HEMATITE 15-2
Success! Rovod found some pig tails, and Ast reported back to us that Kib did great! He got the drop on what turned out to be a fuck-all sized crocodile. We'll be eating well tonight! And Rovod may well have saved Doduk's life.
HEMATITE 21
9 Migrants, all the way from the Basin! Brave dwarves to have made it here, and craft too; they say they managed to avoid getting attacked on the way.
HEMATITE 27
Doduk's survived! And made a beautiful skirt to behold, that's for sure!
MALACHITE 3
A black bear tried to slip into the fortress, no doubt drawn by the smell of meat being cooked. Thankfully nobody got hurt, but I'm going to ask Kubuk to send someone after it anyway.
MALACHITE 3-2
I'll include a crude copy of what I saw when I checked on the bear problem.
Apparently someone decided an angry mob would do the trick instead of letting the militia deal with it.
MALACHITE 9
An election is due in Limestone since there's 51 of us, so I took the liberty (I am leader after all,) of having the diggers start work on a mayoral suite.
And after that, a tomb complex.
Better safe than sorry when it comes to corpses that used to be dwarves. Plus Kib needs somewhere to put his teeth, though I agree with Datan; he should let her string them together so he can wear them as a necklace!
GALENA 9
Well, this is my last entry as leader. As of noon today, Obok Brassfair will be in charge. I can only hope she knows what to do, since she doesn't seem keen on listening to Lolor. That dwarf seems more concerned with bagging some beast or another than running a fortress in the middle of elf country.
I have to wonder how she even won the election with three votes...
YEAR 2
WRITER: OBOK BRASSFAIRS
SITE LEADER: OBOK BRASSFAIRS (Mayor)
POPULATION: 51
That woodchop gave me this log and told me to record thing that directly impact the fortress as a whole. Well, here's something: I'm the mayor now! And as my first act as mayor, I want windows. The others whined about not knowing anything about glassmaking, so I told them to figure it out or I'd have my younger brother beat the tar out of one them. He respects the law, so he'd have to do it. Although I should probably get him se tup with some proper lodging if I'm gonna make him my personal beating dispenser...
13th Limestone
Caravan's here. Good thing the woodchops finished my office. I met with the liaison and nothing big happened. I maintained the old order for some metal ores, flux, and added some pearlash and flux at max price (because Vucar said we absolutely must have soap or something,) and they want some random junk in return according to the
FUCK THEM THOSE ARE MY WINDOWS.
18th Limestone
Someone's acting odd. Started screaming about potatoes and turnips having all the answers and throwing the stonecrafter out of her shop. He grabbed a mass of bones and went to work. Simple, but hey. Chances are me and my fellow hunters provided the bones.
20th Limestone
I could have sworn I heard something that sounded like... Like a big-ass hissing spider or something? Hrmm. I went down and locked the hatch myself. Should be good enough.
There's also word a guy named Ncommander Netwasp wants to start training a “Siege Operations Company.” Told him if he feels like building the engines himself, he's welcome to all the shale he can carry for training ammo. Thanked me and left my office muttering something about petrified wood. Oh, and what's his face finished a fancy bone-plate glove and what's her name, Erush, she gave birth to a boy.
11th Sandstone
Ncommander built his er, catapult. I suppose I can include the conversation I saw him and the woodchop have.
Woodchop Dumat: What in Kodor's name is that?
NCommander: A catapult, what of it.
WD: Hate to tell you this, but it just looks like a sapling you bent back with a leather sling.
N: No, it's a catapult.
WD: This is your definition of a catapult. Seriously.
N: Yes, because it's a catapult.
WD: No, no it isn't. It's a fucking sapling pretending to be a catapult!
NCommander then yanked a cord and shot a hunk of shale into a wall down his training range. Gotta give it to him, it worked and it shut Dumat up.
23rd Sandstone
Migrants! Totaled at 10 of them. One even knows how to work siege engines, which excited NCommander. Too bad for him, he also knows some basic engineering and we need... Hrmm. I'll pin in the list Dumat left in the cover of the book.
[-Stuff we need-]
Hospital, 2 wells
Gate, 1 lever hook-up
More barrels
Windows for Mayor's Office
Windows for Log Diner.
I think I'll ask anyone else hear a banging sound. Cause I hear one and it's getting annoying.
1st Timber
I can't... I don't... How did it get in?
Three dead... One soldier, Two Laborers... Vucar, Dumat, Datan, Ingish. Soaper, Artifact Maker, Stonecrafter, Speardwarf. All dead... As soon as they heard the yelling, most of the militia jumped to help. The Siege Rangers and Ingish disabled the legs. The bone carver and Vucar jumped in to help, trying to hold it down while the stonecrafter beat on it's head and Ingish. Threw the two off, killed them both easily. Crushed Vucar's chest, put a fang in Dumat's skull. Webbed Ingish, stomped on his head. His coif didn't help in the slightest.
Kikrost was right there, but she was useless. Seeing three dwarves die in front of her... She just broke down. But then... Then, just like that, it was over. And none of us could believe who'd killed that abomination.
Kivish killed it. A dwarf who couldn't bring himself to kill elves because he was too scared to fight killed that... Thing. I just... I don't even... To make matters worse, The other Dumat, the woodchop, found the Stonecrafter after the fact. Covered in webs, looked like she'd been rolled on her lower half was crushed so badly.
Kubuk couldn't believe it either. Kubuk put a hand on his shoulder and told him he was forgiven for Hematite. Someone my brother has told will be a deputy once I have his rooms ready took the beast's corpse, dragged it up and is scraping meat and other edibles out even as I write this. The fact we found two logs jammed in down below that weren't there the other day and a wrecked door leads me to believe this was deliberate. But who would so something this horrible? To kill such fine artisans and a furnace worker who's only crime was his love of soap?
I need a drink. And lie down. I hope I never see another corpse again.
Psst. I heard you like dead dorfs.
So, not much happened this update. We lost both of our best craftsdwarves, a soaper/furnacedwarf died, and a soldier was killed in action. Honestly I'm surprised! I figured a web-slinging FB would kill way more dwarves than that. And amazingly enough, the guy who couldn't bring himself to kill elves killed that thing with three swings (presumably while the monster was killing the three laborers, as it had already killed Ingish.)
We're now fully enclosed, have a mayor, about to establish the fortress guard, working on a hospital, have a tomb complex which should more than meet our needs, NCommander has been dorf'd and has a catapult range to train his siege operating skills, the militia’s been expanded, got some artifacts (one possession, one with a dead creator so it's irrelevant.) Overall?
I'd consider this an excellent update. Time since last fatal incident: ZERO. Oh, and here's the claimed dorf profiles.
Posting to watch. Great writing, Splint. That prologue describing the embark was a thing of beauty. You'd think DF sent more than just seven dwarves and a single wagon if the only thing to go by was your intro.
Heh, welcome, and thanks! That was the goal and hearing someone say they liked it means quite a bit.