Post by: Spish on April 21, 2016, 06:48:51 pm
BLOODYHELLS
BATTLEFAILED: THE REVIVAL
BATTLEFAILED: THE REVIVAL
"The king's terms were laid out simply. The Lustrous Artifact had a use for dwarves like us; that is, hardened convicts with no families or anything to lose. We would be the first in line to lead an expedition into the darkest corners of Aluonra. To carve out an outpost, lay claim the untold riches that lay buried there, and put a stop to the dwarf necromancer Tosid Rushaxe and his clan. It was either this, or "the hammer" we were told. The death sentence, or a shot at everlasting glory? An easy enough choice... or so we thought at the time. How little we knew...
And thus, we set out upon our suicide mission. Over the Infected Hills, across the Murk of Pain, through the Forest of Murders, until at last we arrived at our destination: the heart of the necromancer's accursed domain. It's safe to say, we've been through a lot to have come this far. Oh, the sights we've seen! Death... death and horror beyond words! But nothing could've prepared us for the hells that awaited..."
—Some dead guy
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This is a tribute of sorts to the classic Battlefailed series. For the uninitiated, I would recommend making yourself acquainted with the saga's rich, !!FUN!! filled history.
Battlefailed (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57052.0) - Failcannon (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64258.0) - Hellcannon (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=96005.0) - Horrorfailed (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=114971.0)
Many of the image links are missing from the original topics. Fortunately, there is a .doc archive of Battlefailed (http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=10721), helpfully restored by Zuglarkun.
The Embark:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The Turn List:
(Playing - Completed - Partially Completed - Skipped)
1. Sanctume 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6956239#msg6956239) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6957221#msg6957221) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6958406#msg6958406) 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6958685#msg6958685) 5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6959571#msg6959571) 6 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6960655#msg6960655)
2. Spish 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6979155#msg6979155) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6990693#msg6990693)
3. Imic 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6991916#msg6991916) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6997279#msg6997279)
4. Gwolfski 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7028284#msg7028284) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7029783#msg7029783)
5. Iamblichos
6. TheFlame52 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7034244#msg7034244) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035557#msg7035557) Senshukan's Diary (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035557#msg7035557) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035868#msg7035868)4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035899#msg7035899) 5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035955#msg7035955) 6 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7037483#msg7037483) 7 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7037565#msg7037565) 8 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7038576#msg7038576)
7. Archereon 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7040451#msg7040451) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7042776#msg7042776) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7043845#msg7043845) 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7046702#msg7046702) 5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7051485#msg7051485) 6 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7063025#msg7063025) 7 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7067862#msg7067862) S (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7073455#msg7073455)
8. Eric Blank 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7075374#msg7075374) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7076720#msg7076720) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7078716#msg7078716) 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7079007#msg7079007) 5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7080184#msg7080184) 6 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7083350#msg7083350) 7 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7084278#msg7084278) 8 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7085460#msg7085460) 9 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7086937#msg7086937)
9. TheImmortalRyukan
10. Clover Magic
11. Puzzlebark
12. Deus Asmoth 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7118032#msg7118032) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7137239#msg7137239) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7149041#msg7149041)
13. Crashmaster 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7162216#msg7162216) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7163564#msg7163564) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7167876#msg7167876) 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7172876#msg7172876) 5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7175415#msg7175415) 6 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7179082#msg7179082) 7 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7183214#msg7183214) 8 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7184507#msg7184507) S (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7186570#msg7186570) 9 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7197822#msg7197822)
14. Zuglarkun 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7204773#msg7204773) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7218093#msg7218093) S (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7230005#msg7230005) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7232453#msg7232453) 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7232769#msg7232769)
15. snackfox
16. Dozebôm Lolumzalìs
17. Lebo 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7281374#msg7281374) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7288166#msg7288166) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7288770#msg7288770) 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7292013#msg7292013)
18. TheError
19. Spriggans
20. Ghills 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7312056#msg7312056) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7320022#msg7320022)
21. NCommander 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7328075#msg7328075)
22. The Master
23. Fleeting Frames 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7344685#msg7344685) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7352036#msg7352036) 3 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7358778#msg7358778)
24. DoritioMaster
25. Gwolfski
26. TheFlame52
27. Eric Blank
28. puterking
29. Evaris
30. Kamani
Players have three days to claim the save once they've been reached on the list, and two weeks to play the year before I bring the hammer down. I am, however, willing to extend the deadline if necessary. If you're too busy to play, you are allowed to move yourself further down the list... provided you have not been skipped.
...this page is partially constructed.
Post by: Spish on April 21, 2016, 06:49:08 pm
Arthropleura, Elf
Evaris
Kamani
(I'll need to look over the save and update this next time I get the chance)
Post by: Clover Magic on April 21, 2016, 06:58:34 pm
Post by: Twinwolf on April 21, 2016, 06:59:49 pm
Not going to ask for a turn, but a dorf would be nice.
Post by: Sanctume on April 21, 2016, 07:03:00 pm
Shall I download the latest LNP PE posted today also? Yeah, I might as well.
edit: LNP taking too long to download so I'll start it using 0.42.06-r02
Post by: TheFlame52 on April 21, 2016, 07:32:14 pm
Post by: Sanctume on April 21, 2016, 07:52:33 pm
The Dorfed List
(dorfed) Imic - Miner/Mason
(dorfed) Niner, "Glorious Overlord" - Militiadwarf
(dorfed) Ryukan, Bookkeeper
(dorfed) Sanctume
(dorfed) Spish - Sheriff
(dorfed) Taupe, Woodcutter/Woodburner
(dorfed) TheFlame52, any founder of smith
The Pending Dorf List:
Andreus, "Endlessly Resurrected" - Requires a private library area
Archereon, Elf
Clover Magic
Twinwolf
Zuglarkun
First thing, what do we have?
[Gender FM] [Name] [Last] (dream) preferences.
[skill lists]
1. F
Competent Hammerdwarf, Competent Shield, Adequate Dodger
2. F
Novice: Woodcutter, Diagnostician, Surgeon, Bone Doctor, Suturer, Cook, Bone Carver, Adequate Dodger
3. F
Competent Mason, Adequate Miner, Novice Building Designer, Adequate Dodger
4. M
Competent Engraver, Adequate Miner, Novice Building Designer, Adequate Dodger
5. M
Novice: Grower, Soaper, Potash Maker, Lye Maker, Brewer, Butcher, Tanner, Adequate Dodger
6. M
Novice Carpenter, Woodcutter, Wood Burner, Proficient Dodger
7. F
Novice: Wood Crafter, Stone Crafter, Record Keeping, Organizer, Appraiser, Negotiator, Dodger.
The current expedition leader.
We all happy with this?
The immediate surroundings indicate there is a Giant Osprey Corpse flying high up to the northwest, and a Giant Snail Corpse closer to the south east.
Post by: Puzzlebark on April 21, 2016, 07:53:02 pm
Post by: Spish on April 21, 2016, 08:25:28 pm
I aske din the other thread, but might I have a dorf and a turn? :xWhoops, something was bound to get lost in all the copying and pasting. Won't happen again.
Post by: Taupe on April 21, 2016, 08:30:41 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on April 21, 2016, 09:06:59 pm
Post by: Spish on April 23, 2016, 12:44:31 am
Post by: Sanctume on April 23, 2016, 12:31:37 pm
The crash was seemingly eating up CPU. DThreapist or DF is in constant "mouse cursor hourglass" as if it's waiting for something.
Ctrl+alt+delete, and end process and the progress was lost.
Anyway, I'm feeling refreshed after playing some XCOM2 last night instead.
/ooc
Only on the 2nd month Slate, and all I can report is "we're still alive."
Post by: Deus Asmoth on April 24, 2016, 06:10:41 pm
Post by: Sanctume on April 25, 2016, 12:57:44 am
Early spring of the year 300 on the temperate savanna of The Suicide Hills.
I stopped thinking of the unfairness that I find myself on the receiving end of the King’s justice. The past remains back there as always, and it will be there if I wish to revisit the pains of regrets. No, I must make do with my current situation, and keep looking forward in the future, whatever this desperate journey may unfold.
The silence of our weary travel is broken by the grunting of the pair of breeding yaks that pulls this saguaro wagon, heavily laden with our sorry arses and meager supplies. The soothing rhythmic of the creaking wooden wagon over dense dead meadow-grass is joined by the crashing of ocean waves foaming over vibrant blood-red sands.
Perhaps in another place and time, this symphony of nature would fill a traveler with peaceful contemplations. But not this time because I witness passing by dead lentil plants , dead prickle berry bushes, and dead highwood trees along this sea of dead grass. The red sand bubbles from the sea foams that leave behind yellow pools of acrid slime.
Miss Ryukan Diamondsling, the poor noble who pulled the short cave wheat straw, is leading this expedition. She’s a lusty one for sure, but is quick to anger even though she does not easily hate.
Ryukan announces from atop the wagon, “We are here. By the authority of the king of The Lustrous Artifact, I dubbed this outpost, Bloodyhells. Gentle ladies and dwarfs, I shall take the offices of all administrative duties. Our Sheriff is Mister Spish Splashoil, and our militia commander will be Miss Niner Ringgorged.”
With that formalities out of the way, she looks at Niner strapped with a copper war hammer, and finally nods. Did I mention that Ryukan likes war hammers, and probably hammering?
Miss Niner Ringgorged has the title of "Glory Overlord", and begins barking orders, “You miners just go dig us a hole, and wood cutters cut only a few trees at a time. I want a tight perimeter, no wandering about. And I need a volunteer, a sparring partner, for Bloodyhells’ first squad, The Armored Kings. But for now, you're all recruits.”
Miss Imic Earthcreatures who likes maces and is a competent mason, and Mr Spish Splashoil who likes hatch covers and is a competent engraver; both hefted bronze picks from the wagon and start digging underneath the modest dune.
Miss Flame Paddleroast who likes mail shirts is a novice doctor, and Mr Taupe Giftedpaint who likes large gems is a novice carpenter; both wielded bronze battle axes to chop down the dead trees near the murky pools of water.
I am Sanctume Plaitedurns who is assigned the duties of growing food. My hopes to learn herbalism is crushed because every plant I see here is already dead.
I end up here in Bloodyhells after telling the law-giver, “You goblins would convict a finely minced cheese roast of murder and dwarfs would not question it.”
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Niner scouts the immediate surroundings and indicated that there is a Giant Osprey Corpse flying high up to the northwest, and a Giant Snail Corpse closer to the south east.
Niner says, “What’s in Bloodyhells? An Armok cursed flying corpse and a crawling corpse!”
As soon as the miners dug some room, we rushed unloading our wagon and hauling our meager supplies inside. Niner declares the area as “Safety Inside.”
Two dead willow trees, and the nearest dead apple tree a bit to the north are marked for cutting as Niner sets the “Outside Path” while she scans the undead giant osprey moving far to the northeast.
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A hasty mason’s shop is erected, and Imic produced a well-crafted door to be our protection from the outside.
The miner’s dig down to discover damp stone on the fourth level, so they dig a short path then an upward stairs into a room and secured by a well-crafted cobaltite hatch cover.
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The monotonous labor of hauling logs is flavored by the danger of the outside. Doc Flame insists on including the dead apple logs be part of “Outside Path” despite Niner’s reluctance.
A giant osprey corpse swoops down from the skies with incredible speed and charges the stubborn cow yak that is slow to move to its grassless pasture. The collision was so brutal that the cow is knocked over and tumbled backwards.
The giant osprey corpse begins attacking Doc Flame…
Doc Flame screams like a girl her at top of her lungs, “Stop! This isn’t happening!” “Help! Save me!”
Her 86 year old bones carried her arse, running wildly, screaming, heading south, and fortunately not into the pools of acrid slime.
She drops the bronze battle axe and says, “I was attacked by the dead” then looks back, “The battle rages… Ahhhhhh! No!”
Niner, Glory Overlord, Bloodyhells militia commander, flees running to the southeast but manages to give orders for everyone to join the fray.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(ooc The battle reports are confusing with references to recruits. Everyone now has a humble title.)
Admin Ryukan lands a punch on the head but this made the giant osprey corpse react by charging. She is knocked over and tumbled backwards from the collision.
Ryukan stands up and throws left and right combination punches, many of which just glance away.
Farmer Sanctume throws punches wildly causing bruising, and finds it more effective to bite the left foot of the undead.
The giant osprey corpse charges the farmer until the collision knocks him over, tumbling backwards.
Taupe Woodcut joins the fray with his wild punches claiming, “I cannot just stand by. This might require an answer.”
The undead attacks Taupe but misses many times over. “I was attacked by the dead. This is truly horrifying!”
Taupe wonders, “Has the ride turned? I feel no terror.”
** Where is our militia commander? **
Niner, the Glory Overlord initially fled from battle, like a girl, in reaction to Doc Flame, until what little discipline kicks in, “This is a fight! I must press on.”
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Miner Imic emerges from the entrance and joins in by punching.
Sheriff Spish joins the rumble and bites the undead in the right wing. The giant osprey corpse knocks Spish away, but Spish stands up and bites the left wing this time, latches on, and starts striking the left wing with his bronze pick.
Sheriff Spish lodges the bronze pick in the corpse’s head and fracturing the skull.
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Here is everyone's immediate aftermath thoughts:
Spish, Rykan and Sanctume: "I was attacked by the dead. This is truly horrifying."
Flame, "I have a part in this: I will take revenge!"
Niner, "This is my fight too: I will take revenge!"
Taupe, "How fleeting life is: Begone fear!"
The giant osprey corpse is nothing now but a mangled corpse. Bloodyhells, indeed!
Post by: Taupe on April 25, 2016, 10:15:16 am
Post by: Sanctume on April 25, 2016, 12:35:27 pm
Spring 300
We are a bunch of lucky beards to have survived that attack from giant osprey corpse. The chaos that ensue affirms to myself that I must step up if I want to have any chance of surviving in this Bloodyhells.
There is no formal announcement from me about taking authority, so it is rather a natural flow of things going back into semblance of order. I talk to each of my friends, for what better way to cement friendship than a death defying experience. I ask questions, point out immediate issues, suggest ways of solving problems, and express my thoughts with a hopeful future in mind.
It is now the late into spring, the 24th of Felsite, and I report that "we are still alive" despite a normal sized osprey corpse and a giant osprey corpse roams the region.
Disgust was our first reaction when a swarm of six giant roach corpses fly over the treetops to the northwest. However, this a fortunate event for these roaches seem to move slower. We take this opportunity in spurts of activity hauling logs from the outside while keeping close watch on those moment when the flying undead stray closer to the wagon.
These sketches the outpost entrance is to the bottom left, with the wagon yet to be scuttled, and dead apple wood logs await their use for needed for beds, barrels, and charcoal. The “Outside Path” indicates where we may walk on when outside.
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The Front Entrance is hastily dug to bring our meager supplies from the wagon. Ryukan actually insists in carving an office for him, while Taupe and Flame want a room for their ducks.
Imic is more prudent in digging an area for a mason’s shop and uses the three precious stones we bring along into a well-crafted olivine door, a well-crafted cobaltite hatch cover, and four blocks of petrified wood.
The olivine front door is our first protection from the outside, so this room is temporary and I put a halt on any priority for furniture or nest boxes for the ducks.
We must dig deeper, but this plan is retarded when the Spish encounters damp stone four levels down. So then the stairs leading down two levels diverts to a short hall and an upstairs onto a foyer secured by a well-crafted cobaltite hatch cover.
Legends say that such design up entryway makes hatch covers nearly indestructible. I have to see it to believe it, but this is what we have now and I pray to Armok that we will be safe.
The Foyer now serves as a wood stockpile with it’s non-square configuration is due to damp dirt walls. Taupe builds the carpenter and craft shop to the foyer’s north.
The Butcher area is on the same level as the foyer but there is no direct path from this level.
We have great concern on what happens to any recently deceased this part of the world. I am most worries on the pair of yaks who do not have a pasture to feed on. A butcher and tanner shop is built with cage traps on the hallway. The a shallow two levels deep garbage chute is set opposite a pair of closet rooms with hungry yaks inside and secured by stone doors.
The Soap area is a finicky endeavor and has importance as Doc Flame insists that be made a priority. So below the butcher are modest stockpiles for pressed cake, pressed pastes, fat, and soap bars. A quern, a presser, an ashery, and a soaper shop makes this area functional. I use three of the five rock nuts to brough and make rock nut soaps bars. I hope to grow more quarry bushes from the remaining two nuts.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The Fortress Proper descends west from the foyer above though twin ramps that leads to our precious drinks and prepared food. Our future dining hall is situated to the west awaiting furnitures.
North of the twin ramps are my modest farm plots in efficient single rows for seven seedlings. Small piles for four barrels, and four rock pots (never wood pots!) will serve the needs of the still, kitchen, farmer’s shop, and the modest pile for plants, fruits, milled and leaves.
A short hall to the east are the upstairs to the soap and the butcher, a lever to smash the garbage, meat locker, and nest boxes for the ducks.
steps
To the west is the future expansion area for when we have pig tails to process into threads and clothing as well as other textile products.
South of the twin ramps is an expanding excavation from the discovery of conglomerate rocks and hematite ores.
A mason, stone crafter, and mechanic shops convenient surround our stone pile. The stone quarry now delays the need to breach the aquifer.
Imic and Spish also struck hematite much to the delight of Niner. This unexpected boon establishes a modest forge with a smelter and wood furnace.
Beside all of these, I am pleased make compromise of creating beds that can function as individual bedrooms, or public dormitory, or be part of the hospital.
The aquifer, be it a curse or a blessing is capped over into a functioning well.
And from this well, we have a water source safe from the outside. It was natural to dig rooms for near this well and convert them into a hospital when needed. We have soap now. I await for summer to plant pig tails and make thread and cloths.
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Slow and steady, iron weapons and armors are starting to be produced.
Niner, Glory Overlord, already wears an iron helm and wielding a superior iron war hammer. Much charcoal is needed to keep the forge making iron weapons and armors.
Post by: TheFlame52 on April 25, 2016, 01:49:44 pm
Post by: Sanctume on April 25, 2016, 02:02:02 pm
But yeah, that's a good idea provided we have more wood logs.
And what, no love for the soap bars? These are rock nut soaps, quite a task, but I understand it's not impressive.
The garbage chute should work, but I usually make it 5z deep. This one is only 2z deep, for now.
Post by: Taupe on April 25, 2016, 04:10:17 pm
Post by: Sanctume on April 25, 2016, 09:15:50 pm
The Butcher, Bloodyhells
Niner seems to be twitchy, unable to stay put in one place, pacing back and forth for the front door to unlock so as to run out and gather more logs to make charcoal.
Niner announces, “I am almost done with a complete set of iron armor. I just need to finish a breastplate.”
Sanctume says, “We have a problem. The pair of yaks are starving and I can hear their grunts through stone doors. We have to butcher them soon.”
Niner responses, “Well, now is a good time as any to start killing them. I’ll tell you what, I will station The Armored Kings outside the butcher and we’ll be ready.”
Sanctume points out, “You are the sole member now, everyone is working on their own jobs.”
Niner ponders, “How about you join? I can use a sparring partner.”
Sanctume considers that offer, “I would join if you make me a set of iron armor too, deal?”
Niner exclaims, “Sure! Now to get more wood.”
Sanctume interrupts, “I’ll join later. First, we need to butcher these poor yaks.”
There is no outstanding mining to be done yet, and the front door is locked so we use this time to pick up the disgusting remains of wormwoods vermins that clutter the farm, kitchen and still.
With everyone in the mood to gather refuse, the yak bull is slaughtered first. The thought of tantalizing yak roast have everyone crowding the butcher shop to store the meat in the meat locker. The hair, skull and other non essentials are tossed in the garbage. I manage to tan the hide into usable leather without incident.
The yak cow is slaughtered next, and enthusiasm is high to haul the meat and toss the scraps. While tanning the cow skin, it began to move and attack! Chaos ensues as I try to punch if ineffectively. Niner is supposed to be ready for this, but he’s back in the iron forge.
Sheriff Spish is around hauling, and so strikes the cow skin with a bronze pick, severing it into pieces from its reanimation. Unsure on what to do, the skin pieces were marked for dumping.
One of the pieces of cow skin reanimated and was fortunately caught in a cage trap.
And at the same time, a muffled sound can be heard down the garbage chute. A yak bull skin down there reanimated and it is being pelted by items thrown from above into the garbage chute.
It is only prudent to pull the lever and smash the garbage, and reset back to its ready state.
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The garbage chute is expanded to hold one animal cage trap for the purpose of pitting.
The caged cow yak skin is successfully pitted down without incident and then smashed.
Summer arrives without fanfare as we are focusing on spurts of hauling logs in this tiresome game of “dwarf and osprey“.
Armok laughs upon us on the 5th of Hematite when the giant osprey corpse leave the area.
Everyone runs out for logs, but I insist on staying to plant the much needed pig tails.
The brief reprieve from the Giant Osprey Corpse danger is replaced by something more creepy, a swarm of six Giant Roach Corpses flies above the trees.
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These oversized vermin seemingly move slow, hovering, or congregating still in a small cluster.
Chop those next four trees south of the murky pools. And with more logs secured, we will have beds, barrels, and more charcoal.
Niner completes a second set of iron armor before the end of Hematite, early summer.
I volunteered myself to take the second spot of The Armored Kings donned with a new suit of iron armor and superior quality iron war hammer.
We do not have a formal barracks yet, but wearing this makes me feel a bit safer.
End of Mid-Summer
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On the 25th of Malachite, Kol, the deity of travelers smiles upon a group of migrants who announce their arrival from the eastern edge.
Oh you fortunate fools. The swarm of undead giant roaches are leaving the area towards the west, with two remaining Giant Roach Corpses.
“Fly you fools!” Err, wait, I’m not Gandorf. “Run you fools, come inside now!”
--
Ryukan met them formally, “Welcome to Bloodyhells,” and introduces everyone.
I personally met each of them and gauge their usefulness.
“I am Miss Zuglarkun Tundratour,” she smiles, “I dream of having a family someday, and I am a Great Gem Setter, and Competent Macedwarf.”
I dub thee “Mace Zuglarkun.”
“I am Miss Puzzlebark Inkmoisten, I to dream of having a family someday. I like spears, and I am with cooking, milling, and pressing.”
“I think you will do well in the kitchens Miss Puzzlebark.”
“I am Mistress Kosoth Savagebolted, a Adequate Engraver. I like rutile. And this is my husband, Clover Magic.”
I am pleased to meet you, I think you do well as “Miner Kosoth.”
“I am Mister `Clover Magic’ Sneakinked, and I like battle axes. I am an Adequate Armorsmith and Adequate Spinner.
Welcome Clover Magic.
“I am Andreus Grooveattic, “Endless Res”. I dream of having a family, and I like platinum. Do you have a library here? I would like my own private library.
I am an Adequate Soaper, and a Novice in Metal Crafter, Armorsmith, and Metalsmith. My husband is Twinwolf.”
I nod, “Endless Res, we do not have a library yet, perhaps someday.”
“I am Mister Twinwolf Handlerrhythmic and I like beds. I am a Novice Thresher, Spinner, and Presser.”
Ahh, then you will enjoy gathering wood and the use of our carpenter shop.
“I am Mister Crashmaster Rockdips, you may address me as Mec Crashmaster. I like art and gauntlets. I am an Adequate Glassmaker, but would like to Dabbling Mechanic.
Very well, we have plenty of stones for your mechanical passions.
Finally, last but not least, who may you be sir?
“I am Mister Shorast Tealhatchet, and I too dream of having a family someday. I am a Novice Milker, a Gelder, and a Beekeeper.”
Sanctume grins, “How do you feel about farming?”
Shorast asks, “Farming sir?”
Sanctume says, “Why yes, farming. We have an area perfect for your calling. It is yours now for I have a different calling that involves iron armor and war hammer.”
It is good to see such family oriented folks joining us here in Bloodyhells.
I observe that Niner looking at Taupe and conclude that they are indeed, lovers.
--
I show our new citizens on what we, the founders of Bloodyhells, have done so far.
This is the “Underpassage” which is our planned tunnels two levels beneath the surface, safe from the tree roots. We plan to have the trade depot in the center with passages leading to the west, north, and east boundary of Bloodyhells.
For safety reasons, we have not breached up the surface until certain mechanical defenses are in place.
There will also be a ten bed “shared” bedroom with private storage.
To the south of the foyer, the area is still under construction.
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Post by: Spish on April 26, 2016, 12:10:33 am
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 12:31:50 am
Post by: Spish on April 26, 2016, 12:37:48 am
Post by: IcepickTrotsky on April 26, 2016, 12:53:27 am
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 12:56:57 am
"The king's terms were laid out simply. The Lustrous Artifact had a use for dwarves like us; hardened convicts with no families or anything to lose. We would be the first in line to lead an expedition into the darkest corners of Aluonra. To carve out an outpost, lay claim the untold riches that lay buried there, and put a stop to the dwarf necromancer Tosid Rushaxe and his clan. It was either this, or "the hammer" we were told. The death sentence, or a shot at everlasting glory? An easy enough choice... or so we thought at the time. How little we knew...
And thus, we set out upon our suicide mission. Over the Infected Hills, across the Murk of Pain, through the Forest of Murders, until at last we arrived at our destination: the heart of the necromancer's accursed domain. It's safe to say, we've been through a lot to have come this far. Oh, the sights we've seen! Death... death and horror beyond words! But nothing could've prepared us for the hells that awaited..."—Some dead guy
Well, I don't know about you, but here at Battlefailed Fortresses™ we do things the dwarfy way. So what if a few (hundred) citizens die in the process?
I am doing it the dwarfy way. I want a fortress. I want iron clad warriors. I want to dig deep. I want to capture something to be weaponized. I want to magma cleansing on the surface. I want the surface to be obsidianized and be engraved. Actually, it is not dwarfy to fight on the surface. Nope!
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 01:01:12 am
Late summer, on the 7th of Galena, two pairs of Buck and Doe Rabbit Corpses roam the surface on the far northeast.
We focused on gathering more wood further southeast of the entrance.
The dining hall, offices for Admin Ryukan and Doc Flame are complete.
Some of the beds are set in the “shared bedrooms.”
The control room for the Under Passage is ready for levers.
Some of the bridge locks in Under Passage are linked to levers.
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The forge reports creating 2 iron battle axes, 2 iron picks, and a third set of iron armor.
Four iron minecarts, and 4 sets of iron goblets are on order.
Autumn has come, and Miner Imic, Sheriff Spish, and Miner Kosoth start digging deeper through the solid conglomerate rocks from level 97 but the progress halted at level 95 when damp stones conglomerate is reached.
Farmer Shorast, our eldest member at the age of 101 year, says that aquifers may indeed exists in conglomerate bedrocks.
Our plans to dig deeper is postponed.
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3rd of Limestone
Oh no! The undead rabbits are leaving the area.
We have to watch what comes after because the logs are a bit further away from the entrance.
Aww it's a weasel in the northeast. Err, umm it's a Weasel Corpse! At least it is alone. And it is not a giant.
We chopped four more trees much further in the southeast of the entrance.
Somebody did not follow the “Outside Path” and walk over the pools of acrid slime.
Traffic designations are added restricting foot paths over the unwanted areas.
And I suppose it is time to reveal what is constructed south of the foyer.
Behold! We start filling our dwarven bathtub. This is engineered to have a drain system, sealed filling, and perfect water level mechanics.
Here are the instructions.
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On the 13th of Limestone, 300, a Goblin outpost liaison, Oddom Likotlocun, from Suvaszan has arrived coming in from the north.
A caravan from Suvaszan has arrived from the east.
This is indeed a fortunate situation for the Weasel Corpse linger down in the southeast.
We do not have any Under Passage ready, so the liaison and merchants have to enter in through the front that is currently protected by a stone door, and a stone hatch cover.
We will dig a new entrance gate, and a front passage to replace the front door.
The meeting between Admin Ryukan and Oddom Likotlocun is concluded on the 22nd of Malachite.
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We made large serrated iron discs and a pot of prepared food for trade to procure more supplies: food and drinks variety, cloth and leather, metal items, instruments, library supplies, and a native platinum block.
Admin Ryukan delayed the trade deal because she had to sleep, get a drink, then eat first.
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Oh Armok! On the 24th of Limestone, there is something coming from the northeast.
The Forest Titan, Salo Narenatipi has come! It’s a huge scaly therapod, with three long straight tails and emanates an aura of giving and kindness.
What is this? A T-Rex hippie? An elf-loving monstrosity? What can be worse that this?
Its eyes glow fuchsia, and its rose taupe scales are blocky and overlapping.
We’re worried that this titan can destroy our stone door. But Salo starts chasing a weasel nefarious fog husk.
Oh, I bet my beard that Armok is laughing now. Thank you, you cruel joker!
Despite the size advantage of the titan, the husk weasel is fighting it for a long time. I am hopefully that we can build the bridge in the front entrance.
So, what can be worse than this, I ask?
A cloud drifts over the fight, and the titan is caught in a cloud of nefarious fog!
There is now a forest titan nefarious fog husk in the surface of Bloodyhells.
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Post by: Spish on April 26, 2016, 01:16:12 am
We must do whatever it takes to weaponize that thing in the name of all that is dwarfy and scientific
Post by: Zuglarkun on April 26, 2016, 02:41:10 am
Hide the children!
Post by: Spriggans on April 26, 2016, 07:25:16 am
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 10:23:08 am
Aye, I agree. The Suicidal Hills/Tragic Ocean embark is the one. Still, I could try to obtain a version of history where this area has husking clouds; if we want to shoot for maximum !!FUN!! Or shall we just settle for the melty mist?The world needs this map. The world needs husking titans.
Some food for thought: I found an evil mountain with husk-inducing Nefarious Fog at the far north side of the world. Oddly enough the two dwarves I sent to investigate became husked and proceeded to fight eachother to the death. Then I sent the remaining dwarves to kill it, and the husk effortlessly murdered everyone despite not having functioning legs. So I sent a reclaim to take it on; 7 armed dwarves and they didn't even stand a chance (by then the husk was an elite wrestler). Think that might be a little too much fun? Imagine if a titan gets husked.
I can't believe I did not catch this in the prequel / setup thread. And I volunteered to be the first, ha ha, you guys got me!
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 12:51:53 pm
The battle of The Forest Titan,
The nefarious fog is observed to drift and can start forming from anywhere in the region. We can now confirm that fog transform any creature, including corpses into life opposing husks. This information must heavily be considered if any battles are engaged on the surface.
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On the 5th of Sandstone, some migrants arrived from the southwest, right on top the pools of acrid slime.
Perhaps Kol, the deity of travellers, still smiles upon these migrants.
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The front entrance has a bridge lock that leads to the trade depot, and a main bridge lock that leads to the foyer and fortress proper.
The cobaltite hatch cover in the foyer is locked to force, and observe the migrants.
We will need to consider a quarantine area for future migrants who brave this dangerous region.
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Admin Ryukan concludes the trade and the merchants are preparing to leave.
Sheriff Spish comes to the trade depot and expresses his disapproval of the complacency that is happening in Bloodyhells, "I'm afraid I do not approve of that tunnel system. A safe, sensible, convenient way for pesky outsiders to get into and out of the fortress? We'll see about that..."
Admin Ryukan greets the new citizens of Bloodyhells.
Mistress Lor Figurelock likes doors. She is a Great Presser, Accomplished Mechanic, and Competent Marksdwarf. She is married to Kadol who did not accompany her.
Mister Oddom Earthoars likes war hammers, and an Adequate Thresher. He is married to Shem Youthpainted.
Mistress Shem Youthpainted likes hatch covers, and Novice: Brewer, Thresher, and Herbalist. She is married to Oddom Earthoars.
Mister Mafol Socketstockade likes chains and is a Competent Spearman.
Sheriff Spish continues, "We do things the dwarfy way. So what if a few (hundred thousands) citizens die in the process?"
Sanctume declares, “I am doing it the dwarfy way. I want a fortress. I want iron clad warriors. I want to dig deep. I want to capture something to be weaponized. I want to magma cleansing on the surface. I want the surface to be obsidianized and be engraved. Actually, it is not dwarfy to fight on that surface. Nope!”
I greeted the four new migrants as they pass through the trade depot and they overhear bits of the conversation.
The poor new migrants are feeling uneasy.
The merchant has left through the front passage with Fikod Dolushmedtob, Hammerdwarf and Minkot Tiristakum, Macedwarf merchant guards.
--
*scream* *roar*
Fikod and Minkot comes running back heading towards the fortress proper.
Hey, you dorfs can’t be here. Get out!
They went to the drink pile, then left going out through the depot then front passage.
That was weird.
Oh, this is even more weird, the “weasel head” is still animating!
What? It just kinda just rolls around? Ha ha.
Oh crap, that means, the Salo is looking for a new target.
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The "Main Gate" is raised up but the "Front Gate" is down! The lever is in the dining hall.
I don’t see the merchant anymore.
The merchant guards! They are outside now.
Oh Armok’s beard! The titan husk is near! Raise that Front Gate! Now!
And here, my dwarfy friends, are the highlights of the battle reports about Salo the rose taupe dinosaur.
Merchant Guard Fikod Dolushmedtob, Hammerdwarf
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Merchant Guard Minkot Tiristakum, Macedwarf merchant guards.
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Does Salo wields a pig tail left glove, or it is wearing the glove?
In either case, that pig tail left glove jams through skulls and tears brains.
Salo looks pissed for being only dented in a few places.
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(ooc-- is this a bug?)
It is now the 18th of Sandstone, and I expect for the Titan Husk to have destroyed our olivine front door but it just stays there.
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Post by: Taupe on April 26, 2016, 01:12:18 pm
Children are utterly useless. I say put them on the frontline.BarneySalo thepurplerose taupe dinosaur has come!
Hide the children!
Post by: Spish on April 26, 2016, 01:17:52 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on April 26, 2016, 01:20:35 pm
Children are utterly useless. I say put them on the frontline.
Husked children distraction force go!
Post by: Taupe on April 26, 2016, 01:31:45 pm
Post by: Iamblichos on April 26, 2016, 02:04:47 pm
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 02:57:44 pm
The Dorflist:
format: Dorf Name ["Title"], Gender [Labors/] (Forumite) [- Dead (Cause of Death)] [- Roles]
Civilians
Ryukan "Admin Ryukan", Female Expedition Leader/Manager/Broker/Bookkeeper (Ryukan) - Founder
Flame "Doc Flame", Female Chief Medical Dwarf (TheFlame52) - Founder
Imic "Miner Imic", Female Miner/Mason (Imic) - Founder
Spish "Sherif Spish" Male Miner/Engraver, Sheriff (Spish) - Founder
Taupe "Taupe Woodcut", Male Woodcutter/Woodburner (Taupe) - Founder
Zuglarkun, Female Gem Setter/Macedwarf (Zuglarkun)
Puzzlebark, Female Cook, (Puzzlebark)
Clover Magic, Male Armorsmih (Clover Magic)
Andreus "Endless Res", Female Soaper (Andreus)
Twinwolf, Male Carpenter, (Twinwolf)
Crashmaster, Male "Mec Crashmaster" (Crashmaster)
Kosoth, Female Miner/Engraver (undorf)
Shorast, Male Farmer (undorf)
Lor, Female Mechanic/Marksdwarf (undorf)
Oddom, Male Thresher (undorf)
Shem, Female Brewer/Herbalist (undorf)
Mafol, Male? Spearman (undorf)
Military
The Armored Kings
Niner "Glory Overlord", Male Militia Commander (90908) Founder
Sanctume "Farmer Sanctume", Male Farmer (Sanctume) - Founder, Year 1 Overseer
The Pending Dorf List:
Archereon, Elf
Balnash, Brewer/Speardwarf - Militia Theory: "Keep 'em at the end of your spear, an' they can't get at ye."
Deus Asmoth, Scholar
Gwolfski, Mechanic
Post by: TheFlame52 on April 26, 2016, 03:00:12 pm
What does the goop rain do again?
Post by: Gwolfski on April 26, 2016, 03:03:38 pm
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 03:13:51 pm
Aw yeah son, getting off to a good start. I can't wait for goblins to show up so we can show them just how terrifying this place is!
What does the goop rain do again?
It rains normal over the dead dense grass. I am not sure if the rain by the beach causes the slime, or if the ocean sea foam leaves the "pools of acrid slime."
As to what the slime does, I am not sure, but
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I wish dorfing as mechanic!
I updated my list which should help Spish.
Post by: Sanctume on April 26, 2016, 10:22:08 pm
It is mid-autumn, 300, and Salo the rose taupe dinosaur is not going anywhere and content banging on that olivine front door.
Only Armok know what else can go wrong out there, so we are better off being productive here in “Safety Inside” of Bloodyhells.
Sheriff Spish says, “Productive? We can just relax now, make booze and merrimaking for the remainder of the year.”
Sanctume counters, “I can count with my fingers more things we can accomplish.”
First, we will complete that fourth iron armor set so that Niner Glory Overlord will establish The Hollow Basements squad. Captain Mace Zuglarkun and Puzzlebark will share the barracks for training.
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Second, the wood supply is very low and we need to dig deep and seek fungi wood in the caverns. We work on the breaching that aquifer using the double pump stack method powered by a dwarven water reactor.,
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Third, we need to a way to capture Salo. The north passage will be the location for such a mechanical contraption. I initially designed for a web spewer so that webbed cage traps will be more effective to transport captured prisoners.
There is also a simple smasher room with a bait room for minor enemies.
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Fourth, it is time to make the mandatory baths when entering the fortress proper. The twin ramps in the foyer will be bridge sealed, and a new ramp will be constructed south of the bathtub as the new path into the fortress proper.
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Fifth, we will butcher these grazing animals with nothing to eat, and we will make use of their meat for roasts, and their tallow for soaps.
Sixth, we will build indoor an archery range with trenches to retrieve stray bolts.
Seventh, we will use those bones from the animals we butchered and make bone bolts for archery practice.
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Eight, we will build a large room atom smasher for when we have a bigger job that our garbage chute cannot handle efficiently.
Ninth, we will dig some rooms for coffins and slabs.
Tenth...
Sheriff Spish interrupts Sanctume, “Alright, I get it. I…”
We are interrupted by the season’s change for winter has come!
The 2nd of Moonstone, 300 just turns the surface of Bloodyhells worse. The dead walk! Hide while you can!
Umm, we are already hiding behind our walls and stone bridges so we can continue working on our progress inside.
This pretty much summarizes winter in Boodyhells.
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Before the year comes to its end, I designed a couple more trap rooms in the North Passage for enemies such as Salo.
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1st of Granite, 301
Alas! A new year has come in Bloodyhells. Despite our debates, I remain friends with the founders of Bloodyhells: Admin Ryukan, Doc Flame, Miner Imic, Taupe Woodcut, Niner Glory Overlord, and Sheriff Spish. I am also in friendly terms with Mace Zuglarkun, and Xbow Lor.
I am relinquishing my Overseer position to whomever wants it.
I would like to pursue my training in The Armored Kings.
I requested a stone statue of my image and be handsomely placed in the new stone workshops.
Admin Ryukan gladly took upon this commission as she has been a skilled mason.
“Thank you, Admin Ryukan. I am uhhh…”
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The Save: Bloodyhells Year 301 - End of Sanctume's Turn (http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11985)
Post by: Spish on April 26, 2016, 11:42:47 pm
I have no idea where anything is. I have no idea what anything does. This is not merely a madhouse designed by a madman, but a madhouse designed by many madmen, each with an intense hatred for the previous madman's unique flavour of madness.
At any rate, I'll see if I can set aside some time for a year, and probably work on breaching that aquifer.
Post by: Taupe on April 26, 2016, 11:42:56 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on April 27, 2016, 12:36:57 am
Post by: Zuglarkun on April 27, 2016, 02:11:29 am
Zuglarkun shamelessly points out that Sanctume's definition of 'iron clad warriors' is rather odd, since they are not entirely clad in iron. As such, she demands to be equipped with an iron shield intead of a wooden shield, so that she can be properly deemed as 'dwarfy'.
Post by: Deus Asmoth on April 27, 2016, 03:28:05 am
Post by: Sanctume on April 27, 2016, 06:49:22 am
You poor thing. Do you have any idea what you signed up for? :PI have no idea where anything is. I have no idea what anything does. This is not merely a madhouse designed by a madman, but a madhouse designed by many madmen, each with an intense hatred for the previous madman's unique flavour of madness.
At any rate, I'll see if I can set aside some time for a year, and probably work on breaching that aquifer.
I already breached the aquifer. :) The last image, where the stone workshop is just above the drain, and the "Rest Stop" is 10z below the stone workshops. It is primed to put another bridge lock, food drinks stockpile, and dine/bed, so you can dig deeper because we need wood.
Are you supposed to do that much in a first year? Because this looks like a lot of projects...
I breached the aquifer. It is easier because I am used to using double pump stacks, and I did not have to mess with making side block walls because the conglomerate can be smoothed sealed.
I did have to use 2 sets of iron screw pumps (in the last aquifer layer) because I was down to 3 logs, and have some excess charcoal and iron bars already.
The 2 additional FB traps are not complete, the levers need to be linked still. I used pairing of Notes with matching symbols.
Post by: Sanctume on April 27, 2016, 07:03:06 am
Zuglarkun was pleased recently with her new teaching responsibilities, teaching the art of mace wielding to Puzzlebark, though inwardly she longed to put her skills as a talented musician (even though she had little natural talent at music) to use someday.
Zuglarkun shamelessly points out that Sanctume's definition of 'iron clad warriors' is rather odd, since they are not entirely clad in iron. As such, she demands to be equipped with an iron shield intead of a wooden shield, so that she can be properly deemed as 'dwarfy'.
Sanctume feels ashamed of this wooden shield oversight, and did not feel merrymaking is a priority so nothing was done terms of making taverns, library, or temples.
Well, this turned very fun very quickly.
I was done yesterday and had the save compressed so I was not able to dorf more.
The Pending Dorf List:
Archereon, Elf
Balnash, Brewer/Speardwarf - Militia Theory: "Keep 'em at the end of your spear, an' they can't get at ye."
Deus Asmoth, Scholar
Gwolfski, Mechanic
We have a speardwarf, plenty of mason/mechanics to handle all those levers.
Sadly, I have little experience in making libraries and too ocd to make a haphazard tavern. So we have none of these new social facilities. Not even temples.
Post by: Spish on April 27, 2016, 09:20:25 pm
Yeah I'm probably going to screw things up.
Post by: Sanctume on April 27, 2016, 11:50:57 pm
Lucky find on conglomerate and hematite in non aquifers early on.
So lots of mechanism access for a pump stack aquifer breaching.
But notice there are damp stones in the area also, which I smoothed like below the archery room.
I would think digging for magma sooner and securing wood or at least underground tree farm would be beneficial sooner.
I did make 4 iron minecarts which should be good for a 1 magma smelter and 1 magma forge.
In the Sabotage fortress, when I made a library open to all, visitors come despite an ongoing siege which add more zombies on the surface.
So if open a location, just make it citizens only. :)
Post by: Spish on April 30, 2016, 09:59:51 pm
Edit: Oy, you know what, I'll post it tomorrow. Too tired to finish up the journal right now ::)
Post by: Archereon on May 04, 2016, 11:19:54 pm
I'll try to get an update out relatively soon, getting back into DF after 3-4 years is not as easy as I thought it would be :P
Edit: Oy, you know what, I'll post it tomorrow. Too tired to finish up the journal right now ::)
*cough* *cough*
Post by: Spish on May 05, 2016, 03:14:19 am
1st of Granite, 301
So... I've reluctantly taken it upon myself to run this Armok-forsaken hellhole. Sanctume stepped down, no one else with the stones to run the place. But someone's gotta do it, and the way I see it, if there's anyone with the good-old fashioned dwarfgrit to keep the order throughout this mess, it's yours truly.
(http://i68.tinypic.com/2yuyou0.png)
This crew is getting too soft, too complacent. You're gonna need more than that dinky little hammer if one of those shambling horrors gets ye in a corner. Someone has to make it clear that they're not going to survive with that kinda attitude.
In meantime, I scrape together a militia. All of our woodcutters are enlisted into the new axedwarf squad, the Dead Planks, and the speardwarves of the Rough Medicine are led by Balnash "Earthroars" Berrorun. We're going to need every able-bodied fighter trained and ready in the coming months. As an additional safety measure, each citizen is to be given their own axe or pick once we have the means to make them.
12th of Granite, 301
First things first, we need to dig deep. I draw up the plans for a circular ramp leading all the way down to the magma sea, and it isn't long before we breach the first cavern layer. The place is completely barren, and not much use to us.
21st of Granite, 301
As Oddom Likotlocun, the goblin liaison, prepares to leave through the freshly opened caverns. He informs me that he'll be needing us to deal with that blockade that the necromancers have set up around the area. Dozens of shambling corpses, led by a group of powerful, soulless husks. I ask him what the hell we're supposed to do about those things, he just smirks and makes his way out.
Goblins... I tell you what, it's a goblins world these days. Sanctume is optimistic... too optimistic. He doesn't question the king's orders, he foresees this place becoming a great bastion of wealth for the empire. Well, in my expert opinion, that whole "wealth and glory spiel?" It's all bullshit. Come on, why do you think they picked us of all people for the task? I bet this is all just some perverse goblin experiment, I doubt they expect us to last five years out here! They're waiting for us to die, and when that happens I have no doubt they'll try to weaponize our findings for their own purposes.
The others may think me paranoid, but I sure as hell don't plan on letting that happen, oh no. Let's just say there's going to be a little surprise in store for the bastards if they try anything funny.
27th of Granite, 301
The second cavern layer is breached, releasing spores into the fortress. Plenty of wood to boot.
15th of Felsite, 301
We make our way down to a third cavern system. The glimmer of gold caught my eye, and as I went to investigate the numerous veins, I spotted a massive spire of adamantine. And then a second one right off the bat! Well, I never said this place wasn't a treasure trove.
(http://i66.tinypic.com/1t3gbq.png)
5th of Hematite, 301
After three months of rigorous training, our ragtag militia is ready for war. We're not just going to sit and cower in the mud while they wait us out. No, we're going to make a stand and show these necromancer bastards what we're made of. The Armored Kings bring their hammers, the Hollow Basements their maces, the Dead Planks their axes, and the Rough Medicine their spears. Imic Bermes and Andreus lend their picks to the coming battle.
Andreus digs an opening through the west-side tunnel, but is unable to make it back to safety before an undead sieger bolts after him with terrifying speed. I would've thought him done
for...
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6th of Hematite, 301
With Ryukan operating the gates, we manage to split the undead forces, isolating a lone hammerman husk and a group of zombies in the west tunnel. If we're going to test our militia, it might as well be now.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/2rm4akl.png)
Our titan problem is unsettling, but as long as I can still hear it banging on the front door, we know where it is.
The gate is lowered, and our forces charge into the fray.
Zuglarkun is the first to engage the husk, losing an eye in the process. She doesn't even stand a chance.
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Balnash gives it everything he's got...
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Sanctume, Niner, and Puzzlebark join him in bashing away at the husk. Try as they might, they cannot seem to take it down either.
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Zuglarkun is swarmed by zombies. One of them lays her out with a sick haymaker.
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Dr. Flame holds back the onslaught of shambling corpses.
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Balnash finds himself unable to keep the hammerhusk at the end of his spear. He gets got alright.
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While it is a decisive victory, our troops are a bit shaken up. Zuglarkun and Balnash, while alive, are gravely wounded. We'll still need to deal with the rest of them if we are to recieve any reinforcements from the Mountainhome.
10th of Hematite, 301
It's a risky endeavor, yes, but how can we expect to survive in this place if we can't even take care of a few shambling horrors? After a four day rest, the gate is once again lowered, and the real battle begins. The troops wait anxiously, until zombies and husks begin to pour into the west tunnel. Niner
Niner avoids the crossbow-wielding husk's flurry of bolts, but her redshirt comrade is not so lucky
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Taupe confronts the two husks, his axe thirsting for revenge. The macedwarf Puzzlebark and the hammerdwarf Sanctume are not far behind.
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Sanctume and Puzzlebark rush to the commander's side and battle back the onslaught of zombies. A third, hammer-wielding husk, moves in to finish off Niner, but Puzzlebark saves the day by stopping the attack. With his face.
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Just when things are looking grim for Taupe, Dr. Flame chops off the spearhusks arm at the elbow with surgical precision, leaving a spear is embedded in Taupe's stomach.
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The rest of the Dead Planks make their presence known... the military miner Imic Bermes, Dr. Flame, and the veteran axedwarf Shem Youthpainted. They put their axe and pick together to bring down the other two husks. It is a glorious whirlwind of blade and limb.
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The siege is broken, and the necromancers' remaining forces go into full retreat. Four dwarves are left with gruesome injuries, and two left dead. I expected more of a fight, but perhaps the undead husks' rotted brains robbed them of their fighting prowess. I feel the worst is yet to come.
(http://i68.tinypic.com/2z3yn8z.png)
Well... that's a mouthful...
..but wait, Niner is still clinging to life!
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Taupe spends the next few days crying in a pile of his own vomit.
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14th of Hematite, 301
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A human caravan tried to approach us from the North. They were likely holed up just outside of the perimeter waiting for a safe opportunity to enter the area. How do I know this, you ask? Well, let's just say I have very good hearing...
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It takes all of their bodyguards to hold it back from toppling the other wagon.
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...that's odd, the south gate has gone silent for the first time in months. Could something have drawn our titan's attention away from the front door?
(http://i65.tinypic.com/67rx9g.png)
Then that means... oh... oh bloody hell. The thing is loose.
Brace yourselves, things are going to get silly.
Yeah, that took a while. I picked a really bad time to play a turn, but as thread curator I feel extremely obligated to play anyway. Wanted to do something wittier, but oy.
Post by: Imic on May 05, 2016, 04:14:56 am
I am (sort of) ready.
Post by: Sanctume on May 05, 2016, 11:51:39 am
And those are human sized corpses, so size matters when zombies charge.
Now ogres corpses, yet to be husked!
Oh, heh, it had to be a damned cat to mess with the titan and lure it inside.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 05, 2016, 02:06:52 pm
It looks like axes are the only thing that actually work on the undead. Notice how our two axedwarves are the only ones not dead/seriously wounded?
Post by: Sanctume on May 05, 2016, 03:43:10 pm
Bone crushing pain is not in play with hammers or maces until you need to crush animating skin or hair.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 05, 2016, 03:58:24 pm
Post by: kleanea on May 05, 2016, 09:30:51 pm
Post by: IcepickTrotsky on May 05, 2016, 09:34:30 pm
Post by: Archereon on May 06, 2016, 07:01:42 am
Post by: Spriggans on May 06, 2016, 07:46:03 am
I know it will be only be in months, but can I be dorfed and have a turn please ?
Post by: Sanctume on May 06, 2016, 10:55:11 am
Sanctume updates:
5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6959571#msg6959571)
6 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6960655#msg6960655)
The Dorflist: Name, Gender Job (Forumite) - Notes
Ryukan, Female, Admin (Ryukan) - Founder
Flame, Female, Chief Medical Dwarf (TheFlame52) - Founder, missing left eye?
Imic, Female, Miner (Imic) - Founder
Spish, Male, Sheriff- Founder, Overseer Year 2
Taupe, Male, Axedwarf (Taupe) - Founder
Niner "Glory Overlord", Male, Hammerdwarf Militia Commander (90908) Dead (kick in the throat) - Founder
Sanctume, Male, Hammerdwarf (Sanctume) - Founder, Overseer Year 1
Zuglarkun, Female, Macedwarf (Zuglarkun) - missing left eye
Puzzlebark, Female, Macedwarf (Puzzlebark)
Clover Magic, Male, Armorsmith (Clover Magic)
Andreus "Endless Res", Female, Miner (Andreus)
Twinwolf, Male, Carpenter, (Twinwolf)
Crashmaster, Male, Mechanic (Crashmaster)
Balnash "Earthroars" Berrorun, ?male Speardwarf (IcepickTrotsky)
Undorfed for claiming
Kosoth, Female, Miner/Engraver (undorf)
Shorast, Male Farmer (undorf)
Lor, Female Mechanic/Marksdwarf (undorf)
Oddom, Male Thresher (undorf)
Shem, Female, Axedwarf (undorf)
Mafol Socketstockade, Male Recruit (undorf) - Dead (steel bolt in skull)
The Pending Dorf List:
Archereon, Elf
Deus Asmoth, Scholar
Gwolfski, Mechanic
Post by: IcepickTrotsky on May 06, 2016, 08:49:49 pm
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Balnash's scribblings, scrawled on a book that has not only seen better days, but probably better decades.
What a surprise this place is! I've heard stories o'how this place was doomed t'fail from th'get-go, but I didn't see anythin' too horrible on th'way in.
Mighta just been luck, though.
Anyway, soon as I arrived I found m'self captaining a group of speardwarves. It's been a few years since I hefted a polearm, but no sooner than I had started training these fools and layabouts into a force which could battle with the undead monstrosities which s'posedly wander th'outside, the cry of ADAMANTINE! rose up through the fortress.
...Maybe we'll survive this after all.
DUN DUN
Post by: Spish on May 06, 2016, 10:37:15 pm
Holy crap, those husks are like the un-nerfed zombies of v40.24.The best part? Unlike zombies, they retain their skills and can master them. So the more they fight, the exponentially more dangerous they get. What if we were to train a squad of elite supersoldiers, and then have them converted into husks? Uh, just... just throwing that out there.
And those are human sized corpses, so size matters when zombies charge.
I should have the last update by Sunday, if not, I'll just throw up the Spring save and let Imic have his way with it. Truth be told I'm kind of stalling for the next version because stress is currently broken, and, being the peacekeeper, that doesn't make my job very fun.
Edit: Uh yeah, I should probably stop making promises. Ended up watching my nephew over the weekend.
Post by: Sanctume on May 07, 2016, 01:15:18 am
Post by: Deus Asmoth on May 07, 2016, 04:26:19 am
Post by: Taupe on May 07, 2016, 10:10:10 am
Do were-husks still transform? They'd at least drop their weapons, I guess.They'll also full heal all damage suffered every month, so that's not... really... very conforting.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 07, 2016, 11:54:14 am
Post by: Sanctume on May 07, 2016, 12:19:40 pm
So if you cut off an arm of a legendary were-husk, it will regen fully, cloning it.
We'll need lots of serrated disc to science this.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 07, 2016, 12:39:10 pm
Post by: Imic on May 08, 2016, 03:50:06 pm
Post by: Spish on May 10, 2016, 03:08:49 am
Apologies for taking so long, hope the wait hasn't been too boring. :P
Post by: Imic on May 10, 2016, 03:21:32 am
I need to get my homework done in school so that i vill be able to have !!!FUN!!! (With Two extra !'s) this will be !!!FUN!!!
Post by: Imic on May 10, 2016, 01:47:06 pm
OH WOW
THIS PLACE IS A MESS
(http://imgur.com/o04r6Do.png)
I HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO
including getting better at using imgur and ms paint.
edit: hang on, that crundle has access to the main fortress. and by crundle, i mean crundle corpse climbing up our stairs. oh god.
why are there 5 miliatary squads? it's easier to just have one. Guardians of blood it is.
begginning proper write - up and roleplaying. will wait to post more when spish is ready.
spish?
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on May 10, 2016, 03:08:11 pm
Post by: Taupe on May 10, 2016, 04:38:20 pm
Hello! I'd like to be dorfed please! Make me a speardwarf. *pokes the enemies to death*Most of the enemies are, sadly, already dead.
Post by: Spish on May 10, 2016, 08:09:35 pm
13th of Hematite, 301
You know what this place could use more of?
(http://i68.tinypic.com/zjgzn9.png)
Yeah. Dragons don't take shit from nobody. A few more hatch covers wouldn't hurt either.
...Oh right, where was I?
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Let's just say it wasn't a pretty sight.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/243midf.png)
...
Can one of you IDIOTS close the gate already?
20th of Hematite, 301
Finally, we've reached the magma sea. With a magma smelter pumping out iron, and all that other stuff out of the way, I've started the mining out a separate, stone fortress, complete with its own aquifer breach and surface airlock entrance. If hell breaks loose up top, we'll be able to keep it out of here. At least, that's the plan, anyway.
(http://i64.tinypic.com/4t54zc.png)
Sanctume had his fancy engineering and all that, but me I prefer to do things the easy way.
(http://i67.tinypic.com/wulzsp.png)
11th of Malachite, 301
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Migrants arrive from the north and are immediately swarmed by the undead hordes.
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(http://i67.tinypic.com/6suh6b.png)
You may want to be more careful around those bodies of water, we got spinos.
By the time I manage to get the gates open, only two of them are even still alive. Let's see how they're enjoying their vacation so far...
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2sb1yxc.png)
(http://i68.tinypic.com/j90s50.png)
Yeah yeah, we get it. Sheesh, you don't have to be such a drama queen about it...
15th of Galena, 301
(http://i65.tinypic.com/25pqnhe.png)
Puzzlebark is acting strange, he must've taken a few too many blows to the head.
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15th of Limestone, 301
Traders from the Mountainhome arrive with their wagoned caravan.
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2qco64g.png)
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Oops is right. Just then it dawns on me that we have the Forest Titan right where we want it, I have Ryukan, who is locked in the control room without food or water, quickly seal up the west tunnel. I can still hear them screaming the next morning.
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Okay, how the hell do you even kill this thing? They were stabbing it for days. By the way, its severed hand is its own entity now.
A pair of merchants managed to escape into the fortress. They've lost everything.
(http://i68.tinypic.com/291jifo.png)
He crawls off into the caverns, never to be seen again.
30th of Sandstone, 301
Most fortresses just have roaches and other crud like that. We have to deal with...
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15th of Sandstone, 301
One last migrant wave. With the titan locked away many of them actually make it into the fortress this time. They are stopped in their tracks by herd of zombified farm animals. The smart ones go around, the stupid ones try to fight their way through it.
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A human bard and his swordsman friend snuck their way into the fortress during the chaos. He introduces himself as Lapip Knowledgeknower.
(http://i68.tinypic.com/15p4s2r.png)
What the hell kind of a name is that? It's kind of suspicious if you ask me... anyway, I look away for one moment and he makes his escape, no doubt spreading word about our adamantine riches to the outside world. Am I going to have to install an anti-comedian security system?
26th of Timber, 301
Some deadbeat poet tried to make their way into the fortress. The giant firefly husks got to 'em first.
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10th of Opal, 301
A human spearman by the name of Onbir Yawnjoy enters through our brand new airlock, and offers his services to our military. Whatever you want man, it's your funeral. It's an honor to welcome someone who appreciates hatch covers as much as I.
11th of Opal, 301
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22nth of Obsidian, 301
I was in a bit of a hurry and may have made a few miscalculations with the plumbing. Where the hell is all this blood coming from anyway?
Why are there chain restraints in all the bedrooms, you ask? Well that's none of your concern, citizen.
The Cyclopean Snacks is now open for business. We now have a temple to Kidet, the god of War, Chaos, and Fortresses: The Cathedral of Reigns. I have also established a temple to Tarem, The Sanctum of Biles, for our (unsurprisingly) rather prevalent worshippers of death, disease and suicide.
1st of Granite, 302
The year has come to a close, finally freeing me of all this damn responibility.
(http://i64.tinypic.com/zu1g2g.png)
Yeah, I'm not really cut out for this whole leadership thing; I'd hate to be the guy that has to clean up this mess. Speaking of which, I wonder how they're preparing for the job...
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2wo972u.png)
Hey, I get most of my notes from random screenshots and sorting through all that junk takes time. Imic, you may begin. I wish death upon you, best of luck ;)
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12016
I tried to get way more done than I realistically could've, hence why the fortress is such a bloody mess. I had plans for a doomsday lever, but obviously I didn't have the time or the means to put those contraptions together. Guess I'll leave that one up to you guys. :P
The save is perfectly compatible with the new version, so we may as well move on up. Course this may prevent people from using programs like Therapist and DFhack for the time being.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 10, 2016, 08:32:34 pm
Post by: Taupe on May 10, 2016, 09:16:27 pm
Post by: Spish on May 10, 2016, 09:24:53 pm
The Crop Tool (http://downloadicons.net/sites/default/files/crop-tool-icon-47227.png) is your friend.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: kleanea on May 11, 2016, 02:18:17 am
Post by: Imic on May 11, 2016, 03:08:23 am
Post by: Deus Asmoth on May 11, 2016, 05:14:21 am
Post by: Imic on May 11, 2016, 02:09:13 pm
Imic, finished meditating on suicide, addressed the bedraggled crowds around her.
'as your new Overseer, i would like to say something. This will be a good time. i want everything to work wel. I-
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBLIIIIIIIIIINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, four goblins.
CLOSE THE GATE
yes.
ah, good. i- OH NO WAIT THE GATE WAS ALREADY CLOSED! DON'T PULL THAT LEVER!!!!!!!!!!
(http://i.imgur.com/fw2nmlI.png)
oh thank god. now, get to work!
(http://i.imgur.com/n0A1iRv.png)
later...
IT'S IN THE BASE!!!!!!!!!!
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
(http://imgur.com/03QcyNT.png)
it's not moving. i-
(http://imgur.com/AuUpPnw.png)
why do I even bother.
Post by: Taupe on May 11, 2016, 02:20:35 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 11, 2016, 04:00:55 pm
Post by: Sanctume on May 11, 2016, 05:58:30 pm
Is Barney in the house?
Post by: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on May 12, 2016, 08:23:59 pm
Sign me up. In the tradition of the players of legend and awe, I shall drive this fortress directly into the bloody ground!
Post by: Imic on May 14, 2016, 12:33:08 am
imic went to have a sit down
this is tiring work, she said.
'YOUR OVERSEERINESS'
'what is it now?'
th- th- th- fo
OH GOD NO
(http://imgur.com/dlDTAaS.png)
WHY
(http://imgur.com/mGH88FX.png)
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ooc
zuglarkun died. i'm not sure why.
(http://imgur.com/UimMIs8.png)
rest in peaces.
(http://imgur.com/jjVf7Bc.png)
it's.. STILL ALIVE!
THE UNDEAD MENACE!
IT'S AFTER PUZZLEBARK
IT KILLED ZUGLARKUN AND NOW IT'S AFTER PUZZLEBARK!
RUN, PUZZLEBARK!
actually...
YOU'RE RE-CONSCRPTED INTO THE MILIATARY.
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
ATTACK!
HE HEARD ME.
meanwhi- OH NO WHY IS THIS FORTRESS DOOMED TO DIE?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
(http://imgur.com/rih3El0.png)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARGhwhy?...
Post by: Lebo on May 14, 2016, 05:55:45 am
Gimme a dorf when you get the chance(maybe) and sign me up for a turn! Hell, maybe the fort lives that long, they have had the tendency to cling to some sort of mockery of life.
Post by: Imic on May 14, 2016, 08:12:42 am
As is proper for *failed forts, I have no god damn idea what is happening except that it is horrifying, and probably was inevitable.Will dorf you. You may be randomly drafted into the miliatary. You may die. A lot of dying.
Gimme a dorf when you get the chance(maybe) and sign me up for a turn! Hell, maybe the fort lives that long, they have had the tendency to cling to some sort of mockery of life.
Post by: Imic on May 15, 2016, 12:12:50 pm
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12037
next player, please!
Post by: Spish on May 15, 2016, 03:36:04 pm
Post by: Imic on May 17, 2016, 07:18:50 am
Post by: Gwolfski on May 17, 2016, 09:36:07 am
Post by: Senshuken on May 18, 2016, 04:40:42 pm
Can't be an overseer through but that's fine. I would like a military dwarf named Senshuken!
Post by: Gwolfski on May 18, 2016, 04:41:54 pm
I need to read all the things leading up to this to get caught up lore wise, but I want to be dorfed in!Any preferences?
Can't be an overseer through but that's fine. I would like a military dwarf named Senshuken!
Post by: Senshuken on May 18, 2016, 11:18:30 pm
I need to read all the things leading up to this to get caught up lore wise, but I want to be dorfed in!Any preferences?
Can't be an overseer through but that's fine. I would like a military dwarf named Senshuken!
What has the Fortress got currently?
Edit: I'm not picky. I would like a crossbow if we're got them. Crossbow dwarves have a tendency to stay alive longer then the melee guys right? However, if we need melee fighters to charge into the meat grinder I'm happy to do so.
Post by: Taupe on May 19, 2016, 10:50:21 am
Post by: Gwolfski on May 20, 2016, 12:38:17 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 20, 2016, 02:06:24 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on May 20, 2016, 02:16:11 pm
Post by: TheError on May 21, 2016, 01:42:42 pm
Post by: Imic on May 22, 2016, 12:16:18 am
Random zombies are getting in...I wasn't letting zom- hang on, from where? And... Why?
Post by: Taupe on May 22, 2016, 12:28:45 am
Post by: Gwolfski on May 22, 2016, 02:31:42 am
Post by: Lebo on May 22, 2016, 07:15:42 am
Post by: Taupe on May 22, 2016, 08:05:17 pm
This really is starting to sound like a *failed fort, when it's the players having mental breakdowns instead of the fort dorfs.You misspelled ''success''.
Post by: Imic on May 24, 2016, 04:57:54 am
How do you sig quotes?This really is starting to sound like a *failed fort, when it's the players having mental breakdowns instead of the fort dorfs.You misspelled ''success''.
Post by: Deus Asmoth on May 24, 2016, 08:53:53 am
Post by: Imic on May 25, 2016, 04:13:56 am
Quote, copy it, paste it into the sig box.Thanks.
Post by: Gwolfski on May 25, 2016, 12:29:53 pm
Post by: Imic on May 25, 2016, 12:46:16 pm
SAve up soon- 1-2 daysDid my dig side to the west side of the fortress get finished? I mean, i doubt it, but still, did it?
Post by: Sanctume on May 25, 2016, 01:48:26 pm
Post by: Senshuken on May 26, 2016, 11:44:49 am
However, while the odds may be stacked against us I cannot help but feel in my heart that we can overcome the horrors that have been assembled before us as we have overcome countless horrors and monstrosities that have plagued dwarf kind since the early days of Battlefailed. We will rally ourselves and purge the zombies from our midst, retake our Fortress and find a way to put down the cursed abomination that is Salo (and it's now independent arm) once and for all!...Or throw away countless lives trying!
Either way, Kidet and Tarem will be pleased with our suicidal war against the Undead! For War and Suicidal Death, CHARGE!
Post by: Gwolfski on May 26, 2016, 02:08:49 pm
Post by: Ghills on May 27, 2016, 09:10:31 am
Post by: Gwolfski on May 27, 2016, 10:17:11 am
Post by: Gwolfski on May 28, 2016, 05:16:57 pm
Edit: Just saying ill be away for free days, so wont be able to post updates. Expect a)tower on surface or b)death or c)both
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 29, 2016, 07:36:32 pm
WHAT ARE YOU
Post by: Gwolfski on May 30, 2016, 01:05:58 am
BORED in a BATTLEFAILED FORT
WHAT ARE YOU
just wait.
Post by: Crashmaster on May 30, 2016, 02:38:53 am
Post by: Spish on May 31, 2016, 12:02:39 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 01, 2016, 06:09:50 am
Post by: Gwolfski on June 01, 2016, 12:05:34 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on June 01, 2016, 02:32:43 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/nbXC0HR.png)
Good luck, nobles.
edit: breaching surface. See ya in 16hrs
All the zombies busy slaughtering migrants and merchants, so making a dash for it.
Post by: Senshuken on June 02, 2016, 06:17:40 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtwFyFNgfg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtwFyFNgfg)
Now the question is, how do I get it to appear as a youtube video on the site...
Post by: Gwolfski on June 02, 2016, 02:08:47 pm
Good timing, visitors!
save uploading
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12104
Post by: Spish on June 02, 2016, 08:49:48 pm
Post by: Twinwolf on June 02, 2016, 08:54:13 pm
Twinwolf II, when there's an available dwarf, please :P
Post by: The Master on June 02, 2016, 11:04:38 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 02, 2016, 11:12:07 pm
Just a minute. There was another Battlefailed sequel and I wasn't invited? This has to remedied, post haste. Sign me up. Name my dwarf The Master, as it should be.
We were afraid the fort would die off again and fail to collapse. Fixing reality is expensive, and Bloodyhells isn't made of or making money.
Post by: The Master on June 02, 2016, 11:23:32 pm
We were afraid the fort would die off again and fail to collapse. Fixing reality is expensive, and Bloodyhells isn't made of or making money.Oh, don't worry. That event has only ever happened once throughout all the years I've played DF. What are the odds it could happen again?
Post by: Senshuken on June 03, 2016, 12:44:01 am
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 01:07:32 am
Oh, don't worry. That event has only ever happened once throughout all the years I've played DF. What are the odds it could happen again?
About the same as someone reclaiming Battlefailed.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 03, 2016, 03:48:28 am
Oh, don't worry. That event has only ever happened once throughout all the years I've played DF. What are the odds it could happen again?
About the same as someone reclaiming Battlefailed.
I did that. At least got a stable bunker in there.
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 03:51:50 am
Oh, don't worry. That event has only ever happened once throughout all the years I've played DF. What are the odds it could happen again?
About the same as someone reclaiming Battlefailed.
I did that. At least got a stable bunker in there.
I was mostly thinking about this: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=76193.0
Getting a bunker in Battlefailed is one thing. Actually gaining control of the fortress. Making the failcannon work ...
Well ... Yeah.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 03, 2016, 04:31:30 am
Oh, don't worry. That event has only ever happened once throughout all the years I've played DF. What are the odds it could happen again?
About the same as someone reclaiming Battlefailed.
I did that. At least got a stable bunker in there.
I was mostly thinking about this: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=76193.0
Getting a bunker in Battlefailed is one thing. Actually gaining control of the fortress. Making the failcannon work ...
Well ... Yeah.
Well, I got a new hobby. Only problem is that it is full of undead....
EDIT: Anyone able to get hold of clear plans of the failcannon?
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 04:44:08 am
Well, I got a new hobby. Only problem is that it is full of undead....
EDIT: Anyone able to get hold of clear plans of the failcannon?
I actually managed to partially reclaim it by using the old age exploit to kill off the ghosts. I reclaimed most of upper failcannon and about half of the lower one but there was very little interest in the thread, and the FPS was pain.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 03, 2016, 05:57:57 am
Post by: Sanctume on June 03, 2016, 09:14:04 am
That north passage has a 10x6 atom smasher that is already linked. With 2 1x2 raising bridges air locks also; and doors and bait room.
AFAIK, they are all links in the lever control room, with matching Notes on lever-bridge, and even Note color coordinated.
North, There is at least 1 Building Destroyer trap (for webbed) with built fortification and shutters.
North, Two more FB traps were added, but incomplete I think. It's a simple 1x2 raising bridge with 2 door baits. It's simple and effective.
Too bad, the north surface was breached prior to completing this.
Zombies can be herded when they find the path to live bait, and can be controlled/penned by merely forbidding doors before they control it.
There are similar 6x10 rooms on the east and west passages.
There should be at least 2 military training in order to handle the undead and butchering of animals inside; with the garbage chute used and reset and ready to go smash again.
Magma smelters and Magma forge should have happened sooner with all the hematite found. Then Magma Glass Furnace to crank out trap components; Spiked Balls would be my choice. Do they pulp?
Post by: Senshuken on June 03, 2016, 10:11:34 am
Other than Salo, everything can be atom smashed.
That north passage has a 10x6 atom smasher that is already linked. With 2 1x2 raising bridges air locks also; and doors and bait room.
AFAIK, they are all links in the lever control room, with matching Notes on lever-bridge, and even Note color coordinated.
North, There is at least 1 Building Destroyer trap (for webbed) with built fortification and shutters.
North, Two more FB traps were added, but incomplete I think. It's a simple 1x2 raising bridge with 2 door baits. It's simple and effective.
Too bad, the north surface was breached prior to completing this.
Zombies can be herded when they find the path to live bait, and can be controlled/penned by merely forbidding doors before they control it.
There are similar 6x10 rooms on the east and west passages.
There should be at least 2 military training in order to handle the undead and butchering of animals inside; with the garbage chute used and reset and ready to go smash again.
Magma smelters and Magma forge should have happened sooner with all the hematite found. Then Magma Glass Furnace to crank out trap components; Spiked Balls would be my choice. Do they pulp?
Would you consider the current situation salvageable?
Post by: Sanctume on June 03, 2016, 10:32:10 am
It just looks overwhelming when too large projects being done with so few citizens.
Treat it as new embark, and focus on small projects to get some satisfaction from completing something.
Atom smasher hall help wipe lingering zombies / husks.
A 5z deep garbage (diagonal) dump (with atom smasher or 2/7 magma) is needed so you can pit undead without Urist from above seeing down below and freaking out.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 03, 2016, 11:26:27 am
Post by: Sanctume on June 03, 2016, 11:46:43 am
Post by: The Master on June 03, 2016, 12:24:31 pm
Post by: Sanctume on June 03, 2016, 01:42:37 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 03, 2016, 06:40:22 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 07:43:37 pm
NCommander AND The Master? Lots of old Deathgate names showing up all of a sudden. Maybe it's a sign...
I feel like we should build a cannon that shoots demons. That should solve the husk problem.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 03, 2016, 07:46:42 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 07:48:39 pm
Believe it or not, breaching hell might not be a bad plan. Can demons get husked? Let's find out in the worst way possible!
They can't, or at least in 34.11 they couldn't. However, the clown car was smashed by the huskes in the !!science!! thread.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 03, 2016, 07:56:08 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 08:05:02 pm
And we have a titan husk. Well, unleashing hell upon the world can't make things any worse, at least!
I actually was working on a fort about two years ago with a working hellcannon. You need an artifact hatch cover and door to make it work, but basically, you need to dig into the candy as a single tile starwell. The top needs to be a down stair only with the hatch cover, and the door goes at the end of the barrel. You open the hatch cover in pulses to release a few demons or two in the cannon barrel.
For testing, save scumming works miracles for getting exactly the artifact types you need. Just wait for a moody mason, or DFHack a mood.
The problem I ran into was getting to fly out with explosive force. I think a highly (i.e. 10z+) tall and big water tank might do it, but my small scale tests suggest demons are too big to be moved by pressure at all.
EDIT: it also only really works with the initial clown rush. The ones that roam in and out of hell use the wildlife AI, and tend to ignore anything not within 20 tiles of them.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 03, 2016, 08:12:28 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 08:20:10 pm
The titan still destroys buildings, doesn't it? So do wild demons. Use artifact furniture to bring the two together!
Titans are the same as FB except they can be historical which is why slaying of ton of them causes an age change ("The World has passed into ..." message at year change)
The concept I was working on was to fire bait out into the open. I think I was planning on some sorta wardog drop delivery system, but I could have probably used caged elves left over from a seige.
Post by: Senshuken on June 03, 2016, 11:44:28 pm
And if it works on Salo, we can do it to any other titan that comes and gets husked!
Post by: NCommander on June 03, 2016, 11:49:12 pm
...How would we get Salo into hell? Not only would we get rid of our titan husk problem but they would have all the demons to play with as well! It's like setting up a nature preserve for endangered species...
And if it works on Salo, we can do it to any other titan that comes and gets husked!
The problem is getting around the fact they're building destroyers. Without artifact stuff, you could cast obsidian via magma pumping and buckets to seal sections of the fort.
Basically, what we need to do is:
1. Find Candy
2. Dig a separate shaft that goes from the top of the spire to the outside world. Build a drawbridge, and breach the surface.
2a. Seal the shaft from the top
3. Seal a miner in the shaft.
4. Breach the candy
Post by: The Master on June 04, 2016, 12:14:30 am
NCommander AND The Master? Lots of old Deathgate names showing up all of a sudden. Maybe it's a sign...What can I say? I just couldn't stay away any longer. I haven't had a good mental breakdown in 5 years. That needs to change.
Post by: Spish on June 04, 2016, 06:04:59 pm
I feel like we should build a cannon that shoots demons. That should solve the husk problem.OR... build our own husk supersoldier army, and conquer the circus with it. Bloodyhells shall live up to its name!
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 04, 2016, 07:01:20 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 04, 2016, 09:20:52 pm
Post by: Imic on June 05, 2016, 01:04:17 am
We can use puppies on a chain to lure the husks into the proper areas.Am i the only one with any sense of morality here?
Don't use puppies. I love dogs.
Use kittens. 'Should help the fps too.
Post by: NCommander on June 05, 2016, 01:44:30 am
Am i the only one with any sense of morality here?
Morality is relative,
Puppies are cheap,
Dwarves are zealots of,
A place that creeps and leaks,
where oversears send them to die,
so we may feast on their on their sorrow,
as we chew on their marrow
Just never forget,
That Bloodyhells is always a threat.
Post by: Iamblichos on June 05, 2016, 06:33:35 am
Post by: NCommander on June 05, 2016, 06:46:50 am
I've spent a good 30 minutes trying to get DF to recognize Gwolfski's save file with no luck. Can anyone else get it to work?
I'll check. Standby.
Post by: Iamblichos on June 05, 2016, 06:57:33 am
EDIT: I'm going to pass on my turn. I've been off-cycle with DF for a few months, and this type of fort will require a precision I don't think I can muster right now. Best of luck to the next
Post by: NCommander on June 05, 2016, 08:24:52 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 05, 2016, 08:56:23 am
Post by: NCommander on June 05, 2016, 09:03:46 am
I just got a new computer. Just like the last one was built to run Minecraft, this one is built to run Dwarf Fortress. LET'S GO
I have an urge to fix df2minecraft to combine those two things.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 05, 2016, 11:16:21 am
Why do I even bother being surprised any more.
Most of the fort is in the soil layer, and it's already a rambling mess. We don't have a staircase, we have some kind of spiral ramp. As usual, it's full of corpses. Our forges are two magma smelters. We're open to the caverns in two places. Caverns that are FULL OF ZOMBIES. Ghosts. There are random tunnels and pits everywhere. A lot of them are blocked off and/or full of water. The surface is covered in corpses, zombies, and random junk. We also have two zombie stockpiles.
IT'S ONLY BEEN TWO YEARS PEOPLE
Post by: Senshuken on June 05, 2016, 11:20:05 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 05, 2016, 11:22:34 am
Post by: Sanctume on June 05, 2016, 06:28:29 pm
then dfhack forum-dwarves.
there is a text file in the df directory names forum-dwarves.txt
Every dwarf you run will be appended to that text file.
copy paste to forum, it's color coded for the board.
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 12:43:23 am
Post by: Sanctume on June 06, 2016, 01:27:04 am
forum-dwarves just dumps data in the text file without worrying about images.
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 01:37:10 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 06, 2016, 08:05:32 am
Spoiler: Senshuken (click to show/hide)
Yep, still can't take screenshots, so this won't have any pictures. I'll try to keep you guys informed.
- I made some instruments for the tavern.
- We have corpses. We have magma. I've combined the two. Most of our captive zombies have been incinerated, freeing up cage space. We have four invincible crundle scales chilling in the magma now.
- Cage traps are the answer. Aside from the Titan, every single zombie is trappable. I'm making copper cages.
- We have an artifact claystone grate now. That means we have Titan bait. I've ordered some menacing spikes made for a repeating spike trap.
- I've reclaimed the butcher's shop. We're finally getting rid of some of our refuse.
- I tried to let in some migrants through the airlock. The one I let in... was the Titan.
Post by: Senshuken on June 06, 2016, 11:16:32 am
Chapter One: An Introduction.
I haven't been at this Fortress for very long, but I'm starting to suspect that the name of this place is more of a description rather then an actual name. But I guess I should start from the beginning...
My name is Senshuken the IV and I am a planter. Been one for as long as I can remember and that goes back a very long time. Thanks to the amount of booze I've been drinking lately that will hopefully change soon. I can't actually remember why I started drinking so heavily to forget something, but I suspect it had something to do with the Plaited Page... I found a journal that says that I kept a journal of my time there but all the pages were torn out expect the last one, which simply read 'Just keep drinking, you don't want to know' in my own hand-writing. Never been one to not trust myself so I've taken my own advice.
But yea, after my hopefully forgotten time somewhere in the Plaited Page, I found myself needing to go somewhere new in order to have a fresh start that would allowing me to work my trade...somewhere exciting. Somewhere that needed a farmer but would also give me the chance to fulfill my desire to join the military and start a family. Bloodyhells was a new fortress out that was looking for fresh people to go and so I did...
Now, I have always found nature to be an insane son of a bitch; Anything that the elves love so much should be treated with a great deal of suspicion at any rate, but I once saw a bunny rabbit bite off and shallow a man's head whole. Just getting here, I saw what appeared to be undead Orges ripping apart a human caravan... As a general rule, I honestly believe that we have to destroy nature before the sick bastard gets us by bathing the surface with magma on a near monthly basis, but just from what I've seen so far, I think a fortnightly magma bath seems like a good idea.
When I get the chance, I'm going to request training to be a crossbow dwarf. Don't really have the physical strength to be a melee fighter... and I admit that I could afford to lose a few stone... But I think that being able to pick things off from a distance sounds right up my alley.
I think I might cut this off here. Someone is screaming about someone letting Salo into the fortress...
~Senshuken the IV.
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 11:50:36 am
- Cage traps are the answer. Aside from the Titan, every single zombie is trappable. I'm making copper cages.Fight them yourself you blubbering Armok-damn pansies. Zombies are weak, and I didn't train this militia for nothing.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 06, 2016, 12:13:39 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 06, 2016, 01:57:14 pm
GROUP ONE
- Flame the medic
- Gwolfski the wounded marksdwarf
- Zefon the mayor/milker (has pick)
- Mebzuth the marksdwarf
- Sodel the ghostly farmer
- A gorlak
Gwolfski and Mebzuth were thrown far enough from the fight that they went to the hospital. Flame was treating them when they locked themselves in. Gwolfski's right arm is gone at the elbow, Mebzuth only has flesh wounds. Zefon grabbed a pick, locked himself in the dining hall, and mined through to the hospital. Sodel just sort of showed up, she's been around a while. The gorlak was already there.
The group has a pick, a bit of food, plenty of alcohol, a well, beds, and medical supplies. They also have muddy ground and some unharvested plants. Their biggest problem is food, since they only have 9 raw fish, 18 tallow, and 27 prepared meals. They can survive longer by cooking alcohol. They are currently walling themselves in.
GROUP TWO
- Andreas the miner
- Atis the child, Andreus's son
- Kadol the child/legendary stonecrafter, Mebzuth's son
This group is locked in some of the bedrooms. They don't have food, water, or a way to wall themselves in. They have a pick and clothes, which is about the only thing going for them. They are getting hungry and thirsty.
So what do I do now? Some options:
- Go out in a blaze of glory, start a new fort
- Let group two die, save group one, reclaim from there
- Combine both groups, reclaim from there
- Go full hax and have Flame kill everything
- Go full hax and have a visitor kill everything
- Go full hax and make the husks hostile to undead
- Go partial hax and make the ghost and gorlak into citizens
Post by: Senshuken on June 06, 2016, 02:01:11 pm
Honestly, I say combine both groups and reclaim from there. Andreas isn't about to let his son die when he can do something about it after all!
Post by: NCommander on June 06, 2016, 02:06:43 pm
The situation is salvageable:
- For food, head to the caverns if possible, and use plant gathering. You'll get enough to survive and get seeds. If you have one with any skill, you can actually feed a fort on it it alone.
- Have group two head to the caverns if you're above the aquifer. Husks and zombies can easily get lost. Put them in a squad so you can rapidly move them from point to point. Get plants and such.
- Make potash if you can make/get a bucket for the ashery. You can get stupid amounts of food very fast that way.
- Make soap, get the hospital fully working. We can work with what you have.
EDIT: do you have enough room to build a jewelerys workshop? The right most tiles are impassable. I can't remember if Salo is a building destoryer, but that might buy you time.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 06, 2016, 02:22:00 pm
It's great that both kids have living parents. I think I'll enable child labor via Therapist because having 2/7 living dwarves as children is serious business.
I also got Greenshot so I should be able to take pictures from now on.
EDIT: Hold on a baby-smashing second, there's a huge aquifer between Andreus and the rest, and everywhere is full of zombies. I think they're fucked.
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 02:28:58 pm
I do believe this situation is salvageable. Pull Sanctume's lever labeled "Right Bridge Lock," next to the stairs leading down to the mining ramp. The south lock is already closed off, so the stone fortress will be completely secure. Your best bet is to wall off the section of the fortress with the titan while it's busy smashing things (there's a lot of things to smash). You'll want to have someone expendable do it though, and try to at least salvage the masonry workshops and magma forge. If the animal stockpile is reachable (which it should be, it's directly connected to my stone fortress), you can slaughter some crundles for food (mind the skin and scales).
You can begin training dwarves for combat (very quickly) in the temple of Kidet, if there are any weapons lying around.
If you can get Andreus and company to dig to the Lever Control Room, they can probably seal off the rest of the fortress from the surface.
(also it's about time those dudes were dorfed, we got people waiting)
Post by: NCommander on June 06, 2016, 02:33:26 pm
Okay, I'll have Andreus start digging toward the other group. I'll cook some meals using tallow as the base and the rest alcohol. I'll set up a fishery and clean the fish.
It's great that both kids have living parents. I think I'll enable child labor via Therapist because having 2/7 living dwarves as children is serious business.
I also got Greenshot so I should be able to take pictures from now on.
EDIT: Hold on a baby-smashing second, there's a huge aquifer between Andreus and the rest, and everywhere is full of zombies. I think they're fucked.
Can you post the save as it is now so I can take a look? I'd like to think a couple of dwarven military masters could definately engineer a way to keep us going without having to indulge in child labor ;).
For Andreus, maybe head to the surface, then channel down closer to the other group? Zombies shouldn't engage if there isn't a nercomancer if no one gets too close. Use traffic designations to get everyone to walk in a straight line. Though if you've got the aquifer, you've got water. If you can reach a room with plants, get them to pick them for food. It might keep them alive until rescue. You can breach an aquifer pretty quickly if you come in from below with group 2.
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 02:37:38 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 06, 2016, 02:52:10 pm
Group 1 can't easily get to the caverns, but they're on dirt. There are some plump helment and sweet pod plants growing you can pick.
If Group 2 is where I think it is, Breach the big room to the right of the bedrooms. You've got plants to pick, and then channel to the aquifer. That should get you at least one stone for a masonary plug. They'll only have water, but it should keep them alive until you can get crops. We'll have to let them sit until we can rescue them.
We might be able to use the aquifer to our advantage. I don't think zombies will path through 7/7 water normally. We could use that to isolate parts of the fort with selective breaches. If we can slowly flood the lower part of the fort, and get an opening then can reach safely, they may be able to swim out.
EDIT: Actually, if memory serves. Non-breathing units tend to glitch in water. They won't try to path out. If we can submerge the zombies, they should just stay in place.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 06, 2016, 03:00:09 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/g8yLZjA.png)
This is the entire fort, minus a little water source under that channel in the first image.
Well there are lots of stupid adventurers trying to get into the fortress, if you can trick them into confronting the zombies, or baiting them outside, they might be able to clear a path to the lever for a citizen.The fort is sealed off from the surface, and the surface is almost cleared. I might use some strategic meeting zones to get some visitors to kill the last zombies.
You know, I'm feeling really burned out right now. I have done nothing but save succession forts for like six turns. I'll play more tomorrow.
Looking at the map, I think I know where group 1 and group 2 are respectively.I was going to flood the fort for the hell of it anyway.
Group 1 can't easily get to the caverns, but they're on dirt. There are some plump helment and sweet pod plants growing you can pick.
If Group 2 is where I think it is, Breach the big room to the right of the bedrooms. You've got plants to pick, and then channel to the aquifer. That should get you at least one stone for a masonary plug. They'll only have water, but it should keep them alive until you can get crops. We'll have to let them sit until we can rescue them.
We might be able to use the aquifer to our advantage. I don't think zombies will path through 7/7 water normally. We could use that to isolate parts of the fort with selective breaches. If we can slowly flood the lower part of the fort, and get an opening then can reach safely, they may be able to swim out.
EDIT: Actually, if memory serves. Non-breathing units tend to glitch in water. They won't try to path out. If we can submerge the zombies, they should just stay in place.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 06, 2016, 03:05:26 pm
AS for group 2, forbid the door. It shouldn't be touched . If they have a pick, dig untill 3 rock is found. block entrance.
group 1. Pretty good situation. Enable plant agthering only on dwarf(s) with the highest skill. Gather plants, plant. make some slabs, slab ghosts.
Post by: NCommander on June 06, 2016, 03:08:41 pm
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 03:16:03 pm
I planned ahead and made sure the stone fortress could be sealed off in just such an event.
(http://i68.tinypic.com/11hqryh.png)(http://i65.tinypic.com/2n8rkh3.png)
These are the only two parts connecting the Group 1 area to the rest of the fortress. The first one is already sealed, if you can close the latter (the bloody gate on the right), they will be able to roam the stone fortress unhindered.
Locking these doors is also an option.
(http://i67.tinypic.com/315ejxh.png)
You can funnel visitors in by putting up "Cyclopean Snacks" signs and letting them in through the south airlock. It's a short sprint down the hall from the dining hall to the lever room, you can lock someone in there.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: NCommander on June 06, 2016, 03:27:33 pm
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 03:44:12 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on June 06, 2016, 03:48:00 pm
Post by: Sanctume on June 06, 2016, 03:49:38 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 06, 2016, 06:08:27 pm
After Sanctume's turn, I was fairly impressed with number of things done with mind to safety. I had thoughts like these:
"Do I want to incorporate these designs"
"are any improvements possible"
"Ooh, I should learn how to do that"
"There are some great names in the list, I'll look forward how they will amazing works of wonder in a perfectly safe fortress."
Battlefailed forts add a certain unique challenge to building entrances, in that any levers will probably be misused, left collecting dust, atomsmash the migrants or leave dwarves caught in nefarious fog. I don't think anybody pulled the levers to reset water in cleaning through after you, Sanctume. (I had hope that they would figure it out if they can figure out how to get migrants in, but then I read the thread)
At Spish turn, I cringed. And cringed again. And then again.
The come down from "multiple secure entrances, safety mechanisms, ways to deal with every common enemy" to "lets send our miner fighting husks barehanded in a reanimating biome" was pretty huge.
I couldn't stand it; I paused reading and went to get a drink.
I looked at the designs floating in my head, and mentally teared them to shreds.
I forgot that Battlefailed overseers are frequently Opposed to Life.
Then I considered how to do a fort where an overseer couldn't kill dwarves other than by starvation, and concluded that it wouldn't be possible while allowing trading and even without that not possible in a single year.
However, I suppose that in retrospect, that is pretty impressive in it's own way. Did you punch multiple holes into reanimating cavern just to make life more interesting, Spish?
Though, come to think that's almost classical design for making the wild animals path through a thin pathway, and I'm sure the fort enjoys the compliment :P
Come Imic's turn, the start state missing from OP (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg6989768#msg6989768) gave me a ray of hope.
"It probably won't be most interesting turn, but greater efficiency is beautiful on it's own."
Quote
ah, good. i- OH NO WAIT THE GATE WAS ALREADY CLOSED! DON'T PULL THAT LEVER!!!!!!!!!!RIP Hope. Commence random lever-pulling.
Of course, in a moment I realized that I was still overestimating Imic. I blame Sanctume. I should have foreseen titan in the fort with the above quote, not be surprised by it 10 seconds later.
Though, hey - a Battlefailed fort where the enemies can actually path inside. I suppose that's good in a way. Always have to look on the bright side, Imic has successfully improved pathing.
Gwolfski....I suppose being capable of reclaim of the hellcannon is good, even if being driven insane and drowsy before even starting playing is highly discouraging.
Remarkably, I wasn't too horrified, but it didn't seem like too much happened in those 6 months?
Though I suppose somebody should check those [l]ocations to citizen-only like Sanctume mentioned, or you will just have more husks.
...
I wonder if a husked poet will still sing?
So, TheFlame52. Very promising intro, and I've been quite impressed by BastionGate recently.
Great architectural plans with hell befitting of thread name.
The OP has no links, so I'll give you some:
6. TheFlame52 1 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7034244#msg7034244) 2 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035557#msg7035557) Senshukan's diary (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035557#msg7035557) 3: (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035868#msg7035868)TheFlame52 is caught in a cloud of nefarious fog! 4 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035899#msg7035899) 5 (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157724.msg7035955#msg7035955)
...bloody hells, this fortress husks overseers.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 06, 2016, 07:10:18 pm
Post by: Taupe on June 06, 2016, 07:14:14 pm
I wonder if a husked poet will still sing?That's like the bottom three entries in the grand list of our concerns at the moment.
It is SHEER COINCIDENCE that my dwarf always survives any fort-ending catastrophe that happens during my turn. I have a perfectly good alibi. My dwarf was the medic and I was treating wounded militia. See? Not suspicious at all!none can kill the Chaosbane.
Post by: Spish on June 06, 2016, 10:20:01 pm
(Granted, I'm otherwise up to page 65 of Horrorfailed in Battlefailed's never-ending ride.)What a delightful coincidence, you stopped reading after my turn! :D
At Spish turn, I cringed. And cringed again. And then again.Hey now, my writing isn't that bad. :P
...is it?
*pompous tirade complaining about the state of affairs and grilling Imic over a joke he made*Call me crazy, but I'm sensing a bit of a personal agenda here. I really doubt you were that invested in a second-year thread you've never even bothered to post in before. If the !!fun!! is too much for you to handle, there are plenty of other, much friendlier, non-Battlefailed community alternatives for your elf hands to fiddle around with.
Thanks for reminding me about the journals though, I'll see about adding them to the OP later. And a quotes section while I'm at it.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 07, 2016, 03:07:18 am
Post by: Imic on June 07, 2016, 03:34:04 am
Post by: Imic on June 07, 2016, 03:41:46 am
Post by: Gwolfski on June 07, 2016, 04:46:04 am
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 07, 2016, 08:30:16 am
Not really unexpected if left alone, but I hop....Banish that thought, RIP migrants.
@Spish: Hey, I grilled you more! :p And it certainly isn't the writing.
Oh no. The writing prose is fine. It's more how the content features living hell on Aluonra.
You know, being attacked by the dead you once know is the worst single thing that can happen to a dwarf, with only being forced to eat their beloved pets matching that. Butchering mermaids is comparatively tame.
And yeah, you're probably right that there is some personal agenda at play. Wish I knew what it was, though. "Be responsible gods?"
Post by: Sanctume on June 07, 2016, 09:23:31 am
Anything dead re-animates to a nerfed zombie
But the fog husking nullifies the nerf into a charging mass that retains (even gains?) weapon skills--i.e. human caravan guards.
Then we have an early (year 1) titan dinosaur turned husk.
It's the nightmare version of "I love you You love me" Barney, our very own Salo. :)
Having a tavern, library, or temple open to all visitors will being more husk fodder if the surface / tunnels aren't secured.
But at the same time, it can be used to attack bait into specific locations also.
Post by: Spish on June 07, 2016, 11:20:58 am
Anything dead re-animates to a nerfed zombieNot really, anything that dies by pulping (pretty much anything killed by a humanoid zombie, since that's the only way they can kill), does not reanimate. And it seems only undead creatures from off the map designated as living corpses (see, human corpse nefarious fog husk) can be posthumously husked. They seem to be much easier to kill, because they never had functioning brains to begin with, and probably aren't capable of retaining information.
But the fog husking nullifies the nerf into a charging mass that retains (even gains?) weapon skills--i.e. human caravan guards.
Then I considered how to do a fort where an overseer couldn't kill dwarves other than by starvation, and concluded that it wouldn't be possible while allowing trading and even without that not possible in a single year.If that's the kind of fortress you were hoping for after reading through 3 1/2 threads of sheer insanity, then I really don't know what to say. But it's only the third year, there's still plenty of time for someone to stabilize the fortress. If it lasts that long, anyway.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 07, 2016, 12:04:22 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 07, 2016, 12:48:43 pm
If that's the kind of fortress you were hoping for after reading through 3 1/2 threads of sheer insanity, then I really don't know what to say. But it's only the third year, there's still plenty of time someone to stabilize the fortress. If it lasts that long, anyway.Not hoping for. There is no hope.
No, that was more trying to figure out theoretical answers to an unusual threat. With cavern revealed, hostile tree attacks would kinda defeat the point.
Post by: Sanctume on June 07, 2016, 01:49:48 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 07, 2016, 01:54:34 pm
Post by: Sanctume on June 07, 2016, 03:20:29 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 07, 2016, 04:50:55 pm
Could something like that have been stopping Salo behind a door? Initially unlocked, but then encountered an obstacle that wasn't there when he started walking, much like how a caravan can repath.
Salo is a building destroyer though. He would pause for furnitures.He got stuck too close to the door. He was trying to smash it, but he was too close to do so. I've seen it before.
spam cage trapsThat was already the plan.
Anyway, time to save and quit my nice, neat, orderly, peaceful 0.43 fortress and play some FUCKING BLOODYHELLS.
(https://i.imgur.com/iiwpKFR.png)
How is that ANY DIFFERENT THAN USUAL.
(http://i.imgur.com/bxh5fFl.png)
Oh wait, because this time they have FUCKING WEAPONS AND ARMOR.
Post by: NCommander on June 07, 2016, 04:55:33 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on June 07, 2016, 04:58:03 pm
Post by: Spish on June 07, 2016, 05:42:28 pm
I think undead paths to where there is life, that's why live baits behind doors are effective by toggling the door's forbid.New plan: use Group 2 as zombie bait!
Post by: Gwolfski on June 07, 2016, 05:53:25 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 07, 2016, 06:13:51 pm
Andreus and the kids are dead. They were killed by zombies. I was trying to get Andreus some food so he wouldn't starve. The Titan is now wrecking where they were, so they would have died anyway.
The other group is doing fine.
However, there is one thing going well. One rutherer escaped the culling. I am calling it the Ruthless Rutherer. It has like 50 zombie kills to its name. It has singlehandedly almost cleared out the zombies. It hasn't run into the Titan yet, but if it does, I expect a throwdown of epic proportions.
So yeah, basically the only thing keeping me from reclaiming the fort is Salo. The other zombies are all dead thanks to the Ruthless Rutherer. I can't wait to see what happens when they meet!
Post by: Spish on June 07, 2016, 06:38:19 pm
Now's that the titan is preoccupied with smashing things, this is a good opportunity to expand. You can probably save the masonry workshops, at the very least. You might be able to lure the titan through Gwolfski's huge labyrinth.
Post by: Sanctume on June 07, 2016, 06:41:34 pm
Post by: Taupe on June 07, 2016, 07:27:05 pm
it seems that if we can get a sort of good vantage point against it, he'd be a great source of live training even if he doesnt die much.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 07, 2016, 07:32:16 pm
Now's that the titan is preoccupied with smashing things, this is a good opportunity to expand. You can probably save the masonry workshops, at the very least. You might be able to lure the titan through Gwolfski's huge labyrinth.Yeah, I should probably do something besides sit there and watch the Ruthless Rutherer kick zombies off ledges. Tomorrow shit will get done.
Any chance of filling the husk with bolts and inflicting some sort of damage?Haha, nooooo. That fucker is immortal.
It seems that if we can get a sort of good vantage point against it, he'd be a great source of live training even if he doesn't die much.Maybe. I'm thinking either cave-in trap or a drawbridge trap. Cave-in might be easier - I have some logs, and building destroyers will destroy wooden supports. But I'll try a drawbridge trap first. Hmmm... A long winding corridor with a drawbridge in the front... I can use the gorlak as bait...
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 07, 2016, 08:11:44 pm
Though with no ranged attacks, not really necessary for just archery training.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 08, 2016, 02:49:56 am
Post by: NCommander on June 08, 2016, 06:52:59 am
Now's that the titan is preoccupied with smashing things, this is a good opportunity to expand. You can probably save the masonry workshops, at the very least. You might be able to lure the titan through Gwolfski's huge labyrinth.Yeah, I should probably do something besides sit there and watch the Ruthless Rutherer kick zombies off ledges. Tomorrow shit will get done.
Any chance of filling the husk with bolts and inflicting some sort of damage?Haha, nooooo. That fucker is immortal.
It seems that if we can get a sort of good vantage point against it, he'd be a great source of live training even if he doesn't die much.Maybe. I'm thinking either cave-in trap or a drawbridge trap. Cave-in might be easier - I have some logs, and building destroyers will destroy wooden supports. But I'll try a drawbridge trap first. Hmmm... A long winding corridor with a drawbridge in the front... I can use the gorlak as bait...
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Titans can't be crushed (or more specifically, anything above a specific size can't be crushed), drawbridge trap won't work. Bolts *can* kill husks, Toady did fix that awhile ago, it just takes a LOT, and they have to get lucky and get a direct strike on head.
Thinking cave-in trap though is the way to go on this, but I've noticed quite a few pathing hiccups with things that should be attracted to artifacts and living creatures.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 08, 2016, 08:16:50 am
Post by: Sanctume on June 08, 2016, 08:20:04 am
Post by: Gwolfski on June 08, 2016, 08:37:09 am
Post by: Crashmaster on June 08, 2016, 10:19:38 am
All my work. I got migrants in. I started surface reclamation. It's all gone!
No screenshots, no updates, no proof - no loss.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 08, 2016, 12:59:53 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 01:10:03 pm
Also holy crap the forums are fast now, I gather the server was upgraded?
Edit: Wait no, that happened back in December.
Post by: Sanctume on June 08, 2016, 01:16:30 pm
Yeah, there was a forum upgrade not so long ago.
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 01:23:55 pm
Post by: Sanctume on June 08, 2016, 01:28:31 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on June 08, 2016, 01:45:24 pm
Post by: Spish on June 08, 2016, 01:59:48 pm
I'll test if retiring a fortress in such a state without screwing everything up is possible, but I sincerely doubt it. Maybe if the titan is sealed away it won't be able to cause any problems.
Edit: Oh yeah, first we're going to have to do something about that undead siege...
Hmmm... A long winding corridor with a drawbridge in the front... I can use the gorlak as bait...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 08, 2016, 02:31:32 pm
Realistically though, constructions would keep it busy a hell of a lot longer than live bait. If there's anything I know about titans, it's that they can't resist a fine door.Alright then, I'll get a chest and put it in the trap. It's made, by the way. I'm just about to open it to the outside and seal the rear.
The Ruthless Rutherer has been locked in someone's temple for her own good. I don't want her interfering with Salo.
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 03:02:00 pm
We did have one long-term resident, a human spearman. He was face-down in the dirt at the start of Imic's turn though; it was a rather short military career.
I'll test if retiring a fortress in such a state without screwing everything up is possible, but I sincerely doubt it. Maybe if the titan is sealed away it won't be able to cause any problems.
Edit: Oh yeah, first we're going to have to do something about that undead siege...Hmmm... A long winding corridor with a drawbridge in the front... I can use the gorlak as bait...Realistically though, constructions would keep it busy a hell of a lot longer than live bait. If there's anything I know about titans, it's that they can't resist a fine door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
There's also the question of whether or not the bugs associated with retiring/unretiring are resolved. IIRC 0.43 fixed most/all of them, but I haven't checked that personally.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 08, 2016, 03:10:49 pm
also gwolfski is dead
IT'S SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM NOW
SAVE: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12125
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 03:12:56 pm
Edit: Christ on a cracker, I can see the issue; there's a grand total of 3 dwarves left alive O_O.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 08, 2016, 03:20:13 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 08, 2016, 03:29:05 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 03:29:40 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 08, 2016, 03:35:53 pm
Then we just need to wait 12 years for them to dig their way to the surface and reclaim it in the name of dwarven kind.
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 03:41:31 pm
And the trend of every Battlefailed fort to live up to their name in a very literal sense continues on.
Yeah, I suppose it's to be expected given the fort's pedigree, but my initial reaction to the state of the fortress is a straight up HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 08, 2016, 03:45:03 pm
Is it wrong that I'm contemplating totally abandoning the upper fortress in favor of moving everyone down to the magma forge levels? My current plan is to get a secure enclave down there away from the horrific murder that is the surface. Because honestly, looking at our situation, my first instinct is to dig a deep hole and hide in it.That was honestly my plan after Salo was captured, but spring came before I could carry it out.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 08, 2016, 04:04:22 pm
also gwolfski is dead
I request to be never slabbed or buried. I shall be a ghost!
Post by: Spish on June 08, 2016, 04:11:55 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 08, 2016, 04:16:19 pm
Post by: Spish on June 08, 2016, 04:19:26 pm
That was honestly my plan after Salo was captured, but spring came before I could carry it out.You know, you haven't quite played a full year. You can still play all the way to summer of 303, or spring of 304 to even things out. Well, if you're willing to put yourself through all that anyway, it's up to you.
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 04:36:11 pm
That was honestly my plan after Salo was captured, but spring came before I could carry it out.You know, you haven't quite played a full year. You can play all the way to summer of 303, or spring of 304 to even things out. Well, if you're willing to put yourself through all that anyway, it's up to you.
I had kinda already started "playing". By which I mean trying to figure out how the hell I'm going to do this.
Post by: Spish on June 08, 2016, 04:58:42 pm
Edit: Oh, and unconstructed artifacts still seem to fade from existence. Hmm...
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 05:11:04 pm
I tested and the retiring function works fine in 42.06 for the most part. The trapped enemies were still trapped and the dwarves were still cowering behind their bridges. The only weird thing is that the conglomerate tiles filled with seawater, and caged and chained animals disappear from existence (but not trained/pastured, interestingly enough). Not gonna happen while there's a siege though.
Edit: Oh, and unstored artifacts still seem to disappear. Hmm...
There isn't a siege in the save posted though.
Post by: Spish on June 08, 2016, 05:42:16 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 08, 2016, 05:44:35 pm
*/just saying*
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 07:12:10 pm
Upon closer inspection, I'm gonna have to say no to retiring the fortress. It makes things topsy-turvy, clears out most the fun (and artifacts), gives us more dwarves, and is too exploitable. I'd much rather see us pull through this situation the old fashioned way (or die trying ;) ).
Ah. Well, I was kinda already about 2 hours into playing =(. From what I can tell, the artifacts don't disappear until the fort is unretired, and I picked up all of the notable stuff I found, which seemingly caused it to persist in spite of the retire. As far as the extra dwarves go, they're a migrant wave, I would know, since I saw them traveling towards the site while I was walking my adventurer to the fortress. The same challenge (how to keep them in) persists, and the fortress is now heavily flooded from the water, there's zombies in the base somehow, and to be honest I'm actually having a legitimate blast trying to figure out how to keep at least some of the dorfs alive. If you insist, I'll restart the year from the beginning, but some really cool stuff has happened thus far, and I've still not even through Spring.
Post by: Spish on June 08, 2016, 07:18:32 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 08, 2016, 07:38:00 pm
Spoiler: And this is what I see when I open up DF in it (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Rutherer in a Temple (click to show/hide)
It is a bit labyrinthine though and has few tunnels to nowhere. Few questions are raised:
Spoiler: Are these some kind of planned impulse elevators? (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: On the upper levels (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Tower? (click to show/hide)
As far as plans go, not too hard to reclaim the entrance levers, though the easiest live target would be your lever-puller. If somebody tries this, I'd suggest retaking the atomsmasher door, as it's not hard to move 10 spaces in 200 steps :p
As a side note, I get 49-51 FPS here.....Which is better than my peaceful calm island two year fortress. Sign me up for a turn!
Post by: Senshuken on June 08, 2016, 10:39:15 pm
Don't need to put in a firing range because the zombies and husks would make excellent target dummies what with lasting forever regardless of what happens to them.
Post by: Archereon on June 08, 2016, 10:42:01 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 09, 2016, 12:13:15 am
@Senshuken:
It does seem like a nice thing to make use of, I'd probably make it accessible from lower fort from a sealable entrance. With the live targets available, you wouldn't necessarily have to make the squad active, even - just guide to location and give crossbows.
However, there are few small problems with it: as you can see in the screenshot it is open to fliers and climbers, and there are signs of battle on lower level.
Also, I suspect any climbers could probably jump in through carved fortifications, as there's no overhang.
As far as sealing in goes, bolts would be an issue - can't exactly retrieve bones while husks walk upright near, wood is limited and smelting wellspring would require bringing up at least 2 magma-filled carts and anvil.
Still, either way the biggest issue would be the lack of living dwarves. (Dead, on the other hand...)
Post by: Gwolfski on June 09, 2016, 02:37:14 am
Post by: Senshuken on June 09, 2016, 03:07:54 am
That is my tower. I suggest you build it up and wider before adding marksadwarves.
So you're suggestion is make it not shit before trying to use it.
Post by: Gwolfski on June 09, 2016, 03:24:06 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 09, 2016, 08:31:06 am
Also, zombies are wimps. Gwolfski managed to clear out that whole room before Salo got to her. Some of them are still dead.
Post by: Archereon on June 09, 2016, 08:43:05 am
.....That is unexpected. I assumed the undead would get them, what's with the free pathways to duckies.
@Senshuken:
It does seem like a nice thing to make use of, I'd probably make it accessible from lower fort from a sealable entrance. With the live targets available, you wouldn't necessarily have to make the squad active, even - just guide to location and give crossbows.
However, there are few small problems with it: as you can see in the screenshot it is open to fliers and climbers, and there are signs of battle on lower level.
Also, I suspect any climbers could probably jump in through carved fortifications, as there's no overhang.
As far as sealing in goes, bolts would be an issue - can't exactly retrieve bones while husks walk upright near, wood is limited and smelting wellspring would require bringing up at least 2 magma-filled carts and anvil.
Still, either way the biggest issue would be the lack of living dwarves. (Dead, on the other hand...)
I don't even know what's going on tbh, shit is happening everywhere and visitors are dying left and right. The current plan is to try and get the handful of migrants on the surface down to the magma forge level; there's picks all over the place from merchants and what not.
Post by: Archereon on June 09, 2016, 09:18:17 am
Artifacts that vanish when the fort is retired and unretired reappear when the game is saved and loaded.
Also, zombies are wimps. Gwolfski managed to clear out that whole room before Salo got to her. Some of them are still dead.
Zombies may be wimps, but thralls aren't.
Post by: Spish on June 09, 2016, 10:38:28 am
(mind, your citizens will try to store items from the surface if they're not properly burrowed)
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 09, 2016, 01:30:10 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 09, 2016, 03:54:06 pm
First of all, you'll want to disable the underground alert; it screws with surface migrants. There are plenty of secure entrances to bring them inside while keeping the husks out, if you can lock someone in a room with levers.
(mind, your citizens will try to store items from the surface if they're not properly burrowed)
Yeah, my first order of business was to forbid stuff on the surface. We're up to five dwarves now, it's midsummer, and something awesome just happened...
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 09, 2016, 06:07:53 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 09, 2016, 06:58:26 pm
Did a group of enemies show up and destroy another hostile force, then retreat? Or did Flame marry one of the other dwarves?
Even better, but you'll have to wait and see for my updates.
Post by: Archereon on June 09, 2016, 08:57:38 pm
Preface of Visions of the Abyss: The Early Years of Bloodyhells by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
In the dawning days of the year 303, on the orders of Calovi Aquaneidala, our Queen reigning in Awimoarane, I was dispatched to the Suicidal Hills on the western coast of Aluonra to deliver to the dwarves of Uthmikminkot a message of reprisal for their wanton felling of trees. This was a task given to me, she claimed, in recognition of my swift feet, my natural sense of direction, and my "great rapport with the dwarven people. But even before the orders had left her mouth, I had come to realize the truth of her intentions: I was being sent on a suicide mission, for I had allowed one of the sacred groves to burn to the ground in an effort to preserve the lives of several of our people, and maintained then, as I do now, that my actions were justified. Of course, coming directly from our Queen, I was in no position to refuse the mission, and after a sleepless night, I set out to the east. Contrary to what our Queen's flattery would imply, I do not have a particularly strong sense of direction; in fact I have every reason to suspect Lady Calovi expected me to perish in the wilderness by the hands of the boogeymen. With the help of a local dwarven guide, I avoided that cruel fate, and found myself at the edge of the Suicidal Hills a little more than a week after I departed. After thanking my guide for his selfless aid and bidding him farewell, I took one last look back before setting off into the unknown...
Excerpts from Collected Logs of the year 303 by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
21st Granite, year 303
My journey through the suicidal hills has gone largely without incident; though I saw several clouds of the accursed mist that blights these lands, the wind has been favorable, and none of the fog banks has been in any danger of overtaking me. Even before setting foot in the fortress proper, I feel incredibly unwelcome here, a feeling that is not aided by the surly attitude of my traveling companions; two living dwarves who are purportedly headed to the fortress as migrants. Thus far, I have neither asked of their past, nor been offered their story. I have however gotten their names and professions; Spish Zulbankashez, a soldier of fortune and occassional fisherdwarf, and Sodel "NCommander", a miner, and allegedly, a talented cook. While neither of them seem particularly keen on traveling with an elf, in these forsaken lands, it would be nothing short of madness to turn away another friendly face. This was proven when we happened upon a roving band of the undead, perhaps a dozen in number. Working together they were easily dispatched. From what Spish has said, we are drawing close to the fortress, and should arrive tomorrow morning. I can only hope he's right; for several nights now, I have been seeing shapes moving in the darkness, and though none have thus far come close enough to our campfire to identify, I can smell a faint but distinct odor, and I'm not quite sure what it is.
22nd Granite, year 303
Today we arrived at Bloodyhells. When I first laid eyes upon the desolate coastline strewn with corpses and all manner of refuse, my initial assumption was that we had stumbled upon the site of some ancient, forgotten battle. According to my companions however, there are distinct signs of recent habitation, and, rather more worryingly, of recent bloodshed. As we drew close, I became aware of an overpowering stench, decidedly unpleasant, but not readily identifiable, hanging in the air.
"Cloud to the east!" shouted Spish from somewhere behind me. I turned to face him, and sure enough, a bank of ghastly yellow mist was surging over a nearby hill, and headed our way.
Naturally, we ran. I had heard tales of how the mist in these lands would sap the life from those caught in it, and had no desire to put those stories to the test. We ran until we were panting and sweating, but the cloud was relentless, and quite a bit faster than us. Just as it seemed it would overtake us, the vapors slowed to a halt. I fell to me knees, gasping for air. As I recovered, and regained sufficient presence of mind to focus on my surroundings once more, I became aware of a most peculiar noise coming from behind us, from somewhere within the fog: rattling, labored breathing punctuated by the clanking of armored footfalls.
"Deg preserve us." whimpered NCommander, as an ominous figure resolved itself from the roiling cloud.
Short and stout and clad in rusted steel, the creature before us had clearly once been a dwarf. In its left hand, it carried a wooden shield fortified by metallic bands, and in its right, a wicked mace seemingly constructed of bronze. What little of the creature's skin was visible beneath the armor was tinged sickly, unnatural mustard brown. Rather unnervingly, the skin itself was pockmarked, with hundreds of small, regularly spaced holes where there once would've been smooth skin. A dark, viscous puss seeped from these holes as the creature exhaled, and the edges of these nauseating pores bore extensive, discolored scabs. The patches of skin between the sores looked exceedingly dry, and was cracked and flaking in many spots. As the creature drew close, its head snapped towards us, and it let out a soft, wheezing growl before advancing, bringing with it the same unidentifiable stench that permeated the area magnified a thousand fold. To my right, I heard NCommander cough and gag, before spew the contents of his stomached all over the desiccated grass.
Fighting back the urge to vomit myself, I drew my sword. Forged of steel, and sized for a dwarf, it was a recent, but prized acquisition of mine. Settling into a guard position, I looked to my companions. NCommander was on his hands and knees, still grappling with nausea from the creature's stench. Spish was shaken, but still standing, hefting an iron war axe. Our eyes met for a brief moment, and he nodded grimly. Then the beast was upon us, bringing its mace to bear with a grace that seemed utterly incompatible with its horrific appearance. I parried, binding the weapon with my own, and creating an opening for Spish. With a bellow, he brought his axe down on the small of the creature's back, splitting its armor open and all but cutting its spine asunder. Beyond stumbling from the initial impact, the creature barely even acknowledged the blow. Twisting its torso with tremendous strength, Spish was pulled along by his weapon, and struck with a blow from an armored elbow that sent him toppling off balance. The creature turned, and raised its weapon for a killing blow. Grasping my sword with both hands, I darted forwards, swinging at the creature's now exposed neck with all my might. My strike connected just as it had begun the downwards motion of its swing, and cut three quarters of the way through the neck, passing cleanly through the spine. Great quantities of ichor spewed from the wound, and the creature crumpled, with Spish just barely managing to roll out of the way. With the creature slain, the ghastly cloud vanished, dissipating just as quickly as it had appeared. I helped Spish to his feet, and while he rebuffed my concerned inquiry about his well-being and insisted he was fine and didn't need my help despite having number of visible cuts and bruises, he spoke in the same, casual tone of voice he used while conversing with his fellow dwarves.
"So where can we find the entrance to the fort?" I asked. "I don't particularly fancy our odds against another one of...Whatever that thing was." Spish thought and began to answer, only to be interrupted by a solid sounding clunk. Whirling to face the sound, sowrd drawn, I was relieved to see not another creature of the fog or zombie, but the face of a dwarven woman, poking out from under an open hatch which had previously been obscured by a pile of abandoned books and scrolls.
"There, I guess." said Spish.
She nodded, laughing mirthlessly. "Welcome to motherfucking Bloodyhells!"
(This entry is mostly based on stuff that actually happened, though slightly embellished from effect. I'm leaving out, for example, the fact that the husk was swarmed by visitors in addition to Archereon getting the killing blow for dramatic effect,and there was a fog cloud spawned early on, but it did't come anywhere close to the Spish, NCommander, or Archereon. Also the fight with the husk lasted a fairly long time, long enough that almost everyone was getting tired if not overexerted.)
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on June 09, 2016, 10:13:37 pm
Am i the only one with any sense of morality here?
Morality is relative,
Puppies are cheap,
Dwarves are zealots of,
A place that creeps and leaks,
where oversears send them to die,
so we may feast on their on their sorrow,
as we chew on their marrow
Just never forget,
That Bloodyhells is always a threat.
Can I sig this? The poem. 'Tis glorious!
Post by: Spish on June 09, 2016, 11:06:15 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 10, 2016, 12:12:32 pm
Excellent intro Archereon. I can already tell this is going to be quite the interesting year.
Hey, do you know if building a trade depot in the caverns with access to a map edge still lets you get dwarven merchants? IIRC it definitely worked like that in 0.34.11
Post by: Spish on June 10, 2016, 01:44:30 pm
Edit:
(http://i65.tinypic.com/5p9u1.png)
Is this what's left of our old military? Gross.
Post by: Archereon on June 10, 2016, 02:26:19 pm
You mean through the caves? No idea, I've never tried it.
Edit:
(http://i65.tinypic.com/5p9u1.png)
Is this what's left of our old military? Gross.
Probably. I've just taken the first step towards reclaiming the upper fort; I captured that trapped husk that was blocking the main entrance in a cage trap.
Edit: game crashed not long after I caught the bastard; the most recent save was before I got him, and I ended up using a different entrance to the fort, which didn't have a trapped husk.
Post by: NCommander on June 10, 2016, 02:33:00 pm
--Can I sig this? The poem. 'Tis glorious!
Go for it.
NCommander's Journal
Of course I leave the mountainhomes to avoid being bullied for my cooking, to that new colony 'Bloodyhells', just to find walking zombies, and of course, me loosing my lunch.
I'm fucking sick of always being the guy people pick on. First thing tomorrow, I'm going to the overseer, and asking to be enlisted in the military. I hope they have a spare whip around here, I want to make things hurt.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 10, 2016, 09:24:22 pm
Hey, do you know if building a trade depot in the caverns with access to a map edge still lets you get dwarven merchants? IIRC it definitely worked like that in 0.34.11
Did a quick embark to test this (stair down, depot into caverns, floor stair over, fire imps in volcano decided to suddenly actually take action and set my everything on fire and scare one surviving dwarf on top of a tree and cause collapse spam. Welp, at least it wasn't as bad as embarking on top of a gemstone titan.)
....Did another bit slower and safer embark. Merchants arrived on top, wagons bypassing my inaccessible site, despite trade depot being marked as accessible on D and having only path to map edge be from caverns (walled out of fort).
Post by: Taupe on June 10, 2016, 11:07:30 pm
Yeah my 34.x merchants are now exiting the fortress via a small hole leaving to a river that flushes outside the map. What the actual fuck.Excellent intro Archereon. I can already tell this is going to be quite the interesting year.
Hey, do you know if building a trade depot in the caverns with access to a map edge still lets you get dwarven merchants? IIRC it definitely worked like that in 0.34.11
...Not sure they'll ever enter through there, tho.
Post by: Archereon on June 11, 2016, 04:40:41 pm
Spring 303
Excerpt from Visions of the Abyss: The Early Years of Bloodyhells by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
The situation in Nashonshash upon my arrival was one of near total despair. Flame, the dwarf who had opened up the hatch cover for us, was apparently one of two surviving dwarves left in the fortress, the other being Zuglarkun Rigathuson a young miner who looked to be barely out of his teens. There had until very recently been a third, the mayor of the settlement, but he had disappeared into the night shortly after the arrival of spring, seemingly favoring his chances with the husks over staying put in the ruins of the settlement. The rest of the population had perished in a desperate battle against one of the great titans of the wild, which had been warped by cursed fog into an unstoppable monstrosity. With no means of slaying the creature, it had been lured into a hastily dug labyrinth, and sealed away. Sure enough, from the re-purposed dining room the survivors were using as a base, I could hear the sound of claws scratching stone emanating from the far wall of an adjacent corridor. In its rampage, the beast had inflicted terrible damage upon the fortress, and, other than the small, and apparently recently dug passageway to the surface, the upper levels of the settlement were lost, with the reanimated corpses of the fortress's livestock blocking access to the fortress's great stockpiles, as well as the farms. We were in no danger of starving immediately however, as the dining room had an enormous pantry, stocked with enough food to last through the year with just the five of us. Initially I was incredulous of this claim, since surely the food would spoil long before we were in danger of running out, but apparently, dwarven preservation techniques are indeed every bit as miraculous as the stories claim. While it would be many months before we regained access to fresh food, I never became ill from my meals, nor did the food lose its taste over time.
As I stood out like a sore thumb, it wasn't long before the dwarves of Nashonshash asked of my purpose so far away from the elven homelands. While Spish and NCommander seemed cordial enough, I had the distinct impression that the other two were itching for an excuse to lynch me. Moreover, I was fairly certain that, even should I complete my task and return home whole, the Queen would quickly think of another errand for me that would prove to be even deadlier, and with the mayor gone, there was no figure of authority to officially receive the message. Thus, I claimed to have been exiled from the elven kingdoms, and seeking my fortune in dwarven lands. Though I personally do not approve of the wanton clear cutting of forestry that dwarves and humans indulge in, without the magic of the shapers, they have no means of harvested appreciable quantities of wood otherwise.
But I digress. The most pressing issue facing the fortress was, surprisingly enough, not the numerous undead stalking the halls of the upper fortress, which had been sealed off behind a pair of sturdy rock doors, but rather the rather alarming rate at which water was flooding the lower levels of the fortresses. Both Flame and Zuglarkun insisted they had nothing to do with it, and bickered endlessly, even as the water rose to their waists. The source of this flooding was a mishandled irrigation project of some sorts, perhaps intended for agriculture closer to the fortress's heart, which had apparently been drawing water from the local aquifer. A second breach, consisting of a shaft dug upwards into the aquifer from what appeared to be a cell block, also contributed to the flooding, but was in an area with enough drainage for Spish and myself to plug the gap after only a few days of struggle against the current.
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The breach closer to the stairwell was of far greater concern; at no point in time was the water low enough for someone to work effectively. In the end, it was NCommander who came up with a solution; use a pump. This required an expedition into the caverns however, as our chosen holdout was cutoff from the fortresses wood stockpile. Seemingly looking to rid themselves of me, Flame and Zuglarkun immediately volunteered me for the task. Both seemed surprised when, several hours layer, I returned with a armful of logs harvested from one of the great mushrooms found in the deep. While I took little joy in destroying such a magnificent specimen, I understand the concept of necessity. With the pump in place and NCommander cranking it faster than I would've thought possible, the water level near the breach quickly dropped, and it was a relatively simple matter to plug the gap. This was the first of many challenges that we would face in my first year at Bloodyhells, and, as was often the case, overcoming it came at a great cost. The lowest levels of the fortress, situated just above the vast seas of magma that form the bedrock of the world, were completely flooded, and without them, there was no means of making new tools. For the better part of a day, the survivors of Nashonshash debated the best strategy to drain the forges, a conversation that I was, at best, on the periphery of. After several hours of pouring over the maps of the fortress while the others retraced the same arguments for what must have been the tenth time, inspiration struck; not far from the former tavern we had taken up as a temporary home, there was a pillar of stone that passed through all three cavern layers uninterrupted. So I suggested that, with our limited manpower, instead of spending years draining the water from the stairwell into the deep, we simply excavate a new one, something NCommander asserted could be done within the month. He turned out to be exaggerating, but only slightly; by the end of the first week of Felsite, the initial shaft was complete.
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While we now had access to magma as a source of heat, one of the essential components of a forge, an anvil, was missing. According to Flame, there was at least one leftover in the fortress's main stockpiles, well beyond the part of the fortress considered secure. While it obviously been preferable to equip ourselves before venturing into the unknown, without a working forge that wouldn't be an option. After fashioning crude shields for ourselves out of wood, Flame and I departed on an expedition to the upper fortress to recover the missing anvil, while Spish, Zulgarkun, and NCommander left to begin digging out a new foundry area in the depths. While the obvious path towards the stockpiles would be to travel through the set of stone doors near the top the main staircase, the sound of something—or rather several somethings—scratching at the door persuaded us to take the long way around, down the tunnel to the west of the tavern. We walked for about an hour in virtual silence, passing through winding tunnels, down a series of hastily dug ramps and over a shallow chasm carved from the rock for reasons unknown and up a winding staircase. Most of this journey was made in complete darkness, and though elves can see well enough in the dark, it was very clear I was at a disadvantage compared to Flame. Finally, we came to a partially flooded storeroom. Debris was scattered all over the floor, and the water rose to Flame's knees and my calves, so the the process of searching the room was long, involved, and freezing cold. After more than half an hour and the third sweep through the room, we could take it no longer, and left the water, taking refuge in a damp, but comparatively warm stairwell on the western side of the room.
"I don't think it's here, unless its somewhere behind that hideous statue." I said, referring to an artfully made orthoclase statue depicting a visibly diseased dwarf, seemingly a leper, embracing a robed, skeletal figure, blocking the entrance to one of the stockpile's side rooms.
"Most pieces of Tarem are like that." said Flame. "What else would you expect from the dwarven god of death and disease?" she continued. "Oh, and also suicide." she added.
"I'm not sure why people would venerate such a being in the first place, certainly not people like Spish and Zuglarkun; they both seem to be reasonably well adjusted." I replied.
"There's two schools of thoughts regarding worship of Tarem; the first being that offerings and prayers to him help stave of death and disease, and helps ensure a good place in the next life. He doesn't like to talk about it, but Zuglar's lost pretty much everyone he cared about to this place. He came here with a wife, a baby boy, and his parents. He's the only one left at this point."
"Oh." was the only reply I could muster.
"Yeah, I'm getting a bit sick of this philosophical whatchamacallit it, so can we get on with the search?" She asked. I nodded, despite being rather curious about the other school of thought regarding worship of the dwarven death god. Fairly certain that the missing anvil was not behind the statue of Tarem, we proceeded up the stairwell, and found ourselves in what Flame identified as the main level of the fortress, specifically the livestock area.
"But where are the livestock?" I asked, though I already suspected the answer.
A sarcastic quipe from Flame was cut off by the soft clattering of light, webbed feet. Five nearly skeletal ducks clambered out of a small pond, seemingly roused by the sound of our conversation. While I initially thought very little of the threat the creatures posed, it proved extremely difficult for either of us to actually land a blow, something which was not true of our opponents, who left a score of bruises and minor gashes all over my body, and I came perilously close to collapsing from exhaustion, at which point the creatures would've been free to peck my eyes out. Still, our vastly superior strength triumphed in the end, and while several of the corpses stirred, without numbers on their side, they were easily dispatched. While I would've liked nothing more than to lie down and rest at that point, the odds were good that something far more menacing was prowling these halls, so we set to work searching for the anvil almost immediately. We found it half buried in mud and heavily rusted, not far from the stairwell. We dragged it part of the way back, through the flooded storeroom to avoid further rusting, and headed back to relay the good news.
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For the remainder of the month, I was hard at work carting ingots down to the forge area for future use. The others set to work excavating the beginnings of a living area, and eating area, some bedrooms, and a few extra rooms to be used for storage. The decision to move down to the lower levels was one motivated firstly by the exhausting walk down to the new forges, and secondly by a desire to be as far away from the surface as possible. So we dug, deeply and greedily, setting the stages for the start of a new chapter in the history of Nashonshash.
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((note, it seems as if certain small undead body parts, ie heads are sometimes bugged in such a way that makes them invincible; if faced with such an enemy, I've found you can force dwarves to withdraw from a fight by switching to an alert which restricts them to a burrow they are not currently in, and deactivating the squad if they're a militia dwarf; that makes them run back to the burrow if possible. Use cage traps and drop them into lava to get rid of them for good, or alternatively use them for training.))
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 11, 2016, 04:53:58 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 11, 2016, 05:04:03 pm
You know where the water is coming from, right?
The aquifer. Don't worry, I plugged it a long time ago, and now the main hall near the tavern is pretty much dry.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 11, 2016, 08:18:20 pm
Given you reclaimed an anvil, closed a gap in farms and slaughtered ducks, is there any danger remaining - including the ducks rising up once more - on the above-aquifer fortress levels? The migrant/trade entrance levers alone seem like an useful system to reclaim, though did I get it correctly that you made a new entrance?
Post by: Archereon on June 11, 2016, 09:53:36 pm
The difference between daring and recklessness is whether the expedition succeeds and at what cost, and you certainly did manage what you set out to do, losing some people.
Given you reclaimed an anvil, closed a gap in farms and slaughtered ducks, is there any danger remaining - including the ducks rising up once more - on the above-aquifer fortress levels? The migrant/trade entrance levers alone seem like an useful system to reclaim, though did I get it correctly that you made a new entrance?
I'm way further along in the year than what I've written thus far, and the remaining undead are a major nuisance, particularly the ones which can't be killed due to small size.
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on June 11, 2016, 11:11:06 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 11, 2016, 11:40:14 pm
I'm way further along in the year than what I've written thus far, and the remaining undead are a major nuisance, particularly the ones which can't be killed due to small size.
Maces can pulp them. Hammers can as well, but with a much lower chance. I've yet to see a truly unkillable undead with a macedwarf since 0.40.xx.
Post by: Archereon on June 12, 2016, 03:10:31 pm
Summer 303: Part 1
Excerpts from Collected Logs of the year 303 by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
16th Hematite, 303:
While I would've scarcely believed it possible near the start of the year, the situation here in Bloodyhells is starting to look up. With the major breach into the aquifer plugged, I've opted to dissemble the screw pump; perhaps we'll find a use for the parts later, but where it is, it's just getting in the way. Spish found some wheelbarrows somewhere, and he and I spent several weeks bringing as many chunks of metal ore as we could locate down to an impromptu ore stockpile that was dug out by Flame, NCommander and Zuglarkun over the past week or so. With just the five of us, it's been relatively easy to coordinate labor efficiently; at any given moment; the past few weeks have been almost exclusively dedicated to hauling supplies down to the fortress depths, with no more than one or two of the miners working on digging out the place at any given time. According to Flame, we should expect some newcomers about a month from now, and if there's to be any hope of them getting down here alive, we'll need to find some way to lure the numerous undead away from one of the fortress's major entrances. Given virtually all the fortress's livestock has perished however, that doesn't seem likely to be an option any time soon. With the arrival of migrants expected in the relatively near future, another matter has come up, namely that of leadership; with Mayor Zefon having absconded, the distribution of titles and responsibilities has been severely neglected, and while the ad-hoc rule by committee that currently governs the fortress works well enough with five people, we've agreed that, under the admittedly optimistic assumption that any of the migrants survive the journey, a greater degree of organization shall be necessary. During tomorrow night's meal, we will be holding a vote for the currently vacant office of Mayor.
17th Hematite, 303
Something altogether unexpected has happened today. While the work of the day was the same old hauling that's taken up the greater part of the month, the evening was something everyone was looking forwards to. While initially I had intended to abstain from the vote for Mayor, Flame insisted I cast a vote. Because of the distinct possibility of a tie, it was decided in advance that a coin flip would be used to broker such an outcome, and, after writing our choices on scraps of abandoned parchment found in the upper fortress, we gave them to Flame to read allowed. My own vote was a toss up between Spish and Flame, but in the end, I chose the former, I can only assume out of the decent rapport that had developed between us in the months since we arrived. The final tally was as follows:
- Archereon: 2 votes
- Flame: 1 vote
- NCommander: 0 votes
- Spish: 2 votes
- Zuglarkun: 0 votes
That I was even in the running came as a shock, and according to the agreed upon procedure, the tie between myself and Spish was to be decided by a coin flip. The coin, provided by Flame was a rather worn piece of copper engraved with the image of a dwarf wearing a crown on the front—the current dwarven monarch—and the seal of the Kingdom of Suvaszan on the reverse. Spish called heads, and the toss itself was carried out by Flame. When the coin landed on tails, all eyes were on me.
"I'll do my best not to let you down." was the first thing that came to mind.
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Excerpt from Visions of the Abyss: The Early Years of Bloodyhells by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
My first act as mayor was to preemptively dole out the titles necessary to the functioning of the fortress; Spish was probably the best fighter of us all, having prior experience using both axes and maces, apparently having fought in the King's army prior to arriving at Bloodyhells, making him the obvious choice for militia commander. The role of chief medical dwarf was another obvious choice; Flame has prior experience as a physician, and thus she became our head physician. The position of broker was after a bit of thought, delegated to NCommander; none of us have a background in bartering, but NCommander seemed interested, which was about as good as I could hope for. As for manager and bookeeper, I understand that the two positions are, in many cases consolidated into one, and being the most learned person in the fortress at the time, I felt most comfortable doing them personally.
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Knowing that there would likely be migrants coming in malachite, the next order of business was clearing a route so that at least some of them would survive. Thus, we opened the southern airlock, in the hopes of luring the undead away from central hatch entrance. Things went almost too well; the undead swarmed through the now open gate by the dozens, there number including several husks. Unfortunately, they did not content themselves with hunting the few remaining living animals on the farming level of the fort; most continued onwards, taking the very same path that Flame and I used to recover the anvil. Working with the single-minded determination of cornered animals, we set to work erecting a barricade. If the creatures breached out sanctuary at the tavern, we would be cut off from the surface entirely.
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We almost succeeded.
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A lone corpse, faster than the others made it through. NCommander and Flame, who were working at the time, scattered, with Spish standing his ground, prepared to fight, despite Spish not having a weapon at the time. While Spish struggled valiantly against the odds, his foe was tireless, and indifferent to the numerous petty blows they traded. As I sprinted to the top of the stairs, seeing the pair engaged in a grapple, the corpse twisted Spish's arm, which emitted a sickening crack almost as loud as his scream of pain. Spish fell to the ground, incapacitated, and the corpse began pummeling him, splattering Spish's blood across the still damp floor. Sprinting as fast as I could, I closed the gap with the creature. Distracted as it was by its victim, my swing was true, cleaving the corpse's head in two. It crumpled to the ground, and did not stir. Unsure whether Spish was alive or dead and hearing the groaning of the rest of the horde, I hurried to plug the small gap in the barricade that the corpse had crawled through. Only when I was sure we were no longer in danger of being overrun did I see to Spish. Despite the heavy bleeding, he was still breathing. Flame rounded the corner then, having seemingly regained her nerve. Together, we brought Spish to the makeshift infirmary that had been set up in the tavern.
"Alright then. At least you're not bleeding out now." Said Flame. Working with the speed of an expert in her craft, she had cleaned and dressed Spish's wounds. He had regained consciousnses shortly after we relocated him to the tavern, and now lay on one of the cots, trying desperately not to look at his right arm.
"Good to hear!" Grunted Spish through gritted teeth. "That hurt like all hell!"
"It's about to get worse I'm afraid." Said Flame. "You need surgery, and fast, otherwise you're never going to use that arm again."
"I'll grab the liquor." I offered, starting towards the Pantry.
"Make sure its something strong." Said Flame.
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Post by: Imic on June 12, 2016, 04:08:31 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on June 12, 2016, 04:32:09 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 12, 2016, 04:54:57 pm
Am I a ghost yet? I asked not to be slabbed/buried.
No, and given that we have yet to get a ghost that'll actually go around hurting people, (just restless haunts), I haven't really gotten around to slabbing people.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 12, 2016, 05:14:01 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 12, 2016, 06:15:09 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 12, 2016, 09:06:05 pm
You have very meaty updates, nice job on writing them *chews* I notice Saquar prefers to go for lower arms - coating them in magma or fetid waste will not work at all and will give you two undead dwarves.
What will the new mayor mandate?
Post by: Archereon on June 12, 2016, 09:44:41 pm
Undead will seek life, so if they're the only thing alive on surface teeming with undead they will. Though the speed at which any individual undead will set upon them differs greatly, as you observed. At the very least, the elf head sitting on a tree in west of map should give you some job cancellations.
You have very meaty updates, nice job on writing them *chews* I notice Saquar prefers to go for lower arms - coating them in magma or fetid waste will not work at all and will give you two undead dwarves.
What will the new mayor mandate?
Nothing since he doesn't have material preferences. Which is part of the reason why Cacame was the ideal noble; no mandates. As far as the undead seeking life, there's usually at least a few dumbass visitors to chew on, and most of the husks are currently trapped in the fortress and/or in cages, there's actually surprisingly few corpses on the surface.
Post by: Archereon on June 14, 2016, 01:53:05 pm
Summer 303: Part 2
"Ultimately, there is no right or wrong in our world beyond the arbitrary system of rules and restrictions known as society. Power, and the will to use it is the true distinction between sheep and shepherds."- Logem Abbyrhymes in Victory by Death
Excerpt from Visions of the Abyss: The Early Years of Bloodyhells by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
In the weeks after the near calamity of mid-Hematite, the mood around the fortress sunk to a new low. While the situation wasn't quite as dire as it had been when I first arrived, after the initial upturn, this setback came as a grim reminder of the forces arrayed against us. The surest sign of this despair was my own diaries chronicling the period, which consisted mostly of single lines and unfinished logs for the remainder of the month, requiring me to recount this crucial part of the fortress's history in the immediate aftermath of Spish's brush with death from memory rather than records. While in time, he would make a full recovery thanks to the speedy work of Flame, at the time, Spish's injuries rendered him incapable of most forms of work, and as such spent the remainder of the month in surly repose, uninterested in conversation, and unable to do anything productive. My own work was at something of a standstill as well. By then, I'd taken stock of virtually everything in the secure parts of the fortress. With little else to do, a large portion of my time was spent delving into a pile of books recovered from the surface shortly after my arrival at the fortress, which included a treatise on smithing techniques for weapons and armor. None of the survivors had any real experience in weaponsmithing, and with the prospect of new arrivals being virtually nonexistent in the near the future, I resolved to learned smithing myself. After familiarizing myself with the techniques presenting in the text, I started out working with bronze, which was in abundance thanks to the cassterite and tetrahedrite veins the shaft to the lower fortress passed through. My initial experimentation ended rather poorly, and I acquired a number of superficial burns from my mistakes. Nevertheless, I took the work quickly, if only out of the absence of any other productive activities to throw myself at. Most of my days were spent at work in the forge, or in the makeshift library I had set up reading through the dozen or so books and scrolls we had recovered from the surface early on.
Excerpts from Collected Logs of the year 303 by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
19th Hematite, 303:
Even though he still lives, Spish's screams of agony under the knife still haunt me. I am struggling to keep busy. Have taken up reading as of late.
20th Hematite, 303:
Found a smithing manual, could come in handy.
23rd Hematite, 303:
Practice is going well at the forge, but there is little else of note going on.
24th Hematite:
Boring day today.
25th Hematite, 303:
Boring day today.
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29th Hematite, 303:
Burned myself again.
20th Malachite, 303.
As expected, more sorry souls have been sent here to die. I can hear them even now, frantically calling for help that we cannot hope to provide.
Excerpt from Visions of the Abyss: The Early Years of Bloodyhells by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
As expected, a new wave of migrants arrived at Nashonshash midway through the month of Malachite. There were ten of them in total, including several children. As every entrance to the fortress was shut, they had no means of getting inside, and, to make matters worse, they came from the northwest, putting a great many corpses between them and the relative safety the fortress. On the bright side however, they were in no immediate danger, as a band of adventurers with more greed than sense had arrived not long before them, drawing the undead away from the migrants as they picked through the corpses and detritus littering the surface for valuables. While they were reasonably well armed, it was only a matter of time before they were overrun, but it bought the newcomers precious time to think of a plan. Though none of them were trained miners, the art of digging is something that comes more or less naturally to dwarves, either by nature or nurture, and thus, after finding digging implements amidst the abandoned wares of a failed caravan, the migrants did what any dwarf in their situation would; dug in. They didn't get very far however, as the undead quickly followed them down the shallow tunnel they had dug. We were not sitting idly by however, and immediately after NCommander told me he could hear the sound of dwarves digging somewhere overhead, we scrambled to link up with them. We reached them with no time to spare, just as the shambling horde began to overrun the migrant's crudely thrown together barricades. We had worked quickly, but not quickly enough to save all of them. As we hurried back down the winding tunnel we had excavated to reach them, and several of the newcomers fell behind, and were torn limb from limb by the undead. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, we reached the door leading into the fortress proper, slamming it behind us after the last of the stragglers made it through. In total, three of the ten perished in the chase.
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Excerpts from Collected Logs of the year 303 by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
22nd Malachite, 303.
Against all odds, at least some of the newcomers are alive. Seven of them are here now, and they are as follows:
- Ghills Gidthurdodok, a Brewer, and his eight year old daughter Vabok Likotorshar, who has the presumably self proclaimed title of "The Master."
- Zulban "Spriggans" Alathubbul a carpenter. I've opted to delegate woodcutting to her as well.
- Id "Twinwolf" Becoralath, a bookmaker, and his daughter Edem Emetbomrek. His wife, Onol Gusildumat was among those who did not make it.
- Balnash Kekimsazir, a farmer. He is apparently Spish's younger brother, and the presence of family seems to have lifted his spirits a great deal.
- Atis "Niner" Azzinmafol, who, rather alarmingly introduced himself as the "Glorious Overlord" of the fortress.
23rd Malachite:
Tonight I'll have officially read every book in the fortress's meager library. Thus far, none of them have been particularly useful; for the most part its essays, histories, or outright fiction. Entertaining yes, but not what we need right now.
24th Malachite:
It's truly staggering how often we overlook things of great importance, even in times when our very survival depends on our diligence. It was here all along; the key to our salvation, right under our noses!
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Post by: Ghills on June 14, 2016, 02:06:05 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 14, 2016, 02:17:29 pm
I leave the thread for 2 weeks and we've already needed to reclaim the fort? I can see that I've got a lot to catch up on.
No reclaim, but we were down to 2 people at one point.
Post by: Ghills on June 14, 2016, 03:09:19 pm
I leave the thread for 2 weeks and we've already needed to reclaim the fort? I can see that I've got a lot to catch up on.
No reclaim, but we were down to 2 people at one point.
Just finished reading. Man, the next few overseers have their work cut out for them.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 14, 2016, 04:01:37 pm
Wait, it probably came in on a necromancer, did any die here?
Post by: Sanctume on June 14, 2016, 04:24:44 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 14, 2016, 04:28:25 pm
WHAT THE SHIT HOW DID THAT GET THERE
Wait, it probably came in on a necromancer, did any die here?
I don't even know there's like 1000 dead people on the list, I think there's definitely some from the necromancer siege.
Post by: Deus Asmoth on June 14, 2016, 05:30:44 pm
Post by: Taupe on June 14, 2016, 05:45:42 pm
As far as I know, letting friendly dwarves become necromancers can be pretty much a death sentence for anyone that isn't a necromancer in in the fort, so it might be best to leave that particular book outside the library. That said, once I actually get a dwarf they'd be duty bound as a scholar to find the thing, so we'll see how it all works out.Solution: Make EVERYONE a necromancer.
Post by: Archereon on June 14, 2016, 06:22:58 pm
As far as I know, letting friendly dwarves become necromancers can be pretty much a death sentence for anyone that isn't a necromancer in in the fort, so it might be best to leave that particular book outside the library. That said, once I actually get a dwarf they'd be duty bound as a scholar to find the thing, so we'll see how it all works out.
In the current version, friendly necromancers are honestly not that bad as far as team killing goes; militia-necromancers will attack their own raised undead, and necromancers in general don't reanimate stuff unless they're in combat. Honestly the biggest danger of necrofortresses is the potential to trigger loyalty cascades, but that was more or less resolved over the course of the 0.40 bugfixing cycle:
Random thought: we should totally weaponize that Husked titan; lure it down to the depths and see whether it can beat the clown car on its own.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 14, 2016, 07:15:51 pm
Post by: Sanctume on June 14, 2016, 07:18:56 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 14, 2016, 07:21:17 pm
That's just phase 1, we should have our own necro to overlook the fighting area via bridge shutter+fortification+gem windows, and rez some demon minions, or even minion titan.
Demons have the "can't undead" tag, so that won't work.
On a tangent, I'm mildly disappointing nobody was thrown by the little "his brain is broken" bit. I saw that on a husk or zombie, and took a screenshot of it because I thought it was funny.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 15, 2016, 01:05:16 am
Now, making everyone a necromancer will probably go both horribly wrong and horribly right. No idea if it is good or bad, but note that it locks attributes.
Do you not have anybody in lever room to let migrants in, though?
For automated entry in the future, maybe non-citizen pressure plate + retracting bridge + citizen pressure plate + retracting plate with meeting area on top would work? With minecart jumping through a fortification to get to fortress beneath.
As for the broken brain, heh. No, maybe normally...but in the battlefailed series, that is rather minor thing, less important than talking about the weather.
As for Salo VS clown car: Salo would lose horribly.It's an organic dinosaur husk with no natural weapons and no fighting skills. I doubt husking increases attributes enough to match the advantages of web, fire, dust or most inorganics.
Post by: Archereon on June 15, 2016, 10:03:21 am
Oh hey, that codex wasn't in stocks when I looked. Still, that's why it is important to not atomsmash the husks!
Now, making everyone a necromancer will probably go both horribly wrong and horribly right. No idea if it is good or bad, but note that it locks attributes.
Do you not have anybody in lever room to let migrants in, though?
For automated entry in the future, maybe non-citizen pressure plate + retracting bridge + citizen pressure plate + retracting plate with meeting area on top would work? With minecart jumping through a fortification to get to fortress beneath.
As for the broken brain, heh. No, maybe normally...but in the battlefailed series, that is rather minor thing, less important than talking about the weather.
As for Salo VS clown car: Salo would lose horribly.It's an organic dinosaur husk with no natural weapons and no fighting skills. I doubt husking increases attributes enough to match the advantages of web, fire, dust or most inorganics.
The locking attributes thing is bugged in the current version of DF AFAIK, so that's not an issue. We also can't make EVERYBODY a necromancer, since creatures with no max age (ie Archereon) cannot become necromancers, even though they can learn and write down the secrets of life and death, so my current plan is to restrict the non-necromancers to the lower areas of the fortress, and use necro-citizens to haul shit from the surface back into an airlock arrangement.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 15, 2016, 11:25:18 am
Post by: Archereon on June 15, 2016, 11:39:35 am
Will be likely fair bit of micromanagement or clever mechanism to prevent the topside undead from smelling the non-necromancers and shambling like a zombie over there.
Not really, it's just basic burrow management plus locked door airlocks.
Post by: Deus Asmoth on June 15, 2016, 11:59:36 am
Post by: Archereon on June 15, 2016, 12:25:04 pm
I thought that elves could become necromancers in adventure mode, it just never happens in worldgen because they can't become obsessed with their mortality for obvious reasons?
Nope, even if you read the book you don't get necromancer powers, though you do get "learned secrets of life and death" in legends mode.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 15, 2016, 01:46:33 pm
Not really, it's just basic burrow management plus locked door airlocks.z-levels spanning burrows count as micromanagement in my book right now :p and if using locked doors, will have to use multiple with manual locking every time hauling is done, so yeah.
For automation, perhaps let them handle food and crafts industries in a completely segregate way with minecart carrying what they don't use to the rest of the fort through fortification/statue/fortification?
Maybe I'll implement that on my turn if there are any non-necros still alive by then.
Post by: Spish on June 15, 2016, 04:00:08 pm
On that note, anyone who manages to last more than two minutes on the surface should automatically be suspected of Vampirism.
Post by: Archereon on June 15, 2016, 05:37:26 pm
Vampires are cooler.
On that note, anyone who manages to last more than two minutes on the surface should automatically be suspected of Vampirism.
Assuming of course that they aren't a necromancer. Tbh, grabbing a vampire would be an excellent way to deal with people like Archereon who can't be made necromancers; since necromancers don't sleep, if everyone is either a necromancer or a vampire, there's no danger of anyone being drained. Besides children. Given this is the Bay 12 forums, I'm not sure anyone cares what happens to dwarven children, but if you actually did find issue with them being eaten by vampires, you could just put them in a seperate burrow from the vampires, since IIRC they respect burrows. I've already seen a number of vampire visitors already...Cue idea...
Post by: kleanea on June 17, 2016, 02:15:49 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 17, 2016, 02:21:00 pm
Summer 303: Part 3
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, and we shall overcome this great obstacle not through our faith in the gods, but rather through our faith in ourselves."- Logem Abbyrhymes in Victory by Death
Excerpt from Visions of the Abyss: The Early Years of Bloodyhells by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
There are many who have condemned me as a Heresiarch and a madman for my decision to share the secrets of the black arts with the dwarves of Nashonshash, chief among them being my own people. But when I announced my discovery before the fortress, and stated my support for making use of this power, there were very few objections. For, in spite of all our efforts, the fortress was still teetering on the edge of the abyss. All it would take would be one tiny slip up, and the efforts of the year would be undone. NCommander was the first to read the book after myself.
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Contrary to what the stories say, practicing the black arts does not induce any immediate changes to one's appearance; he did not become a pale and sallow corpse as is the typical depiction of a necromancer; armed with the knowledge and power of life and death, NCommander was still the same person as always. But he was now capable of things well beyond a mortal dwarf. The most important part being the fact that he was now able to venture outside the safety of the fortress without being attacked, which he demonstrated by casually retrieving a barrel of dwarven ale from the surface. While we locked the door behind him to be sure nothing would wander in, it was only a few minutes before he returned, knocking on the door and questioning our manhood for locking him out. This feat was enough to convince the handful of dwarves with doubts about using the black arts, and soon enough practically the whole of the fortress had gained the same insight as NCommander. With perhaps a dozen dwarves schooled in necromancy, the time was right to begin taking back the fortress.
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NCommander dug out a makeshift storeroom just below the surface, and dug a staircase leading upwards behind a sturdy door. With a second door preventing reentry into the fortress, we began the process of recovering the countless discarded riches lying around on the surface. While this process was ongoing, the rest of us were hard at work preparing living space for the new additions to the fortress. Many more trees were felled that month, but by that point, I found myself numb to what once would've been viewed as a necessary evil at best. There was a great deal of administrative work involved in this process, and I spent many evenings shut away in my study checking and rechecking stockpile records, though I was able to dedicate nearly as much time to honing my skills at smithing. The recovery of a number of steel arms and armor was of particular use, and it was not long before Spish was fitted with a full suit of steel armor. Ill fitting and low quality equipment was melted down, and its material salvaged for later use. With my time between meals largely devoted to smithing and administrative work, the fortress was quickly overflowing with extra weapons. In the interest of ensuring the safety of the fortress in the event of a breach, I announced the organization of a citizen's militia; excluding those in professions which require bulky tools as a matter of course, all members of the fortress not in the regular military—myself included—would henceforth be organized into emergency squads of ten for use in the event of a breach of the lower fortress, and would for self defense each carry a weapon and shield if able to do so, with the appointed leaders of militia squads recieving full suits of armor if the fortress stocks permitted.
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Excerpts from Collected Logs of the year 303 by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
7th Galena, year 303: In parallel with the work on the surface, I have begun a number of projects; firstly, the sealing of the breach into the lower caverns we made near the beginning of the year in order to acquire wood. The entrance is now fortified with a gate and several cage traps. This was prompted by the intrusion of a troll into the lower fortress, which was swiftly put down by Spish, and was subsequently reanimated by the energies permeating these lands which required it to be re-killed several times before it stirred no more. Thanks to his sturdy armor, Spish was completely unharmed beyond some superficial bruising.
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Another project is the digging of a shaft going from the uppermost layer of the fortress beneath the aquifer down to magma. This shall serve both as a chute for disposal of our own dead in a dignified manner—cremation by magma being quite a common funerary practice among deep dwarves—but also for the disposal of corpses which refuse to remain still, as well as general refuse.
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As part of the continuing effort to move the fortress down to the depths, I have also begun the construction of a new farming area, down much closer to the depths. The flooding of the lower fortress provides an easy point of access for irrigation. It should be noted that, as necromancers require no food or drink to survive, farming is not nearly as urgent a task as it once was. However, for the sake of the denizens of the fortress who have not or are unable to make use of the secrets of life and death, it is important that we maintain at leas some agriculture.
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21st Galena, year 303: Work on the surface is proceeding slowly but surely. On several occassions, the dwarves working on the surface have been forced to run for cover by the arrival of the accursed mist, and while none of them have been caught in the clouds thus far, work on the surface is not without its risk, even for necromancers. Meanwhile, down in the depths, we have turned to another source of power oftentimes regarded as taboo: adamantine. Ironically, there was considerably more resistance to my order to begin excavating one of the veins of adamantine which punctured the lower caverns; countless fortresses have fallen, the dwarves say, through such hubris. After slicing clean through a boulder using a sword forged from the priceless metal, most of the dissenting voices went silent. As a precaution, I have placed a hatch cover above the path leading down into the heart of the vein. It took only a short time to completely excavate the uppermost layer of adamantine, and now, several of the citizens are hard at work separating the pale blue metallic fibers from the surrounding rock. The top layer of the vein is incredibly rich with adamantine, and it will be many months before we need to dig any further. As Summer draws to a close, I have begun drawing up plans for a new professional military.
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Post by: TheFlame52 on June 17, 2016, 09:39:35 pm
The book said "No, John. You are the undead"
And then Archereon was a necromancer.
Post by: Taupe on June 17, 2016, 09:55:16 pm
"No! I must kill the undead" he shoutedI so loled.
The book said "No, John. You are the undead"
And then Archereon was a necromancer.
Post by: Archereon on June 17, 2016, 10:47:01 pm
"No! I must kill the undead" he shouted
The book said "No, John. You are the undead"
And then Archereon was a necromancer.
"What was that Nietzsche said? 'He who fights drummers should see to it that in the process he does not himself become a drummer'? Or was it monsters?"
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 18, 2016, 04:06:00 am
1) Just because you don't need to have a dining hall doesn't mean you don't want a fabulous tavern/library/temple for visitors/necromancers-to-be. Additionally, it might be necessary to get dwarves to drink, lest they become shambling reanimators?
2) Husking fog is terribly annoying. Roofing over initially select pathways, then the entire surface should help mitigate it.
Btw, for surface item reclamation, you can just lay something pointless like coins stockpile on them and then dig a ramp underneath; the item will prop down without your dwarf ever having to visit the z-level above. (Could have done this with the anvil too, but I digress.)
3) A graveyard to all living beings. When the gates to hell are breached, they can be raised (assuming there is spot of map where dead do not jollily get up), wail ineffectually, die, and be raised again from behind a fortification + window!
Backup plan would be necessary, as Spish VS troll demonstrates. Maybe adding husking fog would help....
....Bloodyhells, a flying demon husk army would be incredible superweapon.
4) Going back to it's roots, syndrome weaponry would be fitting, and there's ocean for "easy" flooding of the surface. Does the nefarious fog husk clouds leave coatings on ammo piles?
Alternatively, getting rid of all the water on map would be pretty significant if difficult "screw Aluonra" to the world - easiest accomplished by flooding the world with magma.
Anyway, nice progress Archereon. How many citizens are still under your command and able at this point?
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 18, 2016, 08:43:07 am
With most of the fortress non-drinking, non-eating, non-sleeping, the question of a grand project in the future rears itself.
1) Just because you don't need to have a dining hall doesn't mean you don't want a fabulous tavern/library/temple for visitors/necromancers-to-be. Additionally, it might be necessary to get dwarves to drink, lest they become shambling reanimators?
2) Husking fog is terribly annoying. Roofing over initially select pathways, then the entire surface should help mitigate it.
Btw, for surface item reclamation, you can just lay something pointless like coins stockpile on them and then dig a ramp underneath; the item will prop down without your dwarf ever having to visit the z-level above. (Could have done this with the anvil too, but I digress.)
3) A graveyard to all living beings. When the gates to hell are breached, they can be raised (assuming there is spot of map where dead do not jollily get up), wail ineffectually, die, and be raised again from behind a fortification + window!
Backup plan would be necessary, as Spish VS troll demonstrates. Maybe adding husking fog would help....
....Bloodyhells, a flying demon husk army would be incredible superweapon.
4) Going back to it's roots, syndrome weaponry would be fitting, and there's ocean for "easy" flooding of the surface. Does the nefarious fog husk clouds leave coatings on ammo piles?
Alternatively, getting rid of all the water on map would be pretty significant if difficult "screw Aluonra" to the world - easiest accomplished by flooding the world with magma.
Anyway, nice progress Archereon. How many citizens are still under your command and able at this point?
1. I think we should have all those things. A library so more can read The Book (and so more copies can be made), a temple because dwarves will still want to worship, a tavern because necromancers will still order drinks.
2. If everyone is necromancers, the trouble will still be that those caught in the fog will be lost to us. Even if they don't attack. Sounds like a plan.
3. Also sounds like a plan. The area under the ocean doesn't reanimate, I think. Backup plan would probably be to cage as many undead as possible to release in an attack.
4. No it doesn't, it's fog.
Post by: Archereon on June 18, 2016, 08:44:11 am
With most of the fortress non-drinking, non-eating, non-sleeping, the question of a grand project in the future rears itself.
1) Just because you don't need to have a dining hall doesn't mean you don't want a fabulous tavern/library/temple for visitors/necromancers-to-be. Additionally, it might be necessary to get dwarves to drink, lest they become shambling reanimators?
2) Husking fog is terribly annoying. Roofing over initially select pathways, then the entire surface should help mitigate it.
Btw, for surface item reclamation, you can just lay something pointless like coins stockpile on them and then dig a ramp underneath; the item will prop down without your dwarf ever having to visit the z-level above. (Could have done this with the anvil too, but I digress.)
3) A graveyard to all living beings. When the gates to hell are breached, they can be raised (assuming there is spot of map where dead do not jollily get up), wail ineffectually, die, and be raised again from behind a fortification + window!
Backup plan would be necessary, as Spish VS troll demonstrates. Maybe adding husking fog would help....
....Bloodyhells, a flying demon husk army would be incredible superweapon.
4) Going back to it's roots, syndrome weaponry would be fitting, and there's ocean for "easy" flooding of the surface. Does the nefarious fog husk clouds leave coatings on ammo piles?
Alternatively, getting rid of all the water on map would be pretty significant if difficult "screw Aluonra" to the world - easiest accomplished by flooding the world with magma.
Anyway, nice progress Archereon. How many citizens are still under your command and able at this point?
13 out of 13: I've been fairly careful about husking clouds.
Post by: NCommander on June 18, 2016, 11:28:39 am
Post by: Imic on June 18, 2016, 12:13:52 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 18, 2016, 12:37:27 pm
I want to think that my dwarf was looking for some reading material for the toilet, and inadvertently found the secrets of life and death.
Implying that dwarves need to use the toliet.
Post by: Imic on June 21, 2016, 08:05:53 am
Loolooloolooloolootoiletloolooloolooloolooloo
Post by: Spish on June 21, 2016, 12:47:27 pm
Yo Archie, the clock is tickin. I'll give you till the 24th.
Post by: Archereon on June 21, 2016, 04:19:41 pm
Not sure how I feel about us obtaining the secrets of life and death through retirement shenanigans, but it is what it is.
Yo Archie, the clock is tickin. I'll give you till the 24th.
I've already finished the year, I just need to get sufficiently motivated to do the write up, I'll go ahead and do that tonight, the rest of the year is comparatively uneventful relative to the beginning, up until the very end of winter.
Post by: NCommander on June 22, 2016, 02:24:48 am
Not sure how I feel about us obtaining the secrets of life and death through retirement shenanigans, especially this early on. But it is what it is.
To be fair, this is a Battlefailed fort. Given the history of body surfing, demonic possessions, God voodoo, one could argue we've long had the secrets of life and death. The difference is now we have them in easy-to-understand slab form.
That being said, I didn't see the fort being retired, just that the slab showed up.
Implying that dwarves need to use the toliet.
I dunno, they live there. We read about it. Some of the shit I've read in these threads may require new pants.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 22, 2016, 07:09:35 am
I personally like how Battlefailed takes all kinds of ruthless overseers, though :)
Post by: Spish on June 22, 2016, 03:08:38 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 22, 2016, 04:40:42 pm
delicious fruit of knowledge tho
Post by: NCommander on June 22, 2016, 05:13:43 pm
Nah. I like killing zombies, you see. And I can't very well be doing that if we go and make friends with all of them.
What's a little dismemberment between friends?
Post by: Archereon on June 23, 2016, 11:13:34 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 24, 2016, 05:38:24 pm
Fall 303
Excerpts from Collected Logs of the year 303 by Iyathi "Archereon" Awemedinade:
30th Timber, 303: It occurs to me now that I have severely neglected entries in my personal diaries as of late, though I believe it was for a good cause. For the past few months, the fortress has been abuzz with activity. At all hours, the sound of filing, digging, and hammers beating metal can be heard. Work on the garbage shaft has been halted in the interest of time, as every able bodied citizen of the fortress is needed for the current task, namely the time consuming work of extracting the strands of adamantine metal from the surrounding rock. Even now the work proceeds, and as many of the citizens have taken up the black arts, they are capable of working tirelessly, so production has gone faster than I could have ever hoped. I have been hard at work preparing armor for the new militia, and with the arrival of additional migrants who had the good sense to come from the southeast, we now have a total of 20 citizens, plus a handful of adventurers and a poetry troupe who wandered in from outside. While the Fortress is quickly becoming known as a place of all consuming death and madness, there are also whispers of incalculable wealth for the taking for those strong enough to survive the journey. Having recently seen the desiccated skeleton of some luckless adventurer wearing a backpack filled to the brim with diamonds and jewelry abandoned by merchants while on a foray to the surface to greet the newcomers, I have concluded that both stories are equally true; death and glory are the two pillars of society in Nashonshash.
Incidentally, the newcomers are as follows:
- Zuglarkun's older sister Imic Udilgeshud, a stoneworker. Somehow, even before entering the fortress, she knew about our discovery and demanded to see the tome. I am not sure whether to be impressed or alarmed.
- Asen "The Error" Limulast, a venerable dwarf who is more than 140 years old, making him the second oldest citizen of the fortress after myself. I am unsure what skills he possesses, if any, but this man's mind has clearly long since succumbed to the rigors of old age, or so it would seem. The others mock him as a 'crazy old man', but I am unsure whether or not his senility is entirely genuine.
- Kogan "Gwolfski" Olintathat the Brewer. Supposedly 'second of his name' as (seemingly self proclaimed) Baron of a settlement called fluffyshires, which I am fairly certain does not actually exist.
- Senshuken, a cousin of Imic and Zuglarkun's, and a seasoned soldier. Her skill with a mace will come of use in the days to come.
- Zutthan "Crashmaster" Melbilrigoth, supposedly a mechanic and a farmer. The skepticism comes from the fact that he is Gwolfski's father.
- Onol "Taupe" Kogantangak, a fisherdwarf. There is very little to say about him, but he has been fairly reluctant to read the necromancy tome, so perhaps he is a better man than I.
- Ingish "Clover Magic" Shegetuzol, another fishery worker. His nick name reminds me of home. Given I was very nearly executed for displaying a modicum of common sense there, I do not enjoy that memories that association brings forth.
- Lebo Cattenkashez, a hammerdwarf.
As for the visitors, there is a goblin who has offered us his service as a mercenary. Given we are reasonably far away from the Goblin homelands, I do not believe there to be any risk in taking him up on his offer. His name is Cikul Dagoti, though he goes by the nom de guerre of "SpeciesUnkn0wn". There is also a visiting troupe of poets known as the Prim Lute, who, if their story is to believed, got lost on the way to the dwarven capital. The citizens of the fortress seem to like their act however, so for now, they may stay at Nashonshash. Given the alternative would be almost certain death beyond the confines of the fortress, they needed no persuasion to stay.
With more warm bodies comes faster work, and we've begun laying traps in an effort to capture several of the most dangerous of the undead stalking the halls of the upper fortress. We have successfully caged two of the fog husks, a human and a goblin. The hideous stench is no worse with the creature trapped in a cage, and we dare not try to finish it off for fear of it breaking free, so for now they are stored near the unfinished disposal shaft. Our traps down in the caverns have additionally caught something, and it is far past time that I check what is is, so I shall conclude this entry to attend to that business.
30th Timber, 303 II: This is fantastic.
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Post by: Gwolfski on June 24, 2016, 05:49:11 pm
Post by: NCommander on June 24, 2016, 06:08:25 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 24, 2016, 06:11:13 pm
I claim it as my war cave dragon. The best part is if it dies, I can resurrect it!.
Spoiler Alert: It was war trained and assigned to Spish since he's militia commander. As I said, the year is already finished.
I'm working on the final update now, I'll post it with the save some time tomorrow; I want to make it something special, so I'm going to take my time if that's alright.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 24, 2016, 11:40:29 pm
....
He's going to become Bloodyhell's triple-immortal servant u.u°
I hope the necromancers are drinking?
Post by: DoritioMaster on June 25, 2016, 02:52:51 pm
Thus, I must request a dwarf and a turn.
Dwarf - Dorito, any profession, "Fail Priest"
Now to catch up on 23 pages...
Post by: Taupe on June 25, 2016, 03:52:25 pm
So I just finished HorrorFailed today, and I was surprised to find this ongoing!TLDR: Shit is going down, nobody is sure what's going on exactly. Evil evil EVIL!
Thus, I must request a dwarf and a turn.
Dwarf - Dorito, any profession, "Fail Priest"
Now to catch up on 23 pages...
Post by: Senshuken on June 26, 2016, 10:54:36 am
Post by: NCommander on June 27, 2016, 04:43:46 am
Since the fortress now has a large Necromancer population, does that mean that other Necromancer settlements are friendly with us now or are they going to fight us over the corpses that are piling up on our doorstep?
Necromaners still have to eat/drink. I've also seen guest goblins drink I believe, though I don't tend to watch them closely. Now we just need a vampire so we can have vampire necromancers. Or a relatively safe werebeast transformation.
Post by: Spish on June 27, 2016, 04:47:21 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 27, 2016, 11:36:13 pm
You're pushin' your luck Archie. Though it does give Eric more time to get caught up...
Uh yeah, if it comes down to it, I'll upload the save and write the full update later. For posterity, the tl;dr of what happened in winter was as follows: We war trained the cave dragon, had the militia train for a while while everyone else worked on harvesting adamantine, made some addy swords and silver maces and whatnot, lured some of the husks into cage traps, then sent in the militia to mop up the upper fortress. We lost one of the dwarves, Lebo, who bled out while being moved to the hospital. The war dragon is pretty tough, but I'd strongly advise against using it in outright combat if you can avoid it. The cave dragon is assigned to Spish by the way, and while there were militia necromancers, there didn't seem to be any loyalty issues; they attacked their own undead as soon as they turned on their living allies.
My successor should probably do the following:
- Set up enough taverns to keep the necrodwarves drinking and brew some alcohol. Quick tip: since necromancers neither sleep nor eat, you can just burrow them in the general area of their work place plus relevant stockpiles and they'll work pretty much continuously; the lack of downtime meant I was extremely productive near the end of the year, though dwarves are starting to slow down from alcohol withdrawal, so we might want to let up on that.
- Keep non-necromancer immortals (ie Archereon, SpeciesUnkn0wn, and the random poets who showed up) burrowed in the lower fortress unless you manage to get a vampire. (note that if you don't want vampires draining children, you'll need to use clever burrow management.
- Note that, aside from the professional milititary (who should probably be 100% necromancer/vampire), I've put every member of the fortress who is not in a uniformed profession (ie not miners or woodcutters) into "citizen's militia" squads, so that everyone is at least carrying a weapon and, if possible, some armor/a shield.
- Come up for a plan for what to do when someone inevitably digs to deep and wakes up the circus. IIRC the top tlayer of adamantine veins are always safe to mine, but we should probably not go deeper than that except in places where its safe to dig due to there being no space for the hollow segment.
- There's a forgotten beast in the caverns; doesn't seem particularly dangerous, but I was preoccupied.
- Make sure all the entrances are properly accounted for.
- Devise a means for migrants and traders to safely enter the fortress; we have 19 citizens plus like 8 visitors or something thanks to a giant poetry troupe showing up alongside the Fall migrant wave.
- In the spirit of fortresses of yore, when it becomes feasible to embark on a megaproject, we should build a magma cannon that floods the surface (and probably also the caverns for good measure), because we arguably have more need of such a device right now than the original boatmurdered ever did.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 28, 2016, 01:54:41 am
Well, can't be worse than pitting necromantic half of citizens against non-necromantic half, can it? n.n°
Ah, DF ‼science‼ projects....
Iirc swords are general-purpose weapons with 2 slash and 2 blunt attacks, but I see occasionally people building squads of them with specific squads present. Is it because of thematics, previous skill in the weapon or something I'm missing here?
Necromancer military acts a bit differently, hm. Not much need to worry about getting tired *gestures*, so optimizing them for initial/single target takedown seems like an untested idea.
As for taverns, I guess the main tricky thing would be to ensure that some are not overfilled while others go dry; perhaps using two-necro burrows/overlapping taverns to cater to each other - could also encourage marriages :)
Micromanagement heavy to set up, however.
As for the top layer of adamantine veins, I've certainly seen ones that are just 1 thick - so digging first up/down stair would release the hounds of hell. "Protecting" against mishaps is pretty trivial though with necromancers not needing to eat or drink to live, if one thinks Battlefailed could possibly die to some clowns.
Safe ways to enter the fortress....You mean, besides the airlock design sanctume set up?
Could also put a minecart to jump through a wall or fortification on the surface if they are unmanned, though a kea would probably steal it. Alternatively, two pressure plates followed by drophole of retracting bridge/hatch combo, second plate set to trigger on citizens, with meeting zone on second bridge. If quick-response trapavoid trap is desired, putting a nested bouncing minecart into only way in could work (dwarves get bonus to dodging carts, so they'll probably survive or explode).
Can't comment on FTW; have not tried it myself beyond accidental punctures for cavern flooding. Surface trenches to dodge into might work at smaller FPS cost, but it might be tricky to dig them without seeing the undead on surface....hold on, aren't we a submerged necromancer tower? I'm not sure flooding the world is really necessary for casualty-free ridding of undead.
Post by: Spriggans on June 28, 2016, 01:55:10 am
I probably should do so, because I've read pretty words like necromancers, immortal beings, cave dragon
If I get it, there are two forts in one ?
Could someone make a tl;dr of the current fort ? :P
Looking forward for my turn. If you guys don't
Post by: Archereon on June 28, 2016, 12:13:37 pm
War training someone you're not sure you can keep trained....What happens if it goes wild?
Well, can't be worse than pitting necromantic half of citizens against non-necromantic half, can it? n.n°
Ah, DF ‼science‼ projects....
Iirc swords are general-purpose weapons with 2 slash and 2 blunt attacks, but I see occasionally people building squads of them with specific squads present. Is it because of thematics, previous skill in the weapon or something I'm missing here?
Necromancer military acts a bit differently, hm. Not much need to worry about getting tired *gestures*, so optimizing them for initial/single target takedown seems like an untested idea.
As for taverns, I guess the main tricky thing would be to ensure that some are not overfilled while others go dry; perhaps using two-necro burrows/overlapping taverns to cater to each other - could also encourage marriages :)
Micromanagement heavy to set up, however.
As for the top layer of adamantine veins, I've certainly seen ones that are just 1 thick - so digging first up/down stair would release the hounds of hell. "Protecting" against mishaps is pretty trivial though with necromancers not needing to eat or drink to live, if one thinks Battlefailed could possibly die to some clowns.
Safe ways to enter the fortress....You mean, besides the airlock design sanctume set up?
Could also put a minecart to jump through a wall or fortification on the surface if they are unmanned, though a kea would probably steal it. Alternatively, two pressure plates followed by drophole of retracting bridge/hatch combo, second plate set to trigger on citizens, with meeting zone on second bridge. If quick-response trapavoid trap is desired, putting a nested bouncing minecart into only way in could work (dwarves get bonus to dodging carts, so they'll probably survive or explode).
Can't comment on FTW; have not tried it myself beyond accidental punctures for cavern flooding. Surface trenches to dodge into might work at smaller FPS cost, but it might be tricky to dig them without seeing the undead on surface....hold on, aren't we a submerged necromancer tower? I'm not sure flooding the world is really necessary for casualty-free ridding of undead.
Necromancers do get tired though; they don't need to sleep, but they do need to breathe, and will run out of breath. As far as the dragon goes, I think it should be fine; one of the migrants (the Crazy Old man of all people IIRC) was a high level animal trainer.
As for the swords, well firstly, I like swords, and secondly, I went with a mix of swords and maces. The reason for swords was because, if a macedwarf gets knocked out, there's still at least a chance a swordsdwarf will pulp the unread who can't be killed otherwise with a blunt attack. Note that, given the population of the fortress is currently quite small, we only have 5 full time militia dwarves. The citizen's militia has no standing orders for training and whatnot, it's mainly just to get everyone to carry weapons, and I'd strongly advise against trying to use them for anything beyond a last ditch defensive effort.
In my own limited time playing, there really wasn't much of a problem mixing necromancer citizens and non-necromancer citizens. Unlike invading necromancers, necro-citizens won't raise corpses unless they're being attacked, which means they can co-mingle with non-necromancers in safe areas of the fortress without any issues. Non-necromancers should, of course, not be allowed to leave safe areas.
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I haven't had time to read all the crazyness that happened in this fort.
I probably should do so, because I've read pretty words like necromancers, immortal beings, cave dragonsand Death.
If I get it, there are two forts in one ?
Could someone make a tl;dr of the current fort ? :P
Looking forward for my turn. If you guys don'tfloodfuck the world before.
We have 19 living citizens, and some long term visitors in the fortress. We got a book of life and death which lets us make citizens into necromancers, and the immortal beings I'm talking about are elves and goblins, neither of whom have a maxage, meaning they can't become necromancers. There isn't two fortresses in one, but non-necromancers are supposed to remain in the secure area of the fortress, which now comprises the entire interior area.
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 28, 2016, 02:19:33 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 28, 2016, 02:55:07 pm
I meant more that before a necromancer gets tired he has his new minions take over the fighting, so no fear of overexertion.
Does the fortress have any morningstars for macedwarves?
As for the citizens' milita, I take it you outfitted them with maces, given the map?
Post by: Eric Blank on June 29, 2016, 03:00:49 am
Still havent had time to actually read any of this except this last page, but that just means more fun.
Post by: Spriggans on June 29, 2016, 03:44:40 am
Is it still in ? Have you succesfully raised deads in this fort yet ?
Post by: Archereon on June 29, 2016, 05:29:49 am
I'm not clear on if the raws have been modded with custom necromancers, but in vanilla necromancers appear to have the NOEXERT tag, which would mean any concerns over them needing a breather are moot.
Still havent had time to actually read any of this except this last page, but that just means more fun.
The wiki says necromancers need to breathe, and several tags are broken in the current update; i.e. they actually do gain attributes and skills currently despite necromancy bring meant to remove those tags.
Now that your here, I'll upload the save.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on June 29, 2016, 06:22:11 am
Post by: Eric Blank on June 29, 2016, 12:30:40 pm
Post by: Archereon on June 29, 2016, 12:57:28 pm
Yeah I can't go 6 hours without my dorf fix id get the message pretty fast. :P
There's a few unnamed dwarves and some random legend poets I could dorf you as before I send in the save if you're interested.
Post by: Spish on June 29, 2016, 11:24:30 pm
Just upload the save, you've had long enough.
Post by: NCommander on June 30, 2016, 07:51:49 am
There's a few unnamed dwarves and some random legend poets I could dorf you as before I send in the save if you're interested.
A legendary poet? I suppose if you tried to compose a poem about Bloodyhells, you'd either go mad, or become a legend ...
Post by: Archereon on June 30, 2016, 11:17:29 am
There's a few unnamed dwarves and some random legend poets I could dorf you as before I send in the save if you're interested.
A legendary poet? I suppose if you tried to compose a poem about Bloodyhells, you'd either go mad, or become a legend ...
Not legendary, that was a typo. What I meant was "random elven poets and I think one goblin"; presumably they'll eventually petition for citizenship. I hope.
Post by: Archereon on July 01, 2016, 04:50:12 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on July 02, 2016, 01:05:58 am
Post by: Archereon on July 02, 2016, 09:29:16 am
Well, I don't give a shit. I've been working too, full time job, so not a lot of free time. See how far I can get on this in my timeframe.
Good luck.
Post by: Eric Blank on July 02, 2016, 10:21:55 pm
Also, one of those husks on the surface, Bilalo Blazeskin the Obeisant Excavation, an elf miner, has 41 kills associated with a book he's holding in his hands, titled Systems and The Boulders.
This is nuts.
I have chosen the eldest male elf, Cacame Vadanealala, a visiting poet, as my "dwarf." The only unclaimed dwarf is a five year old girl.
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 02, 2016, 10:55:18 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on July 02, 2016, 11:07:13 pm
Post by: NCommander on July 02, 2016, 11:33:52 pm
I recognize all those words! Your name is Pelt Dunegrove.
You've been playing Dwarf Fortress for too long when you can read elven.
Alright, this place is really pretty nuts. I can't make heads or tails of it to be honest, it looks like the first building-destroyer to appear on the surface will have a straight shot at more than one hatch cover that's accessible from ground level, and thereby a straight shot into the fort. There's nothing I can really do except wall off the halls connected to these hatch covers, and it looks like someone already designated one, but the wall was never actually built.
Thus continues the fine architectural traditions Battlefailed forts are known for.
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 02, 2016, 11:44:28 pm
I'm making a tabletop game based on Dwarf Fortress called The Land of Omen. Alala the Lion is the name of one of the elven forces. Vadane is my favorite elven name, I just like how it sounds. Cacame is obvious. You just happened to have three of the sixish elvish words I know by heart in your name. I should go to bed.I recognize all those words! Your name is Pelt Dunegrove.You've been playing Dwarf Fortress for too long when you can read elven.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 03, 2016, 01:34:26 am
The only unclaimed dwarf is a five year old girl.Hey, you should always have one as an advisor!
Though I believe we've already done the "child goes around suggesting to adults what to do" in previous forts.
it looks like the first building-destroyer to appear on the surface will have a straight shot at more than one hatch cover that's accessible from ground level, and thereby a straight shot into the fort.This is correct. Actually, when I checked it before Archereon's turn they were unforbidden as well, so all the undead also had a path.
Post by: Archereon on July 03, 2016, 11:31:00 am
The only unclaimed dwarf is a five year old girl.Hey, you should always have one as an advisor!
Though I believe we've already done the "child goes around suggesting to adults what to do" in previous forts.it looks like the first building-destroyer to appear on the surface will have a straight shot at more than one hatch cover that's accessible from ground level, and thereby a straight shot into the fort.This is correct. Actually, when I checked it before Archereon's turn they were unforbidden as well, so all the undead also had a path.
I'm fairly certain that the paths into the fortress that could be broken by a building destroyer were made by me.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 03, 2016, 02:23:31 pm
Post by: Taupe on July 03, 2016, 05:04:57 pm
Change the kid's title to ''Masterplan Proofreader''The only unclaimed dwarf is a five year old girl.Hey, you should always have one as an advisor!
Though I believe we've already done the "child goes around suggesting to adults what to do" in previous forts.it looks like the first building-destroyer to appear on the surface will have a straight shot at more than one hatch cover that's accessible from ground level, and thereby a straight shot into the fort.This is correct. Actually, when I checked it before Archereon's turn they were unforbidden as well, so all the undead also had a path.
Post by: Archereon on July 03, 2016, 07:20:30 pm
Change the kid's title to ''Masterplan Proofreader''The only unclaimed dwarf is a five year old girl.Hey, you should always have one as an advisor!
Though I believe we've already done the "child goes around suggesting to adults what to do" in previous forts.it looks like the first building-destroyer to appear on the surface will have a straight shot at more than one hatch cover that's accessible from ground level, and thereby a straight shot into the fort.This is correct. Actually, when I checked it before Archereon's turn they were unforbidden as well, so all the undead also had a path.
Fun fact, with no dorfing orders specificed, I made the master an 8 year old girl. That said, by the time his term as overseer comes, she'll be like 15 or so (assuming she lives that long.)
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 03, 2016, 07:30:18 pm
assuming she lives that longpfffffffffHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EXPECTING TO LIVE MORE THAN A YEAR IN A BATTLEFAILED FORT
Post by: Archereon on July 03, 2016, 08:35:20 pm
assuming she lives that longpfffffffffHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EXPECTING TO LIVE MORE THAN A YEAR IN A BATTLEFAILED FORT
You've been alive since year one IIRC.
Post by: Eric Blank on July 03, 2016, 11:56:05 pm
But all the nefarious husks and zombies have been captured and visitors have been getting in successfully. A migrant wave arrived and they all died, but I hadn't caught the husks yet by then.
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 04, 2016, 09:08:36 am
Post by: Archereon on July 05, 2016, 10:27:27 am
Can confirm, flame is still alive. Speciesunk0wn is not. He is very very dead.
But all the nefarious husks and zombies have been captured and visitors have been getting in successfully. A migrant wave arrived and they all died, but I hadn't caught the husks yet by then.
What did he die from? Any more notable deaths btw?
Post by: Eric Blank on July 05, 2016, 03:00:16 pm
Post by: Archereon on July 05, 2016, 05:16:42 pm
a husk walked in as he was walking out. My bad on that. No other deaths that anyone cares about. A second wave of migrants made it inside as well, so we've got a handful of new recruits for the meat grinder. Thank god they all got in before the next batch of nefarious fog appeared right on top of the entry hatch.
Any progress on getting necromancers to drink?
Post by: Eric Blank on July 05, 2016, 08:17:34 pm
Post by: Archereon on July 06, 2016, 10:51:43 am
We actually have no alcohol at the moment. The non-necromancers are drinking water, unfortunately. Working on that...
Year 304, Spring: I am unsure whether the good Poet who was somehow elected overseer (a long story in and of itself) has a death wish, but there are few places more perilous than standing between a dwarf and their liquour. Not that any of them strictly need to drink anymore, but a rather dark mood had hung over the fortress ever since it was announced that the wine stores had run dry...
Post by: Eric Blank on July 06, 2016, 08:13:13 pm
When I started I actually noticed in the stocks screen that we had only 20-40 drinks and checked to make sure someone was working on that... And indeed they were, so I left them to it. Six months later, there's nothing. Wed been bled dry and the brewer had given up work on it for some unknown reason. I only noticed because I got an announcement saying someone couldn't give another water because there was no water source. A lot of such announcements.
Also, I found a room full of one expansive pool of various sorts of booze. A variable booze lake. None of it was in barrels, just spilled on the floor, and thus dwarves couldn't use it. I'm guessing that was the premier booze stockpile and it just felt like not existing anymore or something.
Agriculturally were in a tough spot indeed; we don't have enough dwarves working the fields, brewery, kitchens, and were out of seeds. I got some from the dwarven caravan now, actually. Years mostly up and I'm just trying to prevent the fort from flopping on its face because most basic services aren't set up properly or so far apart getting items from stockpile to workshop to stockpile takes a friggin week.
Post by: Archereon on July 07, 2016, 09:17:32 am
Sounds like you're doing a great job as overseer btw, getting a caravan in bodes extremely well for the future of the fortress, relatively speaking.
It's still a madhouse run by madmen, but it's a madhouse filled to the brim with priceless treasures for the taking for those who are sufficiently bold, desperate, or insane to come here.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 07, 2016, 01:32:43 pm
Post by: Archereon on July 07, 2016, 07:57:47 pm
Eh....with trade and migrants and interesting library it sounds like a pleasant place to live actually. Terrible weather, though.
Considering you need to cross through the Suicidal hills to reach Bloodyhells, my point still stands.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 08, 2016, 08:00:33 am
Post by: Eric Blank on July 09, 2016, 01:07:46 am
Not much news lately, mostly just working out food stockpiles and a second brewery. Booze stocks are up now, plant stocks okay. I learned that visitors turned husk retain their knowledge of traps, as well. A goblin elite crossbowman got husked and wandered all the way to the very last cage trap before being caught. Presumably that was the only one not built when the rumors he had heard got to him.
A third wave of migrants also arrived, as did a second and third forgotten beast. Both the first and second forgotten beasts have died and become zombies. The third, a fire breathing weasel with large mandibles, is still alive in cavern layer three (thus preventing me from recovering the cages full of wild rutherers in the weird spiral stairway thing) it also completely destroyed the antman colony down there.
In other bad news, because of these forgotten beasts rampaging through the caverns, there is now an ever-expanding horde of zombie crundles terrorizing the living. Mostly the living crundles, but there are also cave crocs and giant olms among their ranks.
Niner is the only one of the militia that hasn't become a necromancer. Quite a few of the migrants have, though.
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on July 09, 2016, 08:43:51 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on July 09, 2016, 10:42:41 pm
I also was having trouble actually reading the dorfing list, so I haphazardly slapped every name in bold on a migrant. There are a handful left over.
However, we have more nonsensical problems; some animal hairs and skins have become animated. I sent the militia to clean them up figuring it'd be fine, but no. Neither the militia nor zombified hairs and skins can harm one another. Since they're all necromancers and zombies he battle goes on unending with nobody growing tired.
I guess they're technically picking up valuable experience but there are civilians jumping into the fray now and if the militia is tied up playing with imaginary friends who can I summon to actually defend the fort?
This may be how bloodyhells dies.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 09, 2016, 10:52:57 pm
Or perhaps that doored Rutherer temple to go to when their praying need grows too dire - not sure if dwarves will get away from active combat to pray for their lives.
Post by: Archereon on July 09, 2016, 11:53:19 pm
You'll need to trap the skins in cages and atom smash or incinerate them.
Post by: Imic on July 10, 2016, 04:57:44 am
Post by: Archereon on July 10, 2016, 08:34:29 am
Am i redorfd yet?
I redwarfed you.
Post by: Eric Blank on July 10, 2016, 08:56:51 pm
You can force dwarves to retreat from combat by burrowing them into an area they are not currently in and deactivating their squad.
You'll need to trap the skins in cages and atom smash or incinerate them.
I've tried reburrowing them, but so far the ones that were burrowed aren't leaving. Niner and Speciesunk0wn are both there, neither of them are necromancers. They keep passing out from exhaustion, but no injuries yet. Only Twinwolf and spish wandered off, they weren't burrowed because I'd hoped they would continue to distract the undead long enough for the mortals to get out of reach, but I'd canceled squad orders a month ago.
Alright, Speciesunk0wn is dead a second time. A troll corpse got in somehow.
Then a bunch of crundle corpses got in there and beat up the unconscious niner to no great effect. I'm suspecting a breach leading to the caverns but I've been unable to find it thus far.
Post by: Archereon on July 11, 2016, 05:27:58 am
You can force dwarves to retreat from combat by burrowing them into an area they are not currently in and deactivating their squad.
You'll need to trap the skins in cages and atom smash or incinerate them.
I've tried reburrowing them, but so far the ones that were burrowed aren't leaving. Niner and Speciesunk0wn are both there, neither of them are necromancers. They keep passing out from exhaustion, but no injuries yet. Only Twinwolf and spish wandered off, they weren't burrowed because I'd hoped they would continue to distract the undead long enough for the mortals to get out of reach, but I'd canceled squad orders a month ago.
Alright, Speciesunk0wn is dead a second time. A troll corpse got in somehow.
Then a bunch of crundle corpses got in there and beat up the unconscious niner to no great effect. I'm suspecting a breach leading to the caverns but I've been unable to find it thus far.
He's quickly becoming the Kenny of Bloodyhells I see.
Post by: Spish on July 11, 2016, 02:34:41 pm
I've tried reburrowing them, but so far the ones that were burrowed aren't leaving. Niner and Speciesunk0wn are both there, neither of them are necromancers. They keep passing out from exhaustion, but no injuries yet. Only Twinwolf and spish wandered off, they weren't burrowed because I'd hoped they would continue to distract the undead long enough for the mortals to get out of reach, but I'd canceled squad orders a month ago.You have to use a civilian alert for it to work.
Apologies for going silent, its been a busy few months.
Post by: Eric Blank on July 11, 2016, 09:21:03 pm
I've actually finished with the year now, I'll go ahead and upload the save and think about maybe a proper write-up of my turn.
Here's that save! (http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12256)
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on July 12, 2016, 07:19:47 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on July 13, 2016, 01:44:33 am
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 13, 2016, 02:14:03 am
Post by: NCommander on July 13, 2016, 05:03:16 am
Post by: Spish on July 13, 2016, 10:53:09 am
Ryukan has been PMed, but I haven't heard anything from him yet.
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on July 13, 2016, 01:33:39 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 13, 2016, 01:57:07 pm
Post by: Sanctume on July 13, 2016, 02:01:29 pm
Post by: Archereon on July 13, 2016, 03:04:26 pm
Post by: Archereon on July 13, 2016, 03:20:06 pm
Is it just me, or is Bloodyhells tethering on the edge of extinction a lot more than our usual Battlefailed forts do? Also, am I still part of the technically living?
Looking at the save, we have 44 people, most of whom are necromancers. We're not in serious trouble. Niner on the other hand...
Post by: TheImmortalRyukan on July 13, 2016, 05:59:13 pm
(I dropped my laptop and had to send it in)
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 14, 2016, 08:23:50 am
How come the turn lists don't look anything alike between this topic start and that topic end (i.e. Sanctume went from 10th to first, for instance)?
Post by: Sanctume on July 14, 2016, 01:18:38 pm
Yeah it was Doomhold http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157424.msg6919199#msg6919199
Post by: Taupe on July 14, 2016, 03:27:34 pm
How come the turn lists don't look anything alike between this topic start and that topic end (i.e. Sanctume went from 10th to first, for instance)?No aspect of this fortress could be described as ''going as expected''.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 14, 2016, 09:45:45 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on July 17, 2016, 03:44:46 am
@NComannder, is your burning down fortressess thing a habit now? I might start a succesion game again, and i'm wondering would you like a volcano...
Post by: Spish on July 19, 2016, 07:43:55 pm
Oi Ryukan, any progress on your turn?
Post by: Imic on July 20, 2016, 02:57:45 pm
Though I have a feeling the topic may go the way of Horrorfailed if things continue at this rate.He dropped his computer.
Oi Ryukan, any progress on your turn?
He dropped.
His computer.
We may need to skip 'im.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 20, 2016, 03:39:32 pm
Post by: Spish on July 22, 2016, 03:25:58 am
Post by: Spish on July 23, 2016, 12:27:09 pm
Post by: snackfox on July 23, 2016, 02:43:42 pm
Post by: Imic on July 23, 2016, 03:53:37 pm
It's been 3 in-game days and already Niner's been killed by wool.I nominate this for the hall of quotes!
Post by: Eric Blank on July 23, 2016, 08:00:37 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 23, 2016, 11:15:24 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on July 24, 2016, 01:36:05 am
Post by: snackfox on July 24, 2016, 05:16:25 pm
Post by: Spish on July 24, 2016, 06:23:48 pm
I suppose it's about time I made the quote section, there are plenty to choose from at this point.
Post by: Zuglarkun on July 24, 2016, 08:44:42 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 24, 2016, 09:02:52 pm
However, Crashmaster after them was active today and also 4 posts ago; Can you take a turn, Crashmaster?
Post by: Spish on July 25, 2016, 02:15:09 pm
Post by: Gwolfski on July 25, 2016, 06:03:29 pm
Post by: Spish on July 27, 2016, 04:50:37 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 31, 2016, 05:12:09 am
Post by: NCommander on July 31, 2016, 06:22:32 am
Post by: Deus Asmoth on July 31, 2016, 05:53:42 pm
Post by: Spish on July 31, 2016, 11:19:57 pm
Is FPS getting to be too much of a problem? Sometime during Gwolfski's turn it got a whole lot worse and I haven't been able to figure out what's causing it.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 31, 2016, 11:25:21 pm
Post by: Spish on August 01, 2016, 12:06:51 am
Post by: Fleeting Frames on August 01, 2016, 12:10:52 am
Post by: Sanctume on August 01, 2016, 09:08:51 am
Post by: Fleeting Frames on August 01, 2016, 09:14:11 am
Some magma landmines or cannons would be cool if impractical, I suppose. Though they might prevent fishing if used excessively.
Post by: Sanctume on August 01, 2016, 09:19:50 am
Post by: Fleeting Frames on August 01, 2016, 09:22:28 am
That said, that matters not when you're a reanimating fish cleaner.
Post by: NCommander on August 01, 2016, 11:07:47 am
Actually, the ocean is non-reanimating iirc, just untamed wilds.
That said, that matters not when you're a reanimating fish cleaner.
... I can't help but think in these forts, our fish cleaners are so hardcore, they clean the death right out of the carp ...
I really need to sleep ...
Post by: Sanctume on August 01, 2016, 11:24:03 am
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 02, 2016, 04:18:51 pm
Nashonshash. Such an ugly name. My master and I have been trapped here more than a year now. Well, I say 'trapped', but it's hard to complain about a place that granted you immortality. Once I thought I would only live on through my (admittedly praiseworthy, though I do say so myself) works, but now I have an eternity to catalogue all the beauty in the world. Even as I look around right now, I'm enthralled by the majesty of... a disembodied head repeatedly biting Niner...
Ok, so the place could use some work. Master Liwalaci disapproves, of course, but the voices tell me that he's only angry that I have gained immortality when he wanted to be the only one to live forever. I've heard them ever since reading the book, and how could things that whisper so beautifully ever lie? I must be careful around him. He's jealous and paranoid. Who knows what he might do in his fear and rage? Besides, I don't need a master. I have eternity to hone my craft.
The first thing we shall have to do in order to improve the mood of the residents is obvious;
Post by: Fleeting Frames on August 02, 2016, 06:07:27 pm
But wh-ah right, deeper. How's the FPS?
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 03, 2016, 12:16:05 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on August 03, 2016, 03:17:13 pm
Post by: Archereon on August 05, 2016, 05:05:49 pm
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 05, 2016, 06:37:29 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on August 06, 2016, 06:17:04 pm
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 11, 2016, 06:29:06 pm
- We've had like twenty petitions for long term residency from various soldiers and performers.
- A sand titan in chilling in a pond just outside the fortress.
- A goblin husk got inside through one of our inexplicably open doors.
- Currently have a strange mood going on, but we need bones so I need to see if there's anyone that'll actually slaughter an animal before he goes insane.
- Church is fully dug and being smoothed. No magma yet, but we'll hopefully be able to pump some up to make it properly dwarven.
Post by: Arthropleura on August 12, 2016, 10:33:28 am
I love how the dark arts are this forts first resort when faced with imminent death. And we're going to have TWO husked titans roaming about the place aren't we?
Post by: Fleeting Frames on August 12, 2016, 12:00:28 pm
- A goblin husk got inside through one of our inexplicably open doors.That's our Bloodyhells!
Post by: Spish on August 15, 2016, 01:08:38 pm
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 16, 2016, 04:29:04 pm
New migrants arrive,
Carrying their hope with them,
We greet them with death.
This fortress is full of philistines. I'm trying to work on my various masterpieces, and they keep interrupting me with trifling matters like a beast made of amber outside the gates and a goblin husk that got inside the fortress. The husk is currently trapped behind a wall and the amber beast appears to have wandered off, if it ever existed at all. More likely they were just trying to distract me so that master Dipane can steal my work.
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This is the current state of our new shrine complex. The smoothing is proceeding slowly, but soon it will almost be worthy of me considering a recital there. It will certainly be adequate for the plebians to worship their gods, in any case. At the door you can also see Sanctume, who has been stricken by melancholy after no one killed anything to give him bones for something he wanted to make. He also doesn't see to be a necromancer yet, so at least we won't have to listen to him complaining forever.
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Here we have NCcommander and Flame, who both still seem intent on slaying those stray scraps of skin. Most of the fortress has given up on distracting them at this point, though if an enemy ever does come along that breaks their concentration, they will certainly be ready. They are both undoubtedly fighters worthy of legend at this stage, or at least they would be if they ever fought anything besides a scrap of leather.
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This is Melbil. He has spent the past half year shouting down the stairs that he's not able to carry some items into a stockpile. We only just figured out that the problem was that these hatches in the main stairway:
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were locked, blocking access to most of the fortress. I can't see any immediate threats to our well being from unlocking them, so I will do so because it's better than being mildly irritated by that guy. I've also set the miners to dig a shaft to the magma seas that we can toss anything we don't have a use for any more down in order to clean the fortress up a bit.
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 16, 2016, 04:30:19 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on August 16, 2016, 04:30:57 pm
Hmm. Images don't seem to be working for some reason.Same.
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 16, 2016, 05:00:46 pm
Post by: Sanctume on August 16, 2016, 06:30:06 pm
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Post by: TheFlame52 on August 16, 2016, 07:33:14 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on August 16, 2016, 09:07:08 pm
And looking grand and alien there, Deus. The overseer has trouble with pathing in fortress while building a massive shrine to the gods. Very appropriate.
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on August 17, 2016, 05:44:47 am
Also, I take it all the squigly-line Ns are the necromancered dwarves?
Post by: Spish on August 20, 2016, 11:24:46 am
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 22, 2016, 03:51:44 pm
Post by: Deus Asmoth on August 25, 2016, 10:29:18 am
Final results:
-Church looks like it's about halfway done, is in the process of being smoothed.
-The upper levels of the fortress have been taken back. The corpses are being dumped into magma, though the militia is pretty much on constant patrol to put the ones that get up back down again.
-The dwarves really don't seem to be fond of actually dumping stuff, but some progress has been made.
Post by: TheFlame52 on August 25, 2016, 12:49:51 pm
But thankfully it's not my turn.
EDIT: Stick me back on that turn list, please.
Post by: Crashmaster on August 25, 2016, 11:46:31 pm
Post by: StarWars1981 on August 30, 2016, 11:52:53 am
32 pages of masterful insanity.
I've skipped most of the images, just not bothering to TRY to make sense of them. It's like disaster-creation 101 in there. However, it's incredibly amusing.
Post by: Crashmaster on August 30, 2016, 10:29:47 pm
I have had an initial look into the madness this evening. Then I went back to re-read some journal entries. Then I looked at the madness again.
Wow, it's a mess. The surface is an assault on the eyes and the underground is quite Escher-esque. Not sure what direction to take with this fort yet. The thread could use a picture-heavy fort tour and sitrep I guess. Might unpause tomorrow.
Post by: Eric Blank on August 31, 2016, 01:37:14 am
Oh, also, the room to the east of the stairwell on the tavern/library floor was going to become the temple until the little disaster with the zombies happened. I mean come on its got a 2-story vaulted ceiling! :P That other place I figured we could use more, and nicer, bedrooms.
Also also, I forgot to mention to sign me up for another go!
Post by: speciesunkn0wn on August 31, 2016, 04:18:28 pm
Progress update;
I have had an initial look into the madness this evening. Then I went back to re-read some journal entries. Then I looked at the madness again.
Wow, it's a mess. The surface is an assault on the eyes and the underground is quite Escher-esque. Not sure what direction to take with this fort yet. The thread could use a picture-heavy fort tour and sitrep I guess. Might unpause tomorrow.
It's Battlefailed mate! Of course it's gonna be a mess!
Post by: Lebo on August 31, 2016, 11:53:00 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on September 03, 2016, 05:38:53 pm
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Bloodyhells, I can see it all now. It is ugly. It is bloody. It is hell.
The fort is a total failure. We were given a last chance; delve deep into the territories of evil, fortify a position and strike against Tosid Rushaxe's necro-horde.
The King would have been smarter to have had us executed on the spot or earlier by the beard! For all the dwarven lives lost or irreprably twisted here we have only succeeded in creating a lack-lustre necromancer hang-out where the heretical secrets are spread through wandering poets who outnumber the 'staff.' The fact is though, I would have done anything at all to deflect the glowing fuchia gaze of Salo's undead eyes before it ripped me to shreds. Anything. Death gives one a certain reminder about it's supposed inevitability and I wonder about the King's true intent behind the Bloodyhells expedition.
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I've come upon the overseerer's journal up in this tree. It seems obvious that the previously appointed elf-citizen overseer had left it up here while sneaking off to love trees as it has been neglected for quite a while. The current intended holder is too pre-occupied with artistic pursuits to effect leadership. We'll see what's going on.
Just under this tree a dwarf poet heads towards what must be a passage into the fort. It's hard to tell what areas of the fort might be secured when you can move through walls. There appears to be a main airlocked trade depot entrance on the shore in the south, littered with the corpses of fallen dwarves.
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It leads to the right side of an expansive area in the soil layer where a little bunker guards the main stair into the old fort.
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The stair from the half-completed shelter on the surface passes an open bridge into the fort through an empty room and a cage-trap hall. There's a hole and a stair that connects to the large soil layer.
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The soil layer below connects to the underground wagon tunnels by ramps and stair in the room to the left of the four bridges. Corpse concentration is high here. The roof of the main stair bunker is seen lower right.
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Going north leads to a demolished trade depot at the hub of the underground wagon tunnel network.
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The main stairs from the bunker leads to the crossroads of the fort. All the necessities were focused here, workshops, hospital, prison, corpse pile, giant undead therapod labrynth, wine pond. Most roads from here lead to flood recovery efforts, corpses and/ or abandoned mystery projects.
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Except down, well corpses yes, but 50 levels down another small roofed bunker guards an opening into the caverns. It's drawbridge is even walled over. Deeper we go then.
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Ten more levels down we pass living quarters and storage before arriving at The Garlic of Vipers. A fairly quite tavern compared to The Chamber of Death which is the library next door who's floor is littered with mangled corpse parts. Nearby is an under-construction temple complex.
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Directly below are farming and food storage.
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Housing expansion.
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And finally shop floor.
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Shockingly sensible and functional down here.
Post by: Eric Blank on September 03, 2016, 06:00:46 pm
Place would be practically livable if you could get the dolts to clean up the rotting corpses lying about.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 03, 2016, 08:27:05 pm
Bit concerned about the flooded metal bars. How's the FPS? How's your plans for the fort?
It looks like a mess when you take it as one fort, but it is more like several connected forts on one map. The soil layers alone have like eight airlocks, four central stairways, numerous workshop areas.
Each overseer builds a new one!
Post by: TheFlame52 on September 04, 2016, 08:26:47 pm
Place would be practically livable if you could get the dolts to clean up the rotting corpses lying about.Stuff not getting dumped and hauled is a big problem in 0.43. But even so, this is surprisingly good for a Battlefailed fort!
Post by: Crashmaster on September 04, 2016, 09:53:22 pm
Rotten corpses receive prioritization, the library's especially bad, I can even go in there as my own meat hand is on the floor.
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Second, there are two caged dwarves in the units list. I can see about six cages that contain something dwarfy but I can't tell exacctly how dwarfy or how much there is so orders are set to put up the cages proper in the old prison so someone can have a good look in them. A drake is ordered chained nearby in case behavioral testing iss required.
Third is installation of a backlog of memorial slabs. A masonry shop is also qued to produce more slabs, I'm way down the line for now at least. Gabbro doors and blocks are added to the mason's que as well as long-term goals start now. The wood furnace is to be pulled out of it's prime location to install a new magma glass kiln to replace the flooded one.
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Sand is plentiful inside the caverns bunker nearby. The stockpiles down here contain a large store of gabbro mechamisms already so excavation plans are laid out for a pump stack cutting through surveyed rock from a pair of fortuitous natural obsidian overhangs above the floor of the magma sea.
I float by and have a look at injured dwarves Ryukan 3786 and Imic 3787 look like they'll be fine.
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There is a constant need to re-load cage traps at various locations and a shortage of free cages. Orders are being given to disable the traps instead of reloading them to save dwarfpower on inturruptions.
One of the local monsters, Efamidipi is said to have killed the test-drake in the main stair on it's way to the prison. I consider the wisdom of mingling with these things.
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Security checks locate several open stairs to the surface in the soil layer. The outside is permitted to block them off before anything more can get in. Spriggans goes outside and gets dizzy but seems fine.
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Glassmaking has started production. Two mostly-whole living dwarves Flame and Risen are located in the cages and actions to free them are underway.
There was a fight in the tavern. A goblin poet lies in pieces. Efamidipi again, kinda doubt we could get rid of him if we wanted to.
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19 Timber 305
Goden Mulettaran is taken by a mood. He claims one of the adamantine extraction workshops and need bones of course. The pump stack supply base tunnels are slowly progressing though warm stone.
Petitions approved for all;
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Wait? Dues Armoth was not a citizen when appointed overseer? That can't be by the book.
WINTER is upon you
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Around 14FPS I think.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 04, 2016, 10:56:09 pm
-Nice...library. Hey, you have your trusty spirit animal!
-There must be quite a pain with airlocks with that drake.
-Wood furnace? I thought we didn't have much trees?
-I see dead dwarves and a duck. The duck is alive.
Is the Imic rotting?
- Cages huh. I guess the monster ooh they're not gone.
- oh you didn't airlock the drake. welp.
- Is Efamidipí a titan or FB? How come you still have doors? Poor goblin poet.
-wonder if alive elven citizens and raised dead wil incite a loyalty cascade.
- 14 FPS is bad :<
Post by: Crashmaster on September 05, 2016, 01:06:00 am
-There must be quite a pain with airlocks with that drake.
Airlocks! You misunderstand our security system, we're running open door surface to magma sea policy. Fast and loose. We don't have the dwarfpower for lever pulling and everyone's pretty chill anyways.
- Is Efamidipí a titan or FB? How come you still have doors? Poor goblin poet.
I don't know but it is a poet killing machine. Murders visitors like nobody's business. Everyone seems to pay it or the murders no mind and it's not interested in buildings either so we're just gonna pretend like nothings happening and keep letting visitors in.
- 14 FPS is bad :<
We'll beg for 14FPS before long
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 05, 2016, 01:09:39 am
Yeah, if it doesn't destroy buildings...Maybe let it stay as our pet. Not that hard to capture, but a free-range titan is cool.
Uh-oh.
Post by: Imic on September 05, 2016, 03:01:36 am
Post by: Dorsidwarf on September 05, 2016, 07:27:18 am
I meant hatches and hanging doors, but how's there's still anything alive in the fortress? There's a whole zombie apocalypse out there! And here! And everywhere!
Zombies could care less about the citizens who are necromancers, so ???
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 05, 2016, 09:33:13 am
Post by: puterking on September 06, 2016, 02:47:14 am
Sign me up.
Post by: Ghills on September 07, 2016, 11:50:57 am
Post by: Crashmaster on September 08, 2016, 03:12:23 pm
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Flame, chief medical dwarf set out presumably for his civilian uniform before returning straight to work. Risen however will dance no more.
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Work continues, some things I might want to keep a spectral eye on.
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And some things I really should have kept a spectral eye on.
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The miners have followed the pump stack plans straight up into the aquifer. Water is pouring from the ceiling down the access stair and spreading out at the base. Jobs are cancelled and labour redirected to separate the access stair from the stack with a door at the top level and hatch over the stairs there as well to stop the flow of water before it comprimises the lower levels. It has already started to pour into the lowest.
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Progress is swift, the door is up in no time and the first hatch was just put in by some dwarf who stood in the doorway to do the job - and left the rock he moved to do it propping the door open.
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The low-priority delay of the rock dumping job is offset by the installation of the secon hatch diverting the aquifer leak down the pump stack where surface area soaked a lot of it up. By the time the leak was stopped the lowest level had been flooded enough to temporarily trap workers but not so much that it will significantly affect progress.
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Meanwhile there have been some uncharacteristic husk and undead interruptions of the necro-workforce. Occasionally resulting in violence.
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Some lord consort necromancer visited, waited a while in the nefarious fog then got in a fight with a goblin scholar. Another Risen, an astronomer, visits from upwind and decides entering the fort is the best idea.
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With the danger passed the surface is again permitted for the miners to work on correcting the aquifer leak. Risen the astronomer is mace-beaten to death in the tavern by the human maceman nefarious fog husk that hangs around. Some crundle corpses are dispatched by the military.
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The action continues in the tavern with a new contender making itself known by showing up and tearing apart a mutil-cultural group of visiting entertainers. The locals are entertained.
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Another therapod is noted in the caverns, Lene Cuthabeiru, a webber. One to keep track of.
The aquifer plug is dropped through part of the wagon tunnel system. The displaced water ended up being too much to evaporate and so was drained back into the aquifer.
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Goden, the mooded dwarf finishes an obsidian bracelet after waiting rather a while for the bones.
The hole in the surface made for the aquifer plug is half built over.
Archereon, who has been having quite a tough time aliving in the fort has finally met his match stumbling into a blue peacock head skin on main stair new residential level.
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The commotion attracts Ted Sladazop's corpese which acttually starts doing some damage. Risen's corpse make a now headless reappearance and is again struck down by passing chief medical dwarf necromancer Flame. The Night Guard is sent in the thin out the crowd after three disembodied manera hands suddenly all lay into Archereon's unconcious body at once.
Back down to just the peacock head skin, the interruptions continue on the main stair. Worse now it seems Erib, the mayor, and Zuglarkun are stuck fighting the thing as well after trying to pass by.
On an impulse the walls separating the main stair from the housing halls are dug out. The fight flows into one of the bedrooms to be dealt with later. *click*
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A round of prioritized dumping seems in order. It seems the recent peacock skin battles may have been related to sloppy attempts at providing bones for Goden's mood. Spring is a few days off and will hopefully bring some new life to this place.
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Post by: TheFlame52 on September 08, 2016, 07:05:47 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 09, 2016, 03:17:15 am
Sucks about Risen.
Don't engrave yourself! It's like weeping angels and mirrors!
Haha, "it has started raining" indeed.
Risen's death was terrible.
Nefarious fog necromancer...Is that a threat?
I think I'm going to have hard time telling what is dangerous.
Aren't aquifers easier to penetrate from below? Whatever, you're the boss-ghost.
Necromancer medic...Conflict of interest, anyone?
2x4 rooms? Unusual, haven't seen that before.
Poultry skin is most delicious.
Post by: Eric Blank on September 09, 2016, 04:42:23 pm
And a nefarious fog necromancer is a serious threat, yeah. They'll probably be hostile to everyone.
Post by: Archereon on September 09, 2016, 05:40:35 pm
Post by: Evaris on September 10, 2016, 11:24:22 am
Post by: Crashmaster on September 12, 2016, 03:35:09 pm
Zutthan Authortrumpets Ranger's Field Journal
Urdim said we'ld never live to make it here but I know the overland ways.
Bloodyhells. Everything they said it would be.
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Tosid and Shem meet us and report no open entrances on the shore side either. Not unexpected. There's all manner of travellers and mercenaries around and some moving undead but none noticed their arrival either.
There have been rumours for a while the fort was overthrown by a cult. It may be more dangerous inside then out. Or there could be an entire fort of riches for the taking.
I strike the ground near center of the corpse-ring. The others find some tools close by.
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Urdim rushes back warning of a giant bugs south by the shore and picks a safer axe.
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He does very little work before the morning's events get to him. I let him take a break. He's only a moment.
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After most of the work is done on the aquifer plug, a cloud of this nefarious-looking mist roils in from the south east. Urdim's fear seems prudent and we wait it out working at the bottom of the dig.
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It's passed by the time we're finished. Urdim is pressured into breaking the last support floor since we can't spare the time for mechanics.
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Everyone gets knocked out. I'm a little fuzzy but I think I saw a dizzy kitten fall out of a tree. While we let the dust settle we scouted out four barrels of dwarven wine in another trader's wreckage.
After a drink I noticed a new trail of fresh blood. Headed fom the tree it ended at the corpse of the kitten that had fallen out of it earlier. The very next time I came outside the cat corpse was moving. The four of us rallied together and kicked it to more death. Urdim and Shem get it floored over in a small hole.
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I was working on delving deeper when Tosid shouted a warning. The giant Fireflies Urdim saw on the shore were pouring into the dig. Undead chitinous shells rained blows on me as I fought my way out of the dead-end of the dig.
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Outside with the others, Shem yelled He'll distract them while we try to find weapons.
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Shem's no militia dwarf but he unleashes a flurry of blows in a martial trance. Urdim cowers horrified wasting time while Shem quickly get's tired. When he collapses Urdim flees.
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Tosid and I had to go far to the south east to get what we were after. We got back just in time to see Shem's chest crushed to pulp by the undead horrors. Poorly armed as we were, vengance must be ours. Shem's last sight was spattered with giant firefly ichor spilt by the shared spear and shield his sacrifice bought us.
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Acrid slime rains down on me as I shove giant firefly corpse corpses on top of Shem's lifeless body in the shallow grave Tosid dug.
I'm sorry Shem. You deserve better then this but there is no time.
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You can understand then that when the undead doe rabbits hopped onto the scene shortly thereafter our misplaced rage was inevitable. It was horrifying.
Tosid and I were worn to exhaustion beating down the unbeasts with our wooden weapons. Urdim, was confronted by a buck rabbit corpse that tried to enter the dig, he did well before collapsing from exhaustion on the ramp.
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Tosid passes out asleep while walking back to the ramp to save Urdim. We havn't eaten since arriving. I can't win with just a shield so I head back south east after a weapon. It's too far and I feel sleep overtake me just before returning to the dig site with wooden sword.
Tosid tells me by the time he reached Urdim the head of one of the doe rabbits was chewing on him as well. He dispatched that easily and the fight now almost two on one retreated deeper into the dig as the buck rabbit corpse was backed into an alcove. I relieved Tosid trying to keep the thing from finishing Urdim while he worked on getting a cage trap set up we could drive the thing into.
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Tosid can't decide between getting me some food and building the trap. Eventually I managed the sever the thing's head with a lucky strike from the wooden sword spraying the walls with blood. I have got to eat. Urdim can rest for a moment. An important looking human coming down the dig passed while I was getting a cranberry Tosid had brought. She looked like she thought she was supposed to be here.
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She must have thought it was Bloodyhells proper as she left after seeing the dead-end of the dig.
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I found Urdim's corpse. A bad way to start the summer. I though he would be fine, he was only bruised badly, no other signs of injury. I though he just needed to rest but I'm no chief medical dwarf.
I call to Tosid to ready another shallow grave.
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Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 12, 2016, 03:52:38 pm
....Wait, wrong set of morals.
*rummages in mental cupboard*
Ah, better.
Damn, nice surface. The moment an attacker comes, we can send our necromancer/undead army to raise bodies behind their back, thus creating a deadly flancing manouver, allowing at least one of them to attack from behind!
Oh, cool, there's a house on the surface. Airlock?
Might be annoying to retrieve stuff, though.
Hahaha, memetic weapons of dead bodies. Oh yeah, there's that advantage of having them on map edge too, whatever enters is shocked, giving our squads more time to react.
Next time, break the support floor diagonally; dust, mist, steam, etc. can't come in through a diagonal.
(Hm, this gives me an idea for fighting nastier FBs)
Aw, a kitten! How cute! Should be non-dangerous enough for some live training?
Giant Fireflies, huh...Wonder if they could be used as chandeliers in dining rooms when lightning is added into game? Either way, fresh meat. And a distraction! Nicely handled, that's neat.
Hm. Rabbits starve, I guess. They do nip on fingers sometimes.
There's cranberries? Weren't all the plants dead? I thought you would have to set up a butchery.
Well, that's two down. And more flying undead.
Overall, a husking tale of how an intelligent diginvader would assault naturally trapped fortress! Well done!
Post by: Crashmaster on September 14, 2016, 02:15:09 pm
Ghost processing continues unabated. NCommander spends the most part of his time meditating on wealth in various ways. Flame is still treating Ryukan and Imic upstairs. They appear to significantly more injured then before which sort of explains his recent demands for splints and now a traction bench. Not sure if supplying him will be the best for Imic and Ryukun. They better live as I notice over 10 strands of adamantium have been used on sutures between them.
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Elf merchants were permitted into the shore depot if only to keep them from becoming husks. Spriggans has a fey mood. Too bad he's a carpenter.
A flurry of new visitors arrives. In the usual tavern chaos a necromancer death is noted, just a human poet, odd but another human poet arrived so no worries, untill another necromancer being attacked started the alarm.
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NCommander finds the rouge axedwarf as it's beheading another human swordsman necromancer residing here.
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The visiting dwarf is quick with his axe and shield but falls to a well-timed punch in the face and...
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Only moments later Dodok, the butcher, has his leg nearly severed by a visiting human swordsman. The Night Guard are ordered to restore order in the tavern. The human finishes Dodok, repeatedly bashing him with a sword made of silver. Then it attacks and kills Rith, one of our medical staff before facing a real swordsdwarf with a reaf sword.
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The last human poet to have arrived is now greeted by the Night Guard. They kill it before it gets below the soil layer. For good measure Twinwolf raises the corpse and orders it killed again.
More visitors. Nope. Bar's closed, move along.
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The elf merchants decide to leave so the shore depot was sealed closed as well. Lockdown, no-one in, no-one out.
[MIGRANTS ARRIVE]
Dorito was loading the cage traps intended to rescue our people stuck in battle with the blue peacock head skin when Archereon finaly died, from dehydration. Oops. He only died a moment before Zuglarkun raised him to re-join the fight.
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Not too late for the others the plan is brought to completion. Still a worthy labour investment for two more able-bodied workers and yet another caged zombie.
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A couple other useful books from our reading selection.
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Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 14, 2016, 04:27:41 pm
Legendary wood furniture is nice bait.
Oh yay, brawling. Did the zombies actually attack, or did NCommander gesture just for cheerleaders?
- I approve of necromancers wielding bladed weapons in general.
Though perhaps we might need a shambling corpse disposal system.
- Hold on, I'll save you. Oops. Hold on, I'll revive you. Still fighting? Good.
- Seems like gemstone makes a halfway reasonable weapon. Or maybe they saw the writing and commited suicide. Yes, again.
Post by: TheFlame52 on September 14, 2016, 10:03:27 pm
Though perhaps we might need a shambling corpse disposal system.We have one, it's a pit that goes down to the SMR that I built during my turn.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 15, 2016, 11:32:15 am
Post by: Archereon on September 15, 2016, 03:45:22 pm
Oh well. A plague on both your houses, and all that. :'(
Post by: Crashmaster on September 17, 2016, 12:40:38 pm
Fuck.
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It was brutal. That cowardly shit's corpse beat the strands out of the two of us. Knocked a bunch of Tosid's teeth out. Practically bit toes off of both of us. We just could not slow it down. It took a couple days to mangle it enough that it stopped moving.
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We take a break from working for a while. We're a mess of wounds each. I'm cleaning the rabbit blood from the levers when I realize we slashed Urdim's corpse to ribbons and then bones but there had been absolutely no blood in it and there was none here where he had died.
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My mind flashes back to the strange human visitor.
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Foul night creature. We will capture it and imprison it forever so that it will only ever suffer for the life it stole from poor useless Urdim.
I'm digging the trap-bedrooms soon after when Tosid says four dwarves have shown up on the surface from the north. Mistem, Iden, Avuz and Imush.
The new dwarves are getting to work with some clean-up when a wandering human corpse interrupts things. The new dwarves are recruited and set on it but the delay allows Urdim's corpse time to re-animate and joint the fight. Not only that but a nefarious cloud rolls in from the north east threatening the area. While I wait for it to pass I pick up a silver battle axe the new dwarves had brought inside and Iden, Imush and Avuz and beaten unconscious. My ear burns.
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I'm over-exerted but put down both zombies quickly. Iden and Imush are hauled off to one of the dorms under construction. Mistem tries to see to their injuries but wood must be acquired for some buckets first.
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While on the surface I was able to scout out some plump helmet spawn. Firstly under guard of an named undead duck in a tree. Probably not a good idea.
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Second cache was on the eastern boarder by a giant snail corpse and just south of that unending weasel husk battle. Definitely not going over there. Third and an almost easy spot is in a pile of goods on the shore of a stagnant pool on the western border.
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We bring quite a few of the plum helmet spawn inside. I'm not feeling well. Weak. Tosid looks drawn and pale. Haven't been the same since the fight with Urdim's corpse. Our wounds are not great but do not heal.
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Tosid and I decide to make a push to close off the opening into the dig site. It will take a while with the injured dwarves taking extra attention. As we begin I catch in the corner of my eye the foul night creature brazenly strolling into the dig site. As if we don't know your secrets cursed one. Trying to prey on the injured and invalid.
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The thing walks with an uncanny smoothness. A water bucket nearly leads to disaster but is noticed and the unwanted visitor re-directed and trapped as planned.
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The thing is walled in over the locked doors. Justice served.
Mistem, starts to work on his patients including making splints and weaving some cloth for bandages. Flooring over the hole on the ground level is nearing completion despite my and Tosid's health continuing to decline and repeated nefarious fog clouds.
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Autumn arrives while we take shelter in the lowest section.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 17, 2016, 01:02:14 pm
Colorful beach - oh wait that's poison.
A legendary vampire? Hm, since the fortress is already segregated....Hm, tch.
Turning everyone to vampire necromancers is troubled by the fact that they only drink water if thristy and injured. And they don't get thristy anymore, so...
Post by: Crashmaster on September 17, 2016, 01:32:24 pm
Also I want to destroy the ocean a bit.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 17, 2016, 01:42:56 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on September 18, 2016, 03:07:22 pm
Whenever someone returns to the fort after retiring/unretiring/visiting in adventure mode it will be filled with seawater again, which will need to drain. As will any tunnels under the ocean biome portion of the map.
Can't think of much to gain from having it drained anyway. What was your plan?
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 18, 2016, 03:46:29 pm
Could also make for a reasonable place to fight without having to drag things underground.
Post by: Crashmaster on September 18, 2016, 07:15:56 pm
Post by: Evaris on September 18, 2016, 07:25:14 pm
I don't like waves. Magma would do wonders for much of the surface.To be fair, the waves don't exactly have much use, and magma is always a solution.
alternatively the waves could be used for a secure intermittent watering system for a mist generator via fortifications and aqueduct. Might be an FPS heavy alternative though.
So +1 to covering the surface in a layer of magma.
Post by: Eric Blank on September 18, 2016, 07:27:51 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on September 19, 2016, 07:35:31 pm
I started from Deus Asmoth's turn near the end of Autumn. Shall I finish the year? Probably still not enough time to get a 1kurist aquifer water wheel setup running though.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 19, 2016, 09:14:35 pm
Post by: Spish on September 20, 2016, 04:52:34 am
Go ahead and finish the year. Do be quicker about it though, your turn is running a bit lengthy at this point. I haven't been commenting much because I've been focused on my new job.
Post by: Crashmaster on September 20, 2016, 02:05:02 pm
Tosid wrote this
As soon as the nefarious cloud is gone the three of us return to the floor construction. There is a lot more commotion then normal to the north and east where the cloud had passed over a group of travellers.
Before long we see a human bard crawling slowly and painfully towards us from that direction.
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We paid it no mind but it's howling attracted the attention of some of those that had been changed by the cloud. Zutthan saw the first, a naked dwarf poet husk, while getting a log. He slipped away from that one as it drove the human bard south.
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He didn't see the human dancer husk I guess though. "Always check for a trailing attacker." It jumps him by the small construction. I rally Mistem and try and charge through the dwarf poet husk to join him.
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It us takes too long to defeat the dwarf poet husk. Zutthan collapses and dies while tanking a shield-beating right as we get there and the human dancer husk leaps at Mistem.
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Mistem didn't have a chance. I should have left him to care for the other three.
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The fight was difficult and long but the thing had no edged weapon. I weathered a few blows suffering nothing but bruises from it's shield before finally splitting it's head asunder like it was soil.
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After sleeping most of the bruises off my old unhealed wounds are real noticable. Still feels bad. Back to work. Finished the big floor. Very weak. Brought a few things inside. Don't want to seal the surface in case I get too weak to re-open it. Must keep working, the other three are still injured. Faint. I need to secure water inside then I can seal us off from the surface and maybe I can get them recovered with some time.
Slow.
Hard to dig.
Tired.
Can't hold pick and book at once.
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Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 20, 2016, 08:18:55 pm
Oh wait, they had a pick.
Aw, poor Tosid. It's ok, death is not forever!
Post by: TheFlame52 on September 20, 2016, 08:25:12 pm
Aw, poor Tosid. It's ok, death is not forever!Yes it is, he's not a forumite! Only forumites can body-hop!
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 20, 2016, 08:44:51 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on September 20, 2016, 09:05:48 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on September 20, 2016, 09:08:06 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on September 21, 2016, 01:41:56 pm
Iden's Notes
It was Avuz who brought it up first I think. Since Mistem left to get some water a few weeks ago nobody has been back to look at our finger cuts. Mine really stings. We're all pretty tired of sitting here though so Imush leads the plan to sneak out of the hospital to get some booze.
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It was strangely quite. Seems we are alone here. The only dwarf we saw was a corpse that died peacefully with a pick in his hand. This old journal was beside him. The wine is fine but the company got worse when mid-drink the dead miner's corpse shables around the corner. I hooked it's left foot off with my pick then benecked it when it hit the ground. We got work to do.
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The stockpiles are lacking a few things in here and are way too rich in reanimating corpse pieces. The dead miner's corpse comes alive once more briefly before Avuz dumps it on a pile of it's severed bits on the surface.
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I don't know what he saw up there but we have a problem. Avuz is fey. He stopped on the surface at the edge of the ramp and won't come back in. Just stares off and he's not even looking the right way as a husked goblin crossbowman with no bolts limps towards him trailing a line of blood.
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Imush stops stockpiling a rope and uses one of the anvils in here to start making a forge since Avuz was an armoursmith before we came here. Avuz finally sees the goblin husk and bolts north west away from the fort. The goblin husk is very fast and catching up with him as he rounds the pond when I see he really is fey.
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Avuz heads south to the west of the shore where he waits with a human lasher and bowman hanging around watching the waves. The forge is just completed when the lamb and donkey rush past in terror. A human poet husk is in the fort. Imush was mining so rushes it with his pick. He does a lot of damage to it but with little effect while taking a beating all over. I'll need some protection.
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Together we finished the thing quickly and also the miners neck needed to be smashed again. Imush is bloodied and seems to have some internal injuries but is otherwise whole. We realizing that we havn't eaten since before entering the hospital when Avuz charges in to the forge to demand only one thing.
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I was looking for wagon wrecks from the entrance in hope of finding iron bars when I saw Imush headed west to the pond to clean himself off. The goblin crossbowman husk that Avuz dodged is still over there. I yelled at him to come back but he saw too late. The goblin husk was no slower then before and runs him down. Imush rained blows on the thing tearing cunk after chunk out of it but that did nothing to slow the husk's emotionless onslaught and he was beaten down and dead.
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We're sealed in now for sure. Fuck the surface. I've got two cranberries, a couple of half-full barrels of wine and a roommate who may go berserk in a couple months. Great.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 22, 2016, 12:09:17 am
Of course, normal evil 3-dwarf embark wouldn't have that happen. Would surface hobos realize that there must be more dwarves somewhere for feyness to come?
Maybe should build some bathtubs in my forts...Maybe with minecart guide timer to occassionally cleanse.
Are grown spears better than bare fists?
Husks...Right, inheriting skills.
Hm...two cranberries, bit of wine. Are you using burrows to stretch alcohol twice as far?
Post by: Crashmaster on September 23, 2016, 02:14:14 am
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save: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12456
The surface might need another month in the oven.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 23, 2016, 04:28:32 am
Nice reveal.
You sneaky snek.
Post by: TheFlame52 on September 23, 2016, 11:18:51 am
Post by: Evaris on September 23, 2016, 11:54:29 am
Post by: Zuglarkun on September 23, 2016, 08:37:06 pm
Most delightful turn of events!
Will pick up the save once I return from work and stuff.
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 01, 2016, 11:54:55 am
I've been busy with work and I should have plenty of free time in the days following tomorrow to get stuff done.
I picked up the save a few days ago, scanning through the fortress and wrapping my mind around it before my mind exploded from the
I have since recovered (after a few stiff drinks) and I am contemplating what to do about the current state of the fortress.
I don't even know where to begin. On the one hand I am incredibly saddened by the destruction of the conglomerate codex containing the secrets of life and death. On the other hand, we have a notoriously deadly tin-glaze bound codex that rivals even the most deadly of adamantine weapons in our possession, standing at 56 kills. Which is now locked in a cage with its wielder, an elf nefarious fog husk.
Dead bodies and their refuse lie sprawled everywhere, as is customary might I add. The surface is being engulfed in a stream of cleansing lava, that has obsidianized a good portion of the surface of the ocean. Forlorn ghosts are roaming everywhere and we are sandwiched by Salo above and the stream of undead that roam the caverns below. The death list is at 2000+ and counting. Bloody death and destruction everywhere you look, though nobody really cares anyway.
The coterie of necromancers (of which I am a member of) are all moping because its lonely being an immortal being that laughs at death, and are all gradually getting slower day by day due to abstaining from booze. Everyone dwarf but 2 cooped up near the surface is an Armok-be-damned necromancer.
Well actually I exaggerate. Things are not so bad, so happiness is just fine. Except for NCommander whom is somehow unhappy.
But it is clear that the normal rules of most community forts do not apply to BloodyHells. Of what use is good food and drink to the likes of us?
Post by: TheFlame52 on October 01, 2016, 12:44:24 pm
2. What do you mean, sandwiched between Salo and the caverns? Salo is the titan, right? Didn't I trap it? Did some idiot let him loose?
3. Get some paper going so we can make a library. Maybe we can get one of the necromancers to make a new book of life and death.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 01, 2016, 02:29:37 pm
On the other hand, we have a notoriously deadly tin-glaze bound codex that rivals even the most deadly of adamantine weapons in our possession, standing at 56 kills. Which is now locked in a cage with its wielder, an elf nefarious fog husk.
...What.
Okay, codexes killing people is no surprise, but this level of destruction...How to weaponize on our side? Also, what are the stats on a codex as a weapon?
Could simply unleash the husk, granted, but I mean for dwarves.
Maybe interrupt a dwarf who is storing codex with some undead until they name the codex?
Having necromancers beat you to death with the secrets of life and death and then raise would be quite unique feat.
Post by: Crashmaster on October 01, 2016, 04:06:52 pm
Some filler from winter;
Iden's Notes
I wanted to get some plumphelmets planted right away but digging was slow so I rushed to build the temporary workshops needed to melt what precious iron things we had stockpiled until Avuz had iron bars to make his boot. The two of us then finished digging the farming area including a cistern for a well and punched through to a pocket of groundwater. We cleared up some clutter while the flooding dryed up then got our food supply planted safe in the ground. Feeling quite confident.
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(Nearby in the soil layer the Imic memmorial aqui-power facility meets it's power output requirements using up most of the wood - He was back-washed in during flow-starting and wouldn't get out - and Flame and Spish throw the levers opening the magma hatches and powering up the pump-stack.)
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It started with the smell of smoke.
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Then came the smell of panic.
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The outer trade bridge is compromised but it will buy donkey a moment to escape the doomed depot hall.
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The inner bridge and donkey are secured before the outer fails.
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After a moment to relax it is decided we must source some magma-proof rock if we still hope to survive here. There were murky pools on the surface so it's likely only obsidian will be found there now.
Stopping work on some optimistic bedrooms to cut an exploratory stair to the predicted obsidian location proved a bad idea. Apparently there's an aquifer here.
Initial flooding control was lackluster to say the least.
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While significant loses were accepted and plans altered, motivation remained a problem.
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Perseverance eventually proved successful while carelessness seems to have released some foreign prisoner temporarily. We're not really much worse off then before.
Poor doomed donkey.
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Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 01, 2016, 04:21:54 pm
- Tunnel tube bridges are pretty, but massive overkill. Has there been any research into the FPS drain in flowing aquifers?
- If you had made outer depot bridge raise the other way, it'd have been magma-safe - 2 tile bridges raising to south and east are magma safe when raised, even if made from something like wood.
- Remind me, what did acrid slime do again?
- Accidentially flooding through aquifer, what fun. Strong enough current to push dwarves back. Nicely handled, though.
Post by: Crashmaster on October 01, 2016, 05:39:02 pm
Since flow is just a tag and no water is moving any longer there should be no FPS impact from the Imic memorial aqui-power plant.
It's actually when magma is able to share any of a non-magma-safe building's tiles that it can be destroyed iirc. The surface-level retracting bridge was intended to have been remembered and re-built before magma-ing the surface though.
I don't even know. Dizziness maybe.
I had practice from partially flooding the pumpstack earlier.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 01, 2016, 08:32:31 pm
And you're wrong on bridges. It is only when the magma is over the bridge's center tile, not any tile. This means that 2-tile bridges that lower to south and east are safe when raised from magma in any direction (and yes, I have tested this - see Deathgame's microcline bridge in magma trash burner).
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 06, 2016, 06:22:41 am
Spoiler: listening to stories (click to show/hide)
The Mayor found her next overseer praying in the Temple. It was not unusual for the more devout dwarves to attempt to commune to their gods in some fashion or another,
Spoiler: like Deus Asmoth for example. (click to show/hide)
but when she found her target she was... rather worried.
Spoiler: All hail Tarem! (click to show/hide)
Perhaps some of us took this whole necromancer business, a tad more seriously than the others, she thought to herself.
Overseer Zuglarkun's Log:
2nd Granite
Nashonshash is a bloody charnal house. A deluge of lava flows lazily across its surface while undead prowl its forsaken corridors. The very soil is drenched in the stench of flesh and the walls are caked with dried blood. Well, nothing unusual here!
I have long since come to terms with my unliving state. Its not too bad when you get used to it. We're still dwarves on the inside.
Mayor Shorast had approached me for overseership, and I gladly accepted. There's nothing to do in this neck of the woods, so this will serve as a good distraction at the very least. My first order of business was to put an end to the deluge above. In order to access the surface, I ordered the magma pump stacks to be shut off for now.
I noticed we were without a few key positions on our
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Seeing as how I was eligible, I took the position of bookkeeper, and appointed Erib to the position of manager. There's some housekeeping to be done, so I've ordered some cleaning up. I know we are all necromancers and all, but it won't do to have all these body parts lying about.
While clearing out the unliving quarters, we happened upon the corpses of some of our
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Speaking of which, I've been alerted that there is a reanimated wolf skin running amok in our workshop quarters.
From observation next door, we likely won't be able to get rid of it with our military without it occupying them in a futile battle for all eternity. Rather than risk that possibility, I've ordered a few
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Meanwhile, it has come to my attention that one of our visitors is stranded up above by the tide of lava.
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4th Granite
Speaking off visitors, Quabu Isunberu a goblin spearman is visiting. I hope this one does not end up engaging in a fight for all eternity with one of our resurrected animal skins, like the other goblin visitor we have.
At my command, the Night Guard engage the resurrected wolf skin to lure the reanimated bugger into a cage trap.
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Once they've engaged, I ordered a quick retreat, luring the wolf skin into one of our traps.
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10th Granite 307
More visitors have arrived, Thothil a human lasher. Well if we do plan on welcoming visitors, we might as well clean up this place and make it more presentable.
14th Granite 307
Spoiler: OK. More visitors. (click to show/hide)
They complained about the lack of trade depot to unload their goods. Don't ask me how I managed to acquire that message, I just know OK? Now that I think about it, I think you got all your priorities mixed up if you're willing to wade through all that lava to trade. Stupid elves don't even have a sense of self-preservation. Still I suppose it doesn't hurt to try to meet their demands. Our former trade depot is occupied by unfriendly undead, so I don't think it'll do. I will get the masons to construct a replacement so we are not utterly cut off from the outside world (though I think some of us might prefer it that way). Still, we will need to wait for the lava up top to subside.
In the meantime, I decided upon consolidating some of our animals in one place. We opened up a tunnel to the caverns where a bunch of caged rutherers reside. I'm sure they will be of some use to us.
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Once everyone was back safely, we sealed off the tunnel from the caverns and moved the caged beasts to a holding aread within the deep fortress. I've assigned the animal trainers to tame the younglings, while the adults might be of use to us to polish our
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Huh, more visitors. Doce a human macemen is visiting.
Also, I did not realize we can attempt to
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Looks like the undead giant ospreys have found themselves some fresh meat to play with. It did not end well for our human macemen.
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Eh, more visitors will come.
23rd Granite 307
I decided to do something about the
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I guess we are all kindred of some sort being undead and all. But from my meager understanding, we retain most of our faculties and have a firm anchor to the material world whereas ghosts are more prone to act upon their emotions and are incorporeal for the most part. For immortal beings such as us, it is important to reduce risks of permanent injury, like this violent ghost for example.
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I guess what I am saying is that these specters of the living can threaten us while we can't do anything about them. I've ordered a bunch of slabs
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As bookkeeper, I decided we needed all our codices in one place so as to be able to keep track of them easily (not that I had any problem doing so of course). The order was given out to salvage as many of the codices as were possible from the wreckage above.
Led Tanunib, Ghostly Ranger has been
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26th Granite 307
Okay, the giant osprey corpse has found the
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We've dubbed the bird of prey Dreamyankle the Frosty Wires in admiration of its prowess in dissecting elves.
We have yet another
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1st Slate 307
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Ehh screw the details, you ran the gauntlet and survived? Good! We need folk of your mettle! Welcome to Bloodyhells!
Goden meets the survivor of the scuffle above ground, one Quabu Isunberu. Goden welcomes the mercenary and locks the door behind him.
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Quabu attends a meeting with the mayor, proclaiming that he heard the Garlic of Vipers would make a good base for
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Hoo boy, you have no idea what you are getting into.
Hah, I spoke too soon. Another mercenary arrives, Lolor a marksdwarf. Good to see at least some folk are not deterred by this hellhole!
In the meantime, Quabu is put to a test of skill against our pet ducks. He does well for awhile but ultimately is humiliated by the billed ones.
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Meanwhile the only other living dwarves are doing reasonably well in their little hidey hole. Unfortunately, the starving ewe could prove to be a threat should it expire and reanimate as
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Ok, more visitors. This time a goblin bard. And even more visitors, a human spearman.
In hopes that someone will record down the secrets of life and death ere we forget, I appointed a scholar and scribe to
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Oops, Irol the human spearman is set upon by a swarm of giant firefly corpses, he does well until he dodges into a pool of cooling lava.
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Tiqua the human lasher visits and is also swarmed by undead.
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15th Slate 307
After the lava has mostly subsided we ventured out to restock our library with more reading material, keeping an eye out for the awful weather. More of the corpses have returned to unlife, but being necromancers, they did not bother us in the least.
Spoiler: Blood for the Blood God and Books for the Chamber of Death! (click to show/hide)
The ghost of Sanctume materializes over the water pumps machinery.
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Which reminds me, need to erect those
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13th Felsite 307
I've enlisted everyone to remove the outside barriers so we can setup a proper trade depot with proper gates and all.
Flame has bestowed a name upon his
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21st Felsite 307
Sanctume's spirit has been
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I'm in the process of installing two gates; one for the front entrance on the surface and another for the trade depot. Levers and instructions for what they link to are in the mayors room.
It is now summer.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 06, 2016, 07:03:29 am
"Yo Goden slab some ghosts for us."
"Put down the death by slab? I'll do the exact opposite."
"No don't oh he's grabbing the slab."
*slabs secrets of life and death*
*ghost reads it*
*ghost casts it on other ghosts for zombie ghosts*
"Dammit, Goden"
Yeah dwarves mediating on suicide is ...
Are the long deceased poultry still ...I guess if they're long dead they're no good for rere-animation.
[ħr]
Heh on eternal visitor wars.
Well that was one of the shortest trading sections ever. At least you fulfilled their dying wish ♥
What the unholy husk.
The Osprey should be dead
Wait, the merchants survived being immersed in lava? I'm impressed.
Good? that our tavern is popular. Though I suppose whips are massively less effective against [NOPAIN]
I didn't know non-dwarves could get ghosts.
Post by: TheFlame52 on October 06, 2016, 11:27:33 am
Post by: Silverlock on October 06, 2016, 04:16:36 pm
Name: Silverlock
Occupation: Whatever is handy. Something warriorish would be nice, but I'll take whatever I can get.
Thanks!
SL
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 14, 2016, 11:01:57 am
Summer is done, I've been waiting for photobucket to not be down so I can upload screenshots, but clearly that is not happening. Too invested at the moment to switch to imgur but we'll see. I hope things clear up tomorrow, if not I'll just do a text update tomorrow.
I've cleared out the living quarters of all undead, well technically it was a combination of visitors running the "initiation rites" of fighting their way through the undead gauntlet and me building cage traps under other undead. So it might be a good idea to let those 2 living dwarves in for now. There are still other undead sealed off in the tunnels and caves. We've got 2 applications for citizenship, unfortunately only 1 survived. A bunch of visitors came to visit, of these, none of them made it through the gauntlet (you see, you have to run the gauntlet twice, once when you visit, the second time when you leave). However, 2 visitors from before my turn started managed to make it off the map. I hope they spread the news and help attract more visitors cause with the death count, that's probably the only way we'll be receiving "migrants". I've begun gathering steel arms and armor from topside so everyone can get dressed in steel. Can't get tavern to work despite assigning tavernkeeper, booze stockpiles and mug stockpiles. Silverlock was dwarfed as the living miner dwarf.
TLDR: no one we cared about died.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 14, 2016, 11:07:25 am
Still, nice that we can get some people to survive now. Slow deathspiral would be kind of a whimper.
Dunno what things photobucket has to keep one using it - accounts? I usually don't make those for image sharing.
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 14, 2016, 11:13:26 am
Meh, mostly its because most of my DF stuff is all stored on photobucket and migrating all that stuff elsewhere would be such a pain.
edit: Am i supposed to dorf Andreus, Arthropleura and Evaris as well?
Post by: Spish on October 15, 2016, 12:11:47 am
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 15, 2016, 01:00:46 pm
At first I was rather apprehensive about this whole undead business, but overall I think we are better off for it. I think Goden put it best when I asked asked him about how it feels like being part of
Spoiler: the undead. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Spish, (click to show/hide)
I mean its true that we start losing some of our more dwarfish tendencies over time. Like the urge
Spoiler: to get inebriated for example. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Lebo put it, (click to show/hide)
What can I say really? We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.
2nd Hematite 307
Spoiler: We have another visitor... (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Yeah you better press on! (click to show/hide)
By Tarem's Beard. You took out the 3 undead on our
Spoiler: doorstep (click to show/hide)
Isman Trickskey, I take my words back. You are worthy of application, now head on in and be mindful of the undead ducks lest you get embroiled in a battle with a truly worthy foe.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
6th Hematite 307
Spoiler: Isman (click to show/hide)
Because of that duck corpse fighting moron, Quabu (whom got gelded btw), mayor Shorast is now eternally stuck in a
Spoiler: time loop (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: being away from the sun for so long. (click to show/hide)
16th Hematite 307
Spoiler: Goden, Melbil, Erib and Ryukan (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: CMD Flame is on the case. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Shorast has been re-elected. (click to show/hide)
After a quick examination, Flame deduces that it was an acute case of
Spoiler: acrid slime sickness. (click to show/hide)
Hold up, we have
Spoiler: petitions available? (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Well, welcome abroad
Spoiler: mercernary Quabu! (click to show/hide)
Spriggans and Lebo got a case of the
Spoiler: acrid slime sickness. (click to show/hide)
DON'T YOU HAVE ANY REGARD FOR YOUR HEALTH? WHAT ARE YOU? ELVES?
Spoiler: Oh hold up shit I got some on me too (click to show/hide)
AHHHHHH PANIC!!!! EVERYONE PANIC!!!!!! GET IT OFF OF ME!!!!!!! GET THIS SLIME OFF OF ME!!!
Spoiler: Flame rolls her eyes and once again comes to the rescue. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: go take a bath you sods! (click to show/hide)
20th Hematite
Quabu that doofus went ahead to pickup equipment from the surface. (I unforbid some weapons, cancelling the job was too late, quanbu went ahead anyway.)
Spoiler: I guess it's partly my fault (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Turns out you weren't cut out for the job. (click to show/hide)
Tekkud Vabokulzest, the Dwarf dancer necromancer
Spoiler: petitioned for citizenship (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Welcome aboard Tekkud! (click to show/hide)
25th Hematite
After much persuasion that it can be done, the triple wide ramp connecting us to the outside was constructed along with the trade depot.
1st Malachite
Spoiler: Shalo, (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Shalo (click to show/hide)
The pikeman stabs the donkey corpse in the head,
Spoiler: taking it out. (click to show/hide)
5th Malachite
Goods news everyone, the trade depot is
Spoiler: up and running (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: his way. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: The fight (click to show/hide)
It is as this moment that Shebi decides it is an appropriate time to
Spoiler: lose his shit. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: obstacles (click to show/hide)
I guess that is just more encouragement to stay on and apply for citizenship!
And now Isman is trying to leave. I wonder how that is
Spoiler: working out for him? (click to show/hide)
Oh great, and now the undead ogres are onto
Spoiler: Edem, (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Ok so our training program produces super soldiers now (click to show/hide)
In case it wasn't apparent, Edem had been fighting a undead turkey hen head skin while locked behind a locked mason's workshop all this time. I had the mason's workshop dismantled and had a cage trap built underneath the turkey skin. While this was going on, the only other undead to wander around our fortress, Ramet Itniostsi Halirpuja Racon wandered in and tried to fight her too. Well I walked into the room to check and the remains of
Spoiler: Ramet (click to show/hide)
2nd Galena
Spoiler: The Ghost (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: put to rest. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: ready. (click to show/hide)
7th Galena
We've got another
Spoiler: visitor... (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: welcome aboard I guess? (click to show/hide)
24th Galena
We released
Spoiler: Catten the dancer (click to show/hide)
27th Galena
Spoiler: Tode Felluki, (click to show/hide)
Autumn has come.
Post by: TheFlame52 on October 15, 2016, 02:02:52 pm
Post by: Crashmaster on October 16, 2016, 02:04:58 am
The wholesale slavery and brutal training of our visitors seems like something we should have already been doing intentionally.
Post by: Spriggans on October 16, 2016, 02:24:39 pm
I am dorfed, and I'm a necromancer ? xD
Looks like I have some readings to do to catch up :P
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 17, 2016, 05:38:05 am
Very aggressive goblin. Opposed to unlife.
Mayor necromancer sounds cool.
Yay, two evil biomes. Rains and husks. After so many years of acrid slime rain, how's the fps?
Geldables can be healed by our doctors? Or is that just animated? At least they're a legend
Goblin-cap beds look sinister.
Oh well, so much for legendary merc.
*amused* at dwarf dancer necromancer.
Migrants....:S I guess tavern is important.
Are those ogre corpses buildingdestroyers still? I guess not, but yikes.
....Almost every visitor seems to die. Such an undead deathtrap. Well, as long as 3 can leave...It is ok.
This draining only really works for goblins, I think. Other races needing to drink and all.
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 20, 2016, 01:50:50 pm
Necromancers make surprisingly excellent haulers in undead infested terrain. Huh, who knew. The undead practically ignore them.
So I got the tavern to work. Turns out necromancers aren't able to serve drinks. Go figure. That also makes the 2 living dwarves we have very VALUABLE when it comes down to providing satisfaction for the masses. I hope future overseers pick up on this and try to protect them as much as possible.
This does create a conundrum however. For I suspect necromancers won't pick up the scholar or scribe jobs, so that means we might never be able to replicate the secrets of life and death. One can still hold on to hope though.
Also, I'm getting all the undead we captured in the cages pitted into the magma sea. Turns out, undead (husked or otherwise) are pretty docile in the hands of a necromancer.
Also in response to Fleeting Frames, no the geldables thing was kind of a joke. They can't be healed and I don't suppose we'll be getting reanimated geldables anytime soon. As for the FPS, I play with it turned off since it interferes with the screenshots, but a quick check reveals I am getting around 20+ close to thirty FPS. Your mileage might vary though.
Post by: TheFlame52 on October 20, 2016, 02:46:03 pm
Post by: Sanctume on October 20, 2016, 03:21:10 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on October 20, 2016, 04:55:20 pm
Post by: Spish on October 20, 2016, 05:20:22 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 20, 2016, 07:05:18 pm
Also pity about the necromancers. Playable FPS, though with 20 dwarves you'd expect more :v (it's the rooms and clutter isn't it?
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 23, 2016, 04:25:03 pm
Everything should check out just fine. Let me know if there are problems accessing the save file.
Will post the write ups later.
Post by: snackfox on October 23, 2016, 05:35:12 pm
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 24, 2016, 01:09:05 am
A few things to keep a look out for:
- Acrid slime is largely harmless
- There is a flurry of hauling activity on the surface. So beware of husking fog!
- I've assigned some cage corpses to be pitted, keep the 2 living dwarves away from that area just in case. (Their hauling labors have been disabled)
- Mayor might want leather armor to be produced, so keep an eye on leather stocks.
- I wouldn't engage the undead with our military, seems that it leads to loyalty cascades.
Post by: Spriggans on October 24, 2016, 05:11:50 am
Okay, gotta read the 38 pages of the thread then. Gonna take a while ! :D
Post by: Silverlock on October 24, 2016, 01:46:25 pm
Post by: Kamani on October 24, 2016, 09:55:27 pm
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 24, 2016, 10:40:02 pm
1st Limestone 307
Tode Felluki
Spoiler: failed (click to show/hide)
Jirdo Tamunac, goblin bard is ready to
Spoiler: leave. (click to show/hide)
Jirdo manages to lure the elf corpse into one of our cage traps. She is making a dash for it ere the Ogre corpses notice her.
3rd Limestone
Uh guys, I think we have
Spoiler: company. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: gobbos? (click to show/hide)
The mayor pipes in at the situation,
Spoiler: "These folks aren't welcome." (click to show/hide)
Erab Bedonaquuv, Goblin Maceman is
Spoiler: visiting. (click to show/hide)
Jirdo is safely at our western borders, and she is gone. Do be sure to put in a good word for us and see you next fall!
The gobbos make a dash for the 3 ogre corpses to the north region while Erab
Spoiler: engages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: hail (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: It is a massacre out there. (click to show/hide)
17th Limestone
The remaining dwarves, Silverlock and Andreus are
Spoiler: starving. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Food is scarce. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: CMD Flame will see you shortly (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: We'll fix you up in a jiffy. (click to show/hide)
Well, at least the medical staff here in Bloodyhells is top notch.
28th Limestone 307
Spoiler: The fortress did not attract migrants yet again. (click to show/hide)
Silverlock has taken up
Spoiler: tavern keeper (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: damn booze. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: stories though. (click to show/hide)
8th Sandstone 307
Salo Furskins the Submerged Buds, you like being submerged don't ya? I think you're gonna like
Spoiler: this (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Salo, meet lava. Lava, meet Salo. (click to show/hide)
29th Sandstone 307
Quabu the gelded spirit now
Spoiler: haunts (click to show/hide)
1st Timber 307
We pumped out the
Spoiler: excess magma (click to show/hide)
Oh what's this?
Spoiler: A forgotten beast? (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: So, they don't make them like they used to anymore huh? (click to show/hide)
25th Timber 307
I am glad to announce that the paltry kitchen area we had before has been expanded and we have gotten started on
Spoiler: soap production. (click to show/hide)
Winter is upon you.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 25, 2016, 12:18:53 am
Tode was well-equipped but failed.
Jirdo was smarter. Play smart, not strong!
A vile force of darkness? Yay more visitors!
Hahahaha, truly unfortunate situation for Erab.
Silver and iron arrows, and all are ranged? They came equipped to annoy players. My typical herbalists would die ^^;;
(Unless they were military herbalists, perhaps. Few last embark they were due confluence of no starting skill needed and military oft not having more important jobs).
Andreus...In the context of this fortress. A successful frankenstein, the artifact of a necromancer? An undead who imitates life too much? Or a story of coming to become necromancer to escape this endless cycle of life and death, yet being late to step on the bus called nirvana?
Once more, the visitors are the migrants.
You killed Barney! Well, Barney's moving murderous corpse which no longer emanates aura of giving and kindness! Same thing!
Dinosaur roast? No? Aw.
And hm, barrels look weird. Pots make much more sense, even wooden ones. Though good to see black-cap's blackness.
Post by: Zuglarkun on October 25, 2016, 04:09:25 am
2nd Moonstone 307
Silverlock finally manages to dole out some booze to our coterie of
Spoiler: necromancers. (click to show/hide)
Goden removed the conjoining wall to Salo's execution chamber so that the clogged magma can
Spoiler: solidify faster. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Another visitor. (click to show/hide)
7th Moonstone 307
Begu apapvope, human pikeman is
Spoiler: visiting. (click to show/hide)
Andreus got harried by a giant osprey corpse, while trying to procure some metal gear (METAL GEAR!) topside. Fortunately he wasn't hurt. Unfortunately, he got doused in acrid slime. Flame is on the way with a bucket of water to wash away the grime.
I banned Silverlock and Andreus from venturing out to the surface and gave Andreus a good dressing down for behaving like an elf (by not caring about her life), but she retorted with
Spoiler: this comment. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: ...and (click to show/hide)
4th Opal 307
Our newly assigned scholar, Andreus is
Spoiler: deep in thought. (click to show/hide)
Also, we need to retrain those rutherers
Spoiler: again. (click to show/hide)
I sent the logging squad to do some tree pruning on the surface. We need the logs for bins, so we can store all this crap we've been accumulating and forgotten about.
8th Opal 307
Our human pikeman visitor has left, taking out one of the giant roach corpses topside.
There were reports of a sloppy sound being heard near the
Spoiler: cavern levels. (click to show/hide)
One of our visitors, has left for greener pastures. She made quite a mess on the surface, squishing a giant cockroach corpse on
Spoiler: her way out. (click to show/hide)
12th Opal 307
I made the miners expand the taverns a little on the left wing, so that we may build some lodgings to accomodate visitors.
It has come to my attention that many of us are rather
Spoiler: worried (click to show/hide)
15th Obsidian 307
Reg Egebbomrek, Marksdwarf is
Spoiler: visiting. (click to show/hide)
And the lodgings for visitors are
Spoiler: complete. (click to show/hide)
Well, I didn't do much to make my mark here, no fancy towers or mega-constructions. Housekeeping is a chore but someone has to do it, eventually. Time to hand in the books and paperwork.
Spoiler: Our stocks as of 1st Granite 308 (click to show/hide)
Spring has arrived!
Folks on the current dorf list have been dorfed. I think there are still a few vacant bodies left for dorfing.
Save (http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12524) is here.
Post by: Spriggans on October 25, 2016, 06:33:26 am
It's been so many years... All the way back in 303, when I arrived in this hellish place, I've been submiting requests to lead, but my wish is only now made true.
Alright ! Bring forth husking fogs, necromancy books and everraising undead-zombies !
I have a fortress to rule !
(Will play whenever I can, updates might be sporadic)
EDIT : nevermind, snack hasn't played yet... Not my turn yet.
EDIT 2 : Looking through the save. You guys are crazy. This place is a mess. Death everywhere, blood, corpses in the corridors.
The underground is flooded by zombies, the above ground is filled with ashes.
This save has quite a lot of potential :)
btw : WTF is a mudman ?? How did we find it ? xD
Post by: Crashmaster on October 25, 2016, 12:53:07 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on October 25, 2016, 01:17:32 pm
- Yay, tavern is working.
- Nay, magma does not go there....Oh well it went there anyway.
- Oh uh. Andreus....Well, lucky. Giant corpses can be mean.
- Wait, ghostly goblins? I think Quabu was a visitor....But I thought only dwarves had souls!
- I guess Andreus doesn't know the secrets of life and death.
- ....Necromancers can train husked beasts, huh? Shame that wouldn't have worked on Salo, though...
- Nuglush. Ew. Silk turret/silk farm?
- I think I've once seen visitor come, leave, and then come back in a few seasons to join the fortress immediatelly upon arrival. They have the need to wander :)
- Necromancers are the very picture of proper morality.
And hey, your turn was nice to read. Beats an undocumented project nobody understands, at least.
Poked snackfox with a PM.
Post by: TheBiggerFish on October 25, 2016, 01:23:24 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on October 25, 2016, 03:03:32 pm
I love how my dwarf is so nonchalant. He (she?) just treats everyone's wounds and that's his purpose in life.
Post by: Silverlock on October 25, 2016, 09:47:40 pm
Silverlock has taken upduties. She would be better at the job if she didn't start drinking all theSpoiler: tavern keeper (click to show/hide)She tells interestingSpoiler: damn booze. (click to show/hide)Spoiler: stories though. (click to show/hide)
I can lay down the rap like no other. Can't touch this.
STOP -- warhammer time.
Doodoodoodoot, uh uh, doodoot, uh uh, doodoot.
Post by: Spish on October 30, 2016, 07:24:20 pm
I've got the save up and running fine. Expect a writeup by, I'd say tomorrow.Doin' alright there Snackfox?
Post by: HMetal2001 on October 30, 2016, 10:34:50 pm
Post by: snackfox on November 02, 2016, 04:49:15 pm
I'm fine - got most of Spring written up. It's just been quite a busyI've got the save up and running fine. Expect a writeup by, I'd say tomorrow.Doin' alright there Snackfox?
Post by: StupidElves on November 03, 2016, 11:37:33 am
Post by: snackfox on November 03, 2016, 12:40:43 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on November 03, 2016, 01:19:42 pm
I sent PM to Spriggans anyway :v
Post by: Spriggans on November 04, 2016, 04:04:06 am
My time has come finally. And for real this time.
I'll play a little today (maybe) and tomorrow (probably).
Do we have any important things to do or not do in this fortress ?
EDIT :
@Snackfox : If you only played less than 3months, I can use your save as is if you upload it !
Post by: Fleeting Frames on November 04, 2016, 08:33:25 am
Also accepting petitions, as we're getting no migrants.
Post by: Spriggans on November 05, 2016, 05:16:04 am
Sorry I don't feel like playing succession DF games right now, because IRL stuff.
I think I won't have the will to take on the turn.
Better put me down the list.
Good luck to the next guy ! ;)
Post by: Spish on November 05, 2016, 02:03:23 pm
Post by: Evaris on November 05, 2016, 03:03:18 pm
Post by: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on November 05, 2016, 06:40:19 pm
(I'm rather excited about playing Battlefailed, if you can't tell.)
Post by: Spish on November 07, 2016, 06:03:10 pm
Post by: Spish on November 14, 2016, 09:15:49 pm
Post by: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on November 14, 2016, 09:19:45 pm
Post by: Spish on November 18, 2016, 08:32:56 pm
Post by: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on November 19, 2016, 11:13:28 pm
Post by: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on November 21, 2016, 04:43:52 pm
Post by: Lebo on November 27, 2016, 06:31:36 am
Post by: Spish on November 27, 2016, 11:56:51 am
Post by: Lebo on November 27, 2016, 12:54:18 pm
And oh my dear god, is it a clusterfuck. I'll try to get something done tomorrow. Write a bit, screenshots, the usual. Assuming that I figure out how anything works down there, because oh god the things I saw.
EDIT: I got hit by a surprise work gig for Tuesday evening, and as I got work to do on Wednesday, I guess... Expect the first update by Thursday? I will try really fucking hard, I swear to me god damn mum.
Post by: TheBiggerFish on November 30, 2016, 10:04:11 pm
Post by: Lebo on December 01, 2016, 11:20:57 am
...oh god this FPS. This really takes me back to the last time I played in the *fail fort series.Truly the sign of a good fortress when the population is in the 20s and time is crawling slowly.
Journal of Lebo Whipsharks, the designated Overseer of Bloodyhells in Armoks year 308.
Spoiler: Incidentally, this ingame screenshot is the story of my life in one life. (click to show/hide)
One would think that with the promise of eternity, life wouldn't seem so bad. You know, what with the lack of death that tends to be rumored to go around necromancers, all that "mastery of life AND death" talk and all.
But you'd be wrong.
To this day I'm not sure exactly how one is appointed an Overseer in Bloodyhells, is it by merit? Lottery? Or does one just get tossed the big bag of responsibility and get told "don't get us all killed, even with the fact that most of us are necromancers."
Oh I remember it like it was yesterday, when all I did was open up a book and be a bit unsettled by the most upsetting writings. Dried ink that seemed to squirm and writhe the more I read. All things considered, it was a good book, a proper work of fiction, I thought.
The dreams that followed weren't so great. All those whispers from the darkness. Promises of eternity, instructions so quiet that they crawled into the deepest crevices of your mind rather than heard by your ears. It hasn't been that bad, I guess, what resulted. To just one day wake up and realize you can create life, or well, unlife as has been the case around Bloodyhells even before the epidemic of necromancy has been a most interesting experience.
Spoiler: The average citizen of Bloodyhells. (click to show/hide)
I guess not all take it as well though. Poor Evaris looks stressed out of their mind.
Hard work to carry all that wood from the outside indoors. And now that I got told to be the boss, I don't know exactly how well everyone took it when I gave my first order.
"Fuck the surface."
As far as I'm concerned, we dwarves are meant to stay underground. Nothing good ever came from up above! Just look at elves. And goblins. And all the undead up there before we even got here and- anyway. Well, humans aren't so bad, most of the time, but still! We got enough problems down here already, anyway.
Time to start my tour, I guess. I don't really know Bloodyhells, more like I wander through the maze-like fortress that we have made for some gods awful reason or another. Or maybe more than one reason. I can't really remember, to be honest, I'm just a humble glassmaker after all.
Second entry, the days have lost all meaning, year 308.
I can see why people are stressed out around here, walking through the myriad of paths of Bloodyhells is apparently a quite realistic metaphor for the eternal nightmare that many have begun to comprehend their lives to have become. I mean, an eternity without booze?
Spoiler: Oh god why is everything horrible? (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: I'm surprised the numbers aren't in the quadruple digits, honestly. (click to show/hide)
Even the local creature activity tends to be on the non-living side. Over a hundred of shambling corpses have been reported to be around here and there. Trapped in cages, plaguing the caverns, outside aboveground... Not to mention that one husk that has been trapped. It too isn't too happy about its current situation in its continued existence after its own transformation from the living to... That.
Spoiler: The average visitor to Bloodyhells. (click to show/hide)
I'm sure I'm forgetting many more horrific things, but what's the difference between one reanimated corpse or bodypart and another anymore?
But yes, my order! I hear Flame, Puzzlebark and Spish are still slowly making their way down from Up There after I told to just leave the gods damned logs and whatever they were thinking about carrying down.
Spoiler: Warning! Do not watch if you are prone to fits of miserable crying! (click to show/hide)
I closed and sealed the door myself. No one should have to see that sight ever again, if you ask me. And I spent a hour or so just crawled up in a ball in the middle of all that spilled alcohol. I don't know if people dislike me smelling of old booze, or if it's causing traumatic flashbacks from the good old days. But I digress. The plan!
What to do, what to do? I see so many worried faces around here. And so many who don't want to show how things are stressing them out. You'd think that with a fort as small as ours, we would be one happy family, but I fear we are looking at a happy explosion of blood and guts at this rate.
Spoiler: And now, something completely different. (click to show/hide)
That made me feel good inside, its been a long while. I will have to ponder on this newfound happiness, and to think of a way to spread this emotion around.
Do we have any more elves to burn?
Third entry, I am pretty sure we are still on the early Granite, year 308.
"We will be legends."
My announcement for this year didn't really seem to gain all that much support from our small group. Pondering looks, outright "what the fuck is this guy spouting shit about", you know how it is when you've been given the reins to a wild horse on fire.
Things didn't really seem to improve all that much after I expanded on my statement.
"We here today are the lucky ones. The strong ones. Those with the talent and ability to survive. And all things considered, we will continue to survive. Exist, for quite a long while."
It was a pretty good speech in my opinion. I stayed up all night writing it. Well, I stay up all night all of the time these days, but again, I digress.
"Now we could continue being miserable like a lot of us like to do for our spare time these days..."
I even managed to keep my composure through the random outburst of "You mean we have anything else to do around here except haul crap?" The dramatic pause was a nice touch in my opinion as well.
"Or we could do something else."
"Like what?" was the obvious shout. I straightened myself, looked all of them straight in the eye and then said it out loud.
"I always wanted to be a weaponsmith."
Spoiler: Lebos preferences. (click to show/hide)
"Dorito! What do you like?"
*insert missing screenshot of timely line from Dorito saying "I have been contemplating suicide."*
"No, no! What do you like?"
Spoiler: Doritos preferences. (click to show/hide)
"What do you like?"
Spoiler: Arthropleuras preferences (click to show/hide)
I don't know if they really appreciated my joke. Or how I told them to hand over a list of their likes and dislikes by the end of the day. But on that day, the end of my first week, I felt myself already quite an accomplished Overseer. And assuming we get trade going, we can show the whole world how our craftsmen change, evolve, and change again! Not jacks of all trades, but masters of them all! I was reminded how not everyone wasn't blessed / cursed with immortality, but just to be fair and not exclude anyone, I told Silverlock to hand in their papers as well. I'd be handing out their new jobs by the early next morning. Or evening. Before a day has passed, I think. My grip on the passing of time has changed drastically after that book. On the bright side, someone did decide to ask for more information. I like that. Makes me feel like people are invested.
"What about our current jobs?"
They didn't really seem to like it when I paused for a second, thought about it and said I didn't really give a shit, just as long as they'd follow their dreams / my orders for new jobs instead of their old-fashioned obligations or whatever drove them to their chosen path in employment.
Now, how the hell do you smelt ore and even make a crossbow?
Fourth entry, year 308.
Wow, so many people wanted to be weaponsmiths, or blacksmiths or even metalcrafters! We need more room for all these smelters to get people started!
Well that, and we only have about 300 bars of metal in the fortress right now. We can always get more, I know. Mine some, melt some of the mountains of crap we have around here... But for now, we need better facilities to let people do what they should have been doing.
Fifth entry, year 308.
Oh how I loathe to write this down... Elves have arrived, to trade. Give them some baubles, and get them off my hair.
Post by: TheFlame52 on December 01, 2016, 01:17:19 pm
Anyway, it's good to know my dwarf is still alive and well. She might be one of the most long-lived Flames, which is certainly impressive given that this is a fucking Battlefailed sequel.
EDIT: Wow, I forgot she was a founder, even. She's the longest-lived dwarf in the fort!
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 02, 2016, 12:14:59 am
And oh is there suffering. What stresses them so much, the lack of booze?
Yeah, the fortress is a maze that lets invaders in and keeps overseers out. Is that so bad?
- I like the colorful tunnels. Though depot is missing. The paths were for the purpose of trading without having caravans nommed by dead.
And levr rooms and aquifer pierces.
- How the hell did that much alcohol get spilled? It's like someone put booze stockpile on deadly cold surface, and the surface we have is just deadly.
- Heh, elf miners. Sucks to be them, I guess.
- Hm, weaponsmithing...But can corpses pick up weapons without wrestling?
- What's the FPS like, anyway?
And remember, when you spend most of the time paused it isn't as bad as it seems.
Post by: Lebo on December 02, 2016, 02:16:56 am
Also I guess all the corpses. Maybe mainly the corpses. I should check what DF was like in 42.06 again, if there was any outstanding bug to ruin my future plans. Anyway... The depot in the map is missing, yes, there's another one where the elves are at right now.
The FPS is somewhere below 10 FPS right now. At least it gives me time to think of what the fuck happened around here, and there, and pretty much everywhere in the fort. You can't go down one established level without finding something that raises questions, I mean I did keep up with the fort and its shenanigans, but after the unfortunate pause between updates and me, I may have forgotten a lot of things.
I'm not sure if I want to read up either, I sort of prefer the fucked up mystery which is Bloodyhells.
At the very best I should find out where the entrance bridge levers are.
For reasons.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 02, 2016, 03:27:11 am
The underground depot quagmire levers are on that screenshot (and few more, but mostly that z). I once ran a test embark tunneling up beneath aquifer to seize control of the room and atomsmash zombiesplosion, before dwarves were all necromancers. They were designed by Sanctume, so they're all properly Noted.
Otherwise, DFHack's Ctrl+M for gui/mechanisms can be helpful.
Post by: Zuglarkun on December 02, 2016, 06:54:06 am
At the very best I should find out where the entrance bridge levers are.
For reasons.
Do you mean the ones for the gates on the surface? (shift+f1)
I made a lever room (shift+f4) for those.
Everywhere else is already sealed up so you need only worry about that particular entrance for access from the surface. If you want to make weapons, (shift+f7) will bring you to a relatively safe cache of adamantine deposits. I've also been unforbidding iron ores (at least I remembered doing so) that were forbidden and abandoned before my tenure so you should be good on that front (88 hematite last i checked and we also have hematite deposits in the soils layers). I don't know about flux stone though, I haven't seen any of it on the map...
I'm not sure if I want to read up either, I sort of prefer the fucked up mystery which is Bloodyhells.
I'll save you the trouble, the parts of the fort that were dug out in sand/soil were pretty much abandoned when I got the save. The only things of interest there now are the trade depot that I built and the hospital (to the left of the room with all the spilled booze). The only portions of the fortress you need to concern yourself with are the immediate areas around and above the magma forges. That is unless you want to reclaim some of the stuff that is left abandoned in those tunnels near the surface, then by all means go ahead.
Don't bother with FPS, this is a Battlefailed fort and you're a necromancer now. I suggest turning off the counter and just unlive with it.
Post by: Lebo on December 07, 2016, 05:33:30 pm
THE CURSE IS REAL, HOLY SHIT!
Anyway... Onwards with the game again, I see I have up to Sunday by normal schedule, so I will keep on trucking. Although I will say in advance that depending on the possible slowness of my updates, if somehow I haven't made it to Winter by Sunday I will just toss the save forward as is so we can keep the train going. Next week will be a busy one for me as well, so yeah.
ANYWAY..
Sixth entry. Year 308, must still be Granite if the elves are here.
The renewal of the broken spirit of Bloodyhells, as I have come to call the undergoing project (which to my dismay has not yet catched on) is not going as well as I'd like. People are still looking sour like they found a goblin horde in their bedroom. Which wouldn't really surprise me if that was the case behind one of the many sealed areas we have.
At least one good thing happened, an incident was brought to my attention just the other day, a positive one considering how it could have ended. Senshuken had closed themselves in a Mechanics workshop, and tinkered together quite a fine looking mechanism, if I had to say so myself.
(http://i.imgur.com/uC5Y6iD.png)
Then again, I have been known to overestimate the value of things. Such as the meaning of life, time to time.
I began to ponder such things again after I heard that the damn elves were getting tired of waiting, and found our trader feverishly praying to the gods. So what is an Overseer to do but handle things and drag someone else to the depot to trade?
Utter rubbish, that's what the elves brought. Not that surprising. I mean, just look at this.
(http://i.imgur.com/9n8TH2Z.png)
I don't care how well made, exotic and valuable these strings are, I wouldn't wear them even if it'd rid me of this eternal-
What do you mean not that kind of strings? Fine, whatever. Just give them all this crap around the depot area for, I don't know. Clay, what do we need their fruits and berries for, damn it?
Turns out we weren't quite picky what we were giving to the elves. Apparently there was some wooden trinket or whatever, as they got all huffed up and just left. Fine, be like that. At least I don't have to hear their whining anymore. "Oh it's so damp here! Oh, so dark! Is this blood, vomit or both that I stepped on?"
Seventh entry. Year 308, I heard it's nice and summery up above, why the fuck was some up above?
Who would have known that my reign would be tarnished by two different problems, first one being that my mandate to follow your heart hasn't produced results to this day, or that someone was hanging out near the gate and ran back in with a terrible holler.
(http://i.imgur.com/LHCshwH.png)
I immediately asked our military commander the status of our military forces. He pointed at the rest of the room the entire fort had gathered at, mentioning worryingly few in the actual military, and reminding me who were in the citizens militia.
By the tone of their voice, I figured it meant things were bad. Well, let us face this as dwarves. Pull the lever!
Eighth entry. Year 308. I can hear its footsteps.
It really is a thing of wonder. Tunem, I mean. How can something made of coral command such respect and fear by simply existing? The good news are that we managed to close the gates before Tunem made it inside. The bad news are that we are now trapped. I wonder though... We did have a lever to flood the surface with magma somewhere, didn't we?
Does coral burn?
Ninth entry. Year 308, I can hear the molten rock above.
It's been a while now after we pulled those levers and started to flood the surface with lava. Probably better to let it spread nice and even before we send anyone to scout the area and see if Tunem is burnt away.
Shame about all those logs though, but we can always just cut down shrooms.
Well, things are very slowly going about. Mining some ore here and there to fuel the furnaces. Watching a quarter of our population pray in the temples like it'd make them better. Flooding the world with magma.
The usual. Not a lot of screenshot worthy stuff though. Sorry about that. 4th month almost over now. Hopefully will get some actually interesting before the end of my turn. I guess I will find out if coral burns. Alternatively, Tunem takes a dip in the sea before that and is sealed below the obsidian crust. Maybe I will even get all of this done by Sunday!
Post by: TheFlame52 on December 07, 2016, 07:12:22 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 08, 2016, 04:23:48 am
- So much claystone.
- Poor elves.
- Coral is weak. Shatter.
Ahehehehe. Titans are stronger against fire than their appearance leds one to believe.
@TheFlame52: I think this is large simple world with slightly dfhacked embark, so perhaps 150 total - Assuming around fifth of them died in 300 years, the fortress has killed like 5, so there should be still ~115 remaining.
Post by: Lebo on December 08, 2016, 08:22:17 am
Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll trap itself under the obsidian crust in the ocean though. We got plenty of trapped horrors already, what's one more?
Anyway... Starting to play again, will use this post to update on whatever may happen. Hopefully something will happen.
Tenth entry, year 308. Fell spirits are about.
While we are currently still waiting for the flood of lava to do away with the titan, I learned of another incident.
(http://i.imgur.com/xusq5IR.png)
I could say I am shocked and appalled that the dead pester the- well, undead or whatever we are these days, but I will not lie. There have been plenty of sightings of wailing ghosts and other apparitions around here after all. One of them probably got jealous of Senshuken making a magnificent mechanism earlier, and wants to show them whatfor.
That, or this is the beginning of the end for our fort. Maybe if we put the two of them together somewhere they could cancel each other out? Assuming of course, that Senshukens artifact is of benevolent nature. Who am I to judge, really?
Eleventh entry, year 308. This is ridiculous, this isn't even funny.
The spirit sure did want to one up Senshuken.
(http://i.imgur.com/GI94qyy.png)
Claystone is apparently the go-to stone for people touched by inspiration, or spirits alike. Well, I won't complain. Hearing these news differs from the usual "I'm still miserable." that I hear so much around here still.
Zuglarkun by the way has decided to abandon all hope apparently. The man hasn't touched the stockpile record books in months, and is still praying to their deity. Well, I guess if you have an eternity, why not pray for months and months?
Twelth entry, year 308. I recall a human saying, something about rain.
We finally sent a scout to see how crispy Tunem had turned. To my dismay, they had not. Instead, they had taken to the highground and climbed a tree. So instead of one burnt titan, we now have one burnt countryside.
And of course that's not the worst of it.
(http://i.imgur.com/Lotkjdk.png)
Let's see, what's next, someone going crazy and killing everyone now that we are very efficiently trapped? At least good old Shorast is here to bring back some sense into all this, by announcing loudly that we are not to let go of our leather armor. I will make a note of it.
6 months, 10 days. Oh god it's going so slow that it's killing my brain. Besides the stress. Also I am pretty sure that one of the bugs I remember from good old days is in 42.06, considering how I think from the start, Zuglar hasn't been doing anything else except praying. I didn't really notice it that much, until the stockpile records started to get out of date. Was it that the praying dorfs never finish the pray job, or it's ridiculously slow?
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 08, 2016, 12:33:51 pm
Post by: Lebo on December 08, 2016, 02:19:03 pm
Oh well. We'll see how it goes. Probably I won't get to see any FPS improvement, but maybe the next player will, ha.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 08, 2016, 04:01:58 pm
Post by: Lebo on December 09, 2016, 12:40:18 am
Post by: Spish on December 10, 2016, 11:03:19 pm
Post by: Lebo on December 11, 2016, 08:20:34 am
Anyway, I am back from STUFF and will again start chugging along. By Finland time, I got about 9 hours until technically we are over my time of playing (I can't fucking believe I instantly got busy as hell the day I get the save) so we'll see how far I'll get. If I have like only a few months left after 9 hours, I guess if it's allowed I can try to chug along during next week, although I got a deadline pressing on, so maybe I'll just call it quits however far I get and pass the save to the next person so we can keep moving.
Post by: Lebo on December 11, 2016, 04:29:58 pm
For the lack of better things to do, I took a peek outside. Well, the sound of colossal beasts battling also had something to do with my curiosity being overcome by my previous orders to keep everything shut down tight.
(http://i.imgur.com/9Dsj2cU.png)
We are now plagued by only one horrible creature aboveground. I guess that's something.
Thirteenth entry, year 308. How appropriate of a number.
I have heard word of an unfortunate accident.
(http://i.imgur.com/CMxARv1.png)
NCommander swears they have no memory of ever doing harm to Balnash, but the bloodied hands and one dead Balnash in a crowded temple room speak otherwise. I could say I want to dispense justice, but we have already deemed this the work of the restless dead, more precisely, the spirit of Zuglarkun!
...wait... Oh whatever, I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation to it. I've given the order for a memorial slab to be made posthaste, so we can avoid further haunting related fatal injuries.
Fourteenth entry, year 308.
(http://i.imgur.com/Jthh7Pt.png)
Well fuck me sideways.
We did at least get to slab Zuglar's lost spirit or whatever, so now I dare say with absolute certain that we will avoid further haunting related fatal injuries.
Well, I think it's about time I have to throw in the towel. I barely got started on the 8th month before figuring that I just don't have the time anymore until the unspecified future, so yeah. We're now down to 19 dorfs thanks to the god damn ghosts, so yeah. That's about it, I think.
Uploaded the save. (http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12610). Good luck to the next guy, just take over the fort in a hostile takeover manner or whatever, because I'm outie!
Post by: Spish on December 12, 2016, 09:38:16 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 13, 2016, 03:26:21 am
- Non-dwarf "broker necromancer"? As opposed to what, bodiless necromancer?
...Zuglaaaaaaar!
- Sounds like battlefailed curse ate you. Still, good way up the hill.
Post by: Spish on December 17, 2016, 02:15:52 pm
Post by: Ghills on December 22, 2016, 12:43:31 am
Spriggans is too busy to play their turn, so we're moving down the line to Ghills.
I've got Christmas stuff going on and there is no way I can play before the 28th at the earliest. Are there any objections to starting my turn then?
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 22, 2016, 05:00:37 am
Post by: Spish on December 24, 2016, 11:11:10 am
Post by: NCommander on December 25, 2016, 06:53:01 am
Post by: Fleeting Frames on December 25, 2016, 09:39:43 am
However, everyone being necromancers helps with evil biomes.
Post by: Ghills on December 28, 2016, 01:47:39 pm
Post by: Ghills on December 31, 2016, 07:02:02 pm
Oh hey, it's a lava-covered ashland! Feels just like my first long-term fortress. Only missing the herd of enraged elephants.
(http://i.imgur.com/CENIu31.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/8id3lHS.png)
Well, I'll take that as a good sign.
(http://i.imgur.com/l0QrhLo.png)
So, not going to get much done. With this many workers, they're probably going to spend all their time walking from place to place. Maybe I can find a good central area and base them all there?
That temple to Deg the Wealthy Price has got to go.
(http://i.imgur.com/6klDPfp.png)
OK, clearly these people need clothes. That's my goal, then - figure out the food and cloth industry for this pile of failure and shenanigans.
(http://i.imgur.com/rmoNaCx.png)
Well, and maybe also import some therapists.
Removing the merchant's temple got half of the worshippers to get up and go. Sadly, doing the same thing to the Temple of Amber did not have any effect. I guess I just have to wait until they stop meditating.
In the meantime, I'm going to locate any industry zones and try to get this place cleaned up a bit. Is there a specific reason a lot of forbidden items are strewn around? Can I just dump those?
Post by: Zuglarkun on December 31, 2016, 08:42:28 pm
Is there a specific reason a lot of forbidden items are strewn around? Can I just dump those?
The upper levels (in the dirt) were abandoned because of reasons, hence the items there were also forbidden en masse since before my turn. I did some cleaning up and reclaiming useful items but there is still more to be done obviously. Its safe and secure now, but there are still pockets of undead left walled away from what I remember.
If I remember correctly, there are a whole bunch of forbidden items in our stockpile levels as well. I recommend leaving them all forbidden until you accomplish your immediate goals (yay clothesmaking!) so the few dwarves and necromancers we have don't all get tied up with hauling/ stockpiling/ dumping duties. Perhaps unforbid and dump them in batches at a time.
OK, clearly these people need clothes. That's my goal, then - figure out thefood andcloth industry for this pile of failure and shenanigans.
FTFY. Necromancers don't need food or drink, and we have plenty of food and drink to go around at the moment. If you can somehow encourage our necromancers to drink at the tavern so they don't all get bad thoughts and slow down from lack of booze, that will be swell as well. Eh, from my experience, only living dwarves serve booze (as tavernkeepers), so keep that in mind and try to get our population up by accepting petitions for citizenship. I doubt we will get migrants with the death toll here.
ALSO. Beware of husking fog on the surface, though the slime found in the coastal regions is mostly harmless.
Try not to get everyone killed *chuckles* and good luck!
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 01, 2017, 07:22:30 am
❄ Forbidden items...Dunno? I suggest check them for contaminants.
When zuglargun mentions the items being forbidden, the reason for that was due fortress being a swiss cheese.
The FPS is pretty awful for that many dwarves, yeah.
Still, a year is a year. Sanctume got plenty of done with less dwarves.
Post by: TheFlame52 on January 01, 2017, 03:52:08 pm
Post by: NCommander on January 01, 2017, 10:31:05 pm
❄ Hm, Ryukan has good fishing skill. Maybe give them a spot safe from the husking clouds?
❄ Forbidden items...Dunno? I suggest check them for contaminants.
When zuglargun mentions the items being forbidden, the reason for that was due fortress being a swiss cheese.
The FPS is pretty awful for that many dwarves, yeah.
Still, a year is a year. Sanctume got plenty of done with less dwarves.
If memory serves, upper Bloodyhells was abandoned due to beast attack + aquifer leak. I think someone used it as a migrant disposal system at one point but I suspect nothing good is up there.
Post by: Ghills on January 04, 2017, 11:10:39 am
I've found the cloth workshops and gotten clothing up and running. Dumping is proceeding.
However, the dwarves who retreated into prayer after living in this bloody, hellish place have been even more broken by my attempts to get them to eat or drink something. They're now sobbing in the hallways praying to undecorated walls.
I'm going to experiment a bit and may wind up starting the year over, because having ~6 more dwarves to do things would be a big help.
ETA: Preliminary results look good! However, we have several dwarves with infections and at least one who can't move, so I probably need to see what dwarven healthcare can do about that and also prep some coffins.
Post by: Ghills on January 05, 2017, 12:59:41 pm
❄ Hm, Ryukan has good fishing skill. Maybe give them a spot safe from the husking clouds?
❄ Forbidden items...Dunno? I suggest check them for contaminants.
When zuglargun mentions the items being forbidden, the reason for that was due fortress being a swiss cheese.
The FPS is pretty awful for that many dwarves, yeah.
Still, a year is a year. Sanctume got plenty of done with less dwarves.
Have you seen this fort? That FPS is completely understandable given the fort design, contaminants, and the omnipresent scattered items. It's also the absolute highest the FPS goes - more typically I'm at 10 FPS.
In more funny news, apparently the previous inhabitants liked to randomly strip off all their clothes in public hallways. I'm finding complete sets of clothes just lying around in the hallways and staircases. They're not even all contaminated. What's the reason for the that? Any one know?
I'd like feedback on whether I should dfhack to clean up some. Because at this FPS I'm not sure 2 weeks is going to get me through 2 seasons, much less a full year. Also, I'd like to do something a bit more interesting than erratic housekeeping. Maybe wall off some of the less useful areas - that would make straighten up the fort design and also probably help with the FPS.
ETA: Most dwarves have started replacing worn clothing, and we are making progress on dumping. I'll have pictures up later today or tomorrow. I'm still looking around for good project ideas to embark on though.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 05, 2017, 08:57:40 pm
Hm, now that I think about it, dwarves get happy thoughts when putting on nice items - there was a post once about a werebeast keeping happy by putting on amulets. I commonly use inactive = uniformed so that civvies are always ready to fight, but regular streaking could make the immodest dwarves very happy.
The FPS is awful to look at, but remember, at 100 FPS it will take 67,2 minutes a year. At 10 FPS, the fort has to run for 11,2 hours - a lot, but if you're going to spend 21 hours designating stuff, writing and looking around while paused it's more like 50% extra time.
That said, I'm not too opposed to cleaning map - keep the units as-is, though, as being coated head to toe in husking dust is a major bonus to fort's guard dogs.
For project, you could get rid of the ocean, conquer and wall off the caverns (it is a partially evil embark after all, so undeadsplosions can be present), establish a breeding program for population increase through fucking or build a failcannon.
Post by: NCommander on January 05, 2017, 10:29:00 pm
Post by: Ghills on January 06, 2017, 04:27:52 pm
Reason..I speculate military training/orders with uniform set to replace clothes?
Hm, now that I think about it, dwarves get happy thoughts when putting on nice items - there was a post once about a werebeast keeping happy by putting on amulets. I commonly use inactive = uniformed so that civvies are always ready to fight, but regular streaking could make the immodest dwarves very happy.
The FPS is awful to look at, but remember, at 100 FPS it will take 67,2 minutes a year. At 10 FPS, the fort has to run for 11,2 hours - a lot, but if you're going to spend 21 hours designating stuff, writing and looking around while paused it's more like 50% extra time.
That said, I'm not too opposed to cleaning map - keep the units as-is, though, as being coated head to toe in husking dust is a major bonus to fort's guard dogs.
For project, you could get rid of the ocean, conquer and wall off the caverns (it is a partially evil embark after all, so undeadsplosions can be present), establish a breeding program for population increase through fucking or build a failcannon.
The military orders could explain some of it, but not the large-sized piles of clothes. Unless we got large-sized citizens somehow? I'm mostly just amused, and it does make dumping easier.
The problem with FPS isn't just running the fort, it's also that I get frustrated, try to let it run for a bit, then forget about it entirely. It makes the game a lot more irritating to play.
Also, 11 hours is not a lot? 21 hours spent designating and writing? What kind of crazy free time do you have that spending 30 hours gaming is not a big deal?
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 06, 2017, 11:33:31 pm
Agreed on irritation. Even if you do spend most of time paused anyway, the crawl is annoying.
30 hours per 2 weeks is 2,14 hours a day, or something you can just barely sacrifice a single weekend for.
I don't think that's a lot of free time to have - in other words, it's also low-balling it, as I know the overseers who write excellent turns put all their free time into writing it, to the point of sacrificing their other duties at times (and some sacrificing of real life is to be expected with Battlefailed curse).
I'm not quite sure how much time I spent on it, but putting vast majority of my free time into Succession world for my turn at it yielded 172 pages of updates with total of 1039 pictures taken in the 13-25 nov period iirc (granted, multiple takes and not everything about it).
Of course, from a different perspective, 30 hours is enough to, say, watch PMMM five times or read 720 thousand words ~ 7 novels at 400 words/minute - absolutely large things to spend time on - so merely having it available doesn't mean you want to spend it making updates. Compared to other games, DF does take insane amount of time, and the narration of it takes it up to eleven.
(Granted, I've only worked on two successions so far, and the second one had over four times the pace of production as the first, though at cost to quality; I expect skilled overseers can produce more interesting content far quicker than me.)
Post by: Zuglarkun on January 07, 2017, 03:31:02 am
30 hours per 2 weeks is 2,14 hours a day, or something you can just barely sacrifice a single weekend for.
I don't think that's a lot of free time to have - in other words, it's also low-balling it, as I know the overseers who write excellent turns put all their free time into writing it, to the point of sacrificing their other duties at times (and some sacrificing of real life is to be expected with Battlefailed curse).
I'm not quite sure how much time I spent on it, but putting vast majority of my free time into Succession world for my turn at it yielded 172 pages of updates with total of 1039 pictures taken in the 13-25 nov period iirc (granted, multiple takes and not everything about it).
Of course, from a different perspective, 30 hours is enough to, say, watch PMMM five times or read 720 thousand words ~ 7 novels at 400 words/minute - absolutely large things to spend time on - so merely having it available doesn't mean you want to spend it making updates. Compared to other games, DF does take insane amount of time, and the narration of it takes it up to eleven.
(Granted, I've only worked on two successions so far, and the second one had over four times the pace of production as the first, though at cost to quality; I expect skilled overseers can produce more interesting content far quicker than me.)
The good thing about dwarf fortress is that its so detailed that if you monitor your turn somewhat regularly (take screenshots regularly, note down key events), there is almost always some insane or mildly interesting dwarf business to write about. Enough to fuel a narrative I would reckon, well, depending on the narrative you are aiming for. My own experience with succession forts invariable comes down to:
1. point out nonsensical stuff previous overseers have made/ done.
2. ridicule/worship it
3. make own ridiculous stuff on top off previous overseers ridiculous stuff
4. ???
5. profit!
Unless you are starting the embark, there is almost invariable something to build the narrative on top off. I highly recommend READING previous turns (or at least perusing) to get a sense of the narrative, and either build on top of it (easier to do) or deviate away from it in another direction (harder to do). As always practice makes perfect, but practice takes time :(
Still, I totally understand the mentality where you sit down to play DF, DF chugs along slowly *choo choo neckbeardss*, and you just lose interest in it because nothing interesting happens and it takes a long ass time for even the season to finish. Its even more pronounced in succession games because you have to figure out and then deal with all the shit that happened before your turn came around. Then you have to figure out what shit you want to do during your turn, then you want to write abou- Its just a shit lot of work. On a 2 week time limit. Once I started working in earnest, I just didn't have the time to pour into DF at all, let alone succession fortresses.
My suggestion Ghills, is to keep it brief. Only chronicle the interesting and NEW things. Or the things that made you go WTF DF? Having a megaproject you want to finish before your turn ends invariably makes writing easier as you can focus on the project. Have you decided on anything yet? If not, here are a few suggestions:
1. Relocate Hospital from dirt levels near the top to the safety of rock and stone down below
2. Expand Tavern, make more rooms for visitors.
3. Speaking of visitors, pit all the captured undead into magma.
4. Flood caverns with magma (not a good idea for FPS)
5. Obsidianize the surface completely.
GLH!F!!
Post by: Ghills on January 08, 2017, 02:00:37 pm
OK, clearly these people need clothes. That's my goal, then - figure out the food and cloth industry for this pile of failure and shenanigans.
(http://i.imgur.com/w89vDDl.png)
Well, that was easy.
We should have some visitors and some petitioning to stay. Pretty important, with the lack of migrants to necromancer underground skyscraper complex.
Agreed on irritation. Even if you do spend most of time paused anyway, the crawl is annoying.
30 hours per 2 weeks is 2,14 hours a day, or something you can just barely sacrifice a single weekend for.
I don't think that's a lot of free time to have - in other words, it's also low-balling it, as I know the overseers who write excellent turns put all their free time into writing it, to the point of sacrificing their other duties at times (and some sacrificing of real life is to be expected with Battlefailed curse).
If you don't work full time and/or don't have dependents, that's a lot of time to devote to a hobby but it's certainly doable. If you do...not so much.
I've been attempting to evaluate the fort security and efficiency. Hours trying to track all these stairways and ramps gives me the confidence to say that I don't know if this Cthulian swiss-cheese hellscape can really be secured. New modus operandi: I'm going to focus on the areas the dwarves use and branch out from there instead of trying to identify areas of weakness first.
Permanent security upgrades are being made, since lever-pulling appears to be everyone's least favorite task:
(http://i.imgur.com/d0bO2L6.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/3LNO8wh.png)
Dwarves have begun wandering into the higher levels, presumably to access medical care? Definitely moving the hospital down to the safety of rock.
Also: This lever looks like it should link to the dumping bridge right below it, but is that really true? Am I too trusting of the long-term planning of my fellow players?
(http://i.imgur.com/urRgJAt.png)
Attempts at creating a rutherer husk army seem doomed to failure:
(http://i.imgur.com/dwmQZod.png)
We did get 2 visitors, but they didn't even make it to the gate before, well:
(http://i.imgur.com/668uGqK.png)
Migrants are not happening at all. I've gotten some socializing to happen. Can necromancers have babies? I don't see anything on the wiki about it.
In an attempt to get through the full year by Weds, I'm going to leave DF running today and set a timer to remind myself to check it. We might not get a lot interesting done, but at least things will be cleaned up for the next overseer, who hopefully has a faster computer.
Post by: Ghills on January 08, 2017, 02:35:43 pm
I have a title. Can I see my kills?
Here you go!
(http://i.imgur.com/KV3ry3a.png)
Post by: TheFlame52 on January 08, 2017, 03:33:45 pm
I've been attempting to evaluate the fort security and efficiency. Hours trying to track all these stairways and gives me the confidence to say that I don't know if this Cthulian swiss-cheese hellscape can really be secured.Sigged
Post by: Lebo on January 08, 2017, 06:04:41 pm
Turned out though that no one wanted to dump there, instead there was some other magma dump spot. Fuck if I remember where it was though. I might have disabled it due to the easier access one.
Assuming that anyone ever got around to linking it up, of course.
Post by: Ghills on January 08, 2017, 07:15:12 pm
I am 90% sure the lever questioned is one I made for magma dumping.
Turned out though that no one wanted to dump there, instead there was some other magma dump spot. Fuck if I remember where it was though. I might have disabled it due to the easier access one.
Assuming that anyone ever got around to linking it up, of course.
For future reference: Yes, that lever did get hooked up, and it does go to the dumping bridge. Dwarves will dump there if they're near it but do prefer the other one because it's much closer to the main fort at this point.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 08, 2017, 09:19:10 pm
⁕ Hahaha, oh yes. Work AND dependents?
You'd have to be crazy to attempt, so you'll fit right in.
Hours are indeed lost upon just gazing on the maze of twisty passages.
⁕ Yay for leverless security upgrades! No matter how well you note things, the take will always be partial.
Other than notes, you can always check what a given building is linked to through dfhacks gui/mechanisms (default keybinding Ctrl-M).
⁕ I see the rain has finally stopped.
And in it's place, new life springs forth.
At least something in this place that isn't undead.
⁕ Shame about rutherer husk army.
Necromancer army...Is sterile.
Post by: Ghills on January 08, 2017, 10:46:47 pm
More potential holes in walls filled:
(http://i.imgur.com/TyhYSK4.png)
A forgotten beast arrived!
(http://i.imgur.com/kPpul7J.png)
I was worried I would have to doublecheck all the cavern walls, but the locals took exception to the invasion.
(http://i.imgur.com/FPRBW4E.png)
Farewell Isa Weri, you squirming, secreting nuthatch. We hardly knew ye.
(http://i.imgur.com/WnElLBk.png)
Spring finally came, and with it the possibility of trade! Well, trade remains merely a possibility. An elven caravan did show up, but:
(http://i.imgur.com/NeAgGxn.png)
They didn't even make it 10 steps away from the map edge. I feel pretty bad for the severely traumatized lone survivor.
I did start on a new entrance so we can bypass the previous depots in case anyone manages to clear the surface somehow.
(http://i.imgur.com/E7KPuwV.png)
We have a cute little ghost!
(http://i.imgur.com/OwNJEVa.png)
I laid her to rest with a slab in the memorial room.
(http://i.imgur.com/Nludrrm.png)
Last but not least:
(http://i.imgur.com/NrYkbK9.png)
Next time on Bloodyhells: Goblins vs Zombies! With a surprise twist:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: Ghills on January 08, 2017, 10:49:34 pm
⁕ Wonder how many outfit sets that results in?
⁕ Hahaha, oh yes. Work AND dependents?
You'd have to be crazy to attempt, so you'll fit right in.
Hours are indeed lost upon just gazing on the maze of twisty passages.
⁕ Yay for leverless security upgrades! No matter how well you note things, the take will always be partial.
Other than notes, you can always check what a given building is linked to through dfhacks gui/mechanisms (default keybinding Ctrl-M).
⁕ I see the rain has finally stopped.
And in it's place, new life springs forth.
At least something in this place that isn't undead.
⁕ Shame about rutherer husk army.
Necromancer army...Is sterile.
Well, darn.
I don't have dependents atm (that was why I put and/or) which is why I actually took my turn, but I have been caretaking in the past and yeah, it really swallows up your time.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 09, 2017, 12:51:38 am
And hm, since the undead aren't patching in...it is at least partially secure?
I bet they're killing the FPS, tho.
I don't know what nuthatch is, but I can't imagine syndromes being effective against those without circulatory system.
❷ Wait, a FB? Not a titan, but a FB? On the surface?
The fortress is more of a swiss cheese than I thought.
...I think there was that poison slug in the Sea of Malodours? Seems familiar, at least.
❸ Ghostly girl of the ring? Well, Sadako getting through walls is not much of a surprise.
❹ Pretty sure that is husking fog.
So much for the siege. Bye-bye, goblins!
Post by: NCommander on January 09, 2017, 06:34:41 pm
Post by: Ghills on January 10, 2017, 01:46:47 pm
❶ Yay security! And just in time!
And hm, since the undead aren't patching in...it is at least partially secure?
I bet they're killing the FPS, tho.
I don't know what nuthatch is, but I can't imagine syndromes being effective against those without circulatory system.
❷ Wait, a FB? Not a titan, but a FB? On the surface?
The fortress is more of a swiss cheese than I thought.
...I think there was that poison slug in the Sea of Malodours? Seems familiar, at least.
❸ Ghostly girl of the ring? Well, Sadako getting through walls is not much of a surprise.
❹ Pretty sure that is husking fog.
So much for the siege. Bye-bye, goblins!
It was a titan on the surface, my bad.
The nuthatch FB looked like it was heading directly towards the fort? But the monsters in the caverns haven't pathed in. I suspect the difference is because the nuthatch is a bird and can fly, while the various corpses/monsters/things in the caverns seem to be mostly unflying. So we're reasonably secure there but definitely keep an eye out for more flying enemies.
FPS continues to be horrible, but I think my attempts to wall places off (reducing pathing) and dump items has helped a tiny bit. May just be wishful thinking though.
My turn end tomorrows. I'm going to run the fort for as long as I can after work today and tomorrow, and we'll see how far we get. It's only 2 more seasons to go, so I may actually finish this year! I'll upload by Friday, however far I get.
Post by: Zuglarkun on January 11, 2017, 04:53:59 am
Next time on Bloodyhells:GoblinsTitan vs Zombies!
Fixed that for you :P
I did start on a new entrance so we can bypass the previous depots in case anyone manages to clear the surface somehow.
Yet another path to the surface? Don't we have plenty of those already (though they are floored over now).
Post by: Ghills on January 11, 2017, 11:28:52 am
Surprise! The fog was not the husking fog! The siege is now a few terrified goblins huddling on the edge of the map after seeing their fellow attackers choke to death from breathing.
(http://i.imgur.com/oItBYAp.png)
Checking the guestlist to make sure there really are only 2 left, wait what?
(http://i.imgur.com/9MuOdZ4.png)
We have 2 humans stuck in the fort?
Yup, there's #1.
(http://i.imgur.com/iLHj7a8.png)
Rescue operation 1 is a go.
(http://i.imgur.com/N5FkaFW.png)
And here's #2. No rescue for you this year, sorry buddy. A good task for someone else with a full year to play with, maybe?
(http://i.imgur.com/r9rofCJ.png)
Oh, and we have querns now.
(http://i.imgur.com/GBiQveD.png)
Post by: Ghills on January 11, 2017, 11:32:59 am
I did start on a new entrance so we can bypass the previous depots in case anyone manages to clear the surface somehow.
Yet another path to the surface? Don't we have plenty of those already (though they are floored over now).
Yeah, I know. But the current entrances are such a mess, cleaning them up is probably a longer term project and being able to bypass them is probably good.
We still do need to do something about the surface undwellers before we can get trade and migration, but an accessible entrance is a start.
Post by: Zuglarkun on January 11, 2017, 12:17:59 pm
Yeah, I know. But the current entrances are such a mess, cleaning them up is probably a longer term project and being able to bypass them is probably good.
We still do need to do something about the surface undwellers before we can get trade and migration, but an accessible entrance is a start.
Yeah, I suspected as much. I set my eyes on the mess during my turn and I was like "NOPE, not touching that" :P Much easier to do your own thing than to clean up someone else's mess. Perhaps you can look into retaking the old trade depot if you have time left (I suspect not). Build some cage traps then deconstruct the bridge so that the zombies within can get caged when they wander out. That way most of the inner fort should be free of zombies.
Quite frankly, I admire your good intentions for attempting to free those trapped visitors, but those visitors that were trapped for so long will just attempt to flee the map once they are free, joining the undead mob on the surface. It will not end well unless they have a safe path to escape from.
Also wait what? The goblins choked on the acrid slime? (Or was it something other than the acrid slime and nefarious fog?) I thought that only gave negligible symptoms. I had
Take this advice, only way to scour the surface of the living dead is magma. You let em linger and its only going to get worse. This is the reason we have a magma pump stack that reaches to the surface. Levers for its operation are near the stack itself, above the magma sea level. Do this asap if you want traders/ visitors to come though i suspect autumn trading is out of the question at this point.
I don't suppose you have a way of trapping/ capturing/ entombing the web titan? Would be useful to weaponize so we can trap stuff. Also can we have screenshots of Tunem Dutorulak Etruemtha the savanna titan before you flood the surface with magma?
One more thing, our human guest Dasmir is a new arrival methinks. If he can get all the way there then there must be some other breach in the west part that we are unaware of from the surface. If not some other route from the main entrance. In any case, I would advise walling up that tunnel after you let him in so you have less to worry about.
Are Andreus and Silverlock still alive? Keep them away from the surface/ danger at all costs. They need to be alive else we will have no one to run the tavern.
Doing a good job there, just a little more Ghills! I eagerly await your next update!
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 11, 2017, 12:38:22 pm
Okay then. Byebye, goblins.
- The one you rescued may die a grisly death.
Better for us, though.
- How is that pikeman still alive?
- I suppose querns are necessary for paper.
Post by: Crashmaster on January 12, 2017, 12:53:16 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on January 12, 2017, 06:10:54 pm
The elves could still be made to drink from the well actually
Post by: NCommander on January 13, 2017, 12:43:26 am
...We all could have been vampire necromancers if we'd juiced the guy in a well before letting anyone read the book.
The elves could still be made to drink from the well actually
For some reason, I can't seem to get the idea of a vampire hippy walking up to a tree and sucking it of sap ...
Post by: Ghills on January 14, 2017, 11:34:58 am
Post by: Ghills on January 15, 2017, 12:00:30 am
(http://i.imgur.com/JQ4zgUN.png)
Farewell, you crazy badass dwarf. It wasn't your fault you landed right on top of a goblin siege, although I do have to wonder what you thought the outcome of visiting this fort would be.
(http://i.imgur.com/EnFfYbq.png)
Flush with success, the goblins decide to take on the giant undead osprey. It goes badly for them. The siege is lifted and Reg Bulbwhips is revenged!
(http://i.imgur.com/2mj2Kk5.png)
After a more thorough investigation, I find that the staircase the human maceman is trapped on leads up to the dirt levels. Not to an exit, but somewhere up there. Digging is stopped to prevent the chance of someone wandering up to places they really shouldn't.
The recently re-elected mayor has decided he wants some leather armor. Unfortunately, we have absolutely no leather.
(http://i.imgur.com/Hf5Q6W4.png)
The past year hasn't turned out too badly. Quite a lot of garbage got dumped. The smooth-everything-we-can-reach initiative means that reachable fort territory is more visually distinct now. Rescuing a trapped visitor was deemed too risky, but we got some gems out of the preliminary digging so that was alright. A siege came and went without anyone in the fort noticing.
Our fort continues to be a trap for the unwary, having killed or scared off every surface visitor.
The new hospital zone is coming along nicely. It needs tables and some more gypsum powder, but at least now our undead inhabitants don't need to trek upstairs for basic medical care. A well is in progress over the artificial pond, hopefully that will be done before autumn.
(http://i.imgur.com/z6EskDj.png)
Now all we need to do is get them to actually use it. The dwarves have a variety of old injuries that need treatment.
Several of the dwarves are unhappy after not eating or acquiring things recently. I'm launching an rock crafting campaign to ameliorate that, but getting them to eat might be trickier. We have prepared meals, but they don't seem to be eating much.
Figuring out some way to get everyone to bathe would be great. We do have that pool near the top of the rock levels. I was focused on the lower levels and didn't try to set up bathing there, but it might be the best place for it.
Security is improved, although it looks like there are still issues relating to the water pumping system. The way the nuthatch FB made a beeline for the fort makes me suspect that there's some opening flying beasts can use that grounded ones can't.
Save: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12657
Post by: NCommander on January 15, 2017, 03:22:36 am
EDIT: What version is the save on before I load it up? 42.06?
Post by: Ghills on January 15, 2017, 01:05:55 pm
I believe I'm next up. Downloading ...
EDIT: What version is the save on before I load it up? 42.06?
Yup!
If you look at the DFFD page, that always has the DF version on the right hand side.
Post by: Crashmaster on January 15, 2017, 02:26:26 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 15, 2017, 02:37:49 pm
At first, I thought they picked a fight with a goblin visitor due being at war with the civ. Then I saw the other goblins.
Haunt on, Reg Egebbomrek.
• As for the mayor, no livestock I take it? Butchering should be doable under ocean. Though there shouldn't be anyone to punish for failing the mandate, I think.
• Roomy hospital. I take it you planned to install some safeties in case of unruly patients?
Though yeah, old injuries may not get retreated - never treated, if it is something like broken toe.
Some soap would be nice as well, if you desire bathings. Probably would have to be rock nut soap, granted.
• Necromancers don't eat. Not a big deal, if you have spare happiness. Guessing that's in short supply, however.
• Didn't expect NCommander to be active; good luck!
Post by: NCommander on January 15, 2017, 06:36:36 pm
We've got a giant slab of obsidian going across the edge of the map, a three-ring undead circus complete with two insane necromancer ringmasters, and 19 dwarfs. This place doesn't look so much like a fortress but an impact crater ...
I need to find some mental fortitude and then I'll play out the remainder of Ghills turn, then my own.
Post by: Ghills on January 15, 2017, 09:23:42 pm
I just looked at the save, and my eyes went cross-eyed.
We've got a giant slab of obsidian going across the edge of the map, a three-ring undead circus complete with two insane necromancer ringmasters, and 19 dwarfs. This place doesn't look so much like a fortress but an impact crater ...
I need to find some mental fortitude and then I'll play out the remainder of Ghills turn, then my own.
Yeah, that was basically my reaction.
Also, there isn't any of my turn left, I thought. I got the file in autumn 308, I passed it on in autumn 309.
Did I upload the wrong save file? That would be stupid but totally in keeping with this past week.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 15, 2017, 10:04:44 pm
Or did Ghills make magma and water sea kiss again?
Post by: NCommander on January 15, 2017, 10:05:58 pm
I just looked at the save, and my eyes went cross-eyed.
We've got a giant slab of obsidian going across the edge of the map, a three-ring undead circus complete with two insane necromancer ringmasters, and 19 dwarfs. This place doesn't look so much like a fortress but an impact crater ...
I need to find some mental fortitude and then I'll play out the remainder of Ghills turn, then my own.
Yeah, that was basically my reaction.
Also, there isn't any of my turn left, I thought. I got the file in autumn 308, I passed it on in autumn 309.
Did I upload the wrong save file? That would be stupid but totally in keeping with this past week.
Usually with most community games, if you don't get the save starting at Spring, you can play to the following spring then a full year keeping it spring to spring.
Post by: Ghills on January 15, 2017, 10:17:47 pm
I just looked at the save, and my eyes went cross-eyed.
We've got a giant slab of obsidian going across the edge of the map, a three-ring undead circus complete with two insane necromancer ringmasters, and 19 dwarfs. This place doesn't look so much like a fortress but an impact crater ...
I need to find some mental fortitude and then I'll play out the remainder of Ghills turn, then my own.
Yeah, that was basically my reaction.
Also, there isn't any of my turn left, I thought. I got the file in autumn 308, I passed it on in autumn 309.
Did I upload the wrong save file? That would be stupid but totally in keeping with this past week.
Usually with most community games, if you don't get the save starting at Spring, you can play to the following spring then a full year keeping it spring to spring.
Ah, OK. Well, I just played a year.
Post by: NCommander on January 16, 2017, 04:49:11 am
---
My ledgers must be kept up to date, even in a place where cavarns only come to meet their fate.
(https://i.imgur.com/erR0yH4.png)
Nineteen alive, Two thousand thirty eight below. I write the ledgers to keep my mind off things. All of us can feel it in our bones, that sense of dread that permeates the air.
(https://i.imgur.com/TbO7Aon.png)
It is stench of death only those who have transcended mortatity can truly understand that pre-emptively occupies our thoughts. We feel the calling in our minds and even with obsidian above, we fear the nothingness below.
(https://i.imgur.com/wKp1Q74.png)
As fall arrives, we all hear the tock of the eternal clock, knowing each tick is but a swing of the pick from a fierce reprise.
(https://i.imgur.com/1bp7Zic.png)
We must wash away the taint, less we all become faint.
Tick, tick, tick ...
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 16, 2017, 08:36:12 am
The stored army lurks below.
⁕ That exported wealth 5⛭ is really lonely.
Ah well. Good luck with washing. Hope the place won't get dirtier, half our population get husked or FPS plummet to 2.
Post by: NCommander on January 17, 2017, 05:09:44 am
Post by: Imic on January 17, 2017, 12:28:11 pm
Post by: Spish on January 17, 2017, 07:56:46 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 18, 2017, 06:51:39 am
'cuz, if killing visitors without getting migrants we'll have no way to get new citizens, what's with necros not breeding.
Post by: NCommander on January 18, 2017, 08:03:28 am
EDIT: Ok, I've got the unit list cleared out. That should get us migrants again. Right now I'm trying to figure out the best way to dump the magma pumpstack down the center staircase in attempt to clean out all the crap in the fort.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 18, 2017, 09:57:03 am
Post by: Spish on January 18, 2017, 06:53:09 pm
Is the human pikeman vampire still there? That's the only vampire we've gotten in 10 years, so it's probably the only one we're ever gonna see.
And no, I'm pretty sure it's just the visitors. When I was looking for a location for the fortress, I played around with a tiny, 25ish dwarf fortress, and once the visitor numbers got past a certain point I stopped getting migrants completely. Shut down the tavern, killed most of the visitors and the migrants started coming almost immediately.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 18, 2017, 07:55:36 pm
Now, 100+ visitors is a bit too much for FPS in any case, but for what's it's worth, checking one of my with decent amount of visitors (21) it still gets migrants. What number would you say the certain point was certainly below of? I'd like to run a test fort myself for peer review.
(Sorry for asking several times - I'm more concerned than usual due my own plans for visitor-relating forts :v)
Post by: Spish on January 18, 2017, 08:38:10 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 19, 2017, 07:38:45 pm
At that point, I'd kill them myself, migrants or no migrants.
Still, noting it up for test sometime.
Post by: NCommander on January 19, 2017, 11:36:34 pm
Post by: Senshuken on January 20, 2017, 10:21:00 am
As for plans... is trying to purge the massive horde of undead below us by pouring lava down there an option?
Post by: Spish on January 22, 2017, 02:07:06 am
Gonna hold off on PMing the Master until I see if there's anything that can be done about it.
Post by: NCommander on January 22, 2017, 04:22:16 pm
Looks like we might be running out of players sooner than expected. I opened the map in DF43.05 to see if it worked. It did, but... uh... 4 FPS. That doesn't bode well.
Gonna hold off on PMing the Master until I see if there's anything that can be done about it.
I'm sick as hell, so I'm formley passing my turn; and I'm not enjoying playing it. I can probably DFHack it back into usability, but my success rate at fortress resurrection is pretty low. Deleting all the units and running the fix-heat stabilization patch might help somewhat. I'm somewhat disappointed I still haven't managed to take a turn in one of these trainwrecks, but its not worth the time to do sometime you won't enjoy or benefit from.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 24, 2017, 08:25:32 am
Looks like we might be running out of players sooner than expected.I considered claiming the save when NCommander posted, as I expect The Master to not come back after 6 months and Imic to be busy, but I got stomach flu and had to deal with concurrent three birthdays right after. It's Battlefailed, I suppose.
On the "more players" side, Imic managed to give up their turn in their own succession due save corruption, so they might be ready to play.
And 4 FPS, yeesh. That's lower than I've ever seen barring FPS draining bugs like pet-locked passable doors.
Post by: NCommander on January 26, 2017, 12:36:56 am
@NCommander: uploading whatever you did with fixing migration doesn't hurt, I suppose - hope it was kept in 42.06, though?Looks like we might be running out of players sooner than expected.I considered claiming the save when NCommander posted, as I expect The Master to not come back after 6 months and Imic to be busy, but I got stomach flu and had to deal with concurrent three birthdays right after. It's Battlefailed, I suppose.
On the "more players" side, Imic managed to give up their turn in their own succession due save corruption, so they might be ready to play.
And 4 FPS, yeesh. That's lower than I've ever seen barring FPS draining bugs like pet-locked passable doors.
I can post the start save with the migrants fixed, though I never got far enough to know if it actually worked but 3k was (IMHO) the limit as high as it could go before the mountainhomes decided too much shit was dead.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 26, 2017, 12:39:33 am
Meanwhile, I'm PMing Imic; I know they've been on forums, so...
Post by: Imic on January 26, 2017, 02:10:31 am
HERE I COME!
I have no diea what's going on in the fort right now.
LET'S GO!!!
I got it.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Oh. My god.
What have you monsters created.
I am dorfing myself, by the way.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
My old dugout is still there. I'm making it a farm now.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hmmm... Or undead storage, maybe.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
wait, What?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Okay, maybe they can't get there. huh. I think we may have built ourselves a home deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep underground. Huh.
It's really laggy, So I'm just going to make our little home... better. just better.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 26, 2017, 06:40:04 am
Doors are life. Not unlike all the necromancers. And Silverlock, I suppose?
How's the alcohol withdrawal?
[ I never figured out the purpose of that dugout, you know. Too flat for a fortress, too criss-crossing for a trap.
I guess it is overgrown, after 9 years.
[ Don't understand the significance of tthe patterns you drew for engraving.
Are those ducks alive or dead in that last screenshot?
Post by: Spish on January 26, 2017, 06:54:23 pm
Post by: Eric Blank on January 27, 2017, 12:35:37 am
The real horror is how slowly a small number of alcohol deprived necromancers get things done.
Post by: Imic on January 27, 2017, 09:43:04 am
Post by: Imic on January 28, 2017, 02:26:42 am
Post by: DoritioMaster on January 28, 2017, 09:36:54 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 29, 2017, 05:03:47 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/RDE1wpY.png)
Neat toxic green color.
First, none of this is canon. Still, FPS is worth analysing, given what happened with last two overseers....
13z to 115z? I guess this map is on the thicker side. 192x192x103 tiles.
Running.......6-7 FPS on load.
Spoiler: Wait a sec... (click to show/hide)
I notice the "Detail wall" commands, so d-xing the entire map....brings no FPS improvement.
Running exterminate on all but dwarves...Interestingly pauses the game when the nefarious poets vanish. Still considered dwarves, indeed.
Slight FPS improvement, staying longer on 7s than 6s.
At this point, my main suspect is something like aquifer endlessly filling water in somewhere.
Utilizing liquids plugin to seal 100 to 13z in obsidian....
....Solid 7 FPS.
Also reveals some mid-air blood piles in caverns.
Items, then? ...Ah, fuck, lets autodump-destroy whole map. 11317 items gone later....Still 7 FPS.
Clean all snow mud......Still 7 FPS.
Finding that earlier cleaning missed some items, I dbc dbd autodump-destroy...7-8 FPS, leaning on 8, with 4980 items destroyed.
Interesting that forbidden items were bigger sources of lag?
But still, some items remain.
cleanconst cleans up 1282 items...
Then, retiring all locations, running fix/dead-units for -2529 active units (a number creater than the number of units in all four unit lists) and restarting with temp and weather off...
8-9 FPS, leaning on 8.
Okay. Exterminating all dwarves who have job, and undead once again...That is, 7 citizens of 19.
9-10 FPS, almost entirely 10.
I think there's a broken caravan, btw, given how some meat
(https://i.imgur.com/qkN98vG.png)
Zombie forts eat brains, right Urist? We're gonna be rich!
zoom in at the edge of the map
(https://i.imgur.com/hKMnUq7.png)
Spoiler: dissmising them, then (click to show/hide)
This might have also been cause of no migrants, btw.
(Side note: I don't recall anybody saying that they restricted this burrow:
(https://i.imgur.com/zNjtQHX.png))
Further removing...
9-10 FPS, when running on default 85x25 small terminal.
I don't think there's anything more I can do....
...Wait a sec.
(https://i.imgur.com/vwIdkN8.png)
Just caged ones, these 17
*runs reveal hell*
(https://i.imgur.com/k0Q8jen.png)
Meep.
Quote
[DFHack]# exterminate Undead
slain 190 undeads
[DFHack]# exterminate CAVE_FLOATER
slain 2 CAVE_FLOATER
[DFHack]# unreveal
10-11 FPS, after that.
One last trick, then.
*retires*
*unretires*
Wow, the two-week embark period is slow - something like 3 seconds per day.
210 FPS!
In conclusion: WTF what the bloody hell ate the FPS?
I was getting 50 FPS on an earlier variant of the fort without removing all or almost all pathing, temperature, weather, fluids, creatures, jobs and items.
In any case, I blame this bug (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=160491)
Bit late here atm. But I certainly shall welcome the toxic green overlords!
Post by: Spish on January 29, 2017, 09:31:33 pm
Edit: Yeah, after a reclaim the fortress is actually playable now.
Post by: Fleeting Frames on January 30, 2017, 06:42:47 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/F3f38i6.png)
She came to Bloodyhells to make friends, to find love, to lead a fun and slow-going life. The Garlic o' Vipers sounded like an ideal place to master the art of telling naughty and beautiful limerics
(https://i.imgur.com/vW5l5j0.png)
Now?
'Well, I certainly am slow-going, here.'
(https://i.imgur.com/cs5XJ1U.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Pd4m5Bm.png)
'Am I having fun, though? '
(https://i.imgur.com/j4BoFGh.png)
...
(https://i.imgur.com/nPwNBsV.png)
"Better not think about the no longer living." she mutters and shouts "Hey, Paddleroast! Get over here and pop a hole. Lets crush some undead."
To understand the above events, lets go back a bit:
"Alright! I'm going to serve this fortress well!" declares Imic Udilgeshud, and promptly drops into a well.
(https://i.imgur.com/TBSK54m.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/97KNboc.png)
Needless to say, some whispered that the fortress was cursed, that the weight of Aluonra itself decided to strike them down at the very moment they tried to steer it.
Shorast naturally realized where this was going, and futilely tried to avert it's course.
"Hey, can I trust you to provide lady a roof, NCommander Roofglaze? "
"Oh no, I couldn't do that. My room's a mess and it is not like I have a close lady." deflects Cilobfikod.
"Oh, you wound me! But you wouldn't need to worry about that, Roofie; With your skill with pick and strong muscles, you can carve a new room every day! Mayoral approval. So how about some qui pro quo?"
"I-"
(https://i.imgur.com/rskkRmz.png)
"-must go. My fortress needs me."
Fuming, Shorust looks around.
Spoiler: In the end, it was a moot point (click to show/hide)
Only once the merchants made to flee did they get to show their prowess, but by then it was too late.
(https://i.imgur.com/0eGffcS.png)
Impressive, but futile prowess.
(https://i.imgur.com/73DZcoB.png)
All hail the Savanna Titan Bone Surgeon
(https://i.imgur.com/vGxva2b.png)
But lets return to slightly before these ghastly events, dear reader.
Shorast feels a poking in her side. Putting down the blocks in her hand, she turns around to see Evaris Notchtin.
"I'm fine with you leading us in more than poetry. Don't really know anybody here well. I hope you have a plan, though?" asks the lithe and young seamstress from the mayor.
"Actually. I do. I feel like all the dwarves I've seen here have been under some kind of influence. I think we should take time to cleanse our bodies and minds, and match the land's current and natural state."
"Hm, some kind of nature worship? Di-" needles Notchtin.
"No." slaps Shorast her away. "The nature of this land is wicked. I hope that our cleansing rituals can cleanse it, or at least help me lift this fog from my mind."
"I doubt you can succeed, but worth trying at least. What do you need?"
"Well, for starters, you can help me nail down the few more valuable pieces we have. "
(https://i.imgur.com/KMCcQaf.png)
"Here, this...Well, I suppose near staircase is good enough for now."
(https://i.imgur.com/fahcN02.png)
"Oh, and try to ask someone about setting up these mechanisms" hands the mayor her seamstress a sheet.
(https://i.imgur.com/EsBQlqU.png)
"To be built on z93"
(https://i.imgur.com/fIyG7KC.png)
"Well, I'll do." and Notchtin walks off with substantially faster pace than Shorast's.
- - - - - - - -
Flame Paddledroast may not be exactly scholarly. However, the career woman understands exceedingly well her many skills, values, with sharp intuition often allowing her to leap ahead.
In such a situation, it is natural that she already guessed what approaching Shorast would want - and at Shorast's speed, it was quite a time to think.
"You want to get rid of the prisoners."
It was more of a statement than a question.
Shorast merely nodded and said. "Maximum safety, no risks - even if you may perhaps be strongest in fortress."
"Well, I suggest we start topside. Just below the surface first, there's bunch of cages piled against a door, and more in old soil layers."
(https://i.imgur.com/eVND82U.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/qtM7ulw.png)
"Of course, better to double-check that all openings to outside are sealed."
(https://i.imgur.com/8TLzCA9.png)
"Hurry up!" shouts Notchtin after Spriggans
(https://i.imgur.com/XKDQPLY.png)
"Afterwards, lets get of rid of them on lower areas. I know just the spot."
(https://i.imgur.com/gaaTm4V.png)
"Sealed tighter than sea monster's pinchers, and feeling just as hot." smiles Thorast. "Still, one more thing - could you drill few holes nearby?"
(https://i.imgur.com/ndqbukN.png)
"Of course." nods Paddleroast.
The death of caravan weighted on the mind of Erib Rovodunib.
(https://i.imgur.com/BS317kR.png)
Sure, the milita commander went to stand guard, but couldn't do anything. Who would dare to stand against webber?
(https://i.imgur.com/w6sfG9I.png)
'Who indeed, if not me?'
(https://i.imgur.com/dsgmIbl.png)
"Alright, miss mayor, I have plans -"
"She's preparing a spiritual cleanup, Erib." pulls Notchtin her aside. "Dare to interrupt her?"
"I'd rather not," says Erib, "but this is important for the future contact with surface."
"Would you want my help with that?" smiles and turns the younger seamstress her tact around.
"I do not need help. I'm the manager, and skilled enough to make my ideas reality by myself if ne-"
The spirited declaration is interrupted by the needler pushing her around with "go and do it, and make it quick!"
'Make it quick, huh. Can't be very elaborate...'
...
Some time later near depot entrance
(https://i.imgur.com/sy7h03S.png)
"Oi, Erib, lets all get together!"
"Already? But even for something so simple, it is nowhere near complete."
"Already! Half the autumn is over already."
"...Very well. At least it will be able to deal a little bit."
And the Mechanic of the fortress goes to join the rest of them in the dance circle.
(https://i.imgur.com/7ptUnMk.png)
That autumn, the invaders decided to mess with different dwarven civilization.
Whether this was welcome or not is not clear at current time.
PS: Oddly, artifact list had one missing claystone grate.
(https://i.imgur.com/AbRb6Nx.png)
Spoiler: desc (click to show/hide)
Failed to zoom to it, and it wasn't built or ...Maybe in unrevealed part of map? I dunno. Well, it's not going to be found I guess.
Post by: TheFlame52 on January 30, 2017, 08:11:15 pm
Post by: Spish on February 04, 2017, 09:19:28 pm
Once you were finished, I was going to let Imic take another stab at it with the improved FPS, but what's done is done I guess x)
Post by: Fleeting Frames on February 06, 2017, 03:30:20 am
(https://i.imgur.com/qIrqudi.png)
Previous goblin attacks on the fortress of Bloodyhells were led by member of Scorpiondrummed, a dark pit. With 83 goblins, it is not particularly interesting attacker - hopefully, the future brings more interesting events.
However, not too interesting - there's a limited number of necromancers, after all. As to the why of that...
(https://i.imgur.com/cCESKUg.png)
Who took it?
(https://i.imgur.com/dmMrzg9.png)
And where?
(https://i.imgur.com/xHBkfF6.png)
Rewarded as deserved, I suppose. But what's there?
(https://i.imgur.com/tFLbHPs.png)
Spoiler: Kinda empty now (click to show/hide)
(https://i.imgur.com/TJRvCw2.png)
Ah. Well, they tried.
What was not tried was sending a team out to recover Victory by Death. Although won by conquest, it might be arguably most important artifact of Bloodyhells.
Though with but 19 members, the fortress has plenty of troubles at home.
Birds are singing, armies are moving, the corpse of a fortress shudders and begins to move, as sixteen necromancers gesture at once.
(https://i.imgur.com/K97vjZi.png)
Still, not all is as it had been. Some neighbours are gone, while others have just arrived.
(https://i.imgur.com/TNAQccv.png)
How long till we meet them? And how many will survive the initial confusion, with the living members of fortress confronted by the unliving corpses of land?
(https://i.imgur.com/wV2BV4G.png)
Most of visible corpses are the still-moving shells of titans and beasts
(https://i.imgur.com/hc0kni6.png)
Others are terrible creatures, once more let free
Now, before the battle could even begin, it's clear that the fortress has lost one of it's number.
(https://i.imgur.com/aH0F5Gx.png)
Looks like 'Deus Asmoth', Declaimer necromancer left the fortress in a brief moment of sanity.
(https://i.imgur.com/zH0dfRW.png)
That, or commited suicide in a brief moment of sanity.
But battle will begin. There's no way to save the visiting marksdwarves
(https://i.imgur.com/GRqkiub.png)
(Well, other than by (https://i.imgur.com/f04JJTl.png))
Or the coyotes locked in with zombies in old depot
(https://i.imgur.com/G1cCrgH.png)
Ah well
(https://i.imgur.com/ZVHeblz.png)
If there's one consolidation, it is that current members of fortress seem safe -
(https://i.imgur.com/jkwLatb.png)
- for the time being.
(https://i.imgur.com/ACWRigL.png)
"I guess he really needed a drink" says Erib while scratching their head.
"But now - lets see if undead will go get the bait? Can't allow migrants into deathtrap, after all..."
"There they come."
(https://i.imgur.com/onft2Ki.png)
"Well, that was dissapointing. One down, but the others seem less eager - and...Hold on, who let the Rutherer loose while we performed the ritual?"
(https://i.imgur.com/vfNlGJ3.png)
...
(https://i.imgur.com/XSSaP7F.png)
The Jade Shrine - temple to Osram, female dwarf god of wealth
"What spooked it?"
(https://i.imgur.com/7AHgzdy.png)
"Ah. Well, I won't yield. What's more, these should be the last of local population!"
"Silverlock. Silverlock Pulleytrussed!"
"Hm, what is it, dear mayor?"
"Come here, take a break and give me a drink. I can't remember you ever giving me any, what keeps you so busy?"
"Well..."
(https://i.imgur.com/sZUv8ip.png)
"Pff! You'll be doing it forever on these plots! Say, let someone else handle them or let them fallow a bit. The crops already rotting, even with us all harvesting."
(https://i.imgur.com/ZT1ZzYw.png)
"Well, very well. Coming!"
(https://i.imgur.com/6cRckIX.png)
"Ah, thanks."
(https://i.imgur.com/u5jIqNu.png)
"Thank you thank you thank you thank you I've forgotten how much I love booze!" says Shorast as she babbles to the non-necromancer in the fortress.
(https://i.imgur.com/JONGgww.png)
"....It was nothing" says Pulleytrussed, as he shies away from being hugged.
"So...How did it feel to go so long without booze?" asks Pulleytrussed, overcome by curiosity.
"Oh go give someone else a drink too!"
.....
"Hey, Paddleroast, want a drink?"
(https://i.imgur.com/5iGeOr2.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/e51NUlv.png)
"I notice you're still holding onto the goblet."
(https://i.imgur.com/6KPeDj3.png)
"Got to save fine wine."
"Drink up, dude. We're not running out so soon."
"Well, then, I guess don't mind me."
"...Well?"
(https://i.imgur.com/TiIFMnZ.png)
"Aaah...Becoming a necromancer may have been bit of a miscalculation."
"Okay, Erib, take some too."
"Oh, thank you. But I must go and help defend the fortress."
(https://i.imgur.com/MqkfWyz.png)
"But...She took the goblet with her."
(https://i.imgur.com/AoFN2Hl.png)
"Drink, Erib, you stubborn woman!"
(https://i.imgur.com/WgrSX9V.png)
"Ok done got to goooo!" and she shoots off with smile on her face.
Meanwhile
(https://i.imgur.com/OhPknVT.png)
PS: Unretiring a fortress conveniently empties all containers.
Naturally, I took the chance to forbid all bins.
Also melted down all adamantine thread previously in hospital.
(https://i.imgur.com/NPakteH.png)
Oh, and FPS ranges from 40 to 80 depending on level of activity. Could be higher, but eh it's something. Currently in early winter.
Post by: Zuglarkun on February 06, 2017, 04:21:57 am
Wait, so you're saying the book containing the secrets of life and death was stolen by some pithy necromancer instead of perishing in a fire?
We might have to embark on page pattern and try to recover the tome, after events at Bloodyhells draws to a close of course.
Eh so the vampire managed to "break out" of its watery prison, but what happened to the web spitting savanna titan?
Post by: Fleeting Frames on February 06, 2017, 04:25:37 am
Vampire is free, but distracted. Meanwhile, Tunem Tailbasins the Earthen Wings still wanders the surface - with broken shell and left hand. I expected one of them to kill the other, but hasn't happened so far.
Post by: Archereon on February 10, 2017, 01:32:30 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on February 11, 2017, 05:58:08 pm
Fun note, though; In my test reclaim where I went straight for it I had humans siege the fortress. Not so with proper preparation time taken, however.
It's not like they can attack siege while fortress is running though; not enough population.
"Cut out that damnable noise! I can't sleep!"
"Heh. None of us can. But who knew cave floaters had it in them?"
(https://i.imgur.com/M72unKD.png)
"Well, whatever it is, it's noisy!"
(https://i.imgur.com/8VhSqKd.png)
"...I think it is farting."
"Still, this ain't good. Erib, think you can get rid of the corpses?"
Spriggans looks at ghost suddenly rising out of the wall.
(https://i.imgur.com/Q0DQwCd.png)
"You look a little odd. Oh...Not a dwarf?"
(https://i.imgur.com/CUpa9B5.png)
"Moaaaan"
"Well, whatever."
(https://i.imgur.com/ezl6My6.png)
Meanwhile on the surface
(https://i.imgur.com/bzdxBx2.png)
The white supermerged coral reefs are already dead.
"Or is it? Sounds like it's fighting that vampire visitor." comments Erib.
(https://i.imgur.com/7pR3D5v.png)
"Lot of clanging. Guess it has to be helmet. Hm, now I kinda want one too." remarks Shorast over the loud noise.
(https://i.imgur.com/nmdJjRU.png) xthousands
(https://i.imgur.com/Pf2OzOe.png) xhundreds
"Hold on, what is that yellow thing it is holding?"
(https://i.imgur.com/He6inot.png)
"I wonder, do Savanna trees look like that that it holds onto it?" wonders Shorast.
"Well, it doesn't seem very practical. Poisonous weapon, sure, but any-"
"-thing that goes outside is coated in that thing anyway."
"Well, our visitors too, I suppose?"
"Well, we have plenty of soap...I don't mind them using it. "
"Bah. A waste. I think I have an idea..."
(https://i.imgur.com/kUEcHjm.png)
"Don't we already have one of those...What do you call them, cleaning throughs?"
"Yes, but last one was wrecked by Titan."
(https://i.imgur.com/h6Q0QHE.png)
"Also, this way it also cleans wagons and no levers to pull this time."
"Well, if you say so..."
(https://i.imgur.com/YLwvmBi.png)
Just need to open it up when surface is safe.
*a while later*
"Seems it works - look, booze falls down the stairs through the bridge."
(https://i.imgur.com/bLL8AsH.png)
"Waste of good booze."
"Eh, not like we were going to drink it, friend."
"Oi!"
° ° °
(https://i.imgur.com/4EZXoAW.png)
In the tavern
"So, what do you dream of, Silverlock?" asks Flame Paddleroast.
"Well, I'd love to create a masterwork someday. Or even better!"
"Even better...What's that supposed to be, world's biggest salad?"
"Ha, no! I'm not even a cook. " shakes the tavern keeper his head with a smile.
"But I've heard that active places such as this one can get something beyond a masterwork. An artifact!" proclaims the grower, greed in his eyes.
Paddleroast reflexively pats on Ekirgeshud to verify it's presence, then says. "I'm wielding one myself, actually...But this place needs to be a little lively for that."
"I'll make sure we'll get more people. Now, will you make me a burrow to make one in?"
"Why should I?" quirks Flame their eyebrow.
"I'm holding your booze hostage." bluffs Silverlock.
"You're too kind to do that." is the military man unmoved.
"Well, true. But help me out?"
"Alright. Where do you want it?
"Next to temple sounds good."
(https://i.imgur.com/4bqivPT.png)
"Okay, anything else I should know?"
"Well, there's bunch of possible things one can ask...Make sure the stockpiles are filled, or we'll have trouble."
(https://i.imgur.com/vyOVrrS.png)
"How come we don't have way to fill minecarts with magma?"
"Ah, well, there was never the need...
"Well, there is a need now."
(https://i.imgur.com/rf70qn7.png)
"There, a brief dip in magma to fill carts with it."
"What's that in the magma?"
"Statue of a dwarf, marking our territory. Beyond this point, no creature of magma may pass!"
"What's the topic?"
(https://i.imgur.com/IVlVySM.png)
"You sure that keeps the magma sea creatures away?"
"I...think so."
"Hm. No leather....Wait, what's that..."
(https://i.imgur.com/193OG6q.png)
Not a full year, despite the time...But I took the save on Jan 29.
Not a full year; the characters don't really appeal to me; so yeah, didn't nearly put most of my free time on this, unlike previous runs.
On that note, for future overseers, Erib the necromechanager has potential as tsundere by personality traits.
Alas, I'm not good enough writer to handle that well.
For future, purely mechanically, taking control of the caverns to prevent undead lagging the game or estabilishing QSP-supported obsidian-cast in magma sea could be useful.
(Given bins are forbidden atm)
Though may kinda lack in-story reason for doing that. Maybe with election or new migrants?
As for the past things...I used DFhack's rename feature for my levers. But for the previous turn's notes, they are in completely wrong places, so you'd have to use Ctrl+M for gui/mechanisms.
Oh yeah, and I trapped an undead Titan in 3rd Depot Cyclotron with forbidden doors, while knocking a shell off it for moods. Not that one are going to happen soon without a way to get migrants or visitors inside :P
Made few adjusment to new hospital as well for werebeasts, but µ to narrate there.
Save! (https://mega.nz/#!w1YDRICI!C0_SbViy_eru3JctkrxOJEw8XtyqUsS1_2CvWipgBLQ)
PMed DoritioMaster as well.
Post by: DoritioMaster on February 11, 2017, 07:35:21 pm
We're still on 42.06 correct?
I'm going to attempt to be slighltly more narrative than we have been, since that's the part I find fun. Also, I haven't played in a year, so let the fun begin!
Post by: Fleeting Frames on February 11, 2017, 07:42:08 pm
Post by: Imic on February 14, 2017, 12:47:29 pm
Post by: Spish on February 14, 2017, 05:16:41 pm
Post by: DoritioMaster on February 20, 2017, 11:37:00 am
We did get migrants (though there was some complications with the Titan) so that is fixed. Current dwarf count is up to 19-20, depending on if I can get a fisherguy inside.
I'm working on taming the surface, the caverns might be a bit too messy - I'll let someone who's a DF regular tackle them. Or maybe die trying.
Otherwise, we're getting ghosts galore. Slabbing is a full time industry now.
Will try to finish the year by tonight, and then have the writeup and save up later this week.
Hang in there, Bloodyhells is still going forwards, bloody and hellish as ever!
Post by: Fleeting Frames on February 20, 2017, 01:14:00 pm
Problem with taming the surface is that the animal groups that arrive on map are already dead (unlike in caverns, you can get live groups running into undead). Even when trying it's going to take years to depopulate the entire region, and there are troublesome things like weasels and titans and zombie ogres to mess with that. Good luck with that.
Post by: DoritioMaster on February 26, 2017, 12:17:40 am
https://mega.nz/#!MB5XGSxT!j9ZHNdXG23-0aY7zm-6ahwAc8f0SnSL0LwKFYKwnQ3k
I am a bit behind, played through the last 4 months at 5fps, with 700+ revealed undead. Not sure if there's any way other than another reclaim to get rid of them.
Narrative post will be coming tomorrow, but in short the news is as listed
- opened 2 more overcomplicated entrances, and 2 more almost ready if they're needed.
- reclaimed old fortress, though miasma, a single mangled zombie, and the general mess are all slight problems
- Tried to deal with general mess upstairs, next overseer might want to mass forbid everything
- Population is now 25!
- Didn't manage to get any traders in (I've learned they are fussy about hallway width) but did get the liaison in safely
- slabbed 100 more dwarves
- dumped 50+ corpses
- reordered the military, possibly causing a small dwarf nudity party
- accidentally turned bins and bags back on I think? It stopped the dwarf nudity party though.
- Thanks to Fleet's clever shell gathering, had a successful strange mood - though we need more shells
- Tried and failed to trap the Titan, but he's still safely outside, along with the flying FB. Trapped FB is dead - possible source for more shells?
Sorry for being a bit on the late side. I looked into the ASCII, and the ASCII looked back into me!
Post by: Spish on February 26, 2017, 07:44:46 pm
Hmm, lemme take another look at the save before we move on.
Post by: Spish on February 27, 2017, 09:33:17 pm
Edit: Seems to have something to do with whatever our dwarves are doing, killing all but a lone sleeping dwarf improves FPS over 400%.
Post by: Crashmaster on February 28, 2017, 04:51:52 pm
Take arms! For the King! Get the scales!
Post by: DoritioMaster on February 28, 2017, 09:34:51 pm
But anyways, here's my storied update. Again, sorry for taking extra time. And it's a bit large. My excuse is "one and done!" Or something like that. But, eh, I think it's alright. And if nothing else, remember (http://i.imgur.com/ti3T3cN.png).
P.S. it was stressful, but I'm a glutton for punishment. Sign me up for another turn!
-------A Godly Deal------------------------
"Come hither Deg, god of wealth and trades"
"What is it, High God Kigok?"
"You'll be well aware of the crumbling of the seal between limbo and the Foul one, several centuries ago, correct?"
"I sort of know of it your grace, it was before my time. But was it not ended by the sacrifice of Horrorfailed, the living fortress?"
"Almost right, and almost ended young one. But what is important is that cracks remain in the seal. We've allied ourselves with Tarem in an effort to seal them for all time."
"Tarem, but-but, high one, he's a god of death himself! One must be mad to trust him with this sort of plan!"
"Mad? Yes. I'm sure all who have survived part of Battlefailed are Mad. But that aside, remember, Tarem is a God of suicide. If he destroys the worlds, who will be left to kill themselves? And I am well aware of the dangers. That's why you shall go down to BloodyHells and take a look around for yourself."
"As you command high one"
"And Deg, if you do run into Tarem, make sure to remind him of our deal."
----Entering the Fort-------------
So like an old spirit I sent my mind down, eager to see what sort of place Andreus and his dwarves were building this time to overthrow the plots of Ura.
I expected a madness that would fight death.
I did not expect the madness that would make death spit it back out.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I passed a human falling into Ura's arms, beaten apart by a coral titan atop a mound of ash, erupting from a river of sea otter blood that crossed the obsidian wasteland. Looking around, there were human, dwarf and elf bits everywhere, random flotsam and body parts strewn together in acid slime and blood. Where the F*** did the forest go?
I went inside, hoping it would be better. I passed through wall after gate after door. And there it was, the trade depot! I had found the living dwarves at last! But wait, these ones are all dead. Or maybe undead. It's hard to tell, and I'm really only good with money. Or maybe it's the dingo and chinchilla guts covering everything.
Pushing deeper, I found a giant cavern full of roaming Rutherers, obviously left to go wild, and a ghost strangling a duck in a large stone chamber with hatches in the doorways instead of doors.
Deeper and deeper I went, through caverns empty save for corpses. Until at last I found life! Shorast coming up some stairs! But hold on… is this Lur's trickery?! She's a necromancer! Looking about the hold, they're all Necromancers! Well, except for Silverlock. I think the tears that are covering her might have something to do with it. And the muttering about death. But she's having a drink, so she must be alright!
Old Andreus is in a corner, studying ways of adhering the soul to the body, but in reality, not much seemed to be getting done.
They came here to fight the undead "for the king". We sent them here to rally up more souls for the fight against Ura. Even they don't really know their true purpose. They never could really. But if they keep doing nothing, the seal will break, Ura will win, and even worse, it will be boring. Something has to change, and I've found just the dwarf to do it! NCommander!
-------------The Dwarves Early Spring--------------
Alright, is my turn as overseer. And seeing how Mayor Shorast dun't do nothin but sit and forbid trading things to merchants that never make it inside - that means it's my turn to laze around and order the dolts about. Er, I mean lead the fortress to greatness. Yeah, it's been borin around here. Maybe that'd be more interesting than looking at the stories on the walls. Though the new strawberry carvings are rather interesting.
Nah, I'd best get to work- pullin levers to see what they do and walkin corridors to see where they go. Woah, I forgot how much of a maze this place was.
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Dang elves arrived today. I can see them tromping around in the acidic muck from the tower. Their light feet won't help them against the acid rain! But they came from the south, crossing the obsidian crust that has capped over the ocean. I wonder just how far out into the sea our black stone has gone?
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I would open the doors, not that they could have anything we need. But I'd like to send out news that we are still alive- or, em unalive. But Tunem the titan sits between them and our gates, guarding a slowly rotting kill
No great loss but it does bring up an issue, if someone we would want to greet should stumble into this land of death, how would I let them in?
There are the old sealed tunnels from overseer Sanctume but they are barricaded and caped with obsidian. And by Lur's beard, when I put my ear to the walls, I swear I can hear echoes of cold lips trying to force out poetry. No most of the upper tunnels are lost to us for now. But we are dwarves! We shall dig new ones around them!
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I walked into the library, looking for wisdom on how to make doors safe from building destroyers. What I found was Andreus, who'd locked himself in a Zinc cage.
"Andreus, what above magma are ya doing?"
"I am pondering the secrets of adhesion, trying to figure out how the soul is attached to the body. Being around you necromancers, who have attached your souls to your own dead bodies, is quite the opportunity for me to learn."
"Fine but without our book ya wastin ya're time. But why th' cage?"
"It hides me from the sight of the gods. At least two of them have been poking around. I don't want anything more to do with them."
"Ah, here's me book. Right behind this iron cage. Wait, would th' iron one work th' same?"
"It couldn't hurt my friend. It couldn't hurt"
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I'd like to route the new tunnels into our existing airlock, so our existing defenses are never compromised, but we have to get into the lock first. But the levers are not clearly marked. There's center surface gate, and center entrance gate. I'ma guess the center surface is between the fortress and the lock, and the center entrance is between the lock and the outside. Dun make sense ta me either, so I'm just gonna pull 'em both! What's the worst that can happen?
Well, at least we know one thing. Someone can't label levers. The outside is closed at least (the lever on the right); but the lever on the left didn't seem to do anything. Which means I don't have any idea what it did. Which means it does something bad.
I guess I'll build a new lever.
Oh wait - the old one does work. It just has a lag. Whatever.
Time to dig! I hear some of the miners crying, but that's normal.
-----The Dwarves Late Spring-----------
Progress on the necrolock expansion is going well.
Several dwarves have managed to get themselves stuck, but that's just the nature of things here at Bloodyhells. We're stuck in all things. In location, in unlife, in pain.
Welp, looks like the support of one of the fall traps was built on the wrong face, and poor Spish has almost been squished. This has mangled where his already missing nose should have been. Man, I thought this guy couldn't get any uglier.
Wait, what's that hubbub?
Blast, it's migrants from the north! The fates must be against us, the north gate is one of the furthest from completion. There's no way we'll be able to make it usable. But perhaps they aren't totally in Ura's clutches. Tumen the titan is far to the south, and the rest of the surface seems deserted. They'll have to make a run for the main gate and hope that Tumen is blind. Pull the levers!
The gate is open, enter and find slightly less danger migrants! Run run!
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I watched from the front gate as the first and fleetest of them ran towards the gate. And then curved to the south, straight into the jaws of danger!
"No! Where are you going? Safety's here you fool!"
"I'm Cilob! I want to pick up <<-grown jute braies->>, I'll be right there!
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Braies? What in limbo is that? No time, I shouted after his disappearing form as loudly as I dared.
"Now listen here! I forbid everything on the surface, you're in the military and in a burrow now. So come inside this instant!"
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I watched him walk right past Tunem the titan and his newly risen zombie, and walk all the way to the southern border. What luck he had.
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Maddness.
But then of course, I was distracted by screams.
The other two migrants were cautiously coming to the door, when down from the skies swept Nazomaztong. Our flying menace. One of them had the wisdom to sprint for the door, and I ushered him inside. But the second, a bloody fishmonger as I was later to learn, decided to hold his ground with a crossbow. He was actually doing fairly well, when more screams joined the chorus.
Cilob had decided to trust in his luck again. But this time it hadn't held out.
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As Tunem took another soul, the marksdwarf had managed to attract the attention of several zombies, and was leading them and Nazomaztong right to the door.
"Inside, inside!"
"I have to get Cilob!" he cried and took off to the south, leaving the beasts of the surface to approach the door.
"Bloody Hell, close the gate! Keep an eye on him, and someone stand by the lever! He'll have to survive on his own for a while." I mostly say this so I don't feel so bad about his inevitable death. I'm surprised. I didn't think I could feel anything.
But the gates didn't close. And the zombies kept shambling closer.
"Haven't you dolts pulled the lever?" And then I realized- with horrible clarity- the reason we were having the lag with the gates.
I'd read the levers backwards.
"Pull the other one! Pull the lever on the left!"
Meanwhile, all I could hear was the marksdwarf's weeping over the fate of Cilob as he came back north towards the gate. And right into the waiting arms of the legendary human zombie. I turned away as the gates closed.
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Drat you Kadol, fishmonger and marksdwarf, we actually tried to save you.
"Silverlock, get me a drink."
The luck these two have with not being seen running across an open stone plain.
Only to waste it walking straight up to horrible monsters…
And since it looks like our new arrival won't be spontaneously turning into a pile of bloody parts in the next hour, it seems he needs some looking over. I'll name him 'Kamani' since our records seem to say kamani is the last name to be given. He has no connections to anything but his son and father, both of whom he left at home. Probably a good idea. He has no skills of any sort, so I've put him on everything he might be decent at.
------Deb meets Tumen---------------------
"Hmmm… quite a display you put on. You barely even had to use your puppet to collect a couple of souls. Quite impressive Tumen the titan. Or do you prefer Tarem?" I challenged the spirit hovering around the great coral beast.
"Aha, the spy finally comes for a chat. What do you need my brother the spy?"
"Spy? I'm only here to count the great wealth of BloodyHells- of course I am. I mean, so much for only 20 so dwarves. Wealth of course sits to be counted and owned, and that's where I take my pleasure. But may I ask, what do you intend to do with the souls?"
"Haha, of course you are. And of course, the souls must move onwards, either to limbo or to the Foul Hunger. I find that incredibly boring. Anyone can watch a soul move on. Every god sees them fly from their world to ours. Boring. I watch those who's own actions have brought them to death. I stare into their minds in the final moments, as the flesh's will to live and the mind's despair crash together. And then I let the soul go."
"But why?"
"I suspect that there is another place, a place only suicides go. And so I watch them. Because I have to be sure brother. I have to know before I complete the deal."
------The Dwarves Summer------------
Ghosts! They are filling the library and training grounds. They might be a tad frustrated that we have immortal bodies and all they can do is float 'round, cuz we've got 5 new ones floating around. I've ordered the mass production slabs. The empty room next to the barracks should make a fine mass memorial. It might need some expansion though.
Also, it seems a wild Rutherer has started living in our fields. Hopefully it wanders into a cage trap. I counted all our Rutherer's at the beginning of my reign (9, 7 of them babies) and now we have 11 (9 of them babies) and all of them trained. Have we been living with a wild Rutherer this whole time?
More ghosts! Lebo and Balnash this time, but wait - isn't Lebo still alive?
At this rate we'll have more ghosts than living dwarves. Well, unliving dwarves I suppose.
Life is moving on as usual, though it almost seems like things are slowing down.
Shorast has been reelected mayor, which makes sense since the only thing he’s
done is forbid exporting leather - which comes to life and tries to kill us when we
make it, and we haven’t exported anything yet anyways.
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I was sitting in the library, trying to snack while I read some mountainhome propaganda, when Ghost Lebo flew through my chest!
"Ahhhhhhhh! By Deg's gold don't do that" I cried as she flew through the ceiling.
"Try the cage friend, it should shield you from her. And be glad that she's not pulling anything worse." Andreus mumbled.
I sighed as I sat down in the cage. "I could do with a drink, or maybe a nice bit of red meat - but the caverns are fillin up with the dead. I have ghost Eric check em out. An there are more of 'em every day!"
"They are migrating closer to the fortress, searching for the life. Foraging for souls. Just like the zombie otters do every year."
"Undead dun't migrate. Otters or not!"
"Oh but they do. The undead here have lost their soul, but the corpse remembers the works of the soul. That's why zombie dwarves can open doors, and zombie eagles can fly. They have a thirst for souls, which is why they pursue the living so much more readily than they pursue your Necromancers."
"Hmm… stupid is what they is. But they'd best get away from my fortress!"
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We've started moving back into the upper fortress. Not putting anything of value up there mind you, but rather cleaning and figuring out where everything is and where the zombies are. There are only 3, and they're locked away in small areas.
One of the miners, Flame, seems to have disappeared. Ghost 'Eric Blank' guarantees me that he's still alive. But he seems to be in a funk. I'll let him be.
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What do the Rutherers eat? They're obviously large predators, but there is no prey here.
**looks around at all the dead bodies** oooooh…
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On the note of the Rutherer in the fields. It must have been tame at some point, but now it is certainly wild. It does not attack however, and now that I've begun watching it, every time a dwarf walks by, they'll push it back into a room next to the farms, appropriately named 'Stockpile #131', only for it to follow them out. The others are all apparently oblivious to how strange this is.
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On the note of the levers. There are so many around. Most of them are labeled in high dwarfish, which I can't make heads nor beards of. The ones that are written down are kind of confusing. So I made one of those, what're they called.
Phonics, pneumonics, pneumatics? Well, it's a thing so I can remember all the door levers and what they do. It goes like this.
Going down the rows Men Never Eat Slimy Worms (Main North, East, South West) and across it's Our Traps Inspire (Outer, Traps, Inner).
That way I can remember all in a moment how to work any part of the Necrolock or it's expansion. There's a reason I'm overseer ya know.
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Otherwise the new fad is to complain how we don't have enough cages. Every other day someone tells me, "not enough cages" I've ordered the production of 10 more. Hopefully that'll nip this in the bud.
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Spish came up to me yesterday.
"The ghosts keep interrupting my training time. We should never have put the memorial next to the training room. It's dishonorable."
"Well Spish, keeping ourselves unliving and strong enough to defeat the foes that killed them is the best way to honor the dead. So I say it's decent. Just ignore Lebo the ghost, she's harmless"
And he walked off. What simple problems in such a complicated place. I miss the sky, it's always raining acrid slime or fog, or nefarious glowing fog or dreary clouds here. The fog comes close about Tumen, but he's never husked. What luck he's got.
I see dwarves eyeing the crossbow that the fishmonger dropped. Oh, and he's animated now. Part of the zombie army that guards our gates, and our fates. But he did do a lot of damage with those silver bolts…
I've decided that everyone without a weapon of choice will get a crossbow. I pray we never need them, but if Deg is the nicest god we have to pray to, I suppose we will.
Also, the ghosts tell me a Yak has starved. Where on earth did we get a yak?
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----The Dwarves Fall----------
Looking out onto the obsidian waste I can only think one thought. The blood gnats are a lovely shade of red this fall.
Unlife at BloodyHells can get unbearably boring at times.
More of the Rutherer's seem to be going wild. Probably the pheromones of this one we've got in the farms sending them up the walls. I'll have Lebo train them all. She seems to get on well with them. And it makes Ghost Lebo happy too for some reason.
Eh, and I thought a zombie poet was bad enough. Now we've got a ghostly poet. HE WON"T STOP TELLING ME ABOUT DYING. IN LIMIRICKS. We have to slab this guy.
Today, I walked into a room - next to 'Stockpile #131', and find 40+ cages standing about empty. They are not forbidden, and seem to be in a furniture stockpile. Yet the complaints of "not enough cages" continue. I can only guess that they are all possessed. I'll just have more forged. No big problem.
Well, let me check up on Flame and the necrolock expansion. It should be close to completion.
Op, the digging is done, the bridges and doors and hatches and cage traps are being constructed. And Flame is still in a corner. How are you doing Flame?
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Crash! Boom! Crash! Boom!
"Puzzlebark! What is that horrible racket?"
"Dad, the forgotten beast Abeismo, the one that was trapped a year ago has begun throwing a copper mine cart into the walls repeatedly in rage! We're putting more trash against the walls trying to kill the sound."
"Ok, good lad. Use everything up here that isn't a body"
I've been having ghost 'Lebo' patrol the caverns for me.
A week ago a live helmet snake was engulfed by a dismembered crundle neck. That's right, only the neck. So it's a snake trying to get out of an angry fleshy zombie scarf. Of course, neither can actually hurt the other, so it has become an endless duel. I consider it the mascot of our lives.
Limestone, it's so boring. Just working on our projects, the rain starts and stops. Even the ghosts are bored.
Ahh! After the drought comes the storm!
The caravan has arrived at the same time as a liaison, and the migrants! It's our chance to tell the outside world how much wealth we have!
But at the same time, somehow an undead has gotten into the necrolock expansion. But none of them have even broken the surface yet! How? Close the inner gates! Pull the levers, and quickly summon the militia, assemble at the lock!
I issue the final orders to open the western side gate, and send the Night Guards into battle. As long as Nazomaztong doesn't come a smelling, our visitors should be fine.
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Alright, time to open the first of the extended locks, let the merchants in. What's this? A cloud of nefarious fog is coming? Ura be damned, why? And it's coming straight for Tumen!
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Well, the titan must either repel the fog, or have the blessings of a God, for it walked right into the fog, but the evil parted before it.
And in other news, the migrants and merchants have a way in, but they seem to have created too much noise, now the corpse of the fishmonger is coming for them!
Oh, my design actually worked, and caged the fishmonger? And all the migrants are in safely? AND the liaison is in safely? WHAT? Oh, I mean, of course it worked first try! My planning and skills as an overseer are unparalleled! AHahahahaha *forced laughter*
Hmmm… well it is time to welcome the travelers inside.
"Come in, squeeze down this tiny corridor! Right past the zombie in the cage. This way ta Bloodyhells! Please, right this way, ignore the nude dwarves. That's just how the want to dress! Welcome liaison! Please watch your step, there are lots of bodies you can loose your footing on."
Wait, where are the merchants?
"Oi, get in here ya dolts, we got safety n trash, er trade. I mean trade!"
"You're tunnel is too small!"
"What, ya got no wagons, get in here!"
"It's the merchant union, we can't pass through any hallway less than three wide."
"WHAT! You sons o'Lur. Ya see that bird, right over there. It's the Forgotten Beast ZOMBIE Nazomaztong, and it will eat all of ya!"
"Company policy man. Sorry"
"Well, so am I. Pull the lever! Leave the sods! And Silverlock- another drink!"
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Too much is going well. When is the curse of this place going to strike??
Oh, our new arrivals are vomiting everywhere. I forgot that the living tend to do that here...
Wait, the banging stopped. Someone get me a ghost to see what happened! Is Abeismo free?
No, actually, the copper minecart Abeismo kept pushing finally got enough momentum and ricocheted right into Abeismo, striking it dead. This place runs off luck, good and bad.
Meanwhile our wise mayor and brave liaison have begun their meeting, attended by a shoe, in the middle of a field. Truly noble.
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"Greetins Liaison Olon, how was the journey? And how are the mountain homes? It's been a long time since one of ya made it through to us."
"Well, the journey was horrid. Constantly running and hiding. But more importantly, what are you dwarves thinking?? We sent you here to kill Necromancers, not to become them!"
"Ey now! Ya'll sent us here to die. We've done what we must ta survive. It was prudent at the time. And before ya speak of the hammer, I'll have ya know, Necromancers have trouble drinkin."
I grinned in pleasure to see his smug face tremble.
"Now, no more of that, or we'll put ya back outside. Let's get to business!"
"Well, the mountain homes are in great need of fish, leather, wood, and cut gems. I'm sure you have all of them in abundance. What do you need here?"
"How bout ya send us
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"Sounds like a sensible order, anything else?"
"Can ya send us some more puppies? Please?"
---The Dwarves Winter--------
"Sir, Overseer NC sir, come look! There's dozens of them, coming from the west!"
"What, migrants? Invaders? Ghosts?" I ran to the tower, getting a look at what new danger had beset the fortress.
"No sir, undead otters, leaving a river of blood across the waste. They must be migrating, what do we do?"
"Dun't tell Andreus. He'll never shut up, and I'll knock your block off."
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I've decided to clear the last of the zombies from our halls. And it's an elf to. Can't have any of those in my fort.
I ordered the best of the melee fighters to the gate, and had a mortal open it to lure the foul zombie out.
But alas! At the moment of truth, as the gates were opened, our four heros ran! Down stairs and stairs they went, and left Silverlock and Lebo to deal with the elf zombie. Luckily Lebo got a lucky hit in with his crossbow, knocking off the zombie's head?
But fear not, our heroes regained their honor, dueling the chinchila corpse!
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Good good, now go guard that elf zombie head. It keeps reanimating and scaring the Rutherers.
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"Father?"
"Yes Puzzlebark?"
"If the liaison is set on reporting us to the king for being Necromancers, why aren't we throwing him out for the titan to wreck?"
"Well Puzzlebark, that would go against the code of the dwarves. And we wouldn't want that now would we! … … … And besides, he's started chaining himself to the wall in the old upper fortress to sleep. We couldn't cut him down without waking him up."
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"Evaris, come back inside, you know you have to do this super dangerous suicidal thing for the good of dwarf kind, for the good of the fortress!"
"No, I won't!"
"Alright then, Just come back inside anyways, there's no point in running out into the wastes to get carried off by the big bird. Puzzlebark, my son, are you feeling brave?"
"...I think so?"
"Alright then, it's your time to face death. Get to the suicide room! And pray to Deg and Tumen!"
"Yes, but father... what are we doing with the suicide room?"
"We're going to drop rock on the Titan and kill it! You're the bait! Now get to digging! Straight up! And cry louder! We want him to hear!"
"But Father, we can't drop the roof on him. It's still attached..."
"Oh. Then we'll lock him inside!"
"How father?"
"With a bridge, or a floor or something!"
"How will we get it above him - into the tiny space you left - before he leaves the suicide room?"
"..."
"... Nevermind son...... Close up the suicide room! I've decided to spare you dolts from the fear of capturing Tumen!"
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Winter's almost over, but I'd trade all Deg's gold just to stop the place from smelling.
"Which of you dolts fed the Rutherer's beans?!!!"
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--Sunrise - 1st of Granite------
Atop the tower, looking out over the waste, I could just make out the forms of the otters as the last of them scampered off to the east.
"Maybe they DO migrate" I muttered. "Not that I'll admit it."
BANG!
Feeling the tower reverberate, I shouted down
"What was that?"
"Overseer NC, one of the bridges in the merchant tunnel has been deconstructed, we don't know who or why!"
"Look at the calendar ya dolts! It's first of Granite! Not overseer no more, not my problem!"
And I returned to pondering migration habits.
Post by: Spish on March 02, 2017, 11:41:22 pm
Post by: Spish on March 06, 2017, 12:08:45 am
Post by: Lebo on March 13, 2017, 04:02:38 am
Here's to whatever it is that will ruin the lives of our dwarves! In advance!
Post by: Spish on March 22, 2017, 05:12:39 pm
Apparently nobles are really screwy in this fortress. Simply firing nobles (mainly the military leaders) restores FPS quite considerably. You can then re-hire them without any issue, though the problem seems to resurface eventually.
I also used DFhack to kill off all the zombie crundle bits. Apparently they were being torn into dozens of pieces, all of which were becoming zombies... over five hundred of them, which was really bogging down the FPS. I highly recommend the next few players do something about the underground zombiesplosion; it's only going to get worse if you keep ignoring it. Perhaps consider weaponizing those zombified forgotten beasts?
Post by: DoritioMaster on April 11, 2017, 07:15:28 pm
Hopefully Spish is still kicking, but if not, my school semester ends Thursday. If we need to I can try to copy what he's done and pass along a save.
Also, not sure if we're supposed to be redorfing the deceased - but it looks like people are and it's a Battlefailed tradition, so here's a new dwarflist. These are all the deceased, I'd give any new players a priority. Spish can take it, or PM me if you're supposed to be on it and not.
Archereon
Balnash
Clover Magic
Deus Asmoth, Scholar
Dorito, "Fail Priest"
The Error, "Crazy Old Man"
Ghills
Gwolfski, Mechanic
Imic - Necromancer of Threads
The Master
Niner, "Glorious Overlord" - Militiadwarf
Sanctume - axedwarf
StupidElves - metalsmith
Species Unkn0wn - Speardwarf
Taupe, Woodcutter/Woodburner
Post by: Sanctume on April 11, 2017, 07:46:00 pm
Post by: StupidElves on April 13, 2017, 12:12:36 am
Post by: Spish on April 13, 2017, 02:32:30 pm
Post by: DoritioMaster on May 02, 2017, 10:01:58 pm
I'll go ahead and pm them if Spish can put up his semi-fixed save.
Thanks for the magic Spish!
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 03, 2017, 08:51:42 am
Post by: Spish on May 03, 2017, 07:54:56 pm
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12799
Definitely also do something about the zombie infestation underground. Cause they're going to multiply very quickly (again) if you guys continue ignoring them. And also the titan.
I'm going to recommend all future overseers disable TEMPERATURE and WEATHER in the d_init.txt file, as that improves FPS by a solid 30-50% in this fortress.
Post by: DoritioMaster on May 04, 2017, 12:59:32 pm
Do us proud Flame!
And hmmm... will disabling weather get rid of the husking fog? Oh well, for now that might be necessary.
And as long as we can keep more mortals pouring into the fort, at some point we'll be able to replace all picked nobles. Or is that not how it works?
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 04, 2017, 03:51:54 pm
EDIT: This place is a goddamn shithole. Words do not begin to describe it. Everywhere I look there are corpses, old abandoned hallways, eternally burning zombies, regular non-burning zombies, Taupe's ghosts, random pools of blood, mud, water, or magma, or some combination of the above. There is an extremely distracted titan wandering around on the surface. I think it's distracted because the place looks like Hiroshima after the bomb went off. There are over 2,000 units in the dead list. Some cheating reveals that there are zombies in the walls. The bookkeeper is set to the lowest accuracy, so it's impossible to determine how much stuff we have. NOBODY IS DOING ANYTHING.
Fuck this fort. It can't possibly get any worse at this point. Why even bother.
EDIT2: You know what, I'm not even going to roleplay. I'm just going to tell you what I'm doing to bring this fort back from the grave. Also I'm going to cheat, but not at anything life or death.
Right now I'm using autodump-destroy to get rid of all the teeth. Did you know we have over two thousand teeth just lying around the place?
Post by: Eric Blank on May 04, 2017, 07:21:53 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 05, 2017, 08:42:44 am
How the fuck did zombies get inside the wallsI dunno man, but all the oldest zombies are one tile beneath the surface. I think somebody hacked them there.
I'm playing, but don't expect many updates. I'm getting like 2 FPS. I also made the terrible mistake of unforbidding the books in the library, so all everyone is doing is reading.
Post by: Spish on May 05, 2017, 08:46:23 am
Post by: Lord_lemonpie on May 05, 2017, 08:47:28 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 05, 2017, 03:41:10 pm
Did you fire/rehire the nobles like I explained on DFFD? The lag has everything to do with that (and to a lesser extent the zombies), and I can personally confirm that autodump-destroying every item on the map will do very little to improve FPS....I will now do that.
can I be dorfed as a dwarven soldier named "Lord Lemonpie"? Preferably a speardwarf, but any melee dwarf will do.You're in luck! One of the nine unclaimed dwarves is a speardwarf. Hope you don't mind lacking dangly bits. And also not being a necromancer.
Post by: Eric Blank on May 06, 2017, 02:52:28 pm
Do i even have a dorf/elf anymore?
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 07, 2017, 02:15:18 pm
As long as shes got a spear, she has no need for dangly bits hehe
Do i even have a dorf/elf anymore?
I used autodump to move all the dwarf corpses inside. They're now being buried. Also, I slabbed all the ghosts. Slabs for potential ghosts are still in the works.
I re-forbid all the books in the library, so things are getting done again.
EDIT: Unexpected computer restart happened and I lost some stuff. Apparently I never saved at the end of this post.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 09, 2017, 08:44:46 am
Migrants came. The only one to get in alive was a stoneworker. The other two were killed by the zombie FB on the surface.
In the confusion of getting the migrants in, the merchants got in too. Also, I dispatched the military against the titan. I did not expect webs. Spish's arms were turned into a fine paste, but his steel and adamantine armor kept him safe long enough for Senshuken to get there and bash the bajesus out of it. He killed it with a punch that crushed its lower body. No casualties and my 1:1 turns to dead titans ratio is upheld.
EDIT: How do I flood the surface with magma? I can't find any levers or even a mechanism to generate the power to do so.
Post by: Zuglarkun on May 10, 2017, 04:11:30 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 11, 2017, 04:42:21 pm
- A forgotten beast came, killed a few zombies, and died (and did not come back to life)
- A planter got husked
- I moved all the wall zombies to the surface where they belong
- Flame was beaten for violating production orders, it left only bruises
- I removed several walls where both sides were accessible
- I made a giant corpse stockpile right next to the magma dump
- Things are getting butchered/magmaed
- I flooded the entire surface with magma, incinerating everything (even the flying FB, it came down to earth when it was killing the migrants)
- The merchants went nuts and had to be put down, there were a few incidents with zombies but nobody was killed
- It is now summer
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 16, 2017, 02:55:08 pm
- Lebo is dead. In related news I have discovered our minecart grinder. Shorast is now mayor.
- The magma is almost completely cooled on the upper part of the map.
- Migrants, a jeweler and a glassmaker.
- The last elf died, came back to life, was dismembered, came back to life again, got caught in a cage trap, and was thrown into the magma. We still have a couple pack animals roaming the fort.
- Flame is preparing meals. She is making masterworks.
- We passed 2600 dead units.
- FPS is stable at about 12.
- Corpse dumping and butchering is going smoothly. Any corpses or body parts in the fort that could be zombies were mangled years ago. A bunch of elf junk is being dumped as well.
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 23, 2017, 06:27:07 pm
- A wereantelope came. It was quickly discovered and killed by yours truly, no wounds. However, its corpse came back to life and killed Lord Lemonpie.
- I made a few adamantine wafers.
- No migrants arrived.
- Mayor Shorast had a strange mood and made a hematite crown. It has a picture of Twinwolf killing a human.
- Lots of stuff is being dumped. FPS is at 7-8.
- Dwarves came. They killed a few harpies. We sold them all the junk within 50 tiles of the depot. We got some steel, some dogs and cats, and a few books.
- I made some quires. Maybe someone will write something. And maybe that something will be the secret of necromancy. It's worth a shot.
- Senshuken killed three zombie ogres alone.
- I finally got Spriggans all the stuff he needed for his post.
Post by: Senshuken on May 24, 2017, 02:07:24 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 24, 2017, 06:31:13 pm
I feel like Sen's just been quietly sitting in a room all this time, staying out of people's way and quietly meditating and practicing with his weapon of choice... Because he hates everything around him and he wants it to die.Your dwarf has over a hundred kills, including two titans, though I think most of them were the same zombie several times.
Apparently individual combat drills are bugged. The dwarf gets tired, then doesn't get untired because they're a necromancer and shouldn't get tired to begin with. Also I can't get the military to stay active or spar. I think someone fucked up the alerts.
EDIT: We don't have any flux! Argh!
Post by: TheFlame52 on May 25, 2017, 07:09:24 pm
- Autodumped a bunch of stuff. There is now far less unreachable junk on the map. I didn't move any cavern corpses, though.
- Autodump destroyed even more stuff. All the large clothes are gone, as are the stray teeth, horns, toes, etc. FPS jumped up a whole tick.
- Pig tails will be grown next year. Turn them into quires, please. I want that necromancy book!
- Some dude got possessed and made a green glass crown. What is it with these people and crowns?
- Cavern zombie population has fucking EXPLODED. There's over a hundred new zombies since autumn.
- I did one more autodump destroy just before spring. Goodbye teeth!
- Silverlock died of old age. OLD AGE. IN A BATTLEFAILED FORT. I FUCKING WIN.
SAVE: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12930
Alright, dude who's next. What you need to do is this:
1. Make a little airlock into the third cavern.
2. Stick Senshuken in it.
3. Open the airlock.
4. Tell Senshuken to kill all the zombies.
5. Sit back with your popcorn.
Or just fucking ignore everything and try not to kill the fort. Your choice.
Post by: Eric Blank on May 31, 2017, 05:57:20 pm
I have begun, and will be working on the proposed plan to eliminate the zombies. The game is running REALLY slowly for me, though, which means this will take a while.
Spoiler: The airlock is prepared and Senshuken is inserted without incident (click to show/hide)
This airlock works with two hatches, so no levers needed, and access runs through a trap hallway I was in the process of setting up last time I played:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This will give us permanent, easily controlled access to the cavern without needing to worry about dwarves scrambling to pull a lever. If for whatever reason both the internal and external hatches are left unlocked and something gets in there are cage traps there to catch vulnerable creatures.
Spoiler: Senshuken gets to work (click to show/hide)
This just in: Senshuken is automatically attacking undead without being ordered to. This means she will probably get overwhelmed and killed by some of the bigger clusters of undead. I'm going to try to be careful, but things might not go as planned...
Not only that, but she is getting tired.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
In fact, undead charge right at her once they see her. She will not be able to clear the caverns on her own. The mission will be aborted and a new plan will be concocted.
Continued Journal of Eric, third age 317, Felsite 10
Its been a bad time. True, not like the first, not like when Led ruled in the flesh and then in the bone, but she has so clearly won. I've forgotten just how many bodies I've snatched, how many people I myself have killed just trying to reduce the number of undead under the control of her and the dark gods. In fact, I'm not sure I recall all the names of those gods. Or the demons.
So I came to this place, Bloodyhells, a few years back, snatched the body of some elf that came there thinking it would be a holiday. I actually made out, since I got into a position where I could manage the place for a year. Then I died.
I spent some time in the body of a mercenary out there, put down some undead and learned how to grind the bodies into paste so they could never again be raised. Came back, now in the body of some engraver I've become the overseer again. The place has changed a lot. Not necessarily for the better. Flame was the overseer last here, and had standing orders for Senshuken to clear the caverns. I gave her the chance, it didnt go well. She came back saying the dead saw her as an enemy, despite being a necromancer. She grew tired fighting them. We put it off for another month, and then I asked the entire Night Guard squad to enter the caverns together.
It went well, they put down thirty or so undead, including a cave dragon and several green devourerers, and desecrated the corpses as I instructed them to. They all became tired, though. They were being injured. At one point two of them lost consciousness. They came back. The path seemed clear, safe. But they got split up just so by the trees and stone columns. Then they were ambushed by a gigantic, rotting corpse of an undead, the forgotten beast Aspast Pewsethetnu. It killed them all, and now it is known as Uxurusmo Uktang Xosun, Sweatecho the Crypts of Spurting. Their weapons and armor are down there, their corpses have risen again.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I dont understand how, or why, the undead are assaulting necromancers. Why our warriors are growing tired, passing out. This is wrong.
I'm going to turn back to the time-honored method of trapping them in cages for later disposal. Shooting them through fortifications. Crushing them beneath bridges. We're dwarves, we can do this. I'm going to finish the trap hallway I started last time.
For the forgotten beast, another trick will be necessary. We'll literally have to drop a block on its head to eliminate it from existence. It wont be easy, but I believe with a piece of artifact furniture and a room setup ahead of time it will be possible.
Post by: Eric Blank on June 05, 2017, 03:56:38 pm
Post by: DoritioMaster on June 18, 2017, 11:26:28 pm
Unfortunate that the save went south.
Thanks for trying Eric!
Post by: Evaris on June 19, 2017, 10:22:07 am
Post by: DoritioMaster on June 24, 2017, 07:34:29 am
Post by: puterking on June 24, 2017, 08:04:34 am
Post by: Evaris on July 10, 2017, 11:22:20 pm
Post by: Spish on July 12, 2017, 03:18:56 am
Post by: Evaris on July 13, 2017, 07:29:03 pm
The fortress is approaching unplayable levels of FPS death for no apparent reason, and I'm not sure how to reverse it anymore. I'm trying to stay motivated to fix this but it's looking pretty grim.Soon..
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/76/d1/57/76d15797062a743e9f36485090f16998--libra-challenge-accepted.jpg)
Post by: Evaris on August 04, 2017, 04:39:34 pm
Post by: Imic on August 08, 2017, 01:16:15 am
Post by: Silverlock on August 26, 2017, 09:46:05 pm
- Silverlock died of old age. OLD AGE. IN A BATTLEFAILED FORT. I FUCKING WIN.
With my dying gurgle, as I drop a +glass puzzlebox+:
". . . rope-reed-bud . . ."
If the fort isn't dead, I'd like to be re-dorfed, please, as my descendant. If this weren't the year of the endless upgrades at work I would take a turn myself.
Post by: Evaris on August 27, 2017, 10:10:57 am
Just need the go-ahead. lol
Post by: Zuglarkun on August 27, 2017, 11:21:05 am
So go ahead Evaris, do us all proud, since you seem so keen.
Oh and please dorf yourself and the following from the front page if you can find any bodies to take over.
Arthropleura, Elf
Kamani
Good luck!
Post by: Evaris on August 27, 2017, 10:39:10 pm
puterking was last active July 7th, and his last post was on 24th june on this thread. Its been more than two months since then and we haven't heard any word. Safe to say they've forfeited their turn and you can go ahead and take your turn without worrying about stepping on anyone's toes. If they would like their turn back, they'll have to be moved down the turn list. I worry more about if you can even get the save up and running.
So go ahead Evaris, do us all proud, since you seem so keen.
Oh and please dorf yourself and the following from the front page if you can find any bodies to take over.
Arthropleura, Elf
Kamani
Good luck!
Hmm... I'm having the issue of DF not recognizing the save file folder. I'll give it a bit to try to figure it out.
edit: had to open in 43.05, derp.
Well, here I go, I haven't touched dwarf fortress since I gave my last at Beronam, just shy of a year ago. What could go wrong? :3
(https://m.popkey.co/613968/3RVzJ.gif)
Well, once I start to get my bearings, I notice a lot of farms not being used well within walking distance of people. I set the southernmost plot to plump helmets year round just in case.
I now continue my search for the levers, so i can start flipping them.
...I may need to slap a tileset on here to be able to make sense of where's what. Or at least find the damn levers.
Post by: TheFlame52 on August 28, 2017, 06:46:49 pm
Post by: Evaris on August 31, 2017, 12:53:44 pm
Post by: Evaris on September 12, 2017, 01:30:39 pm
Bad news: My computer is dead.
Good news: New computer parts will be here by next week?
Post by: Zuglarkun on September 13, 2017, 02:50:02 am
All hail Bloodyhells!
I eager await updates... next week.
Post by: Evaris on September 17, 2017, 10:43:38 am
However, unfortunately my AM4 bracket kit for my Cryorig H5 is delayed for a week or more at this point, so my 1600x has no heatsink, and thus my assembling of my PC is... also delayed.
I will update when the new PC is assembled. Till then... is anyone else hoping for a turn? I'd rather not hold back things happening due to my PC situation, lol.
Post by: Evaris on September 27, 2017, 11:23:46 pm
Anyone else have an interest in taking up this until I have a functioning PC again?
Post by: Evaris on February 02, 2018, 02:52:31 am
Is there another?
Post by: TheFlame52 on February 02, 2018, 05:28:33 pm
Post by: auzewasright on June 14, 2018, 06:02:01 am
If someone reminds me in a week or two, I'll take a turn. I'm playing Necrothreat right now.*Remind*
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 14, 2018, 04:14:27 pm
...What the fuck was I doing again?
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 14, 2018, 04:35:33 pm
If the fort isn't dead, I'd like to be re-dorfed, please, as my descendant.This is a Battlefailed fort. Your descendants are all dead. Here is a list of all the dwarves in the fort:
(https://i.imgur.com/NpGu4Uq.png?1)
Post by: auzewasright on June 14, 2018, 06:40:07 pm
Post by: Imic on June 15, 2018, 04:29:13 am
*holds ear to chest* It's alive! Hurry, put on the life support, Battlefailed shall live again!Beeep... Beep... Beep... Beep... Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep... Beep... Beep... Beep... Beep...
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 16, 2018, 07:51:48 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 18, 2018, 06:26:44 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on June 30, 2018, 07:19:42 pm
Post by: auzewasright on June 30, 2018, 09:01:06 pm
Post by: Fleeting Frames on July 01, 2018, 10:40:51 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 01, 2018, 01:11:07 pm
Go conquer the surface?That's not too hard, all I have to do is send out the necromancer squad to kill the ~15 zombies on the surface. Conquering the second cavern, now, that's a challenge.
Post by: auzewasright on July 01, 2018, 01:40:59 pm
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 03, 2018, 05:00:25 am
Post by: Sanctume on July 03, 2018, 09:21:39 am
Post by: TheFlame52 on July 11, 2018, 03:50:15 pm