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Beautiful presentation! I found multiple examples of bad writing in there, but I think I can safely attribute them to being tired, lol. I think I may generate a new world for the next fort... I'd like to have a thriving civilization to start from and sieging enemies. Let's see what I can figure out!

I'm currently working with a laptop, so the power available to dedicate to DF is somewhat limited.

The fortress is named Avuzritan, "Minebegins."

It has been several seasons and the Old One, named Guthstak odubbul Rurast Vetek, is still wreaking havok upon the local wildlife. The ravens, turkeys, wild boar and great wolves seem to provide a constant supply of targets for it to destroy. There have been no migrants since its arrival either. We believe we may have seen the last for a long time, though we now number 130 dwarves and 1 human monster hunter. However, we DID have two more Paladins arrive a season or two back. We lowered the bridges and they ran inside. We think the Old One was too busy chasing down and slaughtering some turkeys.

Sadly, we have had to move all our operations indoors. The kitchens, butcher shop, and tannery have all been moved already, and we have begun digging out a large cavern in which to grow trees. We have also begun the planning stages of bringing magma closer to the surface... the lack of wood is hurting us. The magma we found in the first layer of caverns appears to be a tube, which is lucky for us as we haven't had to dig TOO deep yet. We created a small chamber with an alunite floodgate so we can have a controlled flow to draw from.

Our need for more metal equipment in order to pump the magma has forced us to create a smithing chamber down near to the magma tube, just above the artificial pool we have created. Opening the last wall into the tube itself resulted in a death, luckily it was not our Queen who mined that particular wall, but one of our doctors. Also lucky that we've had several skilled doctors arrive, so it wasn't as harmful as it could have been, though the loss weighs heavy upon our hearts. We will engrave a slab in his memory. We also lost another dwarf, a wood cutter. She seemed somewhat melancholy to begin with, but started a couple fights with others in the colony and we had to put her in jail. She kept muttering about how her life was a nightmare. We did what we could for her, but during her sentence her condition continued to worsen. She apparently felt extremely embarrassed about being incarcerated and had a small mental break, but seemed to recover from it. Some time after her release, she had a total meltdown and eventually went berserk... we had to put her down before she could hurt anyone. She will be buried in our mausoleum. We will have to consider making that chamber grander... it is not fitting that our dead lie in a rough chamber. Another project to add to the list.

We have also begun digging out a way to safely enter the caverns below... we are planning to create some fortifications to allow our marksdwarves to fire upon enemies more safely and watch over any workers that enter. We have heard a distinct lack of screams from below for over a year now, so hopefully the great beast from before has traveled far from us.

We have much to do!

The fortress is progressing fairly well... We breached the caverns VERY early and found some lava within the first layer (or at least within the first opening if the layers are connected... not sure how to tell. ) We have not yet explored the caverns as a Forgotten Beast showed up fairly quickly. We've heard lots of screams from multiple different species from down there. We aren't opening up the caverns any time soon.

We had a Dwarven caravan with a liaison show up for the first time after a couple years in, though the caravan was immediately scared off by a pack of Great Warthogs. That was last year... it is now Summer. An Old One has appeared and is destroying the local wildlife population. We have sealed ourselves inside with our bridges raised. The Human Caravan is almost ready to leave, though... we're contemplating letting them leave, though we're uncertain of the potential consequences.

At best, they kill the thing, or maim it, and at worst... well, maybe we won't be seeing any more Human Fighters for a while. Not much time left to make our decision as they are making preparations to leave. We're, of course, also worried about the Old One gaining entrance in the process of letting the humans out. We think it'll be too busy tearing them to shreds to try, though. We will likely give it a try, then put the bridges back up. Maybe the Old One will get bored and find other living things to destroy. We are beginning to understand why there are so few people around.

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The Humans made it out... We had to encourage them to leave by tearing down the depot around them, but they left, and without casualties, even! Now we settle in and hope the Old One decides to leave.

Hi!

I am having a problem where chained prisoners are getting put into a cage and then into the animal stockpile. I -THINK- they are supposed to be released as they have served out their sentence. When I attempt to release them, I get a message that they are not in the correct Justice State.(?)

I am playing a modded game (DAIII War & Mythos), however, I have found a problem which existed in 2012 vanilla. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=107929.0)

This leads me to believe it is a problem with vanilla and not the mod. Is anyone familiar with this issue? Am I doing something wrong? Can this be fixed?

I have jailed my first three visitors for vandalism and destruction of property and I don't think I can get more visitors unless they can leave my fort, lol.

Thanks!

It would be a good idea to add those new download links to the initial post, as well as the descriptions and whatnot so people don't have to search the thread later to find them. The mod looks pretty neat. I like the setting.

Probably the same thing, could even be fixed by the same thing: The trading liason for the lion tribe comes from the Mountainhomes. Not necessarily dwarfy, but probably not very cat either.

My question is more about the civ race. Looking through that list doesn't tell you whether you are lionkin or human, etc. The symbol used on the map when you select that civ can tell you, but we don't know which symbol matches which race.

i.e. In vanilla DF, Dwarves are always denoted by a # when looking at civs in the embark setup.