*I'm going to post this in split parts thorough the day. Then I'll post the save, and you'll all be invited to give it a try and see if you can pull off a miracle. Then I'll write a small extra part about what happen if you
don't.*
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''So what are we doing that for, anyway?'' asked the first miner, as they dragged their newly made copper picks toward the depths.
''Following orders. That's what the overseer wrote, so that's where we diggin'.
-Yeah, but she's dead.
-Still, orders mate.''
It wasn't really to them to call shots. so the miners just obeyed. They had a lot of work to do, and although they didn't have a clear deadline, the higher ups explained that
''If we don't finish that soon we all die''. Then the higher-up sort of died, because everyone was too busy hauling craps or shitting their pants or mourning or punching children to feed the injured. This was a small sneak peak of what awaited them once the next wave of banshees showed up.
And so they headed to the mines. the first part of operation SPIREGATE (whatever that meant, y'all) was to connect the cavern lakes to the newfound magma see. Some said this was a way to retrieve adamantine, others assumed this was just some obsidian farming project. Most of the dwarves were too busy being out or throwing tantrums to really question what was going on.
The forges had been repurposed. No longer making golden whatever or smelting copper, the new orders were to make iron mechanisms that were magma safe.
''Why don't we just make magma-safe rock stuff?'' the smiths asked.
''Because we don't have time to hope the masons use the right stone, and double no time to set up and haul up a proper work chain for that.'' was the answer.
More miners had been drafted. In fact, if you weren't an engineer or a metalworker, you were now a miner. There was a lot to do for Mr. Frog and his... 67 assistants. Most of them used the copper picks to carve speed holes into their neighbors, but some got to work on the bottom layer of SPIREGATE. The magma had to be filled with water, the paperwork said, so they had to channel out the area above it, starting from the far end.
Another massive tunnel was to be dug. before they could get on that, tho, they had to seal off the trade depot. Conveniently, the levers to activate the bridges were conveniently located at the heart of the fortress, and readily available. Pulling the lever was really, really easy.
I cannot stress this enough.In any case, the gate's activation flung about 30 corpses into the air, 15 urists hight, along with their belongings.
The resulting damage against the spawn was
minimal.It was also
hilarious.
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