Day 2 of the 9th week to midsummer
Roughly a month had gone since the spring equinox. Novrus was preparing so search for ore. Perhaps he had been too hasty about the cliff to the south. Is not a cliff a broken mountain? He would search the bogs there.
He would be gone for perhaps a week relying on Hyker and the wolf scaled traps around the pen.
Rains would add to the tubs, one a proper plank made tub the other one of his earlier hollowed out stumps. These he shifted near the half barn where the roof’s run off would add to them being rain catchers. He drove stakes in around them as a precaution from the animals tipping them over.
Meats for Hyker were laid out in the pen for Hyker including a fresh capercaille bird catch. Fresh spruce and hay from last winter’s threshing were put out for the sheep.
For himself Novrus cut the elk leather to make a summer cuirass. The Red foe’s lamellar cuirass was in horrible shape from the wolf siege. Later he might use it as a guideline for making a fresh one. He was wearing the spectacle helm bought to the south, a mail coif and a fur cap for padding. He wore clothes and furs though not the extra winter layers.
A sacrifice to the spirits was made for the safety of the home stead.
With his metal bladed shovel he planned to march off through the muddy spring in search of ore.
<Novrus Ready to seek ore>
Ran out of time to test the new "cliff" ore code today.
Also if anyone knows about the "lake ore" from Bouidda please pass on information in a modding question threat at:
https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=4684.0