Hey guys! So it's been almost two weeks since Unhelpful Observer started running, and I've got a lot to share with everyone! (Side note, we are still looking for a 7th person to take over Fridays. If you're interested, drop a comment!)
As of the time of this post, it's 14 Granite, 255, which means we've covered just over 5 years in two weeks! And they've certainly been some busy years. (I would include pictures with this, but the doc we stored our summaries in is being...uncooperative. Someone outta give it a hammering.)
We started the initial years of the fortress strong, with the discovery of both the magma sea, flux layers for steel manufacturing, and 3 adamantine spires!!! Sadly, the discovery of the spires lost us two brave dwarves.
Also set up was waterwheel power via a floodgate-controlled runoff from the main river, along with magma industry. We explored the caverns and set up a barrier wall to keep out any...unwanted guests. A good thing, as it happens, since over the next 4 years, we'd receive not one, not two, but three Forgotten Beasts!
Later in 253, we established a proper masoleum, and lost a dwarven child who went crazy due to an unmet need during a mood and had to be put down. More bedrooms were laid out to keep up with our growing population, and the first soap (The true mark of fortress maturity, in my humble opinion) was made.
Trade also boomed as well! Trading caravans from far and wide flow in and out of our trade depot like a river. Delegations to nearby settlements to demand tribute have unfortunately been rejected, but perhaps they will be brough to heel at a later point.
In fact, while trading with the Elves (filthy tree-shaggers that they are) one of our overseers discovered a long lost Dwarven artifact ring and built a special vault for it and our other artifacts....which the ring was promptly stolen out of by a Kobold. Dwarfs being what we are, the council of overseers decided to lie to everybody about it and set up a fake ring in the vault instead.
In 254, we had a unwelcome visit from a were-iguana child, Umci Thuthuista. One of the dwarven children nearby then proceeded to get in a fight with the fiend, and while she didn't kill the beast, she bloodied it enough and held her own long enough for a human spearman to deal the killing blow. Unfortunately, two citizens were bitten, and lacking holding cells, they were summarily executed to keep the infection from spreading with the next full moon.
Aside from that, not much else of note has occured besides the fact that the fort apparently somehow gained a Legendary Necromancer Chef, who has been locked in a sealed chamber beneath a temple for the fort's security. Updates will continue, but until then, keep Observing and stay Unhelpful!