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kniteracyAll our elders have died, unless you count Turi, who at 48 is now the village elder and a Master Farmer, with strong skills in Science and Healing.
We lost Kobbi, Kalea, Rusha, and Vava. Kobbi went first, from a sickness before we had the advanced laying-on of hands healing techniques that we are using now. He was in his mid-fifties, and our technology had not progressed to burying the dead. I'm afraid we had to look at his and Kalea's remains until they, er, decomposed. Kalea lived to be 64. She died of a sickness caused when Sekai drank a potion that ended up poisoning the whole village! The good news is that our villagers learned a lot about healing skills during this terrible plague. Rusha and Vava each lived to be 70; their tombstones are the first ones in our sacred place of the dead.
Sekai, now 35, concentrated on research and farming for a long time, then took time off to bear three beautiful children. Now that they've grown beyond babes-in-arms stage, she is free to continue her research and healing training.
Tonga, Rusha's second, is a Master Farmer whose instincts have always guided her to farming and foraging. I think soon we'll see if she wants to have children, train to be a scientist, or concentrate her energies on healing.
Meka, Rusha's youngest, is a Adept Scientist who may want to have a child soon, too. We'll see.
Mazi, Sekai's oldest, is now 13 years old. She will be choosing work soon.
And... that's where things with the population get kinda fuzzy, friends and neighbours. You see, the babies don't get names until they become toddlers (at age 2) and leave their mums' arms. And sometimes last night, a barrelful of toddlers washed up on the beach! So now we're, er, swimming in children, and I'm not sure which ones belong to Sekai and which ones belong to the sea!
There's Usutu, 10, Atepa, 4, Vanui, 7, and City, also 4. I'm thinking the two older children must be Sekai's, and the two four-year-olds were washed up on the beach, but hey, I could be wrong.
What We've Been Doing (Possible Game Spoilers below!)
We have, as I said above, learned to bury our dead, which means that there won't be any more decomposing bodies around the village I hope that Turi and Sekai will live to ripe old ages and we won't have any deaths for awhile, but you can never know for sure.
With careful watering, we now have a beautiful field of flowers. I'm concerned that our medical skills aren't as good as they need to be, but both Turi and Sakai have good healing skills and will hopefully improve as time goes on. What I'm really concerned about is our construction skills. Even though some of the children see interested in the craft and the game's help pages say you can repair huts and improve construction skills that way in this version, I've not seen a way to do it yet. Maybe the huts just need to be damaged before they can be repaired; who knows? I was amazed to find that setting a female character's main interest to "breeding" seems to result in a full-scale baby boom-- or at least it resulted in Sekai having three babies last night while I was sleeping! Note that I am playing the game on "fast" mode, which means that a day passes in about half an hour. We now have two levels of tech in everything and are working toward our first level three. I think I will try to make that harvesting, so we can fish!
--and that's the News from the Village today. :)
We lost Kobbi, Kalea, Rusha, and Vava. Kobbi went first, from a sickness before we had the advanced laying-on of hands healing techniques that we are using now. He was in his mid-fifties, and our technology had not progressed to burying the dead. I'm afraid we had to look at his and Kalea's remains until they, er, decomposed. Kalea lived to be 64. She died of a sickness caused when Sekai drank a potion that ended up poisoning the whole village! The good news is that our villagers learned a lot about healing skills during this terrible plague. Rusha and Vava each lived to be 70; their tombstones are the first ones in our sacred place of the dead.
Sekai, now 35, concentrated on research and farming for a long time, then took time off to bear three beautiful children. Now that they've grown beyond babes-in-arms stage, she is free to continue her research and healing training.
Tonga, Rusha's second, is a Master Farmer whose instincts have always guided her to farming and foraging. I think soon we'll see if she wants to have children, train to be a scientist, or concentrate her energies on healing.
Meka, Rusha's youngest, is a Adept Scientist who may want to have a child soon, too. We'll see.
Mazi, Sekai's oldest, is now 13 years old. She will be choosing work soon.
And... that's where things with the population get kinda fuzzy, friends and neighbours. You see, the babies don't get names until they become toddlers (at age 2) and leave their mums' arms. And sometimes last night, a barrelful of toddlers washed up on the beach! So now we're, er, swimming in children, and I'm not sure which ones belong to Sekai and which ones belong to the sea!
There's Usutu, 10, Atepa, 4, Vanui, 7, and City, also 4. I'm thinking the two older children must be Sekai's, and the two four-year-olds were washed up on the beach, but hey, I could be wrong.
What We've Been Doing (Possible Game Spoilers below!)
We have, as I said above, learned to bury our dead, which means that there won't be any more decomposing bodies around the village I hope that Turi and Sekai will live to ripe old ages and we won't have any deaths for awhile, but you can never know for sure.
With careful watering, we now have a beautiful field of flowers. I'm concerned that our medical skills aren't as good as they need to be, but both Turi and Sakai have good healing skills and will hopefully improve as time goes on. What I'm really concerned about is our construction skills. Even though some of the children see interested in the craft and the game's help pages say you can repair huts and improve construction skills that way in this version, I've not seen a way to do it yet. Maybe the huts just need to be damaged before they can be repaired; who knows? I was amazed to find that setting a female character's main interest to "breeding" seems to result in a full-scale baby boom-- or at least it resulted in Sekai having three babies last night while I was sleeping! Note that I am playing the game on "fast" mode, which means that a day passes in about half an hour. We now have two levels of tech in everything and are working toward our first level three. I think I will try to make that harvesting, so we can fish!
--and that's the News from the Village today. :)
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Date: 2006-03-24 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-25 02:20 am (UTC)Adept builders will work on fixing huts, just as men with parenting skills will do laundry once you've cleared bounders and have the lagoon (dear lads!)
Good to know what age they'll start "work"; though I also love the dancing.
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Date: 2006-03-28 08:32 am (UTC)My second village started with 6 people, with much more colourful clothing and exciting names. However, a lack of housing means that after my two builders had a child, we've reached the population limit and no-one else will/can breed. In fact, getting them to breed at all was difficult. Even with breeding as their primary interest, they kept deciding building was more exciting. I've increased my number of builder, but remembered to leave some people to farm this time round!