Abandoned - Huts by the River - Story 26 NWS

[Abandoned]

Intro


  This is the 26th story in the New World Series.  Two eager explorers entered the magic portal in Woodland Glen of story 25; the same portal they arrived there by.  They had no idea where they would end up in the continued search for malfunctioning portals that the Elves at Rainbow Falls showed them in their crystal ball.  They certainly did not expect the welcome they received from the citizens of the Huts by the River.




Map seed #320794876      Valley, Small, Mild, Disasters Off, E8 - deer, grouse, boar, grass


Mods activated for this map and load order:

Map Changing and Starting Mods:   Banished UI Maps, Labor Window, RK Minimized Status, CC Light Rain, Spring terrain (Kid), Jinxie Natural Decorations, River's Huts for the North v.2 (RK recently released), New Flora Edit, New Trees (BL), Wildlife Starts.

Tweak Mods:   Better Stock Piles, Better Stock Piles Storage, Fishing Dock +25%, Hunting (TS), Hunting Season, Increased CC, 1:1 Alternative (Voeille), override Native Clothes, Tiny Smoke.

Major or Must Have Mods:  An Empty Square, Magic Portal, Nomads (Kid), Storage Crates, Kid Workshop, Kid Abandoned Places, RK Stone Wall Kit.

Supporting Mods:   Birch Bark Canoe (Kid), Deco Tombstone (Kid), DS Bridge Crossing, Dwarf Signs, Kid Deco People, Kid Farmyard, Kid Fish n Ships, Kid Patchwork, Kid Wayshrine, Machu Picchu (RK new).

Mod notes:
River's Huts for the North v.2 mod is one of two, the other one is for use with RKEC or CC mods; those 2 have different limits than the North.  This story is not using any of those 3 major mods.  I would have had River's Huts in the mod list as a major mod but it needed to be higher.  I placed it after a mod that has deco birch trees to use with the woodcutter and forester.
The huts were being made by @RedKetchup for the upcoming version of RKEC.  River requested the huts be made separate and suggested other pieces to add.  Necrolex suggested spear fishing, and I suggested the forester to make the mod a complete major mod.

The Magic Portal is separate from Kid Fairy Garden mod.  A separate single portal mod was released back in story 66 but this release has both colors of the portal as in the Fairy Garden mod. It can be used as a nomad generator or deco portal.
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  Don't make any sudden moves, eager explorer, those spears look sharp.  What?  There's a fish on one of them?  Oh, I see it too. Look, here comes somebody without a spear.

[Abandoned]

Chapter 1


  Greetings, eager explorers, don't worry, the natives with spears have gone back to fishing now, they speak very little but told me to come.  But tell me, how did you get here?  Through the portal?



 As far as I know, only once did a large herd of deer come through that portal, as you call it.  It was a long time ago, it was winter and hunting and fishing were bad; the natives were near starving when the herd appeared.  It saved the tribe who later carved these stone shrines and have been leaving crates and baskets of corn, squash, beans, and berries as thank-you offerings.  The deer, boar, and grouse in the valley stayed near; the tribe only hunts when they needed to.  The grouse build nests in the wild grass and lay eggs that the native women gather.

  No, I and several families are not natives; we were migrating north from the mission in the southeast desert.  No, no portal at the mission or at any of the small settlements we stopped at; we came overland.  When we reached this sacred area, we were surrounded by the spear fishermen just as you were.  It was spring and they had been out spear fishing on the lakes with canoes when they saw us.  We knew some native words we learned from the missionaries and finally found some that these natives understood.  They knew we were tired and hungry; they gave us food and said we could stay.  It was a big valley.

[Abandoned]

Chapter 2



  The natives must have been surprised to see you arrive through the portal, eager explorers; one of their fishing rocks is very close.  When we arrived, one of their grass huts was there too.
 


Another fishing rock, 7 more grass huts, and a short pier for their canoes were across the river.  It is much the same today as it was then except for the grass huts; 2 of them were upgraded.  They still have the 2 farmyards like they did back then, growing corn, squash, and beans. 



  They had a large stockpile and a big cart, and there were several storage barrels and crates by the huts.  There were logs, stone, iron, and quite a bit of thatch on the stockpile.  They had 2 bins for firewood, but it was mostly branches they gathered and unloaded from the two small old carts they had. Their diet was mainly fish plus the foods they gathered from the wild or harvested from their 2 small farmyards.  They were living basic simple lives.

  The old graveyard was full of weeds and branches when we arrived, and there were a few gravestones here and there near the huts on the river.  These natives had been here for quite some time apparently.  There were 8 families with 8 children of various ages.

[Abandoned]

Chapter 3


   We asked if we could stay, and if we understood correctly, they said we were home.  They pointed out the stockpile and then pointed across the small stream, so that is where we built our huts out of thatch; there was plenty on the stockpile.  We built 6 huts, and we cut more thatch to replace what we used.   There were 4 families with 6 young children and 3 adult children, myself included.  An adult boy, named Aries, and I had our own huts; his was next to his parents by the small stream.  My parents were next to him, and I was next to them.  The 2 other families were north of all of us.  My name is Clarie, and I really liked Aries and was glad his family came here with us.  I was hoping then already that he and I would get together someday, but Regenie in one of the north huts had the same idea; wherever he was she seemed to be too.



  Aries and I were both builders and Regenie was a laborer.  After the huts were finished, we began building a woodcutter next to the stockpile.  We gathered branches but knew we would not have enough for our 6 huts when winter came.  We asked permission to build there; we were all getting good at sign-language and got an okay.  When finished, the woodcutter used the fodder to make firewood.  There were not many logs on the stockpile. 



  We notice that whatever the natives stored in the old cart got rained on in summer and snowed on in winter, so we asked to build a storage barn on the other side of the stockpile.  It would be about an equal distance between the native huts by the river and ours across the stream.  The native seemed surprised that we asked for permission, again they said we were home.  The barn was built and the cart was put inside.



  Fall fishing was good and the natives put fish in the barn and in their crates and barrels and ours.  They did the same with their corn, squash, and beans.  We planted patches of pumpkins, cabbage, and potatoes with the seeds we brought from the mission and made sure some got into the barn and their crates too.  By the first snowfall in late autumn, we had built a fodder farm a short distance north of the woodcutter, and farther north across the stream we built a forester.  Both the farm and forester could have 3 workers each but only one was cutting and planting fodder and 2 were doing the same with trees.