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Journal of Obok Ushatzar, expedition leader

I have started this journal as a document of this fortress. I was approached in the mountainhome as I was chopping trees by a very short fellow, probably some sort of animal person though I never saw his face, as he had a mask. He had a mace and a spear at his side and smelled horrendous. It was like he wallowed in a pit of dead insects, then splashed himself in blood. His name, as he told me, was Raz Talezmez. Now I didn't trust this fellow until he gained my loyalty with a large amount of gold. He wanted me to do a job for him. I said "Sure, what's the job?" And he said he wanted me to found a fort for him. But, I said, i was but a woodcutter and have no idea how to. I quickly learned with another large batch of coins. He gave me two very strange and specific rules, which I shall list here.

1. All corpses must be saved. Animal, dwarf, goblin- all dead things must be kept. No coffins either; use slabs.
2. No blunt weapons.

When I asked why, he said he was doing scientific research in biology. I doubted this, but went along with it. I took 6 of my best friends and set of to a nice looking lake. I worry about the aquifer, but I read some books about it. Here is some info about our embark.

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Speech:

Have have two questions related to adventure mode.
1. If you become a vampire, then become a necromancer, do you still need to drink blood? Looked all over the wiki on both the necromancer and vampire pages.
2. Can you become the ruler of a civilization?

Basic Information

World: Ostarasp

Current Age: Myth

Civilization: The Portal of Climaxes

In the beginning, the Portal of Climaxes was seeking to expand it's power to the east, where the goblin civilization The Sins Of Dancing (And to a lesser extent, The Singed Curses) was growing more powerful. While technically they were at peace, you know how it is with goblins. So from the mountainhomes they sent a expedition to colonize a nearby volcano, hoping it was filled to the brim with valuable ores and gems.They were right, but it would take a few years to discover this, due to the unfortunate events that happened because of the Magma Panic. They called themselves The Fiery Dwellers, and they would colonized the site know as
FIREMOUNTAIN.
Their symbol was called The Greatest Mountain of Smouldering, and was a image of a burning mountain. They really went all into this 'volcano' thing. Sadly, they goofed up in multiple aspects of the embark. First, they exchanged the axe for a silver war hammer, not realizing that the axe was for chopping wood. Second, they didn't know that the mining job interfered with combat, so they brought along a miner/hammerdwarf. The reason they brought those two things is because they heard rumors of fiery beasts rising from the volcano, which happened exactly once, and it didn't even bother them. They embarked on a pretty short 1-2 day journey and arrived right next to the caldera, all that was separating them from certain Fun was a wall of obsidian. Strike the Earth!