I've run out of wood again and I need more to complete my monument. No matter - I have more important issues on my plate. He says he did not do it, but it is quite suspicious nonetheless. I did not catch the details, but 'Holistic Detective' was seen in the area at the time. I would need plenty of strong backs if I was going to complete the Tribute. Thankfully, around 30 other dwarves had arrived at the same time. I gave them what they wanted as quickly as I could and turned my thoughts back to the Tribute, progress on which had stalled since the arrival of the royalty. The nobles immediately started acting like they owned the place, demanding the best rooms and a myriad other useless trinkets. Not long after the goblins were taken care of, some migrants arrived. I paid no mind to the details - as long as the pests were taken care of I could concentrate on the construction of the Tribute. While Nemo2342 attacked the group to the south, singlehandedly taking them down: Mofeta completely destroyed the goblins to the north with his adamantine spear: I gave him command of half of the original six dwarf squad (all that was left of the once mighty Righteous Barricades), and sent him on his way. Such needless distractions! I mentioned them to HolisticDetective, but he decided to choose the opportunity to take a nap, and as the rest of his squad seemed to like watching him sleep I decided to delegate the job to Nemo2342. Shortly afterwards a band of Goblins arrived to lay siege. I ordered the military to seize the entire caravans' supplies - there was no time to waste bartering with the Elves when there was a Tribute to construct! Thankfully, an Elven caravan arrived almost immediately, bringing much needed wood: I immediately drafted everyone into a masonry team and began work - there was no need to tend the fields or work the forges - Headshoots could survive for years on its existing stockpiles. I have only seven workers with which to build the monument, and almost no wood.

Unfortunately, things are worse than I thought. It came to me in a dream, and upon waking I immediately began drawing up the design. I have plans, grand plans for the Tribute to our fallen brethren. Here begins the journal of Spoonboy Bodicesaves, son of Pimpmust Ringpacked. Spoonboy was a troubled child when he assumed the mantle, having lost his parents and two sisters to the demons, and his first thought upon taking control was to create a fitting tribute to his fallen family, and of course the dozens of others who lost their lives in the tragedy. And so it was that the fate of Headshoots was entrusted to 'Spoonboy' Bodicesaves, sole surviving child of 'Pimpmust' Ringpacked and 'Apotheosis' Inkedmyth.

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