"Hey! Over here! Welcome! I know it wasn't easy to bring your family here, I really do. Made the same decision myself a few years ago. I am surprised your kid isn't crying, mine wouldn't stop the entire journey here.
We don't have much but we have each other. The work is hard and the food is well, pretty bad. We'll get you a shovel but you can stay with me and my family, eat, and sleep until you get set up. Remember, no one is in charge here but it would do you well to learn from those that have been here the longest."
Leaving the Long City
The
Great Mud Pits have been uninhabited for most of the history of
Breharan. Only in recent times have people begun to live there as the cost of living in
Burim City has become too high and people have had to move further and further away to find a place to live. There is no monetary cost of living for the muck drudgers but it is a difficult life. There are not many drudgers because most of the poor still find a place to eek out a living in a part of the city, only the poorest of the poor and the ostracized find themselves at the
pits.
The drudgers are unique in that they are not only suffering under the rule of
Burim but having been created by it as well. The noble, wealthy, and upper-class of
Burim see the poor as dirty and have no wish to interact with them - merchants being the people who are deal with the poor to get the goods which are sold to the wealthy - and the drudgers are lower even than the poor with no chance of returning to a life in the
city.
Life in the Mud
During the wet season, the
pits become lakes and some plants grow quite well, including asparagus which forms a key part of the
Muck Drudger Diet. During the dry season - the mud season to the drudgers - they scrape the muddy lakebeds with their
mucker's shovels in search of the buried
lungfish.
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Past Lives
It is a lot of work just to feed themselves which doesn't leave much time for specialized jobs. This leads to a very equal society. Most drudgers were not born into it but moved from a different life and brought with them skills and experiences that impact their new lives and the lives of the other drudgers as well. Despite the respect given to those who have special skills the humbling experience of a mucker's life prevents most from thinking they are better than others.
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