12th Galena, 226
Spotted some xelics on the horizon. Should be here by tomorrow morning.
13th Galena, 226
Well, it turns out they're survivors from their own caravan. And they got uppity over that fucking cave crab's shell being used for trade.
So we took everything at swordpoint. I apologized, but we needed the plants they had to extend our drink reserves. I also told them if it made them feel better, their chitin wouldn't go to waste. It felt... Wrong, but as far as I'm concerned, this was too important to let them walk off.
Tried my best to make it quick. Decapitated both and crushed the heads quickly afterward. The beetles will make fine soup stock. No survivors to indicate anything happened.
12th Limestone, 226
Firecrazy couldn't get a line on the crocodile, so he's gone topside for “practice.” Probably really going out to hunt warthogs, so I told him to be careful.
3rd Sandstone, 226
We're out of bones, and shells. Might need to see about getting permission to go into the caverns to hunt down some big game for more.
15th Sandstone, 226
Spotted more survivors. Went up to get their names.
Mad Bomber Mountainsounded, a fishery worker who says he's willing to sign on to help me defend the settlement. Seems he didn't like being picked on in that ambush on the caravan.
Grimmash Spottedtrumpets, Great Furnace Operator and says he'd like to help with digging out accomodations.
Lizard Raptorwire, A Great Butcher, Tanner, and Cheesemaker with masonry as a hobby.
Gibbon Fatalsack, Great Spinner and novice general woodworker.
LT Alfred Sneaklash, Great Furnace Operater and novice cook. Says he'd like to assist food production more directly with big game hunting, but I told him right now we have no need of such and contented him with joining Firecrazy.
Endok Mountaintrussed, Alfred's wife. Great Mason and Engraver.
Minkot Safetytown, Great Gem Worker.
Mistem Toolmirror, Great Weaver and Minkot's wife.
Nice to have seen other survivors. They say that this may well be it, as quite a few of the rest died outright.
13th Timber, 226
I didn't believe it when I heard it, but there's a caravan up ahead. Can't be any of us since we were the only Autumn Axe caravan out in this area. Needless to say we're all in a happy mood as a result of seeing friendly faces! Bought up all the plants and booze they had in their wagons they'd spare, some to be processed into cloth and thread for our tiny hospital we intend to put together, the rest to be processed into booze or eaten as is.
Of course before we can make booze we need barrels that aren't full of fucking processed tallow. I have a mind to beat Alfred with a stick for not telling the rest of us he was doing that until after we bought a bunch of barrels. He just waltzed up and said he needed all our newly bought ones for fucking tallow out of nowhere, and when some of us asked “what tallow?” we found a massive pile of the stuff sitting in storage in greasy heaps.
Anyway, I asked them about why they were here and to my surprise, they clearly didn't even know about us! They were being sent into a Dyansauri settlement to the northwest to negotiate the construction of a fortress in their territory to help ease pressures caused by violet xelic bandit attacks. They'll continue on their way there, but evidently we've probably saved the mountainhome a bit of time and resources, in spite of the coal shipment being lost. Their caravan master is talking to Zacen about regular caravan shipments here; it'll be nice to have at least some steady supplies from elsewhere.
15th moonstone, 226
Got a tiny hospital more or less set up, caravan from home left. Still need wells, surgery tables, and traction benches, but all things considered it'll do the job. The miners took some initiative and are digging out a wood and stone storage area and spaces for workshops. It'll be nice not stumbling through the masonry workshop while I'm going to and from the residential area to smooth out the walls and floors, and once we have a proper storage space we can finally get to making beds for everyone. Up until we got the ones in the hospital set up we'd all be sleeping wherever we happened to be.
So yeah, another update! Yay us! And funny your journal mentioned bauxite Lisard, as we have that here. In fact it's where the wood storage is going to be. The relevant posts will be updated shortly.