The Mayor was busy, as was custom every time there was a change in command at the beginning of the year. The rest of the populace was occupied in the library, or chilling in the tavern,
The Mayor found her next overseer praying in the Temple. It was not unusual for the more devout dwarves to attempt to commune to their gods in some fashion or another,
but when she found her target she was... rather worried.
Perhaps some of us took this whole necromancer business, a tad more seriously than the others, she thought to herself.
Overseer Zuglarkun's Log:2nd GraniteNashonshash is a bloody charnal house. A deluge of lava flows lazily across its surface while undead prowl its forsaken corridors. The very soil is drenched in the stench of flesh and the walls are caked with dried blood. Well, nothing unusual here!
I have long since come to terms with my unliving state. Its not too bad when you get used to it. We're still dwarves on the inside.
Mayor
Shorast had approached me for overseership, and I gladly accepted. There's nothing to do in this neck of the woods, so this will serve as a good distraction at the very least. My first order of business was to put an end to the deluge above. In order to access the surface, I ordered the magma pump stacks to be shut off for now.
I noticed we were without a few key positions on our
Seeing as how I was eligible, I took the position of bookkeeper, and appointed
Erib to the position of manager. There's some housekeeping to be done, so I've ordered some cleaning up. I know we are all necromancers and all, but it won't do to have all these body parts lying about.
While clearing out the unliving quarters, we happened upon the corpses of some of our
There were all ordered to be
Speaking of which, I've been alerted that there is a reanimated wolf skin running amok in our workshop quarters.
From observation next door, we likely won't be able to get rid of it with our military without it occupying them in a futile battle for all eternity. Rather than risk that possibility, I've ordered a few
to be erected to deal with an annoying wolf skin that blocked off use of our workshop quarters. Hopefully all goes well.
Meanwhile, it has come to my attention that one of our visitors is stranded up above by the tide of lava.
4th GraniteSpeaking off visitors,
Quabu Isunberu a goblin spearman is visiting. I hope this one does not end up engaging in a fight for all eternity with one of our resurrected animal skins, like the other goblin visitor we have.
At my command, the Night Guard engage the resurrected wolf skin to lure the reanimated bugger into a cage trap.
Once they've engaged, I ordered a quick retreat, luring the wolf skin into one of our traps.
10th Granite 307More visitors have arrived, Thothil a human lasher. Well if we do plan on welcoming visitors, we might as well clean up this place and make it more presentable.
14th Granite 307They complained about the lack of trade depot to unload their goods. Don't ask me how I managed to acquire that message, I just know OK? Now that I think about it, I think you got all your priorities mixed up if you're willing to wade through all that lava to trade. Stupid elves don't even have a sense of self-preservation. Still I suppose it doesn't hurt to try to meet their demands. Our former trade depot is occupied by unfriendly undead, so I don't think it'll do. I will get the masons to construct a replacement so we are not utterly cut off from the outside world
(though I think some of us might prefer it that way). Still, we will need to wait for the lava up top to subside.
In the meantime, I decided upon consolidating some of our animals in one place. We opened up a tunnel to the caverns where a bunch of caged rutherers reside. I'm sure they will be of some use to us.
Too late, before the caverns can be sealed,
Ryukan and a few others decided to storm the caverns to dump some trash that a previous overseer mandated. I put a stop to that by banning disposal of garbage for now.
Once everyone was back safely, we sealed off the tunnel from the caverns and moved the caged beasts to a holding aread within the deep fortress. I've assigned the animal trainers to tame the younglings, while the adults might be of use to us to polish our
Huh, more visitors. Doce a human macemen is visiting.
Also, I did not realize we can attempt to
I doubt it will work, but no harm trying.
Looks like the undead giant ospreys have found themselves some fresh meat to play with. It did not end well for our human macemen.
Eh, more visitors will come.
23rd Granite 307I decided to do something about the
I guess we are all kindred of some sort being undead and all. But from my meager understanding, we retain most of our faculties and have a firm anchor to the material world whereas ghosts are more prone to act upon their emotions and are incorporeal for the most part. For immortal beings such as us, it is important to reduce risks of permanent injury, like this violent ghost for example.
I guess what I am saying is that these specters of the living can threaten us while we can't do anything about them. I've ordered a bunch of slabs
to appease them as is dwarven tradition and reclaimed some of the forbidden slabs in the upper fort to bolster our stock.
As bookkeeper, I decided we needed all our codices in one place so as to be able to keep track of them easily
(not that I had any problem doing so of course). The order was given out to salvage as many of the codices as were possible from the wreckage above.
Led Tanunib, Ghostly Ranger has been
26th Granite 307Okay, the giant osprey corpse has found the
I guess we won't be conducting trade after all.
We've dubbed the bird of prey
Dreamyankle the Frosty Wires in admiration of its prowess in dissecting elves.
We have yet another
Good luck getting in!
1st Slate 307Up above, the giant osprey corpse swoops down and tries to take on the human but the human drives it off, not without suffering severe injuries. An elf, Narena reanimates and goes after the human, but the human axeman Rostfen kills it and succumbs to its wounds. Rostfen now resurrects and goes after the dwarf warrior swordsdwarf Onget. Onget kills the human corpse but also suffers the same fate, dying and reanimating. This time the corpse goes after the speargoblin Quabu, but is fended off successfully.Ehh screw the details, you ran the gauntlet and survived? Good! We need folk of your mettle! Welcome to Bloodyhells!
Goden meets the survivor of the scuffle above ground, one
Quabu Isunberu.
Goden welcomes the mercenary and locks the door behind him.
Quabu attends a meeting with the mayor, proclaiming that he heard the
Garlic of Vipers would make a good base for
Hoo boy, you have
no idea what you are getting into.
Hah, I spoke too soon. Another mercenary arrives,
Lolor a marksdwarf. Good to see at least some folk are not deterred by this hellhole!
In the meantime,
Quabu is put to a test of skill against our pet ducks. He does well for awhile but ultimately is humiliated by the billed ones.
Meanwhile the only other living dwarves are doing reasonably well in their little hidey hole. Unfortunately, the starving ewe could prove to be a threat should it expire and reanimate as
Ok, more visitors. This time a goblin bard. And even more visitors, a human spearman.
In hopes that someone will record down the secrets of life and death ere we forget, I appointed a scholar and scribe to
Oops,
Irol the human spearman is set upon by a swarm of giant firefly corpses, he does well until he dodges into a pool of cooling lava.
Tiqua the human lasher visits and is also swarmed by undead.
15th Slate 307After the lava has mostly subsided we ventured out to restock our library with more reading material, keeping an eye out for the awful weather. More of the corpses have returned to unlife, but being necromancers, they did not bother us in the least.
Of course, after procuring these texts, everyone made a mad dash for the latest trash fiction stored it in the library and proceeded to read away. Pfft, I guess the necromantic tradition causes an upsurge in this
"scholarly behavior". I will have to restrict book access if I need tasks to be done.
The ghost of
Sanctume materializes over the water pumps machinery.
and now,
Ryukan is being haunted by his former spouse.
Which reminds me, need to erect those
The ghosts of
Vabok,
Avafi and
Likot were
13th Felsite 307I've enlisted everyone to remove the outside barriers so we can setup a proper trade depot with proper gates and all.
Flame has bestowed a name upon his
21st Felsite 307Sanctume's spirit has been
R.I.P. Sanctume.
I'm in the process of installing two gates; one for the front entrance on the surface and another for the trade depot. Levers and instructions for what they link to are in the mayors room.
It is now summer.
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