16th of Galena, year 106The human caravan is coming! And they are attacked by goblin ambush!
Fortunately the merchants were protected by guards and thus the goblins were dispatched quickly.
But before they managed to reach the fortress another threat came, this in time in form of drows.
We quickly called everybody inside and stationed Derm next to the golems and prepared for a fight. Unfortunately one of our fishers didn't manage inside and was attacked and then killed by the advancing drows.
Four our dwarves were still in danger as they were outside, collecting the corpses, while the attack begun.
Of the four dwarves only one managed to get inside, unfortunately the three remaining were slaughtered by drows. Few drows also tried to get inside our fortress but they were slaughtered by the traps.
And at the same moment another group of goblins appeared.
Everybody were already inside so we just had to wait. A huge battle took place near the traps between the goblins and human soldiers, but eventually the goblins were slaughtered. But all these events made the humies so furious that they decided to leave this place immediately, so we didn't manage to make any trading with them. I think it's time get all the corpses inside now.
14th of Limestone, year 104The incident that happened few weeks back taught us one thing; we need soldiers to defend our entrance. This is why we formed the squad "The Copper Wigs" from eight female warriors, gave them iron armor and iron crossbow, some bolts and ordered them to station at the top of our archery stand.
The order also states that any given time there must be at least four of them stationed there, no less. This way we should get at least a warning when the enemies are on our way.
The leader of the squad was also made the captain of guard, which basically the same as sheriff. This means we must give her the proper quarters.
2nd of Sandstone, year 104All the corpses and items left outside have been hauled inside now. It seems that one of the merchants were slaughtered, along with his pack animal, and thus we just claimed all the goods left behind to ourselves.
Today we also received another bunch of migrants. Seven dwarves of which two were peasants and one warrior. That leaves four nobles. Four? Where the hell do we need this many nobles to?
5th of Timber, year 104Another artifact was created today. It was a wooden statue of one of our former queens.
There is this image of the former queen and the crowning. There is also an image of Worshipwipped, the green glass crown in the artifact
Now, the tale of the queen is quite sad one and even a embarrassing part of our history. Yes, we have had troll as our queen for a moment. Few years in fact. I don't know the details why it was crowned but the bad rumors say that there were some political schemes including some kind of wager going on at that time. Nevertheless, after only three years since the crowning the queen was abducted by night creature and turned to one. And we haven't seen the troll ever since. Good thing by the way, no dwarven civilization should be ruled by any lesser being!
21st of Timber, year 104The caravan from mountain home arrived today. First it was time to do some trading. For lots of crap we got some metals, lots of wood, bolts, food and alcohol. I'm pleased even though I had hoped for some leather and cloth as well. Perhaps we should start producing our own cloth soon?
Unfortunately, while we were doing some trading, two of our dwarves were ambushed outside the fortress.
The archers and Derm fought bravely and the invading goblins were slaughtered and one of the two civilians was able to get inside. Unfortunately the other one died by the hands of goblins.
Unfortunately not everything went as we planned. Derm was wounded and it's not sure if he is able to use his other hand anymore. That shouldn't slow him down though.
The worse thing came to one of our archers. She suffered some serious wounds and it's unknown if she will survive.
The one who died during the ambush was Ahtra, the butcher. I also ordered that our priests must not take part in the hauling and instead try to heal our wounded soldiers. This order takes place immediately and last as long as I see fit.
11th of Moonstone, year 104This is bad! One of the goblins were able to escape and abducted a child when doing so!
I'm not sure how the mother will take this. Hope she doesn't turn berserk as she happens to be one of our archers!
On the happy news, Derm is back from hospital. He can't use properly his left had but that doesn't slow him down a bit. We shall begin producing the adamantine equipment at once, after that we should have proper melee squad as well.
16th of Moonstone, year 104Finally!
The liaison just informed me that our fortress has been made to barony! And I was chosen to the position of baron! This is wonderful!
The promotion should take place in few weeks, after she has reached the queen with the news of our accept.
I can't wait to get the title!
2nd of Obsidian, year 104Our melee squad has been assembled. The squad consists of Bowie, dual-wielding short swords, Nix wielding spear and shield, Jacen with axe and shield, Edmus who took spear and shield and Derm wielding axe. Derm is the righteous leader of the squad with twenty-three notable kills.
Besides the chosen weaponry all of them received breastplate, greaves, high-boots, gauntlets and helmets. Every piece of the equipment was made from adamantine, so their equipment should be superior to our enemies.
6th of Obsidian, year 104We received the word that from now on we are officially the barony of our kingdom.
With the letter I was also promoted to the position of baron and I received the instructions of proper quarters I should have from now on.
We shall start the work immediately after the celebration is over.
16th of Obsidian, year 104Damned vikings! They decided to attack us!
And we have a weak spot in our defense; the construction site of pasture!
We must protect that weak spot at all cost! So we must force the vikings to come there and station all our soldiers near it. That means we must raise the bridge at our official entrance.
19th of Obsidian, year 104And so the vikings came. And, just like we had planned, the only route inside was through the construction site, heavily guarded by our soldier.
The battle was fierce and more or less everybody took some small injuries. But eventually the siege was broken and the vikings begun to retreat. Unfortunately our melee soldiers decided to chase them down, only to discover small goblin ambush squad waiting outside.
The ambush was slain and the goblins were chased away. But all the dwarves who took part in the combat were wounded, so we called them inside for healing. This is terrible, I hope we don't loose anybody.
But right after the alarm was over we got another ambush, this time from south.
The poor butcher was slain but again our soldiers were able to wipe out the goblins. Now the construction site is full of blood, vomit and piss. And corpses, of course. I wonder how our animals behave when taken there?
24th of Obsidian, year 104All of our wounded soldiers should be able to return to duty sooner or later. None of the wounds were too serious. The sad thing is, at least Edmus and Bowie can't use their other hand. That means Edmus can't use his shield anymore and Bowie must let go the second sword. That's a shame really.
28th of Obsidian, year 104Another eventful year has come to end. We have had both bad days and good days. We are now barony, that's a very good thing, but we have lost several of our dwarves to our enemies and our military has been wounded somewhat. Fortunately none of our soldiers have died thus far.
Our wealth is good, over one and half million bucks, and our population slowly reaching the legendary one hundred and forty dwarves. Our food and alcohol situation is good, we have no worries in that matter.
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