Chapter 4




  In late spring of year 2, we were taken completely by surprise by the arrival of more Elves from Crystal Canyon. They were as surprised as we were to arrive here.  Apparently, the malfunctioning portal had not been fixed or disabled.  They had no idea there was a problem with the portal until they arrived here.  There was still no way of going back.  There were 14 of them, 9 adults with 5 children.  Three families had children, one family did not, and there was one young single female.  The couple without children soon had one, and the young single female paired-up with one of the town's young male who was still living at home. 

  Since we were short of logs and were in the process of building the last 2 needed homes for original residents, we built 5 make-shift shacks for the newcomers.  They were fine with that and got right to work gathering wild foods and branches.  We were out of coats and almost out of tools. 

  The magic garden was completed and producing gatherable foods when they arrived.  With more workers we had more builders, more fishing was being done as well as some hunting with the last of our enchanted bows and arrows we brought with us.  The bows are enchanted to be fast and accurate, and the arrows cause the animals no pain.  We were totally out of coats so an evergreen frock maker was built next to the crystal garden house.  The spell tower was completed but before it could make more Elven bow, it would conjure up some hardened tools, our tools were also completely gone.
 


  The magic school was also built across from the storage barn, and it had 1 student.  Two mountain houses were completed and the last of our group of Elves moved into them.  A small barn and a stockpile were built nearby.  A Mother Tree was discovered in the valley just to the east, 2 foresters were assigned to cut and plant trees.






  It was early winter of that 2nd year and the 2nd group of Elves were still in their make-shift shacks. 

Chapter 3


  It was late summer before a couple moved into the nice house with a porch that looked out on the 3rd waterfall pond.  They had one child living at home, a boy they named, Wernelio.  Their adult daughter with husband and child were waiting for a home of their own to be built.





  Another mountain house was built by winter of that first year.  It was built into the mountain by the waterfall where the crystal garden was.  A magic garden would be across from their house and a spell tower would be next to that.  Now that we had crystals, we could build a magic school.  The couple's youngest daughter, Indi, would probably be the first student if we got it built in time.  The couple's oldest daughter, Maddie, was waiting for a house of her own to be built.  The amounts of logs, firewood, and stone were low. 

Chapter 2


  The first mountain house was built to the left of the storage barn for the children of two of the families; the children were only 11 and 12 years old when the house was completed.  When the snow melted, they discovered a small patch of hazelnuts, wild oats, mushrooms, asparagus, and branches by the rainbow's end in front of their house.   Everyone was surprised when the young couple had a baby girl together the following year.





  Two more mountain houses were built to the right of the stockpile.  One of the families was that of the young mother.  They built a branch cart for firewood collecting.  We were struggling with both our firewood and food supplies.  There was a hedgerow in front of those two house that had hazelnuts, a plum tree, wild honey, and rabbits.  Our food supply would get a little more help.



  Our nice house was built by the waterfall and rainbow.  There was a downed tree extending into the river that we used as a fishing tree although we could also catch fish from the waterfall ponds.  I was fishing until I went to help build the crystal garden by the waterfall across from us.  We needed crystals to build a magic school, to make and enchant hunting bows and arrows, to cast tool summoning spells, and to grow food in a magic garden.  Next to the crystal garden was another hedgerow patch with mushrooms, asparagus, and wild oats.   A third hedgerow patch, just like the others, was over by the third waterfall.

Chapter 1




  As you may have guessed, eager explorers, we are Elves.  I'm Gillisse and my husband is Erving.  We came through the magic portal from Crystal Canyon; the portal obviously malfunctioned and we came to the wrong place and could not go back.  It was supposed to be a two-way portal.  There were 22 of us, 10 adults with 12 children.  Erv and I had 2 children at the time, a boy and a girl.  Our group was taking wildlife, tree fellows, and tree seedlings to one of the areas that had been severely damaged by tornadoes, but this obviously wasn't one of those places.  Now you tell me that we're on the other side of the world.  That could explain the malfunction and why my crystal ball doesn't show us any places that are familiar to us.  This valley's terrain and climate is very similar to Crystal Canyon's but we were expecting to be somewhere much warmer.  It was snowing when we arrived here.





  Like you, we were immediately impressed by the rainbows and the waterfalls.  We were very glad to discover there were mana crystals here; they are essential to Elven spell casting.  The heat generated by the crystals is what keeps the lakes and rivers from freezing in winter. Oh, you must already know that since you were river boatmen in the north.  Well, the waterfalls and ponds don't freeze either, and when we discovered the third waterfall we named our valley Rainbow Falls.





  We quickly gathered resources and built a medium-sized storage barn where we could store our meager supplies, take shelter from the cold, and house the small animals we brought with us.  The larger animals went to a nearby wood area with a tree fellow watching over them.  We built a tunnel through the small mountain by the stockpile; we saw there were a lot of downed branches we could use as firewood.  We would rather gather branches than cut trees whenever possible.  It was a bit warmer and out of the wind to go back-and-forth through the tunnel for stones and the wood we needed to cut.  We would need a lot of both.

Intro


  This is the 2nd story in the New World Series which began when river boatmen, Jenser and Shie, were caught in a storm far north of Smallville and ended up on the other side of the world, shipwrecked.  They reached a small settlement where they helped 4 Nord families developed it into the town of Newburg.  When the town was stable and had a boat builder, Jenser and Shie, along with their 2 youngest children, set off to see the world, heading south down Moon River.  You, eager explorer, went with them. 

  It wasn't long before the river branched off to the east, and in the distance, Jenser and Shie saw a beautiful rainbow.  They knew that rainbows always appear in the east, when a rainstorm is near its end, but it wasn't raining.  It was too cold to rain. They steered their houseboat up that river and into the mountains, you followed them to where 3 rainbows were arched across the river.  It appeared as if the rainbow's end was waiting just around the bend. 







Map seed # 362485972      Mountain one River, Small, fair, Disasters Off, Fairy Tale Start - 5 Families

 
Mods activated for this map and load order are:

Map Changing and Starting Mods:   Banished UI Maps, Labor Window, RK Minimized Status, CC Light Rain, Landscape Nordic, override map, Settler Deco, A8 Japanese Trees, Jinxie Natural Decorations, New Flora Edit.

Tweak Mods:   Fishing Dock +25%, Hunting, Increased CC, 1:1 Alternative (Voeille), override Fairy Clothes, Rock Respawn, Tiny Smoke

Major or Must Have Mods:    An Empty Square, Nomads (Kid), override Uneducated, Kid Workshop, Kid Abandoned Places SE, Kid Fairy Garden, Fid Fairy Tale.

Supporting Mods:   Ds Bridge Crossing, DS Tunnels, Kid Forest Ponds, Kid Hedgerow, Kid Houseboat, Kid Mist, Mega Mod Deco Animals, Tiny Chopper.



   



Welcome to Rainbow Falls, eager explorers.  Yes, the rainbows are truly magical, we thought so too when we first arrived here.  How and from where?  Stay a while and  I'll tell you all about it.

Hi! New to the forum but not to Banished, thank you to everyone working hard to keep this game and modding community alive 

Nevermind. I finally found it. lol Sorry to bug ya'll.

I am looking for the mod that allows Tiny map. I've looked at everything and can't find it. Anyone know?

The grow onions mod is not from my story.  I used it in story 68 and a few other stories without problem.  It is an old Black Liquid (CC) mod from that site.  All it does is add an onion crop to the game that the riverboat trader has for trade.  Should not be a problem unless it is conflicting with another mod you are using; most likely CC has later version included. 

It was from Abandon's Mayville - Story 68.