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No - I'm not really that interested in claiming a dwarf anyways. If anyone wants one, take one of the 4 left.

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no - look at how much work your doing! relax already!

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yes - 5 or 10 more migrants are useful to the fort. Even if they're unclaimed, we'll need their labor.

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yes - 20-30 more migrants are required - I want to be a king among peasants.

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yes - I want nobles! lots of peasants! Give me arbitrarily huge peasant counts so that my guy doesn't need to do anything!

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[malimbar04]

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Autumn 135

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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 This season we all mourn the loss of another dwarf. Melbil 'Malimbar' Velshorast. Born in the year 72, died in the year 135. He is the creator of Wonderblown, and known as the manager of The Fortification of Confidence from the year 126 to 135. Those that know him well knew he was at one with star ruby.

We have had an unfortunate problem with death as of late, but the previous two deaths could not have been foreseen as well as this one was. This makes it all the more damaging - to know that one is going to die soon, and be completely unable to stop it.

Malimbar came to me in this last summer with several pictures in his hand, coy at the time to his purpose. It was made obvious though that the obsession had taken him. He drew pictures of quarries, of blocks, of a forest and shining metal bars; he drew more of cut gems and stacked cloth. At first I had no fear, because all of those things we had plenty of, but Malimbar did not seem satisfied.

Upon visiting him at his worst state in years, scrambling over the craftdwarf workshop, I saw that he gathered most of his items - raw adamantine, birch logs, bronze bars, gems, and so on. But he staired at me with an intensity, and pointed back at a picture of stacked cloth. And when I shook my head we both knew what we had meant - we did not have the resources, for while we had pigtail cloth we did not have any of yarn.

And when we knew of his coming death, he made it clear exactly what preparations we had to make. Coffins were built. Per his drawings he made it very clear he wanted a tomb, of the best available, and so his coffin was built at the bottom of the spire of adamantine. Any here may visit it at their leisure.

When he went berserk, as we expected, the bravest dwarves descended upon him. Malimbar wore fine armor and weapons, so they had to be swift to prevent any injuries. Of particular note is Ushrir Copperstandard, husband of McShitkicker and master of the adamantine blade. He is the one that tackled Malimbar to the ground, cut off the hand that held the sword, and finished the job.

Now I know that many of you are now worried about having adequate protection. When someone of stature in our fort meets their untimely end it is only natural for this to consume you. Know though, that while we mourn the loss of a friend, we will do all in our power to prevent this from occuring again.

I've talked to Flamestrider, and we've determined that we will accelerate the adamantine digging, and will e sure to give weapons and armor to all here. Then, 2 seasons out of every 4, we will train with the top two teachers in our ranks: Monom Galleypolishes and Mestthos Notchrope.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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Now that Malimbar is dead, we're all a bit shaken up. While I appreciate the words of Amariithynar though, I'm not sure a draft is the way to go. We already have a militia, and they don't really stop us from going berserk anyways. But oh well, Off to work we go.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 I'm a bit torn on what to think of the most recent predicament. On one hand Malimbar was a good friend that died to an unfortunate incident. On the other hand, his burial arrangements were far superior to mine, and that is just insulting. What's worse is that Amariithynar approved it, and even had me make the room filler.

Though that being said, it was a good idea to make a tomb around the spire. I've claimed the floor above Malimbar's, so no one can say I am outclassed again.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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High ho, off to the militia we go. Luckily I got in fast and grabbed an adamantine breastplate, hah! the others will be jealous. We only got a handful of those. I'm in the squad with Monom, so I expect to be among the best squad, along with the Willsauces, Galen, and McShitkicker.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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 One dwarf dies, and a bunch of great additions are instantly underway. Now a bunch of us ar ebeing assigned weapons and training dates. I got a silver short sword as that's what's available, but now that the military is a priority I forsee good things ahead.

But that being said, what I don't see ahead is a bunch of new ADAMANTINE weapons and armor. My shop is now claimed by some other dwarf, and I cna't exactly extract right now, or very often at all anymore I'm sure now that we're in training mode.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded
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Zas 'Zol' Basementperplexed
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Edem 'Galen' Torchwet
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Rimtar 'Privatealpha' Whippedtrailed

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Our manager dies (I was wondering when that would happen), and now our broker/bookkeeper takes over. She put a bunch of named dwarves in squads to learn how to fight. You know who she didn't put anywhere though? me. You know why? I think it's because we need a lot of armor, and I'm the best armorer within the next few civilizaitons put together. that being said, we don't have near the amount of metal that we're going to need.

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Asmel 'Doktor' Armorwalk
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Stukos 'McShitkicker' Hatchettemple

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 Our manager died. We put him in his coffin down below, and now a bunch of us our training to be fighters. It's a futile effort, but for now I see no problem with this. I also expect the future to be much like the past, but with more death.

[malimbar04]

Winter is coming...

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire

Because Malimbar was the enforcer for the whole journal thing, and he's dead, things will be more quiet. This is also true because most of the dwarves are training almost full time, so less artsy or interesting stuff is going on. Also, I'm getting lazy.

Early Winter 135
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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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Squads are now running at all times, save for two months around the mountainhomes caravan. This should be more efficient for training. I've also released Ralgreth Smith to continue extracting adamantine and pacifying the nobles. He's th emost useful on those fronts it seems.

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*The Willsauce Family*
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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels
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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice
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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate
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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded
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Zas 'Zol' Basementperplexed
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Edem 'Galen' Torchwet
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Rimtar 'Privatealpha' Whippedtrailed
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Asmel 'Doktor' Armorwalk
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Stukos 'McShitkicker' Hatchettemple

[TheZoomZoll]

Hmm.Nobody seems to want to claim more dwarves.

Hopefully we won't have any more deaths.

[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

Can I haz Zon Bashuzel? Name her "Derpislava" and make her a wood cutter/axedorf, if it's okay with your plans.

[GalenEvil]

I am content with the progress of my dorf Though, I am a little disturbed by his lack of understanding about the dangers of spoilerite. I hope that he does not do anything stupid that will get him nommed by the denizens of the circus tent.

[malimbar04]

Just FYI, I seriously debated just killing the fort. My dwarf is dead, things make less sense to me now, and I'm still kind've wondering where to take this. You guys replied, and I looked for a way to upload the last save, just in case I stopped.

And while looking at the previous posts (I'm sure there is a recommendation somewhere), I realized I missed a bunch of major points for things that people do! How did I forget these things! Also, forgot that you guys wanted more pictures of things. I'll see what I can do.

And !!Troll Fur Sock!!, I don't have a Zon Bashuzel. So... did you mean Zon Rashuzol (Zon Diedoiled)? Or did you want someone else? BTW, this is our second woodcutter/axedwarf combo. Just FYI, I can only have one of those in use at a time, as the job woodcutter interferes with using an axe in practice. I have no problem trying to accomodate, but you should probably know.

And just for everyone else's amusement, here is the last save file (27 MB 7z file): https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxtYyDIchB5dQWk1Ql9kenhMOVE

And I'll have the next update (hopefully more detailed and such) by tonight.

[malimbar04]

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Spring 136

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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The former decree of training near full time didn't last long. The dwarves started to grumble and say that's not the reason they came to the fort. Or something like that, I was a bit distracted at the time. Mestthos and Monom are still training others, but now it's all about the volunteers. And... well... there was only one current volunteer. Sloth the axe dwarf is training.

He also said somethign about wanting an ax, but I'm not going to accomodate that just yet. We don't have anyone who is able to teach him anything about axes quite yet. Perhaps later.

Current fort value is sitting at 7179224, and I expect to rise shortly. The diplomat form the mountainhomes requested that we make them prepared meals for next year, and we got a LOT of those of very high quality to trade. I didn't know they had such a food shortage.

I've also looked at the plans for the cat-population problem. True, I can't just kill them. That would be unethical - I'd have 7 dwarves coming down my throat for that. But what I can do is say that they must all be kept in a small area, and cat's don't approve of that. Well, I moved that small area from the front of our fort to the top of Uthric's house. I've added a door, so that when the cats fall, they are to be brought back up immediately.
Top:

Bottom:

We've Already had several unfortunate cat deaths. A shame really.

Other fort duties are a bit predictable. I've ordered 30 robes and trousers made, 20 mechanisms, and several glass pots (and to collect the sand for them of course). Flamestrider also has said that he needs some new arrangements now that we are a county, and I promptly told him to make them himself. He agreed, and did.

Speaking of which, at some point I really should give us a date. Perhaps we'll hang out in his room since it's the nicest place in the fort.

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*The Willsauce Family*

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When they first said that we didn't have to be in the military anymore, I was absolutely ecstatic. I promptly went off and looked at the nice bridge in the caverns below, and the nicely arranged burial recepticals in the memoral room. Very nice.

Soon I will also make weapons again, but no one needs any right now. Shame, because I'm all prepared to do so.

MrWillsauce has been making glass pots again. I think that Malimbar forgot about this at some point, but it's good to have him busy again. We've always been low on pots to put alcohol in.

LittleWillsauce is only a couple of years from puberty, and I kind've wonder what he's going to be up to when that happens. However, he's been really miserable lately. He really likes his cats (for their aloofness he tells me), but recently the cats have been dying quite regularly. I told him that maybe one day he'll get a rhythmically undulating winged demon. He liked that idea, and promptly went off to play demons vs cats. So cute.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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I talked to the outpost liaison recently. I tried to avoid it for a while, smoothing out stone and such, but I could only put it off for so long. We ended up making a deal for more steel (and things made from steel), along with some wool. Too many tragedies have happened due to lack of wool in this fort.



But you'll never guess what I was able to negotiate:

Prepared meals! we got those coming out of our ears, and rotting every season. Hah.

Also, went to visit Malimbar's old tomb. There is just something about it that I like. Granted, we dont' call it a tomb anymore - we call it a memorial hall. A memorial that happens to have a coffin in it... with the remains of the same guy that is talked about on the only slab.

You know though, we never did find out what his creation was going to be. Sure, we know the name "Wonderblown", but nothing else. I guess Kirar Worthlove knows, and perhaps it was her charity that we never found out. I would hate for it to be an adamantine thong.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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Recently the cats have been assigned to the roof of my home. Now, I wouldn't mind, except that I think that the goal was not to contain the creatures - every now and then I hear a "meow! hiss!" followed by a thud. Then smoe dwarf runs into my bottom floor, through to the back, and then proceeds to drag a wounded cat up the stairs. Somethings funky I tell ya.

On a side note, I've started bringing the bees inside. That's what the bottom room is designed for after all. I've also talked about putting some traps outside (can never be too safe I say). Doktor says he'll get to it when he has time.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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Woo, it's good to be busy again. We did have some dwarf take over my workshop recently, so I ended up building a second one on teh bottom floor (next to the furnaces). It's not my permanent home, but it'll help for now.

I have to commend the dwarf on their craft though. The Hardy Seed, a raw adamantine figuring of one of our first kings, Athel Slingspiraled. It's even incrusted with raw adamantine cabochons, along with a fake gem made of birch.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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They disbanded the military, then I stayed in it to finally be traiend, but they took away my axe and gave me this little short sword. I don't exactly know what to think. But I do know that I won't be ignored forever at this rate. Soon, I will be a force to be reckoned with. Then I might get my axe.

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Zas 'Zol' Basementperplexed

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I've been busy lately making lots of tallow biscuits. Some of dog tallow, some of  water buffalo, a few of kitten, and so on and so forth. Unfortuantely nothing recently has been that amazing for a work of art, but we do have ltos of biscuits for anyone that is hungry.

On the plus side though, I still get to see Ilral every day on my way to work. That's nice. 

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Edem 'Galen' Torchwet

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Carving more adamantine - might even go up another layer soon. I never would have thought it went this high. I'm curious to see how high, but don't want to cut out more than I can handle right away. That could be dangerous, or something.

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Rimtar 'Privatealpha' Whippedtrailed

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We made a bunch of lead flasks recently, and I've melted a bunch of anvils down for steel. The order of things is a bit funky right now though, so I forgot exactly which pieces of armor I was supposed to make. Oh well, at some point I'll get to that. Low priority though, as Ideally it would all be made of adamantine, and we're always ALWAYS short on that.

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Asmel 'Doktor' Armorwalk

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I've taken to putting traps around the fort. There is one outside my room, a couple down on the bottom floor. Heh, nothing will be safe around here anymore if people go berserk.

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Stukos 'McShitkicker' Hatchettemple

[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

And !!Troll Fur Sock!!, I don't have a Zon Bashuzel. So... did you mean Zon Rashuzol (Zon Diedoiled)? Or did you want someone else? BTW, this is our second woodcutter/axedwarf combo. Just FYI, I can only have one of those in use at a time, as the job woodcutter interferes with using an axe in practice. I have no problem trying to accomodate, but you should probably know

Well, it's pretty hard to read with a screen like this.


So, if you need any military, I'd like her to use hammer of spear. If not... Maybe armor/weaponsmith or mechanic?

[BraveHero400]

Damn...what are the odds of taking time to make a fort, getting the community involved...and then have your own dwarf die. 

Worst part, he died while claiming my dwarf's workshop.  R.I.P 'Malimbar' Linedwire

(why are we making crafts from the addy?)

[TheZoomZoll]

Atleast he wasn't the first to die.

[malimbar04]

Atleast he wansn't the first to die.

Very true. That would suck differently

Just to clear things up, I don't mind so much that my guy died, but I mind that he was kind've my excuse for running the fort in this direction or that direction.

[malimbar04]

Yeah, my head is done. Armok has spoken, and it says "screw this, I'm making a new world for myself". If anyone wants to take it up, I'd say start from the last save I uploaded. It's a decent starting point

[TheZoomZoll]

I might if I got the time and somebody wants me to.