Stronghold: Castles and Knights - Sean4333

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ReDquinox·2/21/2017 in Roleplaying

Name: Lord Giddington Gaddington of Goddington

Age: 47

Sex: Male

Location: Forest

Land's Name: Goddington

Backstory: Well it's actually quite wonderous. Your sister's brother whose father is your uncle inherited this land from your father who is his step-brother and also his cousin's cousin's brother's grandfather. In short, your grandfather's son's cousin's brother left this land to the brother of your sister, may he Rest In Peace, and so it now falls into your able hands. Simple family matters, you see.

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The land you have gained rule over, Goddington, is a small patch of land in the middle of Irkwood Forest. It is almost completely devoid of buildings, except for your keep, a small stone construct in the middle of a clearing. A dozen or so peasants squat outside your gate around a campfire, all without food, a job or a roof over their head.

This is where your story begins, my liege. Good luck.

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ReDquinox·5/29/2017

It now is. You accomplished nothing with this act.

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Giraffe1111·5/31/2017

Foresight is 20/20, man. Okay, for my next thing, I'm going to organize the housing system. From now on, all new arrivals will settle outside of the moat. Houses must be buildt one house-width apart from eachother, in case of fire. Also the next 20 peasants to move in will be put to work establishing a quarry.

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ReDquinox·6/1/2017

In order to do that you'd be destroying your current houses and then building new ones outside?

You already have one. Quarries also take a mere three men and an ox to operate.

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Giraffe1111·6/2/2017

Only the houses not yet inhabited. The people that already moved in can stay.

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ReDquinox·6/2/2017

Right. This is done. It cost you most of your current wood stock, though.

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Giraffe1111·6/3/2017

No matter, it shall be returned in time. So wood, stone, and food are taken care of for the most part, but I still think we're going to have to promote some form of speciality commerce if we're to make any sort of profit from taxes. What other kinds of resources are in the area?

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ReDquinox·6/3/2017

Actually you're going to be running out of food fairly soon with all the houses you've built.

So far, all you've discovered is wood and stone, but you've heard word of marshy areas further south...

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Giraffe1111·6/3/2017

Those people settling on the outside of the moat. Give 1/2 of them land to farm wheat, then 1/4th for carrots, and 1/4th for beans. The de-forested ring should be made bigger, outside of the palisade, to accomidate the new farms.

Oh, and, btw. This keep is purty. Can mine look like it? pllz

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ReDquinox·6/3/2017

You had the resources to make two wheat, one carrot and one bean farm. This is enough to feed your current population - however, you're going to be overpopulated again quite soon, and nearly all of your populace is unemployed.

Deforestation has been going on steadily already, seeing as your woodcutters have been working their bums off to keep up with you building a ton of houses, then destroying them, then building new ones again.

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ReDquinox·6/3/2017

Among the growing pile of news about food and population problems, however, there is also some better word. The local wheat farmers' guild has come to the agreement to better regulate wheat harvesting methods, meaning that your wheat farms can now produce slightly more wheat each harvest.

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What do you think?