Hunkered down in the dell of rolling plains, Hynafiaeth was not a city, or a town, or even really a village. It was a mere smattering of huts around the rim of a large pit, dug deep into the earth. Earth piled up around the walls, a crude form of insulation against the wind that whipped from the east, carrying down across the plains from the great ocean, a thousand miles with no hills or mountains to stop the gathering speed. It was bitterly cold, the deepest nights of winter, and howls and cries of beasts rang down upon those huddled at the bottom of the pit. Those creatures of the plains occasionally ventured past the banked earth that shielded the scattered buildings, tearing into the stores and stealing food, making off into the night with necessary items. A pest, to be sure, but nothing compared with the tornadoes and flashfires that ravaged the plains. For those, the diggers had built chambers deep into the walls of the chasm, accessible only through narrow crawl-ways.
It was a strange and lonely existence for those who worked upon the earth of Hynafiaeth, for only two men cut holes in the ground now. All others were gone, long dead, or missing, forgotten as the challenge to dive deeper swarmed over the minds of those that remained. By hand, by tool, by magic, the earth was shifted and the tunnels went further, went deeper, crawled onwards towards the goals that lay nestled within the ticking crystals and hidden minds of the two burrowers. It was towards the artefacts of the Liara that the chambers led, a race of those dead and gone, now simply plunder to be gotten from the earth, provided those who search found what they searched for. Those burrowing into the earth were men of metal, able to continue their search long after any others had failed, and is is here that we join them in their quest for the artefacts of the Liara.
[spoiler]This is the official game thread for the Children of Daedalus. IC chatter only please. Feel free to plot and scheme and plan things. Feel free to use the old thread for OOC chatter.
Sorry it took me so long.[/spoiler]