EventAcross the pillars
Crosses on the Trail
Our advance scout has outrun the column again. He is a man who crossed these countries once before, shipwrecked and barefoot, and the villages remember him: he walks ahead with two guides and a gourd rattle, and he sends back a wooden cross whenever the road proves out. The first cross was the span of a hand. The one carried into camp this morning stands the height of a man. The officers debate whether the crosses measure the country ahead or the man sent into it.
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Search for the Seven Cities of CibolaExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
Event chain
Each event is fired by the one it is nested under; the line below it says which choice leads there and when.
- Crosses on the Trail
- A Cross the Height of a Man↳ Option A “Let him range. The crosses speak plainly enough.” · 10–15 days later
- Killed at the Gates↳ Option A “Let him greet the city. He has earned the first look.” · 3–5 days later
Triggers 1
- A Cross the Height of a ManOption 1
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Seven Cities of CibolaEach month
Scripting 2
Grants 2
- chance_avoid_calamity_variableOption 2
- leads_foundOption 1
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_cibola.11.title Crosses on the Trail
desc = seven_cities_cibola.11.desc Our advance scout has outrun the column again. He is a man who crossed these countries once before, shipwrecked and barefoot, and the villages remember him: he walks ahead with two guides and a gourd rattle, and he sends back a wooden cross whenever the road proves out. The first cross was the span of a hand. The one carried into camp this morning stands the height of a man. The officers debate whether the crosses measure the country ahead or the man sent into it.
historical_info = seven_cities_cibola.11.historical_info Estevanico, a Moroccan slave who had survived the Narvaez disaster and walked eight years across the continent with Cabeza de Vaca, went ahead of Fray Marcos in 1539 as the expedition's pathfinder. The arrangement was that he would send back a cross the size of his news: a small one for a fair country, a larger one for a rich one. The crosses grew until runners could barely carry them, and the friar hurried after a man who was, by then, several countries ahead of him and enjoying every step of it. What the crosses were actually measuring has been debated ever since.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_overland_caravan
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}