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19th of Opal 238
You've finally got your equipment together, such as it is. Now it's time for action and adventure! In the rush of excitement, you've forgotten where you were going to go. Perhaps some of your friends here can remind you.

I arrived in Necrogear after travelling from Axeshin to the west in hope to find an acquaintance; my ancient home was completely devoid of life since I last had checked a couple of years ago. Where did everyone go? I've many friends in Friendlydevils who I know since my earliest childhood, but it is a cursed place. Have all lost their mind and went there?

20th of Opal 238
Only after one day of travelling on a very dangerous path to Friendlydevils, I arrived at this cursed mountain of doom. It is currently snowing.
Approaching the shores of the fortress, I encounter what probably used to be a former lumberyard. Further investigation reveals that this place is litered with mangled skeletons, what an eerily sight. Climbing the mountain reveals some structures and I found a gate, but it is tightly closed.
Climbing further up I encountered the first living dwarf since I don't know how long. Mosus Consructpointy is a merchant. We talked a bit and he apparently a resident of Friendlytreason. Also he mentioned that an individual named Number 18 wants Shakenwhirls the steel speer returned. I asked him to join me but he would rather wait here until the gate opens.
I seem have to reached what looks like the mountain top, the sky is dark and my sight does not penetrate it.
Here I find a small hole that is leading to a flickering heat source, I climb down, avoiding the red glowing fluid and find an open door.
There are no traces of sunlight here, but the torches allow me to see. The first hall has two gold statues of pigs? And they are unnaturally contorted.. Why would the citizens of Friendlytreason worship such a low-life of an animal, moreover in a crippled state? Both statues also hold a rendition of 'Number 2', the statues had been placed here last year. What looks like the main staicase also has exceptionally well detailed floors of pigs.
I enter a very cozy housing with an artifcat figurine, how pleasant it is to look at.
Next is a room that has a whole in it.. but nothing more.
Before I decide to explore the stairways I went upstairs, this must have been the first mining operation conducted on this mountain according to the inscription (founding year). The next floor holds a column with a horrid engraving on it, from 194. What dreadful activities must have happened in this fortress is beyond my imagination.
I stroll to a leftern pathway that leads to complex, here I find a tree shield that shows some wear:
the display case here contains two mugs. Apparently the symbol of Friendlytreason is an old book about mating called The Tongs of Love... The complex also is a memorial hall dedicated to Bombyx Mori.
I leave the complex and pass by some smithy, there is another staircase that leads down. Upon further exploring I encounter an obese dwarf who calls himself 31. He wears an aluminium helmet with an image of 30 circles:
apparently the dwarfes here not only call themselfes by numbers but also are strangely attached to helmets that represent these numbers. The dwarf looks very injured and has sewn into his injuries a lot save spider silk threads. I follow the dwarf and enter into what looks like a very fancy throne room.
After some talking I figured to meet the locals in the tavern. However, the tavern was quite empty, and I only found strolling merchants and yaks. On my search for others I went into the caverns and saw strangely misshaped merchants hunting crundles. Following the carvings I managed to find the dormitories...

- When exploring the fortress I found a baby on the floor and tried to pick it up, searched through all the adventure hotkeys.. well I found x Perform action but decided not to use my natural ability to spit.
- In the dormitories I was handing over white stork bone rings for making myself popular, but of no avail did anyone join my adventures. I tried to joke "at least it doesn't rain down here" and again my charisma was not enough. After a while I performed a poem and this apparently convinced anyone to join me as entertainer

https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16507

After examining the old excavation site, number 2 erected a plan to prevent wildlife from a potential 4th cavern breach to infiltrate the fortress. The dwarves had never dug deeper and even though the magma prevented further downwards digging, the excavation material seemed to be durable enough to withstand the heat.

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Year 238. As it stands, we are facing 20674 goblins:

Historical figures remaining (note the last polar bear man):

Events by type in Friendlytreason:

This is an all-inclusive forum, we care about all creatures in Gomathsil, doesn't matter caste, race or size!

Also, wtf:

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Btw I'm at incredible 48 FPS! Is it maybe because so much cleaning has been made? The fortress is in top shape!

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It has been only a small siege of about 20 goblins.

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Number 2: A very distressed Number 5 approached me running and screaming that horrible creatures emerged from the 4th cavern layer. I tried to calm him down but he wouldn't listen. We activated all gears in order to close off the 4th cavern layer, just in case. What can be more horrible than a couple of zombies? He didn't see anything actually, only heard very frightening noises.
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Number 2: Number 5 would not stop being in panic about yesterdays incident. I already warned him that he would be spending time with the pigs soon, but it made me think that we should probably investigate a little further. Number 5 usually has his head on the shoulders, and if he thinks this must be a new kind of monstrosity, maybe we can use this to our advantage.
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Number 2: I decided to see how the current goblin visitors will fare against our new monstrosity. The gate that connects the surface with cavern 4 is not open...

The demons did a very short work of the goblins, on the same day there are no more remaining forces.

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Are you also running df on macOS? I've the same issue with retina screenshots (2x the normal size)

...teeth which may, or may not, belong to you...

That has actual historical truth to it. Google reveals "George Washington's teeth"

A fly chitin amulet

Actual flies? Wow. With sponge sponge and an image of dwarves in pixie leather

dictator for life, for a year

xD

How.. how do you assign **helms** to pigs?

EDIT: I updated the OP. So who is our next overseer?

In completely unrelated news, I've been playing the game non-canonically

Would you mind share your alternative safe file? I'm curious about these demons.

Well well, greetings fellow! Welcome to Friendlytreason! We hope you're ready for a warm ungodly welcome and a whole heap of fun! From the rolling hills to the lochs and glens, there's plenty to explore and enjoy. So, dinnae fash yersels, get ready for a grand adventure!
*chatgpt*

You can start right ahead nobody is in line

Oh I only noticed now that there was a database loss http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=180566.0, so here is the fortress in year 231 https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16258

I sealed off all of the edge entrances of the second cavern layer and began draining it. We encountered several resistant undead creatures that had taken refuge in the water and up in the trees. After dispatching numerous troglodytes, molemarians, bugbats, crundles, trolls, FB tombsdepth, maneras, and dralthas, I thought it wise to slaughter any non-feline animals in the fortress in order to reduce lag.

Avolitionbrit was killed by an unhappy hammer lord https://i.imgur.com/IfobjX5.png who also killed other dwarves. He was thusly expelled. Bye bye https://i.imgur.com/FnvibbE.png

I've finally figured out a way how to get rid of the cave underwater trees at the edge of the map DWARFEN SCIENCE COMMENCE:
Step 1) Install a ballista on the same level as the branch https://i.imgur.com/fxbPMg1.png pointing to the branch
Step 2) Create a passage for a ballista arrow to the branch. In my case the water is leaving the map one z below through a fortification. Floodgates or gates might be useful to control the flow of water
Step 3) Shoot https://i.imgur.com/82sh3dF.png. Ballista arrows don't fly necessarily straight, building the ballista closer to the branch might help
Step 4) Enjoy your tree free edge

Sidenote: Soon after the tree disappeared of course a ton of new monsters entered the fortress. So having the military stationed closed by and builders ready to close off the edge again might be useful.
Sidenote: Ballista arrows disappear after leaving the edge of the map