SummerWith spring behind us, I thought the rest of the year was going to be easy and hands off. This was a big mistake that would come back to bite me in the ass, repeatedly.
3rd of hematite, Captain of the Guard Medtub gets possessed and claims a craftsdwarf workshop. At this exact same time, one of our fisherdwarves that has become haggered by the nightmare that is her and life throws a tantrum in the tavern. She calmed down eventually, but punched many a respectable dwarf in the face. I’m glad I set up the justice system when I did. Unfortunately our captain of the guard is possessed so we’ll have to wait a bit until she can deal with this.
A few weeks latter a human caravan arrived with enough ore to sink a ship. Our smiths will be vary happy with this stuff. Medtob just finished her artifact (a wooden figurine) so she’s now off to sentence our tantrum prone fisherdwarf. The sentence was a beating and a month in prison. Unfortunately, Medtub didn’t have a hammer so she delivered a brutal beat down with her fists.
Spent most of the rest of the summer building bins to improve our storage. The Mayor also mandated one more earring.
After that just some minor house keeping as we coast into fall.
AutumnAnother moody dwarf. They just keep coming don’t they? He was caught by a fey mood and sized a carpenters workshop. He made pretty nifty little crutch.
The dwarven caravan arrived. We used them to unload some of our old socks for more ore. In moving our goods to the depot I may have accidentally released a cave troll. No worries though, It was struck down almost immediately by a macedwarf. Mayor banned the export of earrings again.
I’ve started construction on the new war bear pen. This will be a living and training area for our prospective army of war bears. It's situated near the entrance of the fortress so the bears can alert us of any intruders that try to enter the fort. Nothing will be able to stop us with these bears.
I'll be honest, there wasn't much this fall with the exception of a vary special surprise
And what do you know! Two more cubs. I swear armok has blessed this place.
WinterAs the first snows of winter fell, they brought with them a host of vile darkness. Three dozen nightcreatures silently approached, their footsteps muffled by the newly fallen snow. These were Silvercastle’s Soldiers, vile four horned humanoids covered in sparse charcoal feathers. Before we even had time to pull the lever they were past the first gate. A few poor dwarfs were caught outside. They tried to run but were chased down and killed.
We managed to close the vary last gate before they got into the heart of the fortress, but at a terrible cost. Many civilians were killed, most tragically our mayor. He was surrounded and cut down on the spot. Not even his powers over life and death could save him. Almost our entire military has been slaughtered. They even breached the war bear pens. All the adult bears are dead, only 2 cubs survived. They are hiding out in an above ground tavern where the Silvercastle’s Soldiers haven’t found them yet.
Population is now 106. We are sealed off from the outside world until the siege lifts. Another necromancer was elected mayor and immediately mandated three spears. The Hedgehog is fine.
The remainder of the winter has been spent cleaning up the gore and massively expanding our catacombs. It is like a nightmare in here. Corridors choked in miasma, the floor slick with blood. In the midst of all this, a fisher dwarf has been possessed. He made a mitten.
But now it’s the 1st of granite and I’m off. I’ve managed to clean up most of the indoor miasma but we’re still under siege. Also, a forgotten beast made of snow wandered into the caverns but it got killed by a giant cave toad. Whoever takes over this god forsaken fortress next, you have my sympathies.
And with that, Here's the save:
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=15674edit. I fixed the url
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