I think we're going to have a time skip now, or soonish, probably about a week. I'll create a downtime thread for anyone who wants to explore any scenes that might happen during that time, interactions with PCs or NPCs. I'll also sumarize the recourse the PC have, armory, treasury, manpower (follows and slaves). I'll probably edit that information into the opening post.<br/><br/>As mentioned, a source of will be neccissary soon. For now there is enough, the horses were carrying rations, you'd have enough for 40 days (not all together, this needs to be devided between everyone). The area around will need to be scouted. Some projects for the short term (they won't always be this detail, this is just an example):<br/><br/>Build a tent/pavilion over the crack above the spring, making retrieving the water less of a hardship.<strong>Requires</strong>: 16 man hours, leather (2 camels worth) and wood (4 medium planks/poles).<br/><br/>Build a ladder to access the crack, reducing water gathering time by 33%.<strong>Requires</strong>: 10 man hours, wood (27 planks/poles) and twine (30ft).<br/><br/>Open up the crack to allow a bucket to be lowered in the streem, reducing water gathering time by 90%.<strong>Requires</strong>: 80 man hours, iron pickaxe.<br/><br/>Build a door, and possible covers for the windows.<strong>Requires</strong>: Various on the type and quality desired.<br/><br/>Build a pen with a sheltered corner to hold a small herd of animals (around 12 goats or 4 chamels).<strong>Requires</strong>: 20 man hours, wood (50 planks/poles), twine (45ft).<br/><br/>Man hours are assuming one person is doing this, so multiple people working on the project at once will reduce the time taken.<br/><br/>Later on you will need to build additional dwellings, but for now the temple is big enough to hold everyone, though some will have to share rooms, as there is only 8 on the first floor. Also the temple itself was traditionally a community, and wasn't strictly religious, but the smaller chamber on the top floor is sacred, so Mahsati might want others staying out of there. Not sure how she'll feels about it.