Owner: Osustsodel "The Tame Shields"
Parent Civ: Turquoise Trammels
Region: Forest of Saffron

The Dwarves of the Turquoise Tramells are determined to settle the Forest of Saffron and contain the evil on the nearby Trifling Prairie. This expedition is being sent to a site that promises all the resources they can handle, but a nearby sinister land and a aquifer.

Chronicles

Year 261
Embark dropped us right in the middle of wormy tendrils. Thankfully there is a nearby non-sinister cliff. We were immediately assaulted by undead barn owls which were fought off.

Aquifer is the first layer beneath the surface that doesn't leave much room to dig.

Got everything inside. Started building a pump. Slaughtered the horse and water buffalo. Lost our axedwarf and our wood cutter to an undead alligator snapping turtle. Instituting "safe burrow" restrictions for all dwarves.

Winter
Not much to note.

Year 262
Spring
One level of aquifer done and sealed off. We have walled off the surface entirely except for 1 door. Can't build a lever because we have no stone.

We lost another dwarf. Fell in and drown while working on the aquifer.

Switching to plug method because there seems to be two layers of aquifer. This will be done from higher up on the cliff. Migrants arrive, really? Under these condition?

Autumn
Caravan came. More migrants. Why are they coming here? We are a one level fort in a sinister land with no resources. winter has caused the water we exposed in the aquifer with the plug to freeze. We have lost the axe and both picks. Abandoning the fort because cant make further progress without them.

Owner: The Destined Rocks

A second expedition is being sent almost immediately. They are leaving the anvil and taking instead two axes, two crossbows, 2 quivers. Also adding 4 stone so we can make a mechanism and build a secure gate. Tossed out the dimplecups, milk and plaster.

Chronicles

Year 262
Attacked by skeletons, lost both axedwarves already. Started reclaiming items inside the fort. Down to two dwarves before finished cleaning and moving the embarked goods inside. Now worse off than before. A water buffalo skeleton did the final dwarves in.

Owner: The Bronze Flags

An expedition of grizzled veterans. All armed. All with leather armor, skills pretty much just military ones.

Chronicles

Year 263
The expedition was slaughtered mercilessly by the water buffalo skeleton before they could even enter the fort doors, they didn't even get weapons out of the wagon. Shortest embark ever.

Giving up on the site.

Owner: The Fence of Moistening

Chronicles

Year 266
Immedatly ambushed by a yak skeleton. it kills 6 of the 7. One of our corpses rises and attacks our own yak. The last dwarf gets in a fight with part of an undead helmet snake. A dog skeleton joins in vs the yak. There are 15 undead now. The last dwarf is so injured he cant move. A cat comes over and does him in.

Group: The Matched Boot Fort: Irled "newrack"

moved north just enough to get away from the death zone. Attacked by a tiercel corpse. Tried to drop the wagon. Failed. Lost a miner in aquifer that iced over. Abandoned.