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More shenanigans between kobolds and puppies.  This time a kobold with a steel (!!) dagger managed to BEHEAD A PUPPY.

In other news, during a recent ambush, the captain of my newly-formed second squad got hit on the arm by a copper maul, fell down in pain, and triggered the falling rock trap he was standing under, which broke both his legs.  After the fight he HAULED HIMSELF TO THE HOSPITAL, WALKING ON HIS BROKEN LEGS.  And yes, he was walking, not crawling.

He joins the other member of his squad, a jeweler, int he hospital.  He is laid up with a...  broken toe.  Which caused him to also sit down on a rock trap, resulting in a broken leg.  Both are now infected.  After being stabbed in the foot by a kobold.  Fantastic.  There's also a member of the first squad in there with a broken left shoulder & upper arm.

A kobold thief just shanked a puppy with an iron dagger.

I cried.

[Note: just a somewhat-short fluff story about this reptile man that's been having a multiple year duel with a forgotton beast beneath my current fort.]

Axekiss was the name given to a small dwarven settlement built to house the workers that constructed the Marble Wall of the Dangerous Castle, a massive piece of engineering originally some 1200 tiles in length, now reduced to several smaller pieces, some ruined, and some still almost untouched.  One of the earliest stories from this settlement, and the only thing that kept it from being entirely eclipsed by the nearby Goldgates, was the story of Shulmik and Enolosoya.

In the caverns beneath Axekiss once lived a small tribe of reptile men, some nine in number.  They eked out a meager existence on the shores of the caverns lakes, subsisting off of fishes and lobsters pulled from those darkened waters.  Although no formal contact was ever maid and they remained distant, they were seemed friendly to the first few dwarven miners that happened across them.

But, as always happens, eventually the dwarves found more sinister things roaming beneath the earth, and sealed the caverns off, from then forward observing the caverns solely through viewports carved high above the cavern floor.  It was from this vantage point they recorded the tale of Enolosoya.

Though small, this unnamed tribe was by no means defenseless.  One dark creature, an eyeless porcupine with wings, saffron colored hair, and fiery breath, was quickly struck down in the year 1074 by one of their tribe when it wandered too close.  Sadly, though, its fiery breath had already claimed the lives of two of his companions.  The dwarves dubbed the creature 'Tofi' and the reptile man that slaid it 'Enolosoya', or Swambook, and thought little more of it.  Having now claimed the life of such a mighty creature, Enolosoya named his black-cap spear Abanececoame, "The Last Socketed Skull", and his shield Elalecofari Miracameda, "Saintauthored the Violet Blood".

Later that year, a creature they called Shulmik pulled itself from the pond that Enolosoya's people drew their sustenance from, violently attacking the tripe.  It was a gigantic six-legged feathered crocodile, with fiery breath and long, broad feathers.  It nearly wiped out the tribe with its fits of rage, and soon, it was locked in a duel to the death with Enolosoya.  The beast took him by the left leg and bit it cleanly off, but far from being hindered by this injury, Enolosoya was hardened by it.  He continued to fight against the beast as the hours turned into days, and then weeks, and then months.

Time passed, and the charred bodies of his tribe rotted into skeletons.  The sharp crack of Enolosoya's black-cap spear against Shulmik's body and the sound of Shulmik's own enraged fury echoed through the caverns, eventually drawing another ancient beast: Arani Rethivilela Yonali Conibo, or "Arani Diedphantoms the Lake of Coasts".  It was a towering, gray-scaled mite with large mandibles set into a bloated body and fiery breath.  A single well-placed thrust from Enolosoya brought it to its end.

For months, and then years, Shulmik and Enolosoya's duel raged, with Enolosoya never able to truly injure the massive beast he fought against, but too swift to be struck in return.  Legends say that, even to this day, the sounds of their combat can be heard echoing throughout the depths beneath Axekiss.

Perhaps not an ingame event, but after finishing my 3300 Marble Block wall around the entire map I revealed to search for metal and saved.  15 FPS from then on, and it only went downhill from there!  I was sad.

3300?  Ha Ha Ha!  Try 18,000.

Check my signature for info on it.

When I first saw this thread, I went like this:

But yes...  any structures built must be of uniformly colored material, and ideally, so is any furniture in those structures.

Pirated from the thread 'The Marble Wall', about my latest megaproject.  It's a series of walls and towers about 700 tiles long.

For those doing the math, that means yes, the maximum possible horizontal area you can select when embarking.

Main gate: silver gatehouse, golden towers on either side.  Courtyard, marble barracks to the left.

A gatehouse spanning the river that runs through the map.

A completed section of the wall.

Ground floor of the barracks.  Complete with hospital, weapon storage, and armor storage.

A temple currently under construction on the east side of the courtyard.  The top of the temple is going to house a shrine to that world's dwarven deity of jewels, including a pair of bronze statues - heavily encrusted with gems, of course.

One of my dwarves gave birth while running across a wall to replace an old section of rough stone with block stone.  It took her a few seconds to realize she wasn't pregnant anymore, drop the block, and double back to pick up her new son.