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| Action Id: 3765 | Crisis: | Participants: Yasmine, Hadrian, Edward, Iseulet, Harlex, Brigid and Ringvald | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: Jan. 21, 2020, 2:16 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Apostate |
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Economic Resources: 15000 Social Resources: 5000 |
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Action by Yasmine
Yasmine Champagne has taken a keen interest in stepping into the business of agriculture – specifically the experimentation and creation of new food crops that are both nutritious and delicious for consumers, as well as equitably sustainable for the producers with an excellent yield and turn around. House Champagne has no shortage of wealth, influence and connections among the Compact to see this done; however, they lack the lands to do so.
In order to rectify this and cultivate new trade relations within the fealties, Yasmine has hand-picked several noble houses situated upon lands with unique and challenging conditions to base her work upon.
From the Crownlands: It is perhaps rather symbolic that Yasmine approached a house with an ancestry rooted in creating something substantial from nothing. With their penchant for being the most industrious lot Yasmine has come across, Yasmine partnered with Count Orrin Seliki to try and bring them a new food crop.
From the Northlands:Yasmine approached House Clearlake and brokered an agreement with Baroness Acantha Clearlake and Lord Ringvald Clearlake to utilize their lands to experiment with root vegetables that will prosper in the cooler climate regions and be delicious despite the lack of reliable sunlight when the winter months are long and dark. (Think swiss chard, and similar dark greens.)
From the Oathlands: Baroness Brigid Moore and Lady Katherine Moore gave their consent to allow House Champagne use of their lands. Given that they were once the breadbasket of the Oathlands, Yasmine wants to help revitalize their reputation with the careful implementation of new cereal grains and legumes that will attract new lifeblood into the area as the Moores seek to rebuild what they lost in recent tragedies.
The Mourning Isles: From the Isles, Yasmine has brokered a deal with House Stormbreak to make use of their flatlands that may be suitable as a site of new crops. She knows there’s going to be a challenge there with it being so far flung north of the Isles that brutal winters will be a worry, so she knows that cold-resistant and hardy is the way to go.
There are more houses that Yasmine has struck deals with and who’ve agreed to lend a helping hand in the experimentation, guarding, and other fairly important tasks that she hopes will further their successes beyond her initial massive investments into the respective lands.
Action by Harlex
Harlex Valtyr hasn't been a farmer since he left home at the age of seventeen. But here he is, aiding in the spreading of these agricultural plans. Not as an expert, of course. He remains the business partner of Yasmine Champagne, deciding to not only join her as a personal bodyguard, but also to make sure she doesn't get in over her head. Certainly looking scary is a good way to dissuade anyone from at least not hearing her out. Other than that, he provides the assurance that she couldn't be safer than in his company. Lets make some money moves.
Action by Ringvald
Ringvald, being an economic mind is going to be actively overseeing proceedings that take place in Clearlake hold. His main contribution will be overseeing the beauracracy involved in the matter, and ensuring that should the plan come to fruition, it will be adequate for the surrounding area.
Action by Edward
Baron Stormbreak will provide Yasmine with the necessary parcels of land to be used and tended by the colonists of Whitefrost. Those farmers who put their land up for volunteer will get a stipend to offset their costs and ensure that they suffer no hardships going into the winter for their own households. The Baron will also take responsibility for overseeing all logistics and economic concerns for his part of the project, as well as be ready to assist any others whose requries it or with whom he will need to coordinate.
Action by Iseulet
If there is anything the lands of Estroch Isle might have, it's ample amounts of fertile soil. She sets some agriculturally vyable land aside for Yasmine's project and contributes some of her wealth to clearing it and preparing it for farming.
That's about as much of farming as Iseulet knows, unfortunately. But she can help in other ways! As the founder of the Empyrean Route, she can make sure that things get to where they need to go quickly and what needs to be sold gets there and the right ears hear tell of the new crop and all of its benefits.
Action by Hadrian
On behalf of Duchess Cambria Mazetti, her Voice will be seeing to this proposed project. Arrangements in the city-state of Ostria will be made to set aside arable land for this project. On account of the fact that it will prove useful in increasing the stockpiles of food for the people under the protection of House Mazetti and that it may prove financial beneficial for the household, the project is given the full support of the Hydra. In addition to this Duke Hadrian Mazetti stands prepared to aid in stretching out the investments into the project as far as they can possibly go. Putting business talents garnered from the First Bank of Ostria, Port Valerio, the refurbishment and reinforcement of Stone Keep, House Mazetti's recent construction of three caravels, and more to good use. House Mazetti stands prepared to give its full support to the efforts on their land at the request of Yasmine Champagne.
Action by Brigid
Baroness Brigid Moore, with no small amount of cautious excitement decided to accept the offer for it would be a foolish thing for a decimated house to disregard - especially since Yasmine Champagne comes highly regarded by both the Marquis and Marquessa Keaton but the acceptance came with warnings and stipulations. The full scope of Acorn Hill is as follows: it’s soil has been corrupted by the foul forces that snuffed out all life on the barony and its surrounding woods are haunted with not a living thing remaining as even the Abandoned have fled marking it as cursed.
Once a cleansing has been done and a way found to be rid of troubles past, the parcels shall be open for Yasmine’s profitable experimentation.The Baroness herself will personally find hands to help work the land, acquire horses to help plow even if her own warhorse must be put to use, dig out the agricultural knowledge of Acorn Hill past, and use her own hands to see it done.
Result
It's not easy, but the tremendous investment in time, effort and funding yields fruit. Not quite literally, since it's mostly vegetables for the different fealties, but still.
In the Crownlands, House Champagne and Seliki are able to develop a type of greens based off of an edible (and pretty delicious) seaweed that grows in their waters. Seliki Greens could be grown in most of the calmer coastal areas of the Crownlands in fairly large quantities. It becomes quite a popular vegetable to mix in dishes at Pearlspire, and has started to spread throughout the Crownlands.
At Clearlake Hold, it's a matter of experimentation with different root vegetables, and finding ones that are more hardy and can be grown on land that has brief periods of thawed ground and is not quite to the line of permafrost. Mixing some of the more hardy vegetable roots from more arid regions works well, as they respond well to the portracted sunlight during the thawing months and damp ground, and are able to be harvested still as the ground cools. Clearlake Roots are a hit, and are durable enough that they can provide a staple throughout the land just short of the Everwinter.
In the Oathlands, Acorn Hill is cleared and the lands are used for experimentation with legumes. Some of the ground seems unusually fertile as House Champagne and Moore experiment with it- a possible side effect of the atrocity that happened there. The new Moore Legumes make an excellent complementary addition to the harvests, and can grown as an excellent rotation crop that greatly increases the wheat and rye yields so popular throughout the Oathlands and beyond.
The cooler lands near Whitefrost often have had crops damaged by particularly bad storms, and the newly developed Mourning Beets are extremely resistant to storms and flooding that have often badly damaged harvests. In addition, they are an excellent source of sugar, which is markedly popular.
House Champagne requires a reputation under Yasmine Champagne as one of the foremost investors in the Compact in developing new food sources and specifically in fighting against any dangers of starvation from difficult times. Trade is brisk after the first harvests, particularly for Ostria, Clearlake Hold, Whitefrost, Acorn Hill and the Empyrean, with many domains clamoring to try the newly developed crops. More importantly the Compact has a strong bulwark against starvation.