Overseer's Log, Year 178.
Entry 4:
Today marks the end of my stint as overseer. The grey skies from the north are starting to give way to the desert sun, and through the clouds in the swamp, I can see green showing on the trees, marking the beginning of spring. I fear I have accomplished very little this past year, but at least life has been mostly peaceful.
The one exception to this was the werepig attack. When it arrived, Salmeuk and Mateusz were on the second floor of the Bright Temple. Salmeuk wisely retreated into the fortress, leaving the Siege Breakers to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, Mateusz decided to be a hero, climbed down to meet the monster, and was promptly dismembered. Shortly thereafter, Blurian repeated the performance on the pig. He even bit the beast, in his words, "To see if it tasted like pork."
Mateusz was clearly bitten multiple times, and was deemed too dangerous to be resurrected. Thankfully, the loss of one member of the fortress was rectified by the addition of a new one.
With the state of the world, a birth is some truly good news.
Progress on my projects was sparse. From the advent of the plan to roof the swamp, construction of the Bright Temple essentially ceased. The second floor remains incomplete and unwalled, leaving an open path into the fortress. It was allowed to remain this way to speed up the work on the glass roof. The roof actually began to take form in the last month or two, as the flat panes beyond the tower, and the sloped glass up to the main roof both received a minor amount of work.
The last of my large projects has also received less attention than its importance warrants. The adamantine spire has only been partially explored on on one level, and found on another. The workshops to process it have not even been constructed, although a space for them has been cleared around the spire.
The only other event of importance was the apparent possession of a Planter.
I ordered the less valuable gems locked away, and he obligingly took the star sapphire and star ruby for his work. In the end, he produced a wonderful platinum cap. It is a true testament of dwarven skill.
ooc:I didn't end up breaching the second cavern layer. I'll let someone with better skill at marksdwarf control take out the gassy beast down there.
If the next person wants to continue work on the swamp greenhouse, the general layout should be fairly clear. Beyond where walls can be built there will be flat floor, while inside there, the roof will go up another level to clear the top of the tower. For the ambitious overseer, it might be wiser to suspend construction if it, close the swamp back up, and let the rest of the dwarves out of the indoors burrow, which I slightly updated.
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