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Next Post(9)For some reason ambushes are showing up instantly revealed, probably because they always have a human in them that triggers a loyalty cascade. Then once one side wins, they immediately
start sneaking again. The kicker comes from the fact that deaths by this loyalty cascade cause some dropped items to not be properly forbidden on death... which results in clueless hoopleheads running out there to claim some random piece of clothing or goblin limb or something, triggering the rest of the ambush, and getting perforated by goblins. There's been over a dozen ambushes so far, they tend to come in waves of 5-6, which gets chopped in half by the infighting, but it's still enough to wound a few dwarves. Despite having shattered shoulders and upper arms, this doesn't seem to hinder them from sparring too much.
In my joy of Applying Magma directly to goblins, I forgot that master thieves don't like being pitted. In the chaos of stripping and disposing of half a dozen goblins, a thief was tagged for pitting, got loose, and canceled the dump jobs on the master thief, which resulted in him hanging onto his iron dagger. The poor mechanic that got tasked with pitting the master thief was thankfully also a miner, so she wounded the goblin enough to drive him off, but not before she lost a foot. She's been resting in the hospital but I don't know if she'll ever leave. She hasn't got any friends though, so that's good.
The overzealous butchers are killing so fast they're outpacing the hauling of 30 some dwarves. I never thought I'd say this, but I need more haulers. Miasma is everywhere from rotting everything, but no one seems overly concerned yet. I think I'll just put a wall with diagonal only entrances to it around the butchers to get around this, it's been perpetually exuding a cloud of stink. Happiness is definitely getting to be a rare commodity around here though, so it might be time to construct a waterfall machine, because I hear dwarves love drowning from a flooded fort caused by an architectural design error and pumps that were built without a shut off.
A Fish Cleaner/Potash Maker goes fey. I finally get a fey mood and it's this useless hunk of elf. I swear if I get artifact potash, he's got a one way trip to a premier screening of
Under the Magma: A Hands On Tour of the World's Finest Volcanoes. He claims a craftsdwarf shop, picks up stacks and stacks of bones, about 80 in all, a few other random stoneware, and gets to work under a permanent mist of miasma from the butchers shop next door. Possibly the lamest earring in the world comes out. Cow bone earring, 1200 dwarfbucks, no decoration despite gobbling up stone blocks, gems, wood, and enough bones to reconstruct Dwarfasaurus Rex. At least I got a legendary bonecrafter out of it, and there's definitely no shortage of bones here.
A temporal skip has occurred! (Translation: Dwarf Fortress crashed and I had to roll back to the start of this season) So that's the end of this post.
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