10 Limestone 209:
Everything is ready with the reactor, so I ordered the lever pulled. Water is thundering in, but the waterwheels haven't fired up yet. That's fine, I know it could take a while.
15 Limestone 209:
I noticed some oddities in the food supply. Namely, all of our food is tied up in "lavish meals," or whatever. I don't really have a problem with this, except that it makes it a little bit annoying for me to figure out how much food we have directly available. As such, and to prevent any chance of a shortage, I reactivated some of our farm plots full-time.
17 Limestone 209:
Udil Urdimonul, an armorer, gave birth to a girl today. Funny how they never give any indication beforehand about their pregnancies.
19 Limestone 209:
A woodworker came into my office today (note to self: my office is pretty bland; I need a better one) and told me that we were out of logs. Between all the axles for the power train and the spikes for the traps (oh, I should have mentioned earlier, but I'm making trap components) it really isn't all that surprising. I told him to chop down some of the trees in the caverns.
In other news, the humans finally left. Well, most of them did. Those goblins are getting bolder by the day.
21 Limestone 209:
I went down to the lower levels to check on things, and I noticed that the reactor was working.
It's not completely at full power yet, but even now it's more than enough. I did notice something else, though...
23 Limestone 209:
After doing some more checking around, my initial suspicions proved correct. The second and third caverns are still partially vulnerable. We haven't had any trouble with them yet, but I know from bitter experience that it would only take one flying beast to destroy all that I've worked towards. I ordered extension of the cavern walls, to seal us off completely. It's going to take a while, however, and I pray that nothing happens in the meantime.
25 Limestone 209:
More migrants. They can wait outside with the others.
26 Limestone 209:
I started getting reports of deaths on the surface.
It's a terrible waste of life, but I'm really not that surprised. Hopefully they'll get the message eventually, but until then they'll keep dying in droves.