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Blackpine’s stone-and-timber mail shelter, stacked firewood and warm windows beneath slate ridges and the pine snowline.

Blackpine

The last light stays in the shelter window.

Specialty
Survey instruments & cold-weather gear
Road access
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Nell Ward

Mail-shelter keeper. Nell keeps Blackpine’s mail shelves and shelter in order. She knows which families are waiting before she turns a bag’s label outward.

“Put the wet coats by the stove and the mail on the dry shelf. People have waited long enough for those letters.”

Places and services

PlacePurpose
Trail officeTrailwork
Survey officeSurveying
Repair benchField Engineering
OutfitterLocal supplies and services
StockpileStored goods
Country mapTown travel

Local stocked offers

Workshop services are not counted as finite shelves. All carried offers still require their stated unlocks and payment.

Travel

Ordinary town travel takes thirty seconds per step in the country list, bounded between thirty seconds and two minutes. It stops foreground work. A dispatch must be completed or recalled before changing towns.