It starts! (I updated the thoughts screen in the first post - should be easier to read now, and contain your god info)
27 Obsidian, 1114At last, we leave this stagnant pool of little history and few genes! At last, I can show the world what a real mountainhome should look like, and what it should do! It'll be glorious, and my name will go down in history. So, too, will those who join me, of course. There are seven of us, preparing for the journey we will set out on in mere hours, a journey to become founders. I know little of them, but they must know a good thing when they hear it to join me. I must prepare, but I am excited!
1 Granite, 1115I have been getting to know my companions as we travelled the last couple of days, and now I raise my cup with them in celebration - it is the new year, and we have arrived at Whirlrelic in high spirits! I admit, it's a lot less... mountainous than I expected. It feels so empty here, but the feather trees grow tall and many. I hate to sound like an elf, but there's something lovely about those trees. I'll have to cut a few down when I get the chance.
Without mountains to dig into, we'll just have to go straight down!
2 GraniteWork starts in earnest today. I told Retro to start digging down as I tore apart the wagon. Carl, grumbling slightly, set up a smelter and turned all the coal we'd brought into fuel fit for a forge, and Andreus set to work crafting a pair of picks of copper, and of bronze a battle axe, a short sword, a shield and a mail shirt. Carl was silent for a moment when he laid his eyes upon his new ≡bronze short sword≡ and *bronze shield*, then caught himself and started grumbling about the hoary marmots or the river or something. I gave him one of the new picks and told him to join Retro.
Zon Fernbusts toils away making gears and pulleys and other intricate devices. I plan to use a lot of these in various manners. Biff carves out a wonderful floodgate, and then starts churning out all kinds of furniture! This place will be as comfortable to live as any come the end of Summer, you mark my words.
Urist McDoc has no hospital to maintain yet; since he has the best knowledge of poisons, I asked him to gather some edible herbs from the area.
14 GraniteThanks to Biff, we have a trade depot! We'll have a stronger economy than those fogies in Zealrelics in no time! Retro and Carl are hollowing out an area next to the river for our farms, and Zon hooked up the floodgate to a lever.
Me? I've taken up the axe Andreus forged, and I've been gathering every piece of feather wood I can find!
5 SlateBiff's floodgate and Zon's clockworks worked a treat! We'll have a farm up in days.
We've reached a consensus that we're tired of sleeping on the rocks, so I'll make some beds from the feather wood. Wonderful stuff.
7 SlateStruck tetrahedrite! This bodes well for the steel industry; now we just have to find the flux.
12 SlateCarl almost slipped and fell from sheer surprise as he dug down and found himself part of a ceiling! Some of the rocks he sent flying hit a cave crocodile below, who seemed thoroughly confused. Biff sealed up the hole promptly.
Doc's been looking after the farms while Retro's busy digging. The plump helmets are growing ripe! Andreus has grabbed the last pick and is helping the other two mine out an exploration shaft, so we can truly get an idea of the kind of wealth we're standing on.
27 SlateGold! Silver! Gems! Riches abound!
1 FelsiteBiff and I were lucky enough to be topside for a pixie swarm; what merry little critters. I'm sure we can find some use for them eventually!
26 FelsiteAndreus found a deposit of marble, enough to mine a gross or more stones! It seems we'll have a grand steel industry.
Current State of the Fort:
Zon works away at her mechanisms.
McDoc demonstrates to me some of his new knowledge of farming.
The central stairway shaft extends around 15 Z-levels uninterrupted, which should be plenty for the core of the fortress. I plan to focus the activity around the staircase as much as possible.
Goals:- bedrooms
- dining room
- food stockpiles/kitchen/still
- Build the Pillars of Equality - several gigantic stone columns that surround the map. Each one should have a different internal feature and a different external stone colour.
- Build a magma pillar (possibly one of the Pillars of Equality), that spurts magma from various holes on its sides
- Build a gigantic, 3D pair of weighing scales out of solid gold
Retro, Miner:
Carl, Grumbling Swordsman:
Biff, Mason:
Andreus, Death Consultant:
Samwell, Radical:
- +1 carpentry
- +1 woodcutting
Urist McDoc:
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