Sandstone 25:
To-Do List;
- Speed up construction
- Deliver beatings to slackers
- Build a trade depot
Timber 3
Progress is STILL slow. I suspect there's still resistance to my status as Overseer. What did I DO at the election drinking contest to piss everyone off?!
Expanded the work site for a fifth row of waterwheels
Timber 7
I've opened the BATTERY tank to the aquifer breaches so that it will start. If i don't get it finished, whoever comes next should be able to figure it out and continue it
Timber 10
I've dialled back from telling the fuckers to build a full row, down to just a few wheels on either side. Should stop pointless self-deconstructing ones built in the middle
Timber 16
Ahhhhh, shit. Goblin Siege has turned up on our doorstep. Obviously they're jealous of our new BATTERY, even if it is barely a 1/10th finished. Now to find the lever for the front bridge
Finally found it overlooking the bridge on the level above. What idiot put it there? Don't they know dwarves FLEE if they see goblins? Whoever comes next should move it to the dining room like a sane dwarf
Timber 18
Thankfully the weapon traps utterly fucked up the siege. Turns out that the bridge lever DOESNT GODDAMN WORK! I'm going to carve "FIX THE GODDAMN DRAWBRIDGE LEVER" into my Didgerido-stuff when I have a spare moment and share my opinion with the nearest dwarf I find lazing about
Timber 22
The goblin siege is STILL going. I'm sitting here on the battlements with a pine chair and some strawberries, watching these idiots march by the dozen over weapon traps and either get hacked to pieces or leap to their deaths over the sides. Best entertainment I've had in months!
Of special note was a goblin I saw reduced to a limbless heap and still alive. I'm tempted to keep him as a pet
Timber 28
Progress is going surprisingly fast on the new trade depot. Just need the second screwpump finished and my 'water for goods' policy can be enforced reliably
Moonstone 8
Work on the new Trade Depot and BATTERY continue with little to report. At least masons are working fast to floor over the screwpump channels. Good thing I caught that little mistake
Moonstone 17
The dwarves have stopped ALL work on the BATTERY and gone to do other things. I will not accept outright striking from my underlings. I've beaten some new jobs into the idlers with the threat of more violence if they don't get back to work
Moonstone 24
Progress has resumed, somewhat. I only have two months left before - oh crap, a Monkey Brute got into the Hellbunker!
It attacked a miner and it seems to be wounded. I only hope it doesn't... Aaaah shit.
Militia's been dispatched...
Moonstone 25
I may have been a little too woried. It doesn't seem like Hoodwicked can actually get inside the HellBunker. He must've spooked the farmers by breathing through the fortifications. (Incidentally; I TOLD YOU SO!). WHY there are fortifactions between the HellFort farm and the sealed-off entry hall are an utter mystery to me, other than as some sort of 'hardcore' farming attempt.
Opal 4
I have FOURTEEN idle dwarves, all with the jobsets necessary for the BATTERY. What the hell are they doing?!
Opal 7
A miner named Dumad's claiming to be an elder god with an unspeakable name and is politely asking for somewhere to build something 'rather nice'. I directed him to the workshops and told him to have a nice day. Then sent the militia to stand guard outside the workshop door in case he has a tantrum
Opal 10
Dumad, or 'Churrazzugdssfd' as he claims to be called, has begun making something in a masonry workshop
Opal 14
Dumad made an awesome adamantine statue.
An AWESOME Adamantine statue
It's worth about 2,000,000 dorfbucks, incidentally
It's far too nice for the general public - Someone might damage or steal it. I've put it in the only place I consider safe;
Opal 28
It's hooked up to two screw pumps on the level above that pump from what I'm FAIRLY certain is an Aquifer breach, and back into it. Essentially, we can flood and drain the Trade Depot at will when we really need what they're carrying. That should piss the Humans off for a good CENTURY.
Obsidian 4
Happy day! The idiots actually finished enough of the top row of waterwheels in the BATTERY that it linked together. Now I can finish off the extension and make it easier on the next guy to finish it.
Obsidian 5
Sad day; it seems Urist "Murderboner" Sazirurdim died. An examination suggests he died of thirst sometime about the 27th of Opal. His body was found on the ramp leading into the fortress. Poor bastard died in the sunlight instead of under the earth
Obsidian 19
Progress has been... rather good, actually. The first row of waterwheels is FINALLY complete. I'm channeling out the second row and idly praying that a dwarf
will start assembling the damn screwpump that will pump-start (heh) the BATTERY
Obsidian 27
A goblin ambush turned up. Should give me something to enjoy watching in my last few days as Overseer.
Granite 1
My Year is over. It ended on a laugh though; A single goblin spearman got through the weapon traps. He took one look at the fort, then turned and walked back through the traps to his death. I don't blame him, really. I'd say I need a drink, but that's how I got this goddamn job in the first place. I'm just going to wait outside the dining hall for the others to finish getting utterly trashed, then pin this armok-forsaken Overseer nametag on whoever's too drunk to notice, as well as leave an assortment of random items to confuse him when he awakes. Come to think of it, maybe that's what happened to me... Bastards. I leave a sketched map of what I have done
to for this fort for those that follow
This has been the journal of That Aussie Dwarf, Uncivil Engineering Overseer.
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Deathgate - 773----------
Overall the year was pretty quiet. If I'd realised that the BATTERY was so GODDAMN far from the main fort, I would've set up the wood stockpile sooner so work would go faster. I've left notes around the BATTERY and Trade Depot explaining how to use them and how to continue building the BATTERY water wheels. I'm going to state the following clearly to prevent mishaps or misunderstandings.
ONLY USE THAT SCREWPUMP IN THE BATTERY MANUALLY.
It doesn't need to be hooked up to the wheels, it's just there to start the aquifer flowing in and out of itself in a constant stream. Once that happens, you'll know by the wheels starting, dismantle it and continue the waterwheel row.
Sorry for being obsessive on it, I just know what'll probably happen if I don't.
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