Late Spring, 31
Finally I get some time to write down what's been happening.
At this altitude, snowstorms are brutal. We barely managed to get anything inside before one hit and we lot half of what we brought with us. All that survived after it hit was anything made out of metal or stone. Fortunately, we're all still alive, and so are the two pigs and the dogs we brought with us. In the past three months we've been working like crazy, trying to get ourselves self-sufficient before the caravan arrives at the end of Autumn. We're expecting some migrants soon, so we're digging down to the caverns as fast as we can so we have some access to wood before long. Only problem with that is we don't have any battle axes, so chopping anything down is a no-go until we've got the forges up and running. That shouldn't be too difficult since we've got easy access to magma and magma-safe stone, so all we need to do is breach the volcano, fill up a magma reservoir, and get to work. We've got some tetrahedrite anyways, so smelting and forging anything out of that should be a piece of cake. I don't expect to do that before the end of summer, though, so the migrants will have to make do without any rooms of their own for a while. We haven't carved out any personal quarters yet, though, so it's not like they'll be on the bottom of the social ladder or anything.
The gloom woman's stayed in her cave since we arrived here. I'm not dealing with her until we get a good military up and running, which may or may not take a while.
The workshop and farm areas are pretty much carved out, and I've had one of the masons pumping out blocks since we got here. We've already completed a bridge, so all I need to do is hook it up to a lever with some mechanisms. Won't take too long, I reckon. We didn't lose any seeds to the snowstorm, thank Armok, so we're doing fine with the farms at the moment. We did, however, lose half of our meat and fish stocks, so I ordered both of the Yaks that dragged the wagon here to be burned at the stake because they were obviously witches slaughtered and butchered so we have a fair amount of meat to last us for a good while. I've just ordered the carving out of a dining room and kitchen area, so we should be getting a still up and running by the end of next month. Strangely enough, I've ordered the digging out of roughly 20 total z-levels and we still haven't hit an aquifer. I think it's most likely because we're so high up that we haven't ended up reaching the aquifer yet; we'll probably get to it once we're at ground level.
In other news, everyone's getting hooked up and I'm just sitting here masturbating.
[OOC: I haven't been putting up any screenshots simply because I got surprised at how well this attempt turned out and forgot to take any screenshots since I was so afraid that my dwarves would die inexplicable deaths all of a sudden. That'll change next season, I promise. owo]
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