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Isn't Salmeuk going to play? I hope so because i'm probably not ready to take another turn yet, playing takes a lot of time

Wow, exciting read! So many cool twists and turns. The war of conquest begins...

I hadn't even thought of the possibility to steal livestock. Perfect for this desert fort! Good idea to fill up the corridor with traps. Only reason I didn't build more traps, is that I wanted more interesting battles and a better story to write. To cripple the invasion but not annihilate it. A bit selfish of me

I went to Legends to check, looks like Muthkat Searchwall was a denizen of Luteglen: the chamberlain and also a slave of the Union of Frenzy. Those primitives keep slaves? Also, 'Conceited' Apexroad slashed off his nose in the fight. Still, 'Maloy' Fernboulder and his whole squad getting imprisoned is wild stuff

What on earth happened to 'Salmeuk' the child? OH, I found him. He's living in Strappedsun with his mum, 'Pawn'. Thank goodness.

I fell a bit late on posting these after the forums crash, so we're at year 120 currently. That said, let's roll the post! - OttoK

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Image 1: Spicy cavern control, first cavern layer *


Image 1, 2: Second cavern layer *
* Click for full size image


Bardumiseth, Fightquests
Year 117, Part 1. Salvadaddy
Posted in Discord 11.03.2024


I was only able to get through a quarter of the year unfortunately due to being really busy and the game only running at 10 FPS

In that time, I made a magma reservoir and dumped magma into an area in the first cavern layer to clean up some trash, and I dumped some magma onto a particular populous area in the second cavern layer to clean up some baddies

I also killed a bunch of surface creatures and melted the corpses and other junk around the entrance, as I showed earlier. There weren't really any baddies in I melted in the first picture; mainly just debris. As for the second picture, there were a ton of baddies, which as you can see have been mostly taken care of

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From chat:

Salvadaddy — 23.02.2024
11 fps. Ngl things are getting a little painful
Also Jesus Christ there are a ton of agitated animals. It's like the whole region is sending all the animals at us

Salvadaddy — 23.02.2024
Ok so magma is a lot faster than I expected. So F for the dwarf we just lost to that
Ok it’s time for the moment of truth
I’m going to activate my nefarious device (TM)
It’s going to dump magma into the caverns to clean things up a bit

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Otto_K — 21.02.2024
Okay, it's time. Tlikilrursner lore. What... HE WAS A SPY ALL ALONG
Still adorable, though

Salvadaddy — 21.02.2024
I know we don’t have an alliance, but I still feel betrayed

Albreo — 21.02.2024
Then go kill his master
Free him!!


Image 3: Tlikilrursner legends page

Otto_K — 07.03.2024
Hmm, how might we do that?
So, what we know: The Forlorn Butcher was a kobold thief who lived in a cave called Sistersdeeps. He was killed by the marsh titan that attacked his home. 31 years later resurrected by Osp Gleefuleven the necromancer, who is the warlord of bandit group called the Influential Destinies, operating from a bandit camp called Bronzetowns
If there's other members of Influential Destinies, they're nonhistoricals. But i like to imagine a warband consisting of a necromancer and a single undead kobold, sitting around a campfire

Albreo — 08.03.2024
He's that necromancer subordinate and was ordered to come to our town as a spy. If we can kill that necromancer he should be free but still, intelligent undead won't join a civ under normal circumstances. DFhack can fix that.

Otto_K — 09.03.2024
Yea, could be fun to hack him joinable. And then is there any way to do a hit on some guy on the world map 🤔

Albreo — 10.03.2024
You can look upon the legend to see where he is and send the squad out. The rest depends on luck but it is doable. That's how I got the socks back in the previous fort.

"They also use mining as their weapon skill, which can help with training. "

Ohhh so that's how it works! yea i didn't know that, or maybe i heard about it somewhere... But do we want to draft miners anyway
Idk, sorry if i messed your design


EDIT: Hmm how does the math add up, wouldn't it be better to just train and get bunch of axe lords going? Oh, i didn't notice we had this many legendary miners
Do they get miner skill when training / fighting?

I won't be able to pick up the save until sunday if you'd like to play through saturday

I’m most likely good with the save Maloy. I’ve done enough for now. Put me in for another round though!

so I was rereading the OP.. at some point, are we opposed to starting a new fortress (same world, but nearby Gateheaven, and from the same civ)? Maybe we will receive some of these known dwarves as migrants. perhaps when this one inevitable crumbles from the FPS / corpse-spam / loyalty cascades..

Let’s see… Maloy said we should all agree before a fort is retired. I guess a poll could work for it too? Or maybe Maloy should call the shots on that

I put a lot of effort into the fort’s longevity: food, happiness, queen’s palace, etc; so I would appreciate if the fort stays around for a while!

Also, tanking sieges isn’t the goal here. We need to ATTACK! Occupy or raze some sites. We haven’t launched any attacks and if we start a new fort, that sets us back a couple of years before we can start attacking again

Image 1: Kib's undeath. (I didn't get screenshot of the full death screen so it's a recreation. So many resurrects)


Image 2: Dark warrior's end

The dark warrior’s minions clashed with the goblins. Maybe they were too decomposed, or maybe he was too busy fighting to raise them, but the dead weren’t strong enough. So the speardwarf took the enemies on himself, skillfully blocking attacks with his iron shield, and stabbing goblins with a steel spear.

Poor Kib ‘Greedy (for a dwarf)’. Not only was he sneak-attacked by elves, he now was repeatedly reanimated by the necromancer in a Sisyphean fight against a goblin.

The dark warrior juggled a giant pile of goblins seemingly easily, and killed almost 20, grievously wounding many more. But then one of his rotten zombies turned on the giver of its undeath, and punched him in the lower body. The impact collapsed his torso and he died instantly.

The remaining goblins headed for the trap entrance. When the traps and ballistas were done with them, most were wounded and military finished them off.

Some dumb shit happened meanwhile. I accidentally shot off ‘Doom’ the human ballista operator’s arm and leg with another ballista that I installed behind the others. He survived, though. Lesno Spishabluth the goblin tantrumed near the drink stockpile and was lethally injured in the fight. Ùshrir ‘Pig’ died somehow, maybe in the same fistfight.


Image 3: The world of Heavensgate

Image 4: Traders and liaisons

I built a roof on top of our outdoor crops, as goblins were seen climbing in. I added more looms and farmer’s shops to process rope reeds faster, and set up clothing work orders. Also dug out and melted a lot of gold and finally furnished the queen’s quarters.

The Geared Gales were sent to explore the wider world in search of trade partners. Traveling past the Confining Hills to the Humorous Jungles, they demanded tribute from the forest retreat of Sisterscobras. Later, they ventured to the nearby mountains, to collect tribute at Cloisteredrocks, a dwarven fortress. We’re now in contact with the civilizations of the Fair Sun and the Artificial Pillars.

At autumn, the caravan from our own other sites (??) came. I traded in rock, steel and bone crafts, and gems. I bought all their leather and cloth, the seafood, and half of their cheese. That's pretty much all they had to offer us.

With the caravan came the outpost liaison, and bestowed us the rightful title of ‘Capital’. However, he didn’t move in with us. Maybe because we don’t have a landholding noble? No idea.

Image 1: Dwarves vs Colossus


Image 2: Gross biscuits

The squads engaged the wounded colossus right in front of the main fortress entrance, and it soon succumbed to the extensive damage it had already suffered. A sworddwarf cut the construct in half and it turned into a statue.

In the kitchens, the results of our surface foraging emerged. Tasty? No. Necessary? Unfortunately.

At the very start of year 156, the humans of the ‘Union of Frenzy’ came to parlay. A human civilization from the coastal plains, but they've mingled too much with the goblins, and there's even goblins in this invasion force. Foul creatures, I think, little more than goblins in human skin.

I decided to fight right away to stay on top of the schedule. Ballistas were useless this time. Urdim ‘Micromanager’ rushed in alone, due to my bad squad stationing, and he was overwhelmed by the enemy. RIP.


Image 3: Union of Frenzy wishes to parley...


Image 4: They came from... behind!

Next, three more dwarves rushed into the pillar room. Nish ‘OttoK’ and another (I forgot who) mowed down enemy after enemy, fighting through the bridge. Kib ‘Scaredy Scorpion’ fell off, and engaged the entire tail end of the enemy force by himself.

Eventually all three fell down to the bottom floor, and headed for the stairway. The way I had set up the stairs, the three maniac dwarves had now cut off the remaining living invaders in the room. Must have been absolutely terrifying to realize that your only escape is blocked by three frenzied dwarves.

I don’t understand how but they killed everybody in the room, resulting in total breakdown of the 160-entity siege. ‘Micromanager’, ‘Scaredy Scorpion’ and ‘OttoK’ all popped a martial trance, that surely made an impact.

Many of the siegers were war dogs. And here, an opportunity arises. What, you thought when I said not to be picky, I just meant funny veggies? We’re eating dog now, dwarves. Some dog, at least. I managed to build more butchershops and put the tasks on priority, but the time window quickly closed and most of the dog corpses rotted away. Still, the dog meat we got will be useful.


Image 5: Bon appetit...

We have soap now! Some goose soap was made, and some dog soap. I added an atom smasher to the corpse storage halls and started clearing out the human waste of our many past sieges. Fort’s happiness improvement has exceeded my expectations even with the added carnage. Many dwarves are still very much stressed out, though.

The trick is to harden the dwarves with trauma without driving them insane.

Yea, that's about it. It's important to get enough good thoughts that balance out the bad thoughts, so dwarves recover and don't spiral

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Uh oh, there's a problem. THE HORSE has come.

Okay, we're in luck: the invading goblin force decided to take on the beast. It was quite a battle but they killed it. A web-spinner loose on the surface would've been a serious problem to reckon with...


Image 1: The horse

I've reorganized some of the stockpiles and set up new ones, and I added checks on EVERY work order so there's not so many cancellations all the time, and I also changed some of them to be global work-orders (vs single workshop).

Iden the 'Self-defeating' has created 'The Undignified Tours', a llama wool face veil; I gave the artefact to our monarch, and I think it looks pretty cool. The bird eggs finally started hatching. Just in time, too, since there was another strange mood: Avuz 'MaybelleV0' Armorwars, the new broker. With the goose bloodline secured, I opened the nest room and butchered a couple of the geese, which satiated the dwarf's need for bones.


Image 2: 'The Undignified Tours', a llama wool face veil

Image 3. Very nice! 'MaybelleV0' created the 'Amber Song', a bauxite wind instrument.

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In other news, sorry but I save-scummed a bit to test out the pillar chamber. It went pretty bad, so I reloaded to a previous save. If the dwarves fight at the chamber, some of them will dodge into the air and fall to the bottom, which will serve to separate the dwarves from each other and create confusion. Also our ballista operators aren't very good so sometimes shots seem to go wide. I installed some weapon traps on the bridge to hopefully get more enemies to fall down