1st Granite, Spring 601 - The year started peacefully and new dwarves found their way to our fort.  The outer walls and bridges are nearing completion.

23rd Felsite - The werepanda Snodub Mugubdang attacks the fort. The raised drawbridges were in place, but not yet hooked up to levers for retraction.  So begins the horrors of Felsite, Hematite and Malachite of 601 and the loss of many dwarves.  At the start of the attack, there were 21-25 dwarves in the fort.

The initial fighting actually went pretty well as the dwarves and dogs swarmed the werepanda and beat it down.  Many were injured so I rushed to build a hospital zone, place beds and tables in it, and make buckets, splints and crutches and soap.  It looked like the worst was over.

19th Hematite - All hell breaks loose for three days as two or three dwarves transform into werepandas and attack other people in the fortress.  Population drops quickly to just 12-15 dwarves as the recovering wounded are slaughtered in the hospital.

23rd Hematite - Werebeasts transform back to dwarves.  Tantrums are thrown.  More wounded are brought to the hospital, a new chief medical dwarf is named.  More coffins are built and more dead are buried.

17th Malachite - Fighting starts up again.  More deaths.  Werepanda Woodcutter Degel Eggutatir Stigil Odur fights and kills numerous dwarves before bleeding to death.

20th Malachite - Fighting ends.  The remaining six dwarves start burying the dead.

2nd Galena (late-summer) - Clean-up after the disaster of the last three months.  Here is the event log from 14th Malachite to 2nd Galena.

Remaining dwarves.  It is very possible that there are still infected among us, we will find out in late-Galena.  Specifically Lokum Kalankol is probably infected and needs to be walled in.

The priority of the moment is getting dwarves buried and caring for the injured.  There is plenty of food and drink in the stockpiles to last a few years.

Coffins placed and occupied:

1. Ingish Mondulbim
2. 'Farmer Zasit" Thimshurkeska
3. Unib Amasrakust
4. Ineth Degellar
5. 'Woodsy Kel' Nosinginod
6. Kivish Satcatten
7. 'Miner Bembul' Eralthimshur
8. 'Miner Kib' Kubukrosat
9. Onget Dodokegen
10. Monom Tobulasob
11. Thob Koltad
12. Doren Oltarkod (child)
13. Rovod Rovodstettad
14. 'Doc Kol' Dastotmorul
15. 'Crafter Nish' Erushdakon (Handleomen) the Silver Limbs of Quickness
16. 'Broker Mafol' Toralsolon
17. Domas Ostathmuthkat
18. Sodel Tetothoddom
19. Goden Idroldeth
20. 'Doc Id' Rakustlal
21. Lorbam Bomreketes

5th Galena - Lokum Kalankol has been walled in.  He was made the only lever-puller in the fort, a lever was built, and placed on repeat while walls were built around him.  Soon there will be only five dwarves.

I've double-checked the combat logs and it remains to be seen whether any other dwarf has been infected by the werepanda virus.  The tantrums are over and the remaining dwarves are between fine and content.  All drawbridges are up, but the wall is only 1Z tall in places so enemies could climb over.  It will be a priority to fix that issue once the dead are buried and we get past 20th Galena.

15th Galena - Lokum Kalankol transformed into a werepanda.  No other transformations so we might make it to the end of Galena without trouble.

1st Limestone - Made it to autumn without any more disasters, the fortress might be salvaged.  Lokum is still locked in his 1x1 cell, pulling the lever on repeat.  Eventually he will likely starve to death or go mad.  Going to cautiously unlock one of the bridges and wait for the caravan.

14th Limestone - Caravan and liaison have arrived.  Lokum still alive and is a werepanda again in his cell.  As a dwarf he is starting to show signs of thirst.

20th Limestone - Traded with the caravan.  Got about 4800 of stuff for about 9000 of wooden trap components, wheelbarrows, minecarts and other odds and ends.

With only four dwarves able to work, I half expect an explosion of poults, goslings and peachicks.

Amusingly, the liaison brings us news from our own fort.

With 21 deaths in the fortress over the last few months, I would guess that we will not see any migrants.

8th Sandstone - Lokum throws a tantrum in his 1x1 cell.

16th Sandstone - Migrants surprise!  Unfortunately, two of the arrivals are just children, so the working population only went up to 12 dwarves.

3rd Opal - Casualty #22 as Eshtan Cattenastel succumbs to melancholy and dies of dehydration. Meanwhile, Lokum in his cell is ecstatic because he threw something.

4th Obsidian - It is starting to look like Lokum will never starve/dehydrate in his cell.  He may, however, go mad at some point.