Here it is, an overwrought story of my year, complete with overly fancy verbs and adjectives, and lots of goblin blood!
Accomplishments:
Built Functional system for disposal of prisoners, which can be expanded if needed
Began building of “Project Resort’
Working on increasing fort value via crafts, etc
Set up system to get constructions done much faster by giving all dwarves carpentry and masonry labors and restricting access to workshops to actually accomplished dwarves
Killed a werebull, Casualties, 1 cat
Defeated a goblin ambush, casualties: many animals, mostly bought from the elves
Labeled all levers whose purpose was known
Ok, I made it to Sandstone, here's what's going on.
Benev's Journal, Late Spring 156
The vampire is dead! He was found in his apartments, stone-cold. I have no idea what happened to him. Because of this, I am the new Captain of the Guard, although Mebzuth the militia captain, who insisted on being called "hostergaard" also applied. However, his style of justice seemed more... personal, so i offered him the position of hammerer instead, which he will hopefully be satisfied with. He is one of two dwarves who have changed their names recently, the other being a metalsmith called "Kaz" who also respects animal men, and has accepted my offer to join the Animal Men Club, though he prefers adder men, for a reason that seems entirely silly to me. They can't even infest for Moldath's sake! I called the whole military together for a funeral for the old Captain of the Guard just outside the walls, both to avoid suspicion of complicity in his death and to see what kind of dwarves defend this outpost. While i am not disapointed, I believe we can do much better in terms of equipment, so I have placed orders to begin Steel production. In other news, the pen is finished, so I have ordered our grazing animals such as alpacas to be sent to pasture there. i have also discovered that none of the levers in this fort are labeled, so I, through experimentation, discovered which were which and labeled them. The Elves also came to trade, and I gave them large amounts of porcelain crafts, which are a lucrative export, in return for food, drink, and various exotic animals, a Giant Red Panda and a Giant Echidna among them.
Missing(Actually dead but I forgot to take a picture)
The New CoTG
Hostergaard
Kaz
The Funeral
The Pen
Labels
Elves
Summer 156
The Elves left just as two important events occurred. First, a child withdrew from society and barricaded him/herself (I don't know which) in a workshop. Hopefully they're making something useful. They started working secretively on something soon after, so they won’t go crazy like I saw a few dwarves go back home. Secondly, I have ordered construction to begin on the first building of the Harvestcoast Retreat and Ale Hall. Schematics are included below. Unfortunately, I have still not figured out how to attract religious pilgrims (the real money) to come to such a new outpost, with no significant miracles or saints to it’s name. Perhaps a shrine to Moldath might bring some in… 
Late Summer/Autumn 156
The child created an amazingly detailed bone figurine of a historical figure whom I don’t even know. Still, it will make a nice relic for
money pilgrims to look at if any arrive. Also, I have created a functional, if somewhat rudimentary, system to strip prisoners of war of their weapons and send them to be disposed of by the military. I have tested it with a pair of goblin thieves, and it seems to work perfectly. A human Law-giver arrived and left after doing little more than exchanging pleasantries with my friend Houn, who is the new Baroness of this colony. Just after he left, a fearsome werebull arrived and charged up the beach. I decided that it was best to swamp it with our superior numbers and armor, and it was neatly bisected by one of the military, possibly Beirus II, son of Beirus Beirusson, the new scion of the clan Beirus, whose relative, Beirus, was killed in the early days of the fort. An interesting group, them. Another human diplomat, this time one from their Merchant’s Guild , arrived, and brought with him a very large caravan. I ordered a good amount of aboveground seeds, food, and exotic weapons bought in, and Houn finalized a number of agreements with the representative, who left soon after the negotiations were done. He left without the caravan I might add, as they are still sitting in the trade depot, even though they announced they were leaving on their journey. It’s very strange, but it means the dwarven caravan is delayed, so we might not have to deal with representatives of the Queen-who-may-or-may-not-know-we-know-of-her-vampirism. Also, the first resort building is done!
The Artifact
The Pit
Human Law-Giver
Human Merchant
Werebull
Dead Werebull
Finished!
Autumn/Winter 156
An ambush of goblin spearmen sprung from hiding near the pen and slaughtered many of our exotic elf-bought animals before being annihilated by the militia. This was an absolute waste caused by my own forgetfulness of the need to link the pen gate with a lever. I quickly had this done, and the mayor, no doubt feeling powerful because of my mistake and loss of face, mandated the construction of 3 crowns to add to his already impressive collection. How many crowns does one dwarf need, especially considering I’ve never seen him wear one? A Dyer quickly claimed a workshop and began to work on a strange construction, preventing the crowns from being built, but he quickly emerged with a stone scepter that once more depicts the queen, very obviously a vampire in the engraving, ascending to the throne 150 years ago. How many know? I was scared of the caravan arriving until something happened to scare me much more. An enormous siege of goblins and troll arrived, and as I had not had the foresight to build a more durable defense for Zaerosz’s house, broke down the door leading into the fort proper. A dwarf of the Guard named Atis held them off like a hero for an impressive amount of time, but was felled by a troll. He stood fast where others might have run, and died like a guardsdwarf. I frantically ordered a wall build to barricade the main hallway off from Zaerosz’ house, and ordered half the militia to move up and hold the goblin flood off. What happened next is worthy of story and song. The militia charged into battle in the narrow hallway. We killed three for every one scratch on us, but it wasn’t enough. The wall was built, so the fort was safe, but it seemed like all of the dwarves who had charged to defend their homes would die, but a lone swordmaster chopped straight through the goblin ranks and up through Zaerosz’s house out into the open air, hewing through goblin and troll as he went. Even for such a hero, the odds seemed to long, so after praying to Moldath and Capital, I ordered the gate thrown open, and the rest of the militia poured through and broke the back of the goblin force, routing them completely. We lost a total of seven dwarves. The rest of the year is a blur, but I remember a group of miners becoming trapped in the marble mine and digging their way out. The last thing I did was hatch a plan to throw the captured goblins against Osta, which they agreed to in return for their freedom, but when I ordered the cage I had them in opened and the cavern gate opened, they all blundered into cage traps we had set down there. So, with this last effort to add honor to my term failed, I think it is time to hand over Harvestcoast to someone else, and return to my life as a humble guardsdwarf and prophet of Capital, for my duty is not yet done.
The Raiding Party
3 more Crowns?
The Artifact
He Knows Too?
The Enemy arrive
A Broken Siege (I forgot to take pictures during the actual battle, sorry)
Trapped Miners(they dug their way out)
A failed plan (They were assigned to the cage in the picture, then the wall behind them was built and the cage was opened. The plan was for them to attack Osta, but as you can see, they blundered into the cage traps someone set up in the hallway, which I had completely forgotten about...)
Challenge:
1:Kill Osta using only captured goblin soldiers.
2:Further fortify the main keep.
3:Continue building the resort.
((There's my turn, hope you guys think it's okay! I should have taken more pictures of the siege itself, so I'll just say that I think it was Mistem the Swordmaster who cut through the goblins, and there were about 80 goblins total I think, because I saw the others tab of units at a total of 149))
EDIT:
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