/pone/ - My Little Pony

just play the Equestria at War mod on Hearts of Iron 4. Far better than this crap.

>>316639

Since no one has picked a choice yet I pick C) Mountains, we dwarf fortress now bois.

>>316650

Does that mean we should import some Diamond Dogs to do the digging for us?

I mean, its not like proper ponies would go digging an underground fortress now, would they? Maybe some filthy mud ponies would…

>>316647

Them too. Remember I said "I think", eh? Sketchy would have to be deformed though :^)

>>316653

Can you explain?

>>316650

Year: 2015

Season: Spring

Government: Oligarchy

Population: 200; male:female 50:50; 100 more settlers are expected to arrive (cancel or other?)

Food supply: Currently average (supplies +10)

Culture (right now, that means what the settlers come from and what they're used to): Equestrian (Ponyville, Vanhoover/Tall Tale, Los Pegasus) presumably, Vanhoover/Tall Tale, being supposedly relatively new towns and attractive to farmers, are more "conservative", so to speak, in politics than Los Pegasus

Military: 25 of the 200; simple militia force, mostly male

Infrastructure: Simple stone, grass, and wooden structures; Ponyville style

Technology: Currently Equestrian level

Estimated political makeup of citizens (may cause unrest in the future): ~85% monarchists, ~14% liberals, ~1% other

Options:

A) Improve food

B) Improve tech

C) Improve Infrastructure

D) Improve Military

E) Improve Culture

F) Explore

G) Other (please specify)

>>316656

G) Improve birthrate. We'll make a massive orgy and with the new population boom that results any future improvement will be much easier because it will have more horsepower behind it. That's the only reason to do it, purely logical.

>>316665

That's batshit insane, pregnancies are a horrendous drain on a settlement's resources, it will hamper the mare population's ability to work, foals require many years of caring until they are old enough to help out. If you do this, ponies will starve. And have you forgotten about the other 100 settles we can expect to arrive? That's all the work forces we'll need in the next year or so.

Now, personally, I recommend improving our defenses (would that be under Infrastructure or Military?) first, specifically a rudimentary wall around the settlement, there's no telling what sort of dangers we might face in this here unexplored land, and I don't trust the looks of them goat folks… They say good fences make good neighbours after all.

>>316674

>Defenses

>In a fucking mountain range where the only inhabitants appear to be friendly goats

Before we waste supplies and manpower on stupid shit I pick F. We need to survey the land and see if there are any precious resources in the mountains we could dig up and trade for necessities like food. Speaking to the locals about any dangerous creatures in the area like dragons will also help.

>>316656

A

Mountains already have little food, and we're supposed to prepare support for hundred ponies more than we already have. Survival first, other concerns once we can afford them.

>>316688

>>316685

Well looks like we're not in any immediate danger so time to plant whatever crops we can and forage for some food. A

>>316656

I was pointing out how some ponies can eat and subsist off rocks

>>316689

Seconding crops. Can't even eat without crops. Terrace farming, cave mushrooms, whatever it take to make sure our colony doesn't end on abrupt starvation.

>>316704

glad an adventurer like you came to help the cause, Pineblaze

>>316704

>>316689

Sorry, I jerked off and fell asleep.

Anyway, I see. But besides rock candy, which is presumably softer, ponies don't seem to eat rocks, or at least, they don't subsist on just rocks.

The weekly council meeting is held once again, and it is decided that personal farms are to be built next to homes, as well as small communal kitchen gardens where there is left over room. Some villagers are sent out to forage below the mountains, and besides well-known berries, roots, fruits and nuts, strange sea urchin-looking objects are found strewn about the thicker parts of the forest, where sunlight has trouble breaking through the forest canopy. An acre of terrace will take an estimated month and a half to complete. The explorers are waiting for further orders.

Year: 2015

Season: Spring

Government: Oligarchy

Population: 300; male:female 40:60

Food supply: Currently average (supplies +10)

Culture: Equestrian (Ponyville, Vanhoover/Tall Tale, Los Pegasus)

Military: 35 of the 300; simple militia force, mostly male; 5 of the 35 are currently unavailable (exploring)

Infrastructure: Simple stone, grass/straw, and wooden structures, mostly homes; small farms and kitchen gardens; Ponyville style

Technology: Currently Equestrian level

Estimated political makeup of citizens: ~83% monarchists, ~15% liberals, ~2% other

Contentment/current unrest (+/- respectively): +5

Options:

A) Improve Food

B) Improve Tech

C) Improve Infrastructure

D) Improve Military

E) Improve Culture

F) Explore

G) Other (please specify)

>>316688

>Fucking hell, where do you goyim live? It's pretty late, and I make mistakes when I'm tired. Though, to be fair, this is sort of my fault for unimportant reasons.

CYOAs are slow on /pone/. I've tried to run two of them.

>>316713

Also, seconding the decision to go mining. Gotta get them resources laddeh.

>>316713

Start a mine &/or find a good place for a mine. Get 5 militia to guard the workers.

>>316737

Expand the mining tunnel towards the halite rather than fucking with the surface deposit. It can potentially be turned into a luxury for the citizens and probably sells better than sulfur too. Try to get mostly or exclusively goats working in the mine. I'd also recommend keeping a permanent guard of a couple militia around the entrance to the mining tunnel, just in case of wildlife, or if the goats working there start getting rowdy.

For the future, I think we should specialize into one aspect. As in, go hard into mining, agriculture, tech, or become a warband. About the goats, even if they're shitting in the open, we shouldn't spare the manpower. If they're willing to work in the mines they can stay for now. It also, you know, gets them out of town for a while and keeps ponies from having to work there.

>>316737

Tell the ponies to start letting the goats fuck their wives to atone for their horrific bigotry.

>>316743

I have enough fetishes, I don't need creepy spiders to join them.

>On the long term maybe we could turn some of the mountain side into terraced farm fields

….Does anyone actually read my descriptions? There is already an acre in development.

The council meets and you all decide to expand the mining tunnels. A couple of militia ponies are sent to guard the mines when they're left alone, with rotating shifts. The multilinguist among you walks around the village and asks the goats if they would like to work in the salt mines. They generally agree on the conditions that they are still allowed to lick as much salt as they want, and the ponies milk some of their females, who have been complaining about udderal pains.

The ponies are glad that there is some more room during the day, even if the goats still defecate anywhere during the night, but some of the prospecting ponies are annoyed that they have to work with the goats, but they generally admit that they're pretty good at doing what they're told, as long as you can speak goat properly. (+1 content) The populace is also glad to have another food source—goat milk. (+1 food)

A few days later, some of the villagers who had been wandering about the mountainside reports seeing massive spouts of water and steam spray out from the ground, on the other side of the mountain.

A day before the meeting, one of the foragers had gotten a little too curious and decided to touch one of the odd sea-urchin type objects. The spikes shot out in all directions, many lightly impaling themselves into the mare. Although she says it wasn't very painful at first, a few minutes later, she suddenly began suffering from a high fever, chills, and nausea. The villagers are still not sure what to make of these things, but they appear to be alive.

On the day of the weekly assembly, a council member suggests that the meetings should be held monthly, with a specialized goal for each following month, to be decided during the meetings.

(Yea or neigh?)

Year: 2015

Season: Spring

Government: Oligarchy

Population: 302; male:female ~40:60

Food supply: Currently average (supplies +11)

Culture: Equestrian (Ponyville, Vanhoover/Tall Tale, Los Pegasus)

Military: 35 of the 300; simple militia force, mostly male; 7 of the 35 are currently unavailable (5 guarding the miners; 2 guarding the mine)

Infrastructure: Simple stone, grass/straw, and wooden structures, mostly homes; small farms, kitchen gardens, and a communal dairy farm; a small network of mining tunnels; Ponyville style

Technology: Currently Equestrian level

Estimated political makeup of citizens: ~83% monarchists, ~15% liberals, ~2% other

Contentment/current unrest (+/- respectively): +4

Options:

May last the next month depending on vote outcome.

A) Improve Food

B) Improve Tech

C) Improve Infrastructure

D) Improve Military

E) Improve Culture

F) Explore

G) Other (please specify)

>>316746

Those sea-urchin bulbs is troubling, but doesn't seem to pose any immediate danger. Nonetheless, we should ask the goats what they know of it.

>>316685

I'm surprised nobody has paid any further attention to signs of habitation to our west, can we send the pegasi scouts out again to determine who or what lives there?

A some questions about trade: will it be done mostly through bartering or currency? How much do we currently have in the coffer?

>>316761

That would speed things up a bit, "yay".

>>316764

I had been meaning to and >>316738's second paragraph gave me the excuse I needed.

>>316750

Well we have no defenses at the moment, and nothing to offer for trading so I figured there wasn't a point yet.

>>316746

We got the mines going and the farms will take some time so I say investigate the steam spouts. F

>population 302

Congrats to the family or families on their new kid(s). It's spring after all so I suppose it's to be expected :^)

>>316750

We should definitely check who's living in the hut. Also, with the discoveries of sea urchins and water sprouts there might be enough reason to study both for potential military and civilian technologies respectively.

What would monthly meetings for a specific goal entail?

>>316783

I think he means instead of weekly council meetings and updates it'd be monthly, which I agree is better. That way we don't have to wait 6 updates for news on the crops, more eventful things happen, and it'll be less obvious which choice to pick and therefore more fun.

>>316835

I agree that there should be a small patrol during nighttime, since there's plenty of guard around during the day. On top of the murder, with the knowledge that there's a decent number of foreign ponies nearbyish I think it's time to expand the military. Some conditions, though: volunteers must be male, must be a pony, and must at least be of average build. While we're at it, might as well put those and any available militia through some training.

Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d6)

>>316844

>>316860

Waited a bit to see if there would be more replies.

You decide to improve security and the militia force to a true standing army. Volunteers are recruited, though only fit males are allowed, to the annoyance of some females. A couple guards are tasked with solving the case of the dead goat (Investigators). A small patrol of nighttime guards is dispatched (Patrol A).

First Week of the Month

Most of the medical experts who worked with the sick mare have become ill themselves. They've quarantined themselves in the village medical clinic's room where the mare was kept until they can be safely transported to Tall Tale. The few that worked on her that are not sick are quarantined in another, leaving little space to spare for regular patients, and will also be leaving in case they are infected. The villagers are aware of the situation and are on edge, but do not believe the situation will become worse. Thankfully, there are still quite a few who did not have a hand in studying and carying for the mare, but the new workload has taken its toll on them, and they're often left exhausted at the end of the workday. Hopefully this does not cause other issues….

The Investigators, using the few that know goat to translate, have found that the last creature to see the goat was a drunk coworker. After interrogating the guards stationed and this coworker, they have revealed that the guards were not at their station when they should have been, and the coworker was with the goat in front of the mine at night, drunkenly reviewing tools, before the coworker could not remember anything afterwards. The goat also complains about how often his coworker talked about how much he hated himself.

(Roll….)

>>316881

First Week of the Month (Continued)

The investigators are unsure what to make of the evidence, and request input from the council.

Second Week of the Month

The foragers, in search of more food, have been forced to go further and further into the forest, and wish to have protection against unknown dangers while they work.

Third Week of the Month

A lonesome elderly villager had come up with a flavorful goat cheese recipe, and had begun to make a name for himself selling the product. Unfortunately, he has passed away suddenly due to natural causes. Without relatives or a will, by default, his property is now the property of the local government. You, the council, have every right to "inspect" the home for valuables…. (What do?)

Fourth Week of the Month

Many mares are noticeably pregnant. A pony mare ends labor in about 11 months….

Some of the more conservative ponies have complained about the practice of "sharing" wives done among some of the more liberal minority. (-1 content)

Year: 2015

Season: Summer

Government: Oligarchy

Population: 302; male:female ~40:60

Food supply: Currently slightly above-average (normal supplies +11, +2 surplus)

Culture: Equestrian (Ponyville, Vanhoover/Tall Tale, Los Pegasus)

Military/Security: 50 of the 300; basic infantry, mostly male; 22 of the 50 are currently unavailable (5 guarding the miners; 2 guarding the mine; 2 investigating; 5 exploring; 8 patrolling)

Infrastructure: Simple stone, grass/straw, and wooden structures, mostly homes; small farms, kitchen gardens, and a communal dairy farm; a small network of mining tunnels; Ponyville style

Technology: Currently Equestrian level

Estimated political makeup of citizens: ~83% monarchists, ~15% liberals, ~2% other

Contentment/current unrest (+/- respectively): +2

Options:

A) Improve Food

B) Improve Tech

C) Improve Infrastructure

D) Improve Military/Security

E) Improve Culture

F) Explore

G) Other (please specify)

>>316883

Ah, just realized the military readout's population size must be updated, i.e.

>50 of the 302

>>316900 (checked)

Haven't bothered to brush up my english since highschool

>No problem, but I hope you read the thread at least.

Y-Yeah. Totally

>Anyway, I thought I implied that the militia force was upgraded, i.e., they recieved better equipment and some basic training. I really ought to have elaborated, though. Next readout then.

I see. I'll change option then. Improve food. I'm sure that equestrian tech can store/preserve food for the upcoming winter.

>>316901

I mean, basic training is rather vague, but alright.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>316903

Little did they know, 8chan is ban-happy as fuck.

Also, lel sankaku complex symbol

Well, waited long enough for anyone else I think. Rolling to decide E or A.

>>316893

>Or for that matter, 8chan as a whole?

Nah, /v/ and /pol/ are both very active getting nearly 200 posts an hour. If you've seen the modern state of 4chan you will know that more posts does not in any way mean better quality or enjoyability. Sage for off topic

Rolled 3, 3 = 6 (2d6)

>>316911

>you will know that more posts does not in any way mean better quality or enjoyability.

I never said it did. But, and especially on certain other imageboards, getting a post per day is not nearly as engaging as a post an hour. I do prefer slower paces, as this allows me to think better when posting, but I still want to feel like I'm actively discussing with others. Still, I would prefer a snail's-pace and quality over fast-paced and AIDS. Also, you merely need only visit our own /pol/ and /v/ to see that—a visit to 4chan is unecessary.

>>316908

The council meets, and you all decide it's about time the village received a name. In three days July 4th :^), a festival is to be held in the settlement, where a vote would be held to decide the name of the place. The ponies are overjoyed when they hear the news. (+1 content)

Four guards, two of which are pegasi, are sent to accompany the foragers. The two guards stationed at the mines are dishonorably discharged, and replaced. More volunteers are recruited. (All militia ponies stay in the force, just that the new recruits are able males, instead of merely mostly-abled ponies, male or female. The militia force originally were just ponies with weapons, but now the military and security forces recieve the same basic training, tailored to race. This includes basic survival training, physical training, and the basics of CQC. They're equipped with gambesons, iron helms, and simple spears, along with anything else the individual ponies might own. While perhaps not the most rigorous training nor the greatest of armor and weapons, it is at least something, and enough for the settlement's force to be called a true military.)

First Week of the Month

The medical ponies are safely sent to Tall Tale, and the medical clinic's rooms are sanitized.

After searching the house of the cheesemaker, one of you finds a handful of recipes, along with over 500,000 bits in a locked wooden chest. Other than that, the pony had nothing of real value besides some common cookbooks and other reading material. The items are auctioned and a newly-wed pony couple buy the home. The deceased's name was "Star Cook".

After looking through the recipes, one of you picks out all the cheesemaking ones and have the cooks in the town hall try them. As this is cheese, it will take a few months to make.

The festival is held and the name….

(Roll 2d6 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12)

>>316918

>A council member proposes a law to illegalize the conception of offspring between "shared" couples.

What would the penalties entail were it illegalized?

I don't believe there's any good reason for it, so I vote 'nay'.

>inhabitants of the longhouse

Oh shit, they are coming and if the earlier reports are right, we don't even speak the same language!

What's their ETA? It would not do to have the first contact between us to be carried out by some unprepared foragers they stumbled upon.

We need to send a representative to meet with them once they are close enough, someone good at diplomacy and, if we have no common to communicate in, pantomiming.

Make sure there's a guard detail accompanying our representative, only as a precaution, and they should absolutely not do anything that might be misconstrued as provocation.

For the next month, I propose that we improve our infrastructure.

I really want to try raising our technology level, but I don't know how advanced "current Equestrian level" is, and what advancements our small settlement could realistically make.

>>316916

>>316918

>500k bits

That's quite plentiful right?. I guess we should put it in the treasury for now. I'm voting we use it for agricultural/cuisine development as to align with deceased's occupation.

>Some of the more scientifically literate ponies decide to do some research regarding to the geysers. They plant seismometers, and connect them to recording devices, suspecting there may be a volcano nearby.

MAGMA FORGE SOON

>Scout A returns in a hurry, and reports that the inhabitants of the longhouse seem to have noticed smoke coming from the mountains… to Dahloneighga! They're coming armed, but they're likely just being prepared.

What >>316921 said. Though, I would like two pegasi as messenger in case shit hits the fan and can warn the ponies back in town as quickly as possible. The remaining militia at home should be on guard.

>A council member proposes a law to illegalize the conception of offspring between "shared" couples. (Yea or nay?)

Yea

When I was thinking of wanting to illegalize this is because I was reminded of the practice of pre-islamic arab where the women were shagged by more than one man, and nobody know whose the father. Everyone will deny if it's a daughter, everyone will fight if it's a son. I don't want this kind of shit to happen. As for the penalty. I propose a fine and the foal is up for adoption OR the parents/court decide which household the foal belongs. Don't want confusion for the foal and don't want any future problems regarding children claiming. The law can be discussed again in future times when we're stable. As of now, our medical team have their hands full. We're not sufficient enough to support such a lifestyle

>Options

Seconding >>316921

At the very least I can see that we can increase our medical tech. That last disease including some of the medical team had to be sent to Tall Tale.

>>316662

The Equestria at War mod is fucking OP, better than this shit. and you're only posting that gif because you suck at grand strategy.

>>316926

>Do ponies not have paternity tests?

I would like to think they do, but not at Dhaloneighga. Not yet. As of now, our medic team have their hands full even with daily medical needs and we're 11 months away from mass labor. Sure they can just send samples away to big town but I feel that's a waste of resource for now. We're starting a town and it had not been too long and we've just named it.

Like I've said, we can discuss the law for another time when we're better equipped.

I mean, they could've done the test with Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake.

>>316918

>>316916

>Dahloneighga

I was hoping you'd roll Whinnyer because it sounds better, but the ponies have spoken.

>craftsponies

I'd like to know what kind of craftsponies we have. Maybe we could commission some kind of artwork to spruce up the town later with the bits we found, or they could make something marketable with the other resources around here.

Week 1

Glad they put the extra effort in so we didn't accidentally incriminate an innocent pony.

>promotion

maybe if the investigation lead to some crazy axe murderer, but a drunken accidental death isn't exactly all that much. Also when I said punishment I was thinking more of a week or two suspension with no pay for negligence also to be administered after the investigation was concluded in case it wasn't a murder. Guess that's my fault for not being specific, but whats done is done I suppose.

Third Week

>V O L C A N O

wew this could potentially kill us all or it could lead to some cool shit like >>316924. If there's a volcano nearby we should at least try to figure out if its active and also warn miners to be careful so they don't accidentally crack into a lava vein.

Fourth Week

>inhabitants of the longhouse seem to have noticed smoke coming from the mountains… to Dahloneighga! They're coming armed

Fug. Do the goats know about them? They've been here forever so they might know something otherwise we should go with >>316921. If it leads to a fight we should have the upperhand with sheer numbers, since the militia alone double them if I remember right.

>A council member proposes a law to illegalize the conception of offspring between "shared" couples.

I agree with reasoning behind it that this >>316924 anon made, but I don't think outlawing it is the right implementation. If both parties have dibs on the foal then they should settle it in court. In the case neither of them want it, then the foal should be put up for adoption, or the parties forced to submit to a paternity test and the couple that bore said foal be responsible for its caretaking. I'd personally go for the latter option since orphanages tend to end up being shitty and abusive environments for kids to grow up in.

>>316921

I agree with improving infrastructure. We should build a road to some of the nearby Equestrian towns so we can lay the groundwork for a trade route. I don't know when another wave of migrants might roll in, nor how many mares are pregnant, and fall will set in soon cutting into our food supply so we might have to start trading for food soon. We could also make a mine cart system so the miners can expand deeper into other areas in search of more precious minerals. btw our miners mine shit, but the only thing I heard there is is just salt rocks. wtf do they do with them?

>>316968

Asleep?

>>316990

Close to what?

>>316997

Well, shit I've no idea what to do in this situation, I'll just wait for somebody else to take over.

Actually, can you give us a description of what they look like, equipments, anything special of note?

>>317015

After a moment of awkward silence, one of you says, "Hello?" To which the oldest-looking of the unicorns says,

>"Halló?"

>>316968

>spoiler

Gee, mate. You don't have to go that far. Too many variables will make it more complicated than needed. Just take the average speed (considering stops/rests as well) and multiply the distance. Even if you're wondering about how high, the ponies don't fly as high as modern aeroplanes, I wager. Maybe some distance above and below the clouds. It's more or less the same speed.

>>316997

No worries. We're all necromancer here.

>>317018

Introduce ourselves while gesturing? Also ask anypony if they know the language.

>>317026

This. Point to ourselves and say Dahloneighga and then point to them to see if we can try to exchange introductions.

>>317029

No wait. They might think that's our name instead. Instead of Dahloneighga just introduce our own names.

>>317026

>>317029

>>317030

You whisper to one of the multilinguist of the council members, and he says he doesn't understand. It is completely foreign, but is apparently related to Equestrian, considering the obvious greeting.

You each gesture to yourselves and give your names. The ponies point to themselves and do the same.

The older unicorn says,

>"Áki Árni"

The younger,

>"Áki Hun"

The earth pony mare,

>"Ermen"

As they each say their names, they do a head bow, their right forehoof crossing over their chest.

>>317031

>Áki

Seems like this might either be a last name or a title. Probably the later since the earth pony doesn't have one. The two unicorns are most likely the leaders of their group and the earth pony is the bodyguard.

We should be polite and return the gesture. Then we should try telling them about Dahloneighga by pointing to a map or something and assure them we don't want trouble and are only here to make a new home for ourselves. Maybe give them a tour of the town? After that we should ask where they came from and what their home is like.

>>317041

One of the council members brings up a map and shows it to them. He gestures to himself to where they are and where the foreign ponies are. They squint at him when he does it.

Perhaps it was not a good idea to show them that you've been spying on them.

Another notices the look on his face and quickly comes over to show them around town. They still don't seem very warm, less so since you showed them the map, but they don't seem very upset. When you get to the military barracks, they appear much more attentive, but not worried. He notices an Equestrian banner, and after a second of study, covers his heart with his right forehoof and does a slight nod, with the other ponies doing the same. He seems more welcoming now. After you and the guests return to the town hall, another one of you takes an encyclopedia and gives it to the foreigners. The eldest unicorn takes it and looks through it. At a picture of the Queens, he again covers his heart with his right forehoof and does a slight nod, and the other ponies do the same. At a picture of the Tree of Harmony, his eyes widen and he drops the book, muttering

>"…Tré…."

The mare gives him a worried look, while the younger unicorn looks at the open page, his face changing from worry to understanding. He says to the elder,

>"Thæt er allt í lagi fathir. Thæt er atheins mynd."

>>317058

I cheated. Google Translate thinks it's either [spoiler]Norwegian or Icelandic. I'll do my best not to meta game though.[/spoiler]

>>317078

Fucking nested spoilers, how do they work?

>>317079

Isn't there an 8chan faq? Did you read it?

>>317058

Gaelic?Maybe

Follow along and at ease.

>>317081

I know the fucking syntax, nesting them is just broken

>>317087

What can you make out from the engraving on the walls?

>>317090

Looking closer at the images, it appears to tell the story of how Luna was imprisoned in the Moon, and the old prophecy.

>>317058

>guessing in a world with google translate

It wouldn't be as fun if I understood it since we're supposed to not know what they're saying.

>>317096

Say yes and thank you, then turn to the two other unicorns and ask why they couldn't do that?

>>317153

Yeah, at first I thought it was pointing north.(Because pointing it in any direction that doesn't actually align with the magnetic field DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE &^$*&$#^*$#)

Oh no, not only are these ponies super religious, they are super religious and wrong. How do we break to them the news that Queen Luna is back and ruling with her Sister in Canterlot?

>>317161

>Monks

Well, I thought they were more like pony Amish or something.

So what's the religious situation like for Equestria/the settlers? How does it compare with these foreign ponies'?

>>317179

>>317180

Well, what else we're going to do?

Besides, they don't seem to have other underlying agenda as of now.

>>317185

>Mohammad passed through hell

You're not wrong. It is Isra' Mi'raj if you want to refresh your memory.

>several lewdly-dressed mares

How come they can be lewd if they're naked all the time :^)

I would like to culturally enriched ourselves by asking in no particular order

a) When did Sultanate of Eardhors formed/how long have they been here?

b) What kind of language/dialect they're speaking since we got wizard translated. At least the official name. If so, can we send some scholar to learn about them?

c) Since we are living nearby, would be nice to know if there's any trade opportunities between us.

I have more but I like to discuss with other anons first.

Should we ask of their discovery of their nearby regions or is it regarded as a military intel since it does have some sort of strategic value to them.

Asking for where's the library/learning institution won't do any good since we can't understand their writing as well.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>317185

Just stick your dick in his eye socket, steal as much shit as you can carry, set the whole place on fire, and get the fuck out of there. My dice roll will confirm.

>>317188

I vote for this

>>317199

>>317188

A)

>"Ever since Luna became trapped in the Moon, we have been here. We did not call ourselves a Sultanate until about six-hundred years ago, when a famous advisor from lands far south, al-Hisan, helped reform our breaking feudal system. Since then we have called ourselves 'Sultanate', our lands stretching far into the west."

B)

>"Horsian."

C)

>"Ah, of course! Wealth and travel is our name, after all! I will organize a convoy to your settlement." (You would have told him before while he was asking questions.)

<Should we ask of their discovery of their nearby regions or is it regarded as a military intel since it does have some sort of strategic value to them

Go ahead

>>317199 (checked)

>>317200 (checked)

What can they tell about the surrounding region? We are still settling in and would like to not cross over territory accidentally. Or do they want to share map and vision?

>>317200

This is unrelated to the current game, but I suggest you start using a name or tripcode, 8chan has been known to occasionally fuck up and reset all the IDs in a thread.

Also, still waiting on your decision on how trade routes works (>>316936 >>316933).

>>317200

Since they are Luna worshipers, how do they feel about Celestia?

Important to ask since if they are very negative or have some part about killing Celestia in their doomsday tale, it's best to know it now.

Also, why not just tell them the stuff about the return of Luna now? It might dissolve their kingdoms religion, but that seems unlikely and having Luna come for a state visit might be a kick.

Aren't sultanate's feudal as well?

>>317205

reform is the keyword

>>317265

*Oh, and keep in mind, the map, besides being in the process of being mapped out by them, is also disproportionate, and riddled with errors, like ancient maps. For example, on the map it appears as if traveling from the monastery to Hrosburg would take more than two days, since traveling from Dahlohneighga to the monastery does. But if you remember, you traveled from the monastery to Hrosburg well within 12 hours. This is partly due to my own faggotry, but it does make sense that they wouldn't have mapped Dahlohneighga's location yet, as they haven't measured it :^)

>>317265

In awe at the size of that map, absolute unit.

>>317277

Leave diplomacy to the diplomats, they are trained for it.

>>317290

I like the sound of that! Should relations between the two worlds hit it off, having Dahloneighga acting as a rest stop for all the caravans, skywagons, and pegasi couriers could prove to be lucrative.

Of course, we shouldn't count the chickens until they are hatched, but once it seem like a sure thing, we should see about improving the town's infrastructure to support the influx of travelers.

And this is where our initial founding location works against us, located on a mountain, flat, buildable grounds will be at a premium. Maybe there's room for expansion at the base of the mountain?

>>317297

>absolute unit.

What?

Anyway, you can expand the town, or once your population gets large enough, make another one.

Also this coffee is uma delicia. When was coffee introduced to the Muslim world?

>>316932

>If there's a volcano nearby we should at least try to figure out if its active

Well, if there is a volcano nearby, considering the geyser, I don't think it'd be inactive.

>>316921

>>316926

"Current Equestrian level", as I understand it, is mostly First and Second Industrial-eras in terms of overall tech, with various technology going all the way up to modern times. Military technology seems to be mostly Medieval-level technology. IMO, tech should be judged mostly by the first season, and other seasons if it backs up what was seen in the first season. I'd argue that the only "modern" tech is more atomic-era, found in the scientific and medical fields, as seen in the second season with Read it and Weep and "Feeling Pinkie Keen" (a really good episode, by the way). In the case of Read it and Weep, you can also hear heart monitors, but I like to think their readouts are on paper. Anyway, as a result, I do believe ponies would be able to do early types of paternity testing, via blood type. Entertainment-wise I would argue that their technology more Second Industrial-level. I don't think microphones or the tech DJ Pon-3 uses fit in the MLP universe, they're way too modern.

Dahloneighga might as well be considered "Medieval" with the exception of steam machines to help with farming, but you do have the technological knowledge that is common in Equestria, hence why you are at "Equestrian level". The village looks Ponyvillian, which looks Medieval European, and while this is partly due to culture, it is also a result of the available tools. Those sorts of homes are easier to build than the Canterlotian or Cloudsdalic structures, and as far as I'm concerned Manehattan is as it was depicted in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", i.e. some more 20th century skyscrapers but mostly as our Manhattan was in the late 1800s.

>>316929

>Nay! We shouldn't ruin everypony's fun just because some old codger finds it offensive. That's not how any society, real or fictional, should work. Keep Equestria Great!

Surely you jest? Anyway, always consider the full context of a quote.

>>316928

And, I knew this would be confused, but I said "noticeably pregnant" and then stated that "A pony mare ends labor in about 11 months", to help gauge when they would start birthing foals, for those who aren't fully aware of mare gestation. So, for the mares to be "noticeably pregnant", they are already well into pregnancy. Read this: https://equimed.com/health-centers/reproductive-care/articles/horse-gestation-timeline

>>316933

I'd imagine that stronger pegasi work in delivery, and they can only carry so much. So that's a minority within a third of the population. Otherwise, railroads/steamboats are the way to go for huge shipments

>>316932

Dishonorably discharged in a small town like this is going to screw you out of work pretty badly. Everyone will know why you left service, and not many ponies are going to want somepony like that working for them, especially largely self-sufficient ponies that don't really have a need for extra workers.

Also, I should probably replace "monarchist" with "Celestian", because "monarchist" is too vague and carries too many implications. I should also specify which ones are more traditional and which ones aren't. Should also add racial makeup

500,000 is plenty, and now the local government has some actual funds. Before, you had to rely on the kindness or understanding of the villagers for certain things (like military equipment).

(Now you can start paying for things. Eventually, you might want to think about taxing ponies when the economy begins to develop, but right now, as I believe I've stated before, it's mostly just a barter system.)

>>317301

Sultan Hildred does wish to meet with the Queens. You leave the next morning (Wednesday morning). Once you return home by Friday, you have a messenger leave, and meet together.

The council meets, discussing a law regarding potential conception between unmarried couples. It remains undecided (yea and nay 2:2 as far as I can tell). If you are trying to avoid paternal issues, penalizing this would be a good idea. Ultimately, you won't be able to make both sides happy either way you go, but penalizing would help encourage ponies not to do it in the first place, and if you're trying to avoid parental issues, then that'd be the way to go. They are already facing the possibility of rearing a child by their actions, and considering how small the village is, that's not something that can be easily hidden, and they can't just toss them out. Fining them would add another factor (besides the risk of pregnancy) to keep them from having sex and risking pregnancy altogether, and thus avoid having to spend resources trying to determine who the father is, which isn't an emergency so will cost money (which will come out of the government's pocket if you decide to make it the government's business, and when you start taxing ponies (because right now, everyone's too poor), the majority will be indirectly paying for a few ponies' degeneracy, not to mention that they already will if more mouths must be fed). Plus, extra shekels to teh gubmint from shitty ponies to give to non-shitty or better ponies via roads or plumbing or what have you. Anyway, if you remember, this was first complained by more conservative ponies, and I specifically mentioned their politics so as to make it clear that they wanted change because they thought the practice repulsive. I would also like to add that parents who have unwanted children tend be really shitty parents, which is a given, considering how they behave.

Also shit fuck how did I not notice Los Pegasus. Wait….

The council decides to improve infrastructure based on the amount of suggestions I've seen anyway, first by expanding the mines (salt/halite, sulfur being mined and kept in the village stockpile or outside the mine, and the people are unsure what to do with it all, besides use the salt for food; any stones that can be used for building, whether left-over from mining and kept outside the mine or found around the mountain) by adding a cart system, and second by building a road to Tall Tale.

The village does not have the metal to make a proper rail system, and it will cost 1,000 ฿its for enough railing to cover the current system, plus extra. It will take about two days to make the exchange and three days for the materials to arrive, and implementing the new system will take a week and a half. In total, the whole operation will take about two and a half weeks.

For roads, you will have to work with the city of Tall Tale to figure that one out, but estimated costs are 35,000 ฿its for a simple dirt and gravel road. Tall Tale will likely be willing to pool in some ฿its. If the road is not traveled on frequently enough or traveled too frequently, it will need to be manually maintained every year, which can range from ~50 to 250 ฿its.

First Week of the Month

The seismometers do seem to indicate that a volcano is nearby, but the vibrations are weak. The ponies have noticed that the readings from seismometers closer to the coast are almost identical to the ones closer to the mountain, except that there are slight blips that occur randomly.

Work begins on the road.

Second Week of the Month

A pony hands a flag to one of the council members (pic related). Grins, says "I hope you like it!", then trots off.

(Make the flag the official flag, or ask the citizens? Wait for more flags and let the citizens vote? Yea? Nay? wat do)

Other Equestrian flags (open new tab each image; I didn't make this): https://imgur.com/a/kjIhF

Third Week of the Month

The equipment arrives and work is halted in the mines to implement the rail system.

Fourth Week of the Month

The road nears Tall Tale's county line and has stopped construction until further notice.

The scientist ponies explore the coast and realize they can just barely see Los Pegasus from where they are. It turns out Los Pegasus is closer than you or the explorer's realized. :^) The map is adjusted to accommodate the realization.

Despite the new findings, it should be noted that Los Pegasus is a city in the sky. I didn't realize it wasn't just a typo with that Las Pegasus episode. They completely changed the city from a Los Angeles clone to a Las Vegas clone. gg Hasjew

Should probably stop spoilering, really no need to….

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>error

Codemonkey…

Ignore this post:

>>317302

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>317306

Thanks.

>>317301

Sultan Hildred does wish to meet with the Queens. You leave the next morning (Wednesday morning). Once you return home by Friday (July 7th), you have a messenger leave, and meet together.

The council meets, discussing a law regarding potential conception between unmarried couples. It remains undecided (yea and nay 2:2 as far as I can tell). If you are trying to avoid paternal issues, penalizing this would be a good idea. Ultimately, you won't be able to make both sides happy either way you go, but penalizing would help encourage ponies not to do it in the first place, and if you're trying to avoid parental issues, then that'd be the way to go. They are already facing the possibility of rearing a child by their actions, and considering how small the village is, that's not something that can be easily hidden, and they can't just toss them out. Fining them would add another factor (besides the risk of pregnancy) to keep them from having sex and risking pregnancy altogether, and thus avoid having to spend resources trying to determine who the father is, which isn't an emergency so will cost money (which will come out of the government's pocket if you decide to make it the government's business, and when you start taxing ponies (because right now, everyone's too poor), the majority will be indirectly paying for a few ponies' degeneracy, not to mention that they already will if more mouths must be fed). Plus, extra shekels to teh gubmint from shitty ponies to give to non-shitty or better ponies via roads or plumbing or what have you. Anyway, if you remember, this was first complained by more conservative ponies, and I specifically mentioned their politics so as to make it clear that they wanted change because they thought the practice repulsive. I would also like to add that parents who have unwanted children tend be really shitty parents, which is a given, considering how they behave.

Also shit fuck how did I not notice Los Pegasus. Wait….

The council decides to improve infrastructure based on the amount of suggestions I've seen anyway, first by expanding the mines (salt/halite, sulfur being mined and kept in the village stockpile or outside the mine, and the people are unsure what to do with it all, besides use the salt for food; any stones that can be used for building, whether left-over from mining and kept outside the mine or found around the mountain) by adding a cart system, and second by building a road to Tall Tale.

The village does not have the metal to make a proper rail system, and it will cost 1,000 ฿its for enough railing to cover the current system, plus extra. It will take about two days to make the exchange and three days for the materials to arrive, and implementing the new system will take a week and a half. In total, the whole operation will take about two and a half weeks.

For roads, you will have to work with the city of Tall Tale to figure that one out, but estimated costs are 35,000 ฿its for a simple dirt and gravel road. Tall Tale will likely be willing to pool in some ฿its. If the road is not traveled on frequently enough or traveled too frequently, it will need to be manually maintained every year, which can range from ~50 to 250 ฿its.

First Week of the Month

(Rolled 1 = no Dahloneighgan representative)

The Queens receive the message and travel to Eardhors Sultanate to meet. The meeting goes well, and the Queens decide to "reward" (read: subsidize) Dahloneighga with 10,000 ฿its. Equestria has allied herself with the Sultanate, and has now declared war on the Empire of Íppos. didn't see that one coming, for why else would they make the map so suddenly? :^)

Some caravans arrive to Dahloneighga, and some goods are traded, though with some difficulty due to the language barrier. A messenger bearing a the Sultan's banner comes to ask for 5,000 ฿its in order to help pay for a road to improve travel. He tells you the Sultan would then send workers to build it. You tell him that you will decide in about a month's time.

(Yea or Nay?)

The seismometers do seem to indicate that a volcano is nearby, but the vibrations are weak. The ponies have noticed that the readings from seismometers closer to the coast are almost identical to the ones closer to the mountain, except that there are slight blips that occur randomly.

Work begins on the road from Tall Tale to Dahloneighga.

Second Week of the Month

A pony hands a flag to one of the council members (pic related). Grins, says "I hope you like it!", then trots off.

(Make the flag the official flag, or ask the citizens? Wait for more flags and let the citizens vote? Yea? Nay? wat do)

Other Equestrian flags (open new tab each image; I didn't make this): https://imgur.com/a/kjIhF

>>317307

>>317308

I'm a bit surprised that the Queens are so quick to declare war on a third faction on behalf of our new ally. Still, who am I to question the Goddess? Besides, if it means more supply or troop movements passing through our town it will be good for business!

>A messenger bearing a the Sultan's banner comes to ask for 5,000 ฿its in order to help pay for a road to improve travel.

We still have that ฿500k from that cheese maker, right? A ฿5,000 expenditure is a drop in the bucket. I vote yea.

>A pony hands a flag to one of the council members (pic related).

Where's the pic bruh?

>>317313

Nice, you're damn good at this. My attempts at a flag design are pretty lame by comparison.

>>317307

>>317308

>declared war on the Empire of Íppos

WEW

I guess we can expect interesting characters to drop by.

> A messenger bearing a the Sultan's banner comes to ask for 5,000 ฿its in order to help pay for a road to improve travel

Let's do it. We have some money from the Kingdom and our own treasure. Can't wait to sell cheese to the other cities.

>The seismometers do seem to indicate that a volcano is nearby, but the vibrations are weak. The ponies have noticed that the readings from seismometers closer to the coast are almost identical to the ones closer to the mountain, except that there are slight blips that occur randomly.

It's either the volcano is big or it's in the middle of the pass. Like it or not, we need a countermeasure step to shield the city in the event of an eruption. I would like to propose to send scholars to study crystal magics from the crystal empire to build a clone here but let's keep that KIV for now. Too far to the future or is it?

Do we need to ask permission to explore at this point? They are our ally but still.

Improve Tech.

>>317313

>>317316

Looks good. Either we canned the sun or find another way to put in a moon. Living next to a literal cult of moonfags is not a good thing if you only show favour towards Celestia.

>>317320

Well, there's the moon in the corner on the second one.

>>317318

Very pretty! Though they're called "Emir's Forest" to mean each Emir's respective woods, for hunting and what have you. Æscwit is what the whole woods are called in that area. Also, "witu" is "woods". Either way, I'll definitely incorporate a lot of the little bits. You also spelled "straits" wrong :^)

Kalpazo is supposed to be "Galloping", so "galloping straits". I would've done "straits" in the language of Ippos, but Google translate was telling me "close", which makes sense but I don't know if that's what the Greeks use for "straits". The name is actually a coincidence. I drew the map, then tried to find horse-related words. I came up with "gallop", and then "galloping" right around as I noticed that the straits do apear to be a horse's leg in gallop.

"Ippos" is "horse", so Empire of Horse. They're mostly Byzantine-based, even if I've mostly been using modern Greek via Google translate. Kolpos Mussirio is supposed to be "Gulf Mushroom", or Mushroom Gulf, because it looks like a mushroom head. There are many insignificant villages, but I marked strategically important villages/towns.

Saddle Arabia I ought to have at least added towns, but they knew it was down south. I also forgot to add a name for the inhospitable patches of desert between the mainland of Ippos and Saddle Arabia.

"Suth" is south, "west" is "west". So, something like "West/South Horse Well" Normally I've been using one word for something, but I needed more horse words, thus "jór", "hros", "hors", and "hestur". "Eyja" is island, so "South Island" and "North Island". Sæherebeorg is literally "Sea Harbor".

>>317321

*mussirio being late-Latin, supposedly.

>>317321

*oh, and "Monaflæd Mynster" is supposed to be "Moon Beauty Monastery", or "Beautiful-Moon Monastery.

>>317321

>>317323

Nigga I can't guess your made up horsewords. Although I did fuck up some geography/name pairings. I might give it a round 2 in a bit with all your explanations

>>317324

It isn't made up. It's Nordic-Germanic based. The Empire of Ippos is Greek/Late-Latin, with some Ancient Greek.

-Icelandic

-Dutch

-Old Norse

-German

-West German

-Old German

-Anglo-Saxon

-Frisian

-Danish/Swedish/Norwegian

https://www.behindthename.com

See:

y = i as in "iota"

i = i as in "icky"

í = e as in "eat"

e = e as in "etymology"

ei = e as in "eh'ee"

ó = o as in "for"

o = o as in "operator"

ō = o as in "oh"

ú = oo as in "hoot"

u = u as in "ugly"

a = a as in "apple"

æ = a as in "ate"

á = ow as in "ouch"

English: It's alright father. It's only an image.

Heh heh, he is older than he looks.

Who are you, and why have you come?

They speak another tongue.

Horsian: Thæt er allt í lagi fathir. Thæt er atheins mynd.

Heh heh, hyn er alder thænn hyn looks.

Hver erthú, en hvor hefur thú komith?

Their tala annathr tonge.

Icelandic: Það er allt í lagi faðir. Það er aðeins mynd.

Heh heh, hann er eldri en hann lítur út.

Hver ert þú, og hvers vegna hefur þú komið?

Þeir tala annað tungu.

>>317325

*the pronunciations, however, are made-up, with some base in Icelandic.

>>317326

*j = y as in "yappy"

And of course, most of it is courtesy of Google translate :^)

Alphabet (Dahloneighga will learn this in time):

A a, Æ æ, Á á, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, Y y, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ō ō, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, W w.

>>317327

Now, obviously, the ponies don't write in English, so the Eardhorsians would also haven't a different script. But so you can understand it if I need to write again, this is their alphabet.

>>317316

>>317320

>Either we canned the sun or find another way to put in a moon. Living next to a literal cult of moonfags is not a good thing if you only show favour towards Celestia.

Or we could drop the celestial symbolism altogether and replace it with something more "us".

Like a wheel of cheese ^:)

>>317329

Most of that stuff flew right over my head, nonetheless I admire your enthusiasm for linguistics.

>>317327

The nitpicky autist in me wants to point out that Icelandic =/= Ancient Norse. It has about a thousands years of changes to it since it was the language spoken by Vikings.

>>317339

>GIMP was making the sun transparent.

I don't know about you, but the source I used gave me the same problem and I was using Krita.

>>317354

>Does that say Leir Midtveis

Yeah. Should be a direct translation of 'Camp Midway' according to microsoft translator.

>have you guys decided on what to do

Seconding >>317320. Might as well see what we can get from some tech improvments. Maybe improve the farmer's tools or something.

On the side, I'd also suggest offering a small money incentive to some of the more neo-liberal ponies to get them working in the mines with the goats. See if some constant exposure changes their head around a little bit.

>>317307

>>317308

>he village does not have the metal to make a proper rail system, and it will cost 1,000 ฿its for enough railing to cover the current system, plus extra. It will take about two days to make the exchange and three days for the materials to arrive, and implementing the new system will take a week and a half. In total, the whole operation will take about two and a half weeks.

Well hopefully this small initial investment will pay off when we dig deeper to more valuable resources. We live near an volcano so there must be some type of mineral or metal we can dig up.

>For roads, you will have to work with the city of Tall Tale to figure that one out, but estimated costs are 35,000 ฿its for a simple dirt and gravel road. Tall Tale will likely be willing to pool in some ฿its. If the road is not traveled on frequently enough or traveled too frequently, it will need to be manually maintained every year, which can range from ~50 to 250 ฿its.

I think we can negotiate with Tall Tale in initial exclusivity to the only direct road into the new world if they pay a portion of the cost. I think dirt and gravel is fine for now since Equestria is only in the beginnings of diplomacy with the New World.

>declared war on the Empire of Íppos

W E W

considering Dahloneighga has an entire country as a buffer I doubt we'll see the war come too close. We will however probably need to expand infrastructure for the inevitable troops that will come in, and the supply line we'll end up being a part of.

>A messenger bearing a the Sultan's banner comes to ask for 5,000 ฿its in order to help pay for a road to improve travel. He tells you the Sultan would then send workers to build it. You tell him that you will decide in about a month's time. (Yea or Nay?)

We're already building one road and the other will need to be built for the war and trade so why not.

>The seismometers do seem to indicate that a volcano is nearby, but the vibrations are weak. The ponies have noticed that the readings from seismometers closer to the coast are almost identical to the ones closer to the mountain, except that there are slight blips that occur randomly.

are we on the Equestrian ring of fire? Let's consult with the scientists to see if we can use the steam for geothermal energy or build a hotspring

Considering the above shit I say we Improve Infrastructure and build a trading post/marketplace and also expand the barracks for the Equestrian soldiers that will stop by eventually assuming that's valid under infrastructure and not defense.

>>317371

Also do we know how many of those other countries are allied or are neutral towards Eardhors? For all we know declaring war may have pissed off everyone except them. polite sage for double post

>>317371

>or build a hotspring

I was thinking of the same thing but was waiting of the reconfirmation of the volcano.

>>317372

We can send a messenge

you didn't sage

>>317377

Looks like we can use hot water to heat homes and supply hotsprings.

>you didn't sage

I checked the box but it did nothing. Fuck you Typegoblin

Rolled 2 (1d2)

Friday, 3rd of August

The council votes in favor of the offer, and the money is sent away. It will take three weeks to complete. The flag is modified and presented to the public…(rolling) The council decides to try to improve farming technology.

One member suggests offering a small money incentive to some of the more neo-liberal ponies to get them working in the mines with the goats, in order to help change their opinions.

(Yea or Nay?)

Law regarding potential conception between unmarried couples still remains undecided.

>>317466

Fourth Week of the Month

A representative from Tall Tale has come to negotiate the building of the road to Tall Tale, since Tall Tale's has long since finished their part. They paid ฿17,500 for their bit of road. You pay ฿17,500. Road will take four weeks to complete. Borders are also negotiated. (Pic related.)

Work has finished on the road to meet the road from Tall Tale, which ends at their county line. Now the roads are connected. (- ~50 to 250 ฿its per year)

More foals are birthed. (+20 population) The amount has all but teetered off by the end of the week.

A farmer who foolishly bought an aquarium without fish or water from the caravan that passed by last week had noticed plants growing inside when placed near his Franklin stove and near the windowsill, despite the coldness of the night. It would be interesting to try this on a larger scale, during the winter…. (Greenhouses discovered.)

You successfully recreate the cheese created by Star Cook. (What to do with the knowledge now?)

*(Although airships were not seen until the second season IIRC, considering the fact that the opening itself has Twilight in a hot-air balloon, and considering the history of airships and Equestria's current technology, I don't see why they wouldn't have airships. Not airplanes, but airships.)

**(You would have only seen one of the roads coming out of Hrosburg in-character. The map I drew of the place was to better visualize the town; it was for you OOC. The other road coming from the town would look like the one that now connects you to the monastery.)

Date: Sunday, 2nd of September, 2015

Season: Summer

Government: Oligarchy

Government Funds: 487,100 ฿its

Government Budget:

Income: No regular income.

Expenditure: - ~50 to 250 ฿its per year

Food supply: Currently average (normal supplies +12)

Culture: Equestrian (Ponyville, Vanhoover/Tall Tale, Los Pegasus)

Policies: No unique policies.

Military/Security: 55 of the 418; basic infantry and flight-lancers, mostly male; 15 of the 55 are currently unavailable (5 guarding the miners; 2 guarding the mine; 8 patrolling)

Infrastructure: Simple stone, grass/straw, and wooden structures, mostly homes; small farms, kitchen gardens, a communal dairy farm, and an acre of terrace; a network of mining tunnels with a cart system; Ponyville style; Equestrian-style eastern road; Eardhorsian-style western road

Technology: Currently Equestrian level, Greenhouses

Population/Demographics: 418; male:female ~45:55; earth ponies ~48%, pegasi ~32%, unicorns ~20%; occupations ~49% foragers, farmers, individual or otherwise ~26% craftsponies ~18% military and security ~7% specialists, medical, political, etc.

Economic makeup of citizens: Mostly dirt-poor (will change with more trade)

Estimated political makeup of citizens: ~83% Celestians (mostly indifferent to politics, with ~18% more liberal and ~10% traditional; "Celestians" are just ponies who believe Celestia should rule), ~15% liberals (both in the classical sense and neo-liberalist sense, but largely neo-liberals), ~2% other

Contentment/current unrest (+/- respectively): +5

Options:

A) Improve Food

B) Improve Tech

C) Improve Infrastructure

D) Improve Military/Security

E) Improve Culture/Policies

F) Explore

G) Other (please specify)

>>317466

>they discover a near-constantly-erupting underwater volcano

Well shit, volcanic gases often includes a copious amount of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. The high acidity wrecks havoc on the local ecology and we can probably kiss any hope of starting a coastal fishing industry goodbye.

>>317465

>>317359

Speaking of sulfur, let's talk about the mines and the stockpiles we have. Sulfur is an essential component in production of sulfuric acid (duh), which in turn has uses in many industrial processes, primarily the production of fertilizers. So I'm guessing there is definitely a demand for it somewhere in Equestria or Eardhors.

The question I pose to fellow council members, is it worth the investment in time and horsepower to ensure a steady and reliable supply of ores for exports?

(Keeping in mind the real world price of sulfur ore fluctuates quite a bit due to demand, but from what I could glean, it's roughly 1 or 2 times the value of iron ore by comparison, so we need to be able to mine them in large quantities in order for it to be profitable)

Or should we just try to sell the mining rights to some other party? (not sure if we can do that)

>Some engineers have developed a system that utilizes geothermal energy to create power, and they wish to build this system to power the village. Estimated costs of building the required infrastructure is about ฿25,000.

Electrical power? What is the village's current power demand? What's the usage? And how much power is this new system is expected to produce?

>(Greenhouses discovered)

(Greenhouses are invented pretty darn early, at least on Earth, definitely predates the industrial era. Guess ponies just have less need for it, because of pony controlled seasons and earth pony magic)

I guess we can conduct a larger scale experiment to see if it allows us to cut down the number of pegasi needed to manage the weather. If it works, perhaps this discovery could see further use in the Crystal Empire or allow Equestria to extend our farmable lands farther north.

With the all the newly birth foals, we'll eventually need to build a school. It's still a few years down the line so it's not an immediate concern, but it's also something we don't want to suddenly sneak up on us.

For the following month, I vote that we should seek to improve our food production.

>>317482

Ah so it'll primarily be used for heating then (prelude to public bathhouse? :D), and you're right that we'll eventually exhaust our local supply of timber. In that case I'll vote "yea" on developing geothermal.

>>317468

phone posting is a shit

>>317465

Polish Death camps should be illegal but Yea.

>>317466

>>317467

>>317468

>(Now, how would you utilize an underwater volcano for smithing?)

You planned this, don't cha you cheeky GM.

>geothermal energy

Yea. Investment for the future. Might be used to power up the hot spring. Soaking yourself in an open hot spring under the open sky on a mountain sounds nice.

We need to send some scholars to learn the language and maybe compile a new Equestrian-Horsian dictionary. Next stage would be translating their books to ours and ours to theirs. inb4 Twilight and co are on their way. Send scholars regardless.

>railway

No station near us?

Quartz, you say. They can fetch a good price.

>trade tax

I don't know much about econ to give a solid opinion on how to do this. But we need to tax regardless.

>Greenhouses

We could utilize it for winter. We'll build it in the next rotation.

>Cheese

Make some and let our townponies enjoy it first. I don't think we can produce enough to trade right now.

>saddle arabia providing arms providing arms for both side

Just like IRL except it is more to funds than arms

>>317479

In actuality, do we even have sulfur in our mine? What I can see is that from the sea is sulfuric.

I'm in favour for providing steady supply of ore. We are in the mountains, aren't we? We are beside an active volcano to boot. If we can

Anyway, seconding improve food.

>>317501

Sulfur deposits in the mine was mentioned in >>316737 and >>317307

>>317506

Colour me blind.

In the meas time, I do want a consistent income for our town and it seems ore is the way to go. Have we properly surveyed our land for other resources?

Not to forget attraction. Since we are the gate to the west, we should think of making shops to incite traders. Maybe some warehouses as well.

>First Week of the Month

>The mare in a coma had begun having heart palpitations the week prior, and finally passed away. Scientists from Canterlot have come over to investigate the creatures in order to possibly find a cure, and to find out more about them.

FFFFF

F

FFF

F

F

REST IN PIECE POOR MARE ;_;7

I know we did the best we could but I feel we could've done alot better.

>The scientists looking for a potential volcano have noticed that the water off the coast of the land is unusually warm. Further analysis indicates that it is in a certain area—where the seismographs have recorded the strongest readings. Immediately, they decide to do a bit of underwater diving, and they discover a near-constantly-erupting underwater volcano. They think that under the land lies a magma chamber, and that any pressure is relieved through this underwater volcano. (Now, how would you utilize an underwater volcano for smithing?)

At least we won't get Pompay'd

>Some engineers have developed a system that utilizes geothermal energy to create power, and they wish to build this system to power the village. Estimated costs of building the required infrastructure is about ฿25,000.

>(Yea or Nay?)

This will help lead to my dream of open air hostprings in the mountains so Yea.

>Second Week of the Month

>A state-owned railway is being constructed north of your village. (Pic related.)

That's an odd choice since we live apparently at the foot of the mountains and in an easily defended area. If they were going to build a fort anywhere it'd ought to be either here or somewhere else in the mountains for a border fort.

>tfw come peace time this railway will become the main method of shipping goods to and from the New World undermining Dahloneighga's ability to become a major trade center.

>Third Week of the Month

>Quartz has been found in the mines.

Nice

>>317467

>Fourth Week of the Month

>A farmer who foolishly bought an aquarium without fish or water from the caravan that passed by last week had noticed plants growing inside when placed near his Franklin stove and near the windowsill, despite the coldness of the night. It would be interesting to try this on a larger scale, during the winter…. (Greenhouses discovered.)

Nice this will help with food during the winter. We should probably build some more robust dedicated warehouses for food.

>You successfully recreate the cheese created by Star Cook. (What to do with the knowledge now?)

Start a cooking competition to see who can make the tastiest dish made using the cheese to create a cheese cuisine culture in Dahloneighga.

>all these babies

Were all the mares pregnant? We're going to have to upgrade our food output to deal with this and build a school house to edjumacate them. Do the ponies in this universe go through estrus? Will population increases like this be a regular thing?

>September

>Summer

Checks out.

>A) Improve Food

>B) Improve Tech

>C) Improve Infrastructure

>D) Improve Military/Security

>E) Improve Culture/Policies

>F) Explore

>G) Other (please specify)

There's a lot of options I'd like to pursue right now especially food, but I'll go with tech and create the geothermal heating system to get ahead for that mountain winter. B

>>317517

>That's an odd choice since we live apparently at the foot of the mountains and in an easily defended area.

Railroads needs really flat terrain to function, especially freight, because only the front wheels are powered and if they go too fast the wheel might slip, the same is true for going downhills. Even on the optimistic side you're looking at a maximum gradient of 2 to 4 degrees. And it looks like the Crown will want the ability to move a large amount of troop and supplies in a big hurry.

To connect our village to the rails, we either need a lot of earthwork done, or a lighter specially designed tramway that connects to a station near the main rail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillclimbing_(railway)

>>317577

Second Week of the Month

The scientists studying the creatures have found that they're very similar to sea urchins. The only differences being that they do not move at all, reproduce asexually in a similar fashion to plants, with both female and male organs, and have long feeding tentacle-tubes that reach into the dirt like roots, with a single large one in the center. They even look quite a bit like dark-colored roots. Lightly coated in a paralyzing poison, the tubes slowly move around to look for bugs, especially worms, to slowly consume, in a similar fashion to spiders. It does not always coat itself in poison. If there are no bugs, after a time, the tube begins to act like plant roots, sucking up the nutrients in the soil. It gets its water from the air, the soil, and the bugs it eats, but generally it does not need a lot of water. Its spines are actually long hollow tubes that excrete waste products, and this is where the virus made its way to the mare.

The creatures, named "land urchins" by the researchers, replenishes the soil thusly: as their waste slowly drips from the end of their spines, and as the soil is mixed up by their tendrils, the waste attracts earthworms, which is their primary diet, and as the earthworms release castings, with both the worms and tentacles keeping the dirt loose and mixing the castings into the dirt, the dirt's nutrients are replenished. The waste is filled with all sorts of bacteria and other organisms, which the worms need to live. The poison does not affect ponies, but in larger and more concentrated quantities, it could.

The competition is held and is quite popular, though not everypony attends. The reward is a little ribbon given to the winner, and the winner is a pony named "Double Trouble". Double Trouble takes the ribbon and throws it to the ground, stomping and spitting on it, as the crowd gasps. He says aloud,

>"Under our selfish hooves lies a terrible injustice! I was paid by our corrupt leaders, along with others—you know who you are—to work in the mines alongside the goats, and what I saw made me want to hurl in absolute disgust!"

More gasps from the villagers.

>"Truly, had I known of this terrible truth beforehand, I would have had nothing to do with it! The goats work without payment! So starved are they, that they've been surviving on nothing but salt and water, while we ponies eat like royalty! We hold festivals such as this one, as they wallow in the deep, dark caverns of the underground, working 'til they drop for our benefit! Is this terrible treatment what we Equestrians stand for?! Is this the sort of lifestyle fit for anypony, nay, anycreature?!"

There is a resounding "no!" from the crowd.

>"Then will we stand for this injustice any longer?!"

Another resounding "no!" from the crowd, this time much louder, but is followed by a "wait!" about as loud. A pony speaks up.

>"Did the goats not wish to work in the mines? Did they not just ask that they have access to the salt that they mine, as well as to be milked? Is it really injustice if they ask to be treated differently?"

There are some murmurs of agreement, which turn into arguments. The ponies begin to get violent. At this point some of the town guards and military ponies nearby come over to repress the trouble. Thankfully the situation is resolved before it becomes too drastic, and Double Trouble is taken away, but not before shouting

>"Your injustice will not stand!"

Word spreads throughout the town, and some have begun using those words as a rallying cry. Many ponies feel he had a point and believe that him being jailed for his speech is evidence of your tyranny, while others believe he's nothing but trouble and should be kept locked-up. The workers who were being paid have quit, some returning the "blood money"(+15 ฿its), with others keeping their gain. (-15 ฿its) Suffice to say, the ponies are riled up over this fiasco. (-2 content)

>>317579

*excuse me, that's

>earth ponies ~49%, pegasi ~30%, unicorns ~21%

CURRENT THEME

>>317577

>>317578

Súthesterwella2 is the clear choice. That dark blue horse looks weird.

>Law regarding potential conception between unmarried couples dropped.

We were at an impasse. Hope this won't do much damage and it seems there are another event >>317578 that shifted the pop's attention

>land urchins

Sounds good. We should learn how to handle these creatures since they can be used to replenish the soil.

>somepony calls gamers rise up epic style

Not what we need at the moment but I'm glad our ever loyal and trustworthy populace to ensure order in place. I propose that we parrot whatever the council defender said. Present written proof of contract if there's any. Do a public announcement by the goats if possible. This to ensure that most ponies will discard their 2nd thoughts and leaving the neo-liberals to be either conspiracy-tier or mellowed a bit.

>(Allow them to settle where they please, Tell them where they can and cannot settle, or Tell them to settle elsewhere?)

Tell them they can't settle down near the coastline.for now. The official statement is that the sulfuric content of the sea is not yet tested and it is not advisable until further notice. They can, either construct temporary settlement near the mountains or go back.

I feel like even if there's a difference in culture, it won't be as jarring as western vs eastern irl.right?

>but certain virginal male unicorns use something called "Stags"

>virginal

>Stagsstands

>heretical belief in a "Trinity" of one God.

You just have to make everything a meme, don't cha? I like it

Literal notChristian Jojo wizards.They have the power of god and anime by their side!

We can't really do anything for them at this point. Celestia double crossing an alliance is utmost improbable because the enemy is a dirty infidel.

I'd say improve tech. Like it or not, we'll enter the fray and technological edge is the only thing we can do about now.

>>317588 (checked)

>Why are we picking a fight with these motherfuckers?

Probably because of Celestial jihad given that the Imperials are infidels and must be beheaded.

>>317597

you didn't, the walls of text are just too much for me to keep up with on a daily basis

Since we are at war with Ippos now, do we know how far away their nearest army is?

From what I can tell, we are sitting squarely in the single most strategically important place of the entire war. The only land bridge between Equestria and Ippos. It is also a narrow choke point (relatively speaking). If either side wants to get at the other, they are either going to have to sail or go through our town.

Could we send a request to the Royal Guard to have a garrison posted here and for economic aid to help fortify the place before the Ippos come calling?

Besides, it would make more sense for the Royal Guard to try to hold their ground up in the mountains where the terrain is more favourable than down in that camp, and that camp won't always be there.

Another angle we could try would be the goats.

How many are in the area? Could they be convinced to fight along side with us if the area is invaded? Maybe with the aid of some propaganda?

With luck, the goats wouldn't want Ippsos to overrun these mountains any more than we do.

>>317577

>>317578

>>317579

>First Week

>Scholars working on language barrier

Nice this will be important soon.

>Second Week

>Land Urchins

As useful as that sounds for agriculture, the fact that they can explode and cause disease from the built up bacteria in the needles makes me not want to bother, at least without developing safe handling techniques. Especially considering the illness was both contagious and deadly.

>Libtard uprising

>complains about oppression of the goats, but participates in a festival featuring goods made from the fruits of their "oppression"

>starts a riot

>doesn't realize that the cooking competition helps foster healthy relations between ponies and goats by celebrating a product made in collaboration.

>disregards the fact that we've relied on them for guidance all the time

>doesn't mention the fact they were fine with it and willingly worked in exchange for as much salt as they want and that we milk their females.

>not to mention the fact that ponies also work in the fucking mines, also for no pay seriously why are we paying specifically liberals when there are ponies that have worked the mines for months without compensation?

>oh yeah how bout that one time two guards we're discharged for negligence that caused a GOAT death and an innocent pony to be accused of murder

>A N Y C R E A T U R E

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but you created a perfect facsimile of a progressive liberal. Was thoroughly pissed reading this part

As for what to do with him he deserves the jail time, since it's clear he's an asshole looking to stir up trouble.

We should also address the public. First apologize for the retarded policy of selectively paying only a handful of ponies fucking liberals at that over others working in the mines. Then remind them that the goats are a voluntary force, can quit at any time, and that they are compensated with limitless access to the salt and an exchange of labor in milking their females. Also that misleading ponies with lies by omission and causing needless violence hurts everyone, ponies and goats alike. Then ask the goats for their opinion and if they aren't satisfied with the current terms offer to renegotiate them.

>Third Week

>(((Manehattan Merchants)))

If the Manehattanites are like the US equivalent they'll only increase the liberal population and might cause more problems with militant moralism. The (((merchants))) clearly want the coast to bypass our taxes and undercut our trade opportunities to The New World, but I think we can still compete effectively even with taxes since sea shipping is typically more costly than land shipping not to mention tourism from our soon to be built mountian hot springs ^: )

Go with >>317593, but if they really insist let them. If anything bad happens they were warned.

Fourth Week

>Stags

Wew lad

>political dumpster fire and a major military defeat.

I'm not sure what to do with this. I don't think it's a good idea to just leave it alone since Ippos obviously won't just sit still and play nice because "it was just a prank bro". We could also face a three way war with Equestria and CE attempting to get retribution for the "betrayal". Which would be bad since we're a border town. I think we should send some people to Eardhors and send a letter to Celestia to try to facilitate negotiations using Dahloneighga as semi neutral grounds and us as mediators.

>>317597

>(The lack of belief in Celestia is the main reason for declaration of war.)

(wew, the Queens don't fuck around)

>>317661

(Sorry, kinda overwhelmed by all the geopolitics.)

>>317645

>Sopor virus

Do we know of a cure or treatment for this? If not, tasks our specialists with researching one, or have them consult with universities or research institutes if necessary. With more land urchins lurking in the woods it will only be a matter of time before another accident occurs, and we can't let it catch us off guard.

>Double Trouble escaped

I'm beginning to question our militia's competence, who's in charge of all this?

>Third Week of the Month

Well, we could do jackshit about that. Or… could we?

>>317646

>more and more pegasi in Los Pegasus succumbing to an illness

Oh, oh no.

I guess we can call off the town's own effort into the virus research, since it has definitely gotten the attention of Equestria at large. Once they found a cure, we'll make sure we have access to it.

>What do you propose you do with Ermen?

Idunnolol. Make sure we're being a good host but otherwise let her do what she wants.

>Next month's development

With the opening of a hot spring and (hopefully) trade route between two nations, for the following month I suggest we improve our Infrastructure and construct an inn/tavern. While no doubt most of the goods transported by land will use the railway to our north, I'm still holding out hope that our town's location (and hotspring) will make for an attractive spot for pegasi to rest for the night.

>>317644 (checked)

>not using Brigade Al-Qassam's nasheed

Pleb tier

Anyone got the 8chan edit?

I wonder why people use the isis' anasheed. They're worse, save a few, from Al-Qassam's

>>317645

>Double Trouble escaped from captivity! A search is under way. Quite a few ponies are on edge. (-1 content)

Sheesh

>All those weapons

We don't have gunpowders, eh. All armor or just body armor? I mean, if it can penetrate shield projection, nothing else we can do.

I'm gonna KIV improve magic shield tech for now.

>>317646

>What do you propose you do with Ermen?

In the next rotation, allow her to visit the farms (all of them) and the terrace. She will be escorted with a translator and a guard. Ask her if she has any idea where to start.

>Options

Same as >>317674

<First Week

>propaganda

What kind of propaganda are they putting out?

>Saddle Arabian unrest

Sounds like the unrest is bad enough they might be lynched upon arrival. Pony Arab Spring?

>Eardhors and Equestria reconciled

I wonder whether him putting the gods of his people's cult "in their place" might blow up in his face.

>Sopor virus

>100% lethality

That's going to be a problem since we live right next to them. Maybe we can ask Eardorsian doctors whether they've delt with it first before looking for a cure. In the meantime we should find out whether the urchins are the only places you can find the virus just in case and hold a memorial service for the lives lost so far I'm sure some of them had loved ones. Also we should send warnings to nearby cities and the neighboring military outpost to be on alert for the symptoms.

<Second Week

>Double Trouble escaped

We should have a couple ponies investigate the scene and have some pegasi search the surrounding area for him.

>>317674

We'll we only improved our militia members themselves but never their facilities. Also he could have had collaborators that helped, maybe even a sympathetic guard.

<Third week

>Ippoi weapons

All this sounds impressive but what's stopping unicorns from telekinetically smothering the fire by trapping it into an airtight bubble or pegasai from creating large gusts of wind to dampen the velocity of the arrows or blowing them away outright?

>>317646

<Fourth Week

>geothermal energy

Finally hotspring time fuck you OP i just wanted comfy homesteading with hotsprings and cute ponies bathing in hotsprings not play in the Grand Chessboard

>A tourist hotspot gets infected

WEW

E

W

>Our first embassador

Neat. We should do >>317709

For the next we should do this >>317674 and also build a marketplace to make it easier on people who want to trade.

>>317831

No, my internet has been absolutely shitting itself. I am an burger

>>317832

Don't worry about it man, this is one time a slow board works to our advantage.

>>317892

>the images that the 8fag system told me were removed

(I agree, what the fuck man.)

(I wrote out even more text explaining myself in further detail, but it then occurred to me that in the "A Canterlot Wedding" episodes, the guards of the city—of which is under high alert—have their usual terrible armor [upper-chest and neck are exposed; you'd think they'd change into something better when an actual threat presents itself, instead of the usual ornate, mostly-ceremonial armor they normally wear] and are still stuck with mere spears. Considering the lack of attention given to the martial corner of the show's world, as far as I'm concerned, what I say goes.)

Pegasi blowing away clouds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W7pO9UX8ek

Unicorns don't seem to be able to do much besides magic related to their talent

(Watching the episode "Sonic Rainboom" again has shown some ponies with headsets… Headsets have been around for about a hundred years, though they look like more recent designs.)

(When trying to find examples of bows and arrows in MLP, I came across this….)

My Little Pony MLP Equestria Girls Transforms with Animation PREGNANT Bow And Arrow Real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-dFXNlTWaQ

What the fuck man.

>>317674

>could we use the info

(Just preparation I suppose….)

>militia

(As the other anon said, you only improved the military themselves. Otherwise, all they have in terms of infrastructure is a barracks and a small jail cell. I should have mentioned this, but Double Trouble is a unicorn, although a regular one….)

(The railway is only to be used for military and military-goods transportation. So the land trade links are via the road, which passes through Dahlohneighga.)

>>317693

(Actually….)

(Also, how on earth did I miss that bit about the exportation of ores? Forgive me; please remind me next time.)

>>317893

Sunday, October 28th, 2015

Ancillaries: Deacon Ermen from the Sultanate of Eardhors; earth pony mare

The council decides to focus on infrastructure, to better accommodate the town's burgeoning role as a trade center and rest stop. Specifically, a market and inn will be built. While the market will only take two weeks to set-up, the inn will take four weeks to build, and can be expanded with time (though only upwards). The two will cost a total of 690 ฿its. (-690 ฿its) The inn is expected to make an income of ~400 ฿its a month, while costing about 150 ฿its per month to run. The market does not need attending to, however, an income could be made from it. (Exempli gratia, needing to pay a small fee to use the space.)

Although ponies had already begun to set-up stalls near their homes, a market square will definitely improve sales for them, and the ponies are happy about this. (+1 content)

An investigation is launched to find out more about Double Trouble, in order to try to locate him.

(I'm assuming by "next rotation" you mean the self-same day she arrived, October 28th, because waiting four months to show her around seems odd.)

You ask Ermen about the disease, providing an explanation of the symptoms. She tells you that they call it "mamra sjúkdómur" (deep sleep/lethargic disease), but that they have no cure. She tells you that, like most diseases, mamra is a result of poor air quality, specifically from sewage build-up in crowded cities and towns. She advises you and your people to properly dispose of your waste, in order to keep diseases away.

Clearly, the Eardhorsians' medical knowledge appears to be…archaic, to say the least. They do not really have doctors, in fact, and most medical work is done by priests or apothecaries. She does keep clean, however, brushing her teeth and bathing every morning. She seems to abhor butter, calling the consumption of it a "westerne praktyk" (western practice) in a snobbish manner. Despite that, she tells you she rubs herself down with olive oil, then scrapes the excess off using a metal, j-shaped tool before her baths.

You have her look around the town, escorted by one of you (there are no real Equestrian-Horsian translators yet, at least not in your town; one of you council members knows several languages, but Horsian is not one of them) who carries a bilingual dictionary and a guard. She seems unfazed by everything, but the greenhouses surprise her. You ask her if she has any idea where to start. She tells you that she would like to visit the rest of Equestria as soon as possible, but that at the moment she wants to try to read Equestrian books using the bilingual dictionary as a guide.

On Sunday night, she stays awake praying and chanting in her room, and on Monday, she sleeps during the day.

You have begun exporting raw sulfur. (+60 ฿its per month)

Wew lad, hopefully this time it won't take so long, neither be so long.

>>317936

>/leftypol/

Yeah, I wasn't dissing on /leftypol/ in particular, just the general political labeling and smearing on /pone/ and 8chan to a larger extent, which I stay as far away from as possible.

>Presumably a pony overheard them speaking

(That would imply they speak Equestrian, or something similar, no?)

>in retrospect I could have said "human"

(I don't mind. Calling them Romans allows us players to draw from our existing knowledge and stereotypes, instead of needing to spend more words describing what they are like. A shortcut, if you will.)

(And I quite like how this little misunderstanding on the name adds to the roleplaying aspect of the game)

>There's still the shared-wife penalty from before if you want to bring it up

(No thank you. I probably should have seen that coming.)

(I only chose E because there doesn't seem to be anything else urgent and I wanted to see what it'd do)

>>317946

>(That would imply they speak Equestrian, or something similar, no?)

(Not quite. I imagine that there might have been some proclamation, and they allowed some ponies to leave to spread the word. But, of course, they'd have to do some quick translation work to do it. Really, I ought to have put more thought into that, maybe "Romae". Maybe the ponies who heard that misheard it?)

Yes, I'm fully aware Sallow's empire is not literally Nova Roma.I wish Obsidian had more time with the game to implement Legion and NCR cities.

>(No thank you.)

:^)

(That's fine. Although there are still other council members that will disagree. The more unique culture and policies, the more Dahlohneighga might consider themselves separate from Equestria, especially during a time of competing ideologies, like nationalism. Obviously, the Queens will allow it, as long as you're not a heathen and will help your pony brethren.)

(Anyway, I hope you're enjoying this. I get worried that I might have scared some anons away somehow.)

>>317947

(Well I'll be the first to admit that when I first went into this, I wasn't expecting our involvement to indirectly embroil Equestria into a full blown war. But though my previous experience with RPGs is solely of the vidya game varirity, I understand these cyoa types are a lot more organic and volatile in their possibilities, thus was fully prepared to roll with the punches and contribute on the parts that I can deal with.)

(Namely the building/management part, being the uncultured swine that I am, most of the historical/lingual references and allusions probably flew right over my head.)

>>317946

>>317895

>tell the settlers that it's fine to move in?

Aren't our town under quarantine? Or I'm mistaking for other. Anyway, let's improve our culture first before accepting immigrants. Don't want our way of life diminished by some (((merchants))).

>(What do?)

Don't sell. In fact, who are the orange families? Maybe can make a better deal rather than selling potential moneymaker.

>dead SA on a boat

Sounds fishy. KIV for now. I don't think we have the capabilities to actually calculate and predict where it originated and do a serious search.

>Trotkins Square Riot

Hehehe

>>317896

>all those events

I love you, you cheeky homo faggot for trying your best to create events based on history and suddenly buttfuck us with no lube. No homo tho. That's haram

>>317934

>>First Week of the Month

>>(Tell the other settlers that it's fine to move in?)

>I vote Yea

I vote for not yet, hombre. Let's do what you say first. Improve Culture/Policies.

>I'm personally in favor of selling

I'm sorry to burden you, OP but what's our current minerals? I remember salt, sulphur, quartz and gold now. What else? Anyway, I would like to hold that thought for now. This is our only mine right now. We are living next to a bloody mountain. There might be more to come. I would like to know who exactly are the Oranges. Selling the mine means that they can claim whatever more they can find after buying it. I want to make sure that we don't lose land but can come a more profitable deal with them. Turning them down definitely not the best course of action.

>>317936

>>317946

>(No thank you. I probably should have seen that coming.)

You wuss. But it seems like we are in a manageable state that can support that, so I'll let this thing slide. Besides, no one really angery about it right now.

>>317947

>(The more unique culture and policies, the more Dahlohneighga might consider themselves separate from Equestria, especially during a time of competing ideologies, like nationalism. Obviously, the Queens will allow it, as long as you're not a heathen and will help your pony brethren.)

I'm not good at setting a clear image of a culture except for a core.

cool beans

>>317952

>quarantine

(Los Pegasus. And, even if it were, these ponies want to make a town in the county pictured here [borderlines.png] >>317466)

>Orange Family

(Related to AJ, remember? They're from the east.)

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Aunt_and_Uncle_Orange

(They want to buy it for the sulfur and salt, as they are in the agriculture and food business.)

Also, I'd like to think that, although the Apple Family isn't related to the Pear Family, that they still exist.

>boatman

That was a reference to the later Roman invasion.

>mines

(Sulfur, salt/halite, quartz, gold)

>>317959

(Hot beans!)

>>318003

I forgot. Anyway, I'm not a great business man but I rather we have a deal between them about the ores that they want. I prefer selling to them in huge quantities at a lower price like bulk selling rather than selling the mines.

We're mountain pones. The mines are ours.

>spoiler

You're saying SA got their ass domesticated by two legged hairless warriors?

>>318009

>We're mountain pones.

We haven't even been living here for more than a year…

But if you think there are further riches to be found in the mine, or that we have the technical and administrative know-how to ensure a profitable operation, I'll back your proposal.

>>318023

First, I feel like we don't have much geological knowledge/tech to predict whatever mineral that the mountain might have right now. Second, selling the rights of a mine is risky since they can just dig new tunnels and it will still be theirs unless we limit it.