Irzanos, "Newhope" is finishing is eight year since the members of the Glorious Pick strike the earth in the middle of a red sand wasteland-desert...
This site lack streams and living plants. With the absence of aquifers (damned explorers, how failed this prediction!
their skulls will be bashed in the name of my sacred beard) this site do not have any freshwater source. The most aboveground layers of rock lack metals and valious gems. The only way to survive was dig, dig a lot, dig deep... Until the discovery of the caverns and their valuable water (located only 50 levels under the surface). With this discovery, a giant 59 levels pumping water tower was builded. This construction required many years, a lot of stone and some incidents with creatures forgotten since the birth of the world. Today the water distribution sistem is nearly to be done. But the water pumping and our future steam machines need to wait more time. During the next years we need to build a giant wind energy system that requires an enormous quantity of wood that only can be obtained by trading. Damn, we must to tolerate this f*ck hot air some years more, sick!
But not everything was bad. The discovery of the cavern layers and their valuable water also revealed to Newhope a truly, TRULY, sign of hope and happiness: gold, pure native gold embebed in the rock. Due to our native lack of wood, to process this source of richness I ordered the miners to dig deep, more deep, more more deep. Until the magma layers, that were discovered 150 levels under the surface. Surprisingly, our miners also discovered that the gold ore extended until this deep. This mean, at least
one hundred of gold ore layers. Damnit, we are rich, we are extremelly rich, we will be legendary... errr... mmm, ok... Yes. Well, Zasit our bookeeper said that we must to be VERY careful with our gold production or we could crash the world economy without solution.
With the help of our gold, Newhope growth, and growth. Not fast, but without stop. Contrary to some dorfing principes, we decide to start some aboveground projects... Why? Well, it is true that the surface only exist for cover the underground world, but... How the surface creatures could recognise our superiority without building in the surface?
Our treasures need protection. The barracks were located in the main entrance of the fortress. Every creature that try to snatch our golden life will be efficiently re-educated. The garbage is accumulated under fortificated walls, bad things were listened about corpses that misteriously come back to life. We cannot take this risk!
What is the best investment for the gold? Well, unfortunatelly the magma is too far... for now. For this, the most awesome world-wide library was builded! Twenty-four bookcases of gold over a golden floor. Glass tables with bone and gem incrustation. Gold book-binding for the codex. Scroll rollers made of gold for th scrolls... Since their fundation, many scholars come here to study, discuss and ponder. Many books and scrolls were written. Some scholar demand live here to continue their studies. Others, leave to spread our words, and come here again with new stuff. We bring writted life to the desert. Our library is so nice that we do not have pigeons in our roof, we have gooses! We also suspect that we must to amply the Library in the next years, daily the space to study become more and more scarce.
Near to the library an apartment building was raised. And grow one new storey every one or two years. Bed with glass incrustations and glass furniture for everybody. In front of the apartments the nobles live in a luxurious palaces made of marble and gold. Every floor and piece of furniture was made of clean glass or gold, and encrusted with valuable gems, from garnets to zircons. Including dragon teeth! Our next objetive is the inauguration of the future Tavern, big and with a lot of space for dancers and performers, with luxurious rooms in the upper floor for the richest travelers with gold, gem and glass. Coming soon the culture of Newhope will expand far away from the frontiers of the Words.
But the gold also have their dangers... This world is young, only 125 years. Since these date, during eight years Newhope survived three goblin sieges, an Ettin, a bronce colossus (now is a ☼masterfull bronze statue☼ for the captain's room that defeated the criature), two dragons (now are nice roasts, tallow for soap and *decorated with dragon bone & tooth* tables) and six forgotten beasts. Three of them transformed into food and supplies. The danger never end. In this moment the lower caverns are sieged by a rampaging flying spider with webs and poisonous bite as weapons... Too dangerous monster for a direct combat, but maybe... well, our engineers are preparing a cat baited room surrounded by bridges to catch the monster, them said that this creature is itself a new and valuable source of delicate silk. I hope that they are right, because if the plan fail...
pD. Sorry for my numerous mistakes... The english is not my native languaje
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