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[Demonic Spoon]

I didn't specifically claim the 16th, I just want the earliest possible day.

[Heron TSG]

Added. Signups for week 4 technically don't start for a few days yet, I'm just making an exception due to a screwup on my part.

[db48x]

I've got the pump tower all channeled out now. Worked some gold veins, and  started some other veins that intersect the tower.

Time for a quick 8-hour nap though.

Oh, I see that one of the doctors has started doing amputations on plague victims. He may be stuck in the same loop as the one that was trying to fix that guy's liver though.

[Heron TSG]

"It appears your torso has rotted. We'll have to amputate."

[n00bs4uce]

"It appears your torso has rotted. We'll have to amputate."

"Will it grow back, doctor?"

[derekiv]

"It appears your torso has rotted. We'll have to amputate."

"Will it grow back, doctor?"

If you sacrifice your organs to Armok, I believe it just might.

[db48x]

Ok, someone decided to dig into the the cavern that Thrathnu was hanging out in, and he's already killed one of our wrestlers. Most of the rest are apparently still trying to pick up equipment.

I'd like to share a few excerpts from the combat reports so far:

The Overlord punches The Forgotten Beast in the lower body with his right hand, but the attack glances away!

The Forgotten Beast strikes The Recruit in the lower body with its x(warthog leather cap)x but the attack is deflected by The Recruit's x(giant cave spider silk coat)x!

The spinning forgotten beast frozen extract strikes The Recruit in the right lower arm, but the attack is deflected by The Recruit's x(warthog leather robe)x!

The Soldier hacks The Forgotten Beast in the head from behind with his iron battle axe, shattering it!

The Overlord punches The Forgotten Beast in the head with his right hand, but the attack passes right through!

I'll let you know how it goes.

[db48x]

The Forgotten Beast pushes The Overlord in the upper body, bruising the muscle and tearing apart the upper spine's nervous tissue through the XX(pig tail fiber robe)XX!
You fall over.

Yes, it does say 'you' fall over. DS, I think he's going to kill you. Too bad the forgotten beast was between you and your armor.

[db48x]

Oooh, you suffocated, DS.

On a happier note:

The soldier hacks The Forgotten Beast in the head with his iron battle axe, shattering it!
The iron battle axe is lodged firmly in the wound!
The Forgotten Beast pushes The Recruit in the upper body, bruising the muscle and bruising the heart through the X(giant cave spider silk coat)X!
The miner strikes The Forgotten Beast in the lower body with her (copper pick), shattering it!
The Soldier twists the embedded iron battle axe around in The Forgotten Beast's head!

I'm glad someone else with a weapon finally showed up, although it's a shame that they've managed to hack off Thrathnu's arms and feet. He's doing more damage now by bumping into people than he was doing with that cap or by kicking people.

[db48x]

Ok, this is just hopeless. It's down to just the one soldier fighting the beast, and neither of them have had any effect in an hour of trying. All of the beasts body parts are either broken or severed, and every single one of the soldier's attacks does "damage", but there's apparently no way to kill it. I'm beginning to suspect that you can't sever a body part that is already red with damage.

I guess I'm going to save-scum and prevent him from gaining entry to the fort.

[Samoorai]

From the expedition leader's guidebook:

Thrathnu: Forgotten Beast of Temporal Distortion. Fighting this beast causes a build up of chronoton particles, eventually causing a cascade effect which reverts the flow of time to a random point before the fight began. Contact is not advised.

[db48x]

From the expedition leader's guidebook:

Thrathnu: Forgotten Beast of Temporal Distortion. Fighting this beast causes a build up of chronoton particles, eventually causing a cascade effect which reverts the flow of time to a random point before the fight began. Contact is not advised.

hahaha.

Turns out there were five separate entrances to that cavern. Took me three tries to get them all closed up properly. We lost a farmer in the process, but at least we're safe again.

[db48x]

Save

Ok. With the restarts, I didn't really get as much done as I'd like. I concentrated on the pump tower, getting every layer channeled out and placing 70 or so new pumps. Of course, most of those are still waiting on an architect, but it's progress. I've also been sealing off the layers that already have pumps. We're out of pipe sections and down to only a dozen or so large screws, so glass production needs to continue.

There's a new forgotten beast in the lowest caverns. We haven't fully explored that area, it's just visible at the bottom of the pit in the south-east corner of the site. Or at least it was, when it first appeared. It seems to have gone off the radar. Try not to breach that cavern in the future.

We just had a wave of immigration; 22 new dwarves have joined our fortress in the last 2 months. I don't think that they had heard about the plague.

An Elven caravan arrived just as I went to save, so don't forget to deal with them.

It's hovering around 13-15 fps at the moment.

[Demonic Spoon]

Phew, that was a close one, but Demonic Spoon lives on! I knew it was a bad idea to put him in the military.

[64-bit]

I have grabbed the save, and will get going