Any of the freed slaves have sailing experience?

I'll use my Gifts to build the arkship using Ten Thousand Tools and Transmuter. We can leave when that is done since I'll need influence to replicate Command the Wheels so I won't need a crew.

Between that and the literal ten mile zone of food bursting up every few hours we should be good of everything short of literal water.

Laiser's got water.

 Tons of it now that a spring popped up.

For crew, I feel fleshing out who comes with you is worth a soft RP scene when I have time to write stuff out on an actual keyboard.

Congrats everyone! You all have 2 dominion and 2 XP.

There may be things you want to work towards.

If you want your own cults, you'll want to get your new community up to size 2, which means you need around 900 people. That's going to be tough from the city (around 10k inside, and 30 out)

The 2 point ward covers the major area outside the wall, but there's tons of smaller areas beyond that are not covered at all, like the shanty town or the farming villages.

Also, remember you can pool dominion for expenditure or spend wealth to make certain things happen if it's justified.

Alternatively you can wait a bit before you spend dominion and level up.

Finally, if you get to the true source of the warf, it can be possible to attune yourself to it with the appropriate word. Artifacts and cities are good justifications
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:39, Fri 02 Nov 2018.

Okay, time to set this arc in motion.  Enough buttons have been pressed.  GM, you said this place has its crops all tuned for "near-desert" conditions.  To me that sounds like Gaja could plausibly grant the surrounding farmlands ideal growing conditions.  Nothing distinctly unnatural, but the best they could have asked for, all the time.  In perpetuity, really, assuming no one forcibly reverts that.  Anyway, the point is that you fatten up livestock.  Call it a +1 Feature in the faction system, maybe, around routine abundance or a new and popular terroir.  She doesn't have Fertility and shouldn't influence anything the climate shouldn't.

edit: Oh, question though.  You've mentioned leveling up (which is 3xp), but also said we have 2XP.  Which should we be working with?
This message was last edited by the player at 20:59, Fri 09 Nov 2018.

Your at two. I was going to bump it to three when people actually did stuff, but I think we got a bit off track.

Gaja, re your expenditure: The areas around the city will experience some improved climate - desert bred plants, which is mostly what they are farming, will experienced heightened growing cycles. Because it's not fertility and this is plausible, it will take a few weeks before things really get moving.

You probably should tour the area in scene when you have a chance, find out what's out there.

That's the idea.  I'm not trying to cheese it; there's just really very little for her to do around here that doesn't cause unmanageable levels of trouble either for her or the rest of the party.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:16, Wed 14 Nov 2018.

XP time!

Plaga/Infinite - 1 dominion, 1 XP.
Gaja/Scholar/Claire - 2 Dominion, 3XP.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:58, Sun 02 Dec 2018.

And already allotted

Are those totals, or currently gained?

If the later, where do we record our XP?

I'm I keep it on my sheet.  I have formatting that I've found helpful on message #47 (link to a message in this game).  But now I'm looking at it, you might want to move xp closer to dominion numbers just for your own sake.

I have returned from vacation. Looking forward to getting back into the swing of things.

shhhh everyone behave now he's watching

In reply to Gaja (msg # 21):

I don't have editing privileges on my sheet.

I realize that this didn't make it in here, so here it is now:

Claire has edited the weather on the Peninsula to be relatively storm-shielded, safe for coastal and river fishing, without damaging the local river systems.

This is an Improbable change, so I'm down 2 Dominion.

Ok. It's only effecting an area around the village given that scale.

They probably haven't noticed it yet, they just think they are having a very "calm" stretch.

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This message was deleted by the player at 05:13, Tue 19 Feb 2019.

In reply to GM (msg # 1):

I'm just putting a message here to remind myself that this thread exists. lol.

So, TPO Claire has pointed out that I have not granted any celestial shards yet, and you are all almost level 3 (Scholar got one by eating an artifact).

I'm going to ret-con that scene and say that the materials in the cave contain 1 shard for each of you.

Fair?

*thumbs up* More'n generous of you, Sarge.

The people behind the cave were hoarding some serious magical power... Obviously it was for peaceful purposes. :)

Gaja actually is level 3, if I'm doing the math right. Maybe I'm not? Or she might just be the one spending dominion most aggressively idk.

Better read up on what these shards do Wait, no, I think the first one was going toward enhancing the scorpion?

You should all be crowding level 3, yeah. After this next set of scenes, I may just set everyone at level 3 just for my own sanity.