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Abandoned - Shangri La - Story 67

Started by Abandoned, March 30, 2021, 07:04:19 AM

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Thank you @jerica  :)  Just click that button Kid is showing - it switches what info is displayed, very useful

jerica

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:o ??? :-[

I've been playing this game for years and didn't ever know that function was there. Wow. Learn something new every day, I guess! Thanks, Kid and Abandoned!

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#33
Chapter 17


  It was soon springtime and time to get back to work.  The first thing we did in spring of year 12 was to move the stockpile by the teahouse over next to the granary.  The onions were planted and were soon coming up and doing well.  Another pit house was built where the stockpile used to be.  Foreigner, Lelandrae age 17, moved in and he soon married 16-year-old Novellar, they were our first mixed couple and we were all confident that their differences would not stand in the way of their happiness.

  We had our first harvest of tea leaves and the teahouse switched from herbs to tea leaves for brewing the tea.  The tea leaves themselves were very medicinal.   It took a while but our only builder built a Temple Kura next to the tea house.  It was a good decision to build a large storage unit there because the onion harvest was quite plentiful. 

  An Okinawas farmhouse was built just past the tea orchard along with another rice paddy.  Ressika, from one of our original families, moved into the farmhouse and was followed by her younger brother, Calvia, in early spring of year 13.  We at first thought they left an overcrowded farmhouse but there was talk when they had a child together.  This would never have happened had the parents arranged a marriage for the girl when she became of age.  The couple's younger sister, Gieselah, moved into the Bengara house that was built next by the hospital.  She would work as attendant in the bathhouse there.

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#34
Chapter 18


  We need more houses for young people still living at home but did not want to create another situation where a young single would move in and then make a poor choice.  Instead a new project was started over by the trading post.  The location was chosen for a Kyoto Pagoda because of the view from the gazebo, it would be an impressive sight, and indeed it was, and not only from the gazebo but from afar.  Chann the riverboat merchant said he could see it from way up river.  The towering pagoda was indeed an impressive building, even in winter.

  We did not trade for any seeds that year.  We had plenty of room for more fields but we had few workers although we had a few students now finishing their schooling.  We would need more houses closeby the farm fields for those workers to live.  Instead we traded for potatoes and wheat.  Both foods we had back home and hoped to one day grow ourselves.  For now were would trade for what we needed, we had plenty of logs, firewood, stone, iron, and silk. 


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#35
Chapter 19

  Both the wheat and potatoes were taken from storage as soon as they got into it.  We discovered that the 2 storage units in the old part of town had very little food stored even though our inventory records showed good surpluses.  To rectify this we built a Kaurazukuri, a market, in the old part of town and assigned one worker to bring goods to it from the food growing side of town across the small stream.  We built another such market on that side of town for future need, until then it would have no worker and act as a storage unit.  Young Giselah was now 14 and still alone in the Bengara house which now lay between that market and the hospital.  She still worked at the bathhouse.  Both markets served their purpose well.

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#36
Chapter 20


  In autumn of that year, year 14, a new trader came to our trading post.  It was Trenae, a livestock merchant, and he had chickens.  Our foreign townmates were familiar with this bird, it would provide meat and eggs, soup made from the meat and bones had medicinal qualities that help common cold sufferer to feel better.  They advised us to trade for some.  We traded for 8 of the birds and took the opportunity to question whether the merchant had heard anything from the west coast about a ship or travelers who may be looking for us.  No, nothing he heard but there were now some World Maps being circulated that were a great help to river boatmen since there were now many new rivers and towns to navigate to.  He said he could spread word of our location so Shangri La could be added to the map.  Anyone arriving would have an easier time locating us.  Well, after all this time we had pretty much given up hope but it might be a good idea all the same to be on the map.

  For now we had to find a good location for these chickens.

  If soup made from these birds indeed helped sick people feel better, we decided the chickens should be housed over near the hospital.  A few wild oats were scattered by the trading post where the chickens waited patiently for land to be cleared and a coop to be built. 

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#37
Chapter 21


  By spring of year 15 we already had chicken eggs and baby chicks. A large Gassho Farmhouse for 8 was built next to the coop and the coop area was slowly being fenced in. We added another builder to our work force.  Merence, a child from the first group of surveyors teamed up with Yanden from the rowhouses and they soon had their first child.  They would tend the chickens and make miso in the miso shed they built next to their house.  The miso made from soybeans would be used in the chicken soup.  A Takakura storage unit was built next to the miso shed. 

  Gieselah was no longer alone in the Bengara house next to the hospital.  Jenser from the rowhouse next to Yanden married Gieselah and they also had a newborn.  The 2 couples were now good friends and their children would all be friends too.  There would be many more big houses and big families in that area and they would need a school nearby.  We built a Bizen school there that would be able to teach 55 students.

  I spent some time going over town statistics in the Kabuki theatre's upstairs record room.  In spring of year 16 Shangri La had a population of 94, 46 adults, 23 students, and 25 young children.  We need more houses, we only had 19 homes for 28 families but everyone was happy and healthy.  Our education rate was 63%.


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Chapter 22


  As I worked in the theatre's upstairs record room I could here the sound of the workers below.  With the help of the school children a new stage background was being painted.  The scene was like springtime in Japan with green rolling hills and mountains and beautiful blooming sakura trees.  Our human townmates said there was a day in spring they called Earth Day.  It seemed that would be a good day to put on our new kabuki performance using the new stage background scenery.  The new kabuki show was very grand.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8kHbsj4tQ

kid1293


Kristahfer

Moving to mixed media. Way to go, and a great idea. Wonderful clip.


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 :) Thank you both, always nice to get feedback.  :)

Glenn

I wonder if it's possible to make the rice paddy using Bartender's water.


kid1293

@Glenn
Oh yes, it is possible to have Bartender's water in the rice field,
BUT always having waves in it does not look natural.
His glass (transparent) material is much better for this.

angainor88

The rice paddy does already use Bartender's water :P

But kid1293 is right in that it doesn't show up as well as the glass material. Since it's so shallow it won't show up well, but you can see the waves if you look closely.

The best look is if you layer water on top of glass, but I haven't been able to get models to accept three different materials, and one slot is already taken by the plants...