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>The civilisation gets +0.1 Culture.
>The civilisation gets +5 Education and Security.
>The civilisation gets -5 Cohesion and Productivity.
Every month, the leaders of the tribe convene to discuss the nature of Protadrol and what it would take to improve the script. There are disagreements but after a few years of conferring with each other, the wisest minds of the Protavic people unleash a third language, intended to combine the logograms of Protadrol and the phoneticism of Toproslan. This new language is met with confusion by the majority of the tribe and has a very low adoption rate. Traditionalists cling to Protadrol, while pragmatists stick with Toproslan.
In the years that follow, some of the tribe's leaders react to the failure of the new language by creating a fourth script, while others create a fifth. Within decades, every family seems to have its own secret language, all of which are considered forms of Protadrol. Mastery of language becomes a part of the Protavic battle of wits – worthy leaders must be able to devise inscrutable scripts, but they must also be capable of deciphering the texts of their opponents, no matter how illegible they were designed to be. This becomes an early form of cryptography.
The masses continue to use Toproslan while the cryptic art of Protadrol is seen as somewhat pretentious, a game played by indolent fools who waste their time flaunting their intellects.
A generation passes.
It is common for enterprising beast-bringers to try their hand at trading. They load the products of the Protavic people into boats and row down the Choslitol, to trade with foreign tribes along the river's length and even as far as the distant sea, which they claim is even more vast than the Croglatol.
However, as of late, these traders have returned with more than just exotic goods. They have brought wheezing coughs, runny noses and loose bowels with them. Those who venture too far down the Choslitol seem to return with sickness, which ends up spreading to the people around them.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">discourage long distance trading</span>. The beast-bringers should not venture so far from their homeland. The Croglatol provides all that the tribe needs.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">ostracise the merchants</span>. Those who potentially harbour sickness must remain apart from the rest of the tribe, for the good of the people.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">condemn exotic goods</span>. Peculiar shells and bizarre foodstuffs must be the source of the sickness. They must not be brought to the great lake.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">accept the consequences</span>. Foreign curios are a source of wealth and joy for the Protavic people. They can handle a little sickness.
>Discourage long distance trading.
>Ostracise the merchants.
>Condemn exotic goods.
>Accept the consequences.
