((Such a sad weekend. My car has gone the way of the dinosaurs. It was the best car, it even had a nickname. I called it "car"))
The Aquifer is DefeatedGar and his two assistants came bounding up the stairs, Gar himself taking them two at a time. Aban was in her office (well, she was at the chair shoved up against one of the walls in the main hall that she called her office), and she jumped up, surprised as he appeared.
“Break out the rum, break out the beer, because we’ve broken through the aquifer! Come see!”
The news spread quickly through the rest of the fort. Not that hard, as there were still only 17 of them there. But soon those 17 were gathered in a damp, but significantly not soaked wood walled passage. Below them, a stairway led down into granite.
“Well done, Gar.” Aban said. “Now we can finally get to work on the bridge.” She thought for a moment. "I guess we need a lead architect for the project, and so on. Gar, that’s you. Try not to make it, you know, too crazy.”
“Right, boss. Speaking of that, though, I want to show you a plan I came up with for dropping our enemies into a tank filled with vicious sea monsters.”
“Wait, we have enemies?”
From the Journals of Aban Brothertreaties:Busy, busy, and getting even busier. With the mines opened up, Nix and Karakzon have got down to digging. They’ve told me that they’ve found native gold and limestone. They were excited about the limestone, and when they told Person and Turk, those two got excited about the limestone, and now all four of them are drunk in the food storeroom. The gold is considered a “nice bonus”. Apparently what we need now is iron.
After that, migrants showed up. Two of them. One’s a bone doctor, then there’s this fellow. Who I guess isn’t a fellow. Seems all right.
All that, and we laid the first blocks in the bridge. It’s not too fancy right now, but just wait.
A Strange MoodMormota was still trying to adjust to her new home. When she’d got a message from the queen telling her to “Go visit my lovely new bridge or visit the lovely marvelous new Pit of Horrors”, she’d chosen the bridge. But the bridge didn’t even seem to exist yet, and the dwarfs who were meant to build it were living in a sandy little hole in the ground. All very unsettling. So she was working on some crafts to relax.
So it didn’t help when the bone doctor who’d come along with suddenly jumped in and shouted “THRONECHANTED! My gods, that’s it, it’s brilliant! BRILLIANT, I tell you!”, and threw her bodily out the room, slamming the door behind him.
Several days later he emerged, coated in dirt and holding aloft a small wooden scepter.
It was pretty disappointing, really.
((Still moving slow, I know. I have no time, no time at all.))
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