Rainbow Falls

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The Falls were noisy and busy as hundreds of Viking general workers, miners, lumberjacks, builders, craftsmen, smiths, woodcarvers, metalworkers, inventors and alchemists continued hustling around Rainbow Forge in an attempt to advance the isolated Old Norse civilization. Some were pushing wheelbarrows, while others were driving animal wagons loaded with wood, metal or stone. Still others were hitting their two-handed pickaxes against the rocks, extracting all kinds of precious metals and gemstones while the laborers carried these basic elements back to the factories to be studied, purified, tempered and polished. The lumberjacks were busy at the sawmill, prepping the large wooden tree logs delivered to them by convenient sleds, ropes, pullies and lumber wagons from the nearest forest. The alchemists were also hard at work in the medieval laboratory, mixing potions, grinding different stones and metals into fine dust, and experimenting with different medicines, pigments, tinctures, chemicals, bleaches and hair dyes, soaps, oils and alloys while many skilled craftsmen and inventors would tinker with the Taiyou technology they had stolen in an attempt to reverse engineer it, or re-invent similar technological advancements using their own primitive Viking Age technology.

But the most impressive sight to behold at Rainbow Forge were the blacksmiths, woodcarvers and metalworkers, who spent countless hours, days, weeks and sometimes even months to perfect their Viking arts and crafts. They would carve large pillars and thick wooden doors, or wooden statues, dragon-headed ship prows, oars, wooden masts and beams, chairs, benches, wooden tables, bowls, cups, forks, spoons, ladles, tool handles and arrow shafts, spears, small children's toys, crude nautical compasses, Hneftafl board game pieces, spoked wheels, snow skiis and anything else which might serve the Viking civilization. The smiths had replaced the broken Rainbow Anvil with a newer one made of harder material and were hammering away. They created intricate round viking shields and precious expensive swords made of wolfram and crucible steel, tempering the fine flexible blades in the back of Brunnard's workshop using hand-powered fans and air pumps to keep their fires burning constantly at the perfect temperature. Two blacksmiths would work together to keep the fires burning at a constant fixed temperature, coating their bricks with mud and clay while alternating and juggling the task between them so that the fires would never stop burning, even if one of the smiths took a break. The kilns were baking porcelain and clay while the furnaces were red hot with glowing embers as metalworkers put hammer to anvil, sparks flying from the tedious process of removing impurities such as excess carbon while adding new alloys together with the hot iron ores such as nickel and chromium.

Inside the yellow workshop with the bright red painted door, towards the large warehouse in the back, craftsmen were using their loud heavy machinery to make all different kinds of objects from various metals that had come in from the furnaces. There were copper wires, springs and coils, gold bullion slabs and silver bricks, iron rings and chains, steel plates and frames, wolfram axe heads, spear heads, arrowheads and shield bosses. The workers used wooden molds or stone molds they had whittled or chiseled out to pour in liquid steel for their casting process. They fashioned simple nails, knives, hollow pipes, helmets of various types and styles, brooches from naturally occurring electrum, belt buckles, brass armbands, stirrups, bracelets, necklaces, crowns and rings. They crafted simple sheer scissors, combs, toothpicks, tweezers, wine pitchers and jugs, metal washers, bolts, nuts, screws, tiny teethed wheels and gears. All of their finished products would either be stacked and stored neatly in the warehouse for storage, or else loaded up on the many wagons going to and from Mount Daya to Iskjerne Bay.

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