Diary of Alias
Chapter 1: Winter
1st Moonstone 556
Lord Lemonpie has summoned everyone in the fortress to determine the new overseer. I am the last one to arrive at the spot and all I can see is every single dwarf staring and pointing at me. Someone near Lord Lemonpie quickly states "He will gladly accept your role as overseer for this year."
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S***.
(Status of the fortress)
(Also I am using a version of the Phoebus tileset. I might have messed up the installation of it seeing as the text is a little messy).
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1st Moonstone 556 Continued...
It is apparently my first day on the job as overseer and the very first thing I will need to do is to familiarize myself further with the layout of the fortress.
"Hand me the maps of our fortress." I ask to a nearby dwarf assisting me on my first day. As he hands me the map I state "Yes this is a very nice abstract drawing you have there. The map please?....Oh."
After a brief familiarization, first thing is first. Dealing with all of these politicians. Though it looks like they've basically already dealt with us judging by the amount of corpses everywhere.
It appears we are safe provided we simply do not go outside. Cage traps at the entrance should make work of most of them and (Hopefully) dissuade the other politicians from walking in.
(The dwarves look similar to corpses O.o graphic pack is really messing with me).
I have decided what I should focus on in my term as overseer based on the information. First: an emergency bunker for the dwarves. A safe place to call home when everything around you is on fire or covered in blood. Or both. Next: weapon production and reorganizing the military to stand a chance against the politicians. Time to enact these plans.
3rd Moonstone 556
The plans for the bunker have been laid out and are awaiting construction. I have also reorganized the military into 1 melee squad instead of two. We only have a total of 5 melee dwarves in the fortress at the moment -- Four of which are extremely skilled. Progress is slow due to only one surviving miner in the fortress.
We have a lot of children in this fortress. Most of them seem to be playing make believe. I can imagine they are make believing that they are anywhere but this fortress.
4th Moonstone 556
It appears that the politicians got bored and have decided to end their siege...Wait what is going on...
They appear to be running around in circles looking for a way down...maybe we will get lucky and they will do a flip on their way down... Nope they found a way out now.
Looks like one tried to run into the fortress. We caught ourselves a Rand Paul...might need to wash that cage out afterwards.
6th Moonstone 556
Not much happening this day. Except for the artifact that Fath Sokanast was working on is now under construction.
A pretty lacking artifact. Could use more menace.
15th Moonstone 556
I am seeing a lot of ghosts haunting our fortress. I have ordered some slabs to be made and engraved to properly memorialize the dead.
18th Moonstone 556
Seeing as our king has no holdings, I am going to create for him his own place. Relatively small for a king, but he will hopefully be satisfied with it enough to stop barging into my office every few days with his demands. (Hotkey: Shift-F8).
1 day later, Migrants have arrived despite the danger! Perhaps things will finally turn around for the status of the fortress! Maybe I won't be the overseer blamed for everything bad afterall!...Where is that gate lever at...hmm two levers none of which have notes...Let's find out! Left one first!
Left one doesn't seem to have done anything...Perhaps the other...No this one doesn't do anything either...Hmm. Time to build a new lever with a label.
1st Opal 556
I have a report on my desk that a bear has forgotten it's training partially. There is now a semi-wild bear tied up in the fortress interior.
It appears to not be endangering the public so I suppose i can leave it be for now. That and as an overseer, I do not know much about training a fuzzy killing machine.
We appear to also be running low on drink. This needs to be solved IMMEDIATELY. These people might sober up and realize that I am a terrible overseer! I must hurry and order more drink to be made.
Bad news. I couldn't figure out a way to open the fortress up to the migrants and they left. The dwarves appear to be suspending the new lever linkage for some reason. I am unsure why exactly. I may have to create a new way into the fortress to rectify this.
My predecessor, Lord Lemonpie, is currently detailing the walls of the king's new abode. At least he is doing as I instructed unlike the builders of the lever and the miners who do not listen to my mining designations.
15th Opal 556
Reports from the caverns indicate that there is a new ancient beast wandering around there. I am avoiding the caverns entirely for my term as overseer if possible. We have affairs closer to the surface to deal with and we do not need brand new affairs. Even if those brand new affairs are shiny and have that new apocalypse smell.
So far an uneventful season. Awaiting for my designations that I have put in place to be completed, yet the dwarves seem to be reluctant to carry out my instructions. Maybe I am just a bad overseer who cannot command their respect. Well, I suppose that the joke is on them. They picked me for this job after all.
In other news, Apiks has grown attached to his steel chainsaw. (Maybe it has grown attached to where his hand used to be and we have a new Ash Williams).
3rd Obsidian 556
Scout reports from the caverns indicate...something bad. I can't read this report. It's too charred.
Whatever it is, I can smell a waft of smoke all the way up to my desk.
15th Obsidian 556
These dwarves STILL are not following my instructions. I have a few tasks that require completion, but none seem to be up for even a simple task -- Even tasks children could handle!
Did these dwarves simply choose me because they knew they could ignore me? I am suspecting this to be the case. Progress is nonexistent and we have yet to be able to walk around outside and pick up the metal armor to the east a short distance. At least some of the engraved slabs I've made were placed. The fortress is now no longer haunted by 3 out of 4 ghosts.
24th Obsidian 556
Rith Lanirrimtar, our furnace operator, has been acting strange lately. My reports indicate that he has holed himself up in the magma forge and is letting no one use it until he finishes whatever he is doing.
As I was surveying the stockpiles, I came across a cage that smelled strange. Upon closer inspection, we have a dead panda inside one of the cages. What? ... Maybe Rand Paul needs a roommate. I bet he loves pandas.
This is interesting. I believe we have a murderer running around meditating on revenge. He is supposed to be the miner of the fortress and has yet to do any mining. He is just in the temple meditating about revenge. No justice report has been filed so there is not a lot I can do about it as the overseer. Though in this pile of justice reports, A lot of people have violated production orders left and right...most of them are dead now.
Thus ends the season of winter. Fairly uneventful yet I now know why the dwarves have been disobeying my orders. They were following the instructions of my predecessor to stay inside the burrow at all costs where my projects lie outside. More to come soon!
EDIT: Fixed Pictures
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