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[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Yep, computer trouble and school play time.
Again.
Thankfully, only a few months to go.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

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9th malachite
still no barrels around.

11th malachite
The humans left without trading. Dresdor was to blame, he
was apparently busy having a drink.
I heard of a relative of his who has simlar trouble
trading.

12th malachite
ordered a few adorable puppies to be slaughtered and turned
into tasty food.

13th malachite
I am impressed by the vast amount of iron we have
churned out. already my new storeroom is nearly
full.

15th malachite
work on our defenses goes far too slowly.
I am most displeased.

17th malachite
Still no barrels or booze.
Our furniture stockpile is clogged with stone.
I shall have anbother one dug in the sand.

22nd malachite
My new rooms are nearly finished, and I am happy to say that
they are nicer than anyone else's. The masterwork engavings are
exceptionally nice, and a few are rather bloody, which is even
nicer.
We also have seven bins of iron bars.

25th malachite
Began transferral of furniture from the old store
to the new one.

27th malachite
I truly wish we had a magma dump. I tire of wading through
all the rubble.

1st galena
Another month has gone by.

9th galena.
I believe that the time for a magma factry may soon come.
We have sand and metal ores in abundance, and it would be a shame
not to take advantage of this prodigious power source.

10th galena
Likot Desiskabuck, a metalsmith, has become secretive and paranoid.
I believe he has also been struck by a creative fever, granted by armok.

11th galena
He has begun his work.
I can only hope it is truly valuable.

14th galena
I have laid out the plans for the magma factories.
I can only hope that my plan will work.
We shall commence mid-autumn.

15th galena
Likot has created a truly wonderous artifact!
Ngotol Thol, the ghost of the deeps! It is a wonderful
Iron breastplate, and Dresdor values it at perhaps
132000 coins!
It is beautifully made, and is adorned only with
the image of The Ghost of the Deeps, a legend of our people.
(OOC I wanted to say something better that it is engraved with itsself.)

I shall train a new squad of soldiers now.
A squad of axedwarves with the finest iron, made by our
new legend, Likot. Their leader shall wear the incredible
artifact.
Truly they shall strike fear into our foes.

16th galena
I have formed the squad, "the weak swords" to symbolise
how weak with fear our enemies shall be when they see our
warriors.
(I love RGN actually, I have a butcher with a squad called
"the Crimson Tools" Beyond quality.)

19th galena
already, some of the weak swords are qualified
wrestlers.
Soon they shall have axes and armour.
Nothing but plate for the finest soldiers that will
ever have held a weapon.

21st galena
I feel the obligation to provide a safe well.
I have an idea of how to make it as well.
Thankfully, there will be no waste stone.

25th galena
The work has begun on the well.
I hope we have a chain or rope.

1st limestone
Only a month to go until I decide the fate of my magma
factories.
I can only hope that the weak swords are trained up by then, as I would hate
to be caught out by fire imps.
All of the Weak swords are now at least novice wrestlers.
I wish all of them to be competent or above before they don armour
and wield an axe.

2nd limestone
Decided to relocate our army stockpiles.

11th limestone
It appears that although likot is incredibly skilled
at making armour, he is only mediocre at forging weapons.
Since I cannot have the Weak swords fighting with poor weapons,
I shall melt these ones down and make him reforge them again and
again until they are of suitable quality.

13th limestone
Thankfully, I mayfind some reasons not to open the magma
vent to make the factories. I would rather a leader who is
an accomplished miner and geologist rather than a mason take
control.

17th limestone
The village liason and the traders have arrived.
They speak of the situation in the mountainhomes.
It is no better, but now it is no worse. Our efforts seem
to have made a little impact at least.

19th limestone
A squad of goblins has ambushed the caravan!
The guards made short work of the goblins, though the caravan
and one guard were lost.
It was the will of Him that this was so, for we have gained
free supplies.
sadly, the other caravan will not trade.

20th limestone
A goblin snatcher has appeared.
Blood for the Blood god.

22nd limestone
another ambush.
They are attacking the sherriff.
I am closing the gates.

24th limestone
is this was a siege, we'd already be dead.
No-one has pulled the lever.
Angry face.

25th limestone
Our only glassmaker died.

26th limestone
a child has been shot and killed.

3rd sandstone
I told the other leaders and advisors that I cannot commence the
magma shops as we are still in danger from goblins.
Curses.
They aren't falling for it.

7th sandstone
Preliminary shafts being dug out.
Consulting the "Architect's encyclopedia"
If this goes wrong, the best situation is
that we have an unworkable furnace.
The worst is that I flood the fort with
the molten blood of the earth.
I shall also have to be conscious of
fire imps.

11th sandstone
This is the only time when I am
glad of the dwarven curse of idleness.

15th sandstone
Still waiting. I have all the plans set out, and
I will soon have the magma tubes walled off.

18th sandstone
I am almost totally certain I will have the walls complete
by the end of my rule, and I trust in Armok that all will go well.
Preferably with lots of blood.
Not mine though, only unbelievers, obviously.

19th sandstone.
The magma project must be postponed whilst we mine out a vein
of copper.
I shall make a stockpile excluseively for
coal and ores.

24th sandstone
Then again, I might not finish off.

2nd timber
another month has ended, and I now have
just under 3 months to finish off.

5th timber
mining the copper vein.
We shall have to wall it up, although
I shall make measures ensuring no-one
bricks themself in.
Unless they happen to be a heretic.

7th timber
Migrants have arrived, allowing us
to support a fortress guard.
Not that I'll appoint one.
The fortress guards tend to be overbearing, corrupt
bullies. That is all well and good, but they also
tend not to keep strong beliefs.

9th timber
the vein is still not mined out.

14th timber
still overseeing the mining.

18th timber
we struck citrines today.
Still plenty of copper.

20th timber
We have perhaps 80 tons of copper
ore so far, and there is still some left in the vein.

24th timber
The miners are all dreadfully thirsty because of the heat
of the nearby magma pipe and the dust from the rocks.

26th timber
We have struck another vein of copper on the level above the magma
tubes. It seems we will have plenty of copper
for temple fittings.

1st moonstone
two months left now.
I fear that my projects will not be
completed due to my extensive
delving for copper.
The first vein had been mined out,
with a total yield of 107 tonnes of
copper.
The second vein will be postponed.

6th moonstone
When we wall up the vein after we cart out all the
stone and ore, we will tap the magma pipe.
Human guild reperesentative finally left.

7th moonstone
The well is finally ready to be filled.

8th moonstone
The village liason of the dwarves
finally reached us.
we ordered red stone and gems.

12th moonstone
we will need to mine more haematite soon.
If only this place was still a mountain, as
it was in the day of the temple.

13th moonstone
The well is successful.
A kobold thief was spotted, and ran.

15th moonstone.
we are nearly ready to tap the magma pipe.

16th moonstone
Armok's blood! An ambush!
We are unprepared due to my concentration on the magma workshops.
damn, another one!
I believe that we are in dire trouble.
I shall make a suicide squad from the undesireables.

17th moonstone
A third ambush has been found!
They are led by an elf!

19th moonstone
The enemy are inside the fort!
All hands to battle stations!
Half the dwarves in the fyrd are under dresdor, the others are under me.

20th moonstone
Only 5 invaders remain

21st moonstone
The invaders have been routed.
We have lost many dwarves.

24th moonstone
The liason finally left, cheerfully oblivous to
the corpses beneath his feet.
The main entrance is gory red with the sanguine
blood of dwarves and elves mingling with the blackish
blood of goblins.
BLOOD
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD TEMPLE!
BLOOD WILL EVER FLOW!

28th moonstone
The magma pipe was tapped, and the entire thing is a
success! Soon we will churn out glass and iron in the
tonnes.

4th opal
Less than a month left of my reign.
We need a graveyard. I shall leave this to the
next executor of Armok's mighty will.

10th opal
The magma has nearly filled the reservoir, and
no-one is dead!
I have used a coal seam as a graveyard.

12th opal
Apparently, we have lost an artifact.
I don't see any missing, nor do I see a reason
for one to have gone missing.

13th opal
I am ready to transfer our metalworking industries down
into the magma shops.

14th opal
A giant cloud of flies, crows, and stinking gases
spill from our fortress mouth.

19th opal
Still making coffins.

21st opal
On the upside, we have 3 properly trained
marksdwarves now.
It is perhaps 10 days until I must
give up power to another.

23rd opal
The fortifications are largely finished now, thankfully.
The magma forges are not quite there yet.

25th opal
We are still dumping masses of stone into the magma tubes to melt down.
(by the way, there's a swarm of flies trapped in 7 feet of magma.
Perfectly happy flies.)

26th opal
Most of the magma shops are beginning to
operate, the only one we lack is a magma forge, since
our anvil is still in the surface works.

27th opal
The dumping is using too much labour.
I have ordered the dwarves to stop.

28th
another marksdwarf has trained today.

1st obsidian
My rule ends today, and I will be
replaced by another dwarf who hears Him more strongly.
I can only hope to be of servicer to him.

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVEEEEEE:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=611

No map, because it seems like a lot of hassle.

[DI7789]

Thanks, got it, playing now

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

wait what?
two years?
Damn, I only did one.
Oh well, I accomplished quite a bit in my year anyway.

[dresdor]

Oh well, maggarg the one-yearer is done, now on to DI7789


Consequently I fully believe that Dresdor is dwarfish for "lazy oaf who sleeps or drinks when there's trading to be done"

Seriously.

[DI7789]

If you want to finish your year, go ahead I don't mind. I'll be updating by season, rather than by date, because I can't remember most of them

Spring

Well, hello Nazushrath Nom, its nice to finally be here...

...what's that you say, 'Bloodtemple of God'...

...Brilliant...

So, my first day has gone absolutely horribly, I walked through the oddly undefended bridge while dwarves milled around me, and walked into the worst stench I've ever encountered. It appeared that it was caused by a goblin corpse which had gone a bit far into the fortress for my liking. Oh, this was gonna be a good day.

I quickly ordered the body be dumped outside, but before that could be taken, a hundredweight of stones were carried outside first. But the goblin went, eventually...or he decayed, I don't know, I never saw it go.

Shortly after this escapade, I ordered some cage traps to be build by the bridge because I didn't want goblins getting that far into the fortress, ever again. Then a female dwarf, Dresdor I think her name was, ran into my office and demanded a glass window off me. Then calmly walked out, I ordered a glass furnace to be built and a tunnel be dug from the magma to it, because Dresdor was a popular dwarf, and annoying her didn't seem to be a smart idea.

Shortly after this order I heard that the fey, or as the others called it, 'The Will of Armok' had taken one of the herbalists. I was curious, what on earth would Armok have in mind for a herbalist, of all people? I guess I'll find out soon.

ELVEN CARAVAN! And that reminds me, I haven't read over my predecessor's notes yet, I don't know if we have a trade agreement with these guys.

Ok, now I'm a bit peeved, the snooty elves have just said they can't accept anything made from wood, but all of our crafts are in wooden barrels...I may need to designate a part of my wall to hit my head on

Ok, now I'm very peeved, I was just informed one of our blacksmiths had died of dehydration, so I asked them to make a coffin for him in our rather uniquely designed 'graveyard'. When I was told that one of the recruits had decided to sleep on the deathbed of the blacksmith, and ON the blacksmith.

They are bloody morons.



AMBUSH! Aw, carp (sic), they're going straight for the merchants.

Ok, a merchant has died, but there seems to be a fight going on between the Captain of the Guard and the entire goblin force...

...He hasn't got a hope, has he?

(Hate to leave you at a cliffhanger, got to dash, I'll update tomorrow)

[Boksi]

*Stares at DI7789*

[(name here)]

uh, carp?

[DI7789]

*Stares back at Boksi*

Spring Contd.

Ok, the Captain of the Guard is dead, and we've got an ambush bearing down on us like my grandma at Armok's Thanksgiving.

Well, I've ordered everyone inside and told every single marksdwarf to arm themselves to the beards and wait for the goblins to try and get inside. I've encountered a lever near the bridge, but I'm a little wary of doing anything to it since I don't know what its connected to.

Another ambush, in our entrance hall....Interesting, I've never had karma work in my favour before. And another ambush, they're persistant buggers aren't they? The elves seem to be functioning as spotters, I just pity the ones that get their life strangled out of them, indeed, it seems the only group that poses any real threat is the one of three marksgoblins about five hundred yards away.

Hah, they're running. Poor gobbos, probably didn't even realise they outnumbered us by at least three to one...

Note to self: Need bigger military

Erm...the elves appear to be, rather...dead...Oh well, waste not want not, scavenge the equipment!

The Dungeon Master has arrived, that's an upside, I guess. I've already ordered his room be carved out. That night, a vision from Armok occurred to me, he said to build a coliseum and hold mighty beast fights there. When I woke up I set my mind to building this, and as a tribute to Armok for this grand idea, I ordered a section of cave to be mined out in the shape of the letters A-R-M-O-K, hopefully I can get them filled with lava by the end of the season.

(Ok, that's most of my entries done for today, I'll write some more tomorrow)

(P.S. Did anyone use any mods? Just that Spring seems to be lasting a peculiar amount of time)

[Boksi]

*Staring contest!*

Check your FPS. That's the most probable cause, since you can't edit the seasons with mods.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Any word from the Bloodtemple?

[dresdor]

Bumping the topic to remind DI7789, now that the forum is back up to step up the bloodtemple.

If you only want to do 1 year due to lag, then only do one.  Beyond that you can always turn off temperature and weather in the init file.

[DI7789]

Oh God, I thought I posted here. I can't do it, sorry, real life has chosen the past few weeks to chuck everything it has at me in a gobbo-style attack

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

The lever is connected to the bridge.
I'm not that negligent.