(Sat Mar 22 18:17:34 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Anouther full day of construction, anouther full nights sleep, the crew awakes. A few began to get breakfast ready, putting on pots of coffee as the others stir from their slumber. And yes, even Willy is up and at em today....the temperature having risen considerably since the other day

(Sat Mar 22 18:19:46 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: The large rottreiler tears into the large hunk of meat set out for him as other crew members eat their food....a strange collection of humans and animals, hard to recognize as a construction crew by most definitions...and yet, they represent one of the top companies in archetecture and construction through the world and Umbra....contracts ranging from mundane to supernatural

(Sat Mar 22 18:22:14 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Everyone is wide awake today, having slept a good nights rest in this strange world, many still believing they have some how been transported to Battle Realm of the Near Umbra, others not sure where they are. An anticipation sets over the crew. If the tests over the machines designed by Timbo work, then today will be the final day here....they will be able to return home. Only the western wall of the castle remains to be reinforced and the rest, finishing touches.

(Sat Mar 22 18:24:38 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Food is cleaned up, dishes are taken away. The crew heads to clean up, showering, bathing, brushing teeth and other such nessacities before work begans. While they still have made overtime for this sort job, it isn't much considering they have spent the last 2 weeks without work, but the hefty finishing bonus, promised to them by their boss promises to more then make up for it. Many are master craftsmen, some are helpers. All are dedicated and hard working, traits demanded and well rewarded for

(Sat Mar 22 18:27:19 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Timbo heads out with a small crew. They stand off to the side and far back from the machines being tested. These machines will, if functioning, lift a slap of black marble that is 50 foot by 400 foot and over a foot thick. The sheer weight of it along makes this feat daunting, but Timbo is more then just an expert machinist. He is a Son of Either. An awakened Mage, working for the company for reasons of his own. The motors are primed, excitment buzzes in throughtout the men and animals as they wait expectantly

(Sat Mar 22 18:29:40 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: The rock begans to slide upwards, along long Mythril guide rails. A slow even progress lifting the seemingly impossible. The rock continues to lift, higher and higher.....reaching its full , it slides foward, coming to rest flat ontop of the ground. Cheers errupt, along with howls and other noises. Immidiately the motors are checked, along with the sliding mechanisms by Timbo himself, then the rock begans to slide slowly back into its resting position, appearing as nothing more then part of the cliff face

(Sat Mar 22 18:33:40 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: The rest of the machines are tested in turn. Positioned around the entire face of the mountain around in a circle. Each one functioning. Now, everyone holds their breath, many almost shaking with excitment as Timbo takes the master control. The whirling of motors begans, amplified as all of them work in unison. Several large ravens fly outside of the contruction zone, hovering above the moutain and the castle. All of the cliff faces began to rise, a shadow falling over the castle. Higher and higher. Rising upward untill they are at their peak, then sliding back to rest on the ground as the tops met. All natural light blocked out. Silence in the ground, unable of cheers right now as they wait to hear the reports from the Corax.

(Sat Mar 22 18:36:47 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Timbo allows the defensive shield to remain in place for a full half hour. Everyone understands the need for time taking at this important point, but few can stand the wait. Most pace, or fiddle with tools, unable to remain completely idle. Finally, waiting is paid off as the motors whirl back to life. The machines bring the rock outward and down, smoothly and slowly back along their tracks, which dissapear back into the cliff face. The ravens fly back in as soon as their is an opening big enough, squawking eagerly to share the news. Jack, Timbo and Eddy gather around, the other working hands stand further back, wanting to know as soon as they can. The Corax, having made details recordings of the outside of the mountain replay the information for the men. Talks began and soon they turn to issue the work orders for today

(Sat Mar 22 18:39:25 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Jack's apprentices are sent inside the castle with explicit instructions to finish up on the Goblin Architecture already begun. The rest of the Iron Heads get ready to finish the West outer wall of the castle, reinforcing the black marble with Mythril I beams. Jack Timbo and Eddy themselves will preform the finishing touches to the stone sheets. They must be perfect. They must blend in completely with the stone of the mountain and each other so that, once completed, will appear as nothing more then a mountain, with no castle on top of it.

(Sat Mar 22 18:44:33 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Six men move out to the cliff face. Three pairs working together. Jack, Eddy and Timbo all wait as the other three shift forms. The Crinos form of the Ananasi is frieghtening to some, but these men have worked together on many jobs. Jack's long years of working in CyberRealm has made him depend on such deviants of the Spider kindom on jobs such as this. Each Ananasi positions itself right at the cliff face, spinning out one strand of silk. The size of the spider's silk is like a thin cable of steel, but hundreds of times stronger. Timbo, Jack and Eddy all attach the silk strands to their harnesses and step off the face of the cliff, keeping their feet against the surface as they are lowered, repelling down into position

(Sat Mar 22 18:48:22 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Each man has his own methods, each man works differently, but one thing is not in doubt. These three men are all master's in their work, each one more skilled then almost anyone else living or dead. Jack uses the gifts of the Glasswalkers, combined with the senses of the Lupus and the lost Rites of Globin smithing goes to work at perfecting the edges of the stone cliff plates. Eddy, master mason, uses the phenominal mental powers of the Malkavians combined with thousands of years of experience as he works the stone like a sculpter. Timbo, using the magic powers of the Awakened mage, his powers over matter, time, and energy, begans to control every molecule of the stone surface, one small inch at a time. All three work differently, all three producing the same results....perfection.

(Sat Mar 22 18:51:35 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: The work these three men preform goes slowly. By lunchtime, the westren wall has been finished and the entire outer wall of the castle is fortified, able to withstand far more damage then ever before possible. Buckets of food and drink are lowered down to the men as they take their lunch hanging over nothing against the cliff face. Such is the dedication of these men and such is why their workers give their all, because the men they work for expect nothing that they themselves do not give. The apprentices inside the castle continue the work. The inside of the castle looks the same in every respect, except to be perfected of every blemish and flaw, no matter now miniscule.

(Sat Mar 22 18:55:17 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: Lunch is finished, as well as the second section covered by the master craftsmen. Each one moving to a new position, each one having completed one of the stone shelves. They should finish a little before dinner time at this rate. The Iron heads, welders and masons above busy themselves with clean up and tearing down. The funderies are removed. All left over refined Mythril is moved into the castle to be stored alongside of the unrefined ore. Their sleeping places are cleaned, their cooking spots, and dishes, leaving just what they need for dinner untill they recieve word not to. Everything is packed, stored, cleaned untill no trace remains, other then the men themselves, the equiptment they will take with them and the large man-spiders at the edge of the cliff

(Sat Mar 22 18:58:48 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: The sun threatens to set over the bleak mountains as the spiders began to pull up their strands of silk....this time all the way up as the three men have finsihed their work. They set down their tools and stretch, having remained hanging all day now. The crew steps back, talking to each other and to the three men. The Corax take to the air once more to record the results of the final test. Timbo throws the master switch. The motors come to life as the stone is risen once again. High, up against the evening sky, they rise. Surrounded by darkness, the camp fires give light as well as torches and some magic of different natures. Everyone sits down and relaxes, stretching out after a days hard work....letting the hour pass before the walls are retracted.

(Sat Mar 22 19:01:04 2003) ~*Jack Hammer*~Husband to Deis*~ CEO of Steel Wolf Construction Keep your friends close, keep your enemies dead ~Outside on the Castle Grounds~says to ALL: The walls began to slide slowly back down, the sunlight does not come back as it is dusk. The ravens fly back down, projecting the results onto a large screen, for all to see....murmers as most suspect, looking to them as complete. Cheers as they see the smiles come on Jack, Timbo and Eddy's faces. Their work is finished, anouther job well done. One final piece remains, but that is something Jack will do himself, to be completed by Deis. Now its time to move his crew back out and to treat them to dinner at the Titanium Caern....the most expensive restaurant in the Universe.