#HobbyStreak day 1185
Final, exciting #BloodBowl7s league night in the #WarhammerAlliance!
#Skaven demolished #ProElves, #Norse rekt #Dorfs, frontrunner chaos missed the evening because of illness, a new guy standing in for them beat the other frontrunner on a #necromantic mirror, and bottom table #vampires drew against frontrunner #Lizardmen!
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capital gulfchambers, malachite, year 118
work continues on the pumpstack, which is taking quite a while. hopefully, we'll be able to deflood the lower levels, first of water, then of magma, and discharge into the caverns.
speaking of caverns, there's another blinded forgotten beast now. this one is apparently made of fire, and after a brief period of exploration, probably to see if it could find a way to breach the main stair, it has decided to remain completely motionless in a water source, evaporating all the water that comes into contact with it.
capital gulfchambers, slate, year 117
discovered that we have a master engraver among the population, so he's getting most of the engraving work, along with a few other dwarves apprenticed to him, churning out masterpieces
still working on unflooding the magma flood. adding water didn't work, just blocked the stairs with an obsidian plug and proceeded to flood a few levels above with water. might have to build a hundred+ levels of pumps.
oh good. another forgotten beast just showed up.
capital gulfchambers, year 117
well, not sure if gulfchambers is gonna make it, folks. a fire-breathing beast came out of the deserts to the north, and it's spreading fire all over the embark. we tried to rally the militias, but there's some kind of error happening where the dwarves are having trouble pathing toward it. on the plus side, we do get to try out again because the fire got crazy enough that it crashed the game, and i think my previous save is a bit before the monster showed up in the first place.
CAPITAL FORTRESS GULFCHAMBERS, SUMMER, YEAR 116
THE QUEEN, URIST ULINGDODÓK HAS ARRIVED TO TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN GULFCHAMBERS and by bloody armok if you damned dwarves embarrass me in front of the queen you'll be petrified and made a statue in the temple of zimesh the ashen ghost! now hurry the hell up, and start smoothing the floor we need to build a throne room fast!!! MAKE GOLD TABLES, HURRY! masterpiece beds! statues! we need more statues! instruments!!!
duchy gulfchambers, late winter, year 115
well done, dwarves! we've been elevated again, to a duchy this time!
recent achievements include the construction of 2 new guild halls for miners and woodworkers, a temple to osel the contingency of poison, despite the only two worshippers of that entity in our fair fortress being a naturalized human monster hunter and his shadow-demon swordsman henchman.
the caravan from the mountainhome next year is in the market for crutches, so we have our 2 most masterful carpenters in crutch duty. we've also started to scale up our production of parchment and bindings, and we're looking for interesting citizens who would like to put their knowledge to the page, see the scholars in the library on level 30 for further information.
county gulfchambers, fall sometime, year 115
good news, gulfchambers! your fortress planner has figured out how magma facilities work! this will greatly reduce our consumption of wood in the future! we are pleased to announce that we now have a magma forge, magma smelter, magma glass furnace, and a magma kiln.
in other, completely unrelated news, please note that the central stairwell below level -117 is currently off limits and will remain so until further notice.
also it is with heavy hearts that we must call off the search for the two miners who disappeared in that region in the time period almost immediately before we established magma-based infrastructure, they are assumed dead and we mourn their passing. please visit their memorial slabs in the tomb district of the residence-level to pay your respects.
county gulfchambers, spring sometime, year 115
we got promoted again! to a county this time, which feels like a fair bit of success for an expedition that did not until now have a kiln anywhere. 190 population. never had a kiln.
found the magma level around -120 z levels, roughly 160 below the surface. no idea how to use the magma smelter, but we've got some cats down there making easy work of the fire snakes.
had to expel the old captain of the guard into the wilderness for trying to beat a citizen to death.
barony gulfchambers, hematite, year 114
decided we're going to get this show on the road, and started digging quite a lot, down to -100 z levels now, breached the third cavern, which frankly was not very exciting. lots of empty space above water and not a lot else besides.
had a minotaur come around, which was quickly dispatched. in related news our heavy melee squad now has three axe lords and a mace lord.
finished production of 150 rock scepters in time for the dwarf caravan this fall.
had to appoint a new dungeon master as the old one was prone to foul moods, sent him back to the mountainhomes
barony gulfchambers, moonstone, year 113
these dwarves are making a lot of requests all of a sudden. some farmer makes a few friends and they start petitioning for a guild hall. a couple dwarves find out they worship the same backwater god of buckets and think they need a temple.
first forgotten beast showed up. it's a pathetic excuse for a beast, however. thing's so weak it can barely move, and it's blind as an olm. seen it take maybe 3 steps in the last year. it's not even enough of a threat to send my boys into the cavern to get it, so we'll just wait a century or so to see if it gets close to a door.
gulfchambers, felsite, year 113
we've been elevated to a barony!
so far the baroness has required an upgrade in accommodations, which was done easily. she has also imposed a ban on the export of animal traps, which is interesting because to my knowledge no single animal trap has ever been made in gulfchambers.
we've begun farming in the upper caverns, after establishing a perimeter wall, one field for plump helmets and one for cave wheat.
3 new guilds have been established and halls excavated for them.
a flurry of strange moods has overtaken a number of craftsdwarves, resulting in a number of new relics displayed in the gallery of achievements.
i can't help but feel the other boot is soon to drop.
gulfchambers outpost, progress report, lost track of the date
things are beginning to escalate. we excavated, smoothed, and engraved a number of new temples, mostly to appease small religious groups in the population. numerous waves of migrants have started to keep our population above 100.
we broke through to the caverns today, next step is going to be clearing out the immature fungal-trees and building a wall to contain some farm plots and provide some defensive capacity against subterranean monsters.
multiple goblin raids recently, along with a few giants. preparing to outfit a heavy infantry squad once we finish current orders of steel armor production.
outpost gulfchambers, slate, year 112
not a lot of time spent in the mines today, as the overseer was making festive seasonal baked goods, but we got the steel industry rolling along, now that we can make charcoal and coke again.
as soon as we have another 10 steel axes and steel armor, we'll outfit a heavy infantry squad, as the critters have started to take more notice of us now. fought off a giant and two groups of goblin invaders.
below ground, we excavated a temple complex, which will likely continue to grow, dwarves are nothing if not polytheistic
the primary stairwell descends ever further, now into negative z-levels
outpost gulfchambers, felsite, year 111
by armok, these damned fool dwarves would lose their own beards if they weren't attached.
somehow, in this dank warren of 83 dwarves, they managed to lose every axe they had among them, which wasn't many in the first place. then they went on ahead using all the wood to make barrels, beds, and doors. because they were more enthusiastic about ale than having tools, they found themselves without coal, without wood, and without axes, therefore unable to fell a tree to make charcoal to make a new damned axe.
had to send a raid against the goblins a day away just to get supplies to start making axes again. it was successful though, and we felled enough trees to make an elf weep an ocean.
gulfchambers outpost, limestone, year 110
bit of a population boom over the last year and a half, now boasting 85 strong dwarves. the roof under the courtyard has been completed, and the addition of a second drawbridge lets us seal everything up nice and tight when there's goblins around.
started excavation on some subterranean defenses. just by locking a door we can turn a floor into a long and winding maze, soon to be littered with traps as soon as we've got enough steel stocked for blades. a new hospital wing is open, and luckily they're not often busy.
our bookkeeper is apparently an animal lover, he recently adopted 12 dogs. a coati somehow managed to get in past the animals and stole an incredibly well-crafted set of earrings.
dwarven outpost gulfchambers, hematite, year 109
slow but steady progress on fortifications, second layer has been added to the curtain wall, excavated a tavern, cellar, and two temples.
population has increased to 43 dwarves, migrants attracted by the quality of the goods we've begun producing.
luckily the wilds are quiet for the time being, next steps will include building a roof over the curtain wall to repel potential invaders, with the drawbridge forming an impenetrable door when raised.
heard from a trader the world has passed into the "second age of myth", whatever in armok's name that means.
