[Plotnotes] Garnet Sunsong

[Garnet Sunsong]

Saved --

[Garnet Sunsong]

Long Term Character Goals

Skills to Master

-Wilderness Survival
-1 Weapon Skill
-Riding (Horse)
-Leather Working
-Webbing
-Hunting
-Animal Husbandry
-Cooking
-tbd

Relationships
-Join a PC run / occupied Pavilion
-Make lots of Drykas Friends
-Make a rival or enemy
-Find someone with a male Strider to breed Aggra
-Get Married (but not right now)
-Have a child (again, not right now)
-Meet a Kelvic (form non-romantic bond?)

three

[Garnet Sunsong]

Seasonal Character Goals

Skills

-Wilderness Survival to 26/100
-1 Weapon Skill to 5/100
-Riding (Horse) to 26/100
-Leather Working to 26/100
-Webbing 15/100
-Hunting 20/100
-Animal Husbandry 10/100
-Cooking 5/100
-tbd

Gear/Items

-2 Hens [4 CM]
-1 Rooster [5 CM]
-1 cart [15 GM + 2 GM for Harness]
-3 Small Cages [15 GM]
-Feed, 10lbs [5 CM] *
-Aditional Horses [50-500 GM]

*one rooster and two hens would consume roughly .75 lbs of feed a day, every 92 days would require 69lbs of feed, so purchasing 70lbs a season would be a little over the minimum. [70x.05=3.5 GM a season]

Challenges
-insert Spring Seasonal Challenges here-

[Garnet Sunsong]

Notes, One

Animals

Chickens - each chicken requires 2oz of water a day and /25 lbs of feed a day. They can live in a cage no smaller than 2x its own size. Each chicken can produce one egg a day. The addition of a rooster will allow for breeding additional chickens for eggs when the hens get too old.
According to some quick online research, hens produce the most mmount of eggs in the first 1-3 years of their lives and then slowly lay fewer and fewer. For the purposes of Garnet having hens for the purpose of producing eggs for food, after a chicken turns three she will have that chicken lay a fertile egg with the roosters help and repeat this process until a healthy female chick hatches and turns into a pullet. At that point she will likely take the older chicken to town to be butchered for 65% of its weight into meat.
While she could still get eggs out of an older hen, the ability to have consistent lays and fresh meat every few years is incentive to keep the chickens young, healthy and fat. If a Hen goes into their third year and is still laying consistent eggs, she may keep it until it starts to lay less than one a day. Also, as her gear grows, ie the addition of a cart, or eventually a wagon, she may choose to keep more hens and get more eggs. Also, chickens usually begin laying at 6months but prefer to start laying in the spring and will often wait until spring if they mature in the middle of winter. (So try to plan the fertilizing of eggs to not be 6 months prior to winter if avoidable.)
http://www.mypetchicken.com/backyard-chickens/chicken-help/At-what-age-do-hens-start-laying-eggs-H41.aspx -- most info above found via this link.

Additional Horses - The additional horse, or horses would be primarily used for pulling the cart, or the wagon to alow for more stuff to be transported as she moves with the Tent City of Endrykas. Preferribly the breeds would be colorsplash (for drafting purposes) or a hearty mixed breed who could easily pull the cart or wagon. (Maybe 1 for a cart and 2 for a wagon?) The cart would be purchased first then gifted, or sold so she could acquire a wagon. (I would also be interested in breeding Garnet's Strider and having her slowly collect Striders to pull her things, at least until they bond and move on to their new homes.)

Rabbits - After talking to Prophet I believe that breeding rabbits might be too difficult at least until she has a Pavilion and maybe some friends to help her out. The ability to breed rabbits for a constant supply of meat and pelts would be nice, but it might be easier to just hunt and trap for rabbits until she raises her Animal Husbandry skill with her chickens.

[Garnet Sunsong]

Notes, Two

Animals

Leather Working - sources for reference below
http://www.instructables.com/id/Introduction-to-Leatherworking/
http://leatherworker.net/content/
- http://leatherworker.net/content/index.php/leatherworker-community/tutorials/

Employment - pending approval Threaded Hide at 5 GM a dat at Novice.