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[Random_Dragon]

Hnnng build the great hall faster you twats! Ideally before I get another migrant wave, because then that'll push this outpost up to 20 and my expedition leader will become a lord. D:

EDIT: Roof over what'll be the lord's quarters is mostly up, starting to mine out the cellar and tomb, and the elves are here? Hand over all your shit and get out, you tree-worshiping cannibals.

[Pirate Santa]

The fort's entered an unfortunate cycle:

1. Urist enters strange mood.
2. Urist claims workshop, starts gathering materials. I see that all is well and move onto other things.
3. Urist can't find a material he wants and sulks. I don't notice.
4. Urist goes berserk.
5. Urist takes a steel mace to the face.

It's happened three times in a row...

I've had 4 out of 6 moods this fort end this way.

But that last one succeeded! I now have my second artifact and a CMD who is a legendary clothier.
The artifact in question is rope reed... underpants. Wtf Urist? Those aren't even dwarven clothing. How did you know how to make those!?

In other news the main fort battlements are finished and the foundation is being laid for my new barracks. The local trees are also finally growing. Just in time too, I'm almost out of glumprong D:

[Random_Dragon]

FINALLY able to settle down enough to cook some prepared meals so I'll have stuff to sell to the caravan. Thing is, a year with minimal immigrants is good in that I haven't had to juggle my leader's needs and potential invaders until I'm ready, but bad because part of the holdup is lack of manpower.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Just got my first goblin resident.
I'm considering making him the baron because that thing lives forever.

[OluapPlayer]

Fort made directly next to the elves so I could comfortably harass them until war happens.

First non-fixed migrant wave I get brings me 24 children. 1/4 of the fortress is completely unusable.

I should throw these vermin to the elves when they do get angry.

[Pirate Santa]

The goblin fortress next door just sent their first invaders.
Final casualties before we wiped them all out is a woodcutter, engraver, someone's pet pig and an axe lord.
The pig got caught immediately and wailed on for many pages before succumbing, this bought the militia time to arrive.
Not quickly enough though, a goblin axeman, clearly their greatest warrior, cut down the two civilians without ceremony before the first troops arrived.
It was brutal.
Our tragic hero did well for herself though, despite her blood soaked foe, the same to have already ended two dwarven lives, hacking off her leg and shield hand she kept on striking back at him, and managed to live just long enough to see her nemesis struck down before expiring.

I'm going to build a monument on the exact spot she died.

EDIT: Goddamn I love the new details menu. I just commissioned statues of Kogan and another of battleaxes, the weapon of both her and her foe.
These now sit on the roof of her shrine above her slab.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

I cut down all trees on the surface and got 12800 logs.
I used stockpiles to prevent them from growning back. Just hope the elves don't find out. 

[Random_Dragon]

Might as well story-ify my pissing off the elves.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The human strolled into the trade depot, observing the elves giving him "the look," that look you give when you're making small talk with someone who's clearly an axe murderer. Which may be exactly what they're thinking, between the wooden trade market, the logs carelessly left laying around by the local woodcutter, and the half-built mead hall looming over them.

Shit, he thought. Bad enough way to greet a caravan, but on top of that they'd been so busy building this past year that they had little of value produced to trade. Oh well, surely he can figure something out, having tallied a rough list of what they need. "Greetings. This servant of the river goddess greets you."

One of the elves, evidently the leader of the merchant group, turned and spat at the floor in between them. "Don't even dare speak of your false gods when the river is right beside this...ambomination you've made. We're only here because it is the will of nature that we visit all who are led astray."

Oh no he didn't. Or she, the outpost leader never could tell with elves. "False gods? You're a trade caravan, not missionaries. You want to start this shit, then I've got just the offer for you." He promptly raeached to grab a log that had been left on the floor nearby, and set it on the counter beside them.

"What is this?" the elf asked, seeming more stunned than offended, almost looking like they're on the verge of tears when confronted with what was once a tree. "What do you THINK it is? It's your fucking nature, you tree-worshipping heathen. we do what we must to survive, not all of us can seduce trees into submission and stand out in the rain all year long."

He then gestured to his militia commander, a stout swordsman and just about the only actual soldier the outpost had, whose response was to perk up and draw that longsword of his. "You can feel free to take the log if you'd like, but you're handing over everything on that list."

"...take what you wish, then. I can't stop you." Good. Even though the elven caravan didn't have a simple guard among them, he was still afraid what'd happen if they actually grew a pair and stood up to him. Likely would have enough numbers to mob the only bodyguard he had, nevermind that he's a bit on the short side.

[Pirate Santa]

Almost immediately after vanquishing our second goblin siege a Hill Titan appears!
My first ever! 
It's a giant mite with a poisonous sting, surely this will be a battle for the..... oh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That's the entire combat log. They chipped and bruised it for a bit and then a wrestler bit its brain in half. Wow.

[Random_Dragon]

Pbbbt. Meanwhile, my efforts to build a moat accidentally a wagon.

[King Kitteh]

Going to embark on a Savage Tropical Shrubland, hoping to catch and tame some giant elephants!

[mikekchar]

Going to embark on a Savage Tropical Shrubland, hoping to catch and tame some giant elephants!

I've heard that this is guaranteed to end well.  Remember to periodically flood the surface with magma too.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

What do you have to say, Mr. Elf?


Edit*

For some reason, none of my dorfs have been in a strange mood during the paste decade. They dug all the way down to the caverns and settled there. In theory they should have already created one artifact or two, correct?

[Random_Dragon]

So, I done derped. I set it so that the settlement would start with an expedition leader, who would upgrade to a lord once the settlement hit 20 citizens and became a hamlet.

However, I set the lord to not be elected because duh, and not be appointed because the only position that makes sense for that is the law-giver, and civ-level appointing doesn't work that well. So the position would never appear until I deleted the expedition leader.

Then again, even tiny hamlets with no mead hall tend to have a lord/lady, so if I retain this change in the future it'll be better flavor AND add to the early-game challenge by having a whiny noble right off the bat.

I might tone down the room requirements though. At a bare minimum I can see needing a series of baron-quality tombs if lords keep dying will get annoying fast.

[Fleeting Frames]

@Libash: Do you have at least 20 mood-capable dwarves? If not, welp.