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We're going to get bees soon.  We already have necrotizing poison that causes dwarves to rot from the inside out.  Why don't we combine the two into bees whose sting causes dwarves to rot from the inside out?  Stick them in savage or terrifying locales and require that their handlers wear specialized beekeepers uniforms, either like a suit of armor (chain vest/mail legs/full helm/gauntlets/high boots) or a cloth uniform crafted from the clothier's shop.

Including the ability for bees to sting those who wander too near their hives would ALSO enable the weaponizing of colonies!  What could be better than using swarms of deadly bees to attack your enemies?

...alright.  Weaponsmith gets hit with a fey mood.  He grabs adamantine and has a preference for battle axes, so I think yes! and brace myself for an awesome artifact weapon.  He grabs three rough light yellow diamonds (which turned into a generic encrusting, encircling bands, and an image of the ascension of a civ queen in the year 226), some cat leather, cat bones, cow bones, acacia, and gets to work.  Time passes...

Rigoth Dorenstakud, Weaponsmith, has created Bibanmozib, a adamantine battleaxe!

Biban...?  What a funny name.  Time to check this out!

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uh.

"Ballswallowed"

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As in, the swallowing of balls.

On the item is an image of Ilral Pagedold the dwarf and dwarves in light yellow diamond.  The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Ilral Pagedold to the position of queen of the Brilliant Labors in 226.

Ballswallowed.

You know, it IS an artifact and all, but I really just don't know if I'm going to have one of my heroes carry this thing around...

How many people planning on making a fort based entirely around exporting meals made entirely out of high fructose corn syrup?

I'm going to call it: Dwellwheels, or 'Kokebkola'

One of the dwarves in my guard has been watching John Woo films and is now wielding a crossbow in each hand, one of which is an artifact blood thorn crossbow.  First, I need to figure out an appropriate substitute for sunglasses (maybe an iron mask?) and assign it as his equipment.  Second, I need to tame several doves and assign them to him as pets.  Lastly, I need to make sure his best friend dies fighting goblins.

On a more practical note, does this result in a doubled rate of fire? 

My already-legendary weaponsmith got hit by a fey mood.  Immediate first reaction: forbid every metal in the fort but adamantine.  He takes a forge and grabs some wafers.  YES!  He grabs some glass and elephant leather and gets to work.

The spear that comes out of it is called The Unwelcome Desert, and depicts the foundation of the fortress it was created in.  Not a desert, but you know what?  My most famous military dwarf right now, Ablel Helmedbattle the Fresh Wrath of Martyrs (awesome military name btw), has ten kills, three of which are forgotten beasts.  And he uses spears.

I have him dump his old weapon in my specially-designated crafts zone so I can make it fancy with some platinum and gold decorations (hell - it has 2 FB kills on it, the third belonging to Alblel's left foot) and give it to my other master-speardwarf-in-training, hopefully turning it into a named item.  It's a shame you can't put gems onto any weapon but arrows, or else I'd toss some diamonds onto it as well.

I haven't checked yet, but if I can import petrified wood (his favorite material) and he turns out to bring in a lot of kills, I'm going to build a large, multi-z-level shrine for this guy underground with his coffin sitting in the middle of this massive, wide open spire with alcoves in the walls bearing petrified wood slabs with the names of those who he has vanquished carved into them.  Otherwise I'll just use marble slabs.

ITT: Your perfect artifacts, and the awesome that you commit with them.  No lame crap like Planepacked imitators, items made out of modded materials like Bullshittium, or other stuff.  STORIES!  Stuff that clicks into place perfectly, like an artifact table made from phyllite when your baron loves tables and phyllite, or items that become quasi-artifacts and get passed down from soldier to soldier.  Cool stuff!

Now, I'm not normally the type to shy away from visiting the circus once in a while.  But I do draw the line on finding the circus while exploring the lower level caves in a fort.

I mentioned in a previous post that I looked around a bit with the reveal utility in DFHack because I was curious about a massive square block of molten stone that turned out to be the zone boundary between two climates, and resulted in a rather unusual situation where I could get into the circus without getting any cotton candy first, the result of one magma sea starting a good 30 stories beneath the bottom layer of the magma sea to one side of it.  Meanwhile, on the other side, there's a 'magma pool' placed such that it's no longer a pool, having drained away into the circus.  Which it leads directly to.

I restarted from a previous save and am now walling off the cave, which is a little disappointing because it means some of my FB's are going to pile up, and I won't be able to hunt them down without sending in the clowns as well.

[Edit] Um.  Why is there a 'Boiling wraith shell' in my stockpile screen?

Goblins must have really scrawny arms and legs.  I just had a goblin get their leg severed by a crossbow trap a moment before my guards arrived and beat her to death with steel truncheons.