Haven

[Balthazar Black]

Thread(s): The Pirate's Bust
Participants: Balthazar Black
Brief description of thread: Someone stole a statue in Haven and Balthazar Black is on the case! Balthazar and his guards question the involved parties and Balthazar has his guards watch a suspects house. Then he follows the suspect to the Serenity Garden and confiscates the stolen statue.

!	Message from: Trouble
	Accepted. As a result of this thread, Haven has gained: +1% Order. (Nadeem and Kaden aren't at each other's throats so much anymore.) Let me know who the bust ends up being awarded to in the end.

[Balthazar Black]

Thread(s):
If I Had A Hammer
I'd Hammer In The Morning
I'd Hammer In The Evening
I'd Hammer Out Danger
I'd Hammer Out A Warning

Participants: Balthazar Black and Elisabeth Angelus
Brief description of thread: Overview - So this is a series of threads originally written during Cylus that have been edited and altered to accommodate the new status quo following Balthazar's arrest and exile to Faldrass. Originally they were used to track the progress of construction workers building wooden buildings in Haven for the settlers and the building is still featured, however the timeline of the build was moved up to accommodate the support provided by the Elements during Balthazar's imprisonment. Now the building is still featured but they all seem to center a little bit more around Balthazar's leadership and planning for a food source while the build is getting finished.
If I Had A Hammer (Balthazar and Elisabeth) - Balthazar and Elisabeth return to the settlement following the trial and Balthazar holds a private meeting with the guards to explain what happened. Balthazar and Elisabeth talk, Balthazar meditates and uses Dirge's Stain to get the idea to harvest the wind.

I'd Hammer In The Morning (Balthazar) - Balthazar tries to assist the build team as best he can without magic and makes his rounds, meeting and greeting settlers. This also addresses Balthazar seeing the strange dream but he does not act on it yet. (He writes Darius a letter at a later time). Balthazar gives orders to have farmers begin working the land where they will eventually grow the crops for their settlement. Balthazar leads a settlement unarmed training session and commits to more.

I'd Hammer In The Evening (Balthazar and Elisabeth) - Balthazar spends most of his trial helping the builders with the tasks he won't easily mess up then hosts a bonfire to help lift the spirits of and warm up his settlers while the builders continue working on the structures in the background. Balth and Elisabeth have a chat. Mostly a social thread.

I'd Hammer Out Danger (Balthazar and Elisabeth) - A few trials after I'd Hammer In The Evening, a fire breaks out in one of the newly put up buildings. Balthazar, Elisabeth, and the settlers quickly manage to put the fire out and Balthazar repairs the damage using his Lovalus boon. Balthazar and Elisabeth suspect an arsonist. This thread also addresses who Balthazar gave the bust of Almund to, spoiler alert, it was Kaden but he did it in a diplomatic way.

I'd Hammer Out A Warning (Balthazar and Elisabeth) - Balthazar gives a speech about the fire to try and draw out the arsonist and provides an update on progress to the settlers. Elisabeth suspects one of the younger settlers. Included it because I figure it's important when he gives speeches to his people.

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Message from: Trouble

Accepted. As a result of this thread, Haven has gained: +3% Order. (For the creation of buildings, resolving the bust incident and quickly responding to the arsonist problem.) Most of these threads are social, which is fine. It like that you've been setting the groundwork for the creation of the farm, windmill and wall. At this point you are free to assume that many of your settlers have sorted themselves out with small, rudimentary houses.

[Trouble]

Challenge!

Up until now, the settlers of Haven have been content to survive on stored water or purified seawater. But with the development of the town progressing, people are starting to talk about when a more efficient source of fresh water will be established. The question is where to find water in the wake of a volcanic eruption?

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[Balthazar Black]

Thread(s): Do All Leaders Get Hand Cramps?
Participants: Balthazar Black
Brief description of thread: This thread briefly references the water issue but does nothing to solve it yet. This thread is Balthazar writing letters to various people to request aid. He writes a poem to Elisabeth that doesn't impact anything but he also wrote to Haven Farm on Beacon requesting a donation of seeds to get their farm started and suggesting a partnership going forward. He also puts out his feelers to try and track down the mysterious blacksmith on Scalvoris but that will come to fruition later and is just being set up here. Whether or not this has any impact on the settlement would depend on Haven Farm's response. However, should they refuse, Balthazar has a plan to reach out to Hope Farm instead.

!	Message from: Trouble
	Accepted. From what I have seen this thread would not lead to any direct growth for the settlement, but is a good set up for future threads. Please let me know if you believe this to be unfair.

[Elisabeth Black]

Reposting per Trouble's DM

Thread(s): The Seafood Ex'clam'ation
Participants: Elisabeth
Brief description of thread: The Seafood Ex'clam'ation (Elisabeth) - Elisabeth discovers Ingis clams on the shore near Haven and brings some back to the settlement. This includes the clams, shells and fire pearls.

Balthazar previously submitted this thread to the Haven settlement system here

Pig Boy reviewed the thread and assigned additional consequences: Consequences: Your discovery gets back to people on the mainland, by hook or crook, you find youself inundated with letters from scholars begging to be let into Haven to study the new specimen.

!	Message from: Trouble
	Accepted. As a result of Pig Boy's review, Haven has gained: +4 Population. (Scholars have joined the settlement to research this new specimen.) -4% Order. (More settlers means more effort needed to manage them all.)

[Elisabeth Black]

Thread(s): The Rubrum Exposition
Participants: Elisabeth
Brief description of thread: A member of the settlement shows Elisabeth where a large grouping of Rubrum Berry plants are. Elisabeth takes one of the farmers for identification. Plants are brought back to Haven to be transplanted into the farm beds. Rubrum Berry plants have been dev'd and approved. (OOC, this is essentially a cranberry plant. Can be used for cooking and minor medicinal purposes)

!	Message from: Trouble
	Accepted. As a result of this thread, Haven has gained: Primary Resource: Rubrum Berry

[Balthazar Black]

Thread(s): Arming the Unarmed
Participants: Balthazar Black and Elisabeth Angelus
Brief description of thread: Balthazar continues to train all willing settlers in unarmed combat using his progressing knowledge of teaching and vast knowledge of unarmed techniques. He organizes a small competition and allows his best students to compete, offering the winners private lessons. (I really thought I'd put this one up here but I see I did not. Not sure what impact it would have but it is a continuation and elaboration on the various little mentions that Balthazar has been training the settlement.)

!	Message from: Trouble
	Accepted. As a result of this thread, Haven has gained: Effect: Military Training: Haven's military NPCs possess 15xp in Strength, 5xp in Combat: Unarmed and 15xp in a random combat skill.

[Balthazar Black]

Thread(s): Make Yourself Useful or Leave
The Clam Queen
Bare Necessities and Hobbies
Participants: Balthazar Black and Elisabeth Angelus
Brief description of thread: Make Yourself Useful or Leave (Balthazar) - Balth has a meeting with the scholars who came to the island and makes them agree to his terms in order to be allowed to study the ingis clams. He offers to set up a research station for them (by repurposing a building that was being used to house guards) and begins to set up the clam farm.
The Clam Queen (Balthazar and Elisabeth) - This tracks Balthazar and Elisabeth, right after the meeting with the scholars, directing Ronan and a few settlers on how to find the ingis clams in the sand and follows them beginning to set up the farming operation for the clams.
Bare Necessities and Hobbies (Balthazar) - This tracks Balthazar building his new home in Haven (transferring his tier 5 house from Scalv Town to Haven). He reduces the size of his own house to create a guard barracks beside it and a workshop for his alchemy and other crafting impulses. This thread also mentions the researchers having settled into their station and the basic building for washing the clams they farm from the ground.

All the while, Balthazar keeps telling everyone he has a solution for the water, it just has not arrived yet.

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Message from: Trouble

Accepted. As a result of this thread, Haven has gained: Tertiary Resource: Scientific Research +40 WP (20 for expansion to clam farming. 20 for rent from the research station. Effect: Hub of Science: Haven will gain +1 population for every primary resource it gathers that is a unique development to Faldrass. This population change reflects a new scholar joining the research station to study the resource. +3 Population (Myran, and two scholars to study the Ignis Clams and Rudrum Berries.) -3% Order (New settlers means more people to manage.)

[Elisabeth Black]

Thread(s): The Curious Matter of Baby Trees
Participants: Elisabeth
Brief description of thread: Elisabeth discovers an idea for rain barrels in the Baron Books (to ease the need for freshwater until Balthazar completes a more permanent solution), talks it over with the Munnys, takes Delilah out to the Ashwoods to collect 'nuts' so that the farm can attempt to make baby Phoenix Wood trees, and stumbles upon Faldrass potatoes.

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Message from: Trouble

Accepted. As a result of this thread, Haven has gained: Faldrass Potatoes as a primary resource. Phoenix Wood as a primary resource +2 Population. (As a result of the Hub of Science Effect) -2% Order. (More population means more people to manage.) (Please do not use these resources in threads until at least next season to represent the time it will take for them to grow, unless you find a way to speed this process up.)

[Elisabeth Black]

Thread(s): A Trial to Remember...
Participants: Elisabeth
Brief description of thread: This is mostly a thread about Elisabeth surprising Balthazar for his birthtrial. However, it makes mention of Tempest Lilies, which might be a good specimen for the research station. They were initially mentioned in this post in "Red Alert". I just wanted to bring your attention to that, just in case. No worries if it doesn't affect anything.

!	Message from: Trouble
	Thank you for letting me know. Unless a regular harvest of these lillies is set up there in no need to add them as a resource.