Pepcajohto Press: Issue 1
Boom CropExcess of Food Leads to More Energy
After starting our civilization, we have already found good fortune by receiving a boom crop. The excess of food will provide of with about 5% more energy in our new and upcoming civilization. Top scientists believe all of our extra food is a gift from the gods, given to us so that we may prosper early on. Apart from our energy boost, we now also have more food to distribute to our people. No one will be hungry in this civilization for the time being luckily.
Our plans for the boom crop are to harness this extra energy and use it to possibly go out into some other lands that may be outside of our own world. We have some reason to believe that we can not be alone in this world. It is quite possible that there are other worlds that exist around us. If so this energy is crucial to getting out there into those worlds. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to travel that far distance. We must thank the gods for giving us this amazing opportunity!
So far nothing like this has ever happened to us, mostly because we are just beginning our lives in this civilization. Hopefully however the gods will shower us with more gifts such as this boom crop. Our mighty rulers promise us that as long as we please our gods, more good things will fall upon us. Until then, we will just have to wait and see.
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 2
Gods Contemplating Our Fate
Citizens Wait for the Gods Judgment
While we are awaiting judgment, all plans have come to a standstill. We don’t have any special gifts from our rulers, leaving us with just a small rise of our daily resources. Our scientists have decided to start research on something they call “tools”, but progress won’t start for quite a while. For now we just need to hope the Gods make their decision so our civilization can prosper.
The gift of the boom crop leads many civilians to believe that the Gods will come through with us again like before. They say that we just need to be patient and keep working. “The Gods won’t help us if we don’t help ourselves,” states Bob the Civilian. Others say the Gods generosity has run out, and we’re on our own. All I say is that only time will tell.
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 3
Gods Silence Continues
Prayers Go Unanswered Still
Still the Gods have yet to answer us. We have heard or seen any sign of them since the gift of our boom crop. Those who believed that they exist and are here to help have lost hope. Only a few of the believers still remain now. Non-believers have decided to turn to other religions, some even thinking they can control the powers of a God themselves. Production still crawls along slowly, however we are getting extremely close to moving out to explore other worlds. If only the Gods would help us, we could easily move out and into these new lands. Until then we will just have to work on our own.
Since we are just mortals, achieving the resources to move out and explore is no easy task. It requires much planning and work, not to mention we need the people to go out into the uncharted. It will require food to eat, energy to move, and raw materials to make things needed to make the venture. The few believers feel that if we move into other worlds, the Gods will be pleased with us and return. Some others believe new Gods will be awaiting our arrival into the new worlds. As always, only time will tell what will become of us.
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 4
New World Discovered
One-Hundred People Move to a New World
One-Hundred citizens of Pepcajohto have been given supplies and sent to explore for a new world. After a long wait, they have finally reported back with astounding news. They have discovered a new world, found right next to ours! Rather than keep these two worlds separate, since no other creatures (other than the ones we are accustomed to) were found, the rulers of Pepcajohto have decided to just take it in as an addition to our existing world. Now instead of owning two smaller worlds, we now have one giant world! The Gods will surely be pleased with us now and shall hopefully return!
Due to the massive increase in the size of Pepcajohto, all of our research and production has doubled! Scientists estimated that we were receiving about 10% of our resources per day. Now however we are receiving 20% to all of our resources! This amazing increase will give us much more to work with now. This means of course that we can take more worlds to expand Pepcajohto. This also means that scientists will be able to finish their research of “tools and weapons” as they call it much faster.
With the new addition to our world, skeptics of the Gods returns have opened their minds once more. It is possible that we may now receive a gift from the Gods perhaps, which would convert many of the non-believers back to their former state of mind. I personally believe however that if the Gods decide to return to us, we will know very soon. So all that is left to do now is wait for a response from them and to continue our research on our own until then.
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 5
The Gods Answer in a Bad Way
Violent Shaking of the Earth Causes Loss of Energy
The expansion of Pepcajohto has caused the Gods to become angry with us. They decided to shake the very earth from under our feet. Scientists are calling this attack an “earthquake.” They believe the Gods are making these earthquakes because they are angry that we took over the new world or because we finally discovered how to make weapons. The world is in turmoil as citizens ask, why? Why are the Gods angry that we are expanding? Why must they make this earthquake to take away our energy resources? The only thing that can be done now is to build up again and hope the Gods violent attack has ended.
The earthquake has taken 10% of our resources away, causing us to have to work extra hard to make up for it. Without energy it won’t be possibly to continue exploring new worlds. The loss of it will put us back one day in our production of energy, so it will be easily made up. We are still upset however that the Gods decided to cast this disaster upon us. Luckily however the earthquake has passed and the production can now continue.
This earthquake has answered the ultimate question, “Have the Gods abandoned us?” The answer is yes, the Gods have decided we are inferior and have cast us away. Now we must make a choice. Do we grovel on our knees to these supernatural beings, or do we forget about them and continue on our own. To be frank why should we serve them? They wish to cast us away then I feel we should go. Let us move on and prosper without them. With the Gods we can get wonderful, but without them we can fully prosper. We can get weapons and a new invention called “fire,” which is used to cook or to keep ourselves warm. So the time to move on is now my brothers and sisters! Let us move on without these so called “Gods” and prosper!
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 6
The Gods Attack Again
Second Earthquake Kills 10% of Population
Terrible, terrible news my good citizens of Pepcajohto. The evil Gods have struck with another one of their earthquakes. This time however, they have killed 10% of the people in the world. This is the most horrible incident to have happened to us. We can’t fight back against them so all we can do is hope their attacks stop. Many citizens reported seeing a large rock falling from the sky some distance away from our world. Perhaps the Gods are targeting other people in other worlds. If we could maybe find these other people, maybe we could band together against them to stop their attacks. Unfortunately we may still not be able to stop their attacks, even with the help from these other civilizations. Even in the face of uncertainty, we must still at least try to stand up to them.
The second earthquake has killed many of the people in Pepcajohto. Not only will this shrink the numbers of our people in the world, it will also slow us down from being able to explore again. Without people to venture out and explore it makes being able to find new worlds impossible. The 10% set-back will only require half-a-day to get those citizens back. The next step for Pepcajohto is to recover these people so that we can begin exploration once again. Hopefully these earthquakes will stop once and for all so these minor set-backs can stop occurring.
This earthquake relates greatly to the prior one that occurred a short while back. The other one took away 10% energy while this one took 10% of our population. Both of those can be made up in less than a day, but it is still very infuriating to have them happen to us over and over. After two earthquakes, we can only hope that our suffering by the hands of the Gods is coming to an end.
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 7
Life Crawls Along Slowly
Nothing Special Happening; Life Continues Normally
The earthquakes have ended. Life continues to move along slowly with a steady income of resources. There has been no interference from the Gods for a while now, so focus can be applied to science. All efforts have been put into building up all of our assets so that we may use them when the need arises. According to citizens of the new-world section of Pepcajohto, there are more worlds to the right of our world. Once we achieve a set number of our resources, we can send explorers out to those worlds so we can make Pepcajohto bigger. We hope to have this soon so we can possibly even find new people out in the other worlds.
Since we are getting no special advantages or disadvantages, we just need to rely on our steady income of resources. We achieve about 20% of each resource per day, so in about one week we will have the necessary amount to move into those new lands. Luckily since no other civilizations (if they even exist) have made contact with us, we don’t have to worry about being attacked by them. We can simply wait for our resources to be high enough, and then move out easily and swiftly.
This time of nothingness relates greatly to a time when we awaited judgment from the so-called Gods. All that we did during that recess was to allow our resources to rise up, just as we are now. After moving into a new land after that, we had earthquakes strike, so we must be cautious when moving into new lands. If that is in fact why the Gods caused the earthquakes, moving into those new worlds may anger them even more. As stated before, only time will tell what will become of the situation.
Pepcajohto Press: Issue 8
New World Expansion
Pepcajohto Launching Mass Expedition
After a long awaited time of preparation, Pepcajohto is now ready to launch a mass expedition of 500 people into new worlds. These worlds are located to the right of the new world (soon to be old world) section of Pepcajohto. To move the 500 people all the way to the journey’s end, it will take roughly five days. Rather than control a lot of spots around Pepcajohto, the expedition will reach far to the right of Pepcajohto, leaving the sections directly next to us either vacant or left to whoever currently controls them.
This mass expansion will give Pepcajohto much more production to our resources due to all the new locations that will be under our control. Also since we are moving directly right and not occupying everything directly next to us, we can stretch out far giving more insight to the other worlds out there. We can also hopefully find some other people out there in the worlds we explore, possibly giving us chances to trade our resources for newer technologies or other resources.
This expedition is quite like the expansion accomplished earlier in the civilization. This time however the expansion is much larger, which will give us much more resources and land than the original. By the expedition’s end there should be about 5 more worlds under Pepcajohto’s control.
