K guys sorry bout the wait but RL interuppted this project but i did my year, unfortunatley i needed to get this done quickley so i just used my usual starting build sorry bout it. Btw i didnt have the time to dorf anyone so just dorf yourselves during your turn. I took the Jewler.
Journal:
First off it wasn't my fualt i was sent here, it was a mistake anyone could have made. So i sold the king some cut glass at the price of diamonds, anyone could have made that mistake.And anyway it was the kings own fault for not figuring it out until i already spent the money on booze. When i told him that at the hearing i dont think he really understood reality (maybe hes the kind that always blames te other guy) and instead sent me to go make some new fortress called something like goldcraft. Atleast i managed to snaggle the jod of leader away from that annoying Blacksmith. Anyway, the journey was ok as long as you normally sleep on rocks, eat cold plump helmets, and are too scared to ask what kind of meat you are eating. When we got there i started doing my job as i understood it and figured out that my compainions are idiots, the first thing the wanted to do was hold an election whatever the hell that was when i told them about the kings orders they started complaining abouu the lack of equality or some shit like that so after a couple of fist fights and me holding a match to the barrels of booze we brought along i secured my place as leader.
Spring:
1st Granite- We arrvie after trudging hundereds of miles we finally arive at our destination, it was a dump. I dont know what i was expecting but a pile of dirt with geese running around wasnt it. After an intense arguement with the guy who had the map we figured out that we took a wrong turn about... when we left, shit. Well considering it took as the better part of winter to get here we decided to set up shop here.
3rd Granite- Struck some gem called prase while carving out the main storage area.
28th Granite- Struck Yellow Zircon and Bone Opal while minin out the fortress, The abundance of gems makes me hopeful about the size of my pay check at the end of the year, plus if its low i could always sell some of the gems we "accidentally" lost.
12th Slate- Struck more Prase, Maybe we should have named the town GemCraft
17th Slate- I sent a patrol up the mountain to find a good place for a tower and instead found large deposites of limonite and coal! with the flux stone we have been pulling out we could easily have steel! Time to start on the furnaces.
3rd Felsite- Yet more prase i think im gonna be alittle busy in the workshop for a while
8th Felsite- More Prase
24th Felsite- This month should be renamed from felsite to prase we have mined out 25 gems just by digging out our fortress. In other news the baasic fortress is almost done but we dont have alot of defenses we need a mechanic soon.
Summer:
1st Hematite- Summer began today
13th Hematite- Miners being lazy saying they need food or some nonsense like that, in other news the geese tht have running around the mountain have disappered in their plce is a swarm of buzzards that keeps trying to peck my miners to death.
28th Malachite- Geese are back basic fortress is done got bedrooms and dining hall finished and setting up more workshops.
2nd Galena- Losers... I mean migrants have arrived from the mountain homes, we got a mechanic, a BlackSmith, and a Craftsdwarf. I get the mechanic to start making mechanisms and stone fall traps.
18th Galena- Ok what the hell is with all the prase
Fall:
1st Limestone- Autumn hs arrived
24th Limestone- Struck Yellow Zircon and Bone Opal, again.
26th Limestone- The miners have been drinking all the booze again we are down to 5 drinks luckly i have my own personal supply of booze for my use..
2nd Sandstone- Wouldnt you know it? The losers at the mountainhomes decide that now is a great time to send more migrants,there arnt any usful ones either. we got; a Carpenter, A hunter, a bone carver, a fish dissector, a milker (legendary), a potash maker, and a shearer. They all quickley become gophers too the more useful dwarves.
20th Sandstone- Out of booze my private stock was broken into too...
22nd Sandstone- Gold! Sweet now i dont have to go through the paper work of changing the fortress name!
1st Timber- Wait timber is a stone?
10th Timber- Every Plump Helmet that leaves the frms is going straight to the still but not enough wine is being made. Where are those stupid merchants
14th Timber- This gold vein is huge. Maybe that wrong turn we took threw off the merchants?
19th Timber- Finally the merchants are here! Wait they didnt come for us? Ok i guess we are on the way to some other fortress whatever.
25th Timber- Traded crafts and gems for all the traders food and booze, the other fortress hopefully doesnt need food.
Winter:
28th Timber- Winter has arrived
12th Moonstone- mined out all the gold but no one is making charcoal so we cant smelt steel or gold, they are saying they arnt skilled enough but how hard is it to burn wood?
13th Moonstone- One of our water buffalo starved while standing in his grassy pasture assigned to him, oh well we got steak atleast.
23rd Moonstone- The Traders left finally, but they leftt one of their own and he has been lookking for me, I think i might owe himm some money i'll just aviod him till he gets bored and leaves.
10th Opal- He's sitting in my room waiting so i've taken the bedroom of one of the gophers until he leaves.
10th Obsidian- Turns out the creep is really the outpst liason and he just wanted to talk to me about some of the merchants demands after talking about the increasing prices of cut gems, battle axes, random crafts, and stone blocks, he askes if we have any of those things when i say no he turns to leave. Then i offer to give him some expensive gems that went "missing" in exchange for him taking my place as leader. He accepts and i give him some cut "emeralds" (cut glass). I am gonna walk out of this fortress aa free man. I heard that theres a human town nearby if i can get there i can selling the gems i have and start over in life. I am leaving this journal on my desk for the next leader.
- MonkeySmith, Jewler and 1st Leader of Gold craft.
Good Luck Guys!
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