Chapter 42: From the journal of Stinthad Kekimtobul
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10th Moonstone, 1053, Early Winter
Well Mister Atheltat already left. Call me crazy, but I don't think he liked Reveredtour. But how could you hate Reveredtour? It's great here!
I mean, aside from the moat that won't fill up. Speaking of which, I've requested advice from other dwarves [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=74241.0] on how to fill up the moat effectively, as I haven't a clue. Unfortunately, the vast majority want me to use pumps and I, uh, don't know how to use pumps...
Patchy link said:
Can you get above the ocean entry tunnel? If you channel that wall that is making a diagonal, the ocean should flow in a lot faster heh.
Oh, I like this idea! Let's try this one!
13th Moonstone, 1053, Early Winter
Oh good, Zuntir started working on his project. I was worried he might go insane, and I'd hate to lose an old friend. I hope he makes something good! Rather than, say, a spikey rope.
17th Moonstone, 1053, Early Winter
Stonsense Version [http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5280/floodsense.png]
Huh, you know I don't want to speak to soon but I think this is working! The water flow has increased, and I think it will now move fast enough to fill to entire moat. This means I don't have to figure out how pumps work! Hooray for cutting corners!
18th Moonstone, 1053, Early Winter
Zuntir finished building his artifact!
A coffer? Well, it's functional, so I can't really complain. And it does look nice.
Why's it covered in cat bone though? I suppose it doesn't matter. Besides, there's a nice image on it in tigereye. If Goden had made this it probably would've featured a dwarf starving to death or something equally horrific. I think I'll put this in my office once construction is complete.
26th Moonstone, 1053, Early Winter
Argh, I did speak to soon. The moat is still taking ages to fill due to evaporation. I figure there must be some way to circumvent this problem that doesn't require pumps...
NecroRebel said:
It might also help to build big bridges over the whole moat. That'll set it to be Inside, which, IIRC, will protect it from the heat's evaporation effect and make the place fill faster.
Oh! That might work! Let's do that instead.
2nd Opal, 1053, Mid-Winter
Winter always seem to be rdull around here, with nothing to really comment on. Then again many of my journal entries have been unfortunately detailing the gruesome slaughter of a dwarf, so maybe that's a good thing. On the subject of death, many of the ghosts haunting Reveredtour have vanished. I'm not sure why, though maybe it has something to do with the graveyard we built.
6th Opal, 1053, Mid-Winter
The children seem to throw a lot of parties now that I think about it. They don't really do anything but sit in the meeting hall. I don't expect them to do much work, but you'd think they could at least do something. Otherwise they're just getting in the way.
But ultimately I can't bring myself to yell at children. They're to innocent. And come to think of it, I have been working rather hard lately. So...
10th Opal, 1053, Mid-Winter
There's a lot of cave spider webs down in the caverns. Cave spider silk is pretty nice, valuable to. We should probably make use of it. Hm...
Might as well make it a mandate for extra encouragement.
18th Opal, 1053, Mid-Winter
General-Veok said:
Can you make the moat deeper? If you carve it out so that it's one z-level less than the ocean, and then *breach* the ocean, water pressure should immediately fill the entire thing.
Oh.
That makes most sense out of everything I've heard.
Let's try doing this.
21st Opal, 1053, Mid-Winter
Ever since Zuntir made that artifact he's been producing stone items of exceptionally high quality. I'm not sure how this is possible, but making artifacts usually means a dwarf ends up with incredible skills. Goden said that's because the "gods" will sometimes impart their knowledge onto the dwarf they "use to make the artifact". I don't buy her mumbo jumbo. She won't even explain who these "gods" are.
28th Opal, 1053, Mid-Winter
Stonsesense Version [http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/4706/statuesense.png]
I've extended the O.M.R.L.P to a room in dire need of attention; the dining hall. To be honest, it's a mess. Still covered in vulture blood and corpses, and the room itself is bare and dull. I added some statues to it, as those are always nice, but I think we need something more fancy to make it appealing. I'm thinking about installing some gem windows.
2nd Obsidian, 1053, Late Winter
Aside from the obvious question about how these earth golems keep throwing parties, I'm wondering how this golem in particular earned the title of leatherworker. Can golems actually learn to do stuff like that? I can't imagine how that would work. Could I teach Lorbam to perform surgery? I mean, once I learn how to do proper surgery.
10th Obsidian, 1053, Late Winter
Ah, good. The cooks have finished producing the cave spider silk items I requested.
NOW ENSURE THAT THEY NEVER LEAVE REVEREDTOUR!! I DEMAND IT!!
20th Obsidian, 1053, Late Winter
Another one of those cloaked figures was spotted near the edges of Reveredtour. It ran away upon its presence being revealed, so the Immortal Rags didn't need to cut it down. I don't know what they want with Reveredtour, but it can't be anything good.
23rd Obsidian, 1053, Late Winter
Argh, why is this taking so long? It's just digging out the remainder of the moat. It's not anything new or dangerous. They should be able to bust through this stone and soil at lightning speed, but it's taking them ages. And most of them are legendary miners to!
If you're going to go around calling yourself legendary, you should at least have the skill to back up that claim.
26th Obsidian, 1053, Late Winter
What is this? It's been 2 months and they've only gotten one of those bridges built. At this rate the moat will be filled when I'm dead and buried. I hate Obsidian. It's the worse month of the year. Everything just seems to slow down.
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