Journal of Pisano, a humble mason of Unitedwires.
1st Granite, 553Holy crap this place smells of fish. I can barely concentrate on crafting fine stone coffers, doors, and tables with the incredible fish smell coming from the stores. Finding someone to prepare some of these raw fish is a top priority.
The next thing I was asked was why we had so many bed rooms, but so few of them assigned. That and a number of dwarves in the prison cells wanted real room.
(prison cells)
(real rooms)
10th GraniteStill some goblins lurking out there. I haven't had a chance to review our sturdy military dwarves yet.
19th Granite21 Migrants arrived today. The goblins wasted no time attacking the migrants and I wasted no time opening of the skull gate bridge and sending the military out to attack the goblins. The military swarmed the four goblins and it was over quickly for them. We lost a pet buck rabbit and had a few flesh wounds in the process.
The military appears to have weapons, but little in the way of armor so I've ordered some steel breastplates, mail shirts, greaves, helmets and so on to be made. We have a decent stock of metals in bar form and a ton in ore form including 30+ steel bars and some iron.
26th SlateAsmel Zanesgmor, Metalsmith has been possessed by unknown forces and claimed a metalsmiths forge.
He wants bars metal, blocks bricks and tree life... we have all three but he doesn't seem happy with our selection.
16th FelsiteAsmel has still not grabbed anything. I ordered some new blocks created but to no avail.
Also the miners are on strike. They won't tell me why but I ordered our main staircase extended down and designated a new housing area for our 21 new migrants but nobody is digging. I also started building a hospital since I haven't found one yet.
19th FelsiteThe Elves have arrived and are unloading their stuff. Of course nobody seems to know where they are and nobody can tell me who originally spotted them. Perhaps there are no Elves. We have two depots that I can find, one is just outside the curtain wall and the other is a new one that I built inside to make it closer to our finished goods stockpiles.
I should take this moment to discuss the wonder that is the Skull Gate. It stands eleven stories tall and serves as an imposing entrance to Unitedwires. I believe additional towers should be raised as well.
22nd FelsiteAh I figured out some of the strange behavior. Previously a burrow had been designated for 'inside' and it seems a great many dwarves were prohibited from going outside. This includes unloading the old depot. Once I cleared up the burrow issue things started going a lot smoother.
28th FelsiteAsmel began his construction, it seems he wanted something that was in the depot. He has iron bars, limestone blocks and an alder log.
Summer time!4th HematiteAh an image with a bit of our history engraved on it.