The Beginning and My End
Just before arriving I looked at our maps.
The fortress name is Crychambers, our embark group is called clean rope and this is our fortress image.
A few notes before I start the yearly journal that I was ordered to write.
This is the area were we arrived and we will build our fortress entrance:
This is the area were we will build our colosseum (if the fortress survives):
I thought this area would be more flat.
Our general Maximus Decimus Uristnanges ordered a wall on the colosseum level to be cleared so that we can later build our main gate there.
For now that’s how our entrance will look like.
Journal:
We arrived during Slate (middle-spring) and the first month wasn’t very productive everything I did is in the notes.
//1st Felsite (late-spring)//
Almost all the workshop area is dug out and we will start the construction of buildings soon.
//16th Felsite (late-spring)//
We need more space for the workshops. The building construction is going slower than I thought, right now the only working workshop is the carpenters workshop.
Summer has arrived.//3rd Hematite (early-summer)//
We finally set up the dormitory. No more dirt sleeping.
//6th Hematite (early-summer)//
The work is going really slow. I think we won’t start the construction of the colosseum until the second or third year.
//13th Hematite (early-summer)//
Refuse started piling inside I designated an area for dumping refuse.
//16th Hematite (early-summer)//
Maximus Decimus started training.
//19th Hematite (early-summer)//
I don’t know if we will even start the building of the Colosseum if our dwarfs love working so much.
//3rd Hematite (early-summer)//
Migrants! Finally! The new guys are: a peasant, glassmaker, two fishery workers, weapon smith, tanner and a miller. The only worth mentioning person is Imicus an architectus.
//13th Malachite (middle-summer)//
A human bard is visiting our tavern.
//15th Malachite (middle-summer)//
A human spearman is visiting.
//17th Malachite (middle-summer)//
A dwarf had a fight with a gray langur.
A poet is visiting.
//18th Malachite (middle-summer)//
The gray langurs are becoming a problem. I order maximus Decimus to get rid of them. To the attack joined our Grower.
I just noticed that our tavern is called “The Great Snacks”
Finally after a long and tedious fight the langurs were killed.
//19th Galena (late-summer)//
A marksdwarf is visiting.
Autumn has come//8th Limestone (early-autumn)//
We discovered the caverns.
We can finally stop wasting wood on fuel and use the nice and warm magma. I ordered guys to start gathering spider webs for silk.
//13th Limestone (early-autumn)//
A caravan and an outpost liaison have arrived and a marksdwarf visited. These are the news from the mountainhome.
//17th Limestone (early-autumn)//
We might have a problem with a few cave creatures. A giant cave spider, a giant toad and around 5 troglodytes are moving into the fortress.
An epic battle begun. Maximus ran into the tunnel and began fighting the troglodytes. He was winning in the beginning but soon he was too tired to fight and the troglodytes started hitting him. His life might have ended if I didn’t draft some random guys into the military and order them to help the general. We very fast wrestled the troglodytes to death but a greater danger came. The giant toad was walking up the staircase into the fortress. It killed a miner that wasn’t suspecting anything.
It even got itself a name for the kill.
Meanwhile I ordered the masons to start making a wall
Our military is all dead.
Nothing can stop Nilsat, the wall must be constructed before our fortress fails. I order the wall to be constructed.
The fight didn’t end yet and this guys already appointed a new expedition leader.
The fortress is saved, Nilsat went back to its layer. The only still alive participant of the battle is Maximus. Maximus was taken to the hospital by Imicus. The caverns are sealed off. We are save and down to nine dwarves.
Oh shit, I think the cave spider went thru our fortress while I wasn’t watching and went outside where he killed a few caravan guards and was killed himself. He was called Nothisernam.
That’s where the spider was struck down (the white thing is web).
There is a ton of web, it must have been a great fight.
This battle of the toad and the fallen dwarves shall never be forgotten. I call 17th Limestone the military day.
//4th Sandstone (middle-autumn)//
This fortress is a mess. I ordered the bodies and items of the fallen to be gathered. We are working on a graveyard. Our weaponsmith became a miner. At least the traders left without taking their goods so we got loads of items for free. Miasma is coming from the rotten bodies of troglodytes and dwarfs.
//20th Sandstone (middle-autumn)//
Finally somebody new, migrants.
I feel like I will die soon, my wounds are not healing My head is burning.
I hate you Em....
//End Of Snow Dwarfs Journal//
Imicus's profile:
I know I didn't do a whole year but I think I will do a bit more this weekend cause I had a lot of fun. Nothing special happened this year other than the great battle of the toad
actually after looking at some reports I think more damage was done by the spider.
I love this fortress, actually this is my first "real" fortress, others that I made were more like set up an industry and give up when you are bored.
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