4th Hematite, 158Summer's getting off to a rocky start. The infected dwarves, along with the infected animals, are starting to drop off. They're all dead within a month.
...I don't want to talk about it.
10th Hematite, 158The possessed dwarf has finished her creation!
It's kinda creepy, and I don't know why he used dog bone as the base when he had the pterodactyl bones there anyway, but...
Apparently, she really likes that one centaur. And that one centaur is really bloodthirsty, jeez.
17th Hematite, 158A rather blushing ladydwarf came up to me today. She said there was a rather muscular man running around wearing absolutely nothing, and that I should go grab an eyeful for myself. Er, I mean go and ask him to put some clothes on. After... surveying the problem for a bit, I realized that this wasn't just any streaking hunk.
No, this streaking hunk was my captain of the guard. And by 'streaking', I mean 'lumbering around trying very carefully not to break his stitches.'
"Benev?"
"Yes, ma'am? Don't worry, I'm putting the barrel of swill in the stockpile where it goes. Just, uh, needed to carry it around for a bit. You understand."
"I'm...Benev, why are you naked?"
He looked down at himself, and back up to me. "Oh. Figured since we're low on clothes and all, might as well let someone else have new stuff. And my old ones were pretty much rags, weren't covering nothing, so I figured might as well walk around naked, right?"
"Benev?"
"Ma'am?"
"Go put some clothes on."
"Yes ma'am."
And I made sure he did. Kept an eye on him all the way to the clothes stockpile and watched him put on a new pair of pants myself. Just to make sure, you know.
Hematite 25th, 158We've got a problem.
We've had soldiers guarding the entrance to the fortress because elves aren't smart enough to bring their own guards, so it couldn't be goblins. We've got people searching the fortress up and down looking for the kid, so hopefully they'll turn up soon.
Hematite 28th, 158The elf caravan left today. I had every single pouch on their of their beasts searched as they left just to make sure the child didn't get any funny ideas about smuggling himself out. Also to make sure the elves hadn't decided dwarven children were a delicacy. We didn't find them. We're running out of places to look, and I'm not sure what I'm going to tell the parents if we just...can't find him. Maybe the goblins found another way in?
Malachite 8th, 158Beirus came to me today. His gladiator pit (he's calling it the "Thunderdome", but I think that's silly and refuse to refer to it as such) has been ready for awhile, but with the hunt for the child on we've been too preoccupied to use it. He told me today that the odds we'll find the child in a manhunt have been basically impossible for a while now, and he wants to kill one of the goblins because it'll make him feel better. I oblige, and he goes to get ready while I specify one of the prisoners to be stripped down and hauled off to the pit. This was actually a mistake, but...
So Beirus walks into the arena. The doors shut, and the goblin runs up to him. Fully clothed and armed. Beirus laughs.
And that was that. He complimented me on using a fully armed prisoner and the deed was done.
...I don't think I'll be using the pit much. It makes me feel...quesy. It's not even fair to the goblins.
Here's the Slaughter Hole, fresh after it's inaugural use. For the record to future overseers, it's color coded for your convenience. The red lever opens the floodgates to the place (don't put anything strong enough to break down buildings in there...but isn't that common sense anyway?!) and the grey lever opens the pit to put the creatures in. I don't know what the blue lever does since that was already there.
Malachite 15th, 158I called off the last remnants of the hunt for the kid today. He's just gone, and Armok knows where he went or why. Maybe he was out of the fortress and a kidnapper found him, or maybe he just met the wrong end of some beast. Maybe he fell into the ocean and drowned. I don't know, but I tried. Armok believe me, I tried.
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gah sorry this has been such of a wait for nothing, but life's gotten in the way the past few days. figured a short update with nothing interesting is better then an even longer wait for an update so here it is.
I don't know what the fuck happened to the kid. I've checked everywhere I've thought to check and I can't find them. I checked the caverns and discovered how Osta got in - there's a giant level that leads straight to our staircase just sitting open a couple levels above where it actually meets the cavern floor. obviously anything that can't fly can't get in, but that's how that happened.
Benev's still naked as of now. he's also paralyzed from the waist down and doesn't have a crutch so he's crawling around with nothing but his stitches, and a steel buckler and crossbow. I don't know why he's naked. if anyone has a problem with me reporting your characters as being ridiculous you can let me know.
completely forgot to grab screenshots of the Beirus gladiator fight but honestly it was pretty much as reported. Dumping the inventories of caged critters is just d-b-d over the cage, right? cause that's not working at all. It obviously didn't matter since Beirus is a beast but eh. we've only got one other goblin that isn't already set up in the zoo anyway, although I'm sure we'll get more in the future.
clothes production isn't going fast enough at all but we're trucking along there. set up a drawbridge for an item dump to smash useless items, if we want to go that route in the future and... that's pretty much all I did. next update should come monday/tuesday ish.
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