Journal of Bokaza, entry 3:
These past few months have been very strange. After getting my crutch and being released from the hospital on date 24th of Obsidian, year 15, I' was immediately ordered by Catten Usenasmel, the mayor, to start working on the main dig. After I looked blankly at her, she pointed me through the barracks, a sad excuse for one since there wasn't a dorf in it, and through a small tunnel. There it was, a huge pillar of stone, hundred feet wide and so long I couldn't even see its other end, surrounded by a huge dorf-made cavern. There was a small hole on the side of it where dorfs kept coming in and out. When I asked a fella nearby what it was we were working on he said it was "th' solution to all 'ur problems". I replied by asking what these problems were he just told me "we aren't allowed to talk 'bout it". Also, that lass at the hospital wasn't lying, everyone is running around doing Armok knows what.
A week later, 1st of Granite came and with it a new year that marks the 10th year since the founding of Mineforest, by The Tomb of Bravery... whatever that means. There was a short celebration in the dining hall. There I met a dorf named Shadowhammer, a miner who used to be a warrior until he lost his foot in battle against goblins a few years ago. He claimed to have slayed dozens of them before he was shot in his heel by a bolt, which was his only weak spot, coz he was dipped in Armok's bloody pool by his mum when he was a beardless baby, leaving only his foot mortal. The other dorfs laughed and said he was more likely dipped in a pool of grizzly shit, coz most of him smells of it.
The next weeks were uneventful until some poor sod snapped and made an ugly marble "millstone". Right after that the mayor ordered me to dig a path to the water in the cavern below. The small pond was dry and we had people desperate for water. I asked why can't they go to the surface for water and she just laughed and said that I am free to try if I want to get burned. I replied by asking if the sun was really that bad. She just paled and yelled at me to get back to work.
When the work was done I told them to put a hatch on the stairs just to be sure since there was some movement in the water. Good thing I did because few days ago, there were screams coming from that same tunnel. When I went there I saw a pale lass sitting near the hatch sobbing. She told me that while they were getting water, something huge and purple came out of the water and started spitting saliva at them. The mayor, her baby and some other nameless sod "stayed behind" to "slow it down". She had just enough time to bar the hatch. Poor sods. We'll be choosing a new mayor in a few days, until then all work orders are on pause. Good for nothing politics.
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