Diary of Maquox:
A really weird series of events happened recently, I was just going on with my own business and all of a sudden, Daetrin, the Drainer of Ardentdikes, told me that he was exhausted with all the bureaucracy involved with managing the place, and but me in charge, (yeah, certainly not the best option, I know).
1 Granite:
I gave my first day to the near-impossible task of understanding Ardentdikes. Why is there a dwarf working alone in a defenseless dungeon still? How tall did they plan to do the great tower/pyramid/whatever at Ardentdikes' entrance? And...oh well, time will tell.
We started planning the operation "Restore Greater Ardentdikes", which should be operative tomorrow.
2 Granite:
The wooden wall on Ardentdikes' west entrance was deconstructed and an underground passageway connects it to Lesser Ardentdikes. An avalanche of Dorfs ran inside with one, and only one, idea in mind. "Store item in Stockpile".
I set up some orders to make some more beds, tables, and the like to refurbish the Fortress, and looking for ways to optimize and develop what ended disfigured with the magma operation.
17 Granite:
Migrants!! Lots of them! We are now 78 Dwarfs/Dwarves, the more Dwarfpower the better.
The problem is that, with all the loot the sieges and elves gifted us with, I can't get the dwarves to actually do work,
2 Slate:
Wow, I totally understand Daetrin now, One whole month and I have to manually tell them not to go out seeking socks and mittens, just to get them to build some walls.
12 Slate:
Oh yes, message has come from the Mountainhome that they wish to make a Barony of our fortress, I of course agreed, and as no one was around at the rime, I suggested myself as Baroness. I love to be in charge.
2 Felsite:
Today I made the plans for a shrine in honour of all the martyrs of Ardentdikes, it's construction will begin shortly.
15 Felsite:
I feel like this is starting to get easy.
Oh! there it is.
This guy's name didn't scare me, it was humanoid and ettin sounded like an entry dish, so I didn't give it much importance, I just supposed the military could handle it, and locked the doors, calling the dwarves inside.
17 Felsite:
Note to self; named creatures that appear with warning boxex DO break buildings. As you may have guessed, the door was no opponent for this Ettin, so I sent the military, not the professional military, of course, they were WAY too busy sleeping, drinking and "On Break" to help, so I Drafted nameless dwarves without professions to attack it. (On that topic... I accidentally drafted Pisano II too. Hope you can forgive me)
The Ettin also seems to have catapult arms, it attacked a dog and sent him from here:
to here:
That's roughly half the length of the Embark... (Strangely the Dog survived with more than half of his body intact)
That's it for now, going to attack the beast, tell you how it goes later.
OOC: FPS are arounf 20 most of the time, lowered to 12 in the worst part.
I am trying to butcher everything. Any ideas to solve/find a good use to the everlasting flames of !!Lignite bin!! ??
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