-3- [Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers] (1) - Building a dwarven sky scraper.

I just wrote a HUGE write up and fucking accidently closed the window :(

Here are the images for now, you'll see the concept art - I'll write it up later: http://imgur.com/a/O8Ekq

Edit: I apologize for the delay, here is the prologue. I'll be back to do the actual correspondance tomorrow hopefully.

Prologue

Deep in the mountain homes, by their telling nine friends worried their mutual friend, Limiate Cagithlimul. Sitting around a chalk tables, they were enjoying a dwarven ale when suddenly, as if possessed by some force, he dropped his mug, stood up and left the room. It was hours later that the friends found the dwarf in an architect’s study, having commandeered it, much to the chagrin of the actual architect who turned his attention to drinking. Limiate, who knew nothing about architecture, seemed to be in a strange mood, feverously working over a drawing table with charcoal writing utensils and responded to nothing. Any attempts to separate him from his work was met with a ferocious response so the friends simply observed him. His drawing was on mole dog skin that had been treated to act as parchment and Limiate Cagithlimul drew and drew, accepting no offers of food, sleep or the most strangely – drink. For hours he worked until he was done. As he emerged from the study, he held with him what the mountain home elders declared an artifact blueprint: Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers.

Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers

This blueprint is a detailed plan of a Dwarf Fortress. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is made of mole dog leather and decorated with charcoal. On the item is an image of a dwarf fortress named Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers.

The nobles of the mountain homes took the artifact to frame in the bone of an ancient beast and display in the great meeting hall where it would generate happy thoughts. So was the plan and the dwarves returned to their daily business.

Weeks later, the dwarves, sitting around their favorite chalk tables were drinking their dwarven ale. Limiate Cagithlimul, who had not slept well and had suffered what could only be called a tantrum recently, and had not enjoyed his food recently and had not enjoyed his work recently, could not forget what had happened to him. A small, un-scratchable itch within his mind whispered to him that Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers was meant to be built, not displayed to generate happy thoughts. After Limiate’s beard was wet, for when a dwarf drinks too heavily the dribbles on their beard become plenty, he asked his friends to join him in his quest to build Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers. Since all the beards at the chalk table were wet, it was an easy decision, Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers would be built. However, the ten dwarves could hardly set forth as founders of a dwarf fortress on their own – what they needed was a patron to supply them with a proper dwarven embark and luckily, they knew just the dwarf: Urist McMatt872000, the 1st Judge of Ringfed.

After being invited into Urist McMatt872000’s quarters and ogling at the gold, platinum and silver furniture and Urist McMatt872000’s adamantium clothing, they proposed their plan. All was well when the dwarven rum was broken out and Urist McMatt872000 summoned a record keeper to write down the details of the embark. The generous 1st Judge of Ringfed agreed to provide the brave dwarves with a wagon load of supplies, two beasts of burden, a handful of dogs and cats, a couple turkey hens, a gobbler and the various tools to build a fortress. He also assigned a generous supply of food and drink to keep the dwarves held over in case of a bad winter.

In exchange for this generous gift, Urist McMatt872000, the 1st Judge of Ringfed asked two things of the brave ten:

1. That each fall, Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers be prepared to receive a caravan sent from the mountain homes where Urist McMatt872000’s merchants would come to trade the goods of the mountain homes for the exotic and rarities of Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers.

2. That each spring, a correspondence would be written, addressed to Urist McMatt872000, the 1st Judge of Ringfed and all the dwarves of the mountain homes updating them on the progress of Citybridge the Tall Stone-Sky of Dwellers.

The ten dwarves agreed to Urist McMatt872000’s terms and made their marks on this document, the written agreement.

• Limiate Cagithlimul Broker

• Tdreyer1 Inenmistem Brewer

• Gozerogzarian thothdatan Carpenter

• Borntowheep dumatast Mason

• Milkb0t Kosothetas Milker

• DarkishArchon Lunoltar Miner

• Kristofenpheiffer Etesnil Grower

• Finalfrog X X

• nix413 X X

• aedoss X X

(Note: X’s are placeholders, forgot what they are)

• Urist McMatt872000 1st Judge of Ringfed