Wait, we could make monster bone bullets? Would those work as bullets?
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Try to survive the Winter: A planquest in Fantasy Colonial America
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The big one tend to have bone less like biological tissues and more like metal.
You mostly need to find how to carve the things.
This is one of the way the Awakes had monster killing weaponery with stone age tech.
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Lurking_Badger
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I'm picturing us, in a moment of desperation, shoving a bunch of uncarved bones into our cannons and firing them. It would act like a bunch of bar shot to shred anything in front of it.
I think the term for that sort of thing (stuffing a cannon full of whatever for anti-personnel purposes) is actually grapeshot. Bar shot was a type of ammo specifically designed to damage a ship's sails and rigging.
That sounds like job for a forge and blacksmith.
Though I got to say, carving monster parts for bullets sounds very like monster hunter to me.
Lurking_Badger
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The shot type of a cannon is denoted by size, shape, and mechanics. I was picturing the use of long bones, like femurs, in the cannon which are shaped more like typical bar shot. The use of short bones, like in hands and feet, is what I would consider grape shot or canister shot. There isn't really a name for shoving anything into a cannon in order to shoot it (maybe Beggar's Shot.)
Anyway, being able to take out the equivalent of a tree trunk would be good for the monsters we are facing.
The easiest would be the "Make blackpowder with alternate ingredients" one as I think we already have Razorweeds, and that can help us get the monster bones for better bullets. Of course we will still need to build the forge/blacksmith, but that is going to be useful regardless as we are in need of the ability to make/repair our metal tools.
I mean, Incas have a whole thing with mummies of their rulers still having a life beyond death, including social visits.
Further south you have the Mapuches where an evil giant sea snake battles a good giant earth snake and that makes Earthquakes.
Idk what is happening in the Amazon, but it's probably whacky as all hell.
Pampa and Patagonia... should be mostly fine? There was not a super established religion given how christianity utterly obliterated it, so it's probably just your regular nature spirits.
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Wouldn't that make things much worse? The "nature spirits" close to our home aren't exactly friendly. On the other hand they're much more to the South, so there's probably no Winter there.
... You do remember that hemispheres are a thing, right?
It's currently winter down here in south america.
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K von Carstein
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Quick google search
I didn't know Patagonia was that far South 😅 I heard "South America", and thought it was much closer to the Equateur.
Lurking_Badger
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I was rereading the update and I found this line to be very interesting both in quest and in real life.
If you don't compulsively research stuff like me and only have knowledge from high school (in North America), then you might think that the first people in America came over between 13,000-14,000 years ago crossing the Bering Land Bridge. However, more recent evidence and analysis has pushed that date farther back.
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter has shown that there was continues settlement all the way back to 19,000 years ago. The White Sands footprints, while some controversial on exact dates, show human habitation of New Mexico 21,000-23,000 years ago. This would mean that humans were in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, the time when the ice sheets were at their largest. (I'd talk about the Cerutti Mastodon site, but that is currently being bitterly debated.)
This would have been a hard and grueling journey in our world; in the world of the quest it would be worse. Whoever the First Walker was, he would have fought Winter at its very strongest on miles and miles of ice. Just surviving that would be godlike, but he also established a lasting community of people. I'm sure this Little Ice Age is like a walk in spring for him.
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It may also be that during this time there were true demigods walking the earth. Or that the first men were stronger than modern, maybe by being closer to Adam and Eve, or gods, or something like this.
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So has the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe appeared yet? Considering the Conquistadors arrival and the crazy eldritch horror shit that's happened a event like this is probably insidered a good omen
Someone is kicking the Aztec death god's ass, so it might as well be her. Not that it will impact us much beyond any ripples that reach us.
Honestly, Big G and his posse have kind of been leaving us hanging lately, we could have really used a miracle or two.
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She also appears very differently depending on woh sees her and what she's meant to represen.One of the main reasons why the spaniards recognized the Guadalupe manifestation was because the area where the priests were from had a similar manifestation a generation before where theVirgin Mary told some villagers where to find Black Madonna statues that survived pr muslim conwuest of spain and she explained it in a similar way to theevents at Guadalupe.In addition her clothing is specifically similar in nature to the clothing worn by the aztec priestly/noble/royal parts of society rather than more simple clothes of other apparitions.
In real life that was just the proud christian tradition of filing off the serial numbers of the local religions and say it was Chritian all along. They did it in British Isles as well.
It this setting however, who can say.
Lurking_Badger
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was some deal between YHWH and the local minor deities. They can be keep being alive and worshiped, if they put on the team colors and follow team rules. The lower members of the Church don't need to know about it.
There are gods that this wouldn't work with, so they have to go. I'm guessing that the Aztec death god, with all the cannibalisms, doesn't make the cut.
It's probably because we didn't pick the persecuted religion as our colonists. Miracles sorta require faith, and that's something we seem to be lacking. Perhaps at some point we'll be able to unlock Faith actions and that will change, but for now, we're going without His protection.
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The people, both Colonists and Winter Walkers, are religious. Just not fanatics.This is probably better for the town's stability.
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You know, now that we have a fighter hero and ghosts that specialise in cutting, we should start hunting the Lords of the wild.
It's pretty ballsy, but I think we should do it at least once in the summer. It seems to me that it will weaken the wilds as a whole in a way that will stick more than just culling vermin.
It's pretty ballsy, but I think we should do it at least once in the summer. It seems to me that it will weaken the wilds as a whole in a way that will stick more than just culling vermin.
I don't think the Silent Blades will be particularly useful for hunting Lords. They are useless for anything that requires cunning/intellect, and all our strategies for killing those require both.
That's only if we take the long route, there is also an option to send a group and kite it into an ambush.