Centaur thread going too slow, people complained they didn't want to run with centaurs, might as well start another.

If you wanna play centaurs go vote/roll on the other one, I'll probably keep updating it if people keep voting since people only seem to vote on it maybe once a day.


let the shitpost commence!

well, I'm gonna leave this here until tomorrow then I'll check to see if there are any votes, if there are any then we can start a civ that someone actually wants to play instead of a random one, that way someone will have the drive to keep voting. probably.

that was the reason to demand three votes to pick a race back in the day

with the board having so little traffic and with so few people being interested in civ threads nowadays actually getting three people to vote let alone agree on one race is kinda far fetched though

>>4218451

gnomes, islands

and you know the rest

>>4218451
> Race: Vampire
> Location: Desert

>>4218451
>Faun
>Islands
Fantasy Margaritaville!

>>4218451
Orc canyon

Alright, now we just need a tie breaker.

>>4219334
+1

>>4219112
>>4219113
>>4219313
>>4219334
>>4219516


In the canyons of Gorgamoth a large orcish tribe made their lair; it is said the canyon is named after a gargantuan beast from ancestral times which is said to be asleep buried in the deepest chasms of the canyon. But you do not concern yourself with such legends, you worry only about keeping yourself in power and the glory of your tribe.

Your tribe is known in the region for one particularly impressive feat:

> The Rock Cathedral, a massive building carved in the face of the canyon which took many generations to finish, filled with endless sigils consecrated to all of the dark gods worshipped by the orcs, this building massively empowers your shamans which are capable of grandiose feats through ritualistic blood magic within its halls.
> The Magma Forge, digging ever deeper into the chasms your miners have found a lava tube that your smiths promptly tapped into making a magma forge; near this tube you have found deposits of the fabled metal adamantine which can only be worked on magma forges by the most expert of smiths to make armor and weapons so light and of so unsurpassed quality that can't be matched by any other metal. However, the supply is very limited.
> The Taming of Wyverns, climbing the cliffs that surround your settlement, your bravest beast tamers have braved the nests of the deadly wyverns and stole some eggs, raising them from a young age to serve as their mounts and companions. Although you can't quite make them breed in captivity, you know it is possible to tame more of them for you've done it before.
> The Motherlode, digging into the face of the canyons your tribe have found massive deposits of one or more minerals. You have three points to distribute 3 being Nearly Inexhaustible, 2 being Vast Supply and 1 being Big Deposit of any of the following minerals: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Iron, Coal, Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Onyx. You may choose other minerals within reason, but they will probably be less useful (gemstones are used for some types of magic).
> Write in


Also, name leader and tribe.

>>4219516
>>4219334

fucking orc niggers. cant we have something civilized for once. you bastards. now were back at blood sacrifices and enslaving goblins for sexual pleasure.

>>4219590

rock cathedral

*sigh* lets do a blood sacrifice on some poor human settler schmuck

leadername:

Tal-Razmul, Razmul for friends (Shaman-Chief)

tribe:
White eyes (shaman/possesion seances)

alternatively

Scorpion Cocks

an our way will be to subjugate the other orc tribes and clans to the will of our patron spirit host/demon.

>>4219590
> The Motherlode, digging into the face of the canyons your tribe have found massive deposits of one or more minerals. You have three points to distribute 3 being Nearly Inexhaustible, 2 being Vast Supply and 1 being Big Deposit of any of the following minerals: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Iron, Coal, Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Onyx. You may choose other minerals within reason, but they will probably be less useful (gemstones are used for some types of magic).
All 3 points in coal.

>>4219590
>Motherlode, 2 Iron, 1 Coal
>Name these fuckers the Ironbloods
>I don't know orc names

>>4219590
>The Rock Cathedral, a massive building carved in the face of the canyon which took many generations to finish, filled with endless sigils consecrated to all of the dark gods worshipped by the orcs, this building massively empowers your shamans which are capable of grandiose feats through ritualistic blood magic within its halls.
>Leader : Petrônio
>Tribe : Iron Claws

>>4219884
Support

>>4219884
support

>>4219590
>the motherlode all 3 in gold

>>4219884
Supporting. Name can be Ghazg-Kull (I am very original)

>>4220357
Suporting that name

Year 1

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,000 orcs
Military: 500/890/1000 Warriors (120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins), 0/2333/2333 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (200,000), Canyon Crawlers (100), Cave Grazers (3,000)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks
The management of an orcish tribe isn't too difficult. Your warriors' duty is to patrol your territory for any threats - no fancy training schedules here. Orcs prove their mettle in battle.

Your most basic warrior is the spearman. You just pick a random orc and give him a spear, maybe a shield and some leather armor if you have those available but those are luxury items. To be a warrior is a position of status so this lowly orc will be fed by the rest of the tribe and will end up growing stronger over time. The spearman is a weak warrior and not particularly good against anything. Over time as it gains experience and is given better equipment it can grow into a grunt, an impaler, a halberdier or a war drummer. Impalers are good at fighting in loose formations and halberdiers are good at fighting in tight formations, both are good against cavalry and weak against archers. War drummers play the instrument in battle to raise the morale of the troops but otherwise don't do all that much fighting.

Your next warrior is the Grunt. The Grunt is the main warrior of any orcish horde worth its name - big orcs armed with greatswords or greataxes, their choice. They can take massive amounts of punishment, being able to keep on fighting despite taking wounds that would kill a lesser humanoid. They eat twice as much as a regular troop though. If a grunt survives for a very long time, he might become a Tribal Warrior and eventually a Warlord. A Tribal Warrior is a grunt who is bigger and meaner than your average grunt and either uses an oversized weapon or mastered the use of dual blades. Tribal Warriors eat four times as much food as an average warrior. Warlords are the largest and meanest amongst the Tribal Warriors, eating five times as much food as an average warrior. Their combat capabilities are only slightly superior to those of your average Tribal Warrior, what they excel at is their superior strategic mind and the fact that they are not above diversifying their tactics - they often take up learning to master the bow to have more options in the battlefield.

>>4220567


You also have the bowmen. Many orcs consider the bow to be a coward's weapons - you keep yourself away from the real fight. But commanders know that tactical value of employing ranged warriors so they train bowmen. A very costly improvement over bowmen is the Crossbowmen who uses heavy crossbows which have much better penetration against armored targets but are slower to fire. Since heavy crossbows are very difficult and costly to manufacture, only the very best of the bowmen are allowed to use such weapons.

There's the wolf riders. The orcs traditionally raise dire wolves to use as advanced scouts and their beastmen will ride them in battle. They are vulnerable to enemy infantry specially closely packed formation of pikemens and similar troops, but they're very useful for picking loose targets in difficult terrain. Wolf riders units eat three times what an average warrior eats. They can be made more deadly by coating the wolves claws with poison, we call wolf riders that do that Death Claws. A Death Claw eats five times what an average warrior eats, the added cost being for raising the poisonous animals necessary for keeping the dire wolf always supplied with fresh poison. A wolf rider can also be equipped and trained in the use of a large net for capturing enemies alive, although such a training and hauling such a big net impacts their combat effectiveness; these riders are called Kidnappers.

Lastly there are the assassins. These are highly skilled acrobats who specialize in infiltration and poisoning their enemies with daggers and poison darts. They do not eat particularly much, but they consume three times as much food as the average warrior because they need to keep their stock of poisonous animals fed in order to extract the poison they need to perform their job. Assassins will usually tattoo themselves after every mission with a new sigil symbolizing the victims they killed. An assassin who is particularly good at his job will eventually please the secret gods of the shadows who will grant him minor supernatural powers - he will be able to blend in with the shadows and become essentially invisible at night. An assassin that have achieved such a level of mastery is called a Shadow Killer and is usually distinguished for having his whole body tattoed full of sigils.

An orcish tribe is geared for feeding its warriors and is able to field 10% of its population in warriors. In times of need it can also summon a militia of all its able bodied men, up to a third of its population minus the maximum warrior limit (so about 23% of the population).

The numbers shown for the warriors are the (amount of warriors) / (food consumed by warriors) / (maximum food produced) and the numbers shown for the militia are the (raised militia) / (maximum available militia - due to recent casualties, etc) / (maximum possible militia with current population).

>>4220568


Raising militia on more than a pontual basis, that is, keeping it raised for some extended period of time for any reason, be it raiding an enemy or defending your territory against a protracted enemy attackt, will put strain on your economy. Reduce the effective amount of warriors your economy can feed as if the people in the militia both weren't part of the population AND also count them as warriors themselves needing to be fed.

You have three commanders who have proven themselves in battle:

Gorga, a tribal warrior and leader of the Grunts. He's very popular and many think he might become the next chief if something happens to you.

Rodog, leader of the bowmen. He's a paranoid little fella, who always walks with two other guys near him and has people keeping watch near him at all times. He is convinced people are up to get him.

Orbak, leader of the wolf riders. He's a chill guy, who likes to party and play with the wolves. The young orcs like him a lot and so do the women. The shamans say he doesn't take anything seriously.

You may raise new commanders any time you want, just give me a name and what type of warrior they are, but they will start at level 1.
The orcs raise a number of different crops and animals in the canyon, both inside the canyon caverns and on the surrounding lands. The most important are as follows:

Boar. They eat anything and live anywhere, the staple livestock of the orcs. 50 boars will feed one warrior per year if it comes to that.

Canyon Crawler. Giant grubs with protuberant spikes on their bodies that weight as much as elephants who slowly crawl the side of the canyons, eating anything they find. Despite being omnivorous, they aren't really predators and aren't particularly dangerous, the spikes on their bodies allowing the orcs to climb on them and store stuff on them to more easily traverse the canyons. Sometimes they do roll into a ball and stay there for days at a time though. Their meat is not very tasty, but in a pinch one could feed two warrior for a year with the meat from one of these things.

Cave Grazers. Weird blind creatures with translucent skin the size of cows that live deep in the caves who eat fungus and moss. Their meat have a unique earthen taste. The meat of 3 of them will feed one warrior per year.

Potato. The surface crop we plant the most.

Cavewheat. A very versatile underground crop. Can be made into flour to make bread with or made into beer. We plant entire caves with this stuff.

Calcena. This pink mushroom is a potent hallucinogen. A tea made with a few of them lasts for a few minutes. Our shamans brew it for two weeks concentrating it into a slurry to potentialize its effects, drinking the slurry will make you hallucinate all day long.

>>4220569


Our Shamans know blood magic. Their blood magic is currently at level 1.

The feats they can perform include:

Blood healing - they use their own blood to fuel their healing powers, becoming weaker as they heal someone.

Blood rage - by tattooing a warrior with the blood god sigils in a ritual that involves the sacrifice of a sentient being they enable the warrior to enter a blood rage when in battle; however doing so drains his own blood over time, potentially making him faint from blood loss.

Blood sacrifice - Blood magic can accomplish anything! By sacrificing a sentient being and eating its heart and/or bathing in its blood a shaman become infused with blood magic and able to cast a devastating spell once, or a barrage of minor powerful spells over the course of the day. They gain access to a spell one level above their maximum after the first sacrifice, then for every level above that they need the target level time the total amount of sacrifices so far, up to the 9th level (it is unknown how many sacrifices are necessary to gain an epic level spell). Alternatively, they double the amount of times they can cast spells of the maximum level they can cast (or whatever level they choose) for the day they spend the charge, the multiplier adds in +1 for every additional level of sacrifices. You must spend the maximum amount of blood magic possible to get an extra charge at a time, and you cannot get more than one extra high level slot or one extra multiplier per day.

>>4220570


The surrounding lands have many perils! The most immediate ones are the nearby orcish tribes, the Rippers and the Hell Axe Horde. There's also a couple orcish tribes in the distant north with whom you have little contact but whose existance you known, the Perpetuals and the Gate Guardians.

The Rippers are infamous for their brutality. Like most tribes they send a core of Grunts to fight their wars, but they are also fond of sending significant amounts of wolf riders into the fray to capture victims to be sacrificed in blood rituals by their shamans.

The Hell Axe Horde worships demons! That's not all that uncommon amongst orcs, but their shamans fully embrace their pacts with dark creatures from the abyss and thus wield great evil powers. Most of their warriors are tattooed full of sigils and they are not above sacrificing their own people to their dark patrons.

The Perpetuals are a tribe that uses very unnusual fighting methods. They deploy warriors with big shields in defensive formations and try to tire the enemy, resisting all their blows for hours if necessary, before they finally counterstrike. It is said that a position taken by the Perpetuals is pretty much lost - removing them once they take hold of some place is nearly impossible.

The Gate Guardians are supposedly the first tribe of orcs in the whole world. Legend has it the orcs are planar travellers who jump from dimension to dimension fleeing the demons that seek to enslave them. You don't particularly believe this story but the fact is the Gate Guardians have very powerful shamans, live farther to the north than anyone and are very secretive about their activities.

>>4220574

More pressing perhaps are your non orcish neighbours. There are humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, minotaurs, trolls, dark elves, goblins, lizardmen, undeads, insects and vampires.

Both of the northern tribes are often involved in war with demon worshipping humans and necromancers who seek to use the orcs as sacrifice to fuel their dark rituals; something in the far north seems to draw evil cultists incessantly. Surprisingly enough a race of giant insectoids also seems to plague the tundra and constantly harass the tribes of the north and everyone else in their wake, their bodies having undergone weird adaptations to thrive in the cold environment; they occasionally send young queens to start new hives in the warmer south.

The nearby humans seems to be divided in two kingdoms: the kingdom of Arkalis in the east and the kingdom of Trevnia in the west. You don't know much about either kingdom, only that they've been on and off at war with each other for as long as your tribe can remember over the territories in between both kingdoms, which are very rich in minerals. You estimate that the populations of both kingdoms are a few hundred thousand humans each, but that's just a rough estimate that could be way off.

South of your territory, near the contested area in between the human kingdoms, lies the Forest of Illusions. There live the elves of Gothlandor, a vast city with crystal spires that has existed for thousands of years. You estimate that about thirty thousand elves live in that forest, maybe half on the capital and the rest on small villages. There are probably other forest creatures that live in the forest too, but you cannot confirm that.

All around the Forest of Illusions there is accidented hilly and rocky terrain where live the goblins. There are a multitude of small goblin tribes who harass the elves, halflings, humans, dwarves and minotaurs of the area. They have never to you knowledge unified enough to present a major threat to anyone. Still, there are probably over a hundred thousand of the little buggers scattered all over.

West of your territory there are the mountains of Korgar. There live the dwarves and the dark elves, in constant war in the underground tunnels. In the surface, there's a dwarvish outpost called Nâz-Khathal where they trade the bounties of the earth with the sprawling halfling communities around the area. The dark elves have a port city farther east from where they send their slaver and pirate ships to attack the halfling and human coasts of Trevnia further south. You have no idea how many dwarves and dark elves exist underground, but their above ground cities are not very big, there are around a thousand people in each.

>>4220576


The halfling communities sprawl all over the place, from the western coast to the eastern plains. They live in small farming communities of a few hundred people each. They number well over a hundred thousand.

East of your territory there are more sparse forest and vast plain. In these plains live the minotaurs. They raise immense herds of cattle and have large standing armies composed essentially of their frightening infantrymen. Their nation has about fifty thousand people.

North of the minotaurs territory there are the ruins of Barâd-Amôk, a vast and ancient dwarven city. It has long since been taken over by trolls. The trolls often raid the minotaur territory to steal their cattle to sate their endless hunger. Legend says that in its depths lurks horrible creatures - dragons, demons and what have you. But you have no way to confirm.

South of the minotaur territory in the edges of the kingdom of Arkalis there's a holding of about three thousand people that belongs to a very peculiar "human" noble, one that is only ever seen at night and has ruled over his underlings for over two hundred years. Humans fear and avoid him.

South of the Forest of Illusions there is the Swamp of Kar, a strategic pass in the contested region between the humans, essentially impossible to hold, home of the lizardmen. Somewhere in the swamp, lies the Cemetery of the Ancients, a cursed ground where once a gigantic battle between two human armies happened and tens of thousands of warriors died without burial. Undead keep popping up all the time and the lizardmen and everyone around the region need to fight them off. You believe over ten thousand lizardmen live in the swamp, belonging to at least two different tribes.

Despite this intel, most of the territory around us remain unexplored - these informations are often old, from the odd traveller and orcish adventurer that comes back to our tribe and tells the tales of their adventures, we'll have to actually send someone to the various places to learn what in fact exists there.

>>4220577

There are several constructions projects we are capable of undertaking for the betterment of our civilization.

Currently the only building of note we have constructed is the Barracks. It allows for the training and housing of our advanced troops (everything other than spearmen and Grunt).

As we research better technology, new building options should become available. Bear in mind that this list of buildings is not exhaustive, you may come with other ideas for buildings and their benefits for our civilization.

Buildings require upkeep to remain functional, therefore it reduces the amount of personnel you will have available for militia duty. Each building will say how many people it will require to keep it working.

Granary (estimated building time 6 years; upkeep 100 people) - A storage of dry food for times of need. Increases population growth.

Library (estimated building time 8 years; upkeep 100 people) - A place of learning for our sages. Increases research speed.

Temple (estimated building time 4 years; upkeep 100 people) - A place for our shamans to perform their ceremonies and for the people to pray. Increases the power of blood rituals.

Ranch (estimated building time 4 years; upkeep variable, usually at least 100 people) - A place for intensive animal breeding. Increases herd growth rate of one specific animal type per ranch.

Watchtowers (estimated building time 4 years; upkeep 100 people) - An early warning system consisting of multiple watchtowers with bonfires on top of them so that we can know when enemies are approaching our territory faster than any messenger can travel.

Guardtowers (estimated building time 16 years; upkeep 2000 people) - Fortified towers with people armed with long ranged weapons inside alongside our territory for border patrol.

Stone walls (estimated building time 48 years; upkeep 400 people) - Fortified walls with people patrolling them to alert our army if there are any intruders.

Bestiary (estimated building time 20 years; upkeep 400 people) - A place to house and care for unnusual tamed beasts. Allows taming creatures other than dire wolves.

Megalith (estimated building time 32 years; upkeep 200 people) - A place for our shamans to perform astrological observations and perform their rituals. Increases the power of blood rituals.

Cathedral (estimated building time 120 years; upkeep 400 people) - A place for our shamans to perform their most advanced rites and for people to pray. Increases the power of blood rituals.

>>4220580


We currently know the following technologies of note: Farming, Iron Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys).

Following there will be a list of technologies we can research. The list is not exhaustive, you may come up with something else you think is interesting that we could research.

Technologies come in Tiers. Tier 0 technologies are stone age ones. Tier 1 technologies are bronze age. Tier 2 technologies are iron age. Tier 3 technologies are medieval. Tier 4 technologies are renaissance.

Researching a tier 0 technology takes a decade. For every tier above that, it takes twice as long. Having a library cuts research time by a fourth rounded in your favor. Learning from someone that already knows the secret many cut the time down considerably.

Bronze Working (Tier 1) - Alloying the copper and tin to make bronze. Allows the creation of phalanxes.
Construction (Tier 2) - Advanced construction techniques. Allows large construction projects like aqueducts and colosseums.
Trade (Tier 0) - The basics of bartering with foreign powers. Allows making trade caravans.
Currency (Tier 1) - Minting of currency and basic of markets. Allows the construction of markets.
Horseback Riding (Tier 1) - Domestication of horses. Allows for the training of cavalry.
Feudalism (Tier 2) - New social system. Allows other tribes to swear fealty and pay tribute to your tribe.
Code of Laws (Tier 1) - Make your laws written instead of customary. Allows construction of courthouse and creation of diplomats.
Literacy (Tier 2) - Teach a good chunk of your population how to read and write. Allows construction of great library.
Mathematics (Tier 1) - Learn fractions, trigonometry and conic sections. Allows the creation of catapults.
Philosophy (Tier 3) - Our sages inquire deeply about the nature of reality. Gain one free technology of up to tier 4 upon completion.
Alchemy (Tier 3) - The art of transmuting one element on another and potion brewing. Allows creation of alchemist's guild.
Invention (Tier 4) - Construction of advanced machines. Allows creation of tinker workshop.
University (Tier 4) - Creates the concept of higher learning. Allows the construction of universities and training of wizards.
Gunpowder (Tier 4) - The black stuff that explodes. Allows construction of petards and musketeers.

>>4220583

Magic comes in levels, from 0 to 9. When you first learn any magic, you learn it at level 0 but you're just an apprentice at that level; it isn't until you learn it at least to level 1 that you can perform proper effects.

Raising our knowledge of magic one level in a school of magic we already know takes the level of magic we are trying to get to squared times a hundred years. Reduce it by 10 years per every spellcaster we have that is high level enough to be able to perform the spell at the level we want to research, to a minimum of 10 years. A spellcaster is normally able to cast spells up to half its own level, rounded up. Levelling up in a school of magic makes everyone involved learn at least one spell or ritual from the next level.

Creating a new school of magic takes 300 years minus 10 years for every spellcaster involved in discovering it, to a minimum of 50 years. When you create a new school of magic, everyone involved learns at least one ritual or spell of this school automatically.

Creating a new ritual or spell of the same level usually take 10 years times the level of the spell minus 1 year per spellcaster involved in the development of the ritual or spell.

Learning from someone who already knows takes significantly less time.

The basic rituals of blood magic for the first few levels are:

Level 1: Blood healing (heals people using your own blood), blood rage (warrior tattoos cause blood powered rage), blood sacrifice (sacrifice people to use high level magic or lots of low level magic)
Level 2: Blood boiling (boils the enemy blood), blood puppet (controls enemy movement for a short time), Blood cloak (bath yourself in blood and become invisible)
Level 3: Blood blast (fireballs powered by blood), blood link (connect a bunch of creatures, when one takes damage it gets spread amongst the others), Blood message (two people exchange blood, now they can telepatically send short messages to one another once a day)
Level 4: Blood golem (a golem linked to the life of its creator, when it takes damage you take damage, when it deals damage you are healed), Blood freeze (preserve someone in frozen animation for up to 100 years), Blood void (suck the blood of all enemies in the area into a floating ball of blood that can then be used to fuel casting of other blood related spells)

>>4220586

You arrive at your hall in the largest cavern in the canyon to meet with your commanders and shamans to discuss the affairs of the tribe.

Commander Gorga says that the Grunts want a worthy opponent to crush. He desires to attack the minotaurs in the southeast and plunder their livestock so that we can have glorious melee combat and enrich ourselves with their cattle.

Commander Rodog says we should prey on the easy pickings. There are lots of halflings villages all over the place. We should send the wolf riders to scout them first so we can assess which ones are suitably weak enough and then we can go in and kill some little ones to steal their belongings.

Commander Orbak says we should either reconnect with our ancestors from the frozen north or send large gifts of livestock to the tribes near us so that they do not attack us. Orcs should band together, there are enough threats out there already.

Shaman Rodush desires victims for blood sacrifices. He suggests equipping the wolf riders with nets and sending them out to kidnap some halflings in the many villages around the area.

> Launch an attack on the minotaurs
> Send the wolf riders to scout the halflings to assess their weaknesses
> Send emissaries to our sister tribes in the frozen north
> Send emissaries with large gifts to one of the nearby orcish tribes
> Equip the wolf riders with nets and send them to kidnap halflings
> I have my own ideas of what we should do (write in)

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere
> Train more warriors
> Write in

>>4220587
Send emissaries with large gifts to one of the nearby orcish tribes
Start construction of a ranch.

>>4220587
>Send gifts
>Build a library

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4220599
>>4220667

1 - ranch
2 - library

>>4220587
>send emissarrys to far north. Bring gifts collect info and attempt to make alliance against demon worshippers

>construct temple

>>4220682
>>4220667
>>4220599


You decide to send a large gift of catle to one of the nearby orcish tribes. Whichever tribe you send the gift to will probably be very pleased, if the gift is large enough. The other tribe will soon learn of the gift and might feel slighted however. If we do send gifts to both tribes they may think of us that we are nothing but sycophants and the effect of the gift may be entirely negated.

Which tribe will we send our gift to?
> Rippers
> Hell Axe Horde
> We'll chance sending gifts to both
> Write in

And how many boars will we send them exactly?
> 1,000 will suffice
> 5,000 will do
> 10,000 no less
> 20,000 boars seems right
> 50,000 boars!
> Write in


You decide to start the construcion of a library so that your sages may have a place to learn and study various subjects.

Year 2

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,100 orcs
Military: 500/890/1010 Warriors (120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins), 0/2356/2356 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (204,000), Canyon Crawlers (102), Cave Grazers (3,060)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (1/8)

>>4220689

Your warriors report an increased activity of elves along your southern border; elvish riders have been sighted multiple times by your advanced patrols, apparently probing a path through your territory. Seems like they are up to something. Maybe you should increase your patrols. Some of your men know the human language, it is the most common language in the world, perhaps you could try send a wolf rider to talk with the elves in human language to see if they know how to speak it and ask what they want in your territory.

At the same time, your warriors report sightings of insect drones cutting trees in the northern frontier. A hive must have sprung somewhere nearby! Hives are not that tough when they are new, but they get very difficult to beat the older they get - extremelly mutated insect creatures can be really tough. When being followed the bugs will usually alert their warriors to come attack whoever is following them through some spooky distant communication magical thing the bugs do so it isn't really viable to just follow them back to their hole. Maybe you should try to find their new hive.

> Greatly increase patrols on the southern border
> Send a wolf rider to parlay with the elves
> Send the bulk of your army to search the northern border for the new hive
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere
> Train more warriors
> Write in

>>4220689
>send 1000 boars to rippers, hell axe can be sacrifices
>>4220692
Look for hive

>>4220689
>Hell Axe Horde
>5,000 will do
>Send a wolf rider to parlay with the elves
>Start a new construction project

>>4220707
Hell axe tribe sacrifice to demons can't trust boars for other blood shamons!

>>4220689
>10k for Rippers

>>4220692
>Send THREE wolf riders to speak with the elves, in case the others die
>keep army home in case of invasion
>send a small group of shadow orcs to scout out the location of the hive
>plan out a circus to increase overall morale (write in)

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>4220706
>>4220707
>>4220774

1 - 1k boars to Rippers, look for hive
2 - 5k boars to Hell Axe Horde, parlay with elves
3 - 10k boars to Rippers, parlay with elves, send assassins to scout hive, plan a circus for morale

>>4220795
*sad honking noises*

>>4220802
Oh wait
I thought you were doing a QM thing
I'm a fucking idiot

Year 3

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,201 orcs
Military: 500/890/1020 Warriors (120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins), 0/2380/2380 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (203,080), Canyon Crawlers (104), Cave Grazers (3,121)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (2/8)

We send a wolf rider to parlay with the elves. He returns to report what the elves said.

"The elves were surprised that an orc knew the human tongue. At first they didn't want to talk to me, but one elf woman that was with their group started talking.", says the wolf rider, and he starts mimicking the elves.

"Perhaps they are not so bestial as they seem. You should talk to him Arakin. - said the female elf."
"Alright, I'll talk. Listen here beast, we're here seeking a wanted criminal. The necromancer Botsi Wulfa stole a valuable magical jewel from our city and our seers have divined that he fled to the north. But the path north passes through your lands that are, well, full of orcs. So in the name of justice we demand the right of safe passage through your lands - said Arakin."
"How many of you want to pass through our lands?", the wolf rider asked.
"We're going to take a small army to defeat the necromancer's minions. About three hundred warriors, who are camped on the edge of the forest, waiting for us to scout a path for them. - said Arakin."
"I must consult the boss, I will bring back an answer.", said the wolf rider.

> Allow the elves safe passage
> Do not allow the elves safe passage
> Demand compensation for allowing safe passage
> This must be a trick, attack the elvish camp
> Write in

>>4220839

We send 5,000 boars to the Hell Axe Horde. Our emissary returns with word of how we were received by them.

They slaughtered a good amount of the gifted animals right away and made a large feast, inviting our emissaries to partake in it.
During the feast they told our emissaries the following informations.

- That their shamans have foreseen that we would come to them
- That they now worship a demon god called Abraxas
- That they are willing to become our Blood Brothers if we too start worshipping Abraxas
- That to worship Abraxas you just need to know the secret chants and sigils and perform 13 blood sacrifices of virgins every year, one on every moon
- That our blood magic will become more powerful if we perform the rites of Abraxas every year

They are awaiting an answer from us.

What should we tell them?
> Convert to the Abraxas demon worshipping faith and agree to become Blood Brothers with the Hell Axe Horde
> We will consider your offer of friendship, right now we are not ready to embrace the mysteries of Abraxas
> We are not going to sell our souls to demons, we are orcs, we do not stoop this low!
> Write in

A battle rages in the sky above our settlement - a dwarf mounted on a gryphon throwing magic bolts of energy out of an enchanted hammer on a dark elf woman mounted on a hypogryphin shooting energy arrows out of an enchanted bow at the dwarf, flying at high speeds!

> Have our archers shoot the dwarf
> Have our archers shoot the dark elf
> Have our archers shoot at them both
> Just let them battle it out
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere
> Train more warriors
> Write in

>>4220839
>They'll hardly pose a threat if we keep an eye on them, demand compensation but don't hardball on the negotiations unless they're unreasonable (we don't want to risk them getting more pissed)

>>4220842
>Killing our own won't make our peeps happy, but these guys seem like they take their religion pretty seriously. Politely say that we'll think it over so we don't start unnecessary war
>Cautiously let them battle it out, maybe loot the loser if given the opportunity
>send in a few shadow orc scouts to find that hive

>>4220839
>Demand compensation for allowing safe passage
>>4220842
>We will consider your offer of friendship, right now do not humor the ideia of worshiping Abraxas
>>4220842
>Have our archers shoot the dark elf
>Train more warriors

>>4220859

we don't really have any assassins that are good enough to have the shadow blending power, they are just regular assassins, they simply haven't killed enough people so the shadow gods don't like them enough to give them shadow magic

>>4220842
> Convert to the Abraxas demon worshipping faith and agree to become Blood Brothers with the Hell Axe Horde
> Have our archers shoot the dark elf
> Demand compensation for allowing safe passage

>>4220869
That's alright, stealthy enough is better than not stealthy.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4220859
>>4220864
>>4220870

Alright, so we will demand compensation from the elves and shoot the dark elf.

Rolling to see who has the Thing

1 - dwarf
2 - dark elf

>>4220875

We have our archers shoot the dark elf who after taking one arrow too much plunge from the skies spiralling downwards, splattering on the ground, the hypogriphin and the dark elf both very very dead. The dwarf on the gryphon, having gotten rid of its pursuer, just flies away at high speeds.

We then check the body of the dark elf. Besides being scantily clad on some expensive looking clothing full of gems, she had that enchanted bow on her. We try it on - it has no string but every time someone makes a motion of pulling as if it had a string an energy arrow appears on it. The energy arrows don't seem to be much stronger than a real arrow in deadly potential, but you have infinite ammo and you deal magic damage.

All of our archers covet the weapons. Who should we give it to?

> Give it to our commander Rodog
> Give it to one of the archers who killed the dark elf picked at random
> Make a contest and give it to the best archer
> Only chief Ghazg-Kull himself is worthy of such a weapon
> Write in


We decide to demand compensation from the elves for allowing safe passage through our lands. We send our wolf rider to deliver this message. He comes back with the elves answer.

"Your chief wants compensation for safe passage? Truly savage! - says Arakin."
"I do have a bunch of healing potions, will you accept these as compensation for our safe passage? - says the female elf."

> Accept 5 healing potions as compensation for safe passage
> This is not nearly enough, demand more compensation
> These elves are too annoying, attack them already
> Write in

>>4220892
>Give it to our commander Rodog
>Accept 5 healing potions as compensation for safe passage

>>4220892
>> Give it to one of the archers who killed the dark elf picked at random
> Accept 5 healing potions as compensation for safe passage

>>4220892
>Arching Contest for the bow

>Elves are in a hurry, so we can't make them go back and get more stuff. Just take their potions.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>4220901
>>4220905
>>4220912


1- give it to commander Rodog
2 - give it to random archer picked amongst dark elf killers
3 - make archery contest for the bow

>>4220892
> Give it to our commander Rodog
> Write in
We can use this to establish diplomatic relations, we can ask for a non-aggression pact now then later it's an alliance.

Also at some point we've gotta make a 'chancellor' position. we need some intellectuals for eventual centralization

>>4220919

We accept the 5 healing potions of the elves to allow them safe passage. Our army stands watching as the elves march through our territory, their soldiers carrying funny shaped shields and their archers carrying massively oversized bows. They depart towards the frozen north in search of the necromancer who wronged them.

We then decide to make an archery contest for the enchanted bow. We set up all the targets and have everyone take turns shooting with the very bow they are competing to become the owner of. After many rounds of competition and lots of pissed off people who were eliminated by very small margins, we arrive at a winner, Shakil, the archer! Everyone is jealous of him!

We send an emissary to the Hell Axe Horde, telling them our answer: we are not quite ready to embrace the Abraxas faith, although we will consider their offer of friendship in the future. They say they are deceptionated but they understand our feelings. They say Abraxas is a patience demon god, but even a demon god's patience has limits and opportunity is fleeting. We may not have the chance to get on their good side for much longer.

Year 4

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,405 orcs
Military: 500/890/1040 Warriors (120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins), 0/2428/2428 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (207,141), Canyon Crawlers (106), Cave Grazers (3,183)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (3/8)
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions

>>4220929


Some are beginning to worry about that hive we saw earlier. We really shouldn't let a hive grow unchecked. We could send our armies to search for the hive's location. Or we could send some assassins to try following one of the bugs - it is a very risky mission, but risk is the assassin's business.

> Send our armies to search for the hive location
> Send some assassins to try to stealthily follow one of the bugs back to its nest
> Write in

Our army captures a group of halflings wandering in our territory. There are three of them, all unarmed. They talk to us in human language and present themselves as Baldo Bagge, Jamath Hane and Holme Mugwich. Baldo, the oldest of the three, is a master "entomologist", bug specialist, who claims to be studying the behaviour of a rare species of beetle which is endemic to this area. The other two are his apprentices. They claim to be "natural philosophers", whatever that is.

> They're funny, let the little buggers do their thing
> Bug specialists? Then ask them to find the hive of the giant insects for us!
> Of to the shamans with them, good blood sacrifices they will make
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere
> Train more warriors
> Write in

>>4220932
>Send some assassins to try to stealthily follow one of the bugs back to its nest
>Bug specialists? Then ask them to find the hive of the giant insects for us!
>Send an exploration party somewhere
to the west

>>4220941
support

>>4220941
Support

>>4220941
>>4220946
>>4220953

We decide to tell the halflings to find the hive of the giant insects for us.

"Giant insects?", says Baldo, "By god, it can't be! Will I finally see the fabled Xenopode Tudrae? Where are they, take me to them at once!"

You are so infected by Baldo's enthusiasm that you decide to go with your warriors to see the bugs. You have never seen them before either after all.

You all then see one of the big bugs. It is the size of a large dog, has six legs, walking on all six most of the time, but now and then it gets on it four back legs and you can see it can stand perfectly on them and hold things with the two front ones, which are far more dexterous than the others and have opposable thumbs. The whole thing looks both like a giant ant and a deformed centaur.

>>4221003


"Look at how it walks, how it moves, how fluid are its movements, how it transitions from six legged to four legged! Beautiful, absolutely fantastic! The Xenopode Tundrae Laborantis are nearly blind during the day but they see very well during the night. Their sense of smell is even more powerful than that of dogs, they most navigate through smell. They sense smell through their antennaes. Windsom et alli made the experiment of severing the antennae of a Xenopode Tundrae to see if they could still smell and they couldn't, they became nearly blind, colliding with obstacles and barely able to navigate! The antenae grows back after a few days of course, but it can be quite problematic to them. They have some sort of psychic link to their queen, they cannot stay more than about a hundred miles away from the hive or they will lose the link and start suffering all sorts of weird psychological effects! Rewilh et alli devised several methods for finding the hives of Xenopode Tundrae. One method is poisoning a drone, it will report to the queen psychically that it is "being wounded" and will usually be ordered to return to the hive to heal, sometimes warriors are dispatched to the area to check what is "wounding" the drone. Another method is cutting off a drone's antennae, it will report that it is "blinded" so more drones will be sent to guide it back home. Every time you see a drone in the horizon you just go over to it, cut off its antennae and wait until you see more drones approaching. Eventually you'll either get to the colony or the whole army of warriors will be sent to you to see what is blinding all the drones. A third method is having someone get very drunk until they pass out or give it some herb that will make it fall asleep near a drone. The drone will will pick the person up and carry it to the hive, mistaking it for food! The person will be thrown in the fungus pile inside the hive, usually you can just walk out of the hive when you wake up if you are lucky enough not to run into any warriors or the more mutated versions of Xenopode Tundrae that sometimes inhabit the older hives. I reckon this is a pretty young hive no? This Laborantis looks first generation, second generation maximum. The queen was still underfed when she laid the eggs for these drones. Later generation drones are the size of horses.", says Baldo.

> Send an assassin to poison one of the drones
> Start ripping off the antennae of the drones
> Give a lot of booze to someone and let the drone carry them
> This is stupid, let's just look for the hive the old fashion way, with the whole army
> Write in

>>4221006
>> Start ripping off the antennae of the drones

>>4221006
>Send an assassin to poison one of the drones

I'm going to sleep, see ya'll tomorrow.

>>4221006
Do insect drones technically qualify as virgins? Are insects compatible with blood magic? If so, capturing the queen and sacrificing her bred eggs might give an elegant workaround to sacrificing orcs while still enabling us to worship Abraxas and pleasing the Hell Axe Horde. No better moment than now will occur, with experts on the field of insects already involved and helping us. Anyway, we need to find the hive and the best way to do so seems to be:
>Send an assassin to poison one of the drones

>>4221092
Support

>>4221006
>rip off antenna

>>4221012
>>4221019
>>4221092
>>4221217
>>4221260


We send an assassin to poison one of the drones. The assassin has some trouble sinking his poisoned blade through the chitin of the creature but eventually succeeds, stabbing it multiple times just to be sure; then afterwards he just stays at a distance watching the drone. The drone walks around aimlessly for awhile, then starts moving in a direction decisively. The assassin begins following it.

Along the way a group of warrior insects shows up to check what is going on with the drone; our assassin then flees.

He finds another drone and tries again, getting closer but then getting spooked by the warriors once again.

He tries a third time but now the drone no longer goes back to the hive and instead the warriors just show up where the drone is. Seems like they understood what we are doing. Smart bugs.

Still, we pinpointed the general location of the hive to a much smaller area than what we would need to search before - seems like it is somewhere near or at a densely forested patch of the terrain.

> Time to rip off some antennaes
> Let's try the booze thing
> We can brute force it from here, search with the whole army
> Write in

You inquire the halflings and your shamans whether the insects would be compatible with blood magic. The shamans say that tradition says blood sacrifices must be from red blooded creatures and the bug-blood is some other weird color, they are not sure if it will work, they could try but if it doesn't work it could anger the gods - performing the whole blood sacrifice and then sacrificing something that isn't blood is bound to make them angry. The halflings say giant insects don't have blood, they have a thing called "hemolymph", which is kinda like blood, but blueish-greenish, but it totally isn't blood, it doesn't work the same way as blood. Guess that's how you say bug-blood in human language.

> Catch as many drones as we can and make a big sacrifice
> Capture a drone to test it with a blood sacrifice
> Let's not risk angering the gods with a potentially worthless sacrifice
> It is decided, bug-blood is now taboo for sacrifice!
> Write

>>4222424
>try the drunk thing what the he'll

>Bug-blood is now taboo!

>>4222424
>We can brute force it from here, search with the whole army
let's not give them more time
>Let's not risk angering the gods with a potentially worthless sacrifice

>>4222424
>BRUTE FORCE MUDDAFUKKAAAAA

>ask if the shamans could possibly commune with their god to see if he's okay with it

>>4222457
support

>>4222517
>ask if the shamans could possibly commune with their god to see if he's okay with it

we do not know divination magic, but remember, blood magic can do anything! if we sacrifice someone we could cast a level 2 divination and ask a question to get a good or bad omen concerning something we are going to do very soon (in the next 30 minutes)
a whole bunch of extra sacrifices are necessary for divinations of higher levels that see further into the future

>>4222579
Changing vote to this >>4222457

Year 5

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,509 orcs
Military: 500/890/1050 Warriors (120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins), 0/2453/2453 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (211,283), Canyon Crawlers (108), Cave Grazers (3,246)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (4/8)
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions


We send our whole army to search for the insect hive!
>Roll 1d100 to see if we find it this year. DC 40 (-10 from reduced radius).
Won't be best of three because best of three is too easy, first roll goes.

We send a group of explorers towards the west to explore in the general vicinities of our territory.

(In the future I will ask you to specify which 'sector' of the world you would like to send your explorers towards. The known sectors are Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar. You may go out of bounds going too far in any given direction within reason (needs a boat or something to go further west, can't really go much norther than the frozen north, etc.), then I'll probably just create a new sector as applicable, for now I'm focusing on these. If do not specified and you just pick a direction, you will explore mainly your own sector ("Nearby") and if there is no longer anything to explore in your sector on that direction, you will explore the immediate neighboring sector. Imagine it like a big map where you do have a very tiny line of sight so when you want to explore an area you have to really zigzag alot around that area to make sure you discovered everything relevant around there; if you just travel in a straight line from one sector to another you are not very likely to find anything unless that thing wants to be found or is otherwise spread out - like enemy patrols and such. I may or may not make a map later, currently I'm still fleshing out the world so I can't commit to one particular map shape yet. Exploration is likely to be a big part of the game unless you decide to just turtle up.)


Your troops report having found a big stone mansion with about three pavements and a tower that goes some five stories tall. The whole area is surrounded by a simple stone wall about six feet high and has an iron gate in front of it; within you can see various cultivated areas with a wide variety of crops, planted in small amounts. From the amount of crops you assume the place could feed just a few hundred people.

>>4222649

Your men saw a few humans working on the crops within the gated areas and asked them who lives there. One of the humans, with a dazed expression, answered that this is the manor of Lord Anthon.

Our men demanded to see this Lord Anthon. The peasants at first ignored them, but when one of them climbed the gates the humans seemingly snapped out of their haze and started beating him up with their farming tools.

A brawl break out in there, our men fighting the peasants, which were surprisingly doing fairly well, with agility and strength far superior than what we would expect from average humans.

Then they heard a female voice from inside the house "What is going on out there?"

"Intruders ma'am, we're dealing with them!", answered one of the peasants screaming.

"What do they want?", asked the female.

"We want to meet Lord Anthon!", said one of our guys.

"Well, let them in then. Not all of them, just three.", says the female.

Our men are then received inside the mansion. There are lots of works of art - sculptures and paintings all over the place. The place looks rather fancy.

A human woman in a fancy dress get down a set of stairs.

"You will have to wait until nightfall to meet Lord Anthon, he's indisposed and doesn't desire to be disturbed during the day.", says the woman.

Our men wait in the house, they even give serve them some food and beverages. The human woman asks them an awful lot of questions about our settlement that our men try to answer as vaguelly as possible.

Then after night falls we finally meet Lord Anthon. Our men were taken into his office, a large room without windows with a big painting of a man holding a woman in his arms, blood dripping from his mouth and her neck. He's sitting in a silver throne finely dressed, with three women also dressed in the finest silk near him, one on every side of him and one kneeling near him, they are all looking at him with desire in their eyes, only occasionally looking in the direction of our men, as if barely acknowledging that they are even there.

"The Night Hunter, from the famous painter Sonard Basi. Excellent, don't you think? The broad strokes of the oil paint really accentuate the drama of the scene. I am Lord Anthon, master of this manor, collector of art and trafficker of information. I am legally obliged to inform all my customers that I do work for a patron who is greatly interested in the acquisition of all sorts of magical items and as such has instructed me to reward greatly anyone who comes with a good item for me. The hunger of my patron for magical artifacts is such that I will even buy cursed items, albeit for a lower price of course.", says the finely dressed man.

>>4222651

"If you have some magical treasure that you do wish to part ways with I will arrange a suitable exchange with you for the best information available anywhere on the secrets of the various races. I have always been very curious, and I've been researching keenly the secrets of this world for centuries. One could say by now I can see both the big picture and the small details. Without the big picture, the details you can see won't make any sense to you, so I could teach you what I know, for a price. I know the secrets of every race, humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, minotaurs, trolls, dark elves, goblins, lizardmen, undeads, insects and demons. Bring me a suitably magical treasure and I will reveal the secrets of one of the races to you, and perhaps I'll throw in some specifics that can be of more immediate use, just so you don't say you didn't walk out of the deal better off. My mistresses are also powerful spellcasters, if that may be of use for you we may come to an arrangement, ideally you will pay me in magical artifacts too but if you do have some important information that I'm somehow missing like some ancient text in a strange language or something similar or maybe just a nice piece of art for my collection I may have one of them reward you with a nice spell for your troubles.", says Anthon.

Our men are then invited to leave Anthon's property until they have further business with him. They return to report their findings.


The halflings have set up camp near your tribe and are now studying the giant bugs. They are too careless however, more than once they almost got killed by the insect warriors. They also struggle to feed themselves, foraging in the wilderness but not hunting at all.

> Have your people feed the halflings and dispatch some warriors to watch over them
> You will allow these harmless halflings to wander your territory but you can't waste resources on them
> Tell the halflings to leave your territory at once, you cannot guarantee their safety
> These halflings are still here? Off to the shamans with them, it is time for sacrifice!
> Write in


And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Write in

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>4222656
>Have your people feed the halflings and dispatch some warriors to watch over them
Let’s for some time
>Train more warriors

>>4222656
>off to the shaman time for sacrifice!

What are our blood magic options for sacrificing them?

>>4220570
>>4222717

we know these spells, so we can either charge up a shaman with up to three Blood Magic charges (what should be enough for one level 3 spell), or charge three shamans with one level 2 spell each, or do three blood rage tattoos on our three of our warriors sacrificing one halfling for each tattoo, or any combination of those.

***

Just for reference, since our blood magic is currently level 1:

Blood Magic Level 1

Level 2 spell - 1 sacrifice
Level 3 spell - 3 sacrifices
Level 4 spell - 12 sacrifices
Level 5 spell - 60 sacrifices
Level 6 spell - 360 sacrifices
Level 7 spell - 2,520 sacrifices
Level 8 spell - 20,160 sacrifices
Level 9 spell - 181,440 sacrifices

>>4222656
> Have your people feed the halflings and dispatch some warriors to watch over them
Send emissaries to our brothers in the north.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4222681
>>4222747

1 - train warriors
2 - send emissaries to the north

>>4222656
>it's blood time
>train some troops

Year 6

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,614 orcs
Military: 500/890/1061 Warriors (120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins), 0/2477/2477 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (215,508), Canyon Crawlers (110), Cave Grazers (3,310)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (5/8)
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions


You decide to have your people feed the halflings and dispatch some warriors to watch over them so they don't kill themselves while studying the giant insects.

Your warriors find the giant insect hive. It is in a secluded spot in the woods, a large natural cave on the side of a hill that the bugs most certainly have excavated further to serve their purposes; now and then drones can be seen entering and leaving the cave and warriors patrol the area around it.

It is hard to estimate how many of the damn bugs there are in a colony like this but there are certainly well over a thousand, and your men have reported seeing pretty big drones already, some almost as big as a horse, what is a bad sign. This means the queen is well fed and laying lots of eggs, therefore the population is or soon will be booming.

You decide to train more warriors. Number in parenthesis is food consumed, when more than one.

These warriors you can train right away: spearmen, bowmen
These warriors require 2 years training: wolf riders(3), crossbowmen, impalers, kidnappers(3), death claws(5), halberdiers, war drummers
These warriors require 5 years training: Grunts(2), assassins(3)
These warriors require being proven in battle multiple times and thus cannot normally be trained: Tribal Warriors(4), Warlords(5), Shadow Killers(3)

Which type of warrior do you want to train and how many?
500/890/1061 (current number of warriors / current food consumption / maximum food consumption)

> Spearmen
> War drummer
> Impaler
> Halberdier
> Grunt

> Bowmen
> Crossbowmen

> Wolf rider
> Kidnaper
> Death claw

> Assassin

>>4222853


The elves return from their campaign in the north looking battered. You notice that although they are in pretty bad shape, there are few actual casualties from the initial group they sent in. So the elves are good warriors after all? Or maybe the necromancer is the one who was weak.

The elves are just strolling past your territory nonchalantly, going south towards their lands.

> Attack these knife eared bastards while they are weak!
> Stop them and demand compensation for the safe return
> Just ask them for the tale of their adventure, you are curious
> Let the elves pass through your lands unharmed
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Write in

>>4222853
50 Grunts
>>4222854
>> Stop them and demand compensation for the safe return

>>4222853
>Halberdier
50
>>4222854
>Just ask them for the tale of their adventure, you are curious
Is our army going to attack the insect hive or they just went to find it and we need to send them again to attack ?

>>4222911
>Is our army going to attack the insect hive or they just went to find it and we need to send them again to attack ?

You need to give specific orders to attack the hive if you want to do it, you just sent them to look for it.

>>4222911
Supporting

>>4222854
For the rest of the year, let's become Blood Brothers with the Hell Axes!

>>4222931
>>4222911
ok, let's also send our 500 warriors there before this hive becomes even more of a nuisance

>>4222934
>For the rest of the year, let's become Blood Brothers with the Hell Axes!
we need to worship their demon god first

>>4222854
>ask about their tales

>train 20 halbairds

>(write in) ask the halflings about what the bugs eat and how we can starve them

calling it a night, probably be back tomorrow

>>4222952
So be it.

>>4222854
Supporting
>>4222947
Sending all warriors to the hive along with
>> Start a new magical research project
The project should be: interactions of insect sacrifices with blood magic. There should be enough opportunities for tests during the fights. Seeing we are a martial culture, having our shamans join in on the battlefield is surely considered appropriate.

You are curious about how the campaign of the elves against the undead went so you send a messenger to inquire them about it.

You messenger return with the tale of the elvish adventures.

"What do you orcs want now? - asks Arakin."

"The chief wants to know the tale of your adventures in the north.", says our messenger.

"Ah! Well, we did stop briefly by a friendly faun tribe to resupply, then we kept pursueing our quarry. We used divination magic to discover where was his lair. There is a giant mess of undeads, demon worshippers and giant insects all over the tundra, it would have been nigh impossible to find him without magic. Once we located his lair we devised our strategy. You see, necromancers may have thousands upon thousands of minions, but they are not really able to control all of them at the same time, they give general instructions to the majority of them like guard a given place, or go attack the enemy and bring back any corpses, and only directly control a few dozens. Botsi Wulfa lived in a tower surrounded by thousands of minions. We cut a path through his minions, set up a defensive perimeter to cut off his supply of reinforcements and defeated the necromancer in mortal combat in his tower. We looted his corpse and his tower looking for the object he stole from us, we found it amidst a large amount of ancient texts and maps that we haven't had the time to check what they are about, then we cut another path through his minions, lost the undead following us in the tundra, headed back to the faun tribe to get some potions made from rare herbs that only grow in the tundra to bring back home and then started heading home. Without a master, the necromancer's minions spread out around the region aimlessly, but that's none of our concern. - said Arakin"

> You are satisfied with hearing the tales of the elves, let them pass unharmed
> Demand the stuff the elves looted from the necromancer corpse for safe passage
> Demand the ancient texts and maps the elves looted from the tower for safe passage
> Demand some of the rare tundra potions made from herbs from the fauns for safe passage
> Dispatch our assassins to steal from the elves during the night
> Attack the elves and rob them, they are clearly loaded with lots of loot!
> Write in

>>4224445


You decide to attack the giant insect hive. We begin to discuss what would be the best method of dispatching the creatures. We ask the halflings what the insects eat and how could we starve them. The halflings tell us the giant bugs primarily eat a type of fungus that all the queens carry with them when they leave their nests, it grows underground pretty much anywhere that is damp enough, but that really flourishes when allowed to consume organic matter like vegetation or rotting meat. The fungus is a very efficient food source for the bugs, but other races aren't quite able to digest it properly because it is too fibrous. It would be very difficult to really starve the bugs completely - perhaps if we burned down all the forests around the area they wouldn't have enough vegetation to feed their fungus and their growth would be halted. Still, the fungus would still grow, just in smaller amounts.

Instead of bothering with something so time consuming for such small gains, we could just rush inside the hive with all our warriors. There's enough space for maybe six or seven grunts to fight side by side in the main tunnel from what we have seen, the deeper tunnels are probably smaller so we will have to spread out inside the hive. We do not know how much resistance we will face, but we doubt the bugs could resist our full army for very long.

If we aren't willing to commit the entire army to a frontal assault just yet, we could just keep harassing their drones with smaller patrols and killing any warrior groups that come check what is going on. This should weaken them over time for a future frontal assault and would serve to gauge the strength of their warriors compared to ours.

> Burn down all the forests in the area around the hive
> Go for a massive frontal attack and invade the hive
> Perform skirmishes and harass their drones
> Write in

>>4224445
>Try not to piss off elves more than we already have

>>4224450
>TIME FOR AN ALL-OUT ATTACK

>>4224445
>You are satisfied with hearing the tales of the elves, let them pass unharmed
>>4224450
>Go for a massive frontal attack and invade the hive
Harass would be good but there's been some time since they appeared and they'll know our tatics and strengh as well

>>4224450
>> Burn down all the forests in the area around the hive
> Demand the ancient texts and maps the elves looted from the tower for safe passage

>>4224474
>>4224488
>>4224532

We allow the elves to pass unharmed, satisfied with hearing their tales.


We send our whole army to invade the giant insects hive!

We have 120 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our morale is 6/10 (+1 from war drummers).

Our engagement window in the main tunnel is about 13 people wide. Grunts, Tribal Warriors and wolf riders take the room of 2 people.
Who should we send in the front?

> 13 spearmen
> 6 Grunts
> 6 Tribal Warriors
> 6 wolf riders
> 13 bowmen
> 13 assassins
> Write in


Should we let a group guarding the entrance as we venture deeper into the insect caves?
> Yes, leave a group at the entrance (how many people)
> No, we will need everyone inside
> Write in

>>4224604
10 spearmen and a Grunt.
Leave the assassins to keep an eye on the entrance.

>>4224604
11 spearmen and 1 grunt
Leave the assassins guarding

>>4224634
>>4224604
Supporting

Rolled 9, 37, 42 = 88 (3d100)

>>4224634
>>4224666
>>4224686


We put a Grunt in the front and the rest spearmen. We have our assassins guarding the entrance.

We delve ever deeper into the cave complex which shows clear signs of having been excavated quite alot. It spirals downward and soon we block the path of a bunch of drones, that we promptly slaughter.

A few moments later, a battalion of giant insect warriors pour out from the depths of the cave. We had seen some warriors before, but not in such large numbers. They are very different from the drones. They have six legs too, but each leg ends in a sharp blade. Their bodies seen to be be mostly a gigantic sharp mandible. There's no apparent antennae, just an elongated chitin lump with holes along their heads which probably serves the same purpose. To fight they usually stand on four legs and slash at things with the front two while trying to bite off chunks of the enemy, but they may pierce and slash things with the other four legs also.

They take double space each so around six of them clog the tunnels, with a large amount of them coming behind!

Time to roll for combat!

The combat rolls will work like this:

You will roll 1d100 three times to beat a DC.

-1 success or worse is a Catastrophic Failure
0 success is a Failure
1 success is a Minor Success
2 success is a Major Success
3 success or better is a Critical Success

a roll of 1 removes one success, a roll of 100 counts as 2 successes

I will also declare a DC for the enemy and will roll 3d100 for it. The DC for the enemy can be different than yours.

If you get less successes than the enemy, you lose morale. Low morale raises the DC in combat. Critical Success raises morale.

If your morale gets to zero, your soldiers will flee the battlefield.

Rolling for the insects, DC 40 (-10 tunnel defenders)

Roll 1d100 three times, DC 45 (-5 morale)

Since it might take awhile for three people to roll, you're allowed to roll more than once, or even roll all 3d100 at once, if you prefer.

Rolled 4, 74, 66 = 144 (3d100)

>>4224877

Rolled 57, 77, 22 = 156 (3d100)

>>4224877
since dude already rolled 3d100, might as well

Rolled 98, 91, 34 = 223 (3d100)

>>4224896
>>4224906

We push back the incoming waves of giant insects in the tunnels, the fight is bloody and gory. Our shamans try with some success to keep our warriors alive long enough to do some damage in the waves of insect warriors. Their carapaces are tough, but they are vulnerable to our spears when they open their big mouths.

We kill about 12 giant insects while they kill 5 of our men.

We manage to push then enough through the tunnels that we see a larger chamber down a smaller lateral tunnel. If we took the fight there, we could leverage more warriors into the combat.

> Let's keep pushing through the main tunnel (DC 45, roll 3d100)
> Let's take the fight to the larger chamber (DC 55, roll 3d100)
> Write in

Rolling for the insects, DC 40 (-10 tunnel defenders)


We have 115 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 250 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins (outside).
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our morale is 6/10 (+1 from war drummers).

>>4224931
>> Let's keep pushing through the main tunnel (DC 45, roll 3d100)
New front line 5 grunts and a Tribal warrior, with axes.

>>4224942

alright, roll me some dice

Rolled 15, 45, 95 = 155 (3d100)

>>4224931

Rolled 90, 14, 82 = 186 (3d100)

>>4224931
>Let's take the fight to the larger chamber (DC 55, roll 3d100)
how much space do we gain ? going with these extras >>4224942

if the option is locked is fine by me

Rolled 43, 97, 23 = 163 (3d100)

>>4224931

We perform some troop movimentations, swamping our spearmen in the front with Grunts and a Tribal Warrior.

The fight rages on as we push onwards through the tunnels.

Our grunts manage to kill 15 more of the giant bugs. The bugs manage to kill 5 Grunts.

Then suddenly, the warrior insects disengage quickly and retreat. As we begin to pursue them down the tunnel, we feel a rumbling vibration and suddenly the tunnel right in front of us collapses, a giant worm thing tunneling up from the ground. The beast is obscenely large - must be the creature they use to dig these tunnels. A few warriors were caught by the worm's mouth when it came out of the earth and presumably devoured. The worm disappears back into the tunnel it just dug.

Now there's a massive hole obstructing our passage and the insect warriors are still on the other side.

> We'll climb down the hole and climb up from the other side
> We'll have the shaman sacrifice a 'volunteer' to summon a magic bridge so we can cross
> We'll explore the rest of the hive to see if there are alternative paths
> Giant worm is too dangerous, we give up, let's go home
> Write in

We have 112 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 244 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 60 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our morale is 6/10 (+1 from war drummers).

>>4225018
>We'll have the shaman sacrifice a 'volunteer' to summon a magic bridge so we can cross
1 bowmen

>>4225026
Support

Rolled 46, 24, 64 = 134 (3d100)

>>4225026
>>4225036

We have our shaman sacrifice one of our bowmen in order to summon a magic bridge so we can cross the big hole the giant worm made in the tunnel. The shaman perform the ceremony as quickly as possible, sacrificing the bowman and eating his heart. He then cast the spell, creating a translucent bridge over the hole. The first warrior tentatively puts his foot over the bridge and it holds his weight. The shaman warns us that we must cross one person at a time, maybe two people would be able to cross if they are not too heavy, but if too many people try to cross at the same time they will fall.

This might be problematic, as whoever we send will be facing a large group of insects by himself.

> Just keep sending spearmen, eventually we'll have enough on the other side to hold the line. DC 65 (-5 drummers, +20 chokepoint)
> Send Grunts, they should survive long enough to hold a line in no time DC 55 (-5 drummer, +10 chokepoint)
> Send Tribal Warriors first, our most veteran warriors will be able to hold the line no problem DC 50 (-5 drummers, +5 chokepoint)
> Leader Ghazg-Kull himself will cross the bridge first and hold the front lines DC 50 (-5 drummers, +5 chokepoint)
> Write in

In any case, roll 3d100.

Rolling for insects, DC 30 (-10 tunnel defenders, -10 chokepoint)

We have 112 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 244 Grunts, 20 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our morale is 6/10 (+1 from war drummers).

Rolled 32, 63, 29 = 124 (3d100)

>>4225051
>Send Tribal Warriors first, our most veteran warriors will be able to hold the line no problem DC 50 (-5 drummers, +5 chokepoint)

>>4225062

We send our Tribal Warriors first to secure the line. They fight in incredibly bad odds, pushing back the waves of giant insects. So it isn't all that surprising that one of them dies before our shamans manage to cross to the other side to patch them up with blood magic. Still, that is a blow to our morale.

They did manage to kill about 8 giant insects before going down. We get a line going and start pushing the giant bugs back.

> Keep the Tribal Warriors on the front, they are doing a good job
> We can't afford to keep losing Tribal Warriors, get the Grunts on the front
> Frontlines is a job for the spearmen, put them there
> Write in

Roll 3d100 to keep on fighting DC 50 (no modifiers).

Rolling for the bugs DC 40 (-10 tunnel defenders)

We have 112 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 244 Grunts, 19 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our current morale is 5/10.

Rolled 77, 87, 85 = 249 (3d100)

>>4225094
>Frontlines is a job for the spearmen, put them there
a shame no one else rolled

Rolled 30, 51, 2 = 83 (3d100)

>>4225094
>> Frontlines is a job for the spearmen, put them there

Rolled 86, 68, 15 = 169 (3d100)

>>4225094

forgot to roll for the bugs

>>4225102
>>4225103


Our spearmen do a good job of taking their chances at sticking their weapons in the big mouth of the big warriors when they open them, killing them out efficiently.

We manage to kill 35 giant bugs. The insects kill 28 of our spearmen.

We finally push them into a larger chamber. In there, about a hundred giant bug warriors remain, and lots of drones.

We can see the giant bug queen. She is much larger than the warriors, she also has six bladed legs, but she stands on her bloated abdomen; she seems capable of fighting with all the six blades at the same time and moving around by slithering onver her elongated bloated abdomen. She has a big head with huge eyes and antennas.

When we enter her chamber, all of us immediatelly feel a strong headache. Seems like she can project short range psychic fields of some sort. Perhaps she's not very strong because she's young. You wonder if she can read your minds.

In any case seems like that's it, the final battle of the hive!

What will be your strategy?

> Spread out and thin the numbers of bug warriors
> Cut a path straight towards the bug queen, let's kill her already
> Have your bowmen shoot at the big target the queen while we fight the warriors
> Write in

Roll 3d100 to keep on fighting DC 50 (no modifiers).

Rolling for the bugs DC 40 (-10 queen defenders)

We have 84 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 244 Grunts, 19 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our current morale is 5/10.

Rolled 99, 96, 79 = 274 (3d100)

>>4225154
>Have your bowmen shoot at the big target the queen while we fight the warriors

Rolled 23, 44, 8 = 75 (3d100)

>>4225154

forgot to roll for the bugs

Rolled 44, 8, 76 = 128 (3d100)

>>4225154
>> Have your bowmen shoot at the big target the queen while we fight the warriors

>>4225162
>>4225165

Now with room to move around, our Grunts start to kill off the bug warriors very effectively, severing off their limbs before delivering the killing blow.

Our bowmen focus fire on the bug queen which starts bleeding a blueish-greenish fluid from the multiple wounds it sustains.

By the time we kill about 70 warriors, and their cornered warrior have killed about 20 spearmen and 10 grunts, the giant worm emmerges in a steep diagonal tunnel behind the queen. The queen enters the tunnel and begins to flee!

The remaining warriors protect the tunnel entrance!

> Finish off the warriors before going after the queen
> Send the wolf riders after the queen
> Send half our warriors after the queen
> Write in

Rolling for the bugs, DC 60 (+10 outnumbered)

Roll 3d100, DC 40 (-10 outnumbers enemy)

We have 64 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 234 Grunts, 19 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 20 wolf riders, 20 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our current morale is 6/10.

Rolled 26, 29, 40 = 95 (3d100)

>>4225200

forgot the bug rolls

Rolled 61, 73, 70 = 204 (3d100)

>>4225200
>> Send the wolf riders after the queen

Rolled 49, 68, 35 = 152 (3d100)

>>4225200
>Send the wolf riders after the queen
how are we outnumbered after killing 70 of them ?

>>4225220
>how are we outnumbered after killing 70 of them ?

you misunderstood something, maybe because I wrote the bug DC first this time for no particular reason, read again, your DC is 40, the bugs DC is 60.

But there really is a mistake and it is not because of the outnumbering thing, it is because your morale rose from 5 to 6 from your critical success and I didn't better your DC for it.

So your DC should be 35 (-10 outnumbers enemy, -5 morale).

>>4225250
oh, shame on me. at least i made you remember something

We dispatch the wolf riders into the hole after the queen.

We finish off the rest of the warriors, who still manage to kill 10 spearmen and 2 Grunts before being finally killed. At some point we heard a loud screech.

We then go check the tunnels. The wolf riders managed to intercept the queen before it got too far. The giant worm thing tried to block their path and attack them, and even killed three wolf riders, but the wolf riders killed the insect queen faster than the giant worm was able to stop them. After the giant insect queen died the giant worm gave out a big screech then burrowed and fled.

Most drones all over the colony just stand in place doing nothing, some keep twitching very rapidly, others curl into a ball and seems to sleep, others still just dig into the walls in a random direction. A few drones keep bringing food back into the fungus pile, but the vast majority don't seen to bother to eat at all - you wonder just how often these things eat.

You look through the queen's nest and the fungus pile to see if there is anything of value in the hive worth looting, but seems like there isn't - perhaps because the hive is too new they didn't happen into anything particularly useful or interesting around the region.

You find a chamber full of eggs next to the queen's chamber, there are hundreds of them.

You find another chamber with a bunch of larva, they are about three feet long. There are a few dozen of them.

You then go check on the assassins. They killed dozens of warriors who were outside patrolling and were called back into the hive by the queen when she realized she was being attacked, they mostly arrived in small groups; still, when a particularly large group came through, two assassins died. A bunch of warriors got through the assassins and were wandering the tunnels - about twenty of them.

> Kill all the drones, just to be safe
> Kill all the larva, can't be too safe
> Destroy all the eggs, can't risk another queen being born
> Bring all the eggs home, they look tasty
> Kill the last remaining warriors
> There's nothing more to be done here, let's go home
> Bring the halflings here to study this place
> Write in

We have 54 spearmen, 10 war drummers, 232 Grunts, 19 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 17 wolf riders, 18 assassins.
We have our commanders Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
We have our leader Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
We have 20 Shamans who can use blood magic to heal people.

Our current morale is 6/10.

>>4225310

I think we did crit again so our morale should be 7/10

>>4225310
>> Bring all the eggs home, they look tasty

>>4225310
>Bring all the eggs home, they look tasty

We decide to take back home all the eggs of the giant insects because they look tasty. They have a weird texture but are very filling, and taste much better fried than boiled.

After a big conflict, our Grunts have about 1% chance of becoming Tribal Warriors. We get 3 new Tribal Warriors!

After a big conflict, our Tribal Warriors have about 1% chance of becoming Warlords. We didn't get any though.

After killing a whole bunch of people, our assassins have about 1% chance of becoming the legendary Shadow Killers. We didn't get any though.

We decide to train 50 new halberdiers. 50 of our spearmen get better equipment and start training to become halberdiers.

Year 7

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,533 orcs
Military: 409/774/1061 Warriors (4 spearmen, 50 halberdiers in training 1/2, 10 war drummers, 229 Grunts, 22 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 17 wolf riders, 18 assassins), 0/2477/2477 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (219,818), Canyon Crawlers (112), Cave Grazers (3,376)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (6/8)
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions

With the drones no longer showing up around the area, the halflings have decided to head back home to publish their observations of the giant insects.

> Let them go back to their lands
> Off to the shamans with them
> Give them some eggs
> Write in

>>4225487


A goblin comitive shows up in your lands. They speak your language. They ask to speak to the chief. You decide to receive them.

Their leader then says to you.

"We come from the Cut Your Guts Clan! We have many enemies and we are in search of allies! It will certainly be useful for you to have some allies in the region of the Forest of Illusion, and it will certainly be useful for us to be able to call upon your aid when we become overwhelmed by too many enemies! In return for your might we can provide intel in the area we operate! We could maybe use some training or trade for useful things since we don't produce much stuff, we mostly steal things from the humans and elves."

> You goblins are worthless, go away
> Agree to come to the aid of the goblins when they need, but don't give them anything
> Agree to train and equip the goblins, they could become useful
> Write in


And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Send an war party somewhere
> Write in

>>4225487
>>4225492
give eggs
don't ally but trade
expand settlements/borders into the former insect territory

>>4225487
>Give them some eggs
>>4225492
>Agree to train and equip the goblins, they could become useful, but ask what they can give us
>Train more warriors

>>4225310
Most of the eggs, larva and drones should go into (repeating my vote): research whether or not insect sacrifices are compatible with blood magic

going to sleep, probably be back tomorrow

>>4225508
Seconding

>>4225492
>> Agree to train and equip the goblins, they could become useful.
Train 100 spearmen and 30 grunts.

>>4225505
>>4225508
>>4225533
>>4225855
>>4225959

We give the halflings some of the giant insect eggs and allow them to leave to their lands. They seem very pleased with our gift and promptly depart, thanking us greatly for feeding them and allowing them to perform research in our lands. They say they will tell everyone in the halfling lands how nice us orcs are.

You agree to train and equip the goblins, pondering that they might become useful at some point. They are overjoyed and ready to begin training. There are about 50 goblins in the comitive.

What sort of training will you put these goblins through?

> Give them the same training we would give our Impalers
> Go expensive and train them to become crossbowmen
> Have them raise some dire wolves and give them nets, training them to become Kidnappers
> Have our assassins train them in acrobatics and dagger combat, but hold back in poison training, making them Infiltrators
> Have our assassins give them the full assassin training, including poison, making them assassins
> Write in

We decide to train more troops.
Military situation: 409/774/1061

The suggested troops to train were 100 spearmen and 30 Grunts, is that ok?

> Yes, that will be alright
> No, we want to train different troops (specify)

>>4226302
> Go expensive and train them to become crossbowmen
> Yes, that will be alright

>>4226302
>Have our assassins train them in acrobatics and dagger combat, but hold back in poison training, making them Infiltrators
>Yes

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4226310
>>4226338

1- crossbowmen
2 - infiltrators

>>4226310
>>4226338
>>4226363

Year 8

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,638 orcs
Military: 521/898/1063 Warriors (104 spearmen, 50 halberdiers, 10 war drummers, 211 Grunts + 30 in training 1/5, 22 Tribal Warriors, 59 bowmen, 17 wolf riders, 18 assassins), 0/2483/2483 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (224,214), Canyon Crawlers (114), Cave Grazers (3,443)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (6/8)
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions

We decide to have our assassins train the goblins in the arts of acrobatics and dagger combat, but withhold the arts of poison handling, so that they can become Infiltrators!

We decide to train 100 spearmen and 30 Grunts.

A group of harpies is sighted in the canyons not too far from our base. Seems like they are planning to make a nest there. There are about a dozen of them. Considering the terrain, it is rather dangerous to approach such creatures - their song is fabled to make men jump to their deaths. If you are going to cast spells with blood magic remember we only have 20 shamans so we can only cast 20 spells on a given day.

> Dispatch our archers to kill them all
> Send someone to talk with the harpies, tell them to leave or else
> Send someone to talk with the harpies, offer them food and equipment if they help us
> Sacrifice people and send our shamans with Silence spell prepared to cast on the harpies (1 sacrifice per spell per shaman)
> Sacrifice people and have our shamans cast Invisibility spell on someone to catch the harpies by surprise (1 sacrifice per shaman)
> Write in

A group of adventurers pass through our territory and kill a bunch of our patrol people - about 18 Grunts were killed. Surviving patrol people report the group was composed of six adventurers - four humans, three men and one woman, one female elf and one dwarf. They had a couple spellcasters in their group.

> Ignore them, they were probably just passing through
> Send more patrols to hunt these adventurers
> Send your wolf riders to attack the adventurers
> Send your assassins after the adventurers
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Send an war party somewhere
> Write in

>>4226368
>> Send someone to talk with the harpies, offer them food and equipment if they help us
> Send your assassins after the adventurers
Train 20 bowmen.

>>4226368
>dispatch the archers

>send assassins, but bring them alive so we can take their stuff and sacrifice them alive as punishment

>research invention and possibly siege machines

>>4226368

Oh, and Library is at (7/8), I forgot to update it.

>>4226368
>Send someone to talk with the harpies, offer them food and equipment if they help us
>Send assassins
>Send an exploration party to the forest of illusion

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>4226378
>>4226384
>>4226388


1 - train 20 bowmen
2 - research invention
3 - send exploration party to the forest of illusion

We send someone to go talk with the harpies to offer them food and equipment if they help us. But before the guy can get close enough to talk to them one of the harpies sing their song and he jumps off the cliff and dies. The harpies feast on his body.

> Leave the harpies alone
> Dispatch our bowmen to kill them all
> Send a large group of people to talk with the harpies, tell them to leave or else
> Send a large group of people to talk with the harpies, offer them food and equipment if they help us
> Sacrifice people and send our shamans with Silence spell prepared to cast on the harpies (1 sacrifice per spell per shaman)
> Sacrifice people and have our shamans cast Invisibility spell on someone to catch the harpies by surprise (1 sacrifice per shaman)
> Write in

We dispatch our assassins to kill the adventurers. They stalk their prey and wait until the night. When the adventurers are camping and have one guy standing on watch, the assassins pelt him with poison darts. He zerches out with barely a sound. The assassins then go kill the the rest of the adventurers. They kill one of the humans slitting its throat in its sleep, but when they try to kill the dwarf they botch it, their daggers getting tangled on the dwarf's beard. The dwarf wake up screaming and wakes everyone else up. The elf wakes up already throwing spells on the assassins. Six assassins are killed by the humans and the rest flee. They return to report on their mission.

> That's enough, let the adventurers go
> Send patrols to hunt these adventurers
> Send your wolf riders to attack the adventurers
> Send your assassins back to finish the job
> Write in

>>4226411
>killed by the humans
killed by the adventurers I meant

>>4226411
>> Sacrifice people and have our shamans cast Invisibility spell on someone to catch the harpies by surprise. Use 20.

Send 5 assassins and 15 tribal warriors.

> Send patrols to hunt these adventurers

>>4226411
>Dispatch our bowmen to kill them all
>That's enough, let the adventurers go
why the fuck they didn't go for the elf first baka, we already lost more than it's worth it

>>4226411
>send in the bowmen

>dispatch the patrols

We dispatch our bowmen to shoot at the harpies. They position themselves from as far as they can shoot the harpies and begin shooting at them. Their aim is poor because the harpies are so far away. The harpies try to fly closer to get in range for singing their song, but the barrage of arrows make this very difficult. Eventually one harpy gets close enough and gets singing. About half our men start walking towards the abyss. The rest divide themselves between start slapping them and holding them back to try stopping them from plunging to their deaths and keep shooting at the singing harpy. About 13 bowmen actually jump to their deaths before we manage to shoot down the singing harpy. The other harpies grab their bodies and fly them to their nest and begin devouring them.

Our bowmen consider getting closer but when another harpy begins to sing they all panic and run away.

We dispatch patrols after the group of adventurers. After a few weeks our patrols return with news.

We engaged the adventurers on multiple occasions, and every time suffered significant losses. Even with two members less in their group they are a cohesive fighting unit and very difficult to beat. Our average patrol group outnumbers their group five to one, still they manage to hold their ground. Seems like they have two warriors and two spellcasters in their group now, they usually start the combat with some area spell, weakening our forces, then start killing us off one by one until we flee. We lost 24 more Grunts to the adventurers.

We followed them all the way into a cave whose entrance is heavily carved to look like a gigantic skull, full of writing in some ancient unknown language, a few weeks away in the west. They have entered the cave, but our warriors thought it was cursed and full of demons so they didn't follow them inside.

> Have our warriors to camp the cave and wait for the adventurers to come out
> Send our warriors inside the cave after the adventurers
> They will probably be eaten by demons, forget about them
> Write in

>>4226474
>Have our warriors to camp the cave and wait for the adventurers to come out
we went all the way

>>4226474
pile up rocks and mud outside the cave
WE WILL BURY THEM

>>4226474
also find some kind of wax or something that we can stuff in our ears to protect us from the harpies and maybe make some signs/flags to issue commands

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4226494
>>4226499

1 - camp the cave
2 - pile up rocks and mud

>>4226499
seconding

We send our people to look for wild bee hives so we can steal some wax to plug our ears to protect us from the harpies. Our men find a small amount of them and after being stung a lot manage to steal an amount of wax. We could try again going after the harpies, deploying our bowmen with their ears plugged with wax.

We consider using some flags to issue commands. We make a big leather standard, paint it red on one side and black on the other. We tell our troops that when we wave the red side around they should advance, and when we wave the black side around they should retreat. We consider something more complicated, but this is already complicated enough, we're not even sure if the troops will remember it in the heat of battle.

We issue an order for our warriors to camp the cave and wait for the adventurers to come out. A hundred Grunts, fifty spearmen and a couple shamans stay waiting in a large camp we prepared outside of the cave, with people coming now and then to bring supplies, waiting to kill the adventurers and steal their loot once they come out of the caves.

After a few weeks one ogre come out of the cave. He only speaks Giant, and nobody in our tribe is fluent in it. He doesn't look immediately aggressive, but he seems suspicious of the large camp right outside the cave.

> Kill the ogre
> Offer some food to the ogre
> Sacrifice three people to cast a spell so a shaman can talk with the ogre
> Let the ogre pass unharmed
> Write in

C-Can i join?

>>4226541
Come on in, buddy!

>>4226538
Sacrifice three people.

>>4226538
>Sacrifice three people to cast a spell so a shaman can talk with the ogre

>Homunculus
>Subterranean

>>4226552
What?

>>4226558
im sorry, its my first time trying this, i dont know what i have to do. I dont want to sound like an idiot

We have our Grunts stop the ogre from going anywhere while our shaman performs the ceremony, sacrificing and drinking the blood of three people. He then casts the spell and becomes capable of talking with the ogre in his language.

"Greetings, big one. We are the Ironbloods tribe. We are here after a group of four adventurers, two humans, one dwarf and one elf who entered this cave a few weeks ago. They have killed many of our people and we seek revenge. Have you seen them?", says the shaman.

"Hello there! I am Gorbug the ogre! Gorbug was from Crackbone Tribe, but they banished Gorbug for sleeping with the chief's wife. Yes, I have seen such adventurers in the caves! They killed a bunch of ogres and went in the deeper levels. Ogres don't go in the deeper levels, too dangerous. Ogres not cowards but last ogres that went into deeper level met woman with snake hair, most became stone. Ogres no like this kind of sorcery. Ogres don't know how deep caves really go, never went too deep. Now Gorbug has no home, must fend off for himself in wilderness."

"Does the cave have other exits?", asks the shaman.

"Ogres know two other exits exist, but they are very dangerous. One is near naga tribe, forty miles south. Ogres don't go there, because nagas live in deeper level. Other is near Lorakrus lair and the kobold tribe, sixty miles north. Lorakrus black dragon, very evil, makes kobolds dig for gold. Ogres don't go there either, they also live in deeper level."

Well crap. The adventurers might have gotten out of the caves already.

> Kill Gorbug
> Invite Gorbug to work for us
> Let Gorbug go unharmed
> Write in

And what should we do about our camp?

> Keep camping, they'll probably come out from here
> It is pointless, they are probably long gone
> Let's split in half, send people to camp the naga entrance
> Let's split in half, send people to camp the dragon entrance
> Let's split in three, send people to camp all three entrances
> Write in

>>4226560
Pick one of the prompts here ( >>4226538 ) or suggest something different (write in)

>>4226582
>invite Gorbug to work for us

>stop camping, but see if anyone remembers their faces enough to make wanted posters

>>4226586
In this case pick from here ( >>4226582 )

>>4226582
>Invite Gorbug to work for us
>It is pointless, they are probably long gone

>>4226538
>Sacrifice

>>4226589
Supporting

We invite Gorbug to work for us. He promptly accepts. We tell him that we can only speak with him for a limited time due to magic and after that we will have to work to learn each other's language. He says he will teach us his language and will try to learn ours. We assign some of our men and children to learn Giant with Gorbug and a shaman to teach him our language. Gorbug eats as much as 5 warriors and fights with a giant club.

We decide to stop camping, as we deem it pointless, the adventurers probably got out from one of the other two exits already. We ask one of the Grunts who survived the attack to make a description to one of our more artistically inclined orcs to make portraits of the adventurers so that we can make wanted posters. We don't have artists all that good, and the features got a bit exaggerated you think, but we made reasonable wanted posters of the adventurers.

Our scouts discover that the harpies made a few nests by the cliff side in the canyons and had a bunch of young, dozens of little harpielings are out and about pestering their mothers for food and learning how to fly.

Our Library is complete! Our sages now have a place to store their knowledge! About 100 people are busily working on making parchment, keeping the place tidy and commiting to paper the oral traditions of our people.

Year 9

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,734 orcs
Military: 464/798/1073 Warriors (96 spearmen, 50 halberdiers, 10 war drummers, 184 Grunts + 30 in training 2/5, 22 Tribal Warriors, 46 bowmen, 13 wolf riders, 12 assassins, 1 Ogre Warrior), 0/2405/2505 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys)
Livestock: Boars (228,698), Canyon Crawlers (116), Cave Grazers (3,511)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions

We send an exploration party to the Forest of Illusions.

Our explorers come back reporting having found one goblin tribe. Upon contact they found the goblin tribe spoke the human language. They called themselves the Touch My Snake Clan. Their chief invited our explorers to sit with him by the fire and share tales about the region.

>>4226715


The Touch My Snake chief, Bigkok, told our explorers that the elves have a bunch of tiny villages that are very easy to rob, and big fortified cities which are much harder to rob. The tiny villages don't have much of value to rob though - the people there just cultivate vast orchards and plant a few other crops in the middle of the forest amongst the trees. The elves barely mine any metal at all as far as the goblins know, even though their warriors do have metal weapons - they must either import the metal from somewhere or have hidden mines within their walled cities.

As for the goblins themselves, there are over ten different goblin tribes in the region. The goblin tribes are constantly at war with each other, because they can't help themselves and rob each other whenever they learn the other has robbed something shiny from the elves. The Touch My Snake are at war with the Lazy Bastards and the Broken Tooth Clan, for instance.

There are also a couple human towns in the area. Robbing the humans is also something the goblins do fairly often. The humans live behind palisaded towns near the edge of the forest. One of the human towns is actually a den of demon worshippers who enslaves their women to give birth to a lot of children so that they can sacrifice them to demons to gain magical powers.

Our explorers thank Bigkok and continue exploring the area. One night they stop a cave to rest and are surprise attacked by a group of dark elves. They are disarmed and chained and put into a pen with a bunch of humans, lizardmen, goblins and elves. The dark elves make us work on a mine, digging for ore. They flog us with a whip when we work too slow.

>>4226718


They stay in the dark elf mine dungeon for a few weeks being occasionally fed some gruel and when the dark elves are not paying attention some humans and the elves concoct a plan of escape with them - one of the elves is a spellcaster and will cast a spell to free us when the time is right, but then we will have to fight our way through the dark elves.

One day the day of the escape comes and the elf casts a spell that shatters our chains; we attack the dark elves with our mining picks. The dark elves cast spells at us and fight back, but with the help of the elf spellcaster who unlocks iron gates along the way with magic some of us manage to flee back into the light of day and out of the dark elf dungeon.

The survivors come back home to report their findings.

Our patrols catch sight of a bunch of kobolds wandering the wilderness north of our territory.
> Ignore them
> Send our men to murder them
> Send people to parlay with them
> Send our assassins to follow them and find their hideout
> Write in


And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Send an war party somewhere
> Write in

>>4226720
>Send people to parlay with them
> Research trade
Let’s get going with this lvl 0 tech

>>4226763
Supporting

>>4226763
support

>>4226763
>>4226771
>>4226800

We send some people to parlay with the kobolds. The kobolds wear crude hide and leather clothing, some of them carry metal daggers that your men think are made of copper and speak the human language. They are wary of talking to us at first, afraid we are going to kill them. Our men try to reassure them we're not going to kill them so that they do speak to us. The kobolds tell our men that they are prospecting the caverns of the region looking for gold for their master, a very powerful dragon, and if we interfere he will know about it.

> Ignore the kobolds
> Send our men to murder the kobolds
> Send our men to tell the kobolds to leave our lands or else
> Send our assassins to follow the kobolds and find their hideout
> Write in

>>4226814
>"Does your little treasure hunt have to be in OUR lands?"

>>4226814
>Tell them that if they want to explore here, they have to offer something in exchange

>>4226814
>> Ignore the kobolds

>>4226829
>>4226832
>>4226836


We send our men to ask the kobolds if they really have to do their treasure hunt in our lands and to tell them that if they want to explore here they have to offer something in exchange. The kobolds scoff at the notion, saying they won't be robbed by a bunch of thugs - they are the chosen ones of the mighty dragon, they have the dragon given right to search for gold wherever they want!

> Ignore the kobolds
> Send our men to murder the kobolds
> Send our men to tell the kobolds to leave our lands or else
> Send our assassins to follow the kobolds and find their hideout
> Write in

>>4226848
>ingnore them. they can have their little treasure hunt aa long as they don't bother us.

>>4226848
>Send our assassins to follow the kobolds and find their hideout
Let’s know where their base is if we need to do something in the future

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4226860
>>4226890

1 - ignore
2 - follow

>>4226860
>>4226890
>>4226892

We send our assassins to follow the kobolds to see where their hideout is. After much sneaking around and crawling behind bushes in the wilderness, our assassins manage to follows the kobolds back to a small plateu nearby. The kobolds climb the face of the small plateau and disappear up there. One of our assassins decide to follow them up there to check the place out. After expertly climbing the plateau, he finds the entrance of their lair, a small natural cave, too small for a Grunt to enter - even our assassins would have to kneel to crawl inside the place. Seems like we would have trouble getting rid of the kobolds, we would need to send spearmen or similar troops and they would need to fight crawling in tiny cramped spaces. The kobolds, being very small, would have no such trouble, and could move around unimpeded.

Our assassins return to tell us about their findings.

> Ignore the kobolds
> Send our men to murder the kobolds wandering the wilderness
> Send our men to invade the kobolds' lair (how many troops)
> Send our men to tell the kobolds to leave our lands or else
> Write in

>>4226910
>Ignore the kobolds

>>4226915

Year 10

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,841 orcs
Military: 464/798/1084 Warriors (96 spearmen, 50 halberdiers, 10 war drummers, 184 Grunts + 30 in training 2/5, 22 Tribal Warriors, 46 bowmen, 13 wolf riders, 12 assassins, 1 Ogre Warrior), 0/2429/2529 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 10 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys), Trade (1/7)
Livestock: Boars (232,771), Canyon Crawlers (118), Cave Grazers (3,581)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions

We decide to ignore the kobolds for now.

We begin researching the Trade technology (tier 0)! Our sages study the dynamics of transporting large amounts or merchandise and negotiating with foreign powers.

Orc adventurer Goluk Buga (lv 7 Barbarian) returns home after a long life of adventuring! People receive him with merriment and praise. He tells tales of his great exploits - how his group of adventurers defeated werewolves, giants, mermaids, earth elementals, demon cultists, basilisks, corrupted treants and an evil necromancer. Many warriors are inspired by his exploits and want to follow him into more glorious battles! He carries a greataxe enchanted by dwarves.

> Let as many men as desire follow such a great hero in his quest
> Offer Goluk a position as commander in your army
> Forbid your men from following the great hero in his quest
> Have your assassins murder Goluk in his sleep and steal his magic weapon
> Write in

The harpielings start to grow and begin stealing your boars! Your herders complain and demand you do something about it.

> Have your bowmen try to kill them with their ears waxed
> Try the Invisibility spells (how many people)
> Try the Silence spells (how many people)
> The harpies are too dangerous, we'll just ignore them for now
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Send an war party somewhere
> Write in

>>4226942
>get that magnificent bastard in the commander's chair

>wax up

>make special armor for Gorbug, the Orge

>>4226942
>Offer Goluk a position as commander in your army
>Have your bowmen try to kill them with their ears waxed
>Make armor for Gorbug

>>4226970
>>4226958
support

>>4226942

forgot to change Grunt training to 3/5

>>4226958
>>4226970
>>4226974

We send our bowmen with their ears waxed to go after the harpies. They get closer to the harpies and start shooting. One of the harpies start singing. The wax muffles the sound, but doesn't block it completely, they can still hear it. About half our men start walking to the edge of the cliff. We try to stop them, but 8 plunge to their deaths before we manage to kill the harpy. A second harpy starts singing and 7 more men jump to their deaths before we kill that one. Our bowmen then flee and the harpies recover the bodies to feast upon them.

There are still 9 adult harpies alive and dozens of harpielings.

> Tell our bowmen they must keep going, we gotta kill the harpies
> Try the Invisibility spells (how many people)
> Try the Silence spells (how many people)
> The harpies are too dangerous, we'll just ignore them for now
> Write in

You invite Goluk Buga to become one of your commanders. Goluk accepts your offer, saying he is now semi retired - there's still some unresolved stuff his party is still up to in the future that they might still need him for, but the spellcasters of the group said they will need several years to research the location of a bunch of stuff before they call back everyone, so for the time being he will lead our troops for us.

We decide to make some special armor for Gorbug. How special are we talking about here?

> We just want him to have some armor, a leather armor will do
> Hide armor seems to suit him better
> Let's make him some hardened leather armor

Everything past this point is experimental and has a chance to fail, lower down the list higher the chance of failure. (roll 3d100, DC 50)

> Let's make him a chain shirt (takes 1 success)
> Let's make him a breastplate (takes 1 success)
> Let's make him a half plate (takes 2 success)
> Let's take the time and make him a chainmail (takes 2 success)
> Let's go all the way and make him a platemail (takes 3 success)
> Write in

>>4227048
>Try the Silence spells (how many people)
9 shamans and 10 grunts
>Let's make him some hardened leather armor

>>4227069

We have our artisans make a hardened leather armor for Gorbug.

We decide to have our shamans try the silence spells. For that they need to get withing about 120 feet to the harpies. They sneak on the harpies and cast the silence spell on them. When the harpies notice that they can't sing, they fly away confused, getting out of range and breaking the spell. The shamans panic and flee from the area. The harpies start singing and a couple shamans just out of the cliffs as well as a couple Grunts. The Grunts never had a chance to get close enough of the harpies.

Seems like the silence spell didn't quite work as well as planned.

Our shamans then get a new idea. We could sacrifice 3 people per spell and cast Flight spells to get our warriors flying to get to the Harpies! This idea is foolproof, nothing could go wrong here!

> Try the Invisibility thing (up to 18 people)
> Try the Flight thing (up to 18 people)
> The harpies are too dangerous, leave them alone
> Write in

>>4227106
>a couple shamans just out of the cliffs
jump out off of the cliffs

>>4227106
>Try the Invisibility and flight thing (6 grunts)
can we cast both on our warriors ? if yes, do this and also put wax in their ear for extra measure

>>4227144

We have our shamans cast flight and invisibility on six of our grunts after sealing their ears with wax. Our grunts fly to the harpies and surprise attack them! They manage to kill six harpies without much trouble. The other three harpies try to flee, but due to the spell our Grunts fly faster than them and manage to catch up to them and kill them too!

Will we have our flying Grunts kill the harpielings?

> Kill them all
> No, capture them and bring them to the shamans for sacrifice
> No, we shall raise them in chains
> Write in

>>4227153
>> No, capture them and bring them to the shamans for sacrifice

>>4227153
>No, capture them and bring them to the shamans for sacrifice

>>4227153
sacrifice

>>4227173
>>4227178
>>4227191


Our Grunts fly around and capture the harpielings, bringing them to the shamans, who sacrifice them.

We did sacrifice about 63 harpielings. How did we perform the sacrifices.

> Evenly amongst our shamans, so each shaman gets enough charge for casting one lv 3 spell (3 sacrifices) and a few get a little left over (4-5 sacrifices)
> Five shamans get enough charge for casting one lv 4 spell (12 sacrifices), three get enough to cast level 2 spells (1 sacrifice)
> One shaman gets enough charge for casting one lv 5 spell (60 sacrifices), three get enough to cast level 2 spells (1 sacrifices)
> Write in

Year 11

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 10,916 orcs
Military: 447/779/1091 Warriors (96 spearmen, 50 halberdiers, 10 war drummers, 212 Grunts, 22 Tribal Warriors, 31 bowmen, 13 wolf riders, 12 assassins, 1 Ogre Warrior), 0/2447/2547 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2), Goluk Buga (lv 7 Barbarian)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 8 shamans lv 1. Blood Magic Level 1. 63 blood magic charges.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys), Trade (2/7)
Livestock: Boars (237,426), Canyon Crawlers (120), Cave Grazers (3,652)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions, Enchanted Greataxe (property of Goluk Buga)

Some shamans died, Rodush wants to recruit more shamans to replace them. It is well known that it is less than one in a hundred people who can learn magic. How aggressive should Rodush be in his shaman recruitment romp?

> Recruit just the five absolutely best orcs (5 years training)
> Recruit just the ten brightest young orcs (10 years training)
> Recruit twenty orcs even if they aren't the very best (15 years training)
> Recruit thirty orcs getting even the crappy ones (20 years training)
> Recruit forty orcs scrapping the bottom of the barrel (25 years training)
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Send an war party somewhere
> Write in

>>4227235
>Five shamans get enough charge for casting one lv 4 spell (12 sacrifices), three get enough to cast level 2 spells (1 sacrifice)
>Recruit just the ten brightest young orcs (10 years training)
>Train more warriors
54 spearmen

going to sleep, probably be back tomorrow

>>4227235
> Evenly amongst our shamans, so each shaman gets enough charge for casting one lv 3 spell (3 sacrifices) and a few get a little left over (4-5 sacrifices)
No need for increased jealousy.
> Recruit twenty orcs even if they aren't the very best (15 years training)
We need a lot more shamans.
> Start a new research project
We should start looking at metal working. Let's see if we can find a way to make better armor/better weapons more reliably.
Seeing as we already and casually sacrifice persons from our tribe, we might as well
>start worshipping Abraxas
in order to profit more from the already happening sacrifices.

>>4227374
>start worshipping Abraxas
let's keep our souls safe for now, please

>>4227374
Supporting

>>4227244
Supporting

No abraxas

Year 12

Tribe: Ironbloods
Leader: Ghazg-Kull (Warlord lv 5)
Population: 11,025 orcs
Military: 447/779/1102 Warriors (96 spearmen, 50 halberdiers, 10 war drummers, 212 Grunts, 22 Tribal Warriors, 31 bowmen, 13 wolf riders, 12 assassins, 1 Ogre Warrior), 0/2473/2573 Militia
Commanders: Gorga (Tribal Warrior lv 4), Rodog (bowman lv 2), Orbak (wolf rider lv 2), Goluk Buga (lv 7 Barbarian)
Religion: Rodush (Shaman lv 4), 3 shamans lv 3, 6 shamans lv 2, 8 shamans lv 1, 20 apprentices lv 0 (1/15). Blood Magic Level 1. 63 blood magic charges.
Technology: Farming, Metal Working, Animal Husbandry, Pottery, The Wheel, Warrior Code, Writing, Masonry, Mysticism, Simple machines (levers and pulleys), Trade (3/7)
Livestock: Boars (242,174), Canyon Crawlers (122), Cave Grazers (3,725)
Crops: Potatoes, Cavewheat, Calcena
Resources: Iron (Vast Supply), Coal (Big Deposit)
Buildings: Barracks, Library (100 upkeep total)
Treasures: Enchanted bow (with Shakil), 5 healing potions, Enchanted Greataxe (property of Goluk Buga)

We sacrificed the harpielings so that each of our shamans got enough charge for casting one lv 3 spell (3 sacrifices) and a few get a little left over (4-5 sacrifices).

Rodush goes around testing people in our tribe and recruits twenty orcs to become new shamans, even if they aren't the very best. Their training will probably last around 15 years.

You summon your artisans and inquire about ways to make better armor and better weapons more reliably. Our artisans say that they sort of know how to make good weapons and armor, but they don't have the facilities and manpower required to do the job - our weapons are largely made on artesanal forges on the homes of our artisans. They suggest we build one or more of a number of the following buildings if we want to start mass producing armor and weapons:

Chain Foundry (estimated building time 4 years; upkeep 100 people) - this building specializes in the manufacture of chains and the metal wire necessary for creating chainmail and similar armor.

Plate Foundry (estimated building time 4 years; upkeep 100 people) - this building specializes in the manufacture of plated armor of various kinds.

Weaponsmith (estimated building time 4 years; upkeep 100 people) - this building specializes in the manufacture of large amounts of metal weapons.

Forge (estimated building time 7 years; upkeep 200 people) - this building is not specialized, it can do everything the other three can do, it just doesn't do it as well.

Workshop (estimated building time 20 years; upkeep 300 people) - this building can do everything the others can do and better, it is a highly specialized building geared for designing and mass producing new types of weapons and armor

>>4227781


A caravan of halfling merchants arrive at our territory! There are three of the little creatures who present themselves as Symond Nielip, Manas Rancent and Imar Athard in a big wagon pulled by a pair of oxen with a big stone statue of a Grunt on top of it. They bring us "a collection of books from the halfling sage Ariseld translated into orcish for your sages to peruse, a perfect replica of the life sized marble sculpture of a Grunt made by the renowned artist Malvy Fira, a few sample shakers of dried black pepper to season your meat so you can see if it is of your liking, a few boxes of rolled tobacco cigars and a small stash of the dankest weed from the halfling lands!", they are willing to trade for their goods.

> Seize their merchandise and send the halflings to the shamans to be sacrificed
> Give them a pitiful amount of iron for their goods (which ones)
> Give them a fair amount of iron for their goods (which ones)
> Give them a bountiful amount of iron for their goods (which ones)
> Ask them to bring (more of) certain type of good next time (which one)
> Tell them you're not interested in their goods and send them away
> Write in


Some amongst our people begin to consider that since our shaman are already sacrificing our own population perhaps we should go all the way and start worshipping Abraxas! Should we do it?

> Yes, let's begin sacrificing 13 virgins to Abraxas every year and pledge our souls to the demon god!
> No, we shall not become thralls to the whims of a demon god!
> Write in

And what else do you want to do for the year?
> Start a new construction project
> Start a new research project
> Start a new magical research project
> Send a diplomatic party somewhere
> Send an exploration party somewhere (Nearby, Frozen North, Mountains of Korgar, Forest of Illusion, West Coast, East Kingdom, East Plains, Bârad-Amôk Ruins, Swamp of Kar, other)
> Train more warriors
> Send an war party somewhere
> Write in

>>4227790
>> Give them a fair amount of iron for their goods
Take the statue and smokes.
> Yes, let's begin sacrificing 13 virgins to Abraxas every year and pledge our souls to the demon god!

Start construction of chain Foundry.

>>4227790
>give them a fair amount of iron for the books, the pepper, and the tobacco
>SACRIFICE
>start working on a workshop

>>4227781
>Workshop (estimated building time 20 years; upkeep 300 people) - this building can do everything the others can do and better, it is a highly specialized building geared for designing and mass producing new types of weapons and armor
With our abundant iron ore, I guess it`s more or less "go big or go home". I do believe, however, that Plate armor won`t have wide spread usage any time near and will not gravely influence large scale battles.
>>4227790
> Give them a fair amount of iron for their goods (which ones)
Let`s take the orc specific ones: the collection of books and the statue of the Grunt. Surely, there are conservatives who see the new concept of "trade" instead of "armed robbery" critically. If we start adapting our culture too much to the halflings, they might be even more mad.
> Ask them to bring (more of) certain type of good next time (which one)
Books on gardening and technical books (e.g. metalworking, sewage construction, aqueduct construction, engineering, books helping with learning languages, arithmetic... ). Let`s not invent the wheel again and try to import foreign technology. Further things of interest would probably be calendars, maps, law texts etc.
> Yes, let's begin sacrificing 13 virgins to Abraxas every year and pledge our souls to the demon god!
(although I already voted for this beforehand). Orcs are dying already, with Abraxas, we could make better use of their deaths.
> Send an war party somewhere
We should maybe just run some random raids on some goblins (not the ones with diplomatic ties to us); mostly to keep our soldiers entertained. Nothing too serious should be started without a better reason.