Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

Yes

4 (14.3%)

No

1 (3.6%)

It was fun for a long time but towards the end it just started to drag

6 (21.4%)

I wish I could have joined in.

17 (60.7%)

Total Members Voted: 28

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

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!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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:

Code: [Select]

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.

Code: [Select]

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.)

Going to it.

Done, but with a different method!

[Gizogin]

Some strange virus has been released?  QUARANTINE!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Fortress Map

Note: If anyone wants something added, just post the size of the room, and (if necessary) the corridor size to get to the room.
Note 2: Each square equals a 36ft square area.
2nd floor defenses

1-MrHappyFace's room
2-Trade depot below

Local Area

Note: This is post-dragon fire attack on goblins.

level -1

Forumite Quarters
1-Zanzetkuken
2-Maectur Omereorabuum, dragon
3-Weird
4-Stormtemplar
5-Splint
6-Kofthefens
7-unclaimed
8-Super Plump Helmet Man
9-Reudh
10-Corai
11-Jerry the Axe-handed elf
12-unclaimed
13-unclaimed
14-Gizogin
15-unclaimed
16-unclaimed

level -2

You should recognize the workshops.  Millstone has a miniature water reactor hooked up to it.
1- Gizogin's Hospital
2- Gizogin's Office

stockpiles


Underground bunker


Captured Caverns

[WillowLuman]

I guess Jerry the Axe-handed elf will need a room now.

Weird, HugoLuman, and SPHM were talking to an armor-clad figure chained to a huge oak slab. "Well, if you will not speak, I will start. My name is Vemini, and there is must I should tell you. But tell me, who are you and how did you come to this place? I really should like to know the slayers of the master of this accursed place!"

[Reudh]

"What was that box Corai's minion just opened?"

[Eric Blank]

Wow, a 5 hour delay in posts? Unheard of. Clearly not all is well.

[Reudh]

"What, a virus is loose?"

Tearing up a strip of cloth, Reudh wraps it around his nose and mouth. He runs to the food stockpile and stuffs a plump helmet into the cloth... Legend says that a plump helmet in a cloth wards off sickness.

[Oliolli]

Oliolli ran to the basement of the tower, where wierd, HugoLuman and SPHM were.
"Hi guys!"
"Uhh, wierd, you wouldn't happen to have anything incendiary or highly explosive with you? Maybe something... fission-y? We seem to have a problem."
OOC: Koth, just remember that some people weren't there when you told people at the fort about the centipedes, such as Oliolli, wierd, HugoLuman and Super Plump Helmet Man. Oliolli had just left at that point, and the others were still at the tower.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

"Well that worked," said Zanzetkuken as he looked over where the fields, that once housed the goblin siege, that had become a barren wasteland.  "Couldn't have been a little less destructive with your fire?"  Do not worry, Grand Emporer.  It will not be this destructive the next time, said Maectur.  "That is what you said at the last outpost we were at," said Zanzetkuken...

[Gizogin]

What's the deal with the corai virus?  Has it actually infected anyone yet?  The raws given for it don't actually make it infectious; after the initial exposure, no more people will become infected, because it has no way to spread.  I'm going to assume this wasn't the intention.  Presumably, the idea was to make some sort of zombie plague (hence the rotting, insomnia, and insanity).

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

What's the deal with the corai virus?  Has it actually infected anyone yet?  The raws given for it don't actually make it infectious; after the initial exposure, no more people will become infected, because it has no way to spread.  I'm going to assume this wasn't the intention.  Presumably, the idea was to make some sort of zombie plague (hence the rotting, insomnia, and insanity).

Since planeswalkers are immune to disease, I do not have to worry about the corai virus.

I do have a theory about the virus.  The victim's mind could be overcome by the virus, and the virus would want to spread itself.  Due to it being non-infectious, the victim would use a syringe to draw the virus into, and then inject it into the next victim.

Either that, or the victim transforms into a zombie kobold.

[Eric Blank]

(Or more likely just goes bonkers and ganggreenous, dying within a few days. What a horrible way to die, though.)

Eric Blank cancels prepare plans: Somebody mentioned deadly biohazards.

"Evacuating area! Sealing rear residences!" He says as he slams a boulder or two down across the hall, blocking the exits, then fills it in with mortar. Afterwards, he retreats to a safe distance (ie: The tower, since it seems closer) and seals that up too. "Dwarven isolation protocols are now in effect. NOBODY GO OUT THERE, FOR ALL OF OUR SAKES!" he screams at the halls of the tower, which echo nicely. Then starts spitting everywhere and washing his hands at the well constantly.

(I have some OCD-related problems when it comes to possible toxic substances or filth in general. Spitting and washing constantly isn't THAT bad a habit, right?)

[Gizogin]

Oh please, there are much worse ways to die than that.  All I need is a sample of that corai virus, and I can whip up an even more horrible strain.
While I'm on the subject, I'm initiating a quarantine of any and all infected individuals.  Anyone showing the symptoms of this disease must be quarantined in their rooms until further notice.  Under no circumstances is anyone to attempt to break quarantine.

[Splint]

I'm already in my room... I tend to lockj the door behind me and I was in there before Freeble pried the box open.

[Mrhappyface]

Oh please, there are much worse ways to die than that.  All I need is a sample of that corai virus, and I can whip up an even more horrible strain.
While I'm on the subject, I'm initiating a quarantine of any and all infected individuals.  Anyone showing the symptoms of this disease must be quarantined in their rooms until further notice.  Under no circumstances is anyone to attempt to break quarantine.

Well, you are an evil rawmancer...I'm just going to go back to my room and drink Dwarf Cola until I pass out. THIS WAS NOT MY FAULT, IT WAS THE KOBOLDS.

On a side note, I figured out a way to completely pacify the citizens and prevent a panic!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Presenting: The DART-3 Neuro Pacification Chip! Inserted into your frontal lobe, it deadens all those silly emotions that get in the way of your workday. Why worry about getting happy or having sadness bring you down when you are in a constant state of genuine apathy! Submit to authority! We'll take care of you. Chipped citizens also get a 5% bonus off bulk booze!

[REACTION:PACIFICATION_AUGMENT]
   [BUILDING:SURGICAL_TABLE:NONE]
   [NAME:DART-3 Neuro Pacification Chip Implant]
   [PRODUCT:7:1:BOULDER:NONE:INORGANIC:AUGMENT_PACIFICATION_SPREAD]
   [SKILL:ALCHEMY]

[INORGANIC:AUGMENT_PACIFICATION]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:DART-3 Neuro Pacification Chip]
   [SPECIAL]
   [MATERIAL_VALUE:500]

[INORGANIC:AUGMENT_PACIFICATION_SPREAD]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:DART-3 Neuro Pacification Chip]
   [SPECIAL]
   [MATERIAL_VALUE:500]
   [IGNITE_POINT:NONE]
   [MELTING_POINT:9000]
   [BOILING_POINT:9000]
   [SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:DART-3 Neuro Pacification Chip]
      [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:HUMANOID]
      [SYN_INJECTED]
      [SYN_CONTACT]
      [SYN_INHALED]
      [SYN_INGESTED]
      [CE_DISPLAY_NAME:NAME:(Pacification Implant):chipped:chipped:START:0]
      [CE_ADD_TAG:NOEMOTION:START:0]