Dear Kivish Runlance.
Yeah, uh.....good job turning Legendary +5 Gem Cutter. From, um.....cutting rocks. I always wait to have Legendary Gem Cutters before turning you loose on the actual, you know, gems. Didn't expect you to be rank 20 so quickly.
thanks for helping get rid of all the stone in the project areas.
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....yeah.......Unfortunately there's still a lot of stone that needs to be cleared out, so if you could just, uh, keep doing what you're doing, um....and maybe come into work on Catursplosionday, that'd be great.
....uh, yeah.....Thanks for being the first Dwarf to Mood, like 3-4 years ago. That Moss Agate Flask "Scornworry" was kind of awesome.
I mean, it was so impressive that 2 Artifacts later, Scornworry's creation (and your own person) was immortalized in Cacklemarked, a Jet Figurine.
I just wish that the Artifact after yours wasn't a Cat Bone Mace.
freaking really? Although I have to imagine that the single cut gem depicted in Spider Silk on "Treasuredrum" the cat bone mace is a reference to you.
I feel bad, now. I promoted the Weaponsmith to the Barony because I wasn't paying attention to the artifacts past "Ooh, another one."
But guess what? I'm going to give you your own squad, in which you will wield Scornworry, your flask, Treasuredrum (sorry, but The Daggers of Delight, the Artifact Iron Spear will be given to someone intended for combat, not an honorary military member given his own squad so I can dress you up like a doll), wear "Fragrantcrests the Cold Utterances" the Frilly Rope Reed Artifact Shirt, and you will sleep in a bedroom with Masterwork Engravings (once our damn engraver gets his ass in gear and gets up past Skilled--despite the fact he's been working for literally years now), with Cacklemarked, your own Artifact Action Figure, in its own stockpile next to your bed, "The Honesty of Coils," the bugbat bone Artifact.
I am so sorry I didn't recognize how awesome you are (and considering your only like is "Flasks," your demands would have been easily met
), and made someone else a Noble over you.
Hopefully your Artifact collection (and possibly Inek's current Artifact he's working on) will suffice.
Soon, very soon, once we've got the Magma cistern set up and filled, and the Magma workshops set up, I will set you up in a bunker far away from the suface and the caverns--and you will be able to carve all our best gems until you're sick.
P.S. Dear Urist Amith.
What the hell? You make an Artifact Iron Spear, sure.
But you were so uncreative the picture you put on the Spear was a picture of the self-same Spear you're making?
P.P.S. Dear Kitten. You were just stung by a bee. Maybe, I don't know, stay away from the like 30 hives I've set up way the hell away from the entrance to the Fort?
Also, don't think I haven't noticed your kind breeding out of control on top of our food. While it does keep the vermin population near the food supply non-existent, I do not need TWENTY-EIGHT CATS.
A pogrom will be issued shortly to thin out your number down to 3. It would be less but two of your female members are named. And I do want a male. Because I want to be able to shut this fort away from the world for a few hundred years and not have to worry about vermin being out of control.
Dear Elves.
What the hell? We haven't cut down a tree in--we cut down like 20 trees last year at most. the treepocalypse was YEARS ago. we're STILL trying to use up all the wood from then.
Why are you pissy NOW?