Dorfings are noted and will be carried out as soon as we get immigrants.
The Log of Idek23th Granite 660Progress is slow. Castor and Fortestro managed to dig two small rooms into the rock but between the lack of food and the icy wind that blows up the mountain from the north, they are hard pressed to keep standing, let alone break apart solid rock.
Sadly, the rooms are simply to cold for us to live in there. The frost is creeping in from outside and even the proximity to the volcano isnt helping much. Castor assured me that it would probably get better if we dig deeper into the rock and so we agreed to excavate more rooms while those of us without picks will bring our meager supplies into the already cleared rooms.
3rd Slate 660Once they fell into a steady rythm, the girls got much faster and we already have the expansion finished.
It got indeed warmer the farther we went from the entrance. Without the wind blowing into the rooms they are livable, if far from comfortable.
We have build some workspaces by hauling some boulders together and Frontestor was starting to carve some doors to close of the entrance. Meanwhile, Spehss slaughteres the yaks to provide us with some much needed meat.
Beirus and I are mostly busy hauling stuff around for the others and Dewsif and ShadowHammer set out to explore the mountain a bit more and maybe hunt a few of the goats we sometimes heards.
Speaking of Beirus. He is very excited by the metal ores we found in the walls of our new home. I think once the immediate necessitys are taken care of, he will want to build a forge.
6th Slate 660So far we had no luck with hunting the mountain goats. Dewsif noted that they where much more nervous than normal. Constantly watching around and ready to bolt as if something big with many teeth was just a few meters away. Today we found out why.
ShadowHammer was just trying to get the drop on a lone goat again, but it just ran away as he got closer. When he looked around, he saw that the animal probably hadnt run from him.
Some weird mist was creeping up the mountain from the south, undeterred by the fact that the wind blows mostly from the north in this area. He wasnt eager to get a closer look and ran back to our hideout.
We agreed to stay inside for now. All of our supplies have been hauled in from the surface and the animals around here seem to used to dodge this clouds for any of us to sneak up on them.
Of course, this presents a problem in the terms of food. The plan was to keep us fed by hunting the local wildlife since farming on barren rock is simply not possible. For now we locked the doors to the outside tigthly and decided to go to sleep for now. Maybe we will find a solution tomorrow.
8th Slate 660Spehss came up with a rather ambitious plan. She thinks we could farm in the tundra at the base of the mountain, if we dig down from here even without risking to encouter this strange fog. Obviously not everyone was thrilled by that idea, since it means to dig a very long shaft down the slope. She just countered with a very graphic description what would happen to us if we dont get a reliable foodsource soon. I guess her cheery nature has its advantages sometimes.
1st Felsite 660Work on the shaft into the tundra continous. Being holed up in here for nearly a month has resulted in us falling into some strange routine.
Dewsif and ShadowHammer are sparring a lot, probably goin stircrazy. Spehss is constantly checking on the few seeds we got and trys to keep them from freezing. If that happens we are without a doubt doomed.
Beirus and I are mostly sitting around and sometimes checking up on Castor and Fortestro. Once they get tired, we take over for them and they get back up and rest for a while.
We still have a lot of yak meat left, but progress is slow and we all wonder if it will last long enough.
Notes: Not much happening yet. I wanted to have some more rooms done until summer but getting farms set up will take both of our miners quite a while.
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