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There are no turrets outside bunkers (black B on the map), thats a military base (black M on the map) if it has turrets.

There are turrets outside of military bunkers now, or at least there are for some of them. There's a bunker just north of my current safehouse, and it's definitely got a turret. Unfortunately.

edit: or maybe I'm completely wrong! I just checked the bunker, and there's no turret there. Which is weird, because I remember getting shot at by something.

Oh, angband. I still have my character from a game that I started in... 2006? I think. A kobold warrior named Cabbage. Still haven't beat the game (and never will), but he hasn't died yet either!

It is a lot of fun, though I honestly haven't played that character for a while because I don't want him to die. I've got too attached.

So there's a mod for Skyrim called Frostfall, that adds in winter survival elements. You know, cold weather, exposure, icy water is dangerous, etc. And there's also a mod that gives you a choice of alternate starting locations! It's quite fun; one of them is a shipwreck.

Absolutely do not activate Frostfall before choosing the shipwreck start.

I learned, today.

just finished the Summer Book, by Tove Jansson. My theme is now "books I've been putting next to my bed for years with every intent to read them, but never have."

Died from starvation/poisoning. I was trying to figure out what herbs and plants and berries were poisonous, by eating them, because I was starving. The answer is: at least one of them.

I haven't played this in years, mainly due to the price. I'm glad that they're offering it like this.

Now, to see if I still got it*



*it being the ability to starve to death, over and over.

((Yeah, that did happen in Greatbridge, towards the end! Fond memories. Got it fixed now, thanks))

A Visitor

The upper levels of the fortress were filled with the sounds of building, and occasionally, with the more organic sounds of goblins being crushed into paste, along with one guinea hen who was somehow mistaken for one. Aban had retreated to her office. It was quieter there, and much less messy. There was almost no chance of slipping and falling in a puddle of goblin guts.



Her office... she had only recently realized that, after all this time, and after everything that had happened at Oceanbridge, she still used the same dirt packed room as her office. It had the same high backed, badly carved granite chair, and the same willow table (though its legs had gone, and been replaced with piles of limestone brick), the same piles of paper on every surface they could fit. It was possible some of them were from before the first fall.

Aban wasn't "in charge" anymore, and didn't really want to be, but in here she could see the internal rhythm and life of the fortress, and that was worthwhile. Dull lists of numbers, requests for supplies, brief notes from the surgeons; nothing. Until you put them all together in the right way, and they became everything. Croaker's ambiguous notes (she could never make much sense of them), the demands from Gar for more and better murder machines, Mr. Anderson's taciturn reports on the state of the army (awful)... put it all together and it somehow made Oceanbridge make sense.

"You're getting pretentious, little dwarf"

Aban didn't jump up from her chair, nor did she fall over backwards. She did swear, in a quiet, stunned way. There was another dwarf in the room, standing in front of her.

It was her.

Well, obviously it wasn't. It looked exactly like her, and sounded like her, but it wasn't her. That would be absurd. It looked like her, but it wasn't. Aban kept telling herself that as she stared at the thing that had appeared in her office.



"Yes, I thought this might get your attention. Little else has so far. And no, I am not you. I am more.  I am your god. I am Tholtig" The thing that was not her stopped and waited, looking very pleased. Aban could only wonder if she really looked that smug at times. Probably not.

The 'god' continued. "I sent you here on a mission, and The Bridge is going well, and you are to be commended for that. But then you build fortifications, and walls on the outside of the fortress, and that huge underground room..."

"The safehouse?"

"I do not care what you call it Stop. There is no need for that. I can protect you from-"

At that point, Aban had to laugh. She had been in shock, watching something that looked and sounded exactly like her give orders like the old queen, but hearing the words"I can protect you" brought her back.

"Excuse me? Um, if your job is to protect us, you're doing a piss-poor job of it. I mean, have you seen what happens here? All the time? And you aren't Tholtig... I don't know what you are, but I'm sure you aren't a god. Get out of my office, and leave me and this whole place alone. We've got enough problems as it is."

Tholtig didn't respond, at first. She didn't seem to know how. Finally, in a slow, powerful voice, she said "You will do as I command. Who do you think protects you from Rakust, the mad god, now? Who do you think brings the fires that cleanse his minions from the field? Who turns his slaves against one another, so that you may continue to build? You owe me everything, dwarf."

Aban thought of an answer, later that night. But the voice that Tholtig used on her then stripped away every thought she had, and left her feeling frightened, and small, and very, very vulnerable. Fortunately, someone chose that moment to knock on her door.

At the sound, Tholtig... dissolved into the wall, (there was no other word for it) and another person, a real person came through the doorway.

"Greetings, bookkeeper! I am Jacen, and, you may well note from my formal livery, that I am a soap maker! Yes, I was born into the most noble of all professions, but that is not what I wish to discuss. I would like you to direct me to your ashery, that I may ply my trade!"



Aban sighed in relief. This, at least, was normal.

..........................

Next: Messy Business

((I've got to dig out the post where Tholtig first shows up, I'm sure this is confusing))

((working on an update, but... I hate to cheat. But there's a stuck giant who is making things a mess. Is there any way using dfhack to move said giant, or maybe to just kill it? a giant is stuck in the sky, and the siege will not officially end until it comes down))