Abandoned - Coats and Cloth - Story 16 NWS

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Chapter 15


 By winter of year 4, there were linen clothes in the storage barns, but none had made it to the warehouse yet.  There was some leather and wool in storage, but the warehouse still needed hide coats and wool coats.  The only textile that was in short supply was fur. 



  There were a lot of rabbits in the weed patch and in and around the glade.  It was time we did a little more about them. We would add more rabbit meat and furs to our supplies.





  We thought it would help if we brought one of our supply carts out of the storage barn and use it to get the furs from the storage barns down closer to the warehouse.  Instead, it got the needed textiles farther away from the seamstress, tailor, and cloth maker.

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Chapter 16

  We found we had plenty of flax for the cloth maker from the patch next to the market and from the forsythias row.  We decided to grow more oats where the other flax patch had been.  We prepared 2 oat patches next to the existing one but as soon as the weather warmed in early spring, the weeds, rabbits, and grouse moved in.  One of the new patches only needed a bit more weeding and the oats came up nicely. The 2nd new patch was a lost cause.  The grouse scratch the soil and ate the newly planted oat seeds before many of the seeds had a chance to sprout; they built nests and laid eggs.   We had another weed patch.





  Because we had more wild honey than the jam maker needed, the nords decided they wanted to brew some honey mead.  They could have made ale if we had planted some of the wheat seeds we brought here with us, but they were just as happy to have mead instead of ale.  A brewer barrel was set up across from the meeting hall and folks were soon gathering for a cup of mead and a friendly visit.



  By late summer, the cloth maker had made enough linen clothes for the warehouse although some of the clothes were still in the storage barns or markets.  We decided to spend some time making use of all the scraps of cloth to make some patchwork quilts.  There were soon quilts of many colors hanging on clothes lines all around town.

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Chapter 17


  In early autumn, one of the river boatmen stopped by to tell us that the warehouses in Riverboat Depot had been completed, they built more than one, and there was now room for our coats and textiles.  We could expect the horse carts to arrive at any time.  And then it snowed; not just a little snow, enough to keep the carts from coming.



  Well, that would give us a little more time to fill the warehouse.  We actually had to take a bit of wool out to make room for the linen clothes and furs.  We still needed hide coats.  Some said we should have taken the leather out for the seamstress to use since she often had to wait for leather. 



  There were 2 herds of deer that were often spotted not far from the warehouse.  Another hunter's workplace was built, and the hunter came from the riverside workplace to try his luck at the new one; the deer by his original workplace kept going across the river out of range.  More hide coats were made, and the warehouse was soon filled to capacity.

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Chapter 18


  And then it was early spring and, as it had done before, the spring-green birch leaves began to open and the colorful spring flowering trees and shrubs began to bloom.  We were very proud of our settlement and what we had accomplished in the past 5 years. 





  We had a meeting hall and chapel, and we were making mead and fruit jam, and milling our own flour and baking jelly buns.  We had a duck pond and fishing pier, hedgerows, and patches, plus a field of potatoes, and a wildlife glade.  We had an animal shed and a pasture full of sheep.  We supplied ourselves with food, firewood, and everything else we needed.   We had a warehouse filled with coats and clothes and textiles waiting to be picked up.





  We had nords and humans living in cozy cottages, and elves living in treehouses and in haven houses.  Coats & Cloth was a good place to live.

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Chapter 19



    In spring of year 6, Coats & Cloths population was 71, 47 adults and 24 children.  We were healthy and happy.





  We were especially happy when 2 horse-drawn carts came from Riverboat Depot to pick up the coats and textiles.  We celebrated together gathered around the mead barrel.  As much as we would have liked to take all the credit, we couldn't.  Our seamstress, coat maker, and cloth maker could have done very little if not for the rabbits, ducks, and grouse in our weed patches and around the glade.   From the glade we got rabbit meat and furs, duck meat and down, and even some wild oats.   The grouse in our weed patches gave us eggs, game, and down, and there was rabbit meat and furs to be had as well. 





  The river boatmen?  No, eager explorer, we did not have to rely on the river boatmen, but we were always glad when they stopped by to ask if we needed anything and to tell us news from the Depot.  Larker, the food merchant, said on his next run to Rainbow Falls he would pick up a couple more enchanted bows for us; we will have more hunters helping to refill the warehouse.  We are more than happy to be providing the river boatmen and their customers with coats and cloth.

It was nice of you to stop by, eager explorer.  Safe journey.





The End

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Mod note:

 I did not show many pictures with production totals in the story.  I made a small test map to show the result after 1 year, and at the end of the 2nd year.  The pictures, winter and spring views, also show the cotton and flax patches, the coat maker and cloth maker, and the deco items that are included in Kid Coats & Cloth.



   
 

Find info and links to downloads here:

https://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=4493.0        Kid Coats & Cloth                                                                                         

https://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=4480.0        Kid The Glade, released March 29, 2025                                                                                                                     
 
https://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=2093.15       The weed patch from Kid Coats & Cloth was added to Kid Abandoned Places,
                                                                                                 update was released April 24, 2025.