1st GraniteApparently there's some sort of succession crisis going on? I didn't know our rulership was in question. I didn't know it
could be in question.
That's not the really weird part. Apparently, through some mix-up in the paperwork, I've been appointed as the interim overseer. There's no way I was intended to take that job, but I'm not complaining. They'll figure it out on their own.
First order of business. My wife and I need proper living quarters.
Oh yeah, abusing power for personal gain. Nothing like it.
5th GraniteThe baroness just informed me that she has a mandate outstanding for toy axes. I guess the stonecrafters can get right on that?
And she needs better living conditions. Fine whatever.
6th Granite
Um.
I've just been confronted by a spirit of the dead. Apparently we need to make one sacrifice per year. He (?) was a previous sacrifice, so he knows the system quite well.
It must be chosen at random, too. False sacrifices will... well, the spirit never elaborated on the consequences for failure, but every leader so far has complied, so I assume they're known and unacceptable.
Well. If a dwarf must die for the good of the fort, it'll damn well be a good death. Let's get started.
9th Granite
A blacksmith has gotten some brilliant idea into his head. I don't know. He dropped his meal and ran off.
15th GraniteAfter claiming a bar of copper, three different blocks, a stack of bones, and a handful of uncut gems, he's gotten to work.
... What on earth is he making?
20th Granite
Uhh... okay...?
On a completely unrelated note, my wife just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
Why didn't she tell me she was with child? I could have been there for the birth! Ahh... what's done is done. The important part is that now I'm a father!
(( Seriously. I chose my dwarf basically at random, he happened to be married, and she happened to give birth less than a month into my turn. I think our sacrifices have pleased the Random Number Goddess. ))
24th GraniteAlso, we're not to export toy axes, by order of the baroness.
6th SlateI've just been informed that "the sacrifice" has succumbed to infection. Which sacrifice? Last year's? The one before that? The very first year of the fort? It certainly isn't
this year's sacrifice, but that's all I know. We need to number these, people!
16th SlateI got a steel industry up and running. I probably could have mentioned that earlier.
It's like nobody else was even
trying to make steel. It's only the most dwarvenly metal in all of existence! (The blue stuff is godly, not dwarvenly.)
22nd SlateAlso, there is like a ridiculous amount of ore down in the depths. Someone did exploratory mining, which is good, but then didn't dig out the ore. wat teh spor guize
23nd SlateMigrants!
3rd FelsiteOh, we're out of flux stone. That's why we didn't have a steel industry. I thought we had a flux quarry somewhere I wasn't looking...
16th FelsiteWe just breached another cavern. Let's seal that right up...
19th FelsiteElves have arrived to trade.
... And a cyclops! My research shows that they don't know how to avoid cage traps. I think I've determined my method of sacrifice.
And another previous sacrifice has succumbed to infection.
24th FelsiteA goblin ambush is trying to get through our traps. They might succeed, so I'm calling up the military, just in case.
25th FelsiteOh, hell. They got through all right. Sliced up some dogs, too.
It is now summer.1st HematiteThe goblin attack was largely ignorable once we got the military up top. They didn't even get to the elves, so whatever.
Progress has begun on the sacrificial chamber. It won't be usable again once the first sacrifice is made, but that's all right. It seems... appropriate... for each sacrifice to have their own death.
(( The sacrifice will be granted one piece of equipment to fight the cyclops with. Any suggestions? ))
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