15th Granite, 1054
The fortress hums with activity, as our coal supplies are still limited, I assigned new miners and tasked them with delving a vast stair into the earth seeking Armok's lifeblood.
24th Granite, 1054
MIGRANTS! Filthy, stinking, lazy migrants. We don't even have beds and jobs for all the dwarves already in the fortress!
26th Granite, 1054
The last of the migrants arrived today. Those that have valuable skills have been put to work in our new metal industry. The others have menial jobs or are now part of our military.
1st Slate, 1054
We marked the start of the month by striking a vast underground cavern. We continued our stairs inside the vast stone columns spanning the caves so as not to allow any beasts into the fortress. Trees have been felled and additional barrels and bins fill daily. Our farms are well managed and I have been glad to let them work.
4th Slate, 1054
One of the dyers was apparently possessed today. I look forward to the fruits of his labor.
20th Slate, 1054
The storage situation is beyond help, I told the chief miner to dig a massive storeroom below the workshop levels in an attempt to generate space. All the workshops are turning out products in huge numbers. We finally have iron armor and weaponry. Sadly, with no flux to make steel, they will have to make do til we find a solution.
13th Felsite, 1054
The mayor burst into my office and demanded that I prevent any export of ballista parts. Since we have no siege works I didn't see how that would be an issue, but I made her sign a decree that I was to get a bigger bedroom in return. I fear with a mayor this dim it is only a matter of time before someone else is screaming mandates.
16th Felsite, 1054
ELVES! DAMNED ELVES! We must prepare all our defenses! Arm the guard! Man the ramparts! Find pointy rocks!
17th Felsite, 1054
They brought wood. We gave them trinkets and let them live...for now.
11th Hematite, 1054
I ordered the slaughter of every donkey and mule in the fort. We shall have meat! Also, leather works and the cloth industry has now been established, along with additional forges. We shall be the richest settlement in all the dwarven lands!
14th Hematite, 1054
A deep pit has been discovered. We continue to mine downwards.
11th Malachite, 1054
A stonecrafter has been acting a bit elvish, grabbing wood and cloth and throwing someone making good solid rock crafts out of a workshop. He is being watched and the fortress guard is on high alert.
2nd Galena, 1054
Warm stone! Exploratory mining to find safe spots to tap the magma has now begun, as well as production of magma safe pumps and control mechanisms.
15th Galena, 1054
The humans are here. They brought wood and booze.
17th Galena, 1054
We have safely dug our way onto the great magma sea. Now to establish forges and smelters nearby so that our great pumps can be constructed to channel this gift of Armok to the workshops far above. The miners also glimpsed adamantine amongst the burning ocean, and we shall soon be the richest of any fortress.
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