A) Improve food
B) Improve military technology
C) Improve infrastructure
G) Prospect further
B) Improve military technology
C) Improve infrastructure
G) Prospect further
The orcs had progressed about as well as to be expected with the turning upside down of their strict hierarchy, and their sudden and violent switch from pirate raiders to marooned survivalists. That is to say - badly. Paralysed by indecision, the Crooked Arrow tribe had fallen into petty bickering, with squabbles and the occasional fight being the only social interaction between the followers of each captain on the council. Their food source was meagre, but stable, they had crude shelters, and the orcish love of fighting was overriding their basic survival instincts.
That was, until Fish Hook had enough. He wasn't the biggest orc on the captains' council, but he was the smartest. Instead of bellowing and fighting his fellow captains to become chief, he outmanoeuvred them, having their followers set against each other, whilst offering himself as a willing ally to all his rivals. When the dust settled, the heads of the council adorned spikes outside the captain's cabin, and Fish Hook officially styled himself as Admiral Fish Hook, Leader of the Crooked Arrows, Scourge of Sea and Land. He berated his fellow orcs, for fighting each other, when there would be plenty of others to fight soon enough! He ordered his orcs out, to search for iron and coal to make new swords, and timber to make proper huts. He put a stop to the random, individualistic hunting that was teh tribe's main way of feeding itself. Instead, he organised hunting and foraging parties, forcing the whining orcs to eat mushrooms instead of starve when there was no meat, and he got the most easily-bullied orcs to start expanding their clearings with axes and rope, to make one large settlement instead of scattered groups of like-minded orcs spread over a small area of forest.
As orcs go, this was as close to organised as they were going to get...
That was, until Fish Hook had enough. He wasn't the biggest orc on the captains' council, but he was the smartest. Instead of bellowing and fighting his fellow captains to become chief, he outmanoeuvred them, having their followers set against each other, whilst offering himself as a willing ally to all his rivals. When the dust settled, the heads of the council adorned spikes outside the captain's cabin, and Fish Hook officially styled himself as Admiral Fish Hook, Leader of the Crooked Arrows, Scourge of Sea and Land. He berated his fellow orcs, for fighting each other, when there would be plenty of others to fight soon enough! He ordered his orcs out, to search for iron and coal to make new swords, and timber to make proper huts. He put a stop to the random, individualistic hunting that was teh tribe's main way of feeding itself. Instead, he organised hunting and foraging parties, forcing the whining orcs to eat mushrooms instead of starve when there was no meat, and he got the most easily-bullied orcs to start expanding their clearings with axes and rope, to make one large settlement instead of scattered groups of like-minded orcs spread over a small area of forest.
As orcs go, this was as close to organised as they were going to get...