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Sorry about no updates, guys, I've just been hit by really horrible hay fever out of nowhere, and I can barely see the laptop screen to type. It's driving me crazy with the constant sneezing and watery eyes. Hoping to get hold of some stuff for it today or tomorrow. NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Morbidly Obese Godzilla Punch-Out!
I have a sneaking suspicion this is the best beat-em-up ever.

argh, lots of stuff to respond to

sewing images on goblin loot

I've done that in another fort, and the amount of wealth gets RIDICULOUS pretty fast, agreed - however this being Soaplanterns the eventual plan is to support ourselves via soap. That's if Mr Madushkubuk can be persuaded to part with any of it of course.

do you mind uploading your map DFFD

I have no idea how to do that.

name [a dwarf] Brimsley.

Will do

already about reached the point where sieges without elite archers are pretty much boring

Agreed. What I want to decide is, shall we accept that the goblins are now boring and dig down, or shall we try and keep them interesting for a bit longer? I'm inclined not to build complicated drowning traps for now and use the sieges as training for the army. Hitting the caverns will probably be the final few chapters for Soaplanterns one way or another, we all know what's down there by now (if people have been reading spoilers) and YES we are eventually going to go for it.

drafting the fortress populace

was already my plan, and a very good one for another reason as dwarves are now turning up naked and it would be nice to get them to put something on.


Okay ladies and gentledwarves, we doin this. Thank you all for your input.

letting the goblins in in small groups and having Bessie tenderize them

appears to be the general consensus, and is what I was probably going to do anyway. Although we will have to watch out that our siege operators don't catch a bolt while firing the ballista. If we can just isolate the elite bowmen this siege is really not a problem, the issue with them is that they hide behind their meatshields.

Would also like to know how many would in future support the idea of a drowning trap - would that make sieges too cheesy/boring?

We can do anything of that ilk that we want to, I've just pulled the lever to shut them all out.

Opinions, ladies and gentledwarves? We may have nine steel-armored melee soldiers on our side, but I know what elite bowmen are like, I've had them headshot dwarves through masterwork helms before.

4th Timber

I hadn't slept well. Something had woken me in the night: something like a distant rushing and bubbling of water. I'd dreamed of floods and drowning and something else, something dark I couldn't quite remember. And then I'd woken to be told we were out of food again. The quarry bushes from spring and summer hadn't been processed or cooked up. Why did nobody ever do anything unless I was standing right over them watching them do it?

I was interrupted in the middle of my meal by Dr Kosotham, looking damp and slightly worried. "Could you come with me, Zephyr?" he said. "I need to show you something."

There was a downward stair I hadn't noticed before, leading off the dining room. As we descended into the marble layers I detected the familiar scents of soap and water, along with a growing bubbling sound. The mystery deepened.



"What have you done?"

"It's our great hall," Dr Kosotham said. "You didn't know we had a skilled architect here, did you? Mayerm designed it, I dug it out with Rovod. I haven't had much else to do round here lately anyway."



"And Nevyn and Medtob built the fountain."

"Fountain?"





"Sorry about the soap, by the way," Medtob said behind me. "But you can make more, right? And the bubbles are nice..."





Unbelievable. "I don't know what to say, except... thanks." I walked slowly down the ramp and stood underneath the falling water. Cool clouds of mist surrounded me.



Every dwarf in the fortress found some excuse to pay a visit to the new Great Hall of Soaplanterns during the next few days; the fountain quickly became the most popular place to hang out. And there were plenty of wonderful engravings to admire, even if we didn't have statues for it yet.







I considered moving Atu's cage down here, just to mess with his head; the goblin had seemed distressed at the prospect of our digging deeper. Hah! What did he know?



Unnoticed by all the dwarves, high up in an unreachable corner of the Great Hall...




[Credit to Nevyn for the awesome fountain design. I've adapted the original slightly to use pump stacks and a two square output. And yes it is entirely built out of home grown Ubenudil soap.]

nah, just killed a lot of goblins.