3rd of Slate
The house is now nearing done. It has a door and a floor and enough beds for us all to sleep in. All it needs now is a chest for us to store our belongings in.
7th of Slate
Andreus surprised me today with an incredible chest. This is just what we need to lighten up, especially since the smell from the miners still lingers in the main hall.
8th of Slate
Before we can do anything more Andreus needs to be given more time to gather wood. Until that's done there's not much to do.
9th of Slate
Andreus has reported that the leopard is uncomfortably close to his woodcutting area. I told him he was lucky it wasn't a zombie leopard and to get back to work.
13th of Slate
Andreus informs me that enough wood has been gathered. I guess next we'll build a dining hall in one of the two unused caverns. We definitely need a hospital in the other, but I think the dining room needs to go first due to steadily worsening morale.
15th of Slate
The beds here might not be as nice as those of the mountain home, but they're far nicer than sleeping in the snow!
17th of Slate
Today I found Kalrirr, the mason, in the entrance hall crying. She was upset because of her friend Lucas's death. She was mostly upset because he didn't get a proper burial. Guess she's one of the religious types because I, personally, couldn't care less if, after I died, I rotted in a ditch. Anyway hope she feels better soon. Thankfully everyone else seems pretty upbeat.
20th of Slate
The dining room is done. I'll probably add two more chairs but it's now functional. At least I won't hear Eclipsetail moaning about the lack of chairs anymore.
22th of Slate
Since Andreus is out cutting wood, I'm going to try my hand at carpentry. We'll see how the chair's I'm making turn out...
25th of Slate
Not too badly actually. On a side note Andreus is complaining about the jaguar again. I told him to man up.
28th of Slate
My new chairs are in the dining room and now I've told Kalrirr to design a trade depot. Now that she has some engineering to do I hope she stops moping around. It's rather upsetting to the others.
1st of Felsite
The trade depot's done and I was right. The joy of engineering managed to cheer Kalrirr up a bit. Also I've told Andreus to get to work on the furniture needed for a hospital. Of course without stone we'll have no traction benches but that's one luxury we'll have to do without.
3rd of Felsite
A snow storm? That's just what our fort needs! Morale is low enough as is! I'm gonna try to keep people indoors to prevent frostbite and unhappiness but then again listening to me doesn't seem to be these people's strong-suit.
4th of Felsite
The jaguar is right outside the fortress! I'm ordering the Warsmith to kill it but I'm afraid that he may fail. If the Warsmith dies than we are truly doomed.
5th of Felsite
The Warsmith ran out of the fortress yelling at the top of his lungs and swinging his axe around over his head. The jaguar took the hint and ran away.
7th of Felsite
People are complaining about not being able to go outside so I might as well let them. After all I mostly banned the outside to help morale.
9th of Felsite
Wait a minute...since when was the leopard giant?