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i... I'm a monster! I can't remember any!

Oh wait... I do have an Ingish, a Meng, and a Tholtig in my military. The big thing I look at though is the markings around their name. ^^urist^^ is military, **urist** is farmer, and so forth. the farmers get very little personal attention.

Quick update - an actual patrol has just uncovered and slaughtered two ambushes before they got anywhere important, yay! Though this is highly risk it seems, because the dwarves spread themselves out like crazy. If the squad on patrol wasn't entirely legendary and stocked full of steel equipment, they would likely die, as they always fight one dwarf per squad. Hmm.

Alright, it's officially scrapped. If you want to get permission for whoever in the future wants to take on the project, be my guest. I'm sure official permission under some sort of creative commons or something would be helpful to someone.

But jumping through hoops to allow me to do this like it's some great privilege just isn't worth it. I got enough political jumping through hoops to do in real life. Also, locking the thread. Future stuff will have to go in some other thread.

I'm going through the original boatmurdered and converting it into ePub format so we could read them on ereaders. I'm using Sigil for all the actual work. I was going to use Calibre, but apparently it can't do everything I need it to, most notably adding chapters and formatting cleanly.

I'm using this picture as the cover (from the website I stole it from), unless someone says I shouldn't or that I should use a different picture.
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/2/23796/1094168-boatmurdered.jpg

Unfortunately I don't know how to (or even if I can) include pictures that will format correctly. ePub supports vector graphics, and I'd have to research how to convert jpg and then make sure things format, and whatever headaches are attached to that endeaver. Thus, at least for now, I'm going to be editing all that out, along with all references to pictures. If I can't figure out how to cut out the reference, I'll at least put a little blurb to describe the picture.

Anyways, wish me luck!

If they like the material of the floor/wall, then like it even more. That actually caused me problems when my mayor was replaced, as suddenly the room wasn't good enough anymore. The previous mayor particularly liked the type of stone in the room.

You have a lot of plump helmet wine and quarry bush roasts, and even with 65 farmers you're having trouble keeping up with it. Most of your animals are now pets, but you do not cage them. To try to control your blooming pet population by slaughtering them, but that just increases your food problem. A few of these were exotic animals you purchased from the elves.

I mentioned the fishers, but I'm thinking more that you didn't reassign and micromanage most of your dwarves. When something needed to be done, you hunted someone down to fill the role on a pinch, not the other way around.

Your fort is entirely carved from the mountain and not smooth at all. You do not use any danger rooms, and have lost several dwarves to goblin ambushes before you sealed up the fort. Your marksdwarves are still mostly novices with the crossbow (unless a few are rusty).

You like copper, mostly because you mine it out and have a lot of it on hand. You made some copper architecture at some point. You also pride yourself in making workstations out of decent materials.

And you have no armor or clothing industry to speak of, and most of your dwarves are either running around in rags or are at this point naked. You could, if you wanted to, create a lot of pigtail fiber clothes, but you have no rope reed (or any outside crops for that matter). Instead, you just have large swaths of under ground flood-irrigated farms.

The strongest defence (after your locked doors) in your entire fort right now is an animal, I'm guessing a giant war bear.

People talkeda bout my post! I feel so happy, I could eat a hippopotamus. You know, if I had one.

The siege was never really broken - only a few squads were returned. There is still another couple groups of bat-riding and alligator-riding goblins around contimplating their strategy. Meanwhile, all my wounded are slowly dying of thirst. My water supply is too meager and too far away, being a half-full pool fed by a seasonal pond. Then, to top it off, I start running out of booze. It's only a temporary problem, but I still lost a mason to it.

So... with the siege being stopped only by a pathing issue, I decide to be daring. I figure I can lure them in with a temporary bridge down, and then laugh as the bridge disappears. Then I can pick them off with my marksdwarf behind a fortifaction. I have two sieges, and I shouldn't let that multiply to three. Yeah... It didn't work out that way. I didn't see the trolls, and I couldn't reach the lever to close the the bridge. Then, I couldn't lower the backup bridge as trolls scared all thsoe guys away. Then the door to my inner most circle was jammed open by corpses.

I'm not exactly sure how I survived, but I have exactly 3 military now (from 14), and I have 30 dead dwarves. Then, to top it off, I found that the inner bridge... isn't connected to it's lever. Yeah... that didn't work as planned. 

SpiraledMetal, my fort to replace the last one, just got a siege. Oh no! I laugh, and say - everyone get inside, we're lowering the gate. They'll miserably walk around my walls, and eventually just be annoying to a few merchants before they leave. Can't touch this 3-walled fortress!

They're still moving, oh no. Where are they... oh shit. A single ramp I forgot to remove allows them a way over a spot in my walls. And I find this out, after I figure "we can retake the outer section where all the housing is, I'll just remove this one little wall..

Remobilise the troops, and send them into the hoard while all the civilians get back inside. 5 wounded, 3 dead, and gained an awareness of major flaws in my security. Also, major flaws in my medical team - I had none, no hospital, and no supply of water in this climate.

Forward to what I do now - of course work on my structural flaws. I also reorganized and refilled the teams, activated them, started building a collection reservoir for water from the one mostly-dry pond on the map. I'll make this fort a power to be reckoned with yet.