Geeze, we're going to have to keep devoting actions to keeping a size 10 faction with incompatible ideas in line, and we still have the issue of feeding everyone and surviving the winter.
We may as well go hunt the beast; we need any action that will reduce the number of Snow People in our tribe without making them hostile towards us. Because we're one small crisis away from them usurping power.
I'm uh, not quite sure you read all of the update.
With peace brought back to the valley, the people on both sides must pick up the pieces as winter draws to a close. What should be done in the final moon before the snow is supposed to melt?
Available Actions: 2 (+ 1 action controlled by the White Clans)
Food Situation: Stable (Trapping)
Reserves: 3.5 Months
We currently have more than enough food reserves to last for the winter, and we will continue to have stable food supplies because we have the combined manpower of both of our tribes working towards keeping the food situation stable.
I'm also not sure where the idea of our tribes being incompatible comes from besides some sort of gut reaction. We both share an ideal (Perseverance) and we both have an ideal/fad that causes others to dislike us (cannibalism and ruthlessness respectively). More than anything these people seem to be a more developed version of our own tribe, both in weaponry and cultural presence.
And on the idea of them "usurping" us, the White Clans are actually the same mood as the Matrons, who are our second most powerful faction. All of our factions are actually in a pretty shitty mood, so it's not as though the White Clans also being pissed is really any sort of big deal.
Hunters
Size: 2 (Tiny)
Influence: 5 (Average)
Mood: 4 (Discontent)
Elders
Size: 1 (Tiny)
Influence: 3 (Low)
Mood: 1 (Mutinous)
Matrons
Size: 8 (Large)
Influence: 8 (High)
Mood: 3 (Discontent)
White Clans
Size: 10 (Huge)
Influence: 5 (Average)
Mood: 3 (Discontent)
I don't think it's a good idea to leave up monuments to our antagonism though.
Hmm, I can agree with that. Before attempting to create a common cause, we should be sure that our former grudges are at least starting to be buried.
I do think that attempting political reform is a bad idea right now though, since it will likely just create a compromise between our two systems that pisses everyone off.
To that end, these seem to be the best options for now:
[X] [Action] Clear the signs of war from the valley and gather the dead strewn through it.
[X] [Action] Share lore among the villagers and the clans. To know more about each others history might help to find common ground.
-[X] [Great Person] Snow-Fox
We already know that the White Clan feel strongly about their dead, so working together to bury our dead should at least show that we are not attempting to disrespect them and their beliefs, while also mollifying our own people who have lost family in the conflict.
Sharing lore should help the future issue of overcoming cultural hurdles, since we will know what the White Clan believe to be important issues and what we can get away with pressing them on. Currently our big issue is not governmental, it is with the factions and how they are all pissed off. If we can get them to be less pissed off, then it will be easier to encourage cooperation and the eventual merging of our tribes.
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