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Firehawk, your turn now.
Risking my new dwarf by assigning him a useless weapon was pretty low, even for you.

God, that was quick! The magma forge is up and running, and the smelters started compressing blocks into slade, an essential part of making volcanic alloy. Sounds good, I asked the metal Lady to keep me updated.

In other news, we have strange weather. Okay it's just rain, but the effects are strange: for one, there are small 'valleys' that collect rainwater, this is nice. What's not nice however, that the water freezes. What's incredibly funny is that when the lavafall reaches these ponds, it converts them to obsidian. Which gave me an idea. Having a lavafall is nice, but it gets old after a while, so I asked the masons to contain it somewhat, collect rainwater, and pour that shit on it. This will create a nice obsidian terrace right outside the main bridge, and flat surface is a thing I kinda miss around here. I wonder if it turns out all right, or we all die horribly from the magma mist.

Zin established his own quarters when I wasn't looking. In the graveyard. Near the corpse stockpile. AND he had a shrine of Armok built right in his living room - that guy creeps me out more and more with each passing day. Oh, he's also an expert bone carver for some reason. How does that help him, I have no idea, and frankly, I don't want to know.

The commander is back on his feet. Sure, his arm is still fractured, but that doesn't seem to hold him back. He hasn't discovered my secret book-training club yet, and I hope he won't, at least for a while. At the very least, I need to buff up Firehawk and Panopticon. This is slower than it's supposed to be, as we have a serious lack of logs. Funny thing, a dwarf might think that a big-ass tree should be enough for more that a single page of a book.

Ishar's Journal
Still waiting to die horribly during Meph's intended suicide mission.

(Shameless bump)

Did you just steal my idea from Shadytorments?

About bricks, I guess this went under the radar: burning brick blocks didn't need fuel in 1.9.x. Now it does, and that ruins the whole thing - please make brick-burning easy again, I like to build above ground, and bricks make building nice, homogen-colored walls and floors super smooth.

(Whoops, missed yesterday's update. Funny thing is, I had it writeen up and everything, just forgot to post. Here it is.)


3rd Autumn
Considering the emergency, Sir promoted Panopticon to the position of hammerer months ahead of schedule. We were supposed to train him way more, and appoint him sometime around spring, but we need authority figures while our heroes are recuperating.
I also took this chance to recruit a few eager souls into the military. They are green as grass obviously, so some serious training is in order. Sir has high hopes for a young fellow called Firehawk, he thinks that if he can survive boot camp, he could be a real asset. Of course, surviving boot camp means months of preparation, countless hours of training, and I imagine it will involve arena fights against the numerous captured enemies we have now. Oh well, not my problem.

Actually, scratch that, it IS my problem now. Sir just gave the order that all of the recruit training should be supervised by the fortress guard, to avoid accidents. Crap. I guess I have to take matters into my own hands, and solve this problem by the use of SCIENCE. Not the awesome kind. The boring kind.

We are building a library. Not just any library mind you: this will be a library OF WARFARE. We are down for the count, sure, so we can't train the recruits personally. But we can write instructions, even entire books for them, and they can study it in the library, bettering themselves in the process. I heard stories that this might be even more effective than actual live-combat training... I don't know about that, but we'll give it a try. I'm sure glad that Sir is unconscious though - if he knew that I'm training the military by making them READ and not fight captive tigermen, I'm sure he'd flip out.

While I was writing an exceptional piece about swordfighting (I guess I can be considered a dependable source, with all that tigermen-slaying lately), the metal Lady burst into the hospital, looking for an authority figure. Since Sir is still unconscious, and nobody gives two shits about the mayor, I guess I'm the closest he has. She was right to report this: the smiths are constructing the great magma forge, even as we speak. When this thing is finished, the master weaponsmiths will be pumping out volconaic weaponry like there's no tomorrow. My only regret is that we don't have blueprints for a decent weaponry. She tells me that if we had those, she could craft runic volcanic weapons... oh boy. I think I have a pretty sound idea what to request from the next caravan that comes through.

Meanwhile, I'm still hoping our injured military won't die of dehydration.

Ishar's journal
Useless, they say... crappy weapon, they say - I'll show them! Okay, maybe this one knuckle duster is not the best weapon ever crafted, but the things I've learned from this project... the weapon I'll forge...! They will know, and they will be sorry!

Agility > everything else combined.
Arm and train them, and try to keep those two alive at all costs. We are looking at another murder duo in the works...

If you have time/resources/need, send my dwarf to mine some shit. Mining is supposed to train strength. (This could be dated info on my part, but it used to train str... at some point. I hope it still does.)