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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.

17 (22.1%)

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

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Total Members Voted: 77

[Splint]

Used to tragedy? I've never got that before is that a good or bad thing? also hurray I'm a old Fart now

It means your dwarf has been through some bad things and survived which made him more resistant to effects of future tragedies on him. It caps on "does not care about anything, anymore", I believe, which is also a trait all soldiers from the kings escort come with.

Correct. The more things that go south the more resistant to mental trauma one becomes. Nearly all our veterans have that as well. It more or less comes down to they could watch a friend or relative die and it might bring them down to content if they're sufficiently hardened. It doesn't seem to phase the veterans at all to watch friends and squadmates die much anymore.

1st Squad now has a large contingent of rookies who lack this tag so if some of them die it'll affect them pretty severely.

And actually late 80s is somewhat middle aged for dwarves (Like being in one's lat to mid 40s is for a human.) I have no idea who the oldest dwarf in the fortress is.

[Lt_Alfred]

Hello! I would like to request a dwarf if possible, I have seen the latest batch of migrants and I'm thinking that it would be better to get dwarfed off the next batch.
A sword dwarf please, I would appreciate if he was always one of the first to be sent into battle instead of being left in the barracks to train, just to see if he survives long enough to become proficient.
Name him something like... Alfred

[Splint]

I dunno if we'll get summer migrants. A spawn seige decided to drop by and 1st Squad it going to meet them head on. Due to the large number of rookies, I expect many deaths and/or injuries.

[Lt_Alfred]

Siege, that's cool! I'm looking forward to getting dwarfed.

[Mr Frog]

Due to the large number of rookies, I expect many deaths and/or injuries.

: "Okay, men, for your first assignment: see that slavering quasi-undead mass of fangs and claws over there? I want you to kill it, preferably before it does the same to you."

: "Okay. What's this clubby thing you gave me called?"

: "We call it a 'warhammer'. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll work out how to use it as you go."

[Splint]

: "We call it a 'warhammer'. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll work out how to use it as you go."

You say to the pikedwarf squad.

[ranger22550]

: "We call it a 'warhammer'. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll work out how to use it as you go."

You say to the pikedwarf squad.

Don't the pike dwarfs use them like warhammers? bash their faces in with them?

[Splint]

: "We call it a 'warhammer'. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll work out how to use it as you go."

You say to the pikedwarf squad.

Don't the pike dwarfs use them like warhammers? bash their faces in with them?

Sometimes, but they seem more inclined on good ol' fisticuffs for bashing teeth out of spawn heads.

[soulslicerjames]

Wow, this is a nice amount of progress, compared to what we've gone though in the past.  Sorry I didn't comment before, but I've been busy due to school and haven't been able to check up on this for a week and a half.

[Splint]

I'm worried about moods in this fortress.

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Thumper had all the shit he needed and yet he still went bonkers, tried to kill Corai and his own giant cyote, and had to be put down. Splint did the deed, as is fitting. But still, this makes two failed mood that were impossible to fail since they had what they wanted.

This does not bode well for us.

[Baffler]

My first journal entry! It isn't meant to be much more than expository, so bear with me...

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This is a worn leather bound book containing the journal of Baffler the Dwarf. The handwriting is sloppy, and tends to run on.

Well journal, I figure it's about time I started writing in you like we're all supposed to. I never had anything to write, a hauler's life ain't the most exciting a dwarf can get, but there's always more work to be done. I figure I'll write a little something before I get to my work assignment for today. I'm supposed to haul some bins down to the stockpile to fill up with mugs. Am I sick of mugs, journal! They make all kinds here to foist off on whatever merchant will take them. I've hauled more mugs in my years here than most dwarves'll ever see in their whole lives, and there'll still be more tomorrow. It ain't all bad hauling though, I never seen a dwarf so happy as when I come in with a barrel of booze or plump helmet roasts, and I get to travel too. I get first crack at a lot of new barrels too, at least if the brewer didn't skim off the top. I've been all across this fort and back again a dozen times, from the depot to the deepest forges and everywhere in between, even been down to the deepest cavern that they say is sure to be hell itself. That'll be a story to tell the kids someday.

Speaking of stories, It's been a pretty crazy couple of weeks! We got migrants in for the first time in Armok knows how long. I heard we even got a noble, some representative from the Guild of Bowyers. Maybe I'll meet her sometime, but I don't have time to talk to anyone I meet in the halls when there's hauling to do. There was also some big ruckus about a monster in the caverns, some kinda bird monster, That's nothing new, journal, but this time something must've went wrong. I saw a couple of the guys that usually get on hospital duty rushin' down to the caverns at full tilt like they were on fire. Not too long after I saw them coming up with a few bodies. I didn't see who two of them were because of their armor, but I recognized Uvash. He was a plucky bugger, I'll give him that, shame to see him go. I heard the other two didn't live long after that. I haven't seen the guard captain either, Megaman. I don't know what happened to him, but I imagine he'll be replaced quick enough. They usually take on haulers like me, or other dwarves without respectable jobs when an opening like this fills up. I'm not a young woman anymore, journal, and the last thing I need is a pike shoved in my hand.

Anyway, I'd better not take too much more time. The manager'll be mad if I'm late with those mugs, but you've got a good ear, if nothing else. And Armok knows a good ear's hard to come by.

*hides*

[Splint]

You're more middleadged than getting old as far as dwarves are concerned. now if this were a human settlement you;d be right to be concerned about your age as that's well within "drop-dead randomly, giving all the toddlers nightmares" age.

[Splint]

I feel the need to bump the thread and alert you all to several pieces of information.

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Worst military disaster in recent memory in next update
Loud Whispers, BFEL, Telgin, and Aseaheru II are dead
So many job cancelations.

[Reudh]

Oh god why.

Scratch another Founder off the living list. What's that leave...

Telgin and BFEL are pretty average fighters, but Aseaheru II had promise, iirc.

[Splint]

Oh god why.

Scratch another Founder off the living list. What's that leave...

Telgin and BFEL are pretty average fighters, but Aseaheru II had promise, iirc.

Telgin was a new arrival thrown into 1st Squad to plug the holes. BEFL was just a civil defense trooper, Asea was an axe lord. AN AXE LORD. The casualties are mounting. This is pretty fucking messy.

And I'm laughing at the whole mess.

And I think my dwarf is next.