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[kytuzian]

May I join for a turn?

[LoneTophat]

May I join for a turn?

Done aswell.

[Eastep]

Journal of Eastep

I've had gems to work with, at long last! Opals, Jades, and Agates, oh my! Plus, I haven't been out in the overbright in so long I've retained my usual paleness!
Our leader has had me making rock crafts to ship home to the Mountain Homes, and then had my studding things with lead. Then he told me I couldn't work on the nice beds that we made! Wood isn't very dwarfy, so I just had to start covering the nasty stuff with good ol' dwarf lead! I would have used magma, but I haven't seen any available as of late. We had good magma back at the mountain homes...
Well, at least the beds look nice enough.

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Some dwarfs immigrated today, and I'm certain Shark asked for them specifically. I think he's had a grudge against me since the bed incident, and now he wants to replace me with these half rate craftsdwarves. I have more creative talent in one finger than they have collectively!
At least I'll have some more time to relax with the gems. I wish we had some more iron and adamantine, but alas, we have had no such luck. Shark has had the miners toiling around in the depths and he hasn't hit anything nice yet.
Which reminds me that I'd really like to stud some more beds. With gold, maybe. Or some gems.

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I'm really starting to worry lately. I think I might be getting just a little bit paranoid, but I think all of these new upstarts are after my job. And, I think we should really get around to a military. These rock crafts bring all the goblins to the yard fortress. I think theses crafts are better than the rest, and then those upstarts want me to teach them! But hell no, they're after my job. They'll have to learn the hard way, by failing repeatedly! Haha!
I should bring up that military matter with Shark, maybe suggest a few of my competitors for the first of the militia. Nothing like trauma to jump start the artistic spirit! Head trauma, preferably.

[aussieevil]

I've written out a framing piece for the list of deities. Here it is:

Most of what is known of The [civ]'s theology comes from a pair of books - Histories and Words, both written by a dwarf known only as The Poet. Histories is a collection of stories spanning from the creation of the world to the middle of [monarch]'s reign. In this book, the pantheon is listed as follows:

[list gods]

Words is a collection of poems The Poet wrote claiming divine inspiration from [deity]. Some readers of Words claim that all the poems are prophetic in some way, while the rest of the civilization just use it as a collection of proverbs. The most-repeated poem in Words is Poem 25, commonly called "The Monarch's Promise." The most-repeated line is 15:7, most often used as an insult against elves.

(If you guys want to make up passages from Histories or Words, go on ahead.)

When I can get a look at the file, I'll fill in the blanks.[/list]

[LoneTophat]

It's been a few days. I'm starting to get pissed. You need to finish this shit up.

[Shark]

I'm sorry man, i've got school and a lot of work, and i'm trying to make it exciting by building the story.

Anyway I was hanging with a friend and just finished dinner. I'mma stay up late and play/post until this year is over.

[LoneTophat]

I'm sorry man, i've got school and a lot of work, and i'm trying to make it exciting by building the story.

Anyway I was hanging with a friend and just finished dinner. I'mma stay up late and play/post until this year is over.

Sorry man, I got a little pissy haha. Not your fault, got home was kinda angry at other shit. Take your time, ok?

[Shark]

17 Timber 501

Traders arrived at our depot today. We moved all our crafts upstairs, we have a good selection of items to trade with. I'm not the one trading, the military peasant/temporary bookkeeper/temporary broker is doing it. I told him to get iron, if possible.

I came back later in the day and he traded some of our valuable gem encrusted goods for a ton of items. Food, a little booze, pig tail seeds(which we had none of), couple pieces of armor, a steel short sword, another anvil and pick, some wood, etc. Seeing as we have flux, i'm telling him to request that they bring iron bars next time. Also, weapons and armor for us to trade for.

I sketched some pictures of our fortress to send with the traders. I do admit most of the design comes from me and my original digging, and i'm hoping it's satisfactory.


Didn't realize how much cave moss we had until I started drawing.

Barracks are to the left of the entrance, main food stockpile is behind the depot. Farms to to the left of the food stockpile, for easy transporting. We're digging out more space so plants will grow on the moss. To the right of the food stockpile we have farm related workshops like a kitchen, still, butchery, farmers workshop. We need to expand the space and add room for cloth/leather stockpiles, now that we have a leatherworker and pig tail seeds and such. I kind of based this floor around the main food stockpile. Also, the dining hall on the next floor is RIGHT below the food stockpile for quick easy access.

The way I personally dug the entrance to the refuse stockpile means no miasma will get out. I drew a sulky little eastep decorating things with horn in his new workshop.





Dining hall filled to the brim with puppies. The stairs right by it lead up to the food pile.

Furniture stockpile is right next to the wood stockpile and carpentry shop. The mason shop is on the other side of the hallway. We also have a dump zone on the right side where we dump stone so the stone workshops will always have nearby stone. The stockpiles on the right side are for gems and finished goods.



This floor is for rooms. This design currently holds 32 dwarves. I didn't want it to be too big because I want better rooms later on, not every dwarf in a tiny room. At the moment we have 18 dwarves, but I sleep in my own room under this floor. The only interesting things under this floor are my room and the forge, but i'm not drawing that. Too much work.

Looking back on my designs I wonder if they're really as good as they could be. Am I really cut out to be a leader? I'm content to sit in my mason's workshop and work. Masonry is my true calling, it's better than mining.

Maybe when the year is over someone else can be the leader. I think we'll survive as a fortress. I think dwarf lover isn't happy with my leadership anyway, considering how it involves avoiding him. I bet he'd like to be leader.

[Shark]

WORK FOR 30 MINUTES

POST GIANT POST

ONLY PLAYED 2 DAYS INGAME

LIKE A BOSS

[LoneTophat]

WORK FOR 30 MINUTES

POST GIANT POST

ONLY PLAYED 2 DAYS INGAME

LIKE A BOSS

Lmao...

[Shark]

22 Timber 501

The mountainhomes are going to bring us iron, weapons/armor, and coal next year. We'll have to work hard to make enough goods to trade for everything we need. I told our broker to ask what we should produce that they want

1 Moonstone 501

The first day of winter. I spend all my days in my workshop now, I only know this from my habitual keeping of the dates.

13 Moonstone 501

We've started to produce a lot of instruments, the mountainhomes will pay 200% for them, apparently.

18 Moonstone 501

The days fly by as I become absorbed in my work. I have found my place in the fortress. I have become part of something bigger. I don't feel as if I should try and lead this. Everyone is running themselves fine.

I don't think i've told the miners anywhere new to dig in weeks. I guess they're just digging down deeper.
My furniture keeps dissapearing so they must be going into rooms. I don't have the best idea of where things are anymore. I just want to work.

I made a masterpiece today.

16 Opal 501

ADAMANTINE
ADAMANTINE ADAMANTINE ADAMANTINE ADAMANTINE

THE BOTTOM CAVERNS LAYERS ADAMANTINE CONNECT TO THE MAGMA SEA ADAMANTINE AND THE ADAMANTINE IS IN THE CAVERNS EASY TO REACH ADAMANTINE!!!!

17 Opal 501

Apparently it's considered rude to ignore the fact a miner nearly drowned when you're freaking out about adamantine. Anyway, it's submerged in the water, so we don't have a good way of getting at it. However, with the nearby magma...maybe we can find an obsidian solution to our problems.

[Shark]

6 Obsidian 501

Work has been picking up in the fort lately. We're beginning to dig some channels that will later be used to pump magma up to the cavern pool, so we can get at that adamantine. Also, we should start a project to make a hospital. Save some tallow for soap, make a well, etc. I think all of this can be left to the next leader.

I never got a militia started because there's no equipment, really. I guess I could have gotten practice weapons or started a hammer/mace squad, seeing how we have silver weapons. When we get more migrants, I guess.

I think i'm pretty much done as leader. I just want to work in my workshop. I'll make it official at the end of the year.

31 Obsidian 501

I'm stepping down tommorow.

Plans for the fort:

-Hospital
-Militia
-Defense design(drawbridge? traps?)
-Adamantine
-Engravers
-Train dogs
-New industries(clothing? sell prepared food? gem supplies are very low)

I leave everything to our new leader.

(OOC, My thoughts playing the fortress)

That was a fun and weird experience for me. Playing an embark group I didn't make kind of stumbled me, and so many of them just had novice skills. I liked writing the journals, but cmon, the main planter hasn't fished once since we got farms up. Shark gave up mining to make time for masonry. And a peasant? >__>;;

But yeah, despite my complaining, it was really fun writing the journals. The fort should be okay, but I was so absorbed in writing I didn't do nearly as much stuff as I should have! The biggest thing I really did was make a bunch on prepared meals. There's like 12 silver bars chilling in the smelter, btw. Try and get another planter and expand that a bit, and start engraving things. If shark ever dies, please give her a nice tomb.

I regret not really having left any mark that I was here. No miniproject. I was mostly just writing. Oh well, it was fun. I should have done more instead of being lazy and idle in the winter months...I did nothing really.

Keep going with a characters Shark and Eastep occasionally, I guess. Just mention em for continuity. I'll upload the save soon.

[Eastep]

It's a start!
I can't wait to see what the next leader does with the fortress...

[LoneTophat]

Sounds good and don't you worry.

[zomara0292]

Apparently it's considered rude to ignore the fact a miner nearly drowned when you're freaking out about adamantine. Anyway, it's submerged in the water, so we don't have a good way of getting at it. However, with the nearby magma...maybe we can find an obsidian solution to our problems.

Ok, thats just cruel. But you think so Dwarfy.