Nil Duknebel, Expedition leader: Well... We're alive. Somehow we managed to survive the flight across the sky onto an island crossing hundreds of tiles
There seem to be plenty of pools of water, but they are murky and will most likely get the other dwarves sick... Water systems will be needed in case, Armok forbid, the alcohol runs dry.
Well, better get these slackers busy before they drink up all our supplies.
I could've sworn we had more dwarves when we were launched...

Nice story so far. Pictures are funny!

Thanks, I wanted to make sure something actually happened before adding more on, I get the feeling the flying cart gag will only last for so long

Etur Nazomushrir, Peasant: I have no idea what this fortress is doing. We get shot out of a catapult and land on this island, we have to wander around for months in the wilderness to find this place and what the hell have they done? built a damn archer tower
I don't know what they think is going to attack us out on this island, but if there aren't flying goblins, they have no reason to waste good building materials like this. Some traders came, I have no idea why the expedition leader ordered a trading post built when nobody could reach us, but as they say, "If you build it they will come." Since everyone else was busy, I ended up being the one to do the trading. The only problem was we had nothing to trade, so i ended up piling a bunch of random furniture and some hastily thrown together crafts onto them to get a bit of ore and some blocks of... well, they called it slade, but I've never heard of it, it must be some fancy name for something. I got it because it looked interesting, but it's really heavy. Armok knows how these traders planned to leave, or even how they got here, their cart didn't look nearly beaten up enough to have been launched like we were. I tossed a barrel of meat in with the furniture, mostly so they wouldn't starve before they inevitably realized there was no escape and came back to join our outpost.
Then... the ocean froze...
I didn't know that could happen, but I guess that's one way travellers could get to this island...
I don't know that metalsmith who keeps running around demanding materials, but I don't think he'll finish his mood without a forge...

Poor dwarves! I enjoyed the humour and the drawings, seems a nice and funny way to tell a story!

On Island embarks I always have the miners dig down to the first cavern before doing anything else, because obviously they tunneled up from there.  However a huge catapult or maybe "minecart assisted takeoff" would be just as feasable.

    "Tuck and Roll, Damn you!  Tuck and roll!"

Quote from: Timeless Bob on January 18, 2014, 03:07:10 pm

On Island embarks I always have the miners dig down to the first cavern before doing anything else, because obviously they tunneled up from there.  However a huge catapult or maybe "minecart assisted takeoff" would be just as feasable.

    "Tuck and Roll, Damn you!  Tuck and roll!"

Wagons suddenly engaging their warp drives is actually a known bug, so I like to assume that's how you get to the islands.

No, seriously. The carvan will just wait in the depot for an abnormal amount of time, then rocket off the map in a solid 5 frames. "Warp Factor 5, Mr. Urist. We must outrun the Elf Warbirds!"

So once again we find that something is "not a bug, it's actually a feature".  I love this community!

On Island embarks I always have the miners dig down to the first cavern before doing anything else, because obviously they tunneled up from there.  However a huge catapult or maybe "minecart assisted takeoff" would be just as feasable.

    "Tuck and Roll, Damn you!  Tuck and roll!"

Whenever I think about how an embark goes, I assume it ends with the cart being damaged beyond use, seeing as how the dwarves never move it from the spot you embark into