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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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If you are fortunate, someday you will be able to see me fight. It is quite the sight.
[Maul’s arrogant and likes to brag but he’s also not just full of hot air. He’s a graceful, acrobatic fighter that often makes his bouts look more like a dance than just a battle.]
Good. You have taken your first steps into experiencing a much larger universe. This world seems so very small to me after being in a galaxy full of billions of planets and moons.
[Yep, that’s right, not millions. Billions.]
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I hope I'm fortunate, then. I usually am. I've got some luck.
[vi can be arrogant, too - though she usually leans more ...confident, especially these days. she's outclassed on the regular. but that's how you learn, right?]
Trench must seem really small compared to all that. It's big compared to prison, though.
[it's big compared to the undercity, too.]
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[Maul certainly wasn't one of them. If anything, he thinks he was born unlucky.]
Oh yes, this place is tiny. And very confining. And has less diversity of different species in it than the worst backwater space port I've ever been in.
[There are far too many humans here for Maul's taste. It needs to be mixed up a little! He wants to see more sentients, especially those that aren't humanoid looking.]
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D's always luckier than the beasts.
[is there a bit of a sigh when she says it? yeah. she'd rather there not be, but ...it's there. but the backwater space post comparison also gets a laugh and a nod.]
There's a lot more variety where I'm from, and even [bitter disdain] the city above it.
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[Maul isn't sure where he stands when it comes to luck. He has the worst sort of things happen to him, like getting sliced in half, but also managing to survive that which would have surely killed anyone else. Or having his entire family die but somehow being lucky enough to survive that too.
He has a certain look on his face like he's trying not to laugh or smirk when Vi mentions D. Oh, she's got it bad, Maul can tell.]
Pretty and deadly. He's quite the combination.
[Vi's mention of living underneath a city strikes a chord with Maul given the years he spent living on Coruscant, a city that literally had levels stacked on top of one another.]
You live in one of the lower levels?
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it's so embarrassing. also? it's fucking inconvenient! she has walked into things! people! all in the effort to get a look at d. it's hard to even watch him fight, and that part is the worst.]
Yeah, he's a combination, all right.
[wow. she was going for sarcasm, not ...whatever that just was. she will just ...laugh at herself now. with a bit of a facepalm.]
The lowest of the low. Lower than that to hear those topsiders tell it. The air down there makes that stink they're making up there [she nods toward the area where they're doing the blood things.] as fresh as a spring breeze.
It's toxic, but sometimes I miss it.
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[Maul teases lightly. Sorry, Vi, he can't help but be a bit of a troll sometimes and she's just giving him far too much ammunition right now for him to pass up the opportunity.]
But I noticed that myself when we first met. I'm not attracted to most right off-- [Maul fell more for people's personalities than their looks most of the time.] --But I'm also not blind. [Pause.] Anymore. He is strikingly pretty.
[Between his looks and how fluid D could be in a fight, Maul is suitably impressed. He finds beauty in violence and always has.]
The planet I lived on for many years, Coruscant, is one giant city and has over 5,000 levels people can live on. By the time you got down to the mid-levels, you couldn't even see natural sunlight anymore. Some live their whole lives down there without ever even getting to the upper levels of the city. I could live a millennia and never see all there is to on the planet.
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[just, a gesture.]
...not my type. [but then maul notes how pretty he is. which...] Or maybe he's just a bit of a variation. I see plenty of cool looking and even pretty people, and I don't feel like that around them, you know? You look cool, that guy's [a point toward duty] built, [a series of random observations of other outpost people], she's cute, she's hot, but I'm not stumbling over my own name around any of 'em but D. [the start of a big sigh, and---wait.]
You were blind before?
[vi finds beauty in violence, too - maybe not as much as maul does, not in the same way, but it's there - and she also finds beauty in beauty. but this? it's fucking annoying.]
Five thousand levels? Holy shit. Not that Piltover wouldn't try and stack that many of us on top of each other if there were that many, but there's not. I know what it's like to spend my life in a hole, and well, some holes are better than others. [a laugh, because yeah, she knows how that sounded and she doesn't care.] Not every hole's a shithole, but I'm not gonna complain about the sunlight.
This place must feel like a pokey little town to you. Something you blink and miss. One giant city? Wish I could see it.
cw: eye trauma described
[He says sagely. Maul doesn't know much about love but he is an expert on a lack of love and so he's able to (occasionally) dole out a piece of advice. He nods at her question.]
For a long period of time in Deerington before Usagi healed me and restored my eyes. They were stolen from me, ripped out by evil little creatures.
[Which sounds a lot cooler and more badass than 'evil fairies stole my eyes from me cause I let my guard down around them.']
I didn't even know what Reaper looked like for months on end because we got together when I was still blind.
[Which meant Maul really had fallen in love with Reaper's personality rather than anything to do with his looks.]
Not too many people complain. There's ways to rise up out of the lower levels if you try hard enough. Most are content enough simply to scrape out a life for themselves wherever they can find it.
It feels....confining. Not simply because of the size of the city but because of being stuck only on a single planet. I've spent my whole life going from planet to planet, always plotting what to do next and moving on to accomplish those goals.