Eleven and counting

 

Lantern Year 17 hunt & showdown: Frogdog level 2

Phobaro, Vanqusha, Leihovia and Rofiheen hunt the Frogdog.

Phobaro falls in love with a rock. Settlement does innovate drums, so there's that. Bouncing Leaves take a re-roll from Leihovia, as she didn't want that broken arm. One of the better outcomes during hunt was to ambush the Frogdog with dead monster's stench.

Two survivors lost their survival at Overwhelming Darkness, and one halved it. That's just... great.

At least Leihovia descended to Worm Tunnels, only to become Enfeebled. She got +1 strength token from eating a bony protrusion.

My hopes weren't high for the showdown.

And early on it did look like the dice have just grown to hate me. Those 3+ wound rolls failed half of the time. Only 2+ was performing any good.

Frog's direct attacks were a non-issue, even when they came out of traps. Throughout the entire showdown only one attack carried through to armor points after dodges and whatnot? 

... and yet it was intense and distressing. Early on Indigestion came up, so that sphincter just wouldn't shut up! It was a hair's breath away that survivors would have been farted into oblivion. When showdown ended, Leihovia (who suffered intestinal prolapse... from a fart... I don't want to know how) had four stink tokens, and only one location that would be able to take the stink. Leather Armor set had reduced to one, two or no points remaining in locations with two stink. They were fine. But Gorm set guy with leather shield had multiple heavy levels and four stink, archer had only one armor point, light injury levels and two stink tokens.

I don't think I could have done it if tactic had not been Attack Pattern. However... Leihovia finally got the Fist & Tooth mastery. Finally!

And one of the lesser survivors even got Otherworldly Luck

Lantern Year 18: Dark Dentist

1: Settlement innovates INNER LANTERN FINALLY.
2: Phobaro scavenges a scrap
3-4: Phobaro attempts face painting for intimacy, succeeding once.
5: Phobaro paints even more faces, this time for battle.

Phobaro and Vanqusha drank a love juice and did a new kid, Vanbaro, as a result.

Settlement develops Grappleclaw, Frogdog head and vest and Lure Lantern.

Lantern Year 18 hunt & showdown: Dragon King level 1

Since Goliheen has sworn to not hunt anyone else, I do a quick Dragon King. He is accompanied by Lostit, Defeadred and Vanqusha.

And what a hunt it was! 

Lostit stumbled upon doppel den, and only Goliheen did not get transformed into an evil doppelganger. So there was now murder on the timeline.

Titans in the dark gave evil Defeadred a point of movement... not that it mattered much, because right after Lostit and Defeadred leaped into lava river. I assume purposefully.

Vanqusha and Goliheen were left alone to fight the Dragon King. Last hunt card was a crypt, which the survivors defiled just out of spite.

To their defense, hunters did score three wounds and even impressed Lordly Roar out of the deck... right before dealing the killing blow to last survivor.

I took an additional casualty to get a million endeavors from being defeated.

Lantern Year 19 - Season of the Spiderling

HOO BOY. Five deaths from showdown, and now four more from settlement event. And then there is murder on the timeline... And murdered got exiled. Eleven deaths in one go! That just might be the record.

So, settlement got seventeen endeavors.

That gave settlement four more survivors, Abando, Bailaut, Tappi-O and Hävi-ö. One endeavor went into battle paint. Settlement has now a healthy population of eight. Or that at least would have been, had the year been normal. 

Instead, I noticed in time that Slenderman ambushed my four person settlement right away.

Survivors managed two wounds in to the monster before everything went dark.

So, here's the showdowns of this rather long-running campaign:

1: White Lion level 1
2: Gorm level 1
3: Gorm level 1
4: Butcher level 1
5: Gorm level 1

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1: Gorm l1
2: Gorm l1
3: Gorm l1
4: Butcher level 1
5: Gorm level 1
6: Spidicules level 2
7: Spidicules level 1
8: Lion Knight l1, Phoenix l1
9: Slenderman l1
10: White Lion l1
11: Frogdog l1, Lonely Tree l1, The Hand l1, White Lion l1
12: White Lion l2, Lion Knight l2
13: The Hand l1
14: Screaming Antelope l2
15: Dragon King l1
16: Butcher l2, Lion Knight l3
17: Frogdog l2
18: Dragon King l1
19: Slenderman l2

Next campaign is likely to be People of the Stars, because now I can.

Maurala Epilogue

During friend's visit we finished up our long standing Kingdom Death campaign.

Lantern Year 19 Nemesis Showdown - King's Man level 2 

We brought our A-team of Moldonial, Maxaria, Brix and blue savior Hopeanuoli to smash and blast King's Man beyond recognition.

The plan was executed flawlessly. After first two or three rounds King's Man was mercilessly beaten down to it's knees with over half of its health done as damage. 

But by then, King's Man was really, really pissed off by Moldonial's clumsy but deadly attacks. It decided to show some real skill to this annoying usurper and drew Perfect Thrust after players had got too confident and didn't bother with Rawhide Headband.

And, by chance, Moldonial was standing in just the right spot to receive three severe body injuries. So, our amazing flower powered zombie that had died during Gigalion to first severe roll he had had to make, repeated this pattern of behavior and went down with the first roll.

Oopsie.

Fortunately we still had fair chances, as Maxaria was able to wound with just 2+ even when attacking from King's Man's front. She also had Arithmophilia, so her movement would never drop to zero. Vespertine Bow had decent enough chances of wounding, too, and Hopeanuoli the blue savior had a total of six blue affinities, so had the possibility to inflict three criticals in a row. 

Maxaria, however, took her sweet time in acquiring King's Step and she was not impervious to King's Man's attacks with only total evasion of +2. There was time pressure for sure. 

Hopeanuoli wasted both of his Lucernae attacks. Well, first one did two wounds but didn't do any impactful criticals effects with those - and second Lucernae attack happened when King's Man had knocked Maxaria too far away to reach him even with dash, and with movement of one Brix would not be able to reach even aim range of 9 with Vespertine Bow. Hopeanuoli checked the battle tempo locations and disappeared.

In the end, Brix was not able to hand too many brain traumas from Hymn of Silence, and left Maxaria alone to duel King's Man. It went kind of fine, although Maxaria did get disemboweled after a while. She passed those severe injury rolls admirably, but without bandages there is a strict limit on how many of those you can take even if you somehow dodge rolling 1-2. In the end Maxaria succumbed to Bleed tokens after bringing King's Man down to zero AI cards remaining.

Lantern Year 20 - Clinging Mist

Wow! Clinging Mist! Time to start new settlement, hard mode? Nope, we rolled a seven and Pudge doused himself in urine. 

Just in time to attack the Watcher. We thought it best to end the campaign in style and challenge The Watcher right away, because two full party wipes seemed too much in the long run.

Lantern Year 20 nemesis showdown: The Watcher

Pudge, Oda, Ischmo and Scheppo were to save Maurala from the ultimate existential threat. 

... and were we surprised! We had no serious survivors or great equipment, no twilight sword, nothing. And yet, turn after turn, the four heroic survivors not only survived, but even put a dent in Watcher's lanterns here and there. Thanks to ghost citizens survivors were able to shave almost half of Watcher's health away before first survivor, Vespertine Bow using Scheppo died to blood clot.

Ischmo, who had Rib Blade, lost the will to live after losing Scheppo and was the next to go. But hot damn, The Watcher  had only five health remaining by then! And we still had Counter-weighed Axe online. 

Endless Inhalation had slowly been draining survival points from survivors, not to mention the "lose two survival or die" hit locations. With his last survival points Pudge did a heroic activation by rolling a natural ten with regular attack and natural ten with surge attack, right before Oda died.

Survival-less Pudge with only a few points of insanity against The Watcher who had only three wounds remaining. Stuff of legends! Time for wonders, miracles, even!

Well, it would have certainly been epic to win The Watcher with a population of -24 or so, but it was not to be. 

After six years of sporadic play, last lantern light of Maurala settlement disappeared in a wisp of smoke. 

Monsters slain fought:

Prologue: White Lion level 0
Lantern Year 1: White Lion level 1
Lantern Year 2: White Lion level 1
Lantern Year 3: Screaming Antelope level 1
Lantern Year 4: The Butcher
Lantern Year 5: Manhunter, Gorm level 1
Lantern Year 6: Flower Knight level 1
Lantern Year 7: Gorm level 1
Lantern Year 8: Gorm level 1
Lantern Year 9: King's Man level 1
Lantern Year 10: Manhunter level 2, Flower Knight level 2
Lantern Year 11: The Hand level 1, Sunstalker level 1
Lantern Year 12: Gorm level 1
Lantern Year 13: The Hand level 1
Lantern Year 14: Screaming Antelope level 2
Lantern Year 15: Lonely Tree level 2, Screaming Antelope level 2
Lantern Year 16: Manhunter level 3, Butcher level 2
Lantern Year 17: Screaming Antelope level 3
Lantern Year 18: Gigalion level 3
Lantern Year 19: King's Man level 2
Lantern Year 20: The Watcher

Wow it broke

Finally the last few lantern years of Enerva settlement of Kingdom Death.

 Lantern Year 28 - King's Man level 3

Menoloromias, Laifuseuskaja, Syllogi and Voxanius all go through a cycle of brain traumas. Without that particular mechanic King's Man would not have offered any real challenge, but now there was at least a sense of urgency - only available re-roll was on Laifuseuskaja and he would have to save it for himself in any case. 

Laifuseuskaja took a permanent evasion from a hit location.

Menoloromias tossed a Founding Stone when the King's Man was at last remaining wound, thus getting afflicted with the King's Curse. But he is close to retirement anyway.

Lantern Year 29 - Open Maw

Settlement event was Open Maw. Lepuri, thinking he was immortal, went to check the opening. Soon enough the mouth chomped on him not once but twice - on the five dice I rolled, there were two pairs of double.

1: Lepuri jumps into the Open Maw in search of the lamplighter.
2-3: Voxanius investigates two cocoon membranes and two broken lanterns beneath Exhausted Lantern Hoard.
4-6: Scrap smelting for five iron.
7-8: Face painting for battle. 
9: Nightmare training x3, ends in 1.
10: Petal Spiral for Naoran, fails.
11: War Room plan is made.
12: Shrine Ritual is success. 

So, I needed a bunch of bones for finishing my first ever lantern armor set. Gigalion is likely the best bet because of various guaranteed teeth and claws.

Lantern Year 29 hunt & showdown - Gigalion level 3:

Laifuseuskaja, Hovelina, Chanial and Tranaree start the hunt. 

First Laifuseuskaja encounters aromatic breeze, which actually was a Gregalope. Next the showdown begins with Ground Fighting in play. And then... a time lapse.

Showdown begins!

Because of Ground Fighting in play, the smart cat was on top of the deck but never drawn... did I just encounter a glitch? 

And to make matters worse, there was testicles coming up in hit location deck, so Laifuseuskaja was able to get a non-stop priority token. Sheesh. At least random terrain offered only debris and toppled pillars. 

The cat got nine wounds and two persistent injuries in before it sprinted to table edge. I felt sorry for it. But I really need those bones...

The showdown was a sad joke with the only damage being brain damage from Golden Eyes and once from Size Up. But the lion had its way of punishing me still.

The resource haul was gravely less than ideal. I received only five organs from random decks and a whopping nine hides. Bones, on the other hand... I got only four of those when I sorely needed them. Fortunately the total bone count is seven, but I'm anxious if they'll be enough.

Lantern Year 30 - Rivalry

The blame game began whose fault it was that settlement received so few bones. 

Hovelina and Tranaree come to blows. Hovelina gets the gaping chest wound, which feels wrong since she has the Manhunter's secret fighting art... oh well. This settlement has been a power trip anyway.

But it turned out I had been screwed over by the resource decks. I did not have enough resources for oxidizing lantern glaive and to complete lantern armor set. I was missing one bone.

Rarely if ever I have used harvest ritual. This time I did, from five resources. And my eyes must have been bulging from their sockets when I drew two monster organs, love juice and two monster hides. 

So, another desperate harvest ritual from four remaining non-bone lion resources. What a weird curse this must be because I still didn't draw even a single monster bone - although I did get two ???'s.

1: Harvest ritual from five monster resources.
2: Another harvest ritual from four monster resources.
3-5: A total of two successful battle paints.
6: Oxidized lantern glaive.
7: Bloodletting to relieve Hovelina from emotionlessness.
8: Hovelina drums for some survival.
9-10: Hovelina gets +1 strength from Nightmare Training.
11: Bloodletting for Laifuseuskaja to remove Motion Sickness.
12: Voxanius gets +1 strength from Nightmare Training.
13: Shrine ritual is a success.

Lantern Year 30 showdown: Gold Smoke Knight

Laifuseuskaja, Hovelina, Menoloromias and Tranaree are the chosen champions to save Enerva. 

Random terrain picks were Acanthus Plants, Resin Dung Ball and Ore Vein. 

Fight starts with Gold Smoke Knight charging at Laifuseuskaja, whom he hits only on 10's. Survivor turn starts nicely with the trap coming up in first four cards. Lucky me I didn't go in blind. Only two wounds were scored, and both came from a single founding stone. Critical location gave Tranaree option to pay eight survival to deal an additional wound.

As is usual, careful management of where survivors stand was key. I was able to make Gold Smoke Knight always target Laifuseuskaja, who was able to surge two deflect tokens and dodge twice thanks to hyper-sensitivity disorder. Nearly every attack Gold Smoke Knight made there were annoyingly one or two lanterns, so it took a heavy toll on Laifuseuskaja's survival. At least he had the manhunter pistol slowly trickling in more of those. 

As long as Laifuseuskaja was able to get behind Gold Smoke Knight, he was wounding on 7+ with two dice. Remaining survivors had it a little harder, Hovelina was scoring wounds with 7+ with only a single die and Voxanius on 16+ with two dice. Yeah, he didn't attack that often at least without the extra dice from horripilation. But once he did - when hit location deck had been emptied and there was only the trap left. 

Since he had oxidized lantern glaive, a spear and an axe,  he tried to negate the trap.

Nope.

That one resulted in first actual damage level in the match - light injury. Woah.

And that was the only injury level throughout the showdown.

Laifuseuskaja took two hits from Blacken once as Gold Smoke Knight had been lucky with lantern 10's, draining all deflect tokens and dodge actions. But that's it. 

It was over.

The aim of this campaign was to break the game and abuse rules and see if game can actually be beaten with its own rules. That Gold Smoke Knight really looked like a tough one. But min/max approach trivialized even the final boss.

The main culprit seemed to be the combination of life-time re-rolls and the Sleeping Virus Flower from Flower Knight. Once you go past a certain threshold of stats, stats seem to start accumulating on that particular survivor since they are able to get into situations where you might get them and pass whatever test they have to make. And then when that survivor finally has to die, well, reset with the already accumulated stats! And get a new re-roll too if you had to use yours already.

First level Manhunter reward is also a major game changer. Such a guaranteed source of a lot of insanity is... insane. That and Crimson Candy innovation give you at least four or five points of survival at start of showdown even if you roll that dreaded "1" in Overwhelming Darkness. 

I think I'll make a comparison campaign next with Survival of the Fittest, Graves and Collective Toil and retaining that horribly overpowered "shared re-roll for all in same phase" ruling, but leaving out Flower Knight and Manhunter.

Hilariously enough, this "speed run" settlement took over two years to finish.

Oh well. Here is a re-cap of showdowns for lantern years:

1: White Lion level 1
2: White Lion level 1
3: White Lion level 1
4: Butcher level 1
5: Manhunter level 1
5: Flower Knight level 1
6: Spidicules level 1
7: Spidicules level 1
8: Spidicules level 1
9: King's Man level 1
10: Manhunter level 2
10: Screaming Antelope level 2
11: The Hand level 1
11: Screaming Antelope level 2
12: Sunstalker level 1
13: The Hand level 1
14: Sunstalker level 1
15: Gigalion level 2
16: Manhunter level 3
16: Butcher level 2
17: Sunstalker level 2
18: Lion God level 1
19: King's Man level 2
20: Sunstalker level 2
21: Sunstalker level 2
22: Manhunter level 4
22: Flower Knight level 3
23: Butcher level 3
24: Gigalion level 3
25: The Watcher
26: Sunstalker level 3
27: Great Golden Cat
28: King's Man level 3
29: Gigalion level 3
30: Gold Smoke Knight

Europa in flames (with family issues)

Episode 8: Rise of Fenris

As nobody had found Tesla, he emerged as a raving lunatic in the last scenario along with Militant Vesna, Patriotic Fenris, Mechanical Togawa and Industrial Albion. 

My Fenris team had a slim chance of filling one more line from campaign triump track with Power, Popularity. Enlist, Upgrade and Something. That was the initial plan at least. Even six random event choices didn't give enough of an advantage to rush whatever I needed. 

Apparently Tesla and Vesna had some family issues because Tesla attacked Vesna at least four times and however many times Vesna herself attacked Tesla, which translated into around six+ points of popularity and combat victory stars. That was already half of required victory stars to end the game.

Togawa and Albion were struggling in between the overwhelming speed of Fenris and Vesna. And Tesla was hellbent on slowing down Vesna's progress, and as a result Fenris was conquering vast swathes of land for their nefarious purposes. 

Unfortunately this was not nearly enough. Vesna would have surpassed popularity track had the rules allowed it, so it was to her benefit to shut down the game before any other player entered the last points bracket of popularity.

Game ended with Vesna having 75 points with all six stars. Fenris had 72 with only two stars. So unfairly close... except that didn't matter much when the remaining points from triumph tracks were added together. Final Rise of Fenris scoreboard:

1. Patriotic Saxonia/Mechanical Saxony/Innovative Saxony/Mechanical Vesna/Innovative Vesna/Militant Vesna/Mechanical Vesna/Militant Vesna: 225pts

2. Mechanical Nordic /Innovative Nordic /Mechanical Nordic/Agricultural Nordic/Mechanical Nordic/Mechanical Fenries/Agricultural Fenris/Patriotic Fenris: 194pts

3. Agricultural Togawa/Industrial Togawa /Industrial Togawa/Patriotic Togawa/Patriotic Togawa/Agricultural Togawa/Militant Togawa/Mechanical Togawa: 158pts

4. Engineering Rusviet/Agricultural Rusviet /Patriotic Rusviet /Industrial Albion/Militant Albion/Engineering Albion/Industrial Albion/Industrial Albion: 142pts

Dirge for Burkstad

 Twenty three years of anguish and misery is finally over. Incidentally, it took two years and one thirds of a year to complete. 

Lantern Year 22 hunt was against Sunstalker level 2.

We had green savior acting as our evasion tank, and two survivors wounding on 3+ and bow survivor critting on 6+, so we had rather decent chances I would say - considering how terribly Burkstad has fared over their course of existence. 

First hunt space 63, Feet. Fortunately we had one survivor with no insanity, so it wasn't a total party kill, but almost. The three extra events caused us to lose two survivors to the Gambler. 

It's been almost four months since we had our last game, and game set-up had taken longer than our game until that point. That was a little too harsh, so we ended up fudging the results into severe injury rolls, which were adequately punishing - broken leg and dismembered leg. Our entire hunt party was now movement 4 or below.  

Hunt phase also offered us extra disorders - and our legless evasion tank with Rawhide armor got Ghostly Beauty.

Actual showdown started rather nicely, despite our troubles with movement. First and second round gave four and three wounds in to the Sunstalker. We probably could have gotten in a few more if it wasn't for annoyances from ambient lightening - sun was shining always from the wrong direction.

Around third turn, however, our evasion tank fell to mortal terror brain trauma. The savior wasn't able to utter Dormenatus even once. 

Then the game started to quickly fall apart. Next one to go was our death mask wearing bow user, thanks to him being in shadow when he shouldn't have. 

Purvina and Mortis still tried their best, but Purvina couldn't take two Vomit Kaleidoscopes in a row, and Mortis wasn't able to stand the incoming heat from solar track. Heroic efforts only amounted to just over half of Sunstalker's AI deck converted into wounds. 

Along with the survivors we lost: Rawhide boots, 2x founding stone, monster grease, stone noses, white lion coat, lantern halberd and death mask. 

Lantern year 23 had Butcher on the timeline, but since our campaign had been desperate crawling right from the start, I thought it best to permit triggering The Watcher now. Well, I also thought we'd have better chances against The Watcher than Butcher level 3...

And we certainly did wounds in to the cosmic devourer! Three, in fact. 

Three, that The Watcher healed many, many, many times over.

We had lost two survivors on the first round. 

The remaining survivors stood for a bit longer, but that was mostly because of The Watcher not being so interested over knocked down survivors. 

Last survivor to live wielded the Whisker Harp. At this point, the game was more about if Mawilina would get the melody going successfully even once.

And a turn before she died, she did. Despite around her seven -1 strength tokens. Still enough strength left to strum a harp!

Burkstad goes down in style, with a single note that was played in tune.

Phew.

Burkstad was a unique settlement in many ways.

There were many times when the settlement hanged on the verge of oblivion, but somehow it always managed to cling to life. Death count illustrates this point quite well: we lost 39 survivors in total, plus six saviors who vanished. There's two records here, on highest death and savior count. 

Also, it was probably a record-holder for innovations lost to Gorm Climate.

And we hunted Screaming Antelope only once!

Let's do a little re-cap.

-Prologue was one of the toughest so far.
-White Lion year 1 made a total party wipe.
- Year 2 lion and year 3 gorm went fine.
- Loss of equipment and resources to year 4 Butcher, who was thwarted by luring it to the darkness.
- Year 5 lion is a smashing success with only Rib Blade and 3x fist & tooth!
- Year 6 Flower Knight is a struggle.
- Year 7 Gorm explodes the heads of two survivors on the second turn. And still survivors somehow win.
- Year 8 Antelope goes well.
- Year 9 King's Man is a disaster.
- Year 10 White Lion and year 11 Gorm do good enough.
- Year 12 Flower Knight level 2 is barely a victory.
-Year 13 The Hand applauses people dead.
-Year 14 Sunstalker level 1 is a difficult victory, but another Sunstalker next year is an easy one.
-Year 16 Butcher level 2 we manage to bring down to one AI card remaining.
-Year 17 and 18 White Lion level 2's aren't much of a trouble, but yeah... it's year 17 & 18.
-Year 19 King's Man level 2 is brought down to one AI card remaining.
-Year 20 Phoenix level 1 gives Hour's Ring that is immediately scrapped the next hunt phase...
-Year 21 Gorm level 2 is scary but manageable.
-Year 22 Sunstalker level 2 is a total party wipe.
-Year 23 Watcher is a total settlement wipe. 

Kalmana Retreat over

 Lantern Year 29 - Lonely Tree level 3

Before the hunt begins, Ranneta Massu feels a little hungy. His surname means belly after all. He eats the Lonely Fruit and soon enough a threatening tree has grown in his place. 

My initial plans was to have an Ageless savior until I checked the Ageless rule, which disallows saviors from utilizing it. Oh well, perhaps Cardani shall eat it right before Gold Smoke Knight for the +1 evasion if first attempt with Hours Ring fails.

Cardani leads Anetarias, Danazama and Anarda to fell a tree.

Showdown is a slow grind with Anetarias eyeballing the best hit locations for Cardani, and Danizama was continuously checking the upcoming AI cards so I'd know how I should be positioned before the end of survivor turn.

When the tree would attack next, Cardani would surge a Gaxe attack and use her action to deflect with Oxidized Beacon Shield. When tree would not attack, she used both actions for attacks. 

Showdown lasted ten turns, so Cardani averaged two wounds per turn. 

The tree is a curious showdown where you're tip-toeing amidst the feeling of imminent threat. You have to be extra cautious throughout the fight, as godlike evasion doesn't protect you from those fruits.

But it was a relatively easy victory. Cardani took one explosion from a fruit, but she is Immortal and has Blotted Out so she just took a bleed token from it. Sharing a stew made from the quickly rotting fruits of the tree, the whole party gained total control of their hair. No longer bad hair days for any of them. Cardani also ate the Porous Flesh Fruit, gaining Nightmare Membrane ability. 

The two random resources survivors got from the fight were Love Juice and Monster Hide, out of which Love Juice was put to immediate use. To replace the hole in their heart, the parents of Ranneta Massu have Madra Massu as a result of a moment of intimacy.

I had left some endeavors unused before this whole affair was put into motion. All endeavors throughout the year were:

1 Ouglu learns Rhythm Chaser
2 Cooking for Venison Oco Busco.
3 Binge eating cured from Stapuranocans via Bloodletting.
4 Stapuranocanss
5 Cardani drums for insanity
6 Cardani drums for insanity
7 Cardani learns Rhythm Chaser
8 Shrine ritual is a success (spent on Lonely Tree)
9 Enewarbabolactylohn

Lantern Year 29 - Flower Knight level 3

As Kalmana Retreat is pretty much as prepared for Gold Smoke Knight as they can be, the last hunt is entirely for fresh faces. Inspired by the fight with Lonely Tree, Zamarias feels the desire to hunt again - perhaps the first time since Lantern Year 5. He gathers the "heroes" of last fight, Anarda and Danazama, and also takes Werinoca Gnotti along with them. 

The group braved a bone storm, ran across lava river and Danazama extinguished her own lantern by accident. Werinoca and Anarda are struck by a frozen lighting, which brings Anarda right to heavy body injury. The expedition by Zamarias certainly isn't fortune's favorite. '

Then they are greeted by a stone rain, and after forcing their way through spiky forest gates, it starts raining sticky droplets. Four times different elements have fallen from the sky during this hunt, so I guess Zamarias didn't check the weather report before starting this journey. During forest gates Zamarias takes a disorder to get rid of Prima Donna. The replacing disorder was Enfeebled.

Then there is choking heat before showdown begins. And Flower Knight continues its long tradition of picking the weakest target with random Bloom on turn 1. And I have played Flower Knight incorrectly all these years. As it says that you are doomed until the end of monster turn, you can't dash. And since there is no survival opportunity after AI card, that matters little anyway. Suddenly level 3 Flower Knight looks far more menacing than before... as it used Bladed Kick to remove Danazama from the showdown right on turn 1.

Cardani has clearly imbued the Gaxe with special properties, as even Zamarias was quite adept with it. Well, let's not mention where he was wounding on 2+ with a reroll, and on two occasions failed to deliver the blow. 

Zamarias was taking the hits with Oxidized Beacon Shield, but even this was not secure enough - perfect strike from Flower Knight rapidly ate through Zamarias' armor, making even a single hit from the Knight a threat. He was doing well enough, but survival was becoming a scarce resource.

Anarda tried to help here and there hitting with a beacon shield, but mostly her contribution was to trigger trap once. She broke her leg, and being adjacent to Zamarias who was at light injury level at brains had to take a brain trauma. He got danger seizures and replaced Enfeebled with Shallow Lungs. Fortunately Zamarias hit a location on Anarda that still had armor points on.

Had it not been for various showdown events, Zamarias would have ran out of survival. However, two Breakthroughs and a critical location kept him going until he struck Flower Knight dead. Hooray, party of mediocre survivors! You did it!

Lantern Year 30 - Hunt Re-enactment

Cardani Masvar and Ardanet Sagasu play out the pivotal battle against the Watcher, both gaining Fated ability. So they perform better against Watcher the next time they fight one. 

Then comes the insanity that is the carefully planned settlement phase of year 30 with underground harvest and eight endeavors.

First, however, Ardanet retrieves the vampiric artichoke from Black Harvest. Ardanet was not Fated for Watcher after all, since he died on the farm. Flopura retrieves the encased Century Greaves and uses the scell resource to succeed automatically.

Settlement cooks up Venison Oco Busco, and then gathers to pray at the shrine ritual. Someone cracks a stupid joke, and Enewarbabolacthylohn has to cancel that effect and re-roll the result.

To much of my horror I realize Kalmana Retreat doesn't have the necessary Iron to oxidize beacon shield. And not enough scraps to make iron either.

Zamarias, the last survivor from the original four who founded Kalmana Retreat, makes use of his bone blade with grim determination. First, he sacrifices Vararda to no avail. Second, he sacrifices his own son Zamalne in an attempt to appease to powers that be. This gives departing survivors some insanity, but not what he's after.

Then, when the bone blade struck Masneta, he gained what the settlement most needed: a broken lantern.

Then settlement tries Scrap Smelting, but botch the attempt horrendously and Enewarbabolactylohno has to come and save the process. Earlier, shrine ritual had also failed miserably and she had had to come and intervene. 

Finally, the settlement is able to oxidize another beacon shield.  And then Kalmana Retreat is out of endeavors.

1 Venison Oco Busco for Cardani
2 Shrine ritual fails succeeds with the help of  Enewarbabolactylohn.
3 Enewarbabolactylohno
4 Sacrifice of Vararda (Monster Bone)
5 Sacrifice of Zamalne (???)
6 Sacrifice of Masneta (Broken Lantern)
7 Settlement fails succeeds to make iron with the help of Enewarbabolactylohno.
8 Oxidation of another Beacon Shield

Lantern Year 30 showdown - Gold Smoke Knight level 1

Cardani and Ouglu consume Elytra. Ouglu also consumes the Hunter's Heart to gain some extra strength.

Stapuranocanss and Danalne the green savior join the team.

If we consider accuracy of 2+, Cardani is hit only on 10+ as long as she doesn't get knocked down, after which it drops to 9+. Ouglu is hit on 8+ (leyline walker and rolling armor) and has Ripple Pattern with +2 to its roll. Danalne is hit on 10+ (tool belt, flower knight badge) but she is mostly just a support character. Stapuranocanss is hit on 5+, so he is the weakest link on this at least.

Alright. Let's start.

Gold Smoke Knight gives a lazy start when it attacks with accuracy 6+ attack with frustration. Cardani surged a deflect block and no hits went through even with 5x 6+ attacks, 5x 2+ attacks and 3 automatic hits. 

Cardani attacks the knight and scores two wounds. Danalne discovers there's a trap coming up. I device a cunning plan - walk Ouglu nearby, make an aimed bow attack and get knockback 7 as a result and then do another aimed attack, triggering the trap.

Well, Ouglu's attack was critical damage which somehow dismembered his leg. No knockback, not being able to dash any longer. Danalne shuffled the hit locations a little bit again, and Ouglu instead surged another attack against a parry location, which just gave him flee brain trauma.

Next, Gold Smoke Knight deals a strength 10 damage attack everywhere on the board, and some extra against Cardani. I decide not to surge deflections, since she already had one deflect token from earlier beacon shield. This had her survive Blacken again with no damage. However, beginning turn 2 she is already down five points of survival.

Danalne shuffles the hit location deck a bit again, and Cardani activates to use deflect with oxidized beacon shield. Then Ouglu walks as far from Gold Smoke Knight as possible and aims a shot against a first strike location that gives basic action if you surged the attack. One wound, hooray. Next, the surged attack triggers trap, which scores no hits to Cardani.

Deck is re-shuffled, and Danalne activates to check four trampling locations in a row.

Cardani deals one wound with a Failure reaction. 

Tactics was Attack Pattern, so Stapuranocanss was next in line with +4 strength in attacks. He charges into Gold Smoke Knight's blind spot, and scores two hits. One failure and one wound reaction. I try the wound reaction first, and with the horripilation dice even the meager abilities of the club master give a wound in. But this triggers the ramming reaction and carves through most of Stapuranocanss' armor. Worth it? I have no idea. With Sour Death he encourages himself up and surges for Rawhide Headband, revealing next in line to be Indiscriminate Smash.

Danalne has to dash closer to lure Gold Smoke Knight away from Stapuranocanss. 

Two rounds with three wounds to the monster in each. Looking good.

First attack with Indiscriminate Smash deals no hits. Then, the secondary attack is directed at Ouglu, whose ripple pattern screws him over by canceling the one hit - triggering frustration. Which eats up both of his dodges, and then Blacken comes with three. One is prevented by Ripple Pattern.

Ouglu opens the survivor turn by making a daring, nearly blind shot against Gold Smoke Knight. He makes four attack rolls, and all hit. Impervious location fails to knock down the monster. However. Ouglu does succeed to make one critical wound. I don't know what games the Gold Smoke Knight plays, but it's turn three and Ouglu has shot both of his legs off! He does two wounds, though.

Danalne reveals that there is trap coming... again...

Cardani deals two wounds first, and then Danalne surges for a look at hit locations. Cardani deals three wounds more with the help of a critical. Seven points of damage in total. Albeit with a legless archer.

Turn four Scorching Charge passes over Ouglu, leaving him at one point of armor in body location. Because of rolling armor bonus, the knockdown effect becomes a knockback effect.

Ouglu shoots in one wound, and then fishes out the trap. 

Trap pulls Cardani and Ouglu closer, and now Cardani is within range of walking to attack the knight. Danalne arranges hit locations.

First attack with Gaxe deals four wounds and triggers See the Truth for Ouglu. Now he's lost one of his eyes, too. Danalne surges with Necromancer's Eye.

Cardani surges an attack and kills the Gold Smoke Knight.

Victory!

Well, it was not a pure win. Cardani had received a total of 6 strength and 1 luck from homebrew material - three points with Salt gained outside of fight with the Sunstalker, one from a hunt event and perhaps around two from re-rolls at Age tables. She may have gained a point of accuracy and a point of evasion from those, too, and the +1 luck came from a hunt event that sacrificed a party member for a permanent +1 stat. 

But strength +14 were from legitimate sources. Had that been the case, she would have eaten the Hunter's Heart to bring her up to 17, which would have still had her wound Gold Smoke Knight on 5+ with two dice and with a re-roll on failed wound once per attack.

Showdown would have probably taken a little longer as Ouglu would've had harder time wounding the monster.

Then starts the old version of Exhausted Lantern Hoard. I'm not going into details for these lantern years any longer, as they're but fights. Some more exciting than another 

Lantern Year 31 - Phoenix level 3 with extra +1 speed, +1 dmg

Lantern Year 32 - Gorm level 3 with extra +2 speed, +2 dmg.

Lantern Year 33 - Flower Knight level 3 with extra +3 speed, +3 dmg

Danalne the green savior disappears after this fight and is replaced with Werinoca Gnotti.

Lantern Year 34 - Dung Beetle Knight level 3 with extra +4 speed, +4 dmg

Here I decide to ditch most armor sets, since the damage is going to go through any and all armor anyway. Also, Cardani had gained Fencing on top of Rhythm Chaser last year, so she needed extra evasion.

Lantern Year 35- Lion God level 3 with extra +5 speed, +5 dmg

I honestly thought it would end here. Turns out there are not that many "draw another relentless" AI cards in the deck. Stapuranocanss retired and suffered broken back in this fight, so from now on it's just Cardani. Fortunately Feral Tyrant card had Cardani lose all Insanity points, so Screaming Antelope can be done next.

Lantern Year 36 - Screaming Antelope level 3 with extra +6 speed, +6 dmg.

From this point on a new round of quarries would take place. However, by now it was apparent that Cardani was mechanically broken and would not die unless a monster attack included multiple lantern 10's, and then rolling badly in a severe injure table. This coupled with the fact that I had the Hours Ring, which essentially was a one-time proof against the death of Cardani. 

All in all, I did not realize Cardani was that broken survivor. But she could not have done it without continuous use of Rawhide Headband and especially Necromancer's Eye. But when you wound on 2+ and can re-roll it, turn any permanent injuries into critical injuries, and are hit only on 10+ and can dodge twice and have two deflect tokens and don't gain hunt experience... you pretty much have to be afraid of only automatic damage and unavoidable reactions. 

Kalmana Retreat over.

Kalmana Retreat

Population 26
Without sheet: . Ranadra Massu (Sagasu), born on LY 21.
LY 22:  Zamarotte, plus Kalgar and Netani Masvar. On LY 23 Ristapurac, Flonoca Gnotti and Anorlu Outsu on LY 25

Without +1 strength from watcher:
Etadra Massu on LY 26.
#3 on move race, #3 on Debate contest, #4 on fight contest (severed hand injury)

Vegtaeg on LY 27.
#4 on move race
#4 on debate contest (Apathetic) after 2 re-rolls
#3 on fight contest

Drata Massu on LY 28, +1 strength from intimacy.

Madra Massu on LY 29, +1 strength from intimacy.

Settlement Locations:
Skinnery
Organ Grinder
Bone Smith
Gormchymist
Gormery
Leather Worker
Weapon Crafter
Plumery
Barber Surgeon
Blacksmith
Wet Resin Crafter

Innovations:
Lantern year 0: Language,
Lantern year 1: Symposium + Nigredo,
Lantern Year 2: Ammonia + Inner Lantern,
Lantern year 3: Paint
Lantern year 4: Storytelling
Lantern year 5: Lantern Oven + Bloodletting
Lantern year 6: Sculpture
Lantern Year 7: Hovel
Lantern Year 8: Round Stone Training, Drums, Albedo
Lantern Year 9: Family
Lantern Year 10: Dark Water Research, Clan of Death, Whip Mastery, Unarmed Mastery
Lantern Year 11: Shrine
Lantern Year 12: Song of the Brave
Lantern Year 13: Nightmare Training + Scrap Smelting
Lantern Year 14: Pottery
Lantern Year 15: Arena
Lantern Year 16: Sacrifice, Knowledge Worm, War Room
Lantern Year 17: Cooking, Subterranean Agriculture
Lantern Year 18: Saga, Club Mastery
Lantern Year 19: Pictograph, Axe Mastery
Lantern Year 20: Settlement Watch, Dark Water Research level 2
Lantern Year 21: Momento Mori, Bow Mastery
Lantern Year 22: Shadow Dancing
Lantern Year 23: Bed
Lantern Year 24: Citrinitas
Lantern Year 25: Petal Spiral
Lantern Year 26: Lantern Research level 2
Lantern Year 27: Lantern Research level 3
Lantern Year 28: Shield Mastery
Lantern Year 29 -

Lantern Year 30 - Crimson Candy

Sculpture: Extra Sense

Gear:
1x founding stone
1x cloth
2x stone nose
3x monster grease
2x bone blade
1x luck charm
1x gaxe
1x Knuckle Shield
1x Wisdom potion
1x Power Potion
1x monster tooth necklace
Full rawhide armor
1x Rawhide Boots
1x Rawhide Whip
1x hunter whip
2x bandages
1x whistling mace
Vespertine Bow
Skull Helm
Full Gorment suit
Full Leather suit
Leather Shield
Beacon Shield
Oxidized Beacon Shield
Reverberating Lantern
Flower Knight Badge
2x fecal salve
Bone Sickle
4x dried acanthus
Scavenger's Kit
First Aid Kit
Hours Ring
Necromancer's Eye
Hunter's Heart
Tool Belt
Deathpact
Manhunter's Hat
Gloom Cream
2x regenerating blade
Screaming coat, waist and legs
Almanac
DBK Errant badge
Red Charm
Rainbow Wing Belt
Calcified Shoulder Pads
Scarab Circlet
Elastic Harness
2x Century Greaves
Sleeping Virus Flower
Bird Bread



Storage:

Survivors of note:

* Survivors from previous settlement *

Zamarias Zamarotte, last remaining from the original original four starting survivors from Deluge and Retreat.
- Entitled material hoarding (Hoarder) Prima Donna with Spiral Ganglia.
- Dealt the killing blow to Gorm in last settlement, and has hunted Gorm and Flower Knight, and is a Butcher survivor of Kalmana Retreat.
- Blinded in one eye.
- Watched a Phoenix pass over the settlement.
- From his hazed memory, he remembered the dire warning from lantern year 6 on lantern year 9: Slenderking is about to arrive. He remembered the horror and gained Spiral Ganglia.

- After 24 years of hiatus, hunted level 3 Flower Knight on LY 29, and even dealt the killing blow!
- Has dream-twins with Danalne: Danarias and Zamalne.
- Suffered plague during LY 16.

- Sacrifices three survivors, one of them his own son, on lantern year 30 to find a broken lantern.
- Sword specialist with three points in proficiency.

*

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Kalovim (who suffered plague during LY 16) doomed child of Nasanovim and Kalnetan.

*

Danalne Masvar von Zamarotte of Dormenatus, the first savior of the settlement. Daughter of Cardani and Kalnetan.
- Defended the settlement from The Hand, and received his full blessings.
- Found Broken Lantern from Broken Lantern Hoard during hunt for Level 2 Gorm on Lantern Year 12.
- Honorable from not slaying infant gorm.
- Took part in The Hand's playful little visit during LY 13, and took all attacks towards herself except for Line Up and Soft Chuckle - without getting any hits. This impressed The Hand so much, that she now sports +4 permanent evasion.
- A mushroom implanted something into her during hunt on lantern year 15.
- Hunted level 2 Screaming Antelope on LY 14.
- Haunted by Phantom of Ill Conscience on LY 15.
- Hunted Lion God level 1 on LY 15.
- Slenderman survivor LY 16 and 28. The Watcher survivor. Gold Smoke Knight survivor.
- Murdered Kalnetan, the second-last survivor of the original four, while being mind-controlled by dying Watcher. Settlement forgave her and she fetched some Iron from the darkness as an apology.
- Has dream-twins with Zamarias, Danarias and Zamalne.


*Kalmana Retreat original survivors*

All of the above have unbroken lineage from the previous settlement, Kalmana Deluge. Below are original people of Kalmana Retreat.



*

Cardani Masvar, the binge-eating former cannibal, reborn.
- Braved the Storm in the very first lantern year, but was blinded as a result. Later on her new body, this eye has healed. But when he saw the truth inside of her skull, she plucked the eye out again.
- Was "blessed" by the Cleaner Birds during hunt for Gorm. Then she encountered Flesh Monolith, and during Unnatural Hunger she was one of the survivors who ate Mesul. Then, back in the settlement, she took what was left of Mesul and showed everyone how beneficial it is to eat corpses, and not disgusting at all.
- Fought off spiderlings during their invasion.
- Came back from the dead with her brain recorded by Sleeping Virus Flower, and then reconfigured an unnamed survivor's brain to match hers.
After coming back from the dead, formed Masvar family with Kalnetan.
- Hunted Gorm on lantern year 1, 6, 7 and 8, Level 2 Gorm on 12, and Screaming Antelope on lantern year 3 and 10(twice then), level 2 Screaming Antelope on LY 14, Level 3 antelope on LY 18, Flower Knight on year 5, level 3 on ly 26, Phoenix on 11, Lion God on 15 and Dung Beetle Knight l1 on 17 and lv2 on 20, Beast of Sorrow LY 21
- Manhunter survivor on LY 10, LY 16 and LY 22. Slenderman survivor on LY 16, 23, 28.
- Saw Dung Beetle Knight in the distance, and got obsessed with vermin as a consequence.
- Has heard the forbidden word.
- Took part in shadow puppet play.
- Took part in dreaming the hunt for Screaming Antelope in vivid detail.
- Surastus the Bone Witch came and fueled Cardani's desire to eat human flesh. Brutally she murdered Nengar, a promising axe-master. Settlement did not approve her skull-eating habits and murdered her before other damage could be done. But this only grows the flowers in her heart.
- After coming back from the dead she has shown far less tendencies to feast on human flesh.
- Defended settlement from The Hand, and her efforts were so valiant that The Hand's thunderous applause nearly killed her - if it wasn't for the intervention of Newarbabolac, she'd have died.
- Remembered the White Secret and got lost the ability to age naturally. Gold Smoke Knight... here we come!
- Investigated Golden Light.
- Caustic bile from slaying level 2 gorm scarred her, giving -1 permanent strength.
- Haunted by Phantom of Ill Conscience on LY 15.
- Has spent a lot of time in Nightmare Training.
- Took part in hunt re-enactment on lantern year 17 and 30, playing the part of survivors.
- Entered Barber Surgeon for some trepanning, and after a difficult surgery requiring the help of Enewarbabolacty cured her obsession for vermin.
- Found her calling in the fields of Sweet Battle, when sonorous Shadow Puppet Play awakened her to See the Truth.
- Spelunked to find more caustic dung.
- Has branded hands from Hands of Heat.
- Has experienced melded mind with Stapuranocan, Ouglu and Sairtena.
- Has encountered the Memory Eater almost right after mind melding. Maybe it was a preliminary attack by this hostile spirit?
- Dealt the killing blow to The Watcher and to Gold Smoke Knight.
- Placed second in race and debate contest, and first in fight contest on LY 28.

-  On Lantern Year 29 she hacked down through Lonely Tree level 3, gaining Super Hair with Anetarias, Danizama and Anarda. She also ate the Porous Flesh Fruit and received Nightmare Membrane ability, which is fitting considering how often Cardani has been seen in Nightmare Training.
- +4 permanent accuracy, +19 permanent strength, +5 permanent evasion, +2 permanent luck, +1 permanent speed.
- Has children with Kalnetan, and is mother of first savior of the settlement.
- Courage 9 (prepared + sweet battle), Understanding 9 (tinker + ageless)
- Unarmed, Shield and Axe Master.

*

*Lineage of Plants*

Enewarbabolactylohno, a plant-based survivor who breathes new lifetimes into her as the seasons pass. This is probably what also gives her Ghostly Beauty. Her name was originally Warbabo, but continues to grow as she gains new lifetimes.
- Is the daughter of Worba and Warbo, two survivors who were raised from a flower seed.
- Hunter Gorm on LY 6, and slayed a Gorm on LY 7.
- Tried to save Minovas from being beheaded by Hooded Knight on lantern year 10.
- Fought The Hand, and saved Cardani from applause that was so loud it was lethal.
- Saved the settlement from losing all resources on Principle: Conviction.
- Saved Murlu from dying during intimacy on lantern year 13.
- Saved herself from dying to plague on LY 16.
- Saved Cardani from receiving intracranial hemorrhage on LY 17.
- Had Shrine ritual succeed on LY 23.
- Cheered Cardani to #2 place in debate contest on LY 28
- Ensured shrine ritual on LY 29.

- Ensured shrine ritual on LY 30 as well as the success of scrap smelting.

*

*Outsiders from the Darkness on lantern year 9*

Murrano Outsu
- Had his own name stuck in his head for the whole lantern year of 14 whenever he tried to communicate.
- Haunted by Phantom of Ill Conscience on LY 15.
- Plague victim on LY 25.
- Hunted and killed level 2 Screaming Antelope during lantern year 14.
- Hunted and killed level 2 Screaming Antelope durin lantern year 24. Has it really been a decade?
- Learned meaning of war from his son, Ouglu.

Ouglu Outsu, delicious and well seasoned hunter with extra sense.
- Hemophobic from failed mining operation, but has since been cured from this affliction.
- Haunted by Phantom of Ill Conscience on LY 15.
- Encountered demented bee on the hunt during LY 17, spelling doom for Doomed Path survivors.
- Has heard the forbidden word
- Drank Crimson Vial to cure his broken hip.
- Was the first to investigate Exhausted Lantern Hoard.
- Has experienced melded mind with Cardani, Stapuranocan and Sairtena.
- Has encountered the Memory Eater almost right after mind melding. Maybe it was a preliminary attack by this hostile spirit?
- Hunted level 2 Screaming Antelope during lantern year 14.
- Hunted level 1 Dung Beetle Knight during LY 17 and level 2 on LY 20, 22.
- Hunted level 3 Screaming Antelope during lantern year 18
- Dealt the killing blow to Manhunter on LY 16, and learned the meaning of war as a consequence. He taught the secret to Murrano, Flopura and Stapura. Also dealt the killing blow to Manunter on LY 22 and stole his hat.
- Dealt the killing blow to Slenderman on LY 16.
- Dealt the killing blow to Beast of Sorrow on LY 21
- Dealt the killing blow to Slenderman level 3 on LY 23 and 28.
- Dealt the killing blow to Flower Knight level 3 on LY 26.
- The Watcher survivor.
- Placed first in race and debate contest, and second on fight contest on LY 28.

- Ate the Hunter's Heart for +3 strength

- Gold Smoke Knight survivor, where he shot off both of his legs.
- +3 permanent movement, +3 permanent accuracy, +11 permanent strength, +3 permanent evasion, +1 permanent luck, +1 permanent speed.
- Courage 8 (stalwart), Understanding 9 (explore, leyline walker)
- Bow master

Anetarias Sagasu
- Hemophobic from failed mining operation.
- Hunted level 3 Screaming Antelope on year 19
- Hunted level 2 Dung Beetle Knight on year 20.
- Hunted the Beast of Sorrow on year 21.

- Protected the settlement from Lonely Tree on LY 29, gaining Super Hair with Cardani, Danazama and Anarda.
- Has spelunked twice.
- Has heard the forbidden word
- Has encountered the Lorekeeper and her horrifying, ancient secrets.

*

Sairtena Sagasu
- Hunted lvl 2 Screaming Antelope on Lantern Year 24.
- Hunted lvl 3 Flower Knight on Lantern Year 26.
- Has descended to Worm Tunnels
- Has experienced mind melding with Cardani, Stapuranocan and Ouglu.
- Has encountered the Memory Eater almost right after mind melding. Maybe it was a preliminary attack by this hostile spirit?

*

Stapuranocanss Gnotti, a quixotic and stylish (wardrobe expert), binge-eating outsider with whom Logar switched places when Logar touched a statue he encountered during hunt.
- Took part in dreaming the hunt for Screaming Antelope in vivid detail.
- Has hunted Screaming Antelope twice on lantern year 10, level3 antelope during ly 18 and Gorm level 2 on Lantern Year 12., Beast of Sorrow LY 21, flower knight level 3 on LY 26
- Survived Manhunter encounter on LY 16 and 22 and Slenderman encounter on LY 16, 23 and 28. Thw Watcher survivor.
- Has heard the forbidden word TWICE, and took part in shadow puppet play, and encountered Lorekeeper as a consequence, whose secrets made Stapura a binge-eater.
- Knows enough secrets and was nominated as the Thundercaller.
- Honorable from not slaying infant gorm.
- Haunted by Phantom of Ill Conscience on LY 15.
- Learned the meaning of war from Ouglu.
- Panicked at the sight of Bug Man during LY 17. This emotionally scarred him so that his mind blocked new memories from forming. He has the Infinite Lives fighting art as a result. And since his mind blocked the source of phobia so effectively, during LY 20 there was no sign of trauma when he hunted level 2 Dung Beetle Knight and stopped a rolling boulder with bare hands and encountered the Bug Man again. And during LY 22, Stapuranoca encountered the Bug Man third time.
- Has experienced mind melding with Cardani, Ouglu and Sairtena.
- Has encountered the Memory Eater almost right after mind melding. Maybe it was a preliminary attack by this hostile spirit?
- Cheered Cardani to #2 place in debate contest on LY 28

- Gold Smoke Knight survivor.
- +1 permanent movement, +2 permanent accuracy, +7 permanent strength, +2 permanent evasion
- Courage 9 (Matchmaker + sour death), Understanding 8 (Explore + leyline walker)
- Club master
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Flopura Gnotti
-Is half of a plant.
-2 points of Club proficiency
- Learned the meaning of war from Ouglu.
- Investigated an abandoned Resin Dung Ball during LY 17.
- Spelunked to find more caustic dung.
- Received a phantom friend from the Phantom during LY 18.
- Raised the level of Underground Harvest by 1 on LY 27 and LY 28.

- Unburied the Calcified Century Greaves on LY 30 with the aid of Scell.



Dead or missing survivors of note:


Nengar, blotted out berserker with a Purpose and the firstborn of the settlement. Vestiphobia.
- First departed on a hunt on lantern year 3 against Screaming Antelope. Year 5 against Flower Knight, and years 6+7 against Gorm. He is also a Butcher survivor.
- Fought off the spiderlings, but got frenzied in the process and killed an unnamed survivor.
- Craving for human flesh in the form of Marrow Hunger.
- Murdered by Cardani. Purpose fulfilled, I suppose.
- +3 permanent strength, +1 permanent speed.

Qyillus, one of the original four from both Deluge and Retreat
Cause of death: Valiantly defended the settlement from spiderlings during Season of the Spiderling, failing in that but perhaps her example encouraged the remaining survivors to try extra hard and achieve victory?
- Has taught the secrets of language twice to different settlements an spoke some reason to the settlement during Endless Screams.
- Considering the above, no surprise she won debate contest during Triathlon of Death, and was third during race contest and lost fight contest. After all, she wasn't that much of a fighter anyway if we read into her Enfeebled disorder.
- Has hunted Gorm, and slain one Gorm and one Screaming Antelope.
- Enfeebled and Megalophobic disorder
- +1 permanent accuracy, +1 permanent strength. 3 courage (matchmaker), 3 understanding (tinker).

Warba and Warbo, the progenitors of plant based survivors in Kalmana Deluge.


Nasanovim Minovas, mourning parent of a child lost she can't clearly remember any more. One of the original four of Retreat.
- Encountered an elderly bee that doomed her and her future children.
- Believes she has a higher purpose, though, and has Quixotic disorder. She has become Tenacious and is Blotted Out.
- Shared the feast of Mesul during Unnatural Hunger, triggering Cannibalize.
- Won the fight contest, and placed second during race contest and third during debate contest in Triathlon of Death.
- Deranged expression. With a history like hers, I'd have one too.
- Forgot her name from first non-violent visit of Slenderking.
- Made a sculpture of her vague memories about the Slenderking, imbuing it with her Extra Sense.
- Killed the Slenderking on lantern year 9.
- Was slain by Hooded Knight on lantern year 9.
- Has two children with Kalnetan.
- Has hunted Gorm thrice and is a LY 4 Butcher and LY 5 Manhunter survivor. She killed LY 8 Gorm.
- +1 permanent accuracy, +2 permanent strength and +2 evasion, courage 7 (matchmaker) and understanding 3 (explore).
- Doomed Path: You may always choose Path of Doomed during Overwhelming Darkness. If you do, gain +1 on your roll. When you are one of the parents during Intimacy, the children will inherit this ability.

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Logar, the twice widowed apathetic and megalophobic trailblazer. He is also a seasoned hunter without much actual hunt experience.
- Is the first father of the settlement, and has four children - Nengar, Rastgar, Lostus and Suragar with two different mothers, one of whom is dead and another has been banished from the settlement. No wonder he's apathetic.
- Won the race contest, but placed third during fight contest and lost the debate contest during Triathlon of Death. Especially debate result seems thematic - he was the only participant from Kalmana Retreat, others were from the first settlement.
- Is health-conscious after watching four survivors die from Necrotoxic Mistletoe.
- +1 permanent movement, +1 permanent strength, +1 permanent evasion.
- Hunted Gorm on lantern year 2 and is LY 5 Manhunter survivor.
- Turned into statue on lantern year 10 hunt.

*

Cardetan Masvar, the first survivor whose lineage mingled with that of another lineage. He's the son of Cardani and Kalnetan.
- Took part in dreaming the hunt for Screaming Antelope in vivid detail.
- Has heard the forbidden word.
- Took part in shadow puppet play, twice. Became Ruthless as a result.
- Dealt killing blow to Manhunter on Lantern Year 10.
- Dealt killing blow to Phoenix on lantern year 11.
- Hunted level 2 gorm on Lantern Year 12
- Took part in The Hand's playful little visit during LY 13.
- Honorable from not slaying infant gorm. So he's honorable and ruthless at the same time.
- Nearly got killed while trying to use Nightmare Training on LY 15.
- Died to Lion God on LY 16.
- +2 permanent accuracy, +3 permanent strength, +1 permanent evasion
- 2 courage, 3 understanding (analyze)
- Is training bow with four dots in proficiency.
*


Kalnetan Masvar, mourning parent of a child lost in time and space. One of the original four of Retreat.
- You don't want to anger him. He's Berserker with Burning Ambition and Hyper-Sensitivity. He is Secretive of his dealings in the settlement.
- Shared the feast of Mesul during Unnatural Hunger, triggering Cannibalize.
- Fought spiderlings during Season of the Spiderling, but slayed an unnamed survivor whom he had just saved from beneath a silk nest.
- Placed second in debate contest and fight contest, and was last in race contest during Triathlon of Death.
- Was imprisoned in a pod of dark water between the planes of existence.
- Has two children with Nasanovim.
- Has children with Cardani.
- Apparently can't feel secure being alone, and right after Minovas died, formed a family of Masvar with new and improved Cardani.
- Has heard the forbidden word.
- Took part in shadow puppet play.
- Took part in dreaming the hunt for Screaming Antelope in vivid detail.
- Has hunted Gorm twice in previous settlement, and Screaming Antelope and Phoenix in the current one.
- Had a secret meeting with the Old Master on LY 25.
- Whipped a level 1 gorm dead.
- Dealt the killing blow to Butcher
- Dealt the killing blow to Manhunter on Deathblow location, with a whip. LY 5.
- Encountered another Manhunter on LY 10, LY 16 and LY 22 - that means, he's been present in every single encounter with the nemesis.
- Dealt critical wound to Slenderman, gaining permanent evasion.
- His eyesight was scarred beyond repair by Bone Witch Surastus.
- Was murdered by Danalne Masvar, the savior of Dormenatus on year 26.
- -3 permanent accuracy , +11 permanent strength, +2 permanent evasion, +1 permanent speed.
- Courage 7 (stalwart), Understanding 7 (tinker)
- Whip Master


*

Surastus, a banished survivor who tinkered with lanterns and got disfigured. Before departing, suppose she was the "old crone" that offered Sleeping Virus Flower for Cardani. She's revisited her settlement, and caused Cardani to murder Nengar. Scarred Kalnetan's eyes.