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Orthi for their twin heads or potential as warhounds

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Cauchemars for their fiery manes or refusal to breed

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Camels for their mundane size or desert adaptation

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Iguanodons for their unforgivable crimes or thumb spikes

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Reimus for their bright colors or ability to fly

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Stegosaurs for their magnificent thagomizers or valiant sacrifice

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Dire wolves for their throne memes or potential as warhounds

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Sayukas for their cleaning habits or ability to fly

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Beak dogs for their hideous visage or association with evil

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Nahashes for their tempting whispers, being a snek, or fearless vermin hunting

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Compies for their tiny size, tendency to maul children, or fearless vermin hunting

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Tentacle monsters for their cleaning habits, repeated snuggles, or potential as war beasts

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Pain elementals for their suffering, derpy floating, or sense of doom

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Utahraptors for their lack of taming, fierce sisterhood, or bullying of prisoners

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Dark elves for their attempted genocide, successful genocide, or status as decorations

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Wights for their leadership position or favorite pet puppy

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Shadow beasts for their unrelenting slaughter of all that lives or cute crayon depictions in casualty reports

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Mastadons for their tragic backstory or great size

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Pond nagi for their brilliant hiding spot, incredible first hand accounts, or distaste for rain

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Total Members Voted: 6

[Egan_BW]

Yay tentacle friend.

And yeah all those dinosaurs are probably just a source of bone.

[IronyOwl]

Update 5: Life and Death

Spoiler: Part 1 (click to show/hide)

8th Galena, Late Summer, Year 101



We've established a workshop area for leather and cloth, and more importantly for harvesting dinosaur bones.

The kitchen and raw food storage area is further to the left. The seed stockpile can be seen in the nook to the right. Everything is half empty because everything is under construction and we only have seven haulers.



Speaking of murdering dinosaurs, one of our guests has taken offense at this one's excessive breathing and unearned quantities of blood.



She eventually loses it, but that was a very determined chase.

: "WHAT did the iguanodons DO?"


10th Galena, Late Summer, Year 101



: "Yaaaaaay, snubnose bones!"

: "They're so tiny!"



IT BEGINS

Soon we will be drowning in bards all clamoring for a chance to perform at our fabulous tavern. As for this one in particular...



: "So you're an incubus with martial training, skill with animals, and a proven record of successful breeding."

: "That's one way to put it~"

: "Yes."

: "I accept immediately."

: "Oops so clumsy I gave him my citizenship."

: "I believe it's unanimous."


12th Galena, Late Summer, Year 101



We get a burst of visitors all at once! At first I wonder if they're a performance troupe, but they seem to be humble adventurers.



Speaking of visitors, we install the still-wild utahraptor cage riiiiiiight next to the elf prisoner.



: "This is a warcrime! I only approve a little!"


15th Galena, Late Summer, Year 101







Grooveddabblers is apparently a hot item. All six armed visitors seek its whereabouts.


18th Galena, Late Summer, Year 101



Our breeding program hits a slight snag.

: "Alright which of you morons performed honest labor for the purposes of eating babies and somehow that made things worse for us?"

: "I cannot be expected to remember every time I've tried to eat babies or how well it worked out!"

Spoiler: Part 2 (click to show/hide)

1st Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 101





Having finally hauled and crafted everything that needs to be for the moment, the succubi decide to take a month off. It'll be good to get to know each other, our new bard, and the armed vagrants we encourage to loiter in our dining room.

Also yes, all three of the cages next to the dark elf cage contain female utahraptors. We can't start a breeding program even if we wanted to, but we can let several horse-sized carnivores eye up the heavily armored treat in the next cage.


22nd Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 101



Should I be worried? Everyone is authorized to perform animal training, so I assume the succubi would do something about it if it was a problem...


1st Sandstone, Mid Autumn, Year 101



: "Now back to work! There's slaves to herd and caverns to expand!"



Another orthus. Definitely slower than anticipated, but we should now have five total.



We also finally get around to taming the iguanodons.

: "Why bother, though?"

: "Because I have a dastardly scheme involving the most hated animal ever."

: "Is it chaining some outside so they murder those first, giving us advance warning?"

: "Yes."


7th Sandstone, Mid Autumn, Year 101



We get a baby camel.



About a week later, a second baby camel. Camels are unlikely to be a major part of our herds, but it'll be cool to have a few. At least until we harvest them for crafting materials.


22nd Sandstone, Mid Autumn, Year 101





The tavern is formally expanded to include drink storage (top) and eating/prepared meal storage (bottom) areas. It's likely we'll pull the tavern back and use the current tavern area as a barracks, but this is far from certain and we have no military at the moment anyway.


25th Sandstone, Mid Autumn, Year 101



: "All done!"

: "Now where's my next victim?"



I experiment a bit with engraving, since our engraver hasn't gotten much work in. Turns out walls will indeed retain images when rebuilt, which means we can't build, engrave, demolish, and then rebuild walls to train him up.


4th Timber, Late Autumn, Year 101



Several Paraceratheriums are born! Fully grown, these rhino relatives are twice the size of an elephant.





Our pain elemental (which Misuril still hasn't adopted for some reason) is trained to be a war pain elemental. Why not, right?



Finally, our Reimu breeding program is likewise taking shape.


17th Timber, Late Autumn, Year 101



In the process of experimenting with renewable floor engravings, our broker/engraver/incubus produces some interesting pieces. Apparently a long six-sided prism is the symbol of our parent civilization, while ballista arrowheads are the symbol of our site government.

He also carved some giant grasshoppers just because.





We then carve rail tracks over, smooth, and re-engrave the floor to confirm that this allows for infinite recarving. Good to know!


21st Timber, Late Autumn, Year 101



Our next batch of snubnoses is on the way!



Alas, we don't really need that many iguanodons.

Note that snubnoses and stegosaurs both possess x2 bone value, while iguanodons do not. This makes them noticeably better longterm options than the humble merchantbait.

Spoiler: Part 3 (click to show/hide)

1st Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 101



As you might have guessed, naga are amphibious. They also have several different castes.

: "You uh... you okay there buddy?"

: *indistinct blurbling*



: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA!"



: "The lever! Pull the lever!"



: "The compy! Has anyone seen the cute little compy?"

: "It's already dead PULL THE LEVER!"



: "Well what about the visiting bard?"

: "FIIIIIIIIIIINE! Get in here you two, RUN!"



: "Well that's going in a song. Is it always this exciting around here?"

: "What? Nooooooo, that would be... very stressful."


4th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 101







The undead chase a few giant rats around. They don't seem especially well equipped, but steel arrows are still better left untested.

Also if you're wondering why an undead dwarf has two "tail covers," it's because the Serpent Race mod adds shoes named "tail covers" as a stopgap to stop snakemen from getting angry about not having any shoes to wear.





An ambush! A human wight and her pet shadow beast were lurking in the shadows!

I have no idea why the shadow beast shows up as... that. Some kind of default sprite perhaps?



To no one's surprise, undead warhounds are fairly good at tearing giant rats apart.

: "I really hope that thing isn't fast enough to make it through the trap line and across the bridge before we have time to raise it."



: "We really need a military."

We finally have a bard for claiming, if anyone wants him!

[IronyOwl]

Update 6: Reaper

Spoiler: Part 1 (click to show/hide)

14th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 101



Two weeks into the siege, the undead continue to mill around without obvious purpose.



Meanwhile, we finally start to carve out some bedrooms, and notice our pain elemental seems to be following Gismande around. Presumably she was the one who trained it.

: "Hey no fair, how come misery likes you best?"

: "Guess I'm just nicer."


20th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 101



: "Next!"



: "Is there anything cooler than mass producing clear glass doors?"



: "What the- why do these things have so few bones in them?"

: "They're a tenth the size of a fully grown dinosaur?"

: "Oh yeah..."


28th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 101





The shadow beast finds and feasts upon mastadon flesh.







It's not a great time to be a mastadon in Torturedaunt.



It's not a fantastic time to be an iguanodon either.


11th Opal, Mid Winter, Year 101



: "Very... festive, out there."





On the bright side, bone beds! It takes 4 bones per bed, so it's not great for raw value generation but fairly trivial as raw materials go. Not that wood is rare when you're willing to brave the surface, but we're not so bones it is.

The downside is that a lot of vital furniture pieces can't be made of bone. Bone chests and cabinets exist, but containers like barrels or bins do not. We can get bone statues, though! Nothing says "good guys live here" like statues carved from bone.


22nd Opal, Mid Winter, Year 101





: "They're... kinda cute. Right?"

: "Fantastic early warning system."

Spoiler: Part 2 (click to show/hide)

2nd Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 101





We finally have bedrooms and offices!

: "And it only took us two years."

: "Silence! We were busy! The sun was in my eyes! Adversity builds character!"

: "Does it really?"

: "Probably not? I have no idea what that even means."

: "It means slaves you've been torturing are way more interesting and flavorful than ones that have just been sitting around."

: "Ooooooooooh!"

: "I heard that! Flattery will only help you a little!"



I have no idea what a microceratus is, but it suffers the same fate as the mastadons.



This is probably not actually as valuable as a nice statue, but it's very stylish and evidence that our dungeon is starting to produce some nice items.


8th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 101



Our guest is sulking in a maintenance tunnel.





New guests have arrived!

: "Oh please leave."



: "Yay! More cute hatchlings!"

: "With the valuable bones!"



: "This is not going to be great for our reputation."

Spoiler: Part 3 (click to show/hide)

12th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 101





It begins.





: "More visitors..."





: "Fewer visitors..."





Our pond dweller is fine, by the way. Her only complaint in hiding in a murky pond while the dead feast on the living is that it rains sometimes.

: "Wait, she's actually a genius!"



The shadow beast continues its grim work.


23rd Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 101









Visitors continue to arrive and then depart.







: "Any wagers?"

: "Shadow beast."

: "Shadow beast."

: "Shadow beast."

: "I tried."





: "He tried."



This is what shadow beasts are supposed to look like, incidentally. Including the bit about standing over the rubble of your settlement.



: "Hey no fair! How come the shadow beast gets a fancy title before I do?"

: "How many outposts you turned into bone-strewn abattoirs?"

: "I'm working on it."



The wight has a bit of history, but hasn't managed to shank anyone here. Neither have the zombies. Obviously nameless wildlife isn't counted, but it seems like they're missing a few even so. Perhaps it's counted as natural causes if an undead fiend's steel claws cause you to carelessly misplace your blood all on your own.

[Nakéen]

PTW!

[IronyOwl]

Update 7: Misery

Spoiler: Part 1 (click to show/hide)

1st Granite, Early Spring, Year 102



: "A new year and we're not dead yet. Yaaaay..."

: "Could be much, much worse?"



We have a very modest shrine now.



Another victim.



I had no idea visitors could become unhappy about lack of food or prayer.


9th Granite, Early Spring, Year 102





One corpse hits the floor, another wanders onto the map.



: "AAAAAAAAA!"

: "AAAAAAAAA!"

: "AAAAAAAAA!"



Near as I can tell, a hobgoblin bard wandered directly into the wight, who raised a nearby mastadon corpse to murder him with, then raised his corpse for good measure.

So now they have an undead mastadon.


12th Granite, Early Spring, Year 102



: "Yeah the rain is gonna be the least of your worries."



The hobgoblin from earlier meets the locals.

: "Run faster!"



: "Nothing outruns The Organized Crescent of Vultures."



: "We can't really leave a fellow succubus out there, can we?"

: "I am NOT being eviscerated by something called The Organized Crescent of Vultures so a thief can die running to us instead of standing around."

: "But the traps would probably catch anything that tries to get in."

*xylophone trumpeting*



: "Maybe we can make her a nice clear glass coffin, so everyone can see how hot her bones are."



In an attempt to dissuade further victims, I set the tavern and temple to only citizens and longterm residents. This has a curious effect: She starts making her way towards our entrance for some reason.



Unfortunately everyone's too busy to lower the bridge.



It seems like in the absence of a valid meeting area to path to, all two un-murdered visitors congregate around the default meeting area of the wagon instead. Fascinating!



A fake meeting area inside the traps fails to garner any attention. It does give me some good ideas, though!



Too late, the dead have found them.







: "We'll see about that clear glass coffin."

Spoiler: Part 2 (click to show/hide)

19th Granite, Early Spring, Year 102



: "Camels are kinda cool, right? As basic desert mounts?"

: "Donkeys give better cheese."

: "Snubnoses give more and better bones."



: "That's the last of them."

: "Think they'll go away now?"

: "Ha ha."


2nd Slate, Mid Spring, Year 102



An orthus grows up! The original plan was to assign a warhound or two to each succubus as bodyguards, but that's taken far longer than expected. Plus several of them have animal preferences that are more dangerous anyway, like Misuril's fondness for living misery.



That said, their numbers are slowly growing.



Not nearly as fast as the dinosaurs, of course. Larger clutch sizes and reduced gestation time make them far faster at producing baby dinosaurs, though the longer maturation time will probably give more time between generations.



The camels are also doing okay, but since we don't actually need them for anything that's a fairly good pace. Occasional camelbone crafts are a valued addition to the dungeon!


16th Slate, Mid Spring, Year 102





The zombies appear to be fighting very stealthy rats.



Speaking of odd behavior, something about setting the tavern to citizen/longterm only, or something about creating a secondary meeting hall, or something about linking that meeting hall to the tavern, appears to be interfering with leisure time. The succubi sometimes make merry as usual, but some of them are often sulking in their rooms or the like. Trying to path to that inaccessible meeting zone, perhaps?



Other times they party just fine!


3rd Felsite, Late Spring, Year 102



More phantom rats!


10th Felsite, Late Spring, Year 102



More snubnoses! There is much rejoicing.



We do now have a LOT of baby dinosaurs. Both the iguanodons and snubnoses take five years to hit full size, so it's a bit of an investment. They'll still be plenty big if we decide to start harvesting before then, of course.


22nd Felsite, Late Spring, Year 102



Tragedy and woe! Our clever aquatic bard has been found out!



Also zombies can walk on water.

: "Well so much for a water moat."

: "Magma is more imposing anyway."



The nagi breaks free but doesn't have anywhere to go. Opening up the tavern (with its satellite zone on the other side of the bridge) doesn't seem to interest her.



So falls one of the most cunning creatures we've seen so far.

: "In fairness, that's not a high bar."

Spoiler: Part 3 (click to show/hide)

27th Felsite, Late Spring, Year 102



: "Not useful."

: "AKSHUALLY this should help us train them better which means needing to train them less often, so it's pretty good if we want to keep handling semi-wild ones to use as bait."



: "Another history lesson! Take that, ignorance!"

: "Ow! What'd I do?"



Our Reimu herd is growing, but they're all boys so we're not actually gaining any production capacity.


1st Hematite, Early Summer, Year 102



Summer has arrived! The ravening dead remain, and have been maintaining their siege for two seasons now.

: "They'll get tired soon, right? The dead are known for getting tired, right?"


12th Hematite, Early Summer



It's a slow season, with the succubi spending a lot of time loitering and hauling. We do get another giant rhino-thing.

As you might have noticed, we're also running relatively low on drinks. Unlike food, which is an infinite byproduct of bone removal, drink must be specifically grown or imported. The latter was the plan before the undead siege hit, so we might have to do the former.

Spoiler: Part 4 (click to show/hide)

11th Galena, Late Summer, Year 102





: "I am important! I demand a window in my office!"

: "Why?"

: "To prove I'm important, mainly."



: "You go ahead and prove you're important, I'll prove that I'm good."


1st Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 102



Autumn arrives. The dead still hunger, the succubi still party, the swarms of tiny dinosaurs still race around the dungeon for no apparent reason.


8th Standstone, Mid Autumn, Year 102



We get our first fully tame camel! I'm not sure why the sprite hasn't updated to an adult one yet.



Meanwhile, a zombie takes a shot at a raven. Maybe those are the mystery foes the zombies keep battling.


7th Timber, Late Autumn, Year 102



Our first Reimu has matured! I have no idea how useful War Reimus would be, but it'll likely be too funny to pass up.


19th Timber, Late Autumn, Year 102



We finally brew up some of the plants we've had lying around. This does require crafting pots first, as all our barrels are spoken for, but as you can see it doesn't take a lot to produce enough booze for our needs.


1st Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 102









The dead have now been sieging for an entire year.





For some reason the zombies keep getting knocked around by unknown assailants. Forest rats? Ravens? Naga river commandos?

Spoiler: Part 5 (click to show/hide)

10th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 102



: "Are they... gone?"





One of the zombies is a bit slower than the others, but ambles off the map eventually. That leaves the hobgoblin and mastadon, which being battlefield recruits from the wight herself probably don't have a home to return to.


15th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 102



For the first time in a year, the dungeon of Torturedaunt is unsealed!





The zombies respond swiftly... for zombies.







Both of our longterm guests take their chance to flee this prison they've been cooped up in. The succubus tries going south at first, but quickly changes course to avoid the unsavory locals.







: "That... probably would have worked on the whole siege?"

: "Unless the bowzombies and elite wight started putting steel arrows through our party guests."





With the threat finally dealt with, The Black Cakes is once again open for business!





And with new and exciting decorations!

: "Another prisoner, good! We can work together to escape this place, and take our revenge!"

: "Braaaaaaaaaaaains..."

: "In short supply, I'm afraid! These cretins are as vapid as they are vile!"

: "Flattery will only help you a little."


21st Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 102





We instantly get a few more guests.





One of them instantly wants to join!

Normally I don't like taking visitors who are married, since they'll complain about it forever.



Wait.



Turns out our bard here was the lover of that thief we failed to save!

: "So does she wanna join us to get revenge on the dead or get revenge on us or what?"

: "Maybe she's in the market for new lovers?"

: "Or heard we're really gonna need a wound dresser at some point."

Anyone want to claim a vengeful Hammerdame Doctor?

[Egan_BW]

oops i tripped and claimed the hammer lady

[IronyOwl]

Update 8: Batman

Spoiler: Part 1 (click to show/hide)

24th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 102



: "Welcome aboard! I look forward to having a minion that can fight the dead."



We shall sadly need to wait for her to become a full citizen to be able to do much (like lead a hammer squad or serve as a doctor), but if you want anything customized let me know.

Also if you give me a personality or the like she can shitpost like our main denizens!


7th Opal, Mid Winter, Year 102





: "Another one, eh? Creatures are lining up to serve as my loyal thralls!"

: "Are we going to accept?"



: "We REALLY need a military."

: "Good news, you're in!"





She's uh... probably a better swordsnake than bard, but that suits us just fine.


15th Opal, Mid Winter, Year 102



The tavern has picked up again, and is attracting all sorts.





Including a cousin of that pikegoblin that got mauled early in the siege!





: "I do hate splitting up families, and it's not like we need a stonecrafter..."



: "I'm the master of that serpent you just recruited, and former master to two of the bards who died outside your walls."

: "Crap."




24th Opal, Mid Winter, Year 102



Cage traps continue to do cage trap things. Vargs are basically just unusually cunning wolves.





Another snake wants to join.

: "I really don't want to separate you from your husband..."



: "Allow me to avenge my uncle with mace and song!"

: "Fiiiiiine, anyone with a grudge against the dead can join."





: "My father is that stud incubus you hired."

: "Yeah, that'll do it."

: "Why is everyone around here better connected than I am?"




2nd Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 102





: "Finally! A hobgoblin with no connections. Rejected!"



To celebrate, Mixel cuts a masterful large green glass gem.

: "Isn't it beautiful?"

: "It's worth a small barrel of cheese."


10th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 102



Another hobgoblin is denied.


16th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 102


A traveler confirms a bard corpse. I wonder if that shadow beast was missing kills because we hadn't confirmed the victim's death yet.



: "No."


25th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 102



Rhino things!

Spoiler: Part 2 (click to show/hide)

1st Granite, Early Spring, Year 103



: "Not only are we not dead yet, everyone loves our tavern!"



We had several male vargs already, but now we've got some females if we want a breeding program.

: "Do we want a breeding program?"

: *shrug*


9th Granite, Early Spring, Year 103



: "The dark elves are back!"

: "I knew it."





: "And they brought war mammoths."

: "Why do all of our enemies get war pachyderms?!"

: "Because our paraceratheriums aren't old enough to match them in battle."

: "Oh yeah."



The bridge is swiftly raised, but the invaders didn't particularly seem to be heading inside.





There are a surprising number of them!



They also seem to be moving as one, which is interesting.


12th Granite, Early Spring, Year 103



: "Nooooooo, the cute little compy!"

: "It died as it lived: Pointlessly and with a lot of bullying small things."



: "Great, a third war mammoth."


15th Granite, Early Spring, Year 103



A very exotic guest shows up!

: "Shame he's gonna get skewered by dark elves."

: "Or crushed by a mammoth."


22nd Granite, Early Spring, Year 103



More join the group. They must have had more squads hiding.



And more still!

: "That's a LOT of elves just to murder a dozen succubi."

: "We're pretty wealthy?"

: "Would a military even help against that?!"



All this to chase a fancy wolf, incidentally. They've taken several shots (almost all of the dark elves are ranged troops), but none have hit.


24th Granite, Early Spring, Year 103



And just like that, they flee to the north.



Their swordsman's a little slower than the rest.

: "He's bringing up the rearguard, you cowardly wretches!"

: "If you're such a strategic genius, how come you got captured?"

: "Because you burrowed into a deviously trapped chokepoint like a bunch of degenerate moles!"

: "You're jealous."

: "Only a little!"



The gorlak also survived just fine!

Spoiler: Part 3 (click to show/hide)

6th Slate, Mid Spring, Year 103



We begin digging out an expansion for the pens.

: "There's no way the elves will be back so soon, and the dead will probably take a while too. The surface should be safe for a bit."

: "Unless there's prehistoric crocodiles in the stream."

: "I'm just glad the lava isn't infinite this time."


10th Slate, Mid Spring, Year 103





: "No connections, already married? Sorry but no. Invite your wife if you want to serve as a goon."



Meanwhile, one of our reimus bullies a very small fancy ape. I suppose this supports the feasibility of war reimus.



: "What's the difference between a naga and a serpent-man?"

: "Despite superficial similarities in body plan, the two are not related. Serpent-men inhabit stinking swamps and humid jungles, enjoy taking slaves, and are venomous and carnivorous. They are associated with deformity, lies, and treachery, as well as disease and thralldom."

: "Naga arise by being unleashed from the earth by powerful demons the same way goblins are. They are amphibious and only inhabit wetlands, and are known for making shellsteel, which is slightly better than normal steel for weapons but slightly worse for armor. They can have two to six arms, the more arms means higher rank. They are associated with oceans, treachery, torture, thunder, storms, and coasts."



: "You... wrote a twenty two page book on changing professions from cheese to soap?"

: "Jealousss?"

: "Only a little! Fine you can stay!"





Despite progress on the secondary pen, we also need some ash for clear glass. Unfortunately this means all of our succubi- including the miners- immediately become obsessed with hauling logs instead of digging out pens.

With only seven laborers, this is a significant distraction!


18th Slate, Mid Spring, Year 103



Our first second-generation tame camel is born!

: "Dinosaurs take so long to mature, it's nice to have a backup source of wealth."


2nd Felsite, Late Spring, Year 103



Something is beating an Australopithecus to death.



: "You think we should stay inside just in case it's dangerous?"



: *loud, carefree snoring*

: "I guess it'll be fine..."


7th Felsite, Late Spring, Year 103



With our drink stocks running low, we decide to grab a few plants while we're at it. The pens definitely won't be ready before summer, so there's no point trying to rush them.



Everyone is hard at work on our early detection system, however.

: "Remind we about the morality of chaining frail baby animals outside to save yourself?"

: "That's called being sensible, you preening witches! Stop flattering yourselves!"

: "My only regret is not harvesting their bones."





Our snake bullies a touhou.

Our nahash, that is. Not one of the bards.



The eirin eventually gets away, but this casts some doubt on our war reimu idea. How tough can they be if they get bullied by a dwarf-sized snake?



: "Accepted!"

: "You didn't let me finish."







: "Overqualified, then!"



Another spare touhou, though if our snake hadn't bullied the male he might have wandered into our traps as well.

Spoiler: Part 4 (click to show/hide)

17th Felsite, Late Spring, Year 103



: "Married hobgoblin, eh? Rejected!"



: "Oh."





: "That definitely qualifies you for our undead grudge program. Welcome aboard!"





: "Free ape meat!"


26th Felsite, Late Spring, Year 103



: "We do not need a legendary miller."

: "But pastries!"

: "Denied!"



: "Even if we don't need the warhounds, a source of leather might be nice."


1st Hematite, Early Summer, Year 103



Summer arrives!







: "Ha! I'd like to see somebody sneak up on us now, without killing these defenseless baby animals first!"



: "Something about their primitive intellect is just PERFECT for making armament storage out of!"



We also get a side pen set up for our carnivores. Or... not herbivores. I don't think?

: "What DO reimus eat, anyway?"

The point is our main pen is overcrowded and it's probably causing things to meander out all the time, so stuffing all our vargs in a more convenient location is probably sound. They could be left to roam free, but they need either a training zone or pasture to be periodically retrained anyway.


6th Hematite, Early Summer, Year 103







We have once again captured a breeding pair of animals by accident. These ones are about the size of a manta ray, or about halfway between a water buffalo and rhino.

: "That one made it in pretty far."

: "We don't have enough cages, so I haven't reloaded the front cage traps yet. Traps aren't foolproof!"

: "Drawbridges, on the other hand..."


12th Hematite, Early Summer, Year 103



Our first performance troupe! And crewed by several exotic races, like elves, goblins, and dwarves!

: "How wonderful! Should we corrupt them into demonic thralls?"

: "I am for once unsure how to answer that question."

Succubi can corrupt vanilla races into infernal counterparts, but we haven't seen many up until now. If anyone wants one, now's a good time!

Spoiler: Full Troupe Composition (click to show/hide)

[Egan_BW]

What kind of strategic genius brings gigantic war mammoths with them on an ambush? Stealth mammoths...?

So I guess it took this long for any default races to show up because the modded ones know that we can't corrupt them? Also I appreciate the dark elf interjecting on how to properly do evil.

[Darkening Kaos]

   Perhaps the legendary stone-crafter, Pixes, might find herself chained to a mechanics workshop for a while and make worthless mechanisms for sale and occasional deployment in the field as a lasher trap, (don't want too many and just one weapon per trap).
   Nicknamed 'Chief Engineer', thanx.
   As for her personality, she'd be somewhat surly about no-one recognising her gift as a stone-crafter, but grateful she is not a hauler.  And she dreams of having her own pet Dark Elf in a cage in her room.

[IronyOwl]

Update 9: Treachery

Spoiler: Part 1 (click to show/hide)

14th Hematite, Early Summer, Year 103





: "At last! Commerce!"

: "We can finally get rid of the many, many, many bones I've crafted!"

: "Nothing like a year under siege to make you appreciate supply runs."


18th Hematite, Early Summer, Year 103



: "We REALLY need to invest in bins. Or haulers."

: "Or slaves."



: "Well that was fast."

: "Let's see... two snakes, three tree elves, a dwarf, a hobgoblin, a normal goblin..."

: "I don't think we REALLY want anyone but the snakes. Sorry, but no."


4th Malachite, Mid Summer, Year 103



: "It's beautiful. I didn't think they'd remember my request for frog demons past the siege, but they did!"

: "Frog demons are pretty expensive, though. This is almost all the crafts we had stockpiled."

: "Then we'll just have to get more."

We also pick up some copper and tin (also from a pre-siege import agreement), a bunch of blueberries, and a single bin of cloth, but their stocks are surprisingly low. I guess frog demons are pretty heavy.



Incidentally, our home civ's crop selection sucks.

: "We could harvest fruit out in the jungle if we weren't worried about being murdered by dark elves or the dead."

Spoiler: Part 2 (click to show/hide)

11th Malachite, Mid Summer, Year 103



: "Aw, are you grouchy because of the rain? Is my widdle ball of agony a widdle wet and a widdle grouchy?"

: "Maybe we should order another ball of suffering for me?"

: "Nightwings are cooler! We should get me some nightwings!"


18th Malachite, Mid Summer, Year 103







More cage traps! Megacerops is a Y-horned rhino slightly larger than the usual variety.



The merchants begin loading up, but the frog demons they've sold us will usher in a new era of glory.

Eventually. And insofar as a REALLY strong frog with a hammer counts as glory.


22nd Malachite, Mid Summer, Year 103



We only have female megacerops, so no herds yet, but maybe we can milk them for cheese at some point.



Speaking of which, we're finally low enough on drinks to warrant some farmland. We'll get something more permanent at some point, but for now the animals will have to share.



The frog demons take a merry but short jog outside. I have no idea why; chasing something, perhaps? But everything I've seen chase wildlife has really gone for it, and I don't see how they'd notice anything from all the way in the tavern.


10th Galena, Late Summer, Year 103



: "At last! Ready to make more snubnoses and halfway to harvest size!"

: "Nice to see a useful animal maturing for once."



Speaking of useful animals, our frog demons are relaxing in the tavern. If my understanding is correct, they should start breeding soon, and those offspring will be treated as full citizens, then grow to maturity in three years.

Until then there's kind of a lot of them.



: "Speaking of useless animals..."

: "Now now, let's see if we can craft with their shells before stating the obvious."



: "Speaking of useful animals..."



Our first resident is now a full citizen! He's not currently useful for much, but it's nice to have another set of labor-adjustable hands.



Though granted he's got quite a history of migrations. Here's hoping he sticks around this time!


16th Galena, Late Summer, Year 103



: "Well there's our war pachyderms."



: "So far so good."





: "We really need a name for you guys. Nightguard? Grave Sentinels? War Minstrels Who Leverage Personal Tragedy For Personal Gain?"





: "Doo dee doo~"

: "Uhhhh... where you going there?"

: "Oh! I'm just taking this camel over to the butcher's shop."



: "I knew this was going to happen."



The errant butcher's shop is deconstructed to avoid temptation, but as you can see here a lot of animals- even those supposedly penned- like to follow their trainers around. Isn't that cute?


22nd Galena, Late Summer, Year 103



Chaos in the stairwell! Snubnose vs Camel! Who will win? Why are they fighting?



Perhaps ominously, a different camel is slaughtered in the correct, very-safe-from-camel-raids butcher's shop.





: "Why is our strong tough rhino-sized dinosaur getting pummeled by a weak horse?"

: "Skill issue."

They do eventually break it off and our snubnose returns to the safety of the underground.


26th Galena, Late Summer, Year 103



We now own a different variety of camel.

Spoiler: Part 3 (click to show/hide)

1st Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 103





Autumn comes. The tavern's a bit sparse, but the pens are overpacked as usual.









: "Awwwww."

: "Early warning system successful. Now come closer, that hallway should be juuuuuuuust fine..."



: "THEY'RE ALREADY INSIDE!"

: "WHAT?! HOW?!"

: "AAAAAAAA!"



: "Uh huh. Uh huh. And then what happened?"



: "That one's down but the trapline isn't working! We need the lever!"





: "I saw him pass over one of the traps! The other one got him, but they're not always working OR failing!"

: "Do they know where they are? Are they dodging out of the way? None of the animals ever made it this far in!"







: "BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"

: "Get pitted, idiot!"

: "I wonder who's going to win when we throw something else down there."



: "F-fiendsss! Abominationsss! You will sssuffer!"





: "At least they found our complimentary children to murder."

: "Yeah those decoys were not nearly as useful as I expected."

: "Because you made it too obvious, fool! Every rookie is taught early that sickly children shackled near enemy forces are devious traps!"





Having abandoned the assault on the dungeon proper, the mace-snake valiantly chases down a camel.



Then gives up and leaves.


7th Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 103



Necromancers aren't the only ones who can summon minions! Our greater gorgon can summon medusae to defend herself in battle.



Unfortunately medusae occasionally take morningstars to the lung, so this one's out of breath and in need of recovery.



: "Huh, guess visitors really like the sulking tunnel."



To no one's surprise, the baby iguanodon has been dealt with.


10th Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 103







The second of three baits has been grabbed. Far too late to be useful, but here we are.





One of the attackers has been injured. In fairness, "baby" iguanodons are still fairly large and presumably possess vicious thumb spikes.



Two of the raiders team up to handle... THE BEAR!





Despite the name, hell bears are not associated with our dungeon or civilization.





: "Not the greatest timing ever, but it worked out for that one gorlak."





Meanwhile, the snakes get distracted by a camel, then return to unsuccessfully catching a bear.


16th Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 103





Thus concludes the Iguanodon Experiment.

: "Needs work."

: "Maybe if we kept them in a shallow moat next to the entrance..."



: "Aw, serpentman bone furniture would've been REALLY cool!"

Spoiler: Part 4 (click to show/hide)

19th Limestone, Early Autumn, Year 103







Our humble invader is consort to some kind of petty noble, and related to some of our other brigands.





Darub is the mace-snake who fled after punching a camel, Glarim is another of our distinguished guests.



: "Wait, 'The Sins of Discovery?' Wasn't that..."



: "OH COME ONE! They liked us! They sent us a caravan! Why are they trying to butcher us NOW?!"

: "I knew those profit margins were unnaturally thin."

: "Well who am I gonna sell bone crafts to now?"

: "Is there... some way we could bribe them into peace...?"



: "So we know of two civilizations and they both want to murder us."

: "Sucks to suck, infernal whore!"

: "Git gud, cagebait."



: "You there! You're our new Chief Engineer!"

: "But- but I'm a stonecrafter, and not even a citizen!"

: "Well you're gonna be both so get comfy. We need somebody to build us a better entranceway so snakemen don't burst right in and start clubbing everyone!"

: "Alode Romantickissed, give me strength..."





Turns out she's friends with our other claimed-but-not-nicknamed succubus:

[Egan_BW]

Ooh, the wife of a noble! If only ransom existed in DF.

Also, I'm a Bard and Not Musical XD

[IronyOwl]

Update 10: Flow

Spoiler: Part 1 (click to show/hide)

1st Sandstone, Mid Autumn, Year 103







The invaders are still here. Including our injured wayward noble.



: "Maybe we shouldn't have left a snake corpse to rot in the tavern."

: "It's not like we have a specific place to toss it. Maybe we should get a garbage pit?"

: "Or a hatch to toss it into the moat."


28th Sandstone, Mid Autumn, Year 103



Another gnoll bard shows up.



Just south, the orc bard is still hanging out.





Meanwhile, the invaders hunger for camelflesh.





And our metalcrafter dances with a frog!

: "I think we know who's having the most fun in here!"


6th Timber, Late Autumn, Year 103



I was wrong. The ambushers are... just kinda milling around in the desert.

: "They're never gonna leave, are they?"

: "I've got good money on the dead returning this winter, so we'll see how that plays out."


23rd Timber, Late Autumn, Year 103



: "Behold! More history!"



: "I can't tell if that's something we want to advertise or not..."

Spoiler: Part 2 (click to show/hide)

2nd Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 103



The invaders continue milling about...



But only for a moment. Apparently the changing of seasons is their cue to bail.

: "And stay gone!"

: "You think they decided it wasn't worth it or were running from the dead?"



: "The latter. Get out there and do what you gotta do, we've got like a week."


6th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 103



We have plenty of varg puppies to go with our orthus puppies.



We also have a frog on a mission.





A mission to wash all that invader blood off in a nice jungle pond.

: "So we really need an indoor bath..."

: "What kind of dungeon would it be without some hot springs anyway?"


8th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 103





Something has savagely beaten an iguanodon hatchling. We have no suspects.

: "See? EVERYONE loves murdering iguanodons!"



: "Tempting, but we already have frog demons for brute strength. Denied!"





So departs one of our more unique guests.



: "It's nice to have lots of bones wandering around the dungeon."



Another applicant. This one is actually the apprentice to our resident hammer lady:



: "Even so, we wouldn't want to separate you from your spouse."

: "Begone, but come back soon?"

Spoiler: Part 3 (click to show/hide)

17th Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 103



A tiny lump comes into the world, and immediately sees an incarnation of agony hovering ominously over it.

: "Welcome to life! It gets worse."



Speaking of animals, we have more wild camels.







As well as some chattier livestock.

: "Cowardsss! Face me in an unarmed ambush after I've buttered you up with commerce!"

: "What a sloppy operation! You didn't really expect to exterminate them with just that, did you?"

: "No fair! How come these wretchesss get mindless brutes and slavering houndsss to ssserve them?"

: "Guess all that throwing child hearts off a pyramid can't compare with endless debauchery, huh?"


22nd Moonstone, Early Winter, Year 103



: "Screw it, the dead aren't coming. Probably. Expand the pens!"

: "Bit late now, isn't it?"

: "Two months will be fine! Probably! Maybe there won't be a spring ambush!"

: *ominous laughter*


1st Opal, Mid Winter, Year 103



Wild rhino-things are roaming around up here, so it's not exactly "safe" even when there's no armed ruffians around.





One of our guests takes this as a challenge. The duel ends inconclusively as far as I can tell.


12th Opal, Mid Winter, Year 103



We decide to let the vargs roam free because re-penning them is becoming obnoxious. There's now a lot of evil dog-things milling around the dungeon.



: "Speaking of evil babies...!"

: "Soon we'll finally have a military!"







: "That's a lot of brutish slaves to enforce our dark will."

: "TECHNICALLY those are citizens."

: "Technically we've beaten back several armed military incursions."


21st Opal, Mid Winter, Year 103



: "At this rate we might finish in time after all."





: "We don't have to constantly retrain these ones."




27th Opal, Mid Winter, Year 103



Space has been carved, and the walls are plotted out!

: "I guess having so many baby animals wandering around gets in the way occasionally... but they're so cute!"

: "More importantly, it's nice to see these layabouts helping with construction for once."


4th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 103







: "Wow! The surface is even more terrible than I remember!"

: "Let's finish this and then hide some more."



The vargs do eventually give up on mauling the local wildlife.





I have no idea what this error means. My best guess was that a puppy was dead but not discovered yet, but there is a +Trained Varg Pup+ in the training area.

I also have no idea why a fire imp is attempting to do so. They're not supposed to be intelligent.


10th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 103



: "Yay! The dinosaurs everyone likes have grown up!"

: "The VALUABLE bones grow ever more plentiful!"


17th Obsidian, Late Winter, Year 103





Something mauls a tiny raptor. That is slightly concerning but it is VERY small.

Spoiler: Part 4 (click to show/hide)

1st Granite, Early Spring, Year 104



: "Still not dead!"

: "We're living in crude stone rooms, wearing ragged clothes, and eating whatever iguanodon meat gets thrown together in a pot."

: "Still not dead!"



: "So close."

: "Maybe we can finish it anyway?"



: "I know."



: "By the way, we're out of drinks and our only water sources are aboveground."

: "Not like this."



: "Everyone knowsss the best water is right here!"

: "Please don't get instantly stabbed please don't get instantly stabbed please don't..."


4th Granite, Early Spring, Year 104







: "Thieves!"

: "What do we have that's worth stealing?"

: "Baby frogs?"





: "Suffer, worm!"

Our metalcrafter, up at the top there, chases the thief down at the bottom.



Said thief does not appear to be enjoying this activity.



Acuamire and a varg then catch up to the unfortunate larcenist and begin savaging her.



Acuamire then gets bored and leaves the varg to finish the job. And yes, that thing to the upper left is the thief's severed nose.



The varg then finishes the job.



And is awarded a fancy title for it!

: "Probably won't be harvesting bones from that one."

: "Nice to see we have a little bit of military."



Meanwhile, the drinks have run out and everyone is frolicking aboveground drinking riverwater.


9th Granite, Early Spring, Year 104





: "Nice as it'd be to have someone to work that fire clay, we'll have to pass."



: "Well if everyone's aboveground anyway, we might as well finish that greenhouse or die trying."

: "Any wagers on which it is?"

: "But I don't wanna die of thirst."



Elsewhere, a VERY brave owl apparently has beef with a wild dinosaur several thousand times his size.


12th Granite, Early Spring, Year 104





More random animal knowledge. Our herds are fairly extensive, but sadly our bonecarver has been too busy building things to process them.



Meanwhile, everyone continues traipsing about on the surface world, looking for not just water, but the finest water from the best spots along the river.

: "Stabbings are imminent I just know it."


19th Granite, Early Spring, Year 104





A month after it was predicted an ambush would murder all life on the surface, the expanded pens are completed!

: "If anyone asks, this was well planned and carefully guarded."

: "Like that one serpent-man who made it all the way into our tavern and nailed someone in the ribs."


23rd Granite, Early Spring, Year 104



Visitors really don't like wildlife. A wild snubnose gets harassed by a bowgoblin.


28th Granite, Early Spring, Year 104







Really, really, really don't like wildlife. Sugarsuitor helps! She's not even war-trained, she's just naturally bloodthirsty.


1st Slate, Mid Spring, Year 104



: "The well is finished! We're not going to die up here after all!"

: "And it only took us four years."

: "SILENCE! There was definitely a plan! None of you can prove a thing!"







Completing our accomplishments, our herds are now much more spread out and organized.

[Egan_BW]

Also if you give me a personality or the like she can shitpost like our main denizens!

Late to this but based on the personality the game gave her, Misarelie is a snarky bitch who sometimes sings horrible songs to mock lazy people with.

From the Values Hard Work and Good Analytical Ability, along with being a singer and "master musician" while having poor musicality.