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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7639354" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)">Session 233, Part Three - Malthusian Logic</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Malthusian Logic</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">After some debate, it was decided to head for Etheax before returning to Caeloon, leaving the slaves on Drozani for now, with a solemn promise to return. Uru counselled against straying from their initial goal, fearing that they would only get tangled up in something else. Korrigan decided to risk it: the goblins of Etheax were friendly, according to Calily, and the plane offered fire energy – also needed to fix the Coaltongue. (He couldn’t help but notice that his deep faen friend had become increasingly conservative of late; perhaps a side-effect of fey titanhood?)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The vast void from Drozani to Etheax was daunting, so they doubled back through Hunlow, hoping the god was still dormant. An ulterior motive was that it gave Leon the opportunity to test out interplanar teleportation: could he travel to and from planes he had already seen or visited, as he had learned to do recently while exploring the new planes around Lanjyr? The answer proved to be ‘yes’. He ported back to the closest island to Drozani and then back again, just as the Coaltongue crossed the boundary between the planes.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">On to Etheax, where the cave-riddled mountains were sharp and steep, with flat grassy valleys between looming granite mesas. A handful of goblin tribes lived in these valleys, tending to the plants and animals. They also tended to fires at the mouths of all their caves, and could communicate across the plane in a hurry by means of shadow puppets in front of the fires.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">So it was that a gathering of tribal elders came to greet the new arrivals enthusiastically. Korrigan told them that the Pirates of Hunlow were no more and the goblins were pleased. Then he told them that they would need to continue their arrangement to supply the slaves of Drozani, and the goblins were pleased about that too. They only asked if there would be any changes to the arrangement – specifically, who would be responsible for the back-payments they were owed? (Captain Thrusty, it emerged, had promised to pay them handsomely at some point and they had been too polite to press him on it.) Korrigan told them that payment was unlikely to be forthcoming, and they shrugged and acquiesced without objection. The only problem now was that they couldn’t get the food to Drozani, as the pirates used to ship it for them. In which case, said Korrigan, the slaves would have to come to live here. “It will be nice to have new neighbours,” said the incredibly friendly goblins.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">While the <em>Coaltongue </em>recharged, they enjoyed the hospitality of the goblins, who cooked food instantly with group cantrips. Kai said that this plane made both fire magic and waiting for things very easy. Could they make their first planar icon here? Korrigan wondered. He asked the goblins if they needed anything, and they said no, but when they learned the reason, they simply granted permission and that was enough. Uriel handed one of the blank icons he had crafted to Kai, and an hour later, Golden Icon of Etheax was complete.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">There was plentiful game here. Gupta took the opportunity to revert to tiger form and hunt. Meanwhile, the others wrestled with the problem of whether all two-and-a-half-thousand slaves could settle here, practically speaking. Kieran Sentacore wondered if it was necessary to leave them all in one place, but the unit really wanted to be done with the problem in one go if possible. (The worlds of the Gyre would soon be ground to dust anyway, but at least the slaves could enjoy what little life they had left without suffering and starvation. Perhaps even a couple generations would come and go before the end, who knew?)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Uru found the puzzle intriguing and plugged Uriel for all he and his incarnations knew about population density. As he happens, good old Malthusius had made a name for himself with a treatise on this very subject and was able to supply Uru with all the information he needed. Then he made a presentation to the others, with his Hat of Hats transformed into a mortar board, and his goggles serving as thick spectacles:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“I am going to use aboriginal Risuri agricultural practices for the calculations and assume a carrying capacity of 20 per acre. They grow carp in the ditches under fruit and nut trees with crops and herbs between trees and chickens running around. An ancient polyculture of carp, rice, and ducks is practiced in some areas.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“Assuming 56 square miles of terrain that works out to around 35,840 acres. Assuming every square inch of the terrain is used for food than the maximum population carrying capacity would be 716,800. A rough total of the population being below 3,000 and assuming that forest cover and rocky outcroppings reduce the above total I think it's safe to say the island will be ground into the Gyre before food shortages become an issue.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“I'll assume 2500 of the population are of viable reproduction age. Assuming a growth rate of .12 a year when the gears tear into the island they will have reached a population of 4,539. Meaning total acres needed (excluding Goblins) would be 226.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">After a brief pause to take this all in, Leon said, “Most of them are going to starve before they get their first crop (assuming the realm doesn't get destroyed first). Also farming is hard work with a steep unforgiving learning curve. They don't have the skills, tools or seeds required.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">“Such is the price of freedom,” said Quratulain.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7639354, member: 79141"] [B][COLOR=rgb(209, 213, 216)]Session 233, Part Three - Malthusian Logic[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=rgb(209, 213, 216)] [FONT=Calibri][B]Malthusian Logic[/B] After some debate, it was decided to head for Etheax before returning to Caeloon, leaving the slaves on Drozani for now, with a solemn promise to return. Uru counselled against straying from their initial goal, fearing that they would only get tangled up in something else. Korrigan decided to risk it: the goblins of Etheax were friendly, according to Calily, and the plane offered fire energy – also needed to fix the Coaltongue. (He couldn’t help but notice that his deep faen friend had become increasingly conservative of late; perhaps a side-effect of fey titanhood?) The vast void from Drozani to Etheax was daunting, so they doubled back through Hunlow, hoping the god was still dormant. An ulterior motive was that it gave Leon the opportunity to test out interplanar teleportation: could he travel to and from planes he had already seen or visited, as he had learned to do recently while exploring the new planes around Lanjyr? The answer proved to be ‘yes’. He ported back to the closest island to Drozani and then back again, just as the Coaltongue crossed the boundary between the planes. On to Etheax, where the cave-riddled mountains were sharp and steep, with flat grassy valleys between looming granite mesas. A handful of goblin tribes lived in these valleys, tending to the plants and animals. They also tended to fires at the mouths of all their caves, and could communicate across the plane in a hurry by means of shadow puppets in front of the fires. So it was that a gathering of tribal elders came to greet the new arrivals enthusiastically. Korrigan told them that the Pirates of Hunlow were no more and the goblins were pleased. Then he told them that they would need to continue their arrangement to supply the slaves of Drozani, and the goblins were pleased about that too. They only asked if there would be any changes to the arrangement – specifically, who would be responsible for the back-payments they were owed? (Captain Thrusty, it emerged, had promised to pay them handsomely at some point and they had been too polite to press him on it.) Korrigan told them that payment was unlikely to be forthcoming, and they shrugged and acquiesced without objection. The only problem now was that they couldn’t get the food to Drozani, as the pirates used to ship it for them. In which case, said Korrigan, the slaves would have to come to live here. “It will be nice to have new neighbours,” said the incredibly friendly goblins. While the [I]Coaltongue [/I]recharged, they enjoyed the hospitality of the goblins, who cooked food instantly with group cantrips. Kai said that this plane made both fire magic and waiting for things very easy. Could they make their first planar icon here? Korrigan wondered. He asked the goblins if they needed anything, and they said no, but when they learned the reason, they simply granted permission and that was enough. Uriel handed one of the blank icons he had crafted to Kai, and an hour later, Golden Icon of Etheax was complete. There was plentiful game here. Gupta took the opportunity to revert to tiger form and hunt. Meanwhile, the others wrestled with the problem of whether all two-and-a-half-thousand slaves could settle here, practically speaking. Kieran Sentacore wondered if it was necessary to leave them all in one place, but the unit really wanted to be done with the problem in one go if possible. (The worlds of the Gyre would soon be ground to dust anyway, but at least the slaves could enjoy what little life they had left without suffering and starvation. Perhaps even a couple generations would come and go before the end, who knew?) Uru found the puzzle intriguing and plugged Uriel for all he and his incarnations knew about population density. As he happens, good old Malthusius had made a name for himself with a treatise on this very subject and was able to supply Uru with all the information he needed. Then he made a presentation to the others, with his Hat of Hats transformed into a mortar board, and his goggles serving as thick spectacles: “I am going to use aboriginal Risuri agricultural practices for the calculations and assume a carrying capacity of 20 per acre. They grow carp in the ditches under fruit and nut trees with crops and herbs between trees and chickens running around. An ancient polyculture of carp, rice, and ducks is practiced in some areas. “Assuming 56 square miles of terrain that works out to around 35,840 acres. Assuming every square inch of the terrain is used for food than the maximum population carrying capacity would be 716,800. A rough total of the population being below 3,000 and assuming that forest cover and rocky outcroppings reduce the above total I think it's safe to say the island will be ground into the Gyre before food shortages become an issue. “I'll assume 2500 of the population are of viable reproduction age. Assuming a growth rate of .12 a year when the gears tear into the island they will have reached a population of 4,539. Meaning total acres needed (excluding Goblins) would be 226.” After a brief pause to take this all in, Leon said, “Most of them are going to starve before they get their first crop (assuming the realm doesn't get destroyed first). Also farming is hard work with a steep unforgiving learning curve. They don't have the skills, tools or seeds required.” “Such is the price of freedom,” said Quratulain.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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