From the Journal of Feb Oltarkat, expedition leader:
I'm now as skilled in mining as in wood cutting. We're digging out the full part of the magma pipe. Kulet will design the next part to leave some dirt inside Rockfalls.
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From the Journal of Kulet Arrosdodok:
Somebody came with my name! Cool!
A cat came up to me all aloof-like, but I think it wanted to adopt me. Yay!
I made a mistake, so I'm going to shift the orientation of Rockfalls to north-south instead of east-west.
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From the Journal of Feb Oltarkat, expedition leader:
Limestone 7th, 206:
The animals have started to give birth. The sow has given birth to a piglet, Kubuk to a kitten, the rabbit to bunnies, and the nanny goat to a goat kid. This is good.
Limestone 12th, 206:
Now the cavy sow has given birth to cavy pups. Almost done channeling the first layer.
Limestone 19th, 206:
I told the masons to install an office for Atis so he could track our stocks.
Limestone 24th, 206:
Some more migrants have come.
First to arrive is Nomal Fikodikud, a cook, herbalist, and shearer. She's eighty-one years old and incredible skinny. She has very long brown hair with a touch of gray, neatly combed. She has slightly wrinkled dark tan skin. She say she heals incredibly quickly.
She likes schist, bismuth, light yellow diamond, goat hoof (we'll have that), pig tail fiber fabric (ditto), slabs, earrings, and llamas for their long necks. If she brings another llama, but this time a female, both she and Lolor will be able to see llamas for a long time to come.
She prefers to eat plump helmets (we'll definitely have that), Longland beer, and wild strawberry seeds. She absolutely hates lizards.
She's very empathetic, has a strong will, is very creative, has a good feel for social relationships, has a good intellect and a good kinesthetic sense, but she's not that good at focusing.
She's very comfortable being in social situations. She's very active, like Kulet. Maybe they'll start a fitness program. She likes order, strives for excellence, and takes time to make a decision. She doesn't go out of her way to help others, though. She doesn't like intellectual conversations.
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Then there's Kadol Egathtulon, Nomal's son. He's four years old, and very skinny. He has very long, dry brown hair. He has a narrow and tall head.
He's flimsy, but he's quick to recover when he gets injured.
He likes tetrahedrite, billion, pyrite, oak wood, elk leather, mountain goat hoof (not goat? mountain goat? sorry, would plain goat hoof do?), and spears. He likes to eat black bullhead (is that the head of a black bull or what?) and swamp whiskey. He hates blood gnats. You won't find those in Rockfalls!
He has a lot of willpower, is good with language, and has a good memory, but he's not good with social relationships. (OOC: He seems a lot like me!)
He's nervous, but very friendly. He's somehow also relaxed. Huh? He's not a thrill-seeker, and isn't given to flights of fancy. Seems pretty down to earth. He's pretty aware of his own emotions, even if he's not good with other people. He's pretty guarded in relationships with others. He doesn't like authority and tradition. Kids these days! Hah, just jokin'. It's not like I like rules, either, so I can understand his position somewhat. Besides, all the rules will change in Rockfalls, as will the traditions.
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Then there's As Tanzuntir, who's only good with a hammer. Well, you can be the official militia commander or something, we've got a place for all in Rockfalls. As long as "all" is twenty dwarves or less.
He's seventy-nine, and incredibly muscular. He says he's indefatigable, mighty, durable, and agile, and almost never sick, but when he is, it takes him a while to recover.
He likes earthenware. Sorry, we haven't got any clay. He also likes pig iron, pinfire opal, pond grabber leather, amber (why does everybody like this it doesn't even exist), loon bone, bolts, shields these two make sense; after all, he is a military dwarf), animal traps, chickens, and giant leeches (ugh.). For their "feeding habits!" He likes eating giant sparrow and drinking whip wine. Better get some whip vines, whip wine seems pretty popular around here.
He's good with at telling where his body is. Probably helps him dodge. He has a sharp intellect (good! he's not a stupid tough guy!), and a very good feel for social relationships, but has a little difficulty with words and poor focus. Well, that's okay. Vutok has some trouble with talking to others, too.
He's tense and jittery. He's slow to anger and trusting. He admires tradition, but is highly adventurous. He's sincere, but is immodest. He lacks confidence in himself. Maybe if he trains to be a legendary hammerdwarf, he'll be more confident? He's very self-disciplined. He gets distracted during conversations when he's nervous. Just like Vutok! I think I'll get along fine with this guy.
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As tells me that there's another child coming along, Urdim Asthunen. He's Ast's and Nomal's three-year-old son. He's very muscular and likes to be active. He has very long brown hair and a hooked nose.
He's agile and strong, but he's quick to tire.
He likes horn silver, which he saw in the mines at the last fortress he was in. He also saw some emeralds, and liked them too, according to As. He likes eating water buffalo cheese and drinking tuber beer. He likes rope reed fiber cloth and backpacks. He hates purring maggots, and thinks they're disgusting.
He has a strong will, seems very sharp, and has a good intuition, but has a little trouble with language, quite a bit of trouble empathizing with others, and isn't musical.
He's often depressed. He's not good at judging art. Just like me, he's willing to compromise.
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Then there's Atir Rigothes, a fishery worker. I'm sorry, but there won't be any fish inside of Rockfalls. She's eighty-four years old, and is very fat. She has a narrow head with a prominent chin. She has long, straight hair, arranged in double braids. It's brown with a touch of gray.
She's very agile, but she's flimsy. She's almost never sick, but when she is, she's very sick.
She liked stibnite, silver, violet spessartine, and goats for their eating habits. Like eating my spare socks? 'Cause one just did that. She likes drinking swamp whiskey and eating whip vine flour and spotted ratfish. That's it, I'm buying some whip vines from the elves. She hates bats. No bats in Rockfalls! No fish, though, either.
She's got a lot of willpower, a sum of patience, a feel for music, a good spatial sense, an ability to read emotions fairly well, a good feel for social relationships, and a way with words. Wow.
She's guarded in relationships with others, though, and would rather intimidate others than compromise with them. Perhaps she'd be friends with Onul?
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A stray yak calf (male) follows them. Okay, what the carp? Following the yak is Rigoth Cattengur, a talented weaver, skilled tanner, and novice spinner. I bet she's going to be doing some weaving inside Rockfalls. That makes sense how she's a spinner and a weaver. Perhaps someone she knew sold her wool to spin and weave.
She's sixty-eight years old, and fat. She has very long dry, brown, straight hair, tied in a ponytail. She has tall ears and high eyebrows.
She's tough but slow to heal.
She likes petrified wood, lead, pyrite, green tree frog leather (I.I.E.E. [if it even exists]), the color olive, grates, and rabbits for the way they burrow. We've got rabbits!
She likes to eat cow, muck roots, and swamp whiskey. Sorry, no cows, but perhaps the others, depending on whether they grow in the area or are traded by the elves. Speaking of elves, I've got to remind Kubuk to build a trading depot. She hates leeches. Me too!
She's got a great feel for social relationships, an iron will, and a great sense of empathy, but she's not very musical and has poor spatial and kinesthetic senses. She also doesn't have a great memory.
She's often nervous, but she likes taking risks and trying new things. She's organized, but doesn't like contracts and regulations.
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Fikod Nethrigoth, a novice diagnostician and glazer, follows her. She's sixty-eight, and agile but flimsy and quick to tire. Her straight, brown, dry hair is arranged in double braids.
She likes the ore of legends, the metal of legends (wow), morganite, common snapping turtle shell, the color blue, bucklers, barrels, figurines, flasks, and giant koalas for their "adorable appearance." She likes eating giraffe and drinking sewer brew. She hates... hamsters, of all things.
She has an iron will, a great affinity for language, very good focus and a good feel for social relationships, but she has an iffy memory, an iffy sense for music, little patience, and very bad intuition.
She's self-conscious and organized, but occasionally overindulges. She enjoys the company of others, but sees said others as selfish and conniving. She very active, but is not a risk-taker. She is assertive. She's incredibly creative.
Oh, boy, yet another person I don't quite like. I think I could get along fine with her, but maybe not friends. Who knows. Maybe we'll all be friends in Rockfalls. Maybe we'll all get along just fine, seeing as if one person goes insane, they could be the end of Rockfalls.
Maybe the moon is made of cheese.
Sandstone 28th:
Kulet's got an idea. He's sent us to mine for magma. I told him, does he know how long that'll take? He told me, we might as well do it because we'll have to do it sooner or later, and if we do it now, he can install his machinations and allow the masons to build as we mine out Rockfalls. We're also mining out any ores and gems that we find. Kulet says it'll be hard to extract anything but copper. We've struck hematite, sard, red pyrope, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, yellow spessartine, violet spessartine, galena, clear zircon, and native GOLD! A big vein, much more than the single boulder's worth we got before.
Timber 5th:
The other two, Ushat and Vutok, have become masters at mining. I'm still great, though. That's still great. I spent the time they spent mining out the first vein of hematite cutting down, as Kulet's told me, five times what actually had to be cut down. Well, it had to be cut down anyway, if just for the sake of having wood. I'm a carpenter as well as a miner, and I'm afraid neither of my skills will be of much use when we're surrounded by magma.
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