Limonite and bauxite room:
Year 104
A 11x11 entrance hall was dug out. The Turquoise Squares, a squad of three soldiers trained here constantly, guarding tunnels to surface and to caverns. The magma loader was finished. It could load 4 minecarts a time. Magma workshops were set up. A giant rat entered the fortress from cavern and was caught in cage trap. A herd of crundles walked into the fortress. Some were caught in trap. Some bit dwarves. Some were killed. A crundle corpse rotted in the entrance hall and nobody had the time to dump it. Walls were built around it to contain the miasma. A zombie naked mole dog killed some crundles and elk birds in the deep tunnels between entrance hall and caverns. Some living naked mole dogs were caught. A crundle tallow soap was made. On the surface, some zombie buzzards chased wild boars. Rith Kadôlastis was socializing alone in the tavern for weeks. Dwarves brought bucket of water to her.
The outpost liaison, as in the last year, crawled into the fortress. The reason why she didn't walk was unclear. This autumn, the fortress traded cut gems for logs, sheep, and silk. The caravan left, but a guard was trapped inside the fortress. He wandered around and decided to stand under a raised drawbridge. He was crushed in the winter.
Zuntîr Rakustoshur made an artifact silver cabinet. On the cabinet there was a stone image of dwarves traveling to found the fortress, Lashburns. The Laborious House was built. It was the fortress jail as well as the hospital. It was equipped with ropes and beds. A bird room was built for ducks and a turkey. An animal room was built for the wild caught crundles and naked mole dogs. Its entrance was guarded by cage traps.
Two dwarves turned unhappy in the winter.
Population reached 25.
Year 105
Five zombies and two bleak ones sieged the fortress in the spring. They were caught in cage traps. In the summer, two kobold thieves came. The soldiers killed them. Some crundles, elk birds were caught. Dwarves used meat to tame and slaughtered them. A gremlin appeared. Another gremlin was killed by a crundle. Dwarves found some cave swallow people. They had been camping in the northwestern first cavern, killing troglodytes. A new squad formed, led by Äs Gusilatul. The soldiers were also training in the entrance hall. Iron battle axes, silver warhammers, silver maces, and iron armors were forged.
A 21x21 room was flooded. The water was drained. Dwarves started farming on the muddy rock. Grazers were divided into two pastures according to gender. A farmer's workshop was at the intersection of the two areas, for milking and shearing. The Cloud of Hail, the guild hall for the farmer's guild the Foggy Hall, was built. A fortress kitchen was set up. It took eggs, quarry bush leaves, flour, syrup, sugar, milk, oil as ingredients. Dwarves dug out a 3-level underground tree farm. Water leaked from the walls and was collected by trenches surrounding the farm. Then it flowed into a cistern under a microcline well. Four 1-wide tunnels went in four different directions to the edge. They were for migrants. Four 3-wide tunnels were made. They were for wagons. Dwarves started to forge copper buckets and copper bins to save logs.
Kosoth Nîlesamost made an artifact shale hatch cover. Tosid Cogendok made an artifact lay pewter crossbow. Urist Tulonikud made an artifact sapphire door. A simple blue door, the only decoration on it was an image of itself. The door was installed in the office of Mafol Nokimesmul the axelord, the first mayor of the fortress. The artifact silver cabinet from last year was placed in mayor's bedroom.
A human caravan of the Rosy Confederacies arrived when summer came. Their head treasurer was a goblin. They came from a nearby human town in the southwest. Dwarves bought some logs and a reindeer bull. The fortress bought logs, cave wheat seed, parchment sheet from dwarven caravan.
Population reached 59.
Year 106
Kobolds appeared. Goblin bowmen attacked the fortress and were caught in cage traps. In the winter, two bleak ones attacked the fortress. One of them immediately left. The other was caught in cage trap. A water trap was built. During the construction, miners went to the surface to dig channel on the beach. They were attacked by zombie buzzards but successfully defended themselves with pickaxe.
Elven caravan came for the first time. Dwarves bought grown logs, a grizzly bear, and an alexandrite pedestal. When they were leaving, an elf merchant decided to go through cavern. Inside a tunnel, a cave ogre strangled him with its right hand. The ogre got the name Cerathali. It was caught in cage trap. Logs, berries, vegetables were bought from human caravan. The fortress bought logs, cloth, leather, some food from dwarven caravan.
Rakust Kivishtinöth dropped the beer she was drinking and went for a strange mood. She made an artifact sterling silver pick. It had an image that depicted the ascension of king Astesh in the year 38. Adil Ùshrirtarem made an artifact echidna leather vest. It was displayed in the mayor's office. Erush Urvadmafol created an artifact cinnabar puzzlebox, that menaced with spikes of cinnabar. It was displayed on the alexandrite pedestal in the mayor's office. Nomal Mengdolek made an artifact lignite crown. The crown bore an image of a dwarf holding his masterfully made cloth. It was displayed in the mayor's office.
The caverns were almost fully explored. A magma tube was found in the third cavern. Two libraries were built. The Fenced Houses was open to citizens, and the Helms-House of Blockading was for visitors. The craftsdwarves established the Guild of Wheels. Their guild hall was the Lacy Furnace. Metalsmiths and jewelers also had their guildhalls. Teshkadbomrek the artifact sterling silver pick was installed in a weapon trap in the metalsmith's guildhall. Dwarves began to produce leather robe, yarn trousers, cloth shoes. When dwarves set up a new magma smelter, two lignite boulders were ignited. The boulders sat in the pit under the smelter and began to burn when lava was poured in. They kept burning from autumn to winter then to the next year. The lava pit was floored over to contain the smoke. Metalsmiths began to make pig iron and steel. A short corridor was built along the sandy wall of the tree farm. This became the new sand collecting zone, bigger than the old 1x1 zone in a stair shaft. Dwarves dug a tube from the first cavern to the second. The entrance to the fortress in the first cavern was in a low area where water could easily accumulate and block the way. The new shaft would drain water into the second cavern. Six wild caught dralthas were chained in a room. In the winter, two draltha babies were born. A pair of albatrosses were caught and tamed. Kel Datanenkos became the mayor, replacing Mafol.
The Dead Sanctuary, a temple for Momuz the Grave of Dying, was built. It marked the border of the reanimating zone. To its east, from cavern to surface, corpses would rise. In the temple was a cinnabar statue of Momuz the Grave of Dying, in the form of a rotten dwarf, raising a slab.
Population reached 98. There were 14 soldiers and 10 planters.
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