Chapter 3: Action Plan26 Granite, 81Snacks takes charge and lays down action plans before the next full moon, 23rd of Slate.
Miner Sazir will first dig out the hospital down in z131, and forgo the aesthetics of above ground constructions. This is an emergency measure, and for added security, the hospital will be access from below at z132 though a hatch cover.
Cousin Ber is promoted to Chief Medical Dwarf. Welcome aboard Doctor Ber.
Doctor Ber starts demanding for threads in order to perform suturing.
I tell Nil the Herbalist to pick rope reeds and kenaf plants.
For the Department of Material Production, I promoted Reg D to handle the thresher, weaver, clothier, tanner and leatherworker labors. Guard Ustuth is also given plant processing labor to help speed up thread making.
Reg starts building the workshops on the indoor pasture: 2 farmer’s workshops, a loom, a clothier, wood furnace, ashery, and soap maker’s workshop.
As soon as threads are used, Doctor Ber starts demanding cloths for bandages.
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28 Granite, 81A bit of good news, Grandma Meng gave birth to baby, uncle, Kel in the middle of the trade depot. Mrs Meng soon started seeking for a missing infant, and the elf merchants starts preparing to leave. Kel Paintbalds gurgles, “Madaba!”
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Miner Sazir’s next task is to dig four quarantine rooms, situated west of the Mason shops, down in z126.
The plan is to quarantine the four patients who are injured by the Weremouse. Each quarantine room is accessed via hatch cover, and have a drop chute for supplies. Superior quality beds are placed.
For ease of processing the patients, four new squads are created:
Squad “Quarantine 1”: Tortoise, Founder
Squad “Quarantine 2”: Mebzuth, Mechanic
Squad “Quarantine 3”: Zon, Farmer
Squad “Quarantine 4”: Rigoth, Guard
Thob is promoted to handle all the Masonry jobs.
The hospital was created and more supplies are forthcoming.
The Fisher Wharf roof is completed sealing it from the outside.
16 Slate, 81Chaos descends upon well laid plans one week prior to the full moon.
A second Giant Chameleon climbs up the east wall where there is no constructed floor access except climbing walls. “The Mine of Curiosity” squad is given an order to kill the giant chameleon.
Child Kulet, expedition leader Tirist, Carpenter Eshtan, Child Erib, and Guard Dastot filled over 73 incident report pages of punching the giant chameleon’s head, and the fight is still going. The conflict has caused vengeful thoughts to most of the population already, including Patient 4, former Guard Rigoth.
So, 7 days prior to the 23rd, the four Quarantine squads are given orders to station themselves down the quarantine rooms. Except Guard Rigoth is determined to beat up the giant chameleon but cannot seem to climb up the wall.
Full Moon, 23rd Slate, 81Mr. Q, the human pikeman is nowhere to be seen. He must have slipped out of McUrist during the second giant chameleon incident. Despite the weeks of beating, the giant chameleon is still alive and continues to interrupt the workers inside McUrist. The new full moon reveals more rodent infestations while the civilian alert is in progress.
First, the good news. Quarantine 1: Tortoise is locked in quarantine room 1. She is safe from the weremouse infection, but feeling vengeful.
Second, more good news, Quarantine 4: former Guard Rigoth, Patient 4 is
not infected while not inside quarantine room 4. She is instead battle raging near the east wall, searching for a way to join the beating of the giant chameleon. Yes, it is fortunately, she is not infected.
Third, is not good news. Mebzuth, Patient 2 is locked in a quarantine room, and transformed into a weremouse. He should not be able to harm anyone down there, but he has gone berzerk.
A worst case scenario happens when Zon, Patient 4, transformed into a weremouse in the stairs between the quarantine rooms and the farms. Unfortunately, Mechanic Stakud was there, victim to Weremouse Zon.
The doors between the farms and the stairs to the Mason area have been locked, but Grandma Meng, Baby Kel, Mason Thob, and Miner Sazir is still in danger with Weremouse Zon with only stairs between them.
Grandma Meng set a civilian alert burrow in one of the empty quarantine room, so they locked themselves in hoping for the full moon to wane.