From the Notes Of Rentorian
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Granite the First, 254
Today has been... Interesting, to say the least. I was doing my rounds like always, making sure that no one had removed any rocks from my 'To Be Counted' pile when the mayor walked up to me with a big grin on his face, always a bad sign. I'm not really sure what happened next, the mayor started giving me a speech about the importance of duty, and following the orders of the king, but to be honest I sort of fell asleep a couple minutes in. I woke up again just as he said '.. and therefore you are now head of the committee to oversee the distribution of all goods, services, and general goings on in the fort. Oh, and we're currently under siege and the king wants the water wheels destroyed.' With that he just threw the overseer's badge at me and ran off!
I guess that means I'm in charge here... I guess I should do something about those goblins.
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It looks like the goblins can't get in here, so I guess they aren't much of a threat, and I looked at the water wheels and they don't seem to be 'heathen works of the devil's black magic' so I just locked the doors and decided to ignore them for now. I guess I should get to work ordering people around then, wish me luck!
Granite The Second, 254
Armok's beard! Almost no one has been assigned any rooms! We have over 80 people living here and not even twenty of us have rooms to call our own! Dwarves are just going in and out of unassigned rooms, sleeping wherever they find a bed! It's so... so.. unorganized! I started construction of an extension to one of the bedroom floors and begun the construction of more beds and doors. The new rooms might not be nice but they'll be better than nothing.
It also seems that the mayor's quarters don't even exits! How are we supposed to run a successful fortress if our illustrious mayor doesn't even have a study where he can do... whatever it is that mayors do. Therefore I've also drawn up some simple plans for his quarters.
Granite the Eighth, 254
It seems my concerns about the rooms weren't as true as I feared. There are plenty of rooms, not enough for the entire fortress but enough to house most of our people, they were just never assigned to anyone. Most of the dwarves now have rooms even without excavation of the new housing wing having started.
Granite the Thirteenth, 254
I'm tired of everyone being trapped inside the fortress and unable to work on cutting down trees to make more beds and barrels, it's time to deal with this siege! The military will wait behind the traps my predecessors have set up and deal with whatever makes it through. In preparation I drafted several more dwarves into the military, bringing each squad to five members. The veterans should be able to cover for the recruits enough to keep them alive.
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SUCCESS!!
The goblins are routed and the siege is almost over! I'd like to say it was the work of our mighty military but it was the traps that did most of the work. two goblins were killed in the initial stonefall traps and one had his spine broken, I believe he may be paralyzed from the waist down.
The next set of traps captured no less than SEVEN of the foul little beasts. Leaving them with less than half of their original force. Five more were captured at the next set of traps, including their leader and his mount. Two of the goblins managed to penetrate the fort only to be captured by the next set of traps. Note to self, figure out who commissioned all these traps and give them a medal. The last goblin is wandering around inside the inner courtyard trying to find a way out in some attempt to salvage their mission, perhaps our military can show him the way out.
I feel like I should make some sort of joke about being disarmed.
*OOC: I really didn't expect so many gobbos to just get screwed over by the traps, guess the military will have to wait for another day to prove their worth.*
Granite the Twentieth, 254
Finished assigning rooms to everyone and the mayor's quarters are nearing completion. They still need to be smoothed and possibly engraved so they meet his expectations but he's happier than I've seen him in some time. Still wants to know about the 'demonic waterwheels' though.
Granite the Twenty-First, 254
Seems I'm no longer right about having assigned rooms to everyone. Today !!Urist!! gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, not entirely sure why a newborn infant needs her own room but it isn't my place to question things like this. Not entirely sure how she manages to carry both her children and still dig out the new prisoner storage area either. I'll have to ask her about that one.
Slate the First, 254
Migrants! 20 of them! Just when I had everything in order and everyone had a room, I'll have to get the miners working on some more rooms. There were also a number of military trained dwarves among them, so I've created one more squad of soldiers. We don't have enough armor or weapons to go around quite yet so I've order steel production into effect and have started mining for more coal, iron, and flux. I know we have adamantine but I want to keep that in reserve.
Slate the Eighth, 254
Well no wonder no one was working, someone had put out an order saying that all civilians should stay indoors! There aren't any goblins outside anymore (That aren't in cages anyway) so I put a stop to that order and everyone went rushing to get to work.
*OOC: Can't believe I forgot to remove the burrow restrictions no wonder no one was taking care of all those goblins in cages. I made a new alert status for when we're under attack*
Slate the Eleventh, 254
Repulsion has been acting strangely lately, I passed him in the halls recently and he just kept muttering to himself. I wonder what's wrong.
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He just barged into a mason's shop and threw everything out of it, he's stalking around the fortress muttering about materials for his masterpiece or something
Slate the Fourteenth, 254
Repulsion finally gathered all his materials together... Not sure why it took him three days to find a piece of kaolonite and two pieces of limonite ore. Maybe they're special?
Slate the Nineteenth
What a wonderful day! We finally struck magma! I've already drawn up plans for magma furnaces and forges down near the sea. No more relying on coal to stoke our furnaces. Repulsion finished his masterpiece today, he says he's been blessed with knowledge of the earth by Armok himself, whatever that means. Anyway he made
Zimeshalath the kaolinite door. Kinda neat I guess, I don't quite understand it though.
Felsite The Eighteenth
It seems that the elves have arrived to try and trade with us. Didn't we kill their last trading expedition? Oh well, the military will definitely see some action this time.
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Or not. It looks like a titan decided this would be a good time to visit us too.
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Rabab Athnaza just ran right by our front gate and is chasing the elven merchants around, Bluesproto has thrown a part to commemorate the event.
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The titan quickly grew bored when his elven friends decided to leave and decided to see how we felt about playing. Luckily The titan was made of chalk and proved to be easy prey for our superior military. It's too bad really we could have been great friends, he killed elves, we kill elves, he melts people with his saliva we melt people with magma. The elves were kind enough to leave us a new pet, some plants, beer, and some of their usual wooden things.
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That's it for tonight, should get more of the year done tomorrow. I don't think we'll have any problem with Rabab's toxic saliva, he used it like a projectile so it didn't leave any pools behind, just the broken arrow symbols when it missed and dead elves when it hit. Oh and I dwarfed Icee and drafted him as a wrestler.
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