Granite 26, 158Life goes on.
A weaver got infected with the rot. I think what happened was she tried to get the milkspider webs that were covered in beast goop and paid for it. She's still lying around rotting away, and I tell nobody to touch the webs on that floor just to be safe. The miasma from the flesh rotting off the kittens and dogs still alive is everywhere.
But ummm happier things! I found another hilarious oversight to our clothesmaking industry. Since our 'clothiers' don't know what the hell they're doing, I told the leatherworkers to make shoes and gloves for everyone just to make sure no one else gets infected. They looked at me and told me there wasn't any leather. I looked back at them, and asked where was all the leather from the stray dogs and cats I've been ordering killed since I started overseeing? They looked really confused. I ask to see the tanner and they looked
more confused.
This one of the pages of my list of buildings we have and how many there are. Notice the problem?
We don't have a single workshop for tanning skins. We do have tanners - I asked around and found a few - we just never seemed to think we needed to actually utilize them before. It's just a matter of putting up the shops and hopefully we still have some skins in the refuse pile still fresh enough to use but... Was every other overseer hitting elf booze or something?
course none of the others let in a pterodactyl that spit out death spores...Slate 1st, 158It's a new month with new possibilities! I can feel the doom and gloom slide off my shoulders as I woke up this morning and I'm ready to go! And there's good news!
This is one of our legendary bone carvers. He was in the middle of the hallway and got covered in the rot goop. His flesh is completely numb and he looks absolutely awful, like he belongs in a necromancer tower as opposed to a fortress.
But he's alive! There's hope!
I'm so happy I could just...
...uh, tell the miners to go expand the refuse stockpile because we're running out of space there! I tried to get everyone together for a party instead, but... nobody came. So we're having a mining party! That's fun! Right? Maybe?
Slate 26th, 158It's been quiet recently. Been moving a bunch of appropriate items to the new refuse stockpiles, and working on getting Beirus's gladiator pit or whatever he wants to call it working. Clothesmaking for the fortress is going slowly, but the new clothiers are gaining in skill and production should only go up from here.
I write today to make known a very fortunate accident. Since we're an animal taming fortress and all, we've got several traps like this one set up on the surface to catch wildlife.
This one caught a goblin thief with a child already inside his bag! We got lucky. We've already lost one child this spring to the snatchers, and I would like it if we could getting anymore of them!
Oh, and Mr. Wiggles is sleeping in the refuse stockpile.
I put in the order for the miners to carve out more bedrooms.
Felsite 3rd, 158I was overseeing the mining out of the bedrooms -
certainly *not* avoiding the miasma stink from the rotting dogs on the main floor - when Zaerosz runs up to me and shouts at me!
I give him a look. He doesn't notice. Neither does my husband.
"Is it still in the cage?"
"Yeah."
"..okay. Thanks Zaerosz."
He runs off again. I...go back to overseeing the bedroom mining.
Felsite 7th, 158Here's what the new bedrooms are looking like! They aren't very impressive - just holes in the wall - but they're certainly better then the refuge stockpile! The reason for the big awkward gap in the middle is because we found a coal vein, and we need all the coal we can get. We're actually out, this time.
...Also, Zaerosz ran up to me again.
"That's wonderful Zaerosz. Is this one caged too?"
"Yeah."
"Alright. I'll keep this in mind."
It's no wonder they forgot to put in a tanner's shop. Everyone here is a couple mechanisms short of a pump stack.
Felsite 15th, 158Elves have arrived!
I position some militarydwarves near the trade depot just in case the goblins get any funny ideas about steal all the...elf cloth, I guess? While that's going on, I am slightly surprised to see Toll Dwarf come up to me, considering we haven't had any interactions before.
"Zaes wanted me to tell you something. He's busy." I sigh.
"One of the caged trolls forgot its training?"
She nodded.
"Why does he think I need to know things like that?" She shrugged. "Thanks anyway, Toll Dwarf." And then she walked off.
So many gray hairs from this job.
Felsite 23rd, 158I did something a little... silly.
This little room off to the side had a vein of lignite unmined. The miners hadn't mind it out because the stones were damp. I thought it was just because there was a little channel full of it a floor above, so I told them to mine it out. And...then water started flowing. Oops.
As you can see, though, I got the room walled off so everything's fine. Still...
Felsite 25th, 158The fortress insanity continues. One of the fisherdwarves apparently went nuts from me telling most of them to stop fishing, and is now inside a crafts shop and muttering something in the old tongue to himself over and over.
He's running around and gathering bones and gems, refusing to talk to everyone. My husband says that's exactly how I was while making the scepter. I think he's trying to mess with me.
Hematite 1st. 158And thank Armok for that. Hopefully, it'll be better than Spring...
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I don't really think the other beast-goo dwarves are going to live. They're all in various states of blood loss, except that bone carver. No fucking idea why he didn't get the rot but got the rest of it, but whatever works. There's still miasma everywhere from the infected pets' flesh rotting off as they walk around, but it's finally starting to die off at the end there.
Steel and clothes production is moving along slowly, as is pretty much anything else. I traded some coins and an iron instrument or two for some exotic elf critters - a giant wombat, a wolf, and maybe a couple other things I don't remember. Nothing all that interesting but hey we've got 'em.
Also at some point before someone set up a pond...somewhere. Dwarves have been trying to fill it and keep cancelling the job saying it's inaccessible.
Trying to make the fort a bit more efficient - disabled carpentry off a lot of dwarves(almost every adult in the fortress had it enabled wtf) and disabled fishery from a lot of them. I'm not really all that good at efficiency so this will probably be about all I do.
Put a bunch of milkspiders in a pasture near the cage trap bridge that serves as our cavern blockade. Not sure if we'll actually catch a fb from it, but at least they'll stall anything that gets up there until the military can arrive.
Meant to get this up earlier today but life happened. I'll probably get the next one up Thursday or so.
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