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Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 28th day of Hematite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Seventeenth
Having seen the level of labors necessary to complete such construction as is currently underway, we have decided to all aid in the construction of our outer walls. In time, this initial outpost will surely be seen as a quaint and primitive core to the towering glory of Machinespires. For now, though, it is our best (eventual) defense against ground-based foes. Also, we have decided to make our depot in a specially-designated area to one side of the main courtyard. It will be more efficient, we hope, and provide a discreet way to wall off any unpleasant annoyances of a pointy-eared nature.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 7th day of Malachite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Eighteenth
A group of six migrants, two children included, arrived yesterday. The children are as shiftless as all younglings, though the remaining four are divided evenly between Farmer and Peasant for profession. They will all be useful general help about the fortress, and will sleep on the floor until construction is finished. I feel for them, but completing a defensible perimeter is the present primary goal, followed by comfortable accommodations to our newest comrades.

For my own convenience, mostly because I intend to bring the "spires" part of "Machinespires" to full realization and I want to keep the proportions somewhere close to square for most of them, I'll be switching to the Phoebus graphics set from this point forward.

Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 7th day of the month of Felsite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Tenth
Excavation continues on the kitchen-and-dining area. Gems have been located, and will be collected for cutting. The beds have been made, and will be placed soon to give us all individual rooms to sleep in. Construction of rock coffers for the storage of items within our rooms and of doors for the privacy of doing unspeakable things is likewise underway, and will conclude in good time. Manager Astesh Strokebells is still locked in her office.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 14th day of the month of Felsite, 1st year of our outpost
he Tick Woman has wandered away and a family of carp have taken up residence near the eastern shore of the lake. Manager Astesh Strokebells is still locked in her office. Beds have been placed and assigned, and sleeping has become the more comfortable for this fact. Construction designations for a floor above and for walls above to form the basis of our first aboveground structure will begin within a day. Little else to report this week, events proceed apace.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 21st day of the month of Felsite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Twelfth
Manager Astesh Strokebells left her office briefly this week and assisted with hauling labors before returning and locking the door again. The business of clearing away the rocks from the wood storage area behind my designated work station has finished, and I at last have time to sit down and be not-overworked. A giant louse has been spotted to the north, and glad I am that it is staying thus far well away from us.

Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 21st day of the month of Granite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Fourth
Excavation of the room which will be for our storage has completed, and we are now in the process all of moving our items from off of our cart and into the storage area. Wood is to be excluded by reason of being not included in the designations. Chief Miner Bembul Boltedfolded and Miner Iton Sizzlecastle are hard at work excavating our future-designated workshop areas, and will begin on dormitories once we have completed our workshop area. Once sufficient stone is quarried, construction of the first above-ground walls will begin, in order to sufficiently secure the main entrance to our undersand delvings.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 28th day of the month of Granite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Fifth
Excavation of the future-designated workshop areas is complete, along with the quantum stone stockpile, and dumping to the Stockpile has begun as well. Seven of nine farm plots have been fully surveyed and cleared, and planting of Plump Helmets has as well been initiated. Chief Woodcutter Goden Immortalitycrafted with the long name will soon be designated Farmer Goden Immortalitycrafted, and Chief Fisherdwarf Astesh Strokebells with the misspelled name in the embarkation registry will as well soon be designated Farmer Astesh Strokebells as there are few fish to catch in the swamps or lake and she therefore is more well-employed as a Farmer than as a Fisherdwarf.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 7th day of the month of Slate, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Sixth
Excavation of the future-designated first dormitory level proceeds apace, and excavation of a wood storage area behind the now-complete carpenter's workshop has begun. We soon will no longer need to wake with sand in unspeakable places. A deepening of the central shaft will be initiated soon, with the specific aim of finding some valuable smeltable ore. Coal, as well, will be searched for. Designation and clearing of the farms has completed, and once all necessaries are made (it may be hoped that this point will be reached by the middle of the summer, or at the very latest by the end of the first year) excavation will begin on a level designated for the industry of glass-creation. Bags and similar will need to be acquired for this purpose, as well, for which purpose three plots of land have been designated to grow Pig Tail plants for two seasons of four and a Loom will be made for the creation of bags when the Glass Level is made. Ideally, magma will be found and thus transported in a safe bucket made of proper mushroom, therefore removing the need for excessive fuel use.

I feel it's worth mentioning in an out-of-character note here that my intent for Machinespires is to make it into a hive similar to those described in the Warhammer 40k universe. I was just going to make it a large, self-sustained, and impregnable fortress with very basic security, but I decided that given the fortuitous name I might as well do something epic with it. Construction of the first tower began in the month of Felsite, first year of the fortress, and I intend to keep going until I've filled up the entire embark area with towers carved with epic scenery.

Anyways, on to the fortress.



Dispatch from the Dwarven Throne
To the Expeditionary Team assigned to the land known as Machinespires, presently undeveloped
We applaud the seven of you for bravely volunteering for this duty, to strive to create an outpost on the edge of a lake is no small undertaking and will earn you much honor in Our eyes. It would be better, in Our opinion, if the site were located further from the lake, but there is little enough land to work with as things stand. You will receive dispatches periodically.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 1st day of the month of Granite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the First
We have begun. The land is flat and composed of black sand with scrub grass and trees atop, the climate is warm, and a giant grasshopper grazes peacefully on the scrub to the north. A weasel the size of a Taller cavorts in the shallow water to the north of our position, and we have begun excavation of the entrance to our hall. Soundings on the lake to the west of our embarkation point reveal it to be approximately five heights of a dwarf deep. Chief Fisherdwarf Astesh Strokeballs who has an unfortunate surname will be fishing by one of the ponds, presumably, though if she chooses to fish by the lake we will not attempt to tell her otherwise. She is, at the ending of things, the Chief Fisherdwarf of our expedition, and I would no more tell her the workings of her labor than she would me.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 7th day of the month of Granite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Second
We have initiated the first stages of deforestation, which will take some time and yield good profit. Wood will serve for bedding-material until the more properly designed giant mushrooms from the Cavernous Places may be located. Chief Miner Bembul Boltedfolded has descended below the earth to begin digging the food-growing designations from the black sand that makes up the soil of this area. What else he may be doing, I have neither knowledge nor want of knowledge towards. The grasshopper grazes peacefully now in the south. I will take soundings of the others to see if they might desire the formation of a militia to discourage the grasshopper from peacefully grazing too near our camp.



Journal of Cerol Landsabres
The 14th day of the month of Granite, 1st year of our outpost
Entry the Third
It has begun raining, causing mild annoyance all around. Assistant Miner Iton Sizzlecastle with the ominous surname formerly Chief Fishcleaner Iton Sizzlecastle has spent the week helping Chief Miner Bembul Boltedfolded in the excavation of a storage space for the storage of items so that we will no longer need to mingle around our wagon in the rain. Woodcutting proceeds apace, and, having discovered stone layers two lengths of a dwarf below the surface, they promise to soon have workshops and designated stockpiles for our items. I may be able to begin work on beds within two weeks, if all goes well, and Chief Stoneworker Etur Basementweavers will be able to work on coffers for the storage of our owned items in the same timespan. The layer of clay directly below the layer of black sand will serve well as a secondary farm for when the eventual population of our fortress becomes too large for the nine plots currently held to sustain us.

To: Urist McRanger
From: Fortress Administration
RE: Strange Mood

We, the little voices in the heads of all dwarves in Pulleysweltered Hamlet, would like to thank you for having a Strange Mood the moment you walked onto the map with the 26 other immigrants in our third wave. Your 6000-Uristbuck bone pendant is truly inspirational and will bring in a good deal of seeds come the next caravan. However, we would like to know why you thought it was a good idea to use our last piece of Obsidian to decorate it when 1. we have no readily-available source of it and 2. that was going to be used to complete the fortifications atop the Founders' Tower.

True. And then things took a different turn ~_~

I'll probably get back to this and dfhack sometime in late January. I'm sorry for the delays, but it just can't be done until I'm finished with other stuff... I got involved in some other projects AND I'm writing a java decompiler for my master's thesis.

Oh dear sweet Christ I'll pray for you.

Today is March 15th. At 5:30 Eastern Standard I will be making Kor Fightevil (jr.), Dorfen Male with the above stats, if someone doesn't give me a better version in that time frame. If I find a better version posted here before 5:00, 24 hour extension.