I've been reading the whole 90 pages through the last 4 days, and I must say that this is an awesome idea, starting at the dawn of time. Could I be dorfed as one of the marksdwarves? Name him Rads.
18th Limestone 15
Today a peasant called 'Rads' approached me and volunteered for fortress guard. He's got absolutely no marksdwarfing skills, we'll see how it goes. I told him to grab a crossbow and some wooden bolts and start practising.
24th Limestone 15
Found some freshly laid eggs in the chicken coop. Kromeus' pet chicken and someone's pet duck are both nesting. I gave strict orders not gather the eggs nor harass the birds. We'll let these ones to hatch and soon we'll have a real poultry industry.
26th Limestone 15
Our mayor and the human guild representive finally made a contract. This is what the humans want us to deliver next year, should be easy to deliver:
The guild representive left immediately and our squad escorted him safely outside.
8th Sandstone 15
The rest of the human caravan left. Everything went smoothly, no ambushes.
22nd Sandstone 15
Reudh was involved in a mining accident in the caverns. He fell into water and almost drowned. I told him to get outside to catch his breath and take a little break from mining.
1st Timber 15
On his long break Reudh wandered off into the mountains and then returned with a group of dwarves!
(note: he was the last of the adventurers to arrive, we've got them all now!)One of the migrants has some experience in mining so he'll take Reudh's place in the caverns and Reudh will join the militia as a speardwarf. Another migrant is pretty good with hammers and will be recruited too. There's also a glassmaker, a spinner and an ex-trader in the bunch.
4th Timber 15
The miners had been stripping down the labyrinth of rock pillars in the caverns. The noise finally annoyed Malduz enough to lure it closer. While the miners ran inside to safety the beast started toppling over the many statues we had placed as a bait for it. Then it crawled inside a long corridor with drawbridges in each end and was successfully trapped inside.
The cavern is safe again! That is, until the next beast appears..
7th Timber 15
Endok, our bowyer, turned really weird today. Instead of making the usual feather wood crossbows, she's now dragging all sorts of things into her workshop.
12th Timber 15
This goes on a few days until she seems satisfied with the pile of junk she's gathered and starts building something.
13th Timber 15
One of the fortress guards saw an anaconda outside the fort walls and started shooting bolts at it, until the snake was out of range. I sent the rookie squad outside to finish the snake. Bhrian got there first and finished the snake with a single strike from his axe.
14th Timber 15
Only a moments later, a crowd of dwarven merchants arrives.
15th Timber 15
As the rookie squad is already outside, they'll be escorting the merchants. We're guarding the entrance and making sure the outpost liaison gets inside safely.
And then, a lone war dog sniffs out something. A squad of goblin bowmen! Luckily the merchants are already on the other side of the fortress and safe from their arrows.
More goblins could be hiding nearby. And as soon as I think of that, I hear a trap going off in the distance. We've got a live prisoner to interrogate, excellent.
16th Timber 15
Meanwhile, the bowyer snaps out of the strange daze she's been in the whole week. She seems suprised of her creation.
Well that's almost useful. Too bad she can't really remember how she did it.
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