Shovels In Spades

"Huh... they're taking longer than I thought they would," Daz commented as he stared down at the slowly crumbling city of Waterford from the peak of the new walls' central tower. The people he was referring to were, of course, his two clones, Alpha and Beta.

He had come here for one reason and one reason only; to blacklist his father. With that done, he went to collect Lyle and Sandy. Once he had found those two men, he left Fort Skip and stood just outside of the northern adamantine portcullis.

"My Lord, I'm fully prepared to receive our new citizens now, thank you for waiting," Lyle said after he had finished setting up a small booth of some sort which he'd pulled out of his Personal Item Box.

Sandy had his arms firmly crossed over his chest while he was seated on a fold-up chair and was busy puffing away on his dutchman's pipe. "Why do I need to be here again, Kiddo?" he mumbled as his teeth gripped the pipe's shaft firmly in place.

"To directly recruit people into being builders. Plenty of the people that approached me were just everyday people, and I'll be damned if they don't do at least a little bit of work. I'm gonna summon them all, then I'll state what jobs are open right now, why they should work, then after that, you're gonna lead the wannabe-builders to your workshop," Daz said matter-of-factly.

Sandy's eyes brightened up. "Ah, so ya've seen ma workshop, have ya? Damn right masterpiece, if I do say so maself, which, by the way, I do."

"Yes. It's a very nice looking place. Sure beats my personal workshop," Daz replied with a smile as he summoned Rimmy's main body - which was still almost pitch black due to him absorbing the king gems power - to act as a gate guard.

He didn't want any of the new citizens entering Fort Skip until he was finished telling them how things worked, after all.

Sandy grunted. "Mine's professional, yers is personal, like ya said. There's more of a homey atmosphere to yer workshop then there is to mine, Kiddo."

"I suppose so." Daz didn't really care about this right now, as much as he enjoyed talking to Sandy, his mind was more focused on recalling all of the names of the people who had asked to be summoned.

"Alright, I'm gonna start in a second." Daz looked up to the top of the walls and nodded towards Rimmy's core which was peacefully floating up there. "I'm counting on you, Buddy!" he shouted.

A happy nod and a short "Rimmy!" was the golem's reply.

With that, Daz finally started to use his merit points and his privilege as a city lord to hire new citizens.

Daz could see Vanessa excitedly standing in the crowd of roughly three-hundred new faces. She seemed very pleased that Daz had actually summoned her. It seemed that she had held some slight reservations that perhaps he would have forgotten about her.

The reaper just sighed softly as he summoned the last person. "Summon Sakura Rei."