In the dimly lit tunnels of the mountain homes, the sound of hammering echoed throughout the halls. A man, struggling to reach, hammered down a parchment to the announcement board, a place where all people could find out about all of the happenings throughout the fortress, from the party being called in the dining hall, to the list of price changes the nobles have mandated, even lists of those who are recently deceased. When the man had finished he backed away from the board, admiring his notice.
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Seeking volunteers to travel beyond the bounds of these mountain homes and set a new settlement in the great woodlands where few have traveled. No longer will you have to wander through mazes of halls and tunnels, breathing in the stale air filled dwarven sweat and blood. No longer will you be forced to navigate through loose stones and rubble left over from the past mining expeditions, with no light save for a sparse torch upon the wall. This settlement shall not be established in earth, like what others seem to think is natural. No, far from that we shall make above the earth, under the clear blue sky. Our settlement shall be built from the ground up with our own hands, not mined out of some cave. Of those of you who are eager to go out into this new frontier sign up now for this once in a life time chance.
Name and Skills
Astus, Woodcutter/Carptender
Emperor, Blacksmith
Echo, Carptender/Hammerdwarf
Malik, Marksdwarf
Cookie, Farmer/Brewer/Cook
Flintes, Sworddwarf
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The man, who was called Kol Adilam by others, slowly walked away from announcement board, just pondering all the opportunities that lay ahead. He was, well use to be, a diplomat. He would often handle arrangements between the mountain homes and the human towns and villages throughout the lands. He would negotiate things from trade agreements to diplomatic agreements, and would often spend most of his time in or around the human cities. Out there, to him, it felt open and free, not confined to a few tunnels dug out in the mountain side. Of course his position was only temporally as the citizens of the mountain homes rebelled against the tyranny of the nobles and succeeded in driving them out. After that, with the citizens in control, the people who used to work for the nobles soon found themselves without a job, Kol included, as the citizens began replacing them with people they trusted. Now jobless and stuck within the halls of the kingdom, Kol then had an idea that he had begun to put into action. He had heard stories of countless dwarves going out with an establishing a rich utopia that attracted migrants from all over. “How hard could it be, if so many others have been successful then why can’t I,” Kol thought.
Now after weeks of planning, he only needed two more things, people and a location. He had already begun to take care of the first problem, and as for a location he had managed to narrow it down to three possible spots. The first spot was a dense forest located next to a creek in the untamed wilds. This location was good except the ground there contained an aquifer, which would make it hard to get stone and ore. The second location was another forest that borders a great mountain range with a brook running through it. This location would allow them to get their stone and ore but Kol had heard rumors that the mountains were haunted from other travelers, by what he wasn’t sure, but he believed that it was a safe bet to stay cautious of the place. The location was near a volcano that shadowed over a river. There was no aquifer and the magma would help them greatly when the settlement started going towards the production of various metal objects, but there is not as many trees in the outlying lands compared to the other two locations, and seeing as wood would be their major construction material the lack of it might be a problem. The choices laid in front of him, once he picked on and gathered the dwarves who signed up he could then finaly leave this hell hole.
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Topic: A New Frontier, Above Ground Settlement (Community Fortress) (Read 1909 times)