(several pages in the jounal have been torn out here, the remains reek of alcohol)
Damned drink spill... following pages are rewritten:
13th of Granite, 109:Plans for our first sally into the vile, blue, zombie-riddled outside are finished. Here is a general summary and scetch:
The level just below the surface. The red parts are hills of the level above it.From below the surface the miners are to dig a trench surrounding hill we dug our very first entrance in. Acces to this trench from the fort is through a door in the pasture. Ramps leading out of the trench are to be dug away immediately, eventualy keeping all lands creatures from reaching the hill.
The military is to stand guard outside the trench as it is dug, as there are some small zombie birds and fluffy white kedamas about there.
I have also... delayed the Kappas departure for a bit, hoping that once we breach the surface they will run out and clear some zombies.
Our plan is perfect! Could have the outside fort done in a year!
In other news, we havnt finished the walls Pirate ordered built. The last built was obstructed by some trees, and while I and Pirate argued over who cut the thing down (I was on a break after all!) a particularly nasty zombie, a big hairy cow called a yak, or whats left of it anyway.
I didnt like the look in its eyes, and ordered the entrance shut so we could focus on other tasks.
5th of Slate, 109: ...
Plans realy only exist to go horrably wrong do they?
Weeell, we made
some progress, right? Could have gone worse...
Ah, who am I kidding. It was a debacle from the moment we saw the cursed, nauseating sun.
Guess ill start at the beginning:
After we waited for the 'rain' to pass, the miners slammed the door open and dug for their lives. At least, untill they spotted the zombie ravens.
Suikas just dont have a functioning fleeing instinct do they. Ignoring the safety of the fort, 2 miners flew outside, followed by a chaotic mob of angry kappa and even angerier military.
Fairly soon all zombie ravens were cut down, and it might not all have been that bad if it didnt start raining again.
Pretty soon half the military ran back inside to treat their blisters, another was outside throwing a tantrum, shouting thing about hating sunlight and blue goop.
And thats when the damned yak came out. All we had outside by that time was a fleeing kappa liason, a fleeing miner and a recruit. Only the liason got away...
Knowing things could only get worse at this point, I ordered the miners to stop expanding the trench and get rid of the remaining ramps. They complied, untill they reached the last bit of ramp.
Heard them say something about 'Thats Totakus bit!'.
And Totaku nearly got to it, but the yak beat him to it. Like a true suika Totaku ignored the door and fled into a dead end. Once realising this however, he somehow stormed past the yak unharmed whilst screaming and flailing is pick about.
I was tired of this yak. Someone even gave it the name 'Sawmad'! I shouted the military from their hospital beds, ordering them to storm the horror all at once.
The previously tantrumming hammersuika fell, but Pirate and an unarmed spearsuika finaly beat the thing down. Now to drag it off without it waking up.
Next plan is to use stairs instead!
