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So I'm positive I have the right guy this time. Another two people died with blood drained from them, one of which had a witness saying it was the same guy as last time, Momuz the engineer. His response this time? he accused a tame kitten. yes... a kitten killing two people in their sleep. You're not fooling anyone, and I thus convict you of like 6 different murders.

And apparently my captain of the guard is too forgiving. No capital punishment for him - just 1200 days in prison.

Unfortunately my last awesome sword dwarf was just killed in an ambush. Goblins this time. I'm making a bunch of spears to start up a few more squads. They'll be starting from scratch too, so they'll be busy.

The vampire menace may or may not be over... I'm not exactly sure. We found another dwarf dead - this time one of our guards. One of our mason's accused our mayor - Momuz Logemsanad. Meanwhile they in turn accused the manager. I don't know who it was, but I thought it more likely to be the mayor (since he's also the witness for the other), so I convicted him. he's serving 200 days strapped to a rope. I sort've wish these people would be more willing to do this convicting themselves. This matter needed to be resolved quickly though, so waiting around to see if they would wasn't worth the wait.

I also accidentally said something about one of our miners, which made the captain of the guard suspect a miner for a cold case. Yeah, I couldn't change his mind after the fact, so there are two people attached to ropes for 200 days. Oh well. I'm glad to have the cases closed either way, I was starting to suspect my captain of the guard himself.

Because the person dead is one of our guards, I had to replace him. I'm not happy about that, because they were getting pretty good in their sparring sessions. They, just the two of them, fended off an ambush of kobolds.

Made a new world/fort with the new version.

So I find out today that the dwarves have elected a mayor. Oh great... we're barely scrapping by, the vast majority of the citizens are homeless, we're out of metal do to making swords and picks for the people who actually work in the fort, we're harrassed continuously by kobolds, and we now get some pompous mayor to boot? He comes up to me while I'm eating and tells me "I need 3 spears made", my own decent office, my own quarters, dining room, 2 chests, cabiniet, weapon rack, and an armor stand". I laugh in his face, he doesn't laugh back. Bah, if the mountainhomes hears about this...

so I kick some sorry bastard out of his meager room that has at least some of that, and tell the head carpenter to make some training spears. then he complains that his quarters isn't good enough. You know what, Tun Gleamedattic? you have a bed, so don't complain.

He can mope for all I care, he's not getting anything from me right now. "oh, I want a decent quarters, a decent office, a decent dining room, 2 chests, 1 cabinet, 1 weapon rack, 1 armor stand, and 3 spears". I show him that only 10 people out of 50 even have a room at all, and we have no metal to make a spear. He says "I don't care about your problems, just make it happen." Bah, I'll see if I can get the carptenter to make a few spears out of wood.

Oh, in other news we just purchased a tame giant bird of some kind. The elves say it's called a kestrel. All I know is that it's awesome.

P.S. -  agh! this farmer that crazily took over a craftdwarf shop... just went berserk. I sent the guard immediately, who found him attacking my beautiful kestrel. He's been put down, but not before the kestrel was beaten silly. First examination shows brusies on his wing, body, and both legs. Poor guy.

P.S.2 - agh! and we just found a dwarven child completely drained of blood! And before we can even put the child in a coffin, we're accousted by an army of thieves. at least one got away, and we killed 3. Woh... new version is pleasing me.

Quote from: malimbar04 on February 13, 2012, 04:23:18 pm

EDIT: as I'm looking at my military, I find out that 5 of my dwarves have an infection. Huh? that's... strange. Some of those don't even have injuries that I know of. Well, time will tell if anything happens.

are you in a cold/swamp biome? i have had similar experiences with each, im presuming frostbite for the cold, and disease for swamps.

never freezes here, and I don't THINK it's swampy. I have one layer of soil, errr... peat and sandy clay. I have lots of trees too... uh oh, let me make copy of the world, abandon, and check this out.

... no. I'm Tropical Shrubland with a northern tip of Mountain.

Though if peat is bad... that might explain why my wells are still stagnant water, even though they were carved out and had water pumped in.

Woh, no Ubuntu lovers here? Shame, I'm using it and love it myself. So do an extremely large number of Ubuntu users, some 30 million +, compared to Mint's ~0.5 million.

Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit comes pre-installed with 32 bit binaries anyways, so that won't be a problem either way . And if you install the 32 bit version, you're not going to regret it. You don't have enough RAM for it to matter, and basically all programs come in 32 bit versions that are better maintained than the 64 bit versions.

While you can download df that runs natively in Ubuntu, it has a problem that it's missing a proper launcher, and because the version you're using isn't all that polished yet, it's missing an easy way to create a launcher. This is how you create a launcher (since they haven't added a graphical way to unity yet):

My two doctors are dabbling in all skills, and there isn't a way that I know of to teach doctor skills to another dwarf. I have read once upon a time that you can drop a dwarf or stab them deliberately, but I'd rather not scar my dwarves for life by experimenting on them. Besides, that could easily give bad moods I would think.

Is there a more ethical way to train your doctors, so that you don't have to torture your own citizens?

Ah. So you went with a more human method over the stuffing them ina room with a bunch of livestock then and HOPING they don't emo themselves to death.

Human method! HUMAN METHOD! I rage at such an insult, and my teenage dwarves could easily destroy such pitifully unprepared and useless creatures like humans, and without resorting to ranged weaponry, questionable training practices, or traps. Besides, dwarvish ethics specifically says that torturing for fun or knowledge is unthinkable - that's human thinking. Heck, that's goblin thinking, and we slaughter goblins

I thought you cannot have metal image decoration?

Apparently you can, as my weapons, armor, and clothing have plenty.

Edit: I love how you didn't notice the only kills with that sword were other dwarves