I pulled my jacket over myself. A cold, biting wind chilled me to the bone as a I looked upon the countryside. It was winter. It wasn't usually this cold near on the surface in Flamehorses because of the volcano. Turns out that volcanoes are really, really hot. But the temperature would have to be ignored.
I examined a bush with a large quantity golden berries on its branches. Sun berries were supposedly one of the most delicious fruits known to dwarves. Checking the surroundings to make sure nobody was looking, I popped one into my mouth. It wasn't bad. But it would make a fine wine. I would have loved to gather them myself, but I had more alcohol
to brew and chores to manage. Plus, I couldn't trust myself not to eat more berries.
After entering the fortress again and escaping the horrid sun and fresh air, I set to work. All of the baby grazing animals we had been collecting had fully grown and I decided to have them butchered, for many reasons. For one thing, I couldn't afford to have any livestock turn undead because of a necromancer. Also, we need the meat.
Now, because of my own error, the lava in the volcano is quite a ways away from the meeting hall. A long hallway must be traversed to go from their to the volcano.
It goes up a few levels after that, and then another road goes in a straight line to the volcano, but hopefully we will be able to manage.
So I guess it is time for me to mention a couple of embarrassing ramp fails I have made.
Let's just say that I'm not good at this game at the best of times. But remember that there is another one I'm just not mentioning because it's hard to show a picture of and tell what you are looking at.
Well, the time has come. The first year of Flamehorses has ended. I wasn't quite able to watch this be completed in my time as ruler, but here is a platform made of schist suspended over a volcano.
Be warned that there is no ceiling to this at the moment, so that has to be completed in the next turn. But for now, I must leave. My successor will hopefully do a better job maintaining this place than I did.
Real talk now. I'm sorry if the first couple of months were a bit dry. I tried to make the final month of this year a bit more interesting by writing in a more in universe fashion.
Here you go zazq. Your turn begins now.