>>5957883Forbath's group of craftsmen will do a good job planning out a initial design. First rough sketches are made, then surveys, plans, tests, redraws and such, in a endless cycle of bouncing ideas off eachother. By the end, a grand plan accounting for locally available resources is made for a ten meter tall gothic arch being the entrance for the mesa, extending forwards for dozens of meters while branching off into countless smaller passageways, sectors and subsectors, with the plans for clay brick lined walls and pillars, with statues made from both imported stone and wood if the needs arise, with the great central chamber some thirty by thirty meters, with a series of overlooking balconies. By the end of the year, some small probing tunnels were dug to affirm the possibility of this. All that awaited was either confirmation or the request to re-plan the city, both relying of Forbath.
Gerna's expedition proves very useful, as not only are initial digs providing useful stone, but the gemstones themselves, pushed closer to the surface by the weird machinations of earth itself, are being dug out in great quantities. Had they still shared a world with other dwarves, this find would have made them rich. Now however, it will probably be relegated to jewelry and eyes for the statues that will line the halls of the dwarven hold.
In addition to this, due to the shape of the mine and the difficulty of putting the entire crew Gerna had brought, she had also put some dwarves to work on construction, establishing a fortified town, much as had been done with Floodcave. The initial name given was Redstone, after the initial batch of onyx found.
Snorri will, like both his companions, prove a very useful man, establishing schools for the various young dwarves so that they may be schooled in the knowledge of their forefathers. While initially promising, the lack of wealth and funding in general, alongside the long lives of the dwarves and their familial bonds will reduce the circle of schooled children to those living with wealthy families in and around the capital itself.
In the meanwhile, the last remainder of the food supply will be found missing. Whether this is due to some animals eating it, it being given off, sold or simply getting lost, is up for anyone to guess.
And while initially questioning of the intelligence of the wildlife, some of the dwarven farmers will have, after a decade and a half, taken to using some of the insectoid wildlife as farm animals, with a species of large rat sized insects, somewhat reminiscent of termites, to protect their fields, as the animals, already instinctually used to protecting a certain crop they grow in their underground farms, tend to the crops dwarves plant and smear the pheromones' extracted from a certain sub-type of insectoid.
