Smallhands: Year 164
Summer=Journal of Reg Pickcrab=
(definitely not 12000 bees in a trench coat)
Our continued effort to improve efficiency began to run into some difficulty as the worker drones began to wall themselves in and potentially dehydrate themselves to death. Below the hive, there are many exploratory tunnels looking for valuable
pollen minerals and metals. Some were also clearly designed to be entry ways into the caverns, but were abandoned due to better judgement. I assigned several of these to be walled off totally. In 3 out of 12 instances, dwarves managed to build the wall behind themselves. We worry there is some sort of brain infection common among the worker drones. No lives were lost, though.
Inspecting the stocks, we have a multitude of statues dedicated to one of the dwarves named "Recon". This tavern drone must be very important.
Although the dwarves seemed excited to have a visitor, I was worried about the green color of their name... Elves are often overly protective of flowers and are known to swat honeybees collecting pollen. I asked KingZultan to check things out and followed the Elf closely.
Meanwhile, I noticed some of the dwarves were complaining about this:
We thought dwarves liked bones - since almost everything in the fort is made of and decorated with bones. Auze informed me that these were bad bones, though - also there were many of them. The hive began to drag them to the crushing room, to remove them from sight and also existence. There will be no bad bones in my hive.
How can this bee? Tholtig, one of the members of the fortress, acted against the interests of the fortress? I cannot comprehend it! KingZultan, do what you must! KingZultan marched off to interrogate Tholtig and arrest him. I also interrogated Auze about bad bones, but there were no results.
At the very least, we have successfully captured Lapama. We have been informed that this type of elf does not eat. I recommend just walling them into the fort forever.
Some humans arrived with big monsters filled with items they wanted to give us. But not just give us, they wanted us to give them things first. I don't understand this, so Auze took care of it. The humans also brought this news:
We are doing a great job with this overseeing business. Nothing bad is happening at all!
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OOC:
Mysterious bone pile isn't the first time there's just been a bunch of dead things collected in one space. Was this a clean-up strategy of someone else, or is this just a weird ass bug. I also found every part of an elf in a store-room in a single pile. I also found about 100 bolts in a pile on this same level, but cleaned them up.
I'm also cleaning up and forbidding stuff in hallways or on the surface - a few dead visitors seem to have left behind some clothes and wooden weapons.
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