23rd malachite
There are so many bricked up doorways here, oozing damp and covered
in mosses and fungi.
I have come to realise that the place is a death-trap.
Most of the waterworks are really temporary measures,
crumbling after perhaps a decade.
Wulfgar Openthroat was killed today.
I hope we do not flood.
24th malachite
These stupid, stupid dwarves!
They keep going to the alligator pits and dying.
I am sending out our champions and a squad of peasants.
I made sure I didn't like them, which left me with all of them.
Then again, this ledgendary farmer there...
He has arms like barrels.
He'll handle it.
Actually, I'll send him the soldiers anyway.
Curses! My latest report tells me he's just fallen off the top of a cliff.
He looks badly wounded, but he'll pull through.
A shattered left forearm and numerous bruises and cuts, apparently.
25th malachite.
The soldiers are on their way as the brave planter limps off.
I believe we may have to use a dwarven atom-smasher soon,
as our clerks say that the amounts of stone are somewhat absurd.
An atom-smasher is a bridge-like device that literally
crushes the rubbish into a fine powder.
26th malachite.
Apparently the champions simply kicked the 'gators off the
cliff.
I wish I had seen it, but then I would be in the light.
I finally allowed our people to go up
and collect what was left of the dead, ranging
from mauled corpses to just a few fragments of weathered bone.
It is a shame we do not have a real necropolis.
Valter's tomb goes well.
3rd galena
A farmer has walled himself up onto the top of Nist Akath
yard.
Sometimes, I wonder if we dwarves really are the chosen race of Armok.
There were no migrants this year, and I'm not surprised.
At least 6 dwarves have died this year, probably more.
4th galena
I was asked by the dwarves of this fortress to make a memorial
to kazandir and all who fell in that battle.
I had to do some quick thinking, and said that the arch was his memorial
as it looks rather like an armour stand from a distance.
No-one seemed to mind that it was being built long before
I even arrived, but it's best not to dwell on it. Dwarves will often
believe anything if it makes them happy, like "stand under this bridge and I'll
give you a puppy. I'll give you a donkey if you pull that lever
as well."
Happy days.
6th galena
A royal guard has suffocated. It must have been some terrible sparring injury.
Saw the Tostoslan boy again, fussing with his precious sound-thrower.
I said I'd lock him in a spiky iron cage if he didn't get back to work.
20th galena.
Not much has happened. A fish cleaner died of thirst in a land covered in damp
the hammerer demands an
item in their bedroom.
No, restrain yourself.
No ballistas pointing at the bed, no weapon traps behind doors, no surprise
alligators in cupboards.
He can have an armour stand. Progress on everything is, as usual,
almost amusingly slow. Almost.
The human guild reperesentative left today.
Good riddance.
25th galena
The 1st floor of nist akath yard is nearly complete, with the barracks and offices laid out.
Valter's tomb is finished.
27th galena
Had to skimp on the golden statue and replaced it with a polished
sylvite one with some brass plating and gold leaf.
No-one on the ground will notice unless they have some kind of
magical eye.
1st limestone
Autumn has arrived, and therefore, dwarvern traders.
I plan to empty their caravan of useful goods, and
fill it with fine crafts of our making. Apparently,
Dresdor isn't actually the trader, it is some peasant
fish cleaner, ad dresdor is rather senile, according to the
other nobles, and apt to forget the traders.
Another human has arrived.
OOC
I'm certainly cracked in the head to manage this fort.
The place is running well, I'm getting pretty good fps because I have a powerful single core from back in t' day instead of a shiny new multi-core thingy.
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