Log Entry 47Cursory exploration shows lots of old clothes with cave spider cobwebs and dust clinging to them in old cabinets and many smaller apartments. Nothing crawled out to kill the initial exploration party unless you count that roach that crawled up Nil's pantleg (I've never heard a hardened wardwarf scream like a small child before, and frankly I don't blame him. Disgusting little creatures those things are.
Even if it's a little... Morbid, having to pass through the catacombs (which need to have coffins installed ahead of time for Tobul's sake,) I'm going to go with Minkot to ask the queen about moving the new arrivals into these areas.Log Entry 48Atir started acting oddly, up-ended his wheelbarrow full of gabbro without a word, and made a bee line straight for the mechanic’s shop. He rolled in a boulder and sat there, scribbling away.
Quarry: Rock. He had that.
Cut gems: We had some (several quite valuable) in the depot.
Shining metal bars: There's plenty of metal.
An alpaca, ewe, and llama: Bone or wool? Gecko correctly deduced he wanted wool cloth. Fortunately a sheep and llama were present, having followed some refugees here, and they were shorn two weeks ago.
Days later he finally set down his tools, declared “Done!” and strode out proudly with a pair of exquisite gabbro mechanisms. However I feel I need to point out more dwarves are developing a freakish obsession with the frost giants.
Anyway, Atir put the mechanisms in Gecko's bedroom, saying it should be good enough now. Some of the gear assemblies are being relocated to her office to make it look nicer supposedly.Log Entry 50Sazir's been training religiously lately and pestering Urvad, Minkot, and Gecko to get her squad training full time. Dunno if any of them will want to, since some of the squad are valued masons, but I think by now we've enough people to retrain for masonwork if needed.
We also finally got Gecko her tomb since she brought up being a little worried about not having one befitting her station (she's being smart about asking for things. She also has a blood crystal hatchet, which I'm guessing belonged to one of the goblins.
Four statues have been removed to be replaced with good ones to increase the value of her majesty's mausoleum. Two, a statue of goblins and one of frost giants, have been set up as the center pieces of the (still unsmoothed,) communal dining hall. Udib was re-elected mayor as well. Apparently she has a way with words.Log Entry 51Apparently there was a reason for Sazir's obsessive training.
Some part of her has gained such a hold on her skill with an axe that we must declare her Axe Lord. Not long after, Gecko inspected us all and said that Minkot (according to my old Tradtional Law tome,) showed the makings of a Spearmaster. She then told Minkot, Sazir, and Nil to go to the caverns because there was a “situation.”
Sazir, as always, was happy to regale the tale of a battle well fought. Fir they found a giant toad and though that that was the situation. After a few hard chops, thrashing around, Nil whacking it with his hammer, and Minkot pinning its leg to the ground, she lopped it in half.
They were heading back to the fortress entrance when they (or more Nil,) ran into a towering beast!
Nil ran into it first, and when it tried to stomp on him he smashed its foot. When it reared up and tried to smash him? He climbed on to it and bashed it in the side! He then crawled across its back, leapt down and bashed its back leg on the same side. The abomination went sideways and nearly crushed him, but he instead continued with his assault, slamming his hammer into its back, leading it to jerk slightly from the injury, its tail nearly smashing his head. We could hear the thing roaring in rage even on the surface!
He delivered to strikes to its head after that, one kick and one hammer, when Sazir says she and Minkot finally got involved as they were ahead of Nil when the beast struck. By the time the battle was over (the beast finally expiring shortly after Minkot's spear pierced it's heart, though it wasn't instantly fatal,) Sazir says Nil had the makings of a full-fledged hammerlord!
To hear her and Minkot praise him so highly was... Different. Regardless of his newfound status, Minkot is credited with the kill by Both Sazir and Nil, as it was her spear punching through the beast's heart that ended it; Sazir admits she couldn't cut deeply with her hatchet and Nil, after asking him, said the beast's bones were far harder where it mattered.Log Entry 52More refugees have arrived, among them a talented swordsdwarf who has joined The Combat of Tongs (My squad,) and two others who've joined the Fortress Guard, which pleased Grim. We now sit at 82 adult dwarves and 3 children.
And then a mechanic decided he wanted to be a hero and picked a fight with a polar bear now called Chainwhip. Let this be a lesson to the reader: Just because there's other dwarves close-by that does not mean they'll back you up when you decide to fight a polar bear. Ringpassed had it coming. We avenged him on principle, but everyone is in agreement: Anyone dumb enough to try and fight a polar bear unarmed deserved to be chewed on.
The plan was to capture it, but polar bear steak works too.
As a precaution against future animal attacks, a sealant bridge is being installed down below in the caves and The Worshipful Orbs are going down to run interference with any locals. Which came in the form of a giant ant queen, which was subdued by the first member of the militia down there and then punched in the face hard enough to kill it by a weaponsmith (one of the new arrivals I think.)
The smith then proceeded to continue with the militia and while Sazir and Ducim took down a soldier ant, a drone dropped off the ceiling and attacked the smith. It turns out the smith is a surprisingly skilled fighter!
After Minkot heard about that, she handed the smith her “Welcome to the Army!” paper and told her to pick a weapon and get some armor.Log Entry 53Captain Zefon started behaving oddly and predictably, her being a gem cutter means she wanted a jeweler's workshop. Someone put a temporary shop together so she could do her thing. I have no interest in gems myself but I'll record the result. She came to a day later in the makeshift shop with a door made out of green jade.
I don't understand how she managed to make an entire door two inches thick from a hunk of jade that was only the size of my head. I am also declared a Swordmaster.
As little of note is taking shape and I'm almost out of room, I am going to get a new logbook. |”Aww man...”
“What?”
“Don't suppose you have any Logbooks in that bag of crap you've been loading up do you?”
“What's it to you?” Ari starts sifting through his bag, having obviously forgotten you were reading a logbook.
“Well I wanna know whats happens! Do you have any or don't you?”
He eventually produces a second leather-bound tome with the same introduction, continuing in entries where the previous left off. “This what you wanted?”
You graciously take the book and open it to the first page “Aye, thanks.”
“Well, 'fore you go getting all engrossed again let's head back up. Bobur's cooking some roasts and Snang found a few barrels of moonglow!”
You chuckle and shake your head. “Sometimes I bet he thinks he's a dwarf with that nose for brew of his. Alright, then, let's go.” With that you grab your flask and bag and follow Ari up, meeting up with Ravod who has a mishmash of other books and a bin full of stone harps under his arm. Ravod notes he found it odd so many small rock harps were stored around the fortress.
“Queen bannerspear seemed to have something of a femstiffie for the things.” You point out, holding up the logbook. “At least according to the dwarf who wrote these logs.
Ravod rolls his eyes. “Coulda done with a less vulgar description man. Seriously.”
After regaling some of what you read, from the fights, to the odd artifacts, to the cave crawler, you reach the camp set up by the old well the inhabitants made some time ago that tapped the aquifer. In what you recognize from an illustration as the hospital, there are two small cooking fires with the rest of your band enjoying moonglow and roasts.
While Ari and ravod set to getting themselves some food you get the logbooks out of Ari's bag and look for the one that you took from him before and crack it once you get hold of it.|
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Log Entry 54Ringpassed has finally been interred, and the caravan has arrived and too our astonishment rather than the same three weather beaten wagons, we see two additional (and quite new,) wagons! And as glaze on the roast, a cave crawler was captured instead of eating another resident! Atis says he plans on spending a great deal of time with the creature.
Led's been declared an axe lord as well, and all of us weaponmasters for a fight when we heard something making noise in the cavern we don't make much use of. That I know of.
Whatever it is, I'm sure it'll be fine.Log Entry 55Migrants have come and several of them joined the militia and Fortress Guard, and another Whispercastle joins us. And amazingly enough, a harp order that went ignored for months was met, meaning our jail still sits empty!
So, after the forum crapped itself in the wake of .40.12 being released, I bring you guys another update before I go to bed! We got visited by a mercifully quite beatable forgotten beast, Gecko's rooms are now all up to snuff, had a mood hit, trade was done, we captured a cave crawler, a polar bear killed a guy, the militia and fortress guard saw more recruits their way, a kid was born, a boatload of migrants arrived, and by some twisted miracle a mandate that had no progress done on it was suddenly completed just before the deadline ran out by sheer dumb luck.
Sadly we got no belligerent neighbors visiting us which is sad since I was hoping to be attacked so we could see some fighting with our ramshackle militia in terms of skill, though we do now have 5 weaponmasters (2 Axe Lords, 1 Hammerlord, 1 Swordmaster, and 1 Spearmaster.) I'm probably going to activate the whole militia soon just to give the dwarves something to do since nobody seems to want to make any friends. Besides, if a larger scall attack does come we might get lucky and have some of the less skilled fighters die so I can get some more use out of the tombs besides the odd animal attack taking someone out. Not like anyone will flip out since nobody seems to make any god damn friends anymore.
Is that random blood splatters on the walls? Proceed with caution, I say...
Nope, sadly. Almandine clusters.
Anyways, I'm beat. See you tomorrow guys.