Memo: To all Sane, Bearded Dwarves
Re: Strange odors from Communal Well
We apologize for the less than perfect water that you occasionally partake between your endless booze intake. The above mentioned odor and strange aftertaste is Eu de PuppyCorpseTM, which was recently added due to the unfortunate result of 4 puppies wandering into our water storage plant during a routine maintenance. By some unlucky chance, 2 out of the 4 puppies survived their 4 z-level fall through our well gates into our patented Dwarf Relocation Objective With Noble Into New Gains, or the D.R.O.W.N.I.N.G.TM system/ Main Water Storage Reservoir, likely due to landing in water and on their siblings' corpses. They managed to stay alive, with broken legs, in a localized cloud of miasma, surrounded on all sides by water, through 2 seasons, until the Spring thaw finally ended their suffering (by drowning).
As we are unable to provide maintenance of said D.R.O.W.N.I.N.G.TM system until the first usage of it, due to certain mitigating factors (your fellow nobles are not demanding impossible items yet, but your appointed Mayor seems to be coming quite close, so all attempts to "speed up" said timeframe will be subtly encouraged), please limit your consumption and distribution of said water to all infants and wounded personnel within this fort, since the former have not developed an adult dwarf's refined sense of taste yet and the latter have no choice.
P.S. Washing one's self at the communal well is NOT encouraged in the wake of this debacle, as some of said dirt (and puke, and blood, and guts, etc.) has found its way into the system as well (how exactly I do not want to know, I suspect some highly recalcitrant & uncaring people), one can see the remains floating about during the first maintenance.
Yours Sincerely,
Your (fairly nauseated) Overseer.