It took a week and one hold reclaiming to achieve, but it was worth it. There's nothing like a contingent of legendary miners dashing in to rape the earth.
Table Stretching is bad.
The most interesting challenge was that my flooding stopped, thus bringing an end to my obvious Nile-Style shenanigans. Thus, I was forced to live upon a combination of puppies, caravan offerings, gathered plants, and the 2000 or so plump helmets I had in storage.
The demons, thankfully, weren't much of a problem; I had marksdwarves in platemail at the bridge, and at the time there was only one shaft (I dug right to the pits from the river).
A fun feature I found, which lamentably lack of farming didn't prompt me to abuse enough, was the mobility of this hold. As nothing has a room, there's no reason not to relocate things at one's convenience. Still, I had no problems plopping a craftsdwarf shop in the middle of a lot of loose stone and setting it to repeat for a season. When I got magma smelters going, I had more than enough loose metal to keep them permanently busy.
The last thing I did, before mining the adamantite, was cut down the front wall; before that the entire place was enclosed. Right after doing that, the goblins invaded =[
Luckily, though, natural attacks were rare. Only a few alligators on the map, and attacks from the river, chasm, and magma were fairly rare. If things were more aggressive, this probably would not have worked for me. As it stood, though, defense wasn't usually a problem.
Were it not for the lack of floods, I could have kept this baby running forever.
As a final note, upon crushing the demons and setting to work on the final leg of the task, a craftsdwarf went into a fey mood, and created this. I think the name is very fitting.
[ September 18, 2006: Message edited by: Citizen of Erl ]
[ September 18, 2006: Message edited by: Citizen of Erl ]
