Log of Shorost Ômònul, Mayor of Isakäs, "Spatteredcave"
20th Slate, 1057
Bomrek has emerged from her workshop, carrying a schist weapon rack. Ôsustlebes (Tameapex), she calls it. It is decorated with hoary marmot leather, ash and tutle shell, and the base is encircled with bands of schist decorated with images of dwarves in both copper and turtle shell. The weapon dividers are spikes of fire opal, attached with warthog leather. She shyly asked if it could go in the barracks to motivate the militia. I feel that is a good use for it.
18th Hematite, 1057
More migrants! And we haven't even been able to make bedrooms for all of the last set yet. Those masons better speed up their work!
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There's only eight of them, that's somewhat of a relief.
5th Malachite, 1057
We have struck another cavern system! The original staircase has been expanded deeper underground, and rewarded us with more livable caves. It remains to be seen whether or not there is any magma down there, however.
I have ordered the stairwell reduced to one tile wide, as we are unsure if the cavern systems are empty.
20th Malachite, 1057
Our exploration team reports a large underground pool and a lot of plants, but no magma. I've ordered one team to continue exploration and another to continue deeper into the ground.
18th Galena, 1057
More caves, far below the first! We found them just as the human traders arrived - which means exploration will have to be delayed until they are gone.
20th Malachite, 1057
It's a good thing that no one is injured, because our chief medical Dwarf just walked out of the infirmary, muttering quietly under his breath.
28th Malachite, 1057
...The medical dwarf refuses to claim any of our workshops. This is puzzling.
1st Limestone, 1057
Well, we wanted magma, and we GOT magma! A huge sea of it, far below our beds. Come on boys, we're relocating!
2nd Limestone, 1057
One wall of the magma lake is adamantine... too warm to touch for now, but no forgetting where it is! Starting to plan for a mass relocation of all essential services to the caverns just above the magma sea.
13th Limestone, 1057
While trying to find out what Aläth bloody well wanted to work in, one of our new migrants timidly suggested a bowyers workshop. It's worth a shot.
15th Limestone, 1057
He's moving! Now let's just hope that damn doctor gets his materials in time.
24th Limestone, 1057
Aläth has started a mysterious construction. That was a welcome message, as I'd started to fear for his sanity.
25th Limestone, 1057
More migrants have arrived! No use building the nine of them bedrooms on the upper floors, we'll be moving soon enough. Perhaps I should get them to start clearing out the undergrowth and hauling stocks down to the lower caverns.
2nd Sandstone, 1057
Aläth has completed Vakistekast (Lacysave), a fungiwood crossbow. I think it's the most useful artefact created so far - and the only weapon. Of course, he had to give it a stupid name. I admit I was hovering and waiting for him to finish it so I could have a look. It certainly is shiny - encrusted with melanite, studded with copper, decorated with black-cap and encircled with bands of melanite. Spiky, too - sphalerite twined with rope reed fiber and giant cave spider silk. Two images adorn the shaft - a dwarf carved into the fungiwood, and an image of a human in horn silver. I had the history of the human babbled at me, but as with the figurine, once Aläth snapped out of his trance, he couldn't remember what he'd said, and he'd spoke too quick for me to catch much more than it was aobut a journey.
It smashes the highest valued artefact in the cavern record by a good 20000, Kogan having valued it at 63600.
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