Mere week since last time, I do another round.
First, there's the matter of zombies:
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There's total of 48 invaders (38 offmap).
They're facing down two dwarves.
I feel sorry for the zombies - those two are my military commander and multi-legendary picklord; having first and second most kills in fort. And today, they'll reap most kills again.
Contrariwise, it's Ener's best chance to kill them, but I don't think it'll come to pass.
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Coming up in the rear are also archers, and....
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Huh, so this can happen.Also manifesting here is also selectSquads utility¹ script for picking the dwarves with metal weapons, since my dwarves have somewhat disparate equips.
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May tweak it further, but the important events are more visible now.
As battle proceeds, I find a flaw:
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All my good soldiers are on other side. I send them to fight, but they're not gonna interrupt a good fight in front of them for that....And while I do have some expendables, but they don't have metal gear, and are thus
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...harmless?
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Oh dear. And I was hoping I could defeat a siege with no blows being landed onto my side at all.
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Well this sucks but a crutch will help them -
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- was that the remaining good hand?
...I may actually lose them. And the father of Geshud, my first human baby, and husband to socialite Atal, is important indeed.
Lost in rage, retreat? Dodge? Those are not words they can understand. The defence of Desert-City of glades is paramount, but in the shadows of mountains dwarves lie.
And, oh....
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But they're not the only one in danger:
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And why only shield? Reading the logs, they didn't lose the mace in combat, and had it on at start, but....
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Ah. I see.
I unforbade the previous battle items at start so that I might haul it to eventual destination easier.
But some of the dwarves claimed them.
The leader of Asmel's squad claimed steel mace in their sleep
- and therefore, Asmel claimed leader's previous mace. And so...
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When they came, I added them to the strongest pair - they were supposed to go nova. And they are - were second best shield user in fortress.
Yet in the half a year they spent here, they only made connection with Mason ònul - what will they feel when carving the slab?
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Despite valor, nobody in their squad even knows they exist - not even the captain who doomed them. But all shall rest in a casket someday....So any last words?
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o7
. . .
In the end, another undead siege was repelled. And while a rising star died before their prime, As Asodide lives. Maimed, down a hand and leg, but alive.
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Is this retirement? Will this be the last battle I order them into?
No!The siege was purely mundane
And now there's romance, danger, thrill!
A casket of remembrance for fallen to thrall
Fear and resignation of a dame
Dodge with your life on the line, As Leafplots!
(please don't die)
In the excitement granted by this risk of losing
(someone important)
- I cannot stop
The heart stutters, and begins to dance Ω▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒Ω Finishing up the magmagenerator, I find an odd issue: Can't get ye door.
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What gives? Can build next to...Being linked to mechanisms and being closed gives, that's what.
To fix, I have to deconstruct and reconstruct things.
The de-reconstruction is the order of day, as apparently pinfire opals...are purple |
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But at last, the gem window animation is complete:
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2z above that, I realize an issue:
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I changed the fill channel to use bumping, because otherwise the cart might have trouble escaping when the channel is constantly being pumped into.
And bumping a sitting cart is proven approach.
However, there is small wrinkle: Iron on filled iron has 314/1313 speed multiplier. 7/7 magma + track turn is 4010 speed cost per tick. This means the bumper cart would need to hit the submerged tile-edge cart with 16773 speed - attainable, when accelerating from the center of tile.
However, the iron cart is in the middle of tile. Additionally, there's the possibility of filling up carts, which would require reacceleration.
The first is fixable by wall-ramming. The second would need a QSP to deal with. A double-layered hatch fall hole would work, though would induce additional risk.
For now, I'll see if it works -
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- as soon as I replace raised bridge with a wall for aesthetics.
Ω▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒Ω I discover my DT child-excluding filter isn't excluding a child. How come?
And how come their body size is under negative nine thousand?!
That can't be right....
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Welp. And the mother already got pregnant with their...older sister this month?
There's being early birth, and there's migranting to fort before your conception.
Ω▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ΩMore traders arrive - as can be expected - and also gives me the choice of barony.
:lua for i, v in pairs(df.global.world.units.all) do if dfhack.units.isCitizen(v) and dfhack.units.isAdult(v) then local itempref = false for j, pref in pairs(v.status.current_soul.preferences) do if pref.type==4 then itempref = true break end end if not itempref then print(dfhack.df2console(dfhack.TranslateName(v.name))) end end end
, but that still leaves four to consider - The expedition leader Kol Zuglarbal, the Swordsdwarf Urvad Zokunrith, the Mason ònul ûthirmosus, and the hunter Moldath Gatizadil.
I want to separate the mayor and baron here, so Kol is out.
Urvad is asexual and has no heirs, but they're my choice of bearer for steel longsword. Were they not constantly training....
Moldath is pretty good with expensive likes, though suited for military role.
ònul ûthirmosus is the mother of the child above,
noncombatant,
last who knew fallen Asmel,
with older daughter,
and another on the way,
and unlike Moldath doesn't mind troll corpses.
The choice is clear.
Trade itself echoes same tones as human trade did, but the gems aren't as useful here, being that I'm no longer building gem window animations. Requests are similar, 'cept I'm aiming for more cloth for planepacked tricks.
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Mebzuth went from 0 to Competent Appraisal in one trade.Ω▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ΩI lock people in room for dumping.
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However....
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I left them to share a room with hamster.
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And a happy thought too! What joy. Where would I find any hake for them to eat, anyway?
Ω▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ΩWith drain below, second aquifer breach is done:
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This was much easier than earlier attempst to retrive alabaster.
The drain isn't perfect, tho:
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That's going to be a source of cave moss, later.
..oops, one wall happened to be adamantine.
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And I think I like it? Maybe I'll do more admirable replacements later.
...On additional thought, I'll add a cleansing trench:
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This...Is harder to link up than expected. Maybe next time!
¹ Script link:
selectSquads.lua² Relevant configs:
Fleeting_Frames#Announcement_Window
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