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Indeed, this was perhaps the last moment of calm before utter catastrophe fell.

I'm aware it's relative to everything else in the turn, but I'm not entirely sure that "our crippled mayor screams for help through a crack in the wall, begging for food and medical care, only to see his only hope of not dying slowly and painfully walk away to go have a drink" constitutes "Calm".

I've finished my year and made a lot of images. Full update coming soon, when it's not half 4 in the morning. Things were looking up until about three days before the end of the year. I'll tell you all why there's only 30 dwarves left out of the 125 I started with...

Um......at our previous demographics, that means I've got maybe 5, maybe 10 functional adults to work with for my turn....

With no migrants. Ever.

Hmm. Quick poll of everyone: Depending on how dire it is, how do people feel about my turning my turn into a reclaim? I can either do that, or I can roleplay us into a failure mode (IE. McDuck escapes and we move on to Ardentdikes III). I'd prefer the former, as I've never done a reclaim before and DF2014 is unstable enough that I'm a bit wary about moving on to it. I can write up either of them (Already got plans for Urist McKiwi VI/VII on a reclaim, and a failure mode will be fun enough to write up).

Moltenchannels in a nutshell, Part 2: Years 11-15

Year 11: I take on the fort having never handled more than 50 dwarves at once before, and decide to work out the intuitive and user-friendly experience that is the military system. After a crash means I have to retcon part of my turn I end up mining candy, building siege weapons, and building 30-50 new weapons traps because BUZZSAWS. Operation "Wall up the caverns" started (Note: This still isn't finished, as of a decade later). My second incarnation ends her term as overseer by legging it with a load of stolen candy and running off to become a necromancer. From memory, about 2-3 forest fires this year. Giant worm with wings crawls up the drain of the Totally Safe Waterfall. Operation "You know what we need? More Useless Nobles. Let's spam gold and become the capital!" begins. Creation of Urist McKiwi III, Dashing Swordsdwarf. She's very dashing. I also fix the magma moat so it doesn't have massive gaps in it.

Year 12: Cognitive Dissonance comes in to find half the map on fire. This later becomes a recurring theme. Tower construction continued. Urist McDonald dies and is not redorfed (we should probably do that some time, eh?). Turns out he accidentally got the wrong save and retconned Triaxx2's turn (which also murdered McDonald). Apart from this and all the deaths and stuff, things go fairly well.

Year 13: CaptainArchmage takes forever, but has a rather excellent turn. Goblin ambush gets chopped up. Our royals finally arrive! The queen is a vampire with nearly 40,000 kills. Demonic fortress detected through minor cheating magic. Poisonous FB meat ends up in the rations (we should really get rid of that stuff some day). Forest catches fire. Again. More walling off of FB blood to stop other deaths. Toxic blood discovered in the main hospital, which explains all the random dying over the last few years. Turns out our hospital is waist-deep in vomit and blood. Who woulda thought? Hospital permanently sealed.

Year 14: Nurse Cutey once again terrorises the fortress with !!Medicine!!, and continues work on the towers. Sporadic updates make this turn hard to recap but when I took over the next year the caverns were full of corpses, we had undead, FBs and undead FBs fighting each other under a layer of obsidian in the caverns while permanently burning, and all that was left of our queen was one of her toes. And our king had vanished into thin air, without even a death notice. Make of that what you will.

Year 15: Most Dashing soldier Urist McKiwi III, Dashing Swordsdwarf, becomes overseer and sets about reforming the military. Fortress population peaks at ~185-188 dwarves. Numerous sieges, forest fires, FBs and other fun incidents drop population down to 165 by the end of the year, with births. Somewhere at about this point (plus or minus a few years) migrants stop coming to Moltenchannels because of the game crumbling under the weight of the fort. Floors added to McDonald's tower in the northeast. Urist McDuck starts possessing emus. Second hospital established as an extension of a McUrist's. Fortress is nearly overrun by enemies ~4-5 times, but despite high casualties we hold out. Most dashingly.

I hate to say it, but we could reactivate McUrist's General Hospital as a temporary measure. If the new place is infected with FB syndrome (which is what that sounds like) then it's probably the safest place for the wounded (that's not a good thing, though). Dwarven breeding colony is also looking like a good idea now as well.....if anyone's alive when I take power I'll see if I can find a good IC way to get one built.


And I'm guessing I'm dead again, so roll up Urist McKiwi VI if that's the case. And stop killing them off so quickly! That's my job!

Wow. Just downloaded the Moltenchannels save.

I think it's worse than Ardentdikes?   I've gone down to the caverns and not found the hospital yet. Either of them.

Maybe I'm just missing it in the chaos.

Actually we have three of them. One was shut down during Wastedlabor's last turn, one (on the surface) is full of forgotten beast blood that kills anything it touches and has been sealed for about a decade now...

...and the working one is...um....somewhere. I honestly don't know either.

not to speak of having an automatic crusher of doom.

We have a manual crusher of doom though. We could link it up to a basic repeater unit and make the East Gate permanently unusable if we want to.

Everything has gone terribly terribly wrong. Fuller details soon.

This sounds promising.

Oh, apart from the FBs setting the inside of the fortress on fire.

So it's reverse of the usual condition. Nothing to worry about, really.

I think it's fine if eventually only a few dwarves remain bunkering wherever they can while trying to purge the "curse"/reseal the hellish caverns with magma.

Old Ardentdikes survived the fb extract curse by holding in a small side fort while the magma flooding mechanisms were activated.

The problem is that old Ardentdikes had migrants. Eventually. We have no means of re-establishing the population except to create a dwarven breeding colony and switch to 10-year turns for a few generations. But if we do end up with only a few people, we can go for a suitable death for them.

.....on a completely unrelated note: is the magma purge system currently hooked up properly?