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I flooded it. ALL of it.

6 people drowned because they got caught in stockpiles after trying to store items, and didn't go upstairs like they were told. now about 1/3 of the fort is flashing red and threatening a tantrum spiral. We lost everything, even the food and booze. Luckily I put doors on the dining room entrance so I saved almost all of the dopes that refused to leave. I suppose we have enough food sources and booze can wait...

Think I'll savescum and forget the 9 months that have passed since my last save. 

It's been a rather eventful year in Goldenlabored.
First, I received an artifact ring worthy of the Worst Artifacts thread. It did name a couple historical figures for me to look up, A rabid grizzly bear and a dwarf by the name of Olin, both more than likely deceased, although hunting down a rabid bear would make an interesting adventure mode goal...

Second, the elves, their diplomat, and a Cobald liaison without a caravan came. I decided to piss on the elven parade and 1. deny their requests to stunt our woodcutting (I honestly need to clear quite a few trees with the construction projects going on, but screw them anyways.). 2. I offer them a wooden bin full of wooden crafts. 3. I seize all their interesting goods. I was disappointed they didn't bring me anything interesting anyway, least boring animal they brought was a rhesus macaque, i was hoping for to see tigermen, which can at least double as fishermen (the only labor tamed, intelligent animals will currently perform, besides bringing what they catch to the stockpile) on top of being relatively interesting. Oh well, there are wild ones, rarely, on my map.

The Cobald, on top of coming unaccompanied, just said hello, complimented me on my wonderful architecture (chaos as far as my forts usually go), and took off with surprising speed. Maybe he's just afraid of the wildlife?
Summer involved absolutely nothing but work.

Finally, in Autumn, I finished the moat around the fortress and wall off the crossing point. The entire process, spanning 3 z-levels, involved only a single cave in, it was quite thoroughly unexpected. Immediately afterward, two trade liaisons, unaccompanied by caravans for unknown reasons , arrived. The first was a Cobald from the local Cobald civ, and the second, surprisingly, was Nothing, from Nowhere, the local orcish civ. I wasn't really expecting to not see you so soon, nobody, especially not unarmed and without a platoon consisting of no-one. 


Haven't actually let them in yet but the dwarf caravan should be right behind them and I would like some of the weapons I ordered. I intend to craft a horrifying experience for the orc to see if i can prompt war out of them, they were meant to act like goblins but without the ambushes. The Cobald can go on admiring my architecture unless I decide war with them would be fun too.

Had about enough for tonight, goodbye.

I haven't been able to hold onto a fort long enough to get ambushes in months, how do you stay fixated on one long enough to GET sieges?

You're not alone. It's supposed to be a baby i think though.

I don't use DT. Normally I just change everyone's profession name to whatever their supposed to be doing.

Exactly what I do, on top of changing everyone's job description to include everything in their 'class', all farmers do every job under the farmers list, all craftsman blah blah blah etc. It becomes incredibly easy since I only ever need to assign jobs at the workshops and it gets done, quickly. The only people I ever manage to keep perpetually working are the stoneworkers, always have something for them to be doing.

I'm not sure I should even attempt to wrap my brain around what just went down in your brain, it might be contagious.

chickensplosions?

Thermonuclear chickensplosions?