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[Reudh]

"Corai... you're welcome..." Reudh barely managed to get this out when Ironblood shouted at him.


Reudh cowered against the wall, and flinched as he heard the words. "They'd stone ye where I came from!" Or worse, forced ejection...


But something made him stand up.

"With respect, sir... I think survival should take priority over these stuffy old rules. It's not as if that art hurts anybody," Reudh told Ironblood.
He of course conveniently forgot that it does, and that is why he is here.

[Corai]

-I decided to check TVtropes if we had a article, nope. That stinks, the thread deserves one.-

[Oliolli]

Oliolli, if you get to the top room, secure those books. Don't read them though; they contain evil knowledge.

Oliolli did visit that room, but he was too distracted by other things, namely the secret floors at the top that couldn't be reached.

-I decided to check TVtropes if we had a article, nope. That stinks, the thread deserves one.-

I approve of this.

[Gizogin]

Hang on, knowledge can't be evil.  It can be used for evil, but knowledge itself has no morality.

Of course, DF works differently to reality, so maybe the rules are different.  Like how in Discworld, libraries have weird geometry and become akin to black holes (knowledge=power=energy=mass [E=mc²; energy -> mass], and mass bends space-time).

[WillowLuman]

All I know is that if someone were tempted to use the knowledge, it would be very bad if they did.

Mind you, if we could look through it scientifically and objectively, there may be pieces of knowledge we could appropriate for good purposes.

[Splint]

"Well, on one hand we have a mess of fancy and easilt broken stone coats. On the other the kobolds don't have to die of soffocation. I'd call this a win." Splint said, heading back to his room after checking the remaining kobolds to make sure they were still breathing.

[WillowLuman]

Ironblood followed Reudh. "Just be careful, lad. Back in Nist Akath, there were many times when people panicked, thinkin' that someone was doing 'masn'ry.' Don't do it a'front'f that trader from the mountain home."

[Mrhappyface]

Step away from the box Corai, there are no shinies in there. Only death.

[Corai]

"Box? What box?" Corai said, oblivious to the death-box Freeble had brought.

[Kofthefens]

"Weird, you should brew up something flammable. We've gotta take out those eggs"

[Oliolli]

Oliolli had searched all the outer walls and the roof for entry into the top floors. None were found, so Oliolli decided to improvise. Standing on the roof, he raised the slade warhammer high above his head and brought it down with all his strength. The roof collapsed under him, but luckily the drop wasn't very bad. After clearing his head, he began looking around. Most of the rooms he entered were empty, except for the last room. In it was a statue. A statue of an indescribable horror with centipedes crawling all over it. Around it on the floor were lit candles. The others would have to see this. Leaving the room with the statue, he noticed a stairwell leading down that he hadn't taken previously. Oliolli decided to check it as well.
--
The stairwell hadn't connected to any other part of the tower. Instead it took Oliolli underground, and to the mouth of a rough-dug tunnel. Oliolli followed it, despite the smell.
--
The tunnel went on and on and on. Miles, dozens of miles, also taking Oliolli deeper into the ground as he walked. Finally he arrived at what seemed like the end of the tunnel. An opening to a large cavern, the smell of which would have killed an elf. The cavern was full of eggs. One of the eggs was hatching. Oliolli hoped wierd were here as well. The others would have to know of this. Oliolli left, returning through the tunnel.
--
So you're sure this is the spot?
Yeah. Behind this wall is the tower's dining hall.
Oliolli was standing in the secret stairway. Raising the hammer again, he started pounding on the wall to the dining hall. It didn't take long for the wall to break down.

[Corai]

"Well, I am gonna go and try to get used to my splints. I will be outside if you need me." Corai said, walking away. "Whats that smell..."

[Mrhappyface]

"Well, I am gonna go and try to get used to my splints. I will be outside if you need me." Corai said, walking away. "Whats that smell..."

The adamantine wafer that Corai got from Mrhappyface fell out from his Armani pants pocket. Freeble, the little fool, picked it up and with a little leverage, sliced open and broke the seal of the biohazard container. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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[INORGANIC:VIRUS_CORAI]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:corai virus]
   [SPECIAL]
   [MATERIAL_VALUE:50]

[INORGANIC:VIRUS_CORAI]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:corai virus]
   [SPECIAL]
   [MATERIAL_VALUE:50]
   [IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
   [MELTING_POINT:9000]
   [BOILING_POINT:9000]
   [SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:corai virus]
        [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:HUMANOID]
      [SYN_INJECTED]
      [SYN_CONTACT]
      [SYN_INHALED]
      [SYN_INGESTED]
      [CE_DISPLAY_NAME:NAME:infected:infected:infected:START:0]
      [CE_NAUSEA:SEV:30:PROB:100:START:5:PEAK:20:END:9000:SIZE_DILUTES]
[CE_NECROSIS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:8000:VASCULAR_ONLY:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN]
   [CE_NECROSIS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:8000:VASCULAR_ONLY:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:BRAIN]
      [CE_ADD_TAG:NO_SLEEP:CRAZED:START:0]
      [CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:0]
         [CE:CREATURE:infected:DEFAULT]

[Corai]

"How do I know thats not good..." Corai said as he heard a box being opened.

"Freeble....WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!?!?"

[Eric Blank]

Eric was disappointed that while designating plans for the indoor fishery/water cistern cutoff, there was a boulder that needed moved and he wasn't invited.

So he walked outside and admired the brand-new boringness of the deforested forest. Not that it was particularly bad with lots of stumps to use as stools, but that there was literally nothing to see or do besides. This is why he liked to stay indoors most of the time; at least there were rocks to break and caverns to admire. Soon, there would be a section of caverns collapsing. Unfortunately it wasn't the tower. No, that would have been too much fun, so the others told him not to go ahead with that plan. They're no fun...

All he needed was a chance to check that the plan would generally work, and to get digging.


Zanzetkuken; map update!

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Captured Caverns

Zanzetkuken, we need a section of wall dropped across that section of waterway in the southeast corner of this map image to cut off flow. Make it as tall as possible, and prepare it in the stone layers above out of natural stone slabs. Like this:

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Looking north (front view, from exterior), the wall runs east-west
###########
#._______.#
#.#######.# - This can be any number of z-levels tall, depending on how much undug space there is above the proposed site, up to the number of z-levels between lake floor and cavern ceiling.
#____I____# - Ceiling of cavern
#.........# - last z-level of cavern

Looking East (side view), a cross-section of the designation.

#####
#._.#
#.#.#
#_I_# - Ceiling of cavern
..... - last z-level of cavern

Where #=wall, .=open space, _=floor, and I=a support linked to a lever.
Just make sure that the 7x1x(X=height) block that is rigged to collapse is supported only by the pillar, then link the pillar up and drop it into the lake. It should then be denying access to the lake for cavern-dwellers. If you can't make it tall enough to reach the ceiling, just make it tall enough to fill the lake and then build constructed walls across it.

Then just make sure there are absolutely no other ways to access the area. After that, dig out an area to pump water into the lake to keep it full so we have a decently permanent fresh water supply. There should be a pump at the current highest level of the lake (such that the pump itself would be underwater currently) built into the walls.

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interior side ~~:%-_++:~~ Exterior side.

Where ~=water, :=fortifications, _=a floor tile, %- =a pump aiming into the cistern, and ++ =a raising drawbridge to keep nasty beasties out of the pump area when the tank doesn't need to be filled. Link the bridge to a lever and keep it closed and link the pump to a power train from above (because a dwarf operator would just drown.)

When the bridge is up, nothing will be able to get in and attack us. When down, the pump will refill the water cistern up to it's natural depth (and not drown us if you keep the pump on the same z-level as the water.)