Spriggans' log : Prelude
"We live, we die, we live again."
I'm in charge of this mess now, so let me tell you my story. I'll tell you who I am, in case you even care...
My name's Onol Boardleague, but you can call me Spriggans.
I'm a mason, I have a husband, Id, and I feel fine, even though I've been better. At least I'm alive, thank's Armok.
Ho, right, I'm also blind, as my eyes have melted away, but let me tell you the story.
"I live"
When I arrived to the immortality tower last year, I was far from imagining what horrors would happen to me.
The only things I saw before loosing sight, were mess, misery, and death.
There was a freakish forgotten bird lurking outside, expelling deadly dust as it breathed.
Me and my beloved Id, saw the beast in the distance, it was behind the great tower this fortress owes its name to. We sneaked by it to the northern entrance to the fortress. Luckily it didn't see us.
On our way, we saw many dead dwarves lying on the ground, and even more dwarven blood.
Everywhere on the ground, there was this purple stinky thing. We didn't know what it was at the time, but the dwarves call that "horrid goo". It was slippery and slimy.
As we approached the doors, tired, but safe, Id said :
"Dam' ! It rainin' on us, we gonn' be wet !"
I looked up and saw that indeed, things were falling from the sky. Purple things... I never saw again.
"I die"
The rest of the story I recall only vaguely : we both somehow ran into the fortress and got rescued by I don't know who. He dragged us to the hospital, cursing :
"Ye fools ! Why did ye venture outside ? Horrid goo got both ye eyes !"
I wanted to cry, but my eyes were melted.
After many days, someone told me I was safe. My body apparently expelled all the goo. He told me that I was blind, that my skin was full of blisters, and that I shouldn't expect much from life any more.
Id was safe too. Blinded and blistered, but safe...
It's been roughly a year since the purple rain accident. We are better now, Id and I.
We've learned to live with our blindness. I gotta say the other blinded dwarves helped us, learning us how to navigate and do things with no vision.
We are 18 blinded in the fort as I speak. And I have to say the blinded are very nice with me, I love them all very much.
They are not like the others, "normal" dwarves. The normal dwarves mock the blind ones, they don't respect us, and treat us with not much respect.
But things have gone, time has passed. The fort ruler, Kamani, gave orders which killed the Forgotten Bird, and I resumed masonry work. I never expected I could craft a chair without seen it.
My life is good now !
"I live again !"
In Obsidian 209, Kamani was out. His time had come. Elections were made for the next ruler. For no real reason, I volunteered, and got elected ! That was so unexpected ! Actually, every blinded dwarf voted for me, as I was "one of them".
So, I'm in charge now ! That's great !
My plans for my year as a ruler are simple :
This tower to the South... This "immortality tower". I want to live in it ! But I don't want to be selfish, I won't go there alone !
So I hereby claim this tower the "Tower of the Blinded" ! A paradise for blinded and blistered dwarves where no Normal dwarves will be allowed to go.
It will take some time, but we will have to move things like beds and food and farms into the tower.
We will also have to seal it so no Normals invade our paradise.
I will also have to appoint a manager to lead the Normal fort, as I hide in the tower with my kin.
I have quite a lot of work to do...
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