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deercountry2022-08-14 08:52 pm
distant_one) wrote in 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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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maria's way: easier. better. less bleeding and tearing. for them, anyway.
so the head goes one way, and vi flings herself back when she starts to go with it, not quite landing on her feet, but close enough. she flashes a grin at the other woman - good swing - that was a clean cut - and the head has now come to rest and staring sightless as the clip-clop sound of steady hooves approaches. it's slow enough that it almost sounds like a golf clap. the face of the nightmare steed attached to those hooves looks underwhelmed as it eyes them before lowering its head to tear at one of the dead creature's eyes.
vi stares at it a moment (and the murder horse does not look up) before brushing her knees off and making her way over to maria, holding up a hand for a high five.]
Good job, us. That was some swing.
[the steed snorts, still eating, but watchful as it chews.]
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Once she's satisfied that the fight is done, she moves to meet Vi halfway, grinning and raising her hand in an inexperienced hand-touch once she gathers from context what is expected of her.
(The horse immediately moving to consume at least some of the monster is unexpected, but practical; cleanup is cleanup. And perhaps it isn't that unexpected; Maria has known some truly foul-tempered steeds.)]
At least I haven't lost any of my strength here. I'd worried about that. [She's tried to maintain through exercise, but it's not the same as the drills she's used to.] You did well yourself. I could almost believe you're a professional.
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Almost? [she cocks a brow, laughing.] Thanks. It was pretty reckless of me, but I'm poison, too. If it'd bitten me it woulda got a mouthful of death. 'Course, I might be down an arm, so...thanks again. One less worry for me, and good to hear less for you, too.
[she looks at the horse, and it meets her gaze. it's almost as if its chewing more aggressively now. no ...that's exactly what's happening.]
Weird. I know that nightmare. We've got...
[beef. the horse has a grudge. but maybe not as much of one as she'd thought.]
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[Unless Trench also has monsters simply teeming with arms, but then it's unlikely they'd want to loan one out.]
Oh? [She eyes it a little more suspiciously.] Well, keep out of kicking range.
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[self deprecating smile.]
That one's got a nasty kick. Don't ask me how I know. Maybe the free lunch will smooth things over a little, who knows.
[also a joke, but maybe not? it doesn't look grateful, but it's not attacking.]
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Maybe it'll feel it owes you then, hmm? Or at least call things even.
[If it has enough sentience to hold a grudge, it really might work.]
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Speaking of owing, I think I owe you a drink for that save, yeah?
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[She'd have been a colossal ass if she stood by and watched Vi fight the monster on her own, after all.]
But I'll take it anyway.