Sorry about not updating yesterday. I actually did have an update written, but the game crashed and I lost that day's progress. I figured it'd be best to just not post it rather than post and immediately retcon, though in retrospect I really ought to have said something in-thread at the time. Anyway today brought nearly too much fun to handle, and considering how regularly that seems to be happening (even the reverted update had almost everyone die to a random herd of zombie deer, heh) I'm honestly concerned that this fort's going to be dead before it can establish itself well enough for long term survival, especially with winter coming up. We'll see how it goes!
@Spriggans: Yeah, sure. Nobody appropriate came around this time, but I'll keep it in mind.
Excerpts from the Journal of Moldath Primeearths, Acting Expedition Leader of Kingdomssabre3 Sandstone, 50A busy day today. I cleared Erush to get back to duty. He seemed happy to get back on his feet, though he's probably going to be slightly favoring that arm for a while yet. That just leaves Urvad still injured. I'm starting to worry about her, her recovery is going very slowly and we don't have an adequate source of water. If her condition doesn't improve soon we're going to have to start digging exploratory shafts to find some in the caverns. We also spotted a ghost flying around above the valley, one Urist Fickerurns. I've heard they can sometimes be dangerous, but this one didn't do much more than yell about his past life and spook the yaks pulling one of the merchant's wagons.
They ran off and spilled the wagons' contents all over the ground. The merchants say they don't have the space to carry it all back, so I guess it's ours now. It's mostly useless, but there are some caged animals and metal crafts we can make use of. We also got some migrants. A replacement hammerdwarf, a cook, a planter, an axedwarf, and a pair of swordsdwarves with experience as engineers. I'm glad for the extra hands, especially for so many to have fighting experience, but equipment will have to come from the caravan unless we can find good metals on site.
22 Sandstone, 50A massive cloud of dust came in from the glacier today. We'd have seen it sooner, but the mountains block the view northward too much. Those idiots from the Rhyming-Occult Palisade must not have known about the dust storms when they set this place up. It all makes sense to me now, and now we're going to pay the price for their foolishness. We went to ground in good time, but it was already practically on top of us when we saw it, and it managed to catch the new hammerdwarf, our two horses, and one of the mules the ghost spooked earlier.
After they kicked one of their own to death, they turned with a purpose toward us hiding inside of Kingdomssabre. Those of us who could fight did, but the thralls will only succumb after serious injury. Perhaps things would've gone better if the new men had thought to pick up their equipment before charging into battle things would've gone better, but as is just bringing down the dwarf cost us Rovod and left Ber with a broken leg and unable to fight.
Taking down the animals was easier, but Tulon, one of the new swordsdwarves, died in the fighting and the axedwarf, Alexa Heavengorges (a very strange name) died soon after. If only we'd finished the shelter sooner! Spirits are very low. The general feeling is that we've lost too much, for too little gain, but I refuse to surrender! We have gained little from this expedition, but if we leave now it will have all been for nothing.
24 Sandstone, 50It seems the secret does not want to be uncovered - why else should some terrible calamity befall us with every step toward it we take? I have begun to trace the etchings on the walls, starting with those closest to the gate, and managed to finish most of the hallways between my other duties. They are in the runic alphabet of the Rhyming-Occult Palisade, as I expected, and for better or worse only I among those stationed here can read them. Most of it
is gibberish, ranting about rainclouds and keas, but I see among it are also some esoteric symbols, and what seems to be a diagram, but their meanings are not known to me. I can only hope that further study, and further transcription, will yield answers.
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