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10th Granite “Is everything ready?” I call out to Nish and Zan. “Aye, everything is sealed up tight.” Nish answered. “We probably don’t even need to worry using the floodgate in the first place. I shrugged as I reach for the bauxite lever, one of the few materials safe for magma related things, and rested my hand on it. “Pulling!” I shouted and gave the lever a tug. With a whir of mechanisms the lever smoothly followed my hand. We rushed down a level to the magma workshop area and pulled the stone covering a peephole aside. We were greeted by the sight of the magma slowly passing the bauxite floodgate after going through the iron grate designed to keep any magma dwelling creatures out. “I’ll keep an eye on things here.” Nish said clapping me on the shoulder. “It will take awhile for the magma to get to the right level. Nodding I relinquished the peephole to him and went about the other tasks that needed my attention.

11th Granite Elven traders were seen on the horizon. I don’t think they will have much that will be of use but I’m not going to let my follow dwarf’s opinions on these tree folk influence me.

16th Granite “Hello!” I called out to the elven traders as I walked to the trade depot. One turned to greet me while the other continued to unload their donkeys. “Greetings. I am Mawada and my companion is Idala.” She said bowing. “And I am Imush.” I signaled the other dwarves and they began hauling our trade goods to the depot. Mawada studied the dwarves. “Forgive me for asking but has something happened recently? I know that this is a new fort but I thought there are usually more dwarves this far in.” “No, we have not suffered any mishaps. Well other than the annoyance of some fire imps from the near by lava pool but those are gone, three of them by my own pick.” I showed her the slightly melted point of my pickax. She raised an eyebrow. “Well, do you mind if we have a tour of your fort?” Surprised but not to be ungracious I answered. “Of course.” And so I lead them through our complex showing them the farm, our workshops, the bed rooms, and the huge room of mined out magnetite which had barely been disturbed. “But this means that trees would be cut down.” She looked at me. “We do not take kindly to such things as that.” “Ah.” I raised my finger. “But I saved the most important for last, you forget that level we passed on the way down here. I brought here to the magma workshop area and gave them a glimpse through our peekhole to the magma. The magma in the tunnels would soon be high enough to use. “By using the magma we cut down fewer trees and thus preserve our forests for longer than many forts.” I explained to them. Mawada turned to me. “Truly you have thought of everything.” She exclaimed, face beaming. “I’m sorry for having doubted you.” I waved my hands before me. “No need to apologies.” “Still I am amazed that only seven dwarves were able to make this much progress.” “Aye, most forts can’t get stable forge works set up until the second or third year.” I said shuffling my feet unused to such praise. “’e graduated at the top of his class to at the academy.” Lir called out. “”e is a masterplaner that one.” “Well I must say congratulations on that. But now we should be down to matters that concern both our profits.” As we walked back I was glad that my bear covered my blush. In the end we traded for a few different seed bags, a few bloated tubers, a bin of cloth, a barrel of pickle berry wine, two cages, and a few old logs of wood.

7th Slate The lava tunnels are finally nearly full and as such I gave the order to close the floodgate. Once we finished the current logging operation we will start up the forge works. In other news the elves have left in good spirits, I’m sure that we will have favorable trading next we meet.

1st Slate I have begun the arduous task of updating our stockpile records. We are more or less waiting for immigrants to arrive so this seems the perfect time to do it while there is a lull. The magma workshops have been set up and soon we will have metal bars rolling off the production line.

9th Felsite Finally, some immigrants have been spotted to the east. We will finally get some much needed help.

12th Felsite As the last dwarf comes in I end the count at 25 dwarves. I’m ecstatic; we have needed a lot of help around here. However now I have the task of figuring out who needs to become military. I do not like the idea of having to assign such a task yet to make sure we are protected it must be done. We also have begun digging towards a lignite vein, an important fuel source that will be quite useful.

15th Felsite I have finished the difficult task of assigning dwarves. I had them assemble in the dinging room and gave them the news. Thankfully most took it in stride. Unfortunately we won’t have a good amount of steel for weapons and armor for another season.

2nd Hematite The lignite vein has been dug out with at least 50 units dug out.

16th Hematite A human caravan was sighted and I’m embarrassed to say that we haven’t been making any gods for trading. We still have some of the loots from the failed kobold thieves but little else. I’ve taken Zan off lignite processing to work on crafts.

4th Malachite I finally got to trade with the humans today. They were rather irritated about being ignored for so long but when I explained our situation they became friendly again. I managed to trade for some much needed bags, a bin of leather, food, and some alcohol.

27th Malachite Our workload I so great that I’ve taken two squads off duty to help out.

8th Limestone Work has been processing well, the lignite has been process and we’re in the middle of filling up our wood stockpiles again. Thing is Lir started acting strangely, skipping about babbling about creating something. I’ve heard of such things moods they call them, supposedly sent by the gods. But I’ve also heard about the consequences of a failed mood…

9th Limestone Seems that we have all the materials that Lir needed, he only grabbed 2 logs. I just hope that he will come out alright.

11th Limestone Lir has come out of the workshop tired, but alive. He made a beautifully carved oaken floodgate called Thabumondin, or Gulffaded.

14th Limestone The dwarven caravan has been spotted on the horizon. We’ll get a warm reception ready for them. In other news we are almost ready to start mass producing iron and our wood stockpile is half full.

15th Limestone We traded for some alcohol, bags, a bin of jaguar leather that we ordered, and food. Later that night we had a feast to celebrate how far the fort has come and invited the caravan.

21st Sandstone Migrants were spotted coming from the east, I will have to take a break and meet with them when they arrive.

23rd Sandstone It’s a small group this time, only 10. Among them were another marksdwarf and another metal crafter, I plan on releasing some of the peasants and have these two fill the spots. On the bright side we now have another mason, a much needed job, and he can engrave as well. I look forward to seeing our halls smoothed out and eventually engraved. In the end we now have 42 dwarves living here, quite a bustling place this has become in less than two years.

12th Moonstone Smelting operations have been slowed down in order to allow us to perfect our traps. Zan is busy making serrated disks, very sharp little buggers, in order to make some weapon traps.

21st Moostone Recently a goblin snatcher was caught in a cage trap yet that trap was never reloaded, partially because Alath and I were to busy working on the weapon traps to bother. However apparently many more have been trying to get in because we keep finding the same stone-fall trap triggered, it seems as often as we refill it its triggered. I have now corrected the error of the cage trap and the weapon traps proceed.

19th Opal Defenses are nearly done and Zan has been assigned back to working the forges. Once we can get the first round of pig iron made we can make steel and start making some weapons and armor.