Early Spring
"We've been traveling for months now, how much long until we get to wherever we're going?" Extol grumbled sourly, as Rentorian turned around to reply there was a sharp crack and the wheels of the wagon snapped in two, landing the wagon on the beach with a heavy thud. "we're here." Rentorian declared shakily, "Just like I planned, honest!"
"Sure, sure, an' the godmetal will come rainin' from tha sky." Muldoon grumbled, climbing a sand dune with Uber Pye to try and figure out what kind of place we had been stranded in. "Looks good, plenty of trees for beds and pissing of elves, OH I see some mastodons over there! Aren't they.... they.... what is that?" Pye said slowly pointing at the horizon.
"By Armok" Muldoon gasped as he noticed what Pye had seen.
"There's another one over there!" DevilEd shouted pointing over to the west.
"What do you say to that Muldoon?" Rentorian panted out as he reached the top of the dune to see what everyone was so excited about. "Bah, still ain't rainin' the stuff. And ain't those things supposed to have demons in 'em?"
"Well they're already uncapped so I'd say any demons that were down there have already left" Billybobfred said happily. "Alright then!" Rentorian cried out joyfully, "Let's strike the earth!".
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Personal Notes of Rentorian, Architect of Oceanshells.
After the discovery of the godmetal we went back down to the beach, we're far enough back to be away from the waves and once we put up some walls this place will be easily defended.
The initial plans for the entryway include a place for the trade depot as well as an alcove to place a ballista we can use to repel anyone who tries to invade us, or give us a bad deal while trading. Every little bit helps when dealing with merchants after all.
Sometime mid-spring
Apologies for not keeping track of the days but they seem to be flying past recently. We finished the first apartment block and each of us have been assigned our rooms, they're small but we each have our own bed, cabinet, and doors. After things have stabilized here I'll see to making more spacious rooms for the more worthy dwarves.
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Today DevilEd noticed a large herd of stegosauruses... stegasauri? whatever. In any case he noticed a large herd of dinosaurs roaming around above ground. They're massive beasts, and thier piked tails look quite dangerous. He was quite intent on having one as a pet but we haven't set up any cage traps yet so he'd have to bring in a wild one with his bare hands. When I told him that he got halfway there before I caught up with him and told him it was a joke. I'll have to watch what I say around him.
Late Spring
Things have been running smoothly, our food stocks have been moved mostly indoors, the dining room and barracks are almost in full working order, what parts of them we've actually dug out anyway, no sense making a massive dining room for only seven of us eh?
We also finished the construction of our first two dedicated crafting areas. Each one has a stockpile below it with the materials a dwarf will need to pursue his craft.
We currently just have stone and woodworking wings set up but more will be made in time.
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In the last few days of spring DevilEd notcied a rather large herd of velociraptors porwling around outside. I'm personally terrified of the things, too smart fort an over-sized lizard if you ask me, but he is set on making one of them him. Maybe he'll get lucky and one of them will be caught in our cage traps, good luck convincing Uber Pye to tame it for him though.
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That's all for spring. When I saw the adamantine pipes my first thought was AWESOME! A close second was, "Wait, I can see the tunnel to hell in those things." Luckily the demons are asleep or something. Nothing much really happened over the spring though. Mostly it was just me setting up the first frameworks of our base and making sure that things went smoothly. Summer will be going up either today or tomorrow depending on how distracted I get by other things.
Also Karakzon and RandAnima you'll be dorfed either as soon as we get dorfs with the skills you want, or more likely dorfs that have useless skills that I'll repurpose to have the skills you want.
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