Oh, yes, because I forgot... I did, in fact, **** up Ash's gender, AshSpawn is, in fact, male, and I have no idea why I thought otherwise.
@Splint:
Considering the mayhem that went down in Talvieno's turn despite both him and you being fully aware of exactly which flavour of shit was about to hit the fan, I shudder to think of what LW's reign will end up doing to the fort ._.;
I predict that our humble fortress's population will drop by at least 40%.
It will be
hilarious.
@Talvi:
I found the dwarven graffiti but couldn't think of anything to say about them.
I was going to use the tower for a ceiling drop on the stranded Spawn, but I've grown sorta attached to the creepy bastard for some reason
I'll think of a use for it at some point.
I already have a drawbridge in the new entrance. A spike moat would be cool, but I have better things to be doing than making pointy objects to stick into the ground, such as making pointy objects to stick into the Spawn.
The Spawn turned up ridiculously early in my test fort as well, but I decided it was both funny and still-manageable, so I didn't bother trying to fix it. FWIW, the goblins are also sending ambushes earlier than I thought they would, so perhaps it's more of an overall behaviour change in 34.01.
EDIT: Oh wow, I
just now realized that every single entry in Part 1 lists the year as
502 for some stupid reason
I'll fix it at some point.
EDIT II:Wait a second... I just reread Splint's in-character post...
If there is a pitchblende lever somewhere... and
that lever is what operates the drawbridge...
THEN WHAT IN THE HELL DID THE LEVER WHICH I DECONSTRUCTED DO!?!? D: