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Captain's Log. 23rd of Granite.
The siege persists, but does us little harm apart from cutting us off from the outside world.
However, one of our master craftsdwarves, Ast Yellshoots, became so disturbed by the fact that one of his works of art had gone missing that he lost his temper, destroying a floor grate and plunging himself into the cistern beneath the baths.
While I couldn't give two hoots about his precious artwork, I couldn't just leave him to drown. There was also the fact that he was still carrying his artifact amulet around to consider as well.
Also to consider was the fact that we had removed the lever that releases the water from the cistern, in order to relocate it to a better place, and that it had not yet been linked up.
This meant I had to remove the floodgate personally, before Ast drowned, and face the torrent of water myself...
The raging torrent blasted me back against the wall, and poured out into the abyss central to the Stairwell of Sorrow.
Many cats died from the water washing them into the abyss, but fortunately no dwarves.
It was all, unfortunately, too late for Ast, who drowned while the Cistern was still emptying.
It didn't mean the task of emptying it did not have to be done, however, since nobody wants to bathe with a corpse gazing up at them.