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Looking through legends i stumbled upon this fantastic book. I'm pretty sure we all know how this dwarf feels.. about those dam elfs
... i'm not sure how to upload an image so i'll type it out.

"It Must Have Been the Elf
It Must Have Been the Elf was a legendary topaz-bound book. The written portion consists of a 121 page biography entitled It Must Have Been the Elf authored by Onul Helmflaxen. It concerns the elf Coce Reignwhiskered. The writing is as viscous as can be it occasionally changes topic abruptly.

In the mid-winter of 35 It Must Have Been the Elf was created in Plaitedcrypts by the dwarf necromancer Onul Helmflaxen. " 

Hey! I'm an expat too, and i know what you mean about facebook. Before i moved oversea's i used to use it regularly, then I moved to China, it's blocked there, so at first i was soo frustrated and used to complain about it. Eventually i got used to not using it (as well as youtube; that was tough), and i when i found out about proxy's and the such.. it was too late, i really couldn't give a dam about it, i'd lost my habit. I've tried 'getting back into it' since moving out of China, but its.. just.. so depressing, everything about it feels so pointless, and i kinda feel lost as to what to do with it. I don't use it to keep in contact with my friends in China because they don't have it, we just email every now and then. My friends joke about me because i don't use it, but i'm like whatever. The thing that gets me the most is that i feel like i've changed so much since going overseas, so much experience and things that i've learned, and when i go on facebook, the same people are still talking about the same stupid irrelevent things; nothings changed back home. It just overwhelms me with a sense of futility.
-anyway good luck in the future!

Ahhhhh, that seems to have worked. thankyou. I guess i can sell the my traitor to the elves  But as for the rest of them.... well, we're going to have !Fun!

Running my fort, i have several frustrating things that i can't seem to work out.

1. I've built 2 bridges for my fort. I built them, linked them to levers, tested them, they worked fine. Come the first siege, i pull the level, lever switches 'on' the bridge. I wait eagerly, like 10 seconds... nothing happens. Seems they just, really don't want to work. No trolls or anything heavy has ever stepped foot on the bridge, the bridge is clear, there are no objects on it. I've tried redo'ing, still nuda. Is it a burrow issue? I've tried including the bridge within the burrow. But no.

2. The goblins be-sieged.. they only had spearman and a bowmen on a bat. Is it in anyway possible that they can mine through a wall? Becuase instead of going towards my now open gates, they made a hole into an earth wall. That hole linked into a chanelled area that was part of a plateu, so now they could just walk in the back way into my base. No Problem. I'll just deploy my 40+ military to the breech. I set them up in anticipation. The goblins halt thier advance, the bat-goblin seems to be stuck (). OK whatever. I dismiss my military back to training (lol). To be double safe, i build a set of doors in a tight corridor and then lock them. Cool. Should be ok? Nope. My civillians are behaving, but one of my military dwarfs instead of going back to training (like everybody else) decides to rambo randomly. But i've got the doors locked right? Nope. HE WALKS STRAIGHT THROUGH THEM, as if their not locked then gets killed. -__-

3. In every menu (except the opening one) i view whilst playing the game. Random parts of text seem to missing/blank depending if i scroll over  them or not. It's minor, but it's annoying, any explanation to that?

ps im running windows 7, on a decent computer, so it's not lag related.

any help appreciated, thx