Build Baitburn Better

Build Baitburn Better was a political movement founded after The Swingway collapse in 32BPT that aimed to introduce better and safer building practices for the city's transport infrastructure. A year after its creation, it was highjacked by terrorists who made the group known for disruption of trade, the assault of enforcers, and the Bee Attacks.

## Context

In 32BPT, A pillar of The Swingway collapsed under the strain of morning commuters. 29 commuters fell to the depths below, where 23 drowned, 4 were attacked and killed by The Fathomless, and 2 were saved. These two, a Dwarf named Aeffled Ealdren and a Human named Caspar Farbod, went on to create the movement as a tribute to those that died. It was found after the collapse that the cause was that the pillar had structural impurities due to the building contractors using subpar materials and unskilled workers that were passed off as skilled. These factors, combined with the large amounts of weight that the pillar had to take, led to the collapse of part of the bridge.

## Creation of the movement

Aeffled Ealdren and Caspar Farbod met after the accident and decided that something had to be done to prevent these kids of deaths happening in the future. They both agreed, though with some differences in nuance, that political pressure was required to enact real change, and so they created Build Baitburn Better. The families of the victims joined, as well as hundreds of other workers who commuted via The Swingway to work. Importantly, many of Ealdren's Dwarven relatives joined, all of whom were experts in stonemasonry. The movement's headquarters were Ealdren's small home in Northern Saint Mivar, where they met weekly to discuss protests, marketing, and drafted legislation to send to the government. This continued for a few months, and several protests happened, but due to lack of government funds, no sufficient changed were made to infrastructure.

During these months, Farbod became disillusioned with the movement and its lack of progress within the legislature, and left. It is unclear what he did or where he went during this time - all that is known is that he quit his job and took several trips via waterway to islands inhabited by Savages and Pseudos (namely Mount Blood).

## The New Stone Project

Realising that their protests and lobbying were not working particularly well, Ealdren and her stonemason family decided that the BBB movement would engage in direct action, by re-enforcing the pillars themselves. This, unfortunately, did not work, as under the cover of night (as the work they were doing to modify the construction of the bridge was wholly illegal), the Dwarves could not tell exactly what they were doing, and ended up further damaging the bridge. Luckily, they were spotted by Enforcers, who very quickly realised that the work they were doing could be catastrophic to the bridge and could kill many more people.

As a result of this reckless damage, 9 of the 10 masons were hanged and placed along the Swingway in the same place where they had attempted to fix the pillar. Only Aeffled Ealdren was spared, on the basis that if she were killed, perhaps the movement would take a more ugly turn. Ealdren was significantly changed by the hangings, and instead turned the New Stone project into education for people to identify where stone and masonry was damaged, and how to avoid those areas, utilising Floaters and waterways. She then began to revitalise the movement and go back to its roots, attempting to lobby the government, and holding several, larger protests outside government offices. Unfortunately, since government finance had not improved, the movement did not achieve its goals of safety.