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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

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We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

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I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

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[Firehawk45]

Is there a marksdwarf avaible for me to get?

[Splint]

I'm sure there is.

[Talvieno]

Booyah, we finally killed the freaking necromancers that were plaguing the fortress for over a year? Job well done, Splint. :thumbup: Also, who got the position of Baron? I don't think you said. Looking forwards to the next update.
Btw, Jack Magnus, Firehawk - good to see you guys here.

UNRELATED:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Before:
       Armok finds it sadistically humorous to make The Master lose his mind and go berserk as he attempts to perfect a jade spearhead.
Late Mitch's Reign:
    1. Mr Frog gets PEA #2 back from Talvi, Talvi knocked unconscious and winds up in Spearbreakers hospital
    2. Ballpoint/Parasol battle outside Spearbreakers
        2b. Urist arrives at Spearbreakers
    3. <Urist's and Vanya's earlier adventures>
        3b. Urist recieves Spearbreakers gear, including a pike/spear with the jade spearhead The Master created.
        3c. Splint and Mr Frog discuss backup plan to kill Talvi, Hans is sent to dig a collapsing-hallway trap.
    4. Vanya and Talvi fight Mr Frog
        4b. Urist saves the fortress from demons and a mysterious unnamed figure, breaks his spear but keeps the spearhead The Master made, as Armok has blessed it.
        4c. Mr Frog rendered unconscious due to being tired from Vanya/Talvi battle.
        4d. Vanya imprisoned.
Early/Mid Paintbrushturkey's Reign:
    1. More Parasol/Ballpoint wars, as told by Splint.
        1b. Mr Frog goes to Eris, meets Perky Receptionist, is cloned. Original Mr Frog stays at Eris, clone is sent to Spearbreakers with altered memory.
        1c. Vanya is still in prison.
        1d. (Urist's activities unknown)
Mid/Late Paintbrushturkey's Reign:
    1. Mr Frog(original) is looking for a way to bring Joseph down, but helps him while he looks for an appropriate opportunity
        1b. Mr Frog(clone) interrogates Vanya, notes that he's missing some memories but writes it off as unimportant.
    2. Ecem and Bugi (Ballpoint contractors) make a deal with Mr Frog, rip up Joseph's place in exchange for Mr Frog's lost blueprints.
Late Paintbrushturkey's Reign/Early Splint's Reign:
    1. Urist breaks Vanya out of prison
        1b. Hans triggers Splint's Patented TalviTrap™.
        1c. The Master's spearpoint, still in Urist's possession, glows as Armok leads Vanya and Urist to safety.

pretty sure the above is capable of explaining the continuity... Is there anything I missed?

Talvieno strikes Continuity Snarl in the head, shattering the skull and tearing the brain!
Continuity Snarl has been struck down.
^{had to. the situation begged for it.}

I'm a bit busy today, but I'll post all the new stuff on page 1 soon(ish).

[Splint]

I did some ego stroking with the barony, since I already had a decent office and bedroom and still hadn't fiinished my dingingroom/ proper meeting room. Also as we weren't using ait for anything I plated my floor with Zinc, though that was largly just to keep trees from going in them and to boost value a little bit.

May need to dig Talvi a basement for her spoilerite statue otherwise my game dorf will pitch a fit (Story splint won't give two shits what other dorfs have.)

Also holy crap... he actually struck down one of the unintended side effects of our writings....

[Aseaheru]

now i want a zinc floor.

its vital to life!



444-4444

[Splint]

A short IC update to come. And Asea, everyone else hase an engravable floor. That's way better than zinc. Zinc is overall pretty worthless anyway....

Nothing major has really happened, though Fischer and her squad (why the hell do I have a combined arms unit? That's not good for training purposes (I've going to disarm the simulator soon enough.))


EDIT: Here be the update.

19th Granite, 207.

A soldier by the name of Jack Magnus has felt a surge of divine wrath enter his body while he fought the remaining undead today, proclaiming himself a lord of the axe. Clean up is still slow and horrible.

I've gone back into my ledgers and have begun sorting from the bones what is useful and what isn't. Whatever can't be made into ammo or crafts as been given the almighty magma chute order. Took some doing.... but then, the voices have begun encroaching on my mind again, and it did wonders to silence them. I grabbed a few beekeepers and ordered them to get to work on the bones, as anything useful is going to be put to use.

Before the day closed, another dwarf has named himself a pikemaster. Seems Mr Frog's simulation chamber has improved thier morale and willingness to fight considerably.

20th Granite, 207.

Seeing as cave adaptation is a serious threat, I've decieded, partially to clean up some of the logs we've got laying about, to build a nice overland statue garden. If we have any iron left over from the standing forge orders, I'll have some fine iron statues commisioned to decorate it. It will also sport towers as a precaution.




A fellow named Lor also informed me no-one else was allowed to... well... He's....




I didn't even know we had crossbows made of them.... I've also ordered the walls torn down in the work areas. I despised those stupid cell setups in the capital. It made it seem more like our workshops were prison cells rather than workspaces. I've ordered doors bolted in too. Berserkers have never torn down doors in my expierience, so we'll be fine.



28th granite, 207.

Amazing! We have finally be recognized for all our hard efforts! Simon Tam said he recommended myself for the honor. Nothing a little ego stroking can harm, we have black bronze and most things I'll probably decide to mandate at random will be of some use or another. I just hope I don't get a sudden urge to have something made from blue diamond...


3rd Slate, 207.

Finally that bastard slipped up. We spotted him at the site of the garden, and the two dwarves on site, Bloodeyes and Askad, lept upon him! As Fischer was unavailable, The two fought admirably, punching numerous holes in him before Fischer got wind and came in to finish him with a shield to the brain. Terrahex was also seen leaving the battle, his quiver empty. Evidently nobody even knew he was there except Fischer, and that was after the fact.

I also noticed many of the smaller apartments haven't had thier chests and cabinets installed. I've also found something disturbing: One of the veteran apartments was given to a child. As the child has done nothing for the fortress, I am switching them out with one of the soldiers. Only those who put thier lives at risk deserve the delux accomodations. Also once the liason leaves, I plan to name Fischer our Champion. He's earned it.

The skulker's barracks has been put up, complete with communal accomodations for storage needs. It may not be enough for all of them, but at least they have a place now. Also, my rooms are nearly done and been brought up to baron's standards. Still have some tree that need to be uprooted though.

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[Ill have to go back and add in the images later, I have the screens but I'm more a wordsmith and artist than a screencapper. Also Fischer, Splint, and Talvi have grand bedrooms. Mr Frog, you're part of a reserve unit now so you should have something to bitch about IC (being forced to carry a loaded crossbow everywhere when you have much better weapons for yourself for example)]

[Talvieno]

Zinc? No, no, Splint... Gold is the way to go. Solid gold floors, chairs, everything. Write it in as dwarf!Splint trying to make life worth living again after the loss of his beloved Stova or something - we never really did much with that story, anyway, and it had so much meat on it, too.
Think about it:

Spoiler: ministory about Splint's romance (click to show/hide)

Splint and Stova meet during the Vampiric Wars, fighting desperately to rid the world of the bloodsucking vampires that threatened to take over the known world. They fight numerous battles alongside each other, saving each others lives scores of times and always emerging victorious, and over the course of many years, they forge a strong bond between them that eventually blossoms into love. When the Spawn of Holistic begin to arrive, they are sent forth with five other dwarves, a few of which had also previously been members of their squad, to found a military outpost to protect the mountainhome. Splint suddenly finds himself behind a desk, while Stova continues fighting alongside her best friend, Fischer.
The second year in, the Holistic Spawn attack the young fortress. Stova leads the green recruits into combat alongside Fischer, but Splint, unaware of what's going down, is sifting through piles of paperwork and doesn't show up as he always did before. Stova and Fischer fight bravely, but Stova, as good a fighter as she is, is so used to fighting alongside Splint that she manages to back herself into a corner, calling her lover's name, at first confidently, and finally in terrified desperation as row upon row of blood-dripping, twisted teeth drive themselves into her flesh, right before Fischer beheads the monstrosity.
Afterwards, Stova drifts in and out of consciousness with Splint sitting by her bedside, holding her hand. What's done is done, but he still curses himself constantly for not being there to assist her as he always had before. Despite knowing what's coming, he can't bring himself to plunge his sword into her heart, so much he cares for her, so much he clings to the hope that somehow, someway, she'll survive... even to the day she turns, and is struck down before his very eyes. Heartbroken, he lays his sword upon her tomb, with the silent promise that no enemy shall ever make it far enough into the fortress as to remove it from her breast, where he should've had the strength to put it himself before she turned.
Splint never recovers, and completely neglects the hospital afterwards, as it reminds him too much of his beloved Stova, and even goes out of his way to avoid it. Eventually it falls into disarray, but Splint doesn't care. He tries to busy himself with keeping Spearbreakers alive to keep his mind off his loss, but the heartache is too deep, and it burns vivid nightmares into his mind as he sleeps - she's always in his dreams, looking at him with tear-streaked face and asking, "Why, Splint? Why weren't you there? I called for you, Splint - why didn't you come?" His reaction in the dream is different every time - sometimes he turns away, sometimes he breaks down, sometimes he yells in anger for her to just leave him alone - but despite the nightmares, he still loves her deeply, and makes a solemn vow never to look at a woman again. And he never does.
Finally, after a few years, his staid facade begins to falter, and the emotionless charade he's played begins to feel its age - the dreams are making their way into his waking mind as the terrors of leagues upon leagues of undead mesh with the bitter, harsh reality of blood raining from the sky - horrors no dwarf should ever need to face. Though made baron, it isn't enough. He paves his floor with gold, builds himself a monument of which dwarves make pilgrimages to see for years to follow, but it still isn't enough. Nothing will ever be enough; nothing will ever bring his beloved Stova back from the dead. No vengeance will ever be enough to satisfy him; no victory will ever feel as it did when Stova was there by his side; even the food of the gods is tasteless to him, nothing but a bitter reminder of how sweet his love had been. He's been through the fire and through the flames, and lost all that was dear to him. He doesn't really care about anything anymore.

But to his last breath, he will protect her grave. As long as there is still an ounce of strength coursing through his veins, Spearbreakers shall never fall.

I think I got a bit overdramatic there.

Ninja'd by an update.

[Talvieno]

ignore. bad connection.

[Talvieno]

more ignore. 

[Splint]

I went with zinc because I'm pragmatic. Gold is best used for trade, though I do hope to make some above standard iron statuary for the garden. I used all of the zinc for my floors, and I now have a proper weapon rack to place that dusty hammer....

Though he fought by blade and pike, with a hammer that glows with vengence, made by his lost lover's hand, will he make his final stand.

[Hanslanda]

I'm picturing dorf!splint at the end of Spearbreakers going down in a furious blaze of glory, roaring, "Stova!" as his battlecry, Fischer at his side.
Literally hundreds of spawn, some of them former Spearbreakers.

[Splint]

I really was touched, by that little tale. Honestly. Although I did continue with the ego stroking and some of my furniture is made of gold. I never went too far into it because at the time, other matters were on hand. But now...? Now those voices he mentioned a few times? They may well be his old memories come to haunt him.

I'm also waiting on more glumprong to fall when any old wood would be fine for the garden walls. I'd like more stone blocks for the upper battlements, but rough shale will have to do....

[Talvieno]

I'm picturing dorf!splint at the end of Spearbreakers going down in a furious blaze of glory, roaring, "Stova!" as his battlecry, Fischer at his side.
Literally hundreds of spawn, some of them former Spearbreakers.

This. I can definitely see this happening.

I really was touched, by that little tale. Honestly. Although I did continue with the ego stroking and some of my furniture is made of gold. I never went too far into it because at the time, other matters were on hand. But now...? Now those voices he mentioned a few times? They may well be his old memories come to haunt him.

I'm also waiting on more glumprong to fall when any old wood would be fine for the garden walls. I'd like more stone blocks for the upper battlements, but rough shale will have to do....

Thanks - I'm glad you liked it. I didn't read your update with the voices until after I'd posted the ministory, so that's kind of neat.
Really, make more blocks. If I remember right, 1 stone = 4 blocks. Very useful, and it won't take as long, especially as blocks are easier to haul.

this is taking absolutely forever with this connection, and I'm going to hold off posting anything else for now, to keep from quintuple posting or worse.

[Splint]

It's slow going honestly. There's so many backed up orders it isn't funny, and the cleanup is making it take longer.

[Hanslanda]

Maybe we'll get more migrants that survive soon, and we'll have over a hundred dwarves for the first time... In ever.