1st Moonstone
Traded with the dwarves from within the walls, 'safe' from the goblin hoard outside.
6th Moonstone
A fishery worker enters a fey mood.
The fortress is still waiting out the goblin attack. The half-injured goblins are likely to go hungry long before we do.
It has been over a week since some dwarves were last seen.
7th Moonstone
Of course the fishery worker demands shells. That's all he knows anyways. Too bad we can't get them from trade.
We must assemble a make-shift fishery to deshell our surplus of mussels.
If these dwarves could just get five seconds of courage, the goblins would be full of ballista arrows.
11th Moonstone
Operation Mussel-shell was a rapid success, as the fey dwarf quickly made off with his prized material.
No! The Forgotten Beast Simo has come! A great blob composed of steam. It has an enormous shell and it has a bloated body.
At least the beast sounds mostly harmless lurking in a deep area believed to be inaccessible by our miners.
16th Moonstone
Mysterious construction begun. I wonder what it could be made of!
21st Moonstone
The merchants attempt to embark on their journey.
Finally a ballista arrow is shot, through the line!
The fishery worker has created a mussel shell figurine: Polisheddessert the Justice of Strategies.
-No greater honor than having your image etched into the shell of a mussel, depicting you striking down a troglodyte, 200 years after the fact.
We have a legendary bone carver on our hands.
25th Moostone
I think that one shot is all it took. Only two goblins remain, limping slowly away, barely alive.
Aaaaand, they're gone!
Assessment: Strong defensive victory
-We sustained all supplies through this brief attack,
-the citizens successfully retreated into the walls and closed the gate,
-I personally decimated and demoralized the attackers with a swift ballista arrow through them all,
-only three of our own are missing
-we still do not maintain a true military
26th Moonstone:
Gate reopened and civilian alert lifted, just as the liason finishes agreements with the mayor.
A ballista arrow is fired for unknown reason.
1st Opal
A stray ballista arrow hits a dwarf, but he should be okay. Woops. Maybe I'll stick to my job as manager...
3rd Opal
All dead have been found and identified.
Happiness: 23 ecstatic, 24 happy, 13 content, 1 fine grieving for his brother.
Tosiddogik and the surrounding lands have been made a barony.
-The ability to appoint a champion may come in handy
5th Opal
The fine dwarf is now very unhappy in light of the additional death of his spouse.
-I'll give him a superior quality gold statue for his room, of Urwumpe the dwarf admiring emus.
24th Opal
The new mayor prohibits the export of spears.
We're in need of barrels to keep up booze production.
And brace yourselves, party incoming.
1st Obsidian
The cheese baroness is unhappy and pouting.
4th Obsidian
Our 'uninvited guest', the Simo, no longer appears on the unit list.
7th Obsidian
"Ranger cancels Attend Party: Getting food"
10th Obsidian
The statue of Urwumpe and emus did its work and cheered up our unhappy dwarf who only has a sister and a dog left.
14th Obsidian
Another party, this time organized by our chief medical dwarf.
A kobald thief appears. But he runs off as another arrives. The second is killed by the 'military'.
-(included in the military is also one Animal Trainer who recently gave birth after taking ballista arrows to the entire body)
15th Obsidian
A vile force of darkness has arrived! The largest invasion I have ever experienced by far!
16th Obsidian
The gate is closed as the invaders approach. I believe everyone made it in safely.
The baroness is the only one not at least Content but her rooms are improving.
19th Obsidian
The invaders are making a big move somewhere. Are they leaving already? Did our impenetrable walls deter them?
Ballista arrows are being assembled in case they're coming back around. This time we'll be ready.
23rd Obsidian
The invaders seem to have only regrouped north-west of the fortress. Out of line of our ballistas but no less menacing.
As a trigger-happy manager, I'm going back to seige operating duty...after this meal which seems to be mesmerizing me.