User:Kierkkadon

Been playing DF a while, just recently started participating in the community though.

Current Projects:

Olinamud "Tongsthundered"

Year 1, early winter.

Personal journal of Kierkkadon, overseer of the Tongsthundered fortress.

Year 1, early winter. I'm sorry I haven't sent any journals yet, I've been occupied this whole year, and things have only started to calm down in the winter.

Along with my embark orders from the kings, I received a special set of orders regarding how I am to build this fortress:

BUILD IT LIKE AN ELF.

This is the most insane order I've ever been given, but since it comes from the kings I have to obey (and that particular thought I'm keeping to myself).

Anyway, I have to build this fortress completely elf-style. That means no digging, and no stone- or metal-work. NONE. It has to be above ground and built entirely of wood. I can trade for stone and metal things, but can't make any here at the fortress.

We've made a lot of headway since arriving in the spring. I've had the lads clear-cut an area to work in and give us lumber to work with. We've built an indoor food stockpile, and a public meeting room with a barracks on the floor above it. A few workshops have been thrown up outside, but more permanent workshop buildings are currently in construction.

The only visitors so far have been a trade caravan, but we had nothing ready to trade for them so they left with nothing but some import orders.

This brings the journal up to date, and I have nothing left to add except a map of our fortress as it stands now. Strike the earth!

Year 2, early spring

Personal journal of Kierkkadon, overseer of the Tongsthundered fortress.

Year 2, early spring. It's been a month since I wrote last, and this insane assignment hasn't gotten any more fun. I haven't been under a real, stone roof or seen real darkness in over a year!

It's still just myself and the six lads. I don't have many actual duties other than management and a little bit of furniture hauling, because my only practical skills are animal training and organization, which haven't come much into play yet. The four woodworkers we have, however, are worked to the bone. I'm normally inclined to think of my lackeys as lazy, but these guys haven't even had the chance to be lazy!

In only a month we have completed the first workshop building, a carpenter's complete with storage upstairs, and we've begun construction on the first two personal houses I designed.

Houses. Such awful constructions. I'm used to living in community dorms (well, I'm not obviously, being a noble) with a hundred other dwarves, my room only 4x1 cave units. These houses will be two story, with a 2x2 bedroom upstairs and a cramped 2x2 dining room below.

The only other things to note are that we have more seeds than we have space in bags. There are seeds just spilling out into our food stockpile.

And I've learned how to draw maps better. I've attached an example, which is conveniently also a map of the fort as of this writing. Strike the earth!

Year 2, early summer.

Personal journal of Kierkkadon, overseer of the Tongsthundered fortress.

Year 2, early summer. Damnation! Blasted thieves! Kobolds and raccoons have managed to break into our stores of trade goods (which were not, admittedly, well protected) and have made off with all my rope and several of our trinkets!

As a result of these thefts I am taking the precaution of working on a building in which to place my craftsdwarf's workshop and the finished goods stockpile, so they can be behind a closed door. They are also going to be elevated, as I am placing them on the roof of our large food stock- pile building, next to the new kitchen I placed on the roof as well.

We have also begun the construction on the next batch of houses, which should be done before mid-summer.

This journal entry ends early, as the only other event worth noticing is that several cats got trapped on a roof, much to the amusement of myself.

Because the ground level hasn't changed much since my last entry, I'm enclosing a picture of the second floors of all the buildings, as well as the top of the hill. Strike the earth!

Year 2, early winter

Personal journal of Kierkkadon, overseer of the Tongsthundered fortress.

Year 2, early winter. Whew! Man has it been an eventful year! Bless my beard, but I have been on my feet all the time since spring! A bear attack, a caravan, raccoons, migrants and all kinds of things.

First off, just after I wrote my last entry, the fortress was attacked by a black bear! I heard the alarm while I was in my house, and when I ran out there was a bear corpse in the food-storage building! No-one was injured, thank Armok, but two dwarves were badly shaken. None of the lads seems to know how it died, though. Hmm.

Later that season a caravan came. I was prepared this time, and we traded some of our crafts for some badly needed cloth and a cat. Not sure about the cat, one of the lads requested it. Maybe it will help deal with the raccoons.

We finished the construction of the craft workshop, on top of the food building. In the process of constructing the top story one of our carpenters got trapped on an inaccessible part of the roof. Because of an EXTREMELY sudden bout of laziness nobody built a ladder for him until a week after he had been trapped. When we got him down he was near delirious with sobriety. Needless to say, we got him some booze toot- sweet.

After we finished the workshop, I noticed that someone left the door open. I went up to investigate, and found two racoons! I locked them in and then sent in Bjorn with an axe. That's an offering fit for the Blood God!

Near the end of autumn our first batch of migrants arrived. Seven new hands, to make 14 members of our perverse above-ground community all- told.

Other things of note: We've finished a couple more houses and are still making them. The lads have gotten the hang of it now, so they're going up pretty quick. And also we've nearly clear-cut half the hill.

The settlement doesn't look any different, so I'm not going to the trouble of drawing up a map. Strike the earth!