We are now trying to use channeling to help stop the flooding.


During the process, Star Guarded took several falls, but is no worse for wear.


We dug out a tube to send most of the water into the caverns.


Screaming Idiot... doesn't take falls as well as Star Guarded does.

Flooding of the lower levels as gone from "Dangerous" to "Annoying"


DAMM, helping dwarves get closer to the equipment!



My SCIENCE! You get a bucket, fill it with water, and give it to a patient! WE HAVE WATER TO SPARE!


Some migrants chose to .......

(Part destroyed from water damage)

... will drown in subterranean super heated rock in about a cycle.




Tyskil might be under the influence of a HUNTER pyschic using mind control. Be sure to watch her carefully.


Stage 2 of Project D is complete!

Iridium wrote :-

Journal of Iridium Dumatalath, Hipstress Supreme
21st Obsidian, 271

I've had to resort to carving journal entries onto random walls. There's no paper around here, I'm pretty sure the letters I see the other dwarves passing back and forth are written on bleached leather. Maybe it's elf leather, then they wouldn't need to bleach it. Maybe I could talk one of the leatherworkers to make me an Elfskine notebook....

This place was supposed to be cool but it's just as lame as anywhere else. There was some madman overseer who went nuts and killed a few people, and in checking out their engravings and statues (total sellout artists by the way, so lame) it seems like there have been a lot. That's such bullshit! Every fortress has all of these crazy overseers killing everyone. I heard of this one where this guy went nuts for those really big arrow things, whatever they're called. Killed everyone! They're still dying with the new guy too. This place is so mainstream. I mean, literally, they drowned. There's water everywhere.

What is it with these people? Sometimes I think I'm the only sane one must most of them seem kinda normal until they become overseers. Except for this one guy, Peppermint or something, he's nuts too. Apparently he killed some elf prince on a war unicorn just by looking at it.

I think I'm going to try to survive as long as I can, but like, ironically.

Octavian wrote :-

Journal of Octavian Galleychapels

2nd Granite, 271

I'm really excited today - I just found out that Charlie72 has taken leadership of the fortress. This is truly a great day for Gemclod. Since SCIENCE TEAM is sure to be at least twice as rational as the crazed dwarf who's just finished some sort of addition to the swamp in fortress over our Mondul-damned heads, I'm confident a more science-oriented administration will be what this fortress needs to truly live up to its place as the last bastion of The Famous Palisade.

1st Slate, 271

So apparently the team that gave us improved crossbow targeting hasn't realized that generally, one shouldn't subject levers to the trail-and-error of the scientific metho...

(archivist's note: the rest of the volume appears to have been irreparably damaged by water, perhaps related to the Vile Flood of 271)

Charlie72 wrote :-

Historical Note

Thought the exact records, by looking at the notes of past and future overseers, we were able to find out who was in the immigration wave of 3-271.


Phoenix Taichou the wood burner


Maxmaps the engineer


Karthan the hunter



Bicyclearms the fish dissector


Grey Hunter the stonecrafter


DarkHorse the fish cleaner


Wvernil the stonecrafer


KoffeeKup the metalcrafter


and ToxicFrog the weaponsmith


Many were reassigned to mining and masonry due to lack of need for their jobs.


Also, at some point in time, Random Stranger name was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with another Random Stranger