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I think the last age was named after the maggot the siege killed.

1st Granite 6. This time last year, Relicdreams was a thriving outpost of The Stormy Armors. Now, there are only 11 dwarves left. Also a few goblins massacring them. There hasn't been a caravan since the elven one last spring... I think I'm going to have to reclaim.

EDIT: Did I say 11? I meant 2.

EDIT2: Dwarf Fortress isn't responding, I think the goblins just murdered my last two dwarves. YEP OKAY TIME TO RECLAIM

So Relicdreams is going well in the start of its third summer. Pyramid construction's stalled but only because I don't feel like building more, 84 dwarves and rising... and then I get the brilliant idea that, since clay is completely infinite and I have fire clay to boot, I should make the whole thing out of it and have a 32z pyramid of ALL BLOOD RED. This, of course, means I have to tear down the 3 z's already created out of microcline. One at a time, since I don't fancy cave-ins. Whoo. (Still. 84 dwarves. Not too shabby.)

Kobolds en masse, but since I have a few hunters they tend to die horribly fairly quickly. Getting goblin pedophiles too, but they're also good at dying. Oh, and I have a few drowned elves in the trash pile.

EDIT: And then a goblin snatcher makes off with a kid while I'm not looking. Goddammit.


EDIT2:
La-dee-da-dee-da, going about my business, building walls along the edges of my brook/road to funnel people, I should probably build bridges at some point to close off the fort in the event of a-



OH FUCK

EDIT3:


Seriously, goblins? Seriously? What is even your plan, I've got a giant maggot hanging around my trade depot and the rest of my dwarves are cut off from the surface, if you get rid of that problem then the human caravan will get rid of you, and if the maggot gets rid of you then it'll be weakened and the human caravan will take it out anyway. Either way I'm not exactly in danger.

EDIT4: Oh and it's destroying my waterwheels. Jerk.

TO: potential crafter-mooders of Relicdreams
FROM: Overseer Lielac
RE: Craftdwarf moods

There is a perfectly good craftdorf's workshop on the main workshop level. Please do not use the workshop by the trade depot, as that is exclusively for the creation of mugs to be foisted off on the caravans. I know the last two mooders (and only two) used that workshop, but I wish they hadn't. Your mood interrupts any jobs being done in that workshop, and I like having craft mugs on repeat.

Thank you.

TO: Creator of Wealthrampages, a rubber wood earring
FROM: Overseer Lielac
RE: F**king useless artifacts worth only 7200 dorfbucks

Be glad I don't feel like throwing you in the magma, you useless waste of booze. I need every dwarf I can get to finish my pyramid in a decent amount of time.

Booze, low priority. Basically I just do that so the liaison doesn't make disappointed noises at me, I'm pretty good at living off the land. I do buy out a fair bit of their food every time they come, but I don't specifically ask for it.

I make a cross between a dormitory and own-room. It's all one gigantic hall so loitering dorfs can witness any vampire attacks, but the beds are spaced out in such a way that I can designate non-overlapping 3x3 bedrooms from them. Then I nix meeting halls so people loiter in their bedrooms when not working.

I stripped the entire 3x3 embark of its trees. Luremachines now has nearly 900 logs, filling up almost the entire upper right-hand quarter of the surface level of Luremachines that is walled in (31x31 stockpile). The founding dwarves' clothing is beginning to wear, so I shall drown the elves again this year and use their rope reed fiber cloth to create new clothing. The dining hall is being furnished, which is good - I'm going to make way more than necessary because I Do That, then deactivate masonry on all but the highest level dwarf and make a few statues.

What should I do with all the chlidren?

Dwarven Child Care.

Dear Tholtig, Head Mechanic of Luremachines:

I apologize for my last letter. I overcomplicated the blueprints. It works beautifully now. please don't use it on me ma'am

Dear Luremachines in General:

Great work on the surrounding wall! Now get rid of that kobold.