24th Granite:
The boys stop for a drink while I haul wood. I record this to prove that as an exhibition leader, I actually do stuff instead of just bossing people around! That's the thing I always heard about expedition leaders and administrators back in my day as a merchant and diplomat for Akestlitast. ( "The Dominant Torch". ) I guess it was those wonderful days back in my twenties and thirties that inspired me to lead a colony. After Urist, the general was loth to trust the name "Magichalls", but the queen actually spoke up on my behalf. I guess she's heard of this area and has high hopes for the riches in this place. So the queen gave me some funds from her own coffers, and finally... here I am, living the dream. I just hope old Suvascatten can get the boot out of his rear and think to send me some troops. I don't like the idea of leaving the place unguarded and I don't really have any military supplies to make my own militia... but... I'm sure we'll be fine. This land is nice, serene, well stocked, and surprisingly void of wild animals. Ach! I got so caught up in updating the log, I lost track of time! Back to hauling wood.
27th Granite:
Excellent! One of my dwarves, Sakzul the Metalsmith, has discovered a massive cavern system. Wait... that could be bad. What if something's living in the caverns? Well... it seems safe so far. I'll leave it for another month. We should have food enough for the rest of spring, but I need to begin the constructions on some kind of farm. From Sakzul's report, the cavern is very rich in minerals and spans several levels. I think we need to worry more about delving out living space on the upper levels first.
1st slate: Ach. The lower levels of the caverns Sakzul discovered? They are completely flooded. Shame, I was hoping to get to the fabled "bottom of the world". I suppose it was just a myth anyway... And it frees up my diggers for tasks that are honestly more important anyway. Like delving out our living halls.
http://s23.postimg.org/7lm6uhwd7/flooded_cavern.png6th: Ah! It's raining. Well... That is unfortunate. The living caverns still aren't finished! I have ordered everyone without jobs to begin meeting inside and had the woodcutter build a wood stove.
12th: At last! The rain has stopped. I can't believe it rained for a week.
24th Slate: A month passes rather uneventfully. It's amazing how quickly things can get dreary around here. Onul, my close friend, has told me that he is tired of the lack of chairs. Well... if the miners would hurry up with the carving of the hall! Ah, but... I can't be discouraged. This may be a far cry from the royal halls but this place is mine. Utterly mine. And it will be amazing and beautiful. Then, my name will be honourable enough to go down in the legends of our people. It is a good thing that the Magichall name will be allowed back into legend, instead of censored...
4th of Felsite: Living halls nearly done. Going to build the farm in there, directly beside the dorms. Lower and upper levels still being craved. Much to do, much to do. All this industry makes me happy.
10th Felsite: We've been really busy this month... but we hit lapis lazuli! Also... apparently there was an angry wolverine. Meng was telling me about it. It went away though, so I guess that's that. Not much else. I expect the rest of Felsite to pass this
uneventfully. industriously.
19th: A few days back, in perparation for the farm that the miners are soon to delve out, I had Doren go ahead and build a still. Today, he completed it. Huzzah! More booze!
1st Hematite: Ah! It's now summer! And everything's behind schedule! The farms aren't delved, the dorms haven't been set up and nothing's been hauled inside! Ah well, just gotta take a deep breath and keep mining. I've got three guys on the job. How long could it take? I've got an area allocated underground for a forge and metals workshop, where it's nice and quiet. However, since it seems that most of our digging seems to be going on near the surface, I think we're just going to make that the dorms for now. No sense making the dwarves sleep outside any longer than necessary.
8th Hematite: The Dormatory is partially complete, it has two beds, two tables, two chairs and an unfinished wood stove.
1st Malachite: Well, Hematite has come and gone. Things are still going well. I decided to treat myself, and diverted the miners into carving me a tiny little office. 'Ta'int much, but it's a start. Still gotta get the door and most important, the desk put in.
9th Malachite: Some migrants have arrived! Armok save the queen! And maybe I misjudged Suvascatten. He sent a ranger with the band. Quite a large band too, six able bodied dwarves and three children. We welcome the help. Now I can have the metalsmith focus on other things.
10th Malachite: I've made the ranger our militia commander.
19th Malachite: Everything is working nicely! Except the farming. Turns out, farming needs soil. Which is why I can't farm inside the cavern. What I didn't already know is, all of our seed is for Dark terrain plants! As soon as I can, I need to get someone digging down underground. I think I know just the dwarf too. See, there is among us, one of the rarest of all creatures: a swimming dwarf. Surely he can brave the aquifer filled lowlands!
Oh and, as of today, I'm relieving myself of all extraneous duties to focus more on administrative tasks. Like, for instance, finding out just how much food we have left. With 16 mouths to feed, a food shortage would not bode well. The original seven, including myself, are already a bit disgruntled as is. However, I have one last task: I must haul the rest of the beds down to the dormitory.
27th Malachite: I have finished my office, taken count of our goods and determined that we will be out of food before the end of summer at this rate. This in mind, it is time to start digging for a place to farm. This is highest priority.
21st-22nd Galena: Why. The. Hell. Is. A. F***ING KEA INTERRUPTING THE WALLS!? C'MON!!! I need those walls built so that I can create an artificial dark-house to grow Plump Helmets in!
AND NOW THE DAMN THING STOLE ONE OF MY GIANT CORKSCREWS! How is that even possible!? The thing is larger than two of me stacked on top of each other! And it was stolen. By a kea. I need a drink...
~OOC: It's late, I'm tired. Tomma I gotta read up on burrows and militias so that I can set my ranger to hunt that stupid kea with EXTREME PREJUDICE. I seriously need to get that dark-house built. NOW. My poor li'l dorfs need food. I would like to have the dark-house done by at least mid-way through the first month of Autumn. If I can survive on fishing and foraging though, I can always trade all the nice gems I have conveniently available on the surface for all the food the caravan is carrying.~
TODO:
-Make burrow
-Kill kea
-Finish Darkhouse
-Plant boucoup Plump Helmets
-Move all the resources inside.
On a more positive note: We have enough booze to last until a little bit into next year. Good thing I sacrificed a little bit of dwarf skill for extra! XD Man oh man, I wouldn't want to be the next player. I can keep the dwarfies alive until next Granite, and then I hope to pass it on to a more experienced player. I wonder what ol' Magichalls will think of the capital sending in an overseer. Hehe. Like Boatmurdered, I plan to leave one dwarf named for me, just not necessarially in this go around. Ideally, I'd like it to be the child of Magichalls but hey, I might just settle for the dwarf himself. Or one of the children. I don't really want to name a dwarf over 50 as my dorf. I'd like to think my dorf is both around and influential in years to come. I hope that eventually I can get some Murderpaddles in. Heheh. Then the Bloodline really begins. Can you imagine it? Kells Murderpaddles? It fits like a glove. Like a human glove fits a kobold.
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