GraniteSeeing as everything is already fleshed out and built, my first order to keep the fort running seems to be to fulfill our needs for iron (EVERYONE EVER cancels smelt: no hematite!) Some quick combs through the first cavern's rock body yield enough to fulfill the previous Overseer's orders, along with tetrahedrite to keep the silver statues coming. Some newly-bred troglodyte spawn are first learning to climb, and breaking their legs along the way. The glory of spring. A few thieves showed up, but ran north when they were spotted. Mostly uneventful month (the year is still young).
Slate"Some migrants have arrived." Huzzah.
A few of the weaker-willed broke down crying upon entry, which was funny in its own way. Those experienced in weaponry have been drafted, and their animals have been slaughtered. We now have a population of 101.
The Forgotten Beast (whose name literally means Hateful Hole, go fig) is doing a great job at keeping the general vermin out of the pond. No skull seems to be able to take the force of its kick and remain intact.
And then, just when everything was settled down:
Thankfully, that outcropping goes nowhere.
A lonely ghost, one of the unfortunates to be sent against the HateHole, was put to rest… and immediately replaced by yet another spook. Such is life (or death… or whatever you call it). The new one will be ignored for now. Sleeping areas for the migrants have been laid out, and a craftsdwarf's workshop is being used by a possessed dwarf.
FelsiteAnd the result of the strange mood is… just a granite ring!
Moving on!
As all-natural, non bloody rain begins to fall, another poor crocodile encounters the terror in the lake. With some quick dodges, however, the creature escapes. After shimmying along the shoreline, it runs off the map, carrying with it a deep-seated fear of feathers.
After realizing that the beast had at last found a resting spot, I attempted to give orders to drop a small piece of the ceiling onto the thing. However, the sequence in which the orders were given was imperfect, leading to one of the miners getting breathed on/into and perishing in the common area. Thankfully, the beast did not attempt to pursue them further into the fort, but after losing its sightline, merely slithered back into the water.