Journal of the Tavern Keeper Overseer 10th of Felsite 163Grim news today, our legendary miner and grower both Iteb Ikthadodok has passed away due to infection on the way to the farm. He never got treated with soap for the injury the late Sigun inflicted upon him and caught the infection as a result.
He will be sorely missed. I have commissioned a gold coffin for him as someone who has contributed greatly to Smallhands
I will take his death to heart and teach the fortress the lesson of having enough soap, especially with all that filth around. As proof of this lesson to the fortress, I have ordered all 25 beak dog hatchlings that spawned in the last few days butchered for tallow then soap
A short while later I also heared more insane necromancers sounds, this time from the tower. Looks like old Spriggan's finally discovered he has no way out of there.
Journal of the Tavern Keeper Overseer 25th of Felsite 163In spite of the days with goo outweighing days without goo, some members of the fort managed to do significant work removing the tower steps ready for my ballista battery which also had the parts completed earlier though not to the quality I had hoped for unfortunately. Other members of the military were also up here training as usual, some dodging demonstration of some kind that I was too busy drinking to attend to.
That being said the military really should clean up some time, just look at all the mess in the arena!
Fortunately for them before I could chew them out a large cheer erupted from downstairs- KingZultan had finally surpassed me at clothcraft and made a masterwork sock.
Ah well, at least my new rooms finally got finished! Smoothing next followed by some masterwork or exceptional furniture
The new prison cells and Salmeuk's room are dug too and also in need of smoothing
Journal of the Tavern Keeper Overseer 9th of Hematite 163With summer comes heat, and heat tends to make people a bit crazy. Or in Dastot's case stumble around obliviously a few times followed by a tantrum that thankfully hurt nothing.
Regardless, just in case I have given her an elven wood spear and sent her off to explore jeweldusks and cactushexes. If she comes back, then its off to the goblin pit to see if she can retrieve something of value to the fort while simultaniously keeping her away for if she breaks down.
Perhaps Spriggan's yelling has gotten to her. I know a few people have complained that his ranting and raving has caused them to cancel their stockpiling orders a few times out of fear he's casting every curse he can to escape. He won't of course regardless of the vile goo raining on his tower.
In other news has anybody seen our new hammerer lately?
Journal of the Tavern Keeper Overseer 15th of Hematite 163Confound it!
I was reading a book by our resident mad mage in the tower spriggans named "The truth about the dwarf". Its a book about himself losing a fight to a troll of all things because he was focused on the details and lost sight of his end goal- a typical dwarven issue. Though I can sympathise, given the troll in question was
Deslo Vaultedtexts The Idol of TaxesI'm sincerely glad we don't have any bridges for the mountainhomes to tax is this is what they are capable of
That said I'm ashamed to say this might just be one of the problems with smallhands- we have no goal to strive for now we cut off the goblin's expansion short of destroying them all which while fun does leave us the question of what to do next.
So today as Overseer, in a bid to make my Overseership worth remembering, I have designated a monument to smallhands to be created. A giant metal tankard standing above the surface with a small hand on the end of it forever highlighting our glory and defiance in face of the goo, goblins and necromancers.
Alas I am unable to determine a method of pumping magma up to the top without flooding the trading stockpile so I will need to make do with turning it into the new place for the tavern.
There was also the small matter of not having enough stone to create the furniture intended nor the states of the Overseers that I was going to put inside. New mining order fixed that though
In other news, the human diplomat arrived a few days ago, exchanged pleasantries and buggered off again. Didn't even stop for a drink at my tavern!
Rigoth also finished making her artifact, "The obscure battles". A useful weapon rack, I had it installed in my bedroom of course since Rigoth isn't in the military. That said, I'm curious how she made this artifact- she took a chisel to it so many times in the masonry shop without a hammer with precision on par with our legendary miners.
Finally, Dastot got herself captured by goblins. I'm not rescuing her given her previous conduct and lack of any useful skills. I had myself a little private toast after hours to commemerate the removal of such a troublesome individual in a way nobody suspected.
A note to my successors, don't bother rescuing her. 49532 stress and no skills beyond proficient is not worth the trouble.
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