Rolled 83, 62, 72, 78, 45, 52 = 392 (6d100)

>>2298775
Your starting area's stats are as follows, while all civs can adapt to their environment some may be better suited initially than others.

>Bandits: High
>Monsters: High, Interesting
>Zombies: Above Average
>Factions: Average
>Resources: Very High
>Mystery: [REDACTED]
>[REDACTED]: Mystery

Factions:
>Government Remnant: You are the descendants or members of some sort of Pre-Fall Government, secreted away to carry on the torch of your civilization. Though the realities of the Post Apocalypse may've tempered your expectations. You have a Decent Supply, Decent Population, Decent Manufacturing Capacity, Decent Research Capability, and Decent War Capacity.
>HQs, Garrisoned Tower, Government Bunker, Fortified Township
>Jack of All Trades: You may select one specialty for your civilization to be proficient in, or you may mimic any other Civ's special ability to a limited extent.

>Megacorp Remnants: You are the inheritors of a Megacorp. Perhaps you are the decendants of valued employees that were assigned a bunker, or maybe you are wanderers who discovered corporate rhetoric and were inspired by it. Either way, you have: High Supply, Low Population, High Manufacturing Capacity, Good Research Capability, and Low War Capacity.
>Hqs: Megatower, Private Bunker, Fortified Township
>Hyperindustrial Equipment: Your actions which use resources count as using materials for passive benefits. Your actions which use materials will use them at half the usual rate.

>Military Remnants: You are the members or descendants of one or several military or paramilitary groups. Before the Fall you or your ancestors were part of the standing army of a nation, a private military contracting firm, Megacorp security forces, or some other highly militarized group. As such you have Decent Supplies, Low Population, Poor Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research Capability, and Excellent War Capacity.
>Garrisoned Tower, Military Bunker, Military Base
>VR Training Pods: Your entire civilization is automatically trained for war from a young age, and you gain an automatic Training Action by default.

>Think Tank Remnants: You are the remnants or descendants of some sort of Old World scientific elements. You are precious among factions for preserving the very best of Old World technology, and being the only ones capable of actually improving upon it. You have Poor Supplies, Low Population, Average Manufacturing Capacity, Rreat Research Capability, and Very Poor War Capacity.
>HQs: Garrisoned Tower, Private Bunker, Research Facility
>Old World Remnants: You have a tech specialty that you are experts at. There are few-to-none who ever could've held a candle to you in your chosen field, and that was before the Fall. You also gain 1 special, elite military unit oriented around your tech specialty.

>>>Continued

Rolled 87, 10, 45, 65, 84, 20 = 311 (6d100)

>>2298816

>Survivors: You are descended from the people who survived the Apocalypse and somewhat kept your identity. Your people are regarded much like most regard cockroaches, but your tenacity and will to survive despite your lack of advantages gain you a grudging respect. You have a passing familiarity with much of the Old World due to passed on knowledge. You have high population, excellent supplies, poor manufacturing, average research capacity, and poor war capacity to start.
>HQs: Fortified Township, Tower, Nomad(may move to better location)
>Cockroaches of the Apocalypse: Bonus to salvaging, scavenging, and survival-oriented actions.

>Tribals: You are the descendants of those who survived the Fall, but didn't stay civilized. You have learned how to live and thrive in the less desired places of the New World. Where others would turn tail and run, you pick up your primitive weapons and fight for a living. Good Supply, High Population, Very Poor Manufacturing Capacity, Low Research Capability, Good War Capacity.
>HQs: Cave Complex. Ruins. Nomad.
>Inheritors of the Earth: You have adapted to the New World in ways higher-tech factions would never be able to. Every single member of your civilization knows the land upon which you live like the back of their hands, and all of your people are capable of going to war in emergencies. You gain bonuses to scouting and guerilla warfare actions.

>Mutants: You are descendants of the twisted creatures and people that arose from Fall warfare. Whether you were just poor saps that got hit by a mutagen bomb, or an Old World bio-experiment you bring something unusual to the table. You have Good Supplies, Low Population, Low Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research Capability, Excellent War Capacity.
>HQs: Military Base, Research Complex, Lair
>Due to your mutant physiology you are extremely tough and hardy, immune to most diseases and poisons, and heavily resistant to radiation, but you suffer penalties to starting population and population growth. Your mutant physiology is adaptable, and you have the ability to develop multiple powerful mutations if you invest time and effort into it. You have penalties to breeding and general reputation.
>Mutable Physiology: You begin with one mutation in addition to enhanced base toughness and strength. (Make up a mutation, subject to QM approval)

>>>Continued

Rolled 13, 16, 10, 19, 8, 19 = 85 (6d100)

>>2298836

>Bandits: You are descended from the evil fucks who did whatever the hell they wanted during the Fall and after it. You are all at least a little bit crazed from the things you've seen or done, but you find yourselves in 'good' (see: Evil) company. There are always more bandits. You have Low Supplies, Good Population, Average Manufacturing Capacity, Low Research Capability, Very Good War Capacity.
>HQs: Prison, Military Base, Spire
>Penalty: Most of the members of your civilization are too crazed to do menial tasks such as 'farm for food to feed yourselves' or 'fetch water to drink'. You will have to steal, pillage, or use slaves to satisfy basic needs. Furthermore, you are all absolutely evil and good actions will cause extensive unrest among your population.
>What's that it's Shiny?: Your forces will automatically upgrade their equipment to the best you have over time. This process can be sped up by releasing materials or supplies to your population at large.

>>>Faction Choices Concluded

>ALERT!
>REBOOT OPTIONS DETECTED!
>ANALYZING...LIST INCOMING!
-The MAD Tri-Tower Military Survivalists
-The Unnamed Power Armored Government Remnants
-The Contaminated Regulator Robots

As an apology to any veteran players that come along, instead of beginning a new civ one of the above may be rebooted instead. Any that are not selected will be treated in canon as having 'won' in some way shape or form.

Though they may not have reached the heights players would've liked to take them to, they will have survived and they will have made their mark somehow.

>>>Homeground Choices incoming

Rolled 53, 42, 96, 51, 78, 29 = 349 (6d100)

>>2298855

Choose Homeground

Examples for Homeground below. All actions undertaken within your homeground will have bonuses given to them.

Urban: Start in the middle of a city, no reliable food sources around. Increased bandits, factions, zombies, resources.

Rural: Start in undeveloped country with a small farm already set up, decreased zombies, bandits, monsters, salvage.

Desert: Start with no immediately detectable sources of water or food nearby. Deserts were popular places for scientific and military bases though, and you'll certainly have plenty of space to build.

Forest: Start with nearby wild food sources and plentiful sources of lumber. Substantially increased monsters, mildly increased salvage.

Island: Start in relative safety, fish are plentiful but toxic without effort, few nearby locations. Substantially decreased zombies, bandits, decreased monsters.

Military Base: Start inside a large military complex, the bunker you have taken over includes a small nuclear generator, armory, stockpile of ammunition/survival supplies, and some intel on the base and terrain at large. The base is an attractive target for raiding though. Greatly increased bandits and salvage.

Science Lab: Start with extensive hidden underground complex, scientific supplies and equipment to speed research, and experimental power generators, but dangerous things lurking in some deeper labs. Increased scientific monstrosities.

Vault: Start inside part of a large, self sufficient underground complex. Your node is self-sufficient but poorly fortified, and you don't have much room to expand. Furthermore the Vault is not entirely inhabited, and the things that live underground have started to creep in... Increased factions, monsters, decreased bandits.

Write-In: ????

Your selected Homeground is contained inside your selected Terrain. Terrain determines general climate and weather behavior, as well as having various other influences. You do not receive bonuses for operating in your terrain. You do not receive penalties for operating in your terrain either, as your civilization's members are assumed to have grown accustomed to its idiosyncrasies.

>>>Homeground Choices Concluded.

>>>Terrain Choices incoming

>>2298855
I happen to remember the Winter Bunker civ, will vote for it if anyone else who was there happens to come by.

Rolled 100, 16, 95, 92, 68, 51 = 422 (6d100)

>>2298870

Examples for Terrain below.

Tundra
Mountains
Plains
Canyon
Desert
Megacity
Jungle
Forest
River Valley
[Write In]
Etc.

Feel free to come up with your own terrain. Various Terrains and Homegrounds can be hybridized, but be aware that there may be unexpected interactions.

>>>Terrain Choices Concluded.
>>>Starting Posts Concluded.

Any questions are welcome, the world runs somewhat on rule-of-cool but is primarily sci-fi, well thought out fluff will be heartily rewarded.

I encourage you to roll 1d100 with every post at every stage, as I use unneeded player rolls to generate background events. 1d100 will be required on action posts once the game begins, and on confirmation votes for action posts in order for the vote to count.

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2298816
Hm I'll leave the old games alone. Since I was only realy around for the Overseer AI civ. Plus it's nice to start fresh. For others here is the notes from that civ.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oF35o9VNtFS6i35-0NLVIPhHKdqzxRqt6mEwDY7fLgM/edit?usp=sharing

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>Government Remnant / Government Bunker / Vault / Forest
Thinking of going for SCP Foundation style Civ. We dip into a lot of things, but we have a specialty for dealing we the unknown. The people living after the Fall will need the Foundation more than ever.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>2299087
The SCP Foundation as a whole would fit in quite nicely as a government remnant.

You could easily be a specialized SCP Foundation Military or Think Tank remnant if you didn't want jack-of-all-trades though. Thinking on it, the Think Tank's complimentary Military Unit would lend itself quite flavorfully to being a containment team.

>>2299137
Indeed. Depending on how we wish to play the civ. Probably would be better to pick those. Think tank would likely net us more info on the new types of SCPs and get gear for the team. While the Military would be better off starting out.

>>2299192
I find it funny that in the dangerous post apocalypse, we're entertaining the idea of playing a civ who also has some of the most dangerous stuff locked in cages inside itself. I'm not too savvy with SCP stuff, but I imagine it plays much like a specialist security organization.

>>2299205
> specialist security organization.
From what I understand of the SCP Foundation. Yeah I can see it play out along those lines.

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2299205
The Horrors and Aberrations of the Old World might not terrify the Terrors and Abominations of the New World...and vice versa. The interesting thing about monsters and other natural phenomena in the Post-Apoc as opposed to the Old World is that everything that's still around at the time your civ comes into being had ancestors that made it through the Fall where other strains died out.

This doesn't mean that New World monsters are ALL stronger, tougher, and meaner than Old World monsters...but it does mean that on average they are.

>>2299192
As a Think Tank you'd have a cream-of-the-crop military unit for dealing with SCPs, and some particularly interesting ones in storage (assuming they hadn't escaped), and better equipment for studying and containing strange phenomena. In fact you'd have some of the best equipment the Old World could make, just not very much of it...and really only that one military unit that knows how to use it.

The Military Remnant would have slightly lower grade weaponry, but an order of magnitude more of it, and more people who know how to use it. They'd not have as many or as powerful artifacts laying around though, and very little equipment associated with studying it in a formal fashion (only what field detection devices they'd been issued).

This could all, of course, be modified or enhanced by writing out fluff for what exactly your specific remnant had been doing/involved in/located around before the Fall.

I wonder if we can mix up a bit of Ghostbuster esque stuff in here too

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2299265

Homegrounds: Swamplands. Start in a washed-up old cargo boat. Available supplies of whatever was transported, and good protection against weather. Few entrances to guard, although damage to ship hull could make us more vulnerable.
Faction: Military remnants.
Terrain: Forest tundra, Russia

>>2299405
Hoping for some STALKER in here

>>2299405
I like this idea.

This setting is pretty flexible. If we wanted, we could have landed in a crashed battleship instead of a cargo hauler. Hell, we could even have things like an AI if we fluffed it right.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>2299405
This fluff would result in modified HQ options being available for your remnant. Specifically, without any further fluff stated:
>Garrisoned Omni-Coll Cruiser, Beached Cargo Hauler, Wrecked Battleship

With further fluff you could get more specific bonuses. Which is not to say you don't get nice things without fluff, it's just that I fill them in based on whatever background info is provided.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>2299405
I do wonder why players always, always, always seem to want frozen/tundra terrain though.

>>2298775

Nice to see you again Strelok!

>>2299405

I'd prefer we do Bandits for once, but I'll back this.

>>2299470
Might request desert next time :)

I'll be honest I've never liked military remnants. They always seem to end badly with us either getting over confident and poking something far bigger than us, dying thanks to a lack of ability to reinforce our losses or such issues.

Not to say that any of our other runs end any differently but usually we get a bit further before the inevitable death-spiral and insanity. Also I've literally never seen us play tribals and am somewhat curious how we'd do. Although I'll just as happily back anything but military remnants.

>>2299537
Well, I guess choosing desert didn't go over well last time either.

I think every single civ except the government remnants has been hit at least 1 double-nat-1 event, usually early on. Coincidentally, the Gov't Remnants lasted the longest and did the best.

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Hey guys, whats the chances of us playing a strain of Mutant Bandit who have an affinity for zombism?

I think Genie called them Zeds.

We'd also do some mercenary work on the side. Think it'd be fun?
my suggestion is certainly not influenced by my binging of Rob Zombie music, no siree

>>2299599
Im still bitter we didnt use a wish on Slate

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2299599
Hybrid Civs require distinct fluff to explain why they exist, but mutant/bandit hybrids are fairly common so the bar is not set super high. Being zombie-manipulators is actually a more difficult thing to justify, but if you've got good reasoning in your fluff and enough votes to support it you'll be all good.

>>2299571
>tribals
Yeah we never seem to want to try that civ. I'm willing to change me Government vote to give them a chance.

>>2299599
Never heard of those. Must of been in the super old civs.

>>2299615
Poor Slate the blank. Heck of a ride, but lacked rhyme or reason for a lot of that game.

>>2299571
I havent seen any of the previous threads, kinda thought military in a huge boat would be cool.
Was thinking that going military remnants would allow us to protect ourselves well and others we might cooperate with. Being isolationists and cautious until we find someone not posing a threat we could ally.

>>2299599
Doing some merc work sounds cool

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>2298896
>>>Current Vote

>>Faction
>Gov't Remnant - 1
>Military Remnant - 3(?)

>>Homeground
>Vault - 1
>Swamp - 3(?)
>Tribals - 1

>>Terrain
>Forest - 1
>Taiga - 3(?)

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>>2299571
Tribals are wildly unpopular because people don't tend to think on them much, and also the sci-fi veneer makes them think Tribals can't kick ass with the best of them. To be fair, they're an unorthodox play style but their advantages more than make up for their weaknesses if you play them right.

And if you could manage to pull of the nigh-impossible and tech up a tribal civ without losing the benefits of their wildness it would be a sight to see indeed. Especially depending on the homeground selected.

>>2299652
>I havent seen any of the previous threads, kinda thought military in a huge boat would be cool.
Oh don't get me wrong it would be. Like the time we were the self-replicating tri-pod robots or the megacorp with super artillery (although that was with genie, it is the same basic universe / system) and so on. We've done a lot of cool things but it's a matter of taking a cool concept and figuring out how we'd make it function that is important.

>Was thinking that going military remnants would allow us to protect ourselves well and others we might cooperate with. Being isolationists and cautious until we find someone not posing a threat we could ally.
Oh yeah that is true but the problem always rises that the people who are willing to ally usually already have allies and networked into something far bigger and stronger, or they are so insignificant that their assistance doesn't help make up for us sticking our neck out.

Also, we have a nasty habit of having trouble come to us, even if we don't seek it. I remember this one time, we sent our elite forces into a section of a underground research / military complex. Long story short, they detonated a nuke (accidentally as I recall by activating a failsafe or something) and lost us our best guys and called down hell on us thanks to the noise and creating a breach to the surface.


Fact is that we've got be something that won't fall apart if things go wrong. Which is why being able to research and manufacture is a high priority in most people's minds, even over actual capacity to be successful in combat. Purely because it doesn't matter if we need 5 times the forces, we can afford to re-supply, develop and reinforce our troops to deal with the issue unlike a military remnant which has to avoid losing any equipment it can't replace, which is essentially all of it's equipment.

It's why even though a megacorp is shit at war, they could hold their own against a military remnant (assuming a single lightning attack can't kill them) by using sheer productive capacity and research ability to overwhelm and adapt to their enemies weaknesses.


>>2299686
>And if you could manage to pull of the nigh-impossible and tech up a tribal civ without losing the benefits of their wildness it would be a sight to see indeed. Especially depending on the homeground selected.
See that is part of the reason I want to do it. I want to see if we are competent enough to pull it off and also because it is something we NEVER do.

>>2299686
>Military Remnant
>Swamp
>Taiga
is what ill support since i aint said yet

Rolled 24 (1d100)

An alternative i thought up if the military remnants thing were diffecult to do/stale

Homeground: Submerged city. After the fall, all earths ice melted, resulting in increased water level.
Faction: Tribal Merfolk. Merfolk were human once, but due to the increased radioactivety, some mutated and grew gills. Due to problems gathering untainted seafood, they decide to search the city for clean food and shelter from the swimming horrors.
Terrain: Ocean/Beach, Denmark

>>2299619
I'm on the case!

Just give me a bit to write up some appropriate fluff

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2299730
This setting actually runs on rule of cool, in the future, and doesn't take place on the real-world's timeline. Submerged cities weren't commonplace, but they did exist.

>>2299730
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPpnCvCZvw

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Faction Name: The Fighting Dead
Faction: Mutants/Bandits
Homeground: Military Base
Immediate Terrain: Ruined Suburbia
Biome: Overgrown Suburban Complex/Megacity Outskirts

Zombies did not come with the fall, and regularly did the ancients have to deal with various forms of Zombie outbreak. If even ancient legends are true, there were zombies since the days of knights and kings. The Undead have been an on and off thorn in the side of civilization since time immemorial, and dealt in many ways.

Viral strains and bioweapons were even used most infamously as a weapon of war. And yet as military technology advanced, the age old strain of walkers and runners found themselves outclassed. Just as the legends of knights with enchanted weapons cutting through hordes of walking dead, so too did the advent of the disintegrators and the energy shield make the threat of zombies more of an epidemic than an apocalypse.

Until one most devious mind had the idea: level the playing field. if soldiers could defeat zombies, why not give the zombies their own soldiers in support. the concept was to create a way that a group of soldiers could fight not against but alongside zombies and the enemies of the state.

it soon proved impossible (and in general, unwise) to make a contagious strain of hyper smart zombies. to achieve a better level of control, a mutant strain, injected into human volunteers proved ideal. they would be made to look like zombies, smell like zombies, perhaps even think like zombies form time to time, but retain their human intellect and skills. more, much of their human functions would be preserved, reducing the risk of them going feral like so many other test subjects.

whether or not the plan worked as intended is lost to history, but today, there is a group of beings known to only a few, but to those who have not strength, whispered in fear and trembling. of beings that resemble zombies, yet wield ancient high tech weaponry and fight with the skill and ferocity of centuries of unlife, moving through and even encouraging zombie hordes as they go. to others who have the wealth, and the lack of morals, they are the Fighting Dead.

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thoughts?

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>2299844

Mmmm, yes I can definitely work with that. Delicious fluff.

>Hybrid Mutant/Bandit APPROVED!
>Zombie-specialty APPROVED!

Good job, anon.

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>>2299864
its even 100 approved guys!

anyone up for Skeletons with Blasters? we'll be the spookiest operators

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Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>2299864
Wow, the dice even approve.

This is, by the way, why you should roll with every post. You will now receive a bonus during your creation process, though the nature will depend on what you end up selecting.

>>2299844
>>2299864
Guys, every roll in this thread means something. I get the feeling that we might get something good with that 100.

Anyone wanna give a second opinion on Zombie Mutant Bandits?

>>2300078
I'm indifferent. Mostly do to wanting for tribals to have turn and I still want to push for the SCP in some way.

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How do you feel we would run this civ?

I feel since we can deal with zombies and we are mutants. Old world factions will be a pain to deal with. We can trade with bandits to make some income. Probably will have to buy or work for most of are food. Unless we gate off the slaves from the zombies. I have to wonder if we are carrying something that would effect others from our zombie interaction.

Depending on the hero we can pick. We'll be able to improve what we can do with zombies. (Assuming a mother will be open to us.) Leading into us having to learn how to deal with zombie heroes. Since we'll be taking their units away.

>>2300125
>How do you feel we would run this civ?
We've had some succesful bandit civs before, so similar to those. Raiding ideal targets, and making other wicked allies and finding right opportunities.

Yes I can imagine diplomacy might likely be affected, but there's always someone more evil and richer than you.

>>2300130
So should we aim for a war hero? Build a power base and gather others under a banner or more work under someone building up?

When do we start? Prolly going to sleep soon cuz eu

>>2300261
Majority vote to pick a civ. I believe it was around 3 -5 people backing.

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>2300261
Whenever something gets 5 votes. I'm about to go to sleep too though.

>>>Current Vote

>>Faction
>Gov't Remnant - 1
>Military Remnant - 3(?)
>Bandit/Mutants - 1
>Tribals - 1

>>Homeground
>Vault - 1
>Swamp - 3(?)
>Ruined Suburbia - 1

>>Terrain
>Forest - 1
>Taiga - 3(?)
>Megacity Outskirts - 1

>>2300125
>>2300130
>>2300252
You could fluff them with minor alterations to be Mutant/Tribals. Lose out on starting with a military base and its concomitant weaponry stockpiles, but gain considerably more...expertise...and other things.

If this were the case and some fluff points that I won't disclose remain constant, certain things would experience a sort of auto catalytic effect.

>>2300290
For the actual civ selection the required vote remains at 5, because it's so important and benefits from people having time to think.

>>2300313
Huh. If the mutants become tribal. We could us monster parts for weapons. Mask our people even better. Then use zombies with guerrilla warfare buffs. That idea makes me down for it.

>>2300376
Hey, I'm down with that. I just really wanna see what we can do with Zombie based mutants. I think it'd be a great asset early on, or later on at least.

>>2300252
War hero is good, fighting is usually the biggest hurdle in these games.

>>2300394
Well we don't have to fight. We can find ways for others to do that. Tho it would be harder than with a corp. Maybe do jobs for people and keep our area noise down.

>>2299864
>Zombie shit
God dammit.

Yeah I'm down for zombie-controlling mutant-tribals, they mesh well together all things considered and would at least grant us a stronger and more familiar skill set than an entirely tribal civilisation, as much as I think it would be fun to try that.

>>2301027
I support mutant tribals

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>2300767
They're present in the world, but aren't the primary reason things are so bad.


>>>Current Vote

>>Faction
>Gov't Remnant - 1
>Military Remnant - 3(?)
>Mutant/Tribals - 2

>>Homeground
>Vault - 1
>Swamp - 3(?)
>Ruined Suburbia - 2

>>Terrain
>Forest - 1
>Taiga - 3(?)
>Megacity Outskirts - 2

>>2301056
I'll swap out from the SCP to the Mutant Tribals. It has gained enough of my interest.

I wonder if we can flavor in some way to help. Like we once were a team with tech, but do to the fall things fell apart and we resort to tribal methods. Probably a pain in the ass for us at the beginning, but obviously our civ made it work. Could help us later on down the road if we ever meet another team like ours.

I still am not sure what we would flavor out otherwise. Probably methods we have. Like using small caves that are really well cover that holds zombie traps for baiting people.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>2301056


>>>Current Vote

>>Faction
>Gov't Remnant - 1
>Military Remnant - 3(?)
>Mutant/Tribals - 3

>>Homeground
>Vault - 1
>Swamp - 3(?)
>Ruined Suburbia - 3

>>Terrain
>Forest - 1
>Taiga - 3(?)
>Megacity Outskirts - 3

>>2301171
I'm sure this sort of thing will help as we go along, but yeah since we're tribals its entirely possible our advanced tech fell apart after so much traveling and the collapse of society.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>2301171
If you wanted to expand your fluff you could explain methods and such that you have, a more in-depth explanation of how your mutation works, cultural norms, how/why you discovered and settled your HQ (and what makes it special), past events that shaped your civ into what it is now, connections to other civs around you, typical trade goods you deal in and how you get them.

As long as you're not totally unreasonable you'll pretty much get it if you fluff out a reason for having it. If you don't then I'll just fill in the blanks based upon hints I see in the fluff. I see quite a few interesting blanks right now.

>>2301244
You could conceivably fluff up having a few revered relics of the past that you've kept safe over the generations, used only in times of great need. The world is your oyster at this point.

I'd say if we are going tribal, our HQ should be a cave system for the benefits in terms of hiding it and defending it.


Also we'd benefit from choosing a home-ground and terrain mix that allows for simple / low tech methods of getting resources and food / water given that is all we will have access to.

So that means we can't do urban, given it lacks any stable food sources for all factions let alone tribals, or deserts unless we get an oasis or underground river as part of our initial stuff.


Also I can't write for shit in regards to zombies and mutants. I can write a straight up tribal group but not mutations.

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2301266
For Mutant/Tribal hybrids you get access to:

>Cave Lair
++Pop
+++Defense
+Hidden
---Manufacturing Capability
--Medicine
Other: Starts with decent fungal farms and a water source, bonus to population growth and mutation research.

>Ruined Research Facility
++Supply
++Research
Other: You have taken over a section of a ruined research facility that seems to have been abandoned by scavengers as well as its former occupants. Plenty of room to expand, suspiciously empty.

>Nomad
+Supply
+Pop
-Manufacturing
-Research
+Defense
+Offense
Other: Mobile, entirely self-sufficient by scavenging and hunting. Expanded homeground territory.

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2301266
Also I'd encourage you to write your fluff, you might inspire and provide a basis for other anons to modify.

>>2301266
A part of me wants to try Nomad. Since we can blend with zombie hordes.

>>2301266
Yet I like the idea of cave system. Maybe a long time ago our people. Held up here when the fall happened. It was our bastion in the hard times. Burning though our remaining tech. People starting using what ever they could. Leading into some tribals opening up to these mutants "turning" away from the old world.

So maybe fluff up a tribal group that taught our civ. Then we can take some traits and habits from than. I image some shaman would be into our undead bound.

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>2301288
>Also I'd encourage you to write your fluff, you might inspire and provide a basis for other anons to modify.
I'll give it a shot.

"In the age of darkness, when the world fell into flame and chaos, the ancestors of our people fled from their home. As earth broke, sky fell and ocean sank, they ran into the wilds. Taking their families to a cave network they had been studying, chased all the way by the strange creatures of that age. On their arrival, they found that although few of their number had died, their pursuers had not lost their scent. Their stocks to defend against the rotting hordes and the other things that attacked were drawn on, yet they were depleted with every attack.

Then our saving grace was found by the wise sages of the ancestors: the many fungi of the caves. Their spores could be used to control that which had once threatened us. Over time the ancestors tamed the many fungi, growing them for food, protection, light and more rather than harvesting what little grew naturally. Yet this new found power over the undead, our new home and all else the fungi brought came at a cost.

We lost our former selves: growing dependent on it for much of our lifestyle; forgetting the old ways; forgetting what the world away from our caves and before the darkness was like. Yet we have survived and thrived in the earth: dozens of generations having grown knowing the fungus and tunnels, safe in our stony isolation but even now we do seek to regain our place. We shall rise from the chaos and flame and take up the mantle of our ancestors."


>>2301304
>A part of me wants to try Nomad. Since we can blend with zombie hordes.
That would certainly be a interesting approach. Could even pull off a zombie-mongol style thing. Using zombie brutes as mobile archer towers and a way to move big, heavy cart-homes. Although the problem would be the moment we run into a more traditional civilisation, our reliance on the zombies for protection would most likely see us drawn into conflict with them.

>So maybe fluff up a tribal group that taught our civ. Then we can take some traits and habits from than. I image some shaman would be into our undead bound.
Eh, that is a bit different from how I did it but I think my explanation makes sense. Although I've written it from the point of view of a legend or story passed down rather than a fact by fact account so if you want to have me explain what I meant in some areas I am more than happy to do so.

>>2301204
>Military Remnant
(SCP)
>Vault
>Taiga
SCP could be very interesting. In dark times we may need to make a deal with the more intelligent SCP's, otherwise high tech spooks sounds cool.

>>2301356
I like it

>>2301356
>zombie-mongol
Yes!

>explain
Na I'm fine. Just throwing ideas out.

Rolled 83 (1d100)

Going to get some food, be back in a bit.

>>2301356
>>2299844
If you or lavender-ID anon could integrate your fluff together a bit then it would result in some very powerful synergies. Now I just get to wait and see if you guys can figure it out, or if military remnants will get confirmed first.

>>2301641
>>2301356
Can do! Just gimme a bit

>>2301651
Best of luck anon.


Also have we reached any sorts of conclusion as to what terrain / homeground we are going with for the mutant-tribals should they win?

>>2301675
It occured to me that mutants function BEST in hellish enviornments, specifically jungles or swamps, because other races are less able to survive and vehicles have a penalty.

>>2301641
I’m at work so I’ll just be lurking for now but fuck yes new twisted realms game!!!

Vote mutant bandits!

Why did the SCP Think-Tank not make the cut? Very unique idea with us farming the scary crap on the inside for weapons to fight the scary crap on the outside. Seems to me something thats not been done before, as opposed to "power armor soldiers" or "weird tribals".

>>2301753
My guess is people are not familiar with SCP stuff. Upside I believe civ pick is still not locked in. So you're welcome to vote for it.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>2301753
Well weird tribals actually hasn't been done before by players...or seen before by players, because they just go largely ignored.

I think there's interest in something SCP-esque still but (as opposed to the tribals) no one has actually written any proper fluff, just made generalized statements of theme.

>>2301709
True but those environments aren't exactly conducive to creating a prosperous civilisation. Personally I say we should go forest or rural home-ground and river valley as terrain. Primarily because of the easy access to food and natural resources but I understand what you mean about them not limiting others as much as us.

Still though, a large part of my plan involves making our tribals advance to be greater, which is why it is a stated concept of the lore / description I wrote. The zombie control is primarily there to make this easier, by providing a mix of greater interest and a more familiar skill base.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>2301847
Question is, will fluff save it if players are set on tribals.

Also, arent most of the civ games some form of tribals (the low-tech ones)?

What about a fringe facility built to research ways to use SCP-914 to combat the approaching apocalypse? The personnell knew nothing but the O4 in charge was tasked with finding a solution to the problem. In addition to SCP-914 the facility also houses numerous other Safe and Euclid class SCPs in case they might be useful to the project. What exactly the aim was is lost since the apocalypse and the death of O4 by the result of an experiment with 914 shortly prior to the apocalypse. Now with limited means, one team of Special Operations branch retrieval experts and more problems keeping the SCPs locked up and under control the small Think Tank of Site 37-Alpha face a daunting task if they are to survive in this new hellhole and bring about a new dawn for humanity amidst the ashes of the old world.

Faction: SCP Think-Tank
Homeground: Ruined Suburbia
Terrain: Megacity Outskirts

Thoughts?

>>2301963
>Question is, will fluff save it if players are set on tribals.
Yes. Tribals are entirely capable of holding their own against any other civ type if used correctly.

>Also, arent most of the civ games some form of tribals (the low-tech ones)?
Yes but not in this universe.

>>2301977
The question was whether fluff would make players change their vote but I got my anwser. :)

Shame, we could go full grimdark with this. Added excitement of enemies within and without.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>2301963
Well I discourage explicit references like specific SCPs (though something that mimicked the tone without being so explicit is okay), but this would otherwise work fine.

>>2302066
Oh you'll get quite enough grimdark and enemies within and without whether you're gunning for that from the start or not. This is the Dwarf Fortress of civs, enjoy dying.

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>2302066
Also you'd need to come up with better fluff in order to edge in against the tribals at this point. Here: >>2301963 you're mainly just referencing external work. Doesn't feel organic.

As for most other civ games..well this one isn't like those. And as for the 'low-tech' faction types listed here, tribals are the only truly low-tech guys but they've developed other ways of compensating that make them terrifying in their own right.

>>2302066
Sorry but I just freaking love mutants. Just so long as we don’t make psion mutants. We Always get rekt. And some times time make the entire world cry, stoping a setting wide war for a second and changing the landscape of the whole game.

still writing! Just trying to get the juices flowing.

>>2302301
Take your time man. Quality is better than quantity.

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>2302146
>>2302146
The booger brigade

Some factions are born from glorious victories, others more humble, some just gross. The latter is the case for our current subjects “the booger brigade”. Legend has it that during the Great War an unbelievably huge fall bringer tier monstrosity was caught in a pitched battle with earths greatest general, supplies and ammunition were running low on the human side and orders came down that the men, rather than scuttle their air units and retreat were to start using kamikaze tactics on the great beast, wave after wave of human airships ran into the beast to no effect until one particularly brave and foolish officer decided to fly right up into the monsters nose. The monster sneezed a powerful sneeze that leveled the entire battlefield rendering it a wasteland. There were no survivors. Pools of corrosive, radioactive snot the size of lakes dotted the landscape and within those pools were the single cell organisms that would eventually emerge as what we know as the booger brigade. Some think they were formed from the earth soldiers trapped in the snot, others think they are essentially germs that lived inside of the fall bringer, the truth isn’t known and doesn’t matter. This ultra rare breed of mutant is known for being strikingly simple, it is comprised of one large complex cell, closely resembling an amoeba yet for some reason morphs it’s body in such a way as to be bipedal, almost as if by choice. They communicate with chemical signals, some simply reaction to stimulus known as snot soldiers, others capable of more complex communication known as brain boogs, all hyper deadly and voraciously hungry.

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Faction Name: The Grave Tribe
Faction: Mutants/Tribals
Homeground: Cave
Immediate (Above) Terrain: Swamp Overgrowth
Biome: Overgrown/Swamp Suburban Complex - Megacity Outskirts
Fluff:
The Elder tells us the story.

Our forefathers left the great city above. Our ancestors were great warriors, soldiers created by cruel masters to fight among the dead. But before they could finish the ritual, the Cracking of the Sky occured, and the world turned upside down, and the stars fell to the ground.

Our ancestors were bred to be warriors by ancient re-searchers, gifted with bodies like the hungry dead, yet retained minds able to use weapons that spewed the rays of the sun. In those days, the mutation was still young, and we were only so much stronger and faster than the others. Some fled, to ride off among the hordes of death. But our ancestors were not so fortunate. Hunted down by the remnants of the great city dwellers, without weapons and without armor, they were forced into the cave. Our cave, where the surface dwellers dare not go, for they fear the darkness and what lurks below.

But in the caves, our ancestors faced starvation, hungry for flesh but unable to eat. Many died, some ate each other, until only the strong remained. But still they hungered, and were doomed to become as mindless beasts. Until they found the Fungus. We ate of it, and were sustained. . .and more.

The Fungus completed that which the ritual could not do. It nurtured the seed of the ritual within us, made us stronger, not merely of body. . .but of mind.

The seed of the ancient ritual was fed by the fungus, as it spread throughout our flesh, into our brains. New powers were granted to us, we could hear and speak with the hungry dead without our tongues or ears. Manipulate them as we manipulate our thoughts. The ancients called it "psionics", but we know it only as the voices which hunger. We can direct the mindless dead to our bidding, and more, our bodies continue to be changed by the fungus, ever adapting, ever evolving, as the seed of the ancient ritual grows in our very bodies, planted in there by the re-searchers.

Now the time has come for us to once more venture into the surface world. We have lost much, our knowledge and skills of the ancient technology. But through the fungus, we have gained something far, far greater.

The Grave Tribe shall rise above our tomb into the world of our forefathers!

have some music, with complimentary tribal drums, metal, and chanting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JMl-ikcDE

>>2302416
Technology Matters little to the boogers, though they can form crude limbs and use firearms they prefer to launch globs of their internal juices at high speed through their waste/communication holes. Several kinds of materials can be launched from their openings from poisons, radiation, solid waste slugs, and can even return bullets that were used against them. Though not particularly hardy they heal shockingly quickly so if you don’t kill them quickly it is likely to recover and rally. Like most mutants they breed slowly but these guys don’t need to mate. They are asexual and multiply by splitting, a single booger with enough time and food can hide away for a decade and emerge with hundreds of offspring. They are also amphibious and prefer to breed under water so often when they are discovered it is too late. They can grow as large as the environment and resources allow so where most are the size of small children it is not unheard of to find one as large as a bus.

>>2302492
I love your concept but I worry that a dependency on the fungus could be a serious weakness. Also the fact that you are making us far too zombie-like in my opinion, I raise this point as it could potentially result in us losing natural population growth outright and struggling to absorb new folk from other tribes and shit.

Again, the whole point of the zombie controlling mutants pre-fall was to be humans that could command the zombie hordes without the issues of being a smart zombie. I feel that what you have described is far too subject to the hunger for flesh / far gone for them to have ever been allowed to exist.

>>2302548
>I love your concept but I worry that a dependency on the fungus could be a serious weakness.
Could tone it down a bit, though I myself left it rather vague. Dependency on fungus shouldn't be too much of a problem I hope, its a powerful boon, not a necessity of living.

>Also the fact that you are making us far too zombie-like in my opinion
This was a bit harder to convey too. We are indeed still mutants, not zombies, particularly since we're still alive and can breed normally (to a degree).

In regards to the hunger, the fungus is meant as a sort of stable food supply for lack of any human flesh, but I see what you're saying.

Any specifics suggestions to changing the fluff?

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>2302492
Hmmm, excellent fluff. Much more tribal than I was expecting, even. Very good anon.

>Zombie Blend Mutation APPROVED
>Fungal Mastery APPROVED

You will not, unfortunately, be able to directly manipulate zombies via psionics. However, this fluff point will be implemented in alternate ways.

>>2302548
The only faction without natural population growth are zombies, which are deliberately disbarred from players. You're still mutants, even if you expertly ape zombies, so that's not a worry.

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>>2302492
Posting some art

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>>2302581
Fungus spores, just what the witch doctor ordered

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>>2302585

>>2302575#>Could tone it down a bit, though I myself left it rather vague. Dependency on fungus shouldn't be too much of a problem I hope, its a powerful boon, not a necessity of living.
Yeah sorry it just came across as if without it we'd genuinely go insane or something.

>In regards to the hunger, the fungus is meant as a sort of stable food supply for lack of any human flesh, but I see what you're saying.
Eh, fair enough but thanks for seeing what I mean.

>Any specifics suggestions to changing the fluff?
Well I'd make a slight alteration, it doesn't have to be only the test subjects that made it to the caves. Like I wrote in my original description, the "sages of the ancestors" were meant to be a few pre-war scientists that figured out how to make use of the fungi before dying. The same could be accomplished here by having the staff of the development facility flee using the experiments as a mix between muscle and a reason for their company to (hopefully) save them.

With this single modification, we become a bit less tribal, given our people having also descended from a mix of human scientists, their families and whomever else got dragged along in order to survive who'd know more than mutant test subjects.

>>2302576
Yeah I am somewhat aware but it's been awhile since this universe and system ran here. Some of the details are a bit foggy in my mind.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>2302605
Well basically I'll tell you straight if you're screwing yourselves over in a core mechanic fashion like that.

For instance:
>>2302416
>>2302506
These would actually be monsters rather than mutants.

>>2302742
The Federation
>mutant/Corp
Come one come all to see the greatest show on 3 legs! This isn’t just your typical mutant pro wrestling federation this is (was) the largest and most influential mutant wrestling show in the galaxy. Sure professional wrestling may be fake but the combat was downright deadly. Mutant outcasts from all over the sector would gather to prove themselves (and sell mad merch) at all of the most major arenas around the world to sell out crowds. Many a legendary mutant was made here. It all started back when adero Corp made a breakthrough in mutant cybernetics. One adero ceo code name “the showman” was tasked to monetize this breakthrough, already experienced in arena mech fighting it was only natural that he open up the worlds first mutant battle league. Of course the investment it took to raise and care for the mutants was high and the risks were even higher considering the xenophobia inherent in man kind but dispte all that was against them they succeeded. Then the fall happened. The mutants training facility was top of the line and hidden deep in a remote mountain range, many of the mutants on tour were lost. Contact with adero was also lost, yet these tough sob’s survived it all and now they are back and ready to take back their former glory!

>>2303091
Excellent, but you may have only one starting mutation. Who was the champion who's offspring now dominate this branch of the Galactic Mutant Wrestling Federation?

>>2302492
Let's do this

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>2301204

>>>Current Vote

>>Faction
>Gov't Remnant - 1
>Military Remnant - 4(?)
>Mutant/Tribals - 5 [LOCKED]
>Mutant/Corp - 1

>>HQ
>Cave [Fluff] [LOCKED]

>>Homeground
>Vault - 1
>Swamp - 6 [LOCKED]
>Ruined Suburbia - 3

>>Terrain
>Forest - 1
>Taiga - 4(?)
>Megacity Outskirts - 6 [LOCKED]

Unfortunately it's kind of late and I have work tomorrow. So I'll just have to drop off the hero choices, and the game will properly begin later.

>>>Choose 2
>>Hero Choices

>War Chief
-Hyrbid Civ Leader archetype

>Headhunter
-Hybrid Soldier/Hunter/Scout archetype

>Brewed Mother
-[Fluff-Unlocked] Mutagen Master/Researcher Archetype

>Ancestral Witch Doctor
-Counselor/Ancient/Trickster archetype

>Far-Gone
-[Fluff-Unlocked] Unique/Secret archetype

>>2303119
Something like the ability to withstand dangerous drugs. Super soldier formula, syn, and most other drugs and even in some cases they don’t reject light biotech, allowing adero to pump them up with experimental combat drugs and steroids. Some Parts of adero see them as not much more than test subjects.

The first champ went by the name “ambulance” because he had a tendency to take fights too far and they would have an ambulance on stand by for his matches. Other greats include Marco “slaps” McCoy, known for fighting open handed because his punches would end the fight before it began, he never had offspring so to speak but was secretly cloned many times over the years as he got older. Then we have “borg” an undersized mutant with incredible fortitude given enhanced legs allowing him to leap over 20 feet into the air, his kid “borgson” is currently the tag team champ with davey stronk, a beefy mutant with an iron skull and shoulders known for his vicious tackles, the team is called “heads shoulders knees and toes”

Any one else feel free to contribute

>>2303269
>war chief
>head hunter
Scouting is of paramount import.

>>2303269
Headhunter / Mother or Witch Doctor / Far-Gone feel like my top picks.

>>2303269
Head hunter
Brewed mother

>>2303269
>Headhunter
>Brewed Mother

>>2303369
>>2303410
Switch to get it going

>>2303269
Fucking strelok. Getting my hopes up and dieing before we even get through creation.

I have played all your games, you always break my heart. You ending the quest where I created the timeye monster..

And genie is doing some funky game of thrones shit I’m not really into, i thought you were going to give me my fix and you die? It’s like waiting for a drug dealer who is “10 minutes away” for 3 hours. I know it’s a commitment to gm but don’t play with me like this dude!

>>2303805
oh Godzilla, where would this quest universe be without you

>>2303269
>War Chief
OR
>Brewed Mother
As we need either the research capacity or the general leadership to augment our actions and enable us to do better with what we have.

>Far-Gone
Sounds useful, plus it's a unique / secret so that is always useful in the right hands.

>>2303805
See the spoilers here: >>2303269

I've gotta sleep sometime. I'll pick it back up later today.

>>2303269
>War Chief
>Far-Gone

>>2303269
Like other anons Im torn between
>Brewed Mother
and
>War Chief

>Far-Gone
-[Fluff-Unlocked] Unique/Secret archetype

Rolled 74 (1d100)

Well let's tally these up then.

>>2303318
>>2303369
>>2303410
>>2303632 (Headhunter/Brewed Mother switch)
>>2304234
>>2304462
>>2305013

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>2305335

>War Chief - 3
>Headhunter - 4
>Brewed Mother - 5 [LOCKED]
>Ancestral Witch Doctor - No Love
>Far-Gone - 3

Well I guess that's enough to get started. Generating initial post now.

>>2305342
Darn, I really should have picked the witch doctor in hindsight. Whose going to be rocking on those awesome war drums otherwise?

>>2305342
I have thought about the witch doctor with the Far-Gone. I felt their a good combo. Tho the hunter and mother has seemed to almost win.

For sure I feel we need the hunter with the mother. A strong solo with the ability to grow our people stronger. Seems good and gives us a Vanguard for hard fights.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>2305342
Here are the final area stats, accounting for your selected homeground and terrain.

This is gonna be a fun one.

Bandits: Very High
Monsters: Extremely High
Zombies: High
Factions: Low
Resources: Extremely High
Mystery: Extremely [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]: Extremely Mystery

And your (thus far) selected hero
>Brewed Mother Mira Montock
>Traits
-Brewmistress
-Fungal Cultivator
>Active Abilities
-[Mutagenic Brewbomb]: Unleashes a variety of effects on target units based upon recently researched or cultivated fungi. Can backfire, chance of effects being permanent.
-[It's FUNGALIVE!]: Unpredictable effects.
>Passive Abilities
-[Symbiotic Strain]: Increases growth rate of nearby fungi, enhances all fungal manipulation actions.
-[Mutagenic Brewer]: Allows for development of various mutagens based off of raw organic material.

So...I think for our other hero we should either go for the war-chief or far-gone but I'm curious what you guys think would be best.


Fact is a strong combat / zombie-control hero would be useful to augment our abilities in combat and with our specialisation yet at the same time, the benefits of having a hero that can just make everything we do a better by just being a good leader can't be understated since he will improve our combat performance from our own warriors as well.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>2305469

The War-Chief somewhat departs from most civ leader heroes. He is an apt leader, and a formidable fighter in his own right (by virtue of being a hybridized Tribal Chief and Mutant Warlord). He can hold his own against most combat heroes, and provides broad strategic bonuses.

The Headhunter is more oriented towards burst damage, and emphasizes several of foremost strengths of tribal civs. His abilities are more oriented towards making tactical gains, and even combat heroes fear becoming isolated with a Headhunter on the prowl.

The Ancestral Witch Doctor is about halfway between the Brewed Mother and the Far-Gone in terms of ability emphasis. They combine aspects of growing/enhancing your logistical base with...unusual and mysterious active abilities.

The Far-Gone is a unique hero unit, and like all secret hero units stats will not be revealed unless you select him. He's no more or less powerful than any of the other when used properly, but has a very specific niche where he performs exceedingly well.

>>2305469
>>2305522
Scouting is the most important thing in the game to have early on, we will get more heroes but we need this Scout in order to find them and other things of interest.

Headhunter

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>2305543
You've already voted Headhunter/Brewed Mother, Godzilla: >>2303632

The opening post is incoming soon, though if anyone had some more mood-music it would be appreciated.

>>2305543
True but having the ability to take advantage of whatever is found is also important. How many times have we found gold only to have it slip through our fingers? How many times have we lacked the skills or the strength to stake our claim or make use of our gains?


A war-chief is a more balanced approach that will benefit all of our civilisation in the early turns. Later on, we shall have the ability to acquire more heroes and then we can look into Headhunters.


Although arguably we should just go with the unique because they'll be nigh-impossible to get our hands on otherwise.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

"Do you ffeeel it, sisterrr?"

"You know I do nothing BUT feel. It is why our mother birthed me, to feel when she would not."

"A-aah-ah. And yet you fail to smell the stirring on the breeze? *tsk tsk* Did mother dearest forget that sensing organs are only half the puzzle?"

"I would lance your eyes out, wait for them to regrow, and do it again if you had ever had any, you cryptic snide bitch. What is it you think you sense?"

"..You would grow to regret it with time, sister dearest. The best things come to those who wait...and I sense something stirring that has waited with the patience of the grave for far too long.

Best hope you see them before they see us, sisterr. These may be capable of putting you out of your misery if you don't catch them quickly."

++++++

You are the Grave Tribe and you have nurtured the rot within yourselves, quietly within your ancestral cave for ages uncountable. Since before the world Fell, or so the Elders say. It is once more time for you to emerge, and test your mettle against those who would stand before you.

Your strongest warriors and most ancient elder have gone out on a hunt with an escort and your finest entranced zombies, a recent and momentous development by Brewed Mother Mira. They seek what is always sought in the Ceremonial Hunt, an answer from the Ancestors on whether it is time for you to make the Overworld pay for what happened to them so long.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>2305583

The Brewed Mother Mira, momentarily indisposed after her discovery, has been left behind to shepherd the rest of the flock along with you, the Council of Elders. The hunting party has been away far longer than is usual, and the darkly serene green glow of the Mind-Meld fungus has begun to show streaks of red anger and yellow worry in some of the communal pits.

There are some who say something should be done, while others insist on waiting as is traditional. They all look to you for guidance.

You presently have 2 actions per turn. Please roll 1d100 with every action post, and/or vote for an action post.

You may ask questions of any available hero units, or for general common civ-knowledge information at any time.

>What do?

>>>>>A. Scavenge for energy sources.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>G. Your choice

>Resource Points: 6
>Pop 700 Grave Mutants
>Military 600 (50 Dispatched)
>>Food: Very Good
>>Water: Plentiful
>>Morale: Good
>>Medicine: Average
>>Health: Average
>>Armaments: Very Good
>>Fuel: Flameseap [plentiful], Enternal Flamegas
>>Tech: Advanced Fungal Use. Advanced Zombie Manipulation. Advanced Tribal Drugmaking. Monster Component Harvesting. Tribal Tech.
>>Reputation: Silent
>>Infrastructure: Communal Housing Pits, Hall of the Ancients, Fungal Farms [Extensive], Flooded Caverns [Extensive], Cathedral of the Un-Fallen, Training/Torture Chambers, Mucausoid Farms.
>>Defenses: Hidden Cave Lair. Mind-Meld Fungus, Trap Network, Toxic Spore Clouds, Fungal Overgrowth [Assorted], Nideth Wasp Infestations, Mucausoid Alpha Dens.
>>Vehicles/Slaves: 10 Entranced Zombie Brutes [Dispatched], 200 Zombie Harvesters.
>>Power: The Eternal Flame, N/A
>>Weapons: Alloy Spears, Blowguns, Kryn-Knives, Assorted Natural Weapons.
>>Ammo: Poisoned Blowdats [Plentiful], Spore Grenades (Assorted) [Plentiful].
>>Armor: Mucausoid Furs, Conthawn Bone Armor, Zombie Remains. Scavenged Ballistic Armors [Scarce].
>>Other: Grave Fungus Extract, Fungal Drugs (assorted) [Plentiful], Graverot Potion [Scarce].
>>Communications: Mind-Meld Fungus, Messenger Skrittipedes, Tribal Dialect
>>Materials: Rare Fungal Materials [5], Zombie Compost [Plentiful], Fungal Materials [Plentiful], Monster Materials [Average]

>>2305552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdpzBdd5Eo ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve5GPELplec

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>2305600
>scout our base
>scout our perimeter

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>2305600
>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
home ground, lets see if any enter our land.

>B. Try to improve the base
If we haven't. Lets add some plant ropes, traps, and make holes to hide in.

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>2305686
Your defenses are composed of a matrix of the outer sections of the ancestor cave that've been skillfully blocked off, trapped, retrapped, augmented by toxic fungi, re-augmented by having natural predators (that you have the means of bypassing) infest the toxic fungi, turned into a labyrinth, un-labyrinthed, re-labyrinthed, and trapped again for generations.

Admittedly there are some deep flooded caverns where your ancestors have been tossing rocks for aeons uncounted in an attempt to clog any entrance....yet when you send divers in Mucausoid furs they still report only darkness as far as they can see.

But those caverns have not yet yielded any hostiles either.

>>2305696
For sure lets not leave the unknown unguarded, but until we have ways to work effectively in the water. Best we leave that alone.

Yet this does change my action picks.

>Scout Home Ground
>Explore Home ground
We'll sent a team to find points of Interest. Then explore in detail.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>2305778

Rolled 44 (1d100)

Well I've got to call it a night here guys (my useful time is about 5-9pm on weekdays, excepting Tuesday and Thursday) but you can look forward to sporadic updates throughout the week.

>>2305925
Fucking cocktese

Anyway Switch my vote to whatever hero will pass because of it. I don’t want to lose the second hero to falling between the cracks

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>2305925
Is that EST?

>>2305778
Vote

>>2305972
You've already voted for Headhunter, which is the closest to winning. Unless someone else shifts their vote there's nothing to be done.

There won't be any falling through the cracks though why do you think you have units out on a hunt?

Just lurking. You guys should really start a discord for this civ. At the very least, hang out in the /civ/ general server.

https://discord.gg/q83bGQN

>>2307166
desu we sort of have a discord as is, or at least we have one for Genie's civ quests which these are descended/inspired of. Genie himself wasn't all too keen on having one, but thats really just his preference.
https://discord.gg/FWkVGJ

I get the feeling we still need 1 more to back this >>2305778 or 3 to back another action.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>2305778
I'll back this

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>2308060
>>2308051
Someone back headhunter and let’s get an update going
>>2305778
Vote

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>2305778
>Scout Homeground [LOCKED]
>Explore Homeground [LOCKED]

Prioritizing area near HQ, scouting/exploring entire homeground is best done by segments.

Writing.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>2305600

Your scouts take their orders with grim visages belying the joy that lurks beneath their pale, bloated eyes. A visible energy suffuses the movements of the seeping faux-wound covered figures as they quickly gather the scant equipment taken on a scouting run. Within a few short minutes their packs are assembled, stashed with spore grenades, drugs crafted by the Brewed Mother's own hand, and utility tools carved from the bones of great swamp beasts. The men and women scale the wall of the armory-cavern, their jerky movements over the fungus and insect covered walls of the cave disconcertingly unlifelike in the half-light provided by the luminescent lichens cultivated in the ceiling, and set off through the cavern's tunnels at a sprint which would rapidly leave even a trained soldier gasping.

The scouts peel off in pairs and squads down side-tunnels that lead to exits with an eerie synchronicity, until only a trio are left taking the original path.

"What do you think it means, Connaught? When was the last time we were mobilized such as this, and to venture into the overworld no less!"

The one named Connaught considered the younger mutant's words to himself. The youth was overeager for this would be his first foray into the Great Swamp, whereas Connaught's own excitement was tempered by an intimate knowledge of the dangers that lurked above, but still there was a node of truth in the question. Small scouting forays and hunting parties were sent out on a near constant, rotating basis, for the Ancestors had decreed long ago that to become blind in their patient wait would serve only to invite the True Death...but the only stories of any large-scale mobilizations were told by the oldest of the elders, and by some of the shamans in the depths of their drug-induced fits.

Still, this line of thought was irrelevant to their orders. The Swamp, as with the Cave, only offered its bounties to those with the viciousness and the strength to take them, and now was not the time to muse on what conclusions the Elder Council might be drawing. A simple rebuke and chastisement of the youth should set him upon the correct path.

"It is not our place to question the Elders, and we near the exit. Be silent Erick as your sister Eris has been, and observe the world around you as they have commanded."

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>2308788

Scouts have moved to map and explore the surrounding area. They find that the layout of the swamp has shifted again, as is usual from the actions of the monsters that inhabit it, and the mysterious forces that occasionally seize the waters from time to time.

Several points of interest have been located.

-Several bandit outposts seem to be getting established in the nearby area, and 3 operating bases of varying maturity have sprung up near the edges of our territory. The soldiers seem to be well equipped, but they share the foolishness of all outsiders in believing their equipment can compensate where their skills should. They seem to be making heavy use of slaves, and searching for something but it is unclear what.

-Several monster dens have been tracked down. It seems there has been some sort of upheaval in the ecosystem lately, as the majority of animals and monsters are unknown to your veteran hunters and scouts...though a few do seem to be mutations off of old lineages. A few of the new arrivals that seem to promise useful materials are ambushed and taken down by your scouts, but time will have to be taken to see what uses may come of their offal.

+Food
+Monster Components

-Supporting evidence of some upheaval is found in the form of 2 nearby zombie hives having been...wiped clean. The thickets and sinkholes where the Dead had made their home for years have been replaced by large, deep lakes now. Large aquatic monsters visibly prowl beneath the surface. Zombie numbers in the local area seem to have been greatly reduced as a result, however more swarms are roving around in an active fashion seemingly searching for new homes. Less attuned factions will probably only see the increase in activity, not the decrease in overall numbers.

One swarm seems to be heading towards the general area of the ancestor cave, and should arrive overhead in 3 turns if not diverted. This has happened countless times in the past and typically represents an opportunity rather than cause for worry.

-The pseudosentient plants of the swamp are calmer than usual.

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>2308849

>Alert!
-Brewed Mother Mira is recovering rapidly. She is available for questions this turn, and will be available for actions next turn.

>What do?

>>>>>A. Scavenge for energy sources.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>G. Your choice

>Turn 2
>Resource Points: 6
>Pop 700 Grave Mutants
>Military 600 (50 Dispatched)
>>Food: Very Good
>>Water: Plentiful
>>Morale: Good
>>Medicine: Average
>>Health: Average
>>Armaments: Very Good
>>Fuel: Flameseap [plentiful], Enternal Flamegas
>>Tech: Advanced Fungal Use. Advanced Zombie Manipulation. Advanced Tribal Drugmaking. Monster Component Harvesting. Tribal Tech.
>>Reputation: Silent
>>Infrastructure: Communal Housing Pits, Hall of the Ancients, Fungal Farms [Extensive], Flooded Caverns [Extensive], Cathedral of the Un-Fallen, Training/Torture Chambers, Mucausoid Farms, Insect Farms.
>>Defenses: Hidden Cave Lair. Mind-Meld Fungus, Trap Network, Toxic Spore Clouds, Fungal Overgrowth [Assorted, Deadly], Nideth Wasp Infestations, Mucausoid Alpha Dens, Insect Hive Networks.
>>Vehicles/Slaves: 10 Entranced Zombie Brutes [Dispatched], 200 Zombie Harvesters.
>>Power: The Eternal Flame, N/A
>>Weapons: Alloy Spears, Blowguns, Kryn-Knives, Assorted Natural Weapons.
>>Ammo: Poisoned Blowdats [Plentiful], Spore Grenades (Assorted) [Plentiful], Bodywurm Eggs [Large].
>>Armor: Mucausoid Furs, Conthawn Bone Armor, Zombie Remains. Scavenged Ballistic Armors [Scarce].
>>Other: Grave Fungus Extract, Fungal Drugs (assorted) [Plentiful], Graverot Potion [Scarce].
>>Communications: Mind-Meld Fungus, Messenger Skrittipedes, Tribal Dialect
>>Materials: Rare Fungal Materials [5], Zombie Compost [Plentiful], Fungal Materials [Plentiful], Monster Materials [Average], Unknown Monster Components.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>2308862
"Mother, tell us the story of our relations with the Hungry Ones. Tell us again, how what we have learned of them and how we can best use them in our affairs. We seek your advice" speaks the Council

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>2308862
I wonder if any of these factions will be worth trading with. Otherwise best we keep an eye on them, but not mingle.

My current thoughts for actions are

>D
Study new components.

>G
See about prepping zombie homes for the hordes. More numbers of them mean more safety for us. So looking for old dens unused or worth clearing. With out hurting a monster part supply we want.

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>2308982
This is good

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2308894
Also yes, do this dialogue

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>2308982
Normally surrounding ourselves with zombies is a bad idea, but today, it is a good idea! Vote

File: Post-Apo Builder.pdf (735 KB, PDF)

735 KB PDF

>>2298775
STRELOK IS ALIVE! OH JESUS!

Also, did you help creating pic related?

>>2310150
I'm familiar with builders, but I have no idea who made that. I'm not sure if Strelok had a hand in that either.

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>2310186
Actually I happened to talk to a guy who was running a builder once that was interested in the system. I figured he was just curious, but a few months later I saw this floating around. It was an interesting feeling and shows why Genie should be more open about sharing the nitty-gritty of his thinking processes.

>>2310567
Ain't that true about everyone with a talent for something like this? Honestly, so long as we get a decent understanding of the rear end, people can fix any bugs or holes over time and as needed.

Fact is this is one of the few, if any, standard, effective and nigh-universally applicable systems we've got that works in such detail from single characters to entire factions.

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>2308894

>Mother Mira
"Oh silly children, you needn't emphasize your titles to me.

The Hungry Ones are our curse, our camouflage, our blessing, our tools, weapons, and livelihood. We use them to move and scout the great swamp concealed and prod them towards our enemies when necessary. They provide us with their flesh as food when times are lean, and even when there is plenty we sow them through our cave as feedstock to the fungi and insects that have kept us safe.

They are also the stupidest creatures in the entire swamp, do not let the tales of the Shamans romanticize them to you. You have seen our zombie harvesters in the fungal farms, yes? They are old, we have had them for decades, and yet still they do not realize that they cannot hope to eat what they harvest with their jaws removed and hands replaced by scoops. They have gotten better at collecting the blooms though.

Still, not all are so dumb. We have met scant handful that are intelligent...there are a few lone wanderers, non-controllers they call themselves, that we keep a distanced relationship with (them having encountered some of our warriors and having a false sense of kinship). Those are useful ones to know, and are indeed similar to us superficially though they happened upon their gift/curse by happenstance rather than being chosen by the Ancients. Of more concern are the 'Controllers', which are usually at the hearts of the largest gatherings of the Dead. Our manipulations of the hordes have never been discovered outright by one, but the infiltrators in swarms have certainly sensed an intelligent entity's wrath during their work on more than one occasion. We've killed a handful, but they are canny and difficult to identify even for us.

We have also found that our gifts are not universal. We have not encountered a group yet where we could not blend with the rank-and file, but there are some breeds of Those Who Hunger that clearly become agitated at our presence more quickly then others...and furthermore it is never good to linger for long around any of the more intelligent individuals. We have made attempts in the past to ensure that only favorable, hardy, but non-special groups establish themselves nearby...though from what the scouts report two of those groomed hives have now been destroyed. A most troubling development indeed.

This is much talking, children. I must take my rest again now, the Graverot blooms that entranced the Brutes were a strain on me to produce...but oh so worthwhile."

>Hero has retired, only specific further questions may be asked this turn

>>2310578
I've tried to make him see that, and also tried to get him to share the details of the back-end logic on how his setting runs a the groups therein interact. Hasn't worked yet though.

>>2308982
>Study new monster components [LOCKED]

>Scout for new homes for the hordes [LOCKED]

Writing.

>>2310669
Well I hope you do find out how it all works. I'd hate to see one of the greatest systems and universes ever created here or anywhere be lost.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>2308862

The new materials are flensed from their fleshy housings, peeled apart, rendered down, rendered up, extracted, poured, pulled, stretched, experimented with, chewed, vomited, fed to Mucausoid pups, and put through all manner of rigorous tests for unique properties that have been handed down and refined by untold generations of kinsmen and craftsmen at this point. Several interesting, and possibly useful components are identified and their corresponding sources are given names which are recorded on the bestiary walls of the Hall of Ancients to commemorate their discovery.

>Discovered
-Polimbic Lymph
Extracted in small quantities from a particularly aggressive pseudo-fish creature that thought it could ambush a squad of hunters crawling across the bottom of a streambed, this lymph has been observed to burn like acid through the metal of our alloy spears and through the flesh of living plants alike. Strangely, our own bodies and fungi seem to be unaffected. Though it is unclear whether the atmosphere of the cave has something to do with this.

-Hurknoth lungs
These strangely paper-like organs are incredibly resilient despite their thin-ness. When butchered and exposed to fat and water, they begin to release bubbly quantities of breathable gas, the effect amplified by chewing. A mild depressant effect was also observed in the pets this was tested on. Surprisingly, it seems that our own mutation considerably amplifies this. Heartrate and breathing activity were drastically slowed, making us even more resemble the Dead that we ape, reportedly without any loss of mental acuity and mild effects on physical prowess. Harvesting these creatures should allow us to reach far greater depths underwater.

Several other items of interest were requested by Mother Mira or the crafters, but these experiments will take longer to see if they bear fruit.

Damn 42

Meanwhile the men have identified several possible locations we could direct some of the roving zombies towards. It was also noted that, with their disordered march, the hordes are being steadily eroded by packs of hungry monsters.

The best locations are:
-A grotto with a waterfall near one of the bandit forward bases.
-An ancient grove of interconnected trees uncomfortably close to one of the entrances to our cave system.
-The remains of an abandoned old-world facility that a peculiar group of outsiders have traditionally visited with some regularity.

Attempting to invest them in any of the places carries its own chance of success, risks, and rewards. It's also possible that further scouting or allowing the horde to continue wandering may reveal other suitable options.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2310756

>Mother Mira
"While the Council leads, it deserves noting that we have NOT based any hives near our cave system before...and for good reason. While it would provide readily accessible resources, if any force took the mind to annihilate them we would bear risk of discovery.

Think carefully on the value of being unknown and risk of discovery, should you choose the nearby grove."

>Alert!
-Some of the entranced Shamans have reported of feeling something...momentous happening outside the range of our normal surveillance. It is unclear whether this bodes ill or good.

>What do?

>>>>>A. Scavenge for energy sources.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>G. Your choice

>Turn 3
>Resource Points: 6
>Pop 700 Grave Mutants
>Military 600 (50 Dispatched)
>>Food: Very Good
>>Water: Plentiful
>>Morale: Good
>>Medicine: Average
>>Health: Average
>>Armaments: Very Good
>>Fuel: Flameseap [plentiful], Enternal Flamegas
>>Tech: Advanced Fungal Use. Advanced Zombie Manipulation. Advanced Tribal Drugmaking. Monster Component Harvesting. Tribal Tech.
>>Reputation: Silent
>>Infrastructure: Communal Housing Pits, Hall of the Ancients, Fungal Farms [Extensive], Flooded Caverns [Extensive], Cathedral of the Un-Fallen, Training/Torture Chambers, Mucausoid Farms, Insect Farms.
>>Defenses: Hidden Cave Lair. Mind-Meld Fungus, Trap Network, Toxic Spore Clouds, Fungal Overgrowth [Assorted, Deadly], Nideth Wasp Infestations, Mucausoid Alpha Dens, Insect Hive Networks.
>>Vehicles/Slaves: 10 Entranced Zombie Brutes [Dispatched], 200 Zombie Harvesters.
>>Power: The Eternal Flame, N/A
>>Weapons: Alloy Spears, Blowguns, Kryn-Knives, Assorted Natural Weapons.
>>Ammo: Poisoned Blowdats [Plentiful], Spore Grenades (Assorted) [Plentiful], Bodywurm Eggs [Large].
>>Armor: Mucausoid Furs, Conthawn Bone Armor, Zombie Remains. Scavenged Ballistic Armors [Scarce].
>>Other: Grave Fungus Extract, Fungal Drugs (assorted) [Plentiful], Graverot Potion [Scarce], Polimbic Lymph [Scarce], Hurknoth Lungs [Low].
>>Communications: Mind-Meld Fungus, Messenger Skrittipedes, Tribal Dialect
>>Materials: Rare Fungal Materials [5], Zombie Compost [Plentiful], Fungal Materials [Plentiful], Monster Materials [Average].

>>2310669
>Of more concern are the 'Controllers', which are usually at the hearts of the largest gatherings of the Dead. Our manipulations of the hordes have never been discovered outright by one, but the infiltrators in swarms have certainly sensed an intelligent entity's wrath during their work on more than one occasion. We've killed a handful, but they are canny and difficult to identify even for us.
I bet it stands to reason not letting people discover us, especially even among smarter zombies, is a priority

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>2310776
Location Choice:
>-A grotto with a waterfall near one of the bandit forward bases
If we ever need to deal with the bandits, this is a good way to be prepared.

Action 1
>-Polimbic Lymph
See if we can mutate a few followers into a kind of "Death Spitters" who can lob blasts of this acidic substances at enemies!

Action 2
Figure out a way to deal with those monsters. Send scouting teams to observe for weaknesses or targets of opportunity. If you happen to kill a few monsters too, no one will be the worse for it. We need to try and conserve the Zombie horde as much as possible.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>2310756

>D. Research
For sure we should see about farming or ways to better gather sources of Hurknoth lungs. It will aid in zombie task and water. Which I feel we must work to. So our base is better off from siege viva the dark waters in our tunnels. Hopefully Mother Mira will be up to the task. Once refined this could help with the smarter undead.

>G
Aid the hordes to lessen lose and give a bit more time to find the best home for them.

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>2310784

>Mother Mira
"It was before my transformation that some things were decided on by the Ancestors, and those memories are lost to me.

One of those old decrees is that we remain as unknown as possible until the Ancestors show that it is the proper time to emerge, through the prizes brought back by our ceremonial hunt.

Though necessity has made this rule somewhat pliant in the past as regards outsiders, with our members enshrouding themselves in disguises to commune with other fellow mutants...we have NEVER allowed any of the Dead to know of our true nature. It is an absolute, and it it because of the Controllers. They despise the Zed bandits who imitate our control with vehemence we can feel even from here. If they ever found discovered that our entire race stands well poised with the potential to usurp their control of the hordes, they would stop at nothing to find us and wipe us from the face of this blasted planet.

There is even rumor that some interpretations of our ancient legends lay blame for our existence in hiding here underground at the feet of having been discovered in such fashion before. Whatever the case may be, you can expect even the most loyal of our number to disobey any orders that they feel might result in such a thing happening."

>>2310810
"These 'Controllers' who are they? What do we know about them and their ways?"

>>2310797
I was thinking bandits as well. Tho I hoping with one more turn we can be sure.

>>2310835
We will need to regrow the zombie numbers naturally, and one of the chief ways to do that is humans. I'm not sure if there are other ways zombies can grow more zombies besides infection, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>2310815

"...

They are the zombies of whom we know the least, for they surround themselves with the peculiar zombie mutants that are best with detecting us. The few that we have killed, rather than subtly shooing away, even still did not reveal much. The Mind-Meld fungus reacted to their presence in much the way it does to us, but communion with it never revealed anything of us. Physically they do not usually appear as any different from any other zombie...though patterns can be read in the way the horde bunches by our most skilled infiltrators that helps to locate them. We rarely run into them unexpectedly though despite their stealth, as any horde lead by one has a distinct...taste to its behavior and flow.

When they ARE different from the rank-and-file they are usually quite distinct, but follow no observable pattern in their physical form. These are exceedingly rare though, and we steer far clear of them and their subjects.

Both sorts share common behaviors though, chiefly is their tremendous cowardice. This is their main strength, and chief weakness. If you can convince them of their personal danger, or the likelihood of loss of their horde they will instinctively panic and flee while blending in with their fellows.

This is the correct time to strike to take one down. When they are distracted, and accordingly so are all their subjects. Even the special ones. The sole monstrous Controller we have killed was taken in this way. Its defenestrated and artfully reconstructed corpse is what composes the Chief's throne even today."

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>2310838

The only zombies that do have some form of...natural population growth are fungal zombies. It's not really properly natural growth, nor is what's produced really properly more of their population. Fungal hives have been observed to be adept at regrowing savaged bodies and tissues of discarded meals though, and so it's simplified as small passive growth.

>>2310852
Could we throw severed body parts and bits of gore into one and get out new zombies in exchange?

That might prove opportunitous. If we can't infect humans alive, then we can still use their corpses even when mangled. Or perhaps the body parts of monsters for example.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2310864
If you made deliberate efforts to feed a fungal hive, you would get significantly diminished but noticeable amounts of return on your investment. This is an interesting departure from the behavior of other types of hives, which are generally just notably less aggressive when fed (though other types of hives do possess different abilities in manipulating corpse parts). Monster parts are generally resilient to infection, as are monsters themselves, and just produce better fed zombies rather than more.

Strangely fungal zombies are quite rare here. Most seem to be of the parasitic nature, though their dominance is not extremely expressed over viral zombies.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>2310806
Vote

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2310806
>>2310955
I'll switch to support this

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>2311007
>>2310955
>>2310806
Vote

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>2310806

>Investigate ways for harvesting Hurknoth Lungs. [LOCKED]

>Defray the attrition effects on the zombie hordes. [LOCKED]

Writan'.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>2310776

Your forces decide that the best way to go about researching Hurknoth would be first to find a reliable supply. While you are by no means masters of monster husbandry, you nonetheless manage to trail several of the creatures and gather more information on their behavior.

Tracking and locating concentrations proves to be more difficult than would've been hoped. The animals exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism, and only the larger and considerably more ferocious females have useful components. Females are typically solitary, the large insect-like creatures roving over an area that is defined by several nesting locations, each of which is defended in the female's absence by clusters of males which swarm over any attempted intruders. The males are easily crushed but their ichor rapidly solidifies on the attacker and triggers a scent-summons to other clusters of males, quickly resulting in most foes being immobilized and cocooned before getting dragged into the nest as an offering for the female when it next stops by.

All of this makes them difficult to locate or cultivate for any specific harvesting, and to compound the problems they are a new arrival only just coming to your area. However, you identify several nearby nests and note the direction the species seems to be expanding from.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>2311104
Other forces, meanwhile, are dispatched to help the various groups of zombies fare better against the monster hordes that beset them. Your handlers effectively merge several of the largest groups into a fairly sizable herd, which will move slower but suffer considerably less from monster attacks.

The new herd has lost most of its momentum in the process of forming, however, and is now milling about in a series of flooded buildings to the east of your cave. They are closest to the old-world facility, and furthest from the grotto near the bandits, but can be easily influenced to go in either direction at this point.

>Alert!
-Your civ members grow increasingly worried at the delayed return of your hunting party, with some grumbling that perhaps the Shamans' revelation referred to the death of your other hero.

>What do?

>>>>>A. Scavenge for energy sources.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>G. Your choice

>Turn 4
>Resource Points: 6
>Pop 700 Grave Mutants
>Military 600 (50 Dispatched)
>>Food: Very Good
>>Water: Plentiful
>>Morale: Good
>>Medicine: Average
>>Health: Average
>>Armaments: Very Good
>>Fuel: Flameseap [plentiful], Enternal Flamegas
>>Tech: Advanced Fungal Use. Advanced Zombie Manipulation. Advanced Tribal Drugmaking. Monster Component Harvesting. Tribal Tech.
>>Reputation: Silent
>>Infrastructure: Communal Housing Pits, Hall of the Ancients, Fungal Farms [Extensive], Flooded Caverns [Extensive], Cathedral of the Un-Fallen, Training/Torture Chambers, Mucausoid Farms, Insect Farms.
>>Defenses: Hidden Cave Lair. Mind-Meld Fungus, Trap Network, Toxic Spore Clouds, Fungal Overgrowth [Assorted, Deadly], Nideth Wasp Infestations, Mucausoid Alpha Dens, Insect Hive Networks.
>>Vehicles/Slaves: 10 Entranced Zombie Brutes [Dispatched], 200 Zombie Harvesters.
>>Power: The Eternal Flame, N/A
>>Weapons: Alloy Spears, Blowguns, Kryn-Knives, Assorted Natural Weapons.
>>Ammo: Poisoned Blowdats [Plentiful], Spore Grenades (Assorted) [Plentiful], Bodywurm Eggs [Large].
>>Armor: Mucausoid Furs, Conthawn Bone Armor, Zombie Remains. Scavenged Ballistic Armors [Scarce].
>>Other: Grave Fungus Extract, Fungal Drugs (assorted) [Plentiful], Graverot Potion [Scarce], Polimbic Lymph [Scarce], Hurknoth Lungs [Low].
>>Communications: Mind-Meld Fungus, Messenger Skrittipedes, Tribal Dialect
>>Materials: Rare Fungal Materials [5], Zombie Compost [Plentiful], Fungal Materials [Plentiful], Monster Materials [Average].

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>2311124
That's it for posts tonight, folks. Thanks for playing! I'll be around to answer questions, but we'll resume on friday afternoon.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>2311124
Hm... near the bandits feels right for the pick. The old world facility could be a back up base that's trapped. Current thoughts is

>G
Prep the home for the zombies.

>E
To ease the worry of our people. We shall send some teams to search for our hero.

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>>2310797
Once we get the hero. Thinking we can get some mats. for using Mutagenic Brewer. Then with more monster parts and the hunter helping to get them. We should try for the acid research.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>2311332
When you say 'prep the home for the zombies' what do you mean exactly?

Keep in mind that zombies are very low maintenance so far as facilities go, most hives start out as just...kind of a place where a SHITTON of zombies are all hanging out. It's only after quite some time and through some mechanism that's not understood that hives become something more.

You can, of course, modify the location in some fashion if you want to encourage certain traits in the zombies. You could also try to make it more spacious or hospitable for them, but your members have lived their whole lives in the Cave so they're kind of piss poor at construction.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>2311971
My apologies. I meant it in how people go into a new home and make sure it's ready to move in. So in our case it would be check for traps, monsters, and other undesirables. If we can groom them and some way from our long history with zombies. That would be even better.

>>2310150
>>2310186
>>2310567
Sup. Nice to see someone saved up the initial rules for player and they keep circulating /qst/
This is Marie and here is the summary of what was happening: https://pastebin.com/USkiUHvC

Also, I guess I will join this particular quest, since, well, it's on and it's by Strelok.

>>2311124
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
Send look-out for the missing hunting party

>>2312018
I guess I've got someone on campus who posted this! Guess it's time to find that person.

>>2312018
We get two actions with luck on our side ( roll 1d100), hopefully.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>2312018
>>2312021
Rollan

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>2311332
Vote

Trying to think of anything to talk about since we have to wait till Friday. Seems a bit too early in the game to think of a lot of future plans.

Those two monsters we found are definitely nice pick. Give us some breathing for water, helping blend with zombies, and some ways to deal with Future Weapons with metals.

>>2312851
To be fair, our immediate future is fairly simple. Expand our current home caverns and fungal farms while converting zombies to be fungal harvesters, enabling us to have a larger population and potentially freeing some workers from harvesting assuming we don't use an entirely zombified harvesting system already. Then we can look into taking advantage of the zombies in other ways such as brutes helping us gather wood on the surface and such.

Longer term, we should probably work on improving our mindmeld fungus. That way our population will be more unified in purpose and therefore more efficient in their efforts. Ideally we can figure out a way to construct connective tendrils of such fungal matter between different bases as we expand, enabling our various outposts and colonies to interact constantly, avoiding any issues with communication lag that such low tech civilisations always suffer.

>>2312851
We can always talk about things we want as well.

I want a Witch Doctor vibe thing (even though we didn't pick him). I wonder if we can at least maybe train some amateur ones.

War drums, psychological warfare, the works.

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>2311998
Well there's one idea for a way you could 'prep' the location that seems just terribly obvious to me.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>2312018
The hunting party is likely going to remain missing (barring crits) until the 2nd hero unit is chosen.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>2313515
Oh yeah we still needed 1 vote for the hunter. Since they need 5 votes to lock.

>>2313508
Fungi?

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>2312940
Zombie harvesters do the grunt work of harvesting, and those that you currently have have done it for a very long time so even their three-quarter dead zombie brains have learned how to do it fairly well. Interestingly the stories told of how they came to be trained seem to suggest that attempting to teach them that harvesting better would see their dinners be larger...utterly failed. Instead they have simply gradually learned how to better manipulate their scoop-arms in their futile but constant attempts to feed themselves.

Zombie-powered automation unfortunately lacks nuance, and so the food preparation and preservation steps must be performed by tribe members. These tasks are mostly performed by your children, the handful of witch doctors you have, and Mother Mira's various apprentices or prospects. The children that display the most aptitude tend to be recruited by Mother Mira as possible brewers themselves.

>>2313542
Now here's an anon who can think like a tribal, who can kick almost anyone's ass in familiar terrain...AND a mutant, who has adapted to thrive in environments that would make others weep just to know they exist.

Play to your strengths, especially when they are to the detriment of your enemies, and you'll become a force to be reckoned with in no time.

>>2313609
What direct benefits does the presence of fungi give us in a combat sense? Are they very harmful to others? Do they have a natural spread or are we just looking at manual seeding? All current levels, I guess we could engineer/research more desirable fungus traits and bennies.

Maybe our strat is aggressive fungus expansion-let the spore winds blow.

>>2313609
Good to know but you failed to comment on my longer term idea. I want to work out just what the mind meld is doing for us and where we can improve it.

I am also curious as to our general tech level. For example: would a pulley / winch be beyond our understanding? Do we have any experience working and smelting metal? I want to get an idea of what tribal really means, since this is the first time we've really ever done this sort of thing and knowing what we can reasonably construct or develop will enable us to more effectively plan.

>>2313755
>What direct benefits does the presence of fungi give us in a combat sense?
I mean, one of our kinds of fungi is called mind-meld. It is a part of both of our communications section and our defences section, implying it is very useful.

>Are they very harmful to others?
A large portion of our defences section is made up of fungus of all sorts. Along with a large portion of our weapons.

>Do they have a natural spread or are we just looking at manual seeding?
Logically speaking they must, or else our tribe would be near constantly dedicated to their maintenance.

>All current levels, I guess we could engineer/research more desirable fungus traits and bennies.
Yeah. That is one of the great things about this system: there is no hard cap on your tech, even for biology, it's just a matter of having the appropriate heroes and enough raw ability to develop solutions / scientists to throw at the problem. If we have enough time and resources, almost anything is possible.

>Maybe our strat is aggressive fungus expansion-let the spore winds blow.
Maybe if we infest some of our zombie brutes as spore carriers, we could use them to start new colonies of our people...especially if we can train them to tunnel into the earth and create new cave networks for our people to live in. Although there are zombies more appropriate for that role certainly. It's also quite useful to note that in the harvesting of useful monster parts, we are probably getting loads that could be used to encourage fungal growth if nothing else by rotting.

But yeah, fungal blooms would certainly be a method for spreading our fungus to new regions in advance of our actual people. Although it could attract a bit much attention...

Believes the current actions needs one vote or two for the other.

And we still need one more vote for the hunter or swapping 5 total for a different hero.

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>2311332
I'll back this then so we can get a move on.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2315415
In fact I /pointedly/ failed to comment on your longer term idea. Perform research on the Mind-Meld fungus in order to figure out what it exactly it does...you may find interesting things. There's also another idea you had that I pointedly didn't comment on, it's no fun if I explicitly tell you all the best ways to use your stuff without you putting forth effort to find out.

You can also ask or pose these sorts of ideas to your Hero(es) at any time to get their feedback on them.

As for general tech level...aside from the specialties detailed under your Tech section you have typical Post-Apoc Tribal level of technology. You understand mechanical concepts, and are in fact fairly advanced in their applied form (especially as applies to, say, trapmaking) but you have not necessarily made lateral conclusions as to all the places you might could use these concepts because 'theory' is not an idea you grasp very well.

You know how to work and smelt metal, however your tribesmen are far from experts in the practice. You know a few basic alloys, but that's mainly in a "a piece of salvage from this part of a certain thing and that part of another thing produces metal that holds a better edge". Your alloy spears are rather high quality, composed of a collapsible tube so that they may be hidden when you are blending in with zombie hordes, but they're the best metalworking you've got too and rely on resources in their construction. You couldn't get access to metal and make them because you lack the proper tools and skills to manufacture what it takes to create the components that make them collapsible. Both of these could be acquired given effort, but as mutants and tribals you excel in coming up with alternative solutions to such problems.

For instance, your alloy spears are typically tipped as per personal preference of the wielder. The most common is teeth from a particularly ferocious truck-sized worm-creature that likes to nest itself among the roots of mangrove trees, and has been observed to tear through tank armor as if it's paper. Also common are the tusks of a tree dwelling humanoid reptile that would appear to be dull bludgeoning instruments at first glace...but upon actual application to unprotected flesh they have been observed to absolutely denature their unfortunate victims. The skin and flesh underneath seems to be minced so fine it simply turns into fluid even at the slightest touch, and the effect of dragging or stabbing such a tusk into someone it truly a horrendous sight to behold. Toxic fangs or stingers which never seem to run out of venom of poison come in third for popularity. Often times the possession of an alloy spear, and whatever it's tipped with is regarded as a status symbol.

>>2313515
I'm aware of that, but the joy of quests is the room for doing things for purely roleplay value, while in builders that means getting shanked by other players

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>2313755
This anon's: >>2315415 points are the gist of it.

While your tribemembers have grown accustomed, even fond of the Cave's environment it is in fact incredibly hostile to unadapted life. This is somewhat deliberate, as your members have cultivated and bred harsh fungi over the generations as defense or alert mechanisms. Less hardy creatures that stumble near the entrances to your cave quickly succumb to the menagerie of toxic, hallucinogenic, phermonically charming, and etc. spores that it exudes. These corpses are often then disassembled by the various insects that also call the cave home, and brought back to those various hives...which are in turn harvested for food, resources, or as feedstock for the fungal farms by your members.

Tribals and low-tech doesn't mean stupid, I don't know if I'm hammering that point home hard enough with all this explanation.

>>2311332
>>Prep the home for the zombies [LOCKED]
>[Seed with fungi?]

>Y
>N

>Send teams to search for our hero [LOCKED]
Writing.

>>2305342
Anyone have objections to the Headhunter? We should vote in our second hero

>>2315926
>In fact I /pointedly/ failed to comment on your longer term idea. Perform research on the Mind-Meld fungus in order to figure out what it exactly it does...you may find interesting things. There's also another idea you had that I pointedly didn't comment on, it's no fun if I explicitly tell you all the best ways to use your stuff without you putting forth effort to find out.
I know, I know but I'm out of habit for this. Good to know at least some of what I've suggested is good or viable...means I can convince the others to back it.

>You can also ask or pose these sorts of ideas to your Hero(es) at any time to get their feedback on them.
Yeah but I'm always addressing other anons when I have these ideas and thus don't want to break discussion to ask a hero's opinion. Still, something to do in future.

>As for general tech level...aside from the specialities detailed under your Tech section you have typical Post-Apoc Tribal level of technology. You understand mechanical concepts, and are in fact fairly advanced in their applied form (especially as applies to, say, trap-making) but you have not necessarily made lateral conclusions as to all the places you might could use these concepts because 'theory' is not an idea you grasp very well.
Yeah I was assuming you'd say that. Still, that means with the right heroes and motivations, we can greatly improve just by reducing the amount of manpower we are wasting on automatable activities as we grow and develop better methods. Although I have an idea to augment this further but we'd need to find a more technologically capable group to help us...gonna pull some Meji restoration shit up in here...

>Metal working and our limitations regarding the actual processing of metal outside of salvage
Yeah that could be a problem but seeing as we lack access to metal currently, it's not like it matters.

>Both of these could be acquired given effort, but as mutants and tribals you excel in coming up with alternative solutions to such problems.
To quote George S. Patton, "Don't tell people how to do something, tell them what you want them to do and their creativity will surprise you". Our people must thrive or die, thus we must solve our various problems with what is at hand. In our case? That was zombies and fungus.

>Spears and our culture surrounding them.
Interesting...that first creature's effect could have a most amazing industrial application in the processing of trees, seeing as they'd carve far better than any conventional saw we can produce.

>>2315973
>[Seed with fungi?]
>Y

>>2316009
Only that it means we won't have our special hero.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>2315973
While I worry about making fungi zombies. I think we will be better off doing it.

>Y

>>2316039
>Only that it means we won't have our special hero.
?
We have two hero choices don't we. Is there a better hero than headhunter you have in mind?

>>2315973
>Y

>>2316106
I believe they are talking about the Far-Gone. Which we probably have a chance of getting at some point later.

>>2316106
This anon(>>2316156) is right.


Although we can get the far gone later most likely, my main problem is that'd require us figuring out what makes them and then doing that which is a far more arduous task compared to getting, for example, a witch doctor or war chief. Since absorbing or unifying with another tribe would achieve that potentially.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>2311124

A near-adolescent child of the tribe, dressed in a fungal-mat derived tunic stands on a ledge overlooking one of the main potion-making chambers. Her hair is already growing patchy, dark stains and crusts resembling old bloody wounds mottle her pale exposed skin, and her belly is distended as if bloated from the gases of decomposition. It is clearly nearing her time to come into the full swing of your mutation, but it is not yet. Her eyes still shine remarkably sharp and clear rather than the milky-white of an adult, pupils dilated so wide as to wipe out any iris color in the darkness of the cave. An indistinct figure pads up the stony incline behind the youth. Lines of beetles and ants seeming to move their path preemptively before each silent step has been taken, finally the figure stands still in the obscuring darkness beside the child and speaks with a soothing voice that seems almost entwined with the soft atmosphere of the cave.

"Tell me, my child, why do you stare at them so intently?"

The youth looks to the Mother Mira beside her for a moment, then turns back to stare at the men steadily emptying the chamber below of various vessels filled with spores, mushroom caps, toadstools, and all manner of various fungal materials. The child's voice comes out as a clear and composed falsetto, cutting through the darkness and the low hum of insect activity like a knife.

"Mama Mira, this is the chamber where you told me to put all of MY gatherings...a-and now they're taking all of them. They're taking them away, they say to somewhere beyond our home, outside the cave."

The young child begins to choke up and her eyes start to cloud with the beginnings of tears, but she continues.

"I-I wanted to stop them Mama. I tried to tell them that I gathered all this, that...that the Mindmeld would feel the loss. That y-you told me we were here to care and cultivate what our Ancestors had discovered and left us here. That they had no right to take the cave's bounty, and throw it out into the world uncared for!

...But they told me it was for the good of all our Final Grave, and by command of the Council too. I still don't understand why they must take MY clippings." the last sentence comes out as a pitiful, petulant whine which only a child with no experience of the greater world might fully express.

"Well they came for your clippings specifically because I told them to. My dearest Alba. You would be wise to contemplate why I might do so. Meet me in the master chambers when you have an answer."

The child jerks her head towards where the shadow had been just a moment before but the figure has already disappeared without a sound, not even leaving the puffs of spores from footprints behind. Alba looks back down the empty passageway for a moment longer nonetheless. When she turns back to resume her observation of the tribesmen unloading the fungal stockroom, her eyes have the barest hint of a twinkle to them.

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>2316184

A contingent of hunters and tenders has been dispatched to develop the grotto area with a selection of fungi chosen at Mother Mira's suggestion, though Mother Mira did not accompany them herself. The materials have been mostly moved to the location, but further turns will be required in order to distribute and cement the fungi's hold in the area.

>>Would you like to dispatch other forces as well, to guide and guard the zombies?
>>[100 Military] will be dispatched until the zombies reach their destination
>Y
>N

Meanwhile we have also dispatched teams to search for our missing hero. The various pack leaders consult with the shamans for counsel on where to direct their search one-by-one, and leave according to the visions of the seers. They will return in approximately 3 turns if their search is unsuccessful.

>[100 Military Dispatched]

>Alert
-The seers foretell a grand storm will wash in from the barren deadlands to the south. They do not know what it will bring.

>What do?

>>>>>A. Scavenge for energy sources.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>G. Your choice

>Turn 5
>Resource Points: 6
>Pop 700 Grave Mutants
>Military 600 (150 Dispatched)
>>Food: Good
>>Water: Plentiful
>>Morale: Good
>>Medicine: Below Average
>>Health: Average
>>Armaments: Very Good
>>Fuel: Flameseap [plentiful], Enternal Flamegas
>>Tech: Advanced Fungal Use. Advanced Zombie Manipulation. Advanced Tribal Drugmaking. Monster Component Harvesting. Tribal Tech.
>>Reputation: Silent
>>Infrastructure: Communal Housing Pits, Hall of the Ancients, Fungal Farms [Extensive], Flooded Caverns [Extensive], Cathedral of the Un-Fallen, Training/Torture Chambers, Mucausoid Farms, Insect Farms.
>>Defenses: Hidden Cave Lair. Mind-Meld Fungus, Trap Network, Toxic Spore Clouds, Fungal Overgrowth [Assorted, Deadly], Nideth Wasp Infestations, Mucausoid Alpha Dens, Insect Hive Networks.
>>Vehicles/Slaves: 10 Entranced Zombie Brutes [Dispatched], 200 Zombie Harvesters.
>>Power: The Eternal Flame, N/A
>>Weapons: Alloy Spears, Blowguns, Kryn-Knives, Assorted Natural Weapons.
>>Ammo: Poisoned Blowdats [Plentiful], Spore Grenades (Assorted) [Plentiful], Bodywurm Eggs [Large].
>>Armor: Mucausoid Furs, Conthawn Bone Armor, Zombie Remains. Scavenged Ballistic Armors [Scarce].
>>Other: Grave Fungus Extract, Fungal Drugs (assorted) [Plentiful], Graverot Potion [Scarce], Polimbic Lymph [Scarce], Hurknoth Lungs [Low].
>>Communications: Mind-Meld Fungus, Messenger Skrittipedes, Tribal Dialect
>>Materials: Rare Fungal Materials [5], Zombie Compost [Plentiful], Fungal Materials [Very Large], Monster Materials [Average].

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Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>2316229
Oh goody, the first 1. Carry on, carry on, players. Nothing to see here.

>>2315973
>These corpses are often then disassembled by the various insects that also call the cave home, and brought back to those various hives...which are in turn harvested for food, resources, or as feedstock for the fungal farms by your members.
So if I get this right, it means that whatever the humanoids wandering around the cave were carrying on them and isn't edible/organic, is somewhere in the hives of insect native to the cave?
Long story short - it means we can actively search for those things, even if they are most likely being junk metal and alike, but hey, maybe we will get lucky.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>2316229
>Y
With the storm the undead will need a bit of help to keep their numbers.

>B
We'll need to shore up the base from the storm.

>G
Keep working on the new home. Then we pray it will hold our in this storm.

---

So where are we on the hero? I get the feeling we need that pick sooner than later. I'm personally still locked on Headhunter. Having a hero who gives combat heroes a run for their money will be nice. Since we have the mother for growth.

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2316229
>>Would you like to dispatch other forces as well, to guide and guard the zombies?
>>[100 Military] will be dispatched until the zombies reach their destination
>Y

>>>>>D. Research technology.
We must improve our understanding and usage of the mind meld fungi.

>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
We shall continue to prepare the hive for the arrival of it's new inhabitants.

>>2316238
Welp, this odd to be fun...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBx7Jg4m-o

>>2316274
We do that already, given we are harvesting the insect nests for food and resources.

>>2316229
Did our Medicine lower do to the home prep?

So did our food. We'll need to hunt or work on new settlements for grow food out put. Assuming the cave has little room to expand the farm.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2316287
Unless you come up with something specific or do some research to create a write-in and fluffed strain of fungus your base defenses are capped out.

>>2316229
>1
Well fuck me and our civ...

I would say D. Research technology to work on Mind-Meld. It would be good to know what this stuff even is in practical terms.
Also, considering the nat1, it's Morton's fork with sending military to guide and guard zombies. If we won't, chances are the zombies will fail. If we will, they might still fail, while our local defenses are even thinner.
I still say it's worth the risk to send the military anyway, because there is a chance to get something out of it and not waste the whole operation, while keeping troops means we are endangering the whole action.

So for dispatch:
>Y
and
>>>>>D. Research technology.
Study Mind-Meld

But feel free to do whatever, I'm just stating aloud my worries.

>>2316301
Oh so no worry of flooding from the storm then?

>>2316293
But we aren't deliberately searching for anything, don't we? Just picking what we need at the time, and mostly looking for food and matter for fungi

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2316299
Your medicines and food both are composed substantially of fungal materials, a large amount of which have been delegated to seeding the grotto.

>>2316304
Who said it was going to be a storm of water and thunder?

>>2316229
>Dispatch forces to guard/guide the zombies [LOCKED]

>>2316299
It makes sense, our food and medicine is fungus and we're prepping the new hive with all of our appropriate strains. Also we can always expand our farms by expanding the caverns. It's just a matter of making that part of the process more efficient.

>>2316301
>capped out.
If this pun wasn't intentional I am sad.

>>2316302
Fair enough man, honestly it's entirely possible the 1 won't hit us anytime soon.

>>2316304
>Post Apo Civ builder
>Storm is coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C6GZQ7UNaU
I'm getting too old for this

tl;dw - troubles inbound, especially considering the nat1

>>2316307
>But we aren't deliberately searching for anything, don't we? Just picking what we need at the time, and mostly looking for food and matter for fungi
We're taking everything we have a use for. We're tribals, the second best scavengers in this universe and that is mostly because of our creativity. Fact is metal is an incredibly valuable thing for us, so I doubt it's being left behind.


Anyhow, if we advance the mind meld enough, we can have the bugs bring us the shit they get! Symbiotic hive mind ho!

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Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>2316312
Fair. I made an assumption do to "wash in" and took it literally.

>>2316293
So I'll swap to this action.

>>2316324
I would still give it a try when we will have a free action. Or do what you've spoilered, because this might give even weirder results. And weird in case of this civ is good.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>2316327
Oooh, that's good.

Did I mention you can receive bonuses to rolls/actions for good art as well as fluff? And there's a boon on the line if a good starter pic comes along.

>>2316341
To be fair, there's evidence of what I'm talking about being fairly easy to achieve. Consider that these various bugs are a significant threat to intruders, yet we manage to harvest from their hives without significant loss for either party.

Consider the fact that Strelok mentioned here >>2316184, that not only do we have these bugs existing alongside our civilian population, they also "move their path preemptively before each silent step has been taken" implying that they are very aware of us and potentially we are already acting on a subconscious level through the mind meld fungi.


For all we know, we've reached a low level hive mind and every part of our society (which would arguably includes our bugs and fungal defences) works in a symbiotic manner. In which case our efforts will mostly be directed to extending this to new species and developing it's utility.

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>2316293
Vote

>>2316293

>>Research the Mind Meld fungus [LOCKED]
>>Would you like to assign Mother Mira to assist in this?

>Y
>N

>Continue to prepare the grotto for the incoming zombies [LOCKED]

Writan'.

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>2316812
Oops, dropped the dice.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>2316812
>>Would you like to assign Mother Mira to assist in this?
>Y

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>2316812

>>2316876
>Y

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2316812
>Y
If it's not gonna over work her.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>2316229

Two large figures clad in loose-fitting rags which obscure most of their bodies crouch and laze on the branches of a tree overlooking the grotto where your men work One is clearly larger than the other, though they are each easily half again as large as one of your tribesmen. The smaller one watches the movements of your tenders intently through binoculars for several minutes in utter silence but clearly mounting stress as the larger scans the treeline and ground with seeming lassitude. The smaller one eventually stows the viewer away in a sling next to several large-caliber handguns haphazardly strapped to his oversized bodu, rapid movements giving away his agitated state.

"Hmmm, What's this here that you think they're doing that's got you so agitated, brother?""

"I don't know. They smell of death and deep rot to me, and look just like zombies too. Never seen zombies do...whatever it is they're doing down there though."

"Looks like they've got a bunch of...mushrooms. You know, doesn't the primer say the fungal zombies are weird? Maybe that's it?"

"Shit man, I dunno. Smells like bad juju to me though. We need to get back and tell the Warlord."

"Why don't we just call it in?"

"You fucking kidding me? On the radios" one of them pulls out what would be a palm-sized radio for a normal person, which is barely as large as one of its fingers "that THEY gave us? I don't trust those fuckin' bandits not to put bugs in these things for a heartbeat. And the boss'll rip our heads off sure-as-sure if we let THEM know before he does."

"Ah, shit hadn't thought about that. That's why you're the smart one and I just do the fighting, bro. Best take the ground though, I saw a pregnant Megaskrint crawling around in the treetops a bit ago. Eggs'd still be fresh and hungry...and you remember how that went last time."

The duo drop proceed to climb down from the treetop with practiced speed and ease, and for the first time two large appendages on each of their backs that appear to resemble...folded, leathery wings are revealed. The appendages flex and move to assist them in keeping their balance as they climb. They jump the last 10 meters off the tree trunk to the ground and land with very little noise despite their bulk. After quickly scanning the surrounding underbrush to satisfy themselves that nothing had noticed their descent, the two set off at a quick trot away from the grotto as your men continue their work.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>2316946

After a few moments, the leaves and moss covering the ground among the tree's roots stand up. Ten of your warriors are revealed, camouflage flaking from their pallid skins, spears and blowguns readied.

"I always thought Megaskrint eggs tasted best
when you wring the young from them freshly hatched." one says, quietly.

They share a quick, silent glance among themselves and all nod in agreement before one retrieves a vial from his pack and snorts some of the powder inside. The veins running across the tribesman's skull quickly turn dark blue, showing through his skin, and his eyes take on a purple hue.

"Yes, I can see them now. Their hearts beat fast for being such large, dumb brutes. They have not gone far, we can easily outpace them."

"Good, brother. I shall pray for guidance from the council briefly, that we may know how we should proceed."

>Alert!
-Two foreign scouts have observed your operations at the grotto
-They are only 2, but appear well armed, have unknown mutations, and are half again as large as any of your warriors.
-You have 10 warriors available to respond.

>>>What do?
>Attempt to capture them
>Attempt to kill them
>Attempt to talk to them
>Other?