PereGarrett's journal
1st Granite, 253
Except for being first day of 253'd year, it was just another dull day. After having a snack at our nice dining hall I decided to take a short walk. Well, it's nice outdoors! A few yards away there were standing out brave military. I mean, our Marshall Zumdol Idur Tumwist (hell, guys were begging to make thin copper plate with those letter engraved and stick it at Marshall's office, so anyone could avoid misspeling that stuff while meeting him) and our Sniper Hydrall. And two their apprentices.
- Hey PereGarrett! - shouted Hydrall - Happy new Year! I've got nice present for you!
- Huh... no kidding? - I replied and quickly looked around for some natural shelter - just in case he means his new masterwork bolt. Sometimes he scares me with his bloody sence of humor...
- Yeah! See this fortress? It's yours for next year! Take care!
- WHA...
!!!???
Just to explain. When we settled here, we decided to form some kind of... well... gray government... It means one of us is completely responsible for everything is going here, for year. And then he should pass his duties to another guy, for another year. And so on.
But I never thought it could be ME! Oh hell, what should i do now... ??..??
Stunned with this news, I walked somewhere... up to the wall, as I see now. Ok, nice place to look around and decide what to do.
Ok. What we have.
A Volcano at the center of our fortress. As i recall my studies at middle school, there are some nasty creatures that live at the bottom of volcano... but maybe it's just fairytales for children.
Magma smelters and forges at volcano edge. As for me, we just expose or metal-making secrets to every sneaky kobold of elf! We don't hat them to come back with steel swords, don't we?!
Obsidian water tank, half-constructed. I doubt do we need it it all? We could just build a few wells and that'd be enough for anyone who want to wash himself. What? DRINK it? You're kidding?! Only prisoners and sick ones drink it! I guess it motivates citizens to behave right and don't spend time at hospital, and it works well. Drinking water...* shudder* Well, let's go on.
Small square construction wit ramp at one side and door at another. It's our Automated Security Chamber, where we scan any suspicious-looking guest with our modern masterwork detectors. i.e. serrated iron discs and spiked iron balls. Now it works well with wandering snailmen. But what would we do if there comes a few goblin ambushes? We need to expand it.
Ant here is the Green Entrance - for friendly guests. Passage 2 yards wide, with some security mechanisms -Serrated Disc Detection System, two Fixation Systems loaded with wooden cages, two stone Bad Thought Removers and one Ass Hole Detector - specially trained donkey tied by the rope. Somewhat simple, but should be working. Oh, and a gate that can lock this passage completely.
All this stuff is surrounded by wall. It's still unfinished, but it's supposed to block any other way into our home. Walls and impassable steeps, that were made by out miners.
Ok, let's make this place The True Fortress Of Last Dwarfs In The World!
Hey! Who put there that wall?! I can't get back! Get me in, idiots!
OOC: - Did I miss something important?
6th Slate, 253
Last pieces of wall were constructed. I guess we're safe now. But.. why not to test it?
11th Slate
Guess what?
Our donkeys CAN climp up trees! Donkey foal just jumped from hill slope to tree and then on the top of wall. Hell, if donkey can, gobbos will made it for sure! We got to do something with that
22nd Slate
The fortress attracted no migrants this season. I doubt if any of our brethren survived since our nation was destroyed... Okay, no time for whining! Out to work!
17th Felsite, 253
Elves.
Magnificient Bastard sold them a bunch of his dull stone things. Elves were ecstatic about how ethnical they are... Armok Burning Arse, they treat us like those cave olm men, with their bone spears, stone mugs and so! We got to produce some jewelry, so those tree-dwellers can go and eat their cloth, striken by paroxysm of greed!
I ordered to build jeweler workshop.
23rd Felsite
An ambush! Curse them!
They struck down a cat. Also there is Sodel, our weaponsmith came out for hematite - what the Armok Duck?!? Hydrall said he forbade all ore outside!
I managed to give him a secret sign - so he's a guerilla warrior for now. He should hide somewhere till we dealt with them...
Oh hell.. they took out Sodel...
Their squad leader tried to sneak through Automated Detector... sadly he survived by jumping back. We need to uprgade it!
Goblins then flew, accompanied by flying bronze bolts. No result though.
1st Hematite, 253
Summer. I put Sodel's coffin to fully engraved room. That'll be his resting place, his and others unlucky fellows.
We will avenge!
We have bowyer, and I ordered Etur Udilrab to be our metalworker. She has no experience in it, but who else? We need more traps.
18th Malachite, 253
Still no migrants.
11th Galena, 253
Human traders came. Let's see what they brought...
19th Galena
Kobold thieves, goblin snatcher and 4 ambushing goblin squads. It seems like they were tracing human traders.
Kobolds were taken down by our bowyer Adil and war cheetah (Hydrall trained cheetah and jaguar that we got from elves and taught them some dirty war tricks). As for goblins, they are 'arguing' in ther usual way. I mean, they are killing each other. Okay, that mean we can just sit and watch, and then take care of others. Oh, and there is two human warriors among them.
18th Limestone, 253
We made nice trade with merchants. But then they left and came directly to goblin ambush - they finally resolved their agrues and were wandering there. Well, we told them to take care... But those arrogant species sayd - we have guards, they'll take care of them. So, now they all dead, their supplies are laying in the dirt. We just need to wait till gobbos got bored and take everything!