20th Felsite, 260Hello again Journal! I’ve had about twenty of these bastard farmers accost me over the past week, going on about how “one of the animals has gone mad” or something about “frothing mouths”. So like any other good overseer, I go check it out, and the little bastards are breeding! They’re fuckin’ everywhere! Why are all the farmers obsessed with cave crocodiles? See, this is what drives Shofet mad! This is why he’s angry all the time! These bloody things must be some sort of catalyst to his rage!
5th HematiteSo remember the “Little Professor” Quasar? Side note, I call him “little” because I was rummaging around in his things, y’know, like a good overseer, and I found out something. The little bastard’s 17 years old. And yet he still saunters about like he owns the place, demanding I give him a “proper” lab. Complete with traction benches and cabinets. Weird request, right? I tried convincing him that he meant a “hospital”, but he was certain that he was talking about a lab. Just another reason why you shouldn’t get injured in Icehold. So I yell at the carpenter to make some beds, and… We’re out of wood. It’s no surprise really. It’s what happens when you get locked in a prison located on some god-forsaken iceshelf. So as you can imagine, no wood equals no progress. So I had to… Make due. Lowering one of the drawbridges in the lowest set of caverns, I ordered a bunch of mushrooms cut down.
Interestingly enough, upon cutting one down, the entire mushroom, often the size of a bedroom, would shrivel into a single stringy dowel as long as my arm. But hey, wood is wood.
12th Hematite, 260Did someone say “vampires”?! Because that’s exactly what that stampede outside sounds like. Let me tell you something. This frozen ass-backwards settlement may be as close to hell as we’re going to get, but it’s a safe kind of hell. There’s a demon making prison wine in the toilets, and the rate of washroom shankings are at an all time low. There was this uneasy sort of trust going on here. You knew everyone and why they were here, and you could relate to that. But now, with all these, er, foreigners, you can’t trust anyone. Saw some chicken-headed bloke wandering about the halls picking up discarded scraps of clothing as he walked by. Haven’t seen him before, so I asked him why he’s here. Do you know what he told me?
“They said I was the ‘Sewer-grate strangler’, but I never done it! I only said I done it so they’d take me willy outta the magma-forge!”
Gross.
This is why I can’t trust these kinds of people.
20th Hematite, 260An absolute suck up, this one. Didn't even mention me
once in those discussions. If she weren't so critical to the gulag, I would've had her... Uh... Is it safe to record plots in a notebook such a this?
6th MalachiteSo we finally put together Quasar’s “lab”, including those gem-windows he so desperately needed. And guess what? The little ankle biter doesn’t even use it! I saw a dwarf with broken hands trying to engrave with his teeth today. And somehow, Quasar kept trying to convince me that it was “no big deal” and that “I needed 20 cc’s of shut the fuck up”. Y’know Journal, between you and me, I don’t think he’s he’s even a real doctor! That’s why he doesn’t bother with healthcare. Hell, if he cared, that trench-foot issue in the midden would’ve been solved by now!
Sure, they could’ve just put on shoes, but it’s too late for that now. I’ve got my eyes on him. Shofet’s eyes too.
10th MalachiteOne of Quasar’s goons started screaming about the “bright lights” inside of him. He tackled the local craftsdwarf and took the keys to his shop. I’d go take care of this myself, but let’s be honest here, when you hear nothing but screaming and the gnashing of stones coming from inside of a workshop, you don’t exactly want to be the one to go an’ check it out.
24th Malachite, 260He’s still screaming.
I just want to sleep.
When will the madness end?
1st Galena, 260He’s finally done. It’s… Some some sort of circlet? A crown or something? I dunno, but the bookeeper told me, and I quote, “it’s worth a shittton”. So I’m gonna keep it around, and see what happens.
5th GalenaAhahahaha!
That’s what the little hunched fuck gets for taking my knife!
Wait...
Oh shit!We’ve got another vampire! Unfortunately, not one of us saw who did it! Well, I hope none of you have to sleep anytime soon, because we’ve got another blood sucker on our hands. And this one seems capable.
14th Limestone, 260I was told that a forgotten beast showed up today. Remember that other forgotten beast that waltzed in the other day? Well, this one decided to take care of that. Y’know, I expected to be accosted with more frightening problems, but everything that’s thrown at me seems to take care of itself. It’s kind of funny, I always thought that the abyssal beasts would be the root of all my problems, but no. It’s just other dwarves.
The damn thing surged up out of nowhere, and breathed on it 'till it caught the flu and died.
15th Limestone, 260A stray caravan wandered close today. After that lost migrant wave, I figured it couldn’t hurt to let these guys inside too. They didn’t really have much to trade, other than bits of cheese, and some fruits that we can’t get here in the barren wastes, but other than that, they haven’t got anything particularly useful. No weapons, no wood, and no caged beasts to keep Shofet sated.
18th Sandstone, 260More screaming, though this one sounds vaguely pleasant, like a girlish scream of joy. I’ve up and removed the door from the craftsdwarf workshop, so no key-theft this time around. I’m tired of getting complaints about battery. Sure, he hit you, well hit him back! Do that, and I’ll lighten the punishment that Honeymoon hands down!
8th Timber, 260Okay, this has got to stop. I didn’t know this one in particular, but these motherfuckers are getting right royal vicious. I’ve issued out a witch-hunt of sorts. We should catch that slippery bastard within a week, considering that it’s rather hard to hide in an isolated prison, in which all of the inmates want you dead.
15th Timber, 260Goddamnit! I figured it out! They elected the motherfucker as the mayor! That’s how he’s been getting out of this time after time! That charismatic fuck! I want him dead! Preferably with the the “Shofet Special” as I like to call it!
16th TimberSo I was recently informed that killing the mayor, vampire or not, is not only illegal, but extremely illegal. I’m calling bullshit on this one, because we’re all here because we did something vaguely illegal, so this is as far as it goes? What, we’re already in jail! What are they going to do, put me in superjail? Ach, the nerve of some people.
20th TimberTurns out, we have a superjail. Compared to the rest of this gulag, it’s not all that bad. Sure, it’s just a giant room with a latrine hole carved out of solid rock in the corner, but there’s (mostly) uncontaminated food and drink, and they’re safe from the dangers of the rest of this place.
That is, until this very moment.
That bastard mayor will be a fine red mist in the next hour. I was a little disappointed to learn that Shofet wasn’t going to be the one carrying out the act, but hey, as long as he’s dead, I can’t complain.
2nd Moonstone, 260Goddamnit! I’ve been waiting for nearly two weeks now, and they still haven’t killed him. That motherfucker talked his way out of it again! In fact, he’s sitting there, conducting a meeting in super-jail right now! What the fuck is wrong with our executioner? He didn’t seem to mind it when we had that other prisoner! Someone go and tell him that vampires aren’t people, even if they look like dwarves!
10th Moonstone, 260Well, there’s been some, er, “unrest” since my appointment, so I’ve ordered all the rabblers to construct a tower to keep them busy! A little hard work might make them get over all of the murders that’ve been taking place recently!
The only issue is that not a single one of them has seen the surface in years. They we’re supposed to build a massive icy-blue spire, to ward of the forces of evil, (and also the forces of the Green Kingdom, once they’ve realized that we technically kidnapped some of their citizens). However, with these underprepared workers, the tower turned from blue, to a sickly-green. The entire construction is not only a disgrace to Icehold, but to Icehold’s nostrils. I’m going to be honest, it smells like death up there, and I am not having it.
So I decided to build an… Alternate monument instead. A testament to our freedom. A symbol to ward off usurpers and the forces of darkness!
I’ll write about it when it’s complete.
22 Opal, 260Goddamnit all.
They puked on it. They puked on all of it. I didn’t even know if that was dwarvenly possibly. I woke up this morning, and went to see how progress was doing, and it looked like someone fuckin’ planted grass, good gods almighty. You can't even see the colors anymore, it’s just green! All of it is green! I don’t even want to see it completed anymore!
Y’know, this is sort of one of the reasons I hate this job. It’s the apathy. I expected this to be so much more. I expected to be a hero! To lead Icehold out of darkness! But really, nothing changed. None of the other dwarves really even regard me as their leader! Once again, Honeymoon has taken up the reins, and started running this show again. For fucks sake, she’s the duchess now! How am I supposed to compare with that?
19th Obsidian, 260I’m done, this sucks. It was fun playing dress up, and wearing the clothes of a leader, but man, fuck it. Have I made a difference? Will I even be remembered for anything? What was the point of any this? Actually, no. I've decided that from here on out, I don't care anymore. I'm gonna go sulk in my office, like a good and faithful overseer.
…
Huh?
Oh, fuck you, nameless bastard! They locked it from the inside! That was mine, dammnit! I built it, and I want to live in it! What cruel bastard steals a safe-house from another dwarf?! Bah, it don’t matter. None of this matters anyway. My term’s over in a few days, I’ll just start fuckin’ with people, see how they like it. Start building screw pumps over frozen ponds… Yeah, that sounds nice. They’ll figure out I’m gone eventually, right?
Right.
The save, and other ramblings.
You might want to make sure the raws are all okay, because in a series of extremely unfortunate events, I nearly vaporized the save.Finally done! Sorry about that one, I couldn't have picked a worse time to sign up for a succession fort. But enough of that, here's the final unit list. If you're not there, assume the worst.
The save should be over here
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11778. And if you have any other questions, feel free to ask! Oh, and remember that Croc from the very beginning? Well...
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