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[nahkh]

This seems to be going well. I'll have to add some new slots.
And remember kids, just because I'm gone for days at a time doesn't mean I don't love you.
Keep them doggies rolling and so fort.

[Demonic Spoon]

Well filiusenox was last active on the 18th and Ryalseth not since the 20th, should I go now?

[Skid]

If they didn't go on their day, you're probably clear to begin. However you should wait a couple more hours in case they're playing right up to their deadline.

[Demonic Spoon]

Well I've downloaded the save and... what is going on here! a massive hole in the gound! stockpiles in the middle of nowhere! Dead end tunnels! Unsafe metalsmithing conditions!

...now I've gotten that out of my system, I think it will take me a while to get used to this fortress. Also adamantine, I think it'll be a good idea to mine into that 

[Ryalseth]

I'm still working on the save. I will be done soon.

[Demonic Spoon]

Oh okay then, I'll still try to familiarize myself with this place though 

[Ryalseth]

File: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1033

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MANUAL OF SIEGE OPERATIONS AND DEFENSE STRATEGUM

APPENDIX I

21st Felsite, 106

I am beginning to question whether the leadership of this fortress may be controlled by higher powers. For some reason, Skid has again left us as Overseer after quite a decent job in the past two seasons, and I have been asked to take the mantle once more. I still have no desire to manage all of Sparkgear's operations, so I have left many duties for the present mayor to handle. She does
little enough these days.

The first order of business is to seal off the magma pipe. While it may be interesting to toy around with creatures of fire, we have already lost one poor soul through this distraction. I will leave the cage traps in place, that my successor may deal with the beasts. Tampering with them has been made illegal in the interim.

5th Hematite, 106

The magma pit has been sealed off well enough. Now I move my focus to the temple, ensuring it will be secure and foolproof. It is something I have been forbidden to speak of until now, for it is more a siege engine than a place of worship. I do not intend to praise the demons that possess our people, but instead I shall exterminate them from this world forever... Though I trust our military force, taking on these powers in that manner would result in many deaths. No. This matter will be resolved as cleanly as stone, as polished marble.

In other news, mining operations continue. I find them mildly irritating somehow, and nothing new has been found beyond what is left of the gold veins, and the odd crop of gems. Still, more iron and other workable metal would be most welcome. Also, the mayor has reinstated the crop fields, as our food stores are running low.

I'll not be extending many new orders for a time, as my wife has just given birth to our first child, and I will be spending more time at home. New quarters are certainly in order, too.

12th Hematite, 106

Nahkh keeps scrambling about the mason's workshop, shouting excitedly about various stones and wood. I'm not going to ask; maybe we'll end up with another giant skull. I'll intervene only if it dumps magma out the eyes. That is an interesting prospect though.

The mayorship passed hands again, this time to our butcher-broker. I'll have to figure out where the mayor's office and quarters and such were located before amid the chaos that is the living areas.

ADD.: I don't think there were any in the first place. Nobody's complained yet so I'll just make a note of it for later.

17th Hematite, 106

Nahkh finished his project, a diorite coffer. Not much use, but he claims to have learned much. Which may come in useful, but I'm intending to borrow the coffer for my own use.

I froze most of the junk dumping orders today. Having three places to throw things is very useless when you want to switch to having only one, especially given I cannot get it through my people's thick skulls to only place stone in that nearest to its origin.

IMPORTANT: Remember to remove the dump order near the forges...

25th Galena, 106

My family's new quarters are complete, with a specially designed bed to boot. Also, checking and re-checking on the temple's specifications are complete. All that is left is to uncover the depths.. and to see if these are mere idle shivers and superstitions, or something more foul.

Also, the human caravan left. I had the mayor buy up all the wood and metal they had to offer, and all the cloth too.

26th Galena, 106

Today is a dark day, and one of glory. Rumors of the demon pits were well-based in truth, as one of our more novice miners soon discovered, rapidly relaying details as to its structure, composition, and... inhabitants. All manners of wretched men and elves were bound in chains, clothes in tatters, babbling madly to themselves while wallowing in their own filth. The whole of the pits were said to smell of burning, rotting flesh and blood.

Yet before more description could be obtained, tragedy struck, and our miner cried out, immolated by some unknown force. We could not save him now. At once the trigger lever for the temple was pulled, and the great stone pillar above came crashing down upon those cursed pits, surely ending the infernal lives of its demonic inhabitants. For though he did not tell us of their presence, the miner hero Kol Nilunal was surely ended by one of these beings. It is my hope that those whom the pillar came crashing down upon were at once killed, but we know little of these beings and they may yet have survived. We must proceed with extreme caution.

5th Limestone, 106

We have uncovered the remains of the top level of the pits. Dozens of captive human and elves were killed in this operation, and this I truly regret. But know that I do this for the safety of Sparkgear, the Infallible Gear, and the world itself. Also found were the bodies of demons most depraved... the many-tentacled creatures of perverse legend. Ten of these things' bodies have been recovered. The creature that slayed Kol has not been found - it may be at the level above, but I am not ready to excavate there - another collapse must be prepared, as the pits were winding and twisted and surely there is space for more of these abominations to live yet.

Or perhaps a military assault could be launched.

Or perhaps we could flood the thing with magma and be done with it.

Or perhaps we could launch it into the sun. I don't care any more. Sparkgear is at the end of its food reserves: I have paid a great price for my obsession, and I think I must regain perspective. Even I am not immune to this constant shifting of leadership. Until I am needed again, I retire to my study of mechanics, for the best-laid traps of demons and dwarves.

[Demonic Spoon]

Got the save, glad to hear the demons have been dealt with.    For now it is to bed with me though.

[ArkDelgato]

Now that my internet's not dying, Ill take the 24th.

[Marko]

if its open I'll take another go on the 25th

[Demonic Spoon]

The lag, it brings my computer to it's knees

[Demonic Spoon]

The save:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1039
Will write more after sleep.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

New Calender, Day one GRDM (Glorious Reign of the Dungeon Master)
I think back to those many months ago when the king called me to a secret meeting.
"Dungeon Master, I can feel my end coming nearer, I now appoint you as my regent and heir."
Short and to the point was our king. Fortunately I had the foresight tot demand it in writing.
And it completely unrelated that I'm good with forgery.

 I can no longer takes these buffoons bumbling about, this fortress is a mess! I will not fail you my king.

A undetermined amount of time later:
I have tried to increase the efficiency of this place, as I always told fluffy before the unfortunate...incident with the bottomless pit: "Efficiency! Efficiency! Efficiency! Thatr is the key to succesful deathtraps!" So I enlarged the wood stockpile, began construction on a undergorund surface crop farm plot for sunberries and ordered mass cloak production!
So I ordered a grand staircase built in the covenient huge hole in the ground. Also half the dwarves say their 'pioneers'  renamed most of them to the peasants they are. Realizing that the dwarves will eventually get sick of eating plump helmets only I ordered most of our animal population slaughtered and began a grand project to wall of the brook fomr the outside world.
Fearing a resurgence of the demons fomr the glowing pits I set up orders to have them flooded, I'd like to see them get to me from solid obsidian! In that note I began the basic foundation for a grand obsidian farming project in that convenient hole in the ground.

A undetermined amount of time later:
A dwarven caravan has arrived! ...along with two goblin ambushes... unfortuantely the military seems to be ignoring my orders... most of the caravan was slaughtered and the rest are fleeing, cowards.


A undetermined amount of time later:
Time feels...slow for some reason, also the strangew though '15 fps' keeps flashing through my mind. It's feels as if it's been winter forever!


A undetermined amount of time later:
A elven caravan has arrived!...no sunberrries unfortunately They may live...for now.
They did bring a neat grizzly bear though . Also a goblin siege arrived shortly after their arrival. Coincidence? I think not, damn elves. Fortunately our traps dealt easily with the goblin menace, though this siege has made me aware of my own mortality, and so to immortilze me after death I ordered a adamantium coffin made.

A undetermined amount of time later:

I've had enough of this place, half the dwarves go on break the other half get's items, no work gets done! I'm going to retreat to my (as of yet incomplete) qaurters with my cloak collection and wait out the fortress's destruction.

A few notes to my succesor on what I would do if I it was still my turn:

Keeps those levers of fun walled up, I don't trust them.
Finish the great staircase.
Complete the obsidian farm, possibly using raw adamantine for mechanisms?
Finish walling off and roofing over the entire brook.
Make a hospital opposite the well (i.e. unassigned beds)
Build upwards on the skull tower thingy.
Finish roofing over great staircase on trade depot level.
Get some sunberries for sunshine
Finish the planter qaurters at farm plots and fisher qaurters at brook, also my qaurters.
Complete cremation chamber and drain for obsidian farming project.
Make cloaks!
Don't cancel my designations. Especially the channel from the brook to fill the reservoir for the well.
Make a fire starter with that captured fire imp.

Umm, I notice the 23rd is open, can I take it to finish my projects?

[nahkh]

I don't see why not. Better than letting it go to waste.

EDIT: Updated the map. http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5852-sparkgear

EDIT EDIT: oh gawds. Nahkh the Magnificent is still alive. I can't imagine what's going on in his head what with all these travesties of art going on.

[Demonic Spoon]

  Nakh the art was..inefficient.Also, the walled in levers are because I don't trust levers named 'Levers of Fun' but I don't want to destroy them incase they're useful.

I'm not going to get much done though, I forgot water pressure plus well is bad business and lost a whole year .

Fortunately it was during this same year that this happenend:

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[Demonic Spoon]

The new save:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1042