14th Granite 49, year 2The temporal wall has already proved its worth. Two times there has been thief trying to sneak inside the fortress, both times the dogs guarding the entrance were able to detect the thief and drive it away. What could have happened if there weren't anything protecting the entrance?
15th Granite 49, year 2It's not known when elves has received as warm welcome as the traders from Miraenina received. In normal circumstances these two elves probably wouldn't have permitted even to enter the fortress perimeters, but desperate times require desperate actions, and the wood logs brought by this caravan were just too valuable to refuse. At first Udeshlogem was reluctant to meet the elves, but after some pressure from his fellow dwarfs, he finally met the traders and traded some crafts made from stones to 14 wood logs. The smiles of everybody was worth of putting the hatred against elves behind, and so the logs were brought underground.
But even though the logs were giving slight relieve to the pressure of wooden furniture, the heaviest task for Udeshlogem was to decide where the logs were going to be used. 14 logs would mean just enough beds to everybody, but on the other hands barrels and bins were highly required. This meant that either he would order the carpenter to construct 14 beds or seven bins and seven barrels. No less that 14 beds were worth of constructing, as less than that would but some dwarfs in different situation than the rest, and there was no quarantee that it would not end in slaughter.
After some consideration Udeshlogem had made his decision and gave Bim Bakustmafol order to construct bed for every dwarf. The tears of joy were running from the corner of eyes of the carpenter as she begun to fulfill the order. No more sleeping on dirt.
18th Granite 49, year 2Because of the gratitude towards Udeshlogem and his decision to construct beds from the only logs, the citizens of Degeliden prepared big surprise to him: they hurried the construction of private study and dining room for his use only. Both rooms were huge, and both had table and chair in them. In study there also were armor stand and weapon rack, and in dining room there was two coffers for his personal use.
22nd Slate 49, year 2The news of another group of migrants arrived right before the migrants themselves. And the news contained something that everybody had been secretly hoped for: among the migrants there were one with skills of woodcutting, and she was bringing her own axe with her!
As the citizens of Degeliden rushed to the entrance to meet the migrants they were shocked by the number of them. Eighteen migrants in total were approaching the bridge. Udeshlogem ordered all the migrants to form a line in front of his office with the intention of interviewing every single one of them to get to know their skills and which jobs would be the most fit to each one.
It took nearly the whole day to get all the necessary information written down and jobs ordered. Among the migrants there was the woodcutter, two brewers and two farmers, which were given the Udeshlogem's earlier job to produce food and alcohol to fortress, one hunter who was ordered to fill the position of marksdwarf, one blacksmith, one dwarf who had skills for making armors from metals, two smelters, one leather worker and seven peasants.
But the wave of migrants brought new problem to Degeliden: the number of citizens required someone to take the role of sheriff to keep up the order in the fortress. And it seemed to be Udeshlogem's lucky day, as when he announced the position of sheriff open, one of the newly arrived peasant informed to be filling to take the position and he even possessed enough skill to do the job. And thus, Udil Akathzuglar, peasant who arrived to Degeliden at spring of year 49, was promoted to the sheriff, and was promised to proper working and bed rooms as well as personal dining room.
11th Felsite 49, year 2The day had brought both good and bad to Udeshlogem's life. On the positive side he was finally able to announce that the first fourteen bedrooms were ready to be assigned. As the leader of the fortress, he was in charge of assigning, and decided to go with "first come, first get" principle. And that meant that both the founders of the fortress as the members of first migrant wave was assigned bedrooms. Over year had Degelide existed, and for the first time the citizens, or at least some of them, were able to sleep in proper beds. The decision caused some general suspicion, but Udeshlogem promised that more beds were in production queue among bins and barrels, so soon enough everyone should own personal bedroom. In the end everyone went back to their works with content mind, though few wondered how long the production would take.
But the day brought some bad things as well. Angry because the loss of job as the new woodcutter had taken it from her, the former woodcutter Ablel Geshudoltar wanted a meeting with Udeshlogem. Geshudoltar was unhappy because the only job he had given was give to someone else, nevertheless the new woodcutter was more proficient than she and that work would done faster this way. After some discussion the two got to compromise: the new woodcutter continued what she was doing and Geshudoltar was give the position of second carpenter. Now, as the flow of logs was secure, there was demand for another carpenter to fill all those long due orders of barrels, beds, bins and buckets. And so the meeting was ended with both end happy about the result of it.
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