Post making contest 5.0

This is update #230.

YEAR ONE SUMMARY

• I gave my Archivist hero the "Indiana Bones" skill to make them better at searching ruins. All of the next three they looked in were empty. Huh.
  
• "One of the roaming armies in Gadinak has the treasure you seek!" Okay, jolly good. One question... where the fuck's Gadinak?
  
• The swish-looking mouse yetis with wings really dig how peaceful we are. That's nice to know. They are definitely the coolest of all my opponents so I'm happy to be on their good side...
  
• I have to go find a relic in a ruin that is indicated by "rays of dust". I do not know what that means.
  
• oh wait it's the one with the big glowy golden threads hanging above it never mind that makes sense (do you think the lime green people will mind if I nip into their lands for this? It's a mission of vital importance! Honest!)
  
• Right, it's time to set an Empire Plan. It's reassuring to realise that, until now, I haven't had an official plan, because that chimes well with my actual experience.
  
• The lime green people were apparently the first people to pacify eight villages. I have pacified zero villages. I am definitely doing this right.
  
• I talked to my first minor faction and they told me that they would only consider joining me once other minor factions had joined me. That's... that's just unhelpful.
  
• Okay my actual local minor faction just wants some wine. That's more doable. There's some wine in one of the regions next door. Note to self: expand there at some point.
  
• Put yourself now in the shoes of Lilya of the lime green people Mezari. Last (insert whatever unit of time a turn is here), a gigantic fucking dragon traipsed past your city of Inolya, mumbling its apologies for trespassing and scaring the hell out of your citizens. This turn, said dragon walked back the way it came, only this time it was carrying a preposterously huge blue sword that looks like someone stuck a fighter jet on a knife hilt. What stance do you adopt towards this weird creature? I dunno, but it certainly shouldn't be "trustful". Seriously.
  
• I need to research open pit mines in order to extract wine. Do my people know what wine is?
  
• Also, why "extraction"? That's not a universally applicable word... though, honestly, I haven't figured out the strategic and luxury resource system yet. I found some gold in a ruin earlier and I still don't entirely know what I'm supposed to do with it.
  
• Oh hey, it's win- WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ALTAR THINGIMAJIG
  
• what are pearls
  
• okay my laptop is really not liking winter
  
• quick question how am I meant to figure out city tile yields for my expansion during winter?

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