Electricity? You don't need batteries, all we need is magnetite and copper (but silver or gold is better). Just make a spool of copper wire and rotate the magnetite inside it! The motion of a magnetic field near a conductor changes the magnetic flux, thereby creating current. We could even go big and hook up the magnetite to a water wheel!
Thanks for pointing that out - I hadn't thought of it. And congratulations, I think you may wind up being one of Girlinhat's assistants.
Another excellent post, Mister Talvieno. Keep it up.
But so help me Armok if anything I disapprove of happens to KodKod I will find where you live and kill your loved ones.
I fear for my life. Also, thank you.
@Splint - thanks, man.
Mark my words, I will get those kidneys one way or another.
Okay, so... Do you want to be a graverobber?
Also, Good job Talvieno. Good to know we're screwed to the highest degree...
Actually, that's the next post. But still, thanks.
I will not let this fort die so soon. Neither will I let many more people die, either. Human ingenuity is better than that! Talvieno, I'm dropping my current profession as a siege engineer/philosopher and activate my Universal Mobilization Protocol, code Gorilla, for the fortress.
I'll assign three of the dwarven migrants to make thirty crossbows and all available smithies - to forge thirty stacks of metal bolts; it seems dwarves are born with innate knowledge of how to do everything that dwarves can do, while humans have to stumble blindly through these crafts. My belief is that it's better to let the dwarves do something if you want it done right the first time.
Whoever are our masons, I'll drag two of them out to the dining room and yell at them until they wall in the doors leading to goblins and fortify every corridor with at least one firing position. We'll need everything we can do to slow them down.
Finally, I'll use the ichor-covered trousers - wherever our vermin-hunters got these - and a bucket to strategically place several pools of ichor-stained water near the critical points of the fort's inner doors. A water mixture would penetrate that armor better than just a stain, and I'm pretty sure that ichor's doing something bad when it hits your skin.
The plan of battle for when the siege commences is this: ten volunteers will be manning the fortified positions in the southern corridors and retreating as the greenskin forces advance... retreating into the dining hall, luring the pink-haired bastards into the primary bulk of our trap.
At the dining hall, another twenty volunteers will use upturned tables as fortifications and fill the greenskins with bolts one by one as they enter the room. Eventually, the goblin forces would sound retreat; I strongly believe that it'll be before our crossbowmen run out of bolts.
1. Have no fear, HmH, we're not dead yet. I'm not giving up while we're still alive.
2. One of the rules in this fortress is that aside from new forum players coming in, and the forum players initially, I'm not allowed to change skillsets (unless someone adds something else they can do in RL). I don't know about dwarves, though... it feels like cheating - it'd make everything a
lot easier. I would've taken migrants out if I'd thought of it, but it's too late now. Oh, and we don't have any bowyers as it stands. Not one.
3. Sounds like you want an army position. Militia commander sound good to you? Oh, and by the way - this is only half of what I've gotten done. Autumn was incredibly eventful.
4. Do you really want us to breach the cavern for the possible (uncommon) chance that we'll find a forgotten beast with deadly ichor? Remember - no one can die. That's the goal. Nobody dies. Not one. I'm failing so far with four casualties.
that's pretty good considering we started with almost no food. I was sorely tempted to cheat and mod in NO_EAT and NO_DRINK, but we managed without it... barely.
We'll do our duty with a fire in our bellies and prayer to Armok on our lips. And if we do run out of bolts, I'm sure we can give them a through beating with the bows if they don't retreat.
FOR THE TWELFTH BAY!!!
We're already out of bolts.
Yes, I did just say that. Our hunters used up all the bolts and I had yet to find iron.
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