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They will execute prisoners with their bone artifacts, pull out the entrails and give them to the citizens. The citizens will then drop the entrails in the river.
You will call it Watanagashi Festival.

And dwarves will randomly go insane around Festival time every year. (This plan is excellent and you get points for referencing Higurashi).

My fort's FPS is dangerously low, so I'm trying to get the random stuff cleared out from the caverns (this is a reclaim) and into proper stockpiles. I suppose FPS 10-12 isn't toooo bad when you consider I have TWO (gravity-based) waterfalls and an ocean shore...

Edit: dig_for_!!sparklies!! has grown to become a Bay Watcher. Dig_for_!!sparklies!! was pleased to become a Bay Watcher recently. XD

Question about the soap industry.

Namely, I can't get it to work for me. I have lye, rock nut oil and paste (or at least the oil you can screw press directly from quarry bushes) but the chemistry workshop doesn't show any of the "make soap" reactions as able to be done right now. Since I don't know if the directly-from-quarry-bushes type of oil works for soap, I've been experimenting with the 'long' method as described in vanilla df (process at farmer's workshop, grind into paste at quern, turn into oil at screw press). But while I have rock nut paste, I can't get tell the screw press to "make liquid from paste" (the option's listed there, but it's red instead of white).

Could it be a lack of jugs? Barrels? I'm so confused.

Bread for the bread god!

I had a face palm moment today when trying to figure out why my dorfs were leaving gaps in the cavern walls so things could (FREQUENTLY) come in and kill them. It turns out they--I don't know if they can't, but they really don't like to build a wall right next to a ramp (I had ramps alternating with floors, for scaffolding). Build floors over them, and now my caves are much more secure.

I don't think they're ducks in Masterwork. Drakes have often given me problems, especially when I made the mistake of dismissing them as simply male waterfowl.

First time I've gotten the "despite the danger" message with migrants. And this is in a fort where I have invaders OFF, with NO FBs, Titans, etc allowed in world gen, and where I'm walling off the caverns (I've only breached the first layer) as fast as I can.

The danger? Things keep slipping in through the unfinished walls. Everything from Trolls to serpent and frog men, to ant people, to Giant Cave Swallows and Giant Bats. I think by now my veteran military is just like "Oh, another Troll? Move aside recruit, let me fix that for you -wham- okay carry on."

It's kinda frustrating because I want to DO things in this fort, like figure out projects and various industries and stuff. But instead I've been surviving while getting the wall (slooooooooooooowly) up.

That is AWESOME. I know, it's things like these you just can't explain to non-players. Or non-gamers in general, anyway.

So, it seems you can't assign a tomb to a merchant, unlike slabs. So I've designated a one pixel garbage dump right next to the elf's 'tomb' and I'm going to 'dump' his/her corpse then undesignate the dump, and s/he can just...lie there in the grass among the trees in elvish splendor, with the waterfall as the background music to his/her final resting place. >.> The things I do for poetic beauty.

I also mixed a few bars of silver in with the limestone for the roof, because I remembered that in lotr elves love silver. I love it too, so it was a bit of a sacrifice, but this whole affair is making me feel very lotr-ish, so I can't complain much.

Edit: Also, I noticed a few posts ago that I am no longer an Escaped Lunatic (LOL yeah no I still am, like all df players) but have joined the hallowed and venerable ranks of the Bay Watchers! Yay! *feels accomplished* *was pleased to enter the ranks of the Bay Watchers lately*

I should mention Oil Hovelbuttock the...I forget what he/she does? And the unfortunately named Chamber Pottrap. Good with name order there, dwarven parents.

The last suspiciously hanging around trader turned into a warlock spy and set a fire (in my HOSPITAL ), and then I had another fire of unknown origin so I went whatev, I'm not waiting to be ambushed by a whole crowd of them. Nothing bad has happened with my soldiers, but I didn't get very many of the "traders", so I'm just penning them out via fortification. And spike pits.