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Dammit!  I just upgraded my drowning chamber, alloing it to fill three times as fast, and installing both an atomsmasher, and a retractable bridge to drain the water, when I was hit with a seige.  I held off the first wave at the cost of my squad of marksdwarves and all of my cage traps.  I opened the gates to allow the remaining goblins access to the drowning chamber (fortuitously causing a convenient elf-slaughter as well), when my dwarves streamed out of the fortress to collect assorted flotsam.

Naturally, the goblins immediately charged the entrance.  I lacked sufficient time to close the bridges to the drowning trap.  They made short work of my hastily-raised militia and gained entrance to the fort.  I think I will reclaim this one.  It was in too good a spot.

I had a chance to test my drowning chamber.  i was besieged, so I pulled in all my dwarves, and waited.  The first bunch of goblins entered the chamber, I sealed it, opened the hatches, and the water did its work.  Then, I emptied the chamber, opened the bridge, and did it again. 

That's when I discovered the cistern was really no full enough.  No problem--wait for the water source to replenish, and drown the trolls and goblins.  That's when I realized that, as a building destroyer, a troll can demolish a hatch.  Which they did.  Now, I have no drowning chamber, no military, my line of cage traps are full, and I am still besieged.

Found a good start area that includes a stream at a higher elevation then the entrance to my fort.  I have just set up a drowning chamber at the entrance, using a couple of drawbridges and a large resevoir.  I will have the water drain out of to the side of the map.  I have just tested the levers.  They should all be working.  The only real issue is the amount of ore I uncovered during my excavation.  That ore will be lost if I fill the resevoir--or at least, it will be inaccessible.  I might have to dump it, then relaim it.

In addition, I am slowly excavating a great hall.  It will have housing at the top, and a large eating hall/meeting place/throne room at the bottom.  I think I might also build a surface town on this mountain.  I will need to keep the lowlands clear, since there is only a small area where trees will grow.  I wonder how hard it would be to have a waterfall in the great hall?

I was able to purchase a giant jaguar and a giant tiger from the elves.  This was useful, since I encountered a Giant during the winter.  I set a line of cage traps in my entrance way, and retreated inside.  I had the giant animals at pasture near the front.  The Giant chased down and killed an elk and a yak.  Then, it went for the pasture.  The Giant Jaguar made relatively short work of the Giant, then killed a horse, for unknown reasons.

A metalworker is in a strange mood.  I don't have any metal bars.  Or a forge.  I think he is going to die.

Hello, favourite story thread.

Please don't go.  The dwarves need you.  They look up to you.

And is that middle webbed-dwarf holding a webbed-baby?

Yup.  That is a baby stoically waiting to be eaten, along with everyone else.

No other submissions for the contest?

I've got it pencilled in--hope to add ink tonight. 

ETA--will post once I sort out some problems with Imagur.com--it doesn't seem to want me to upload.

I thought only the person who posted the beast needed to vote?

Normally, the winner of the last one chooses the next.  I would say pick a winner so we can move to the next contest.