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To Bee or not to Bee quest

DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Wed 17 Sep 2025 19:55:55 No.6307600 View View Reply Original Report

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Disclaimer : One shot. Let's try to be fast-paced and see how it goes.

You are located in the middle of France. Which Bee do you pick?
>European Dark Bee
>Italian Honey Bee
>Buckfast Bee
>Himalayan Giant-Cliff Honey Bee
>Africanized Bee
>Hornet
Which Hive?
>Dadan
>Langstroth
>Warre
>Dead Tree Trunk
>Kenyan Hive
>Willow-Weaved

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Lg0Jiuih Fri 19 Sep 2025 09:26:52 No.6308270 Report

Quoted By: >>6308271 >>6308273

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>6308237
Cesarie Apriori

An orphaned heir of a long line of beekeepers. Despite being similar in age to you, his skill and training surpass your mutual peers. He rightfully carries himself with pride over his skill in beekeeping and lineage, but this has hardly made him relatable to other kids. While he is respected, this made him somewhat of an outcast in school - always first and always alone.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Lg0Jiuih Fri 19 Sep 2025 09:28:12 No.6308271 Report

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>>6308270
Yeah this is what I get for phoneposting. Always read before you post, kids.

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 09:39:35 No.6308273 Report

Quoted By: >>6308287 >>6308316

>>6308270
He looks like that.
>Long line of Beekeepers
They have a classical hive preference
>Langstroth? Dadant? Warré?
He can also have a Lienage Quirk :
>Swarm Hunt
>Disease expert
>Retention expert
>Predator-management expert
>Honey Potential survey and optimisation
Any write in allowed.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Lg0Jiuih Fri 19 Sep 2025 11:41:05 No.6308287 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308273
>Dadant
>Honey Potential survey and optimisation

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Fri 19 Sep 2025 12:03:04 No.6308293 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308238
4chan is weird like that to get a negative modifier you have to type in +- just typing - results in getting a positive one

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:eFry/CwL Fri 19 Sep 2025 13:10:16 No.6308316 Report

Quoted By: >>6308317 >>6308342

>>6308273
Dadant
>Predator management

fear him, for he commands bears to attack langstroth Hives. Peak management

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 13:15:36 No.6308317 Report

Quoted By: >>6308318

>>6308316
That can be another one.
Feel free to provide a pic, a roll, and a description
You guys are correctly anticipating some of the bullshit nature things going, good job.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 13:16:36 No.6308318 Report

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>>6308317
And a name.

SnailySnail

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SnailySnail ID:xWtZO9ML Fri 19 Sep 2025 14:44:28 No.6308334 Report

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Rolled 87 (1d100)

Jacques Beauregard is the quiet guy in the back of the class.
He tries and works hard
He always loved digital animals and was blissed when he could take his beekeeping licence
But he is really bad at this
He can't recognise the bee species nor the flowers in his field
he kinda possess a lot that noone really wanted so the police is okay with him being hear.
No house nor other possession than the tent that he always carry, an absurdly big bag and 1 hive
His lack of knowledge is the reason that his only hive only produces mad honey at 20% of its capabilities
When he tries it he gets high, eats everything, wake up with nothing days later and the cycle repeats each year

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:eFry/CwL Fri 19 Sep 2025 15:07:50 No.6308342 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>6308316
kk

>>6308316
He is Jack Harrlock, and he is just a bit weird.
He tries to be social and cool, because his family lives out in the sticks.
There are words going round that he's inbred, but that's jsut bullying, probably.
The most popular member of the poker club, because he plays for cash and candy and He really really sucks at cards. And fashion.
Can drive tho. Probably illegal.

Okay so it's just not gonna upload the picture, Imagine someone dressed in a travelling cloak, and cloth clothes that absolutely are not just the cobbled together garments of a son of self reliant nature fanatics/cult

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:3hOra45z Fri 19 Sep 2025 15:45:42 No.6308346 Report

Quoted By: >>6308353

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>6308051
>Look for wild swarms

>Try to hang wirh the cool kids

>>6308237
Camille Takahashi-Morin, a young etymologist a couple years BeJo's senior, who is studying invasive species and novel athropod interactions, and who likes B-movies, but NOT Bee Movie.

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 16:00:08 No.6308353 Report

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>>6308346
>Asian gril
>Invasive species
Alright, she's obsessed with Asian Hornet.
Also with the 49 roll, she seems quite interrested in Cesarie

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Fri 19 Sep 2025 16:18:18 No.6308365 Report

Quoted By: >>6308369

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>6308237
Elizabee Queen, the rich kid. Has her servants do all the work, not actually interested in bees. Only a beekeeper because it's popular and to get royal jelly

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 16:21:51 No.6308369 Report

Quoted By: >>6308379

>>6308365
Dadant or Langstroth-aligned?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Fri 19 Sep 2025 16:41:47 No.6308379 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308369
>Langstroth

DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 20:28:07 No.6308438 Report

Quoted By: >>6308598

It's a tad early in the season. However, swarms are around : you found one, after all.
Striding far and fast, leveraging your strong build and persistance, you locate not one but two wild swarms. You mark the places as this time, you can't simply weave your hives around them : too high. Theorically, you should take an hive body - including a couple waxed frames, and a coupled honey-filled ones - bring it under the wild swarm, shake it down, let it get in and wait an hour to settle.
Then you should close the hive, bring it to the apiary, and voila.
Problem : you don't have any hive. You should act fast : not only settling swarms are vulnerable, not declaring them to the governement if you're unable to capture them yourself is illegal as bees are frail and endangered and a key for humanity's survival.
Instead of weaving one of your traditional hive (directly around the swarm), you try your best at socializing.
Word got around you have both your Beekeeping licence and been working on your own beesuit. Cesarie Apriori himself, sharing useless-nonbee-class N°3, nodded once in acknowledgement while crossing your path. Jack Harrlock, however, was frankly displeasant.
JH : "I KNOW you don't use the only house of god-made-many to Manbeekind salvation. Yo walkin on thin wax mate."
However, as the git is frail, malnourished and overall some kind of nutjob you don't break him like a twig here and now.
You got stucked one class with the weird quiet kid, always wearing his ridiculous red cap. Jacques Beauregard is a Warré user - of course he is.
JB : "So this third year, I'll try to restrain myself and don't eat everything after first spoon. But I have to sample the product... And it always gets hazy afterward"
At least, you learned the guy got spare elements.

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 19 Sep 2025 20:29:08 No.6308439 Report

Quoted By: >>6308447 >>6309207 >>6309527

You've also been hitted up by Elizabee, the madly popular girl.
EQ : "Well well well. Who would have known such a big boy's strong hand were also delicate enough to caress a bee without crushing it? Color me interested, honey...
Bejo : - That dress... It's not good to work in apiary.
EQ - And funny, with that! Anyway, if your standing keeps raising, I'll let you invite me to prom.
Bejo : - Wait, we're in France. We don't have a prom... Do we?
EQ - Silly bee, of course we have! I'm organizing it! And if you need any... Help... I'll lend you a drone or two, and of course a few Langstroth bodies. One body for another, fair trade."
Last, the Hornet freak, Camille Takahashi-Morin, seems like she's approaching all Beekeeper no matter their church affiliation.
CTM : "So, I'm giving a talk next week about Asian Hornet Queen trapping. Please consider attending it."

Regarding the wild swarms...
>Weave one of your traditional hive yourself. You'll catch only one yourself - you can give a tip regarding the second one to one of the Beekeepers [which one?]
>Get a couple Warré elements from Jacques Beauregard - you'll owe him one.
>Get a couple Langstroth bodies from Elizabee Queen

Beeposting still open for newcomers

SnailySnail

SnailySnail ID:ZUoQrXDe Fri 19 Sep 2025 20:59:30 No.6308446 Report

Quoted By:

Option 2
NUMERO DOS

We will get close to him and retrieve some mad honey to sell high

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:lRZgSttZ Fri 19 Sep 2025 21:10:04 No.6308447 Report

Quoted By: >>6308593

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>6308237
Paul Beesmuth
Son of a local politician, he has connections with various farmer's markets and knows how to sell things at the right price. His actual beekeeping knowledge is mediocre at best, but he's not afraid to dirty his hands in his quest for profit.

>>6308439
>Weave one of your traditional hive yourself. You'll catch only one yourself - you can give a tip regarding the second one to one of the Beekeepers [which one?]
Let's give it to Cesarie!

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Sat 20 Sep 2025 05:16:24 No.6308593 Report

Quoted By: >>6308764

>>6308447
Based sarkozy name reference.
What's his allegiance in Hive Religion?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Sat 20 Sep 2025 05:35:50 No.6308598 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308438
That pic is perfect for Elizabee
>Weave one of your traditional hive yourself. You'll catch only one yourself - you can give a tip regarding the second one to Cesarie Apriori

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:lRZgSttZ Sat 20 Sep 2025 17:36:39 No.6308764 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308593
Most likely Varré for ease of use and easy moneys

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/eleSLNO Sun 21 Sep 2025 19:17:09 No.6309207 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308439
>Get a couple Warré elements from Jacques Beauregard - you'll owe him one.
Networking is important. No bee can survive alone. Well, okay, some ground-bees and wood-bees, but, uh... Anyway, I want both hives.

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Sunseeker !!g+0C1bc8zbo ID:0Z+9iMeJ Mon 22 Sep 2025 16:12:04 No.6309527 Report

Quoted By:

>>6308439

>Get a couple Langstroth bodies from Elizabee Queen

I can't resist a queen bee in her natural habitat QM, I'm weak like that

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Mon 22 Sep 2025 21:39:15 No.6309647 Report

Quoted By:

>Bee me
>Finally have time to update
>2 votes for Weave + tip Cesarie
>2 votes for Warré
>1 vote for Elizabee

Yeah, I'll let the night run for a tiebreak, else I'll coinflip (or 3-side-coin-flip)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Tue 23 Sep 2025 08:45:14 No.6309934 Report

Quoted By:

Rolled 2 (1d2)

tiebreak. 1 for Weave, 2 for Warré

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Tue 23 Sep 2025 17:17:07 No.6310043 Report

Quoted By: >>6310097 >>6310136

You definitely can't let the swarm go to waste - you'll need both of them. And the cheapest way so is easily found.
BeJo : "Jacques, can I borrow two of your hives?
JB : Sure thing bud! My pleasure! What do you need?
BeJo : I don't know much about Warré. Found some swarms, so would two bodies be enough?
JB : Well, you'll also need an entrance. A cushion. A roof. And a feeder."
Well, that was easy. Just like that, you have two swarms caught before anything bad happens to them. Like another beekeeper catching'em, or the Asian or Green Hornet finding them.
Jacques even took some time to help you set up. Entrance is a wood frame with a bee grid below; a grid for hornet is screwed to prevent the pests from getting in. Then, above the body, a plank with a round hole. The cushion is a square, four planks screwed to each other, letting room for the plastic open-torus of the feeder. Bees get up from the plank hole to the feeder, provided with honey-laced water.
JB : So, the cushion let you put stuff like leaves to isolate better in winter... There are other winter tricks, but I don't know them. And I think there is some Varroa-mitigation built in... Can't recall it though. Paul Beesmuth knows quite well the hive, he might tell you more."
Apiary :
One colony [condition : good]
Borrowed Warré from Jacques Beauregard : 2 colony in 1-Warré.
handmade beesuit

It is now Early April.

Apiary :
Weaved Hive - One colony [condition : good]
Warré - Two colonies in 1-hive [Condition : good although a bit cramped]
handmade beesuit
>Look for other wilds swarms in da woods
Three hive is good to start. More of them will let you
>Work on beehive prototype
What add on your current design?
>Weave some hives
Required for giving elements back to Jacques
>Patrol da wood to assert potential risks on your bees
>Write in allowed

High School
Social Standing : + (aspiring beekeeper)
>Try to hang out with some of the cool kids that are already licensed or successful beekeepers
Trigger another round of BeekeepeerPosting
>Hit on a girl
Trigger a round of Girlfriend character gen
Make her fall in love, free labour for weaving hives and sewing beekeeping suits. And other practical purposes
>Bully some kid
Stress relief, maybe pocket change.
>Hit the library
Maybe you can find some insight in the Beekeeping shelves?
>Hit the workshop
Tools, a few materials open to use for the students... Perfect, isn't it?
>Attend Camille Takahashi-Morin Hornet-management conference
>Trade with Paul Beesmuth
What do you require? What do you offer?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Tue 23 Sep 2025 20:08:06 No.6310097 Report

Quoted By: >>6311217

>>6310043
>Weave some hives
>Attend Camille Takahashi-Morin Hornet-management conference

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:LFK66muE Tue 23 Sep 2025 21:12:35 No.6310136 Report

Quoted By: >>6311219

>>6310043
>Patrol da wood to assert potential risks on your bees
>Attend Camille Takahashi-Morin Hornet-management conference

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/eleSLNO Fri 26 Sep 2025 02:24:05 No.6311070 Report

Quoted By: >>6311131 >>6311217 >>6311219

QM?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Fri 26 Sep 2025 07:07:23 No.6311131 Report

Quoted By: >>6311217

>>6311070
Yes? Quite busy, not dropping yet, feel free to vote

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:2HwS1XWM Fri 26 Sep 2025 14:30:00 No.6311217 Report

Quoted By: >>6311219

>>6311131
I did already.

>>6310097 and >>6311070 are me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:fN1d8cCt Fri 26 Sep 2025 14:31:02 No.6311219 Report

Quoted By:

>>6311217
Woops, >>6310136 and >>6311070 , rather.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Sat 27 Sep 2025 19:46:40 No.6311667 Report

Quoted By: >>6311678

I'll update if there's a tiebreak

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/eleSLNO Sat 27 Sep 2025 20:02:36 No.6311678 Report

Quoted By:

>>6311667
I'll flip my vote to weave hives, then.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Sat 27 Sep 2025 20:45:01 No.6311691 Report

Quoted By: >>6311754 >>6311932

You can't keep going like this with so few ressources. Good things your hive only require some weaving, right?
Everyday, you walk to your Apiary. Gather materials. Weave. You manage to progress quick and fast with your simple design, granting you one hive per day.
>Obtained : 7 Weaved Hive [Simplest design.]
Then, you opened Jacques's Warré Hive. It was simply a matter to find the queen, delicately catch her and transfer her in the weaved hive. Swarm soon followed, bringing along Honey and Pollen.
For now, you keep the two bodies : if you find other wild swarms, you could catch them easily.
While at school, you free up some time in your schedule to attend Camille Takahashi-Morin talk.
CTM : "We are currently right in the Asian Hornet nest creation season. To effectively fight them, this is the best period to trap the founding queens.
CTM : Remember that Asian Hornet are highly intelligent and often team up with Green Hornets. Trap require sufficiently interresting bait - such as a sacrificed Hive, and of course EMI countermeasures.
CTM : I'll glady provide several options for you. At a price, of course."
Picking a trap will set you to a debt of 5kg of Honey to Camille.
>Use a sacrificial trap : this will most likely kill one of your swarms, but should be enough to prevent Asian Hornet to build nest around your Apiary.
>Use a Pheromone and Honey trap : less effective; not as costly as you won't lose a swarm.
>Camille is too expensive. Who care about Asian wasps anyway?

It is now Mid-April.

Apiary :
Weaved Hive - Three colony [condition : good]
Warré - Two 1-hive elements
handmade beesuit
5 Spare Weaved Hive
>Look for other wilds swarms in da woods
>Work on beehive prototype
What add on your current design?
>Weave some hives
You have a few spare, would that be enough?
>Patrol da wood to assert potential risks on your bees
>Write in allowed

High School
Social Standing : + (aspiring beekeeper)
>Try to hang out with some of the cool kids that are already licensed or successful beekeepers
Trigger another round of BeekeepeerPosting
>Hit on a girl
Trigger a round of Girlfriend character gen
Make her fall in love, free labour for weaving hives and sewing beekeeping suits. And other practical purposes
>Bully some kid
Stress relief, maybe pocket change.
>Hit the library
Maybe you can find some insight in the Beekeeping shelves?
>Hit the workshop
Tools, a few materials open to use for the students... Perfect, isn't it?
>Give Warré Elements back to Jacques - and help him a bit, see how he works...
>Trade with Paul Beesmuth
What do you require? What do you offer?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/eleSLNO Sat 27 Sep 2025 22:40:01 No.6311754 Report

Quoted By:

>>6311691
>Use a Pheromone and Honey trap : less effective; not as costly as you won't lose a swarm.
>Patrol da wood to assert potential risks on your bees
To assess how many traps we'll need, and what other issues we may have

>Give Warré Elements back to Jacques (unless they're still useful) - and help him a bit, see how he works...
Either way, we owe him one and should see about settling that and getting his own opinion on threats and threat maintenance.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Sun 28 Sep 2025 05:23:11 No.6311932 Report

Quoted By: >>6311992 >>6312106

>>6311691
>Use a Pheromone and Honey trap : less effective; not as costly as you won't lose a swarm.
>Work on beehive prototype
Better isolation against the cold
>Give Warré Elements back to Jacques - and help him a bit, see how he works...

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HfzHuEOa Sun 28 Sep 2025 09:22:09 No.6311981 Report

Quoted By: >>6311992

>Work on beehive prototype
Better isolation against the cold
>Give Warré Elements back to Jacques - and help him a bit, see how he works...

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Sun 28 Sep 2025 10:22:00 No.6311992 Report

Quoted By: >>6312106

>>6311932
>>6311981
You guys should be aware this is at the same time :
- Already a strong point of your hive
- Not an issue at all, especially this early in the season.
BeJo knows that.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Sun 28 Sep 2025 17:23:06 No.6312106 Report

Quoted By: >>6312178

>>6311992
In that case I'm changing my vote >>6311932 to
Hit on a girl

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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:p3rhsV85 Sun 28 Sep 2025 19:30:57 No.6312178 Report

Quoted By: >>6312230 >>6312405

>>6312106
One we've already seen? Or want to create-a-NPC?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/eleSLNO Sun 28 Sep 2025 21:08:03 No.6312230 Report

Quoted By:

>>6312178
If we're not disregarding honeys to focus on honey, we should probably follow up with that Queen Bee first.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HJu7jIyw Mon 29 Sep 2025 05:07:42 No.6312405 Report

Quoted By:

>>6312178
Lets try the girls we already have first and if we fail with both of them we can create more

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Mon 06 Oct 2025 07:33:18 No.6315137 Report

Quoted By:

So yeah, formally warned it would happen, just too much things in my life to effectively run this.
So I'm dropping.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Mon 06 Oct 2025 07:34:19 No.6315138 Report

Quoted By:

here's my complete notes on the setting

Differences with real world :

Land :

- No sugar of any nature except honey because of various catastrophic incidents.
- Cheapest honey come from Beetbees, munching the vegetable (honey with an atrocious beet aftertaste)
- Hornets are getting really smart
- Bears. Lot of them.
- Pesticide bans
- Most of people are allergic to bees

Threats :
Varroa
Asian Hornet
Green Hornets
A robotic autonomous tool developped to fight Asian Hornet. Gone wild and feral (anarcho-communists), actually teamed up with Asian Hornet.
Pathogens : Stonebrood?

Sea :
Turtle-herders are Beekeepers of the Sea.
Biggest sea issue is Jellyfish, eaten by turtles.
Bears can smash tortoise shells.

Longer plot line : Asian/Green Hornets are learning to carry jellyfishes to drop on Bears in the Nature's War for Honey

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wckFi1/z Mon 06 Oct 2025 19:11:46 No.6315307 Report

Quoted By: >>6315342

Alas, this quest was just not meant to bee.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Mon 06 Oct 2025 20:11:09 No.6315342 Report

Quoted By: >>6315356

>>6315307
feel free to take over or somethign

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wckFi1/z Mon 06 Oct 2025 21:10:41 No.6315356 Report

Quoted By: >>6315362

>>6315342
No can do, I'm already running a cambion quest.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p3rhsV85 Mon 06 Oct 2025 21:21:08 No.6315362 Report

Quoted By:

>>6315356
Well, see you there then.

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