The Journal of Angiki, Fortress of The Homes of Ice, Year 2
SPRING 32
1 Granite
I have arrived at my new charge, Bom Ushil. All I can say is this.
THIS IS A PROPER DAMN FORTRESS.
Miserable dwarves living on bare floors, dwindling supplies, magma loosed on the world, and hungry zombies clamoring for blood just outside the door? PRAISE ARMOK! A place worth dying in! If I survive here, it will be a travesty, but I shall do my utmost.
The caverns here have been breached, and we have a grand supply of copper bars. These, and the magma, are probably all this fortress has going for it. We're just one dead keet away from a tantrum spiral, but no matter.
I've ordered the still to be moved down to the food storage room, as I doubt we'd ever have enough food to fill the place. Even down in the caverns, the trees are scarce. A large scale tree farm will be my first project.
13 Granite
I've ordered the main door locked. With no immigrants coming, and no resources outside worth mention, keeping the fortress sealed is the best option at this time.
22 Granite
In an effort to raise moral, I've assigned our wax worker to take stock of our meager supplies. I gave him strict orders to say we have more than we actually do.
26 Slate
Things have been pretty uneventful so far. Our new tree farm is dug out, all it needs now is time. The rest of the dwarves don't seem to be as miserable as they were before. I'm actually getting a little hopeful about the future of this place.
13 Felsite
Not all is doom and gloom in the fortress! Doren Ibeshletmos and Besmar Kolsezuk have married today, proving that even in the harshest places, love can blossom. Or some bullshit like that. 11 dwarves is a rather small gene pool, though. I'm beginning to worry about the second and third generations of the place.
SUMMER 32
7th Hematite
I just noticed today that one of the undead miner corpses was chatting with its own ghost. This will simply not do. These poor souls deserve a proper memorializing and burial. And by burial, I men that if given the chance, I would have all the corpses tossed into the mouth of the volcano.
19th Malachite
I've discovered the source of the unending smoke outside: an undead giant mole. The little bastard just won't finish buring, not even when I flooded it with magma.
This place is awesome!
18 Galena
Joyous news! A tree reached maturity within the fortress, now ripe for the harvesting! Granted, it was in the main room, not the tree farm, but wood's wood. I'll have it made into a bed.
AUTUMN 32
5 Limestone
Construction of our memorial hall has been completed, and the ghosts of the miners have been laid to rest. It also makes for a lovely picnicking spot.
15 Sandstone
For all of the things I'd heard about this place, I'm beginning to realize that any fortress can be dull as dirt if you hunker down and pretend your outside don't exist. Life is far too precious out here to go sallying forth to slay the walking corpses. Hohm. Just for the sake of somethign to do, I'm expanding the tree farm. Got wood?
9 Timber
As I'm quite tired of tripping over stones in the dining room, I've ordered a stone storage room dug out. We'll start carving blocks when we have enough trees to make bins.
WINTER 32
9 Opal
I think I fell asleep somtime last fall. Don't think I missed anything.
28 Obsidian
Armok help me, I'm still here. I suppose that isn't horrible, considering. This fortress is only slightly more exciting than my last, but I definitely feel like I got more done. Nothing to worry from the zombies, unless they work out how to open doors.
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