First Month of Spring Day 1With my turn finally in place, I decided to go and get some rest; I knew the big day was coming up, and I needed to prepare for what was ahead… At the same time, I needed to look at the road that was paved over the course of the fort's past years.
To my surprise it seems we have a lot to contend with….
There are 34 of us now… 11 of us are children… the remainder are adults capable of work.
What we had before us were…
The Great Zombie Siege on the surface… 100 + zombies roaming around looking for blood. We are outnumbered practically 4 to 1 when we exclude the children…
Underground, a giant beak-less mockingbird that secretes a strange substance lurks in waiting….
In addition, we have undead Orinrin Hakutakus underground. We have threats at all angles, but in order to deal with them we need a plan.
Our supplies seem to be a bit difficult to obtain, but I think it can be done… I'm gonna nap now… deal with the problem once I get up…
First Month of Spring Day 11I began by deciding to recruit Arashi Kurobara into the Military, as he was merely doing nothing in the fort. He seems quite skilled so I decided he could serve a much better purpose being trained by the others in the military...
First Month of Spring Day 12I Proceeded to set up military in position for a risky but simple mission. There was an Inaba corpse sitting in the front that needed to be removed from the area before I could begin the core part of the zombie cleanup operation. By doing this, I may be able to calculate the military's strength…
I proceeded to open the gate and let them in. And thus the military attacked right away, which showed promise… Sadly, by the end of the fight, Arashi Kurobara had died in the hands of the Inaba zombies…
I gave orders for the team to proceed to haul the bodies to the corpse dump pile...
First Month of Spring Day 13A mysterious death had taken place inside the fort. A child was killed by something, but it was unknown what it was. The troops scouted around until they spotted an Inaba hand that managed to reanimate.
They proceed to attack it, and Syanas, managed to get some of her teeth knocked out. Other than that, the threat was eliminated and the part was safely dumped.
First Month of Spring Day 20All dead bodies accounted for, Hideiki was relived from duty since he was complaining of being thirsty. As it stands right now, the Zombie extermination count stands at 30, Suika Death count is at 5. Not that bad, to be honest. Most of the deaths were from children who decided they wanted to play under the bridge at the time when the zombies wanted to come eat them… serves them right for not listening to orders….
First Month of Spring Day 30I started work on mechanism for the construction of the another project I had in mind, and layed out plans for the building of the new training room which will compose of 3 areas. One which will serve for basic training… one that will serve for archery…. and one more… that will be a surprise… even the military themselves might not understand….
Second Month of Spring Day 1Hideki complained to me about going back to the switches. so I decided Wymar would take on switch duty instead.
His reaction timing was a bit debatable though…
Second Month of Spring Day 12 How did a zombie parsee get in here?! The fort is still in lock down so it can't be possible except through the bridge gauntlet and I'm pretty certain nothing passed through there. high zealot was the first to confront the parseekkuri and take it on, but she was soon overpowered. The team managed to get to her but sadly by the time they killed it, it was too late. She had gone to the great Suika in the sky to become one with her once again.
There was only one thing to do since the corpse was in a dangerous location… Flip the switch!
Sooner or later we will have to make a memorial for you once again…
Second Month of Spring Day 18We're splattering zombies constantly now, and we're doing very well to be honest. We're now down to roughly 135 in the record.
Don't know how many are part of the siege, but I'm certain the ones we must watch for are the Inaba. They seem to all be part of the siege. Sooner or later this menace will be over..
Last month of Spring Day 1The miners have successfully dug out most of the area for the new training facility. All's looking well at the moment. But I'll have to wait 'till after they are done before I can begin the next step of the program. In the mean time, I'll be working on doors.
Last month of Spring Day 10 You know what, I want to know if what my cousin did was fun…. when the crew opens the gate to lure the zombies in… I'm making a run for it… I've been waiting to do this for a long time… I must do this!!
Last month of Spring Day 11Mayor Patchy's Notes: A Strange thing happen that day, the levers were pulled as usual to lure the zombies in as Totaku commanded only the next thing to occur right afterward was that Totaku made a mad dash to the outside.
"Totaku what are you doing?!"
"I'm going do what my cousin once did! Play Tag with the zombies!!! I must experience this feeling!!!"
That very moment, he made a dash to the other end ignoring our orders to turn back, and grabbed an Inaba's foot and yanked it completely off of the undead corpse.
"This will bring me luck!"
And those last words we heard from him before he ascended up the stairs… I have no idea what possessed his mind to do this, so I have given everyone the orders to try and make an opening and lure Totaku back in.
Last month of Spring Day 16Mayor Patchy's Notes:Our attempts to lure him back to the inside have not be successful. We open one gate, the zombies start heading torward it, we open the other, and the proceed to that. It's almost impossible to get him to come back. To make matters worse, apparently the slime is taking it's toll on his body….
I hope he returns soon….
Also we got word that some strange creature is on the loose underground. A quadruped made of salt and a shell that shakes... sounds kind of scary...
Last month of spring of 25Mayor Patchy's Notes: We got word that our leader, Totaku, died as expected - doing what he seem to be enjoying the most… playing tag with the undead… this was indeed insane…. but nonetheless I guess I'll be putting myself in his position for a while and cleaning up Totaku's desk in the next few days.
In the mean time, I've ordered everyone to proceed to work and to stay by the levers since it seems working in numbers is way more effective.
Last Month of Spring Day 30Mayor Patchy's Notes:This day almost ended in near disaster as a human corpse made it pass the traps and by passed the team but thankfully are military made short work of him.
I went ahead and cleaned up Totaku's desk only to find a note…
"To those that find this, I am probably already dead, I have decided that it was important to learn to enjoy the thrills in life and I long yearned to see the surface once more, even at the cost of my life. But I had made preparations in advance…
I've already contacted my second cousin and hopefully if he manages to makes his way here and survive, pass the gourd onto him. He will likely be able to keep things going. He's much like me in many ways, and he too would be interested in my plans. Please be sure to give him these…
I look through the notes and find what Totaku has been writing about….
It's practically down right disturbing. He claims that the Great Suika in the sky told him that the hermit's wishes were to make the dead into a tool which we can use…
But how can one harness the dead?! They're dangerous and mindless husks! Is he downright insane?! Or is the he been driven mad by wanting to fulfill the wish of a hermit? If such an entity exists, she must not be a very nice person to have said such things. Any fool that would say such things would drive a Suika insane in due time….
And there was one more note… sketches to a plumbing system, but they were all hard to read… so it was difficult to say if they were even possible… but apparently it had something to do with pumping magma and water… This might be a good solution to making the fort more useful… but do we have the suika power to do it?
I'm not sure what's going on, but I know one thing is for sure…. thankfully Totaku's prediction was right about one thing… the siege came to an end…. thankfully after a season's worth of time and effort…. Hopefully the summer will bring us plenty of more things to come….
Welp that's it for the Spring report.... Highzealot died, I died, Arashi Kurobara died, and a bunch of meaningless children got crushed.... but in the end the seige has been vanquished.... So mission complete?
Hopefully my descendent will come in sooner or later... I don't mind playing as Mayor Patchy, but I would like to start getting Suikas sooner or later...
Also no drawings cause the events seem a bit plain to me....
Edit: Special thanks to NekoRex for proofreading, as I usually have no time. ^^;;