Other Jimness > Cinder Spires Spoilers
Minerals.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 12, 2015, 03:44:26 PM ---Not if the location of each spire where CHOSEN with it's local mineral resources in mind. It's also worth noting that they do have over-land travel and trade /between/ spires, so it's not out of the question to have mines that range out from the Spires a good distance. Presumable they have tree Farms (or at least known harvesting spots) along those lines.
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Wait, they have overland travel? I don't remember seeing a reference to that. Good point about the deliberate placing of the spire though. It fits well with the lack of bronze we are discussing in the other thread.
Quantus:
I checked and I had it wrong. I was remembering the olypian that they fought with in the Bar, whose rooms they'd taken. His crew had come over the surface, but it was only a mile on the surface, and with wounded I think they were supposed to be Aeronuats that had crashed before making it all the way to the Spire.
knnn:
oh I see. So one mile out on the surface is doable... Not great, but still something.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 12, 2015, 05:46:41 PM ---oh I see. So one mile out on the surface is doable... Not great, but still something.
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Ya. The sense I got from that and from some of the aeronaut's comments is that the surface is a ridiculously hostile jungle, but that it's more from the wildlife than from any ambient poisonous atmospheric effects or anything. They mentioned that theyd rather die in the crash than find themselves on the stranded on the surface with a smashed airship.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 12, 2015, 03:44:26 PM ---Presumable they have tree Farms (or at least known harvesting spots) along those lines.
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They must have something to supply ship construction. If the surface is really that bad, they'd run out of people before "walk out into the jungle, cut something down, drag it back" supplied enough wood for airships and the shipyard/docks complex at Landing.
I'd guess at some sort of fortifications around the bases of the spires to make lumberjacking merely very dangerous instead of totally suicidal. Maybe stone-enclosed fortified paths / tunnels out to the lumbering areas, and bunkers they can hide in if any of the wildlife gets too inquisitive.
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