Decided on adding to the battlements, to include the tower.
Journal of Kazindir Tölunkeskal Emal Savot, Captain of the Guard, Kulettögum11th Malachite
Endok has carved an excellent engraving on one of the pillars above the tomb shafts. It's a real masterpiece rendition of a lungfish, the symbol of our original expedition. He then went and got drunk, reminiscing about capturing wildlife and chasing elephants.
12th Malachite
Endok has mandated that the current lines of traps at the outer entrances are to be dismantled and the cage traps scattered accross the wilderness where they will hopefully catch interesting animals for him to train. I've takent he opportunity to approve an expansion to the keep to allow marksdrawves a greater field of fire over the arena and western gate.
13th Malachite
A section of the keep has collapsed into the moat! It the collapse badly wounded a donkey and swept Valter and a child into the moat itself.
A rescue operation has been mounted but both are currently unconcious in the carp in fested moat so it doesn't look good for them.
14th Malachite
Valter was rescued successfully but unfortunately Atis, the child, had drowned by the time the rescue stairs were carved.
18th Malachite
The human merchants have left and a gem cutter was seen up on the western walls waving his arms around and doing a funny dance before he ran off, grabbed some fire opals and brown zircons and hid in the jewelers workshop. Very strange.
28th Malachite
The gem cutter has reemerged brandishing a fine fire opal sceptre.
Kanzududesh, "Conventskins", a Fire opal sceptre. It is encrusted with fire opan and menaces with spikes of brown zircon.
2nd Galena
Construction on the road has been mysteriously halted. The masons won;t say why, they just say they were unable to complete it so gave up....
I've told them to go back and finish the bloody road.
7th Galena
Unib Tadzon has become a legenday champion!
9th Galena
Oh dear. The childcorpse in the moat has started to produces clouds of foul miasma - why didn't anyone fish it out and bury the poor thing when they rescues Valter?
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The new fortification construction area is now covered in vomit and whisps of a terrible stench meander through the stone blocks.
19th Limestone
The dwarven caravan has arrived the the Duchess has had the Hammerer execute a mason for failing to make her somethig o0ut of green glass. I tried explaiing to the Duchess that we had no glass of any sort and no way of getting some but...
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On checking the paperwork I saw that the Hammerer has two licensed executions to his name so far, the above mason and Keldor, sometime in 1058 last year. I was never told about that!
28th Limestone
Dresdor is still drinking. A lone woodcutter called Wulfgar arrived today - apparently he had arrived just before the short lived nutter whose ashed are now at teh top of the tower was struck by lightning and promptly left to tell the mountainhomes what happened. He's now busy making a barrel.
6th Sandstone
Dresdor has walked past the trade depot twice now, I think he is trying to build up suspense.
10th Sandstone
Trading has happened!
13th Sandstone
A dog waiting to be trained found a kobold theif today. With a couple of wardogs nearby, it was quickly eaten.
5th Timber
A gem cutter has somehow managed to be badly wounded by an alligate hatchling. A
hatchling!10th Timber
A butcher gave birth to a baby girl a the front gates today. Doesn't strike me as the best place to give birth but needs must I suppose.
The gem cutter who lost a fight with a hatchling has also bled to death by the road construction works.
I'm playing with 39e, so have been reading all the engravings. Keldor, if it's any consolation for your brutal hammering death quite a few of the engravings celebrate your rise as leader in 1051 (I guess thr founding of the fortress).
I also noticed a potentially epic story of love and betrayal set against the background of a salt mine gone madde!
Kazindir had for the first few years a lover called Solon Atticace, one of the original melee squad dwarves. She died at some point, I had assumed during one of the rather messy goblin attacks the fortress has had. Harsh but thats what you get for living in carp infested salt mines.
However on checking some of the engravings on Kazindir's new tomb I saw this next to the door:
"Engraved on the wall is a superiorly designed image of Solon Atticace the dwarf and dwarves by Oddom Alathilum. Solon Atticace is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the rise of the dwarf Solon Atticace as an enemy of The Ordered Board in the late winter of 1053."
Bearing in mind that The Ordered Board is the name of the group of dwarves who founded the fortress....what happened here! No wonder Kazindir doesn't really care about anything any more.
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