Journal of Meng ‘Duck’ Bristledcrypts, Overseer of Murderflood1 Granite, 207:Well, now that it is morning I am officially the overseer and can start giving orders!
First, I am regretfully closing down the old hospital. It is crowded and dirty and in a hallway that people walk through all the time and we have a much nicer hospital several levels up and I wouldn’t want any sick dwarves getting confused!
Second, I’m ordering Zulgarkun’s magma works cleaned up and expanded. That open pit of magma is very dangerous.

We’ll cover it up, and then we’ll be able to build more forges and furnaces AND it’ll be safer!
Since it’s spring time, we’re expecting elves to show up to trade, and we don’t have a trade depot! I’ve ordered that remedied.
In the meantime I’m going to go looking for the levers that release the gates that are preventing the rest of the dike from filling with magma. There’s really not much point to having a dike I think if it isn’t full of magma so this will be a personal priority.
2 Granite, 207:Looking at our stockpiles, we appear to have plenty of iron and flux stone, so I’ve ordered the production of a whole bunch of steel!
3 Granite, 207:Everybody is just carrying things around! I want them to work the forges and build the trade depot and expand the magma works but they keep telling me that they’re “Storing items in stockpiles”! I thought they’d be able to tell what was important and what wasn’t on they’re own but I think I’m going to have to give very detailed orders to each and every dwarf about what he or she should do. I guess this is just one of those Burdens of Leadership that I’m always reading about.
4 Granite, 207:I was up all night (don’t tell mom! I was working by candlelight under the covers so she’d think I was sleeping), but I came up with a plan to organize all the workers. It’s not perfect but I think it should cover most of the things we need done in this place!
There are 101 dwarves living here, but 21 are children and aren’t allowed to work even if they are the overseer. Another 22 are in the militia and can’t be relied upon to do regular labor (we’ll get to them later). So I’ve divided up the remaining 58 dwarves as follows:
2 Brewers
1 Cook
1 Clothesmaker
1 Weaver
1 Carpenter
3 Masons
4 Furnace operators
1 Weaponsmith
1 Armorsmith
5 Growers
3 Farmers, who do pressing, plant processing, etc. — everything but planting
3 Miners, with two of them cross-trained as mechanics
2 Full-Time Doctors
5 Construction workers, who will do architecture, construction, and deconstruction
20 Teamsters who will just haul stuff around
5 Garbagedwarves, who will haul refuse and only refuse
The 22 militiadwarves will be assigned to furnace operating, strand extracting, and hauling when they are off-duty.
Anyway there are a couple of gaps in those labor assignments but these cover our priorities and when I turn twelve this Hematite I’ll be able to help out.
Anyway even though I stayed up all night I’m totally not tired! I’m not! I’m going to go hand out the new assi—

Eep!
5 Granite, 207:A good leader does not panic. When a siege comes, a good leader sends out the militia and the only reason a good leader does not join the defense herself is because her mom won’t let her. That is the only reason. Not because she is scared.

7 Granite, 207:The militia are assembled outside the fort and they are closing with the goblins!

They’re fighting! I can’t watch!
8 Granite, 207:The militia sure do work fast! I, um, blinked, and missed the whole battle! Now there’s just a red smear across the landscape where the goblin army used to be.

With the danger passed, I can finally get around to handing out those new labor assignments. I think they’ll really streamline our operations and give us synergy and stuff.
9 Granite, 207:It turns out there was an elf diplomat hanging around here! I didn’t even notice him until he started screaming at the baroness.

How did we disrespect the trees? What trees? There’s only one tree here, and we didn’t cut it down!
10 Granite, 207:I’ve ordered the tree cut down. We need the wood, and the elves are angry at us anyway.
Also, the goblin siege left us with a lot of unsightly corpses. I’ve ordered the construction of a garbage chute that leads straight into the magma dike for trash disposal.
15 Granite, 207:My reorganization is paying off! Today we finished building our new trade depot!

16 Granite, 207:Looks like the trade depot got finished just in time!

19 Granite, 207:Everybody run for your lives!

20 Granite, 207:The mist cloud dissipated before it reached the fort so we’re all okay. Also I was only under the bed because I was looking for a sock that I thought I lost under there.
22 Granite, 207:Sarrak apparently really likes his shield.

It means “The Robust Reverence.” I’m not totally sure how that makes sense but I can’t question the alliteration.
23 Granite, 207:I finally found the levers to flood the rest of the dike! I can’t believe I missed them — they were in a whole room full of levers that I’d just never noticed.

Magma is now pouring into the rest of the dike. I’m a little concerned that it won’t be deep enough, though. I’m going to see if I can get the reactor going to run the pump stack.
24 Granite, 207:The elves didn’t have much to offer, but we did get some fruit in exchange for old clothes.
1 Slate, 207:Well, I had to pull seven different levers and build gears and axles in two places, but I got the reactor going! It’s powering the pump stack now! It’ll be a while I think but eventually the entire dike should be completely full of magma!

2 Slate, 207:We need more coal for our steel production. I’ve ordered some wood burned into charcoal, but we don’t have enough wood to really meet our needs. I’m looking into making a tree farm. How hard could it be?
5 Slate, 207:Looks like De wants to name his shield, too.

The name means “Plaitedcrews”
18 Slate, 207:

It’s been kind of a long time since we’ve had new migrants to the fortress. Maybe we need some sort of outreach program?
5 Felsite, 207:The improvements to the magma works are done! There are a lot more smelters AND a glass furnace AND a kiln AND some stockpiles! And it’s all safe and nobody will fall into the magma!

11 Felsite, 207:

One of the construction workers suddenly declared that he had better things to do than building the garbage chute. He grabbed two rocks and barricade himself in a mason’s workshop.
16 Felsite, 207:Despite Sazir’s slacking, we managed to finish the garbage chute. Now we can dump corpses into the magma to be rid of them.

22 Felsite, 207:Sazir emerged from his workshop today, inviting everybody to come look at his work.


It’s a nice statue, but did he have to commemorate that time when we had a human king?
24 Felsite, 207:We’ll, we’ve got nice big tree farm dug out. Now all we have to do is wait for trees to grow!

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