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[jesternario]

  I'm confuzzled on the rules of the map. Do players just make a random map and join in or do you have one already for them?

[GreatWyrmGold]

I think you make a random map, and we'll decide which one after a turn's finished.

[Bobnova]

As I understand it, we all start forts.
One gets voted on and becomes the Official map.
Everybody plays that map for one year.
We all vote as to whos save we use.
We all play that save for one year.
Etc.

I'm in mid summer, thieves have started showing up.
There's a rudementry story in place that I'll be fleshing out.
Metal industry and glass industry have literally just started. Took forever, but it's one hell of a solid base for future expansion at this point.

[doomxorz]

I think you make a random map, and we'll decide which one after a turn's finished.

This

[Bobnova]

Ok here we go.
Save link: http://www.epic-hw.com/pics/AIsuccesion.zip
Log:  (Tragicly, my time turned out to be brutally limited so I had to go easy on the storytelling. This embark is amazingly rich, huge amounts of everything except cavern and fuel have been found)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Prolog:
I finally get to leave the Mountainhome! I've had enough of that place. Too many "nobles", too many rules, not enough creativity. I'm a stonecrafter, I CRAFT things. I don't crank out endless successions of mugs, damnit.
All that is behind me now, we're off to found a new mountainhome! Our leader, Urist McLeader claims that he knows the location of the only volcano on this land. We're off to find it.
We've brought the usual sorts of supplies, plus we managed to convince the butcher back "home" to give us both male *and* female horses to pull the wagon so we'll have a stable meat supply.


1st Granite

Armok save us, Urist is an idiot. A dead idiot at that. We were mounting a mountain that felt warm under foot. We said, "Urist, don't you think this might BE the volcano?". "NO, for the last time NO! I know where the volcano is! We're still a day away!" he said.
Right before he, while looking back to yell at us, drove the lead horses off a cliff and fell after them.
Thankfully the harness on the wagon snapped or we'd really be in for it. As it is... Well, the meat supply isn't going to be stable. It turns out that along with not taking critisizm well Urist was also wrong. He did find the volcano, just not quite how he intended. And the bastard took both female horses with him RIGHT INTO THE VOLCANO. What an idiot. Here's what we have left:



Seeing as the expedition leader wasn't around anymore we held an election in the classic fashion. Fath Mengostath was the last to pass out, so she's the new expedition leader. I've drawn the place we stopped at, the very peak of the mountain. Not exactly convenient. Oh well, we'll get to work.


2nd Granite

Now this is funny, Fath Mengostath admitted to me that she has no clue how to run a fortress and asked me to help. I figure I can at least do a better job than the idiots at the mountainhome, so I'll do it.
To start with, there are entirely too many trees around here. While the miners are mining, Sodel will cut down as many as he can manage.


7th Granite
The miners have finished the temporary storage hall we can get the supplies underground where they belong.
I've spent my time doing some prospecting on the surface. Unnerving as the surface may be, I have found clay, gold, tetrahedrite and black sand on the west side of the mountain. This place looks promising.

8th Granite
I set the miners to digging out a lava reservoir and workshop area down on the same level as the black sand. One of the farmers said that we should have beds first but Fath reminded him that he'd been the first to fall in the election. That shut him up.


9th granite
The miners have reported finding both galena and native silver! Things are looking pretty good here, if we can find some Iron and some Coal or Lignite we'll be all set. Even as it is we'll have plenty of cash for buying iron and supplies to make steel.


12th granite
The miners keep harassing Fath every time they find more metal, they found some native gold and more galena.
In the mean time, I had Fath mark out a couple farm plots and order the farmers to start doing their job for a change.
A rat has been spotted in the temporary stockpile, this displeases me.

14th Granite
HEMATITE! THE MINER FOUND HEMATITE! PRAISE ARMOK!



4th Slate
That's it. I've slept on the floor one too many times. I've ordered beds to be manufactured.
I also laid out the bedrooms, plenty for the peons, a bedroom/office/dining room complex for the "leader" Fath. It backs up to the volcano lava tube to keep her bedroom nice and warm. And remind her to listen.
My complex will be on a different floor.


11th Slate
Work begins on the lava reservoir. The miners may have placed Fath's bedroom in the supply shaft.

14th Slate
The lava feed tube does go right through Fath's bedroom. I've ordered a wall built to block it off.

18th slate
It took two weeks, but I finally have a bed to sleep in.
That's one slow carpenter.
I've set to crafting a door, a floodgate, and some blocks. I can express myself a bit with the door at least.


13th Felsite
The idiot farmers are letting plump helmets ROT in the farms! One has been ordered to do NOTHING but farm. Idiots.
I'm making a special floodgate to decorate Fath's bedroom.

8th Hematite
I can see why Fath was uninterested. This is maddening!
The miners managed to completely screw up every direction for the lava feed shaft. If we weren't short on picks I'd have one sacrificed.
I'm not sure how much more of this leading crap I can take.

12th Hematite
The damned farmers are STILL not doing their job.
The woodworker has been assigned to farm. Slacker.
More distressingly, a Mosquito woman has been spotted nearby. That's a frightening concept.

13th Hematite
I've ordered the construction of a still. Though I may need to draft a brewmaster as the farmers are clearly incompetent.

24th Hematite
Tragedy! The brewer finished a batch only to find that there were no barrels!
I was up for the task of storing the brew, thought I doubt anyone else is interested in it now.


20th Malachite
I've ordered the miners to let the lava flow! Finally we're getting somewhere.
Some migrants showed up today with horrific tales to tell. Something about living dead and green skinned savages.
There's a woodworker, a craftsdwarf, a ranger, FOUR children, and a fisherdwarf. Not the most useful of groups, but it could be worse.



15th galena
WHO THE HELL SET OUT WITH NO METALSMITHS!
Armok save us if that idiot hadn't already burnt himself I would hang him in a TREE!
I've drafted a couple of furnace operators (none of them, either!) and assigned a metalsmith. Dwarf'd better learn quick.
I'm doing some furnace work as well.

17th Galena
THREE thieves showed up!
We need traps.


25th Galena
Driven by the need to repel thieves and acquire meat, I have had a fishery worker and a range drafted into the militia. Their first target? A Giant Kakapo, whatever that is. It looks like it's already had some issues, I think I can see its spleen...


30th Galena
Militia never did catch the thing. Oh well.
I've ordered some Gold furniture to spruce my living area up a bit. Also some for the "Leader" Fath to keep her mouth shut.

1st Timber
Some nutjob called Mafol has started acting sneaky and stealing Dacite boulders. How he thinks he can manage that without me noticing is beyond me.

8th Timber
Late autumn already? We have no trade goods and the caravan is about to arrive!
FULL PRODUCTION! Crap!


28th Timber
Mafor finally finished his.... thing. It's a figurine of some doofus.
I discovered that I'm the only one with any idea what things are worth around here, hence I did the trading. I think we got a good deal. Mostly I bought food and sacks for the glass industry, plus leather and cloth to make more sacks.


I have declared myself to be a Broker. I'm a noble now! Ha!



12th Moonstone
My quarters are coming along nicely.
Fath has taken it upon herself to engrave my walls. So far she's done three engravings of that figurine...

22nd Moonstone
Our new entrance is finished, this should work well.


5th Obsidian
Fath, our "leader" has started giggling incessantly and stopped engraving my quarters. Don't know what her problem is, but I don't appreciate it.


11th Obsidian
Fath finished her project... It's a dacite scepter with a one eye'd demon on it, done in turqiose. It's actually pretty awesome.


15th Obsidian
I guess that scepter helped Fath's artistic skills, she's on a Masterpiece rampage!


20th Obsidian
A snatcher! Foiled by the new entrance design. Now to figure out what to do with it...


21st Obsidian
Another snatcher! This one interrupted the Mechanic Mafol while Mafol was replacing the cage the first snatcher was caught in.
Amusingly after Mafol and the goblin both fled (cowards!) another snatcher came in. It ran into the glass serrated disk trap and got spit right back out the door. HA!

1st Granite
Spring! I've had enough of this leading business, the inane details a dwarf has to deal with to lead are amazingly frustrating. I'll stick to my crafting from this point, Fath is going to have to step up and deal with it.
We're doing pretty well, this is an incredibly rich location!

Anybody else done?

[Ziga]

fortress report,

overseer name: Ziga

fortress name: Mirroredprophet

1st granite: just embarked, there is literally no one but us and the cattle, might be an uneventfull year...well exept all that gold just hanging off the rock face



21st slate: OH ARMOK HAVE MARCY! EVERYONE'S DEAD! theres bodies blood and maisma EVERYWHERE there is NOTHING left and...im just kidding, the guys are fine, just digging down and found microcline, also some migrants

4th malachite: oh i guess i forgot to discribe what it looks like out here, well its an almost entirely flat plane with a hill (that we're building the fort in) at the most northern part of the land we've clamed, and i have an idea on building an archer tower inside the upper part of it, oh and one more thing, ive ordered the first of the worker's quarters to be dug out

14th limestone: there are a bunch of hamster men on the outskirts of the fort, im keeping an eye on them...



22nd sandstone: some more migrants, only 3 this time, oh and im almost done with the well

10th timber: now this is...odd, there's a crown right where the temporary jeweler's shop used to be (you could probly guess what i was doing) and i have not even made a crafts dwarf shop yet, just...odd



13th timber: the traders have come! which means my regan is almost over, i wonder if my fort will be the one to continue in this great contest of colonization that the mountain home has created, well...i almost have a working well so i guess i have a chance...anyway i order some leather some metal bars and a few dogs from the outpost liaison

18th obsidian: the well is finally compleated!...and its going to be spring soon oh armok the SUSPENCE

1st granite: well, looks like spring has arrived! and my ownership of this outpost (weather i win or not) is not mine anymore. well ill just wrap a few things up in this letter before i go...oh you thought i would be staying? yeah, right like i would put my life in another overseer's hands (have you SEEN the things some of them do?), yeah riiiiiiiiiiight, anyway on to the details, we have a working (as far as i know) well, a windmill...you won't have trouble finding it, i ordered it to be made of microline,(eventhough i like the simplicity of plump helmets id rather eat somthing closer to bread) the in-mountain archer tower "might" need a bit of rethinking (or replacement, as in, put it a bit higher) but overall it's done, the hospital will be where the well is, and the only lever in the fort controls the floodgate in the well.

(final pic)


anyway, i hope my outpost is the victor, wouldent want that awesome name the so called "expedition leader" came up with go to waste

(here's the save http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6814)

[NESgamer190]

From the looks of it, that's three of us done, including myself.  I see I was NOT the only one to delve for a volcano, but I must say you guys got luckier than I did...  Nobody went into a strange mood at SwordArmor.  (Always seemed to get low migrant waves.)

Rather surprised to see those ambushers come so soon to be honest.  I usually wind up getting the first thieves at about winter myself.

Looking forward to a few more journal entries from you wonderful overseers!

[Bobnova]

I was surprised to see the goblins and kobolds so soon too. I'm assuming the third goblin, the one that got chunked, was a thief because there was a sack in the same general area as some of the pieces.

It was pretty funny, invisible, got the notice, look and there's blood and goblin strewn all over the place.

I think it's probably because once the metal crafting was underway (I really did suddenly realize the trade caravan was coming, that's a very honest log) I went straight for gold and started cranking stuff out. The fortress worth went up like a rocket once gold goblets and statues and such came into play.
My quarters are awfully lavish too, I think the goblins can sense total fortress wealth or something.

Couldn't figure out how to attach a note to levers. Have fun with that.

[doomxorz]

Aha! A non-aquifered volcano with fresh water and trees! This should work well. If only I actually knew how to use magma. There is no flux stone, which is bad.

Brimmeadow

The dwarves stop the wagon and begin digging out a meeting hall and trading post area, as well as stockpile rooms. Farming might take a bit to set up. They's no dirt. Starvation is a possibility. A Giant Wolverine has killed one of the war dgos, and two of the pack animals have been slaughtered. I forgot to bring a breeding pair. A couple migrant waves came, we are up to 16 dwarves. Make that 15, the axedwarf sent to kill that wolverine is no longer with us. Winter is here, and there is no water. A well is being set up, but it won't be active until the water unfreezes. There is probably a way to speed this up with the magma, but I don't know how. The caravan brought enough booze for the winter, providing a huge migrant wave doesn't pop up. We bought some food from them too.
   Well rats, they found the dead axedwarf. Now everyone is unhappy. They'll get over it. Or I will kill them. >=) muahahahahahahhahahahahahahhehheheheehehehehehehohohohohohohohohohhumhumhumhumhumhumhum. Wow this place is kinda boring besides that there dumb wolverine. Twitch.
   The liason wants maces, headwear, backpacks, and tanned hides. We requested bars of various metals.
   A kobold thief showed up late in Obsidion. It is probably the first of many. Indeed, here is another, minutes later. A farmer was killed by the wolverines. So 14 dwarves left. The wood chop choppers would not chop wood. Oh how I wish they would.

Spring has arrived! I nearly missed the announcement.

14 dwarves are living, they are working on putting stone in the stone stockpile and setting up farms down by the brook. Created wealth: 8696

I know this is an inadequate summarry, it is because so little happened. And I'm too busy to put up pictures this time. But i'll put up the save if it wins, which it probably wont The fortress is finally laid out in its simplest, and I've planned out the bedrooms, but digging has not started.

you got it. Save file: http://www.sendspace.com/file/jii1ce

[Ziga]

I know this is an inadequate summarry, it is because so little happened. And I'm too busy to put up pictures this time. But i'll put up the save if it wins, which it probably wont The fortress is finally laid out in its simplest, and I've planned out the bedrooms, but digging has not started.

well put up the save anyway, we're not just going by summaries (not me anyway)

[TheDJ17]

Here's the save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6809

The write up:

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Form the journal of Bomrek, Expedition Leader

1st Granite, 169 - The wagon has just broken down, more speciffically the wheels just popped off! Upon further examination the bolts were made of low-grade copper! After yelling at our blacksmith until I calmed down a hippo poked it's head out of the water. Now I've heard stories of these ferocious beasts swallowing dwarfs whole but one bark from a war dog and it ran off. How strange.

4th Granite - Since all attempts to reattach the wheels have failed I've started digging out temporary loggings mainly so what little food we have wouldn't spoil.

I told Berad, our carpenter, to make as few beds as we would need so naturally he used up all of our wood. >_< Looks like there wont be any beds for our actual fortress outpost.

18th Granite - Rain today. Starting to give up hope that the wagon will ever be repaired, especially now that Berad has dismanteled it  All the other dwarfs voted to stay here claiming it was "pleasant" and " It's cool enough underground," while above ground our only fisherdwarf was almost eaten by an alligator! Idiots.

1st Slate - Struck stone, sent Bukad, our craftsdwarf, to make some mugs should a caravan happen to drive anywhere near us, unlikely but the task manages to keep one more dwarf out of trouble.

2nd Hematite - Lung fish corpses continue to litter the fort thanks to the cats that followed us from the mountain home, obnoxious beasts. Designated a refuse pile above ground, who would of thought that so many fish could smeel so bad?

19th Hematite - Migrants arrived today, probably followed the wagon tracks hoping to find a new mountain settlement only to discover our little hole in the desert. Of the migrants only 2 had any real skills to speak of (a jewler and a miner) the rest are being put on permanent guard duty. The outpost population is now 13.

20th Galena - I've dugout a training area for the useles sods military. The weather is mild too damn hot!

21st Limestone - Dug a shaft away from the settlement to test the rock stratta and discovered an underground cavren... with underground trees! And Berad just finished cutting down all 12 of the surrounding cacti!
 
1st Sandstone - Got sick of waiting for one of the useless sods to build a bridge over the stream and just dug a tunnel under it,

Real dwarven ingenuity right there!

13th Snadstone - More migrants arrived today, more useless sods for the military and a few useful craftsdwarfs. The fortress population is now 21. To accomidate these newcomers I started the plans for a grand dinning room and housing complex which will hopefully be completed soon...ish.

8th Timber - Golas started acting funny today and built this:

This has multiplied the fortress worth eightfold!

26th Moonstone - Finished digging out the grand dinning hall (where Golas' chair will be a centerpiece) and have now started on the bedrooms. The military finally did something useful and slayed some buzzards, having trouble convincing the farm staff that they can be used as food.

17th Obsidian - Caravan came, we threw some mugs at them and they threw their barrels of alcohol at us in response, maybe we should have waited for them to stop first?

29th Obsidian - I told Berad to cut down the trees in the cavern but he refused saying he "couldn't reach them" and other such nonsense. It's only a small leap. So he and the other dwarfs got together and say we should dig out an entire level to create a tree farm, it's as if I have no say at all anymore.


1st Granite 170 - Have we really been here an entire year!? Funny how this temporary hole in the ground turned has into quite the bustling little village, of course I will be made mayor once my request to turn this place into a full fledged town is processed. My only worry is that the Kobold theif that escaped the wrath of the military will go on to tell the goblins about the golden throne we posses. Golas says that kobolds and goblins despise each other but I swear those creepy things are in cahoots! Military training has been stepped up nonetheless.

And the Dwarf list/z-stocks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[doomxorz]

All saves are in! My vote goes to Bobnova's fortress

[Bobnova]

Amusingly, my vote goes to doomxorz.

[TheDJ17]

Oh we're voting already?
In that case I cast my vote for Bobnova's fortress.

[NESgamer190]

Being absolutely honest, I'd say bobnova's fortress making skills are legendary, given his wicked good stocks and interesting architecture.  His fort kinda gets the third vote that'll win it for him.  I'm simply going to presume my fortress lost due to a pretty tame surrounding and whatnot...  All's fine by me...  just another fort I'll get to continue on my own time.  Bobnova, your efforts here for the first year are masterwork.