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No - I'm not really that interested in claiming a dwarf anyways. If anyone wants one, take one of the 4 left.

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no - look at how much work your doing! relax already!

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yes - 5 or 10 more migrants are useful to the fort. Even if they're unclaimed, we'll need their labor.

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yes - 20-30 more migrants are required - I want to be a king among peasants.

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yes - I want nobles! lots of peasants! Give me arbitrarily huge peasant counts so that my guy doesn't need to do anything!

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Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early winter 130

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 The outpost liaison is here, which means the caravan is as well. I ask around to see where Amariithynar is, and apparently she's off dodging again. That silly dwarf, you can't do your individual drills when there is work to be done! I've sent someone to tell her that his armor stand is no longer a fit place for her to drill, and hopefully that will send her off.

The fort is coming along very nicely though. We ran out of useable slate to work with in making dining tables, so I'll have to dig out more. where to dig though? I first dug out quite a few new rooms in case our fort decides it wants more migrants. I also dug out an area in the mayor's level for... I don't know what yet. My thinking is it'll probably be used for coffins at some point. In the meantime though we'll put a couple of doors and a window on it.

oh, the mayor has a window and 2 doors for each of her rooms now. We had to rework the fronts to allow this, so now her doors are offcenter, and attached to a slate block wall instead of just a smoothed wall. I assure her that this is stronger anyways.

Our upper dining room is now competely smooth speaking of which. The next smoothign target is the migrant rooms, after which we'll do the bottom dining room. So much work though, who knows if we'll get it done. Then of course I have to dig out some more stone for Flamestrider to carve, adn then I need some free time to encrust more things with gems. If only I could show pictures of my work, I think anyone would be proud. One of the slate doors Flamestrider made is now encircled with milk quartz and spikes of green tourmaline and finely-crafted green glass. We now have an anvil with green tourmaline larches and circles of green glass. Every piece of stray furniture is going to be beautified at some point.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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 In my boredom I've decided to recount the stockpiles of the fort. Sure, it hasn't changed any since the last time I counted, but I had to be sure. I was asked to relax a bit on those, so I ended up heading up to do some combat drills. I gotta keep busy! Besides, a few weaves and dodges in the snow are good for the body.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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 They've been busy smoothing out yet more stone. Seriously, how do they expect us to sleep with all this ruckus going on? Well, apparently pretty well considering how amazing our bedrooms are. Anyways, recently I've been doing nothing but smelting Galena. There is a lot of it around here, and darn it, it all should be smelted.

MrWillsauce is living the high life right now too. he has a more relaxed schedule of making glass windows and gems, and just socializing. I told him that we should really find more time to pay attention to Kadol LittleWillsauce, as he adopted yet another cat recently. Seriously, those cats are getting everywhere. Yes, we know he likes cats, but there has to be some reasonableness to this. He doesn't need 10! I try to give him some slack though, as I know he's having problems with that Asmel fella. It's silly, I know, but I think he's afraid of asmel's looks. I mean, why else would you have a grudge with a 50 year old?

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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Smothing stone, running out of stone to make tables, more smoothing stone, and a bit of being outside. going outside was a msitake though. The sun is extra bright when you also got a snow storm. I feel nauseated now.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 Well, I finally figured out how to make meed! I don't know if I'll be able to accomplish it again, but I at least did it once! Now, I keep misplacing my honeycomb, so that's my new project. Find out where poeple are putting all my honeycomb, 'cus I can't make meed without it.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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 always busy around here I say. And it's still true. Well, mostly true, we hit a soft spot again. Right now we're out of stone, mostly out of thread for weaving, out of leather, and... actually I don't know if we have any bones to carve. I'll check on that after my break. We can always use new bone bolts.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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 We've started sparring recently, which means we're getting pretty adequate with our axes. It's very satisfying to do so, even if we were put on another REALLY long patrol duty.

Is this what we need to do in order to get treated well around here? it doesn't seem so as I think I'm the only one that honors this traditional practice. I see Amariithynar just dancing around by herself, and I see all these other dwarves just acting like nobles - fools in other words. I don't see what most of them are doing day to day back here, but I'm sure they're not practicing a proper dwarvish practice like myself and Zon.

[TheZoomZoll]

Hello,hello!Are there any free dwarves?
Im interested in seeing how I will die help the fort grow prosperous.
You can call the one Zoll and make him a butcher,a animal trainer/a trapper,a chef,a brewer or anything FOOD related.If you can find somebody more lonely that would be great!Preferably a female?
EVERYONE WILL LOVE MY DISHES,EVERYONE.
Edit:Is Zas Ushatsherik still alive/well?If so,make her a cook.

[BraveHero400]

Oh dear, running low on supplies is never good. 

I agree with him on his point about clothes lasting longer if taken care of properly, but this is Dwarf Fortress; nothing makes sense dwarf logic is different from the logic of the real world.

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Assuming the real world even has logic anymore...

[Uthric]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Brew

Says its a diff job than brew drink.

So idk u got some jugs?

[malimbar04]

Hey! I keep playing a season and then getting too tired or busy at the end to post my next reply. Uthric, note I did figure out the brew mead btw in the last post . It just... took me a while before I realized it. Now the problem is a lack of jugs (they keep on using them for royal jelly), but I may have found a solution for the next update. We'll see.

and TheZoomZoll, there are TONS of free dwarves. You want Zas Basementperplexed? naming her Zol? You got her. She is now our head cook. She is also married to a sworddwarf Ilral Lirlokum, and has one 2 sons (the youngest is at the fort). Congrats!

Now, for the update. (Zol will bein the next one)

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Spring 131

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 Both Flamestrider and I are busy smoothing out migrant rooms right now. it's coming along nicely, with most of the ones occupied now being pretty smooth. I also worked on some of the new lcothing for a while, but most of my time this last season was spent encrusting things with more gems. I jsut cut a superior quality large gem made of glass the other day. I'm very proud of it.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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Since I'm not allowed to train at the armor stand anymore, I'm again a little bored. I've gone back to updating the records, though I did sneak in a few shots at the archery range when no one was looking. I had to stop that though when a snowstorm hit. And while I'm happy with my sleeping arrangements, it only brings me so much joy really.

You know what I need? something to design. Maybe I should work on pillars or something.  Get some engineering practice in, ya know?

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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I got a compliment on my silver maces I've been making recently. Hey, I'm glad someone likes this work. i'm getting better all the time. MrWillsauce says I'm an expert now. I'm not sure about that, but the quality is definitely improving.

He also really likes my furnace apparently. I saw him admiring it for a good hour. I thought he was admiring me at first, but it was obvious where he was staring after the first few minutes. I love that dwarf, but come on, really?

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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I had a break recently and just lied around. It was amazing to just enjoy the fantastic everything. The bed, the door, the bedroom, the dining room... all thsi hard work pays off I say. Glad we've been working on this. Anyways, as always, we're busy. I'm currently helping smooth out the migrant rooms, which is getting close to done (at least for the useable rooms). Plenty of work to continue afterwards though.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 Now that I figured out the mead recipe, I started hunting down the rest of our honeycomb. It was stored in bins! bins! I made the others remove them from the bins and put them in a stockpile. And then you know what I find out? the jugs! the jugs are all full! No wonder I can't get anything done. They're full of honey bee royal jelly, which I have no idea how to dump out. I've asked the farmer to cook it all, but they keep saying they can't. I'll keep pressing them though, and I think I'll move the jugs really close to the kitchens just in case.

Then I asked the craftsdwarf to make a few more out of stone. He said we're short on stone, but suggested glass jugs. I didn't realize we could make those. I've asked for a ton of them, as many as we could get. He said he'd talk around and get it figured out.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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So the Bee Hermit came to me recently. He said "head craftdwarf (heh), I need a bunch more rock jugs". I told him that we didn't have stone, but I could see about making glass jugs. apparently he never heard of such a thing. It's funny what some people don't know. I'll talk to the head glassmaker at some point.

As for myself, we did have a lot of bones to carve. Now we have a great deal of ammunition, just in case Amariithynar ever wants to go practice sometime. I kepe forgetting shes' the only marksdwarf. Heh.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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 It's true, I have been depressed about being forgotten in this little self-made squad, but darn it I'm going to do it right if I'm going to do it. Wind, rain, snow... we're still going to spar like it's the year 5 and we're facing the hoards of humans of times past. Or whatever, I'm not really familiar with our history honestly.

OK, to be honest the bedroom like a personal palace still helps. But the sparring sessions are also nice.

[Uthric]

Gem cutting and stuff!

[GalenEvil]

* GalenEvil claims a random dorf!!

To be hopefully renicknamed as my chosen moniker "Galen" ^_^ This looks interesting, so thus also a PTW!

Job(s): Miner Dorf called into military service to use his pickaxe for precision surgery upon the Green Menace.

[malimbar04]

Gem cutting and stuff!

huh? That's... almost a sentence. woosh *as it flies over my head*.

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Summer 131

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 You know, it's been a while since I've had a break. Now that most of the mingrant rooms are smoothed, and the second dining room is mostly smoothed, and we don't have any gems to cut... I'll take a break right now.

Early in the season someone named Zas Basementperplexed came to me saying she wanted to be one of the nobles. After figuring out what she was talking about (the people with the bigger rooms), I told her the requirement of choosing an important job and a nickname. "call me Zol" she said. Whatever, Zol it is. "And I want to be a chef". what... really? OK then lazybones. For some reason she just rubs me the wrong way. Honestly though it doesn't matter. We got a free room, and I'll probably rarely ever see her. She won't get off too easy though, I also ordered a special kitchen from black bronze made just for her. She's going to be cooking a lot I'd reckon.

What else. well, we butched (by recommendation, I forget from who) the water buffalo calfs. I think it had somethign to do with grass. I drank some mead recently, that wasn't bad. And then I just lied aorund in my little personal palace of a room. It was a pretty good season.

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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Ah, that was a much better season. I designed a bunch of pillars for the main staircase, and Flamestrider went right to work putting them all up. I'm quite proud of how they're set up. It makes me think about building some more up top, and maybe starting some sort of tower. I'll have to get permission though, as we'll need more stone then we currently have mined. Or maybe I can use some glass blocks - I haven't worked with much glass before. That being said, the glass window in my room is pretty shiny.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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Still busy using burnt dead trees for the benefit of melting rocks and making weapons. Heh, it's fun when I think about it that way. It's like a big "nananana" to the elves. You are effectively selling us the slaves of our own production. it's fair too, since galena and silver maces are better than those silly logs anyways.

Mrwillsauce has been talking upt a stome recently about a high demand for glass jugs. I didn't know you could make glass jugs. He's been making a bunch of them recently though, melting sand and such. It's actually competing with my charcoal use. OK, we got a fair amount of charcoal, but it's competing in theory.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 We finished most of the designated smoothing areas now. We have a bit more to do still,b ut it shouldn't be long before we're looking for new work. I don't even know what it's like to not work. What would I do? I suppose I could see Amariithynar again - I've been to busy to talk to her much in the last year. Or maybe they'll figure out that there is more to keepign this fort alive, and they'll call on me again. Who knows.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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Lots of green glass jugs available now! I've been pushing the honey out of the huge stockpile of backed up honeycomb we have sitting around, and turning it into mead. I'm pretty sure they're still not cooking the royal jelly, but now that we got a basically infinite supply of glass jugs I can probably sell those off at some point. The mead, by design, comes a bit slowly. But I bet the others are really happy to not be drinking so much mushroom wine once in a while.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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Clothes-making for me! I've made quite a few things recently - not least of which are those bags that are being used for sand now. MrWillsauce has been doing a pretty good job of making those glass jugs too. On my front, that has meant more wax just lying around. Wax lying around gets turned into wax crafts.

It's been fun to play with wax! I haven't done that before. I have a wax sceptor, a wax bracelet, a wax ring, a wax figurine of MrsWillsauce (i think she'll like that). It relates to the career change from basic metalsmith to weaponsmith in midwinter of 130.

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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 OK, this is really starting to piss me off. I've been out here for what seems like forever just sparring. Granted, we had another satisifying sparring session recently, and granted the room is still like a personal little palace for me, but seriously how long are they going to have be doing this with no break?

Probably forever honestly. As long as the sparring is good, and I'm holding true to a good tradition (one of the only ones in the fort), I'll probably still be happy. It's not bad working here.

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Zas 'Zol' Basementperplexed

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hah, it worked! I saw all those nobles living it large up in those special rooms, and you know what I did? I went right up to the manager and said I wanted one of those rooms! he gave it to me too, and even calls me by my proper name "Zol". heh, I like it. Best part? I don't even have to change my job much - I just have to cook food once in a while. Heck, he even gave me my own kitchen made of black bronze to work with!

This is the life though. Me and my husband and my kid living like a king. A legendary dining room, an easy and fun job, a bedroom like a palace... it's awesome. They also started making these fine supports right up the stairway, and I gotta say they did a nice job.

[malimbar04]

Woo, new dwarf!

Melbil 'Malimbar' Linedwire
Early Autumn 131

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So another dwarf came to me this summer. OK, I lied. He didn't come to me exactly. At some point I was looking over the personality profiles of various people, and I found out that someone really likes picks. Well, it so happens that we had a person named Edem Torchwet. Long story short I made him a miner to replace me, and we decided to call him Galen. The only problem (and a temporary one) is that we didn't have a room for him. Guess what his new assignment was?

Otherwise we're still just smoothing things. We forgot to smooth out the whole layer of workshops, so that's the new project. Then when we're done with that, we'll probably smooth out the new bedrooms. 

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Ber 'Amariithynar' Mightshot

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 The lack of stone had my tower idea vetoed unfortunately. Now I'm just.. walking around.  I'm happy, but withthe lack of sleep and lack of work it's just... boring. later tonight I'll go look over the figures of the fort again. Our total ewalth is at last count 263,731, with our most value catagorized under weapons. We have 99,874 value in those. Silver maces of course are a large part, but so are the steel weapons we've been pumping out recently. The next biggest is "other" of course, at  61,405, but after that I value our architecture at the highest. Our architecture gives an extra value (by my estimation) of 34,570. It's nice to go over that figure, because it smooths out my boredom once in a while.

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*The Willsauce Family*
(written by MrsWillsauce)

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We ran out of charcoal, so both myself and MrWillsauce are at a loss currently for what to do. We can't make glass or weapons without coal! I've made a formal request to dig down to magma. OK, not FORMAL request, but I'll do that sometime soon.

I do hope they finish the smoothing though soon. The noise has been keeping everyone awake for years now.

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Thob 'Flamestrider' Plannedcudgels

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 We finished smoothing one area, and true to my expectatino they created more areas to smooth. I expect we'll finish when Kirar Worthlove the goddess of Charity decides to slaughter all dwarves and rule teh world. In otherwords... never.

But you know what? for now Im' fine with that. Every room I look at here has something amazing to look at, and I can think "yeah, I had a big part of that". it's very nice.

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Morul 'Uthric' Helmpractice

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 When I was out taking care of the bees I happened upon one of the traps we have outside the fort. They are some very fine traps. The wife thinks I'm a bit crazy, but I'm sure she agrees.

Work has been pretty satisfying recently. With the abundance of jugs of glass I've been able to get out a good amount of mead, most of which other people have already drank. The royal jelly is still a growing problem though. More and more jugs are being taken up, but none of it is being cooked.

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Domas  'Ralgreth Smith' Reliefgate

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 I just scraped by onthat one. I have just had a punishment delayed! Our Mayor Rimtar sentenced me to 76 days in prison for violating a production order. I think I was supposed to make earings or something. Well, sorry mayor, I didn't know!

I got off because we have nowhere to put prisoners, and we don't have anyone to actually dispense just anyways. I can't say I'm sorry for that. But that being said, I did make a LOT of wax crafts this last season, so I don't know why anyone would complain about anything. I assuem they're going to sell them soon too, so I hope they like them!

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Zefon 'Sloth' Claspscalded

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 Well, they apparently haven't entirely forgotten about me. They recently re-arranged my squad. They removed the peasant I was working with on axedwarfing, and they replaced him... with someone with a pick. What am I supposed to do with that?

What's even funnier is that Galen says he has experience with an axe, but apparently someone read he likes picks. Anyways, they also switched us to a non full-time schedule. Instead we're 2 months on and 2 months off. I'm torn on whethers this is a good idea or not - it definitely doesn't fit tradition. But on the other hand, it might give me some time to do my other work. 

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Zas 'Zol' Basementperplexed

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 The've tried to give me more work to do, but I mostly just laughed at them. Look, the vast majority of the dwarves here can cook, and we don't have THAT much to cook anyways. So, even when I'm looking for work there isn't a whole lot to do. I did cook a bit though, and I also rendered some fat from some of the kittens we recently slaughtered. Bit by bit, right?

That being said, they're throwing an awesome party in one of the dining rooms. I intend to go soon.

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Edem 'Galen' Torchwet

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 So I'm called into the managers office at the beginning of summer. You can im think how I felt - I felt like a wreck. What would he want with me?

He looked at my profile (people look at those things?) and said how it said I liked picks. well yeah. picks are good I said. He said I am to be a miner, and that he'd get a pick made for me. He did too. I'm also helping out someone train, and I'm told that I can use my pick there too for practice.

It means I'm outside, which is REALLY bright. But the work is really amazing. The pick I have is awesome too. It's exceptional in quality (near top quality I think) and it's made of steel. It's the best pick in the fort.

[Uthric]

Just dump the jelly over the wall as bait or something around some cage traps.

Or atom smash it or lava pit it or load it inside a shotgun type minecart cannon.

[TheZoomZoll]

Hey! I keep playing a season and then getting too tired or busy at the end to post my next reply. Uthric, note I did figure out the brew mead btw in the last post . It just... took me a while before I realized it. Now the problem is a lack of jugs (they keep on using them for royal jelly), but I may have found a solution for the next update. We'll see.

and TheZoomZoll, there are TONS of free dwarves. You want Zas Basementperplexed? naming her Zol? You got her. She is now our head cook. She is also married to a sworddwarf Ilral Lirlokum, and has one 2 sons (the youngest is at the fort). Congrats!

Now, for the update. (Zol will bein the next one)

Cheer's!

[BraveHero400]

So Ralgreth, has no stone to work with, hits up the glass-man, and wax gets made! Hurrah!

On another note, Yikes!! He nearly met an unfortunate fate!  (I guess the RNG didn't put earrings in while he was making crafts).

[Skid]

Ooh.  Can I have a dwarf named "Doktor" with medical skills and mechanics enabled?  He (or she) needs an antisocial personality and wants a bedroom protected by a trap-filled maze. 

Personal design philosophy of fortress security: "It's okay if they get in, they'll never get out alive."  As such, he/she'd like to place traps in unlikely and questionable locations whenever he/she can get away with it.

[TheZoomZoll]

Ooh.  Can I have a dwarf named "Doktor" with medical skills and mechanics enabled?  He (or she) needs an antisocial personality and wants a bedroom protected by a trap-filled maze. 

Personal design philosophy of fortress security: "It's okay if they get in, they'll never get out alive."  As such, he/she'd like to place traps in unlikely and questionable locations whenever he/she can get away with it.

Speaking of medical skills,is Zol's son old enough to be chief medical dwarf?We need one of those.
He should have:Diagnostician -- Surgeon -- Suturer -- Wound dresser -- Bone doctor -- Feed patients/prisoners -- Recovering wounded as a noble chief medical dwarf.Also he should be called "Loki" when he comes of age.
PS:Sorry Skid if you wanted your guy chief medical dwarf,you only said you wanted a dwarf medic and mechanic.

[malimbar04]

Darn you people and your hunting challenges.  It's not easy filtering personality traits out in DF you know, and I can't exactly create them. Partly because you have a more specific request, partly because I'm busy, partly because I'm lazy, and partly because I'm currently a little cranky, I'll just refresh the personality profiles of the dwarves that are available and re-post it to Imgur. Pick your dwarf from them . I'll put in the jobs and lifestyles (and mostly whatever else you want) you request, but remember you're claiming a dwarf and making them relevant, not building them from scratch

On the bright side, I just learned a bit about renaming files in bash! that was fun. Updated available dwarves http://imgur.com/a/j8aiL#0

And TheZoomZoll, your kid is apparently  2 years old: http://i.imgur.com/oC9QP.png so it will be a while. He's named Loki now anyways though!