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<blockquote data-quote="hairychin" data-source="post: 5556216" data-attributes="member: 6676224"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">Leonard D. Apricot</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">Leonard was depressed, again. A volunteer was required. And that meant him. The Grand Poobah of the Union of Recyclers, Creative Re-users and Alternative Processors (URCRAP) wanted to make a name for himself, and that meant getting someone else to do his dirty work (haha!). Len’s recent behaviour did not stand him in high favour with the Poobah. His vigorous and vocal campaigning with his friend Egstein in favour of the union of their respective unions, and the subsequent defeat was, in hindsight, a mistake. Anyway, the Union of Biological Urban Miners (UBUM) was an honourable and hard working group of Dwarfs, and Len was sure that the resulting Union of Recyclers, Biological Urban Miners, Creative Re-users and Alternative Processors (URBUMCRAP) would have been a fine organisation with greater power and influence to further the cause of its members at a higher level of Dwarven society.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">Now Len was stood in his yellow stained skivvies, arms straight out to the sides, as various co-workers measured him up. He was just an inch over four feet, small even for his kind, and solid in that way that all dwarves are, yet if anything, more so. The missing ‘spare cart wheel’ from his middle was a sign of the fitness of a dwarf that spent his day rummaging through the heavy refuse that was his speciality. Here was a dwarf that lifted mining carts, lift props, and old anvils on a daily basis, sorting the re-usable from the recyclable – he was an Alternative Processor. Still young, his beard had not yet filled out, and his hair was cropped short (not something you want in your way when heavy lifting). After his waist, chest and arms had been measured with knotted lengths of string, they moved onto his hands. Egstein (he had been lent by UBUM to help his friend prepare) was given the task, as the others were wary of his tatts, the twin symbols of the gods Marthammor Duin and Dugmaren Brightmantle, one on the back of each hand.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">Once measured, the knotted string was rushed through to the next cavern where the best Creative Re-users in the business were ready to start work on the finest suite of armour that Dwarven kind will have ever manufactured, or so he was reliably informed. He was somewhat doubtful of the grand claim, but had to admit that his fellow workers had been scouring the refuse heaps of the clans in order to locate the best rubbish they could. And he had been continually amazed in recent years of both the quality of the refuse, a sign that some in society were leading ever indulgent lives, along with the growing skills and ingenuity of the CRs. His armour, like the rest of his kit, may be of unusual manufacture, but it would do the job and protect his life. The thought that it would need to just depressed him more. Bloody Grand Poobah!!</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH]48474[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hairychin, post: 5556216, member: 6676224"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]Leonard D. Apricot[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]Leonard was depressed, again. A volunteer was required. And that meant him. The Grand Poobah of the Union of Recyclers, Creative Re-users and Alternative Processors (URCRAP) wanted to make a name for himself, and that meant getting someone else to do his dirty work (haha!). Len’s recent behaviour did not stand him in high favour with the Poobah. His vigorous and vocal campaigning with his friend Egstein in favour of the union of their respective unions, and the subsequent defeat was, in hindsight, a mistake. Anyway, the Union of Biological Urban Miners (UBUM) was an honourable and hard working group of Dwarfs, and Len was sure that the resulting Union of Recyclers, Biological Urban Miners, Creative Re-users and Alternative Processors (URBUMCRAP) would have been a fine organisation with greater power and influence to further the cause of its members at a higher level of Dwarven society.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]Now Len was stood in his yellow stained skivvies, arms straight out to the sides, as various co-workers measured him up. He was just an inch over four feet, small even for his kind, and solid in that way that all dwarves are, yet if anything, more so. The missing ‘spare cart wheel’ from his middle was a sign of the fitness of a dwarf that spent his day rummaging through the heavy refuse that was his speciality. Here was a dwarf that lifted mining carts, lift props, and old anvils on a daily basis, sorting the re-usable from the recyclable – he was an Alternative Processor. Still young, his beard had not yet filled out, and his hair was cropped short (not something you want in your way when heavy lifting). After his waist, chest and arms had been measured with knotted lengths of string, they moved onto his hands. Egstein (he had been lent by UBUM to help his friend prepare) was given the task, as the others were wary of his tatts, the twin symbols of the gods Marthammor Duin and Dugmaren Brightmantle, one on the back of each hand.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]Once measured, the knotted string was rushed through to the next cavern where the best Creative Re-users in the business were ready to start work on the finest suite of armour that Dwarven kind will have ever manufactured, or so he was reliably informed. He was somewhat doubtful of the grand claim, but had to admit that his fellow workers had been scouring the refuse heaps of the clans in order to locate the best rubbish they could. And he had been continually amazed in recent years of both the quality of the refuse, a sign that some in society were leading ever indulgent lives, along with the growing skills and ingenuity of the CRs. His armour, like the rest of his kit, may be of unusual manufacture, but it would do the job and protect his life. The thought that it would need to just depressed him more. Bloody Grand Poobah!![/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [ATTACH]48474._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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