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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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"Did any of your teachers take the time to show you how to help induce a state of sleep using the Force?" Maul doubted it. The technique was sophisticated and Luke's tutors seemed to have been interested in giving him a quick, dirty education more focused on the basics than anything else. It wasn't as if he'd had a lot of time to spend learning from what he'd told Maul.
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Mention of the Force immediately had him intrigued, and he turned slightly to show that he had Luke's full attention.
"No, but I think I've seen it mentioned in Obi-Wan's journal," he replied. He was reluctant to tell him that Obi-Wan hadn't left him so much a guide to learning his powers as a book of stories that led him to putting two and two together and discovering his abilities himself.
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"I'll have to show you at some point or another. It is all done purely on a mental level and requires very precise control of the Force. I've used it on occasion here to help people to sleep, given how often it's hard to manage here in Trench. Granted, it usually requires a level of trust from them that I don't possess with many Sleepers, so perhaps you will have better luck once you have learned the technique." Maul was aware more people definitely liked Luke and for good reason. The Jedi was kind and compassionate, two things Maul was lacking in spades.
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"...sometimes I wonder if it's better not to sleep," he said softly, before he absently shrugged. "It's not just... you know," he added, waving a hand, "just... everything. With the war. What led to my part in it. Just..."
He shook his head; he knew it was unreasonable to not want to sleep, but sometimes... it would have been nice, not to get the nightly reminder of how wrong things had gone, how much he had focused on going forward and going forward until there was no "forward" to go anymore.
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"Sleep is essential to your well-being," Maul said firmly. "In time, the nightmares become less intense and you find ways to cope so that your rest will be better. I don't think there's perfect method out there--" If there was, Maul had yet to discover it after a lifetime of poor sleeping habits. "--But there are ways to make sure you get a full night's sleep.