With death and ruin stacked upon its once undaunted battlements, and carcasses of countless fiends enveloping the countryside, the dwarven kingdom of Eshimon Ingtak had witnessed its most horrible invasion. Dwarves innumerable had been lost to the brigades of goblin outcasts, and those who remained had little but revenge to soothe their minds. The genocide of the marauders, in the mind of every living dwarf, was paramount. Beleaguered brothers donned the armor of their fallen kin as readily as orphans volunteered themselves into the Royal Army, jewelers exchanged their for traveling supplies, while the gruff caravan-runners that would prepared for an altogether new journey into the north. In a vast mobilization that would ultimately turn into a veritable exodus, the strongest in the kingdom set forth to the homelands of the raiders. Their mission: to eradicate the menace.
Yet before their arms would brace the flesh of goblin warriors, the dwarven armies needed to defeat an altogether more subtle brand of opponents. The weather, scarcity of food and hazards of a new land were at odds with their intent of besieging the goblins' dominion. Even as supply caravans frequently came to their aid, the leaders of each dwarven legion quickly recognized the need to erect outposts on the way, to help furnish the troops with badly-needed food. As relay posts were built along the way, small groups of pioneers were ordered to approach the goblin lands, and build the necessary installations for the siege in utmost secrecy. Of these, the group known as the Radiant Crystal of Comets, a unit of five soldiers and two peasant auxiliaries, was tasked with erecting a bridge on the canyon above the stream "Taxmuddled".
A heart-numbing glaze of cadaverous foliage greeted the cartful of soldiers as they arrived at the site, glades of long-petrified wood strewn on the numb, snowy terraces of a hundred-meter-deep cleft in the land. Plans for the bridge seemed idealistic at best... It was likely the edifice would die off with the rest of the land in a matter of years. Yet the dwarves set about their toil with admirable courage, determined to see that the fortess Lundeb, known to the humans as Cloudeater, would soar through the heavens in defiance of the putrid gorge below.
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This canyon covers 13 total Z-levels, and the higher you go, the wider it gets. The dwarves arrived at the bottom, naturally.
The bridge, when completed, will have a length of 220 tiles and a breadth of 12 tiles, with supports stretching as deep as 13 z-levels. Quite a few masons will be needed to construct it...
Currently, these are the dwarves:
Urvad Tosidomer, miner
Sibrek Inodrigoth, carpenter-in-training/axedwarf, leader
Unib Tabarathel, mason/macedwarf (Anvilsmith)
Dastot Gerignil, mason/axedwarf
Likod Koshled, grower/macedwarf
Deler Kurikbomrek, fisherdwarf/macedwarf
Olon Kolmeb, peasant
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