>>6097428>OrcmanieTwo irksome problems have presented themselves to the Orcmanie, the distribution of starmetal and finding stalwart souls who will brave the frozen shores to the north where rumors about ghosts haunt the cold depths. It is one brilliant stroke that solves both problems though, a grand tournament, where the contest is both strength of steel and mastery of blade, where the winning champions are granted land to the north, and the smith who sponsors them are granted access to the precious starmetal. When the champions finally settle into their new home they find the waters are not filled with ghosts, but rather a pale coral contorted into unpleasantly humanoid shapes.
>>6097432>VenksIt is no small thing to build a great wall of stone and mount it with turret and tower and hard eyed men, but King Uhgul’s wisdom and vision for the future has been well judged. Great stockpiles of stone and lumber are emptied and in little time at all a string of forts and walls has been established across the southern border, alongside barracks and all the myriad little details required to keep a force of men armed and fed and ready for the gruesome task of war.
RAID: Some whisper the king may be a seer, for at the very location he chose for military drills a swarm of the foul spiders to the south attempted to rush across the border! Fortunately they were spotted by builders on the towers, and a hastily assembled ambush of the horrible beasts left them as little more than a heap of twitching limbs and oozing wounds.
>>6097461>Adenai ConfederacyThere are some who might sniff or consider a humble wooden pallisade an inferior defense compared to sturdy stone walls, but not a one of them has had the misfortune of charging at a thicket of wooden spikes while javelin and arrow rain down. A stone wall shatters, but the humble palisade is easy and simple to repair. The first task of any recruit in the watch is to aid the carpenters in their maintenance.
>>6097568>KrawlThe structure of bone indeed comes easily to the Krawl, the hardened web of calcium and phosphate similar to that of mycelia. Spurs of these bones can be integrated into larger Krawl entities, at first as spikes and armor, then later as structural components. Many of these new creatures are formed as a result of the population boost initiative, when an interesting side effect is discovered. The bone structures make it more difficult for the Krawl within them to be reabsorbed, and as a result the Krawl within begin to diverge every so subtly from the hivemind. This new independence manifests first as improvements in improvisation during combat.
