Dwarf Tales
A chronicle of dwarven fort Cloisteredlulled updated
Here are my notes of the events that are taking place in my dwarven fort. First two years are missed. The story starts with a fort of around 150-170 dwarves where military is waiting to be dressed properly after smiths are taught to craft masterworks and after there is enough steel to sustain the demands of military. There is one squad of hammerers and a squad of spearmen which is not too much. There is a lovely mayor necromancer ruling the fort. Literally lovely and very talkative
- survived two waves of artifact hunters, one ettin attack. Lost 50 dwarves already
- Arrived a human maceman with a codex and a scroll in his hands. Knowledge is power
- Medic created artifact silver spear of her name
- 30 dwarves were beaten after selling thrones that were embargoed
- Dwarven autumn caravan came. Had nothing to sell. been exponenting steel production. sold them 1 of 50 axes. was 20 percent of exports. bought wood, one book an couple platinum bars. And gypsum. This is a must. Will try to sell last-second elven pants. Cost another 20% of trades.
- My fort has been recognized and I recommended my necromayor to be a baron. Forgot about another social ladder willing dwarf. will have to wait.
- I have 18 forges. gotta get to the lava before I run out of wood
- For some reason a lot of dwarves are competent bowman. AND there is no elven civilisation in this world..
Turned out kitchen is empty. No food. Sent dwarves to gather plants while it’s still not winter
Killed two elk birds since they were too close to engravers and were scaring them heavily
Farmer and brewer found dead near fort entrance
Some necromancer visited our corpse stockpile. All skeletons turned alive. Perhpas it’s our mayor necromancer??
Also one ghostly swordsdwarf is in the fort
Dathan Logemthol Brewer dead, Olon Athelatul Bookkeeper dead, Cilob Fathushir brewer dead, Sigun Nikutilral speardwarf dwad
Yes, it was baroness necromancer who started. And got wounded seriously
dismiss from army: erush kokebtobul(maybe not-quick to heal), morul elbelgoden, vucar mozibmorul, mafol edimnish (barness, heavy damage), minkot ustuthtogal (militia captain) –leave for now, vucar dumarterith –actually recruited to marksmen from none, minkot rurastlogem –moved to marksmen: no hand but loves to fight, goden zolakerib
–saving–
Necro mayor died in hospital
Monom Kilrudeggut has become a mayor. Comedian, wounddresser, surgeon
Tekkud set as new broker. Retired from army
Found human scholar zombie in the library
Dig into 3 level of caverns with lava and adamantine. Will stay away for now
Goblin seige. Not huge but they have armour. My dwarves at most have chain leggings
I’m still out of food. Started pushing seeds into meals
Two marksdwarves fell asleep. Ghost stationed with my military. One of the dwarves grew attached to a hammer. Mayor issued ban on totem export. Waiting for goblin forces to enter fort. Drawbridge is yet to rise
4 dwarved dead. Winter has begun. Seige ended
– saved –
started doing armour. smith managed to do some mw armour.
Food partially solved. dwarves gathering fallen fruit in the winter outside
Giant echidna is around. Will become meat as soon as I equip armour to pike squad
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werellama came. bit 4 dwarves. In 1 month lost 20 more in the next werellama full moon transformation. Guess this is the beginning of the end of fortress
Artefact Marklaws revealed to human axeman. Up the bridge: Ettad Quazoote
third werelllama attack. 3 transforms: 110+ pop dropped to 55… Gotta track manually dorfs too brutal. just too brutal
Sorted dwarves. Around 5 are fresh and ready to go. Two-three are weathered military veterans. Rest are crippled and dying and children/bards
Put traps, tried to get some more armour. hospital is at capacity. stationed army.
migrants arrived: new recruits!
Forgotten beast arrived: 3eyed 8-legged lizard with deadly spittle
22 new migrants. Some nearly drowned trying to cross the river. Assigned full squads. They will not be on time to get equipment.
The door to hospital is jammed. It will be a massacre
Kafit Stamisha human bard revealed Marklaws to Eletha Pevoroqui the elf. One of the few remaining elves.. Waiting for the dawn to werebeast attack
6 llamas transformed. Not good. All in the medical quarters. They will eat the other crippled dwarves. Not too bad. If im lucky they will damage each other too. And the fancy all-in hospital weapon traps with MW mechanisms might do some business stpping llamas
One squad failed to stand ground and entered the room. Gotta wait for the traps to activate on llamas. The squad disobeyed and will pay
3 werellamas down? Yes they are fighting each other
The entered squad was the primary axemen. And they are alive yet. Gotta send help quick
Another llama dead while squads are rushing
Werellama mayor killed. New mayor elected! One werellama left
Downed. No militia lost in the attack
Llamas specialize in attacking my dwarves with socks. Tearing apart the flesh and crushing the bones.
Werellama mayor bit a spearman in the head. And he was dodging another llama in the meantime
Weaponsmith has been bitten too. Very not good. No more MW weapons for a while
One legendary miner bitten
Werellama engraver picked human bard and applied 3 dozen hits with the wool sock to his head. Human got no damage and went to rest after the fight. Probably praying to the socks on the way
Assigning newcomers to jobs
Have to reelect captian of the guard with the weakest dwarf to proceed with safe dwarven justice
- gelder is legendary tracker with 25 human kills
- two legendary stonecrafters. Both spearmen
Checked skills. assigned cooks, brewers and stonecrafters. Rest is TBD
Reassigned dwarved to normal life. Put 3 bitten ones into a squad and sent to attack giant echidna.
Giant Echidna is abslutely in the defensive. At least keeps werellamas outisde of the fort
Human bowman tries to get artefacts. All aboard. It’s one week before the full moon
3 invaders killed and one more elf bowman too. Elf managed to get a child and tear the guts of a swordman
Station. Waiting to chill and one week before full moon. Echidna is exhausted from 3 crippled dwarves punches
One more human in the tavern killed
Dwarves are kind of unhappy. Miasma is everywhere
Day X. 3 Werellamas in from of giant echidna. All dwarves are stationed and ready
Llamas killed the echidna. But spared each other. Did not enter the fort. Night ended. Will wait till the next month
Assigned one werellama to make coffins and another to make armour
One Domaz revealed artifact to another human. Crossbowman Tonul Stodadelku. Another massacre is inevitable
Now we have a ghostly werellama spearman around fortress. Gotta hurry with the coffins
Two more ghosts. 3*
Summer came. And another goblin seige. All aboard. Up the bridge. They will have to swim in the river before reaching entrance to the fort
There are several dozen of those at least. Gotta try my seige i guess
more than 50 counting with war dogs
70 with trolls
closer to 80 with 10 trolls and two dozen beak dogs. I guess that’s it
Will try to mess some of them with retracting bridge over the river. Success. First 5 dogs are on my side. Rest will swim i guess
Triggered stonefall traps. Now I don’t have any traps
They swim successfully. Bridge tricks are avoided
Marksdwarves are holding the fortified entrance gallery for now.
I’ve messed up with the trolls. They will likely destroy my doors now. Oops. Trying to command to build walls there.
Building started. Trolls are regrouping and gathering on my bank of river. Not good
Another presence of artifact revealed to Tonul again
At least the goblins are hesitating to cross water.
One more ghost
One wall block out of 3 is complete. Ogres advancing
Trade depot destroyed. Goblins passing the entrance gallery. Called all dwarves to defend the leak that troll is trying to organise
One miner became legendary. Assigned him to the seige ballista in the gallery. Hope it works. Otherwise chances are slim. Ogres are working with the door
At least the river stretched the goblins
Werellamas are transforming in 6 days
Seige operator decided to bring a stone from the far end of the fortress. Oh wow
One beak dog killed 3 my werellama dwarves before transformation
One door destroyed. One left
Microing the seige miner is no use. He is getting only deeper
Mayor has been reelected
Miner is getting there… There is a chance to score couple good hits. He got scared to see that many goblins through fortifications. That’s bad
Trolls got the last door. The time has come
Werellama transform. It is likely to do more harm now. Oh-ow. One of them is in the hospital and not on the frontline. Worst possible
Hospital werellama bled to death. Probably it’s the hospital weapn trap. Oh. NVM. It was another llama. Attacking the backline llama inside the military squads
We’re being kited. And surrounded. What a timing. And with a werellama in my workshop area
MASSACRE TIME
Population went from 75 to 30 dwarves. 4 military left. One able to move. 3 went to hospital full of miasma.
The mayor is worshipping. There are two goblin beak dogs running around the fort
I don’t believe this fort can be saved
All dwarves resting exhausted
Miasma everywhere. Especially in the tavern and in the hospital
Full moon coming. I have no idea how many infected werellamas are now in the fort
Two werellamas. Will that be the final nail?
Smithdwarf killed one werellama as if it was nothing
Now it’s 29 population including 9 kids and couple bards/monster slayers.
Will try to reassign labours again and see how it gets. For now it will be a closed gravedigger fort. At least I’ll have a hugeload of goblin and troll items for sale. Gotta build a depot though too
Will be another long round of doc update. At least now it s faster to list alive ones rather than the dead ones
Set all dwarves into miners-doctors-masons. Gotta make lots of coffins, dig new rooms miasma-free and try to heal patients
Alcohol is over. Dwarves started drinking water. We’re approaching the REAL doomsday
Migrants arrived. 8 of those. Plus some animal stock.
Dwarven child slipped into depression and got a task “Attend a meeting”. Or maybe the other way around
Hospital is still the most miasma-filled place. At least the rest of fort is clearing
Chief medic is in the strange mood. Another craftsman. Waste of mood
Some consort lady arrived to entertain my dwarves. At least something.
Assigned one dwarf to be a professional undertaker. Too many corpses
One day to next fool moon. It’s gonna be a disaster I guess. Gathering all military in one room
Doctor finished his masterwork cherry wood earring. yay.
Midnight. No werellamas. We’re through
They stopped building tombs. There is lots of coffins but nobody is making the tombs. Ghosts everywhere
They are too busy hauling body parts to other tombs . . .
Autumn has come. Missed summer trading due to unrestored trade depot
Another announcement of child depression. Same child. Which is good since he managed to get out of the previous one
Caravan arrived. Cancelled all coffins. Send the masons for an immediate trade depot. Done. With one unintended bridge built on the way
Spent almost an hour IRL checking all the trash manually to be pulled. Not sure dwarves will be able to pull the whole list before caravan departs. Perhaps for the next arrival. At least will clean most of the damaged clothes. Will make it easier to breathe. And there will be a huge traffic jam in the military-made entrance bottleneck
There’s lots of leather, some animals and cheese. Bought cheese in the first transfer.
Depressed child is throwing tantrum. Maybe cheese will help
And there is also tons of forbidden clothes from goblin seige. I guess i could trade the whole caravan with it maybe
Autumn migrants arrived.
Another ghost risen and haunting the fort. Oh wow. Now it’s.. five? Only five?? Also one of them is mother’s ghost that is haunting her child. Brutal and creepy
Migrants are mostly family-oriented. And two of them are dreaming of travels. Not the best life-goal when you’re a dwarf. Anyway five more undertakers and one newbie weaponsmith is fine
Nish child is posessed by ghost lasher and throwing tantrum. At least it’s a weak unarmed kid
Bought all caged lifestock. Items keep on being hauled
One undertaker is next to snapping. Assigned him a weaver. Perhaps will distract him a bit
Depressed weaver feels better after labour therapy
Trash is still flowing into the depot. Bought all leather. Now the rest will be mostly useless. Wonder if human caravan will arrive next year
Two ghosts been put to rest. Four left
Announcement that Oddomuvar has been made a country and mayor reelected appeared. No idea what is Oddomuvar. Not my fort at least
“Ghostly Axedwarf has been found dead”. Not quite sure I know what it means
Trading lasts for month already and dwarves keep on hauling the damaged clothing to the depot. Broker got hungry and left for some snacks
Another full moon. Broker went to sleep. No more trading for me. Full moon is peaceful. So good
More cavern mole dogs trapped into cages. More intruders semaphores at the entrance
Traders leave. Now we have some food at least. Failed to get gypsum plaster though. That’s very unfortunate considering a number of fighting going on
Forgotten Blob of Grime and Filth spitting webs appeared in the underground. That’s a bit unfortunate since it’s the top level that has one door passage to the fort. Guess we can deal with grime after all?
Meanwhile tantrum child Nish punches countess consort for a while. It helped.
One wannabe-undertaker was found in the caves cleaning blood near one ex-overly-curious-ex-dwarf. Unforbid the entrance to fort. Hope he can understand the hint. There’s two of them. *three. Plus forgotten beast. Shut the door in front of the beast. But he entered the fort anyway. Apparently there was a better way throught the multi-level z-holes. Army alert! First attack on a crossbowman is here. Also found uncovered exploratory holes to the cave. That beast can fly hence this amount of success.
Three copper pick blows by militia captain did the job. Losses: one eye and one undertaker leg badly injured.
The holes expalin the previous dragon too.
Gotta now gather plants while it’s not winter.
Also sad that after all that, the dwarves had no hold of the giant echidna meat
Kid Stukos slipped into depression. At least the burial is sped up. Getting rid of her helicopter ghost mother sould be at least a step to his rehab
Depressed kid Nish is attending a meeting with mayor. Wonder what is being discussed
Another full moon passed. Burial company is on the way. Sealing holes to caverns is on the way too
Kid Stukos slipped into depression again
A non-citizen bard got posessed with strange mood. Interesting. WHY ANOTHER CRAFTSDWARF??? WHY???
A beak dog bone buckler. Genius bard
Another ghost risen
Kid Nish posessed by ghost lasher is throwing a tantrum. Headed straight to my pasture and letting it all out on the yac cow. Then the yak bull. In the meantime kid Stukos lost sanity and started stumbling around obliviously. Yaks are surprisingly calm animals after all
Kid Stukos decided to play in the hospital still stacked with unburied bodies
Announce: A honey badger has stolen an apricot. Not the worst news anyway
Found out my water well was muddied. Assign dwarf to deepen it. Hope he will not sink underwater
One ghost child less
Artifact revealed to human crossbowman Tonul. Troupe Laconic Rains was denied application to stay in fort
Announce: stray cow has been missing for a week.. And another one too. Hope they are doing fine
Dead/missing list contains 447 names. Scary
Mayo dicided to ban export of shields. There is barely any in my fort tbh
Now it’s hors gone missing for a week. Something fishy is happening.
Built a pump to get rid of water to let my digger deepen the well
Legendary poet undertaker was chained. No idea why. Not the best time to chain an undertaker. Assigned her to be professional poet at one of the temples
Out goes pumped water. Straight through my main stairwell. Bathing time
Giant rat found in the bedroom area. Previously there was a giant bat shuffling around fort. There is definitely a leak somewhere from the caves
Operation well finished. For some reason there appeared a spattering of goblin blood on the walls under the pump. No idea
One kid grown to become adult. Great except she got some seroius battle wounds. Our new and currently only engraver. Graveyard will not smooth the walls itself
One more ghost less. Dwarf monster slayer necromancer is visiting. Decorated with human tooth amulets. Barehanded
Spring has come. Another ghost put to rest
Human crossbowman asks mayo to get marklaws. He says it is sought by Desli Prefectclears and he wants to return it home. Not sure if it is not made inside our fort. How would it get in there otherwise? I’ll give it to him and check the archive entries while he is not left. Trade with humans is a good thing overall. And there has been a lot of blodspill over it recently. Hmm, that human has human hair crown, turban and human bone jewelry. Canot find artifact’s origin. And it costs nothing. And it s a stupid cepter. I’ll let him have it. Note to self: it’ll be in ? - forgot. At least he left southwest
And it seems like graveyard is at capacity. No more new assignments to the newly-built tombs
Kid Stukos slipped into depression. Playing on the staricase.
Next big goal: dump all the corpses from the tavern before necro slayer dicided to resurrect them
A thief stolen copy of a book from the library. There are no library cards in the game. Perhaps that explains missing animals too
Migrants. Finally
Poet undertaker slipped into depression. Good thing he is already chained
23 migrants. Freed previous migrants from undertaker duties. Set current wave to finish the task. Rearranged crafts. Reintroduced all-arounders. Hopefully they will now have time to chain mole dogs from cages before they die of hunger. Assigned musicians to temples. My temple floor is still overly unpopular among dwarfes. At the same time population of human prophets is silently begging for another dragon arrival
Agreed to build farmer guild. Little to they know previous cast of farmer guild already asked for one. Gotta finish Mahogany Hall though
Turned out my underground corpse warehouse got overpopulated. Ordered to dig more. Meanwhlie a giant humanoid two-headed monster spawned in the surface. Got militia stationed at the entrance. Huge numbers overwhelming resulted in flawless victory
Restarted steel remelting exponentiating. Gotta start considering moving to the lava - coal is not infinite
Kid Stukos slipped into depression. Poet Eshtan too. Not sure when dwarfes will dechain him honestly
That kid Stukos is in heavy depression. There is 3 more years before he gets a right to labour. Poor dude
Kid Kikrost struck by strange mood. One more craftsdwarf and I will destroy this stupid workshop
Assigned a temple area to the cell with imprisoned depressed poet. Hope he could at least pray there. At least one human bard immediately came to pray in the new temple
Kid Kikrost made a wooden ring. Stupid growing elf-like kids
Got first lumber harves of an underground fungiwood dendrarium forest
Human trade caravan. It’s that time again
Depressed poet back to society. Highly happy to being able to cause trouble on the way back
Got some literature, lots of cheese and wood. One boar, one bear, couple mauls and paper for scribes
Done with trading. New migrants. It’s getting out of hand again
Guess I’ve also bought a grizzly bear since it’s somewhere caged. Gotta assign an animal trainer for that thing
Kid Stukos is having another episode
Assigned new broker. Old broker feels no longer depressed after improving broker skill and communicating with her deity. Back to body hauling then
One of the newcomers is a legendary butcher. Not butchering goblins in here but he is welcome anyway. Also he is grand master of negotiations. Another new broker
Meanwhile near the entrance stray dwarven prophet is chasing honey badger
Poet Eshtan is in tantrum. Armosmithing did not help. He found another poet and got into a fight. Other dwarves brought him to hospital after a brief dialogue. Mayo brought him to his cabinet for interrogation. Then released back to hospital
Poet put to the cage. Kid Stukos is close to be justiced too
Giantess appeared on the surface. Military might deal with her. All stationary and waiting for a giant emu chase to end. The chase ended up in the river. Emu crossed it while giantess refused to. And drowned. Not. She managed to cross the river and deal with the emu. Being over-exerted it might be a good time to get my military to advance. Dwarfes win. One wrist of a bookkeeper sacrificed
Will try to at least butcher an emu too
Troupe ‘Reputations of Genius’ asked to reside. Too sophisticated for the dwarfes.
And another goblin seige. Seems like no trading this fall. At least I have some time before water freezes to wear them down a bit 22 Trolls 20 Beak dogs 20 Goblins
If not for Trolls I’d call this somewhat not too bad. Opossum is overcome by terror
One kid grew up to become an adult. I’ll wait a bit before assigning him to military
Invaders split. Goblins and dogs stay stationary. Trolls are split into two groups and forcing a river from two locations. Interesting. Perhaps they will wait till winter. Meanwhile legendary kid is taunting them on this side of a river.
The invaders caught a bard.
Will try to taunt them with a drawbridge. The farm animals are breeding like crazy
Got six goblins in the water with dogs. Two trolls on my side. One is metal armored. Attack went fine. One dwarf is damaged.
Human scholars are fleeing with my library
Kid stukos is back on it again.
3 more trolls split from the group to my bank. Miscoordination within the squads. One recruit is down
The inaders don’t attack human scholar Goto Thefinala. Wonder if he is a spy.
3 more trolls on my bank. And one dwarf failed to get back in time. He flees for his life which is good
Recruit Vabok posessed by fey mood. What a time! Stupid carpenter elf-mimic.
Flawless attack on 3 trolls. Goblins are piling on the other side.
And forgotten beast spawned in the caves. Winged steam blob. At least he is locked in the bottom cave without access to the fort
Another round of bridge manipulation. And human prophet with a scholar are launching from behind the goblin stack to the fort
Bridge cycle. Two goblins in the water, one on my bank. Goblins are dealt with. But spawn of dwarves caused a hail of arrows from the other bank. Also trolls are forcing the water for a melee attack. Recruit Vabok created Ungegshin coffee wood bin. At least not a coffin.
Trolls down, goblins down. Now it’s dwarfes’ turn to do stupid stuff: they force the water and attack the goblin pack. Guess it’s time to lower the bridge and go battle royale. There’s not too much left after the sniper duel.
No attackers left. Also one echidna was downed in the heat of fight. The attack was nearly flawless. Military excercises 50% of the year definitely paid off. And we might be in time for dwarven trading caravan
Just noted that human scholars can also write at my library. How nice of them
Freed depressed poet Eshtan from all duties. He went to the temple
Lord Consort is visiting. He is carrying codex named “Elements of the Goblin”. Description says the writing is cruel
He first wen to the library. Then to the general purpose temple near the canteen
Kid Stukos is there again
Assigned newly grown-up Stukos Bekarbesmar to being a professional peasant
Depressed Eshtan is worshipping all over the fort
Militia Captain is socializing with a caged wild boar in the tavern
For some reason my wood-loving workers refuse to chop down the trees in the tree farm
Tun Givishlal baron consort if visiting. All soaked in water and with a Troll horn crown on the head
For some reason found a statue of a dwarf on the bed in the tavern dormitory
Forgotten blob of steam decided to fight magma crab. Was fun. Nobody got hurt
Woodcrafter started doing masterworks.
Winter came. Will try to dig out whatever loot is frozen in the reiver. Also start to dig the defensive water moat.
Blueprinting the future move to lower caverns and magma.
Deassigning all the undertakers. Mainlty into miners. One of them has a warhammer strapped to himself, hence he cannot equip a mining pick. Will make him a brewer then - he dreams of mastering a skill and mastering mining might have been the easiest path.
After all it’s time to admit that the tavern is cleared from the corpses after all. Stil some leftover clothing and spatters of blood. But it’s nothing causing bad thoughts
Performance troupe “The Hegemons of Confederation” visiting
Migrants arrived
Spread migrants. Finally filled glazer. Refreshed military. Assigned couple newbie lashers
Countess Counsort joined as a citizen. Gave her a top tier bed and freed from duties. She says she wants to pray more.
And we’re out of booze again. Sent all to gather plants. Thanks to founders there are leftover berries even though it’s winter
Another troupe, Tulips of Dignity visiting. No booze, dudes
Found high-ranked goblin armour in the frozen river. It will be flooded back again when it’s time to sell it sadly
Forgot there are no planters in my fort except for a volunteering kid. Trying to fix it. Hopefully will have enough brewery before disaster
Butcher has been posessed. Aaaand it’s … another stupid craftsdwarf. Building a forge next to the bedrooms
Poet Eshtar is back into depression. Now it’s spiced up by having to drink bad water. Turned out i forgot to abandon old water puddle as a proper water source
Dumed Igathkadol the butcher created Zesbomrek, an apple wood bracelet. Stupid elf-loving-tree-carving
One bard received citizenship and sent to the farming fields.
Booze crisis has passed
Also forgotten beast Ulash the 8-legged lizzard is chilling in the bottom caves
Mayo banned selling of shields again
Another tree-felling event. Looks like for some reasons all the woodchoppers have the same military training parity
A monster slayer asks for a residence. Dwarven spearman hauling 3 codexes in his hands. And no spear. You are welcome, guest
One cheeseloving dwarf took a cheese roast to his bed and did a whoopsie. Now neighbouring bedrooms are miasma-contaminated. One cheeseloving mayor
Note to self: rivers start to thaw out on 16th and end on 18th Granite(March) and is frozen by 14 Timber (November)
Dwarf monster slayer necromancer is visiting. Hope he will not notice a corpse pile near the entrance
Poet Eshtan is depressed again. Now it’s about sleeping in miasma. She is standing in mayo’s bedroom with an urge to attend a meeting. Waiting
Checked kid Stukos. His bio says he feels satisfied about crying at somebody in charge. 20 times. Still not enough to cure his state
Mayor woke up and went away. Poet is still attending a meeting
Goblin poet Gozru visited my animal farm and punched some kettle. He does not want to do this again probably. Now he is running around babbling
More rotten cheese. Now it’s in the kitchen. Moved cheesemaking into a separate room
Spring migrants arrived
Only 9 migrants. NOteworthy is one of them who is bad at anything. And another who wants to achieve high social rank and pretty lousy at anything too. Also one is a lasher, two are mace-dwarves which is uncommon
Started sorting weaponry. Found there is an artifact morningstar Zextuxxu near a skeleton in the caves. Not made in my fort too. Will give it to my mace-squad captain
By coincidence found a maceman poet Sibrek neat the entrance to the cave sleeping in front of the giant cave toad corpse
Stock menu shows there are way more trophy equipment items than I’ve thought. One noteworthy is a ramie cape that when posessed by a werellama dance was a weapon to kill six dwarves in the tavern. What an artifact
Suspicios amount of cheese roasts been spawned in the metalworking floor
Another brewery crisis. Will try to arrange more underground farms for simple still fill.
Dwarfes started driking river. Ordered digging more wells. Also create a pump to pump out the water to deepen water source for the wells
Doren Nosigoddom the dungeon master and the potter taken by strange mood. I have bad expectations. At least it’s a masonry
River drinking problem is getting out of control. SUmmer has come. I hope for the trade caravan
Dungeon Master created a msterwork statue Tegirkat Ertal Ushdish. A statue of Forgotten Beast Omo striking down a dwarf. Nice, though no skill imprinted on her
Changed a broker to the dwarf with appraiser skill. Not comfortable watching at items without knowing its price
Alco crisis is getting worse: not only dwarves dring river but it has started raining too
A caravan!!! Ordered all the stuff there including king elf and king goblin equipment
Forgotten beast: A huge hairy wasp with two hornes Ene with poisonous sting. Isolated in the bottom caves though
New mayo elected: Ushrir Rigothsiknug. Waxworker and legendary butcher from the previous year summer newcomers
Traded some drinks, fruits for brewery, couple animals, couple alu blocks, books. No cheese though. Also got a caje with a giant roach. Wonder if it could be trained as a war animal.
Turned out my cooks had a permit to use drinks for food preparation. Hope with this mistake corrected we will not have drink problem anymore. Now the dwarfes will brew tomatillos, carrot, turnip and what not. Guess back to normal life. Also cleaned up the entrance and can bring back the doors and the painhall
No migrants this summer
Kid Stukos seems like getting better. Poet Eshtan is not. He is worhipping instead of praying. And in the wrong temple
Bottom layer forgotten skinless pterodactyl is in the bottom caves. Will open the caves after I move to the lava floor and REALLY ramp up the metalsmithing industry
Giant roach appeared to be just large roach. Will butcher it
There is a human lady consort in my fort and she shared some rumors. I don’t know how to read the rumors though yet
Another case of being grown attached to an axe
A pile of vomit in the tavern. Covering two books on the same time. Interesting
Found human caravan guards under the water. Not sure I’ll be in time to save them. Chance it will result in human seiges too
Somebody brought a dead dog’s body from the goblin seige to mayor’s cabinet.
I’ve released a roach from the cage. Tried to assign my speardwarfes to fight it. Turned out it’s too much of a vermin for that thing. Hoping for the cats now. And it got a status ’tamed roach’ meanwhile too
Seems like guards managed to get out of the water. One scholar and one phophet cannot do so yet. And there’s salmon in the water. Not sure if it’s as dangerous as a carp
Forgotten towering beakless martin with deadly blood has come to the top caves. Might enter the fort. Will watch it. Yes, it’s moivng towards the entrance to the fort. Thanks for showing another hole that needed patching. First blood’s on the beast - damaged bookkeeper. Hope no deadly blood got onto the dwarfes. Rest of the fight mob rules
Started training a war elephant and taming another bear
Put a deadly ramie cape to an exposition in the tavern. For some reason my dwarfes refuse to wear artifact wooden jewelery
Bard and lady consort were caught by a forgotten beast Lathi the skinless pterosaur. Now he is chasing another bard giving time to assemble the army. Was not fast enough to patch that hole. And he found a way to the top level cavern too.
Beast trapped my legendary musician swordsman too. Well, full attack mode then. The beast has an advantage in the tin corridor. Not good. It cost me 13 dwarfes. A whole big wave of migrants equiv. Two weaponsmiths, brewer, scribe-bookkeeper and external two-handed swordman among most damaging.
I was wrong about the hole. There must be another one then
Troupe “The Immoral Sockets” tried to settle in the fort. Not allowed. They started punching a giant peach-faced lovebird to death
Poet Eshtan started fighting. Kicked visiting scholar in the jaw in the temple. Not sure what to do
A new goblin seige arrived in the autumn. It killed another lovebird and retreated I guess
A human monster slayer weaponised with a codex and a quiver asked to stay. Cannot say no
Potter went missing for no visible reason. Dwarven caravan arrived
Arrived liason arranged a meeting with a mayor and decided to wait for him to wake up in his bedroom
Dwarf Catten the traveller drowned in the well. Have to put walls around the water
Poet Eshtan got beaten badly. Assigned a burrow in his favourite temple that he needs the most. Perhaps will draw his attention
That weird goblin poet is still running around my farm in histeria
Someone stolen a reindeer a week ago
Oddomuvar has been made a county with the surrounding lands. Cool. Getting a dwarf from the bottom of the well is not an easy task btw
No migrants this fall too
Somebody stole an elephant from my tavern. No kidding he is a pro
Mason Shem withdraws from society in a strange mood. And he claims mason’s workshop. What a nice guy he is
Another dwarf drowned trying to get the already drowned out of the water. It’s getting ridiculous
Caught couple emus in the wild. Started taming them
Mason Shem created a masterpiece bed Kudirid and she does not even claim it hers. And that’s how I got a legendary mason
Admin got attached to silver spear. Bad choice
Hillocks of Reinwork the fort has been founded nearby. We need to grow our presence near the goblin capital
A rat corpse found in the well as well. It’s getting not better. Also some wine is there too
Stopped military duty in order to clean up the drained wells sooner
Seige time. Winter, I don’t have river as a defensive structure. One of the dwarfes is pulling a cage with a caught emu into the fort
One guard dog is down. Hope guard grizzly bear will give enough time for the cage-bearing bard to get behind the fortifications
One drowned dwarf appeared defending the archery burrows. Apparently he did not drown. Yet he is weaponless and armorless for some reason. For some reason he is also a captain of my elite hammerdwarf squad too
70 invaders already within the vision. Actually 125 this time around. 20 trolls, 20 dogs, lots of ranged, lots of armoured.
They split into two groups: one at the edge of the map, another at the closed retracting bridge. Will wall off and try to split them even further with my entrance atom-smashing-retracting-bridge
Troll toppled my hive
Trolls and beak dogs advancing somewhere
Hillocks of Soldmined founded to the southwest. Hope they are not the next target after my fort falls
First controlled leak to the fort of 4 beak dogs took quite a long to be dissolved. Also cost some fat on the unprotected hand of one of the dwarfes.
Four trolls are dealt with for the price of one wounded newbie
One axeman witha codex asked to stay. Cannot deny, he is legendary. Codex is titled “Unusual Leisure”
Goblin scholar, goblin dancer and goblin poet are trying to excape my fort all bearing books and codexes. Wonder how exterior goblins will greet them. Anyway, rearrange military and settle down before the next leak
Thanks to the birds the seige side wasted a good lot of bolts that are stuck in the trees now. Also: poor cardinals. It’s the only source of food and fun for the 100+ goblins now
Four more trolls down
Legendary poet gemcutter axeman reg drowned in the well. Same well. Why whould he? Back to the pumps though
Goblins kill all the potential visitors be it scholars, bards or priests.
And it’s the right time for a lord consort to pay a visit to the fort, what a legend! The goblins are on him. No way to save that poor dude. He had a book on art in his hand. One bard escaped by climbing the tree nearby
Opened the door not being fully ready trying to get some attention of the goblins near the lord consort. What a race! Several scholars, trolls, lord consort and a pack of beak dogs rushed into the opened gates. Consort made it the first, then couple scholars and immediately 6 trolls. Will try to stop the inflow here. Trolls got into the fort and targeted poor Poet Eshtan. Cannot imagine him surviving this. He died with a happy thought caused by improving his crossbow skill. Indeed he managed to get several good headshots before being cought ad outnumbered. Just moments after the army appeared near his body
After dealing with those trolls the army rushed to the othe rpart of the action appearing just in the nick of time to save lord consort. However the trolls killed goblin dancer who was holding a hand written by himself about himself. Autobiography of his early years being an apprentice of another goblin dancer. Prose is not awful but not very good either. What a seige!
During this encounter a bypassing prophet helped the military by biting the troll thus damaging his guts. Lord consort defended by nunching the troll in the fifth toe tearing apart the hair and bruising the fat through large troll fur shoe
Outside goblin marksmen hunting giant eagle
Break, luring corpses from the wells
The Hillocks of Lashchewed was founded halfday southeast of my fort and incorporated into my holdings. No idea what to do with this holding. Go-go dwarven civilisation anyway
The dead taken from the well. Forbidding their belongings for now. Let the well fill with water again. Back to the seige
3 goblins are trapped in my animal crossing cage traps.
One dwarf baron consort of Lulledringed been killed by goblins near the edge of the map.
Another round. Opened the drawbridge. Luring more attackers inside. One human poet managed to squeeze through too.
And now back to the war crimes: goblin maceman killed a kitten. Outside goblins killed an ibex. Kitten has been revenged. Maceman managed to damage visiting scholar before that too. Number of invaders has dropped below 90 at this point
Two beaten visiting scholars are not heading to the hospital but wander around my barracks fr some reason. Whatever. Launching new wave
Hammerdwarf miner Ustuth drowned in the well. Here we go again. And another hammerdwarf is drowning nearby. What a time! Sarvesh drowned
Someone left a giant bat liver roast in the scholars dorm and it got rotten. Reminds me of my university years
Opened another round. Well pumps are still working. Corpses are on the way to being cleared. Opened additional graveyard (corpse stockpile) to decrease the efforts of dwarves hauling dead enemies.
Bonecarver Zefon got posessed. Another crafts incoming. Heavily dislike.
Goblins don’t rush the fort. Trolls do though. Based on goblins seige camp location they will learn spring ice thawing the hard way
While dealing with trolls inside a goblin mercenary engaged in a fight with seige goblins. At least he tried
After leaving the well pump Tosid the Hammerer went straight into the water and drowned
Hillocks of Bankpaddles was founded one day west from me and incorporated into my holdings. Nice. Except for there’s 1k goblin fort to the west of me too
Farmer Zefon gone missing
Corpse retreival success. Hope for the best from now on
Bone carver created a legendary bone figurine of dwarf Nish - Resirdeduk Icamvucar. A historic event of raising a dwarf queen in the year 1 is carved in the reindeer bone. Did not make me a legendary bonecarver sadly
From now on troll’s tooth is an emplem of my fort. Hauling it one by one is something that took the most time for the dwarfes
Suddenly all goblins vanished. Couple trolls and caged ones left on the map. Victory in the battle, bu the war goes on.
Upcoming: another year of corpse-hauling
It all starts with a soldier dwarf in the well. Armorer Sarvesh. That’s it. I’ll seal this well and dig another one.
Eureka! It was a well near the training grounds. So military dwarves trained dodging accidentally fell into it
Hillocks of Oildnames found half day to the soouthwest
Spring came. One prophet found dead frozen in the ice. Note to self: build a water damb to rescue drowning in the river
And for some reason the second pump does not work now
Migrants arrived. Arranged good replacements for crafty dead ones: weapon, armour, stone and blacksmithing. Two wrestlers came with combined 49 kills and no experience with weapon handling from Axemoral. This is a brutal place based on migrants. Also one schlar dreaming of creating a discovery arrived too. Put him into axe squad. And a kitten
Performance troupe “The weak wickidness” arrived. I accidentally let them join. Meet two goblin dancers, elf and human poets
Mason constructed a masterpiece bridge
Did drawing of deepfort new bedroom floor
Troupe Reputations of Genious is visiting: two goblin dancers. Ba-dum, tsss
Mayo banned export of shields
Luth the human pet mausoleum zombie visiting a fort. My civ got general familiarity training emus
When suddently came summer and another seige. Leaded by a troll crossbowman. All the attackers have table-cut-gems encrusted armour with engraved black devil - the symbol of that goblin civilization.
This attack came from south which is unusual. Major cities of goblins are locate to the west.
This time there are about 130 attackers with about 20 trolls and 20 war dogs. First wave dealt with nicely. One marksdwarf managed to keep aggression of two trolls without injuries dodging their attacks and wasting all his bolts counterattacking. He had to revert to using crossbow bluntly when help arrived. Ordered to decorate his bedroom with best furniture stockpiled
Three trolls climbed a tree to get to the hiding goblin dancer. And they did
Another wave dealt with. One troll is still cosplaying elves. Six goblins were launched into the air by a drawbridge as a warning too
One dwarf was injured. Carpenter-hammerdwarf Vabok got head skin damaged after he tried to participate in a bite-match against a beak dog
Another goblin bridge salute. This time the projectiles ended in the river. That’s when mayor was re-elected
This wave damaged one of the sworddwarfes. Goblin lasher hit precisely in the unprotected body parts
The elven troll is the seige leader Oso Xoxooxdu the crossbowman
Damaged dwarf was a rookie. Well, he aint gonna jump no more, poor soul. Doctor did surgery to repair compound fracture. Then returned back to digging new bedrooms in the lava horison
Simin human scholar profane stalker is visiting. Goblin maceman is trying to attack the stalker. Nope. Not interested
One disobedient dwarf got lured out of the fort and is now dead. Bad for him and the rest of the dwarfes too
And another kitten death. Overly curious creatures
Also one goblin managed to sneak deeper into the fort and beat badly a couple of dwarfes. One will be retired from the military due to it. Miner Kivish died soon after it too
One Fath the swordsdwarf decided to visit the fort. Goblins caught him halfway. He fought hard and entered a martial trance while beating the goblin mob. Unfortunately having two parchment scroll rollers as weapon helped him to crush way less bones than a proper weapon might have. You will not be forgotten. I’ve ordered a statue that will be placed in the library
Also my manager was damaged too, although he is not in the military
One dwarf fell into a strange mood. What’s even stranger is that he is listed as dead in my notes. Which means someone else is dead. And this one has claimed a craftsdwarf’s workshop. Useless dwarf
Meanwhile a statue of Fath the warrior of knowledge has been completed. On the statue is Fath Mouthplanks stealing a codex from the Smooth Bastion. It might have been a goblin bastion after all, so I’ll keep it anyway
This toothhauling business is driving me mad. Forbid all the teeth on the battleground
Genius posessed Etur has created a legendary cow bone mini-forge! Now the kids will have two toys in the fort. First one is a toy boat. This one has meanacing spikes of gold sticking. Luxury
Opened the gates. Troll leader is heading in with his squad. The squad approached the lowered drawbridge. Troll entered the bridge and commanded the squad to regroup with the other squads before entering. What a tactician! Tempting to launch him into the air. Gave a command to raise the bridge and that instant he rushed in with his mercenary goblins. They are in. Rest are out. Also couple scholars and a ghost scholar came in too
Goblin discipline is astounding. They stay and wait for their leader Oso the troll to destroy doors. Being a building destroyer he just cannot resist the urge. Even though there is a wall behind the door
This troll is all business. In the meantime a goblin bowman survived an atom smasher - the dwarbridge on his head. Impossible
The Oxo squad is impressive. They even hold the marksgoblins in the back
And then a dwarf comes to greet them. Now I’ll have to strike in a hurry. Managed to cancel his order. He stopped just outside Oxo squad reach. My forces gathered behind the gate. Gate opened. Silence. Not a movement. They see the traps and don’t want to fall there. I’ll have to attack first. The tanks, the dd’s: just a lesson in holding grounds. They injured my dwarves and all my mob cannot pass through armored frontline. What a fight
Goblin crossbowgoblin scored a good shot on my chief medical dwarf. Perhaps that’s the end of his military career too. Speargoblin stabbed my chief medical dwarf in the lung. Then he managed to stab my medic in the toungue with a spear. True mastery. Another crossbowgoblin managed to bite my chief medical dwarf in the foot. They seem to target him all together
Very brutal fight. Hope my medic survives at least. The good news is that there are only 80 attackers left
Well scored another victim. This time it was a visiting prophet. Also a couple of unidentified human corpses are found there too. Pumping miasma
Hegemons of Confederation the troupe is visiting. A fort’s hammerer, the weakest dwarf has drowned during drying out the well. This well has cost more lives than the seiging evil force
Zefon the ghost has risen. Trying to force his immortalisation on the graveyard.
Tried to fix the wells with a series of stairs that will not interfere with bucket business
Now a child is playing in the dry well. He sure likes extreme as he stays there while it’s filling
Zefon the ghost farmer was memorised by a slap. I mean slab. Now it’s time to get back to war. And the seige is over again. I’ve missed that point when all the attackers left the region
Rotten onion roast in the scholars dorm. Oh, memories
I think I’ll dig a couple graveyards in the murder-entrance-hall. My toothhauling dwarves are too busy hauling the bodies around. Would not be nice if a necromancer sees that mess. I can foolproof this with doors. No way a necro comes with a building destructor
After the gates opened visitors rushed in, dwarves rushed out. Notably Nish Medtobeshim who ran outside without any assigned task just for fun it seems
A caravan! Just in time. Will have a buyer for all the dropped troll armour
Immoral Sockets are visiting again: 3 goblin pets who swam theri way into my fort
In the meantime autumn cleanup resulted in finding an elephant. Dead in his cage. In the tavern.
Current most stressed dwarf is a scribe. Not sure why
A kid Bembul that liked to play in the dry well has grown to become a legendary woodcrafter.
Checked dwarfes on a vacation. They seem to improve their condition mostly
Marked digging deep hspital and a well for items dropping for moving. Gotta design deep water well and deep pastures
While dragging stuff from aboveground a countess consort Urdim got into a fight with a giant peach-faced lovebird. She punched it with her book “For the love of the composition” till exertion. Then she regained conciousness and killed the animal.
Wine roasts got rotten in the tavern and in the bedrooms. Dwarfes not happy
Kar the Human Criminal is visiting. Never had that before. At least he is not armoured
Migrants came. Small wave of 9 migrants. Got a new weak hammerer. Also couple miners and engravers. One dwarf that is extraurdinally untalented who still wants to make a masterpiece
Kid Zas is still playing near the river under the rain. I’ve called him RiverKid
Stodir dwarf monster slayer necromancer is visiting. Gotta cleanup the training ex-goblins before he passes by
Traders are delaying with their leave. Perhaps because a diplomat cannot get off from the tree? I’ll try building stairs for him. Or should I chop it? The trader is a dwarf, so I’ll try the boring method. And there the merchants leave without a diplomat. Nasty goblins, cause so much trouble. Diplomat left his tree when he saw the building site developing. Now he’s on to a meeting. Discussed trading. They like our legendary bne rings and amulets
Elephant corpse started to rot in the tavern. Who would have thought?
Great vent channel is done. Will teleport stuff from top to bottom through it. Wonder how many dwarfes will teleport too. It’s 115 levels high. Guaranteed to die from heart attack on the way down
Edok the fishcleaner the newly-arrived engraver is posessed by a strange mood. Stupid craftsdwarf
Oddomuvar and surrounding lands have meen made a county. I guess it’s me. Also nobless screen says it will take 5k of offerings to become a capital. Totally doable. Gotta dig if it’s worth it. Update: probably not yet
Fishcleaner made a stone amulet Adilungob Gasis Goves with an image of Nish Gearburn - no idea who she is. Also no promotion for Edok.
Ordered to build a dwarbridge inside a river. Will try to control its flow in case someone worthy is trapped in it.
Started putting magma forges to the bottom floor
Found two human bards on a tree. Assorted gender. Not sure if they like it or not yet. I’ll build a stair under them just in case they need it. One of them is upset.
Stairs are built. One of the bards turned out to be a crossbowman. Now the couple is split. One is gathering plants and another is in the Training Session. On the tree. And unhappy
Continuing arranging bottom floor to a new fort. Finished underwater drawbridge to rescue trapped in the stream.
Arranged clothing industry orders.
Goblin dancer ghost appeared in the temple.
Spring underwater bridge test revealed ne dwarf that was frozen into the river. And one dwarf kid Dastot came to spectate it and got trapped underwater. The first rescue mission is underway. And migrants arrived
The day starts with a prophet and a piligrim drowning under the river. And the kid Dastot is not drowning. He is just playing on a half-dry river floor waiting for the water to fill it. And all that on top of two goblin corpses. Kids are evil no matter the race. At least he feels uneasy about it
One dwarf collapsed from over-exertion during military training. Depressed cook cannot pray on a temple vacation for some reason
Migrants: two legendary musicians, one alpaca and a future tavern keeper. One of the dwarfes has the most non-dwarven name: Cog Larber.
Piligrim and prophed drowned. Kid is not scared by a flowing river. Finally he left because of thirst
Caught one cook dwarf gathering a lettuce leaf himself to cook it with yak cheese. Haute cuisine
TODO: add grates to the river to ease catching corpses and loot in winter
Arranging stockpiles in the bottom. First minecart-teleport-hole products started appearing
Sending dwarfes to a vacation by unassigning them from work does not work. It only makes their dissatisfaction greater. Gotta invent something
For some reason the outside of my fort is covered with puddles of prickle berry wine. This looks like a riot against it in the fort. There are like 30 tiles covered with it
Good news: nobody has drowned in the well for aboout a year already
One dwarf Amost is standing in the pool of wine under the rain outside without assigned job and is starving. Wonder how to motivate him. On closer inspection he is hauling enough plants to feed a fort for couple months alone. Perhaps he is overloaded. Forbidding stuff he was hauling did not help. Only ordering his military squad to regroup did have a visible effect. Will try to station the squad on the food stockpile to make him dump his hauled stuff. Before stationing he decided to trow a copper axe to the lava smelter. By forbidding the axe he moved slowly to grab a backpack and as soon as he got one he threw all his hauled veggies to the ground and happily proceeded to the squad. Weird. Weird and dedicated
Note to self: sell all cheese. It is rotting like mad
Kid bembul the one who played in the well claimed one separate bedroom for himself. There are three dozen worn clothes pieces on his bed. His neighbour prefers to stok prepared food in the coffer
Amost is stuck again where she stopped. Health-wise she is in mint condition
Shem Tosidshameb lord consort is visiting. He scared a giant echidna while passing by.
The river is flooding back slowly. Only at half capacity after a month
Shem consort is discussing blood vessels in the library
Trying to do a nice stockpile management
Destroyed all workshops in the upper deck. This is the begining of official magma migration
Bard Dobar has been posessed by a strange mood. He is not a citizen but is welcome to proceed anyway. Unless he does something useless. Descending down to the magma floor as tension rises. He took a craftsdwarf’s shop. Stupid dwarf
Immobile Amost became drowsy and thirsty. Ordered her squad to regroup in the hospital. That’s when she moved to the library dormitory and fell asleep on the bed. Weird creatures those dwarfes
Found another immobile dwarf with a dwarf pus covering on his head. Now it’s Atir the manager. It’s a sign of an infection. Amost does not seem to have any though. At least Atir managed to go on after I’ve forbidden the block he was hauling
Another bard dwarf got a citizenship. Dreaming to make a masterwork. Will assign him as a cook
Turned out the immobile dwarf was assigned into a burrow and left it. Not knowing how to survive she just stood where she was ordered to. Wish I resolved this by moving the squad back to the temple where she would have gained mobility again
Started a new magma-level taver called “The Dumpling of Machines”
A thief has stolen a manuscript “Interpretation of Snodub Hellguards”. Thieves are not good but books are somewhat fine to be stolen
Bard Dobar created a legendary cow bone chest Idmostod Cenathokon. Weak stuff with toad leather. Also no promotion
A dozen dwarfes rushed outside in sync to gather acorns. It’s the human citizenised bard standing on a ladder throwing them to the ground, hence the fuzz
Caravan has arrived. My fort is living off selling invader’s clothing and bonecrafts. Brutally dwarfy
Bought some fruits for brewing. Speaking of which, we’re running out. And there were only two barrels in the caravan. Final hope for the dwarven fall caravan
Miners guild the Cavernous Company asked for a guildhall. I already have one named The Sienna Spine-Torquioise. Now I’ll have to engrave it to look pretty
Mayo banned export of shields while some dwarfes were hauling them to the trade depot. Not sure if they will be punished
Migrants wave arrived. Refreshed my fort cooks. Not it’s 4 cooks with no skill. Also got one great addition to my mail hammer squad. And one skilled lasher. Reformed military to use breastplates instead of chain mail
Ranger guild The Guild of Sqamps requires a own guildhall: The Crow of Scales
Dwarf beast hunter necromancer is visiting.
Opened a cage with a trained black bear. It is wallowing in misery. That’s what is called living in a dwarven tavern. I’ll chain at the entrance to the farm
Another warrior with a scroll instead of a sword visiting. This one has an artifact cat bone greaves on him
Started carving rail tracks for the effective stockpile management
Todo: Pile for coffins
Todo: one more ani trainer