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My most recent fort, started after a several month hiatus, is falling to its end.

The last eight in-game years have been relatively quiet, with no invaders save a siege consisting of two waves of hammergoblins and a random dragon stopping by. My military, although small, has proven exceptionally effective, given that it's two spearmasters, two elite marksdwarves, and two "blowgunners" using modded blowguns (rifles). As a precaution I've got three more full squads training up, and they're shaping up promisingly.

A vile force of darkness has arrived!

Okay, let's see what they've brought. Okay, a bunch of swordsgoblins and hammergoblins. Easy. And... Wait. War Cave Dragons? Twelve of them? Uh oh. And what are these "voracious cave crawlers?"

After a long and bloody fight, my 170some dwarf population is down to 36. the only remaining member of my original military is the captain of the guard, who shot around 280 bullets throughout the entire fight in the main entrance. Of the surviving dwarves, 10 are unwounded adults and 6 are children. I don't think I can pull this one back.

And, as I've learned today, if you mod in an item but forget to define what material it's made of, it has no weight. And when you melee attack with a rifle that weighs nothing, it passes through things.

Jeez, my turn again already? That was fast. I don't think I'm going to have much time this week to play, so you should probably move me down on the list (since I'd still like another shot at the fort).

This squad has 4 "Military" members in it, but none of them have... really any skill. This squad is definitely getting disbanded (or at least having all of the members expunged).

They're training in Lasher and Knife User, since I've noticed both tend to be pretty deadly. The game doesn't recognize those as military skills.

Also, just put all the millstones in the king's tomb. It's what I was doing.

If you don't mind, I'll take a miner. Name Manze, title Digger of Holes.

Hey now, I didn't murder him. He was dead before my turn started. The_Force even clearly stated "1 insane baroness". >.>

Yeah, sure, and if you post what you want now, I can probably even do it before the end of my turn.

I've never had much sccess melting things down, but heck, I'll see what I can do.

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Journal of Manze, Digger of Holes

Well, that farmer finished what he was making. It's one heck of a coffin. Guess the king gets a new coffin. Oh, or not. His tomb is already Royal. Guess I get a new coffin!



Miners were complaining about lack of work, so I told them to dig out another column of tombs. That'll shut them up.

I've ordered the production of a bunch of stone blocks. Our surface presence could use some extensions. Unfortunately, I've only got 4 months left of my rule, so I don't know how that'll go.

I've ordered our marksdwarves and our Legendary champions to patrol the surface while we start construction of a wall. That'll ease my mind for sure. They're on patrol for the next 4 months.

...Er. What?



Oh. Humans. I was wondering where their caravan was. Huh. I guess one of the other overseers pissed them off. God damnit guys. Okay.

...They brought one squad of hammermen with one lasher leading them. I'm pretty sure first squad can kill them by themselves.

Joeclark and HARD2 quickly got into position, supported by two marksdwarves. Then they all charged.





That was ridiculous. The lasher and horse escaped with two hammermen. HARD2 and joeclark killed everyone else.

The traders are sitting in the depot, and The_Force is being a lazy bum and getting drunk instead of trading. Sigh.

He finished getting drunk, then grabbed some food. Fuck it, someone else can trade this time.

Since the broker wasn't there to keep track of it [[read as: I was too lazy to screenshot it]], I don't have any hard copies of what was traded, but we got a ton of gems, food, drink, and some steel armour for about a billion crafts.

since we had some spare adamantine laying around unused, I told joeclark to go make himself a spear out of it. I think he may have threatened a metalworker until he did it. Oh well. He's already got a masterwork adamantine shield, made to fulfill one of the king's ridiculous mandates. Hmm, I think I know what to do with those millstones now.



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It's the end of Moonstone, so I've got two months left. This fort really is kind of slow. It doesn't help that the workshops are so far from the surface, though.

There seems to be two good ways to work on forts: You can either do everything near the surface, and pump magma up, or you can do everything near the magma sea, and not have anything at the surface. Problem being that at this point, half is near the surface, and half is down low. and I really don't want to try and fix that.