☼Dwarves☼ - Summer Report Praise the miners! While digging a ramp down into a mining area, the miners discovered cassiterite! Bronze production will start immediately!
Early in the summer, a Longhorn Cow was spotted roaming the high reaches of the hills. Saneb immediately took after it and unloaded all of his new copper bolts and most of his bone bolts into it. It bled to death some time later. About a month after the slaying, we finally got around to butchering the cow. From the one corpse, we recovered 167 meat, 10 stacks of bone, horns, hoofs (glue!) 28 fat, 16 wool and misc hearts, stomachs and guts. This will keep us in meat for many months to come!
Not long after the Longhorn was slain, a group of 11 migrants arrived, praise be to Armok, the extra hands were desperately wanted. New farming, crafting, smelting and woodworking tasks were assigned. I was also able to offload certain small tasks that I was handling, like butchery, tanning and leatherworking to a crafter. Amongst the migrants was a young Smith's Guild Weaponsmith named Rerras. The first thing he asked me was if I had any dwarven zombie meat. His companions quickly assured me that Rerrars was not, in fact, a cannibal. He only perferred meat tainted by necromancy. He also keeps a plump helmet man as a pet. I'm going to keep my eye on this one.
Later that night, a group of coyotes woke me from my slumber with their incessant howling. I stumbled out of bed and looked across the river and spotted them on the far bank. Saneb asked me if I wanted for him to slay them, but I thought it best to preserve his limited stock of bolts for now.
The miner's have begun digging a series of apartments below the workshops and we've begun turning out wood furniture sets above. Hopefully everyone will have their own bedroom by the end of fall.