Work on the living halls is ongoing. My Fortress is named Blackfurnace, albeit not for edgy reasons, the Black comes from my low-key goal of encasing everything in obsidian walls for the value, combined with the Furnace, from it being a Volcano embark.
There was a year or so when everyone was stuck inside due to a dragon running around burning everything, but I was eventually able to lure it into the caverns with two tunnels: one lead from the surface to the caverns, the other lead from the Fort to the cavern. A Dwarf went down the tunnel from the Fort, they were detected by the dragon, I set a civilian alert, and when the dragon entered the cavern proper, I locked both the hatch to the Fort and the hatch to the surface. It drowned in a pool less than a month later.
Early on, I retired the Fort and led seven adventurers there, going on a long adventure from the depopulated mountain homes through the Goblin-conquered forts and hillocks. Unfortunately, when I retired the adventurers and restarted the Fort, one of them was instantly struck with melancholy from the accumulated stress of his traumatic adventure. Of the other six, two were later killed by a Roc, but the rest are still alive. The Proud warrior died to the Roc, but the Moral support went on to become the Fort's chief medical officer once enough time had passed and they all petitioned to join the Fortress permanently. The Trader was elected mayor soon after, a position he still holds. The Marksdwarf remains a hunter, she was never much of a people person. Finally, their leader would go on to become the Baron of the Fortress, planning and designing for the place to become the Mountainhome one day.
The Dwelling Hall has been the biggest project so far: as with the rest of the Fort, every wall is made from Obsidian blocks, but its two-block-thick pillars are polished marble. The centre of the hall is three levels deeper than the upper level between the walls and the pillars. The upper level has access to the Library, still unfinished but on the way, while the lower level is going to become a communal space for eating and meeting. Twin staircases made from obsidian slopes access the lower level from a hall connected to the upper level, and on the lower level of the same hall the current project is ongoing: the tombs, as well as a long overdue temple complex for the God of death.
Beyond that, work proceeds slowly for now. Our best miners were killed in the altercation with the Roc, right after we opened the gates to celebrate the imprisonment of the Dragon, so the tombs are progressing relatively slowly, but bronze furniture for the bedrooms is also being made in large quantities in the magma forges above the Fortress. Eventually, I plan to place the Royal Throne nearby, overlooking the Volcano crater through clear glass windows, as well as the temple of the god of Mountains and Volcanoes, patron God of Blackfurnace. But for the right here and the right now, digging has commenced for iron, if we can find it...
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