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Throw himself into the magma, for the greater good.

WWUD if dwarven behavior suddenly made sense?

"She likes cloth.  That's a good band name."

Nevermind corrupts!  I just completed an even more unkillable adventuring race!  Behold: fluffmen!




Nothing short of obsidianization or a direct hit from a cave-in can kill one (that I've seen so far, anyway).

I just created another overpowered adventuring race: fluffmen!  They are almost completely invulnerable to conventional harm, but are so small and light that they have almost as hard a time doing any damage to anything else.

If baby won't get buried, it'll materialize as baby ghost to console it's mother

The baby was buried, but for some reason Sphala won't stop trying to find her son.  It's actually a little depressing.

Journal of Gizogin, Dark Lord of Icemachines for the year 53
Autumn report:

Not much happened this autumn.  Another FB showed up (An enormous blob composed of salt.  It has a round shell and it undulates rhythmically.), but it's safely trapped in the first cavern layer.  The dwarven caravan showed up, with the liaison, but they didn't have much that we needed.  I got the magma workshops secured (including a staircase that led directly into the magma, which I'm pretty sure was the main route the imps and crabs took to get in).  A few more migrants arrived, bringing our total population up to 102, despite all the deaths to beast sickness and starvation (hospitalized dwarves aren't being fed enough, annoyingly).

This is the stocks screen as it stands at the beginning of winter:


Okay, official update coming soon, but I just had to show you all this:

Yes, that is another FB.  Yes, it did spawn in a place where it's completely trapped (if it could fly, it could escape, but it can't).

On a tangentially related note, how did so much FB extract come to be around the entrance?  Every time a child or animal goes out, it falls unconscious and its feet rot off.  Sphala made the mistake of going out wearing nothing but two socks on her right foot, and she suffered the same fate.  I'm beginning to suspect that this is why the hospital is so crowded.

Winter Report:
Not much happened during the winter.  Another FB showed up, as I showed earlier.  The hospital's full, but the dwarves are getting food and water now.  I had a floor built over the FB extract between the entrance and the depot, and made a huge refuse stockpile just outside.  I also secured the magma workshops.  As I said, my main goal was to keep the fortress alive, which I did.  The population actually went up, and most of the dwarves are no longer unhappy, so I'd call my turn a success.

the save

Journal of Gizogin, overseer of Icemachines for the year of 53
Summer report:
This fortress is a complete disaster.  Everyone's unhappy, and I can't say I blame them.  There have been many deaths recently, clouds of miasma hang in the halls, people and pets are falling victim to the many beast sicknesses that coat the floors and walls, and fire imps keep finding their way in through the poorly designed magma workshops.  There are some other glaring design flaws, too; turns out that the only thing protecting us from every foul and nasty beast in the caverns was a gem window.  I say 'was' because, predictably, a forgotten beast smashed it to pieces.  I mobilized the (new) military, and they dispatched it without a problem, but it really made me realize just how dangerous this place is.  I had a wall built to replace the window, but I'm still looking for other areas that could prove disastrous.
To illustrate just how bad things are: Sphala's baby son was apparently exposed to some FB extract or something, causing all his skin to rot away.  Everywhere he went, he left a huge cloud of miasma.  He eventually died of infection, which threw Sphala into a pretty miserable state.  She threw a tantrum and destroyed one of our major farm plots, scattering plump helmets everywhere (note to self: excavate more food storage space).
The hospital is overcrowded, and dwarves are complaining of thirst constantly.  Even though I had some wells built, our other dwarves seem to find any excuse to ignore them.

(seriously, I'm going to spend the rest of my turn just trying to keep the fortress alive.  I don't have any grand plans or anything, I'll be satisfied if this place just manages to not kill itself somehow.)

AQUIFERS?!?!?

Also, can I be dorfed as one of the miners?  Give me the name of 'Gizogin XI,' but don't give me a custom profession, 'cause I won't be able to erase it on my turn (stupid mac delete button doesn't work with DF nicknaming).

I'm going to throw in a joke weapon I made for my mod.

Spoiler: sord... (click to show/hide)

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SORD]
[NAME:sord...:sord...s]
[SIZE:1]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[TWO_HANDED:15000000000]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:1]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:1]
[ATTACK:EDGE:1:1:slash:slashes:NO_SUB:1]
[ATTACK:EDGE:1:1:stab:stabs:NO_SUB:1]

I thought this had many, many more copies of those attacks, as well as a massively overpowered special attack...

Did I ever contribute my unkillable fluffballs to this?  If not, here they are: