Hope you guys dont think I was eating that whole time, some stuff came up. Anyways...
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Journal Entry of UristTheGrey, Overseer of Moltenchannels in the year 1084Summer now. Undead have breached our 1st security level and now the second set of drawbridges has been raised. We're just trying to hold out but I dont think we can because of the food. Food stocks are very low and we wont last very long holed up in here. We must fight.
Urist McBadass is gone. A donkey skeleton found her unconcious body and murdered her on the spot.
McBadass WILL be avengedOur crippled military is preparing for war. I can see it on their faces. Fear. Panic. They know this is our last chance. We cant run now.
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We've cleared out the 1st level of undead. There are still many undead to the southeast but..
Urist McLookout: "Sir, We caught her! Trying to sneak in through the back!"
Her?...Yes. We did it. We caught the necromancer responsible for all this. Ill send her to a quarantined area where we will decide what to do with her. In the meantime we must clear the area of undead. Now where is that donkey? What? Oh no..Saint has been murdered...by the very same donkey that claimed McBadass' life! Something meaner always seems to come along..
We've caught the bloodthirsty donkey along with its necromancer master. What to do with them?
15th of Hematite
The Undead are all completely disposed of save for our caged prisoners. We lost alot of good dwarves..now I need to repair our military. Only 5 military dwarves survived the attack, 2 in critical condition. And to make it worst, the elves got away and we dont have much food left. Dark days are ahead for Moltenchannels
1st of Malachite
Things are slowly improving. Food stocks are steadily rising but still very low. Migrants arrived. I got my hopes up to high, more useless dwarves. Since our military is in shambles, Ive created another squad of dwarves. A gladiator squad. Migrants with nothing to contribute are assigned to this squad to train 24/7. Since their is so much goblinite laying around, this gladiator squad will use whatever weapon and armor it can pick up. Each dwarf will fight to the death in frequent battles against whatever caged creatures we find. Once a dwarf has gotten 5 notable kills, the dwarf can join the real military and aid in its battle to defend Moltenchannels. The rankings are as follows : gladiator trainee > gladiator pro (once 2 notable kills are reached) > gladiator master (4 kills) > military ranking (5 kills)
This is my attempt at rebuilding the military. Only the strong will survive. A gladiator arena is already being built.
We had one notable dwarf in the migrant bunch. A marksdwarf with over 250 kills in the wild. Reminds me a little of McBadass..
11th of Galena
Still just trying to survive..There'll come a day when this fort will begin to prosper. Today doesnt seem to be the day.
Another undead siege, this one dwarfing the size of the last
The time is coming, will Moltenchannels fall? All the ones Moltenchannels taught me to love..my family, my militia..we must stand our ground. Completely surrounded. 100 undead. We wont survive. Not unless we harness the magma, but since security has been breached, we need to get a bit creative..The rest of our time must be spent underground
Wait..OH ARMOK
Moltenchannels truly is cursed!-----------------------------------------
Sooo
, we're in a real mess here. 4 sieges in two seasons. I think we can get out of here, but its gonna take quite a bit of work. Probably into the next overseer. And we have no way to get to the magma so we have to go to it from underground. We cant build any properly placed windmills because of all the undead so should we just try and hold out? Im open to ideas, this is pretty bad
Also all the goblins are riding giant toads so this will be fun to watch