Chapter #12 - Chapter of Belated Updates
"Gee this pyramid is taking a long time to build..." though the Queen to herself as she stared at the massive hollow edifice. It was almost as if the pyramid was hanging their, suspended in space time. In fact...now that she though of it...she hadnt really been doing much lately but sit in her throne room. Time seemed to just drag on.
Hmmph...oh well.
On with 241.
The year dragged on forever and a day. It took months for anything to get done on the pyramid. The Stonecutters had to repeatedly go down below and mine more dolomite. The stone stockpiles were growing mighty sparse. It was an amazing achievement...never before seen by any fortress in Sil Gomath. These dwarves were actually running out of stone.
In her frustration and her ADHD, Queen Urist shifted the attention of the Stonecutters towards building a great outer wall for the temple. The palisade wall had long been torn down and a ditch for a moat had been dug. Now the masons stacked diorite along the inner edges of the empty moat.
In their labors, Queen Urist accidentally worked one of the dwarves to death.
Bah! He was just some nameless heathen. It was odd though. The Queen was absolutely bewildered how a dwarf could die of thirst here in a fortress flowing with running rivers, several wells, many murky pools, and storerooms overflowing with all kinds of booze.
Investigative teams were organized to figure out if poor old Asob had gotten ledged up or boxed in somewhere. But after months of fruitless searching, and with no obvious miasma clouds, Urist shrugged and figured he had been buried.