Another project was made today, right overtop of another. It appears strange though, but I doubt it should be any problem. I was also told to do some smoothing jobs and then come to the mayor's office. I hope I'm not in trouble for those engravings I put up...
Smoothing jobs are done, the project is almost at a standstill, so I decided to go meet with the mayor. I walked in and he instantly took my hand and shook it with a large grin on his face. "Thank you for coming Highmax. We have quite some important business to discuss." I stood overtop Olon's desk and he thanked me for fnishing up on the engraving. I told him it was quick and looked amazing as long as it was me doing so, after all, I'm the best engraver in the whole place. He laughed a little on that. "And that my boy, is why Cilob left me a note telling me you should be ascended to nobility." I was shocked. Me? A simple mason and engraver a Noble? "What did you have in mind sir? Captain of the Guard? Hammerer? Bookeeper?" Olon shook his head and smiled. "No, I left with the outpost liason your recommendation from Cilob that you are to be given the title of Baron. That puts you as high as me, maybe even higher.". Olon laughed heartily again and I stood there shocked. "Baron?" Olon nodded his head. "I hope you can help us bring a new era to the new Barony of Mineforest. Good luck, and don't forget you're still obligated to your old duties, but you have some surprises waiting for you in your room."
I walked down the hall and saw my room and entered. In it was a note and a document containing the liason's permission to make this place a barony and me as the baron. I noticed some new furniture and the note said I had a new office not far from here. I was also told that I now have a tomb in case I die, and that I also am now obligated to almost anything I desire, but I preferred the comfort of my engravings and my masonry. Speaking of which, I have more work to do.
We don't know what happened, but they came out of nowhere. Goblins came and just slaughtered a good portion of our people, along with our animals. We captured many of them, but lost our entire army to them. We were lucky that many were inside when they all arrived, but then people ran outside to wathc the carnage.... And then we were taking heavy losses in our numbers. The snow turned red when we watched as many were cut down. And so many children died also. Only a few made it to live, but with heavy wounds. We lost at least half of our nobility, mostly our bookkeeper/manager/broker and our chief medical dwarf. Olon and myself are trying to are trying to bring more people into our army, but with little avail: all we had were workers and farmers, not many were trained in military and those who were are now in the hospital, possibly unable to ever recover.
Let it be known that the 21st of Obsidian is that day that we all mourn for the losses of many.
((I was gonna passi t off but then this happens. I have no idea what went wrong, but people got stupid and shit happens. I'm able to retell more because of the baron status (which I will now treat equally as mayor) but I will also maintain some level of discretion still. Regardless of that, most of our dwarves DID die and a lot of our nobles died and almost all of our dogs died, so It's not really breaking many rules.))
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