Dorna walked up to the meeting hall, a few papers in her hands as she scanned over it. Seeing Urist (That being, Urist the mechanic, not one of the URISTs), she walked up to him and smiled. "Urist, I wanted to talk to you."
The dwarf put his mug of ale down and turned in his seat. "Yus Mayor? What did you want to discuss?"
Dorna spread out the papers she had, revealing them to be a map of the caverns. "I've been looking at making a small fort around the main stairwell in the caverns. I heard you had some things you wanted to do, so I wanted to run them over with you." She pointed at several spots on the map...
"Here, here, and here I was planning on building some walls and drawbridges. Those bridges will probably stay up unless we need to explore."
Urist looked over the map. "I was planning on setting some traps around the caves... what use is this to me if the drawbridges are up?"
Dorna smiled and moved the sheet of paper out of the way, revealing another sheet. "Simple. It'll funnel creatures into these two tunnels."
Dorna pointed at the two passages. "They're narrow, the one on the right has a low ceiling, and with all other routes sealed off they're the only way any creatures will be able to get in. The pass on the right is idea, while the one on the left... while small, it has an overhang that, if we can figure out a way to trap creatures inside, will give our marksdwarves some good target practice." She rubbed her chin. "If I put you in charge of the traps, d'you think you could rig something up with pressure plates?"
Urist looked over the sheets, a hand stroking his beard. "Let me go over these plans of yours, and I'll see what I can do."
Dorna nodded, taking the map of the upper cavern back. "You can keep the map of the passages, I need to show the location of the walls to the masons, see if they can get the walls up."
OOC: Orders are to tell the masons to build the bridges and walls as per the descriptions in the upper portion of the designated maps. If Urist approves of this idea, Urist can take charge of the traps, walls, and bridges of the lower passages and alter those plans as needed or desired. Aside from that, tell the miners to keep digging and a dwarf or two to scout the caverns a bit. You MAY need to make some creative liberties with the northwest wall, however, due to the hill there. This is just a staging base for now, we may try to get more of the caverns at some later point. Aside from that, Dorna will wander around, make mechanisms, and hook up the bridges to levers in the control room.