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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 4166389" data-attributes="member: 63746">Sounds good! We *are* downstream of Long Lake now though... Instead of splitting the river, might we posit a smaller stream going down from the mountains to Long Lake just to the west? That fast stream on one side and the river on the other would isolate our plateau from the worst of Mirkwoods denizens. Keep the rest the same but we can now sail the logs down the stream and collect at the lake. Acceptable?Gimli wasn't exactly surrounded kin you know, and Broadbeams would be few and far between to begin with. But, now that you mention it, we *could* posit a posse of fellow dwarves, say half a dozen or so (the fellowship of the beam? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. The conspirators have made their pact, then scattered out of Khazad-dum, making their way to locations of interrest in numbers dictated by the dangers and the rewards expected : the most efficient way to go about it, very dwarven. They are next to meet in (your call) years, to update each other on progresses made. In the meanwhile they've set up drop-boxes in likely location, pointed at by Broadbeam trail signs.Well, "finding alternate sources of income" sounded like finding ways to abandon a sinking ship to me (i.e. go into adventuring, hired jobs or something of the kind) : it's sort of hard to fight the economy of an entire region. If you meant find new ways in which the camp could become profitable again, then that's a different story. What did you have in mind? The aformentionned spider silk gathering maybe? Expeditions into the forest would certainly stir things up, and while it might be difficult to get every character involved in the gathering itself, it would certainly be possible to involve *everybody* in a rescue attempt (should something.. untoward happen to the gatherers).To re-state it, my original idea was to put the camp at the center of elf-human tensions, tensions created by a sudden increase in outright strip cutting, said tensions being fomented by parties who have an interrest in such a situation <hint, hint> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Binder Fred, slowly swimming out of it.</blockquote>

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