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[Gnorm]

At least we can have their little suits of armor melted down into fine ingots.

[4maskwolf]

When the husks are dead, yes.  Two of them were killed by various caravan guards, as of now.  I'm in the month of Opal.  Also, why are the remaining two fighting each other?

[4maskwolf]

Diary of Wolf
3 Moonstone
Since Rhyme is busy mining, I ordered our animal trainer to take care of Karma.
14 Moonstone
Today I learned that fortunately, Karma’s wounds have not gotten infected.  I will not lose another dwarf on my watch.
27 Moonstone
So the doctor told me that Karma needed a traction bench.  I told Dr. Wrench to make a traction bench, only to be told “we don’t have any rope”.  I looked at her in disbelief and finally said “well then, you’ll have to go make some now won’t you?”
1 Opal
The caravan guards killed yet another husk!  The other dwarfs left a long time ago.
8 Opal
Excellent! Karma is back up and walking on a crutch.
17 Opal
The outpost Liason is dead.  At the gates of the fortress.  Crap.
19 Opal
One of our animal trainers has become possessed and claimed a carpenter’s workshop.  And begun construction on a log.
24 Opal
The animal trainer created Esteemedgallows the Mastery of Severing a tower-cap… floodgate.  Really?


20 Obsidian
Another kobold ambush.  Which promptly got torn apart by husks.
22 Obsidian
Another ambush!  Torn apart by same husks.
28 Obsidian
I have decided to step down.  I am tired of leading, tired of this place.  Whoever wants to take charge can, for all I care.


Go for it, Zlob!

[4maskwolf]

The save will be up tommorrow, this has exhausted me.

[Gnorm]

Excellent work of you to keep this fortress alive for another year. I'll see to it that zlob is aware of his turn.

[Rhyme]

Good job keeping the fort alive. Maybe there will actually be a fort when my turn comes.

Also:

Spoiler: Chapter One (click to show/hide)

This project of a fortress has managed to survive for another year. We have survived, although this cursed place has taken quite a lot of dwarves. However Wolf has decided that being an overseer is too stressful for him. I might talk to the new overseer about the possibility of building a sanctuary with slabs for all those fallen here. Such a place would serve me well.

My plan needs so much power that even I cannot hope to fully understand it. That is the reason this place is perfect. There is magic all over it. Corrupted, but magic nevertheless. And I shall use it for The Plan.

Until then, I have to keep the fortress alive. A dozen deaths are acceptable. It will help the dwarves to have that experience with death when the time comes. If they are not prepared, this fortress will fall and be noticed by His eye. And then He will not be hesitant to end this Cycle. And end me with it.

[WoobMonkey]

10 Galena - status: excited!

     Wow!  It's hard to believe it's only been a month since I got the call, and already we're here - MireHole!

     

Spoiler: so glad this guy was there to give us directions! (click to show/hide)

     What a mess this place is!  No wonder the call came to me, WoobMonkey, Soapmaker extraordinaire!  Even though I only arrived yesterday, I feel it imperative to have a quick chat with the overseer; zombie goat husks (whatever they are) or no, there's simply no excuse for the state of this place.  Blood and vomit I'm used to (try tidying up after a ROYAL party, just sayin'); but I swear that some of the piles are... squirmy.  Yuck!

     Otherwise, everyone seems nice enough.  Nobody's really talked to me, which I suppose is an improvement over being yelled at by that nasty old Baron back home.  Wait, what am I saying?  This is home, now.

     Y'know what would make this place even more home-y?  Some pets.  Maybe when I see the overseer, I'll ask if I can have one of those nice, big, kitties outside for my very own.  I think it's cute how they followed us almost to the gates - they must need hugs.  Judging by the scowls on most of the faces here, so do my brethren dwarfs - I don't see how my request could possibly be turned down!

     With high spirits,

            WoobMonkey.

(p.s.: I hear rumours that folks around here get their very own bedrooms!  Imagine that; no more sleeping in a broom closet for me!)

[Karma]

Random journal using... The little, little info i've found on my dorf :c /edited

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is a -rhesus macaque journal-. The item is highly tattered. The cover is unreadable. The contents relate to the life of "Karma" Ilirgeshud, a metalcrafter of Mirehole in 300.

> more

*About 50+ pages are unreadable, the first one that can be read starts at the date of Granite 10.*

Granite 10:

For SOme reason those peOple decided to settle in HERE of all places
WHY bloody DAMN idiots having no NO idea hoW to pick a spOT
ow
dAMN husks got me BuT they said I might get better

when does it end

Felsite 30:

Yeah, they were right, I got slightly better. They're not too bad at patching up people, for a bunch of crazies that decided to settle in the worst place in existence. I mean, a place that smells like donkey manure is a thing. But a place that does that AND have zombie animals running around is just insane.
They also told me that a siege happenned, but they're getting slaughtered by the goats... or something.
A few migrants also came, but i think only one or two made it to the fortress proper. Oh well, I guess that's less competition?

The current dwarves aren't too bad, but... Well, not all of them. One decided to "take a walk". Outside. For god knows how long just to... uh. Put an animal.
Somewhere.
I guess i won't be getting out for a while, lest the zombie mummified animals are going to get me. My past experience with those zombie mummified animal carcasses incapacitated me for too long. How am i supposed to work after getting mauled by a zombie mummifed murderous animal carcass?
Hopefully, I'll be soon back on my feet, and ready to make some metal crafts. I'm getting rusty. I miss the heat of a good ol' forge.

Malachite 30:

Dr. Wench or whatever she's called popped a baby, then Tosid took the opportunity to do the same two days later. Well, two more mouths to feed in this hellhole is just going to be fun.

The elves got routed out as well. Apparently, even being in a very... "nature"-ey place isn't enough for them. They probably got eaten by the beasts. Good riddance.

Limestone 10:

Oh boy, I'm so annoyed.

While I was busy, you know, RECOVERING, the local blacksmith thought he could do my job better than i could. Watch as i get thrown into petty labor as soon as i recover, who needs me anymore? I bet he'll create something terrifyingly epic, which I'll probably never get the opportunity to equal. Oh, the woes of dwarfkind.

Moonstone 5:

Well, that was a pretty nice armor rack. I guess i still have a few opportunities. Maybe reconvert into weapons and armor, he can take my crafting workload.
They decided to change my caretaker to Dr. Watch or something. I guess this isn't too bad. My legs don't feel as horrible anymore.

Opal 10:

Woo, back on my feet! Time to unleash my creativity on some new crafts! I couldn't handle writing that much, do you imagine how horrible that was?

In the meanwhile, I was apparently drafted when I showed up for the first time. As much as I don't really want to fight considering that I had to drag my busted leg down to the barracks on my first day, it's hardly an excuse to make me a soldier.

They're telling me that I can do some physical exercise that way, so my leg would recover faster. Not a bad idea.

Opal 30:

Well, after reuniting with the local peeps, we got a bunch of ambushes, but nothing too bad. Good thing we're well-defended, I guess the overseer was pretty smart.
Then someone made the fanciest floodgate ever. If we need to make a depot-trap to flood angry traders, I guess that using it will make it look harmless?

Training is going pretty smoothly. Maybe I'm made for this kind of thing.

The big boss seems kinda.. Tired. I guess he won't stay next year, tradition and everything.

Obsidian 30:

Well, that was a nice year. Didn't die, but i still can't walk and use both my arms at the same time. I asked to get a bench or something in the workshop so I can put the crutch down for a bit.
I hope the next big boss will be skilled, too, otherwise we probably won't last another year.

[4maskwolf]

Karma, your dwarf is a total badass. At least IMHO. He keeps going to the barracks to do individual combat drills ON A CRUTCH!!!!!! That, and with a broken leg, he DRAGGED HIMSELF INTO THE FORTRESS RIGHT BEFORE THE GATES CLOSED. Then immediately lay on the ground in the archer barracks griping until I got a makeshift hospital set up. But still.

[Karma]

Wow. Okay. Now that's even more awesome than i expected.

I need to edit my stuff now D:

[4maskwolf]

Heh. I guess your dwarf has been so busy doing PT that he didn 'to find out that go dismantled the forge. Because we have no wood, and thus no coal, and thus no point for a forge.

[4maskwolf]

Alright.  The save will be up soon, just uploading it now.  Nevermind, it uploaded, save will be up on this post.  Also, I'm going to collect all of my posts into one place with pictures and add that to a different upload, possibly.  Don't hold me to it, I may not.  Also, Zlob, you may notice that all of the forts named dwarfs have custom profession names.  If I skipped any, and I may have accidentally skipped you, feel free to give them one.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8138

[zlob]

From "The Journal of Zlob the Freemason, ruler of Mirehole":

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is The Journal of Zlob the Freemason, ruler of Mirehole. I have created this book so that my descendants know, whose grave they visit and leave flowers on. I might die very soon. I will be describing every important event of my life here.

The last two years were hard. We had three rulers, Gnorm, Mask and Wolf. Gnorm's reign lasted for a round year, before he retired. Mask the Axedwarf died on his watch. Wolf was sick of ruling. Watching him growing more and more anxious made me volunteer as the new Overseer. There are many things to do.

1st Granite, 302, Early Spring

Today is the first day of my rule. I will be describing every important event here, in this book.

Here is what we have know, I will not be getting in detail:


I feel great today. I didn't sleep very well, all because of a ghost, which is haunting our fortress. I'll personally engrave a memorial slab for him. Apart of that, there is nothing I can gripe about.  I have to mention, that we have amazing door here. Astonished, I stared at it for a moment, before I could carry on. Also, our dining room is worth a ballad. Or a legend. No, really!

OOC: I don't have much time to play today, I'll post more when I start playing. Also, the images are clickable, so don't worry about their low resolution or about their small, unreadable size.

[4maskwolf]

He probably has a slab engraved, I engraved a crapton of slabs but never set them up.

Oh, and also, that list of people in jobs is deceiving, as my last act as overseer I put Batdwarf and two "peasants" on permanent military duty, or at least indefinite.

[WoobMonkey]

2 Granite, 302:

     Wow, a new overseer!  Seems like a nice enough fella, if a little prone to indulgence.  Y'know, at the welcoming party yesterday, I swear I saw him eating raw kitten tallow!  I know, like not even mixed with minced tallow!  What a weirdo!  Especially when everything is so dirty around here: that tallow could turn to wondrous bubbles, if only I could've mixed it up with some lye.

     Oh well.  What dwarf could possibly hope to understand the pressure put on our poor nobles?  I just hope that the new guy, zlob, will let me go outside and pet the kitties - the last overseer, 4maskwolf, wouldn't even listen to me when I pointed out what great pets they'd make!

     Otherwise, journal, there's not much to say.  I've been relegated to lugging stuff around, which I guess is okay, but I really, really hope that soon everyone will have a bar of WoobMonkey's Fantastic Moisturizing Soap or two - right after I get me a nice kitty.  I like the one with the missing left horn the best - but I'd be happy to rescue any of the poor dears.

     Oh, gotta go - there's a party going on in the dining hall!