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Considering that my introduction to this game was spending a couple of weeks reading some of the more legendary stories which ended with the locating of HFS, I say I spoiled it before I even made the decision to install the game.

I don't use the site finder often, so underground pools, magma, etc generally remain hidden for my forts. They tend to die first time I get annoyed at a dwarf and execute him, resulting in a tantrum spiral.

LOL that happened to me in an early fort. Only I had dug a well, with a cistern 2 Z levels deep before there was any water. Still read dry, I cooked all my plants so I had none to brew, and ran out of booze. It was winter, the brook and lakes were froze over, and boom. Two dwarves died of thirst, 5 died after the riot.

Since then, I start with no less than 160 units of booze, 40 each of the 4 Dwarven types. Along with 60 Plump Helmet Spawn, and 50 Plump Helmets. I also make sure to space out my brewing operations, at least until I get a large enough agriculture going that I can keep things going constantly.   

10-4.

9th Felsite

Lor crept quietly through the catacombs, towards the eastern door. Today, he had his axe with him, and intended to find whatever it was making the noises he heard earlier.

Mentally he noted the remaining iron and coal down in these tunnels; there was still plenty to spare, and enough to restart a metalworking industry once cleanup had finished. Mind filled with plans for a future iron-clad army, he made it finally to the stairs up.

There was no light at the top of the stairs, yet he continued on, counting on his naturally excellent vision in such places to lead him on.

Here, the passage branched, with one headed straight north while the other continued east. He chose east.

Glancing around, he saw nothing worth mining for here. "Probably just an exploratory tunnel..." he mused to himself. Once again falling into his mind with plans for extensive housing in this area, he didn't notice that some... thing, stood before him.

Just as he raised his head, the world went completely, utterly, black.

I think such a port would have to wait until physics cards and 8ghz 16 core processors are the norm. DF already pushes most computers. 

27th of Granite - I suppose I should have been writing a log of our current misadventure prior to this, but with the harrowing journey and the finding of Stormchannels it has been hectic.

I'm getting ahead of myself. My name is Lor Cogdin, Master Craftsdwarf and de-facto 'Leader' of the expedition to find Togalcatten. I have, or rather had, a personal interest in the affair; my cousin Vabok Fencedglazes was a captain in the Stormchannels military, and her husband a 2nd Lt. I had received the last bit of news of Togalcatten 3 years ago, when she told me of her second son being born, and her plans to request a complex of rooms for herself and her family.

Togalcatten had started nearly 7 years prior to this as a trading outpost, and had grown a considerable amount. I had even considered moving there with a caravan, but the last one to return from there reported an empty courtyard.

It has taken me 3 years to garner enough support, mostly among the common populace, to mount this expedition. Most notable is my friend Udil, who is the true leader of this force. A veteran Ranger, he is currently standing in the rain near our wagon and meager supplies.

Upon arriving, it was, as reported, empty of life. The bones of various animals and an array of goods and supplies was strewn about the halls. Most of it is good. The odd part is the lack of dwarves. As of this writing, there has been only one body found, a pile of bones sunk to the bottom of a small pond inside the courtyard.

Our supplies are all but gone; about the only thing left is a large amount of seeds left over from the fortress' prior occupants. I've ordered the old farms, an extensive setup, to be started full bore in hopes of providing for us through the rest of the year.

Tomorrow I'm going down to the recently discovered catacombs, to see what is down there. Surely there will be answers there. I hope Vabok is safe...

*OOC*

I currently have 14 dwarves and no idea where I'm going with this reclaim. Feel free to claim one or two. I claim Lor as my own tiny sociopath.

To be honest, my poor military is suffering because of it. The only casualty is a spear dwarf who died after having her lung punctured. During sparring.

Currently, my real military is training while the Death Squads (also known as the US army, untrained, unled, and unequipped soldiers whose job is to die).

Sadly, my dwarves felt the need to give my dead, berserk craftsdwarf the good tomb instead of the one who died holding a weapon, so it took repeated attempts at unconstructing his coffin to get the correct dwarf in the tomb. I gave the other one a alcove in a hall though.

*EDIT*

Finally! It took 5 kids (3 born here, 2 immigrated in) and nearly 7 years, but I got a goblin baby snatcher! He got ran over by the dwarven merchants as they were leaving, kiled by one of their three marksdwarves. *sigh*

I did manage to get my entire army armed, and all the squad leaders in plate. So no more Death Squads.

Ok, I'll check that. I passed out cold and didn't wake up for about a day, so I'm just now getting around to things again. Thank you.