Cilob's Journal, 28th of ObsidianYet another goblin thief tried to sneak in today. This one was spotted at the top of the entrance ramp. Our Sherrif managed to get off a few bolts at it before it ran into a cage trap. We'll have it brought down to the animal storage room and stripped of armor and weapons while we decide what to do with it.
In light of the goblin and kobold incursions, I have decided to tighten up security at the main entrance. Phenix is still working on the curtain wall, but she tells me that might take another year to complete. Until then, I've ordered some additional walls built to restrict the entrance to the underground part of the fortress, and had some additional cage traps placed.
In more sad news, 'Miss Thrips' was found dead by the kennels.
She appears to have died of natural causes. Even giant insects have short lifespans it seems.
12th of GraniteThe hospital wing and animal research center is under construction. Phenix has finished digging out the rooms, and furnishings are being installed.
The preliminary hospital will have six private treatment rooms, aquifer-fed wells for cleaning and drinking, plenty of storage space, and offices and living quarters for the medical staff. I have also had the kennels and animal training facilities moved to a back area behind the hospital, along with my own quarters, as Doctor Cain has expressed some interest in animal training.
1st of FelsiteToday I emerged to find a crowd of dwarves marching into my fortress. So ... many ... children.
I hadn't realized that being open for immigrants would mean that half the mountainhomes would move here.
Fifteen adults and thirteen children, unless I've missed a few. And nearly all of them are related! Only three of the adults have no family connection to the previous immigrants.
There's an armorer of some skill. That will be welcome, our military commander made armor for herself, but it would be a bit much to ask her to armor the entire military.
The second one calls himself a Ranger. Seems he has some skills with a crossbow, but no actual military experience.
And for the third, I was astonished to see a familiar face.
"Ral? Ral Portallash? You just left a few months ago! I didn't expect to see you back till the end of the year."
"Ha, well, once I saw how nice this place was coming along, I decided to move here permanently. Turned in my report to the Queen, then resigned my position as Liaison and joined the next group heading out. They were glad to have someone who knew the way."
She glanced back and forth at the moment, then leaned in closer.
"Between you and me, the General's planning something. Nearly this entire group is related to her. Be careful around this family."
"Wonderful. Say, now that you're here, do you mind taking over some of the bookkeeping for me? I have a lot to do and not enough time to do it."
Looking over the rest of the immigrants, I'm starting to see a pattern. One of the older dwarves to arrive is a daughter of General Reg and the former King Kivish MasteredCeilings.
Strangely, her voice is quite clear despite her injury.
Her sister, the only other child of Reg and Kivish, is also here, along with her husband and some of their children
Other than that, I see four married couples, with eleven more children between them, and then two more unmarried dwarves. They're all related. None of them have any notable skills. I need to go sit down in my new office and work out the family tree. It's going to take a while.
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