>>6353512> Hahk UI/Movement: Continue Building roads to the north> Rabble Riders UI/Movement: Head North, also building roads.It is a cruel and simple fact of life, that all the best stabbing spots are far away. Fortunately roads exist, and though in some ways they are fundamentally heretical, being long flat objects that serve to bring things together instead of sharp spiky things that serve to split things apart, nonetheless everyone agrees that being able to actually get somewhere to stab someone is important.
>MI: Share Tech: Glassworking with Huang/Mount Ao Pagoda >Develop [MA] - Saddlemaking>Preq-Tech: Leatherworking, Rope, Sewing, Beast Taming, Thoride Mounts>Preq-Resources: Leather/Textiles> By developing saddles, the Kikka become better able to manage their mounts and themselves in a variety of situationsAs usual, the annual Thoride Festival is a source of fierce competition, metaphorical backstabbing (stabbing a kikka in the back is generally a murder-suicide), and the never ending pursuit of trying to catch the eye of a young kikka lady before tsss inevitably killed everyone present. Bok, much maligned runt of his egg clutch whose fate in life has always been carrying the chamberpots for dumping, dreams of one day winning the competition, and perhaps even the heart of a certain sleepy jade beauty from Mount Ao. These aspirations are generally considered twisted perversions of the natural order by most, or at best hopeless daydreams by the kindest.
Nonetheless Bok perseveres. Unfortunately for him his noodly arms are illsuited for the desperate clinging required for the fiercest and fastest of Thorides, and even the tamest of the great beasts throw him off with contemptuous ease. His grandmother takes pity on him though and fashions him a set of leather straps by which he might bind himself to even the fiercest of Thorides. This ends badly of course, half strangled, battered, and bouncing along the ground for three quarters of the race. He does win though, and soon enough copycats are springing up everywhere, with varying degrees of success.
