Lan Likotrigoth,
Firstly, I very much appreciate your having a mood and becoming a Legendary Armorsmith. Believe me, this is a good thing. However, if I may offer just the slightest bit of constructive criticism. A single Adamantine boot, while certainly very pretty, and ... well ... astoundingly valuable ... is nonetheless a single boot.
Urist McArmoursmith,
I am glad to bring you news that you are not alone in construction of the single boot "Twofrenzies the Spell of Mining" the adamantine high boot. Your choices of materials were most excellent, the 11th adamantine wafer produced by our great fortress (the first ten forged into mighty axes), a chunk of raw adamantine, bones from the great marsh titan and polar bear leather. Your craftsdwarfship is the greatest I have ever seen, it has been estimated at 1.1 million dwarfbucks, 1/9th of our total wealth and a full half of our current armour budget. Much of your imagery is excellent, the image of Catten Fencedpage being crowned king in adamantine, and the image of Nos Valleyivy the Seed of Dales, the ocean titan striking down a lowly human in silk is very appropriate here, perhaps you gained inspiration from the many carvings of the great one that chronicle his swath of death and destruction since he wandered in the time before time.
Some helpful advice for the future though. If you are ever to be taken by the fey again, it would be appreciated if you were to do so earlier, if possible before you are ranked at 15+3 and 50%, and have used all of my bronze and iron bars creating armour for the sole purpose of becoming experience enough to be allowed access to our adamantine reserves. Also, your choice of imagery of the mortal wounding of Urist McNotWorthyOfMentionHunter in 1061 would have been more appropriately replaced by an image of King Fencedpage, as he was struck down in the same elk bird hunting accident.
Finally: ONE $#(%#@(%@ HIGH BOOT? You take 1.1 MILLION in materials and you create ONE boot, that is the SECOND most useless thing you could have made, next to a low boot. Even a single GAUNTLET would have been better, as Urist McMilitiaCaptain lost one of his hands in the first ambush on Girdersprayed. If you weren't the only armoursmith in the entire fortress experienced enough to even look at the precious blue metal, you'd have been delegated to hauling immediately upon completion.
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Notice: To all members of the Militia
You may have noticed your steel axes and shields have been replaced with adamantine. We understand you may have grown attached to your previous equipment, and even named several pieces (twelve in total). This new metal is considerably lighter, and several hundred times sharper, and thus with the exception of sentimental value, far superior.
In the adamantine equipment pilot program, it was noticed that several participants sparred once with their new weapons, only to revert to their old blood soaked steel versions, even when forbidden. Unfortunately the chosen uniforms are mandatory for unit cohesion and general safety in combat and sparring, and as such all unnamed and below masterwork steel axes and shields have been destroyed, and all named or masterwork equipment has been locked away until further notice.
Thank you for your understanding
P.S. Olin Asd–grovod Akestmot Erush, in the future, please refrain from naming your weapon "Graspblossom the Scandalous Trouble". This is not appropriate behaviour for a legendary axedwarf and champion. For more information on appropriate naming, please consult Erib Wireheavens the Abysmal Lover, who named Emptiedweeps and Glimmerforest.
(I love the autonaming of things)
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