With Tombmet still going strong, a recent secretive mood brought to my attention a dwarf who's been catching my eye other times as well. Meet Stukos Ishashstakud, a Fish Dissector by his trade when he arrived. This is the story of the Saddest dwarf in Tombmet.
I think it was around the time that expansion was done to the second cavern level, that a forgotten beast arrived. There's been a few so I can't remember exactly what it was, but anyway. Fights with these beasties have for the most part been the responsibility of the crossbow squad(currently going with my second one, first was lost completely. Thanks rotting dust!), but for some reason this thing was fought in melee.
Maybe it slipped in through the well, maybe the walls weren't ready somewhere or maybe it could fly.
Regardless, Stukos and his squad was there to fight the beast. And there was but one injury. Stukos had his lower spine smashed badly, and from that day on, he couldn't walk on his own anymore.
Stubborn as he is, he never got a crutch, instead he just crawls everywhere. And being part of the earlier waves of dwarves, he still has a lot of the work-tasks enabled. Whenever I was building something, and was fussing how that one piece of floor or wall wasn't being built, finally Stukos crawls to view. Same for furniture. Indeed, it seems life was pretty shitty for Stukos. The only real job I had available was fish cleaning, since he was too injured to serve in the militia(with quite a few dwarves who have lost an arm or leg still serving), I figured that at least he would have time to make friends.
But no.
In all the time that he's spent in party halls, during all those years after he was paralyzed, he only has one friend. And for those thinking that there is SOME joy in the life of this poor bastard, I got other news for you.
Turns out that the dwarf Stukos calls a friend, does not even know him. Lor is the most skilled tanner in the fort, lover of Sibrek, a legendary Carpenter, and if you ask what they think about their good friend Stukos, she'll ask "Stukos who?"
It's like I'm peeking into the life of a miserable stalker. Oh well. We'll see what sort of an artifact he'll crank out. It's going to be a wooden craft, but at least I could assign him woodcrafting as a job too.
EDIT: He finally finished the artifact. Pooltooth the Mysterious Powers, a tower-cap crown.
It's absolutely the most boring of wooden artifacts I've had so far.
Dammit Stukos!
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