Chapter 13


  Sedric went back to his spell books hoping to find a reversal spell that would work on the frogs.  From where he stood studying his spell books he could see there were now twice as many frogs as there were before.  The female frogs did not seem happy to have company.





  Since Sedric was having no luck undoing what he had done, the wives decided to take matters into their own hands.  They thought to kiss the frogs and turn them back into the men they had married, but they could not tell which one of the male frogs was their husband.  They did not want the other wives kissing their husband, and to make matters worse, much worse, they did not like seeing how much the male frogs were enjoying the company of the female frogs.  There would have been fireball and lightning bolt spells cast if there was not the risk of them backfiring.  It was not a good idea to mess with a witch's husband.  Witch?  Did I say witch? eager explorer, I meant elf, a dark elf's husband.



  If that was not bad enough, things got even worse.  Within a short time, there were hundreds of baby frogs, baby frogs that grew remarkably fast.  Then there were hundreds of giant frogs.

Chapter 12




  Our prisoners did not fare well over the winter.  They were often sick and needed attention from our remaining herbalist healer.  They ate a lot of food; they wanted it hot.  It was a cold rainy dismal spring; a cold mist rose from the mote and gathered round the cathedral and cemetery; the men were sick again.  They had become a real problem; they were a dark cloud hanging over our castle.  Something had to be done.  There was only one thing to do, magic.



  Sedric, our master magician, had been doing some experiments with minor spells.  He cast a short-term anti-magic spell on himself before going to the cemetery and approaching the 3 prisoners.  A small crowd gathered behind him to watch as Sedric cast a toadification spell on each of them.  It worked without reflecting back on him; there were 3 giant frogs in the cemetery. 





  However, there was a problem.  The spell didn't backfire onto Sedric, it backfired onto 3 of the men in the crowd behind him.  One wood elf and 2 dark elf men were also turned into giant frogs, and the wives were not happy.

Quote from: Necrolex on November 11, 2025, 12:49:06 PMI think even if we created a kind of "Crowdfunding", or something like that, we wouldn't get that amount to help the community. Or am I wrong? And would this team really be able to make the animals excited in the game?

Bah no , not at that price. it is exagerate and insane. a total non-sense to ask 1500 for 1 animal

I should have asked Dmytro if it is in US dollards or in Rubles.

I think even if we created a kind of "Crowdfunding", or something like that, we wouldn't get that amount to help the community. Or am I wrong? And would this team really be able to make the animals excited in the game?

i contacted a team of a website (CGTeam or something like that) and asked for someone able to make animated animal for Banished....

they ask me 1500$ lol

300$ for the rig, 300$ for each animation (4 anim: 1 for the walk, and 3 idles)
people are crazy.

Chapter 11


  The following year, we were forced to cast a few magic spells.  The fence around the cemetery was completed and it would prove to be very useful at that time.  It was a very dark and unhappy time.



  In early summer, 3 hunters followed a large herd of deer into the wood elves' settlement.  They weren't witch hunters, they were deer hunters, but we could not take the chance that they would talk.  The wood elves would not hear of them being tied up and thrown into the river as we suggested.  Well, that probably wasn't the best idea, there was always the slim chance one of them could have survived and escaped.  We were in a pine forest; there was sure to be some hemlock to mix into a nice cup of witches' brew for them.  No?  What about some poison mushrooms?  No?  Well, we would have to think of something else but for the time being, we put them in the fenced cemetery with the forest fellows standing guard.  We were glad when the prisoners realized that calling for help would do them no good.  They tried persuasion to be let go but to no avail.



  It was a hot summer for them with little shade, by fall some days were very chilly with a cold rain, and the nights turned very cold.  We began building a couple of crypts for them to seek shelter in.  It snowed before the second one was finished.  Something had to be done.

Quote from: galensgranny on November 10, 2025, 09:36:27 PM@RedKetchup I am so glad to see that you are back to modding. Your mods are super. You do deserve a lot of recognition. I am sorry that in the past some people treated you badly.

Yeah that was a shame. the hard MM poeple only swear by MM and thats all.

@RedKetchup I am so glad to see that you are back to modding. Your mods are super. You do deserve a lot of recognition. I am sorry that in the past some people treated you badly. 

Chapter 10


  If there was a curse on us, it was not removed.  There was another problem with our magic that came to light late that summer, at least we thought it was magic related.  It involved the older couple in the nice house between our castle and the wood elf settlement.  They planted a garden with a pear tree and were growing oats.  They made some hide coats and had an anvil to make some iron tools; she gathered herbs and wild foods whenever she could.  The couple had a baby girl earlier that year. 

 The couple had not been seen for a few days.  Upon investigation, their boy was found alone in the house with the baby and 2 goats. The boy said his parents were arguing because his mother said she would like another baby.  His father said they were too old to raise another baby and his mother called him an old goat.  The boy left the room to escape the arguing.  When all was quiet again, he returned to the room to find the 2 old goats.

  That sounded like a magic spell that backfired on the caster, but we knew of no such spell, and we had no inkling that the swamp herbalist knew any magic.  The other swamp dweller family knew nothing about it either. 





They took the goats out to the garden and fenced it in.  Their adult daughter came to stay to take care of the boy and the baby. The elves would come daily and take care of the old goats.  Our master magician set up a table outside the castle to study his spellbooks, it would be safer there then inside the castle walls to test any spells.  No magic would be taught or practiced, and there was to be no name calling of any kind.

i still managed to add something to RKEC 1.4 today

I added NMT30 RowHouses set (12 colors) (4 diff sizes each color of row house which can have multiple models each)

This set is incredible.

NMT30 RowHouses