Helping with Adventurer Party Management

Episode 491: The Surveyor's Tale

I have visited the territory first, and the opinion seems to have attracted the interest of other experts.

Though the road to the territory is relatively safe, we need to hire adventurers and other escorts to move around.

It can be described as a manifestation of professionalism, as well as evidence that it is quite well integrated into this construction.

"I can't tell you exactly because we're not surveyors, but we've installed waterwheels many times. From that experience, I saw that this territory was wide enough and long enough for a cabin to install one water wheel. However, when you install three or four series of water trucks, you may need to either bury the riverbank in a straight line or dig back the bottom of the river in a few places."

"I see."

To that extent, this one has been assumed from the beginning.

In order to be developed as a base for the flour mill industry, it is necessary to simultaneously carry out the construction of water transport.

Construction on the banks of the river and the dredging of the river bottom can also be considered essential works in that sense.

"If that's the case, there are a few places for me."

It was Bundolphi, the surveyor, who spoke with his hands up.

"Actually, I went to the territory, too, the other day..."

You too.

The colour of the eyes of the surrounding experts appears to have changed.

If only one person acted, it would be the behavior of a stranger, but if two experts acted the same, that's all there was to stimulate their professionalism in this plan.

"A little upstream of the territory, we found a good place. Well, there was a little occupant."

I called him the occupier, but he wouldn't be a monster.

A hidden field?

"I saw that the land would be sufficiently useful if it was flat and felled the surrounding trees. I'll announce the details to my turn."

Thanks to the discussion started by surveying experts and water wheel experts, the participants seem to have accepted that my first little difficult greeting was something that they didn't fully understand but that was kind of awesome.

I snuck a sigh of relief.

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"Let me introduce you to what the surveyor is doing first."

In the course of earlier discussions, the surveyor, Bandolfi, began his explanation.

A colleague-like man stands with countless triangular plates and bars of human height, and ropes.

"We, the surveyor's job is to make maps, supposedly. This will happen as a result, but the job description is divided into two main parts: one is to draw the line of territory and the other is to measure the size of the field. Use this stick and rope primarily when drawing territorial lines. Now you can measure the distance. Well, if you are measuring a very long distance, you may substitute it by walking on your feet when it comes to walking. We surveyors are trained in walking precisely to measure distances for this purpose. Of course, I don't mean to decide in one go, but I walk a few times and decide about the distance in the middle of it. This is the same if rope is used. That's how we measure the distance."

A praise that doesn't sound like a ho... comes from the experts.

Walking, even so, is not flat ground for them to walk on. There's going up, there's going down. It would be nice to have a foothold, and it could be a forest or a creek.

It was a solid proof that amateurs, as experts, possessed a skill that could not be imitated, that they were trained to continue walking through such inconsistencies at a certain stride.