"Well, like I says, Emmanovi, that anvil is comin' whether I sanction it or not. It ain't a big thing, I just much prefer the other route of takin' a good number of miners with picks in their hands, tradin' fer the anvil, an' then makin' more tools. It certainly is cheaper to take the anvil in the long run, but my question is if it's more efficient. Efficiency is the sum of time, influence, and affluence invested divided by the sum of their return. I don't question the lower cost in wealth, ya know. Just the cost in time. Time not spent is time lost. It ain't like money that you can save up. Every day we wait to get another pick hittin' the ground an' another axe hittin' the trees is another trap we don't lay down an' another bed we don't build. It ain't no fuss, I'm probably just draggin' it out by explainin'. We're takin' the anvil, I think that's clear consensus. Just make sure you take that extra wood for our charcoal." Grail said, rubbing the back of his neck and taking a deep swag from his mug of Dwarven Wine. "I think we are generally agreed on the supplies we'll be takin', all together. As long as I get my pick I'm happy. What about our strategy when we get there, though? Seems as though our metal worker wants to lay down a furnace and forge right quick. That means I'll have to lay down the foundations of both, and maybe a carpenter's workshop, too. Hopefully we'll have some nice, soft soil ta dig inter, and get some underground storage rooms and farm plots started. Say, how big is tha river? Would anybody be in favor of a shallow, above ground well over it? Would require some mason work an' a rope ter be brought along. Since it would require we make a mechanism, stone block, an' bucket ter be built, this would probably be a project for the second or third month in, if we wanna do it at all. A temporary water source would certainly be of value if we run short on booze in tha first months, until we can build a better well on down tha road a ways. In any case, after tha farms are up, an' our wagon is dissassembled and all our supplies tucked away, I will dig us a nice set of bedrooms. 2 cubits by 2 cubits each, I should think, arranged into a larger circle around a small hall off of tha main'un. The smaller hall can serve as a dinin' room with a nice couple of tables and chairs to get us started. With proper lodgin's we can set about creatin' the preliminary defenses for our mighty bulwark of Democracy. We can't afford ta fail, ladies an' gentledwarves. We just can't. We can't neglect any detail. What say you about your own opinions on our order of operations upon reachin' the outpost?"
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