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No - I'm not really that interested in claiming a dwarf anyways. If anyone wants one, take one of the 4 left.

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no - look at how much work your doing! relax already!

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yes - 5 or 10 more migrants are useful to the fort. Even if they're unclaimed, we'll need their labor.

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yes - 20-30 more migrants are required - I want to be a king among peasants.

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yes - I want nobles! lots of peasants! Give me arbitrarily huge peasant counts so that my guy doesn't need to do anything!

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Summer 128

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Well, we got another wave of migrants. Amariithnar says we're up to a population of 30. I'm starting to get the distinc impression of too much work, having to determine where to put these people. Really, I need someone to be manager. I'll consider that later though, as it's quite a task.

Personal profiles should be underway soon, as I asked each to fill out the same profile records that everyone else had to do before being assigned any job here. I've talked with a couple of them, but I have no real opinion on their usefulness yet.

What I do know is that some of them will soon be starting a military. Heck, we may even be giving them weapons and possibly even armor. It is a longshot of course.

Let's see, not much else has happened. My bedroom still rocks, though the noise from constructing a new dining room and smoothing out migrant rooms is making me sleep a little uneasily.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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you'll never guess who I got caught up with! ok, you might, seeing as you're a journal, but it's Flamestrider! His wavy hair, neatly combed sideburns, he's really attractive. And he listens so well! True, He is really socially awkward (yesterday I saw him talking about how awesome shoes are. Not his shoes, just... shoes), and I really question his memory. But you know what? he's amazing.

Not much else is going on - they keep building things and they keep waking other dwarves up, but that doesn't concern me too much. They made some nice mechanisms recently too - made by Flamestrider no less. Now we can actually close that bridge I designed! It's very nice. We make a good pair I think - I design the things to be build, he builds them, and everyone is happy.
- Amariithynar

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*The Willsauce Family*

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Lokum 'MrsWillsauce Cagesmith,
Dishmab 'MrWillsauce' Emeraldmachines
Kadol 'LittleWillsauce' Pullytribes (7th child, only one at the fort)

(written by MrsWillsauce)

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Oh, we're so happy recently. Now that the dining room is so amazing, the bedroom is so amazing, and everything is so amazing. LittleWillsauce has taken an interest in cats, which I think is cute. He's adopted 4 of them already. I think he named them obok, olon, logem, and Dastot. Quite impressive for a 1 year old dwarf.

Soon work will start again too - it's just a matter of getting some charcoal and more metal. We have the current problem of basically none of each. I've recommended digging for magma, but I was overruled so far. I'll petition again sometime soon.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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I could not be happier! everything is going so much better than I ever thought it would. Good drinks, legendary dining rooms, fine tables good work... what could be better? I know exactly what could be better! a wonderful lass to spend it with!

I asked Amariithynar to share a drink recently, and we hit it off. I love her brass eyes, and her lips are so... full. Don't even get me started on her hair.

And then the way she acts! it's amazing. I caught her winking quite a few times during that drink we had, and when I called her out on it she just stiffened up. I don't see her quite as often as I'd like, but we're both busy people. And you almost never catch her just sitting around, she's just so active!

You know the only thing that could make this better? buying some new shoes. Or chickens. Maybe if I get some free time I should go free the chickens.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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Life could not be better I swear. Talked to the wife, ate in a wonderful dining room, spent time admiring everything about my bedroom, it's all good. I'm really not one for writing everything that goes on, and quite frankly not a whole lot is going on, so I'm not sure what to write. Life is slow, and that's a good thing.

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Autumn 128

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 It's that time again! A bunch more migrants came again. Amariithynar says we're up to 41. She's very specific, so I wonder if she stood by the gate and counted them. I wouldn't be suprised.

The huge influx has caused quite a stir around here. The booze was gone within the month, and more could barely be made fast enough. Plenty of people drank water instead, and some went to the river - including me. This forced me to hurry up on creating the wells. I dug out 4 of them, fed through the river  and indoor pond dug out in the first year.

For food (because I'm sure that would have disappeared fast as well), I ordered a couple of dogs butchered. Unfortunately I forgot to tell these migrants where to put the food once it was cooked, so quite a bit of it rotted. It... smelled pretty bad in the farm area for awhile.

That being said, I've been busy recently (of course). Smoothing out floors, weaving cloth, managing people - it's been pretty good.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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 Someone asked for migrants, and we got migrants. We're up to 40 adults in the fort now, with 1 child.
We have plenty of wood (31 logs), a fair amount of cloth, and we're slowly increasing our wealth.

I haven't talked much to Flamestrider recently, but I did get to shoot off a few bolts. I'm still a horrible shot unfortunately - but that'll get better with time I'm sure.

what else... well I did get to design a few wells, that was fun. We're in need of more rope and another bucket before I can design another one, but those should be easy to come by. 

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*The Willsauce Family*

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Lokum 'MrsWillsauce Cagesmith,
Dishmab 'MrWillsauce' Emeraldmachines
Kadol 'LittleWillsauce' Pullytribes (7th child, only one at the fort)

(written by MrsWillsauce)

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The only thing I could begin to complain about is the sun. Everything else is still giong wonderfully. Everyone is talking about Flamestrider and Amariithynar's relationship, and the migrants. So many migrants I don't know what we'll do! MrWillsauce says that they'll be put to work soon cooking and cleaning just like we used to. Being on top is nice.

By the way, Littlesauce Kadol might just become an engineer when he grows up. I caught him admiring the lever earlier.  Those cats though we should probably do something about. 

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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Still doing awesome! I've talked to Uthric and Malimbar about the new migrants, and it seems that more came than was expected. They drank all our booze, so we had to build a well (designed by none other than Amariithynar of course). We didn't have the best materials to make them out of - mostly things we grabbed from the mountainhome before we left. They're not bad though.  But yeah, with the lifestyle we have right now I can't see it getting much better.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 I talked to Zefon earlier about the new migrants. they're OK I suppose, but I'm giong to have to keep them away from my beehives. the bees are producing by the way - we have some Royal Jelly sitting in the kitchen as I write this waiting to be cooked. I also have some honeycomb I still need to press. I'm very pleased.

Also, I won't have to make my own hives anymore, as one of the migrants has volunteered to do so. He calls himself Ralgreth Smith, though the others just called him Domas, and I suspect that's his given name.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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 The first thing I did when I arrived at Gusiltolun is see the leader. I told him what I wanted - a place for me to craft and be content. He seemed a bit surprised, asked me what sort of crafting I meant (any sort!), and then said "go ahead". He then even assigned me a pretty great room. It only has one bed, and it's not big enough for me and the wife, so we'll have to fix that sometime.

It didn't take long for them to get me set up by the way. I'm already making rock pots and bone bolts in my own dedicated craftdwarf's workshop. I also have an order for a few rock hives.

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Winter 128

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I specifically told the outpost liason for only a few new migrants. We're up to a population of 52 now! At this rate they'll soon be setting up a mayor. Well, I'd take it if it means I get to keep control, but this is just going to get out of hand.

And then they brought pets! adopting a few of our stray kittens is one thing... but piglets? I will not have that in my fort. I'm telling them that they have to stay outside the fort at all times.

Everything else is going wonderfully of course, so it's hard to stay mad.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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People are starting to complain about my water buffalo eating so much grass. Their pasture is currently more sand than it is grass. I've asked the farmers to pull up the shrubs just in case they were preventing any grass growth. What can I say though,Vucar and her mate are fertile, and they only have three calfs. I've asked Malimbar about extending the walls to ensure we have more grass for them, so they don't eat all of it.

The new guy Ralgreth Smith has started making some bone bolts by the way. It's been great, because I've gone to practice quite a few times now. All that's left is finishing some trade with the humans. We got some pigtail bags again to trade, and in an emergency we got some pretty high calorie quarry bush roasts. What do we need? I suppose we need some wood, and metals are always in demand.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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 We have a military now of sorts - and they're training with wooden elvish swords. It's a shame really. I'll get to working on some weapons as soon as we h ave metal - but it's really hillarious how little we ever have. I'm not complaining though - living the high life with so little work to do is fine by me and my family!

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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I'm always busy in this place! righ now with all the migrants we've been smoothing out the floor below where beds go. When we finished that, we're smoothing out the walls and the rest of the floor as well - it's going really well. We have the second dining room furnished, a new mini barracks, and I can't say things could really go that much better. It's been awesome.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 We now have 9 bee hives, and they're all producing wonderfully right now. We even have a bit of honey for cooking. I don't trust it for brewing yet, but maybe a future batch.

I've also been talking to some of the migrants. They're not bad dwarves.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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No wonder they accepted my offer of being a craftsdwarf, I've been busy! Weaving, clothesmaking, stonecrafting, bonecarving - I've beend doing it all! And they treat me pretty well here for it. Sure, the booze selection is pretty grim, but the dining room and bedrooms are amazing!

The family is enjoying this as well. My daughter Reg Tombportal (and her husband) are enjoying their arrangments as well. Apparently everyone loves the dining room in particular. It's pretty nice.

[malimbar04]

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Spring 129

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 53 migrants, lots of beds, but we're just not ready to say that they can take them over yet. We need to get doors on all those little rooms before we let people claim them. That, and I'm not sure if we have enough to house everyone yet, and no one should be sleeping on the floor.

I told Amariithynar that we gotta move some of the water buffalo, as they seem to be eating all the grass in their area. Most of it is just flat sand now! She said at least one should be available for butchering soon, I told her that was good news.

What else... we have some weapons made now, and 6 dwarves are assigned to train in the new barracks. We'll still need more of everything before we can equip them properly, but at least they have swords and shields for the most part.

My clothes are getting a little worn. My dress has a hole it even! We'll need to get more of those made soon, along with socks. It's a bit cold outside to be walking without socks!

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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I think I'm a pretty competent marksdwarf now! I keep running through those bolts so fast though, it's hard to keep up on my game. Work is as always going wonderfully. I'm going to have to build a few traps soon too, as it's apparent our scrambled together militia won't be much use against anything besides a naked kobold hanging by his feet. Oh well, at least we currently still have a working bridge closure. Come to think of it, we should probably put in a secondary defensive wall around our staircase. If this were to fall or something, we'd want to cut ourselves off from the offensive.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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The whole family is still ecstatic. I'm told we are actually going to start using glass for some things around the fort, but I haven't been told what we're making. MrWillsauce seems happy at the prospect, and suggested making windows of crystal glass for everyone. We'll see how that goes.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 I got to build a trap outside, and I think I'll end up making anoother couple soon. After that it's back to smoothign out stone for a while, and maybe making some blocks. We tend to run low on those whenever someone decides to build a new project. That, and the vast majority of the stone walls and floors we do have are just rough. I dont' like doing shoddy work, but on the bright side it means I always got lots to do!

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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Zefon just gave birth to a daughter! we named her Mafol Helmsmarks, and I think she'll be someone amazing someday. The beekeeping is going pretty well, but I still can't for the life of me figure out if we can brew this honey. It's quite depressing. Perhaps we'll just have to cook it all for now. (seriously, running into a bug that honey bee honey can't be brewed).

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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Woo, I just got a break from all that work. I think they'll like the work I'm doing. I'm becoming freinds with some of the other dwarves too, so I'm doing pretty well now I think. I wonder what the rest of my family is doing now. I haven't heard from any of my cousins - even the few that live here. I think most of them are farmers, though I heard Monom is a militia captain. Apparently he knows how to use a sword.

[MrWillsauce]

I'm thoroughly enjoying this. Keep up the good work.

[BraveHero400]

Looks like Ralgreth is doing well. Yay 

[malimbar04]

Glad you guys like it! Just a reminder - lots of dwarves available (probably more than I have on the imgur in the first post, I think I missed a migrant wave). Also, any requests for input into the game is welcome, or questions of what's going on.

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Summer 129

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The elves are here again. You know, I think it's funny how they come every year, compliment us on our ethical works, and leave with almost every good they brought. The only thing I think we've purchased from them is their wood, which is the one thing they won't ever accept back. hah. It's particularly ironic because of the masterworks in wood we have. The first one is an alder earring we've named "Musicviolence the Rope of Crucifying". Maybe they didn't like the name, so some other migrant made "Mythkisses the Solitary Grave" thinking they might like that more. Nope, no interest whatsoever. That was was even encircled with bands of larch and bismuth. Oh well.

Everything is going just fine otherwise. My bedroom is definitely worth bragging about - by far the best I've ever seen. But even with how awesome our dining room is, I keep having trouble finding a table to eat at. Sure, all the tables are nice, but they're all always taken. It's all those new dwarves!

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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 Malimbar came to me recently and said "you know, I just glanced at your books and you're doing wonderfully as our broker!". I was very proud. I think I'm becoming a pretty skilled marksdwarf as well, as I've been getting some practice in my free time.

Heck, the only thing that has annoyed me recently is the flies - we have a lot of flies in this fort and at some point we should probably do something about that.

I haven't talked much to Flamestrider recently - we've both been so busy. But he came to me in the dining room a while ago and winked across the room. When I have free time and he doesn't I just go visit Vucar in the pasture. All her calf's have been sent to other areas to eat grass, but I'm starting to worry about the grass in general in our fot. It's getting pretty sandy up here.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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Nothing new, well except I actually had work! With the unnamed dwarves, as I've taken to calling them, I've had a pretty good supply of charcoal. After making enough bronze (or similar) swords for the military, I smelted as much galena as I could. We ran out of charcoal, and they've been slow on making more, but I don't think we're hurting too much on that. I have no idea what to do with all the lead, but that's someone elses problem now. For the silver, I plan to make silver warhammers at some point, and store them for whenever someone decides they want to move off of swords. I would make silver swords, but I'm pretty sure those aren't very useful. Too soft you see.

MrWillsauce was expecting some work, but so far he's had none. Doesn't seem to be bothering him though, he's gone right ahead and polished his glassworkers workshop anyway, whatever they call it. A glass furnace? Sure, he polished it.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 With these projects they set up above ground, I feel like I'm almost blind these days. It's so bright up there! But you know what? it doesn't matter. The work is amazing, and I feel like I kind've own the fort in a way. I've built so much of it. I have orders for work to last me a good several months ahead too. Something about the dining rooms - seirously we got two of them, how much dining room do they want? Well, probably enough to seat everyone, and we got over 50 now. ha, alright, you got it fort. One awesome fort coming right up.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 I'm still working on figuring out this whole meed thing. I can't seem to brew it at all. That, and people keep taking it to cook. I let them for two reasons. On one hand the higher ups have decreed it good for cooking. On the other I get nothing but rotten fungi-covered honey when I try to brew it. I might have to abandon this whole meed idea. I'm just not... getting it.

Oh well though, my bedroom, the dining rooms, my wife... all amazing. Couldn't be in higher spirits all things considered. 

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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So much work, so much dwarven glory, so much excitment! I keep having these ideas of new ways to weave cloth and sew dresses. Seems everyone likes the dresses I make, I mean Malimbar just took one himself! I've also been toying with leather recently. Apparently they had quite a stockpile that they had no idea what to do with. I made a bunch of waterskins and backpacks for the military, so they shouldn't be wanting for them any time soon. Now, concerning those backpacks... I can do so much better. If I reinforce the corners and double up on the bottom part... and maybe sew in a pigtail image of... yeah, lotsof ideas for those.

The wife gave birth to a new boy recently, bringing us up to 5 children! can't say anything could bother me these days!

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early  Autumn 129

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Well, it's finally happened, they voted in a Mayor. Unfortunately, they voted in by popularity instead of experience. Some dwarf named Rimtar Bomrekkalan took it. I've met her once in passing, but don't know her very well. She has no job really, but she claims she's a decent armorsmith.

Anyways, because of her I've dug a new layer for her special needs. She says she needs a "decent" bedroom (I'll make it a little bigger in case it's not "decent" enough), an office (who knows why), and a full set of room-furnishings that no one else in the fort has. I've ordered them all made, and the head builder Flamestrider has gone to work. More than that, he finished, and he's currently off smoothing the office room. Quite impressive.

You know what's awesome though? With as nice as their room is, I like mine more. I have a smoothed green tourmaline floor! hehe. All the other dwarves with nicknames also have some galena flooring too, so we should all be happier than the mayor. he he he.

The problem of too few dining room tables is mostly fixed now, but I still had trouble recently finding a spot to sit. Too many dwarves here. I'm slowly assigning them the standard farming jobs, but it's just not enough to keep them busy. But heck, I am NOT trusting them with creating things.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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I recently got a request to increase the accuracy of our records. I was already updating them pretty regularly, and with all the things I have to do I don't think it's really necessary. But you know what? it's fun, so that's what I'm doing most of the time. We also have some humans up top to trade with, but not a whole lot to trade with them. I've asked to just sell some of the cloth we have lying around. We don't have a lot of it, but it's definitely disposable for now. It's fairly high quality cloth I think.

We also voted in a Mayor. I didn't vote for this person, but with all the migrants I didn't really have a choice. I don't have much of an opinion of her yet, but she hasn't gotten in my way. Nope, I'm quite content to do my work, live my life, practice my military skills to dodge, weave, and shoot my crossbow. yeah, the practice is slow when I have no bolts, but it's a little fun. It's like playing as a young dwarf in Defeat-the-goblins. Oh, those were good times.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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The dining room has gotten much better - more chairs and tables available to all. They keep working down below and waking us up, but it doesn't really matter. Also, I've been busy making a lot of silver warhammers. They keep trying to give me some charcoal, and it's just barely fast enough. We're out of wood now though, so right now we have a break.

MrWillsauce is still out of work, and is still talking to all the migrants all the time. He complained about going outside, but that has been about it. He says he's really ecstatic with this place, and that it's the best place we've ever been. I think I agree.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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Wow, I'm just so tired these days, and the sun keeps getting in my eyes. I'm debating just putting a room over the entire outside, but Amariithynar says that wouldn't be good for the Water Buffalo. I guess I can't argue with that.

With the new Mayor is someone I don't know. So many people I just haven't gotten a chance to chat. What I do know is that Malimbar came to me and told me "hey, new mayor, we gotta make a bunch of new stuff". OK, done. Finished it all halfway through last month, and I'm quite proud of my work. The doors in particular are masterpieces if I do say so myself - worthy of a mayor.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 I've been helping out Flamestrider recently with the building stuff. Yeah, he created all the tables and such, but he's needed quite a bit of help for things like building walls and such. As for my bees, they seem to be liking their hives. I have 9 hives now, and 3 of them will never be harvested but will instead will just sit there to repopulate the other 6. They all seem quite content to just create honeycomb for us all the time. We have some honey bee wax, honey itself, and I think 7 jugs full of royal jelly. Yum yum.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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I've gotten quite a bit better at weaving cloth now! lots of practice for those. The work is dying a little bit, but that's mostly because the workers (seriously we only have a few of them) are all working on the new Mayor we have. She seems like a nice person - I met her while we were hanging out at a party last month. On the more univerally good side though, our dining room has gotten better. I don't know if it's because of her, but I do know we have quite a few more chairs and tables. Very nice.

[Slothman400]

I'll take the slowest male immigrant you can find. Name him Sloth, and make him a woodcutter/axedwarf/herbalist.

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Winter 129

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 It was weird this last month. the outpost Liaison came, and didn't have a meeting with me. Instead, they met with the new Mayor. You know what though? it's alright. I coudl have used the break in one of my jobs, and I still got too many. So busy all the time! Recently it's been a problem still to smooth all the rooms. That job will probably last the next few years. In spare time I've started encrusting more things with glass gems. Oh right, we got glass being made now. It's been an oversight for I don't know how long, but now that one person is making glass. Forget who, but I put the order up and now I seem to have a glass supply. We're even getting windows in our room soon I hear. Not every dwarves room of course, by a few people.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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The smoothing work is still keeping me awake most nights - it's so loud. But for one little thing I can't complain too much. The humans gave us a bunch of wood and a bit of other stuff that's not important. After trading some cloth, I found out that we have silver warhammers, and a lot of them. Those things are valuable too, and we got a whole fricken 44 of them even after I sold a few. I see a good future for our fort's economy. Apparently it's from home-smelted galena too!

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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 MrWillsauce has been even happier recently - he's actually had work to do. His fresh polished glass furnace (he told me what it's called) is not busy collecting sand and turning it into green glass.

When I was above ground (wow that was bright) I also noticed that someone put some fancy restraints near the entrance. Each was holding a war dog. Good choices I would say.

Apparently it was a good choice to make silver war hammers as well, as they sold a few already. Good.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 Sol busy. Can't write long 'cus I got work to do smoothing rooms and such. That, and they really should get some new booze. I've had WAY too much wine recently, and not nearly enough of... anything else. Oh well. Time to get back to work.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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Sometimes I feel like I'm just one of the farmers. Sure, I don't have to actually plant the spores, but I spend so much of my time just brewing. I'm not very good at it even now, and the stills are usually taken by the other farmers. If I could make meed this wouldn't be a problem, I'd have the market covered.

But you know what? Those are some good people. and I gotta say I have the best living conditions among them - a huge room with beds and fantastic doors. Plus I get my bees. We're up to 12 hives now going strong, and we could easily make more. i'm trying to argue now that it'll help the farming industry, as bees pollinate things. I'm not very successful in that... yet.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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Busy busy again! now I'm switching to making rock pots for a while. I also made some bolts, and I wove some cloth, and I made a new backpack. but right now I'm making pots. Why? because apparently all the wood they're using to make charcoal. I told them that rock pots would be longer-lasting than barrels anyways, and apparently they didn't need much convincing. Apparently everyone wants more booze.

[malimbar04]

I'll take the slowest male immigrant you can find. Name him Sloth, and make him a woodcutter/axedwarf/herbalist.

Ooo, I have to hunt one down? I'll see if I can find one. Not sure how to tell speed, but I'll look around.

Edit: found one! She is scrawn clean-shaven lass named Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded. Susceptible to disease, weak, clumsy, and very flimsy. She's also married to someone, and has a grudge! Our first recorded grudge in the fort.

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[BraveHero400]

Yikes...5 children eh? Still, good to see he's alive and helping with booze storage; booze is the heart and soul of every fortress life in general! 

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Spring 130

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I'm still pretty content here, but things are starting to go wrong. My clothes haven't been changed in months and are starting to wear down. We briefly ran out of food, and I had to order several war dogs butchered. And for some reason I still couldn't find a place to sit at dinner!

Apparently the head craftsdwarf has taken up all the crafts, so I feel a bit guilty about that. I've instead been spending my own time smoothing, managing, and cutting some glass gems. I've thus ordered several new tables and chairs made, a few new farms set up, and more plants to be grown both for food and for pigtails.

I know, as one of the first migrants, that my clothes are among the oldest. I worry then how the rest of the fort will act later, as their clothes start falling along the same path. Perhaps it's time for me to refocus a bit.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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There are holes in my silk shoes, and most of my clothes are starting to wear down to the point that you can see the frayed threads. Even my excellent water buffalo leather dress I purchased is showing a good deal of wear. The pond muck root turtle shell was chipped. The turkey bone forgotten beast had a loose turkey bone.

There is not much else to say. I'm a bit better of an archer. I purchased a good deal of metal, wood, and cloth from the outpost. I did try to push my appraising luck a bit, so I had to get less cloth than I originally offered. heh, in the end it was a very profitable trade for both groups. Those silver warhammers sold like crazy.

By my most recent calculations, the fort is up to a value of 93000, with are largest value being in architecture. I take some credit for that. The next largest is probably furniture (we have a lot of nice stone tables and chairs), but that competes with our weapon industry pretty well. All things considered, that's not bad. However, we have been running low on drink and food recently. And that problem went all the way back to the plants themselves. Apparently are very large group of farmers have not been doing their job.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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I was given a note recently under my room door. Apparently the broker has made a huge profit off of my silver war hammers. MrWillsauce has been busy making windows recently too. Green glass windows are now in 6 of the rooms, and I think it's fair to say we'll get more soon. He keeps keeping me up at night talking about how excited he. It's amazing how he's so enthusiastic about... everything.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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It's so bright outside, and the clothes are starting to reject it I think. I just got a hole in my cap, and the rest of the clothes are about on the same level. I do got some nice wool socks, a new dress, and some trousers, but my cap I was a bit of a shock. I keep telling people we shouldn't be wearing clothes outside - it's not good for them. Sure, working outside is great, but that sun causes havok on the pigtails.

Otherwise, just as busy as ever. Lots of new chairs and tables are ordered, and smoothing stone takes forever. It's getting awesome here.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 It's just so nice here. I know I'm not very useful, but that's alright. It's very very nice here, and I'm treated well. The bees aren't doing much right now.  I have 3 hives reserved for spslitting, though I'm wondering how that works now. I think I might harvest the honey in all to see how this works.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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 Recently I've been busy making rock pots and rock jugs. I'm not sure we need this many honestly, but the management has ideas for them apparently. I think. I'm never sure what management is thinking. Because of the butchering of dogs recently I'm wililng to bet that they'll have me crafting bone bolts soon too, and who knows if I'll be able to get to the clothing problem before people complain.

I just hope I don't go into a mood of procrastination, 'cus then none of this will get done.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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I've been the subject of a prank. Someone came up to me and said that I needed to talk to the manager about something. Well, in the time of looking for his office, I ended up in the room of the record keeper. Ama something. Amariithynar I think it was. Or something like it. She said it that it was likely it was just a prank. When I told her when they told me, She called me "sloth". Oh well, I'll roll with that.

Sigh, I blame Deduk Morulasob. That know I swear has it out for me. I'm going to fricken get her bac. Amariithynar suggested I join the military. We discussed how to go about that, and she told me how she just trains when it's convenient. She told me how Malimbar doesn't really remember who's where, so she just changed the records to have me in my own military squad. I picked out an axe, and now I'm training.

Then I get a note later that apparently I also have to move. They have special rooms for people with nicknames. Nickname? yup, now they call me Sloth. Oh well, I got my axe, they can't stop me now. And the new room is amazing.

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hey, it lokos like I skipped summer. Well, good thing I'm saving them seasonally, so lets see if I can rebuild this.

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Summer 130

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 I was looking up the requirements for dwarven clothing in the "Forts, for you and me" handbook, and was happy to see that the requirements are far less than we have on hand. As long as we keep ourselves covered, apparently even peasants don't care. Many a fort has been saved. Well, I'm not about to tell our new fancy mayor what he can and can't wear, but I've put a general notice in the dining room to throw away worn clothing. We'll provide socks, dresses, and trousers for everyone. I threw out my mittens jsut last week, as well as my cap and hood.

Life otherwise is very nice again. The elves are here righ tnow, and I'm just waiting for Amariithynar to buy some wood for them. We have a good supply of glass gems to work with, our top-tier rooms all have green glass windows now, heck,  I think we even have enough tables and chairs now. No guarantee on that last part. In our two dining rooms we have 32 each. It really depends on how well we split ourselves between teh two rooms. We may need more soon just to accomidate parties and the like.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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A well thought out solution to the problem of clothing has been posted in the dining rooms. I still get to keep fully covered, and worn out clothing no longer must be worn. It's not a bad compromise.

I've been pretty bored recently. I haven't had any fair amount of work in a while, the books are counted, and recently I've just been practicing with my crossbow. Today I practiced dodging, which is pretty ahrd when you have nothing to dodge. My groupings though on the targets are getting tighter all the time.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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I've decided I'm going to single-handedly solve the problem of loose ore lying around the fort. It's all being smelted! Galena does make a large amoutn of lead which I have no idea what to do with, but at least that can be put into bins. The silver I'm sure will all go into warhammers and the like.

MrWillsauce has been busy too, making glass from teh black sand up above. The glass is still used in making windows, and any extra he makes tends to go into making makeshift gems for the gemcutter.
Our youngest child LittleWillsauce admired my furnace the other day. I wonder if he'll grow up to be a smith now. I also caught him talking to his pet cats about winged demons earlier. I'm not sure what to think of this. He said that maybe Asmel (one of the migrants I think) would be slaughtered by winged demons. I don't know what to think of that

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 Just changed out my old pair of clothes on the recommendation posted in the dining room. This dress is really comfortable! I'm still busy all the freaking time. I just finished carving the last of the slate chairs, and now I think I'm going to end up smoothing the floor in both of the dining rooms or something.  We'll see. It would be nice to stay out of the sun though - it's so bright up there!

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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i've been about socializing a lot recently. I know I'm not allowed to make a pet out of the dogs upstairs, but I sneaked up anyways and talked to them. They are such wonderful creatures. I also spent a fair amount of time talking to some of the children of the fort. They need to learn why the dwarves live in ground. I don't want them getting any funny ideas from those elves outside.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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 I saw that post in the dining rooms about clothing, and I wasn't sure what to think about it. I wish they told me first that they were going to do this. Well, because of the recent dog slaughter I think we have enough leather to make ltos of shoes, so that's what I'm doing right now. Once we're out of shoe-making leather I think I'll work on the clothes again. We don't have nearly enough pig tails though in order to cloth all the dwarves in the fort. Maybe if they take better care of what they ahve first it wouldn't ever become a problem.

I'm glad to be so busy though! it gives me a good feeling to be part of a fort with such high standards of living.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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Bah, they put me into this special axe-dwarf squad, at least that's what they told me they were doing. Really it was just a ploy to get rid of me for a while I think, as there wasn't anything at all. I grabbed a copper axe, sure, and then I grabbed a random peasant named Zon Diedoiled to join me. We're both not anything resembling skilled with an ax, but at least I got someone to work with. She's married to one of the sword dwarves apparently. I do have a steel axe now, so I gave her teh copper one I was using. Maybe in a few seasons we'll be good enough to spar or something.

It's weird though, they can't make up their minds. First they assign me to duty, never to see me again (I'm in a part of the fort that very few people go). Then they come up to me and relieve me from duty to cut down a tree or something. Then they tell me I need to go back. and the patrol duty... is months on end it seems. It's worth it for now though, I get a fantastic bedroom.

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Autumn 130

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I got to negotiate with the elves last season. Amariithynar apparently never realized they were there. People said she was off practicing her dodging or some such. Oh well, I got to negotiate and that was fun. We got wood (of course) along with some... oh darn I forgot what else we got. We did get some strawberries - which was made into probably the best wine I've had in years.

We're still having a problem of not enough chairs in the dining room. I'll fix that at some point. In the meantime I've asked Flamestrider to join me in smoothing out the floors.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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With all the stone smoothing I haven't been sleeping very well recently. I know it'll make things more valuable (and yay for increased fort value), but really they should do it at more scheduled times.

I did just negotiate with the humans up top for some nice things. We're running low on sellable materials, for which I should tell Malimbar about. I think he's pretty distracted though. Sometimes you need to run a fort from the background instead of cutting all these little glass gems and smoothing stone. Let someone else do that.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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The clothes I'm wearing are starting to get a bit worn, and that's pretty depressing. We really should make some more mittens, cloaks, globs, hoods, and the like. That being said, I'm loving my llama wool socks and water buffalo shoes. They're really nice.

Both myself and MrWillsauce have been busy at our jobs recently. I've been smelting Galena all the time, and he's been making glass windows and gems for everyone. OK, not everyone, but at least the important people. Soon our mayor will have windows in his offices! Of course the windows will look straight out at a rock wall or something - but that's just because there isn't room by our staircase. It's not our fault that's what the mayor's offices are based on!

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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Did I call it journal? yes I did. We've been smoothing stone basically all season. We made a fair dent in teh dining rooms too. they're not close to finished, but they're closer than they were. Once again, the fort's beautification is done by the hard work of the few. We, the few, the proud, the single guy holding this fort up. OK, Malimbar helped smooth some of it, but the guy keeps walking off saying something about some other meaningless project he has going on.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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Life is still pretty high over in Gusiltolun. I talked to another one of the dogs, and I've once again been socializing.I'm a bit tired of the booze, but I'm sleeping like a king here. Can't complain.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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I finally got a good look on the window they installed in my room. It's pretty nice! After I exhausted our leather supply I went to work on the clothing. We don't have a whole lot to spare still, but they assure me the pig tail farming has ramped up from what it was. We also moved the weaving and clothing stations, put them on smooth floors, and remade them out of lead bars. it's a higher quality than the slate we were using, and apparently we have lots of it lying around. I'm not complaining at higher quality!

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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They're having a party in the upper dining room right now, and I plant to head on over there after this entry. The place is loooking quite a bit better! It's not about 2/3 smoothed out on the floor, and they have a good supply of booze lying around. I particularly like the Galena thread that's going though half the floor.

I'm still a novice at the axedwarfing, but I can't really be the subject of any criticism on that. No one else here knows jack about handling an axe I'm vaguely sure.

And the way they treat some of us dwarves is amazing. You should see the door on my bedroom! it really compliments the window I have. Heck, this place is like a personal palace really.