Journal of Miner Ushat Keskarul - Autumn of 202
23rd Limestone
Haven't had much time to write this month. Very busy in the fortress. The dwarven caravan arrived earlier in the month and we traded them lots of stone trinkets and goblin leftovers for weapons, armor, metals, and other things we need. Also earlier in the month I started a shrine to Geshud Savedgravel. The little Rakust-worshipper Monom built a temple to Rakust last year, and it seemed sad that this fortress had a shrine to the god of suicide, but not to the god of fortresses. I'm building Geshud's shrine in part of a mined-out vein of Limonite and planning on giving him a golden statue, using the gold we found at the beginning of the year. We still haven't found the end of that vein, but we haven't been rushing. There's been plenty more for the miners to do around the fortress, and we mined out more gold than we can use already.
20th Sandstone
I swear, that Zefon seems to do everything to get out of talking with the trading liaisons. I had to pull her out of another party. Evilcheerio keeps throwing them at the most inopportune moments.
5th Timber
We had another migrant wave yesterday. Only nine this time. We have enough dwarves now that it might be time to look into more security for the fortress. I took all of the immigrant peasants and made them into the fortress guard and made one of them, Udil, the guard captain. I should look into making a jail soon. Udil says that's important for morale. Dwarves are happier when they know people who piss them off get thrown in the dungeon. At least, that's what Udil says. What does he know, anyway? I just made him fortress guard yesterday.
13th Timber
When the last migrant wave arrived Zefon decided that "fortress administrator" wasn't a good enough title. She called ma aside and said that now that she was a "mayor" she would need some better things. She wants a bigger bedroom, a dining room all to herself, and a few other "necessities" like an armor stand. I've never seen her wear armor in her life. I don't think she's even touched a suit of armor!
In any case, we've started digging out more bedrooms for Zefon and the new immigrants. I put Sazir's stone bed in one of the rooms and told Zefon that'd be her new room. She was ecstatic about that, but said I wasn't working fast enough on her dining room. She says we need a hatch cover. I asked her what a hatch cover had to do with a dining room, but she just told me to get to work.
That woman is starting to get on my nerves.
6th Moonstone
We made Zefon her hatch cover, and her dining room, and her coffers, and her armor stand. I had the armor stand made out of gold, thinking it would make her happy. She said it was nice, but that she still needed a weapon rack. And two more hatch covers. ARGH!
I told the metalworkers to get about building a golden weapon rack right away, and they told me they didn't have any gold bars. Fine, I said, smelt some gold. The smelters said they didn't have any coke. Fine, make some coke out of lignite. They didn't have any charcoal to smelt the lignite. Finally I had to grab a wood burner by the beard and tell him to start making charcoal or I'd make him into charcoal.
I suppose I should've just made a stone weapon rack, but I'm hoping having a golden weapon rack to go with the golden armor stand would make Zefon forget about her Geshud-forsaken hatch covers.
Journal of Miner Ushat Keskarul - Winter of 202
18th Moonstone
Ambush! Again! The damned goblins jumped Ranger Sakzul and killed him before he had a chance to get off a shot. A couple of the wrestlers saw it happen. They knew they couldn't fight that many goblins themselves, so they tried to lure them back to the entrance and the traps, but the gobbos didn't take the bait. They're still up top. We don't know what they're waiting for but it's making me nervous.
23rd Moonstone
After days hiding we think the goblins are finally gone. Just today we caught four goblin snatchers, one after another, in the cage traps by the entrance. The goblin soldiers followed them in and triggered the remaining traps, then decided they had lost too many and fled. When we came back to the surface to survey the damage we found that all four dogs that had been chained at the gates were dead, and one of the cage traps in the "monkey trap" that Monom had set up had caught a goblin. I guess the bastard wondered what was in there and walked too far in. We tied up another dog to guard the entrance, but we're running short of war dogs. We have plenty of puppies, but they're too young to be trained. We'll have to wait until they're old enough to replenish our guard dogs.
22nd Opal
A week ago Goden the animal trainer was bringing Sazir some food when he suddenly gasped, dropped what he was carrying, and rushed to a craftsdwarf shop. I'm getting sick of these dwarves suddenly getting the urge to build things. Seven days later Goden emerged from the shop with a little statuette of a dog very messily killing a kobold, carved out of gneiss and decorated with praises, unicorn bones, silk, and shell. I didn't have the heart to tell him it's gaudy as hell. He told me it was called the Vegitation of Admirers. I looked at him blankly when he said this, and he told me it was poetic and symbolized how people would be green with envy when they looked at it. I thought they would be green with something else, seeing how the kobold's entrails were painstakingly modeled with strips of silk. We stashed it in the stockpile with all of Mebzuth trinkets. I suppose Goden's going to want to start making stone crafts now, too.
4th Obsidian
We finally dug out all of the gold vein yesterday, and today I had the last few cages placed for the jail. I hope we don't need to use them for a long while.
Zefon told me I was doing a great job, but that she needed some items made out of fine pewter. I asked her why, and she told me, "I'm mayor, that's why! Just do it." I swear... that woman...
28th Obsidian
Well, today is my last day as fortress administrator. Frankly, good riddance. I've had it up to here with Zefon, her fine pewter and her hatch covers. I searched through the stockpiles for days, looking for fine pewter. Zefon keeps those records herself, and I'm sure she wouldn't send us rushing to make fine pewter goods if she knew we had fine pewter, but there was none to be found. We had trifle and lay pewter, but no fine pewter. I considered melting down some of the copper and tin cages we had to make fine pewter, but I didn't think we'd have enough to make the number of pewter goods she wanted.
I'm leaving it up to my successor to explain to Zefon that no fine pewter equals no fine pewter goods. Maybe he'll have better luck than I have.
Pictures and the fortress data coming soon!
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