Report from Woodwalls the Tower of Souls:
It has been a busy, if unexciting , year, I have had no time to fill out out the yearly report and when Autumn came and went with no sign of a liaison I was glad of the extra time to throw something together. In truth, while we have made progress on our fortress and we are all at least content to continue in the attempt I have only managed to make a few people truly excited about it. The lack of migrants hurt our production capabilities far more than I would care to admit, and we are in sore need of more dwarf power.
In the spring we were visited by an elvish caravan, and we traded some bone trinkets for the only thing of use they had:meat. Since most of our crafts are wood, we did not have much to offer and didn't get much in return but every bit helps. Summer brought a human caravan, who more of use to us, but while trying to ensure we got good deals I seem to have offended them by being cheap. I managed to get some metal goods and food off of them before they stormed of. I think the humans may be in league with the kobolds, as they began sneaking around our fort right after they left.
Lots of reorganizing occurred throughout the year, most notably moving our workshops to the top of our current dormitory, the movement of the Depot to the front entrance of the fort, and the extension of our farm. Our efforts in farming have been particularily pleasing as our food stores have increased greatly and in an attempt to speed our clothes production along I used potash to fertilize the field we had growing rope reeds. In the matter of a season our cloth stockpile has grown about tenfold. In addition we have acquire two female birds a guineahen and a peahen, we hope that their addition will help to further bolster our food stocks. As our current clothes are beginning to wear out this news was well received all around.
Morul Whippedbows, one of our militia, is the first among us to score a kill. She slew a monitor lizard that had aggravated her in some way. Under normal circumstances this would earn her a promotion but seeing as she ignored orders to target and kill a kobold thief in order to do so I will leave her under Dumed's supervision until she learns to obey orders. The only other dwarves that truly distinguished themselves in any way are Melbil Wheelcarnages and Momuz Whipgild, who on the first of Moonstone this year gave birth to a baby girl, Tulon Helmcrypts.
Over the past two years there have been primarily two large groups of workers, those responsible for gathering the clay and using it to construct our dwelling and those responsible for producing our food and drink. as we move into the next year I will be looking to restructure this into four smaller groups of farmers, builders, clothiers, and soldiers. The lack of metal and the need for mechanisms still limits are military options to marksdwarves but we will prevail.
My request for supplies for the following year include ores, fuel and stone. Oh, and dwarfs. Please sends us some dwarves I don't care if they were criminals or,
god forbid, cheese makers we have a lot to do and we will put them all to work.
Sincerly, Urvad.
(OOC: @grombardrim, since you requested to be dwarfed as a female marksdwarf I was going to dwarf you as Morul. If you have objections I won't but otherwise it will be done. Since this isn't a typically succession or community game and there are multiple people playing different forts, general request for the type of dwarf or specific request as to which player might be advised to anyone wishing to be dwarf'd.
Edit: I should mention my ability to use the military is lacking so this could get ... FUN ... really fast now that immigration is back on.)
