Everything's going well in Channelsacks (not a glorious name for the mountainhomes, but who cares). We're at 123 dwarves now and most are happy, despite living above ground for over 6 years. The beginning was a bit rough, but now everybody has their own 3x3 room and enough drinks and masterwork meals to forget the death of their pets and friends. Even the queen is content with her rooms full of silver statues and only demands a few mugs to be made once in a while.
The only digging is being done to get more stones for building and to get to the great magma sea to power the forges. There are enough trees to power a metalworking industry for decades, but magma is the simpler and more dwarfy way and I don't want to annoy the elves too much right now. After all, they brought a pair of black bears in the fort's second year so we don't have to rely on dogs for meat and bones anymore. We also have a giant grizzly bear, giant cougar, giant wolf and giant leopard, but no breeding pairs yet. If the bring more of those, I might completely forget about killing them all for fun.
Sadly, we lost a Ral, a new recruit who went berserk, because there was not enough raw green glass for a strange mood. We even robbed a caravan that took to long to unload, but it was still not enough. On the positive side, his first and nearest target was the captain of the guard, an elite soldier with a silver war hammer and an attitude, who was rather unimpressed by the +black bear bone bolt+ flying past him. The rest of the military (30 part-time militia plus 10 fortress guards, all experts with their weapons and equipped with layered steel armor) was less than 15 tiles away, but couldn't even come close to the berserk dwarf before the captain smashed his legs and head (in that order) to a pulp. Just don't mess with the guard, okay? I think, I'll start a proper dwarven justice system and make that guy a hammerer. Could be !!interesting!!
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