>>6073870You give up on Ͳ block for now; getting near nothing out of it after two nights leaves a snaily taste in your mouth.
The Big Sissy in Ͳ block though: he's been sifting and sorting some pretty phat lewts dug out from the Pit. Goldy and finicky stuffs, one or two blingblings too maybe. If they weren't all catalogued with handwritten paste-paper on his long shelf you'd definitely have nicked some. Fuggen nerd.
You begin this night with your game face on. That is, smeared black with soot and oil. You tie yourself an ear-do, also called a banditchief, to hide your ears, nose and chin. There's stories about spoiled raids because some Fighty One saw a goblin schnozz outlined against the moon or lamplight or something. You're taking no chances. Shivyou obviously tested the boundaries of his Oath to you; stabbing you in the chest through your armor probably counts as Chastisement or Demonstrative Instruction or something, not Harm. Huh. Even Oaths from Immortals have loopholes. The limits of interpretation is imagination when telling the Technical Truth™. What a sneaky way to lie!
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The Pit, the site of the former Church, has two earthwork ramps laddering out of it from opposite sides. The gentler one is for the laborers heaving out rubble, the steeper for the unladen ones getting back in.
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>_/ = earthwork ramps>[π] = stilted watch platforms>% = rubble># = workshedThere's worksheds dotting the bottom level, holding large tools and unassembled scaffolding.
Two watchtowers, really just platforms, facing each other, out of the way of the ramps and the workmen going in and out, while maintaining a full view of the Pit, right to the bottom. Each of the watchplatforms has a rather larger workshed under it. Probably where they pile up any gubbins fished from the rubble.
There's probably a checkpoint at the out-ramp too.
The platforms look well-built enough, whole logs for stilts, flat planks with neat joinings for the ladder and platform, but the awning tentage looks kludged, raw poles tied and nailed in place, like something you might do. Probably built by the guards themselves, to keep out the sun.
You wait long past the workmen's dindins, when their cookfires dim and they slouch off to sleep.
You're watching the watchmen. They've eaten with the workmen, and now they want to dose too.
You just need to see how.
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