Well-oiled Rube Goldberg Machine

Today, I was looking at the trade depot, thinking about how great it looks. Then I looked down the entryway and thought: "Huh... that doesn't look wide enough for a caravan. I measured the opening and realized it needed to be three times as wide as it is. I immediately set to work resolving the issue with my pick.

--Kivish Etascilob, Expedition Leader/Miner
20th Limestone, 251, 17:52


My husband Nish and I moved here to Zustashmonom (which they call "Ancientpapers" here) about three months ago. He is a doctor, the best one around. Our 4 year old son Sodel is already so strong! Perhaps he will be a woodcutter like me, or maybe he will join the military. Anyway, I got up this morning and there was an order to chop down several hundred trees. This is going to be a long week.
--Edëm Kantekkud
27th Limestone, 251



This plase is grate! I love it heer so much. :) Im pretty shy, but peepol tok to me enyway. Thay are very nice too me. The onle thing we need arownd heer is mor chares.
--Mafol Cattensterus


My wife Dodók and I just arrived here a few months past. It's okay I guess. There isn't enough alcohol or chairs, and there's too many vermin. Something woke me in the middle of the night, too. The wife seems to be having a better time of it, though. Weirdest thing happened recently. Kivish comes up to me and says: "Hello there, Iden. We've been looking for someone to fill the position of broker, and we think you're the best candidate." Dunno what he wants me to talk to the traders for. I don't even know what any of this stuff is worth! I guess being a gem setter makes people assume you know something about how much your craft sells for. We haven't been doing much with gems yet, so I was also assigned to create mechanisms. Frustrating task when you don't know how the little buggers work. I ended up throwing a couple of them across the room.
--Iden Oslankifed, Gem Setter/Broker
1st Sandstone, 251


While I was out working on the trees, I was interrupted by a big green parrot. It looked like it wanted to speak with me...
--Edëm Kantekkud
10th Sandstone, 251

New format, now with less boring (for me)!

Okay, I'd really like to get back into the Dwarf Fortress blog posts, but I think I'll be changing up the format a bit. I really didn't like doing the bios, and they felt rather dry in comparison with the actual story. If I just left them out though, there wouldn't be much in the way of character development.

I think that I would like instead to do a "journal entry" format for individual dwarves, possibly in addition to the overall story, but more likely as the entire content of the blog. I believe this will not only make the series more personal, but will also allow me to add more detail as the story is looked at from multiple perspectives.

There will probably be several short entries from multiple dwarves in each post.