerks and basically ruin what pathetic diplomatic stand we have as is.
There's a sliding scale. If you
just trade with someone and then attack them, it will cause problems. If you've traded for someone for 10 turns and then attack them, it won't be quite as bad. Best to break off trade relations first, or have a good Casus Belli, then.
@Everyone, do people know how to input a table into SV? I want to put on a trade table since you are a major trade civilization but I haven't figured out how to do that. I'm not sure about an update tonight. I'm not really feeling the flow and the map is going to take a tedious re-write. It's way too crammed right now.
