The dy practically had a pn to it a coup on a city, and Cathy found herself impressed that said coup included aire cultural upheaval as a byproduct. It was a logical clusion from her perspective, and from the perspective of the dy, but apparently no one in this dimension had seen this ing. Turire city into one depe ohings so hated by the rest of the world, bined with the dimensional merge, arey has practically separated the humans of Malencia from Faerune permaly, calling them human, elf or dwarf no longer seems fitting. They won't be treated or aowledged as suyway once Faerune finds out what kind of things Malencia is s with in the name of survival. They won't find merywhere else, and soon enough there will only be 'the Malen'.

  For now however, Cathy has been asked to hahe difficult task of keeping the crafters w on guns specifically calm, Esstrey said that she didn't care much for the others, and that they would fall in liually, but the people w on making parts funs are vital. No interruptions would be permitted in the produ of guns, and that's exactly what will happen if Cathy wouldn't step in. The shoggoth elected to take Sofia with her for this cause, the metallic slime has bee quite the object of drooling for every dwarf, which amounts to 81.429% of all smiths. Sofia has also been instrumental in the creation of the most difficult parts of guns, and Cathy has a feeling that if Esstrey wasn't able to acquire a worker's base, she would have simply relied on the slime to mold the guns for her.

  Cathy ehe bazaar-like structure that is now being used to house the various branches of the workers. A rge building that was bought up for cheap by Esstrey when trade died, the various crafters still work on things that aren't guns, but were told that every gun of acceptable quality would be bought up by the administration, and blueprints for the ons were freely handed out after being reverse-engineered. Cathy quickly receives some odd stares, as a shoggoth is an odd sight for a familiar with what the locals call The Beyond, but Sofia's preseurns all looks of suspi into that of happiness. Dwarves with some spare time already start to gather around the slime, partially in awe of her being made from pure adamantine, and partially in awe of the fact she's se. There's also not a single smith not aware of Sofia's natural ability to make plicated parts with ease, and the rudest things they have done so far is attempt to buy her off Esstrey in an anized effort, to which she simply respoo by asking for their entire families as sves instead as equivalent exge. None have attempted to buy Sofia after that, but after receiving a shipment of booze 'in exge for treating her nicely' all parties involved treated that i as water uhe bridge.

  "Ma'am, I presume yer with the Bean an Locha? What the fe do for ya?" An elder dwarf approached Cathy, correctly presuming that someone g in the legs department while looking more like something from outside the walls would be an associate of Esstrey.

  "This one was [sent/deployed/put in a] to maintain the operation of this pce while Esstrey returns order to the city, have there been any issues?" Only a few eyes look at the elder dwarf while Cathy speaks, none of which are on her head, the other eyes s the former bazaar fns of inefficies.

  "Nuffin' major ma'am, there have been some supplies stole for the fes, but it's less of a problem than the food markets nearby shutting down over fear of getting raided." The dwarf takes a piece of cloth to remove the sweat from his brow, it isn't sweat from the fes, but fear at what the Bean an Locha pns to do to anyone who would interrupt produ.

  "Nothing major? That's bullshit!" A human interrupts the dwarf, the tools hanging off his belt indig skills in the carpentry department.

  "Shipments of timber have pletely halted, and once people find out we are still getting food shipments they will lynch our families! The riots will soon overruire middle-district, and thehe nobles won't be safe anymore! What will our 'oh so titanic' beor do about this!?" The dwarf gestures at the carpeo calm down, but Cathy simply stares at him with the eyes on her face.

  "Your worries have been his one has also he [supply/goods/fuel] theft. Such a matter may seem [trivial/minor/non-issue], but this is a on factory, nothing is safe." Cathy's calm demeanor forces the carpeo back down, especially sidering his rage causing Sofia to get a bit too close to the one he ra.

  Mentally, Cathy makes a note of how the votile behavior seems to be on with humans tely, and will reerey to un iigation into it. Katerina might be able to get some clues to their behavior if she eats a few brains, she's their best specialist when it es to that. Cathy goes arouing more atances with all the workers, most of the enters appear to be elves, who didn't have too muergy with her iions with them, but their situation also appears to be nominal. Then the screaming and yelling starts.

  "There... there be undead outside!" A dwarf loudly yells through the factory, alerting everyone currently w. The dwarf quickly gets swarmed by his kin, while less familial crafters wonder what the ruckus is all about, right up until a few open up the curtains they closed to keep the dreary and desperate people away from their sights. A few of the elves even notice demons flying through the sky and... things traveling over rooftops.

  "What's the meaning of this? Why in the bzes are monsters overruning the city?" A few of the more observant crafters hat the monsters did not e from outside, but from the dire of the keep instead. Said crafters quickly rally their fellows to the representative of the duchy that just so happeo visit. Sofia stands o Cathy, and grows some sharp spikes to dissuade any lyng attempts.

  "The duchy has decided to supplement its forces with additional troops, it has also found a viable solution to the food [problem/issue/drum]. Please remain calm, this one only answer one [question/query/i] at a time. [Failure/deing/g] pliance will result in punitive a." At first Cathy goes ignored, but another small show of force by Sofia when the spikes she formed beore on-shaped cause some of the dwarves and elves to back off, which cascades into the crafters losing the will to lynch their local gover official as some back out. Slowly Cathy starts answering questions, while reassuring everyone present that no, their families themselves are not the solution to the food problem, and yes, all those creatures are with Malencia. The protestors outside have no such luck when it es to expnations, undead don't talk, Beyonders are inprehensible, and demons dislike talking. On the bright side, hal as are taken against the protestors, and roughly ten minutes after the monsters roll through a is followed by kobolds and the guard who are stu between being nervous about walking outside with so many 'civilized beings' around and their newfound allies respectively.

  Prickly