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[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

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[Jessica's recovered slightly from the horrible failure that was her first attempt. Now it's time to show the gardens she means business! With the aid of a lot of dirt and a small pile of draft paper.

[First up: three more towers, with windows all around, for lookout. Internal elevators, so people can easily get to the tops. Then, a keep below, fortified and with plenty of rooms for storage and living and doctoring. A high, thick wall encircling, wide enough to walk on, with occasional guardhouses for supply storage. Fortified entrances at each cardinal point. A clear plastic roof stretching over the rest of the complex to shield from aerial attacks. And, once the basic shell is there, something she's been wanting for a while: interior plumbing, plus a sprinkler system just in case.

[She stands back, observing the result with satisfaction. Once she's inspected the area, she opens up a mirror on the vine.]

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I've finished the fortress I was planning. If anyone who's an actual fighter or has, y'know, experience with this stuff wants to check it out and make sure it's up to code, that'd be great. Mostly I just want people to know where it is for the next time we get overrun with things trying to kill us. Just look for the towers.

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[brustriese.livejournal.com]

What's the canopy made of? Aerial attacks are the bane of the traditional fortress, and they can muster quite a bit of firepower.

You've also left yourself with quite a few ingress points to defend. Every gate increases the number of warriors needed to defend the facility, so I hope you have a lot of friends.

I can't speak for your storage or plumbing without inspecting it thoroughly, but as this kind of fortress is designed to withstand a siege, consider the security of your water and food storage.

I also might recommend a building material other than stone, but metal fortresses require a radically different design in the first place.

Finally, I'd point out that there's a perfectly good fortress already, but as the Queen provided it, I can understand not trusting its security.

[Yes, this person you've never talked to before is 100% serious when it comes to castle design, apparently.]

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

[This is exactly what Jessica was going for so yay! Even if she does not register anything yay-ish on her face.]

It's a thick plastic for now. I wanted something that allowed reasonable visibility.

I thought it might be good to have multiple entry points for people who got caught outside by a sudden attack. Hopefully multiple people could man the door areas at the start, and then have them locked down once most of the population is inside.

Please feel free to come check it out; I've tried to keep everything as secure as possible, but I'm definitely a civillian here.

I could possibly reinforce the stone. I'm afraid I worked with very scanty knowledge of this sort of thing, and I'm pretty sure that we'll be mostly up against things like the murderplants, rather than, um, tanks.

I'm also just trying to go along with the order to build. I would feel safer with something I know I designed. Plus, y'know, strategy. Helps to know where all the nooks and crannies are.

[brustriese.livejournal.com]

Honestly, you're probably going to need magic above my pay-grade to make a canopy that can withstand a serious attack...if all you're worried about is the wandering monsters, though, hardened polymer might work.

I've never seen an amateur castle design before, but you seem to have the right general idea. I'll have a look at the interior when I'm, er...off-duty.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the whole thing could also be reinforced with spider silk from Yamame, though that would probably take a while.

Thanks. I really appreciate the help.