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[GreatWyrmGold]

Tell the truth!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Tell the truth!

Yes, dump this on the friend.  Along with some of the world gen.

"The Peak of Thorns is under constant threat from various enemies. Among them is the Dark Hell of Blood, who even were so insolent as to conquer one of our mountain halls. You are to build an outpost, located on the edge of the Riddled Fingers and the Forest of Eyes, to defend against this dire threat to our great civilization. You will receive great starting funds to purchase your initial equipment, and per the terms of our alliance, the Realm of Crowns will send a supply caravan within a year. Everything in that caravan only will be free for you to take should you need it, but any further caravan will require direct payment from your outpost. Due to the danger involved in the surroundings, no hill dwarves will settle with you for the time being, but as you pacify the region, settlements should spring up.

Remember that the Dark Hell of Blood is a devious enemy, and may try paths both aboveground and in the caverns below, should they exist in the region. Choose your companions and equipment carefully."

[Knight Otu]

You consider sending her a prank message, but perhaps it might be too believable. You send her the scenario description and the world gen. You receive no immediate response, so you get back to the game. Hum, now that you sent that description, maybe you should select that enemy rather than changing it.

[Knight Otu]

Moving forward with the game, you come across a number of new screens. The first is for your dwarves.

Shorast Torchtin, Male Peasant
Rith Boltsclashed, Male Peasant
Thikut Dyegorges, Male Peasant
Onol Lancedsoared, Female Peasant
Kib Bootrenowned, Female Peasant

Ilral Kindlingmines, Male Sublieutenant
Fath Quakeamber, Female Axedwarf
Sazir Chewmines, Male Axedwarf
Athser Lilacmountains, Female Sworddwarf
Onol Paintposts, Hammerdwarf

You can assign professions, or if you want more detail, skills here. Seems the game suggests taking a combination of miner, a mason/architect, smith, woodcutter, and carpenter for your five free dwarves. The other screens are for your initial equipment. Seems you can request generic item types like felling axes and picks, to detailed items like a rotwood bucket with a silver handle. The game suggests quite a bit of food and rock blocks, and has quite a lot of tools and raw material already selected. Apparently the military dwarves accompanying you already have equipment.

Then lastly, there is livestock. You can bring...
Black Hog - A big pig that is accustomed to living underground and mostly eats fungi.
Cave Ox - Underground cattle that is priced for its long fur and milk.
Echo Fowl - An underground bird that is kept for its eggs.
Ghostly Cat - A small feline loved for its independence, hunting of vermin, and... slow reproduction? It's also pretty silent it appears.
Silkbee - A hive-building insect. Its honey is inedible, but can be processed into a fine thread.
Stalking Hound - A canine that is well adapted to aiding in combat and the hunt.

[tomio175]

Take a miner, a mason, a smith, carpenter/woodcutter and [Let someone else choose].
Take some food, tools, but no stone (we can get that easily). Take some coal if there's none in the embark site. Oh, make sure you got some silver in case of vampires if those are bad against that. Look for a wiki, and then go check Bay12. Tell your friend you asked for help from them.

[Teneb]

PTW for now.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The fifth should be a farmer.

Take two ghostly cats and three stalking hounds. If we have spare points, buy some echo fowls and maybe a pair of black hogs.

[10ebbor10]

The fifth should be a farmer.

Take two ghostly cats and three stalking hounds. If we have spare points, buy some echo fowls and maybe a pair of black hogs.

We also appear to have a genderless dwarf

[Guardian G.I.]

Posting to watch.

[wer6]

also bring 20 silk bees.

[GreatWyrmGold]

...Cool.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Take a miner, a mason, a miner/smith, carpenter/woodcutter and farmer.
Take some food, tools, and some stone, to build up quickly.
Take some coal if there's none in the embark site.
Take some silver ore to smelt.
Look for a wiki, and then go check Bay12.
Tell your friend you asked for help from them.

[Knight Otu]

You mourn the fact that you don't have enough credit worked up to get back online immediately, and you idly wonder whether the game had a wiki. You know, back when there were wikis, before the 2020's War on Information.

Either way, you take a miner, a mason, a smith, a woodcutter/carpenter, and a farmer for your five free dwarves, food and tools, some coal in case you can't get any at the site, some silver ore because you recall that silver tends to harm mythical creatures that this world seems to have in spades. For livestock, you take two of those cats, three hounds, and two echo fowl. Seems that that's what your funds allow for the moment, but you're supposed to get a free caravan later.



So that's the site map. The dark Forest of Eyes north-west, the Riddled Fingers east, the Woods of Granite and the Lake of Travelers south-west. The red + represent the most likely avenue of attack, the green the most likely course of caravans.

[Knight Otu]

Year 126, Week 1 (Early Spring, The Elk)
Oku Ura is empty
Aveanaye is waning

Spoiler: Your units (click to show/hide)

Shorast Torchtin, Male Miner
Rith Boltsclashed, Male Mason
Thikut Dyegorges, Male Smith
Onol Lancedsoared, Female Carpenter/Woodcutter, expedition leader
Kib Bootrenowned, Female Farmer

Ilral Kindlingmines, Male Sublieutenant Requires simple bedroom, simple office
Fath Quakeamber, Female Axedwarf
Sazir Chewmines, Male Axedwarf
Athser Lilacmountains, Female Sworddwarf
Onol Paintposts, Male Hammerdwarf

2x Ghostly Cat (Tame)
3x Stalking Hound (Tame)
2x Echo Fowl

Spoiler: Your resources (click to show/hide)

50 Plump helmet
50 Ash morels
50 Underwheat
50 Cave pumpkins
50 Dark hog meat

50 Dwarven wine
50 Underbeer
50 Ash rum
50 Dwarven ale

10 Plump helmet spawn
10 Ash morel spawn
10 Underwheat seeds
10 Pig tail seeds
10 Cave pumpkin seeds

1 Copper Felling axe
1 Copper Pickaxe
5 Copper Crafter's Toolboxes
1 Iron anvil
1 Iron shovel
3 pig tail ropes
3 pig tail bags
3 tower cap buckets
3 tower cap splints
3 tower cap crutches
5 pig tail thread
5 pig tail cloth
1 tower cap wheelbarrow

3 silver ore
10 bars of coke

"You can {d}esignate areas for usage - you can forage, fell trees, mine downwards, designate rooms, workshops, stockpiles, and zones. You can {b}uild furniture, walls, and other objects.
In workshops, you can {o}rder the creation of objects, from simply asking for doors to asking for marble doors engraved with your civilization's symbol and iron hinges and handle.
In general, any able dwarf will then try to perform the orders you issued through whatever dwarf would be responsible to command the order in question."

[tomio175]

[D]ig out basic quarters and eating room after you've [D]ug out some farms. Then, [d]esignate some trees to be cut down. Afterwards, get some basic furniture and get ourselves a barracks and bedroom stuff going.