AUTUMN
Damn not even 10 days into the first of Autumn and those blasted goblin decided to send out 13 of there goons to try and kill our people. If that wasn't bad enough I had the bridge lowered so the human caravan can leave once they where ready. there where 5 macemen and 6 crossbowmen and a human axe men and another human lasher. the human axemen and the mace goblins made it past the bridge before I could raise it. In a quick attempt to save as many as I could I raised the bridge and ordered everyone to hide inside the dining hall.
They killed one of our farmers and got the human liaison the humans are going to be pissed at us for letting him die. they nearly got our mayor Pisano but he was able to outrun them and make it safely inside. Lucky for us our cage traps did a wonderful job all 6 of them attempted to move pass the traps but failed miserably and got caged
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now all we have to worry about are the rest of them outside our fortress walls.
none the less sense most of the Goblins are dealt with I decided to lift the burrow and gather the caged ambushers and reload the traps. I think I will put up an order to make more traps and build some behind our bridge. Sadly I didn't see that one of the mace Goblin was still out there and our cheese maker was trying to make friends with him. luckily the human caravan guard came to his rescue before I even got a chance to send our own militia at him. The cheesemaker broke some bones but should be fine.
Lucky for us that Goblins death scared the rest of the ambushers off. All this happened so fast I didn't even get to move our own militia to battle. now that they are gone I gathered the dead and there belongings and lowered the bridge so the caravan could attempt to leave. which they did just after it was lowered. I just hope they dont go to there home and cry about how we treated them we don't need humans sieging us as well as goblins.
I noticed we where starting to run low on wood and decided to do some clear cutting on the east side of our fort. Elf's wont like it but i don't care we need more wood. I also noticed something about my defense in order to cut or gather anything on the west side of our walls the dwarfs had to make a long hike all the way around in order to do this. So i ordered another bridge to be made right behind the wall in the brook once that finished and connected to a lever I will remove the wall there. this should allow us to take visitors as well from any side. This also sadly means we will have to defend two fronts if a siege or another ambush occurs.
Sandstone
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I decided to have the miners dig further down to see what other valuable stone, ore, and jewels we can unearth. we found some more silver which we can use to make some decent blunt weapons. There isn't much going on at the moment in our fort just some more work being taken care of some more bins and barrels being made. half way through Autumn and we haven't gotten another group of Goblins yet. but knowing them they will show up at some point.
I decided it would be a good time to engrave our living courters. analog is doing a fine job and has managed to engrave some masterpieces. One was even of me when I was appointed to commander in spring of 202. there are also some engraving of goblins getting killed by serrated discs. Shem another engraver is also engraving some masterpieces as well. after they have had a few more engraving I plan to look over them to see if any are worthy of mentioning.
19th of SandstoneLooks like the approaching winter is coming soon the river has frozen back over.
23rd of SandstoneWell will you look at what we found. Digging deeply has it dangers to it.
Luckily we only revealed where it is and not actual breached inside the cavern. I am unsure of what to do with this new finding just yet. but at some point we could use the caverns to get some more underground plants and trees. I just hope nothing to dangerous would want to attempt to visit our home.
28th of SandstoneOne of our Metalsmiths...
then...
and then he...
and when he was done
it's value is 34000 and we now have a legendary blacksmith in our midst because of it.
Looks like we finally got some real valuable stuff just above the cavern we uncovered. We found some hematite and a few diamonds and Platinum so i am going to expand the mining operation there to try and find more.
15th of TimberLooks like the dwarfs have finally come to trade with us from our mountainhome. Knowing my luck I am sure the goblin will interfere they seem to have a knack for showing up at the wrong time. Sure enough I was right 6 Pikemen and a human lasher. I am not sure if there is more hidden somewhere else. The caravan was only moments from passing over the bridge when they got ambushed and sadly they didn't make it and those that did fled. The other ambushers where revealed on the other side of the brook. I sent our military after them but they fled rather quickly. I have let the army get back to there normal routine, back to training in the spear room.
I have decided to create a second burrow for our militia to use it encompasses the brook and some land outside. It will be used as a patrol route for the military to go around when the bridges are down that way we can help a caravan defend itself much quicker. This will also cause any enemy revealed inside to have the squad tasked to defend the burrow to quickly deal with them.
Down below I decided to look through the engravings that have been made mostly just the masterfully designed ones. Wow do they like talking about me, there several of me from different times, like being removed from militia captain in 203 ((hmm not sure why i was removed lol)) there also things of me killing McMetal, and many others. I guess I am popular I hope that my second life here will do the same.
It is now winter and the cold season has begun. the goblins have proven to be a real annoyance. They seem to only want to disturb us when a caravan arrives. hopefully we will get another nice sized wave of migrants soon so I can recruit more military dwarf and have a decent size patrol outside at all times.
Seriously like every 3rd masterpiece engraving is of my first character lol. But that mostly because this world gen was stopped only at 500 that and Kregoth was shifted around a lot I believe. tomorrow I will finish my turn and post the save. Sorry it has been so slow being sick really takes it out of you lol.