[!]Month 1
Hunting:
The first month hadn't been that bad for the pack.
In fact for some, it had been quite a haul. The victorious Vorid Verethragna drug in a sizable haul by the scruff of the neck, his warrior form solidly straining in a vaguely Hivayi-form configuration as the still living prey struggled. A bragging of its prowess as it showed its victory to rest of the recently formed pack.
This victory however was somewhat blunted as its most direct rival in the clan, the Scorpion-form Sov Rein came marching back into camp several times with lesser Vorid cowering at its heels, only to slaughter them alive and offer the pieces graciously to its packmates. The less combat oriented accepted these offerings gracefully; its leering domineering presence an affront to the Victorious one despite having brought in equal amounts of food.
The two which slipped from the Shadows we almost not noticed as they too brought their catch to the clan, slipping back away as silently as they had come.
Ironically it had been the more experienced, combat oriented hunters who had seen failure.
The temporally enabled hunter had itself been thwarted by more powerful vorid passing by after it had managed to slay a foe though intensive combat... One of the most powerful creatures in this area of the Garden, the Tyrant roamed mostly as a reminder to younger vorid not to stick around in the area after they had reached a certain level of maturity. Its saurian form looming above its kill and its ideal of Tyranny baring down so harshly that the Storm could not but pass; left with but a small portion of its kill to drag home.
And finally Kro'lit... it had planned an epic hunt, picking one of the tougher Vorid to randomly roam the forest. A creature which had been born of its own generation of vorid... only it had gone a vastly different path, and had lucked into great portion of biometal and a place to properly contemplate. The Armour ideal had proved too much to scratch, and its Unyielding path made it a juggernaut of combat despite its lithivorous tendencies. Its mass ever multiplying as it continued to move, its body armoured to the hilt and a spell permeating its ideal of armour and encompassing its unyielding path made it ever more unshakable as it laid a path before it self to follow at ever increasing speeds.
The demi-hivayi-form Vorid would find itself rent with sudden violence at the beast's killing blow. Barely avoiding its powerful horn apart from the arm ripped loose as it charged.
The sour taste of defeat would be piled own with mockery from its fellow hunters as Kro'Lit devoured a fair portion of their scores to heal its wounds.
Rewards:
[Kro'Lit] -20 Biometal
[Eternal Storm] +1 Biometal
[Sov Rein] +15 Biometal, +1 Core
[Verethragna] +10 Biometal
[Old Crow] +10 Biometal
[Zerelth] +10 Biometal
Settling in:
The attempt at attunement had not gone well. With the establishment of the new campsite for the most part underway, it had been a particularly difficult task trying to both settle down and secure its area.
For some reason a small group of lesser Vorid continually attempted to sneak in and steal away not only pieces of infrastructure as the Ephemeral attempted to dig in and build, but these interruptions also spilled over to their resident seeder which had itself been bothered by these minor thieves... only it's progeny had been the targets of their continual hit and run tactics.
Aggravating as none of these small Vorid would stick around for any kind of confrontation, simply picking away at any and every free bit of food which they could steal then run off with... for some reason though every time they stole things and came back, there was always more of them.
Neither of the settling Vorid could make headway with these annoyances running about underfoot.
Something would need to be done about them.
Rewards:
[Ephemeral of Existence] Line of inquiry opened up – The Raiders
[Eden's Garden] No rewards, +10 biometal
Explorations:
Curiousity it seemed got the better of quite a few of the more technically inclined vorid, as Avid Scholar and the Failure Kohas set out each one across a separate journey.
Kohas it seemed would not get far on its journey, as it stumbled deep into the forest looking for deposits of biometal... a successful failure... as it turned out that the scent of heavy biometal which it had been following was infact the staging ground for the colony of small Vorid raiders.
It barely escaped intact. Its flesh scoured deeply by the ravenous flock of small creatures as it stumbled back the pack in order to recuperate.
Avid Scholar would search the river bank for any signs of groupings and gathering... but it's reasoning had been slightly flawed; for while Vorid were indeed beings which also utilized water and other solutions, they were not utterly dependent upon its ebb and flow. Bio-metal structures were far more versatile in what they could utilize for various tasks beyond the use of the universal solvent which was H2O.
On the other hand its effort it would seem had not been wasted. As it searched across one such pooling lake at the mouth of the river which it had been following, it would find tracks. It worked easily to decipher them tracking closely and comparing their gait and size.
Hivayi tracks...
It seemed like there was a small group of the progenitors out here. Somewhere.
Rewards:
[Kohas] Found the Avi-form plunderers, -20 biometal, +0 Advancement Points
[Avid Scholar] Has opened Line of Inquiry – Progenitor Party, +1 to next exploration roll, + 1 Biometal
Pack/Social:
Strange as the month had been, there had been some level of success. It had seemed hopeless when one of the seeders, irritated with attempts to rip it up had turned on the pack; immense power being generated by the generally immobile treelike beast.
But surprisingly while lash out it did... none suffered any injuries as it, and a few of its close by brethren, ripped themselves from the ground lashing out with laser and kinetic bombardment as they swept through then repositioned themselves elsewhere... someplace less annoying.
They departed leaving a cratered clearing with a deep depression, carved out by the Light ideal seeder, perfect for the temporary storage of their Biometal.
... the less spoken about that day, the pack decided, the better.
Reward:
+1 Advance in group comfort level.
Camp status: Basic clearing (+2 Home defence)
Consequences
Due to the wipe out of 2 different packs of their progeny, the Elder beasts of the M'Rtal have begun to mobilize themselves to war. New event roll has been implemented to your detriment.
Home is well defended against any half assed attacks brought against it t next turn. The enemy knows this and is planning accordingly.
You have all gained even more notoriety and popularity. Increased pack numbers increases pack upkeep.
Current Resources:
Biometal stores – 9 units.
(Every Vorid uses 1 unit of Biometal per month, 10 if injured, 30 if critically injured)
Cores – 1 units
(Vorid cores are used by Vorid doing energy intensive work. One core is used up if a unit is critically injured)
Bloodmetal stores – 0 units
(Bloodmetal is precious; it will not be used up without group agreement.)
Camp status: Basic Clearing (+2 to home defense)
Pack capabilities: None learned
Pack Fame: No notoriety (Challenge level -1d25 to hunting, -1d20 to exploration)
Pack comfort level: Beginnings of trust. (1/50)
Pack Size: 10 members (10 Founders)
Biometal Construction Options:
Create Simple Biometal structures: -100 Biometal
Integrate Biometal with existing structures: -50 Biometal per structure
Sacrifice minion for biometal structure upgrade (Minion becomes part of structure, runs defenses): Cost -1 minion per structure.
Biometal defenses (Spike tendril, saw blade tendrils, Gatling spikes, writein): Cost -100 Bio-metal per defense instance
Lines of Inquiry:
Better hunting: (? ? ?)
Progenitor Party: (? ? ?)
The Raiders: You are plagued by lesser vorid opportunistically raiding your stores... (-? ? ? per turn) [-20 Challenge]
Pack action:
[] Write in. What do you wish to do first?
Personal action:
[]Write in. What do you wish to do?