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http://i45.tinypic.com/30c8w2b.pngAutumn 1052
This summer has been pretty eventful, and things are looking up. Two dwarves appeared early in the season, looking like they've been through hell to get here (from the goblins? Maybe.) and asked if they could stay here. I told them that they're going to have to pull their weight, I don't have any slackers around here. Their names (or the names they told me, anyway) are MawkBlitz and Hiralarious. That MawkBlitz seems like a fighter, and is especially useful with knives and daggers, he says, too bad we don't have any around here. Come to think of it, how did he get so experienced with them? Knives aren't really a dwarf weapon, more like something for kobolds and goblins... I'll have to look into this, if I ever get back to the mountainhome.
Hiralarious is also a decent fighter, and passable at crafting out of all sorts of materials. I may put her and the knife fanatic in the military, and have them explore the caverns, and look for water.
On that subject, I've had little success with farming with the water from the murky pools spread around our site. Although it rains enough to be sufficent in a regular climate, it's much too hot here, and the water evaporates not long after the pools are filled. I am optimistic though, and confidant that there will be a breakthrough soon enough.
The female cat had kittens, three of them. I caged one up, in case of emergency, and to prevent too much breeding around. Also, the dogs were trained to be war dogs by Karmaloop, and now the hounds are following him around, protecting him from everything. I think it's a little cute. The female even had a puppy around the same time the cat had kittens.
I am almost finished with my great and noble bedroom, I just need to have one of the workers smooth the floors and the walls, and engrave the walls. It will be amazing.
Winter 1052
Winter's finally here, maybe this place will get a little cooler now. The farm's actually coming together now, like I knew it would. Maybe we won't have to explore the caverns after all.
I am actually starting to warm up to these dwarves a little, they're not all bad, I guess. They do their job, and don't really smell too horrendous.
On the topic of dwarves, we've got some new ones this season. The first one was a dwarf reeking of fish, a master fisherman, fish cleaner, fish dissector, and all of that, he said.[see 1] (Too bad, nothing to fish for around here.) He came all by himself, but when he found that we weren't cannibalistic savages that were going to kill him, he whistled a bird call and a larger group of eight came in. The group apparently had a settlement much like ours near this place, but were driven out by a great goblin siege. They told us their settlement had well near one hundred dwarves before the attack, but most, unfortunately, perished. The 'couragous leader's name is Krizzzombies, but the one who really interests me is this one fellow named TopsyKretts. When the group got here, I noticed that he had isolated himself from all of the others, and was crouched down on the floor. When I went over to see what he was doing, I saw that he was engraving a very detailed and amazing picture into the floor. He said that over in his old settlement, they all didn't appreciate his fine artwork, and shunned and ridiculed him. I replied that here in Stasistome we appreciate the arts, and that he would be able to follow his calling without being isolated from the other dwarves. Now, I don't know if that's entirely true or not, but it got him motivated enough to engrave my whole room when I told him to. He even made a couple of masterpieces, things you would see in a museum.[see 2]
The engravings were the finishing touches on my grand bedroom, and now it looks fit for a king. My nights will surely be comfortable in this great bedchamber.[see 3]
I've noticed that there have been a lack of merchants this season, but I thought that would be normal, because we're in the damn goblin central (OOC: It's really because I was using 31.03, with the no merchant bug. -_-;) but it turns out that some salesmen are just determined enough to travel here, risking life and limb, to gain a couple cents. Luckily, they weren't any annoying elves, but instead fellow dwarves, and they came with a wagonload of goods. I traded a deal of crafts for a load of seeds, plump helmets, and alcohol, because that's really all we need as of yet.
I am pretty satisfied with my progress, there's enough beds for everybody, a sufficent amount of food and drink, our farms are producing a good amount of food, we have a lot of resources for further development, and we're twice as productive with twice the amount of dwarves. Yes, I believe that when I leave here at the end of winter, everything will be great for the next leader... They just better not move me out of my bedroom.
END OF PART 2
Spring 1052
[see 1]
Spring's here again, and the progress we made in a year is great. Me and my fellow dwarves have turned this hellhole into a livable place. Strangely, there was no conflict between us and any outside beings; no goblins, no kobolds, not even a mountain goat has disturbed us. No deaths either. I'm glad about that last fact, I've become attached to these dwarves this past year. I even made them an 'I'm falling out of power' present: a decorated and magnificent dining room, with some help from TopsyKretts. They were amazed and some even called it 'legendary'. That probably helped with Topsy's self esteem.[see 2]
The farm's running great, and we built a new aboveground farm, with the plants we've gathered. Everybody seems to be happy and healthy, and we're nearing self sustainability.[see 3 + 4]
Well, that's it. It's been a great year, I've learned a lot coming here. Truthfully, all my missions before this, I didn't really deal with dwarves the way that I did this time, they were all stuff like inventory and such. We didn't eat together, work together, talk to each other, none of that. Looking back at my old journals makes me cringe and laugh at the same time, I was so...
Anyway, I've only constructed one lever which is clearly marked as the drawbridge control, so it shouldn't be too complicated for the next one up, I'm not worried. I'll continue writing journals about life here, just because I'm no longer leader doesn't mean I stop writing. Also, I never did get any messages from the mountainhome, I could have asked the merchants that came here, but I really don't know if I want to leave.
Nothing else left to say, so I guess I'll just leave it to the next one up now.
I've enclosed a couple maps of Stasistome below, so you future generations can see what it's like here.
(temporarily withheld, crashing my game when I try to export it)
Wow, a lot sure can change in a year.
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