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14th of  Timber, year 162
Personal log of Soapalope, the baroness

I got a message from Taricus today. Even though there is nothing I can do to reduce his sentence, I called the council to meeting, though Soapalope was not invited.

The result of the meeting was unanimous; the baroness Soapalope must be removed from her position. As we have no legal way of doing that, we arrested her due the suspicion of trading with elves.

Now, in reality she has never done such thing, but officially we are suspecting her. Now, she has been locked inside her bedroom for the duration of investigation, which may take quite long. Sadly, I and all the rest of members of council have forgotten where the keys are, so until we find those we can not give any food nor water to her. What a shame...


17th of  Timber, year 162
Personal log of Soapalope, the baroness

I met the caravan today. We bought some food, alcohol, metal and steel equipment for soldiers. To them we gave some crafts and stuff cluttering our storages.


22nd of  Timber, year 162
Personal log of Soapalope, the baroness

One of children died today. Apparently she was attacked by goblin near the bridge outside, and was knocked down to one of the traps. Unfortunately the trap was too effective, and there was not much left from the child when the first dwarf reached the scene.

The child has been buried in the graveyard.


6th of Moonstone, year 162
Personal log of Soapalope, the baroness

The ballista battery has been completed! Six ballistas, facing the small hallway, ready to shoot anything than tries to infiltrate the fortress from the vein. I'm pleased.

To make all the steel equipment for our civilians we need around one hundred bars of steel. That's a lot, and as we are already running out of iron I ordered some magnetite to be mined from upper section of the fortress.

Well, you should! 

Sorry for not much updating this story lately, have been quite busy and suffering from hangover (second day in a row...  ). Going to try to get some progress today, but with FPS of 30 it's will take some time.

So, stay tuned! I have some epic things planned.

5th of Hematite, year 162
Personal log of Knifeled

On of the queen's messengers came here yesterday. He said he had some urgent messages to take to Soapalope, and the message should be given only to her.

Well, the messenger has come and gone, but the message he brought is more than disturbing; the queen was asking why we haven't produced any adamantine weapons or armors for caravan to take back to mountainhome? I know this because Soapalope came to my office today, demanding for answers. She was furious. I said that we have not mined enough adamantine to actually ship back to mountainhome, and she replied that then we should mine some more. I tried to convince her that it could be dangerous to dig too deep too fast but she didn't listen.

Me: "Bu milady, we are not prepared to deal with anything we find down there! Haven't you heard the tales about other fortresses which have tried to mine all the adamantine, then suddenly all contact has been lost to them?"

Soapalope: "Just tales, nothing more. Now, I want all the adamantine we can get mined, turned into usable form and the shipped to mountainhome."

Me: "But, shouldn't we at least prepare ourselves?"

Soapalope: "What are you suggesting then?"

Me: "Well, we should build a place to where all the children, members of council and the fortress guards to live, sealed of from rest of the fortress. Then we must arm every civilian living in this fortress."

Soapalope: "Aren't you taking this a bit too far? Sealing up part of the population? Arming everybody? Nah, there is nothing to fear about."

Me: "But, milady, I beg you! We can't just leave the possibility of something happening behind! We must be prepared!"

Soapalope: "Oh well, fine, do what you see must. But I warn you, if all this preparation has been for nothing, then I'll see you executed personally!"

Me: "Fine to me, I'll rather take that risk."

She left my office, and so the preparations begun. We need to build the panic room, produce enough food and alcohol to be stockpiled there, and we need lots of steel to produce all the weapons and armor. Lots of things to do.


OOC: As the fortress is suffering from very low FPS (now lingering somewhere between 20-28, I just need to do this before the fortress becomes unplayable. If we survive, then this is going to be epic, if we do not, well, at least Craftwaters fell dwarfly.

So, if you use "specific weapon" when assigning equipment, you can actually make someone dual wield weapons? 

Dual wielding masterwork adamantine battle axes... 

Well, never got around to buy latest WoW expansion. Besides that, not much. At times I play other games, latest ones being Assassin Creed 2 and Starcraft 2, but when I get bored on those I always return to DF.

25th of Moonstone, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

I can't believe this! The High Council accepted the new baroness as their leader without hesitation!

When I asked the reasons behind this decision the only answer I got was that it was the will of the queen, and we should not disobey her. From now on I'm not the one who calls the shots around here anymore, the bastard Soapalope is! But there is nothing I can do about it, so I must try to win her trust so that I still can regain some of my old power.

I have also some good news; Keyearthen has been healed and he has left the hospital and is working again! None of the doctors actually believed it would be possible, but apparently it was. And for the record, there was no sign of infection, so he should be able to live happy and long life. Well, that's relief.


11th of Opal, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

The housing for commoners is ready, but baroness decided that the project should be halted until she has got her own quarters and tomb. Why? Why she thinks she can suddenly boss everybody around just because she happens to be bastard of one of the nobles in mountainhome? Yes, that's right, I have finally figured it all out. She came here because she was not able to live as a bastard of one of the respected counselor in the mountainhome. And now, as she has some noble blood running in her veins, the queen has decided that she is the best person to lead this fortress.

Well, there is nothing I can do about the overriding of my orders, so I must just sit back and watch how things goes. Let her have those damned quarters of hers.


14th of Obsidian, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

The bastard's personal quarters are finally ready. And does she order the resume of the housing project? No! She decides we need to make new storages for food and refuses. And since she had noticed two empty storage rooms, she decided that those should made bigger! I don't know, it really looks like she doesn't even want to give the commoners their own bedrooms!



2nd of Granite, year 162
Personal log of Knifeled

I noticed that our miners had disappeared, so I went to investigate. Turned out they were working inside small tower constructed above the outer walls! When was that thing made?

I went and asked one of the miners who had given the order to build it, and I was replied that it was the order of baroness. So, she just passes me when giving orders? I have to discuss this with her, this can not continue!


3rd of Granite, year 162
Personal log of Knifeled

So, I went to see the baroness. I stated my irritation about the fact that she has disregarded the chain of command, and gives all the orders directly to the workers. I'm the manager here! I'm the one who gives the orders, not some bloody noble who can't make a difference between axe and pick!

Well, she just stared me, then asked if I was contesting her decisions? Hell yes I was! Why else would I have bothered dragging myself in her office? When I gave my reply, which unfortunately was more or less like the one above, she kept staring me for a long moment, confused and angry. The she told me that I was given official warning and that next time I question her decisions she would consider me as criminal. And what was done to such criminals was well known to me, so I just kept my mouth shut.

When I asked what was the purpose of the tower I was explained that two archers would be stationed in there all the time, keeping watch of the entrance. We have had too many sieges and ambushes coming that we just can not let the entrance be unguarded, even though there are traps in there. Well, at least there was a good explanation for it. But still I feel offended by how she treats me, like I was just some kind of puppet she can play with and throw away when not needed.


10th of Granite, year 162
Personal log of Knifeled

We were attacked by blind cave ogre today. It tried to enter the fortress from small hole in the old farming area, the same hole we have been using to allow the access to the cavern. Fortunately we had our military guarding the entrance, and so the ogre had no chances to wreak havoc.

Unfortunately, not everybody survived the attack unharmed. The baby Bluenessmines, a youngest son of Icesilvers and Releasedmansions was killed by the ogre. Shocked by the death Icesilvers begun mauling the ogre, forgetting to defend herself. The ogre was able to hit her hard, wounding her ankle.

After the examination the doctors said that, even though her ankle was pretty badly crushed, she should be able to walk again and join the military sooner or later. That's relief, though I wonder if she is willing to do so. After all, she has lost two children due the service already. Well, time will tell.

4th of Slate, year 162
Personal log of Knifeled

Finally the new storages are ready! Perhaps we can move on more important things now, like the housing of commoners.

10th of Timber, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

The first housing floor is finally ready, and all the soldiers have already moved there. The project proceed as planned and miners have already begun working with the second floor, just above the first. I think it will be somewhere around next spring when everybody has own personal bedroom


15th of Timber, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

We have reports that the caravan is coming, though it may still take few days before they reach us. Excellent! I hope they bring something nice and perhaps even good news.


17th of Timber, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

Crap! The liaison is here any day now and our fortress is one big mess. There is clouds of miasma everywhere due the rotting corpses and such, we have dirty clothes and other equipment laying everywhere god knows why and portion of our plants are rotting in farms.

This is not what I want to show to the liaison! Craftwaters is big, self-sufficient fortress which has endured several sieges, and no such fortress should look so messy like this one! What will she say when she sees this place? And we have no time to clean up! This is catastrophe!


22nd of Timber, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

The traders came here today. And the tale they told me about their journey was peculiar one.

When they first reached this area they were ambushed by squad of goblins. The guards charged towards the goblins, and were able to drive them away. Unfortunately one axedwarf fell, and his corpse is already being moved to our graveyard.

After the goblins were driven away the traders regrouped, and continued heading towards our entrance. Near the bridge they spotted another goblin ambush, heading towards our fortress. The goblins had wounded one of us by bolts, and so the guards ran towards the goblins, trying to get their attention to safe the poor dwarf.

Now, from this point on the tale was known to me as well, as our Strike Team was able to chase the goblins away with the help of caravan guards. Nobody else was harmed, and the wounded dwarf, Keyearthen, was carried to hospital. I sure hope the doctors will attend him soon, the wounds were pretty bad.

After the tale was told it was time to do some trading. We gave them some crafts we have had stored, and in return we got some more metal, wood, glass and alcohol. Pretty decent trade as far as I see it.


21st of Moonstone, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

I went to see the chief doctor today, to get status update of the dwarf Keyearthen. Apparently his wounds are very serious, and there is high chance he will never leave the hospital alive. Nevertheless, the doctor promised that everything will be done to save the poor dwarf.

I finally managed to met the liaison. She was surprised about how things have changed here, though she did not mention anything about the chaos we have inside due all the miasma, rotting corpses and stuff. But she was delighted that we had been able to defend our fortress against the sieges.

After the regular trading discussion the liaison gave me a letter from the queen. She said that I was ordered to not open it before she had left the fortress, goods know why. But, since we had nothing else to discuss, I escorted her outside.

When we came outside we were surprised about what we saw; there was huge minotaur sitting inside the walls, apparently wounded by the weapon traps!

I ordered the Strike Team to kill it, but it decided to flee instead, rushing towards the bridge. When it reached the traps it passed out and was killed by one trap. As the soldiers had nothing to do, I cancelled the order and the liaison left.

22nd of Moonstone, year 161
Personal log of Knifeled

This is an outrage! The queen can not do this to me!

The letter from queen stated that, as our fortress has been grown quite much, we are officially promoted as barony. Now, in other circumstances I would be delighted about it, but the bitch decided to go an appoint someone else to be the baroness, not me!

According to the letter the new baroness, Soapalope Conjureswords, is from noble blood and thus she was the best candidate for leading this fortress. I can't believe this! Some parvenu lass, with no merits of leading anything in her live, is now ruling this fortress! And here I, who have been running this fortress since the beginning, am thrown aside. Yes, I'm still mayor and manager of this fortress, but all diplomatic situations go to this bastard, not to me!

I must take this to High Council! Lets see what they think of it!

Interlude - The Laws of Craftwaters

Crimes

• Dealing with either goblins or elves in peaceful manner, without intention of slaying or driving them away, is considered as treason
• Producing useless object, including toys and crafts, from adamantine is considered as treason due the rarity of the material in question.
• Undermining the authority of any member of High Council is considered treason, regardless if it was intentional or not.
• Disobeying the order of any member of High Council is crime, and the punishment shall be decided by the offended party.

Punishments

• Dwarf or dwarves committing crime that is considered treason will be sentenced to death. The method of execution shall be decided by the current leader of the fortress.
• Offending member of High Council should result a punishment decided by the offended party, approved by the current leader of the fortress.
• The punishment for disobeying orders of higher rank dwarf is considered individually, basing to the situation in question. The punishment can range between official warning to death sentence.

Miscellaneous laws

• The danger room is only allowed to be used by Strike Team, and nobody else.
• Only male dwarves can join military. The female dwarves who have already joined are allowed to keep their rank.
• Excluding the possible nobles appointed by the queen, the size of High Council is ten members. No more, no less.
• If a soldier is given a title, the soldier in question must defeat certain number of enemies in one combat to earn the title. The number of enemies required to kill is the same as the number of notable kills the soldier in question has made.
  
  During the battle no other soldiers can interfere, not until either the soldiers or all enemies are dead. If the soldier survives the battle, the title is given.
• If there is no consensus among the members of High Council, the debate is solved by voting. If the voting results draw, the leader of council vote decides.