Autumn, year 20It's 6th Limestone, and the dining room is ready. The miners have also finished up with the barracks and moved to mine the small personal mining rooms as well as offices. Nothing grand I tell you, we can't allow our egoes get in our way right now. But the trut is, I need decent office. There is just too much to do to be disturbed by others.
The barracks brought me another dilemma. Who I should appoint as the commander of military? I have three choices, the lass or one of the two lads. I have to think about it.
The offices and small dining rooms are finally ready. Now I can get some work done without being pestered by everybody. The first thing I did was to appoint the lass, Rackfuture, to the position of military commander. The fact that she has been herself busy with all the minor she is able to do while the two lads kept on hanging around the wagon led me to the conclusion that she deserves the title. Now, I hope she doesn't make me to regret the decision.
There has been some concerns among the population about the safety of our fortress. And I agree, we don't have any proper way of defending ourselves. So, as the barracks are ready, I formed a squad of soldiers, commanded by our new military commander Rackfuture. Besides Rackfuture the squad consist of two other warriors, both being the soldiers that came with us from mountainhome. Each three has skills with axes and armor, so with a bit training they should be able to remove all the rustiness that has come since spring.
It's already 22nd of Sandstone. I had hoped that the bedrooms would be ready at the end of this month. SOme of them are, and rest are missing beds. The problem is, we don't have any beds left. We have wood, we have carpentry, we even have skiklled carpenter. But no beds. And what is our carpenter doing? She is having a break, for over one month now. I swear, I have not seen her doing any work since she returned from cutting down trees to fill the wood storage. I have tried to confince her to continue the work without any resutls. There she is, standing in the middle of dining hall, drinking beer and chatting with her friends while others get more and more annoyed by the lack of bedrooms.
It took three more days before our "dear" carpenter decided to return her work. Finally. I suspect someone else remainded her about her place in our society and her duties here. Not sure, but that's what I suspect basing on how fast she actually walked to her workplace. If I didn't know better I would say that she even ran. But that's beside the point, I'm glad we finally get some progress again.
Early today morning I was woken up by the noise coming from the entrance. The dogs were barking wildly. As I knew the soldiers were training at the barracks just next to the entrance I was not worried but still I hurried to towards the entrance ramp. When I got there I saw two dwarves I have never seen before. It turned out that those two dwarves were the head of long immigrant caravan coming towards the fortress. I ordered the soldiers to direct every migrant to our meeting hall, where I would properly go through them. It seems that today, 4th of Timber, the population of our fortress has grown again.
I interviewed the migrants. It turned out to be decent folk, though I actually wondered where would we need such profession as soap maker? Seriously? But in the end almost everybody was assigned job either basing on their skills or the needs of our fortress.
Among the migrants came two carpenters, other being skilled in cutting trees. I admit I was tempted to release our current carpenter from both wood cutting and carpentry duties, but ended demoting her to woodcutter. The one migrant who had skills in wood cutting had knowledge of operating furnaces, so that's the job she got. The other carpenter replaced our former carpenter.
WIth the migrants also came metal crafter. In other circumstances I would be excited, but as we already have one, no need for two, and the lad got skills of cutting gems, I moved him to our jewelry industry.
Next we got brewer, who will replace our farmer Ophelia as brewer. Ophelia has been hoping for some reliefement from the duties, so from now on she can concentrate on farming only.
Lastly I promoted three other migrants to furnace operator -position. two of them had skills in other fields, but those skills are not needed at this moment. There was one lass who didn't get assigned any jobs right now. I will think something for her later, but for now she can help others by hauling stuff around. But she should not feel lonely, there was child among the migrants who, due the laws of our kingdom, is not allowed to be assigned any other jobs than hauling. That's nine more dwarves to our society. Not bad I say.
OUr former carpenter informed me just moments ago that there is caravan coming. Basing on discussions I had with the migrants I believe it's the trading caravan from mountainhome. And with the caravan should also come the liason, so it seems we finally get some official news from our kingdom. I'm truly excited, and already ordered moving of all trading goods to the depot.
It's 15th of Timber, and the caravan has finally arrived with the liason. The caravan was directed immediately to the trading depot, and I requested that the liason waits a bit while I finish few details concerning our working orders before conducting the meeting. Our trader has already alerted to the trading depot to attend the caravan.
I was having a round in the fortress with the liason when I was informed that the bedrooms are ready. What timing, just when I have something more important to do. Oh well, I will attend that matter after liason has left. I was also informed that the trading with the caravan was completed. I will check the documents later.
The winter has just begun. Or, should I say, the season of winter has arrived calendar. We are living in such a climate that there is now distinction between winter and other seasons.
The liason has finally left. After giving him a tour inside our frotress we begun disccussing some trade agreements. I requested that the next caravan would bring some coke. The liason, on the other hand, requested several things from us, including crafts. After we finished the agreements the liason departured.
After I had finished with liason it was time to check the status of bedrooms. As I was informed, everything was ready for assigning bedrooms. Everybody got one, and there were even three spare ones, though I believe we must make new rooms ready for the next wave of immigrants.
I also checked the trading details. It seems that Boltjoin did a good job, not giving too much profit to caravan but just enough make them very pleased. He bought some food, wood, plaster, couple of cages and cloth. What baffles me is that the caravan did not have any drinks for sale. I hope the next caravan that comes is better supplied.
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