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....We could probably mod evil-biome bees that cause necrosis when they sting things. That, or paralysis and extreme pain (hooo.....that's a sucky combination for Urist McTestSubject....trapped, paralysed next to the hive as they sting him into deeper and deeper agony. hey! That's weaponisable!).

"What's with this 'Ancientcouncil' nonsense? We only started this secret conspiracy last-*mmmmmf!*"

"....mmmf! MMF-mmf! MMMMMMMMMF!!!!"

Urist glares at the hand over his mouth until it goes away. He takes a moment to recover his decorum.

"Fine, be that way......but still....let's go for something that won't stand out. Not too pretentious, not too assuming. If we name the place something that screams 'shadow conspiracy', then THEY might find out.....and we've always got to think about......THEM. *twitch*"

Urist scratches his beard. He recently had it reshaped by a man with a strange look in his eyes claiming to have had the best idea for a beard, EVER, and the menacing spikes of dwarf beard are uncomfortably clean. However, it IS a knee-length goatee, so he's rather chuffed with it....if suspicious that it is considerably longer than it used to be.

"Grandpick......not bad. But there's something a little lacking. Still. I find it rather more suitable for staying out of view for a while. Which we'll need, if we're to get.....started......."

OOC: Yup. I'm not sure we've got a good enough name, but "Grandpick" is the sort of thing a genre-savvy mad scientist goes for. It's a fairly common sort of name, so doesn't stand out, it has a hidden reference to the hidden decision makers [A grand pick= a good choice, which is humerously ironic given we're probably going to be making Fun choices].....and it doesn't tempt fate. Much. Of course, if the good Doctor/Professor/Whatever the heck his title is McKiwi were to say that, it would be tempting fate and thus cancel everything out. He'll probably say something he shouldn't anyway, regardless of the name......since he isn't the one who'll be eaten by voracious cave crawlers.


Plus, of course, the names of the geographic features of this landscape do not tempt fate at all. "Dangerous Hill" is in no way suggestive of anything bad happening, and I am sure that the stream of Hushbattle will be *extremely* peaceful. Yes. Nothing can possibly go wrong here.

Make a serious dam (digging out the sides to make a small/large/dwarvenly lake) with several sets of mechanisms and levers for floodgates so you have several options:

- "Minimum Natural Flow": Stores a lake for you, but still lets the river flow. Adds some (not much) realism.
- "Screw Elves": No water for those damnable forests! MUAHAHAHAHA!
- "Screw nobles": Opens the Emergency Overrun channel that drains dangerously high water levels into the caverns. Via your nobles quarters. Make sure you can drain them afterwards, and that you don't flood the the fort by doing this. That's a different levers job.
- "Screw Goblins": Opens every floodgate on the dam that leads into the old riverbed. Should be combined with a fiendish entrance to your fort that probably doesn't alllow it to flood, designed to channel invaders into the path of the deluge.
- "Screw you Mister Baitykins!": Links to Kitten Storage Area.
- "Emergency Self Destruct": Why do we need a lever that routes several million litres of water through EVERY BIT OF THE FORT?* Um...it looks cool when we kill everyone?
- "FTW": Powers as many pump stacks as you can fit into your magma sources, to power an unspeakable engine of doom. Probably involves lava. Definitely involves Fun.

Things to keep in mind:

If building a fortress above/attached to the dam, it'll need some sort of overflow control that shuts doors and floodgates to protect anything important (and kill anyone caught outside, but that's not important)....which shouldn't be hard. And for maximum power generation and Dwarvenly Complexity, the dam's probably got to be quite thick. That way you can fit in comple machinery that no one really understands.

Actually, with your very own massive Dam of Doom, there's nothing you CAN'T do**. Waterfalls in every single bedroom, dining room, statue garden and graveyard full of the dwarves who drowned installing the waterfalls? Sure. Killing sieges with water? Sure. Magma? Sure. Obsidian? Yup.






*Yes, including the stuff above the dam. Route the parts going underground through waterwheels to power the pump stacks that flood the surface stuff.
**Except going to space. But if that ever becomes possible, a dam probably won't hurt.

Indeed. You could make the towers a lot higher, with the path zig-zagging between them on bridges, each one with fun and interesting weapons traps. After bridge number 5 or so, most things should be dead. Then you can set up an atom smasher or something to take care of the rest.

if you wanna finish it, and REALLY make sure its dead mix the doomsday device with this

-open path for sieges, disable traps.
-reduce the value of the rooms, deface things
-make sure the dwarves WILL be angry, destroy their bedrooms, their everything
-loyalty cascade, to make sure even more!
-PULL THE DOOMSDAY LEVER!

enjoy armok's fury/raeg

Armok's joy. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

Are octopus-people going to be able to squeeze through small gaps (like in grates/bars/pipes), and can we distract them with hapless chained crab-people?

I'm playing on another survival server right now, but I might turn up once the current megaproject is done there. My username is The_Guide. And I have a snazzy jacket.