Deus Asmoth's Diary, Summer.
New migrants arrive,
Carrying their hope with them,
We greet them with death.This fortress is full of philistines. I'm trying to work on my various masterpieces, and they keep interrupting me with trifling matters like a beast made of amber outside the gates and a goblin husk that got inside the fortress. The husk is currently trapped behind a wall and the amber beast appears to have wandered off, if it ever existed at all. More likely they were just trying to distract me so that master Dipane can steal my work.
This is the current state of our new shrine complex. The smoothing is proceeding slowly, but soon it will almost be worthy of me considering a recital there. It will certainly be adequate for the plebians to worship their gods, in any case. At the door you can also see Sanctume, who has been stricken by melancholy after no one killed anything to give him bones for something he wanted to make. He also doesn't see to be a necromancer yet, so at least we won't have to listen to him complaining forever.
Here we have NCcommander and Flame, who both still seem intent on slaying those stray scraps of skin. Most of the fortress has given up on distracting them at this point, though if an enemy ever does come along that breaks their concentration, they will certainly be ready. They are both undoubtedly fighters worthy of legend at this stage, or at least they would be if they ever fought anything besides a scrap of leather.
This is Melbil. He has spent the past half year shouting down the stairs that he's not able to carry some items into a stockpile. We only just figured out that the problem was that these hatches in the main stairway:
were locked, blocking access to most of the fortress. I can't see any immediate threats to our well being from unlocking them, so I will do so because it's better than being mildly irritated by that guy. I've also set the miners to dig a shaft to the magma seas that we can toss anything we don't have a use for any more down in order to clean the fortress up a bit.