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[Itnetlolor]

Well, I have a surprise in store for everyone when I get my post up.

I didn't see this coming at all.

Spoiler: Y6S1: Turkey Shoot (click to show/hide)

Okay, onward to Plantation B. The plot walls are still WIP for now, but we should be able to finsh them in due time. No problems. We're beginning harvesting of the trees from the far end to minimize fear early, and to minimize damage, we're collecting plants from the closest walls to keep our supply up for the farmers.

Following mandate will be a bit of a challenge, but hopefully not much. While totems are being made for our Bonemeister, he'll be crafting hopefully the 3 rings as mandated. We don't want to lose anyone due to a frivilous crime. Speaking of which, I'm issuing a prison be creatied with the bottom-most floor recently carved out, also making it a bucket storage for easy access.

$_$ It seems we have struck something amazing when mining out the jail cells near the water source. We have come across a cluster of Red Beryl. This red glow is giving me an amazing idea. It seems to be calling out to me to produce something amazing from it. Something, I don't know, unconventional. A counting machine that can calculate faster than any abacus-using team of dwarves can ever muster. I recall "Cid" remarking about dreams making reference to such a folly.

Anyway, I've issued Sakzul to make this room damn elegant. If those imprisoned are that of a pissed off breed, I think the beauty of this combo will make them forget why they were imprisoned in the first place. I am pleased every bit of material has been successfully excavated. We could use every last bit of it.

Ah, it seems we got an elven caravan visiting us. Fortunately, they lack wheels, so we won't lose anything special. However, negotiating with these bastards is tricky since they're offended by wood goods. The good news is we got more booze and food. Bad news, we're too busy keeping up with demand we haven't spent enough time to work out some items they'd appreciate. Maybe mugs can eb developed as we wait. After all, they come from far off lands, so they'll need to go the long way to our Depot. Speaking of which, we found the source of the issue, and are working on it.

There's a stone in the way, and we're also testing relocating our dogs for easier access. Primary issue is that damn rock. If nobody will remove it, we'll build around it. For now. Some good news, the evles think we're ethical. With that in mind, we hope these guys won't curse our fort into chaos like the last guys.

...Thanks to the last guys' invasion, a few unlucky kobolds, and some excess crap we had lying all over the place; we managed to clean out the Elves of everything they were worth. They had very little counter-offer, and they appreciated our compliance. We're gaining a reputation of being decent in trade. I feel I'm a brilliant trader. I like this job. Unfortunately, they have no wood for us to buy, but they did provide much cloth for us to make use of. I hope they don't get the wrong idea and overload us with cloth. At least our food stores have been restocked greatly.

For the sake of our farmers, all fruits and brewables will exclusively be brewed until we have a decent surplus of seeds. I don't want any waste.

We have a casualty. Alath Akgosmedtob (ClinchedBlockades) was being chased down by the local named Giant Cave Swallow. He knew what had to be done. It was so close, he had to fight. Unfortunately, he didn't last. According to the remains, he was ripped apart by an iron beak. The giant cave swallow Dakostshameb (Floorhandle) only flew off with barely a scratch according to the evidence.

Our first loss since we landed. Fortunately, he was meerly a craftsdwarf, and not legendary anywhere noteworthy. --Scratch that. It turns out he was our mayor's loverr, and a friend to many. Much misery is about. Thank Armok that dining room was finished. It's much needed.

Another casualty, This time a weaver, and decent axedwarf. That damn cave swallow is going down. The army has been awaken to settle this once and for all. We have tantrums being thrown. Our legends are staying back. We'll need them. It seems a tantrum spiral has occurred. We gotta settle this once and for all.

In case we lose everybody, I request a new party come if there is no response by the end of the year. Finally, we got it. But the level of misery is still far too great. I'm calling everyone to a meeting in the dining hall. Last thing I need is everyone to scatter and go mad where they can't be treated. Mayhaps some food in the grand dining room shall help. Unfortunately, many have fallen to madness.

Oh shi--, a farmer has gone berserk! All units have been called to stop him ASAP. --He has been stopped, it's a sad day when everyone has fallen into misery due to such a chaotic event.I fear the worst. This project is a doomed endeavor.


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This is tragedy. I doubt there will be any recovery here. There won't be anything else left to make note of in the future. It'll just be the same loss of sanity, temper, and so on. That damn bird.

Priority is as listed:
-Finish the wall
-Get as much of Bloodfist done as possible
-Since all have been lost:
 --All trees will be chopped, but collection will still follow suit
 --All masonry assignments will be settled ASAP
 --As many walls that can be smoothed, will be smoothed, by anyone; one way or another
 --Airship build will be main priority
 --All gates are unlocked and open
 --Any and all bridges and mechanisms will be repaired and rady for use, just in case.

Armok help us.
And may Armok have mercy on the next reclaimers.

These next sessions will be brief notes until things settle down. Provided I'm still alive, and in one piece by then. I'm just as misterable as the next person.

I :whimper: I gotta go.


Sunday Bloody Sunday

PS- The original starter team's wagon has been demolished by a tantrumming dwarf. I'll follow suit, and leave plans for the memorials, as well as hide the airship plans, and leave breadcrumbs leading to them.

PPS- Someone among this madness has gone fell. I fear the worst. I heard he claimed a leather workshop. :shudder:
--He's using Vabok Zatcatten's (StabbedChanneled), the ex-adminitstrator, corpse to make something. :squick:

--Captain, Erush "Setzer Gabrro" Idosdodok

That really sucked.

Spoiler: ACHIEVEMENTS UNLOCKED! (click to show/hide)

Technically, An ambush

[GrafZeppelin]

 

This seems like the inevitable ending to such a task, if you think about it.

[Itnetlolor]

Well, on a bright note, this epidemic ought to make my next updates quicker and simpler.

I'm going for another update tonight, fulfilling the double-post for today, hopefully.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay, here's the second update.

Spoiler: Y6S2: Ashes to Ashes (click to show/hide)

Another day, another death it seems these days. I'm struggling to keep my cool, but alas, all is lost. I sure hope things settle down soon enough. I don't know how much longer we can last in this hellhole. I envy those who will live off our ruins after our rule for a year.

Remember that fell attitude I remarked about? Well it seems we now have a dwarf leather high boot made of the ex-administrator. I wretch to have to investigate it, but *bleh* I must. The self-proclaimed "Armorer" made what she calls Amudstokid "ThunderImpaled", a dwarf leather high boot. ...That is all. It's not bad, but it's... terrible. It's got crafstdwarfship. I'll lend that much. I think an insane enough buyer, or an elf, would place that at an 1800☼ value.

Excuse me if you see any vomit on this letter.

Our numbers continue to deplete, and progress continues to die down, like our population. We're losing 15 dwarves a week.

--Captain, Erush "Setzer Gabrro" Idosdodok


I regret to inform you that Lady Erush "Setzer Gabrro" Idosdodok (Callclasped) Has fallen. I am one of the remaining sane dwarves that aer still alive in this doomed estate. The migrants have the right idea not to visit. This place is unsiutable for newcomers.

I regret to further say, I must make sure all have been lost before I can call upon the next wave of brave souls to visit. This land is cursed. The ship is bathed with the blood of many. This is, indeed the Gauntlet of Armok.

It seems we have a corpse possessing a cage for some reason. I dar any sicko to sell that guy for profit. If I recognized that beard; iot was ol' Dishmab Stukosnomal, the local architecht.

---#_-3-#_# (Smudged by all the gore and being trampled on)


... To those concerned, I have ventured throughout the lands and have come across this mysterious scroll. Unfortunately, I haven't come across any map within it, and the area seems so enruined, I dare not venture forth. There is a curse upon this region. Even a boat is flying in the sky as a mere skeleton.

All I need to do is return this to the location this is marked to. Ah, the life of an adventurer. According to the evidence of the land, this is not the only party that has occupied this accursed land.

--Adventurer named Bob

Note: the population started at 80, then 78 after the cave swallow, then 1 more loss during the zerg rush, it went from 77 to 23 by the end of the first season of fun; then that to nothing moments before the next season benchmark.

Yeah, the fort crumbled before I could take a screenshot. Sorry.

Oh, I'm still pushing on. I still have Balthier, Belthasar, Lucca, Selphie, Mustadio, and Sir Highwind (The other Cid) on call to take over the project. I run out of them, then I truly give up.

Deceased: (in order of lead)
"Cid" -Oringinal Embarker. Fell to Goblins (Y1S1 - Y4S1)
"Setzer Gabbro" -1st Reclaimer, Fell to tantrum spiral caused by a named Giant Cave Swallow (Y5S1 - Y6S2)

[Cheddarius]

Er, how is the ship floating?

[Itnetlolor]

Er, how is the ship floating?

Tantrumer broke the bridge for a second time. Fortunately, I already replaced the ships DB previously, and the shmuck farmer on board died aboard the ship in rage. After re-establishing the link once more, the DB got broked again.

I'm just marking it off as a curse upon the ship and the land by the observation of an adventurer. When I said the ship is bathed with the blood of the dwarves who build it, I was not kidding. They're possessing it. It'll fly no matter what now.

Bob assumes it's a Giant Skeletal Zombie Boat. Doesn't want to fight it.

[Cheddarius]

So you have collapse or whatever it's called disabled?

[Itnetlolor]

So you have collapse or whatever it's called disabled?

Just about.

It's for the future when I actually do get the project done. I want it to genuinely fly.

Think of it like any successions that took place on the high seas; but it the sky.

[Itnetlolor]

That statement just gave me an idea.

The New Flagship of the Dwarven Empire: REDUX (A succession fort)

It can be the same location, but a total alternate history of it. A very twisted one while at it.

CONCEPT:
Consider it a fan re-enaction of the Bloodfist project, except there are no plans to go by. It follows standard succession fort rules, but it must take place in the same exact conditions the project started in (which, I fortunately already have the save from frame 1 of. Same original cast/professions, no digging or building has been done yet). The overall goal of the succession fort is to successfully construct an airship flagship worthy of a dwarven empire, one that'll make Armok proud. Kinda like civil war re-enactments, history may be altered a bit one way or another, some dwarves may have watches or cell phnes on them or something, it's been ages since the last re-enactment and historians, as well as citizens from "The Oily Keys", have a fuzzy idea about the history of the almighty Bloodfist. The true symbol of the empire.

MAIN IDEA RULES:
Of course, [CAVE-INS: OFF] will be applied, but any other constructions and mining must remain within the bounds of plausibility.In short, though Cave-ins are off, you cannot break the rules of gravity otherwise. The anti-gravity is for the ship exclusively for when it takes off. Alternatively, you can turn cave-ins back on (provided the ship is supported somehow), and reserve the disablement for when you actually take off.


You know what? Consider that one of my gifts for the 20k mark (sorta was the surprise, but I think this idea is better); I'm going to restart this project, but instead, as a team-effort megaproject in the style of a succession fort. Forget the original plans I'm using however, you come up with something, discuss what to do, what not to do, modify the ship, maim it, whatever. As long as we get something that looks like it can fly in the end, we'll count it as a success.

How's that sound? Fun?

Like I said, in order to give me a bit more time to finish the project before the next release, and to give me time to make time, I'll wait until the 20k view mark before I begin the succession fort. And to add a bit of fun to it, the rules I'll let it go by, at least some prototype rules (also reason for the additional time) are...

SUCCESSION RULES:
-I'm not going to be the one to begin the project redux (also because it's supposed to be someone elses' interpretation), However, I'll take the second slot by default; you know, being the guy that corrects the assumption with what they know better about it. Consider it like a fun idea, and a this is the one guy that takes it really seriously.
-Updates will be seasonal (Follow the Y#S# format of marking)
-If possible, upload a map. I'll provide instructions on how to properly do it how I did. (Maps will be renamed "Bloodfist Redux", to minimize confusion.)
-Control over the project will be decided between full reign until death (but some may be too skilled, so I'll stick to the average 1-year reign)
-Control over the foreman position will change per-player (since the whole foreman idea is a toss up upon re-interpretation; they supposedly worked at the same time, or within the same eras)
-Logging must follow a similar style to what I used with presentation (actors playing the role, so to put it).
-It doesn't need to be a carbon-copy of my project. Go nuts. The story is being re-interpreted eons since the creation of the ship by dwarves with a fantasy idea of what went on.
-Learn from my mistakes wherever possible.
-When working on the ship, skeleton first, then fill it in. The skeleton will allow for messing around and make modifying the project easier/harder for others.
-If you have an idea to add magma cannons, have fun. No bauxite on the map.


I'm open to ideas refining the rules to make it work better (for me, and those who are up to the task).

Alternatively, I can also do a succession of sailing the skies on board the ship as well.

I'm not going to be around for a few days, so don't worry if I don't respond immediately. This is just a toss-up idea.

Change of plans, turns out what I was going to do that would occupy my time will be delayed for the better (both my time on project, and what I was going to do ^_^).

Gonna need a moment to upload. I already gathered a semi-accurate recreation of what happened, to make up for the lack of a map before. Note: it's not entirely accurate. Much less gruesome, and it lived another season with 2 dwarves left that time around.

[GrafZeppelin]

Could you upload what you have right now so we can get a better idea of the original, or perhaps try to strike it on our own?

Also, that is a great idea, and what we get in the end (with the ideas of the community floating about) may be less a ship than a floating shape of some sort, with all sorts of crazy devices of death and destruction jutting out from its core.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay, here's the map of the ruins as I promised.

Project Ruins

And I tried visiting in Adventure Mode. Holy hell, beyond freaking dangerous. I saw a local goblin get mauled by rat and batmen, dozens of them at the entrance. I took the back door, and I was chased by a human lasher (apparently these guys were from the first embark raid); lasher didn't last long against my mighty hammer; however, once I reached the airship skeleton (with a makeshift bridge actually built this time after the devastation of both, and only 1 fully recovered), I got pushed off by batmen. Retry later, I stood ground, and got surrounded by a couple bat and ratmen. That is damn hostile territory.

From what I can measure, I might have another 70 dwarves come in to recover it once more. 'The Oily Key's' population is dwindling on this project.

Nice to know I remember exactly where these important locations are for adventure mode. The globe itself is pretty damn hostile. You need one heck of an adventurer to even reach the front door of Bloodfist's project site; moreso to actually reach the ship itself.

I can see why Bob the Adventurer didn't want to venture inside. Some other brave (foolish) soul had to recover the smudged map instead. And there it is.

YAY! New page (I'm viewing 50 posts per page here). That's alot of posts. And also 18k views already. Impressive rate. Thanks for the support.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay, bad news race-wise. Toady had reached the final segment of the next release, and I still only have a skeleton left for a ship.

Ideas aside from committing time towards the project and nerfing the storytelling will be accepted. The story and map uploads are mandatory for my project updates (which take time on their own as it is).

I'll try to make an update ASAP today, and hopefully another tonight. I already quarantined most of the fort as it is (trees and security-wise), all that's really left is to commit the rest of the teams towards building (meaning, many a carpenter will be assigned, as well as some mech and metalsmiths to get the devices contructed and placed, etc. I will have many dwarves, and I thought the 2nd reclaim party through. THIS TIME it will be finished.)

[GrafZeppelin]

In any case, the underground is complete. There's still a lot left to do, and I'll be all over the place fixing this and that, but I shouldn't be adding anything else giant and new that will further slow things down. There are a ton of "test this!" and "do this for this person" notes lying around, and I've got to go through all of that and plan my route to a release.

Relax.

[Itnetlolor]

In any case, the underground is complete. There's still a lot left to do, and I'll be all over the place fixing this and that, but I shouldn't be adding anything else giant and new that will further slow things down. There are a ton of "test this!" and "do this for this person" notes lying around, and I've got to go through all of that and plan my route to a release.

Relax.

I know, I know. I've taken a good look at everything in the area and have thought through the pathfinding and everything else. I'm making sure that all I need to focus on in the future is exclusively collecting wood, and building the ship. I'll need to take a look at the wiki to find out what are the best minerals to get copper (outside of ore), I seem to be short on supply of that at the moment.

Oh, and I'm in the process of making my update. Balthier has taken lead now.

[Itnetlolor]

And here's the update. Give me 5 more minutes, and I should have the landmarks updated. okay, updated landmarks. If possible, I should have the next update ready (though not uploadable) tonight.

Spoiler: Y7S1: Big Damn Heroes (click to show/hide)

Well now. It seems some runts have decided to gather a coup de force, and decide to do what others have failed to do. I've heard horror stories of this undertaking of raising a ship into the skies.At the current moment I feel none more than a cameo or an extra in this series of expedition, considering I've been invited to partake in a recovery of an accursed project. Just as I would figure, I'm just going to be another legend that will fall due to the public perseptions of a given situation. I'm not going to fall for that; for it seems I have been given the title of Mayor upon arrival to this... necrohol. Oh well, I guess I'll be the main character then, and make this work, unlike my last predecessors. May Armok take care of me.

Considering the battles will be just like any other, I won't bother going into detail, blood is blood, chunk is chunk, death is death. We've seen it all, we've heard it all. Milord, I believe you grow tired of such repetitive stories as I do, right? Unlike the last message containers of past; I'll keep mine simple. If there's anything to note, I will tell you, but I won't waste material and time on trivial matters. The big picture is all we're really into, the great climaxes, the heroes, the big bad, and any other niche I forgot to include. Compared to future letters, this will be the only bible among them, the rest are none more than a telegram.

Onward... The seige was almost exactly like the last ones, no causalties on uor ends, bats and rats of men abound, just with more rooms than we last expected, but nothing really new, aside patchwork smoothness among the halls, and a really divine dining room. Of course, upon recovery I called dibs on the royal suite. How would one such as I get work done in a room of less quality. Now all I am missing are some coffers or bags to contain my belongings.

It seems from what was left over among the corpses is an utter mess, and there could be trouble cleaning up. I won't tell you about that though, we're quick about it. The real issue of point is a gaping hole in the "farm plots" that have been marked. We'll get that taken care of and assign security to make their rounds, not disturbing the landscape however. Learning from the last fools, we're keeping our marksdwarves on patrol to remove and aerial threats. We can use the meat from those god-awful birds anyway. Speaking of which, I found plans for what looks to be a shrine for the fallen. I'll consider this a side project that will actually be done on my watch.

Considering ther are troubles negotiating a treaty with the drivers of the wagons, I've complied to make the entryway more secure, and have plans for a security bridge, and possibly a customs tower installed. Speaking of which, I finally secured a short path to make said "Shortcut" secure, and blinding the interest of the others from straying off course. Furthermore, I'm adding one more wall to make certain the tree farms, as well as the shortcuts are secure as possible. There should only be one way intruders will have to come in, and that will be the front door. Same applies to those damn bats, which I have hired a small team to clear out before securing the cave with either a full wall, or a trap gauntlet in case they get frisky.

Collection is going along fine, but we're having issues negotiating the bridge to function properly, no progress can be made on the ship until we're certain it's working properly. I won't want to work on something that isn't sturdy. I have taken the time to look upon the toy ship which I found lying about, along with the blueprints. Brilliant work "Cid", you're an inspiration. I'll try to get it done.

Oh right, and before I close this document, I have decided to modify some areas making use of reservoirs that were planned, and have also decided to make a statue garden/watering hole for more than just the housing department. Now we shouldn't be so dependent on the booze. I've heard some troubling tales regarding that, and would much prefer to keep out of that business as much as possible.

Well, tally ho, and may the wrath of Armok punish our enemies.

Once and for all, all for once

PS- I will keep my word, and keep it short in the future. I'm rather certain that after half-a-decade of waiting has gotten you impatient milord. Like I said, I'm going to make it quick as possible, now that most everything has been taken care of thanks to the prior expeditions that took care of this.

--Leader/(Sky) Pirate, Zon "Balthier" Nazushdur (DyeGlazed)

Oh, I have decided to upload some visfort pics showing my latest progress on the ship. It's not much unfortunately.

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