Welcome
Our goal is to restore the ruins and Ages of the ancient city of D'ni. We hope you will join us in our efforts to rebuild and renew the legacy of this beautiful empire.
Through generous personal investments of several benefactors, SR's efforts in the Cavern of D'ni have been revitalized. With a new work crew, fresh equipment, and a vision for the future, we are moving forward with enthusiasm.
If you are unfamiliar with the D'ni archeological site, or if you are new to Subterranean Restorations, click the About tab for more info about the organization and the team that makes it work.
Visit the Projects tab for a list of current SR restoration projects and their status, or to submit a completed project of your own.
Visit the Careers page for information regarding potential employment.
You can also follow us on our Twitter for daily updates on our progress in D'ni as well as news about SR.
Posted in Restoration on July 1st, 2008 No Comments
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.
Posted in Restoration on June 21st, 2008 No Comments
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
Posted in Restoration on June 17th, 2008 No Comments
Good news from the funding front. Professor Clarke reports that he may have found someone interested in assisting in the restoration. While it’s not guaranteed, the rest of the staff are cautiously optimistic that further restoration might be possible in the future.
In cavern news, the survey team reports that the shoreline near the remains of residence 008 has deteriorated further. All access to the ruin is therefore closed. Work will begin soon on assessing the remaining residencies for their structural integrity.
Lastly, the Careers page has been updated with new positions and some clarifications. We are always interested in hearing from people interested in assisting this great restoration.
Marcie Robertson – Subterranean Restorations Web Team
Posted in Website on June 14th, 2008 No Comments
Armaggedon is upon us, this site’s been updated two days in a row. Repent, mortals.
All kidding aside, we’ve made a small number of changes around the site to help you find out what’s going on and how you can help out if you so choose. The most notable of these changes are to the Restoration Projects list (which got a much-needed update) and a new page for the projects available for Explorer restoration, the Open Projects page.
Marcie Robertson – Subterranean Restorations Web Team
Posted in Restoration on June 13th, 2008 No Comments
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
Posted in Restoration on May 21st, 2008 No Comments
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
Posted in Restoration on May 19th, 2008 No Comments
Hello
I know that Subterranean Restorations has been quiet recently. With this new site (and a few additions to the team), however, we hope to be able to keep the explorers up on the latest news regarding our restoration efforts. To that end, here are some of the events which have happened in recent months.
Early February saw the departure of two of Subterranean Restorations’ primary funders. Olivia Whitefield, technology specialist and forum manager, decided to leave in pursuit of other journeys. Her location is unknown at this time. Meanwhile, Professor Julius Clarke, text restoration team leader and surface liaison, left to find new sources of funding for Subterranean Restoration’ dwindling funds.
With uncertainty over the state of the Bahro and no funding secured yet by Professor Clarke, in late March some of the restoration teams left D’ni for the surface. Some are finding new jobs, others are helping the Professor find a new funder.
Most recently, in early April, a linking anomaly severely crippled Subterranean Restorations’ efforts for several days and the teams have been unable to link to the main instance of the City to resume work on the Art Museum. This anomaly seems to have affected all explorers and, with reports that Bahro were seen in the cavern in various places the night before the anomaly hit, we are considering this the work of the Bahro. Thanks to quick planning and co-ordination of the remaining teams by Vincent Kingsley, we have been able to come together in a single instance of the cavern to work.
Currently, Subterranean Restorations maintains a workforce of two teams of five people each for restoration and cataloging of artifacts found in the Art Museum District. The teams have grown smaller in size recently, and Subterranean Restorations is always interested in getting more help. We hope you will help us restore some of the great artwork of the D’ni and thank you for your interest in this project.
Marcie Robertson – SR Web Team
Posted in Website on May 19th, 2008 No Comments
We’re pleased to open the new Subterranean Restorations website! The team looks forward to finally using our web presence to its full potential. As with all our operations, if you have ideas and/or are willing to help implement them, please contact us! We look forward to working with you.
The Team at Subterranean Restorations
