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[Keldor]

Excerpts from the journal of Endok Monongbesmar:

1st Limestone, 1064:

This morning I was hauling rocks up from the deep quarry to build the abbey when I ran into Valter!  He says that his back feels a lot better now, and that he was heading back to work in the mines again.  I caught a glimpse of his lower back through his X≡«Pig tail coat»≡X and it surely looked a lot better, even if it was still somewhat swollen and bruised.

[Keldor]

11th Limestone, 1064:

The caravan has arrived!  Perhaps they'll bring us some nice stone blocks to build with!

[Keldor]

13th Limestone, 1064:

A vile force of darkness has just been sighted, and worse, the caravan has not yet made it entirely within the safety of the walls!  Still, it could be worse.  Kazari tells me that it's just a roving warband, with no real leaders.  I hope she's right.

[Kazindir]

Hmm, want to see a map for the abbey now

[Keldor]

The screenshot a couple posts up is pretty much the way it still is - The foundations still haven't reached the surface yet, so there's not much to see other than some pillers underground which will support the main columns.  I expect that the abbey will take many years to actually finish.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

can I have the 2nd go in round 5?
I can probably do it now since I upped the processor power and got rid of nasty-slowing-down things on my pc.

[Keldor]

I just added maggarg to the list again.  Now, just don't go all Halltraded on us.  XD

[Mad Larks]

I love how this turned from a humble idea of a saltmine into a fort of grand constructions and now also plans for a massive cathedral.

[Keldor]

15th Limestone, 1064:

The merchants have all safely arrived within the fortress walls.  The marksdwarves are standing ready in the gatehouse.  Now all that remains is the waiting game.  I hate that part.



Why is Thob standing alone to guard the bridge?  Where's the rest of his squad??

[Keldor]

16th Limestone, 1064:

The battle has begun!  But what's this?  Kazari says that the first group of goblins is already on the run, routed with our marksdwarves' first volley!  I guess they really are a disorganized warband.  When I went to check if the fallen goblins had any nice socks I noticed that the fleeing goblins far outnumbered their fallen comrades.

[Keldor]

17th Limestone, 1064:

The second group of goblins is now in full retreat!



Meanwhile, there's a fierce battle ongoing between Onib, Thob, and a whole bunch of goblins!





Victory is ours!

[Keldor]

Excerpts from the journal of Ustuth Elbellogem, King Consort:

17th Limestone, 1064:

Evidently we were besieged by goblins, but our military drove them all away.  Our manager, what was her name?  Koziri?  Nevermind the name, she said that work continued throughout the siege without any interruption.  Jolly good, except for the part about the work being done on the moat project, and not my wondrous abbey!  She even had the audacity to give some silly excuse about this diversion, something about the miners breaching the moat and flooding the entire fort, why they should be digging there and not building the abbey I have no idea!  My sweet tootsie would have known what to do, oh yes!  She would have this silly manager chained up and hammered, that's what she'd do!  Oh that I had some of her strength of resolve!  Iron-fisted they used to call her, and what an appropriate title, for she stopped at nothing to force the filthy masses to do their duty!  Oh, I miss her so!

[Keldor]

21st Limestone, 1064:

We offer them a good deal, and those lowly merchants dare to demand more!  This is a disgrace!  If they will not trade for a fair price, then they do not deserve to trade at all.  I have ordered that their goods be seized.  Perhaps they will think twice about attempting to extort their King in the future!  I think my sweet tootsie would have been proud.

[Keldor]

Excerpts from the journal of Endok Monangbesmar:

21st Limestone, 1064:

The King Consort flew into a rage today and turned the merchants away, without their goods.  They were so nice as to bring what we needed too, lots of steel, steel weapons, steel armor, steel trap parts, steel crafts, and large gems for Jools.  I hope they come back next year.

[Keldor]

28th Limestone, 1064:

Jools has mandated the cutting of another large gem.  Apparently the ones the King Consort seized weren't enough for him.  The Duke has insisted that a lay pewter throne be erected in his bedroom.  Life in Abbeyverse goes on as usual.

At least our Duchess Consort has come to her senses, and has merely imprisoned a brewer for a month and a half for failing to produce adamantite.