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Bruno Madrigal ([personal profile] withtherats) wrote in [community profile] thequietyear 2022-03-11 03:08 am (UTC)

Bruno thinks for a moment on how to best describe what they're aiming for. "It's a thick sticky consistency... a bit like dough? It's malleable, wants to form into clumps, but incidental clumping is broken up, we want to shape it..." He trails off briefly, then huffs at his own lack of clarity in explanation. "...It's something you get a feel for, while you're mixing it. I'll show you as we mix the first batch."

Most of what Bruno knows about making adobe he'd actually learned not long ago. His family had just finished rebuilding their house by hand before he'd woken up in the icy cave here.

"We'll either need some hoes from the tools we were given - at least, I think there were hoes? ...Or, we can knead it barefoot. The foot method is actually easier, physically, but of course it also gets you dirtier, heh..."

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