Overseer's Log - 9th of Sandstone 244
===So our previous overseer resigned midyear. Normally, no big sweat, the next guy just starts early expect this time, we didn't HAVE a next guy. So we put everyones names in a boot, and mine came out. Just great ...
Anyway, I'm NCommander, one of our Axe Lords. I know how to kill things. I don't know jack about running a fort, but well. How hard can it be?
Right now, we're in good shape in terms of population and food. The previous overseer didn't finish hauling away everything in the fort to the depo so I'm doing that now, though I don't think we'll have an accurate export count for this year.
We also have a glass worker in a mood.
Seems we're out of logs. Easy enough to fix.
With the immediate crisis handled, I've turned my attention towards an idea I've had for awhile. We've grown all sorts of interesting things, and caught even more. But what we *haven't* caught is the bounty of the sea. I mean, we've got fishermen and all that, but where are the whales, the sea serpants, you know, the REAL fish.
A few years ago, I read about a fortress who successfully managed to re-architect an ocean, and they're study on ways to catch those big fish. Maybe we can even setup a breeding program in time, but first we need to catch the buggers. I talked with Mooney the Human, our best mechanic, and came up with the following.
See that trench? We're going to line it with traps, then connect it to the ocean to allow us to catch anything that wanders near by. We were going to drain the ocean into the aquifer so we could just line the bottom, but unfortunately the aquifer layout makes that difficult to impossible. Too much risk of flooding the fort.
I've also reviewed our metal stocks. We're low on steel and I'd like to expand the military if at all possible. But one thing at a time.
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