EventAcross the pillars
The Landmarks Do Not Agree
For once the map and the country almost agree. The carved idol stands on the ridge exactly where the parchment promised, down to the jut of its stone jaw. But the great fall of water that should thunder to its east instead spills to the west, and the twin peaks beyond rise in the wrong order altogether. Either the mapmaker was careless, or he drew a place he had only been told of, or the land itself has been described to us by people who would be glad to see us lost in it. Target Leader turns the parchment over and over, as though the truth of it might be written on the back.
Fired by
Search for El DoradoExpeditionFrom on arrive to new location · right away
Trigger
- Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
- LocationIs a land location
- ExpeditionDoes NOT have Variable: el_dorado_2
Exact conditions
One of these, at random
- 40%
- Show chance: no
- Desc: The Expedition doubles back over lost ground, and precious days slip away
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effect: MIN: 5 · MAX: 15↗IfThenThe porters and guides that accompany the Expedition prevent it from stallingExpeditionRemove variable: expedition_receives_guides_and_porters_variableOtherwiseExpeditionPause expedition
- 40%
- Show chance: no
- Desc: We press on regardless, trusting the parchment over our own eyes
- This will reduce our chances of uncovering what we seekExpeditionChange variable
- Name: leads_found
- Subtract: 1
- 20%
- Show chance: no
- Desc: We wring supplies and directions from the locals by force
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effect: MIN: 2 · MAX: 5↗IfExpeditionHas Variable: expedition_receives_guides_and_porters_variableThenThe porters and guides that accompany the Expedition prevent it from stallingExpeditionRemove variable: expedition_receives_guides_and_porters_variableOtherwiseExpeditionPause expedition
- Target locationGains Stolen Supplies for 6 months
Exact script
We cast the false map aside and trust our own eyes to the country ahead
Exact script
Requires 1
- Stolen SuppliesOption 1
Grants 1
- Stolen SuppliesOption 1
Triggered by 1
- Search for El DoradoOn reaching a new location
Scripting 5
Requires 1
- el_dorado_2Trigger
Grants 2
- el_dorado_2As soon as it happens
- leads_foundOption 1
Uses 1
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effectMAX = 15 · MIN = 5 (+1)Option 1
References 1
- modifier_duration_months_shortOption 1
type = country_event
title = d009_el_dorado_events.2.title The Landmarks Do Not Agree
desc = d009_el_dorado_events.2.desc For once the map and the country almost agree. The carved idol stands on the ridge exactly where the parchment promised, down to the jut of its stone jaw. But the great fall of water that should thunder to its east instead spills to the west, and the twin peaks beyond rise in the wrong order altogether. Either the mapmaker was careless, or he drew a place he had only been told of, or the land itself has been described to us by people who would be glad to see us lost in it. Target Leader turns the parchment over and over, as though the truth of it might be written on the back.
historical_info = d009_el_dorado_events.el_dorado_desc El Dorado, the Gilded One, began as a real ceremony among the Muisca of the Colombian highlands, in which a new ruler was coated in gold dust and rowed out onto Lake Guatavita to cast offerings of gold and emeralds into its waters. In the retelling of Spanish and later English adventurers, the gilded man swelled into a golden city, then a hidden kingdom, and at last a whole lost empire, its supposed location retreating ever deeper into the interior, from the Andes to the Orinoco to the forests of Guiana. The search consumed a generation of entradas: Jimenez de Quesada, Belalcazar, and the ruinous venture of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orellana, which found no gold but produced the first European navigation of the Amazon. Later expeditions collapsed into mutiny, most infamously under Lope de Aguirre, while others labored to drain Lake Guatavita itself, recovering a little treasure at enormous cost. No kingdom was ever found, for none had ever existed, yet the legend outlived every man who died chasing it.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}