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Erica is watching curiously as you are gesturing into the empty air and speaking to yourself (QM: this is what it looks like when you bargain with The Red Lord Of Ruin, and explain to Him that you do not need his Gift Of Insight to understand what the Great Wyrm Lotan is or does...)
Marcus says -
Oh he is probably a wannabe drill rapper. He is just rehearsing his drill rap flow, or maybe composing an after-battle diss track or something. Drill rap. It is a pity we cannot take all these pneumatic drills, these jackhammers, high velocity shotcrete spray jets and this Cauldron Of Lotan with us. You know when they make tunnels with wide diameters like this - the MAGUS always insisted on the biggest, the most record-breaking Tower higher than 163 floors, the widest tunnel bigger than 17.6m etc in diameter - the trick is to avoid surface subsidence that impacts the city infrastructure above. So as they drill and cut into the rock and earth they have to reinforce the obvert ring of the ceiling with pressurised high-velocity hydrostatic shotcrete - petrify it if you will - and also the invert ring of the floor as well. So they strengthen the tunnel and loadbearing passage with sprayed concrete after each face advance of the main bearing, the cutter head thrust system... There is some sort of sophisticated engineering going on to maintain the tunnelling using the Earth Pressure Balance Shield. Siegfried the Military Engineer, the Siege Knight would probably know...
Erica says to herself:
Lotan is a strange name. I think he had the right idea with the dragon legends, the historical serpents - I think Lotan is the actual original name of the Leviathan, the Great Wyrm, recorded in the old historical books of the Ugaritic tribes. But Lotan, it sounds almost like an abbreviation, an acronym... in the ancient High Gothiric language. Maybe L'OTAN? The MAGUS likes acronyms, obviously. Is it a military code of the Stranded Sons / Warlords Cult? L'OTAN? But what military item or alphanumeric code does L'OTAN refer to? Maybe Siegfried the military collectible fanatic would know...
