Update time! The second winter is well upon us, and we recieved seven or eight immigrant dwarves in the autumn season, which consisted of a sworddwarf, a grower, a miner, a peasant, ANOTHER bloody mason, and some other guys. My magma forge and smelter have been built and we're under way on cranking out some copper weapon traps. We have around 50 or so fish and 90+ plant so I'm sure we'll get through winter.
My legendary engraver, God, she just now hit perfectly agile status, and I am simply in awe by how fast she walks around. I swear, she makes Speedy Gonzales look like regular Gonzales. At any rate, They just finished the initial stone detailing of the legendary dining room (37x13 tiles with five support pillars.). Speaking of the support pillars, I had my legendary engraver fully detail them with some pictures. Out of the five, one of them is considered a masterpiece. Let's roll down the line of pictures shall we? For starters, two of them consist of dwarves laboring, so that's nice, commemorating the hard work I'm putting in the fort. One of them consist of speaking with the humans, I traded some of our crafts for all of their leather, and gave the rest of our crafts to them as an offering. Another pillar has crescent moons engraved into it, and that's the masterpiece picture. And the final engraving is...well...a bit different from the others. It consists of a dwarf in a fetal position. I have no idea how that got in there, heh. The only deaths so far have been my first legendary miner when he triggered the magma flood, and the fey metalsmith who went insane and died in her room. Oh well! At any rate, my military has grown to five dwarves, all immigrants, which consist of two competent marksdwarves, a marksdwarf, a novice marksdwarf, and a swordsdwarf, all immigrants. I'll keep things updated as winter rolls along.
UPDATE: Well, it's the middle of winter, and my native (One of the original dwarves) mason, who also happens to have the most experience in said mason skill decided to withdraw from society. After claiming the mason workshop, he made this little number and earned legendary mason status.
This brings my total to a legendary miner, engraver, and now a mason. The mason and engraver are masons, which leaves my three other masons as novice masons, or spares. I'll have them build the road or something. It's about time I got it started. Wow, two fey moods and a withdrawal from society in one year. Amazing.
[ March 24, 2007: Message edited by: BoltsFogs ]