Chapter 23

Nitis becomes an Esteemed Elder

Laurence had just turned 14 and started work on clearing the thorny briers which was already cleared 84%. And with the help of the other villagers would soon be cleared. Nitis was working on the fields when he found he had now realised he had mastered 3 skills which was builder, farmer and scientist and the villagers made him a totem in his name. They decided to cave it in the same design as Tobi’s as they knew he liked the design and always admired it as he use to go to it prising it. Now he had one of his own to admire. The villagers and Nitis’s wife Orla congratulated him and Orla gave him a special present which he was very pleased. Nitis was 37 ten years older than Tobi, but then Tobi was the villager’s runner and that is why he got his a lot younger.

The celebrations over and done with, all went back to work, Nitis working with his daughter to clear the briers and he was very proud of his daughter Laurence as she was growing up to be a beautiful young woman and one day she would turn heads of the male villagers. The scientist worked hard at getting the tech points and the children found the collectables and mushrooms.

Another piece of the gong is discovered

The guiding hand found there was now 3 master builders and asked them if they could try and open the wooden create on the beach. The builders who were Nitis, Tobi and Wabu, Wabu the last one who had just become a master builder after working hard on clearing the briers. They succeeded in finely opening the box after trying for many weeks. Tobi who was the fastest runner took the piece of the gong to the science hut and the villagers once again celebrated finding the second piece of the gong of wonder.

The gong encasement is revealed

It wasn’t long after; the villagers had another cause to celebrate when after all the briers were cleared could see another piece of the gong and saw that what was hidden was the place to put the piece and it fitted perfectly and the villagers placed the other two pieces in place and as they did so it gave off some sparkles that died away as it was not wholly complete. But this did not prevent the villagers from celebrating as they danced and jumped in the air as villagers do when they celebrate.

Culture is fully researched

The scientists found they had just over 10,000 tech points after one of the children found a rare collectable and decided to ask the guiding hand to purchase culture and agreed and bought the second level of culture, but found was 4995pts short to buy the third level as the villagers had 80,005 points and needed 85000. So the villagers got to work looking for the collectables for the children to take to the scientists. As the guiding hand scanned though the village the rest of the villagers got to work on watering the field, crops and the builders helping Noa to build the hospital which was now 50% completed as the construction shot up. Within 10 minutes soon got the last 5000pts and was able to buy level 3 of culture. The villagers got to work on cutting away the vines and scraping away the moss on the ancient place, but this did not stop them from building the hospital, as after the guiding hand noticed was now 79% complete. The villagers had much to do.

Orla name her baby after she was two Bindi and soon she and Nitis had another baby bringing the population to 20.

After the second level of culture was researched, the villagers had enough materials to build a clothing hut. However since the clothing hut was not as important as the hospital decided to put to one side to later. After all at the moment needed room to exercise. The villagers needed to keep fit to be builders.

The children after all the briers were cleared were finding bugs like colourful beetles of different types. The first one found was a common the second was uncommon and the third one was a rare one all one after another. It wasn’t long before they had in the collection the 4 common and three uncommon and the one rare bug.

So far the builders had now completed 83% of the hospital and 4% of the vines. With all the hard work the villagers had done Tobi decided to make the villagers an energy stew to give them more energy which was 3 parts of the red flower herbs and soon most of the villagers were invited to partake in enjoying the stew that Tobi had made. All the villagers that ate the stew ran round the village exercising or went for a fast swim exercise. Some of the children who also ate the stew also exercise and one or two of the children decided to go paddling in the waves running though them until the exercise stew wore off and went off to play.

To be continued