Lay track through marsh and keep your workforce well fed

ID: 239657

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From: The Next Stretch of Track

This is hungry, gloomy work through difficult terrain. The workers are going to need quite a bit of cheering if they're to regard it in a happy light.

Unlocked with 5 x Basket of Rubbery Pies, 3 x Railway Steel, Terrain Surveyed exactly 3, 10 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits, 5 x Solacefruit, Cellar of Wine

Locked with Tracklayers' Work Stoppage, Discovered: a Patch of Frozen Neath

Success

Picnic in the wetlands

Furnace accepts your payment with a smile.[...]

A week or two after work has begun […] something unusual has turned up[...]

[...]icy coil of dead snake – or is it a large worm? […]Something with eyes and without scales[...]

"[...]a patch of frozen ground.[…]"

Description summary:
The workforce hit hard earth that is full of bizarre limbless things. They need the Board to pass an alternative work-plan.

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•  You now have 1 x Track Laid
• You've lost 3 x Railway Steel
•  You've gained 1 x Supporting the Emancipationist Tracklayers
• You've lost 5 x Basket of Rubbery Pies
• You've lost 10 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits
• You've lost 5 x Solacefruit
• You've lost 1 x Cellar of Wine
• Tracklayers' Displeasure is dropping… (-5 cp, probably more; perhaps -7)
•  You've gained 1 x Preserved False-Snake
•  The Tracklayers have stopped because there are buried creatures in the way of their work. (Sets Tracklayers' Work Stoppage to 30 - Remains of a Prehistoric Creature)