-12- [Machinemornings] (2.4) Military Rule

I wanted to get something up so people know this isn't a dead sub again. I just started the turn and I will be updating it as I progress through the weekend. Hopefully everything will be done by monday.

2nd of Granite, 255 - Journal of Militia Commander GhostOfGod Inethirtir

The last overseer of Machinemornings brought us to the level of a Barony, and so I suppose it is natural the she become Baroness... However this year, the year 255 will be my year to rule. She can keep the title and the soon-to-be-fancy room, I have my fellow soldiers. By now the four of us are as skilled as any of the dwarves of legend, but it is the Rangers who have stolen our glory.

When the Goblins come to our walls, we will be ready. The upcoming year will be a year the Armok will smile upon for eternity. (I hope)

My first command is to bloody well setup an actual Militia. While the militia I had started had grown slightly, it is simply not large enough nor efficient enough to defend the 143 dwarves currently residing in the fortress. We do have walls, but the walls will also block our future supplies of precious goblinite, and restrict access to test subjects for the arena.

There is much work ahead of me...

5th Granite, 255: DasTot Zulbanrulush taken by Fey Mood

12th Slate, 255: Minotaur arrives and is slaughtered. 13th Slate, 255: New FB arrives in caverns

26th of Felsite, 255: Begining above ground construction project Roofing off the main courtyard

11th Hematite, 255: Elves slaughtered for a pair of female Giant Jaguars, brining the number to 3. Begun training them for war. Slaughtered due to lack of any crafts for trade. Craft making has been restarted with gusto

12th of Hematite, 255: Ral Avuzlogem has been taken by a fey mood! Claims mason's workshop

19th of Hematite, 255: Ordered construction of more silver warhammers. We need more WEAPONS

25th Hematite, 255: Artifact completed. Eshtan Dok, a Marble door!

2nd of Malachite, 255: Ordered all war animals to be pastured on the top level inside the gates for defensive purposes.

26th of Malachite, 255: Vulture attack, annoying but easily dealt with.

9th of Galena, 255: 'Grezzels' has bestowed the name Inirfoker Stesokkatdir(The Fences of Gladness ) upon a copper battle axe.

12th of Galena, 255: A human diplomat has arrived, the caravan must be arriving shortly as well.

13th of Galena, 255: Human caravan arrives.

28th of Galena, 255: questionquality traded a good chunk of our crafts for every piece of iron the humans brought. Our smelters will begin working to melt this down immediately

1st of Limestone: An Ambush! Curse them. They were discovered down at the trading level, having snuck in behind the wave of traders! There are only 5 however, so the traders guards and my milita should make quick work of them

2nd of Limestone: Only one survived and ran away. 5 lay dead thanks to the fury of the trader's guards. What little goblinite there was has been order to be melted down. Several hours later ANOTHER ambush has arrived.7 Goblin lashers, only 2 militia are in place and run out to meet them, both are part of our legendary guard.

3rd of Limestone: Reinforcements are arriving and 'Grezzels' and Solon wreck some goblin face leaving 1 dead before anyone else can make it through the gates! The ambush appears to be broken with 1 goblin dead, 3 fleeing for their lives, 1 unconscious, and one soon to be dead. The 2 remaining goblins are dealt with rather horribly while the other 3 flee to gather more of their goblin comrades. I smell a seige coming soon.

One soldier in particular, a member of the Ax squad, Olin Cilobbunem perfomed exceptionally well this day. He is personally responsible for slicing two goblins in half with his named ax, Ustuth Amkin

4th of Limestone: In light of recent attacks I have ordered 30 more silver warhammers to be crafted to support a future draft.

23rd of Limestone, 255: Another blood FB has shown up in the caverns. Annoying, but harmless. In other news, another goblin snatcher has gotten caught in our cages traps. Considering implementing the arena with the snatchers and children.

4th of Timber, 255: 6 more dwarves recruited to the milita in preparation for any seiges. The newbies were ordered to train away from the rest of the standing militia so as to not be caught up in anything crazy.

18th of Timber, 255: All hail our dwarven brothers, for they have come from mountainhome bringing us much in the way of valuable goods....at least I hope they did.

27th of Timber, 255: Questionquality traded almost all of our crafts for a most of the dwarven caravan's steel armor, managing to give breastplates and greaves to our two best squads. The Evenness of Salves and The Brass Saftey.

1st of Moonstone, 255: Egrutt has banned the export of shirts...again. Her love of shirts of getting kind of rediculous

9th of Moonstone, 255: Caught my legendary hammerdwarf watching a legendary ax dwarf giving a demonstration on throwing rocks...as opposed to the silver warhammer and steel battle ax they are equipped with. Fucking militia.

27th of Opal, 255: Our lands have been made a county of Mountainhome. Good job us.

1st of Obsidian: Quiet winter thus far, vaguely ominious overtone for the next year

3rd of Obsidian, 255: Zas Desisurdim withdraws from society...

4th of Obsidian, 255: Zas Desisurdim claims a Craftsdwarf Workshop

15th of Obsidian, 255: Zas Desisuridum begins a Mysterious construction

19th of Obsidian, 255: A Vile force of Darkness has arrived! The first true battle of Machinemornings has begun!

Edit one: This save is absolutely insane. Only partway through spring (I work days on the weekends) and I've have 2 FB attacks and a Minotaur. Shit is going to go down.

EDIT 2: Turn is done, here is the save and a fuller writeup will be done tomorrow most likely. We won the siege btw, no casualties yet