Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: How a siege crippled my metal industry without any of them touching my dwarves.  (Read 1832 times)

McFlow

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile

So, another facepalm moment.

McFlow is overseering his a fortress and his second siege ever arrives at the gates of The Righteous Incest, part of "The Familial Sack" civilization. He is masterfully prepared. Although the military only consists of seven dwarves total with mediocre training, fields full of cage traps and a spike corridor stand between The Righteous Incest's wealth of treasures and the siegers.

He orders the metalsmiths and woodburners inside, who have their workshops inside the outside walls, but outside of the trap system. ((I thought wood burning would cause smoke and had to be done outside, silly me.)) The spike corridor consists instead of firm stone is surrounded on all sides by a deep pit. The spikes are connected to a lever. No sieger will ever pass without falling into the depths of the mountain. Mc Flow smiles, and tells one of his minions to repeatedly pull the lever.

Combat reports start streaming in. A small and sturdy creature storms into the overseers office. "They're all dead! They're all dead!" The overseer bursts into laughter. "Lower the drawbridge. Collect the skulls of the siegers and make sure future enemies will know what they are messing with!" The other dwarf blinks quickly a few times and begins rapidly spewing words. "I am not talking about the siegers. The forgers of our metal! Urist McWeaponSmith, Urist McSmelter, all of them. They have turned into Urist McSpiked, UristMcSquatted, Urist McDead, Urist McBoneless."

The overseer facepalms.
Logged
I embarked on an island, saw the ocean was frozen, and decided to dig a fort in there. I forgot that it wasn't a freezing biome...

Garath

  • Bay Watcher
  • Helping to deforest the world
    • View Profile

welcome to the club. I forgot to cancel lever pulling while cleaning up a siege that got impaled
Logged
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris
Jam a door with its corpse and let all the goblins in. Hey, nobody said it had to be a weapon against your enemies.
Quote from: Frogwarrior
And then everyone melted.

KodKod

  • Bay Watcher
  • Fond of despair and alcoholism.
    • View Profile

Do not lament their loss; Armok cares little from whence the blood flows.
Logged
/人‿‿人\
Tell me what you see. It's a mortal wretched cacophony!
KodBlog: A rage in progress. Updated 20/04/12

Loud Whispers

  • Bay Watcher
  • They said we have to aim higher, so we dug deeper.
    • View Profile
    • I APPLAUD YOU SIRRAH

You must build more spikes, to honour their sacrifice.

SRD

  • Bay Watcher
  • Who the hell do you think I think you are?
    • View Profile

They also mounted your dwarves on pikes without touching them aswell.. You have an inner goblin inside you.
Logged
Quote from: LoneTophat
EDIT: HOW DO I STOP THE BLEEDING!
SUPEREDIT: Nevermind. Bled to death ._.

Archereon

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile

They also mounted your dwarves on pikes without touching them aswell.. You have an inner goblin inside you.

Pff...Like dorfs don't do that to themselves already.

Anyhow, KodKod is right; If large amounts of death and mayhem isn't occurring at all times, Armok is disappoint.

!!FUN FOR THE !!FUN GOD

SOCKS FOR THE SOCK THRONE!!!
Logged
I want to tell you they were bad men, cephalo.  I want to tell you that with a better overseer the Fortress never would've gotten so bad someone would get offed in a pointless fisticuffs.
But the sad truth charlie?
It was inevitable.

Talvieno

  • Bay Watcher
  • Hello, Death. How's life?
    • View Profile

They also mounted your dwarves on pikes without touching them aswell.. You have an inner goblin inside you.
You know Armok is smiling.

...KodKod probably is too.
Logged
Quote from: Mr Frog
Talvieno ... seems to be able to smash out novella-length tales on demand

Masta Crouton

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile

to hell with armok.

if he comes down fillin' my monthly quotas, he don't get no worship down in my mines.

*smokes cigar*
Logged