Talbot

Talbot is centered around a 2 story cabin which sits about 70 feet away from the edge of the plateau. It is made up of a concrete foundation, cracked and crumbling around the edges. The walls are constructed of ponderosa logs and mortar. Some of the mortar has completely chipped away in some places, letting the weather in. Luckily the holes are small and easy to cover. The glass in the windows has long been broken out, but the sturdy shutters still remain. This is the main shelter for the whole tribe.

A firepit lies just to the side of the cabin, about three feet deep and five feet in diameter. Stones are piled up in a ring about one foot high around the edge. Log benches encompass the firepit. This area is the center of activity most of the time as its where the cooking is done and any meetings are held.

Scattered about are other relics of past settlers. An old water spigot, rusted into the open position and no longer flowing. An outhouse that has given up and collapsed to become one with the earth. A row of telephone poles, some sections with wire, some without. They stretch down the plateau in the center of a clear cut in the trees that heads in a perfectly straight line out into forest below.

The view from up here is tremendous, with the east side of the cabin looking out out over the thick aspen forest below. On the horizon, blue mountains rise up to snow capped peaks and help to form a massive bowl that the forest sits in. To the west is the tabletop of the plateau, forested like the terrain below, but not as heavily. To the north and south, where you can see through the trees, a sharp angle of rock makes up the edge of the plateau.