For years I have lived in the goblin fortress, enduring its oppressiveness. For years I have put up with vandalism in my store, muggings in the alleys, and broken windows in my home. No more.
I am leaving the Leafy Sinful Nightmare, and migrating to a new destination. There I will set up a fortress, and it shall put all to shame. I have decreed it, and so it shall be.
Me and six trusted goblins shall set out soon.
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So, I need a few suggestions from you guys.
First, I need names. Names and professions.
Name:
Profession:
Possessions:
I used adjuststart.exe, so points are not a problem.
Next, we need a place to settle. You can vote on this even if you don't want a gobbo.
Should we:
Settle in the mountains (like a filthy dwarf!)
Settle in the plains (like a filthy human!)
Settle in the forest (like a... I think this is obvious)
Settle somewhere else (like the desert, or a glacier)
We'll need...
(in case of mountains)
adamantine? Y/N
chasm? Y/N
cave river? Y/N
magma? Y/N
(in case of plains/forest)
river? Y/N
aquifier? N/N
magma? Y/N
I'll make a list of suitable locations, depending on what you choose.
I say mountains, with cave river and chasm at least.
Name: Scorpios
Profession: Butcher (5), Cook (3), Tanner (1), Leatherworker (1)
Possessions: Err, what can you take along? How does it vary?
As for map, I vote a desert with magma and a triple aquifer. We'll build a giant glass tower made of the crudest, sludge-colored green glass we can.
I vote for magma. Magma makes the world go round, and keeps it from collapsing.
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/awesome-1.png)
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/embark.png)
As you can see, we don't have dogs. We have beak dogs. But no dogs.
We're taking plenty of dwarven slaves, of course, for our carnivore gobbos. Other than that it's your choice.
We can take lots of meat, but no plants.
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/aweps.png)
We have plenty of weapons to choose from.
We have different class names, but I will understand if you say, for example, 'speardwarf' instead of 'goblin dragoon'.
We have your choice of stone and metal. We can also use bows and arrows if you like that.
EDIT: Since we, presumably, don't get invasions (No one had yet gotten them in the goblin fort discussion thread), should we maybe pick a dangerous map? Terrifying or sinister would be best.
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Scorpios ]
Edit:
How does this look?
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/lined.png)
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
I would gen seeds, but I'm working with modified files so it'll gen differently.
And I was was thinking the aquifer could provide water (So you could look for that or a river).
Do you know if we get sieges with goblins? I think not, which is why I suggested Terifying/Sinister. An undead site would be even better.
I checked the Wiki and, surprisingly enough, desert death traps aren't to be seen.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>I'll put all the beds at the top and see if gobbos can be fried to death.</STRONG>
Also,
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/gobcats.png)
I'll take 13 goblin kittens and a steel flail. I can make my own armor out of leather. I'll double as a soldier.
I'll butcher anything but those 13 kittens (And eventually, those 13 cats). Those are my pets.
Also, I can't exactly assign the 13 cats to you, just hope they choose you.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>We only have iron weapons. Sorry.Also, I can't exactly assign the 13 cats to you, just hope they choose you.</STRONG>
That's why I asked for one with a liking for goblin cats. But yeah, just bring them along and hope they pick me.
All their kittens are fair game, by the way.
And iron is fine.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Anyone else? Btw, if you pick a weapon skill I'll automatically get that weapon for you.</STRONG>
My skills are already taken up butchering, cooking, tanning and leatherworking.
I know goblins are carnivorous, but do they need food prepared?
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Fenrir ]
quote:
Originally posted by Scorpios:
<STRONG>My skills are already taken up butchering, cooking, tanning and leatherworking.
I know goblins are carnivorous, but do they need food prepared?</STRONG>
They don't need it, but dwarven slave tallow stew is always fun.
quote:
Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>Name: Gan
Profession: Troll Handler
Skills: Novice Swimming (1), Proficient Lasher (5), Skilled Animal Trainer (4)
// If skill name (dabbling/novice/etc.) conflicts with the number, the number is correct.
Equipment:
Iron Whip
four War Trolls
Leather Armor</STRONG>
Unfortunately Lashing cannot be trained at the embark screen.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>They don't need it, but dwarven slave tallow stew is always fun.</STRONG>
Then switch my points in cooking to Macedwarf. I'll do the cooking too, just enable it on start-up and I'll work my way from Dabbling.
EDIT: So we have a weaponsmith, butcher, tanner, cook, leatherworker, two animal trainer, four military and three spots left. We could use some fishers and a glassworker.
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Scorpios ]
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Unfortunately Lashing cannot be trained at the embark screen.</STRONG>
quote:
Originally posted by Scorpios:
<STRONG>Then switch my points in cooking to Macedwarf. I'll do the cooking too, just enable it on start-up and I'll work my way from Dabbling.
EDIT: So we have a weaponsmith, butcher, tanner, cook, leatherworker, two animal trainer, four military and three spots left. We could use some fishers and a glassworker.
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Scorpios ]</STRONG>
Actually, we have:
1 Jack of all Trading
1 Weaponsmith
1 Goblin dragoon
1 Butcher
1 Tanner
1 Leatherworker
1 Goblin smasher
2 Animal Trainers
2 Animal Caretakers
1 Armor User
1 Goblin chopper
1 Miner
1 Mason
1 empty slot
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Actually, we have:
1 Jack of all Trading
1 Weaponsmith
1 Goblin dragoon
1 Butcher
1 Tanner
1 Leatherworker
1 Goblin smasher
2 Animal Trainers
2 Animal Caretakers
1 Armor User
1 Goblin chopper
1 Miner
1 Mason
1 empty slot</STRONG>
Me, Fenrir, Narceh, Sandano and you. did you take two?
Then what we really need is someone to work with glass.
Also, there is:
Me
Vetehenin
Scorpios
Gan
Sandono
Kira
Grul
Which makes 7 gobs.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>We need a glassmaker, not MORE military! >=(</STRONG>
Noone really needs a glassmaker.
Besides, Grul not care what 'Grat want.
So I deducted points from everything else to make you a Proficient Glassmaker. As punishment.
Edit: Fine. You can have your useless military dwarf. I'm not drafting you. You're doing fucking glasswork.
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Yes, we need a glassmaker. We're making a green glass tower.So I deducted points from everything else to make you a Proficient Glassmaker. As punishment.</STRONG>
Now watvh as he died after being assaulted by a wolf while collecting sand because he didnt know how to hit him or use a shield. I know it'll happen.
Also, we're all going to die. Now strike the earth!
Or, gather is in silky bags and throw it back upon the earth in condensed form!
They seemed to like it, and each came up with what he required for the journey.
We ended up with this:
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/final.png)
After a vote, the majority of us decided we'd settle in the desert, and build a green glass tower to properly put the fortress to shame.
We're setting out immediately!
There's not a single thing on the list... besides elephants.
Well at least we all have military skills. now to enable hunting and create some elephant leather bags!
We also forgot to bring more meat. Oh well, at least we've still got a lot.
Our first order of business was to dig a channel around us, which Kira did with no difficulty. Then we dug into sandy loam, and after nosing around a bit found some basalt, which we are using to create a butcher's shop, tanning shop, and leather works.
EDIT:
Oh, lemme guess, I've got the most war animals, right?
EDIT AGAIN:
Wait, am I hunting elephants?
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Fenrir ]
...Surprisingly, he lived.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>No, yes, yes.</STRONG>
Unarmed.
Even more surprisingly, he actually scared off all the elephants. A group of warthogs arrived to take their place.
I assigned you to axe, but you ignored it.
Edit:
I tried to make Sandono cut some trees to make cages for our traps. He politely informed me he could not use a great axe to cut a tree and to sod off.
I asked him why not, and he told me he needed a battle axe. I doubt his sanity.
[ February 02, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
quote:
Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>Oh, well. I'll just rely on the strength of my war trolls! I'll breed 'em and build an army!</STRONG>
Trolls don't breed.
1. Don't use reveal. Struggle to find those tretrahedrite and galena veins.
2. Warp back before reveal. Dig down to hidden magma vent. Use reveal.
3. To hell with it, use reveal.
quote:
Originally posted by Scorpios:
<STRONG>Trolls don't breed.</STRONG>
I say don't use reveal, but I don't care much either way.
Also, I would like to add that you are most likely royally screwed. At least you've got a brook, but a few of the other things you've been describing sound like the beginnings of a rather interesting collapse.
Personally, I would have said find an evil environment (allows for nifty critters as well as sliver barbs) with a layer of obsidian. Forest would work nicely, because you can clear-cut the area around you and have that extra element of defilement.
Predictably, I immediately told her to dig out an area for use as a magmaworks.
quote:
Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>In the goblin mod, the only axes available to goblins are too big for Size 6 creatures to use. Should've told you that.</STRONG>
...what the fuck.
Anyways, Kagus, why so?
Assuming we don't all die of burning to death, I think we can maintain a good fort - until we hit the point where our food stockpiles can't keep up with our population. Then we have a problem.
Of course, we're all roally fucked until we get some leather bags.
Also, we finally made a copper battleaxe. I told Sandono to cut the shit and start chopping trees, but he replied that he was busy hauling. I told him he was relieved from hauling, effective immediately, and he told me to wait until he was done. I swear to God he's trying to make me get rid of all his other work so he can cut some trees.
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Sandono finally got off his ass, and started chopping trees. Also, we're making some bags. We'll be making some green glass blocks soon. I've also asked Scorpios to start making some biscuits or something. I'm tired of eating raw meat.
The elephants come and go, but never attack us. They actually flee when Gan gets near them. I have no idea how that works, they usually slaughter us.
The dwarven slaves are breeding. Which is good, we've been slaughtering them not only for meat but some extra leather.
This place is still a piece of shit. I came here expecting to make a thriving fortress and I've got a few holes in the ground and an empty moat.
I have our metalsmith making green glass blocks. He has two already. It's slow going because we don't have a lot of bags, but he's churning them out fast enough.
Sandono apparently pissed off an elephant and it slaughtered one of his war trolls. He managed to moderately wound it in the spine though, so I'm not too worried about him dying as I watch the fight. It's fairly obvious he's inexperienced with the axe, but he might actually bring down that elephant. Good eatin'. The elephant keeps trying to run away from sight, but Sandono keeps herding it back. I'll have to commend him.
Edit: As I stopped watching Sandono chase the elephant, I came across Kira, our burgeoning goblin sniper, fighting a fireman! He seemed to be relatively uninjured besides a few singe marks, and the fire man was looking bad, but I was worried.
Apparently, while I was away, Sandono cut the elephant's tusk.
Edit 2: Apparently the fireman wasn't done for yet, as he grabbed the recruit's wrist, thrust him into the channel, through solid rock without leaving a mark. He was then promptly slain by a kitten. Kira literally disappeared. Even stranger, we found him in our metal-mining hallway. This is one weird fortress.
While we were searching for Kira, Sandono made more progress on the elephant. He lightly wounded its upper body, and moderately damaged its liver! We'll have elephant for dinner yet.
Edit 3 since NO ONE WILL POST ARGH:
I am unspeakably mad at Sandono. After damaging its lower spine, he decided he'd rather have a drink. Which he promptly decided not to do when he realized there was an elephant right next to him. Immediately afterward, the elephant escaped and Sandono ambled off to slaughter a warthog.
Grrrrrr.
[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
Goblin towers are a hell of a lot different than dwarven mountainhomes.
Sandono was halfway through turning a warthog into a pile of gore when I realized Gan was supposed to be hunting and Sandono was supposed to be treeslaying. The mistake was quickly corrected, with Sandono looking a bit disappointed at having to chop bark instead of flesh.
In other news, we're laying out the base for the green glass tower.
The elephants and warthogs migrate through this area. As it's so hot, they don't use it as permanent resting grounds, they merely travel through the area. Besides them, this land has no wildlife to speak of save some monsters in the magma
Luckily, the elephants come through often and Gan was given a chance at one. He immediately set out hunting, accompanied by some war trolls. The war trolls did most of the work, but I don't believe he actually got an elephant.
Edit: Don't tell him I said this, but Gan is a pretty pisspoor hunter. Now, Sandono is hardcore. Really hardcore.
(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/swallis21/hunt.png)
Gan is just a shitty fighter. He can cut trees instead.
Edit 2: Sandono kind of disappeared. Last I saw him he was catapulting monkeys across the field.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bonobo.jpg/200px-Bonobo.jpg)
We have more bags, so sand collection is kind of picking up. I feel better doing it myself.
[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
quote:
Originally posted by Scorpios:
<STRONG>...what the fuck.</STRONG>
Actually they can wield battle axes.
I found this out by accident, because the first time I started my amazing goblin fortress I had a great axe, and couldn't chop any trees.
):
Waiting until I can buy or make some so I can chop down all those disgustingly pretty trees outside my fort.
Is acting just as I would!
Go bloodthirsty, lazy, madmen!
Edit:Also, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously, this is incredibly funny already.
Heres hoping we don't all die too soon.
Or, if we do, it's funny/epic.
[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Sandono ]
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>You're not dwarvish, you're a goblin for Chrissakes.</STRONG>
We're finally making a bit of progress on the tower. We're going to construct the base all the way up, and then make it much larger, with an encircling wall that contains workshops. Then, we will live entirely in the tower.
[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>...Grul had beat the shit out of me for my own good.</STRONG>
We're barely having any time to make glass, and there's now only 6 of us. Surely someone from the fortress has heard of us and wanted to come see our progress?
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Yeah, Sandono died and everyone's pissed off. The only happy one is Kira with all of Scorpios's fucking fucking cats.</STRONG>
My cats! No wonder I'm miserable.
And I still want them all butchered.
We will properly bury Sandono soon.
Edit: Horrors! It appears the elephants have turned savage! They nearly killed Grul while he was eating after sneaking through the fortress and, for some reason, not touching anyone else. Grul was our glassmaker and hunter. Could this be a warning to leave, stop hunting and stop work on the tower?
Edit 2: Tremendous progress! The entire first floor is laid out. Also, we have no migrants. This is troubling.
[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Squeegy ]
And I was loving my work to.
Well when/if immigrants show up please name one Sandono, give them the same dutys, pretend he wandered off/got resurrected.
Thank you.
Oh, and he doesn't have to be a animal handler this time, anything is fine as long as its dangerous.
Also, I see my self having to say this alot in the future...
[ February 04, 2008: Message edited by: benoit.hudson ]
Took it off a dead goblin in the latest siege. It was kind of strange, getting a postcard from the other side, knowing that somewhere out there is a goblin fort with goblins laboring away on stuff that some day will end up in the dying, bloodstained hands of their kin as they make yet another futile attempt to destroy me. It seems like such a waste.
Maybe on some level they know the last species to see their craftsgoblinship won't be a goblin, and they want to make a good impression. Maybe by crafting these masterworks telling the stories not of conquerors but humble laborers they're reaching out, craftsgoblin to craftsdwarf, sending a message of hope and peace.
Peace and love: what splendid offerings to the smelters! As we melt down these priceless goblin treasures we are melting away the barriers of prejudice and misunderstanding that divide our two species.
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Name: Ngukak
Requested Gender: Male
Profession: Weaponsmith
Skills: Proficient weaponsmith, competent speargoblin, and (2 levels) of mechanic.
Possessions: Maybe a war slave. Or ten.</STRONG>
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>Name:Sandono (again)
Requested Gender:Male
Profession:Axegoblin/Animal handler! (I WILL SUCCEED!)
Skills:Axegoblin, Animal handler, Animal caretaker (hunter/woodcutter if you want)
Possessions:2 War trolls, 4 beak dogs, 4 dwarf slaves (less if too expensive)</STRONG>
Thanks
quote:
Originally posted by Squeegy:
<STRONG>All open gobs are female.</STRONG>
Female is fine too.