14th of Slate, year 107Things are getting worse every passing day. Several normally stable dwarves have went insane and are beyond any form of healing.
But the worst tragedy occurred today when one child went berzerk. She threatened everybody so we had to sent out guards to deal with her.
The child didn't stand any chance and the execution was done swiftly. Thank Armok we assigned our guards to use adamantine weapons to ensure swift killing.
Now, the real problem is how does this affect to everybody else? We had to, after all, kill a innocent child who just wasn't able to handle all the pressure and stress caused by the late events. Who is going to snap out next? And how does all of this affect our guards? What if one of them turns berzerk, wielding a superior adamantine equipment? I fear that in that case we have a series of murders coming our way...
22nd of Slate, year 107I have to admit, even though I don't agree with the notion of using child labor, the drafting of children has proved to be useful. Our coffin production speed has doubled with all the children working in masonries.
Unfortunately our production can't catch up the rate of deaths. Beatings, executions, starvations and murders are piling here, and each passing day at least one dwarf dies due any of the reasons listed here. We currently need dozens and dozens of coffins, but we can produce only so many right now. This means corpses littering the halls and front yard, nothing we can do to those.
28th of Slate, year 107The miasma caused by all the corpses was getting so badly to everyones nerves that Stronghammer ordered all of those to be dumped at our refuse pile outside. We know this ain't the proper way to respect the dead but seriously, if we want to survive from all this madness we need to forget the traditions for a moment.
Our population has dropped as low as ninety-eight dwarves, which is really bad since we nearly one and half hundred dwarves living down here. And before all this is over I expect more deaths.
10th of Felsite, year 107Dare I hope that the worst is already behind? There has been no tantrums in over a week, and the last jailed dwarf is getting out in a month or so. Could it be possible that we actually survived from this chaos?
13th of Felsite, year 107And when we hoped everything would calm down a bit we have another problem. We are being sieged again!
The gnolls are here, most probably to avenge the death of their former diplomat! But they only sent a small squad of melee warriors, nothing our guards shouldn't be able to take care of.
The first guard to reach the advancing gnoll force was Machinetangle. She was quickly surrounded by angry dog-heads but she fought bravely, being able to hold her ground to the point when others arrived.
The guards fought well but there were more gnolls than we thought. Eventually they were able to break the siege but not without any losses; one guard died and three were wounded, one even seriously. But at least Dohon survived without wounds and the siege ended.
19th of Felsite, year 107We are just trying to recover from gnoll attack when the goblins showed up! We are doomed, I repeat, DOOMED!
Everybody was ordered to flee inside, but alas two of our children were too slow and were slain by the goblins.
The first wave was trolls. Those were slaughtered easily but when the first goblin squad came our soldiers decided to rush out there instead of waiting. Didn't they learn a damned thing from last time?!
The rush came with hefty price; Dohon was killed outside, surrounded by dozens of goblins.
Wait, I hear screams coming from the stairs. I better go and check out what's happening there...
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