That seems to have worked. Note to future overseers - the fort is running on .22 at current.
Magentawolf's Log - 3rd Granite
The liaison from the Mountainhomes came by today to officially transfer stewardship of the project to myself. Fortunately, Zech had informed me ahead of time, but it's still a bit of a nasty shock at first. There are currently seventeen dwarves assigned to this project, and also an apparently uncountable number of chickens wandering the inside of the fort.
One of the first things I've decided to do is to wall off the mining section from the outside world, and construct a tunnel connecting them to the castle proper.
The second thing I did is to address our falling food supplies. One things that these hens have for them is a constant supply of eggs. While they can't be eaten raw, I've ordered the cooks to start preparing some simple meals from the ingredients that we do have.
5th Granite
By Armok! I've found that not a single inhabitant of this fortress knows how to cook. I've assigned Cilob to the task, and can only hope that she's a quick learner.
12th Granite
The bloody human continues to shout and harangue us from his tower-top, and certain of our members have yet to harden their hearts against his invective.
20th Granite
Making good on the liaison's promise for additional manpower, a fresh wave of workers showed up today, 18 dwarves strong.... which more then doubled our current population. One, a Dobar Kubuksanreb, was an accomplished hunter and was immediately sent to procure additional supplies. The others were quite a motley lot, without a single miner among them!
What are they playing at? We require skilled hands to finish this project on time, and the mountainhome knows it!
25th Granite
One of the new migrants began muttering strangely today, and set out in a beeline for our single forge; not caring for the disruption his put in my plans for additional crossbow bolts and mining implements.
6th Slate
And what did he create, with the single iron bar he took into the forge? A boot. A low boot. A single low boot. He claims that it's named 'Iniradril Therleth Fashuk', or 'Declineweavers the Snake of Meanness'. It is studded with iron. Quite a nice piece, really, and appraised at 22800 dwarfbucks, but COMPLETELY USELESS!
7th Felsite
Our cook is coming up with some quite lovely Hen egg and Hen egg omelettes lately.. Sometimes there's some chicken tallow mixed in. Delicious!
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