A bit late, but as stated in the announcement beforehand, we're now playing Dwarf Fortress: Splint hates the universe edition. I am however much mroe mellowed out since the incident.
Right so. We're in summer. Got a legendary weapon smith out of the vagrants who showed up. Only thing of note. Drafted two of them into the militia, and made one a brewer and a couple of them got slapped with helping Meph cut blocks. Summer was spent trading with the humans for a small amount of shit (mainly metal, an insultingly small amount of booze, and some other raw materials. Any time not spent doing these things was spent building. Why? because that's the point of this oversized coffin waiting to happen.
There's going to be two artifact caps with blank boxes. I intend to edit the post later when I have them drawn up, and will post them separately as well along with a lost one due to the crash.
There was also the legendary stonecrafter, but I just gave her some masonry tools and told her she's a mason now and I won't be putting up with any lip from her. Her profession is going to border on useless in this town.
We got the attention of the ferric elves during the summer as well, some bundle of matchsticks called Rootsaved. Fuck the lot of them, I'm gonna burn the fucking place to the ground when I have a squad of mercenaries to do it with. So that much isn't different from the lost update. Regardless, by Galena, I had the warehouse finished save a few decorative structures, a fenced (more or less) pen for several unowned animals, and the basic outline of the barracks (for the second fucking time today.)
Before autumn rolled around, I decided to try and build a track system to supply slate to a couple masonry shops. Ducim, being the legendary weaponsmith, has the most experiencing in vaguely mechanism-like things from making crossbows. So she gets to do that. I also spotted two rat women, who apparently look like Master Splinter. As their existence offends me, I sicced Tirist and Momuz on them, since they have weapons. Fuck them. Their kids caused the plague and their adopted nephews probably hospitalized hundreds of ninjas.
Autumn rolled around after this, and I told the OL to get stuffed. I ain't got the means to support a baron. This also happened in the lost update. We got a migrant wave that brought us to 30 people, including a family of 7 (two parents and alllllll their spawnlings save for one.) Ended up with a merchant who got handed a pick, and an extra miner besides. And speaking of miners, a minecart accident happened to Ushrir in mid-Moonstone. Also during the murder of the rat people, I have found that Tirist appears to be a complete sociopath because he doesn't feel a god damned thing while in conflict.
Knew I picked the right dorf for the job of military command.
As you can see, his left arm was basically obliterated and he doesn't seem all that concerned about it. Hell, I thought he died when someone who saw the rat women die had a flashback. Turns out he was getting some potato wine, with nary the faintest of fucks given about his arm getting destroyed by a minecart impact. A while after this, a mason (one of the guys I basically told to start cutting blocks for hovel walls,) made this thing.
Booted someone else out of their workstation despite standing in another masonry shop when he went all funny in the head. Massive dick that guy. And with it's creation and the subsequent offer of baronage, I suspect we're on the ferric elves' radar now. Though we end up with a more immediate issue in obsidian.
This guy. As you can see, the werebeast has a neat little graphic!
The militia comes streaming up and out from the food stockpile as children scatter around off-screen away from the dorm (which still needs windows. Everything still needs windows at this juncture, and windows will make this shit much less dangerous for everyone since i can lock them in the buildings when those are installed.) The militia is going to need to rely super hard on agility since I haven't gotten a chance to make any armor yet (the smith only just got finished a couple weeks before and still lacks windows, and coke needed to be made in preparation for making any armor at all.)
Anyway, Momuz leads the charge and to my surprise
isn't instantly annihilated like my barely trained early militiadorfs tend to be when faced with a slavering nightmare that slithered from the depths of satan's anus, as shown above. She then declares the encounter a real fight, and that she laughs in the face of death as Tirist and Bembul close in from behind. She has excellent spatial sense and intuition, so that's probably what's saving her right now. As they fight, Afifi lands a hit! With a book. Turns out this werebeast was a writer once, and is carying two of their works, "Union and the Coming Troubles," and "Errors in Kin," a book about harmony and family respectively.
Then we get Morul the toddler charging out. Apparently the two-year old girl is hungry for wereiguana blood. Following this, the monster bapped Bembul in the neck with "Errors in Kin." I get a feeling that it was intentional.
Following this is mostly the five dwarves involved trying and failing to hit the wereiguana author and her slapping them with her books. I like to think she was lecturing them the entire time about the values of family and harmony. As the dodging moves eastward, another kid sees the fighting and comes running out to play as well, shown below.
Eventually the fight carries up hill, and the militia is covered in bruises. Edum has become a speardwarf proper, and Bembul a macedwarf. I think. might have mixed up the names. Morul the child has actually developed proper unarmed skills in trying to fist fight a giant monster, reaching novice fighter and striker. Eventually Eral the child does as well> Soon, as the moon begins to wane, Momuz lands a hit! Tirist had done so as well earlier on the same leg (slicing open its right thigh,) but the blow failed to knock the beast down.
And it fell over! Proned and surrounded by bruised up and very angry drunken midgets, it manages to put up a good fight but before the moon turns, it succumbs to a mounting pile of injuries borne of fighting numerous opponents while prone, and it succumbs to blood loss (unsure if it was getting disemboweled that did the trick. I gotta be honest, we go lucky with this one.) As last one to land a hit, Tirist was awarded the kill. One of its arms got cut off at one point, but I can't be bothered to trawl through pages and pages of people being slapped with books to find it.
The fight was almost entirely comprised of dodging, blocking, people being hit with books, then a foot shot, and subsequent disembowelment, along with either Tirist of Momuz cutting off the arm. There was a scratch in there somewhere, and a shit ton of bruises to one lung (or in Eral's case, to his heart,) but thankfully due to the books, no debilitating or infection injuries occurred.
Spring comes later of course, and I've started moving married dwarves into the recently roofed homes. I abused the hell out of the decorative blocks, and I think you guys will love the places when I get'em done, windows and all
When the spring migrants came, I finally started work on an apartment building, mainly to house migrant children. I'll likely make them three z's tall, with one floor being channeled out into the soil to prevent cave adaptation. The militia also expanded to include two married fellows who liked axes and weren't below average in terms of stress resistance. Once enough fencing bars are in place to contain the barracks room itself, I can set the louts to training.
Spring came and went without much incident, but while mostly finished, I haven't installed the furniture in all of the houses that are built, and I still need to do a ton of roofing work. Humans arrived, and copious quantities of bone crafts made from badgers and carp (which died during the brief winter freeze of the river and I subsequently fished out via autodump.) Around the time the humans arrived, we also got a shiny new bracelet.
And here's a shot of the mostly complete warehouse, with some bone goodies sitting around waiting to be hauled.
Quite a nice little assortment of stuff, which I believe is a mix of Meph and Vordak's work, but it might have just been one or the other. So we continue onwards, building the apartments for the kiddies as the humans leave. At some point, because I left the game running without noticing for about two weeks, we get a visitor. Another werelizard!
This one as you can see, has a different look. Tileset at work folks. The thing surged forward, and proceeds to attack a child. The child dies so that Meph who was sleeping in the dorm at the time may live. However, as the fight began, I noticed that compared to the other one, which took a ton of punishment before going down, is apparently quite weak to bronze, even when compared to the other one.
Momuz laid into it, and easily did more damage than she had against the other one, cleaving through scale like it wasn't really there. However it's Bembul who lands the serious hit, when he punctured its heart! Its laser focus on the kid also meant the militia could wail on it more or less uninterrupted, and the monster took care of the infectee when it broke the child's neck (which while unfortunate, is better than eternal torment in a cell while the militia grinds up to be able to dispatch it.) At the end of it, Tirist was awarded final kill by virtue of last hit. If he hadn't mangled an arm and foot, I'd have called him out as a kill-stealing asshat.
And I had a major scare with one of the wounded dwarves (of which we had both recruits, and Ushrir who had still be wandering around ignoring his mangled arm for the past nine and a half months.) Had a skin tear, but it was just a regular claw-based scratch that needed stitches. And yes, Atir named her son after herself apparently.
And that's a wrap for the update. Sorry it ain't in character and there's a lack of screenshots, but I still need to install furniture, windows, and finish tiling the rooftops of the initial hovels, and complete the apartment before anything is ready to show off.
And remember, the artifacts are coming later in the week, before any of you tl;dr types go bringing it up.
Do you guys prefer this unstructured off the cuff manner or should I try to go back to in character stuff?.