Spriggans' log :
"In the tower we go !"Spring 210 :
Damn, being an overseer sure is time consuming ! I haven't had time to report lately, as I'm busy planning the work on the tower !
Being blind makes me slower than I'd like, but progress is made anyway. I've got everything planned out now !
Let's sum up the situation :
We have a tower. A 11 z high empty tower.
Here are some engravings of it. It sure has a lot of statues !
This is the basement. Wagons go there to trade. It is not part of the tower, but the tower access can be seen in the North.
There we go, floor 1. Or z 150.
This is one of the big storeys. It's not very big, but we have several of these.
This is one of the smaller storeys.
Engraving can be slow for a blind like me, and not very precise, but there are many storeys similar to the last two. I didn't wrote them all down.
In order to survive on our own. We will need :
#1 Some room for ourselves.
#2 Water for drinking.
#3 Food.
#4 Raw materials to expand the tower.
#5 Booze. As water is only a short term solution...Yeah, yeah... Right... I stroke "Booze". Okay ! But we have to be minimalist here !
We want to be on our own in the tower ASAP, and booze production is slow to put into place !!
We'll deal with the booze later !
For problem #1, I've decided to build expansions on the 7th floor, on some of them, we will put workshops, and on one of them, a well, which should solve problem #2 !
I've ordered beds and tables and chairs and such placed.
For the water (#2), we... obviously need water. The only water in this map is located at z 83. This is quite a long way !
But I ordered a 67 z deep hole dug straight from the tower !
Some nice, fresh, clean water !
This hole cuts through rooms and caverns, I ordered the Sighted miners to seal the leaks, so no beasts could come from the caverns to the fortress.
Hopefully, these bastards did that right...
#3. Food. It should be easier than I though. The fort has some war drakes :
We built some nests on the first floor, and the drakes quickly occupied them, laying juicy eggs for us blinded to eat !
I'm not entirely sure, but that should grant us enough food for some time.
Next problem, and a big one ! We need a dropping hole for Normal dwarves to give us materials to expand the tower and survive.
The solution is easy, we just need a dump hole dropping stuff in the tower, without granting the Sighted access. I will have to engineer it.
I've decided that during Spring, both the Sighted and the Blinded will work on the tower.
Once the tower is stable enough, the Blinded dorfs will live in it and never leave it again.
So, we have some 3 months to make the place livable !
And now ! Back to work !!!
Middle Spring 210 :
Migrants !
8 of them they are. But, hoooow ! Do I hate them !
All of them are worthless ! All of them skill-less ! All of them sighted !
What could we do with such useless meat ?
The well is now done and fully functional, though quite slow, it should keep us supplied on water ! That's #2 done !
We completed the airlock to prevent the Sighted access to the tower. When the tower is done, we will forbid the doors to prevent passage.
Humm...
I've had an idea for the useless migrants... I want to do an experiment !
For one month, the glorious squad of "Useless Migrants" will investigate the Northern part of our lands.
Their blessed mission will be to study the purple goo and, hopefully, find a cure which would heal us all.
Armok help them in their task !
End of Spring 210 :
Woops !
Huhooo !! There was an accident at the Northern lands !
Wind blew ! The sky turned magenta ! Screams were heard ! Three of our brave investigators got
blessed injured by the purple rain !
Science has failed, the migrants could not find a cure on time !
Well, it's no big deal ! Because these braves will now be part of the population of the tower which is by now stable enough to be populated !
Here's a tour of the tower :
floor 1 : drake nests and access to exterior (to the north, not shown here)
floor 2 : a silver floor gate, and an empty statues level.
floor 3 : the food stockpile. There is also the dump drop from floor 4, used to give items to the tower (here, wood has been dumped).
floor 4 : An empty floor, but we can see the dump zone in the top-left. The dump zone is accessed only by the Sighted dwarves.
floor idk : dining room. Some blind dwarves are enjoying their time.
floor bedrooms : here we have some beds. We will have to expand these.
floor n+1 : this is the workshop floor. We can also see the well to the right.
The tower will now be populated by us, the Blinded kind. Our time has come !
Close the gates ! Lock us in !
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