Diary of Urist McKiwi III, Dashing Swordsdwarf
1st Granite
Well, it's been a long time since I last had to make a cheese. A dashing swordsdwarf such as myself is just the sort of dwarf this place has needed. I can't even remember what happened over the last year....things happened so fast. Still, I got to smash one of those zombies the necromancers brought over. In a very dashing manner, if I may say so myself.
Alas, I fear the fun is about to end. Somehow when people were looking around for a new leader after Cutie decided to stand down, they remembered my brief tenure after McKiwi II fled....and I've been appointed overseer. I'm no leader! I'm a dashing swordsdwarf!
Still. Let's see. I've been on station down here in the caverns for a while, and while it's very dashing, it's also very boring. We need some way to deal with the undead that doesn't involve me standing around in the mud all month, and preferably take out the massive pool that's built up against our walls while we're at it. It's probably a good chance to secure the fortress a bit more while we're at it. While this is most undashing, I'll probably have to ask the engineers if there's a way to do this.
5th Granite
I have.....a fantastic idea. It should be possible to channel the volcano to flood the caverns with magma. I've never tried this before, but I think I can do it without destroying the compound. I'm getting the channels and valves sorted out first, so the system can be turned off. With luck, it'll vaporise the water and instantly destroy any undead that are lurking outside the compound. In future, it might also be a good way to fight the forgotten beast.
I should also put some kind of podium in there so I can dashingly fight monsters while surrounded by fire and lava and such.
6th Granite
One of the civilians came running up to me today. "Your dashingness!", he said. "One of the porcupines has gone wild!". It took me a few minutes to work out what he was on about. Apparently our animal trainers have been rather lax. While there are certain creatures that would do well as the companion to one as dashing as myself, porcupines are not among them. I'll see to fixing the training system.....later.
It's also come to my attention that someone has been scribbling profanities on the building plans in the hope of having their vulgar feelings immortalised in the fortress layout. I've ordered etiquette lessons for the entire fortress. How can one be dashing if one is not polite?
The semi-weekly forest fire is heading for the new perimeter wall. Since it was never finished properly, it is likely to burn directly into the outer compound.
8th Granite
Disaster! A squad went off to save a dwarf being strangled by one of the undead, and the civilians walled off their way out! I'm sending the military out to sweep the caverns to pick off individual targets.....at least, I will as soon as those darned walls are gone.
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Right, slow updates to start off with, since I'm still doing assignments. I need two bits of information.
1. How do I close that darned drawbridge on the left of the fort? I can't find the lever anywhere. For that matter, how do I open the brand new one on the far right of the fortress?
2. I think our corpse-handling system has reset itself again (that or the recent death rate has exceeded its capacity roughly 8-fold). How do I check it and fix it if it's broken so we dump things in the volcano again?
...plans for this year are 1. Flood part of the caverns with magma. 2. Build a system that can flood more of the middle/lower caverns with magma, preferably without pressurising the system. 3. Fix the perimeter wall once the fires go out. & 4. Cleaning up the place. Metaphorically. It'll still be covered in blood.
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