6th Slate, 256Poor Muthkat died today. We were all expecting it but it's still a sad day. He will most likely be the last dwarf intered in the old archives as the first chambers of the mausoleum will soon be ready.
Meeting in Urvads officeUrvad stairs in shock at the 2 dwarfs in front of him.
"So, let me get this straight - we don't currently have any coffins empty?"
Both dwarfs nod vigorously.
"So, you hauled Muthkat to the corpse pile outside the gate. Then, you, urist - dumped him into the disposal pit where we threw the bodies from the goblin sieges?"
Both of them nod, happy to clear this up.
"I can see why you would have moved the body, what with it lying in the stairwell upsetting everyone who walked past, but why throw him into the pit?"
Urist shrugs, "Well librarian, the production order says, all corpses in the pit area go down the pit, nothing about only enemy corpses."
Urvad can only stare. "That brings up another question, I checked at new year and we had 2 tombs free, I've looked again and those 'free' coffins contain a puppy and a cavy. Care to explain?"
"They were beloved pets! We couldn't throw them down the pit! Besides, standing order for tombs is first come first s..."
Urvad interupts with a raised hand. "I get the message. OK, you can go, I'll deal with this."
Urvads diaryIt's a good job I went to pay my final respects to Muthkat or no one would have mentioned anything until his decay without a proper burial started to upset people. I've ordered the wall to the base of the burial pit torn down, someone is going to have to go move his body into a proper coffin. I guess it should be me as I failed to set the orders up for our tombs correctly. I suppose it's a good job the catacombs are nearly complete.
16th Slate 256Alarmingly this one is on the first cavern layer - I've ordered the drawbridge closed. However, this creature seems to lack the deadly firebreath or noxious secretions of previous beasts.
17th Slate, 256The Punches of craft are moved into position, with the drawbridge lowered, they move out into the cavern.
They arrive at the beasts last known location to find nothing but the broken tails of Shedim and a sad pile of ash. The tracks of a giant cave crocodile and spider can be seen in the moss and fungus, but their is no sign of them now.
There was a 3 way battle between the giant cave crocodile, a giant spider and Shedim. The crocodile won, but had to go have a lie down to sleep off the effects of the giant cave spider venom.
26th slate, 256Mebzuth, our CMD grabbed me today to discuss his treatment of our 2 injured miners, Momuz is in traction, while an overlapping fracture of his left shoulder heals. He also suffered compound fractures of the right upper arm, left hand,
right hand and right wrist. These have all now been cleaned and sutured, however his right wrist is infected.
Sarvesh' wounds were less serious - a compound fracture of the upper right arm, now sutured and splinted. Unfortunately it is infected. Nonetheless, Mebzuth believes that if they survive the infection, both will recover. Sarvesh has already returned to work.
8th FalsiteI've ordered the floodgates re-opened to refill the cavern 1 cistern, we are nearly out of water and everyone appreciates a soapy bath.
A Craftsdwarfs guildhall has been completed, it's fairly basic, just a small converted storeroom in the old fort with some nice statuary added and the walls and floor smoothed, but the craftsdwarfs seem happy with it.
We have an excess of pig tails, so it's time to produce some cloth, as well as much more paper, as we have run out of blank scrolls.
15th FelisteDeng Smokemaligns, the visiting goblin schemer who was convicted of trying to steal Vaultspin, our highly sought after tower cap animal trap, as found at the bottom of the library stairs with a mangled shoulder and leg following an apparent suicide attempt. I guess being imprisoned and then trapped in a cage for many months until we noticed and freed her has not done much for her sanity.
Come to think of it, she's been slowly wandering the fort, refusing to eat for years. She claims to be trying to leave but never has, in spite of there being no barrier to her doing so.
OOC - @recon1o6: Some options for Dwarfs:
Lor Pagebears - near legendary hammerdwarf - currently not stressed, amateur stone-crafter
Zuglar Bridgeempire - Near legendary hammerdwarf - I'd expect him to be a complete emotional wreck (due to hating war and really wanting a peaceful life), but his stress is currently -46000
Both of the above are suffering still from cave adaptation and are members of the militia squad "The Machines of Crewing".
We've also got a few Marksdwarfs, some of them are probably headed to a nervous breakdown though, for reasons discussed in earlier posts.