Journal of '!!crundle!!'
21st Opal
I haven't been keeping this up to date at all, have I.
But I was working.
Working to save this hellhole.
And I'd say it worked.
First things first, though.
Good news and bad news coming up soon.
Good news:
The glassmaker babbling in the halls got his shit together and made a very nice figurine of a chessboard being made. I need a display case made for that shit.
The tower was being built, and going along well.
Migrants arrived.
Bad news:
A pair of ambush squads from the demons appeared and killed most of the migrants, a few of the tower workers, and broke my hand, AND caused a big fire.
The manager was killed in this.
After that, I retreated indoors, got treated at the hospital, and found that some merchants had come and slaughtered the demons.
Alright.
Some kid started babbling for shells, and later went mad.
I traded with the elves, of both kinds, and the nords when they came to us.
I disbanded the miner militia, and formed a marksdwarf squad for the tower.
The tower got done.
Another glassmaker started screaming about something, and then made a very nice statue for the dining room, about some fortress other than ours being founded.
A bronze colossus was spotted on the horizon.
Two ithillid squads rushed the thing and were flattened.
My fellow dwarves and the orcs arrived, and I was reminded of last year's mad orcs, so I opened the room where the mad merchants were, and a perfectly sane orc windsword walked out, and headed for home.
The merchants managed to get in as the colossus stomped another squad of ithillids into the ground.
I had an idea.
I set a trap.
The great bronze man wandered about, when our best bowyer decided to take a stroll when he found the trap shaft, not knowing what it was, and led the thing away from where it was meant to be.
But he died.
And the great bronze man wandered into the tunnel...
"HA! FOOLS!" he boomed, dashing down the tunnel.
He leapt over a ramp, landed on another ramp, and killed an unskilled engraver with no friends.
The trap was sprung.
hatches slammed shut, and walls were built, and the bronze statue was trapped.
Then bolts rained on him through holes in the wall, fortifications, as the marksdwarves trained.
Then they ran out of ammo, and left.
During all of this, some kid grabbed a mule's skeleton and made another damn figurine.
About werewolves.
Being killed by dwarves.
He's okay.
But my time ruling here will soon end.
Be careful in the lever room.
Oh, hell. Another siege.
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