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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3141110" data-attributes="member: 5675">Chatting about whether we’d ever be able to rely on Smenk to pay up, we headed to the bar, where we saw a familiar sight – the three adventurers were celebrating once again. Biting our lips, we headed across to speak to them, and learned that they had had another adventure, going to the south to defeat lizardmen and gain still more treasure. We congratulated them on their success (all the while wondering why they had found lizardmen to the south when Smenk and his brother had been talking about Kyuss-worm undead living there). Then, turning to the back of the bar, we noticed Gerald, with another man, sharing a bottle at a shady table. I headed across to try to talk him into offering us a job, but somehow rubbed him up the wrong way. He immediately took loud and abusive exception to my lute (which was new enough that I was still immensely proud of). Only by telling him of my companions’ great virtues in mining was I able to make him even consider talking to us. Gerald refused, however, to believe that Morgan had any skills; which was ironic as he was the only one of the three of us who had the slightest clue what was involved in the mining industry. He agreed to employ all of us if Morgan could answer 3 questions about mining; and sweetened the deal with a 5 gold bet with me. As 10 gold lay on the table (probably more money than would be spent in the bar during the entire night), Gerald barked his questions at Morgan.“What sized bolt would you use on a 8 foot tunnel support?”“10 inch on an oak timber, 18 inch on pine.”“What degree of an incline could you set for a downwards sloping tunnel when you don’t need to lay tracks, but do intend for workers to haul scree out?”“That depends on what the rock is, and what you’re mining for. If you’re on a good solid rock, then the ground can hold a higher slope, say 12 degrees. If you’re on porous rock, then you need to cut it slower and make sure you’ve got good drainage. Clearly if you’re mining a heavy metal and have an average yield mine, then the workers are going to have to haul a lot of sacks – they’ll be at their most efficient on a slope of 6 degrees or less.” Morgan was on a roll now, and was impressing me with his mining knowledge.“How many dwarves would it take to mine 120 kilos of silver from a mine during the course of a single tuesday if they work all 24 hours, it’s raining, and they have no beards?”“That’s a trick question on two counts. One, dwarves round here don’t work on Tuesdays, and two, all dwarves have beards.”Gerald looked grudgingly impressed, and slid the coins across the table to me. “You start tomorrow. It pays 2 silver a day.”</blockquote>

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