Thane's Journal, 1st of Granite, 662.
It's been a while since I've had an opportunity to write here, since a lot has been going on. A few weeks ago, I found the Overseer's corpse stuffed into a small hole. At first I thought it was a vampire, but I soon realised that something more sinister was at hand, as Fallen Angel (or someone who looked very like him) was still walking around, giving orders! I gathered a group of soldiers and confronted him with my evidence, but he seemed satisfied to leave his position without bloodshed. After that, my followers told me that our military coup was successful, doubtless due to it being completely unpredicted by everyone, especially me. So, after a decade, I appear to be back in charge of Demongate. Take that, self swinging sword guy!
In any case, I've almost immediately discovered several problems that I'm going to rectify as soon as possible:
- The room I dug out for our mayor ten years ago is full of boxes and barrels for some reason, and our mayor is complaining that he doesn't have an office.
- The rooms I dug for our eventual baron are also full of boxes and barrels, and there's someone squatting in the baronial bedrooms.
- After Helgarde finally got out of the king sized quarters, someone else decided that they'd move in.
- Someone decided to allow the aquifer to freely flow into our main stairway for some reason. As far as I can tell, the only solution that I can make for this is to tell the masons to build a wall and repeat that instruction every time they say "But water!"
- We have an Orwellian number of unburied corpses outside the fortress for no apparent reason.
- No offerings have been made to the capital in years. I'm surprised they haven't imposed sanctions on us yet.
- Someone's been screwing around with the Vault, digging another entrance to it.
In other news, several of our pets simultaneously dropped dead of old age. Melbil Atiskan has begun a mysterious construction which involves a rough clear tourmaline.
5th:
It appears that someone decided that because Vlad's office supplies aren't high enough quality, they would give him some statues made of steel, instead of just giving him an armour stand that isn't made of wood. Melting the statues down wouldn't give us enough steel to make it worthwhile, so I guess they'll have to stay. I'm still not happy about it though.
The miners are currently working on expanding the mausoleum in order to accommodate our newly-deads, and the rest of the fortress is working to tidy the place up. First up is our bodywear. Hopefully I'll be able to take care of one archetype of clothing per month, even if the concept of carrying two socks at once is alien to most dwarves. On a related note, we only have twenty seven breastplates for our thirty seven strong militia, and none of it is steel. A good portion of it seems to have been made by goblins as well, so I'm having most of it melted down once the smiths forge suitable replacements.
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