-11- [Spearsold] (2) Orders received: prepare for !!WAR!!

Journal of questionquality, the Record Keeper

Granite
I just arrived at this thriving, neat fortress. For some reason, though, the therapist has arrived yet, so I'll have to take over his duties myself.
The place isn't without a few flaws, though. The pit is sealed off by doors only. Probably on request of the masons, we'll let them be, but Armok eat me if that won't cause trouble in the future. The courtyard was also completely open wide! I've decided to seal it off immideately, with a roof if possible.
And the lever to the main gate (the bridges over the pit) is also just 2 tiles away! I'll move that.
Giant black magpies outside. The whole bird-creature thing isn't false. Too bad all of our spears have been sold, or I'd personally have invented a spear-thrower!
I heard something about eventual undead. I'm having the dwarves gather corpses outside as well, then, so there' won't be a whole potential army waiting...

More migrants! Say hello to: Atír the marksdwarf, Kib the marksdwarf, Iden the axedwarf, Id the Hammerdwarf and Engraver, Udil the Macedwarf , ùshrir the Marksdwarf, Dastot the Speardwarf, Tobul the swordsdwarf, Momuz the Speardwarf, Tosid the Marksdwarf, Ast the Swordsdwarf, Ilral the Swordsdwarf, Dôbar the Axedwarf, Lorbam the speardwarf, Stâkud the marksdwarf, Urvad the Speardwarf, Goden the marksdwarf, Rovod the Swordsdwarf, Limud the Marksdwarf, Nish the Marksdwarf, Metthos the Marksdwarf, Athel the Marksdwarf, Mistêm the Swordsdwarf, Atír the 2.Markdswarf, Stukos the Speardwarf, Tosid the Macedwarf, Rakust the Swordsdwarf, Led 'questionquality' the Macedwarf and Record Keeper, and about 1 mil. children.

We. Have. An. Army. It took over a week to greet them all. We are now 40 adults. It is now Slate.

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Slate
Time to build some crossbows, some bolts, some target practice, and finally: time to dig deeper. We need to outfit this new army we've received from the mountainhomes.

Lots of riches down there. More gold and several types of silver. Nothing useful yet, though--

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Felsite
Every idle worker is now working on the roof for the courtyard. Either by building the roof itself or by carving rock blocks for easier construction. Some exploratory mining is also on its way.

Elves have arrived! I'll let 'Chalkface' do the trading. Even though I have a perfect overview of our crafts after counting them all, he's got some appraisal experience. All we've got for trading is mechanisms, though, and not many of 'em. I'll try to get a few overground seeds for use in the courtyard.

Even though I ordered repeated brewing long ago, we have no booze and without the therapist, I can't find the missing brewer! I'll order Iden, one of out new migrants, to brew some for us. In the meanwhile, we'll have to survive off of the water in the ponds.

... And Iden's at work!

Uh-oh. Selling *Ashen Barrel*s to elves doesn't work. Well, I don't care if they don't want our crafts, I want theirs.

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Hematite
No hematite. But we've found casserite, that means bronze if we can find som copper.
'Chalkface', our founder and brooker has been taken by a Fey Mood! And he's claimed a mason's workshop! Wonderful!
He's working furiously with a piece of ... Rock Salt. He's made .. Ozonthunen Udistkacoth. A rock salt coffin. Time to dig a graveyard // tomb to fit.

More migrants! about 10 more competent recruits for the army. Too bad we've no metals yet.
We've also found the caverns. I sent a random construction worker down there to seal it up.

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Malachite
The courtyard roof is done!
I just tested the viability of windmills. Only 20 power. Hmm. Maybe we'll use those, I don't know. We certainly have enough wood.

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Limestone
The archery range is done. Those miners are overworked .. Anyway, now we just need to appoint a military commander and his crew.

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Sandstone
Oh god. More military migrants. Still no metal.

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Timber
A dwarven caravan!

More Cassiterite, Galena and Cobaltite. It seems that's all we have. I'll advice the next leader to dig deeper if we don't find any useful metals before that.

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Obsidian
Still.. no ... metals ..
Damn. I'll order some training weapons made, then, for use until we find anything useful.

Uh-oh... Goblin swordsman siege. Let's see how many dwarves we can save before we shut the courtyard shut.
Sigun, our legendary woodcrafter is currently running with a tail of goblins.
He died quickly.
Luckily, the defence works smoothly and the goblins are currently shut out of the fort. Hmm, what to do..

Granite has come. Spring. A slab is queued to be engraved in honour of our second dead: Sigun Guzvucar, wood cutter and legendary woodcrafter. Stilll no metal. The barracks are being dug out as we speak. All our (2) levers are in the room behind the dining room with a [N]ote each. 101 Dwarves in all. Much has been done, much yet to do.
The Save
If you want to play, download, comment and play. We're running looser policy on this fort. I say it's a great idea because it allows the people who have time play when they want.
Edit: SauliusTheBlack has claimed the next turn.