Cog’s Journal, 15th of Sandstone, 313Today it was one of our furnace operators who suddenly started babbling in strange languages and grabbing materials. He’s setting up shop in a craftdwarf workshop. Looks like a possession to me; I wonder what he’s up to.
Also, today excavation was completed on the North Industrial Hall. I’ve given the orders to begin carving the newest work area. It’s a fairly elaborate section but then there are a lot of little details associated with these industries.
Plus it'll be nice to have somewhere to put all these animals.
Cog’s Journal, 5th of Timber, 313Well it’s a stupendous wooden amulet. Not terribly practical but absolutely gorgeous work!
I particularly approve of the picture of the founding of Towersoared.
Events of the 5th of Timber, 313Fath Dedukzoz was not a happy dwarf. His career could end here, like so many other former outpost liaisons to visit Towersoared. Mountainhome was abuzz with the stories that were forming around Towersoared. Fath had heard them all by now. All the stories about golden tables, fountains of alcohol and unimaginable wealth. Then of course there were all the stories about death, blood and destruction that had lead to the fort being declared a death trap by the nobility.
Whatever the case, before he departed for this journey, a Baron from mountainhome took him aside and informed him that Cog was a dangerous threat to the stability of their country. It was made abundantly clear that it would be in Fath’s best interest to ensure that the merchants didn’t bring home more wild stories.
Of course, thing weren’t off to a good start already. The green glass dome that he’d heard about in so many stories recently couldn’t be missed. And to top things off, the merchants weren’t terribly interested in listening to his cautionary stories about the dangers here in Towersoared. In fact, the merchants had been quite rude, telling him to sod off when he got particularly insistent.
As he made his way across the desert towards the rather unimpressive front gate of Towersoared something white caught his eye in the sand at his feet. He kicked at it and a goblin skull rolled up out of the sand with a helmet still on the head. Fath jumped back in surprise and then looked around again. Up ahead around the entrance the ground was littered with the bones of hundreds of goblins.
Standing among those bones were five dwarves, dressed in full steel and wielding battleaxes. Perhaps this story was partly, at least he could see the existence of the axedwarves with his own eyes.. The prowess of Derm the Soulchopper and his axedwarves was the subject of many stories back in mountainhome. Some of the stories were insane though. Killing a giant demonic spider singlehandedly? He scoffed to himself at the absurdity.
The obvious leader looked him over and then spoke with obvious distain, “You’d be the latest liaison from mountain home you?” Fath didn’t like being dismissed out of hand and intended to make it clear, “Yes I am and I think . . .”
Derm cut him brusquely and Fath’s voice trailed off at the thread in Derm’s eyes. “Head inside then, I’ve got a caravan to guard. As you can see, we’ve been having the occasional visit from the greenskins.” And without another word, Derm and his squad walked out to meet the caravan.
Fath made his way across the cluttered and well work sand inside the compound. As he walked along the glass, a glance through made his skin prickle with apprehension. The sheer scale of the space inside had to be an illusion. Must be a trick of the glass or something. A partially finished building at the end of the glass dome caught his eye. Dust on the stairways indicated that no work had been done here in many months. Excellent, the nobility would be pleased to hear that things weren’t progressing. Then he walked around the corner and stopped dead in his tracks.
A beautifully decorated hallway stood before him. The ceiling arched high overhead. The wealth of gold and stone just in this one hallway was incredible. The art in the statues and engravings on the walls was stupendous and the sheer wealth of gold being used simply as road paving was terrifying. A single dwarf walked past as he stood there gaping.
Fath shook his head and started walking down the hallway, racking his brain on how to spin this for mountainhome. As a result, he almost died. The dwarf that he’d seen earlier suddenly grabbed him roughly by the shoulder, “What are you doing you fool? Pay attention to where you’re walking!” Fath started to turn around to chew the dwarf out and then noticed where he was standing. “By the gods” he whispered to himself looking at the cavernous pit open before him and the dome arching overhead.
The other dwarf was heading down into the depths on an elegant spiral ramp by the time he regained his wits. This wasn’t good; there would be no way to keep the traders from discussing this. He made his way down into the depths, following the other dwarf. On the walls of the pit he could see incredible engravings of the history of Towersoared. Everything from incredible works of art to grand battles was depicted on the walls.
As he made his way down into the depths, he could hear the echoing sounds of voices and industry. The sounds of mining, of metal being hammered and the voices of dozens of dwarves were clearly audible. At the bottom of the shaft he had to pause again for a rest and to gape for a moment more. This place was vast and he wasn’t even at the depot yet. Looking at yet another large arching hallway ahead of him, he felt quite tiny when faced with the sheer scale of the place.
Here dwarves were running from place to place in a great hurry, leading animals and carrying bins towards the depot. The ground here was simply littered with vast quantities of stone, ore and rough gems; it would take months or years to clear the space out. It was worrying that the ore and gems were simply sitting around. Either the industries weren’t functioning or there was simply too much wealth here to process even after all these years.
A quick glance through the doors off the hallway bore up that theory. Bins were overflowing with shining gems and bars of metal waiting to visit the forges. In fact, if his eyes weren’t deceiving him the workshops inside were built out of solid gold! That pit in his stomach was growing larger by the minute, and the next minutes only made it worse.
He tapped a dwarf on the shoulder and asked where he could find the mayor. The dwarf indicated the doors at the end of the hall. Fath slowly made his way down the hall, dragging his feet to examine the gold and marble statues that lined the wall. Each one was a masterwork, a gorgeous product of dwarven art. He glanced at the trade depot as he passed it; it was filling rapidly with a wealth of crafts of top quality. He walked through the door and stopped dead.
Fath’s feet simply refused to move as his gazed at the spectacle of the Dining Hall of Towersoared. Well there was no doubt about it, the merchants would tell their story without hesitation as they made their way back to mountainhome. Fath considered the possibilities, and realized that there was only one thing he could do to survive his return to the mountainhome. But it still meant he could never return to Towersoared since Cog would not be pleased when next year rolled around.
He settled back to enjoy the view until the mayor found him.
OOC: Wonder what Fath just came up with. 
Thanks for your support over in the Hall of Legends everyone, it’s very cool to be listed!
@dragonshardz: Excllent. I’ll keep you posted on progress towards that goal.
@magmaholic: I use Italicized text for all my out of character writing personally. Helps create a visual break between the two sentences. In terms of available male dwarves we have the following:
Civilians:
1x Animal Trainer/Trapper
1x Engraver
1x Glassmaker
2x Masons
6x Miners
1x Planter
1x Potash Maker
1x Tanner/Butcher
1x Thresher
1x Weaver
Military:
1x Axedwarf
3x Hammerdwarf including Shorast the Unlucky
2x Marksdwarf
1x Sworddwarf
Let me know which one appeals to you!
@breadbocks: Already done! I made the necessary changes myself to bring across the graphics I use. Thanks for providing an excellent summary of the fortress.
@Urist Imiknorris: Thanks very much!
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