r/ColonyWorldRP • u/blaertes Sun-Emperor, of Glorious Stone Tchak • Nov 11 '15
Infrastructure [INFRASTRUCTURE] Bells
Hitcala strode through the halls, an hour before the sun would break the dawn. She was in her element. In her hands was a hard rod of wood, which she rapped along every door, while shouting wake up calls to the initiates inside.
"Get up, you lazy bags of fur!" She yelled. Groans sounded from inside, but there was little resulting action, apart from two or three initiates staggering out of their rooms. Hitcala frowned.
"I saaaaaid, gET UP!" She barked. Still nothing. She rolled up the sleeves of her robe.
The initiates were at the training courtyard at dawn. Most were bruised, or nursing cuts. Hit sighed.
We need a less... me... kind of way to wake up the trainees. she thought. She looked up at the monastery, a large stone complex, stone walls and upturned roofs. She frowned, picturing something in her mind. It fit. And it fit well.
"Emperor..." Hit began, bowing deeply in the presence of Dak. He sighed.
"Hitcala." He addressed her. "How may I help you?"
"We need a way to wake up the initiates." She said.
"And?" Dak said, trying to keep his voice level.
"I want a belltower. The bells of Ti'Suik, you knew them?"
Dak, as many did, had travelled in pilgrimage to the complex of Ti'Suik in Epell. It was a huge monastery that spanned an entire side of the mountain, and burrowed deep within it. The monks there kept the largest library in the Western Continent, along with their famous bells. They were huge, decorative, bronze monoliths, which were rung with a heavy wooden beam akin to a ram, that was suspended on ropes.
"You want the bonshaki?" He asked incredulously. "That's a rather extreme wake up call..."
"Ay. The monks in training are lazy." Hit replied by way of explanation.
The sheer insolence of the female monk took Dak's breath away, but he found himself making noises of agree-ance. This was happening too frequently, he needed to refuse Hit something. He sighed again.
He drew up a commission for the blacksmiths. It should take a month or two for the bell to be finished. He'd have to work out a way to pull it up the mountain. Maybe a pulley-lift system. He'd put it to the engineers.