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19th Limestone 309 Early Autumn – Bah, I finally arrived at the site I've heard them call “Sparkgear”. Never heard of the place before but upon my arrival I was greeted with the sight of a thriving fortress instead of the cesspool of disorder and chaos I was expecting. We'll see how things look once I've been here for more than a few days.

3rd Timber 309 Late Autumn – This fortress seems to be doing well, almost manages itself. One of the jewelers entered a strange mood, wouldn't say anything to me, just walked to the the crafting workshop and started gathering supplies. It seems like it's missing something though, something to punish those who cross the leadership...a labyrinth complete with hostile animals, confusing changing walls and a viewing chamber. I'll order construction to start immediately. Also, I'd like to make note that the immigrants seem to be avoiding this place, something about it being too dangerous...

22nd Timber 309 Late Autumn - Gabro mug with an image of 'Pungency' the fire beetle chiten thong...this is a legendary artifact how?

13th Moonstone 309 Early Winter – Construction still has yet to begin on my labyrinth, it's taking longer to plan it than I previously thought. I noticed an infestation of beetles near the surface levels of the fortress, I was about to order an eradication of them when one of my informants told me that they TAME beetles here! The audacity of it! I shall do my best to avoid their presence.

19th Moonstone 309 Early Winter – The blasted sneak attacks! Two separate groups of chaos dwarves managed to find their way into the tunnels before being noticed. Luckily they were on the wrong side of the fortifications and the armed marksdwarves standing guard, how the lazy bastards missed them to begin with I'll never know, made short work of them and we only lost one dwarf whose name and profession were so insignificant to me I already forgot. Construction has begun on the top levels of the labyrinth and I am considering making it an arena as well with a bridge layer over the top to keep the maze in check whilst gladiators fight. More to come later, I must get back to work.

9th Opal 309 Mid Winter – I have come up with a glorious plan to carve out the arena without too much effort with channels! Instead of channeling out every tile, I am going to order all of the edge tiles channeled and then dig out everything below it. Finally I shall destroy the last support and the new level shall be built upon the collapse of the one above! Making the environment do my work, I see no flaw in this plan. Why we have woodcutters when there are no trees for miles is beyond me, I'm having them reassigned to mining to expedite the construction of the grand labyrinth. Demon Spoon and his horde of beetles visited my construction site, despicable creatures.

19th Obsidian 309 Late Winter – Muahhahahaha, I noticed that both the beetle population was riding AND our meat supplies were dwindling. The remedy is clear to me. One of our miner's seemed to be enjoying his job a little too much and was overtaken by a fey mood. I'll let him enjoy himself by letting him take a break while I get back to work on my labyrinth.

1st Granite 310 Early Spring – Progress is slow, I blame it on the beetles and have thus designated more to be slaughtered. It's in the fortresses best interests. In the meantime I've taken our legendary clothier off of making more cloth images and additionally ended the production of skull totems, we have enough of the damn things and I could use some more haulers making things look nice.

12th Granite 310 Early Spring – Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! A vile force of darkness has arrived and I'm outside!!!

And so ends the reign of Arathel The Chaotic. What he was doing outside I have no idea.