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>The civilisation gets +5 Happiness.
It is decided that Capugril should venture further south, to learn more of the grassy hills and the great beasts that inhabit them. It is his duty to return with samples of any precious resource that he happens to find in that region and to learn of the people who inhabit that land, if there are any.
However, before he sets off again, he is given ample opportunity to rest and recover from his great journey, to eat and drink his fill. When the time comes for him to depart, he is sent off with a magnificent feast, during which the priestesses sing his praises and anoint him with blood and honey, so that he might carry the blessings of An and Il with him wherever he might venture. The next day, the people of the tribe whoop and cheer as they watch the winged boat leave the Croglatol and begin its journey down the Choslitol, towards the distant sea.
It will be several years before the tribe will see him again – if he will return at all. What's important is that hope now fills the hearts of the people.
Several months pass. It is during one of the seasonal feasts held by the sisterhood that a particular matter is brought to the table. Glotradan claims that the tribe's method of determining who leads each family is inappropriate. The tests of intellect that they subject each other to, devising and deciphering Protadrol codes, playing games of Blocrum, challenging each other's wits with riddles and rebuses, they have become byzantine, self-indulgent and do little to prove that they are capable of leadership.
Glotradan and her priestesses want to incorporate a religious aspect. The drobrac should assess the Drocrom of the aspirants to determine whether they are healthy, strong and blessed enough to lead.
The reformers are more interested in replacing the system with one that allows every man and woman who belongs to a family to choose who among them gets to lead.
Sitrun mumbles that the hive shall adapt when it must, and not before then. Her cult interpret this as a desire to keep the contests of leadership as they are, focused on proving one's cunning.
The tribe could <span class="mu-s">allow priestesses to assess candidates</span>. This would make the drobrac the kingmakers of the tribe, but might encourage physical self-improvement.
The tribe could <span class="mu-s">let the people choose who leads them</span>. Even slaves would be allowed to choose which aspirant should lead the tribe, under this system.
The tribe could <span class="mu-s">retain the current system of selection</span>. Nothing will change, but stability is not necessarily a bad thing. Change brings uncertainty with it.
The tribe could <span class="mu-s">adopt the martial contests of the Vuvovic</span>. Those who lead the tribe should be its greatest warriors, able to hold their own against any blood-drinker.
>Allow priestesses to assess candidates.
>Let the people choose who leads them.
>Retain the current system of selection.
>Adopt the martial contests of the Vuvovic.