It took the miners over two months to finish storage areas for food and other supplies they had brought with them, and after that it took another month to actually haul everything inside. In total it took three months since finishing the farm for everything to be safely inside.
The storage rooms were crude, two huge rooms, one where all the food supplies were stored, and second room where went everything else. Especially the general storage room was littered by the rocks and ores left by the miners, but nobody seemed to mind.
The dogs had also been chained in the entrance to prevent anything unwanted to enter the fortress. Of course those two dogs could not prevent any kind of assault, but at least wildlife should stay far enough from the entrance now.
Now that the storage area was finished Keywalls ordered the miners to start working on with a room where first workshops could be place. Well, the very first workshop had already been built as the ImBocaire had demanded a still to be built next to farm.
While working with the workshop room bellow the storage area the miners found out that the area was rich of gems and ores. Earlier they had discovered galena and tetrahedrite veins, now they found out gold and hematite. Keywalls was especially exited about the hematite, as that meant there would be metal industries producing weapons and armors quite soon.
The month of Galena had already begun, and the miners were still working with the workshop area, when three unknown dwarves approached the entrance from east. Keywalls took her battle axe and went to meet them.
"Halt! Who are you and what are you doing here?"
One of the dwarves, long and skinny guy, raised his hands to show that he was unarmed.
"We were sent from mountain home to serve our sentence here."
"Where are your guards? Why are you here alone?"
"Our guards were killed by group of goblins. There were twenty of us prisoners, but only us three survived. We thought that we have best chances here, as we don't know hot survive in wild."
"Right. Well, welcome to your grave. We are actually in need of capable workers down here, so you will fit to the group just fine. Now I want each of you to come with me so I can fill some papers. I need your names, crimes and civilian jobs before being arrested. Oh, and the only rule down here is that there is no rules except what I make up. Follow my orders and you may survive few years."
The sun was already setting when Keywalls had finished her interviews. One of the dwarves was clothier, though as there was no need to such profession for a moment Keywalls made him as the official fisher of the fortress. The wax worker became the butcher and the peasant was given the profession of fish cleaner. Now that they had butcher Keywalls also ordered the camel and yak cow to be butchered as she wanted some diversity on her daily meals.
It took most of the summer from miners but finally the first industrial workshops were ready. Carpentry, masonry crafting workshop and mechanic workshop had been built along with the butchery, tannery and fishery. It was time for Keywalls to but her prisoners in real work now.
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