Editing Primordial Evolution Game/Hastun (section)

===Part 3: Ambitions===
[''> for a post and # for the result.''] 

'''>'''The gas is actually methan. Breathing it resulted in choking as it wasn't toxic, but it wasn't oxygen.
When they swallowed it, they swelled from it and realized that it was the same as what they have inside.
Everytime they tried to absorb something, they were able to feel its "anima"( i'll make a word for it), the essence that they were able to take from it. They came up with the idea that the this gas was the anima of tentouz.
In a second time they also realised they needed the other gas around to breathe. The anima of the sky.
The attempt of setting fire to it resulted in a cloud of fire that hurt several workers around. But the ones who were far enough to observe distinguished with their good eyes that the fire was different. The one out of their sprouts was explosive. They came up with the idea that it was the fire itself whereas the chimney gas was another element that could be set on fire.
A part of the stewards became specialists of the gas and fire.
Meanwhile the blacksmiths tempted to shape the metal in the shape of a tube.

'''#'''The blacksmiths are physically weaker then the other races, and must work with very thin metal. The tubs fold when struck incorrectly, and become useless. Making use of the flattened metal, they put an edge to it and at least get a few knives. Back to work. The fireworkers get singled badly, one loosing the tip of his tentacle. Safety must be put in place.
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'''>'''Once in awhile, the the thinking leader of each class of workers gather to try to put in common their technologies in order to invent more complex things.
They're all convinced now that mastering the tides of gases and fire is the next step to their evolution. They search together a solution for controllable contention. A balloon of gut tissue was all good to hold the gas but their weak tentacles were not good to hold it closed. It has been the cause of many accidents.
After several weeks of working they came up with a really ingenious mechanism to hold gas and liquid.
Meanwhile, at the northern camp, the hunters hire builders to set the village as a stronghold in order to protect the food reserves against savage animals.
Now that the population have grown, the food stock extend to leather bags suspended on trees. Steward posts have been built on the ground on layers of stones.

'''#'''Prior experience with metal work leads to more intricate metal forging. Goo tends to leak out of, just about anywhere. Much food is gained in the most recent foraging. Some Tentouz will take fruit and certain flowers with bits of meat, grinding it up they put it in a jar. It will ferment for a few months at which point they will pop the top and huff the fumes. It has quite the bouquet of hydrocarbons and stimulates their minds. The things you discover when you find old food jars... The stronghold has issues with things not being properly secured, if only there was a way to more strongly affix things to the "trees".
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'''>'''While the stewards work on better goo, leather workers start to make balloons out of mudgrub gut to sick it around the new system when it gets to be functional.
The stronghold project was a bit ambitious. They quickly had problems to attach things to trees and build in the muddy ground. They came to the idea that the ground was unworthy of their interest. The crawling creatures may go back and forth beneath them, they'll keep building on the heights. They unbuilt every wall and rather consolidated small chunks of ground (with rocks) in order to build towers.
The stewards tried the idea of mixing strong acid with rocks and then add water to neutralize it, and then add goo mush into it. 

'''#'''the second attempt at the glue builds on top of the first, and the addition of boiled bones and hoof like things, rendered into liquid, really helps the case, but now it is gelatin like. too much. The balloons actually worked out, the culmination of a long time of effort. Foundations and cement are out of reach for the moment,and with those components missing, so were towers.

'''>'''Several Borgas IV's weeks of hard work did not end up with the slightest success. The brilliant projects being held by the qualitty of the goo and the cement, they had to find new solutions to increase their rate of ingeniousness.
One of the hunters passing by to ask toolworkers for weapons went complaining on how the hot summer sun made his mind dazzling in a dizzy daze.
The idea struck the thinkers who, they must admit it, have been giving themselves bursts of stunning shoots.
They then tried the idea without forgeting to bring herbs to burn and jars to breathe on. A hut was built on a layer of rocks, and a small pyre lighted inside. The acceleration of molecular agitation and the changes of chirality due to thermolability had effect to give them a kick of smatness. Going out of this warmhouse, they got back to work.

'''#'''A little mind alteration never hurt anyone, particularly a tentouz. The Goo and cement are now of a useable quality, perhaps even nice. now what to do with it?

'''>'''A solid, flexible and waterproof recipe of goo has finally been invented by adding up the sugary nectar gathered from a Kakt Wezar colony to the jelly substance inside the mugar leaves.
They finally can complete the thorough valves. They even manage to build smaller valves.
They build balloons and attach them in top of the chimney to fill them with the Anima of Hastun. They are persuaded that studying this will allow them to know more about themselves. They also already see many use to it. The first to be experimented is to add it to the Anima of fire to have a more steady flame with the metal Bunsen heaters.
The cement has been stabilized by adding small rocks to it. Once dry it is pretty tough and has a brownish color.
They cover parts of the ground they want to build a tower on with it. The building of these foundations needs an big quantity of rocks and gravel. The bit they managed to find would not be enough. The blacksmiths also claim for more rocks to extract metal which will be needed for the towers. A scouting patrol is sent to the north east to find some (100km a day).
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'''>'''After several days of travel, the scout troop arrived on the north part of the main river which was on a more hilly and rocky layer of land. They immediately started to build a camp. They then gone back and forth, following the course of the river to bring some material, but finally a good part of the material has been gathered around. The ground was pretty poor on metals, but there were other metals too. They found a bit of tin and copper they were used too. But also two new grey-ish elements which were Aluminum and chromium. The first one reveled easy to melt but the other one was pretty hard to get melting. These two last components were rare on sight. Even rarer, when they managed to spot it without melting it, they sometimes were able to extract at great effort chunks of darker grey (Arsenic trioxide). Melting it revealed to liberate a ill gas. The miners didn't try it themselves again but gathered the rare chunks they got anyway.
But the weakness of the Tentouz was a problem to carry minerals back to the worker's camp. The ruler himself thought of making the toolworkers work on his idea of a wooden shell to put on the river.
On the way, they noticed a strange pattern on the ground and a structure above the river. But it was nothing yet to worry their aerial travels.
Eventually, curious ones wanted to try following it up north.

'''#'''The Hastun found plenty of copper and some raw aluminium ore. Some tin were also found. So far Arsenic were found in very small quantities.
As for the river transports, the toolworkers made it too heavy, and the boat sank to the bottom of a shallow river.
They found strange structures on the ground, partially covered in vegetation. They are definitely not of Hastun make, and it seems like the former inhabitants of these were smaller creatures than the Hastun.

'''!''' Bobbing on the wind currents you find a very deflated airship. It is more advanced then what you could have imagined, but not outside the realm of possibility. It is partially stuck on the top of the trees and loaded with cargo. Some of it is damaged, others not. Please roll 4d20 like above.

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'''>'''The boats are too heavy. But one thing that the tentouz have a good idea of is densities and Archimedes forces. They try this time to add ballons filled with normal atmosphere air around the shell to make it float. They also attach more ropes to it in order to be able to save it if it would be about to be sank.
First, the ingeneers try to make the ship work. If they are successful at it, they would unmount it precociously to analyse the materials used.
Scouts wander inside the dead village. First, realising that these buildings were a work of something with greater abilities than the mere creatures, they worn their more friendly colours hoping to find other tentouz (they don't know of the other races). But their UV sensibility quickly revealed the place to be really desert. They then searched for anything interesting to he tribe.

'''#'''the domestic boat floats. The new ship was easily repairable and with some study, is apparently made of a bark like substance, mixed with some sort of resin, pressed into sheets. The sheets were cut to shape to make a very lightweight structure with a very large gas bag floating above it. The tentouz were sure they could apply this to their own designs. The ship had rudders, and sails used to direct it in the air, and a simple yet robust system to do so.

'''>'''Toolworkers and stewards worked together trying to make the new wooden layered material.
All this new notions of axle mechanics was a mess for the confirmed workers. But young adults which did not have yet a job to do were very interested.
While analysing the tube thing, one pulled one of the four rings and triggered a clicking noise (which he felt more than he heard). They tried to put the balls alone: nothing. The sack alone: explosion! Both: Shooting. After this conclusive result, tool workers couldn't resist the urge to unmount the thing and blacksmiths to melt the balls and set fire to a sack of powder. Also, ate it. It was untastefull but full of good minerals, so it gave a shot of energy (nitrates are not poisonous for tentouz).
Seeds: a common thing to the tentouz, but they never realised its role in vegetable life.
Yet, curious youngs decided to take a part of it before stewards cook it all.

'''#'''The new wooden material is difficult to make, but previous experience makes it not so hard. The idea is simple. Wood like pulp, combined with glue, and pressed into sheets. the mixture is off though so this wood is not for ship building, but actually quite flexible and leather like. This new mechanic is entirely new! So many moving things...The study often results into simply playing with the various mechanisms. These bullets are of a harder material then what has been previously experimented with, and resist the fire's heat. These seeds are totally unknown, and taste different, some of them have fallen to the grounds below into the swampy soil. Wild Azrach and Hrass rapidly take root in an environment where nothing has been designed to eat them yet. Though some of the pack herbivores have been sniffing. The tentouz keeps this patch of plant life as his own little project. the town is full of ruins, and with some work the tribe manages to pull some of them down, these buildings are made of cut stone! Much easier then digging it up themselves! Fuck history, whoever was here before does not need them. Time to strip the town of all resources!

[[Image: Blacksmith.png|thumb|left|A blacksmith equipped with the latest technologies]]
[[Image: HastCanonier2.png|thumb|left|A Warrior equipped with the latest technologies]]
'''>'''The miners sack the city for every nugget of metal, every piece of fabric, every novel thing.
Once they got everything, leaving the buildings, builders try to see what they can manage to do with the buildings.
>Tell me about towers, undergrounds, etc.
Meanwhile, more exploration is ordered, these loots are a chance for the development of the tribe.
The weapon principle is now understood, an explosion is triggered and throws a projectile.
But as the Hastun have no idea on how to cook that powder or find that tough metal, they try to design something of their fashion.
A gun that would throw a ball of acid slime triggered by a gas explosion.
They use a bit of their new understanding of the axles for the trigger and air input.
A valve is installed to loch the acid room.
When the trigger is pulled, the oxygen enters the methane and hydrogen room and triggers the bursting reaction and then the methane combustion to propulse a ball of inflamed acid through an aluminium pipe (the easiest to shape).
Some of the precise parts of the gun are made of the new wooden material. The chambers are covered by a layer of bronze (tin + copper).

'''#'''Only a few things were recovered. Little metal spheres, some stuck into the walls, and some odd debris here and there, but mostly empty and abandoned. Whoever was here vacated in a hurry, carrying everything with them. The architects are having a hard time analyzing the structures, for many of the rooms can barely fit one tentouz, and some of them are even smaller. Plenty of walls and floors need to be destroyed carefully if it is to be of use to the Hastun. Meanwhile, to the north of the ruins, a large abandoned mine came into view; seems like the ruins were some kind of mining town. There is still plenty of ores scattered, maybe more underground. To the east, only more jungle and marshlands, while the ones going to the Other direction got confused and went missing. Meanwhile, the smiths are having a hard time making perfectly straight metal cylinders, at least now they got plenty of curved or bent cylinders. Some try out the foreign gun, it hit a False Bluva dead. 

'''>'''> =II= (quarries)
The explorers immediately install an outpost on this new quarry.
tearing down walls and roofs is not difficult; this sandstone melts well on acid. But they must try to manage not to make the buildings fall down.
This would take months of work. The new town is named from a symbol they often encountered carved on walls.
The resources are hard to transport in the air between the different places. The engineers try to make a prototype of airship combining their technology and the foreign technologies using light composite material, valves, methane balloons and combustive propulsion.
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> =!= (first village), =o= (second village).
Meanwhile, the income of metals, rocks and gravel allows the growth of the villages of the south. Many towers rise around. Now every hastun has its own place to spend the night instead of wildly floating in mid air to sleep.
Nothing lays on the ground anymore.
> =o=
While quietly observing his garden of foreign seeds which was growing well, a hastun witnessed the mating behavior of the Hivogs
Chemists make more experiences with all the materials that have been gathered.

'''#'''The buildings are not much more then they have always been, but slow improvements continue in the understanding of architecture. The new airship prototype drunkenly takes to the air before getting under control after a bit. It is crew intensive, but it flys and can actually move quickly with the wind. Hivog's seem to only mate after they have gorged at which point they become very relaxed, almost clumsy, bumping into things, and eventually each other. The new chemistry is very advanced, allowing for distillation, cooking, and combining of chemicals. Some are very dangerous, some are just neat. 

'''>'''While keeping alchemical beliefs, Hastun begin to have an advanced understanding of the valences while not knowing the atomic species or structures of molecules.
>New chemistry techniques:
*Distilation: Heating the liquid which is produced in their fermentation jars and passing it through a cooled pipe allows to extract ethanol. Then, mixed with an acid or water dissolution and distilled again allows to get essentials oils from vegetal life which allows the Hastun to absorb molecules from too tough vegetals to be digested. Ethanol is tried on drinking of course, but it has low effect on their synapse-poor brains, merely numbing their muscles: totally worthless!
*Pigment extraction: Grinding, mixing with ethanol and filtrating allows to extract pigments from leaves. They start to weave fabric with the new species of llras produced from the foreign seeds and colour it with the pigments.
*Arsenic oxide acid: The arsenic trioxide (As2O3) dissolves easily in water to become arsenic acid (H3AsO4). This is very poisonous. Even the tentouz organism can't do anything against it and is a weak reagent for metals. It is very carefully used to shape the most precise pieces of metal.
*Pigment mordant: While sparing their acid blasts to save the arsenic oxide chunks, the miners discovered that the aluminium veins were surrounded by alum cristal (KAl(SO4)2) which is a mordant for pigments. 
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Finest creation of the Hastun engineers, the airship is a miracle of ingeniousness. It needs a big crew. Four of them have their sprouts plugged to a methane combustion motor to set fire to it while holding the lever of the individual gas balloon valve. These motors are only used for manoeuvres because they only have a few gas allowed. A few more workers controll the balance of the whole ship by movingthe charge it contains. A few more have their sprouts plugged to balloons and can swallow methan to convert it in dihydrogen to make the ship lighter. The shipping doors are controlled by a puller system because too heavy for a Tentouz. 
<nowiki>> =II=</nowiki>
The ruins have been converted in a miners' blacksmiths' and chemists' ground. Some towers have been converted in long furnaces to melt bigger quantities of metal. Alimented by wood from the jungle. Entire lairs inhabit chemist's mad experiments . Smoke puffs raise up from the place and are visible from the distance.
> =O=
Since the invention of the balloon, methane has become the most needed resource of the Hastun in less than a Borgas IV year. And the population has grown more than ever. They need new settlements and more of these methane chimneys. Scouts are to go again.
Meanwhile, the study of hivogs goes on. The observer now watch inside the trunk to studdy the condition of the methane release. Also studying the tree, he assumes that it must also have "seeds".
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