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summer 104

Summer, looks like the merchants found a necromancer on their way out, their guards handled it, it was an elf too. Coincidence?

Started building the tower after being reminded that is sorta the point we are here.

Humans have arrived to trade! I don't remember seeing them before, I wonder why they are showing up now?

Ogods, they were pursued by trolls!

And Goblins!

SO MANY GOBLINS!!!

The human guards are really good, they took down the trolls with no problems, but the goblins are still there, I have ordered everyone inside for now.

That was the best plan, now we are attacked by goblins riding giant ants and cave crawlers.

Ishar why are you going outside? You have so much to live for!
He appears to be trying to catch his Dragon Raptor, I don't think that will end well, fight Ishar, fight for your life!

Damn merchant, I don't care about your trade agreement right now!

Ishar appears to have failed at fighting for his life, the gates are sealed and no goblins got in, we lost four though, in addition to all the guard animals stationed outside. Ishar, Questionquality, my lover Zuntir who was one of the founding seven, and some other miner who I never bothered to care about.

The goblins seem to be happy outside, why not? They have a whole caravan worth of loot to play with, there is a single merchant with donkey who ended up in the fort, he seems agitated. I've heard stories of merchants going mad when they are unable to trade or leave, hope that doesn't happen before we can open the gate.
This has been a terrible summer.

That blew, I set everyone to burrows when the attack started, but the four I mentioned didn't appear to care at all about that, Ishar appeared to actually be looking for his raptor, I don't know what was up with the others.

On another dangerous note, I noticed that our expedition leader likes to hold meetings on the far right edge of the map, nothing happened to him this time but that could end poorly as well.

I might get Autumn done tonight, but more likely I'll be until Monday to finish the turn.

So summer went terribly, the full report will come up later but we've lost 4 dwarves, including Questionquality and Ishar, plus a couple nameless miners. Also I had to seal the fort, plus the goblins killed a human caravan and destroyed the trade depot outside.

Suggestions? Savescum is an option, but I will only do that if you guys want me to, otherwise I'll power through, probably have to incinerate the world with dragons though.

Yeah, they were also in smallish clusters if I remember correctly. Probably better off digging straight for magma, or just clearcutting, which is what I will do shortly. Just after ambushes finish is the best time for that.

We have two dragons, two sauropods, and two dragon raptors, as well as a ton of dogs, mastiffs, and puppies, soon I will put all those puppies in a cage somewhere so they don't get themselves killed before they reach the proper age.

As for the big animals, there is a male and female of each, so we could theoretically breed them. I actually noticed a barrel of dragon raptor eggs in the stockpile, so perhaps they are trying already.

Oh I also got an anaconda, because why not.

Downloaded the save, spent the evening looking over the fort, will play starting tomorrow, people will be dwarfed at that time as well.

I am considering it, but I'll let Zenerbufen make the call, it's sorta his show here.

I don't think anyone cares about color, just keep the fort alive and do something neat if you can. I mean, have you seen the outer wall? It isn't exactly a masterpiece of design.

And awesomely, this interests me greatly.