28th Limestone, 1051So, leadership has been passed to me.
First things first. I have to take stock of the situation.
Point 1: There is literally no way into the fort.
Point 2: Nobody is doing anything.
Point 3: We are like a mile beneath the surface.
For point 1, the simplest solution is to build a bridge-controlled entrance. Easy enough.
But apparently I underestimated the meaning of "terrifying glacier". Our hunter/architect gets attacked by a skeletal yeti and it stands there strangling him
for several days, not making much progress on the whole "killing him" front but tying them both up quite nicely.
Migrants arrive, and one of them brags about some bar fight she got into a while back, so I sent her to rescue the guy, which she does handily. Course, now we gotta give the guy medical attention. Least he's not dead, right?
After that, it pretty much goes off without a hitch.
For point 2, I assign standing orders for all idle dwarves to build furniture and mechanisms.
Point 3 is just a fact, nothing that needs to be "dealt with". In fact, my opinion is that we're not far down enough. Get on that, miner man.
12th TimberWe've hit semi-molten rock. Nothing Rīsen does can make it budge. He'll try going around it, then.
16th TimberCaravan's here.
28th TimberWe're out of cages...
2nd MoonstoneThe liaison wants to have a chat. I tell him we need all the wood and cages ever made, anywhere, for all time. In return, he asks for such things as blocks and drinks.
21st MoonstoneWho built the outer walls of wood? We need that stuff for beds! Replacing it with ice walls posthaste.
23rd MoonstoneAh, spore. My execution tower collapsed onto a guy. Now I have to build it all over again... oh well at least this happened when it was only a few levels instead of all the way up to the sky like i planned
25th MoonstoneAnd another guy got killed a little less directly by this.
6th OpalGuess that yeti did kill the guy. sporing useless piece of rotting flesh doctor
8th OpalWalls are all replaced. 22 logs were reclaimed.
5th ObsidianThe three dead now have memorials.
1st GraniteHappy New Year! Another guy died!
(next year coming tomorrow, probably)