From the diary of Antlia Deduklimul (Manorgolds), the master engineer, the advisor of the major of Eternal Halls and the humble servant of Kervash the Crevices of Depth.
7 Obsidian, 105
To my surprise I have been chosen to lead this eternal fortress for a year. Maybe I should tell a bit about myself at first, before I start list the notes that I've made of this fort and what are my goals on my reign of terr period of rule.
I was born to a noble family, I think, but because of the Great Civil War of Dwarfkind I was given away, maybe because my parents wanted to protect me from the horrors of the war. I grew in a farmer family far from the mountainhomes, far from the war. When I was old enough my foster parents paid for my engineering training, cause they wanted me to leave to the cities beneath the mountains to become something, not just farm plump helmets in a little basement they had dug to the hill years ago.
And so, at the age of my adultness I left them (it had occured to me that I was never going to see them again) to make my way to the city to make money and hone my skills further. My skills never got better than a novice, but I soon realised that my skills were elsewhere. I was born to be a leader someday. I arrived into the city and lived harsh live, every day fighting for my life and soul in the merciless slums of the city. There were too many engineers far better than me, so I didn't get any jobs.
Few years ago I heard of an fortress said to be eternal, so I left there to gain money and power, in wich I have always had a lust for. the trek there was heavy, we had to fight the nature and it's children, the wildlife of the forests. Many were lost on the way but finally we got to our destination, the Eternal Halls. I started my career there, but soon I heard of an other dwarf named Antlia, who had just been killed accidentally before my arrival. I started thinking it carefully, because Antlia is a rather rare name among dwarves.
Finally I found out that he was from a noble family too and he was born in the excatly same city than I was. Last few days I have been trying to dig out this mystery.
I was promoted to be the advisor of the Mayor himself because of I seemed to fit to the job. The Mayor had kept some tests to pick a good dwarf to the mission and I had the best results in it. Now I'm the one to lead this fort for a year, because the Mayor is not so fond of really doing anything for this place.
And so, I have made some research and found out the points of interest in the Eternal Halls. According to them I've also formed a things-to-do list, wich is right here:
- Organize the military better. Right now we have one "real" military squad and one very big squad that seems to be an emergency squad to hide all of us deep into the fortress at the time of siege. I think it is not a very good idea to keep such a squad so I have to remove it and reorganize the military structure better.
- Train marksdwarves whis is something very important. We have to get an element of destruction to kill the gobbos at long range.
- Make some defences. At the time we don't have a wall to keep the goblins out, so I have to make one. Couple of pillboxes and watchtowers wuld be good too.
- Clean up. There is stone lying on every floor of the fortress. That is so irritating that I have to do something about it.
- Make more coffins to fill up the crypt. There are too few of them.
- Make wells. I didn't see any of them.
That's about it. I'll start tomorrow, today was too busy.
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