I know. There are very specific plans in place, though I will apologize to the person right after me, it will be a fairly boring turn.
, and to the update, From the start of my turn to the 7th of Felsite, late spring.
The poor fools. They do not realize they are working towards their own demises. That being said, they do work well. It all took about 1½ months.
1½ months. That is all the time it took to dig out my small bunker, install a bed, table, chair statue, ample food, booze, then to get in it, and have a controlled cave in seal it off. Then for the slaves to build in further, unnecessary, walls, to protect from what they know not.
In that time, fortress efficiency was massively upgraded. Many, many new tunnels were dug, more efficient; parts were connected with new, short routes. Ok, Ok, I may have desecrated some tombs, I may have destroyed some engravings, I may have completely dismantled the passive defensive systems, but that was all intentional.
After being shut in my bunker, I sent the final messages to the people. I am glad they still obeyed me, even when I was just communicating with taps through several meters of rock.
Imic III got to be the lucky dwarf who fulfilled the most important part of the plans. He went into the deeps, and tunneled deep into the adamantine. What more could a dwarf ask for than to dig the most valuable substance in the world?
Of course, after he tunneled deep enough, surprisingly deep though, it took tunneling through 8 full layers of adamantine before my friends were freed.
Hearing the screams emanating from below, it was a simple matter then to convince the gullible fools to then open up dozens of small escape holes onto the surface. The fools didn’t even stop to remember what awaited them up there.
Using my psychic observationary powers, I observed many of the more interesting parts of the ensuing chaos, and record them here for your interest:
Freed from the underworld were the following beasts:
27 Earthworm Demons, massive worms that shoot webs
11 Bristleworm Demons, more massive worms, only these have poisonous gas
4 Winged Monsters, massive, flying, you guessed it, WORMS, ribbon worms to be exact, and they have deadly dust. WHY ALL THE WORMZ?!
18 Monsters of Steam, poisonous sting, quadruped, boring
15 Steam Brutes, Even more bland, no powers, and WHY MORE STEAM?
5 Soot Demons, poisonous sting, blah blah blah
4 Shadow Specters, ash beasts, like the soot demons, nothing new or interesting
14 Pterosaur Demons, big, winged dinosaurs with deadly spittle, lovely
4 Scorching Devils, no cool powers, just a large louse made out of flames, with fireballs
Now that all the interesting participants are given, let’s get on to the fun, the murders of the 15 other people in the fortress who can actually think, albeit only occasionally. Now, in roughly the order of their deaths, THE LIST OF THE DEAD.
1: Professor Beardly: The esteemed, young professor was the first to fall. While everyone else scattered, the little munchkin stayed inside and played. When the undead came, the hyperactive little bugger got away at first, until cornered. A stab to the leg by an undead spear dwarf grounded the Professor, then one more stab removed all her worries, and her head.
2: Doctor Onget: Coming in second in the race to death was Doctor Onget. Onget did really well at first, smashing the skull of and undead goat with a pickaxe, parrying spearstrikes. Then exhaustion, the killer of many, struck, followed by a spear to the gut. Collapsing, the same spear lobotomized the good doctor’s brain.
3: Flame: The 3rd important casualty was flame. Running on the surface, Flame was confronted by Demons. One good kick to the head, and he was both flying away and dead. Ironically, his corpse then went up in flames when it was hit by a shot from one of the Scorching Devils. The kill was made by Deadfate, a Pterosaur Demon
4: Pikachu XVII: Pikachu was minding his own business on the surface, when he had to start dodging fireballs. This wasn’t overly hard, as they were being aimed at a goat, not at him. Once the goat died though, he was next. Cooked alive after being pummeled, the death was uninteresting, dying of burns and resultant bloodloss.
5: Record Muthkal: This 5th place finisher had a bad day. Facing off a shadow specter and a soot demon, their teeth were kicked out, body injected with poison, then their head was curbstomped. The real pity was that now we will never know what the poison does.
6: The Cheese Maker: This oddly named individual did well. Fighting on the plains above the fort, they deflected attack after attack against a shadow specter, until one took his left eye. Depth perception destroyed, he quickly lost his arm and pickaxe, his last means of defense. He died in another curbstomp, crushing the head.
7: Sanctume II: Sanctume did well until caught by a pterosaur demon, and gored in the left leg. The demon then used it’s wing to grab, and crumple his right hip, totally destroying any hope of ever walking. Teeth kicked out, both legs destroyed, the last thing that went through his mind were the horns of the demon as it gored his head.
8: Tinker Jones: Jones died poorly, in an attempt to get a meal. Encountering an undead axegoblin, he was hamstrung, then lost a foot, followed by a head in three quick swings.
9: Imic III: Imic, the unintentional (sort of), demon freer, lived longer that would be expected. Surviving the freeing, he was latter cornered in a tunnel, caught at both ends, he was pummeled by 10 steam brutes, that couldn’t seem to hurt him through his clothes. Collapsed from exhaustion, he died when a winged monster crunched his head with it’s teeth.
10: Chief Geshad: On the surface, Geshad was quickly immobilized though the pain of a destroyed arm. Attacked by the same Shadow Specter that killed The Cheese Maker, the infamous Gutswasted, he too received a head curbstomp.
11: Mihr: This fool first tried to sneak in for food, only to run away. He later came back, and fell asleep in an open dormitory. He awoke in flames, a Scorching Devil throwing fireballs. On fire, he tried to run, only to be gored in the head by a Pterosaur Demon.
12: Manager Kivish: Caught in the open, Kivish died suddenly from a kick from above, by Gutswasted, crushing his skull and brain.
13: DDDragoni II: This whiner did not die nearly fast enough. After a brief encounter with undead, he stayed alive to be the 3rd to last man standing, complaining and whining about fear and death the whole time. It was a relief when a Shadow Specter ambushed and crippled him, though somewhat annoying when Gutswasted then burst in to steal the kill, curbstomping his head.
14: Moony the Human: This species confused individual had been doing so well, running, hiding, not dyeing, until a new Shadow Specter, trying to prove itself, kicked him from the sky, knocking his lights out, and his body down a hill.
AND THE GRAND PRIZE OF LAST-TO-DIE GOES TO ------- !!CHIEF!! Chief fell in the open, fighting valiantly against three shadow specters, falling to the infamous Gustwasted.
And now, on to the winners of this competition, the demons who took out at least one named dwarf!
Deadfate, a pterosaur demon, killed Flame
Licestern, a scorching devil, killed Pikachu
Shovesiege, a soot demon, killed Record Muthkat
Burieddie, a Pterosaur demon, killed Sanctume
Meanacrid, a winged monster, killed Imic
Ashendusts, a pterosaur demon, killed Mihr
Larvalblister, a Shadow Specter, killed Moony
AND THE GRAND PRIZE GOES TO ---------- !!GUTSWASTED!! a shadow specter who killed The Cheese Maker, Chief Geshad, Manager Kivish, DDDragoni, and Chief!
As of the 7th of Felsite, in late spring, I AM THE FORTRESS!
And good job everyone, now, all I have to do is figure out some way to pass the rest of the approximately two year I have in my bunker until the booze runs out and I die of thirst!
NOTE: I took notes on the deaths of any and all dwarves whose names had been changed at all. The fortress still stands as one dwarf with just enough booze to survive just over 2 years, then die of thirst, just long enough for me to win
. Said dwarf has no pickaxe, or way out, and has one rough stone, in a crafting workshop, and a decent amount of blank slabs, to keep out the ghosties. I apologize to whoever will have the tedium of the next turn, with virtually nothing to do. I am not done yet, but all I have to do until the end of my turn is sit and wait for the seasons to pass. There will probably not be another update before the save is posted, as all that will be happening are demons killing undead and engraving slabs for the dead. The save should be up this weekend.
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