Ok; I started up the save, but haven’t played yet. Just looked around, and dwarfed myself. Which raises an important question: are there any dorfing requests? Or is this an overseer-only club?
My avatar is going to be a migrant from the latest wave - a law-abiding, craft-admiring, military-respecting dwarfette who dreams of making a masterwork. Oh, and she worships the god of volcanoes and fortresses. She seems both the dwarfiest dwarf to ever dwarf, and the blandest bland to ever bland.
The imgur album for the intro is going to be
here. Might be worth a look, not all pictures in the album make it in the post, and imgur does have image zooming, unlike the forum.
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11th Obsidian 179.Hello, dear diary cum operations log!
Or let’s be frank: hello to you, who’ve come across this small booklet, and are reading my words. My likely amateurish words, as never in my 66 years of life have I ever kept a diary or any other kind of journal, or written any prose.
Nonetheless, I have begun one now, in preparation of forwarding my candidacy as overseer of this fort, SmithSoldier, in the year 180. Or the years after, if I am not elected in the coming weeks.
I think it wise to have a personal report on the leadership decisions made in a fort; the logs and stocks that are kept as part of normal operation tend to obscure and gloss over the reason why decisions were made, or not made. And at worst, should the fortress come to a disastrous end under my rule, it would at least serve to provide context, and perhaps help future overseers in their own years.
As to why I have chosen to become overseer, especially having arrived here less than half a year ago? Because the fort is… suboptimal. There is nothing truly wrong with it; its economy is flourishing, and it has already broken the power of the neighboring goblin pit of KindledTicks, then sent razing parties to the pit of EqualHated (more on those later...). But it could be better, and this is what has irked me enough to move. This fort is merely adequate, when it could be a masterwork.
There are, it must be said, extenuating circumstances - the current overseer, for instance, is a were-chameleon, and has imprisoned himself in a single room for the good of the fort. From what I have been told, the aptly-titled DwarvenLord has been infected with the curse two years ago, when he was in the military. I greatly respect his self-sacrifice, and it would seem I am not the only one, given his election. But I’m convinced his isolation did impact his performance as overseer - there are far too many things which must be seen with one’s own eyes, before orders are made.
23rd Obsidian.
Overseer DwarvenLord has been sealed into his room, once again. I… do not agree. I’ve subtly asked some details over a beer, of both Ryukan, who did the deed, and Rimtar TaperBasement, one of his few friends. Their motive seems to have been, just, tradition. That once the term as overseer has ended, he should be kept away from the fortress. I have not said anything to them, but it makes little sense; here’s a dwarf who held the greatest elected office in a fort, but let’s seal him away from any dwarven contact indefinitely, because that’s what cursed dwarves get? Did the curse not bother you at all when you have chosen him as leader? Let us ignore that he still is oversser, until the year turns...
Another comment, made by Rimtar, has awakened a shred of paranoia for me: Rimtar does not consider the DwarvenLord as a friend, merely a long-term acquaintance. DwarvenLord, however, has named Rimtar as one of his few friends in the world. Perhaps there is more at work than I am aware of; I’ll do nothing on the matter for now. But I reserve the right to interfere; I value friendship, and if this is a plot to abuse it, I will take personal offense.
Rimtar’s relations:
DwarvenLord’s relations:
28th Obsidian. Also as per tradition, the next overseer has been revealed today: I have won. I will be the next overseer, having competed only with Salmeuk, and no-one else. I will need to take a closer look at Salmeuk - we have not even been acquainted until now, and I’ll always presume that a dwarf who succeeded in becoming overseer is a cut above the rest; perhaps he is a relation worth cultivating.
But that is very far down my list of priorities. Right now, I will celebrate with a drink, and then I will take over the fort.
180 is to be my year. I will make it count.
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I hope you enjoyed the light dusting of Roman consulship which I added to the position of overseer. Great artists steal, and yes being consul was a Very Big Deal in Rome; Romans didn’t count years the way we do, they’d refer to them by who was consul; that’s suspiciously similar to how we manage years
Fear not DwarvenLord, your were-dwarf-chameleon will remain untouched; I just poked at the situation, found the discrepancy between relations, and made a story out of it. It did incidentally leave me with a convenient in for later, but I have exactly zero plans involving your avatar.
About dwarf-Salmeuk, I'm not even kidding. My dwarf has 2 and a half pages of 'passing acquaintances', but Salmeuk isn't among them. Far as I can tell, she might have never met him. (Alllso, my dwarf has no family. Zip, zero, nada. It's like she got spawned on the bridge, fully-formed; it's a bit suspicious, if I'm honest.)
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