Distanceclasps - Year 3

1st Granite.

By the order of my king, I have arrived in this hellforsaken hole in the ground, for the sole purpose of turning this around. I'm not sure who was in charge of this place before me, because they ran off before I could find and str

angle them. Clearly incompetent. Time to get to work. Practically everyone has the job of doing everything, except for the miner's, so my first step will be to assign people to the job they should be doing.

11th Slate

I've ordered a new shaft dug down to the farms, and that has been completed - no more running through the caverns for my farmers. We've also made great progress on new coffins for all the poor dwarves killed by the last administrator. We're also ramping up in our craft manufactoring, for the next caravan to arrive

24th Slate

Can't even believe this right now. I just discovered that the main shaft into the depths is carved into what appears to be where all our drink is currently stored. I shall be fixing that as my highest priority.

6th Felsite

A bit late on this journal entry, forgive me my King. I was dealing with a large influx of immigrants that arrived, which doubled our numbers. We have also had another artifact created, though I'm not exactly pleased with our surgeon now being a legendary miner.

19th Felsite

An Elven caravan has arrived! Even though I hate the stinky treehuggers, their wares will be welcome.

23rd Hematite

More migrants! There's only 7 more, but frankly, we can use everyone who comes. That said, they all seem fairly useless, so I guess they'll all go into the military for now. The bears we go from the elves won't hold off everything.

18th Galena

Well. The Human caravan finally arrived. Unfortunately, so did a bunch of gobl

ins. Lets see what's left after this is all over... Luckily, it seems that the human guards are more competent than my own, and drove off the goblins without loss. Time to trade!

28th Timber

The dwarven merchants finally arrived with some much needed wood. Next time around it seems they want tanned hides and windows most of all.

5th Obsidian

Not much to report these days, as thankfully everthing has been running fairly smoothly. The militia still refuses to train properly though, and I keep on having people run off into the caverns and getting themselves offed, so I've ordered the entrance into the cavern forbidden. I'm not even sure what it is we wanted from there, so blocked it is.

13th Obsidian

I spoke too soon. It is a VERY good thing that I ordered the caverns shut off though, as the Forgotten Beast Yonali showed up. Quite frankly, I want nothing to do with it, and I'm leaving by the end of the month. Someone else can deal with this.

16th Obsidian

While we were trying to wall off the entrances, instead of the door's I had available, the beast decided to invite itself in. May Armok save us all.

24th Obsidian

I have no idea how, but our inept militia actually managed to kill the beast. Unfortunately, there's also a bunch of goblins outside as well. I've ordered the drawbridge raised - I will have to make my escape some other way before this place is the death of me.