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Every dwarf you claim dies within two weeks, thats like putting a price on their head...

That is at least better than Zuglarkun's record at this point.

Ok, didn't have time to big IC write-ups, so I just wrote down what happened as I played. I'm now up to winter!

-Armorer (not a dorfed one) got a strange mood. Required cloth. Took me all three goes getting peeps and materials to the depot to get the sort he wanted. Dunno what he's making, but it's made of copper, alpaca wool, and kitten bone. If I'd had a bit more warning I'd have sent the steel ingot I bought from the traders down there ahead of time. Oh well.
-Speaking of which, I am killing every unclaimed cat and kitten in the fort. There were a lot of them. Now there's about 15 less. We'll still be breeding them, but I'm fine with that. Gotta have those bone bolts!
-Dike construction continues. I've built the service ramps that will let us continue working on it when the outer wall is complete.
-Also set up a little island in the dike. We can make a tower there, or we can build the trade depot there for giggles later.
-Some bits are getting ignored though....we have a massive farming backlog, and some construction jobs are getting ignored. Still, it's going well. These traders are lovely people and have really been useful this year.

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Continued from a bit later in the same session:

-You know, playing "I don't want to set the world on fire" in the background works really well for DF. No lava to play with, alas.
-It's.....a copper low-boot! Worth 6960, no special images. No images at all, actually. It's just a really, really good low-boot.  Since our soldiers are set to only have one boot each, I've given Sir Humphrey the honor of having this one.

-MIGRANTS! We're now back over 60 dwarves. And one of them is a rather competant bone doctor and other general medical person. And a macedwarf to boot. That's going to be very useful.

-It occurs to me that I've only made about 10 new bedrooms this year, and they're all rather crap. Oh well. Someone else's problem.

-AAAAAH. Zuglarkun II's corpse has risen and is killing people.
-And a fire imp has made it into our stairwell, somehow, and is attacking the mayor. Oh well. Nobles.
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh


Ok we've beaten Zuggles II back to death  (That's, what, four deaths now? And you've only had three dwarfs named after you.), the mayor is not on fire, and we've only lost four or so people. This fortress seems to like having things appear right at the door.I think the lake did something funky to the corpse because there's no massive undead army outside killing us.....a death in the evil biome would mean eventual rising as a zombie, so that's probably what happened...I also think walling off the lakeside would be a good idea, if it weren't such a risk to attempt it.

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-Nice to see that dwarves recognise that "on fire" is not a good condition for a bed.
-We need to work out how that imp got in....I closed the bridge to the caverns. There should be no way in.

-Oh and our hammerdwarf is on fire. BTW. He thinks this is a great time to go do some sparring. While on fire.

-Yeah, that didn't end well.

-Death toll is now at seven or so. Maybe a few more. We really need better gear for the military....they're good soldiers, but they don't have what they need to do their job.
-I've built a temporary hospital where the trade depot used to be. This needs to get replaced at some point as it's too small and can't be cleaned up if we get an extract problem.

However.....winter has just arrived.....and the dike is completed and ready to be filled.....eventually. If people get around to it.

The end-caps that will stop it draining into the lake mean it needs to extra walls to block climbers. Ideally, the dike would be an extra z-level higher...but that would mean ripping out the bridges and starting again. So that looks a bit odd and may need some revisions...but it's working!

So apart from that, it's.....

'Zuglarkun II', Inethugosh, Ghostly Mason can be heard howling throughout the fortress!


Dammit Zuggles! GO AWAY and STAY DEAD ALREADY.

My favorite in my current fortress is a wombat demon who settled in her slade tower, The Adorable Tower (of course), to reign over a goblin civilization and basically enjoy a peaceful life. Her only companion was a female goblin, the Lady of the Smooth Sins. This weird human civ, called the Intense Kingdom, spent years attacking this tower with dozens of men and being driven off by the goblin. Then one of them got the better of her and the wombat demon went nuts and slaughtered them all. She then wandered off and has been roaming the land killing humans ever since. I see it as a tragic romance.

Who's next up on the turn list for this fort?

Deus Asmoth, once I finish up the year.

I like when people find ways to work a worlds backstory into the fort and give the whole thing some life, so to speak. I don't want to offend any undead who may be wandering the shores of the haunted lake.

Don't worry, the ghosts are reasonably friendly right now.

I'll update probably tomorrow or the day after: it's the end of the semester and I've got a couple of weeks to write 15K words on various topics, so time's a bit short.

Quote from: Urist McKiwi on October 12, 2015, 07:17:09 pm

THe inner wall gives us some protection already though. It looks like there's a gap to the south....but there isn't. I'm also trying to build (semi-temporary) line-of-sight blockers around the corpse piles.

the dumping pit for corpses is right next to the pile. you could diminish the horror effects by emptying it, it usually takes like a day.

It's not so much "horror" as "undead" that I'm worried about. I'll look into it though....we're a bit short on haulers.

Wow, I actually put up a hell of a fight. Shame I forgot to use a proper weapon, really. And yes, "I've been wounded, it's annoying" is a WONDERFUL response to having your neck exploded into gore. I actually landed several blows (including one that bruised the bear to the very -bone-!) after having my throat ripped out. A most glorious death indeed.

....still need to work on the not-dying part of combat though.

Yes, you're the reason we didn't lose a lot more people....you distracted it long enough to get everyone inside and the gate shut. As well as the administrator getting thrown around. Which, given this fight was literally right in front of the door, was pretty dang good.

The continued account of Sir Humphrey Cactusson, Cactus

Early Summer

Well, things are going rather well if I do say so myself. The little outcrop has been propped-up and expanded a little, and I've had a new entrance set up. Got the beginnings of a proper outpost of civilization here, we do!

Unfortunately, the locals seem a bit......strange. This "Zuglakun II" lady started sketching pictures of rocks and cloth.....and then went insane. Well, more insane. Apparently this is a dwarven thing. Oh well. Another batch of migrants arrived with some useful skilled dwarves among them.....and a siege engineer who took a piece of paper off the corpse and declared herself"Zuglarkun III". Jolly good then.


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It's been.....oh....about a week since my last entry. A day ago everyone was out and about doing an absolutely cracking job on the walls.....and then a bloody werebear turned up. One of the cats ran up for a petting and.....alas....it did not end well:



A kitten fared similarly badly. I had the doors slammed shut...but not everyone made it inside. Our administrator, a cracking chap who did a fantastic job keeping things going smoothly, got roughed up right and proper before the beastly thing threw him into our brand new weapon-trap.



Zuglarkun II lived up to her predecessors by dying horribly.



Haerdalas, a veteran of some sort, did a noble job...but a crutch was hardly an effective weapon.




(Athough I must say, having overheard them....those were truly dashing last words)


The bear turned back into a human. I sent our troops out to deal with this interloper....but they couldn't run fast enough. Oh well. At least no one got infected. And the sacrifice of those three probably saved the fortress......the outer wall isn't quite finished. I'll have to fix this soon. It may be some time before I write again....


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Yeah, that wasn't a fight that we could win. I just had to grin and bear it.

Or rather, those three did. And the cats.


Ok, that's the backlog almost cleared. Next update will cover the changes to the fortress layout, and the plans for the rest of the year.



EDIT: Oh, and to make things more fun, the administrator got thrown in the trap twice.

Edit2: Oh, And Gwolfski just got possessed by the ghost I'd already slabbed and killed our clothier. I think the criminal justice system is a bit bugged though....



They're not reporting the crime because they're too shocked by witnessing it.

Edit3: And our butcher. Sorry Gwolfski, but I'm sending in the military if you don't stop soon.