The game starts in Slate, the 234th year of the age of myth
Our narrator for the first year, Babylon Virginrooms a dwarven woman of 59, the only volunteer who mentioned the neighbors as a reason for joining up. She's worked as a carpenter and her friends and family say she can brew a decent Dwarven ale but her true talent is music. She's achieved legendary proficiency with both the ebal and the megob. She dreams of creating a great work of art and that great work of art is a piece of music capable of waking the dead. She learns, while performing at the festival of attics in Salvenourished that the Ochre Cacti, a community of Dwarven scholars living in the tower PagedCircles, has managed this. The tower is a bit outside the mountains of the Eternal city, in an extremely odorous swamp known as the murk of odors. fan of the music of the sweet tulip and the dramatic performances of the humourous troughs. The Megob does not appear to be something we are capable of building, maybe I can acquire one from an elf or something of the sort. She managed to sign on with an expedition from Gildtin that was setting up in the swamp to allow a group known as the Furnace of Rasping a chance to strike out on their own.
The first thing I did was tear the cart apart that brought us here so we could recover the wood from it, the cart was full of wood so I'm not sure why they wanted the cartwood, but I guess it is sometimes some strain of rare hardwood or another. The wood in the cart was coffee, Wyldkat Bankcrafted, the woodcutter had just felled a fresh coffee tree and I reminded myself to separate the fresh wood from the seasoned stuff we had brought from GildTin when we set out. I hadn't done carpentry work for a while and I realized I'd have to grow some new calluses, the wagon was full of Gabbro boulders and I let those fall when I pulled the stays, Ms Helmguilt, the mason and leader of the expedition, might have me haul those later, but until she asked I wasn't going to move them. She and Mr Touchwhipped, the trader who's been all sweet on Ms Razorcrafts the cook, set to digging us a hole in the swamp. Fortunately spring appears to be a relatively dry season, there hasn't been any flooding yet. The soil is a nice white sand that should make lovely glass. Nobody on the crew has any experience as an architect so I took on the job, since the trade depot will be made out of wood. I used some Carambola that was fresh cut and I figured would intimidate any elves that came to trade. I made sure there was sap dripping in a few spots. Helmguilt and Touchwhipped carved a carpentry shop for me and a craft workshop next to it out of the roots of the same tree. It was growing right up against a sizeable patch of water, I expect to be kind of damp at work, but I don't mind, this is the water that feeds the frogmen that become the zombie army of PagedCircles. While I was building everyone else started hauling my logs in to stack up by the workshop. I put a teawood door on the animal pasture, I figured it might help hold the smell.
26th of Slate we hit magma! We just broke through into an underground cavern and it contained a deep pit that went all the way down to the magma sea. This should make life much more civilized.
We built a simple wooden wall and drawbridge, I used Coffee, which seems to be very plentiful here, for the wall and Citron for the drawbridge. I expect the whole thing to get torn down and replaced by something fireproof, but for now it's easy to work with and everyone pitched in to help out.
22nd Felsite: A giant anaconda crippled one of our dogs. We might have them stay inside the wall. We pulled the sheep and yaks in as well, while the moss grows in the pasture underground. The yaks pulled the cart here, they are a bit hungry to live on moss so they might end up as roasts sometimes fairly soon.
Summer arrives, we don't have a lever hooked up to the drawbridge yet, or beds to sleep on or tables to eat at but we do have farms, a food storage room, and buildings to process farm crops. Helmguilt is working on carving out a masonry shop, a stone storage room, and the space for where the magma workshops will go in deep underground.
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