EventAcross the pillars
A River, but no City
Three months upriver from the New England coast and the column has reached the head of navigation. There is no walled city here. There is no city anywhere on the Penobscot, as far as the surveying parties have been able to determine. The riverbanks are heavily wooded; there are Abenaki villages in the meadowlands where the river bends; the people are willing to trade furs and ask through the interpreter what we were expecting to find. The chronicler has no good answer. Target Leader writes the dispatch in a small log fort by the river-mouth and waits for the spring thaw to start back.
Fired by
Search for NorumbegaExpeditionFrom on arrive to waypoint · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
- Gains Decreased Morale for 3 years
Army Morale−10%
Navy Morale−10%
- Fail expedition: Expedition
Exact script
Grants 1
- Decreased MoraleOption
Triggered by 1
- Search for NorumbegaOn reaching a waypoint
Scripting 1
References 1
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_norumbega.1.title A River, but no City
desc = seven_cities_norumbega.1.desc Three months upriver from the New England coast and the column has reached the head of navigation. There is no walled city here. There is no city anywhere on the Penobscot, as far as the surveying parties have been able to determine. The riverbanks are heavily wooded; there are Abenaki villages in the meadowlands where the river bends; the people are willing to trade furs and ask through the interpreter what we were expecting to find. The chronicler has no good answer. Target Leader writes the dispatch in a small log fort by the river-mouth and waits for the spring thaw to start back.
historical_info = seven_cities_norumbega.1.historical_info Norumbega first appears on European maps in the 1530s, attached to a region somewhere on the Atlantic coast of present-day Maine. By the time of the actual European exploration of the Penobscot valley a century later, the legend had grown to include a walled city of fair stone on the upper river. The fact-base on which any of this rested seems to have been the inflated reports of a single French expedition that briefly traded with the Abenaki of the lower Penobscot in 1525 and described their bark-covered longhouses, in language at home of the wealthier inhabitants of Saint-Malo, as something approaching a stone-walled European town.
outcome = negative
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}