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Peeking in for interest, but not committing yet, still reading.

So many good succession games going.  Still catching up on reading for now. 

Hatches are unbreakable from below, I would think it would be easy to turtle being a tower.
And no one made an 10x10 retracting bridge that drop tons of stone blocks onto a 10x10 baited siege room yet?

That's Glumprong trees, only grows in evil biomes

I gen a new world, and experimenting with the use of dfhack.

Well I like to have aquifer, and using liquids does not remove the aquifer-ness of a tile.
So I use "reveal" to see where the damp stones are, so I find my spot where I can make a cube of obsidian without the hassle of hitting aquifer.

I "liquids" to create obsidian cube,
then "fastdwarf 1 1" to dig faster to flatten 2z worth of sand.
Then of course, I was not satisfied at this fast pace progress, that I "createitem" 5 iron picks and set everyone to mining.

The digging goes nice, but then digging out obsidian created on sand does not leave an obsidian floor. 
So I "createitem" obsidian blocks, then floored all over.

Might as well smooth everything too, so I set everyone as engraver now. 

Now that I have a cube of obsidian, with smooth walls, I need bridges and lever.
I also dig and smooth a maze-dodge trap for my entrance, that can handle with a future project of flushing with water (or magma) in the bottom of a 2z pit.

I then expanded by cube to have a 2z dry moat with climbable smoothed natural obsidian walls.

Then I spent time adding an air lock Trade Depot. 

I created a 23 wide diameter hall, room for 60 tables and chairs.
At this point, the drab gray of obsidian is looking lame.  So I add purple (Rutile) and yellow (Orthoclase) furniture, and purple (Glumprong) beds.

I have 1 Carpenter create 100 glumprongs beds.  I can use create item on the bed, but the description will not have any maker's name.
So I just created a carpenter workshop, createitem logs, then set the stockpile to give to shop, and repeat make beds. 
But before I place the bed, I did a changeitem and all the beds are not masterful.

I repeat for Orthoclase Doors, and Rutile Coffers.  The 2nd floor, 100x bedrooms are done next.

The 2nd floor is also roofed with natural obsidian walls, has an overhang carved into fortification, and a 2 tile hallway for future patrols.
I even have a shooting gallery of the maze-dodge trap area.

I dig the basement 2 and 3 to house the food and textile industry, including an 5z indoor refuse dump and atom smasher.

I also dug the 5z ammo splitter, archery training.

Basement 4 becomes the forge area, 5 is the magma fuel area and storage.

Basement 6 is the hospital and jail, 6 and 7 being the cistern area.

I find where the aquifer tiles are, dug a power generator, and then a pump to fill the cistern below, add levers for shutoff. 

And the final thing I did so far is to "feature" change to reveal magma so I can make the magma smelters, forge, glass furnace and kiln.

It's not even Autumn yet, and I only had 2 migrants +kids.

Next to do: Add water drain to map edge.

Thinking about it, I should have just tried to start with the max pop dwarf because 7 dwarves, even in fastdwarf 1 1 mode are still too slow.

my military dorf is meant to be named Alex or Alexis and is not in the list

I have a post here of military dwarfed list.

The format of the dwarflist in Name, Gender, Labor, Title; so I followed that.

Do you guys want me to write up a Dramatis Personae for after my turn?

I could also do the dfhack "forum-dwarves"  to capture the flavor descriptions.
The caviat with "forum-dwarves" is that it quickly exceeds the 10,000 word post cap.

Let me know how I can help update the first page.

edit: Oh, I see the format now: it's IC Nickname, Gendel, Labor, Title (dead status).  But this does not have the link to the forum user name since Quasar allow a second dorfing. I will write up a list.

I missed a few dorfing commits: 
1. OOC=Hiddenleafguy, IC=Kolven "of the leaf clan!" -- pick any military, probably of Neighborhood Watch.
2. OOC=Ama, Zasit Betanadil should is now be `Ama' Betanadil, Farmer and Militia Captain of "Civilians (Planters)"

(updated 10/14. Format: IC Name, Gender, Profession, Title (Forum User)

DWARF LIST (as 1st Granite, 241)

Format Dwarf Name, gender, title (forum user)

Civilians
Gwolfski, Male, Duke of Breadbowl (Gwolfski)
Aristotle, Male, Philosopher (Aristotle)
Quasar, Female, Mayor of Breadbowl (QuQuasar)
May, Female, Chief Medical Dwarf (May)
Neblime, Male, Legendary Carpenter (Neblime)
Bearskie, Male, Legendary Planter (Bearskie)
Hiddenleafguy, Male, Manager (Hiddenleafguy)
Tonnot, Male, Legendary Brewer (Tonnot)
Brassroast, Male, High Master Mason (LordBrassroast)
Illithid, Male, Legendary Armorsmith (Illithid)

The Shafts of Fortifying
Taupe, Male, Spearmaster, Militia Commander (Taupe)
LordBrassroast, Female, Spearmaster (LordBrassroast)
Alexis, Female, Swordmaster (Gwolfski)
Fairybrow, Male, Axe Lord (fairy eyebrow)
Sanctume, Male, Mace Lord, Captain of the Guard (Sanctume)

The Earthen Assaults
Vortex, Female, Axe Lord, Militia Captain (Vortex)
Murky, Female, Axe Lord (QuQuasar)
Techno, Female, Axe Lord (Pyro)
Angus, Female, Axe Lord (Urist McVoyager)

Neighborhood Watch
Pyro, Female, Legendary Furnace Operator (Pyro)
Japa, Male, Great Tracker (Japa)
Browedeyefairy, Female, Skilled Marksdwarf (fairy eyebrow)
Zefon, Male, Legendary Cook, Militia Captain (undorf)
Onul, Male, Professional Marksdwarf (undorf)
Sazir, Female, Great Tracker (undorf)
Ushat, Male, Legendary Wood Crafter (undorf)
Cilob, Female, Master Marksdwarf  (undorf)
Udil, Female, Adept Marksdwarf  (undorf)
Likot, Male, Professional Cook (undorf)

The Dead
Psychoangel - Male, Brewer - Custom profession "Le Grand Soaper" - Dead (drowned).
Sqman - Male, Marksdwarf  - Dead (trolled).

Dorf Request
IC=Kolven, Gender=?, Profession=Military (Forum User=Hiddenleafguy)
IC=Ama, Gender=?, Profession=Planter (Forum User=Ama)

Hey QuQuasar, these should help update the front page:
Changed "Prologue, Chapters 1 and 2" -> "Prologue"
Changed "Chapters 3-6" -> "Mandate"
Changed "Siege of 240" -> "Spring Siege of 240"
Added Autumn Reports to Epilogue links.

Appendix
Prologue
Mandates
Spring Siege of 204
Dramatis Personae: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Siege Chapters: 7,  8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Siege Epilogue
Spring Report
Summer Report
Summer Chapters: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
Autumn Report
Winter Is Coming
Winds Of Winter
Winter Siege of 240: 29, 30, 31, 32.
Plowshares To Swords
Epilogue

Epilogue

Dodok, the creator of Alaknikot and I drank in this nice room they call Happy Place. 
He told me of tales of great catches in the new Fishing Shack.
We talk of our family, and of our children and grandchildren.

. . .

We have known peace.  There are times when we sow our fields and know we will live until harvest. 
Times when all that our children know of war is what the bards sing to them. 
Those times are rare, yet I’ve tried to explain to our grandchildren what war is.  I am dutiful.  I tell them it is bad. 
That it leads to sorrow and grief.  Yet, they do not believe me.  I tell them to walk into Breadbowl and see the crippled dwarves.
To stand by the graves and hear the Gorlaks weap.  But they do not believe me.

Instead, they hear the bards.  They hear the pounding rhythm of the songs that quickens like a heart in battle. 
They hear the stories of heroes, of male, and of female too, who carried babes and blades against an enemy who would kill and enslave our children.

They hear of the glory of war. And at the courtyards, they play at war.
Striking with lychee training axes against willow shields and they do not believe that war is an abomination. 
And perhaps those children are right.

I stood up, stretched, scratched an itch behind my neck with a silver mace, and walked home in Breadbowl.

The end.

Note to the next overseer
1. I place a pull order on the bridge shut off for both Refill stations.
2. Labors need revisiting, see Chapter 27
3. Butcher and Boneyard needs some attention.
4. I have not assigned any shell decorating with the new craftsdwarf shops.

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This save is the end of Sanctume's turn for Breadbowl, 240.

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