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[MrWillsauce]

My friend and I decided to play a bloodline game with each other, where in typical bloodline fashion we pass the reigns of the fortress over to one another at the beginning of each year. We also each kept a log of the events that happened during each year, although we didn't take any screenshots (at least I didn't). This won't be much of a story, without anything written from a dwarven point of view or in any sort of narrative fashion; it's just what happened in a computer game. I doubt anybody will find this too interesting, but I enjoyed reading back over the logs. I don't know if this is only because they pertain directly to me, and thus fulfill some sort of narcissistic obsession.

The site Whippedeagle was founded at is composed mostly of a sinister mountain range, with multiple shallow and deep metals, as well as flux stone. The site also features a volcano, rhinoceroses, and some evil red dust clouds.

Spoiler: Year One (played by MrWillsauce): (click to show/hide)

-Granite-

surveryed the exposed stone to find native gold and tetrahedrite exposed to the south

began mining stone to build a bridge across the mouth of the volcano (well above the mouth actually)

chopped trees

typical starting shit

The two hammerdwarves form a squad "The Earthen Lances," with Asen Basementzeals as the captain (and thus
commander of the enter military)

Mistem Abanadas, furnace operator falls in volcano

Mafol Rirasas, farmer falls in volcano

on the bright side, we discovered adamantine! Praise the miners (magma divers)!

dug a largish room near the bridge in order to get enough stone to complete it

profane dust drifts nearby

I make quarry room into a burrow and send everybody there to hide until the dust passes

I think the dust is gone, so I deactivate the alert

I didn't see what happened, but after the profane dust cloud came, a black mamba died. Probably related.

Three rhinocerouses came to replace the dead mamba. Still no signs of undead

Chef Willsauce trains the four dogs for war

"Urodov" Championshields lives up to his name, crafting two wooden shields for our hammerdwarves

Urodov is assigned a war dog for protection above ground, Asen Basementzeals, the militia commander, is
assigned two, and Rakust Paintconstruct, hammerdwarf, is assigned one

-Slate-

Dwarves begin hauling food and drink into the quarry room, and seven temporary beds are installed there.
One bed is designated as the militia's "barracks", and the two soldiers begin sparring around it.

The stone bridge nearly spans half of the volcano's mouth (1 tile wide)

~Felsite~
Lokum Galleyfounts the mason (and sole miner since the accidents in Granite), carves out some space in
the southwest corner of the quarry room for some slabs and a statue commemorating the two who died due
to my carelessness. He also begins smoothing the stone.

~Hematite~ Beginning of Summer
Doors are installed at the entrance of the quarry room for security

Lokum the mason completes a superior quality gabbro statue for the Mistem and Mafol memorial, depicting
an elf killing a troll on the very same mountain that the dwarves are now trying to colonize. Not sure how
this relates to the honored dead, but it's pretty bad ass regardless.

The memorial is completed, and the souls of the dead are put to rest

~Malachite~
Nine migrants arrive:
five children a dwarf named Mafol, who takes dead Mafol's place as farmer, and who
will begin working as soon as a farm is carved out and irrigated

her husband Mebzuth, who takes Lokum's pick and becomes a full-time miner

a dwarf named Asmel, who begins practicing stone detailing by smoothing the quarry room's stone

her husband Bomrek, who becomes Whippedeagle's broker and bookkeeper. Lokum begins make furniture for his
temporary office, which Mebzuth begins digging out adjacent to the quarry room.

~Galena~
Booze is becoming scarce. Lokum needs to hurry up with that bridge so the fortress proper can begin
construction, including a farm for brewable crops

With Summer coming to a close, Mebzuth digs out a space south of the quarry room for a temporary trading
depot to be constructed for the dwarven caravan next season.

Mebzuth designs a trade edpot, which Lokum constructs

Urodov begins constructing tons of spiked wooden balls, which hopefully will be traded to the dwarven
caravan in Autumn for food, booze, metal, an anvil, or whatever else they have

Bomrek's office is finally completed

I send out the Earthen Lances to try to kill a rhinocerous. This is probably a bad idea.

~Limestone~ Start of Autumn
Rakust single-handedly bludgeons the rhino to death.

Mebzuth carves an area for butchery into the side of the mountain, then digs along the mountainside to
create a path for the trade wagons to reach the depot with

Booze supplies are very low. Hopefully we can last until the caravan arrives.

Puppies are born

Eight more migrants, including a gem cutter and a gem setter. Not yet sure what I'll do with all the
cheese maker types

The depot is made accessible

~Sandstone~
Less than 10 drinks remain

The mouth of the volcano has finally been bridged, and now the fortress can start being dug out.

More profane dust

Just as he begins carving out the fortress, Mebzuth is taken by a fey mood! He claims the mason's workshop
and carries two boulders, one of hornblende and one of gabbro, to it before getting to work. This has
halted construction progress, but I don't care because artifacts are cool.

Mebzuth Decenttrumpets has crafted Lonelands the Actions of Dripping, a hornblende door of the highest
quality craftsdwarfship. It menaces with hornblende spikes and bears a gabbro image of a dwarf named Kol
Praisedaggers. Mebzuth also became a legendary miner in the process. I plan on using the door as the
entrance to the fortress's catacombs.

~Timber~
More profane dust

This time the dust passes over the quarry room and the mouth of the volcano. Just as Mebzuth the legendary
miner (probably the most useful dwarf we have) was crossing the bridge on his way back to the quarry room
for a drink, the bridge was engulfed in the dust. He was caught in some, and died instantly.

The dwarven caravan has arrived, but the depot and the quarry room are covered in the dust.

The traders attempt to reach the depot despite the evil clouds, and they all die.

Nine (I think) of our dwarves have died to the cloud, along with seemingly all of the dwarven traders.

Rakust, the one remaining military dwarf, is tantrumming. She is now the militia commander.

I set her up with a sparring partner, Inod the (former) milker, to try and lift her spirits. I also
outfit them both with armor from the dead caravan guards.

Booze is salvaged from the dead traders, ending that crisis.

A former boyer replaces Mebzuth as miner. Digging the fortress will take much longer than anticipated. The
first priority is now digging out the catacombs.

Right when we thought the cloud had left, and the dwarves had come out of their shelter to try and
recover what they had lost, everyone was suddenly caught in another cloud of profane dust. Four remain,
huddled in the quarry room. Those four are Asmel the engraver and her daughter, Udib, Sarvesh the gem
cutter, who has been elected leader of this tiny remnant of the original expedition, and a novice farmer
named Kulet.

It appears that the profane dust is gone for now. While they have time, our four survivors beging carrying
food and drink into the half-complete room that would someday be a dining hall. It was dug halfhazardly by
Mebzuth, who never got to finish carving it out.

Kulet takes up the pick of legendary miner Mebzuth and continues excavating the dining hall, while the
other two adults continue transporting supplies.

~Moonstone~ Beginning of Winder
Asmel goes berserk

Kulet decapitates Asmel with her pickaxe, but not before her hip is broken, along with other injuries.

Sarvesh carries her to bed, but there are no doctors to treat her. The only remaining dwarves are now the
new expedition leader, a child whose mother just attempted to kill her, before having her head brutally
seperated from her body, and a bedridden miner.

Sarvesh continues digging out the catacombs and dining hall alone.

Kulet is stricken with melancholy. She crawls out of bed and down the mountain.

~Opal~
Kulet continues to crawl around outside in the rain

The quarry room is full of miasma. Sarvesh moves two beds into the fortress for himself and Udib.

More profane dust. I burrowed the two sane dwarves in the fortress, although there's nothing blocking the
fortress off from the outside.

went AFK for the rest of Opal and the next month while Sarvesh worked. Came back at the 10th of Granite
to find the kid and Sarvesh still alive, and Kulet dead as I expected.

~Granite~
good luck with this clusterfuck. There is currently dust outside, and the alert is still in effect.

[Ship of Freaks]

Spoiler: Year 2 (click to show/hide)

   GRANITE

there are four ghosts, three of which are forlorn (harmless), and one is restless, which isn't so bad.


   SLATE

migrants arrived.

cloud drifted by, killed at least one migrant. up/down to 10 dwarves, including three farmers and a bunch of children.


   FELSITE

elven caravan arrived.

pair of kobold thieves stole nothing.

kobold ambush. seems to have been chased away but manager died.

three more failed thieves.

new ambush. two dead, incuding sarvesh. the last farmer is alone with six children.


   HEMATITE summer has arrived on the calendar.

zaneg the farmer has been suspiciously idle. discovered his leg was broken. is the fortress doomed?

the elves were be able to get off scot free. this is a dark day.

cloud of dust passes harmlessly.

just noticed one of the elves has stayed behind for some reason.

another cloud.


   MALACHITE

zaneg throws a tantrum. as soon as i look, he's died.

migrant wave. a new hope. a leatherworker, brewer, dyer, thresher, and surgeon.


   GALENA

harmless cloud, digging has begun again.


   LIMESTONE Aumtumn has arrived on the calendar.

dug out farm.

migrants. animal trainer, trapper, glassmaker, farmer, and child.


   SANDSTONE

deler became a hunter. she is credit to fort.


   TIMBER

built a still.

i just realized that the fort can no longer appoint nobles.

the rodents sent another ambuscade. a militia cannot be formed without a commander, nor a commander without a leader.

a thief.

the dwarven caravan and diplomat have arrived. as soon as i unpaused the diplomat left unhappy.
i fear this is because of the elf who still lies at my doorstep and refuses to stand on his bruised legs.

the traders disregard the elf and unload anyway.

a second ambush, with the first still ongoing.

three thieves.

the ambushes killed six before leaving.

cloud passed quickly.

nevermind, one of the deaths was from a vampire. neat, the fortress can be immortal now, as long as we kee the vampire safe.

it's kogan the brewer. his true name is buh, which is hilarious.

a cloud passes.

   MOONSTONE Winter has arrived on the calendar.

three thieves.

finally deconstructed the depot, stole from dwarves and that one elf.

a child throws a tantrum.

trapper died of thirst.

another child begins tantrumming.


   OPAL
   
first child, asmel stricken by melancholy.


   OBSIDIAN

glassmaker threw tantrum.

minkot has grown to become a peasant.


   GRANITE spring has arrived on the calendar and it's raining again. at least it's not blood.


FINAL COUNT

SEVEN   ghosts
THREE   forlorn
FOUR   restless

ONE   safe vampire, although i suppose the ghosts could bother him to death.

ZERO   goods stolen from the fort

A LOT   of goods stolen by the fort

[MrWillsauce]

Spoiler: Year 3 (click to show/hide)

-Spring-

~Granite~

Survey of the fortress:
-somebody broke the depot
-still no dead have been entombed
-the farm is far from the fortress and exposed to the outdoors
-no nobles or military possible due to bug
-4 adults alive
-Kogan the vampire is quarantined in the quarry room
-Food is scarce, but there is plenty of booze

I let Kogan loose because I need the labor. Also he shouldn't be too much of a problem with the fort's
current lack of privacy

Everyone but Zon the miner is made a mason and begin pumping out stone coffins

Zon the miner died in his bed. Nobody notices, despite everyone being in the same room. Might have been
Buh. He might even have been injured without me noticing.

A child died of thirst.

Kogan the vampire creates a masterwork coffin, despite being a dabbling mason. I reserve it for Sarvesh.

Minkot Admiredwork takes Zon's place as miner.

They found Zon a week later, despite people sleeping in beds adjacent to his corpse. Amusingly, there was
already a dead dwarf in that bed that nobody bothered to move. Now there's two. It turns out he was drained
of blood. Maybe releasing the vampire was a poor decision, but at least he makes masterwork furniture.

Profane dust

Kogan the vampire creates another piece of masterwork furniture --a hatchcover-- while still a dabbling
mason.

Zon's corpse stinks up the dining hall

~Slate~
Migrants:
Lor the Mason
Sigun the Mechanic
Ushrir Steelcrab the Miner
Nish the Chef
Thikut the Engraver
Dastot the Farmer
a bunch of useless children
some other ones

Lots of dwarves are entombed in the catacombs

profane dust. Everyone burrowed

Ushrir the miner is possessed. Brings two schist boulders to a mason's shop and gets to work.

a child goes berserk. She kills a stray dog, then attacks the possessed miner. The miner tears her leg off
with her steel pickaxe. People run away from the berserk child, and end up outside despite the alert. Some
are hit by profane dust. The kid gets punched to death by a farmer.

another kid goes stark raving mad

The possessed miner's finger is broken from the fight, so she just sits around outside. I don't think he'll
be able to complete the artifact.

Sarvesh's tomb is dug out.

There are 37 dwarves now. I think another migrant wave came without me noticing. Food is a huge problem.

Sarvesh is entombed

profane dust. Dwarves burrowed. The possessed miner refuses to go inside, just standing at the edge of the
volcano.


~Felsite~
Animals are all slaughtered and cooked

Catacombs are expanded

Elves arrive, but we have no depot.

-Summer-

~Hematite~
another dwarf drained of blood

Began construction on an entrance to a deeper fortress, a bridge right above the volcano's magma. This
bridge will have supports linked to a lever so it can be dropped into the magma in case of emergency.

Lots of insane and miserable dwarves

~Malachite~

Began expanding the width of the main bridge by two tiles

More migrants

All ghosts have been put to rest, but not for long

~Galena~

a child, Sibrek Orblanterns, is taken by a fey mood. A craftsdwarf's workshop is built for him

booze stocks are dwindling. What little plump helmets we have are brewed into wine.

-Autumn-

~Limestone~

For the first time in the history of Dwarf Fortress, a child has actually made an interesting artifact!
Sibrek has created The Blotted Allegiance, a short sword made of alpaca bone. If only I could equip a
military dwarf with it...

Due to my obliviousness, while planning out the construction of the secondary bridge I accidentally
dug through part of the volcano wall that was seperating the catacombs from an ocean of molten stone.
The catacombs are rapidly flooding with magma. All of the entombed corpses are melting, as are most of the
coffins (some are made of magma-proof stone, but even the bodies in those ones are melting).

Mass production of slabs has begun

~Sandstone~
more migrants

Almost entirely out of booze

A child died to the vampire

A werebeaver attacks. The legendary bonecarver child is killed by the werebeaver. A hunter shoots the
werebeaver a few times, and it turns back into a human child and runs off of the map. I don't think any
dwarves were bitten that survived (unfortunately).

We are completely out of booze. The dwarves are forced to drink from stagnant pools until the caravan
arrives next month.

An engraver is trapped in Sarvesh's tomb by magma while detailing it. I relunctantly designate a rescue
tunnel to be built form the common room, defiling Sarvesh's tomb in the process.

Alcoves are dug out along the mouth of the volcano at bridge level. This is where the slabs will go once
they are engraved.

~Timber~

Profane dust drifts right over the fortress without warning. The burrow prevents any casualties, although
the hunters only narrowly escape the cloud.

The trade caravan arrives. Once again the diplomat leaves immediately.

Despite not having a broker, we are able to trade with the merchants. Trade goods scavenged from the dead
previous caravans are traded for much needed food and booze.

A goblin snatcher steals a child

Another kid is taken

Profane dust drifs towards the fort while nearly every single dwarf is crowded around the trading depot
drinking the nwely-bought booze. They all ignore the alert to continue drinking, but luckily the cloud
doesn't hit them

Another child is snatched

A metalcrafter is possessed. A forge is created to accomidate him.
-Winter-

~Moonstone~

Another child snatched

The metalcrafter has completed his artifact: Strapwonders, a nickel silver ring. Its only decoration is
nickel silver studs, and it didn't even give us a legendary dwarf.

Dwarven child killed by vampire

~Opal~

The dwarf caravan is still here for some reason, and half bleed to death from the profane dust at the depot

Started placing weapon traps on the primary bridge

~Obsidian~

Renovations on the primary bridge pretty much complete (not including setting up trap)

The secondary bridge has begun being constructed, and one side is ready to be linked to a self destruct
lever. I think the rectractable bridge will need to be linked along with the supports.

-Spring-
Good luck!

[Ship of Freaks]

Spoiler: Year four (click to show/hide)

granite

began digging project, aborted. completely stupid.


slate

working on the bridge.


felsite

elven caravan.

goblin thief killed by traps.


hematite

two snatchers were caught before the traps got them.

three kobold thieves were caught also.

another snatcher.

the depot was deconstructed before the elves could finish packing. incomplete steal.

migrants.

making progress on the bridge.


malachite

"vampiric mason" evolves into mayor! the nobles screen is functional once more!

welcome new squad: the Special Rags

beginning work on accomodating new mayor.

lots of tantrumming, berserk child now.

struck down by militia-miner.

child thikut has been possessed.


galena

put up more slabs.

a mountain goat bone figurine of dith dentdye.

berserk farmer. struck down.

siege. the militia is not ready.

alert activated, siege ended with no dwarven deaths but severe wounding, thanks to traps.


limestone

one died from battle wounds.

the remains of a goblin mount falling down the volcano formally discovered the demonic fortress.

and another died the same.

migrants.


sandstone

progress is slow on the mayoral chambers.

the new stockpiles are coming along nicely.

mayor is appeased.


timber

berserk peasant. dispatched.

two refuse piles: one for rotting things and one for the other stuff.

the dwarven caravan and diplomat!

berserk fishery worker. dispatched.

berserk child.


moonstone

child dispatched.

cloud caught me off guard, killed lots of dwarves, including most merchants.

mayor finally holds meeting with diplomat.


opal

berserk peasant. dispatched.

berserk farmer. dispatched.

berserk cook. dispatched

berserk child.

berserk fishery worker. dispatched

child dispatched.

etur, peasant, gets macabre mood.

nangeth, a horse bone spear.

berserk child. dispatched.

diplomat nearly left unhappy, but returned to give the final farewell message.

berserk gem setter. dispatched.

berserk gem setter. dispatched.


obsidian

two of the merchants are still here. theyre perfectly healthy so i've no idea why.

hunter olin grew attached to a bronze crossbow.

berserk miner. he has a pick.

berserk child.

berserk child

miner has killed a metalsmith before dying.

one child dispatched.

berserk farmer. dispatched.

child kills another child before dying.

berserk child. dispatched.


spring has arrived on the calendar. there is just so much unhappiness.

[MrWillsauce]

Spoiler: Year 5 (click to show/hide)

Spring-

~Granite~

Optimized the dwarves' jobs to minimize idlers. Most became masons or engravers to speed up the production of slabs and the
construction of the bridge.

Deleted the huge stockpile. There is no point in having dwarves move shit into a room.

People keep sleeping in the mayor's bed and getting their blood drained

~Slate~

Lots of babies being born

47 Migrants. I make half of them masons and half of them haulers for now. At least now the majority of the dwarves are
content.

All of the migrants flock around the small memorial in the quarry room, crawling under each other to do so. What the fuck.

One of the original memorial slabs is deconstructed by an angry dwarf

~Felsite~

The elves come

The secondary bridge is complete. /now/ the actual fortress can begin construction

Mason has a fell mood

He grabs and kills a novice mason, then gets to work. Unfortunately he chose the butcher shop outdoors to build his
construction, and a cloud of profane dust approaches. Hopefully he'll survive. Everyone else is burrowed indoors.

Dust cloud passes over the bridge, but fortunately doesn't go any further south. The murderous artisan is safe.

"Labormenace," a dwarf bone weaponrack. Not as cool as it could have been, but any artifact that results from a fell mood
is fucking metal. I put it in the mayor's bed room for now.

I accidentally offend the elvish traders by offering them one of their own kind's wooden objects. They leave before I can
get any of their booze. Everyone's thirsty.

-Summer-

~Hematite~

I just realized that we have a tame tiger that can be trained for war. Holy shit that's awesome. Thank you, elves.

Profane dust reaches the secondary bridge! I didn't expect that, and it costs many dwarves their lives.

Ten more migrants. I make them all miners, although I don't know if we have that many picks.

~Malachite~

Everybody's thirsty, having to walk up and down mountains in order to reach their only water source: a blood-contanimated
pool of mud.

As quickly as the fortress is dug out, it is full of rotting corpses and miasma. These dwarves will never have a clean
living space.

A pack of rabid berserk children is preying on the poor sane dwarves

I noticed a dwarf climbing all the way out of the fortress up to the old bookkeeper's office in the quarry room just to eat
dinner. I don't blame him; that's the cleanest and safest place in the whole fort.

A downward shaft is being dug to try and locate soil and water in the caverns

~Galena~

The caverns have been breached! I think we dug straight past the first cavern layer without noticing, as these caverns are
quite deep. Anyway, I will begin constructing farms and a reservoir of drinking water now.

It turns out there is a magma pipe that expends up to this cavern layer form the magma sea. We pretty much have two
volcanoes. That in addition to the demonic fortress and the profane dust make this site one of the most awesome I've ever
seen.

I designate a new drinking water zone in the caverns and delete the one around the stagnant pool. I also order the plump
helmet farm to be deconstructed.

The dwarves predictably swarm the cavern lake, crawling over and under each other to drink the fresh water

-Autumn-

~Limestone~

A miner goes crazy in the caverns and kills a bunch of people

A mason is possessed

Berserk miners are a major problem

A mechanic survives a vampire attack (I think; she sustained major injuries lately and is pale, but there are no other
wounds on her body

The farm is almost dug out, and the flooding mechanisms are being constructed. Bedrooms and a dining hall have been designated
to be dug out near the farms

Adil Blazewheels the Priest of Rythms is a berserk miner who earned her title by killing ten dwarves (at least ten, there are
ten dwarf kills attributed to her pickaxe, but she could have gotten others via biting, punching, and kicking). She is
currently roaming the surface, occasionally visiting the first bridge and scaring everyone inside.

Adil just murdered the possessed mason before he could finish his artifact.

Adil found all of the bedridden dwarves in the common room. Too injured to run, they were all murdered. This brings Adil to
seventeen dwarf kills.

Adil, having killed everything in the old common room, goes back out on to the bridge where she runs into a peasant walking in
the opposite direction. Hoping to knock Adil off of the bridge into the magma, I draft the peasant as a recruit and sic him on
the miner. Adil charged the hauler, but he jumped out of the way... off of the bridge. He fell right past the secondary bridge
and plunged into the molten stone.

The mayor and three or four other dwarves cross the bridge towards the fortress and are confronted by Adil, who kills all but
the mayor and a child. As Adil chases them, migrants arrive. I figure that the mayor might be able to knock Adil off of the
bridge or into a trap with his superior vampiric attributes, so I draft him and charge the berserk miner.

The mayor is victorious! He crushes her skull with a haymaker to the face without taking a scratch, then wanders off to do some
recordkeeping. Before her demise, Adil Blazewheels achieved twenty-one dwarf kills with her copper pickaxe. If we ever form a
battle miner squad, the captain must use this pick as his weapon.

~Sandstone~

There has been a mechanic with a broken back sleeping in the mayor's bed for (I think) over a year now. The other dwarves haul
cavern water all the way up to him, and bring him food. Isn't that heartwarming? Also, due to your design of the mayors' quarters,
none of the many serial killers have tried to kill him, and the bedrooms is relatively free of miasma or trash, not to mention the
bitchin' weapon rack I installed next to him. Checking Dwarf Therapist, he's the happiest dwarf in the fortress by far.

Also, the mayor hasn't fed from him and doesn't seem to mind lending his bed. I like to think that the mayor brought the mechanic
to his room so that he could feed on the poor dwarf, but then got attached to him and just let him stay in his room.

Further investigation tells me that the mechanic, Imush Breachedcudgels, is only fifteen years old. Both of her parents are dead,
but their bodies are at the fortress. His father was actually one of the few to be given a grave in the catacombs before it was
flooded. As such, I have deduced that Imush came to Whippedeagle as a child with his parents, then grew into a peasant after a few
years, when I made him into a peasant. I still can't find how he broke his back and liver though.

I found "Bonerack" (the dwarf who had the fell mood, and who was both a legendary bone crafter and a nearly-legendary mason) dead
on the secondary bridge. I think this was due to a low-hanging cloud of profane dust, but I'm not sure. In any case it is a major
loss for the fortress, which has few dwarves (16), and even fewer notable or useful ones.

~Timber~

the dining hall and many of the bedrooms above the caverns have been dug out, though the miners have barely started on the farm.
The flooding mechanism is in place, and is ready to flood the room as soon as the miners are done and a lever is pulled.

Beds have begun being installed in the completed bedrooms

It has just occurred to me that the fortress is extremely vulnerable to an attack from a giant cave spider, forgotten beast, cave
crocodile, etc. I should probably do something about this, but I've put so much stuff on my very small workforce's plate
already that I think I'll wait.

The dwarven caravan has arrived

A cloud of profane dust appears right on top of the depot and kills everything. The only fortress resident killed is a child who
refused to abide by the burrow restrictions and a bunch of dwarves on the secondary bridge, despite me modifying the burrow to not
include that area.

The fortress has suffered a terrible loss: Kogan the vampire mayor has died to profane dust. An engraver named Adil immediately
takes his place, but I don't give him Kogan's quarters. To be honest, I'm very surprised that he survived this long, but it
still sucks that we lost our only vampire.

The fortress is down to ten dwarves, three of which are children and one of which is bedridden

-Winter-

~Moonstone~

The bedridden mechanic is now starving in Kogan's old bedroom. The dwarves are too few and too busy to feed him. I fear he will
die before Winter ends

~Opal~

A snake wanders onto the trapped bridge and gets corkscrewed

One of the kids grew into a peasant. I made him into a miner to help digging out the farm (which still isn't finished)

All beds in the old common room slated for removal to incentivize people to stay down at the cavern fortress. I left Brokeback's
bed in Kogan's old bedroom for now, although he'll probably be dead soon as he's starving and dehydrated

~Obsidian~

Brokeback finally died of dehydration

A child died somehow. I wasn't paying attention

goblin ambush

One goblin pikeman makes it past the traps, while others fall off the bridge into the magma or just die. The leader of the ambush,
a goblin corssbowman, is hit by a trap, then knocked off the bridge. Rather than landing in the magma, he lands on the secondary
bridge with many broken bones, including his spine and both legs. Everyone joins the squad The Special Rags and is told to grab
a weapon of their choosing, then to station themselves on the secondary bridge. The one goblin pikeman who didn't die or make it
past the traps runs off the edge of the map, leaving only the crossbowman and the pikeman. The crossbowman is still conscious, and
is crawling towards the upwards ramp to aid the pikeman, who is stabbing a helpless miner. The crossbowman dies of blood loss
before he makes it off of the secondary bridge. The newly-appointed militia commander grabs a steel battleaxe and engages the
pikeman, but has his spine, skull, and other bones broken before he can deal any damage himself. The pikeman finally dies when the
mechanci stabs him several times with a steel spear. Although there were no casualties, many dwarves are severely wounded, with
at least two having broken spines.

-Spring-

[Ship of Freaks]

Spoiler: year sIX (click to show/hide)

gRANITE

"Some migrants have decided to brave this terrifying place, knowing it may be their tomb."
never heard that one before.
11 migrants.

sLATE

fortunately, nothing interesting has happened.

fELSITE

the elves.

a goblin ambush. the Special Rags are mustered. the elves were killed.

a howling ghost.

another ambush arrives.

the Rags are no match for the goblins, but the traps and a pair of hunters pick up the slack.
not before the Rags are nearly wiped out though.


hEMATITE

the sight of profane dust mingling with miasma where the inside meets the outside is horrible and beautiful to behold.

10 brave migrants.


mALACHITE

bedridden mayor died of dehydration.

farmer fey mood. it's a schist toy boat.


gALENA

last miner killed by berserk ranger.

siege.

the alert is called, goblins fall prey to traps, as well as into lava.


lIMESTONE

goblins still wait at our doorstep.

the goblins have broken down the doors but mostly wait outside.

in the midst of the less-than-dramatic turmoil, one child goes berserk and another is scared to death by a ghost.


sANDSTONE

it's a new month and still the militia stands inside the door and refuses to act, while the goblins do the same outside.

the berserk child was taken care of.

starvation, madness, tantrums.

the fort is in ruins.


tIMBER

somehow Stodir the mechanic-mayor is outside. he may survive this, but he will be alone if he does.

things are looking up, relatively.

the liaison and traders have arrived.


mOONSTONE

a helpful looking cloud of dust fails to do anything.

i finally break stodir's cancellation loop with a burrow, apparently. it might have just been the starvation got to him.

hmm. he died and i have no idea how. last i saw he was eating a strawberry.
the last dwarf now alive has been unconscious for months.


oPAL

Ricote, a sauropod forgotten beast, has come.

yOUR SETTLEMENT HAS CRUMBLED TO ITS END.