Settlement [Closed]

[Clockwork Citrus]

“Actually I think the lake will be fun!!!” Spiltscreen smiles

[cosmo]

“I don’t have much of a preference either way. I do agree that the marsh seems like it might be not the best for building, though.”

[Clockwork Citrus]

“actually!! Rethinking it again!! The hill side forest with the stream!!!”

[Pichi2214]

The promise type gathers the notebook and pen that fell to the ground while hurrying to the meeting, brushing a bit of dirt for them before taking a metaphorical deep breath to shake of the nervousness from being late.
"My name's Sanctuary, Sanny for short. I-i personally would prefer the forest, it feels the most like home to me." They flutter with their wings a bit, causing the small lanterns on their ears to wiggle around a bit. "And a good one at that, we'd be fairly safe and we'd have a lot of resources! Something about the... flower field just doesn't feel right, I'm sorry. I don't really know what, but... yea." Sanny tries to stand there as their usually confident self, but it's still painfully obvious that they were really nervous.

[skinstealer]

"What could be so bad about a field of flowers?"

[Clockwork Citrus]

“I was all for the flower field at first but, it doesn’t feel right, and the forest would be a lot more stable if I were to build electrical poles and stuff” the collision type gives a thumbs up happily

[skinstealer]

"So what if we get a little bit of a weird feeling? You really want to pass up a prime location like that over a case of the heebie jeebies?"

[Clockwork Citrus]

“I want to be safe......and happy? I trust this feeling”

[skinstealer]

"I got bad news for you then- no matter where we go, there's gonna be things that make us unsafe. You think making a village is gonna be a piece of cake?"

[Clockwork Citrus]

“No I don’t but I think it will be better if we don’t have a sinking feeling in ourselves when we’re a re building it. I’m sorry that you don’t seem to mind but it makes me unhappy and uncomfortable”

[Pichi2214]

"I agree with them there. I mean if we have the option to choose between actively feeling unsafe about what's going to be our new home and not having this feeling, the pick should be fairly obvious. I agree that the flower field is fairly pretty, but I assure you the forest can be just as pretty if not even more so! And while it doesn't have as big of a lake it also still got a spring, so I feel we wouldn't lose much."

[Clockwork Citrus]

“Yeah! And it is isolated, but that just means that to go somewhere you have to explore more! Though if something bad happens we would be cut off...well they all have their pros and cons”

[cosmo]

Press shifts from one foot to the other idly. “Well,” they say, interrupting the argument. “Maybe we put aside the point of ‘this flower field feels bad to some of us for some reason’ until we figure out if we actually want to go there in the first place. We should weigh the other pros and cons first, and then if they seem to be weighing in the fields favor, we can decide if it’s worth it or not,” they suggest. She glances at the faces of her companions. “For what it’s worth though, I agree with Abby. If the field’s the spot for us, I don’t think some random feeling should have to get in the way of that.”

[skinstealer]

"Thank you. I'm for the fields because it's plenty of easy ground to work on. I don't want to deal with lifting up rocks and chopping down branches all day just to get this thing off the ground."

[cosmo]

“At least chopping down branches might provide us with lumber for construction. But yeah, I hear your point.”

[aeshihowl]

[I updated Stuffie's pic now that I've drawn them properly.]

They nod, glancing up at Abby. "A-and lakes have fish, right? And herbs can be made from flowers, I think? And it's, uh, generally safer for us to have a shelter as, um, as soon as possible."

[Pichi2214]

Sanny fell silent for a moment, they knew they were biased for the woods, but they didn't mean to upset anyone with that. "I mean... Technically it's true, but we don't necessarily need fish or herbs to build a village, since we don't actually eat. What we need the most would be wood to build homes. Only later on I suppose we'd have to think about I dunno, trading with or selling stuff to others and what we could use for that. And I agree that fish and herbs would probably be something we could use for that.." They felt a bit uncomfortable when stating that last part of their argument, they didn't really want to make an argument for the flower field.
"But I'd assume that the woods would have equal oportunities for stuff to sell."

[Clockwork Citrus]

“I mean yeah I don’t like the feeling it gives me, but if everyone is happy with it I guess we can do whatever”

[Zenthis]

"Now that I've thought it over some more, I think the flower field is the way to go. If we build in the forest then the ground's gonna be very uneven, which we'd have to deal with." They sit down, "Also, there's gonna be a lot less natural light in the forest, which is really gonna be a pain for building, especially early on."

[aeshihowl]

Stuffie shifts uncomfortably, and says in a hesitant, cottony voice, just above a whisper, "S-so, the lakeside f-field is the majority, th-then?"