(Apologies for the delay, after losing half a season of progess for a stupid reason, busy doing stuff outside and playing through two season, I hope I can make up for it and that this update will be worth the weight)
It's been a year since Lancesword was settled, it's now Spring of Year 27 in the 1st Centery. After immigrants from last summer and autumn, I'm now a leader of twenty other dwarves, making for a population 21.
I'll update on the important events that's happend since summer, and then I'll show the present layout of the fortress shortly afterwords.
- Firstly, A dwarven caravan arrived at lancesword but while I was able to make an agreement on what they'll bring next time, I failed to make any import trade with them.
Reason one is because I ordered to much stuff to bring to the trade depot that I might have traded, and Reason two was because by the time the haulers were done, the caravan was almost ready to leave and I just couldn't stop myself from taking care of the farm plots, I Tired! I probably should have let someone else do the farming and maybe make someone a tempory manger so I could be free to trade, but the caravan left and it wasn't too soon to before winter was coming.
I wouldn't want to admit it to anyone here but… I was freaking out when the carvan left, I suddenly felt desperate and I wanted so bad to change what was already done my emotions put a delay to my duty as a leader, but to our luck we were able to survive winter on just aumtumn fish and plant goods we gather outside, whatever respect I didn't feel for fisherdwarfs I have now thanks to Girlie, Plock and Ricther.
This was just a embarrassing mistake and I'm grateful it wasn't a fatal one. Because really, mistakes like just a part of life after all, but I can't afford to fail my dwafves when there's more to the risk then my pride.
- Secondly, at last spring Inferno commented on his title of "Militia Captain," the thing was well… There wasn't any actual Militia at the time I gave it to him, I just did it just incase there was a sudden attack and because he was the only dwarf with combat training, I gave him the job to attack if it was needed,
Fortunately the second immigrantion wave brought in enough willing dwaves to actually form a squad, so I had him retired from a very experienced miner to commander of the military sqaud "The Creative Apes." I asked him why he named it so and he told me that he and the others were going through words at random for name ideas and the creative apes sounded good.
Here they are doing combat training in the barracks, where they will ready their skills for when the time comes to hunt for game and defend our fortress.
Inferno told me he might rename the sqaud later if they come up with a better name, well I'll allow them to have whatever name they want, after all it's not going to be me that will be the running towards danger when a fateful day lays upon lancesword.
- Thirdly, one day at autumn I check on spider-byte to see how he's doing making the weapons and armor for our new sqaud, and at the time of which I told told him to make a simple iron helmet, he was furiously working as if his very life depended on it!
I tired to ask if he just had an agurement with lemming since I knew they had a grudge against each other for some reason but he wouldn't talked to me! I simply didn't knew what the matter was with him, not just that, but he was spending day and night to get this helmet done like this was the most important thing he would make in all of his days as a blacksmith.
Later when he finally finished, he yelled for me, lemming, and Original to come done and see the helmet, and me being oblivious to what he was exicted about, to my shock:He created a masterpiece!
He made the helmet as a testament to show that he now had everything it took to become one of the best blacksmiths in the Portentous Realm. I could hardly beileve that after only a few months of smithing he could forge something the had absolutely prefect symmetry!
While Original was likewise impressed, Lemming wouldn't admit it in front of him, but the both of them had been spend their months building very good furiture, some of the stuff they built that even had masterful crafting-ship as well, maybe they could one day build something that could stand next to byte's "Idzas Adilthabost"
Spider-Byte then told me that he was going to work his days trying to go even higher blacksmith, then I congratelated him and bid him good luck in his career to becoming a legendary blacksmith and told Original and Lemming to keep up the good work so they might one day be on the same level.