The constant isolation is putting a strain in the relationships of our dwarves. Today, a bunch of farmers saw the militia commander loudly discussing with a baby, and stormed out of the room cursing him after getting frustrated.
Gentlemen, I think we have found the solution to our problem: let our enemies fight the zombies! We just need to build a big chamber to keep the smoke away from...them...no..stupid idea.
There is an stupid child in the surface that refuses to die and it's cluttering my announcements screen.
After a while, we stopped receiving the messages.
NO! FUCK YOU GHOST. I hate that the only way to get rid of ghosts is to give them rest, I'd love to kill this asshole who killed my favorite dwarf. Goddammit.
Our proud militia commander, who has been tortured by a ghost for about 3 months, is miserable...And he has a very dangerous-looking spear.
As long as that well remains strong, we shall not fall!
From left to right: militia commander (spear, tantruming), soldier (axe, unhappy), soldier (sword, unhappy). Hmm, we may have a bit of a situation, and I don't know why! I mean, they can sleep in their own room when in duty, AND IT HAS FURNITURE, for god's sake. Where I come from, we only needed a bed and a legendary dining room to be happy. Here I am, without dwarf therapist, confused about the happiness of my dwarves and these guys come in and start babbling about their nonsense about long patrol duty, and that the dead is making me sad, and this and that, and grow a pair! The bravest dwarves in Markedangels are the most whiny ones...Perhaps they're just bored...
Well, they're on their rest month, so that should give me enough time (to end my turn)(I'm sorry, next overseer, you may have an inminent spiral, my gut tells me so.)
Why?! But I thought you said you had calmed down! At least you could've gone stark raving mad or something...not berserk, specially not with armor and weapons...
Those two fine dwarves with our mad commander are half of the rest of our military, and they happen to be the new recruits...Let's hope their training takes over.
I placed the kill order.
The commander's expertise sure plays a major role in the fight: the recruit (oh yeah, did I forget to mention that he is missing a leg?!) doesn't have time to act before his good leg is critically stabbed, turning it into a bloody heap. He looses conciousness soon.
But our unconscious recruit isn't dead yet. The second in command soon joins the fight and damages the mad dwarf's liver.
Two against one is imbalanced, specially if the one is sturbbornly hitting the unconscious dwarf, not in the head.
The berserker is getting more wounded by the frame (time unit).
His guts are hit and he gets nauseous. He vomits. He gives into pain. His head is smashed by a silver war hammer, stricking him down.
The doctor is soon diagnosing the legless recruit.
But the death of his fellow comrade has gotten under the skin of the new commander, who is also his executioner. He killed a friend, and that's too much for certain dwarves (however, he looks more like the depressive type, so phew).
If they ever, ever find out a way into the fort, we die.
Scanning a rough sample of about six dwarves, I'd say that the general mood is happy, so no tantrum spiral for us.
I received a death threat tonight. My room had a dead goat in the middle of an engraving about the foundation of markedangels, its guts were shaped like a catapult. My search and rescue team, now more like the secret police, are investigating the 'catapult cult', but I don't trust them anymore, I don't trust anyone anymore. I didn't survive the plague, forgotten beasts, zombies, goblins, ghosts, troglodytes and evil smoke to be murdered by dwarves. Not me. So, I'll be publicly stepping out of the overseer position, there is an eager dwarf ready to be my successor. He's a good kid, but I don't think he knows what he's getting into. I'll become a regular farmer...but only to the common dwarf's eyes. In reality, I'll still be in charge, well only until a new plot device says the contrary. But in the meantime, happy keeping your sanity.
And spring is upon us.
So, there is one last thing. How is zombienihilator going? Not as good as I hoped. Construction has barely began, I only managed to build three tunnels and fill them with bridges. Just add pressure plates (which need to be set to minimum weight, as several zombies are rabbits) and baits and it should work. Good luck, next overseer.
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