That would be awesome. I think I'll post a quick update just to give you another fight between a civilian, Anderz, and a giant animal that got a name post-humously. Preview: Meetings! Miners trapping themselves! Actually, that should be singular! A revelation about the anatomy of giant bats!
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Hematite 1, 891
Dastot is throwing a tantrum. she calms down so fast he doesn't even drop his prepared horse eye. Kumil takes the torch, though, throwing a tantrum while eating a camel eye and calming down before she can drop it. Hm...
Anyways, with a crack and a shower of stone, Udil enters the fortress...and the dining...oh, no. She fell into a hole made earlier, and a 20-foot fall was enough to shatter her left femur and hand bones, as well as knocking he out. It also gets blood all over the walls and floor! Udil, after waking up, tries to eat but passes out on the farm plot after moving five feet.
Hematite 2
Dastot, still nibbling her horse eye, throws another tantrum and calms down...before...dropping...the eye. Hm...maybe the eyes are causing the tantrums, and we need to placate them with a monument so they will stop tormenting us!
Udil wakes up and makes it another twenty feet before passing out.
Hematite 3
Kumil throws another tantrum! She quickly calms down.
Udil crawls another five feet towards food before, you guessed it, falling unconscious. At least he's off the plot now.
Dastot is throwin yet another tantrum partway through her herbalism duties.
Udil awakes again!
Hematite 4
Kumil is throwing another tantrum! She calms down quickly, though.
Udil finally makes it the last eighty feet to his precious rat brain.
...Dastot's still tantruming? Uh-oh...
Hematite 5
Finally, Kumil and Anderz are trying to have a meeting at the same time.
Hematite 6
Dastot calms down after a three-day tantrum.
Hematite 7
After trapping herself in the future dining room, Udil pauses, claiming to not be able to find a path to the patch of wall I told him to dig so she could get out. Later, he pauses, trying to find something to drink, instead of digging TO the something-to-drink.
Hematite 8
Udil hasn't dug herself out, probably in part due to his habit of wandering several dozen feet away from the tunnel after each section.
Hematite 12
Udil digs himself out, finally, and gratefully goes to get a drink.
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If I had to guess from the fact that Anderz is still following Kumil, their meeting hasn't concluded.
The order for rock blocks was completed.
Hematite 14
Iton is being attacked by a giant bat! Since they're in a low-ceilinged area, I think that Anderz will be able to get to it...if he stops drinking first...
Hey, Iton's not bad with that battleaxe. She even knocked the bat unconscious!...and is unconscious herself...c'mon, wake up and claim your kill, Iton...
(Interesting fact, giant bats seem to have arms instead of wings.)
Hematite 15
“Pickup Equipment?” Iton's DYING, Anderz! No, now is not a good time to try and get some time on Kumil's calendar, now is a good time to create a giant bat corpse!
Hematite 16
If you're going to kill the bat, don't say you're attending a meeting! That's confusing!
...Nice, you cut off the monster's arm...wing?...whatever. Then half of its leg. Then it died. All is well! Except that Iton died, of course, so now we have no carpenter or woodcutter. Sounds like Anderz is going to have a pretty packed schedule...
Morale lowers still more. It's bad in different ways, though. Iton only had one living friend, Kubuk, and was far from the fortress proper, but had an axe and showed that our so-called military can't be trusted to put our safety above...well, much of anything. At least the rot won't ruin our appetites.
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