Ugh. My head is killing me. For some reason when I awoke this morning I could not remember a thing, and I had this overwhelming feeling that someone was controlling me. Regardless, I'm meant to be in charge of this little outpost. I'm going to have to dig through previous memoirs and maps to familiarise mself with it again.

I would like to make a note here that one of our fishers, Olod Tomblashed continously refers to Othlestamud as Scortchthunder. However in my investigations I have been digging through blueprints and maps of the area, and it is QUITE CLEAR (from knowledge of the Dwarven language alone) that the place is called Scorchthunder. I am getting curious about this fellow, especially with him constantly in isolation out of earshot of the outpost. My suspicions lead me to think he's a spy, I'll be recalling him from such tasks immediately.

Lets take a look at the current situation of the fort.



Okay we've got good food and alcohol stocks, plenty of see-- wait. FIVE MINERS? There's NO ROCKS HERE AT ALL. Why the hell is there FIVE miners? I can see we have a very nice sized obsidian quarry by the river, however FIVE miners? I'm going to have to completely relook at everyone's jobs in this place. Lets take a look at the current jobs.



Oh bloody hell, by Armok. Why is everyone just running items back and forth between stockpiles? This outpost is an absolute joke I swear. Near every dwarf here is either storing items in stockpiles or operating a pointless pump that does nothing short of perch dangerously over the river from a massive height. I'm going to remove all these fucking stockpiling and pumping orders immediately. Furthermore I'm going to make half these miners take up farming, change the pointless masons and hunters, get a dedicated cook and brewer, and split up the woodworkers into dedicated carpenters and woodcutters. I've also gotten rid of pointless glassblowers, as there's no sand. And don't even get me started on fishing, they're ALL gone. Immediately. Apparently there's a lack of wood here, we'll see about that.



By Armok!!! Why is the fortress COVERED in miasma? This place is disgusting. What was the previous architect THINKING? Shoving all these refuse pits inside is just stupid. I'm moving these outside immediately.



In the process of remaking the farms I've set them to harvest nothing but plump helmets. We certainly don't have the industry setup for anything greater, any a few plump helmets can easily feed our small band without much difficulty. Furthermore if we brew the plump helmets we can recover the seeds and have a renewable source of food and drink.



What the bloody hell is going on here? Why is there SO MANY GOD DAMN OFFICES AND DINING ROOMS? I'm the only one in the entire fortress that even needs an office, so why do we have 8 of them? I'm immediately redesignating all rooms as bedrooms, and bedrooms only. These dwarves will be all to happy to eat in their own rooms, they don't need them designated specifically as dining rooms as well. My room can be used as an office, dining room and bedroom for now. I've got too much things to think about at the moment, such as the complete lack of any defences in this fortress. The previous architect made a fucking awful decision of digging half the fort out with an inch thick roof to the surface, so digging out channels will be difficult. I should be able to conjure something up though.

I've also got some ideas about improving output of both the farming operations and the obsidian quarry. I'll need to put these to work immediately.

An elven caravan has arrived today. Fuck the Elves. What business do they have coming here demanded we trade no products made of wood, and then trying to sell us wooden swords, shields and animals in cages? Fuck them. I've ordered every dwarf to completely ignore them and pretend they haven't noticed their arrival at all.



I noticed this by the Trade Depot whilst I was going out of my way to avoid the Elves. What the hell is a SINGLE catapult doing here, when we have nobody skilled in siege operations and only a handful of obsidian rocks to throw at the enemy? Hey Goblins, come siege our fortress! In return we'll throw extremely valuable building materials at you that you love to use to build your towers. Why don't you erect one right next to our outpost, maybe we can share our resources with each other? It's no wonder this is 'Not in use'. Fuck the catapult. This is being dismantled immediately.

We also got 21 migrants this month. TWENTY ONE. We had 16 dwarves, with rooms for 16 dwarves. We now have 21 homeless dwarves, I'm going to have to do some massive extensions to the god awful bedroom complex at once.



Kogan has been acting strangely lately. He claimed a mason's workshop and screamed repeatedly at us to get him some stacked cloth. We had no stacked cloth at all, and there was a mad rush to grow some pig tails, process the pig tails into thread and then weave some cloth. We managed to do it before he went berserk by the looks, but only just. He's started to make something but refuses to let anyone come near him.

The new bedroom complex is dug out and new beds are being installed immediately. We've got plenty of bedrooms for all our dwarves now, with a few empty ones in case we get any new migrants. We'll have no barracks in this fortress under my watch, every dwarf gets his own room.



Kogan finally finished his mysterious construction. Turns out he made an Obsidian throne of most exquisite quality. We all discussed how best to utilise this artifact, but I'm in charge here so it's immediately going into use in my room. Kogan strangely looked happy that SOMEONE was using it, even though he's not allowed to even look at it.

The first batch of obsidian under my watch has finally been installed. The previous architect made a pig's fucking ear of the whole operation, and it's taken me a whole season to rectify this. We've now got huge quantaties of Obsidian starting to seep into the fort, but not enough for my liking. I'm going to automate the pumps for the water, which should improve efficiency by a factor of 3.



I've installed some basic defences around the top level of the fortress. There's a dry moat that should keep away any pesky invading goblins (or kill any that 'fall' in), and a couple of towers for archers to reign death onto goblins from above. Should be adequate enough for now, though it may need expanding in the future.

The humans sent both a hamlet liason and a guild representative this month to us. Aren't we special.

I traded a couple of high quality giant cave spider silk gloves with the humans for vast, VAST quantaties of leather and cloth. This should enable us to setup a standing militia with basic leather armour and get some new clothing for our dwarves. I've also requested nothing but iron from them for next year, so we can get even better weapons and armour.



I've provided a sketch here of the new pump system at the stone quarry. Now I've completely eliminated the dwarven factor from the pumping system and the output level has increased dramaticaly already. I've added a few dedicated stone haulers as well, and now production has reached an all-time high. We're pumping out more obsidian than we can utilise, so I think I'll design something grand for the fortress.



"There's not enough wood here". Fuck you, previous architect. We could make an entire castle out of wood with our supplies.

In a mere month Dodok has become a legendary champion. I guess these dwarves are easily impressed, as he's only just started to take up some basic martial arts training. The other 3 soon followed however, and now we have a somewhat defended fortress. At least a goblin thief can't sneak in and murder us all in our sleep now.

Other than that, it's been a relatively quiet month. We gained 10 new migrants however, and I only had 7 new rooms. The bastards. Will have to extend the bedroom complex even further.

I've begun construction of a monument in the west of our fortress. The place is defended and self-sufficient now, but it's lacking in character. I'm going to add a little Scorchthunder to the mix.

The Dwarven caravan arrived this month. We traded away some of our enormous quantaties of food for a bunch of leather and tons of seeds. We should be able to maintain our farming operations for a good while now, and we're pumping out leather armour for our soldiers. I've also ordered wood and bone bolts to be made in order to train up a couple of marksdwarves, and started to design a new archery range.

No usable stone? Fuck you aquifer.

Seven more migrants arrived this month. I'm struggling to work out what to do with them all. I've ordered a couple more start training with crossbows, and setup even more cooks, farmers and brewers. Most of my time this season has been taken up by the construction above our fortress to the west.

Oddom Deduklogem died, our first dwarven death. For some reason he thought it would be a good idea to jump into the dry moat and see if he could get out, at least that's what I'm told. Personally I think he was pushed. At least we know it works.

Stakud Mebalath has withdrawn from society and begun carving something. What he id doing, I have absolutely no idea. Child prodigy?

The first day of winter arrives and we're graced with an artifact. Kids these days eh? All they care about is jewellry and bling. I'm impressed by Stakud but I've ordered all further jewellry be hidden from sight from children. We'll have none of this going on again if I have any say in it.

We also finished mining enough obsidian to complete the construction above the fortress. I can only hope it finishes in time, but I'm really unsure if it'll be completed before the end of the year. These dwarves are awfully lazy, and we've had more parties this year than we've had dwarves.

The wall around the quarry is completed, now the only entrance to our fortress is from the defended position. I deliberately ordered the walls made out of wood - and even built them myself - to piss in the face of the previous architect. Apparently there's not enough wood here. Apparently you're fucking wrong.



Mere days after we finished pumping out the water from the quarry for our next batch the entire river froze over. For four days. It was an incredible sight; you could literally sit there and watch the river slowly freezing and melting. Curiously an enormous iceberg formed in the south of the river, and stayed there for another week.

Mebzuth Erithgamil drowned this month as well. The idiot tried to run across the melting ice to prove his dwarfliness, and fell straight through a sheet of thin ice. Nobody is mourning the idiot.

It's the end of the year. The construction isn't complete, but I've shared my sketch of it nonetheless. It will become the emblem of Scorchthunder when it is completed, and will be visible from the highest mountains. (Thanks for this, you know who you are)



I've also provided the logbook of my year for people to look at the current state of our fortress. We've increased our wealth by 80,000 and have enough food supplies for The Queen Herself. There's a disturbing lack of drinks, but we've got enough plants to brew plenty more dwarven wine, and enough seeds to grow whatever the hell we want. We've gone from 16 dwarves to 56, and had our first two dwarven deaths. The jobs in the population is extremely misleading as well, because despite 7 dwarves claiming to be miners I an assure you there are only three miners in this fortress, and not a single fisher at all. Fuck the fish.