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I found what I thought was going to be a wonderful site; a 2x2 square of swampland surrounded by a terrifying lake on 3 sides, with a river to the north, which I thought was straight and would cut it off form the mainland entirely until I made a bridge to cross it. Unfortunately the river only flows horizontally for about 2/3s of the map, then goes straight north. I also assumed that because only the lake was evil, and the river was in a good biome, that the river wouldn't be filled with !!zombie carp!!. Foiled again. I should have immdeiately made a backup of the clean world so I wouldn't feel dumb for abandoning this site to view those other 3 peninsulas cut off by river flows.

Half way across this world was another very interesting area; a volcanic mountain range on an island, directly adjacent to the ocean, with several areas of very steep cliffs. I may very well embark there instead, to get an Oceanside fortress area.

Opium and tobacco (and alcohol if you'd prefer to call it a recreational drug rather than a beverage) have been used for millenia. I think marijuana has also been used for a very long time, but that could just be a memory hiccup.

Ah the beauties of blood. My fortress hasn't actually seen much for battle, but the contaminant multiplier has bathed the entire topside area and arena in thick layers of blood. I suppose I should use dfhack's cleaning tool more often...

Menstal Moistlegend, amusing because it almost sounds like Menstrual Moistlegend.

Of course the game insists on crashing immediately afterward 

Quote from: Eric Blank on August 25, 2010, 11:59:14 pm

My one noble was mandating the construction of goods that CAN'T be produced, you know, hfs special.

That's how I got that miner killed, couldn't produce the goods, couldn't come up with a way to kill that noble. He was the mayor at the time, so there really wasn't much I could have done but kill him, and piss everyone off, or let someone go to jail. The miner was in no danger of dieing at the time, that only became a possibility when I had to let him off the leash because he wasn't being given water.

I hate the nobles.

problably a quote from the ones who considered watering him:"WHERES MAH BUCKIT" if that was your problem, then you have no water sources, otherwise not enough idlers.

P.S. lock the hammerer in a room, problem averted, just (d)ump items in through a hole in the ceiling. or make the hammerer somehow get an adamantite war hammer, seeing how everyone claims to have so much of it. just forbid his hammer in the stocks menu.

I have dozens of buckets and live off a river with a well on it, so it's the idlers, everyone was busy and I had forgotten that someone needed to be idling to keep the poor bastard alive. I don't have the hammerer, I'm keeping my population and noble count low for now, he was killed by the guards.
I should have expected this I guess, I haven't had to worry about the hospital patients because so far my doctors either deal with them very quickly and they're back on their feet in a matter of days, or they're already dead, but prisoners are pretty much trapped. He kept himself fed since there were food and drink stockpiles, but someone apparently drank his booze (maybe he was just feeling greedy?)

After this whole crisis is forgotten, it's been nothing but moderately good news; I traded with the dwarven caravan, receiving nothing worthwhile, but shaving the hair from that mountain we call the cloth stockpile. I want the population to stay right around 60 (with children included) so my processor can handle everything.
Injuries; Militia commander, erith, was shot in the foot by goblins while building a wall so they can't shoot at us. Oh the irony.
Unhappiness; The lowest ranking militiaman, the only one still a recruit, is still unhappy. You'd think the idiot would have found a reason to cheer up, but no, apparently someone banned him from the legendary dining room.

OH MY ARMOK!

The dwarven caravan actually came! And they're close enough to the entrance that they probably won't die! (on their way in, at least)

In other news, I accidentally got a miner killed. He was ordered to 80 days in jail, but nobody would bring him water so I was forced to destroy his chains so he could go get a drink. At this point the expedition leader/mayor came and literally shredded him.

War with the cobalds has ended! Peace at last! Their diplomat was almost killed by an ambush on his way in...

Unfortunately for their captured soldiers, their civ counts them as dead upon being captured, and thus they will still end up stark naked in our arena, along with the goblins.

The unfortunate part for me is, the cobald civ was broken when I genned this world and so they don't actually send trade caravans, just liaisons, so now the only way I can get steel or bronze armor of the appropriate size is through making it myself or the dwarf caravans, which are extremely unlikely to actually make it inside. I've been completely cut off from the mountainhomes for 5 years, anyway, here's to hermitage!