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I was afraid that this might happen, WELP. So question is, how utterly fucked are we?

Let's crunch some numbers.

Peregrine falcon flying gait: 87 kph (110 gait speed*)
Average dwarf TOP speed: 30 kph (293 gait speed*)

As pertains to gait speed, the lower the values are the faster the creature is.
I do believe that the peregrine falcon possesses the fastest gait in the raws, and is almost 3 times as fast as the fastest dwarf.

All I have to say is... LOOK OUT! DEATH FROM ABOVE!

* All values taken from the DFwiki.

I apologize for the lack of updates, real life sometimes grabs you by the balls and refuses to let go until it squeezes you dry.

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Summer has arrived on the calendar.

<3 that you did character portraits for the starting seven. Also, is that a sextant I spy dangling from my neck? Nice touch there.

About the butchering, my understanding is that as long as the corpse isn't on the re-animating part of the biome, it should be pretty safe. So keep refuse far away from the lake (including the sections underground). Don't just take my word for it though.

Requesting a turn.

Sounds like you're having this trouble early on, which is not uncommon. Embark with a variety of misc items next time, things like yarn cloth, silk cloth and glass are harder to get really early on. Cloth is especially troublesome because there are 3 different types and the moody dwarf doesn't really specify which of the 3 they want. Other potentially problematic items include leather and bones, where they might demand more than one stack, as well as glass, which can be a nightmare to procure if your embark lacks any form of sand.

If your dwarf does not claim a workshop, have a look under their labors and you can deduce what workshops they might need. (If they don't have any specific skills, its craftsdwarf.) Enable that labor temporarily on another dwarf and get them to build the appropriate workshop for the moody dwarf. Otherwise, just stockpile a few of each essential item when you can from the caravans to avoid troubles later on.

Because it has been somewhat successful in Immortalitytowers, I'm going to start this succession with a bit of an illustrated turn. This should help us set the characters, location and general atmosphere of the fortress.

I just happened to read through that last night, and short to say it was very entertaining, and I wholly approve of such an endeavor.

I'm aiming for the following crew:
-miner
-farmer
-mason
-carpenter
-fisherdwarf
-brewer"cook
-soldier

I don't know how to break this to you, but since we are embarking on a terrifying lake, I don't think... fishing is going to work as well as you think it will. So let's just say that I'm going to frown upon that decision. But hey its your call.

Hmmm, since TheFlame52 is taking the mechanic role, I'll scrap my previous ideas and just roll with the carpenter then. Just throw in some skill with pottery and enable building designer (or vice versa) and we'll call it a day.

as I don't think you'll be designing bridges nonstop on embark.

I sure hope to Armok that will be the case. May Zon show us his mercy.