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D ([personal profile] distant_one) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-08-14 08:52 pm

[OPEN] OUTPOST HAVEN [player plot]

Who: Anyone and Everyone
What: Open Post for Player Plot
When: Early August and Onward
Where: Staging Point in Crenshaw and Outpost

Content Warning: None in the main post

[Ooc: This is an open log place for the Outpost player plot, plotting post here and location post here. Feel free to post starters here and tag one another.]



Wall Complete


On one of the days after the wall is finished but before the gate is added D schedules a section of time when only a few people will be at the outpost so a hazardous construction project can take place, just a handful of guards.

When the all-clear is given for construction crews and day shift guards to return the outer wall is practically glowing with heat and the individual stone blocks have been fused together. The ground around it is scorched but there's no lingering fire anywhere despite the smoking and blackened trees and greenery.


Staging Point


On the main floor of the house D has chosen to use as the staging point is an area set up for collecting and preserving blood. Darkblood and coldblood keep easily enough but more care is needed when dealing with vileblood and there's an abundance of dried plants ready to be ground to a powder and added to collected vileblood in the first stage of making the special blood mortar.

In one of the rooms upstairs are scales and measuring devices and glass and metal jars ready to receive the mixture of all three blood types in specific parts along with another plant mixture, the last stage before it's mixed into mortar, which is better done in large batches at the outpost itself.


Tree Clearing


One of the tasks to start off the next step of construction is clearing trees for fifty yards in every direction outside the wall as well as any bushes that are large enough to obscure vision. Felled trees are moved inside the outer wall to be processed mostly into logs for use in construction.

Simple wooden watch towers will be erected at the corner of each wall and wooden stairs in a few other places to allow rapid access to the walls for defensive purposes.

Extra wood and other plant material will be processed for firewood and any other purpose it can serve.

Excavating



Digging and leveling start for both the eventual large basement as well as long trench corridors to run under what will be the kitchen and bath house and clean up area to provide places to run pipes or access the foundation from below. Both buildings share a wall with the already completed bunk house and form the basis of what will eventually be expanded to become a barracks.

Construction



The main focus in this phase is making the place livable for people full time. Getting clean is especially important with blood pollution and corruption still being large issues. There's a bath area to be constructed with six individual bathing areas and a pair of large fireplaces to heat water until more permanent systems can go in. Before plumbing and other things can be done the baths will drain into a set of underground paths and from there to a gravel-filled pit beneath what will be another rose garden.

A kitchen will also go up with a pair of fireplaces and room for people to cook and clean with room for plumbing and more advanced options to eventually be added but for now all food and water will come from storage barrels brought in from the staging point and taken back when they're empty.

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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2022-09-06 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"I see. I've heard of that as well." At least from Palamedes. "I started studying aether almost as soon as I could start reading - which took a while. It's not the most needed skill for hunters in the wilderness. But I enjoy the chase of finding information..."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2022-09-08 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
He nods at D's assessment of his own skills. He doesn't expect everyone to be an expert. He'd hardly call himself one, even with all of the studying he's done.

"Well, sometimes you have to go searching. Sometimes you find your answers in an ancient tomb, or a forgotten fragment of a scroll, or another world."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2022-09-15 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Indeed. There have been seven major Calamities in my world, and the civilizations they've taken out have a lot of magic and technology we still don't know about."

He's discovered a lot himself, but he can't learn everything. "But I hope that there's at least some things that can be recovered in your world."