The Transport - 12th Granite Kubrik sighed. 'Where’s the food? Where’s the rest of the patients? Where is the door? It’s been a week!'
Sigmund Shrugged. Kubrik didn’t seem to be smiling anymore.
Furniture was slowly being delivered. 4 high risk dwarves out of the expected 8 sat patiently in the corner of the room. With no door and staggering levels of stress both Kubrik and Sigmund worried they would soon begin to leave their station.
It wasn’t until the 14th of Granite the door arrived. But the miners breached Bay 1 too early (mistake) so a new set of doors needed to be ordered. Speargrave Lokkumondul bored of waiting threw down his waterskin and marched out the room as Dumateggut Legendary Crossbowman strolled through another.
Duma looked around, through a veil of depression his instincts told him exactly what was happening but his discipline held him to his post. 11 patients remain in the general population. Kubrik made the call and they locked the door. Transport 1 was re organized to exclude those who had already arrived. Shortly after Bay 2 and 3 had been built the second transport was made active and ordered to Bay 2 along with the second group of very unhappy dwarves. Almost all eventually arrived, and with all the doors in place it became much simpler. The doors between Bay 1 and Bay 2 were opened combining the population to share new supplies that had been brought in during the construction of Bay 2.
Inside the bays - 18th Granite It was at that moment Avuz Itongitnuk broke. He sat down, light going from his eyes and began to quietly weep. Soon panic followed.
Cog Gusilgeshed, the communist roared.
And began to charge the weeping Avuz with all his proletarian fury. Avuz, by instinct dodges and rolled until briefly clipped in the leg came down. Limping mildly the evasion continued until the former hunter Shorast Inethisan came between them, shielding Avuz from Cog’s wailing blows.
Cog, in dreadful self realization stopped, exhausted, his fists hanging impotently at his side. Avuz scrambled away into a corner to find some form of safety. The hunter Shorast stood up stiffly and turned to look at Cog. He walked over and grabbed him tightly. 'It’s ok. It’s ok, I think they’re going to help us'. It was at that moment something shifted in all of them, it was if the world had been pushed 5 degrees off center, they did not fully know if it was for good or bad but something had indeed changed. Erin Quill established a small hospital in the dormitory and brought Avuz to a bed.
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Outside the entrances to the Bays 19th GraniteKubrik and Sigmund were very aware that 2 of the highest risk remained in the population. They were Cpt of the Glazes of worth, Nil Abanluslem 40,000 stress & Ralostuk Macelord 56,000 stress. Several days later, 2 figures walked slowly down the corridor. The two towering giants of Doomhollow stopped and stood over Kubrik and Sigmund by the entrance to Bay 3. Sigmunds’ knees began to go weak and he muttered something comforting to himself, his eyes glued to the floor. Kubrik smiled at them. Nil and Ralostuk hard eyes softened. Was their march at an end? They had stored their weapons before coming but both men could still easily crush these men and escape. Kubrik opened the door. Nil, former cpt of the glazes of worth spoke softly ‘I’ve fixed the security breaches. The fort is now secure’. There was a moment of silence, then both Captains walked in to Bay 3 and Nil closed the door behind him.
In reality the transport took until the 28th of Granite. 23 days. The overlook would be completed soon and healing could begin.
'An interesting fact', Sigmund said nervously, to try and put this logistical failure in context. 'The total stress we’ve transported is approximately half a million units. As you know , stress has mass so naturally it would take some time to move'. Kubrik stared at him and smiled. This time however, Sigmund for some reason did not feel re-assured.
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