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@ Sorala: The way the foraging parties work is they make one roll at +2 for each person in the group. I add a -9 modifier (because you don't get any food with a roll less than 10) and a -1/day that the area has been foraged in (currently at -13) and divide the result by 2 for the number of food/days that are gathered. You can certainly use your roll to add a +1 food to one of the foraging groups, or you can look independently.
Thanks for the clarification, DM Nerk! I'll aid the group today. Spreadsheet updated.
EDIT: Also, I have a question. Let's say we explore another hex and people start foraging there. How quickly does a pre-foraged hex regenerate its bounty?
Day 15, Gozran 16th
Istiel continues to hunt the area, successfully bagging an armful of grouse on her trip today.
= +7 food
Day 16
Gozran 17
5
3
2
8
10
1
+29 food
Hide shirt for Istiel finished. Does NOT look like the assend of a bear.
Longboats arrive Newspring tomorrow.
Septimus continues his assistance to the people of Newspring.
Sorala awakes and sets up her alchemy stand. The tension in Newspring is palable, and the weather isn't helping things. Perhaps, because of this Sorala is very busy, working on poultices and building materials for what seems to be the entire population of Newspring.
Day 16, Gozran 17th
Istiel hunts in the evening, checking her traps and keeping an eye out for game. She has about as much luck as the other foragers, and is growing concerned about the available game in the area.
-> 2 food.
Day 17
Gozran 18
4
7
3
3
6
1
+24 food
Septimus starts his rounds on Gorzan 18 with the newly returned people. Trying to find out what dangers he should watch out for if he leaves the village.
total of 7.6 gold of influence.
Day 17 Gozran 18
Istiel returns from hunting empty-handed. Her traps lay undisturbed and the surrounding forest has been decimated by hungry hands. She hopes Manari returns soon, the wizard always has sound advice in hard times.
Day 16
Gair does his best to eek out some progress on his bow during what downtime the group has.
Day 16
Hassan makes his rounds, trying to keeping people's growing fears from bubbling over.
Day 17
Gair works on his bow but rushed as he is as meals he fails to make much meaningful progress.
Day 17
Hassan keeps an eye on Ingwe and his growing following throughout the day, made uneasy by the shaman's growing influence.
Day 17
Sorala opens her crafting stand with much angst this morning, with no signs of the explorers and as the day goes on, foragers and hunters returning with little to show for their efforts.
Still, she does brisk business again this day, helping out the people of Newspring as best she knows how.
Gozran 19
Day 18
2
0
8
3
5
8
2
Weather beautiful.
+26 food (foragers)
+2 food (fishing)
Septimus continues to help people with their minor injuries and seems slightly nervous need about the village's food situation.
Sorala wakes, and taking Garrack with her, sets up her alchemy stand. Another brisk day of business, despite everyone's impeding starvation.
Day 18 Gozran 19
Istiel once again returns from her hunt with nothing more than a few blunted arrows. She decides to move her traps around tomorrow.
Day 18, Gozran 19
Hassan is glad to see the boats out the on the bay. With any luck, they can bring in a decent catch and maybe do something to slow the rapid shrinking of their stores.
He seems distracted during his rounds, eager for the day to be over and take stock of their haul.
Day 18, Gozran 19
After the previous day's frustration, Gair is somewhat disheartened in his work. He goes through the motions but at the end of the day has really accomplished very little.
G 20
Day 19
0
2
2
6
8
7
3
5
-4
+29 food
Clear at dawn, but clouds move in during the morning and a thin, annoying drizzle starts falling in the afternoon. The fishing is good, but the foragers are having a tough time.
Septimus spends the day with Vallen treating minor injuries and learning about how to be a cleric. Day 1 of 5 for retraining.
Heal total 9.9 gold of influence.
Vallen works with Septimus to ensure the citizens of Newspring are healthy. The half-rations order will be hard on many, and Vallen gives advice to people on how to stave off the hunger. Chewing bark, staying hydrated, eating their meals slowly. He and Septimus have long discussions about how to speak to the gods and what it means to be a cleric. He encourages the man to attempt to draw the attention of a herald of his diety.
= 2.1 gp earned
Day 19
Hassan spends his spare moments throughout the day organizing some workers to help set up the new garden's to be constructed.
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Day 19
Sorala takes Garrack and opens her "shop" for the day, stomach grumbling but with a cheerful demeanor, convinced she has to set a good example for those around her.
G 21
Day 20
5
5
1
3
2
6
Clear and cool weather.
+22 food
Septimus spends the day shadowing Vallen.
Day 2 of retraining done, 5 more to go
Day 20
Vallen spends most of the day happily working on their blacksmithing operation, working with hammer and chisel to carve out the actual forge itself from a nearby boulder they rolled into place.
While he's working, the dwarf talks to Septimus about how a cleric needs to devote themselves fully. Paladins have oaths to keep them in line, but clerics are given more freedom, and that freedom is a test. Worship at every opportunity, even in the most seemingly mundane way. He demonstrates that through his carvings, which he shows Septimus the plans for. The stone furance will be inlaid with dwarven runes that praise Torag in the furnance itself, imparting blessings on the flames.
Day 20
Sorala wakes, head still pounding, in a foul mood, but still sets up her alchemy stand, trading her concoctions for promises of help with projects down the road. Perhaps it is the pall over Newspring at Ben's death, or Sorala's obviously distressed state, but little business is conducted today. The half-elf does take a little joy from the tilling of Newspring's first garden.
Day 21
G 22
4
4
+7 food
Ben's death has everyone in Newspring in a nasty mood. Not much gets done about foraging, as people seem to spend most of the day watching each other suspiciously.
At least the weather's nice.
1.2 "gp" earned.
Despite the suspicion around camp and Sorala's continuing migraine, she does a little better than the day before. It seems funerals bring out the needs of the living.
At least the weather's nice.
Septimus is nervous the morning after the ceremony and spends the day quietly following Vallen around absorbing what he can.
Day 3/7
Day 21
Vallen is in a particularly depressed mood, but spends the entire day working on the forge. He and Septimus have a long, topical conversation on the nature of death, the afterlife, and what it means to each to deity.
The dwarf wishes he could carve a statue of Ben to give to Gwen, as is his custom, but the rumbling of his stomach reminds him that he must keep working to provide for the people of Newspring.
People have already started killing one another. How many more deaths will there be when the hunger gnaws at their sanity?
Day 20
Hassan is in good spirits as he makes his rounds this day, the garden is properly underway and things seem to be looking up.
Day 21
Hassan is on edge all day as he goes about his rounds, unable to shake the events of the previous night from his mind. He spends much of his time worrying about the halflings, Edmund, Bern and the ever present danger of starvation...
I haven't contributed anything to labour yet. Septimus has a bunch of gold sitting that will be converted to influence.
I'll let you have the 5 labor, but from now on I want better bookkeeping and cake on the second Friday of each week.
Am I right thinking I've missed a day or two?
Day 22, Gozreh 23
2
1
2
6
2
4
+5 food
Day 22. Gozreh 23
With game becoming scare, Istiel has decided it would be better to help with some of the construction activities. She runs rope, or vine, or whatever they can find in binding the walls together.
I'm pretty sure they can, and if they can't, I just house-ruled that they can.
So I'm actually VERY sure they can.