Cog’s Journal, 9th of Malachite 324 Syntic came by my office today with an excellent suggestion regarding the prison. In all honesty, the current prison was built in haste after the terrible sabotage incident. I haven’t worried about that in years, there haven’t been any serious problems for quite some time. The old prison is small, crowded and even a bit dangerous since it’s outside the secure perimeter of the base.
The new prison rooms will be 5x5 in size, each with a bed, food stockpile and drink stockpile. The edge of the room will be decorated with engravings and statues. I think we’ll place it on the main level of the fortress off the dining hall to save time replenishing the prison supplies. Maybe I’ll move the goblin storage down into the old prison.
As for the duke, I’ll just neglect to inform him the new prison will be so nice. He never visits the jail anyhow, he just issues the sentences. As an added bonus, Syntic will get another office right in the jail area.
Ooh, and masterwork gold chains, now we’re talking! Time to make some work orders!
Cog’s Journal, 11th of Malachite 324 The greatest danger to our fortress has arrived again. A horrible beast made of mud that spews deadly dust. As always, a job for our archers.
I’ve ordered the evacuation of the first cave level, I hope everyone hurries to get inside.
Cog’s Journal, 14th of Malachite 324 The beast bolted straight into Comp’s hideaway. Fortunately Comp was safe up in the main fortress when the alarm was sounded. I’ve directed the miners to carve a route to try and shoot at the beast. We can’t seal it in sadly but we can use the isolation bridges to try and control where it can go. The lack of an option to control Comp’s bridge from a second location was an unfortunate oversight. Our only other option is to lure the beast towards the entrance, but that puts our prisoners in serious danger.
We need another room for system controls. Some of the old, obsolete switches could be reused as well. I suppose at some point the cave security project needs to be finished up as well. Along with a million other projects that should be done.
Events of the 26th of Malachite 324 Thatdude claimed the honor of killing this beast through the new fortifications. There was limited space, so only one dwarf would get the chance. The fortification was suddenly complete, Balta began to run for his life at the mere sight of the muddy thing. As usual, the beast was totally unaware of his presence. She unleashed four quick shots, all four found a mark, shredding the creatures insubstantial body. The beast shuddered and collapsed to the ground, dead
That was easy, but it always was when fighting unarmored beasts. She made her way back upstairs to report the good news.
Cog’s Journal, 16th of Galena 324 Construction is proceeding nicely out front; I’m very excited to have the front gate getting close to completion now. On a separate note, the human diplomat arrived today. Even better, it’s actually human. With all the weirdness lately, I’m always concerned about getting bizarre visitors . . .
And now I’ve just received word that Comp has gone into a fey mood. Apparently he feels the need to create something.
Cog’s Journal, 17th of Galena 324 And then today the human caravan arrived. Time to engage in some commerce!
Events of the 18th of Galena 324 Tosid Litastkivish, hauler and mason was working on the outer defensive tower. Suddenly, she heard the sand crunch nearby. Her head snapped up, and she saw a mob of Kobolds trying to sneak up on her and her fellow workers. She dropped the stone she was carrying and began to run. She screamed loudly for help, despite the small amount of military training, it was better to flee from this many kobolds to give the military time to arrive.
Then she found herself ducking and weaving to try and escape. She was fast, faster than the Kobolds expected she was sure. But not quite fast enough. A kick hit her in the hand as she dodged. And then a punch caught her in the ear sending a small spray of blood. She saw Derm’s squad emerging from the gate, lead by Bennet the fastest Dwarf alive. She started to run back in their direction when suddenly, she heard off key horns sounding in the distance.
She almost stopped and stared in disbelief as a goblin siege emerged into view. The oversized mutated goblins had arrived yet again. And to keep away from the Kobold she had to run towards them! But then there was a spray of blood and the kobold was dead. She turned in surprise. Bennet was standing over the Kobold, looked at her and said “Run, get inside quick!” She didn’t wait and quickly started running towards the fortress. A glance over her shoulder, she saw a bloody battle already engaged by the elite soldiers of Towersoared.
And so the siege proceeded to be dismantled.
Cog’s Journal, 19th of Galena 324 That was a close call, but our military was able to get the job done before anyone got hurt. Garet, Master of Weapons took a nasty cut to the arm and leg, but it’s not life threatening. All in all, a good siege. We’re going to have to watch the outer gates carefully while we finish this project up though.
OOC: That was a close one. I didn’t even have to send everyone inside though. Thanks to the ambush, the military was outside in place before the goblins attacked!
@Siraidan9: Nifty, your dwarf has got a lot of learning to do!
@Syntic: Good point, I’ll get that fixed up right away.
@Argonnek: Heh, yeah.
@Scaraban: It doesn’t seem to have caused any problems yet.
@Triaxx2: I’m an obsessive note maker. Every lever has been labeled and I’m 95% sure I got all of them correct!
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