Bloodline:SL Flying Dwarves Hurt Arctic Hellhole/Year203

Arctic Hellhole, Excepts from the diary of Flyinghurts Twinkleabbeys

Prelude

Day: ????

Today some dwarf came up to me while I was putting a lovely milky white Pearl into a finely crafted gold amulet for the Queen. He told me that there was a new outpost that was teeming with jewels and diamonds, and that they needed someone to put all those jewels in pretty things. I got the impression he thought I was stupid and that I needed to be told like a child, which might have worked on some of the dwarves here. After I gave him a quizzical look, he told me that they needed all the help they could get from any profession for they settled in the barren icelands.

By my Beard I told him I would be packed faster than he could say “praise Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock” ten times.

Day: ??

Why keep track of days. They are such a nuisance. It doesn't help with traveling, it only makes you think of what you left behind.

It seems like most of the 50 of us setting out were “tricked” into going on this journey, it is a good thing they gave me the map, seeing as I went on this journey knowing that we are heading to our possible death, maybe it is the name of this place that lures them... Idräthobok, or “Treasurepillar” in the common tongue. Ironhammer is the leader of our military escort; He told us that they would escort us to the edge of the icefield since they had to patrol in that area anyway.

Day: Who Cares?

Wolves killed Ironhammer.... There was blood in the trees... and the bushes. The military escort is off trying to get all of his remains and some revenge. They said something about leaving us all to our forsaken fate.. hope they mean this in a good way. Day: Later Sometime... a day? Two? Well, the military escort left, along with quite a few dwarves who were not eaten. There is 20 of us now and we are pretty near the start of the icelands.

Day: 10th Slate, 202?

Not sure if that is the right day, one of the dwarves told me that was the date. Still on the icelands, nothing but white ice and snow in sight, must mean we are close.

Day: 11th Slate, 202

We are here now, praise Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock, we are here. Some dwarf, her name is Frewfrux I think, saw us and boy did she look upset.. maybe there were too few of us? She started telling us what needed doing and what to do. She looked at me for a brief second or too, just long enough to say haul junk around. I love to help out so off I went moving furniture and rocks. Have not had a lot of time to look around this place, seems nice enough.

Day: 10 Timber, 202

Met the famous Melek today. She looked different than I thought she would, haven’t had much time to write in here recently, busy busy busy, there is always junk to be moved about. All this moving is making me fit at least.

Day: 9th Moonstone, 202

Heard some dreadful racket today, I guess Kogsak (one of the miners and one of the founding seven) took over a mason’s shop and started screaming something about wood... I haven’t seen wood since... can’t remember when. Frewfrux took it hard.. she didn’t seems quite the same after that. Back to work I guess.

Year 203

Granite

1^st

A new year has dawned! Celebrations would be happening all across the kindom... but not here. It’s a little cold for that. Moving stuff still, but I guess I should start giving effort to noticing what is going on. There is some sort of magma contraption thing, it is to melt water I guess, not so sure it will work, but who knows.

Everyday I see these beautiful raw jewels in piles and in the stone. It haunts what little sleep I get that I can not put them into amulets and crowns and rings and chairs and.... anything. I must find someone who can cut them... or I will try to myself, else I might lose my mind.

There must be something I could do other than move junk... maybe if I went to see Melek or Frewfrux...

Melek didn’t seem to mind if I started doing things around the Fort, she did tell me to talk to Dishmab first. Frewfrux... well she just looked at me.... like she looked into my soul and cut it to pieces.. those eyes... eyes filled with despair.. So I left her alone.

Dishmab was glad to have me help out. I’ll get started tomorrow it seems, as there is still more things to move for today.

4^th

There is more to be done than I thought, with no military I fear a goblin attack at any moment, why they would risk the cold barren ice to attack? By Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock I have no clue. Finding a suitable place for the barracks/prison might be a good start...

Told the miners to dig out a section for the metal works, moving it closer to the magma.. that way we won’t need blasted charcoal to keep our furnaces hot, at the rate the magma is moving It seems I could have that whole section dug out before it even makes it there, at least.. that's the plan.

Some pretties in a wall... soooo pretty.. mhmmm my... pretties... my shinny shinny gems

5^th

I think I might be on the brink of having another “episode”, the doctor told me that I should try to keep away from raw gems... it is hard to do in a new fortress like this, I just hope I can last,

I’m starting to see jewels encrusted on everything in my sleep now, I pray that Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock keeps me sane while I am needed....

Maybe I could put the jewelers workshop where the old wood burning furnace was... hmm I’ll have to look into this...

6^th

Frewfrox was mopping about earlier, I asked her what was going on and she told me she was planning defenses in case of an attack, I asked her if we had any traps set up yet... by Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock I haven’t seen a dwarf move faster since Ma set herself on fire...

11^th

Elves!! I hope they bring something useful. Momuz was yelling at people to make sure trade goods were at the outpost and she also started heading in that direction, or it looked like she did, I’ll just keep my head down for a bit and keep moving stuff.

14^th

Took them 3 days after we noticed them for them to find our outpost... But they brought wood, glorious wonderful wood, tons and tons of wood, I saw dwarves rejoicing over the wood as they hauled it into the fort.

Momuz says she got all the wood and two bins of cloth (everything the elves packed it seemed) for a bracelet, 3 mechanisms and a rope... a good deal. That's 24 logs of wood and quite a bit of cloth. She seemed pretty pleased with herself at least.

25^th

Kolsag Alathgeb died today, may she find rest in the stone and live on in our fortress.. it is a sad day for this fortress, three of the founding seven are now dead.. May Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock look after her.

This month is almost over and I am running out of space in my journal, if I was in any civilized city I could probably acquire another one... I’ll just have to space my entries out some more I guess.

The area for the magma forges is cleared out, the channels dug, now some more waiting on the blasted magma.. if only there was a way to speed it up...

27^th

Jewels!! The workshop is up and I have started cutting some gems!! It was exciting, it may take me awhile but I will teach myself how to make these gems look perfect...

make them pretty.... oh so pretty.. the things I can do with pretty....... Gems are pretty they are shinny... 

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What am I becoming? I feel a change in me... it calls to me every day, I don’t want another episode!! Not now! Not then! Not ever! I don’t want to not be myself, maybe this fort is bringing it out... maybe.. I think I can last.. I can do it, by Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock I can do it.

I can I can I can I can... pretties I can make you prettier than before!

Slate

5^th

Some dwarf took a Metalsmith's forge right next to my workshop, by the commotion and the smell I guess it was Sibrek Thibamast the blacksmith. He was very quiet and took an aluminum bar then locked the doors to his shop up.

9^th

Sibrek finished today! He barged into my workshop to tell me what me made, an aluminum weapon rack called Inentunur, or “Hillstyles” in the common tongue. When I took a closer look at it I was slightly confused, for he had neatly imprinted on the aluminum weapon an excellent rendition of itself, yes he made a fractal.

I guess he likes aluminum? To each his own I guess...

It was very pretty, but not pretty enough... with a few gems it could be made prettier, silly blacksmith only using aluminum... gems would make it prettier

For now I've put it in the soon to be barracks across from the soon to be magma forges

16^th

Dishmab is having a party with Melek, Frewfrux and Momuz. Probably drinking in honor of Kolsak, Deler and Athel. Poor sods, hope they have a good party.

27^th

I noticed a draft blowing through the fort recently, it was coming from the ramps to the surface, so went and got some floor hatches and covered those ramps up, draft defeated.

Everyone is talking about how the carpentry workshop is cursed, everyone hears unpleasant things when they go near it so we are just leaving it alone, I’ve told the carpenters that they can just make a new workshop near the old one, I think that is what they are going to do.

Felsite

5^th

Migrants... 21 migrants, 21. That is quite a few of new faces, I think I'll stay away from them and see what else the fort needs

6^th

I met the new Gem Setter today, he seems like a decent fellow.

My pretties, I don’t want him touching my pretties

Hematite

12^th

A Human caravan and a liaison was seen on the horizon today. I hope they bring wood.

This fort has so many more dwarves in it now that whenever I`m walking around I see dwarves lazing about. I guess some dwarves could get drafted into the army and get trained.

16^th

45 pieces of wood, Momuz seemed pleased that she could make more barrels and bins and beds. She also got a bunch of other things that might be needed.

Food stocks are high, moral is high as well. It seems the fort is doing all well right now. Only thing is the goblins, they have been way to quiet, not a single attack this year. I believe that the recruits will be ready in time to protect us, worse comes to worse we don't go outside, which doesn't really affect us because there is nothing but ice up there.

Malachite

4^th

Golbin raiding party ambushed the caravan guard today. By the time I got on the scene there were dead goblins everywhere. I told some dwarves to help me haul some of their equipment to be sold or to wait to be melted down. There seemed to be some useful weapons amoung the corpses, I'll ask the recruits if they could use any of the weapons.

8^th

The goblins strike again, only to be slaughtered again by the caravan guards. We looted their corpses and found some more weapons that might come in handy to fight these beasts. These goblins had tons of metal armor on, it was a weird size and I doubted any dwarf could fit in them, we took them off to be melted down whenever the furnaces start up again.

They were ugly, not pretty looking armor, ugly ugly... not at all pretties.. and small looking ugly

19^th

Dodok Amostidos has taken over the jewellers workshop and started grabing things from everywhere in the fort, I think he is making something, but I couldn't get a good look at it it had gems in it.

Is pretty, looks pretty, want pretties 

I was walking around today as well and saw that some of the recruits had started wrestling each other, having a little fun I guess.

22^nd

More migrants... word of this place must have been spread around quite a bit. Melek and Frewfrux started assigning them rooms and duties. Dishmab just recently was elected to be our major! I guess that means he gets some extra stuff in his room, I haven’t seen those rooms yet, don’t have the time. (Must be filled with pretties, want to see pretties)

23^rd

When I entered the jewelers workshop today I noticed Dodok had finished his construction, he told me it was called Thikthogoshosh, or Drenchedhermits in the common tongue, which is appropriate for it is a moss opal flask. When I looked closer at it I noticed that it had two etchings of an aluminum weapons rack.

Aluminum weapon racks do look nice.

Ohh Pretty rack.... soo pretty

Galena

6^th

It seems the recruits are shaping out nicely, I saw them sparring with weapons today, I'm surprised that none of them have lost a limb yet. The captain of the guard drafted some dwarves into the guard to help him keep order, he also ordered a jail built to contain unruly dwarves.

I checked in on the magma today and those grates that Frewfrux had built have not even been touched by magma yet, it seems that the metal smiths are getting annoyed at the speed of the magma, or lack of it, and they haven`t been able to make anything recently because of the lack of fuel for their furnaces.

10^th

Mayor Dishmab wants some fine pewter objects crafted... I looked everywhere for fine pewter, then one of the blacksmiths told me that you get fine pewter by melting copper and tin together. I felt stupid, so I started looking for copper and tin, I could find copper ore and copper pieces... but no tin at all.

Limestone

1^st

Autumn has come at last, and I am feeling more like myself again. I haven`t had a conversation with myself in a while, also since Dodak became a legendary gem setter I have not been getting as many urges to be with the gems. I guess I`m getting back to normal again.

Found another book to write in seeing as this one is quite full

The military is getting better at fighting, talked to some of them for a while, they seemed content with protecting the fort.

13^th

The dwarven caravan has arrived today, Momuz started getting everyone organized..

I talked to the traders and they were talking about the legendary status of this outpost, I wonder if they would keep that opinion if they had a tour of the inside. That might be the reason the brought so many goods, five wagons And four pack animals stuffed full with wood charcoal weapons armor leather and cloth.

They seemed pretty happy when Momuz traded goblin clothes to them for almost all their wares. Good deal for us I expect. The metal smiths seemed happy with the trades.

Sandstone

23^rd

Eleven new migrants came today, I didn't go out to see them come in, been too intent on teaching myself how to cut gems very well. I guess this means there aare now 63 of us here.

Opal

9^th

The miners found some amethysts today, I think I'll leave them raw until I learn how to cut gems well.

They have to be cut perfectly, precisely, exactly. I will cut them perfectly but not yet.. no no no not yet

Obsidian

1^st

Made a friend with one of the brewers today, first person here I can really talk to. She is a cool lass, maybe I’ll get to know her more. Her name is Zuglar.

My mind has been quiet recently, maybe it is an effect of cutting these gems, I don't mind, I like being normal.

6^th

Cause for rejoicement! The first child of Idrathobok! He should grow up well here.

The magma is so close but it seems as if nothing will be able to get started until next year.

18^th

Solon Cattendeg has locked himself in the leather workshop today. I could hear him yelling “Give me tanned hides and raw jems!”

I guess we are down some of the Muskox we brought with us, I didn't notice what happened to them, the buchers also seemed to have gotten recent blood on their coats, although I could be imagining things again.

28^th

Solon made a muskox leather quiver called Akurstelmith, or championtress in the common tongue, I'm told it has pictures of kobolds on it.

Year 204, 1^st Granite

A new year, a new outlook on life. I came as a gem setter and now I cut gems. This fort is thriving, our military is growing and we can start feeling secure in this wasteland. The magma is looming closer to the melting chambers and the first child was born in the fort. Three successful artifacts were created and the food larders are overflowing. This new year is looking promising. The horrors of my mind seem quelled for this year, and I hope for many more to come. May Avuz Boulderearthen the Mountainous Rock watch over us all.

Melek posted the status of the fort in the common rooms today, I wrote a copy here to remember this year