EventAcross the pillars
Two Guides
Two men of the plains stand before the expedition, carried across the ocean by an earlier voyage and kept since at the harbor's charge. Asked about the country called Quivira, the elder, Target Character, describes a king who sleeps beneath a tree hung with golden bells, canoes with prows of beaten gold, dishes of worked silver on every table. The younger, Second Guide, asked the same question, says the country is grass and sky and good rivers, and that his people build in thatch and hunt the humpbacked cattle. They cannot both be describing home. One of them is to have a berth.
Fired by
Search for the Kingdom of QuiviraExpeditionFrom on start · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
- Create character: Culture: Target culture · Religion: Target religion · Birth location: Quivira · Estate:
Commoners · Create in limbo: yesAge4055
- Create character: Culture: Target culture · Religion: Target religion · Birth location: Quivira · Estate: Commoners · Create in limbo: yesAge
2030
- ExpeditionOne of these, at random
- 45%Set variable: quivira_elder_honest
- 55%Nothing happens
Exact script
References 1
- CommonersAs soon as it happens
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Kingdom of QuiviraWhen it starts
Scripting 8
Requires 2
- expedition_receives_guides_and_porters_variableOption 1, Option 2
- quivira_elder_honestOption 1, Option 2
Grants 6
Variables
- expedition_receives_guides_and_porters_variableOption 1, Option 2
- leads_foundOption 1, Option 2
- quivira_elder_honestAs soon as it happens
- quivira_false_guideOption 1, Option 2
- quivira_guide_character_varOption 1, Option 2
- quivira_true_guideOption 1, Option 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_quivira.10.title Two Guides
desc = seven_cities_quivira.10.desc Two men of the plains stand before the expedition, carried across the ocean by an earlier voyage and kept since at the harbor's charge. Asked about the country called Quivira, the elder, Target Character, describes a king who sleeps beneath a tree hung with golden bells, canoes with prows of beaten gold, dishes of worked silver on every table. The younger, Second Guide, asked the same question, says the country is grass and sky and good rivers, and that his people build in thatch and hunt the humpbacked cattle. They cannot both be describing home. One of them is to have a berth.
historical_info = seven_cities_quivira.10.historical_info Coronado's expedition carried two Plains captives out of the Pueblo country as guides: the man the Spanish called El Turco, who spoke of Quivira as a kingdom where the lord slept under a tree of golden bells and ate from dishes of silver, and a Wichita called Ysopete, who kept saying, to anyone who would listen, that there was no gold in Quivira and that El Turco was lying. The column chose to believe El Turco. It was the more expensive of the two decisions, and it was made, as one veteran later put it, because an army that has marched a thousand leagues needs the better story to be true.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_home_departure
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}