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Stick with the current fort, let the vampire be our savior!

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Reclaim, Time to start with a fresh batch of dwarves!

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Total Members Voted: 4

Voting closed: April 17, 2013, 09:47:35 pm

[Glloyd]

Journal of Glloyd Wallmirrors, Axedwarf: 4th of Moonstone

My first battle...

War is not all it's cracked up to be is it? I saw my fellow soldiers, my friends die in a flurry of lashes. I saw a child, snatched up and taken away by those filthy goblins. And where was I during all of this? Cowering behind Javier, feebly pretending that my crossbow was out of ammo so as to not have to fight. What a coward I am, I can scarcely call myself a dwarf. My only consolation is that we captured a goblin General in the skirmish, so at least my friends' deaths were not in vain, even though it may feel that way...

[sensei_shade]

Great updates, Kalemyr. Big fan of that style.

What's my dwarf up to? More -rock cabinet- making?

[Kalemyr Skyfire]

What's my dwarf up to? More -rock cabinet- making?

He's pretty good at weaving, and threshing. There was more rock pot making than cabinet making during my reign.

Cowering behind Javier, feebly pretending that my crossbow was out of ammo so as to not have to fight. What a coward I am, I can scarcely call myself a dwarf.

Don't be so hard on yourself. I didn't realize your dwarf was assigned a marksdwarf position until after the battle. Besides you ran out of ammo after the battle; you also managed to hit a goblin... uh...

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You hit 3 times out of 25, better than most peasants I suppose.

Edit: Your accuracy would be 0.12, or 12%.

[Glloyd]

Don't be so hard on yourself. I didn't realize your dwarf was assigned a marksdwarf position until after the battle. Besides you ran out of ammo after the battle; you also managed to hit a goblin... uh...

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You hit 3 times out of 25, better than most peasants I suppose.

Edit: Your accuracy would be 0.12, or 12%.

Haha, i stand by my journal. But twelve percent is still pretty good for someone with no skill.

(Also, I did cripple him, which does warm my soul a bit).

[Oranos]

any one seen laularukyrumo about i think its his turn next right?

[laularukyrumo]

Excellent. Time to whip this place into SHAPE!

[Glloyd]

Can we expect a post soon?

[bp920091]

I updated the front page with links to everyone's entries (both overseer and random journal entries), and i have cleaned out the needs dwarfing list (as i assume that they have been done already). If anyone sees a problem with these links, or they want to be dwarfed (or added to the overseers list), let me know, so i can update it.

Additionally, i will give laularukyrumo until the 23rd to post an update. After that, we will move onto MinethatCrackers.

[laularukyrumo]

FUCK when did the save get posted? been watching this thread like a hawk and haven't seen it

o_o

Downloading now, I'll get on this...

[flame99]

Could I get on the overseer list/be dorfed? I'm fine with anything, although a militia member would be preferable.

[laularukyrumo]

Okeydoke. So a few prequel-style tidbits before the update proper begins (read: before I really start playing)

flamey, since you're the only one on the dorfing list I'll handle that, the overseer list will be fixed when it's fixed.

Screenshots I put up are going to be in ASCII. Because I've gotten used to it. I'll have it changed back (if I remember to) when I upload my save.

I'm gonna get some food in me, look over the inevitable clusterfuck that will be the fort, and set about the first stages of reparations surgery.

[laularukyrumo]

Overseer Laularu Kyrumo, administrative logs.

I am not a happy farmer.

Ignorance really is bliss when it comes to leadership roles. I'm not exactly sure why, probably an attempt at a birthday gift from my wonderful boyfriend, but I'm now seemingly in charge here. What.

So now I have to leave the farms I've grown so accustomed to, march outside into the OH GOD IT BURNS AND IT SICKENS AND GRAAAAAAAH

Eughhhn.... I was afraid of this. The outside environment is so different from the safety of the underground that it is physically making me ill to venture out. They call it the Elf-Lover's disease, since only elf lovers got it traditionally. But when you're in such a desolate place as this, you've got to make sacrifices. I'm thinking one of the projects I'll get around to (if I have time) is building a skylight in--while it'll suck for a while, we'll get used to the sun and be just fine.

That, however, is long-term luxury. For now? PAPERWORK.

The blasted fools who've run this place before me have a hilariously poor idea of organization. That is to say, they don't. There's a crude sticky-note taped to the fortress drawbridge labeled "Fort", and another one a few meters above labeled "Top of fort", and that is IT. No lever labels, no hallway designations, no nothing. I'm going to go rooting around old diaries and see what sort of information I can glean. Anybody who complains, I'll tell them it's part of a mandatory vampire screening. Speaking of which....

Someone decided it was a good idea to build a lever that does nothing but perforate the vampire we DID find. While humorous, I feel this should be clearly labeled, so in case we need to put down, say, a necromancer, we at least have a pseudo-ally.

I also labeled the pump, in case anyone forgets what THAT'S for. Or something silly.

Found the source of the supermassive cramped parties in one of the bedrooms. Apparently, someone mis-designated a rope or something, and I guess it counts as a party-able room or something. Odd. Since there wasn't anyone assigned to the chain that I could see, and no real purpose for it being its own room, I decided to break up the party. Because fuck that.

There's this gypsum lever in the dining room, and I ASSUME it operates the main bridge, but I've got no indication.

I found a lever outside what was once the gladiatorial arena, and I found notes suggesting intent to retrofit it for a drowning chamber. The wiseness of this course of action is debatable, as the arena is currently open to the dining room, and could potentially overflow if managed poorly. I'm also not sure what the lever actually does. Let's find out here, I guess?

Hmm.

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Well. I pulled that thing like. 50 times. I literally didn't see it do anything. It's got two mechanisms in it already, plus the one it's constructed from. If, uh. Anybody knows wtf it does, please let me know?

God I hate this place already... brb, going to fix a broken stair column.

[Rendell]

I decided to break up the party. Because fuck that.

Oh no.. the end of the legendary party room, now where all the dwarfs go to let down their beards?..

On a side note I always wondered why that room had so many dwarfs in it, they must have really liked that rope..

[laularukyrumo]

I believe party attendance is proportional to the size of the fortress, not the size of the room.

In other news, HOW THE FUCK DO I SALVAGE THIS FORTRESS?

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Overseer Laularu Kyrumo, Administrative Logs

So I figured out why nobody's doing anything. There's a whole floor that would be inaccessible if there weren't two staircases. I'm gonna fix staircases and see if that gets people working, among other things. For example, we had ONE bone carver, and like, 11 beekeepers, not to mention how many fishermen and fish dissectors. Uh. Guys? Ocean's frozen and snowed over. We're not going fishing. Ever. Find a new job, you slackers.

A cat ran into a kobold thief by the name of Slokis. However, there were also several Muskox surrounding it. This should be interesting....

Never mind, it was smart enough to run away from everything. Sending the marksdwarves out to intercept (or chase it down). They failed miserably, but a second kobold thief drew attention from a wardog, who proceded to chase him down and bite the shit out of him. Good riddance, yellow scum. The dog had one of its legs slashed pretty badly, with nervous damage likely, but the kobold can't stand up either, and will hopefully bleed out. I'm gonna send the military after it just in case; the dumb thing is too slow to get off the map before we perforate him anyways. (Spear to the skull took him out after he passed out near the ocean)

We have more than 50 dwarves who are jobless, so I sent them to pick up the assorted crap left over from past sieges. If nothing else, the metal goods can be melted down, and the non-metal goods can be unloaded on unsuspecting merchants. I'm waiting on a miner to get over here and obey my commands to channel out a gigantic death chute that we can drop goblins down and watch them splatter. We have a lot of caged goblins, and not enough cage traps that have cages in them.

So who believes a 35+ z-level pit is enough to slaughter anything goblin-sized? Cause I've got such a hole, and I'm about to drop goblins down it for great justice. And of course, I'll have the military stationed at the bottom, just in case he somehow survives. We're keeping the general though. Just in case someone wants to ransom him.

While we await the arrival of the executioner, I've taken it upon myself to adjust something. Namely, seeds. All seeds are being routed to a single pair of stockpiles near the farms, so that we don't get dumbasses complaining that they can't find plump helmet spawn because Urist McHogsalot is carrying the entire barrel of seeds just so he can plant one seed. Dumbass.

Anyway. Time to make some Goblin Drop Soup....

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Not even a combat log. He just died on impact and splattered apart. I approve. Operation: Goblin Drop Soup is a success.

So I've decided that bones are cooler than skeletons, and bone crafts, the coolest. Bone bolts are also nice. So I've taken all the non-goblin skeletons from outside and moved them indoors, to have them butchered into bone. I'm also having them processed at the craftdwarf shops. Totems are nice, cheap trade goods, people! Don't waste what you can sell!

Elves are here, time to sell these new crafts...



Or.... not.

FUCK

[javierpwn]

The one lever you couldn't tell what it does, I presume it opens the cage of the arena, to fight caged goblins