Just a heads up to Gamedragon. You have one day remaining of your turn before the 2 day grace period to post your save and perhaps discuss happenings.
Yeah, I'm aware. I'm going to have to play through tonight to finish, I had far less time to play then I thought I would.
Well, I decided to just play until Spring (as I wanted sleep) and so my turn ends! This is what happened:
When I opened the save dwarves were dying at a rate of around 2 a minute. I though this was a problem so I dug out a seperate part of the fort and kept about 47 dwarves there. I tunneled first down to the caverns and walled off the area we dug into so that we had a source of water. After this I managed to dig into the food stockpiles.
Once we were at the stockpiles our first major problem had been solved, we wouldn't starve to death. I knocked down two of the three doors and set walls up in their places. I couldn't knock down the third though, as a troll corpse was lumbering next to it. This is a problem that will have to be solved. While most dwarves were in the stockpiles I sent the miners down to our hastily made fort to begin digging some true stockpiles/workshops/bedrooms.
While they were doing this they were attacked. By a fucking forgotten beast. All three of our miners died, you lived well Flame IV and IronTomato. IronTomato also died well, before his death he managed to strike the beast three times, twice in the skull and once in the spine. I hastily constructed another wall and waited until the beast went away. After it left I took the wall down and blocked the passage to the caverns completely. Our current situation is grim. We only have food for a year or so and booze is even less populous. I suggest taking the fort back one room at the time by tunneling into rooms and then quickly sealing them off.
Oh, one more thing. I found two messages from Sprin, they are as follows:
"This is not a door, its a wall... DON'T QUESTION ME! <3 Sprin"
"DO NOT ENTER THE SECRET PLOT FOR THE OVERSEER SPRIN ALONE TRESPASSERS WILL BE SUBJECT TO EXPERIMATATIN"
Sprin has died (ha!) but someone might want to deal with this.
Sorry for the lack of pictures, shitty internet is a great curse. The save will be uploaded tomorrow.