What remains of the original troupe of dwarves who had traveled out to seek out fortunes in the name of their king have finally arrived. All four of the axedwarves and the two marksdwarves have died falling down a cliff. (One of them had a bit too much cat tallow biscuits) The jeweler and the Mechanic that had originally came with them died to rhesus macaque raids during the night. The Carpenter went his own way saying they will all die where they are headed to and stormed off into an elephant herd. (Idiot) The metal smith had to return back for he forgot his anvil (moron) They did find a mason trying to steal there food.(JimmyJ) They forced him to come along. The first thing the remaining dwarves did was dig out a hole in the mountain wide enough for 3 dwarves. Who knows they might actually find something.
“Well, we have finally arrived” says Metalax
“Easy for you to say. At least you didn’t know any of the dwarves who died on the way.” Says Xeirxes
“Yea well neither did you.”
“……..so?”
“Asehujiko come help me make a hall wide enough for three dwarves to pass into the mountain. We’ll just cut in a straight line. From there we will see what we can do.”
“Do I have a say in this?” Asehujiko asks.
“No”
“……..”
As Metalax and Asehujiko mine into the mountain Otherdwarf, TotalPigeon, and 4bh0r53n started hauling the food, seeds, and drinks inside so they wouldn’t rot in the outside air. JimmyJ went and set up a mason workshop. The others took the hint and also set up a kitchen, butchery, tannery, and a still. TotalPigeon went on and started gathering some nearby plants wordlessly.
“Hey Asehujiko you hear that?” Metalax asks sometime later.
Asehujiko listens closely. “Yea I think I do. Like…rushing water.”
“You don’t think?”
“Of course I think you idiot.”
“…There’s probably a lake behind this wall.” Metalax swings his pick even faster and harder and breaks down the wall in front of him to reveal a rushing river. “I never thought…”
“Well I guess this is our border line. Lets widen the hall now.”
Asehujiko and Metalax went back to the entrance and told their discovery to the others.
“Of course there is a river in this mountain” JimmyJ claims. “There is a river in nearly all the mountains. The one I was at last had one.” JimmyJ quickly fell silent.
“Normally I would think you were some sort of reject from the capitol… but you make it sound as if your not.” Claimed Xeirxes. JimmyJ remained silent.
“Well lets not get something like this get in our way. We should just get back to what ever we were doing. We still gonna have to find some means of supporting ourselves through the winter.” Claimed Asehujiko “TotalPigeon, Otherdwarf, 4bh0r53n you guys start finding some sort of means to support us through the winter if you can. Xeirxes you should try crafting some crafts if you can since your profession can’t really be of use right now”
“I cant really help with that” Xeirxes complains “The last time I saw a craft was about a few years ago. I cant remember what one looks like.”
Asehujiko sighs. “Oh well.”
So without another word TotalPigeon, Otherdwarf, and 4bh0r53n went about trying to find some means to feed them selves through the winter. Metalaz and Asehujiko continued one widening the hole they made. Xeirxes sat down and hauled random stuff around other wise twiddling his thumbs. While no one really realized JimmyJ had gone about and smoothing out blocks of stone and putting together some doors and floodgates. He even carved two statues.
Spring was drawing to an end. Metalax and Asehujiko had barely started widening out the hole in the mountain. TotalPigeon, Otherdwarf, and 4bh0r53n still haven’t found a way to feed themselves through the winter. JimmyJ is still yet to complete his third door. Xeirxes is yet to be useful. All because they fell asleep.
When they woke up Xeirxes had an idea. “Hey Otherdwarf. You can cook drinks too right?”
“Yea but then we won’t have any left if I cook that.” Otherdwarf said.
“Well what if you were to cook only the wine? Plumphelmets are easy to grow and give off plenty of seeds.”
“How would you know if they grow easy? You are not a farmer.”
“Yea well 4bh0r53n is. Is plumphelmets easy to grow?”
“Plumhelmets are… indeed easy to grow.” 4bh0r53n answers.
So while TotalPigeon brewed the plumphelmets, Otherdwarf cooked the wine making delicious roasts.
Xeirxes after his great idea eventually got bored and decided to watch JimmyJ work. Xeirxes noticed that JimmyJ had smoothed out an enourmas amount of stone blocks. He also noticed that there were three doors lying off to the side. And as Xeirxes walks up to JimmyJ he notices that he was putting final touches on a dark stone statue.
“Hey JimmyJ how long have those doors been lying there?” Xeirxes asked
“For about most of the season.” JimmyJ answered.
“Almost all season? Why have we never seen them? Or the statues?”
“You guys don’t look.”
“…Well we can certainly use those doors to cover the entrance. We will need to use one of those statues for the middle door though.”
“Fine by me. I’m just making things here.”
Xeirxes quickly called TotalPigeon to help him set the doors in. TotalPigeon ends up getting stuck under a statue he tryins to put down for the door.
Xeirxes passes by and notices TotalPigeons problem. “Need a hand? How about two?”
“Just help me get out from under here” TotalPigeon said.
Soon the doors were set in and the season’s end creeps nearer.
JimmyJ noticing that the hole in the mountain had gotten larger dismantled the mason workshop and set up one inside the hole. Once again taking the hint TotalPigeon, Otherdwarf, and 4bh0r53n dismantle and reassemble the kitchen, still, and tannery inside the hole. They left the butchery outside so nothing could rot inside.
End of Spring 1051
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