Shoruke's Log. 1st of Granite. Supplementary. (early spring, year 25)
One of the farmers came down with NCS today. Perhaps NCS is caused by strong emotions, and this particular dwarf is excited about the arena match? At least he chose a name done in dwarven style: Beer Fairsabers. Just take three random short words, and string them together. I approve. Even though it does make his full name a little long...
Also, I had that planter pull the lever to release the titan. Should be fun to watch...
Shoruke's Log. 20th of Granite. (early spring)
We released the titan. It killed a child and the hammerer with one punch each, strangled another child to a slow death, killed the countess and her baby in one shot each, and then failed to kill the tax collector. The titan broke his upper body and mangled his lower body, mangled his neck, and broke one of his legs, then became too tired to continue fighting. They remained locked in combat (the titan would periodically fall unconscious, presumably from exhaustion) for a week and a half or so, until I got tired of waiting and told Monk to pick up his crossbow. Monk picked up the crossbow, his quiver, and some bolts, and started firing. His first shot:
The titan died shortly after. The tax collector, no longer being strangled, bled to death a moment later.
The count consort is still alive. I'm leaving him and Monk in there (sorry Monk) until the count consort dies. Monk's food rotted away, but the count consort is already hungry and monk is not. I'm going to try to get Monk out of there using the levers (by stationing him near the bridge), and have him walk out while leaving the count consort inside. Failing that, I'll have Monk go through the door that leads to the rest of the fortress and have him lock it behind him.
The elves have come again. They actually came about a week ago. Of course, I took their stuff... and have locked them in the Green Glass Hallway. Now we're going to ballista them until they're all dead... or insane.
The happy-go-lucky news is that they brought us lots of wood for us to make more clear glass blocks out of. Speaking of which, the third level of The Tower is about halfway done; the floors on the inside perimeter are all set in place, now we just need to put the walls up and carve them into fortifications.
Shoruke's Log. 8th of Slate. (mid spring)
Not much has happened. We finally figured out some way of getting the bridge and the bars of the arena set up the way we want them... no all that's left is to see which happens first, the levers getting set up, or the count consort starving to death. He's hunting for vermin in there, to no avail. I ALMOST feel sorry for the guy... almost.
We ran out of ballista arrows to shoot at the elves with, and we haven't hit them at all. I'm going to have several ballistae set up at the end of the Green Glass Hallway, since the elves tend to mingle there when they're sealed in; then we can shoot them from point-blank range.
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