9th Limestone, 256
I met with Limul, who cried and yelled about her accidental murder and consequent imprisonment. I hope she can put this behind her. She's only nineteen.
She seemed to feel better afterward. She left to go make some rock mugs as the caravan from the mountainhome arrived. I decided to forbid exporting crowns.
17th Limestone, 256
A giant wolf happened upon a group of administrators while they were hauling worn clothing from the corpses outside. They beat it up, and then a master swordsdwarf walked up and stabbed it in the brain. This is good.
23rd Limestone, 256
I met with the liaison and requested raw materials in bulk. Wood, metal, thread, etc. Limul says he's getting great amounts of books, clay, wood, instruments, etc. for the worn clothing.
The liaison says the moutainhome wants spears, war hammers, meat, handwear, headwear, toys, quivers, windows, cloth, goblets, ammunition, shields, and of course
food.24th Limestone, 256
Apparently Limul likes eating moghoppers. What a strange behavior, yet it seems to have cheered him up.
25th Limestone, 256
Mental health is at an all-time low. Ushrir has stopped responding to the world and Sodel has slipped into depression.
Akko just... Akko just killed Diggy. And she wasn't even transformed at the time. She just became enraged with everyone and started punching him with incredible force. His head is exploded. The rest of his body is broken gore.
26th Limestone, 256
Akko mangled Justin's pet's leg. She must be stopped.
27th Limestone, 256
She wants to clean herself, does she? She may clean the blood off her hands, but her soul is permanently stained.
28th Limestone, 256
Akko came quietly when Killermartian came to imprison her.
2nd Sandstone, 256
The Takers of Trading have returned from their exploration of the human ruin Taxedgray. They recovered three books, one of them an academic work on the use of scratch tests in geology.
5th Sandstone, 256
Avuz slipped into depression and Dastot went stark raving mad. Mesm Ilosinur, a human bowman, is visiting. Welcome to Breakfastpit. We have no breakfast, only insanity.
7th Sandstone, 256
Carch has gone mad again and is punching everyone he comes across. Ral Tumamurdim the woodcutter was left bruised and in shock, and the farmer Dobar Mebzuthablel's lunch was interrupted by a punch to his leg.
Ablel Mosusnazom decided to punch back on the stairs by the justice hall. She's now bruised all over.
8th Sandstone, 256
Killermartian beat Carch today. It went well until he kicked Carch's left foot and it exploded into gore. Carch tried to evade Killermartian by resting in the hospital, but Killermartian followed him and punched him in the head, twisting his neck.
9th Sandstone, 256
Noloc cleaned Carch and diagnosed him with light and moderate bruising in a dozen places, a torn muscle in the right ankle, a smashed-apart left foot bone, a torn ligament and tendon in the left ankle, and torn skin in the neck.
Then Sazir started throwing a tantrum as a goblin corpse pulled itself out of the pit and terrorized the fisherdwarves and Lor Kodorzas the planter slipped into depression. Everything is falling to pieces around me.
Tekkud Nishothsin the great surgeon is working on Ablel Mosusnazom's cut left hand and wrist.
The zombie injured three fisherdwarves before the militia arrived. Udib Lumashcilob the fishery worker had his neck, right foot, and head torn open and bruised. He was lucky, however - Litast Mistemes the fisherdwarf had most of her body bruised, cut open, or mangled beyond recognition. She's probably lost her ability to stand or grasp anything. Meng Zanoszuglar was killed by the zombie.
10th Sandstone, 256
Treating the injured dwarves is made more challenging by the absence of SQman, the chief medical dwarf. He's off on an expedition to conquer a goblin settlement. But while he's gone, nobody knows how to read his files.
Akko transformed in her cage, but can't manage to damage the nickel bars. Hmm... that gives me an idea.
12th Sandstone, 256
The Distractions of Lancing have returned from their assault on Sorrowdungeons. They killed a single troll and took no losses.
13th Sandstone, 256
Some migrants have arrived, despite the danger. Mostly rangers and farmers.
20th Sandstone, 256
We have brought all our drinks to the depot. All in all, they total 4006 worth. 813 drinks. That's just over 1 percent of the quota. Still, it's an all-time high.
The caravan is getting tired of waiting. They say to bring the food. We cannot wait any longer. I order the cooks to stop, and we bring over what we've made.
25th Sandstone, 256
Memphis and Kogan are discussing diseases in the library. Kogan seems to appreciate the new library.
The Takers of Trading went on another Roomsounded expedition, recovering six books: Pathways To The Tower, Do You Know Loss?, The Tower And Other Topics, Creation: Natural Or Supernatural?, Untitled, and Question Minkot Slingbirth.
...aaaaand Do You Know Loss? is The Book. It's the one that holds the secrets of life and death. No way is that going in the library. I don't feel like turning half the fortress into necromancers. Lokum says it seemed to call to him, but he made sure not to read it. Kogan carefully peeked inside and said she saw twisting runes and arcane signs. I'm locking that up somewhere secret.
28th Sandstone, 256
Kogan estimates 5 Urists per unprepared meal and 125 Urists per prepared meal. This means 510 prepared meals and 972 unprepared meals.
((Note: I'm counting unprepared (raw) meals and prepared (cooked) meals separately, since if they're combined, either cooks make hundreds of meals out of the aether or unprepared meals dwindle into irrelevance.))
1st Timber, 256
My last month as overseer. I must make it count.
The scholars are enjoying their scholarly activities. Auze is currently working on trigonometric geometry, he tells me. I was skeptical that his work had any practical uses, but he told me it could be useful in architecture, although that wasn't his main motivation. Kogan is sitting next to him, pondering quadratic equations (apparently the study of multiplying things by themselves) and Memphis is reading a codex called The Market: Problems and Solutions, which he says is about solving economic issues. They seem happy together.
Akko has been walled off in the prison. We can't afford to let her out, even to transfer her back to her larger cell. She'll remain in her cell-within-a-cell, possibly forever.
6th Timber, 256
The marksdwarf training tower embedded into the hill has been completed. It works... sort of. I was hoping that most of the bolts would be retrievable. But we're still getting experience.'
An angry ghost battered Ablel Mosusnazom. She's already injured from Carch's tantrums, and now she's missing her left leg. Her fellow engravers rush to appease the raging phantasm.
8th Timber, 256
I have had enough of tantrums! Now the ghostly Thob is tantruming as well.
10th Timber, 256
Limul the broker is engraving Thob's slab now.
Kogan and Memphis are excitedly discussing quadratics while Auze reads about the fortress Chewedmenaced.
13th Timber, 256
It's kind of scary to walk right next to a zombie to retrieve your bolts, even if you know it can't get you. I've ordered a hatch installed to block the view of the zombie when we're not firing.
Also, you might think that we'd be starving since we traded away all edible food. But we're not. The drink situation is precarious, but we have large stores of tallow and flour. With the master cooks in this fortress, that can be converted to masterpiece roasts faster than we can eat them.
14th Timber, 256
Limul is stumbling around obliviously. I feel sorry for her.
17th Timber, 256
Sazir looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!
Sazir's been unhappy for a while, but that seems to have turned around... in completely the wrong way. He's
scarily happy. I'm staying away from him.
19th Timber, 256
Thob has been put to rest.
Sazir just murdered Dastot. To be honest, Dastot was about to die. He was insane and dehydrated. But that's still wrong and creepy.
23rd Timber, 256
Sazir has made a bracelet out of Dastot's bones. He calls it Lidodmugshith Inruslam, and claims it in the name of the family ancestor Kadol Boltslings.
That's really creepy. Urdim agrees. She witnessed Dastot's death firsthand, and she was horrified by it. But she still says we should show mercy.
24th Timber, 256
Did Sazir just accuse
himself of killing Dastot? I'm confused. Does he think what he did was wrong?
25th Timber, 256
Carch committed another crime at some point, and today he was beaten. Killermartian kicked the hand that Carch was using to hold his crutch, tearing muscle and bruising bone. I'm not sure Carch will be able to walk anymore, or even hold anything. I'm sure SQman will do her best to patch him up, though.
1st Moonstone, 256
It's been exactly one year since I became overseer. As per the rules, it's time to step down.
Despite it all, I'm feeling confident about the fortress. I think I'm comfortable stepping down as overseer. We will be successful.
Notes to my successor: there are two levers in the tavern. The east should be linked to the Breakfast Pit tunnel bridge if it isn't already, and the west one will open/shut the zombie hatch. It needs to be open for marksdwarves to practice, but if you don't shut it, dwarves might fall in as they collect the bolts.