20th of Sandstone, year 105As I was going through or stocks I noticed three cages still holding prisoners of war inside. That's unacceptable! We must slaughter them immediately!
So, the cages were installed, once again, and the linking done. Then we stationed Golden Depressions inside the arena.
The slaughter was quick even though we forgot to disarm the prisoners first. And, considering the lack of disarming, it was a small surprise none of our soldiers got hurt during the process. But finally we have all the cages emptied from unwanted prisoners.
3rd of Timber, year 105We received another group of migrants today, eleven dwarves this time. Why in the hell they keep sending more and more dwarves here? Do they really think that we have enough time to worry about the feeding of all these dwarves during the continuous attacks? I have to discuss this with the liaison next time.
15th of Timber, year 105The caravan and liaison from mountain home came today. And with them came another ambush squad of goblins.
With the help of caravan guards our soldiers were able to dispatch the intruders, and as far as I know no dwarves died during the process. One yak cow got badly injured but it should be able to survive back to mountain home
The trading with merchants went as usual, we gave them lots of crafts and stuff left behind by elves and invaders and we got lots of food, alcohol, metals, cloth and so on.
After the trading it was time to meet the liaison once again. The first thing she told me was that our fortress was chosen to become county.
Oh the joy! Didn't expect this to happen so soon!
I also told the liaison not to send more migrants as we don't need more dwarves here and that we are reaching the limit of how many we can support. It would only be foolish to send more dwarves here as we can't be sure that our fortress stays as safe as it's right now. She agreed with me and promised to take the message to the queen. That's good.
24th of Moonstone, year 105Today another artifact saw the daylight. It's magnetite figurine.
The image in the artifact relates to the ascension of the cursed rodent woman to hated enemy of our civilization. I'm a bit surprised that someone would want to make a artifact dedicated to this foul creature. On the other hand there is also a picture of bogeyman in the figuring so the whole artifacts seems to be a little strange. On the other hand it's quite valuable.
25th of Moonstone, year 105Today is the day when I can finally use the title "count" officially!
One thing surprises me which I just realized; I'm still the mayor of this fortress as well. There is no known situations when baron or count is also the mayor as usually, when promoted, the baron will leave the position of mayor and the new one is elected. But one year has already passed and I'm still the mayor, elected by the dwarves of Combatbronze. Strange but I don't complain.
5th of Opal, year 105As I'm count now I decided that I should have better quarters. So, as the expansion of my old one is impossible to expand, we need to build new one for me. The plans are already made and the miners should start working as soon as the expansion of food storage is ready.
17th of Opal, year 105We have our second farm plot ready. It will be used to grow some pig tail, which we can use to produce cloth. Perhaps we shall become independent from merchants in case of cloth.
17th of Obsidian, year 105The vikings have decided to pay a visit.
All our soldiers were ordered to station at the predetermined locations and all civilians to stay inside. We counted over twenty vikings, half of them being archers. Even though their equipment isn't as good as ours I fear brutal battle coming.
18th of Obsidian, year 106Are the vikings serious? Half of their forces scattered right after our archers begun shooting one of the leaders. The leader, axe lord, kept on coming towards our entrance but the whole squad he was leading scattered.
Now that there were only half of the invaders left the situation looked much better. When our soldiers charged towards the invading forces they begun to flee. The victory song was almost in the air when suddenly a band of fallen humans was spotted just outside the entrance.
We have heard of these foul creatures. Fortunately , at least in this case, the tales weren't accurate as the fallen humans weren't carrying equipment made from fell adamantine, a material that is almost equal to adamantine. Fortunately this wasn't the case this time, and so our soldiers decided to attack the new threat instead of chasing down the fleeing vikings.
After the ambush squad had been slain, which was a bloody fight, another one appeared right in front of our soldiers. This wasn't a good thing as Jacen had taken some serious injuries and had some troubles with breathing.
Again the fallen humans were slain down, and surprisingly even without any losses. But during all this chaos the vikings had turned around and were approaching the soldiers who unfortunately weren't enjoying the safety of walls anymore. And so begun another clash in the series of clashes.
As the vikings were far enough our soldiers decided to retreat inside for healing, as every single dwarf from the the Golden Depressions were more or less injured. The lever was pulled and the entrance blocked, leaving the vikings in the mercy of our archers. As the vikings realized they had no chance of entering the fortress they retreated, leaving us as victories of the battle.
28th of Obsidian, year 105One year is behind again, and surprisingly we are still alive. We have been under constant attack or threat of attack, which culminated to the battle that took place just several days ago.
So far I have been informed that Derm has only flesh wounds, Nix will be unable to use his right hand but should be otherwise fine, Bowie is suffering only from flesh wounds like Derm, Ahra will be unable to use his right hand and Dirge just need some bandages and cleaning. Also the breathing problems of Jacen weren't serious, but as most of the squad he can't use his right hand anymore. What's with the injuries in right hands only?
Otherwise things are running well. We are county now, we have started another industry, our temple area is only missing temples and so on. Our wealth is well over two millions bucks, which is a lot.
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