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Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on September 24, 2012, 10:42:33 pm

Quote from: Eric Blank on September 24, 2012, 10:17:09 pm

That would put DF and anyone that plays it in their own little place in the SCP archives, since they're the root of the problem.

I'd probably get locked up with a Euclid rating for what I've done in DF.

Well, Robocorn started Battlefailed, so he'd probably get locked away too.

...wait, when was the last time we saw Robocorn?

He's probably wherever Squirrelloid has vanished to.

Whoops, sorry.  I've been busy doing my turn in Deathgate.  Looks like Slothen's AWOL, so the turn's passed to... NCommander!


edit:  NCommander has now been informed that he's won the next holiday vacation to Swordthunders.

Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on September 24, 2012, 11:33:28 am

They can access it, they just... stop at a certain point and refuse to keep digging past it.  I've fixed a traffic zone problem, but they still won't go dig.  Even if it's not done by the end of my year, the layout's self-evident. 

And we couldn't conquer hell now.  It takes way more than thirty-odd dwarves to take on Hell.

We don't have to conquer the whole thing, just kill the occasional demon that spawns as we carefully expand... I mean, the last two overseers have to have *something* to do.

That will go badly.  Very, very badly.  Demons spawn in groups of 3-5 and all the species under Deathgate seem to like to roam.

(Spring was mostly spent surveying the fort and setting things in motion, so the notes proper start in Felsite)

Felsite-8

Velard died of thirst today, though I don't know why.  He had a simple masonry job that wasn't even finished.  He wasn't trapped, or under attack, just simply lost to the maze of the fort.

We number 36 now and I wish I didn't have to count through another fort's decline.

Felsite-18

Krosan has become an elite Marksdwarf.  A pity his skills will go to waste - there is nothing he will need to kill when my work is done.


Felsite-23
Datan Locuneshtan's ghost toppled a coffin.  Better that than a dwarf, I suppose.

I have ordered the production of ten adamantine pipes and corkscrews as part of Operation Red Shield.  I hope they are completed quickly.

Bombul Adekiton, Ghostly Swordsdwarf

Hematite-4

Mitchewawa passed away today from his infection today.  We now number 35.

Hematite-26
Kib Avalmonom started rambling about 'elves and fairies' in the middle of fitting a waterwheel and ran off towards the workshops.  Evidently a beating is in order for disobedience.


Malachite 24

Work has ceased on Operation Red Shield, but I don't know why.  The orders have been given for the parts, and I've put a stop to the strange standing order for copper screwpump parts.
I suspect they dislike my being in charge.  None shall interfere with the Operation, or they'll find themselves on the wrong side of the shield when it's done.

Galena 9

After a month of gathering materials, Kib has finally started building something.  It better be worth it, or he'll get the honor of breaching the magma inlet.

Galena 13

Kib finished his creation and has become a Legendary Engraver.  How... useful...  His creation was a bracelet.





A bracelet of the god of caverns in the leather of a surface-dwelling creature.  Obviously a beating is in order to stimulate the creativity of this fort's population.

Galena 15

The human caravan came today.  We do not care for the likes of surface-dwellers and the fort shall remain closed to their ilk.


Sandstone 11

Degol Monangzon hasn't been seen lately.  He's been absent my morning meetings and general yelling sessions at the populous of the fort.  Apparently he was last seen in the tunnels, muttering something about "a brilliant design".

Also, I now have to write these notes myself.  The fortress scribe, Irony II, was struck down last night by the ghost of Bombul Adekiton.  He died in the tunnels, but with axe in hand.  We number 34 now.

Sandstone 12

I have surveyed the latest progress of the BATTERY and been most pleased.



At this rate, it should be ready for activation within two months.  The passage for connecting it to the Red Shield's future pumpstack is done, but the other dwarves simply will not dig a staircase upwards to complete the shaft for the vertical axle to link it to the pumpstack site.  This is most vexxing.

I'm about to play a little more now, and if those stocks are correct, it will be an adamantine pumpstack.

Well, based on current opinions...


Operation Red Shield is now under way!


Now, lets see how long it'll take to get magma-safe screwpumps made...

I've stopped playing for the moment, going to wait a day to get the general opinion on whether or not to being Operation Red Shield.  As for channeling water to lower Deathgate, I'm going to automate the entire process once I get the power generator running.  The Last Dwarves will live in comfort, at least.

My plan for my year is thus;

- Get the power working, even only partially if necessary
- Redesign wlerin's aqueduct into something self-maintained (again, sorry for the panicking, but it seemed a valid concern when I thought there was a massive rush of water slowly advancing)
- Undertake Operation Red Shield by flooding Upper Deathgate with magma from the pipe via pumpstack from several levels down to ensure a constant flow.

The Aussie Journals - Deathgate, Vol II.

Granite 1, 780.

I have taken control of the fort for another year, this time by most nefarious scheme yet - I simply asked wlerin if "I could have a go at leading".  Surprisingly, he said yes and handed over the hat and badge.  I have fetched my mighty Didgerdoo-stuff stick of beating from my quarters and am already putting my plans into motion for Operation Red Shield.

ThatAussieGuy Project - Operation Red Shield.

-Seal the population in the lower fortress, ensure the supplies and farms are all located in the safe areas.
-Flood the remaining fortress with magma so that no filthy surfacefolk may find the last surviving Dwarves of the Basement of Murder.