Ch 2: Can’t Dodge EarthHematite, 252The rhythm of the forest buzz abruptly stopped when Urvad exclaims, “behold, The Grove of Bolting!” The short eerie silence was soon drowned with the forest buzz resuming. No one was around as Urvad emerged from a weeks long trance crafting a wooden chestnut floodgate.
Still proud of his creation, Urvad follows the noise of merry-making at the grand opening of “Cruelbarbs of Ale” tavern and inn. District 2’s citizens and long-term residents are raving about this place.
Zas cheerily welcomes Urvad and offered drinks from the basement storage. Sakzul, a bookbinder praises the high craftsmanship of the floodgate and introduces everyone to meet Urvad. Urvad is well pleased at the attention and compliments but is soon tired lugging around the thing. Sakzul suggests that it be displayed right in the tavern, and Urvad thinks it a relief and wonderful idea. The Grove of Bolting is a chestnut wood floodgate. It has an image of 2 beds.
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Zas tells Urvad the next batch of orders: 20 pieces of chestnut beds, doors, chests and cabinets; and 10 chestnut tables and chairs. Urvad was about to ask where these chestnut logs are when they were interrupted by news of the human’s caravan from Loddur arrived.
A week later, Zas offers Urvad a grin, “those wooden menacing spikes and spiked wooden balls--the humans wanted them so bad, we got food and iron in trade. You should make another set of 50 each. Use willow or feather wood this time, so it’s lighter.”
Malachite, 252Ten more migrants arrive, and Zas feels no pressure despite not having any room available yet. The population increase defines this place a village.
Zas asks Miner Mistem for the status of the quarry. Mistem reports that five layers down after yellow and black sand, diorite stones are being quarried, but the haulers are using a cliff-side ramp to haul the stones up. Five dabbling mason are recruited and three mason shops are built on the northeast corner of District 2. We found some gems too, so some entrepreneur decided setup a jeweler’s shop to cut them. The Sakzul fella says those will be good for windows.
Mistem wants stairs constructed from the northeast corner and down to the quarry to bypass the cliff-side ramp. Urvad the carpenter is busy with the back order of furnitures, so a dabbling carpenters are recruited to construct the wooden stairs.
Zas inspects the stairs and claims it violates the “no dark” rule. Apparently, constructing a wooden stairs on top of an up ramp still leaves behind a a layer of dirt (sand) floor, so the ramp below is “dark”. Zas says, “it has to be deconstructed and rebuilt just how Etur complied.” With a sigh, Mistem agrees.
Despite the delay in stone hauling, this is compensated with quantity haulers: eight stone stockpiles, 3x6 in size, each designated with 3 wheelbarrows. Zas approved the order for 24 featherwood wheelbarrows. And sure enough, diorite stone blocks are being mass produced.
Galena, 252Sakzul, a bookbinder has been elected mayor of Village, The City of Air.
A 3x3 flooring made of chestnut wood, with the center for constructed wooden stairs leading down. Miner Mistem is amazed at such fine carpentry for the stairs are built from the top and slowly adding an up/down stairs to reach the bottom. The quarry below is at least 5 urists deep already! But of course such dwarvish ingenuity has flaws leaving behind “dark” stairwells.
Some dabbling carpenter built temporary stairs adjacent to this center, but Mistem shoos him and began deconstructing the center stairs...
Miner Mistem has a mishap and falls as the she stands on the stairs she deconstructed. The fall landed her onto diorite cavern floor, at least 3 urists high. Her upper body takes the full force of the impact, bruising the liver. Her right lower slams hard and the part splits in gore. Her neck splits in gore, tearing open an artery.
Zas found Mistem already dead and mutters, "you can't dodge earth like the ole days."
Zas is saddened, then demands the building of a medical center in District 2. Nobody knows any doctoring skills, so some dabbling diagnostician is recruited to be the chief medical doctor. May Armok Bless!
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ooc: Japa, is there a way for Armor Vision to show more z-levels at a time? The screen shot I have, when I try to fit the 5z+ height of the tavern, the lower levels turn transparent, so I do not see the dirt or the dry moat.
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