635 Archery

No, the problems with housing started well after archery day.

Gods, archery day!

Now, if I've ever indicated that foraging is easy... well, it is, provided you keep moving. The problem with foraging in a single area is that sooner or later, all that should be picked has been. Get enough people together, and they'll over-harvest the plants, killing them. That meant no more plant, which in turn meant no more forage.

It also cuts down on the Nature nodes that can be tapped for mana, but that's a different problem.

Like a group of twenty three locusts and one latent shaman, I had traveled farther and longer most nights, but the others were increasingly also doing so.

And, eventually, the drill sergeants knew it was time to act. In the evening of one day, food arrived; lambs and piglets and goat kids. Small farm animals.