Re: Rebulding Tullum
One of the “problems” with Sagrem and City Building is that that with long term projects, it is easy to run ahead of time of the other story lines. Especially since he has no other PC’s to communicate with. While I can manage this over a short stretch, it gets harder and harder. It’s even harder now as other characters’ time is moving slowly, with the climactic battles going on or approaching. After that I expect the schedule to open up some as we cross the winter into season 2.
But in the mean time, I have to restrain Sagrem’s progress a bit, to keep the stress on the space time continuum down.
In the years of Hun occupation, things like "what interests you all" were unheard of. There were no interests, no choices. You did what they ordered you to do and hoped it was enough to turn away their wrath.
Sagrem gets a lot of cautious responses. Habits and fears are hard to change. A lot of people ask "what do you want us to do?"
The skill set here is not complete. The Orcs demanded that they farm, and raise livestock, mostly pigs, to provide meat for the Orcs, but they have not been farming well, because they kept so little of it. Some, Sagrem quickly, sees, are known to be better farmers than others. People don't like to admit that their neighbor simply works harder. They say he's got "The touch". "Green Thumb".
Another problem Sagrem sees is a terrible shortage of good iron tools. The Orcs handled most of the blacksmithing, and most of the effort went to providing weapons and armor for the Orcs. That's another reason most of the housing stock is in such poor condition- the Orcs didn't want the smiths wasting time on nails, hinges and latches for those miserable humans! Fortunately they bought some tools from the merchants.
Smithing is one of the few jobs Orcs considered acceptable. But there are a few older men who remember, and a few younger ones that served as smithy-slaves.