I reconsidered Iden's offer.
"Hah! Everyone knows that I dream of raising a family, it ain't no secret around these parts-"
*As the wheels began to slowly turn in my head I began to perceive his hidden intentions, they needed a backer and a convenient target to scapegoat.*
"-But I am a dwarf that does not shirk my duties and obligations!"
*Iden was a smooth talker with a glib tongue, but unfortunately his cunning overreached his aim and roused my ire.*
"You cannot tempt me with your puny offers!""No! I know where the real power lies! And none of you have any of it!" I bellowed as I brandished my axe and took a step forward.
"You see, since you pointed out so eloquently that the queen doesn't care what happens to us or herself anyway, real power is there for the taking! Real power that just so happens to sit ill-fittingly on my head!" I bellowed as I grimaced and mockingly made a show out of the ridiculously looking
purple cap wedged between my head and my helmet.
"You see, the difference between me and you lads is that i have been entrusted with the opportunities to use that power as I see fit while you sit here and debate endlessly without trying to seize that power for your own! Well, too late for that now! I'll be keeping an eye on you lads, so don't you get cute with me and don't even think about starting any funny business. Now scram!"I upbraided these rabble rousers and drove them off, threatening to expose them if they continued on with their plans. Iliithid was not pleased with the outcome, but said nothing. We spoke even less after this little debacle, and I fear this may have caused a rift to come between us.
But reconsidering the state of affairs here, they do have somewhat of a point. The rules and obligations are an obstacle that lie on the path to achieving my
secret innermost desires. I feel a fire kindled within me as I pondered their words.
Though it conflicts me to bend or even outright break these rules, the greater good cannot be achieved with these obstacles in the way.
Time is running short. I know now for certain that someone whiffed out my
little secret soap making operation, so it is only a matter of time before this information is leaked to the higher ups and my operation shut down. I must take steps to enact
my plan while I still hold power.
Overseer Shipcat's Log - Winter1st Moonstone 58In retrospect, I find it most peculiar that someone managed to
'sniff out' the soap making activities as I made doubly sure to make soap out of the
Yeah, make sure to look up the meaning of
'crundle'.
so as to make it hard to differentiate from all the dirt and grime we're all covered in. Must be someone with
I must speak with the soap makers, perhaps they have been infusing the soap with herbal fragrances again.
10th Moonstone 58I've made up my mind. Despite being somewhat of an anomaly among most of the citizens here, Sanju deserves better treatment than being locked up in that forbidding tower of hers all day, and by the beard of Armok she will get it!
Inod has grown attached to a steel shield!
11th Opal 58Urvad was patrolling the caverns when she came onto a troupe of creeping eyes harassing the haulers. She daunted them greatly and single handedly dispatched them quite effortlessly.
The caverns are a strange place, I admit to not being the most learned of individuals, but strange life blossoms here in the dank darkness.
20th Moonstone 58We've had enough time to recuperate I think. Time to resume the pumping of magma!
24th Moonstone 58I've heard reports that endlessblaze was possessed in his sleep by otherworldly forces, this must be the ghosts of the dead trying to communicate with the living! I'll have memorials carved to try to appease them and ward off more untimely possessions. The onlookers say that they last saw endlessblaze claiming a carpenter's workshop and going in the direction of the new nethercap stockpiles.
27th Moonstone 58The magma pumping has been finished!
Just as I was celebrating this feat of dwarven engineering triumph with the engineers, I received a new report that endlessblaze has begun work on a-
Meanwhile, the forge cisterns have reached full capacity and can be safely shut off. The engineers tell me that we can attempt to use obsidian casting to seal off the cisterns safely, without fear of the floodgate holding up the magma collapsing, so I put their plan into action.
1st Opal 58By my orders, sanju was released to periodically resume her tour of duties as captain of the guard. Since no citizens have enacted any
further crimes, she was free to occupy her time with
'other activities'. By which I mean she picked up the
'special package' I had prepared for her. Meanwhile, dwarves were sent in to her premises while she was away to do some
'housekeeping'.
The memorials I had commissioned for the late RedMageCole, Vortex, nomoetoe, Hiddenleafguy and Captain Awesome were completed. I had the slabs put up in the dining room around the other slabs.
4th Opal 58Endlessblaze emerges from the carpenter's workshop hauling a peculiar item. He has created Isanist - Stillbreached, a nethercap table!
The dregs are busy furnishing our new magma forges. I hope this will speed up our rearmament efforts, I will need all the military force I can muster to enact my plan later on. I care little that this aligns with the queen's mandate, all the better that I can operate under the guise of
'pleasing the queen'.
I've grown rather attached to my newest arms, but I'm reminded that I must not be too possessive of them. Pyrotechno has my special order pending and once the forges are up, he can proceed.
9th Opal 58The new forges are up and running, I had the old forge areas scattered within the tower and outside dismantled and relocated here. Pyrotechno is back to resuming his weapons forging, Inod joins him; forging enough steel shields for for a full military force. I've channeled the rest of the workforce to get the power generators online as soon as possible, while I try to puzzle out how to seal the magma cistern with an obsidian plug without the water freezing mid toss. Perhaps trying this out in the middle of winter wasn't the most bright of ideas.
13th Opal 58I've received reports of a jabberer sighting in the caverns, so the innocent towns were dispatched to deal with the beast. Melbil is the first to sight the beast and gives chase, but the jabberer runs away in fear. Melbil manages to corner the beast, and a fight ensues, with Melbil emerging victorious.
Meanwhile, the construction of the water powered generator is fully underway. While on patrol during the sweep of the cavern perimeter for any lurking threats, chaoticskies discovers and takes out a reacher.
27th Opal 58Since the primary phase of my plan is already well underway, a new and bigger kitchen area is being furnished to appease the public.
11th Obsidian 58I've heard rumor that a new forgotten beast has been sighted in the sealed first caverns. Stagshil joins the other two forgotten tenants that yet remain hidden in the first caverns.
The marksdwarves find and engage a jabberer in the third caverns. Mosus gets off a great initial hit, maiming the left lower leg of the great bird, felling it on its massive beaked head.
8 marksdwarves crowd around the maimed bird and pincushion it full of bolts before taking turns trying to bash its head in with their mostly ineffective crossbow swings. Meanwhile, Melbil the swordsdwarf approaches from the south and tries to help, but Unib Vodonol who has been under a great amount of stress lately decides his had enough of this kill stealing nonsense, taking out his frustrations on the unconscious bird with a great aimed swing to its head with a copper crossbow.
Meanwhile, my second special order from Pyrotechno is in transit, good good. I hope he manages to complete the initial special order in time...
17th Obsidian 58Goden keeps up with the naming tradition, bestowing his silver warhammer with the title,
Mingkil Igėr -
The Leopard of Rivers. That is a pretty spiffy name I would say.
The water powered reactor is complete! It is operable for now, but some fine tuning remains to be done to get it working at a high efficiency.
The kitchen area is complete! The old workshops, stills and kitchens were demolished and moved up to this area. In the meantime, I decided to furnish the tower walls, we must not have further tower sabotage accidents happen again.
20th Obsidian 58I've decided to move the farm plots on the north west slopes down to the south west near to Towercat, it seems they are always exposed to attack from that general direction so this will give the farmers some cover.
24th Obsidian 58Pyrotechno has completed my
'special orders'. Time to proceed with whole scale enlisting of the military, there are quite a number of names in the list that my second in command has drawn up.
It was inevitable, they found out about my little secret soap making operations and dismissed me from the position of overseer as punishment. The rules never made any sense, as its only the making of soap that is illegal, but not the possessing of soap. Its unfortunate that I've never seen the traders bring any soap either. Those fiends and their damned crazy rules! But no matter, I've made enough to last us for some time, and soon enough they will see the error of their ways. I did not keep up with the queen's demands to expand the tower upwards either, instead choosing to furnish our existing abode. A taller tower is nice, but empty rooms will do us little good. This farce cannot keep on indefinitely. Though they have me under their thumb for now, sooner or later they'll be in need of someone with backbone and a shred of competence. When that time comes I will be able to enact
my plan.
But for now, I will bide my time. As I get ready to take up position on the northwest slopes in anticipation of another goblin attack in spring, I passed by a row of statues depicting the gods of our pantheon.
The last statue made me smirk a little inside.
Yea, I will write my own fate.
Spring has arrived on the calendar.
Once again, save is
HEREI do apologize for not being able to complete this sooner.
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