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[towerdude]

I've noticed there are some cast obsidian walls over the ocean. WTF?

The Journal of Lord Mana, Arkmagus, 4th of Moonstone of the Year 4

The letter came from the Mountainhomes today, saying I am an Arkmagus. I have tried my hand at the arts of magik, but never took it seriously until today. Whilst I was getting ready to leave, at around midday in this little fortress of Angzakrorung Elcur Elcur, the current leader Celem Razamost stormed into my room and slammed a pile of papers onto my desk*.

"That's it!" he roared. "I quit."

*For the sake of simplicity, by room is a dormitory, and my desk is my bed.

So, Pa, looks like I'm now the leader of this one-horse town. Hell, we don't even have a horse, the closest we have is a Llama in some godsawful state I can't begin to describe. Let me present the current state of the fortress to you. We're located on the coast, and by that, I mean the fortress is built over the ocean. Right over it. Literally the only thing stopping us from falling in is a stone walkway attached to a hut. No counterweight, the whole thing is held up by ten few bricks and a bit of freaky magiks that even I can't grasp. Did anyone say that this place is infested with undead? If that's not freaky enough, anything dead on or over the ocean comes back to kill us. Hell, I've been here long enough not to use the usual grammar when describing such shit.

The most solid piece of housing we have is a hut containing our food and booze on one level, half a dining room on the next, half a dormitory on the one above, and some kind of inaccessible watchhouse on top. We have barrels next to our beds, a carpenter's shop in our dining room, and next to no wood.

Good luck.

If you want to build another level to the fort, destroy one side wall, build a ramp in its place, remove the walls which are also make up a ceiling, build floors in their place, remove the floor exactly over the stair, build a downward stairway, and replace the old with an up/down one. Wall in the new floor, but start with the corners, leave one tile intact and build a ramp there, go up to floor off the ceiling. Replace both ramps with walls.

You could also build a fortification room beside the entrance door, so you can shoot zombies from there.

These are just suggestions though.

[celem]

I should also mention for those that follow...

Not all of the land tiles are non-raising.  I havent been able to determine exactly where the biome line is, but the tiles of land closest to the ocean do still raise, so you have to tweak the corpse piles to prevent them coming back too many times.

[AustralianWinter]

Sign me up too.

[towerdude]

Sign me up too.

Welcome to Terrorhounds Plague of Plagues, your name is on the list.

Isn't that Edgar Allan Poe?

[AustralianWinter]

Isn't that Edgar Allan Poe?

Why yes. Yes it is.

[towerdude]

Isn't that Edgar Allan Poe?

Why yes. Yes it is.

One of my favourite stories from him is the The Pit and the Pendulum.

[AustralianWinter]

One of my favourite stories from him is the The Pit and the Pendulum.

If you haven't, you should also read the Masque of the Red Death. Really strong story. And the Cask of Amontillado. I'd better stop now, or you'll be entombed in Poe-material "you just have to read!".

[towerdude]

Hey CaptainArchmage,

Hows your progress going?

[CaptainArchmage]

Hey CaptainArchmage,

Hows your progress going?

I'll probably have to skip this one, sorry.

[towerdude]

Hey CaptainArchmage,

Hows your progress going?

I'll probably have to skip this one, sorry.

Probably? Doy you have a save? Or continue from the last one?

[AustralianWinter]

I'll jump out too - Murderfarmed progressed very much faster than we first expected.

[towerdude]

Then it's Slowpokes turn. Use Celem's last save.

[towerdude]

Okay I have made some modifications, and stay another year in the fortress to make it easier for new starters, to take hold of the fortress, and not save/load for 23 times. The rules are the same, if anyone want to play in this, sign up here.

After another year for me, here is the Taste of the action:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aside from that , there was a Goblin homeage (I couldn't call it a siege, since my military commander dwarves punched them out from the fabric of time with one swing, one Goblin died from getting hit by a flying head of his brethren), several flying zombie attacks and the number of dwarves doubled with the "help" of one migration, when we didn't have booze.

A detailed journal will come, if I see some people got interested again.

[towerdude]

Okay, a triple post may sound bad, but I don't want to lose this.

Here are three saves:

This is the beginning of the fortress, starting in year three:  http://www.2shared.com/file/1UxGQz1z/kezds.html

Fourth year winter, after CaptainArchmage's turn: http://www.2shared.com/file/sUKz6SZn/4_v_tl.html

These two are just for those who want to check the progress of the fort.

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Here is the current site, I have built a wall for protection, so dwarves won't dodge into the water, and giant sperm whale zombies don't spook workers:

http://www.2shared.com/file/e6siDyVg/mostani.html

Please check it out (the files are compressed into zip format).

[Remuluson]

wait...
IS THERE STILL THAT ZOMBIE GIANT ALBATROS?