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[Melissia]

Report #7, appended note:

By Armok's Beard (am I saying that right?), what exactly got into these dwarves heads that they decided they wanted to become a legendary lyemaker or beekeeper?

Legendary fodder is more like it... will send them to delve into the depths so they die first when they breach the caverns.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

[Melissia]

Report #8:

Constructed three rock watchtowers.  I can see why dwarves like rock over wood-- the white rock does look rather impressive shining in full sun shine.  I should ensure that they keep it impressive by making sure they clean it every day. 

It'll keep them busy at any rate.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

[Melissia]

Report #8, appended note:

One of the immigrants entered a strange mood the next day, and took over our glass furnace.  He's now shouting that he demands rock and green glass.  Damnit dwarves, the moment I start appreciating you you start making me angry at you again!

Fine.  You can have your rock and glass.  But whatever you're making better DAMNED well not be a figuring of a sex goddess or something, because then I'd send you to fight the platypus people.  Naked.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

[Melissia]

Report #8, appended note part 2:

A busy day.  First the beginning of  the watchtower consruction, then the loonie overtaking my glassworks, and now the outpost liason.  Well, one out of three isn't bad.

This liason better not start making elf jokes, or I'm going to give him a magma bath.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

[Melissia]

Report #9

... damnit, Iden Ragbridged, you just HAD to go make it after I warned you not to, didn't you? 

You will suffer for this.  Your screams will provide smiles in my dreams, what few I have that are not of the nightmarish image you have provided this fortress.  May Armok have mercy on your soul-- I will not.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

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Melissia's Notes: 

[...] whatever you're making better DAMNED well not be a figuring of a sex goddess or something [...]

The item is a masterfully designed instinct of Zon Urndistinct the wife of the shadow brute and dwarves in green glass by Iden Unibsazir.  Zon Urndistinct is surrounded by the dwarves.

Goddamnit.  The game has grown sentient.

[Orky_Boss]

Dear Overseer Melissia,

First of all, I congradulate you for what you have achieved amongst us dwarves, and wish you luck in bringing the fortress of Sliverblight into legend. But I have a couple questions I would like to ask you.

I currently have a population of 45, complete with an understrength military of...6. Honestly, No one in my heritage has gotten this far in the creation of their fortress (Most never survive the first year, due to everything from zombies to savage wildlife to Digger Mortis (with translates to the inablity to mine). I seem to have more than enough food, but I am having trouble supplying my brewer with enough barrels for all the damn beer we need to supply my fortress. Many of my dwarves have gone without a drink for a damn long time, and I'm begining to worry that my fortress will fall to a simple tantrum spiral. And then there's the problom with the understrength military...

You see, I had, for some reason, in my hatred of elves (Not you, of course. You have proven your worth in this world) had caused me to slaughter a group of elven merchants that had thought I was going to put up with their hypocrytical bullshit of "Oh we can do whatever the @#$% we want with wood but if you so much as give us the wooden chest that's holding your goods we're going to declare war with you." Now should I try to enlist only those suitable for military work and train them well, or simply draft anyone that's not doing something useful when @#$% hits the ventallation shaft?

Thank you for spending the time to read my letter, and I again wish you luck.

Sinceraly,
Goden Dumatatul, Expedition Leader of the Fortress Boatproblem

[Orky_Boss]

Dear Overseer Melissia,

First of all, I congradulate you for what you have achieved amongst us dwarves, and wish you luck in bringing the fortress of Sliverblight into legend. But I have a couple questions I would like to ask you.

I currently have a population of 45, complete with an understrength military of...6. Honestly, No one in my heritage has gotten this far in the creation of their fortress (Most never survive the first year, due to everything from zombies to savage wildlife to Digger Mortis (with translates to the inablity to mine). I seem to have more than enough food, but I am having trouble supplying my brewer with enough barrels for all the damn beer we need to supply my fortress. Many of my dwarves have gone without a drink for a damn long time, and I'm begining to worry that my fortress will fall to a simple tantrum spiral. And then there's the problom with the understrength military...

You see, I had, for some reason, in my hatred of elves (Not you, of course. You have proven your worth in this world) had caused me to slaughter a group of elven merchants that had thought I was going to put up with their hypocrytical bullshit of "Oh we can do whatever the @#$% we want with wood but if you so much as give us the wooden chest that's holding your goods we're going to declare war with you." Now should I try to enlist only those suitable for military work and train them well, or simply draft anyone that's not doing something useful when @#$% hits the ventallation shaft?

Thank you for spending the time to read my letter, and I again wish you luck.

Sinceraly,
Goden Dumatatul, Expedition Leader of the Fortress Boatproblem

[Orky_Boss]

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Damnit, I clicked quote instead of modify.....

[Melissia]

To Goden Dumatatul,

If you do not have a militia already, and you are not an awesome hero, slayer of a thousand demons in a single night like I, then I recommend you simply wait for a migrant wave and appoint the entire wave as your militia. 

They won't have any social connections (in such limited forms that dwarves create at any rate), and so their inevitable deaths will not cause problems for the rest of the fortress- I know how dwarvse often throw tantrums (it's kinda sad when it happens, my solution to tantrums is an application of steel to the forehead though and it works every time).  They will likely be useless anyway, with such things as a focus on lyemaking being popular. 

And so you should have no remorse training them exclusively for war.  This way you do not have to lose a potentially valuable member of your fortress.  It's what I plan on doing once I have enough members to support this fortress.  My dwarves are okay with this, sure they'll miss out on the slaughter, but at least they won't have to get eaten by a blind cave ogre.  And considering what I recently did to our glassmaker who created a pornographic glass sculpture (hint:  go read the short story "The Barrel of Sunberry"*), they should be thankful that I am not so incensed as to feed them all to the resident platypus people out of raw spite.

They have met fear and she flogged them.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

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Melissia's Notes:  Dwarven version of The Cask of Amontillado.  Don't worry, he got better.

[peregarrett]

Our first attempt of affecting dwarf's mind was successful. The inspiration we'd grown in one of them resulted in image of our spy's accomplice being produced.
That's an achievement. That image can be useful.

&

[Melissia]

Report #10:

Traded some trinkets to the dwarves, they seemed to like them.  got some food and booze for my dwarves, they certainly will like that-- sure, these mushrooms aren't bad once you get used to them, but lobster and fish?  Mmn, it's good to eat real meat this time.

I told tehm to try not to get eaten on the way out, and they laughed.  I wasn't joking.  They got attacked by a platypus person on the way out, one of their soldiers got poisoned and puked.  Dwarves puking-- a sight I hope to never see again.  It gets in their beards and it's just... yeearrrrch...

I think I need to go kill something rare and tasty, and eat it to get that thought out of my mind.  Maybe a cave dragon. 

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

[Melissia]

Report #11:

Found a cave dragon, but some troglodytes were already eating it.  Killed them instead, but the dwarves said I couldn't eat them.  Something about how their stench makes them unpalletable.

I'll trust the dwarves on that one.  Their blood smelled like The White Shizno Demon of Canterbury.  Believe me, you do not, ever, want to smell a shizno demon.  Nevermind one that came from Canterbury.  . 

That said, we've found a huge magnetite vein, and are harvesting it.  Soon, pig iron production will begin, and then from there steel production.  Also gold.  Hopefully that will attract more dumb dwarves to put in our recruitment programs.  Would be useful to have a squad of throw-aways to patrol the entrances for kobold thieves.


-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

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Melissia's Notes:  Busy week.  Will try to play and update more over the weekend.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I hope someone reads this note before it is too late.
If you can read this, heed my warning. If you can leave, LEAVE NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. I created a glass figurine of our ruler before being transformed into a Monster of the Night, and accidentally form it as afterwards. Somehow, the ruler of this place interpreted that pornographically, and so trapped me down here. She's either a crazy elf who thinks she's a dwarf or a crazy dwarf that thinks she's an elf that thinks she's a dwarf or something. Dwarves aren't the sanest of beings, but only those dwarves who seek to end their existance by running around babbling, drowning themselves, or throwing themselves violently at others can compare to her madness, and now I can say so freely.
I suppose that mine isn't the worst fate; at least I am freed from this mortal coil. As my lifeblood is poured out into this message, I feel the pulsing darkness below, beckoning to my soul...I am drawn to it as a moth to a flame. I cannot resist. When I die, I will join the horrid ranks of these monsters, living in torment, waiting for a chance to sink my teeth into the warm flesh of those living...but I will not, at least, be forced to face these unearthly legions.
Maybe I will face Melissa herself, the crazy bitch. I hope I kill her...kill...blood for blood god...meme for meme throne...death...madness...trope...darkness...etiraol...horerr...eevul...fizicl hel...hngir...fyirree...jkdi...winr...wojfw...wovnn5wvw...
&
--Found written in blood in a sealed room smelling of sunshine and decay.

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If and when you open up the room containing the moody dwarf's body, this will be there. Probably. Unless Melissa gets there first. Or unless it fades, covered by a strange dark dust, before then, or something. It clearly depicts a descent into madness as the dwarf wrote his message in blood. It is surely an excellent tool for anyone wanting to examine the effects of the Afterlife on dwarven minds.

[ansontan2000]

Dear Overseer Melissia,

First of all, I congradulate you for what you have achieved amongst us dwarves, and wish you luck in bringing the fortress of Sliverblight into legend. But I have a couple questions I would like to ask you.

I currently have a population of 45, complete with an understrength military of...6. Honestly, No one in my heritage has gotten this far in the creation of their fortress (Most never survive the first year, due to everything from zombies to savage wildlife to Digger Mortis (with translates to the inablity to mine). I seem to have more than enough food, but I am having trouble supplying my brewer with enough barrels for all the damn beer we need to supply my fortress. Many of my dwarves have gone without a drink for a damn long time, and I'm begining to worry that my fortress will fall to a simple tantrum spiral. And then there's the problom with the understrength military...

You see, I had, for some reason, in my hatred of elves (Not you, of course. You have proven your worth in this world) had caused me to slaughter a group of elven merchants that had thought I was going to put up with their hypocrytical bullshit of "Oh we can do whatever the @#$% we want with wood but if you so much as give us the wooden chest that's holding your goods we're going to declare war with you." Now should I try to enlist only those suitable for military work and train them well, or simply draft anyone that's not doing something useful when @#$% hits the ventallation shaft?

Thank you for spending the time to read my letter, and I again wish you luck.

Sinceraly,
Goden Dumatatul, Expedition Leader of the Fortress Boatproblem

heh-hum
Dear Overseer Goden
I have found it extremely useful to use rock pots instead of barrels. You can make them at a craftsdwarf's workshop, and work EXACTLY the same.
Yours sincerely,
Anderson Ouftherem, Mayor of Timizergrul

[Melissia]

Report #12:

I... just woke up from a strange mood.  I thought these kinds of things only happened to dwarves-- must be something in the mushrooms.  I created a limonite cabinet, with bands, encrusting, and spikes of rock salt.  Quite an excellent piece if I do say so myself.  I'll put it in my bedroom.

While I was furiously working away at my idea for a cabinet, my miners finished excavating the magnetite vein.  EXCELLENT!  This construction provided a worthy distraction from the drearyness of fortress life.  More elephants have been spotted, so I may use them as another distraction, once our butcher wakes up.

I cannot wait to see what kind of rare tasty animal meat based maels he will prepare for me this time.  I'm beginning to like the dwarves in this fortress.

-=≡ Overseer Melissia ≡=-

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Melissia's Notes:  Melissia... LIIIIIVES! [/Kane imitation]