1st Granite, 127Thus my tenure as overseer of the fortress begins. The first order of business,
kill that camel.
I talked to our weaponsmith, Mephansteras, about getting some weapons and armor.
"Unfortunately, we don't have any iron down here, else we could make steel." He told me in our conversation.
"That would mostly solve our weapons and armor problem."
"Well, what do we have?" I asked.
"We have two bars of bronze, and lots of copper and silver." Mephansteras replied.
"Best we can do would be some silver hammers, some copper armor, and whatever bronze weapons we can make for whatever soldiers we have.""Then let's do that."After taking stock of our citizens, I discovered we had a macedwarf, a swordsdwarf, and a speardwarf. I ordered a bronze sword and spear created, along with five silver hammers and five suits of copper armor. Hopefully that should provide enough protection against the undead humped menace.
As an additional action of my start as fortress overseer, I ordered a clear cut of the underground forest. TheDarkStar expressed his hesitation about venturing into the underground cavern.
"There's dangerous creatures down there." He told me.
"The fortress needs wood. I need you to go down there and start cutting the trees down.""But," He tried to stall.
"Won't that anger the elves?""If a tree falls down and an elf can't see it, does he care?"TheDarkStar expressed confusion at my riddle. He then ventured off. What's the worst that could happen to him down there?
Additionally, I've ordered an area for fire clay to be gathered and expanded our magma metalworking facilities to include magma kilns.
3rd of Granite, 1274maskwolf approached me today about the areas I had ordered be dug out.
"The stone's warm down there." He warned me.
"We could risk breaching a magma lake and flooding our forges!"I stared blankly at him.
"Are you kidding? Just dig it out.""Why are you giving me orders? I'm the mayor!" He asked.
"And who are you anyway?""I've appointed myself fortress overseer." I replied.
"Hmph." 4maskwolf said. "We'll see about that."4maskwolf and his miners bothered me six more times about warm stone over the course of the week.
9th of Granite, 127TheDarkStar was killed by a Giant Olm while attempting to clear cut the underground forest.
TheDarkStar was a Town Woodworker!In light of this, I've suspended woodcutting operations down there.
I feel somehow responsible for his death.
Whoops.
In dead chat...."What a way to go," TheDarkStar said.
"Yeah, that's tough." notquitethere said. "You did give that giant olm a run of his money though."
"Not enough of a run."
10th of Granite, 127An elven caravan was spotted on the horizon. Eager to get seeds for the fortress to start the clothing industry, I cautiously ordered the gates open.
This caused the undead humped menace to venture towards our gate.
Not eager to get everyone mauled to death by the camel, I ordered the gates closed. The elven caravan, sadly, was killed by the camel.
Adela Baliquileli was an Elf Merchant!Emima Quilelienore was an Elf Merchant!"Ha!" Shakerag remarked.
"Sadly? Couldn't have happened to a better race!"The elven caravan left their cargo on the sands. Maybe when the camel's dead we can get our hands on their trade goods. Always a silver lining to a dead elf.
15th of GraniteToday I handed Shakerag a series of plans.
"What are these?" He asked.
"Plans for apartments." I replied.
"We're doing an awful lot of your bidding lately." He said.
"We know there are dwarves that have it out for us. How do I know that you're not one of them?""The big room's yours when you dig it out.""Attempts at bribery noted." He said.
"The rest of the fortress will hear about this, and we'll see what they have to say about it."It looks like there's going to be tension between me and the rest of the fort until I establish a legitimate reason for why I'm ordering them around.
25th of Granite, 127"Alright, everybody." I shouted to the gathered dwarves.
"Let's begin." I tried to shout over the din of the gathering.
The crowd continued to murmur despite my efforts to get them to calm down.
"Okay shut up!" I snapped.
The crowd fell silent.
"Now, I realize there have been many questions about me over the past several weeks, and how I've suddenly taken a leadership role. I've decided to gather you all here to explain a few things and hopefully reach an understandin-""Who are you?""I'm Jim Groovester." I replied.
The crowd murmured.
"Jim Groovester's dead!""No she isn't, because I'm Jim Groovester, and I'm alive right here.""No, she's dead, because somebody saw her body!""Oh, yeah?" I asked.
"Yeah!""Okay, okay, okay, you're right. Jim Groovester is dead, but I'm not lying about being Jim Groovester." I said.
"I came back from the dead and possessed a dwarf to fill the vacancy of fortress overseer left behind by Toaster after he gave it up.""That's ridiculous!" 4maskwolf said, stepping forward.
"The dead don't come back to plague the land of the living!""Look, 4maskwolf, I don't trust this new Jim either, but that's strictly not true." Shakerag joined 4maskwolf and myself at the front of the crowd.
"We're currently under siege by an undead camel and there have been many sightings of ghosts around the fortress.""That's right." Toaster came forward.
"Claiming to be a spectre from the underworld is not reason enough on its own to convict somebody of any wrong doing.""None of the undead we've encountered so far have done us any good." 4maskwolf said.
"Why would Jim be different? She didn't even have the fortress' interests at heart when she was alive!""I think I've been doing a pretty good job of fortress overseer so far." I replied in my own defense.
"You ordered TheDarkStar to her death." Shakerag pointed out.
"That was an accident.""You ordered our gates open to let the camel in!" 4maskwolf accused.
"I was trying to get the elven caravan inside to hopefully get some of their trade goods."Toaster, Shakerag, and 4maskwolf eyed each other thoughtfully.
"She is ordering weapons and armor made to kill the undead camel." Mephansteras stepped forward to offer.
"She also tried to bribe me into carving the new apartments." Shakerag said.
"Which you carved anyway, I'll point out.""Yeah, because we need a place to sleep that isn't knee deep in clay!" Shakerag said.
"How about this," Persus said, stepping forward.
"Let's put it to a vote. All in favor of immediately killing Jim for being some evil possessing ghost raise their hands."A few gathered in the circle and many in the crowd raised their hands.
"And those against, raise their hands."Slightly more people raised their hands.
"That appears to settle it then," Persus said.
"Jim, you have leave to continue being fortress overseer for the time being, but there are lots of us keeping our eye on you."After that the meeting dispersed. I'd say it went rather well.
Apparently there's a character limit to posts.
The meeting didn't happen, of course, but I thought I'd like to have some mafia-like discussion going on in the story.
Also, yeah, TheDarkStar. A mere thirty seconds after I ordered the underground trees cut you were wrasslin' with a giant olm. Sadly you didn't make it.
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