Wow, at first I was thinking you were describing a dome over your entire area... But as soon as you said Kiln I knew exactly how this was going to go.
Grind up some Dry Grass and leaves...
Gather a good bit of clay mixing the Crushed Grass/Leaves mixture. Repeat this everytime you do the next task...
Form a ring that is as wide as your spear with this building clay against the inside of the wall (use the wall itself as one side of the ring)...
Let this clay Dry by the wind a good bit before continuing to build this ring upwards until its about the height of your Knee.
Leave an opening on one side at the bottom which you can put yourself into to up to your shoulders, but don't actually put yourself inside the ring...
Make sure the clay dry before building more...
When the Clay is dry enough, get a not so heavy Stone from the White kind that is flat on one side, thinner and flatter the better...
Place this on top of the clay so that it covers the top but leave enough space to fit your arm down each side of it. it needs to have empty space under it...
Resume building this up, leaving an smallish opening just above the stone plate, so that it forms a Dome by coming into a round top, leave a hole at the top...
Find another Light flat Stone and place it over the smallish opening above the stone plate so that it can sit there and cover the hole but can be removed later...
When this is done, even if it takes till tomorrow to finish, Name the Building a Kiln...
Put some twigs through the bottom opening then go collect some more clay, shape the clay with the building clay so that it forms a amphora which is an empty ball that is taller then it is wide with a hole at the top. Put this into your kiln, light the Twigs under it with a long twig from your fire and put the coverstone over the gap leaving the amphora inside to bake...
When that is solid, may take a long time, fill it with water, swish the water in the amphora around before dumping it onto the land, then refill the amphora with water away from where you dumped the water. Take this back to your cave, when thirsty drink from this...
This is going to take a while, you start working on the base, crushing grasses and leaves like you did your paint, but then adding some clay to give it more structure, this gives you a green-brown cloured soft clay, with which you pile into a circular base, smothing it out. You start making another batch but then night falls, leaving you with just a plant paste, You head into your cave and feed your fire then go to sleep.
You have dreams of spectacular proportions! (Stuff about the future) You see the woman who pinned you, working along side you, with the kiln you had built, making a strange object, it was dark, really dark, and had strange things on it, little lines and circles that where bright and glowing. She was hendleing this with another dark object, that wasn't glowing, while you where pushing on yet another contraption that seemed to blow air onto a fire underneath the kiln...
You awaken, and put some more wolf meat onto your spit, and grinding up some more parsley to sprinkle onto it, when you see something over by your kiln building site... It's the woman, and she is examining your Kiln (or what there is of it.) You grab your spear, and about to shout, when she looks up at you, and runs off. You head over to your Kiln, and find some rabbit skins, that she had dropped when you woke, you pile them over with your wolf strips. Then you contenue working on the kiln, the paste had dried over the night, so when you go get clay you wet it in the river. Everything goes well untill it comes to placing the first stone, you just cant find a stone of the right kind...
- simple rock AX
- good rock spear
- Ruined rabbit pelt
- Grasses bedding
- Firepit
- Great Spit / Dried Clay Slab
- Crappy Dried Clay Bowl
- Felled redwood
- Shitload of branches of any size
- Enough un-rotten wolf meat for 3 months
- 7 Strips of wolf skin
- 5 Bloodied Strips of wolf skin
- 2 Tanned Rabbit Skins (whole)
- Chin high stone & clay barrier
- Crappy rock spear
- Vine
- A few Raspberries
- Some Thyme (Medicinal)
- Some Parsley (Tasty)
- Some Angelica Plant (I have no idea...)
- Ash pile just outside the cave
- Painting in grass paste: The Lost Light
- Unfinished Kiln (up to the first stone in Neyvn's design)
- Rabbit den near cave
- River near cave
- Wolf ambush near Rabbit den
- Den for a big animal near river
- Big animal near river
- Clay along river
- Strange sight in the sky
- Being pinned under a woman in the blink of an eye
- That Same woman examining your home
Evaluated Wounds
- Some large scars over your body
- Some scars over your body
- Wolf bite scar on left arm
- You've lost your dignity...
It's Late Morning.
What shall you do next?
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Topic: Bob the Caveman - Day 13: Eureka! (Read 49705 times)