Cog’s Journal, 15th of Granite 318Today Dobar the hauler began babbling in mad tounges and acting crazy. I think he’s been possessed or something. He’s heading off to a workshop. I guess we’ll see what he creates.
Events of the 20th of Granite 318Thatdude made her way quietly through the third cave level. That poisonous beast was somewhere nearby and she was going to be the one to kill it. She had been down here for days now, hunting and searching. Then suddenly, there it was. The winged beast began charging at her. She raised her crossbow and launched a bolt at the monster. The bolt went through its chest. It arced down into the nearby lake and for a moment she thought it was dead.
Then she saw it tearing through the water towards her. Under the water, she saw it open its mouth and unleash a cloud of the toxic gas. But the gas simply dissipated into the water and never reached her. She armed her bow and took another shot. And another as the beast reached the shore. It tried to claw at her from under the water several times completely unsuccessfully. But it never emerged onto dry land.
She continued firing shot after shot at the beast. Blood slowly spread into the water surrounding it. Then she was out of bolts. So she began bashing it with her crossbow. Still the creature never emerged from the water even though it was constantly attacking her from below. Eventually it stopped moving.
That first shot must have wounded it to the point where it couldn’t leave the water. That was the only possibility she could see. Either way, she didn’t have a drop of forgotten beast toxin on her. Not a single drop.
Cog’s Journal, 28th of Granite 318Now that the lower caves are safe again, adamantium mining has resumed. By my estimate, we'll have 58 units of adamantium ready for processing when the miners complete their work on the first pillar. It took some careful testing, but by tapping the pillar, Urist Imiknorris managed to identify where hollow sections exist within the pillar and so we managed to safely dig out a much larger quantity of the precious stone than we originally estimated.
The unprocessed stone is worth nearly as much as a solid gold amulet. I do believe I'm going to have Rogue our miner take a break from mining to refresh her weapon crafting skill before working with adamantium to arm our military. I intend to have our highest ranked armorsmith do the same thing.
OOC: I’ve been meaning to post a save for a while. Thanks very much to kisame12794 for reminding me. You can download the save from the 1st of Granite 318 here. It’s 27 mb in size, stored in the file repository. Feel free to post images of the fort in the thread!
@Thatdude: Congratulations! I fully expected you to win but die from a syndrome to be honest. The creature couldn't climb out of the water probably thanks to the bolt in its lung right off the start.
@breadbocks: No worries
@Syntic: Hmmm, the Count detests rats which might be an option, assuming I can track down some vermin I could store in his room. Just going out and spending time with other actually makes him quite mad since all the bedrooms are such high quality due to the gem windows. Heh, just taking him out of his burrow to talk to other dwarves for a while would put him through the roof actually. How's that sound?
@Urist Imiknorris: Installing spikes might also work; it would also make a nice subtle threat. Nobody really has a relationship with the count yet, he’s been mostly been in isolation since all the dwarves live in such nice rooms.
@kisame12794: I’d completely forgotten about the option to do a minecraft conversion for visualizing. The link to the game file is above!
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