So I've been thinking about this word "werelizard". Y'all know "were-" means "man-", right? But they're not man-lizards, they're Dwarf-lizards. So we need a new acronym. Or several, one each for Dwarves, Goblins, maybe Elves...
Dwereflizard. That's my suggestion for Dwarves.
Dwerefwolves.
Dwerefhedgehogs.
Dwerefaardvarks.
Weredwarves.
Poor animals. Turning into horrifying little midgets 29 days a month.
Time to get started. All I have this time is a bottle of 3 year old homemade strawberry wine. The taste has changed a bit during the last year or so. Hard to describe it. Hmm..
I suppose that strawberry wine should be drank between 1-3 years of aging since the flavor seems to be becoming less like strawberry and a bit more like diluted whisky. Not a bad taste though
Just drank 3.5dl during the last 10mins but it feels wasteful to drink it this fast.
Let's continue
I was digging a hole. A hole connecting the volcano to the surface while keeping the water out. It is mostly made of ice but that is dwarven physics for you. I had bit of a problem with water and obsidian from ice melted by the magma and then forgot to account for the rising magma level so had to abandon my original plan of making a large diningroom inside the volcano.
Well, now all I can do is try to get rid of the obsidian walls and floors I origianlly planned on using and let the magma rise. Some channeling should do the trick. Will need grates and whatnot.
Bloody caveins. lost a miner to magmamist and dustcloud pushing it into the magma. Or was it 3 dorfs? No matter. Expendable. Will have to remember that most of hte floor is not supported by anything else than the middle staircase that is hanging from the surface and the walls so channeling wihtout planning is a bad idea.
Also started building a corridor to connect the staircase with the main fortress since the original walkway isn't very dorf-friendly with 4/7 magma and all..
Ordered an area of ice to be dug out so it can be used as raw materials. Hopefully I remember to seal it before the ice melts...
Will have to dig out the ice above this place and replace it with floors to prevent it all from flooding once hte ice melts. one missed tile and it is obsidian time. Fun ensured
Trying to make sure it won't flood. Walls and floors and all that stuff but won't seal it yeat. I need the ice. Hopefully I will remember to seal it in time..
I do bnelieve that I'm drunk. All the clues point towards that conclusion. The bottle is finished. I only have one more bottle left and I was planning on saving it for the future but screw that. Future me can just make do wityhout it. Never liked that guy anyway
Since I had to hollow out the z-levels below to make them waterproof I might aswell dig out hte last z-level and connect the whole thing to the surface. It is raining. Water. Never a good sign.
onstant "bring water. no watersource" message spam too. Digging a well. The flooded staircase from earlier turns is a nice watersource. It is muddy but the part with the ramps is deep enough. Perhaps should do something about those doors.. Oh well, two doors is twice as safe so it is safe. The dorfs are not stupid enough to open a door connecting to the sea, right?
Was qwondering why nothing was dug. The miners were trapped in the hole they dug (and I think that one froze to death. whimp) Letting them out now. Will build walls around this place and make it waterproof. Waste not, want not. It would be a shame to leave it unused.
Replacing the ice floors with constructed ice floors so it won't melt but the dorfs are starting to run really low on ice. Shouldne't be a problem around here. Will just have to mine for more. Stripmining a frozen sea. What could possibly go wrong?
Still not enough ice! WE NEED MORE ICE!
Time to build a roof since so it won't rain inside and the dorfs won't die from the freezing temperature while INSIDE the damn fortress since it is currently roofless and considered t obe outside. Wouldn't want any more lazy bums freezzing to death while sitting next to magma..
Bobnova prohibited the export of beds. Lazy bastard. Is he planning on building a fortress out of beds?
Some nameless bugger made this. Beautiful moistness. Pretty much sums up our migrant situation
Seems like quite a few dorfs are dieing in the caverns. Cave crocodiles and giant olms and such. Something broke all the doors so they are roaming free. Dorfs seem to love hanging around the open caverns too.
Too drunk to be bothered to do anything about it. Just sending out a squad to kill a few giant olms and perhaps haul back a few dead dorfs.
This proved to be a nice spot for a depot. Much closer than the previous one and deeper in our fortress so it should be somewhat safe (and easier to loot or seal...)
Ice mining is progressing nicely.
We have a lovely ice roof! Time to get cave-adapted and grumble at the sun
I have a the distinct feeling that digging the sea might not be such a great idea so ordered the ice to b edumped inside. Run little fdorfs, run! What could PSOSSIBLTY go wrong with having half the fortress inside the icelayer?
The hole thingie is done and sealed.Not really sure what to do with it though..
Dorf Tek. Building a
better dorfier tomorrow. One casulty at a time.
Because we care.
I am getting the distinct feeling that some of the dorfs are not content with the current state of things. Perhaps I shouldn't have ignored their needs for the last year. Wrez is doing what Wrex always does. Bashing peasants with a piece of clothing
I know! I will make yet another foodroom. forgot the word. eatery? DININGROOM! damn it. Someone will remove it and bu8ld another one next turn most likely. Always happens. Everyone builds a new and "better" dining room eahc turn.
Drunk. Nuff said
Oops. forgout that most of the dining room doesnt have anything to supoprt it so it caved in ahd destroyed part of the constructions below it, thus latting the magma inside. Shit happens. no biggie
Will just have to try to plug it somehow
It melted. Hardly any dorfs died so it was a great success. That large icemine caused a nice little hole in the sea
tehe durst has settled so I cn start sealing the hole. luckily the magma hasn't reached high enough yet.
..the magma isn't evaporating or hardening or what ever
Will jst use the hole above to cast it with obsidian. There is that "well" (raed: flooded parts of the fortress) nearby so it shouldn't take long
Diningroom is ready to receave drunken midgets Notice the floorless walkways with grilles and lovely little 3z-level drops to the volcano and magmasea.
Ordered some golden statues to be crafted
forgot about the bedrooms and greaves. Graves.Dug large areas for them but forgot to do anytning with them. Woah. So many beds. And grtilles. And other random crap that I forgot on reapted REpeat crafting a year ago since I was too concentrated on building
Will try to build a hosital so the dorfs will stop whining about dieing due to the lack of medical care. Has been happening for quite a while now
Also built some more beds. We have about 80 dorfs but enough beds for perhaps 20. Might explain why so many of them are going melan cholic, rambling or berserk.
fuck damsp stones
fuck olms. lost so many dorfs to giant olms and cave crocs
forgot ti assign jobs for migrants. gotten two waves of them. assigning some fast whjile i still vacn be bothered
Can I just store the dieing dorfs in a stockpile and letre the haulers sort it out?
Enmgravings and statues. Nearly half of the gold statues are hyst statues of various shorukes doing random crap and admiring stuff
85 drorfs
what the hell naryar? just how easily entertained are you? staring at charis and tables makes you happy? good for you=
Eating in a wooden hall onnarrow ledges with a dew z-levels plummet into magma all around an all walkways beoing just granite grilles with no floor belowe while being surrounded from all sides by golden statues of various shorukes admiring random crap or deing of illness?
All in all a good diningroom
Welcome ot ICEFORTRESS! Apply for a migratiuon permit in the nearest overseer's office today!
We got ICE! MAGMA! GIANT OLMS! FUN AND GAMES! GOLD! Often in an exotic mixture of multiple of previously nmentioned features in te same room with ou in the middle!
So many wonderful ways of enjoyuing your short life here in ICEFORTRRESS!
Freezing to death while trapped or just working outside! getting crushd by a cavein! Taking a refresthhing swim in magma! Learning to swim in hte sea! Doing both in hte same time and becoming encased in obsidian, or if that is not your thing, freezing in a block of ice or perhaps stnading on thin ice during spring.
what ever is your thing, we got it. So many uinexpercted ways to end your sorry drunken life
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