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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizWrm" data-source="post: 1358651" data-attributes="member: 13568">Attar:When the hunters return, they call for a meeting, and it is decided that the next migration shall be towards where the forest meets the river.Several weeks later, the move is completed, and while the oxen graze contentedly on the fresh grass, the Jasad orcs begin construction of a large raft. The work is slow and hesitant at first, but eventually a few get the idea of placing the flint lengthwise along sturdy spear shafts rather than at the point, and so are able to use them as primitive axes.Once the first raft is complete, several of the cleverest hunters are sent down the river while construction is continued. You follow their progress; the river winds through the forest for many miles, and though there are many clearings, none are large enough to hold the Jasad tribe with its herd. Food is plentiful, but the progress is fairly slow; the river narrows or becomes shallow at some points, and the clever hunters are forced to use long branches to push the rafts along for miles.It takes four months of travel before the forest finally opens into a broad grassland. The climate is much warmer, and much more suitable for settlement. Furthermore, there are great herds of deer and other creatures, left untouched by the orcs' hunting spears, as well as plentiful grass for the oxen, and the nearby forest provides all the wood needed to begin building a true village.By this time, the tribe has had to move to another pasture for the oxen to graze from, but when you communicate the hunters' success, there is much rejoicing, and they resolve to return to where they left the completed rafts high along the riverbank.A month later, the Jasad return and find that one of the rafts was destroyed by inclement weather and two others were damaged, but repairs are quickly in order, and they are ready to make the move southward. They await only your final instructions, should you desire that the move be made. You also need to specify what you want the hunters who made the original journey to be doing while the Jasad move southward; through you, they have already communicated knowledge on edible animals and plants, as well as places that hold danger for the rafts. There are ten hunters there, six male and four female, all between the ages of 25 and 35 (the orcs generally live to about 55), and they all have flint spears and axes.</blockquote>

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