13th of Granite, 1058Work on our latest war project continues apace...
...interrupted only by brief killings of the undead.
I witnessed Deler's arm reanimate on the workshop floor, and I have since sealed the hole from which that rat crawled-- but these gorlaks! Whence these gorlaks? How do they penetrate our defenses? I do not know.
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As the cage-works progress, I recieve joyous news from the surface. The goblins have left us!
Only the undead now remain above. I am nearly sorry to see them go, for now we shall have only the walking corpses on which to test our traps and our cunning-- but now we shall have time, time to raise mighty works upon the surface world!
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18th of Granite, 1058I wake to a blood-chilling cry.
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"Forgotten beast!" shouts Oddom the wrestler. "Forgotten beast in the stockpiles!" I rush below, dreading the scene of horror that awaits me...
...and find nothing?
I approach Oddom, who stands over a stairway, terrified. She points down the stairway, which opens abruptly into a cavernous void: "There! See? Forgotten beast!"
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OOC: As it turns out, the stockpile here is separated from the first cavern only by a thin slate floor... and a certain up-down stairway
punches through that floor, giving dwarves a peep-hole to gaze upon the horrors below... and giving cavernous climbers and flyers an open route into the fortress proper. Oops.
"It
spat at me!"
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So here, then, is the mystery of the sneaking gorlaks! I mark the offending stairway to be sealed off, so that no more creeping abominations from below might frighten my fellow dwarves. I also resolve to have words with the idiot who put that stairway there.
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Oddom tells me that the idiot I seek was none other than Daedalus himself, and that he is dead now. She points me to the hole in which his body lies
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. . .
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and I shout angrily at his skeleton for awhile.
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This does not make me feel better.