Wave of immigrants has arrived!
Written by Kipi Twisturns at the 21st of Limestone, year 1051.
The migrants that came earlier were correct, more people were journeying towards Helmfist. And today they arrived at the entrance, asking to be allowed to join our community. And there is no reason to not allow them in. But before they were let in I interviewed each one of them for their backgrounds, relations and skills. When everything is finally setting down we don't need any chaos here. I don't need nor want any chaos here.
The interview was quickly done. It turned out that there was this one fellow, called Saintlance, who was high master mason and has some skills in metalsmithing as well. That's good, both skills are needed. For now I'm going to put his masonry skills in use, and later perhaps move him to work with metals. Masons are easy to find, not ones with skills with metals.
With the group came also one dwarf, Rulerglaze I think was his name, who is very talented in butchering. That is good, as no meat should be wasted at this moment. I talked to Rockmob, who has been doing bot butchering and tanning, if he was interested in concentrating to tanning only and leaving the butchery to new guy. He said it would be fine to him, though it will meen less work to do to him.
There was also one stonecrafter among the migrants. Now, I don't think we need two crafters in a long run, but at this point we need everything we can for trading some supplies, so at this point I'm going to order another crafting workshop to be build, and appoint this new fellow to work with Fountainweight.
Lastly, for "useful" dwarves, there was this lad called Appearmetla, who has some knowledge of fighting. In fact, she was the one who took the role of guard of the migrant group. Now, we don't have any military set yet, heck we don't even have barracks, but setting one will be matter soon enough, so I must begin to check out potential soldiers immediately. So far the role of leader of the military is already given to Zanziik for her knowledge of axes. I had already promised that position to her when we arrived here, and there is no way I'm going to break that promise, even when taking in account the recent flooding accident. There is also this lad, Tiphareth Paddleponder, who knows her way with maces, armor and defending. So she could be third to be appointed in military. Now there is a interesting thing, all three of us who has shown some promises in combat are all female. Not saying it's bad thing, just a interesting thing I noticed.
Rest of the migrants, well, the didn't possess any skills we need right now. But hauling, that's something everybody can always do, and that's something which is always needed to be done. So for now they will perform hauling tasks, which in turn should help to keep industries running more smoothly. None has shown any disagreement thus far, so I think that one is settled.