Homesteading in a fantasy world

It was Wednesday and we were walking to the village. Yesterday I finally shared some of my plans for the future with my apprentices. I didn’t go too deep into my hopes of what we might become but I did open up about what kind of a community I wanted to create around the homesteader class.

But I also explained that everything was still in the planning phase, and nothing was concrete. And the only reason that I told them was that they had the right to know because this might become dangerous in the future and that I needed their help to start recruiting people to our cause.

They were hesitant at the start but they quickly understood that our current way of life would not fit into the current power structures that the nobles wanted to make. I was a little bit surprised by how willing they were to walk uphill with me and when I asked them about it, they simply stated that I was the main reason, not the idea I had.

This was weird for me because I was more used to people following ideas than people. But thinking about it in my bed I had to accept that even the greatest of ideas needed someone to be the figurehead.

Would I want to be that person in the future? Honestly, I would not want to be at least in the long run. So, I have to hope that there would be other people who could raise the flag so to say and march forward even without me. I also hope that there would be more than one of those kinds of people that way if someone falls the idea won't fall with them.

I had already accepted the risk that I might not live to see my second old age, but I was good with that. There was no need for me to cling to life for a second go around, but I also knew they would need me for quite a while to keep the flag up. That meant I needed to be strong so I could pull up other people who could do the same as me. But that meant I needed more people on my side and my first goal was getting David.

Having good ideas means nothing if you don’t know how to make them come true and while I have the basics David will have a lot more relevant information. Let’s say there were 100 homesteads. Having a barter system of just exchanging goods between each other would be too slow and extremely inefficient. That means we need a system where we could trade with each other but just doing it with coins is also a bad idea.

I have never understood why money makes people go crazy and want to have as much as possible of it, but I think some of it is the potential you get from having a lot of it.

Humans have always wanted stuff and what could be better than having an item like coins that you can get whatever you want with it? But not having money in society might be even worse. Not only would you give people in leading positions a lot more power even if they are elected economic growth would slow to a halt if there was no motive to push everything forward.

That’s why I want David to be the first outsider to be brought on board because he had run a system for a medium-sized Guild. In the guild, whenever someone collected resources or completed tasks that helped the collective, they got merit points that could be exchanged for various services and resources.

That idea grabbed hold of me, and I tried to think if it would be possible to make that on a national scale. I would need to be careful so this wouldn't just turn into a different form of money. I think it might be possible but for that, I need someone who knows numbers a lot more than me.

I had to stop my current train of thought as we finally reached the village. The training went by fast and later we just hung out in the village. I was lucky enough to run into David and we made plans to go into the inn and gamble for a while.

Now as it turns out gambling with David was a bad decision. I should have realized that before as some of these games are not just luck based. I didn’t want to speak about my plans in the village so before we left, I invited David to come over to my farm on Friday when the group of students came to the dungeon so he could come with them.

He accepted quickly enough and I think he suspects I have some more serious things to talk about with him. Other than that, I didn’t spend all my time with David. I also got to know the two Wizards and a lot of the knights that came with the caravan.

The space was tight in the village, but everyone was still getting along with each other nicely enough. To my surprise, the group of people that the company sent to deal with the convoy arrived only a day late so they would have been able to help with the zombies but currently, they are staying here. I think they are here just in case the convoy people start getting stupid ideas in their heads.

When we were walking back I had to think more about how people treated each other in this world. Everyone seemed more on edge here than back on earth and it took me quite a while to understand why.

With the system and magic and everything else basically, every person is carrying an automatic rifle and you wouldn't know what would set that person off. In this kind of environment, I could understand that making connections could be quite dangerous and most likely the reason why people act the way they are acting. This might also be worse currently simply because of the situation around the world.

I had one day to get everything in my mind in order, but I don’t know if I can actually do it in so little time. The worst thing is some things that I think might be possible with the homesteader class I cannot confirm before everything is set into motion.

The start would be the slowest and would take us years to get rolling but when we get enough people with the homesteader class it would start to work like a snowball going down a mountain getting bigger and bigger and faster and faster. Using the dungeon to get everyone to level 20 would not take a long time and with enough people making houses will also not take a long time.

What I believe will take the longest is to change people's thinking from the rigid system they currently have to a more creative and open one. I feel that the trait nature connection and the better version of it will help a lot but it's just a good building block that needs nurturing.

Everything would need to be done slowly. The starting phase would be the most crucial and any mistakes could mean the end of it. Yet I need to trust people with this secret.

I could feel myself starting to go around in circles and just start rambling. Back at the farm, I decided to go into the barn so I could relax and continue planning for the future. There was no reason to make exact plans with exact dates as everything will change and I honestly never was a person who followed the plan to the letter as I often found time has a habit of messing up everything.

This helps relax me a bit knowing that I just needed to come up with certain milestones that needed to be reached and the first one was getting David on board. It would be perfect if I could give him the homesteader class as well but that was farfetched.

Still, I needed to be hopeful because that would make everything a lot easier. There was also no need to think further into the economic plans as I am certain whatever I come up with David would tear apart with relative ease and show me how wrong I could be.

This night would be my last chance to just stay as a farmer who is just good at killing stuff. I just needed to keep to my farm and let the world pass me by. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can do that. If it was just me and my memory, I might have done this, but I still had the memories of a 12 year old boy that dreamed of greatness. And then of course there is my body which was young and full of life. Just living on a farm and slowly letting days go by would not satisfy it.

As the night started to truly set in and the now young wolves were tired from playing with me I decided not to go and sleep in my bed but decided to join the wolves this night and curled up with them. Their fur was incredibly soft, and I think they enjoyed my company as well. It didn't take long for sleep to claim me.