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sorry i havent been more active, i should be able to get the remaining part of my turn up by the middle of the weekend (currently under a REALLY heavy exam load, with a professor who missed the whole point of finals week, and had his final this week).

On the bright side, other than nearly every single dwarf in the new hammerdwarf squad getting wiped out (including Sauvage, but there was one dude who was chilling in the dining "area" who got all sad (now he's better) that all his friends died), we have not lost a single dwarf to... anything

Quick questions though. Are danger rooms allowed? I haven't been using them, but they seem necessary to get the sheer amount of training needed to take on necros and the zombie horde. If we are allowed to use them, i can probably have a few legendary dwarves within a couple of months.

12th Limestone:

In order to speed up the destruction of the zombie horde, i have deployed the magma pumps that were created for this purpose.

However, the magma doesnt go anywhere, and it just starts a fire that is spreading across the map.

19th Hematite:

A boy has grown up to be a fully grown dwarf

Glad to see that there is a sense or normalcy in the lives of dwarves here.

Its funny really... there is no way that the zombies can get to our "Island," Yet, the catapult that i have designated has only been started.

4th Malachite:

The first shot out of the catapult is a dud, but a piece of good news arrived at my office.

A wolf has attacked a necromancer, shortly before being killed by a zombie...




im dealing with the siege right now, and you know my initial conclusions?

This is Substantially easier to deal with than a regular siege. Right now, ive killed about 50 zombies (to zero losses), and everyone within a good THIRTY tiles of the island is dead (Zombies).

The biggest concern i have right now is the construction of enough ammo, as 10 marksdwarves burn through it FAST. All i need to do is to keep the gates up, and eventually wait for the catapult to finish construction. After that, i will eventually hit one of the necromancers. Rinse and repeat until they all are dead...

Even if a goblin siege shows up, they will either deal with the necromancers or will be killed by them. Win-Win scenario.

Zombies, The Marksdwarf's Danger Room

30th Granite:

This has been a very productive month, as all nine ghosts that were screaming through the fortress have been put to rest, and a good 90 additional coffins have been constructed and are ready to be filled (with pets and dwarves, since we have so many).

This includes the ghost that was screaming at the non-bezerk vampire. As the ghost was laid to a rest, the screaming stopped, and you could hear a whispered "Thank you" from down the hall.

Additionally, a complete rework over the squads seems to be needed. After interviewing all of the millitary, i can see that the squads have.... little to nothing in common within their squads. The squads may seem to have the requisite skills, but in fact, have little to nothing in common, skillwise.

I have rearranged the 5 unskilled and actually pretty well equipped squads into 3 squads

The Gears of Living: Hammerdwarf
Sauvage as the Millitia Commander and 9 other dwarves

The Blockades Arches: Marksdwarfs
UristTheGrey II as the millitia captain, and 9 other dwarves (of note is Led Nirdoren Tangathniral Birir, or Led as he is normally called, who has killed 7 zonbies and 6 goblins/trolls

The helmed Taxes: Axedwarfs
Lef by Erush Lorod, Magmaman as the millitia captain, and 9 other dwarves.

Of second note, we have little to no bedrooms for the average citizen. As such, i have mandated construction of 196 bedrooms, in a windmill villa style (28 1x3 bedrooms per floor, 7 floors). Each dwarf will get a bed, cabinet, and chest.

This part of an arcane design that took many years and better dwarves than I to work out. As i discovered this on a hidden tome sealed away for hundreds of years.

30th Granite:

This has been a very productive month, as all nine ghosts that were screaming through the fortress have been put to rest, and a good 90 additional coffins have been constructed and are ready to be filled (with pets and dwarves, since we have so many).

This includes the ghost that was screaming at the non-bezerk vampire. As the ghost was laid to a rest, the screaming stopped, and you could hear a whispered "Thank you" from down the hall.

Additionally, a complete rework over the squads seems to be needed. After interviewing all of the millitary, i can see that the squads have.... little to nothing in common within their squads. The squads may seem to have the requisite skills, but in fact, have little to nothing in common, skillwise.

I have rearranged the 5 unskilled and actually pretty well equipped squads into 3 squads

The Gears of Living: Hammerdwarf
Sauvage as the Millitia Commander and 9 other dwarves

The Blockades Arches: Marksdwarfs
UristTheGrey II as the millitia captain, and 9 other dwarves (of note is Led Nirdoren Tangathniral Birir, or Led as he is normally called, who has killed 7 zonbies and 6 goblins/trolls

The helmed Taxes: Axedwarfs
Lef by Erush Lorod, Magmaman as the millitia captain, and 9 other dwarves.

Of second note, we have little to no bedrooms for the average citizen. As such, i have mandated construction of 196 bedrooms, in a windmill villa style (28 1x3 bedrooms per floor, 7 floors). Each dwarf will get a bed, cabinet, and chest.



In order to prevent the mass raising of corpses, i have started dumping the corpses of non-dwarves into the magma moat.

26th Slate:

We get some more migrants, 7 of them, and we also have a baby boy being born.


1st Felsite:

another baby boy is being born, someone might have slipped in fertility drugs into the local booze supply. At least this is not birthed over the volcano (but it was birthed over a staircase...)

10th Felsite:

Shockingly, we have filled up all the coffins needed... Sixty were filled, with another fifteen standing ready.

Game crashed AGAIN, i think i figured out the issue though, and fixed it. Now onto try #3.

Overseer's Log:

Granite 1:

After two very vivid dreams about me being the overseer of this fort, i awoke to realize in fact, that i had NOT been overseer, and that i still had a whole year ahead of me.

After perusing the gargantuan stack of papers that CaptainArchmage gave to me, i have a general idea of how the fort actually works now.

first off, we need to take care of the ghosts that are just hanging around in our forts. We have no less than NINE ghosts around the fort, and a necromancer in a cage...

Food Situation is, actually pretty good. Over 750 units of drink and over 2400 prepared meals (I had the cook stop working on them)

Time to see what the status is on those slabs.

*Many hours later*

After tracking down the mason's workshop, i found that in fact, previous overseer s HAD created the slabs, they just never got around to having them engraved. Time to fix that situation.

After going to the craftsdwarf's shops and getting them to engrave NINE slabs, i have checked on our current tomb situation to find that we are FULL. So full in fact, that i see no vacancies. As a result, i have designated a 9x26 area to be FILLED with coffins (the right third is going to be where the slabs are kept. If we cant give them good tombs, we can at least have our dead sleeping in coffins, rather than on the floor.

4th granite:

In order to boost morale, i have put the military on break, but told them to keep all of their equipment, so they wouldn't have to run and go get it when invaders show up.

5th Granite:

A dwarf's pet cat gave birth to two kittens. That however, is not the scarring part of it. The scarring part of it is that she gave birth so hard that the kittens were BLOWN 25 feet away from her (What a way to enter the world). Made even MORE impressive by the fact that she still had them stay on the tiny ledge that overlooks the main entrance.

That's right, MoltenChannels is so hardcore that the cats give explosive birth!

Still going over the notes, and trying to decipher how everything works here. Ill get an update tomorrow (Technically, later today).

I for one am incredibly happy that i never grew wisdom teeth (Never figured out why, they just didnt show up)

Additionally, are you still taking overseer slots? if not, can i be dwarfed (I dont think i have, but i did post WAY back in this thread)