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If anyone wants to go to Old Doomforests to retrieve the treasure, be my guest. There's a ton of stuff we could burn for FPS and there's quite a few golden items. The treasure is yours for the taking, the dwarves left everything in one piece.

I see what you did there.

Here is the save:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=10597
Can you put me down for another year?

If my track record remains the same, the next overseer is going to plunge this fort into death and/or chaos.

Hey, you know that gigantic multi-Z hall I made, just next to the statue gardens and the Queen's Suite?

If you have spare engravers, finishing smoothing it would be neat. It was a throne room for the royalty, but it was barely dug when Dumat declared herself queen.

Ahhh, I use that place for stone storage . I guess that explains what it was made for. All of the ruling nobles are happy, except for the queen (she still wants her Fine Pewter Door). I asked the merchants to bring more fine pewter bars next season, just in case the queen wants more.

Timber 8th
All of the roads in the fortress have been completed. I have also set up a swordwarf squad, bringing up the militia to 25 dwarves. They are almost fully clad in metal armor. We will be prepared for any goblin attack, or sudden resurrection of our corpses. I wish more interesting things would happen, but all I am doing is housekeeping: adding doors, cabinets, chests, an effective militia, and MOAR LEVERS!!!
I have also set up a group of 3 Balistia. They have a nice line of sight down the lane. Hopefully they will have some use.

Moonstone 7th
I have finished building tombs for all the dwarfed members of the population. The militia is fully equipped. I am recalling all civilians in preparation for the Siege/Raid. It's too bad I cannot make weapons or armor out of Zinc: We have a ridiculous amount of it.

Wait a second: We have zinc, we have copper, and we have acid (also known as Dwarven Booze).
Maxcat61 cancels Write: Fantasizing about Battery Powered Dwarven Armor.

Autumn has arrived.
In the time between my last entry and now, I have finished the Queen's rooms to her royal standards, finished the spinning pit of doom, and am in the process of fully armoring all the military. There are excess coffins, and the bedrooms are starting to be smoothed out. Right now, the fort is stagnate do to massive amounts of hauling. What is being hauled, I don't know.

Limestone 27th
The hauling fad seams have to gone away. The dwarven merchants came, and I took every steel weapon, bar, and armor from them, along with enough fine pewter to make 1 door for the queen. I got a ton of booze, but had to sell some masterwork meals to get everything, along with every craft and gem that wasn't forbidden my mandates. Also, a child is working in a craftshop due to a mood. Lets see what he makes.

edit: He made a horse bone door. It has a picture of the queen ascending to the throne. Suckup. In case anyone wanted to know, artifact bone stuff burns forever without disintegrating. Just sayin'.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Results: 3 dead, werebeast dead, large chance of infection of 5 dwarves, including an axedwarf.

The dwarves spend the month confined in the hospital, surrounded my the militia. None of them turn.

The humans merchants arrive. I take their stuff, and sell some crafts.

Another mining accident. Almost all the miners are dead, including the cloaked one.

Right now, I am training, making the Queen's rooms better, and am looking for metals.

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I don't think it's necessary to set up the magma forges, since we have a boatload of charcoal. It would still be a good project though. Magma is way dwarfier.

So is burning trees tho...

I like using magma forges because, in case of !!fun!!, the wood supply can be cut off, but magma remains. Also, magma is cooler.

Diary of a Mad Minion
A miracle has occurred: I am the overseer again. I never thought the fort would ever be desperate enough allow the 2nd most experienced dwarf to rule again. This place sure has changed since 2nd year. Zombies, Necromancers, and Goblins have all tried to destroy this fort: but we persevered. My Beard sense is tingling: the stockpiles are more than enough for a fort of this size.

Now let's see what happened to my constructions: My loghouse has no logs, but has a dozen wood furnaces and forges. The bedrooms have been expanded, and there is a new dining room, along with rooms for the nobles. There is an absolutely humongous statue garden. All the nobles have rooms, but the Queen isn't happy yet. The most obvious change is the entrance. Someone decided that we needed a giant above ground fortress to defend the mountainhome below. I am impressed.

I do have 1 question for the previous overseer: What was this room intended for?

As I was adding another section to the Fortress above, I noticed some odd looking soap. After asking around, I found out what it was made of:
Sometimes I wonder what the soapmakers were thinking. Doesn't soap need fat?

First things first: the queen needs some pewter doors, and the Magma Smelters need some work done on them They are too far away, and have no conveniences for the smiths.