23rd Sandstone, 51227th Sandstone, 512I noticed Zon was hauling a skeleton of one of our fallen comrades away to a newly reopened portion of the fort. It was a ghastly sight, a pile of corpses none of which had been given a proper burial with some even tossed on top of coffins.
I can only guess that if you have a graveyard stockpile then nobody will ever be buried in coffins? We have tons of empty coffins and many dwarves with burial enabled, but I don't think a single dwarf has been buried this year... so is that how graveyard stockpiles "work"? I've never used them. I removed the graveyard stockpile in hopes that it would cause our fallen to be buried properly.
16th Timber, 512and was promptly ambushed by a half a dozen goblin spearmen. When the militia (of one) gets up top I'll send him out.
18th Timber, 512And a second ambush... there may be too many for the caravan guards.
19th Timber, 512Two axe dwarves, a hammer dwarf, and two spear dwarves slew one group of the ambushers, but the other group has killed many of the traders. Evidently this made a donkey sad and more alarmingly drove one of the other traders insane with rage. I'm not sure I want to let them in until that guy calms down a bit.
Sad little donkey, it's okay little fella.
Zon sallied forth solo once again. He is quite fleet of foot, but the dwarves were all but lost by the time he made it to the fight. One axe dwarf in a martial trance remained, but he was badly wounded. Zon slipped into the fray with his usual gusto...
eww, in the lower lip!
A small herd of skeletal muskoxen chose that time to join the fray. Zon is badly outnumbered! The order to fall back had been given, but such orders are often ignored in the heat of battle and a fleeing goblin led him right into the undead quadrapeds.
The muskoxen are indiscriminate in their attacks aiming blows at goblin and dwarf alike. A martial trance kept Zon safe and even after it was over he slew one skeletal muskox and two zombie muskoxen. Amazingly he then chased the rest from the field before returning to the safety of the gates... unscathed.
By now you, the readers of this chronicle, may be sick of hearing how Zon sliced yet another limb off. This is for you.
Ha. Yeah Zon sliced through those muskox like they were made of butter, and to think I was a bit worried about him. Would that I had ten more lad like that one. Or ten more lads of any type really...
21st Timber, 512The fighting is over, but sadly the dwarven trade caravan is all but wiped out. The insane merchant is still running around babbling with his donkey and the moans coming from the last axedwarf have stopped signifying his last gasp. May the mighty Rab embrace him into the earth.
28th Timber, 512I had minor success sealing off part of the flooded area. It is hard to get enough folks to man the pumps, but I managed to get half of the FAILCANNON to limp along for a short while which was enough to seal off one area. Unfortunately the larger and more important area is still not sealed off.
3rd Moonstone, 512Ah Winter.. Urist the child has organized a party to celebrate the beginning of winter. I told the workforce that they could take a break. We've been working non-stop for the last nine months, so I figured it was time to a little bit. I mean sure there are still dozens of corpses lying about and of course there are pools of blood and excretions from beasts I've forgotten all over the place, why not TAKE A BREAK AND PARTY???. And, of course, party time means that progress on pretty much everything has ground to a halt.
14th Moonstone, 512What this really means is that the lone surviving crazy babbling merchant will be leaving soon...
and his little donkey too...
20th Moonstone, 512I commissioned and had installed 10 fine green glass windows for the overseer's office. I hope the next to use this office will enjoy them. Nightmarebros seems to be getting the hang of this glass making thing. At least he doesn't look like he is going to burn a hand off every time he goes near the magma glass furnace anymore.
1st Opal, 512Inod was looking a little down and I know she has a penchant for Electrum. I checked the stock log and we had some electrum bars so I asked Eral on the down low to make a new door, a couple of statuse and an armor stand for her quarters.
I also took the liberty of rewarding myself a bit. Since I went to the trouble of smelting those 150+ bars of silver, I might as well line my office, bedroom, and tomb with silver items and flooring. I deserve it.
21nd Opal, 512A few last modifications have been made to the FAILCANNON. The top four pumps all operate on windmill power. The bottom two z-levels of our fair cannon still must be dwarf powered.
22nd Opal, 512The FAILCANNON is operational, well the southmost pumps are and that was sufficient to seal up one of the breaches.
Now to try and seal the other one. Twobeards just told me that I'd be replaced we don't get this fixed before the end of the year! There is little time left, we'll never make it!
And that little brat Likot has decided to thrown a party...this time only the children were invited so the workforce remains intact. I think they did this so they could drink all the sewer brew without adult supervision. Those incorrigible lads and lasses.
25th Opal, 512Tragedy has struck.... right as Dishmab was about to put the final door in place one of our pump operators decided to take a break and a jet of water flushed her into the watery abyss... I don't know if she can get out.
Guess that answers that.
26th Opal, 512With the death of Dishmab Twobeards has told me that I have until the end of next month to clear up any outstanding paperwork and hand over the keys to the overseer's office. I will miss the scintillating gem windows.
27th Opal, 512The cleverly carved crenelations north of the main gate serve as an inlet for some the FAILCANNONs water.
6th Obsidian, 512It is complete! The second breach has been sealed.
14th Obsidian, 512While we've stopped the ocean from streaming in, it appears that there is an aquifer breach as well.
25th Obsidian, 512The work to repair the cistern is almost complete, which is good because the water levels for the well are getting a little low. At least I think that is how it gets filled up. I was told by my predecessor to not pull any of the cistern levers, so I have left them alone. I can see signs of where a flood went down the main ramp way and I should have them all patched up any day now.
Also of note, the top levels are draining out even with the aquifer breach. I leave it to my successor to deal with that little problem.
These are actually the stocks from a month back or so, Dishmab was the broker and the only one with appraise skill (which he only obtained by trading with the one carvan this year), so we don't have the wealth numbers unfortunately.
Save here
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2844.
edit: added save and a couple more pictures.