Bloodline:SL Flying Dwarves Hurt Arctic Hellhole/Year203

Artic 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 starting four) 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

1st

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 aand 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.

4th

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 sutiable 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.. thats the plan

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

5th

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 jewlers workshop where the old wood burning furnace was... hmm I’ll have to look into this...

6th

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...

11th

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.

14th

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.

Momez 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. Thats 24 logs of wood and quite a bit of cloth. She seemed pretty pleased with herself at least.

25th

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 aquire 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

27th

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

5th

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.

9th

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 rack in aluminum is an aluminum weapon rack.

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

16th

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