Overseer Shipcat's Log - SummerAfter the events of last season, some of the military dwarves have taken titles to their name. You are all familiar with Inod Phantomstakes
the Mysterious Skin, barehanded killer of 2 forgotten beasts? well now meet Heretic Speartorches
the New Beans. Others have instead chosen to take new names altogether; Dumat the Contained Depression of Counseling has fancied calling himself
Iliithid, and one of our sworddwarves has taken on the name of
chaoticskies. Elsewhere, a pair of miners took up the names of
nomoetoe II and
Hiddenleafguy II, in honor of their former brethren and one of the weavers has fancied naming themselves after our former military commander, settling on the name of
Vortex II. Now, I have little knowledge of dwarven naming conventions, but they got me to preside over the renaming ceremony anyway. I suppose the presence of an authority figure legitimizes all this as prim and proper behavior, but what do I know?
1st Hematite 58At my behest, Pyrotechno has obtained access to our scarce steel supplies and has continued practicing his craft, making another masterpiece steel short sword for our armory.
I think I will place an order for more shiny gear to complement the rise in my military rank since my previous Overseership. Got to reap the benefits right? Also, that swimming pool Japa made? Don't tell him that the folks around here are using it as a public bath.
10th Hematite 58I have received word that crundles are interrupting the wood hauling operation going on in the third cavern, menacing our armorer Inod. But obok the woodcutter and cerol the spinner are having none of this nonsense and soon put a stop to that.
Cerol takes some wounds in the ensuing scuffle but the threat is contained. Bravo! Fath our queen has decided to take it upon herself to rescue poor cerol whom has quite recovered from her ordeal with the crundle.
Since last season, I have learned that we are very much exposed to danger as long as we remain open to the caverns to exploit the riches therein, so I ordered The Innocent Towns to station at the cavern gates to deal with any lingering threats. The squad reports that though numerous, most of the crundles seem to actively avoid any combat, scampering away in fear when dwarves approach close by. I am not convinced that this is entirely true.
13th Hematite 58My suspicions were proved correct as more crundles issued from their abode to menace our haulers. Chaoticskies arrives on the scene and immediately takes out a nearby crundle.
Endlessblaze arrives shortly after and they begin clearing out the crundle infestation. Meanwhile a crundle retaliates in fear but Fikod the planter engages the beast in a wrestling match; the crundle taps out because it is too far from the bottom rope.
Endlessblaze and chaoticskies show little mercy towards the crundles, cornering them methodically and wiping them out one by one. Meanwhile, Zefon finally comes along to construct the gate I wanted that would separate the 3rd and 2nd caverns.
I'll get mcbarsky to link up the construction, I just hope he doesn't run into any crundles or worst.
A cornered crundle, decides to take a swipe at Michael Phelps, but alas Michael Phelps decides to retaliate with the bronze pick in her hand. The results are not pretty, for the crundle that is.
Dodok, another of our miners is also accosted by a crundle, with predictable results.
We now have dead crundle corpses stinking up the joint here in the 3rd caverns.
Meanwhile, I am busy supervising the construction of the magma pumpstack. The mechanics have told me that the speediest way to go about doing this is to mass construct all the pumps at once, but leave them in a suspended state before the masons arrive to put the pieces into place. The wonders of dwarven science!
16th Hematite 58The crundle hunt continues, but I was notified that the human caravan for this season has arrived right on schedule. I'll get the dregs hauling, I'm eager to bolster our iron supplies. Besides, stuff needs rejiggering around here.
The Innocent Towns report that hungry heads and magma crabs are duking it out in the 3rd cavern, though no one is hurt at the moment. It seems the crabs issued from the recently discovered magma pool.
23rd Hematite 58Amidst all the hauling, I received word that the new shinies I've ordered have finally arrived!
The Queen is so impressed with Pyrotechno's work that she throws a party!
27th Hematite 58Tobul is throwing another tantrum again. Maybe she is feeling left out after not being invited to the party? She punches one of the nearby party goers in the neck and scampers off. After the scuffle, she just plants herself on the orthoclase bridge, looking very weary and haggard it seems. She stands absolutely still ignoring all the folks that pass her by giving furtive glances in her direction.
Days later I find Tobul still on the bridge, ignoring all the passing haulers that are so used to the spectacle that they do not even glance in her direction. I wonder what is going in her mind?
1st Malachite 58I ordered more plants to be gathered from the surrounding region to bolster our variety of garden plants and crops. We have quite a stash of plump helmets already so I've ordered the fields to lie fallow for the coming winter.
The humans bought alot of exotic meats, which they call
'seafood'. Smells awfully
fishy to me. DDDragoni manages to trade for a selection of seeds, among these; quinoa, red spinach and rye. She also managed to trade for some clay and iron supplies to melt down, along with copious amounts of food supplies. She also purchased some
dwarven dignity. By which I mean we've finally managed to trade away the effluvious refuse trash of troll crusted waste material we've been accumulating all these years. Eugh! Shoddy foreign goods and their foreign stench!
Melbil has grown attached to a steel shield. Meanwhile, the passageway between the two caverns is sealed off.
11th Malachite 58Tobul seems even more famished than before. Still standing on the bridge, oblivious to all that is around.
Scout reports that a gremlin has been spotted in the cavern stairways! Alarmed at being spotted, it retreats back into the third cavern where it came from. Wait, how did the gremlin... oh, there is a narrow gap near the passageway gate, got to get that sealed off too.
14th Malachite 58Tobul seems parched...
Scouts report that the Forgotten beast Aco Soakedgills has come! A scaly frog with deadly spittle! The monsters are coming out of the woodwork!
As the news traveled throughout the fortress, Tobul's tenuous hold on reality snapped. Perhaps the goblin spies are in league with the forgotten beasts and the arrival of one triggered a change in allegiance in Tobul?
Welp. Tobul has gone off the far end now.
The civilians scatter and the military is quickly activated in response. In mere moments, shots are fired from a distance. It all happened so quickly, first Tobul took a wild swing at the nearby marksdwarves that tried to help. But the marksdwarves dispassionately restrained her with disabling bashes to the hands and legs.
Then a clamor arose all over the front bridge, as of dwarves being roused in unison, their anger resonating with each other to a fever pitch that simply erupted into a fit of rage.
"I have a part in this, I will take revenge!"*vengeance!*"I have a part in this, I will take revenge!"
*vengeance! vengeance!*
"I have a part in this, I will take revenge!"*vengeance! vengence! vengeance!*"I have a part in this, I will take revenge!"
Going for the mob. Who doesn't like a good mob?
*DING DING DING*
*WE HAVE A WINNER FOLKS!**also get out of my brain*
The civilians that were gathered around forsook their cowardly ways, the strange gleam in their eyes flaring up into a white hot flame of vengeance.
The first to shake off the shackles of fear was the planter Fikod Dakostroder. She punches Tobul in the left upper arm, then charges at Tobul, slamming into her and toppling her off the bridge into the frozen ice below...
But she was not the only one that decided to take matters into their own hands... In a dazzling flash, several dwarves
hurled themselves off the bridge to
SEEK VENGEANCE, turning into a terrifying landslide of dwarven mob fury as they tumbled their way to the ice below.
The clamor aroused the notice of the dwarves chilling by the pool, and the same ire that was aroused in the dwarves above took hold of the dwarves there as a child, the Queen, Immortal-D, Tholtig McBarsky , the newly re-elected mayor, Vortex and other dwarves joined in the madness. Battle was joined on the icy slopes at the base of the great tower, or rather a mobbing took place as a berserk Tobul tried to fend off the scores of bloodthirsty dwarves out for blood and vengeance. Tobul landed a good punch to the belly of one planter, but for each solid blow she gave, she took a dozen more in retaliation, and she gave in to the emotional, mental and physical pain and fell over. But
dwarven vengeance does not end there. The mob curb stomped her into the ground, some laying hands on her, others kicking and stomping away in fury and others landing punch after punch, blow after blow. It did not take long before Tobul was beaten into a miserable unrecognizable mess on the icy slopes, as dwarf blood spills across the pristine blue ice.
Mercifully she was put to an end when the woodcutter Vutok Erithultir came over and hacked off her head with her bismuth bronze battle axe. Tobul Eshtanbufut, the Bone Carver was finally struck down.
As sudden as it all begun, the spell of vengeance and bloodlust was lifted, and the cries of anger gave way to shocked fear as the dwarves mourned the loss of one of their own at their own hands. It was not Tobul's lot to be uprooted so far from home and transplanted in this miserable dump that is ConstructIvory. So ends ignobly one of the more sensitive among us. But a sense of foreboding sunk over the gathering crowd, as more is yet to come...
Meanwhile, the mayor whom had regained her senses tried her best to control and placate the crowd that had went from a vengeful mob to mourning beards in a blink of an eye.
Reg is ordered to give the poor git a military sendoff. Meanwhile, the dwarves on the lower slopes saunter off to their own business, but those stuck on the upper slopes are forced to sleep on the unforgiving ice as they wait for help to arrive.
Looks like I will need to find a way around that
particular conundrum...
*sigh*15th Malachite 58Hungryheads don't seem too fond of our animal caretaker Shorast's attempts at trying to tame them and attack her and one of our gemcutters. Though Shorast does not lose any limbs, she is badly bitten all over, suffering bruises to her throat, lungs and pancreas, causing her to suffocate.
The merchants take this time to finally embark on their journey back to the outer lands, while the hungryheads seem to have buggered off. Struggling Shorast looks to be able to make it away on her own from the scene of battle, though a medical team has already been dispatched to retrieve her.
Meanwhile, I've sent another squad down there to rid ourselves of these pests that have begun springing up everywhere.
But my attention is divided between overseeing the rescue of the dwarves stuck on the slopes, making sure the pumpstack is built properly and many other things besides. I cannot be everywhere at once!
Hungryheads attack more citizens as Heretic arrives on the scene, though the woodcrafter being attacked is not so defenceless.
Looks like the hungryhead bit off more than it could chew. I order The Innocent Towns to stand guard just in case of emergencies.
20th Malachite 58Some dwarves have clambered up on the base of the ice pillars that hold up the tower. What? How?
It has been brought to my notice that the human merchants are leaving via the caverns. Is the overworld that much unsafe that they would rather resort to daring the caverns? There is something that is quite off here, but I cannot put my finger on it.
I shall name you Silencedmobs! A fitting name after recent events!
The queen went past the remains of Tobul today, and she stared long and hard at what was left and declared that
death cannot horrify her and stomped off, but for someone like myself that has honed my sense of instinct to sense fear on the battlefield, I could tell she was only putting on a brave front, and that inwardly she was conflicted by her mix of emotions.
26th Malachite 58Edem the gem cutter has been possessed! Is the the work of Tobul from beyond the grave!? He bars himself in an unused jeweler's workshop, grabs an emerald and begins working on something...
2nd Galena 58Melbil grows attached to his new shiny sword. Meanwhile, haulers finally get to dumping all the dead bodies. In other news, Onget Oltanoram has given birth to a boy, Sodel Egdothuzol. congratulations!
4th Galena 58Edem has created
Adlolok Inirnoval -
Sunsgranite the Declining Bride, an emerald bracelet! Worth 96000 urists. I'm a little confused here, so this is the kind of dowry you give when you want to entice a declining bride?
Vortex II was drafted into The Morality of Ramparts, he will undergo tutelage under Urvad the Avenger to be trained into a proper macelord.
Endlessblaze has grown attached to a steel shield. A short while later, endlessblaze endows the shield with the name;
Lisidbal - Clashtoned.
Michael Phelps helps out with the pump stack, finishing up the already preconstructed pump stacks. 37 more to preconstruct and 36 more to finish up with masonry by my count. Zefon the outpost liaison soon relieves her, taking over the construction duties.
19th Galena 58We seem to have run out of storage containers for food, I'll order some clay pots made. The refuse dumping is going well, though the pump stacks have met some minor difficulties being built out of order, I've had to order them deconstructed lest they deconstruct themselves and topple the delicate configuration. I've ordered the rest of our idle labor force to continue with the bedroom refurnishing.
26th Galena 58Total power needed for pumps is now 955, though we still have quite a few more pumps to build. This does not include the pump stacks that are already constructed at the bottom of the pump stack. The work is never-ending!
Autumn has come.
I do plan to get at least autumn done over the weekend
(Yay for no overtime work!) and part of winter as well. I realize I got to cut down on my screenshots but my OCD tendencies are running amok. Oh well, let's see how it goes. Things should move along quickly once I get the pumpstack working, takes a fair amount of real life time to micromanage the orders the way I am going about it.
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