We got a few more migrants today. Among them was a metalworker who looked scrappy - he immediately picked up an abandoned axe and started following the militia (The Crystalline Scholars) around... so I guess we know what his profession will be. Seanhl, by name.
Speaking of the militia, the dwarves of the fort seem disinclined to follow my old standing orders about staying indoors where its safe... this damn "El Presidente" who immediately resumed his post seems to be too overworked to notice that no one is paying any attention to their burrows. So, the only thing to do was to confront the problem head on, and give our dwarves-in-arms a little field experience for the safety of the fort. MantisMan the axedwarf was the first on the scene - and took a bit of a beating in the fray, but with the others arriving shortly thereafter, the clattering menaces were soon laid to rest without any serious harm done.
No sooner was the militia back indoors and the workers again happily wandering outside for no good reason, however, when a large herd of skeletal reindeer crested the snowy horizon. Tasrak II and arcangelsd of course had wandered off to the south of the fort for no reason I can imagine, and thus ran directly into the herd. There was no way the militia would mobilize in time to reach them. Both were carrying picks - so they both immediately became honorary members of the Crystalline Scholars.
MantisMan was again first on the scene -- by entirely too great a margin for her own good. She was soon pulverized by thrashing hooves.
Did I mention MantisMan was my mother? And you know how Dwarven mothers are about their babies, in combat?
*siiiiiiiiiighhhhh*
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I seriously can't figure out why no one will stay in the fort anymore. It would make an extremely lame way to die after all this, and is preventing me from focusing on the actual Project. But they simply
are not paying attention to the burrows anymore. I temporarily switched them off, in order to allow new digging... and now switching them back on, everyone ignores them. I'm at a loss.