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The heat of midsummer shimmered off the stone blocks and timber beams of the half-built passage. The road from Baz Kardan to the Hill Lands was nearly ready, the steady stream of stone masons, pack animals, and supply carts a welcome sign of progress and an irresistible lure to hungry eyes in the wild.
It began subtly. A mule went missing overnight. A week later, a half-eaten Ironhorn calf was found just off the trail, its body dragged beneath a low overhang streaked with claw marks. Workers whispered of seeing copper-brown shadows slipping between boulders at dusk, and some swore they felt the weight of unseen eyes following them home.
Then, one morning, the peace was broken. Shouts rang out from a bend in the road where the path cut close to the crater’s rim. A massive lynx mottled grey and burnished brown, its stone eyes burning with hunger burst from the scrub, scattering the mules and sending one tumbling into the rocks below. It vanished as quickly as it came, the echo of its snarling cry carrying over the plateau.
The masons from Coppervale muttered that it was no ordinary predator, but a Stoneface Lynx, a rare and fiercely territorial hunter. If left unchecked, it would keep prowling the new passage, feeding on animals and lone travelers alike.
The danger was clear this wasn’t just a beast at the edge of the road. It was a living reminder that the crater settlement was still open to the wild, and that anything could walk in, teeth bared.
Labor: ~165 people 40 Farmers 40 Fishers 20 Crafters 20 Hunters 10 Shepards
Injuries: 2 Hunters injured early spring.
Builds: Bamboo Huts, Vent Forge, Crater Gate
Weapons:80 Obsidian spears 20 Iron spears
Tools: Whole population has updated stone/obsidian/bamboo tools/ Smiths have iron tools
Morale: High/Great (hopeful, united, found new home, well fed)
Health: Moderate/High (Bonus from Hot Springs)
Knowledge: Average crafting skill base, Low magic skill, 2 skilled specialists
Diplomacy: Tahlra's bond with a fire spirt. Small alliance with Coppervale.
Choose one actions to focus on this month. It's late summer. One actions is being used on finishing the watchtower.
>Hunt the Stonefaced Lynx
>Focus on scouting/Looking for wild beasts
>Focus on mining iron ore/Crafting more iron gear
>Ask Tahlra to help others make bonds with the fire spirt.
>Improve the Vent Forge
>Begin building more fortifications around the whole crater
>Write in
