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Furfa- Furries?

If I could have Dwarfs born with claws that would be cool.  They already have enough hair.

Well, $%^&$#!  Attacked by a bunch of goblins, while a Elf caravan was coming in.  We won but one of my AxeDwarfs stayed in a martial trance and started killing other Dwarfs!  Unarmed subjects just trying to do their jobs.  And a few dogs.  And the Captain of the GUARD!  And my cheetah!  I only had two big cats and she killed one of them! 

Nobody was willing to kill her, she was still somehow a Friend so I placed her own squad in front of her aimless rampage and they killed her to defend themselves. 

I lost more people to her than any one ambush! 

Now I have to reassign all those rooms AND try to keep the Fortress from going into a tantrum spiral (again) and try to trade with the Elves while grieving for the big kitty.   

Well, the work on the roof goes on and we have a ton of metal to melt down.  With pools of blood, gore covered items, and body parts all over the place.  All I need is to be able to place huge burning bonfires on top of the dome and even other Dwarfs may think twice about visiting the Hell which is becoming my Fortress.

My kitty!

A moment of silence...

PS - Is there any way to stop that kind of thing?  I had to disband one of my small units, The Cavern Guard (since the caverns are blocked off anyway), to fill in the gaps in the other units.  Also decided that the City Guard is never leaving the city again.  They are good with the bows but they got their butts kicked by one AxeDwarf.

I was so busy working on my dome that when the Dwarfs started to demand fuel and other wood related products I completely failed to remember my deal with the Elves.  I think I went over the treaty agreement by chopping down 70 or so trees over the limit.  Oops.  From what I understand, please correct me if I am wrong, this seems to piss them off more then wiping out Elf caravans.   

*sigh* 

We were attacked today by goblins and trolls.  The trolls were easy to handle, with arrows and war dogs, but the goblins fired down onto the city from the mountain to our east, killing many subjects.  Even killing one kid in the process of making a artifact!  The main hospital is full, and the Pig Hospital has at least two wounded in it also.  The horror!  The horror! 

On the other hand, all but one troll was killed (the live one was captured and I plan to have its cage placed next to the cage with the bitter child snatcher).
All but one goblin was killed (the leader it seems escaped after a slight wound).  They did leave a ton of silver, iron, and copper which will be melted down and clothing which will be sold to...whoever is stupid enough to buy it.

So the Mega-project will start today.

1.  First, a wall will be built on the mountain - it will be there not to protect us from arrows, as goblins higher up on the slopes could still fire down onto us but to keep enemies off the dome!

2. Second, we will enclose the whole city in a giant dome!  Well, more of a roof.  Some of it is already enclosed to protect the workshops and the roofs of the buildings already count.  Only a few openings, for ramps, and doorways in some of the large buildings will allow soldiers to access the walls and the fortifications on them to fire down on any who dare approach us.  True, this defeats the purpose of making a Surface Class if I enclose them but most will still work outside the walls to fish, hunt, and collect wood and seeds.    I will put a few glass blocks in the dome to allow some light in.

Some statues will be up there, being on some of the buildings, so maybe I should place a roof over the roof to make a enclosed dome over the dome...hmmmm....

And I was getting bored so this will give me something to do and keep the Dwarfs busy while I wait till we can become the Capital. 

Also, I figured out that the dome would be a good place to set up some war machines.   But I remember they only fire at targets on their level...which seems weird. 



PS- A peasant went berserk.  She was a recruit in one of the military units - saw death and was wounded and lost her mother also.  Was wounded in the battle and throwing a tantrum in the bed in the hospital. When she was well enough to get up went nuts, killed another patient in the hospital.  The Stone Cutters, my elite force of archers, whose barracks are just across the hall stomped in and killed her in a volley of bolts before she could hurt or kill anybody else.  Half the hospital is now awash with  red blood.  The Chief Medical Dwarf was, lucky enough, unharmed and moves back and forth between the two hospitals working on the wounded.  Most should survive.
Outside of that, plus one fist fight in the jail when a planter got upset for some reason and hit a hauler (a child), it seems I have kept control of the post-battle situation.
I rarely have tantrum spirals - I am more than willing to shoot a crazy Dwarf down or lock them into their bedrooms to starve to death to save a Fortress. 
I love my Dwarfs but when they start causing trouble I put them down.

Well, two more things happened....one, the Duchess threw a tantrum, punching the Chief Medical Dwarf and shook a dog.  No damage was done to each but I swear, once I have a King I am wondering if killing her would cause problems.  I mean, she punched the one Dwarf who I think of as very valuable. 

Also, a Forgotten Beast showed up.  With the caverns blocked off it was more amusing than anything else:

 

What we need is a giant bar-b-q.....

Two things today.  A five year old kid made a artifact, a war bone hammer, which sounds cool.   

And I closed down my old jail cells (three of them which were just 2 by 1 dirt cells with some food and a chain) and replaced them with a large common jail cell dug out next to the main staircase.  It has four beds (one in each corner), four chains, two statues and two chairs (placed so that one chair is between two different chains), with a central food stockpile. 

Something like this...
B=Bed  R=Rope  C=Chair  S=Statue F=food

BRFFRB
SCFFCS
BRFFRB

The second it was finished a Dwarf was tossed into it.  A prisoner who, while not delighted to be confined and complained about the lack of a table, liked his fine bed and is enjoying the food.  True, people come in to eat and drink the food, but also a lot of people are bringing in food and drink because it is right next to the main staircase.

Also, I hope the high traffic of Dwarfs will keep him happy.  In other words, I hope he will chat with them.  He seems to like kids and there always seems to be one visiting the food stockpile at any one time.  He also seems to have a huge list of friends, so pretty much anybody entering the room is a relative, a friends, or a somebody he knows.  And his family is mostly in the Fortress.  His grandparents live in the Fortress, along with lots of uncles and aunts and so on.

He seems to be a survivor - from what I can tell he has lost two of his four kids when they were just babies (likely to Forgotten Beasts) so I assume he will make it the 60 days sentence without too much of a problem.  In other words, he will not starve or go bonkers.  From his stats he seems to be a pretty stable and even nice individual.  I feel kind of sad that he has been tossed in jail because he got blamed for something that upset the Mayor.   

Oh well.   

Thank you both!  I did not know about that function when viewing and it makes it a lot easier now to start culling out skinny pigs.  And even a few shinny chickens (not that skinny chickens can't lay eggs but when it is time to butcher them I want fat hens and roosters for the pots!).  Thanks again!