Winter1th of Moonstone
The pillars are tempting. It's like they're calling out to me. "Dig me. Dig me," they whisper... no, not really. Even though I'm dead, I wouldn't want to endanger those who are less fortunate.
9th of Moonstone
The caravan leaves. Well, we have our coal. We could expand the tree farm a bit, just to be on the safe side.

This, on the other hand, could be a problem. I order drinks to be brewed. Do we even have a brewer? And once again, I shake my head at my predecessor. Did he really think that these little farms would suffice?
20th of Moonstone
The booze situation has stabilized. Still, I'm not sure for how long until they will start drinking... water again.
4th of Opal
The booze situation has stabilized. I have decided to poke holes into the northern pillar. That way we can find out if there's
really anything in there or if it's just stories made up by bored and/or sober dwarves.

7th of Opal

Now I feel stupid. I ordered them away from this quite literal hellhole.
9th of Opal
Xiek, who carved the Hellhole, is still thoroughly disturbed. Still, she managed to give some descriptions of what awaits us in the northern pillar.
Slush Demon: A great tiger beetle composed of snow. It has an enormous shell and it squirms and fidgets.
(These ones seem to have genders. No, I don't want to think about it.)
Snow Monster: An enormous humanoid composed of snow. It has two stubby horns and it has a gaunt appearance.
Haunt Of Snow: An enormous quadruped composed of snow. It has a curling trunk and it undulates rhythmically.
Phantom Of Embers: An enormous parrot composed of ash. It has a pair of spindly antennae and it has a bloated body.
Shade Spirit: A great quadruped composed of ash. It has large mandibles and it squirms and fidgets.
(Another one that comes in male and female varieties.)
Snow Wraith: A huge stegosaurid composed of snow. It has a fat, bulging trunk and it undulates rhythmically.
Ghost Of Snow: An enormous quadruped composed of snow. It has a short tail and it squirms and fidgets. Beware its poisonous sting!
(Poisonous sting? Is that what they call it now?)
Hawk Fiend: A gigantic hawk with external ribs. It has a twisting, jointed trunk and it has a bloated body. Beware its poisonous sting!
(Yeah, that's what they call it now.)
Winged Demon: A huge humanoid composed of vomit. It has wings and it has a gaunt appearance. Beware its deadly spittle!
Wraith Of Embers: A towering hornbill composed of ash. It has two long, straight horns and it has a bloated body.
10th of Opal
I don't feel well with all these things crawling around in the pillar. Additionally, one of the Glassmakers has started mumbling about having an idea. Great. We don't have any glass, right? I mean, we don't even have a glass furnace.
16th of Opal
Nope. No glass. I have a second glass furnace made. Glass items can be sold for a whole lot of bucks, from what I gathered... I don't like this at all.
26th of Opal
The glass is not being made fast enough. I don't want it to be my fault.
4th of Obsidian
finally. he starTed working. i'm not sure How long i will bE able to Do this. i... i think I'm gEtting crazy. Maybe I am. Or it's just the afterlife calliNg me. alSo, i'm ordering sAnd. lots of sand, hoping that this will neveR happEn again.
7th of obsidian
we have booze. why yes, we have lots of it. booze is great. one CAn never have enough of it. aLso, did you know we're a viLlage? I didN't. village of watchedGleam.
8th of obsidian

isn't it beautiful? HE created a beautifuL traP. i wished for iMagEs on it, but you can't have everything, right? no one can have everything.
12th of obsidian
maybe i should let out gigmaster it sounds like a good idea nah probably not im not crazy after all
17th of obsidian
oh curse those THIEVES! THey sltaal our SOULS° Souls I SAY no matter what the others think its not about GOODS its about our souls our very souls
and the ambushes oh the ambushes they all want to kill us ALL
19
they killed them all our military is dead and theyre here yeah the demons are here
11+7+3+1
felcis oh dear felcis is the last one standing against them and he is filled with the rage of the mountain

and how he fought them off them demons with their snow and their ash and their armokdamn VOMIT
but now theyre after the YOUNG souls too stealing them from us in filthy bags
pull the levers pull them all and keep the filth away from us
keep us from the DEMONS
27th of Obsidian
I'm confused. I woke up today with half a dozen dwarfs telling me about others going missing. I wonder if I should tell them that I can't remember anything that happened since I arrived at this fort, but all this seems too crazy. From what I hear, there have been multiple ambushes and a whole bunch of otherworldly creatures are waiting down in the adamantine pillar.
Worst of all, they say that I have been their leader. I don't get it. At all. The best thing is to just pretend to be overstressed from all the crap going on and let someone else take control of this fort.

For the next overseer.
Oh god. There were like five snathers, a few thieves and two ambushes. I'm afraid our military is dead, except for felcis, who's just badass.