Cog’s Perspective, 1st of Granite, 303, New Year CelebrationI stood at the front of our rather crowded dining hall and called for silence. Just about every dwarf was in attendance for today’s celebration.
“All right everyone, I’ve got a couple things to say and then I’ll let you get back to the party.
Thank you all for your hard work in ensuring our survival through our first year in this harsh place. Despite many challenges and several dangers, we have made it through our first year here in fine form!
As many of you know, my reasons for being here are entirely due to disagreements with people back home over what our mountain home should look like. They chose not to listen to me and now I am effectively exiled. That exile will not stop me from showing them how wrong they were about my ideas. So starting tomorrow we will begin construction on the first of many projects that will make this the greatest fortress ever seen in our world.
Some of you have complained about a lack of chairs in our rather undersized dining hall. This project should finish that. I present to you, the initial blueprints of the Grand Dining Hall of Towersoared.”
With that, I pulled out a copy of my blueprints and laid them on the table:
“As you can see, from the top it is a full 100 tiles long. We’ll be decorating the area with a fair number of statues. Ideally we’ll be using a mixture of stone and metal statues but time will tell what will be the best bet. As for the cross section of the hall, that’s over here on this page.”
The hall will extend 17 floors below the current ground level and 8 floors above with a green glass roof. The first large block of living quarters will overlook the dining hall through windows that will be built by our glass makers and gem crafters. I’ll see about getting the first blocks of rooms scheduled after the first couple levels of the dining hall are excavated.
There are many other tasks that will keep the rest of you quite busy as this project gets started. This is only the beginning of our grand plans, but all grand things must start somewhere.
One last thing, and then you can get back to your drinks. While I have no shortage of ideas for the future of this place, even I’m willing to admit that I’m not the only one who can conceive of incredible things. While I may technically be the leader, there is no doubt that it is "our" fortress, each and every one of us. If any of you have ideas that you would like to see here, especially anything you think would have been scoffed at back in mountain home, I’m interested in hearing it!
Now get back to your drinks and enjoy the day!”
@alxnotorious: excavating under the room like that works quite nicely. It works for any tile except the middle of the workshop where the dwarf typically works.
@Tuxman: Nice update, looks like Catten is having a rough year. Hopefully the next one will start to improve things.