• SGGeorwell
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    1 month ago

    I thought they found some people who had been living behind the mountain for 6,000 years and nobody spotted them before.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      Community living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years.

      I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.

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        1 month ago

        They call themselves Belters and are uncannily tall and lanky and speak in kind of a Creole mash-up accent and language

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          Er, I suspect you’ve got that exactly backwards.

          They call themselves Dverger and are uncannily squat and heavily built and speak in a kind of German/Mongol mash-up accent and language.

          And carry picks and axes and wear helmets and beards.

        • SkybreakerEngineer
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          1 month ago

          Under a mountain? No, clearly their entire society revolves around digging for gold while dodging dragons and balrogs