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Dwarf Fortress => DF Community Games & Stories => Topic started by: ptb_ptb on August 30, 2014, 04:58:27 am
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SPRING (Season 1)
copper battle axe x 2
copper picks x 2
pig tail seeds x 25
pig tail fiber thread x 10
blueberries x 228
cat (male) x 1
cat (female) x 1
ram x 1
ewe x 2
Proficient grower x 2
Proficient Diagnostician
Adequate Wound Dresser
Adequate Surgeon
Adequate Bone Doctor
Adequate Suturer
Proficient Appraiser
Proficient Organizer
Proficient Record Keeper
Proficient Clothier
Proficient Miner
Trying my hand with shearing this time.
My new home. In a first for this series, it has a natural 6 z-level waterfall and is in a cooler climate than usual.
(http://imagr.eu/up/540184de29f16_newhome.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/540184de29f16_newhome.png)
I strike lucky this embark - the wagon is inside the fortress. That will save a lot of time usually wasted on hauling the stuff inside.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401856d630aa_wagon.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401856d630aa_wagon.png)
By the time Spring ends I'm just about to shut the fortress to the outside world.
(http://imagr.eu/up/54019ece84191_summer.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/54019ece84191_summer.png)
I have water access, sort of, and have just dampened the first room for underground farming.
(http://imagr.eu/up/54019f9338102_water.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/54019f9338102_water.png)
I have good stocks of blueberries, blueberry seeds and blueberry wine. Basically, my dwarves will be turning blue. What I don't have is pasture for my sheep.
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SUMMER (Season 2)
Right at the beginning of summer, before the hole is filled in the fortress wall, a vile force
of darkness arrives. I panic and turn everybody's tasks off, except for masonry.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401a1997ee3f_safe.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401a1997ee3f_safe.png)
SAFE! That was too close.
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Go you! Glad the day was saved.
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AUTUMN (Season 3)
Autumn snuck in when I wasn't looking. I've been busy.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401c8591e7ae_safefortress.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401c8591e7ae_safefortress.png)
My sheep have (barely) enough grazing, and have had adorable little lambs.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401c8c49d7d1_farms.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401c8c49d7d1_farms.png)
Between them and the pig tail farm I have quite a supply of cloth. Farming is still a pain in the butt, though. Along the way I have picked up some gold and lignite. I need to get some proper rooms up now. I'll also be trying to organize my blueberry farm a bit better and make it a decent size.
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WINTER (Season 3)
Not much happening. Except there is a giant olm lurking below.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401d2a13836d_olm.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401d2a13836d_olm.png)
It's safely blocked away, but I'd rather get revenge on it for all the dwarves who have fallen to giant olms before.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401d337e9b6a_cagetraps.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401d337e9b6a_cagetraps.png)
I place a crap load of cage traps on the route up to the fortress and carefully unblock the route down... nothing happens. Obviously it isn't very hungry.
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SPRING (Season 5)
Just found the last dwarven liaison to visit ... dehydrated to death. Oops. Well, he should have said if he wanted a drink!
(http://imagr.eu/up/5401d67884108_road.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5401d67884108_road.png)
There is a great dwarven highway under my fortress, leaving my territory in two directions. I put up drawbridges to block both entrances and hang a sign saying "NO SOLICITING". Apparently that is an ancient ritual writing to keep elves carrying flower pots out.
Disaster strikes!
Kadol Akmamber, Stray Cat (Tame) has adopted Bomrek Akgosducim, Ranger.
Bomrek has succumbed to Cutie-Wootie-Syndrome. For the sake of the fortress all other cats must be isolated from him lest his condition worsen.
Finally, I begin to completely wall off the underground highway from the cavern on either side of it.
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SUMMER (Season 6)
The cage traps caught 4 troglodytes while I was still walling off the highway. Not sure what to do with them, maybe I'll build a room for some marksdwarves to use for target practice.
A giant bat attacks! Only one dwarf seems to be wounded, but I decide to get that hospital area up and running. Shortly afterwards the first dwarf baby of the fortress is born.
The dehydrated dwarven liaison came back to haunt the fortress. I should have guessed he'd be the sort of dwarf to hold a grudge.
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AUTUMN (Season 6)
The fortresses ghostly visitor is put to rest.
A giant cave spider attacks one of my miners, viciously wounding him but the dwarf managed to kill it. I put my two doctor hopefuls on notice that they are needed ... but neither seems to want to actually help. The hospital bed remains unused.
WINTER (Season 7)
I continue to block off the highway from the cavern. I have to go up a lot of z-levels to stop giants bats and other flyers from getting in.
My wounded, and abandoned, miner is found dead. [So much for Obama Care/typical NHS/if only he could have afforded health insurance] <- delete to taste.
The Forgotten Beast Spun has come! A huge blob composed of steam. It has two stubby tails and it has a bloated body.
Building canceled on account of forgotten beast. I evacuate everyone and block off the stairwell just in time - it looks like this one is a tracker. Steam doesn't seem as if it would be that tough, though. Maybe I should wait and see if it picks a fight with a troglodyte and loses.
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SPRING (Season 5)
Not much happening, I start work on a temporary exit for the underground water course. Later
it will be more interesting with lots of waterfalls.
A ghostly visitor reminds me that I haven't placed the memorial slab for my deceased miner. I
check to see if it is already engraved, and my psychic link tells me that the Forgotten Beast
Spun is dead. Huh. I guess I can open up the cavern again.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5402ff129fee8_Spun.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5402ff129fee8_Spun.png)
I decide not to grace Spun with a memorial slab at this time.
The elves ambush! Despite the fact that I've barely cut down three trees above ground since I started. I am not overly concerned at this development.
(http://imagr.eu/up/5403196688657_rooms.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5403196688657_rooms.png)
My dwarves are getting three small rooms each. Still a work in progress.
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Ptw
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SUMMER (Season 6)
A giant bat flies over the still incomplete walls around the highway. Minor injuries to one dwarf only ... I think.
Little baby Dishmab grew up to be a fine dwarven child.
I've arranged for water to dump fertile mud on the two remaining rooms I set aside for underground farms. Some dwarves complained that it wasn't time for their annual bath, but I held firm.
I still haven't secured the underground highway by the end of Summer. That cavern has way too many z-levels. :P
AUTUMN (Season 7)
The ground level of my fortress has reached the 'messy' stage of its evolution.
(http://imagr.eu/up/540336c3ae97f_messy.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/540336c3ae97f_messy.png)
I promise myself, and the dwarves, that I'll organize stuff one day.
I have discovered that there are mysterious zones that divide the ground level of my fortress. Sand in one place will grow grass, sand one step to the right will not grow grass. My planters tell me it is futile to try to farm in the 'non grass' growing zone. I decide this is one of those mysteries that dwarf is not meant to know and dismiss it from my mind.
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WINTER (Season 8 )
One of my dwarves has been found dead. They didn't bother to tell me where, or what did him in.
I hold a brief ceremony before opening the floodgates to let the water flow through properly for the first time.
(http://imagr.eu/up/54033fe46f32d_water.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/54033fe46f32d_water.png)
Nothing much happens - it's winter outside and everything above ground is frozen.
Everybody has at least three meagre rooms. I promise them better things will follow. I slaughter a few sheep before they eat every last bit of grass.
I run out of barrels, and trees. I may need to authorize an excursion into the cavern for some tree chopping soon.
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SPRING (Season 9)
Five more troglodytes try to sneak into the fortress and are caught in cages.
I get some fungi wood and nobody dies ... (*does a quick recount of the dwarves*). Yup, nobody died.
SUMMER (Season 10)
I have a well / meeting room! About time. ;)
AUTUMN (Season 11)
WINTER (Season 12)
Yeah ... I've just been leaving those little blighters to do stuff while I read webcomics.
SPRING (Season 13)
I have elves AND goblins sieging at the same time! Pass the popcorn.
A giant olm appears just as I was about to finish walling off the cavern. I cancel all jobs in the area and watch carefully. It seems quite timid, so I place cage traps in likely places. I end up catching it, but one of my dwarves gets killed in the process. Not as timid as it looks.
My sheep and cat numbers are getting a bit high so fresh meat for everyone!
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SUMMER (Season 14)
Cave crocodile turns up and interrupts walling off the cavern. I hope there are some cage traps left active - most got wasted when a bunch of naked mole dogs ran into them.
Things ... did not go well. Did you know that dwarves will go to try to pickup equipment even if it is forbidden? Even if there is a cave crocodile in the way? Well, it seems they will.
(http://imagr.eu/up/54036d7b123d6_wall.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/54036d7b123d6_wall.png)
I gave up for now, and walled off the highway. If we get a dwarf adventurer trying to visit us that way, he'll just have to sod off.
(http://imagr.eu/up/54036dff5bd7f_wall2.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/54036dff5bd7f_wall2.png)
I got this close to finishing walling off the highway from the cavern. The dotted red lines show the bits of wall still to finish. Over which walked one Giant Olm, one Cave Crocodile and about a dozen naked mole dogs. :(
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AUTUMN (Season 15)
My dwarves are looking a bit raggedy around the edges. Time for some good old fashioned clothesmaking. I build a second clothes workshop and get going.
The Forgotten Beast Esnust Dazguslo has come! A gigantic scaly assassin bug. It has a long, curving horn and it has a bloated body.
Its eyes glow spring green. Its lilac scales are round and overlapping. Beware its poisonous bite!
My dwarven clairvoyance skills tell me it is not in an area where it will be able to reach the highway or the fortress. While I'm considering this, I look for the cave crocodile ... and fail to find it. Has it just wandered away? I decide not to reopen the wall and look for trouble.
I put up a memorial slab to Spun after all.
Mid-autumn and HOLY CRAP some migrants! They must not have been listening to the rumors. Two of them turn up, and (with some difficulty) I manage to get them both inside the fortress. I assign them three rooms each from those that 'have become available' recently.
Oh, and guess who also turned up? Another dwarven liaison. I tell him it's nice that he came to visit, but I'm not knocking down a wall just so he can leave.
... I'll prepare a blank stone slab for later. *sinister*
Rakust is walking around with no shoes or socks on! How shameful! I point out that there are a fine pair of *pig tail fiber shoe* on the stockpile, but he doesn't seem interested. If his trousers fall off as well I may have to take drastic action.
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WINTER (Season 16)
Rakust still insists on going around barefoot. Oh, wait, no he's finally wearing socks. But he's dropped his trousers. Things are getting serious.
Suddenly! Panic! The dwarf liaison has gone beserk. "It was inevitable". 14 civilians vs one axedwarf - blood will fly!
"A diplomat has left unhappy." No. Really?
As bodies start piling up, it occurs to me that I didn't handle this very well. I make a note in my journal. "Invest in liaison death traps."
Nuuuu!! My hunter starts spraying bolts like there's no tomorrow. I can only hope he will run out of ammo soon. I ask where he is holed up. "On the ammo stockpile." Oh the dwarfmanity!
(http://imagr.eu/up/5404321e9f5b6_postal.png) (http://imagr.eu/up/5404321e9f5b6_postal.png)
One of my dwarves throws a party. Way to read the mood there.
The bookkeeper likes fighting. He's actually having the time of his life, the sick bastard.
By the end of the season only four dwarves remain. I think Stakud "enjoyed starting a fist fight recently x 11" Logemdomas is the most likely to survive.
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SPRING (Season 17)
One more dwarf dies. By the end of the season the worst is at least 'fine' and they are capable of working. To distract them I release some naked mole dogs and let two of the dwarves go hunting.
SUMMER (Season 18)
Two migrants arrive!
AUTUMN (Season 19)
Five dwarves now. I find a (Steel shield), probably as used by the beserk axedwarf liaison. :/
Everything is extra messy. More migrants. Back up to 13.
WINTER (Season 20)
I just get the last of the migrants safely inside when another goblin seige starts. A good time for a break, I think.
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SPRING (Season 21)
I get another migrant. I leave him outside the walls and tell him I'll only let him in after he collects all the weapons, armor and stuff left behind by the previous years' invading forces. Sucker. It pays off - already he has found a copper crossbow and brought it next to the fort.
I've been releasing critters one cage at a time and training my dwarves to fight them. Also training my doctors to patch injuries. I can't work out why my soap industry is failing for a long time. Then I dismantle the ashery. Bucket after bucket of FROZEN lye. D'oh.
RELEASE THE WEB COLLECTORS! SET FREE THE HUNTERS!
I have finally, finally, double-checked-finished-for-sure the walling off of the highway and a bit of cavern from the rest of the cavern and the outside world.
One of my dwarves is wearing a loincloth under his trousers. What undwarvenly clothing item is this? None of my clothesmakers have heard of it.
I now have a small stack of reclaimed wooden bows. Can dwarves even use bows? Eh, whatever.
SUMMER (Season 22)
A vile force of darkness arrives! I guess I can let that guy outside in ... I give him the orders, he comes inside to the (sealed) room and I tell him to wall up the hole. He. Falls. Asleep.
Oh well. By some miracle the goblins fail to find him before he wakes up.
For the first time there is actual soap in the fortress! I've moved the soap making industry underground. As the stink levels drop we may see more babies arriving. And indeed there is a new addition to the fortress before the season ends.
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AUTUMN (Season 23)
An intrepid explorer descends the staircase down to the magma level. The unfortunate dwarves
who lived here before us have left one magma smelter. I immediately order the door to that
room locked - who knows what might come swimming out from under it.
WINTER (Season 24)
I have started, very carefully, 'harvesting' the steel anvils from the warrens under the
fortress.
SPRING (Season 25)
Working on a stockpile of steel battle axes and picks.
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WINTER (Season 28)
Ambushed by a forgotten beast. Only lost one dwarf, walled off the area it is in.
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SPRING (Season 33)
Migrants arrive. Three of them. It belatedly occurs to me that the reason nothing is getting
butchered is that I dismantled the butcher's workshop about a year ago.
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AUTUMN (Season 35)
A dwarven liaison actually escaped alive left. On the flip side, my planter wandered out at the same time to pickup equipment just at the moment a goblin invasion force arrived. Oh well.