Well it has been quite a while since the last update and little has changed. The team has been hard at work and the funding situation has lead to the web team (including myself) having to get down and dirty in the restoration effort as well. Time has been made, though, to make sure this site is up-to-date on our latest work and we are working on other projects.
Further work by the survey team has finished cataloging the first set of residences. The Restoration Projects age has been updated to reflect that. Work will now focus on the office building and larger residential building adjacent to the museum.
Professor Clarke has some contacts he has interested in the prospect of restoring D’ni, however he stresses that it will still be quite a while before work resumes at a good pace.
Mixed news this week. The restoration team has finished stability work on several of the residencies. They are now ready for testing and cataloging. We are also celebrating our third month without an incident of looting (a bright side to the complex issues of Subterranean Restoration’s private cavern instance).
Additionally, a shipment of generators arrived this last week and the teams are busy installing them in areas badly in need of light.
Lastly, the survey team has been doing more work in the residencies. Their work will be up on the site soon.
On the bad side, however, Professor Clarke reports that his more promising funder on the surface has lost interest and the professor’s efforts are back to square one. At the moment he has a small number of people left to contact. If anyone is willing and able to volunteer, work, or fund Subterranean Restorations, please refer to the Careers page.
Work continues on a number of projects around the site and, for now, a limited ammount of funding is being generously donated by a Dr. John Smith. The team at Subterranean Restorations is grateful to Dr. Smith for his donations. His donations were unannounced and happily-surprising. Professor Clarke is still in the process of acquiring funding from his contact on the surface.
In cavern news, the north-western edge of the Office Building passed initial stability tests while minor restoration work began on Residence 008 to allow further exploration.
Marcie Robertson - Subterranean Restorations Web Team
The site is really coming together and we hope to put the finishing touches up soon. We’ve made it much easier to update the site, so look forward to a more up-to-date show of the progress we’re making in the cavern.
Speaking of the cavern, we’ve been lucky this Friday the 13th (still a little less than two hours left for something to go wrong!). There have been no major incidents reported at any Subterranean Restorations sites and work has progressed nicely. We’ll be working on updating some information about the site very soon. Currently the teams are slowly working their way through the Residencies and evaluating the artifacts recovered from the Art Museum. The evaluation teams will be going through the Marketplace over the next few days to see if the area is structurally sound enough for the other teams to go in to recover some of the artifacts.
Marice Robertson - Subterranean Restorations Web Team
As you can see, we’re still finishing up putting the site together. We’re working on the Bios and Projects page and look forward to getting them up soon. Other portions of the site will be changing to attempt to make the site less daunting to newcomers. The Subterranean Restorations team thanks you for your patience.
In cavern news, a portion of the residential area collapsed last week due to quake-weakened supports. No engineers were inside the structures and the area was not thought to contain any artifacts in a restorable condition. Additionally, the restoration team successfully repaired one of the Art Museum’s main pillars which had similarly been damaged in a quake. Lastly, the survey teams completed their cataloging of another of the residences. We look forward to getting organized enough through this site to begin offering Restoration Projects again.
Marcie Robertson - Subterranean Restorations Web Team