Bloodline:SL Melek Arctic Hellhole/Year201

Arctic Hellhole

Melek - Year 201

This is the stuff of legends! Me a humble woodcutter one of the few to make the trip to forge a new mountain home!

Journey Day 1

There are 6 others on the trip, they seem amiable folk. The wagons are filled with all sorts of goods... ENDLESS barrels of food and drink, enough for over a year! I'm not even sure how this many barrels could be fit into one wagon but somehow it was done.

Journey Day 4

I've made some fast friends already, and we're making excellent progress. Perhaps I should have looked to see where in the world we are to settle but this is too great to have second thoughts at the last minute!

Our number include a skilled mason, two sturdy miners who are clearly the muscle of any dwarf city! A planter who I will help with the farming when needed as I know a little of farming. A carpenter and a mechanic.

Journey Day 17

We've been heading north for so long it's starting to get cooler. No matter, we must press on.

Journey Day ??

I've lost track of the endless days, we make camp for the night and just as I think we've arrived we move on.

Journey Day ???

We've reached a vast Glacier and our leader has chosen to go straight through. Surely we could go around! We've traveled for so many days what would a few more matter?

Journey Day ???

We've stopped and started unloading. All I can see through the blizzard is ice and snow. I hear the distant sound of creatures lurking beyond the storm. Our miners have started to dig down into the ice... our leader has ordered the barrels unloaded and placed near the slope the miners are digging.

We must be having a brief rest! Yes, that's it. We're just going to have a couple of days rest underground while we recoup our strength. Yes.

Day 1

This is not a break. This is not a brief stop to recoup. This is my worst nightmare. I am a woodcutter, like my father and his father before him. I live for trees! Some dwarves make fun of me and call be an elf for liking trees... but it's a core of my being! There are NO FUCKING TREES HERE!

Day 9

It doesn't take long for our miners to dig out the halls and rooms we need to settle down. I feel left out of the entire thing. There is no water, no farming, no live stock but our leader has the plan. No one knows what this plan is though.

So I just haul things around, stone to the mason, wood to the wood burner, a door in this doorway... I hate my life.

Day 28

Strange things are being built. Giant corkscrews, metal pipes, so many mechanisms... I heard the miners talking about a huge room they've dug out with many flood gates leading out of it controlled by levers... I must find it...

Day 35

I found the strange room, the flood gates are all controlled by many levers but beyond each there is a bare stone wall! Surely this is total madness! The work that went into this could have been spent doing something... like growing trees... or something... oh, my head...

Day 62

The miners are excited, they've found a vein of iron ore... maybe they could have found a vast underground forest or something... now THAT would be useful.

Day 89

I found the carpenter crying today, the plan means we have to keep what wood we have left for making charcoal for something... I'm not sure what they are making but this lack of wood really affects the carpenter... crazy fool... it's only a bit of wood, such a big sissy.

Day ???

They are making strange things, giant corkscrews, iron pipes... so many mechanisms. What ever this plan is it better involve finding trees. Oh my god I miss them... so cold... so hungry, the food is running low.

Day ???

Traders have arrived and for a collection of master piece mechanisms we've replenished our food and drink supplies... but I still cannot see any hope for us. Winter is closing in and I don't think I can take it any more.

Day 200+

I've found some written diagrams for this plan. It involves bringing magma to a small room which will then be pumped into two chambers. These will then melt the ice which will fill the room with all the floodgates! It's madness! All this to see if you can melt ice with magma! We're all going to die!

Day ???

The miners have found a magma pipe, the leader is especially excited and for once managed to do something right. They tapped the magma without anyone burning to death! The magma is now flowing towards the small chamber ready to be pumped to melt the ice... so thirsty... I hope it moves faster soon...

Year 201

Sorry I didn't quite manage to get the ice melter working... but the magma is one it's way and it'll be in action by mid/late spring I imagine. We need some farm plots urgently for when the water arrives. The well is ready... just need that magma to get where it's going!! Argh!

I've not left the fortress in a good state for Frewfrux but it was never going to be an easy first 2 years! lol.