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Smiths At Work

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:49:25 +0000

With most of the mud and muck cleared from the bowl and the rain finally starting to let up for real, there are murmurs of temporary measures being put in place to keep the lake from flowing out of the Weyr and on its merry way. With the mess cleared up, attention begins to turn properly to the discoveries made over the course of the exploration of the break in the bowl wall. It’s lucky that the Smiths are on hand, for their assistance will be required for more than damming-up the lake for now, especially if efforts are to be made to make the new rooms discovered functional once again.

Even with the lake prevented from flowing away, it’s obvious that it will remain a murky mess for a while yet, as water begins to circulate properly again and set everything to rights. The shoreline, however, requires more hands-on work, with riders and residents alike being assigned to the collection and deployment of materials to restore it to its former state.

Rumour has it that there might even be a Glasscrafter or two roaming the Weyr, called in to look-over the roof of the recently-discovered solarium.

Posted to Fort’s BB Sun July 25

This post was submitted by Kaida.

Peirith and Dargonath’s Eggs Hatch

Fort — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:34:07 +0000

Congratulations to Fort’s latest class of weyrlings:

Edela and Whiskey Painted Rebel Brown Zraith
Niora and Sun-Kissed Canopy Green Raikarith
Mellayne and Shrouded By Stardust Blue Duresketh

A big thank you to all of our candidates as well, Wix and Kenzie and to the dragonwriting team for some lovely dragons!

Hatching Log

Discoveries Under The Mud!

Fort — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:37:45 +0000

On day 28, month 3 of turn 23, a contingent of Istan riders turned up again to help with digging out Fort’s bowl. This time though they were accompanied by none other than Ista’s own Weyrwoman and her gold Safriath.

The day proved eventful, with different groups splitting off from the main working party, finding interesting remnants of ages past that were buried under the earthslide the knocked out the western end of the bowl hundreds of turns ago.

Among the discoveries:

* A ‘pillar’ or promontory in the middle of the open space between the northern and southern sides of the opening in the bowl. B’kaiv, Kaida and Ch’son of Ista did much of the digging around the pillar which seems to extend all the way to the bowl floor and appears to have carved shelves on it.
* T’rev and Nenita cleared off the top of the ’stair to nowhere’ that apparently heads off into the bowl wall where a broom closet and an old solarium can be found as well as several side passages that remain unexplored. Ista’s Weyrwoman and Flint’s wingleader also found a box of what look like old letters and records on a shelf in the broom closet. This item has been turned over to the Weyr’s harpers for safe-keeping and proper handling of the items inside.
* M’try and Vanissa stumbled through a crack in the bowl wall on the southern side of the mudslide and found an underground room that might once have been a bathing cavern. Darkness prevented the pair from exploring further, but plans are afoot to explore with ropes and lights and get it all figured out in the next few days.

For logs of the exploration, check out the first part here: http://community.livejournal.com/fortnc/21132.html and T’rev and Nenita’s exploration of the stairs here: http://community.livejournal.com/fortnc/21394.html. Other parts of the exploration to follow on the FortNC LJ.

Peirith and Dargonath’s Eggs Clutched

Fort — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:58:25 +0000

Mid-afternoon on day 25 of month 3, after a full day of pacing about the Sands, Peirith finished clutching a grand total of fourteen eggs. Notably, nobody but the Weyrleaders and Dargonath were permitted to witness this event, though there’s word of the galleries being open once more by evening for anybody wishing to go and study the clutch and begin the usual bet-taking, telling of tales of Impression and so on.

Mudslide Room

Fort — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:08:12 +0000

Hey there Fort! The Southern Bowl has been edited to accommodate the mudslide – the Lake Shore, Herb Garden and Lakeside Grove are currently inaccessible and a mudslide room has been opened on that end of the bowl. The room is set up with several ‘easter eggs’ and we invite all to come explore the room as part of your cleanup RP and see what you stumble upon.

We’ll also be doing some further cleanup RP on Sunday that will lead to some specific discoveries that all are welcome to join in on.