Spring update 2 -- Infernal dust, meet horrid goo!I was so excited about my second day as overseer. Sadly when I woke up people told me we shouldn't go outside because of the super evil purple rain coming back. This is sad. Thankfully all I have to do is tell people to obey the...
What the fuck, we don't have a burrow?
Well that explains a
lot. I make a burrow. I tell people ''If it has horrible, horrible goo coming from the sky don't go. If it doesn't it's k.'' I ask Asmoth if the crossbows are ready. I don't find him. Cause im blind. When I find him, tho, he says he didnt make the crossbows because he can't read plans and can't find the tools or the forges or the metal. Also he's technically just a clerk.
Well, that's not very cool. You know who was cool? Senshuken, The Military. Sadly, it seems that, well,
nobody has seen him in a week. Which, I guess, makes sence because everyone is blind. But then they tell me it is probably serious.
But Senshuken was super smart, and wise, and witty, so when I gave the order to not chase Tikijrulus anymore, he probably listened and headed straight back to the base. He must have used echolocation to retrieve the fortress, so he most likely didnt chase after the kobold anyway and stumble upon the dust cause he's blind. I tell people,
Senshuken is safe, he will return.Just because we can't go outside and senshuken hasnt reported yet doesn't mean we should be sad. I tell people to dig a gem stockpile near the workshops because everyone is blind and gems are sharp and it sucks to step on them. that'll keep us occupied. Everyone, go haul big rocks and gems while the weather clear. Cherry-Hearts is a smart mason, and she says: ''You know what would be even more fun than hauling giant rocks while blind?
Throwing a party for this bird all week long!''. So we do that instead.
Still, throwing parties and not hauling rocks is fun, but our food and booze stockpile is kind of dwindling with each passing day. thankfully, I have a plan! My mom always told me of scary monsters and spores and trees and super scary lakes and food and plants growing in mysterious caverns. So clearly all we have to do to solve the problem is dig down and find caverns. Senshuken is probably down there already fighting monsters, but just in case he doesn't report, I'll designate
a temporary spare Senshuken if we need to fight.
It seems in addition to not having burrows, the fort has a big fucking flaw. Let's see if you can find it. The upper section contains the food and drinks and tables. The bottom section contains the workshops and bedrooms. both of these sections connect outside, and don't link to each other. apparently everyone is going through the inner courtyard and into the rain twice a day. I've told the minders to solve the problem using digging. digging is fun. Bye, problems! Also eyes.
Senshuken isnt back, even after the weather has cleared. Thankfully, the happy smiling sun is back just in time for more migrants! Hello, welcome, I am the Over' (it'll stick just wait). One of them is a blacksmith and calls himself Fperson1. Hi dude, please make the crossbows. Speaking of crossbows, someone found one of them lying to the north next to... Senshuken's corpse. People drag him inside, where he will receive a proper burial but then I forget about it and a month later as I narrate this his body still rots in the main stockpile.
So there are like, 30 new migrants. which is double what we already have. We have, right now, half as many food units as we have dudes. We gonna dig through those rock layers and find the mythical cave of food and booze and coolness and we gotta do it now. I tell everyone to get inside and dig. Anyone who isnt digging should move wood inside, because outside carpenters workshops and wood piles are not fun when evil goo fall from the sky.
i notice that two of our migrants brought a horse with them. Dude horses, not lady horses, and I'm pretty sure two dude horses can't make babies. I've told people to chop them into bits so we can eat em.
Then it starts raining again. People carrying Senshuken's corpse are caugh outside. the butcher chops down a horse, and immediately becomes possessed by a fucking ghost. Man, at first i was scared? but the ghost of the horse just wants to build something. So I tell people to build a craftdwarf workshop cause we had none. the horse ghost says ''This is mine get out!'', but he does so in horse-tongue. I think that's what he meant tho because he won't let us get close enough to craft bolts and a slab for Senshuken.
With the ghost busy with some stuff and the ghost's corpse in our stockpile, we not have food for a little bit. We do run out of booze tho. that's bad. not only because i like booze cause I'm a dwarf and shit, but also... we don't have water. Many dwarves have been injured by going outside repeatedly because of the bad design, or by carrying shit from Senshuken back to the fort. now they rest in bed with no water to give them. they will die of thirst. also, so will all of us. cause we got no booze or water.
I tell people to hum, make a hospital thing somewhere, while everyone else go dig more caverns. We need water, and we need it
now. Actually we needed it even before I became Over' but that's beside the point.
Success! A cavern is found. Sadly, from what the non-blind miner can see, the ground is barren, made of gabbro, and bears no food or water. I've told Other Senshuken to grab 3 useless dudes and go explore those caverns, to find water maybe. A new shaft is dug to locate more caverns...
Again success! But not really. This new cavern contains mushroom and dense moss, and maybe we'll be able to find a few seeds or two, but it is also littered with spider webs, which sounds dangerous. When senshuken is done exploring the first cavern he'll go here, but for now, we'll start work on a new new mine shaft. If we don't find a new cavern here with water, we'll all be dead before the dwarven caravan arrives in autumn. Even if it does, the purple goo or infernal dust could just shatter it and make booze impossible to get.
Spring is now over. There are 45 of us, but not for long...
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Topic: Immortalitytower; We Live, We Die, We Live Again. (Read 85990 times)