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Music Cascade
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You sit by the bonfire, seeds empty after a long training session. Ivaka crawls into your lap and grasps your tool, cleaning you without a word or needing prompt. You hope this is her learning and not the hunger of Tok's medicine; and that this behavior will continue long after it has worn off. You idly stroke her hair as the other gather.
It is week's end, it is time to take stock of the clan's holdings
Food = 28 armfuls(will be 18 by tomorrow)
Stone = 15 (If the quarry cannot be used, an alternate source must be found)
Wood = 10 (Much was used in making the non-people weapons)
Hides = 1 (Saqrar says the dead Neh-yah-ka fur is soft and would be better made into a cloak)
Leather = none, all spent on the collars.
Bones, blood, and ritual organs = Enough for a possibly strong Woman-magic spell, and talismans crafted.
Junk = lots
Carcasses = Neh-yah-ka
Seqrar talks about his projects and how much the shelter can be improved if he has the right materials. He presents several plans that have been buzzing around in his head.
>Beds - Gormoamhi can sleep anywhere. Non-people cannot. They need soft beds for their soft bodies, and he admits plowing females on one feels so much better. With wood and soft things he can build a bed, maybe more.
>Gob-lee Huts- Gob-lee don't need much space to live, and it'll be easier to find them for work if they all lived and slept in one place close to the clan. With some leather and wood, Seqrar could build some small huts in a room big enough for the Gob-lee.
>Forge - The Forge-mistress made all sorts of things when she had a place to burn wood and melt metal. If Seqrar had enough stone, he could build one for himself and make all kinds of things, like Cages.
>Smith - The Craft-mistress used to make tools and weapons in a place like this, working melted metal that was free of bad stuff and making better things with it. Of course Seqrar would need lots of metal for it.
>Cookhouse - Cooking meat takes so long, and wastes a lot of time when the only place to do it is the bonfire. If Seqrar had stone, wood, and some some pots, meat curing and smoking could be done by itself without wasting a Gormoamhi's time
>Garden - The garden in the center of the shelter grows all kinds of things. Not all of it Tok can use. With some wood to catch rain, Seqrar could make an irrigation system to grow all the plants and stuff Tok needs instead of wasting it on pointless plants that do nothing but smell weird.
>Birthing Place - Pups will be coming soon. Better to give a place for the females(and Sizzala if she ever has any) to birth them properly so the pups don't die. It would also serve as a place for the pups to live until they are old enough to become whelplings and learn. Seqrar would needs lots of wood and soft things.
>Cage - The old place the clans would use always had large cage things to hold females. They were sturdier than the room the shelter uses, and would give more space for storing things without need to watch the females all the time. Seqrar would need lots of metal for it though.
>Magic Place - Tokrazar and Sizzala have been pestering Seq for a place to do magic, a place where 'it comes easier' for them. He does not know what that means, but they said he'll need lots of bones, wood, and metal to make it. Tok says he can make better talismans that way, and Sizzala can do stronger woman-magic.
Oklak relays the news of the fort, and the clan is disturbed. Tok brings up the catacombs again and says we should focus on reaching that Door. Sizzala says we should start picking off Fort warriors, make them paranoid and prone to attacking the Ghost-skins. Saqrar thinks both could be done, and should be done.
Sizzala makes it clear needs more food as we are eating it faster and faster with all the non-people now in the clan. Saqrar brings up that loyal half-people can go hunting and fishing, but Sizzala things Oklak should stop wasting time and go back to hunting. Seqrar says if a Cookhouse is made, he and Seqrar can make the food last longer and make smaller portions more filling, but that just makes Tok grumble that we also need a source or stone and wood for lots of things.
>Much needs to be decided for the new week.
>>What shall be done about the fort?
>>What will Seqrar build, if anything?
>>How will supplies be gathered?
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