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[SanDiego]

An important thing dawned on me - last time I read about the sacrificial altar design, it sorely lacked in upright pointy thingies department. Gravity is good, gravity with pointy thingies even better!

[StLeibowitz]

An important thing dawned on me - last time I read about the sacrificial altar design, it sorely lacked in upright pointy thingies department. Gravity is good, gravity with pointy thingies even better!

I put a weapons trap with eight giant saw blades in it at the bottom. The theory was that the drop would knock the sacrifice out, and the buzzsaws would spray bits of it (as well as copious volumes of its blood) across the temple.  If the drop remains too short, we'll just have to build a tower above ground to drop them from.

In retrospect, though, a spike would probably have been more efficient - but efficiency is never a primary goal in these projects, only a potential side effect.

[Orange Wizard]

OK, the weapon trap at the bottom of Ye Olde Pitte of Sacrifice will be replaced with 10 upright spears, linked to a lever in the dining room.
I'm also smoothing out and engraving a lot of the sacrificial chamber. Personally, I'd prefer it to end inside an adamantine spire, deep inside the SMR, but a microcline vein will have to suffice.

While this was progressing, a mason claimed his workshop. (?)

One of the children, As Astodkubuk, has grown up! She's now a goose!
Wait, what?

The mason has begun a mysterious construction, involving copper bars, rough gems, and malachite.

All steel crossbow bolts are being melted down, and the resultant bars will be used for the spikes in the Pitte.

We have 119 turkey eggs. Those turkeys are pretty busy.

Traders have arrived! Alright, let's trade! We have rock crafts to sell to our fellow dwarves!

And our dear mason has created Kubuk Raluk, a malachite table valued at 12000☼:

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This is a malachite table. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with round malachite cabochons and encircled with bands of copper. The object menaces with spikes of malachite and chrysocolla.

A bucket is attacking! It's trying to steal our children!
Uh. OK, the bucket took one look at our manager and fled.

A bucket is attacking! It's also trying to steal our children!
This bucket distracted the masons working on my Ye Olde Towere of Sacrifice. Then fled. These buckets suck at stealing children.

Trade with the dwarves has begun. I gave them some flutes in exchange for their plump helmets and some seeds, but they were rapidly losing patience by the time I bartered four barrels of booze out of them... for 500☼ worth of crafts.

Every surface in the sacrificial room has been set for engraving. It's going to be pretty awesome when it's done.

And... that's it for now, unless I'm horribly mistaken.

[peregarrett]

A bucket is attacking! It's trying to steal our children!
Uh. OK, the bucket took one look at our manager and fled.

A bucket is attacking! It's also trying to steal our children!
This bucket distracted the masons working on my Ye Olde Towere of Sacrifice. Then fled. These buckets suck at stealing children.

uh, WHAT?

[Gentlefish]

Buckets are stealing children? What, do they have a bottomless pit inside of them?

[StLeibowitz]

Well, it's difficult not to suck at everything when you lack the basic five senses and a nervous system. Silly buckets!

[The Mad Fool]

I suspect he's having tileset issues, seeing as how one of the children grew up to be a goose.

Either that or Terry is turning his hand to transmogrification and animation.

[Wastedlabor]

Maybe an adventurer brought a wand of polymorph from Nethack.

[Yuli Vlasi]

Does the dwarf/goose have a name yet?

Also, why are the goblins represented by buckets?

A medium-sized container driven to cruelty by its evil nature.

Murdermachines, Year 3: Inanimate objects attempt to steal our children but it's fine because they simply turn into animals before something bad happens

[GentlemanRaptor]

Oh , jesus. Tileset issues just make me laugh so much. That said, if they can be purged, it will delay the coming of Terry for a time.

[scaliper]

I've made a dorfing request, and would also like to be added to the turn-list if at all possible. Also, sorry I'm late to the party. I missed the link on the first post of the Deathgate thread.

[Orange Wizard]

I laughed a lot when I read your responses to my buckets/goose nonsense, and now people are looking at me.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure it's a tileset problem:

this tileset is WEIRD. Everything looks creepy. I don't like it. Make it go away!

why are the goblins represented by buckets?

[AutoScribe]

Okay. I've been stalking this thread for a short while now, and have finally given in to the urge to sign up. Nice to meet you everybody!!!
*sighs*
God help me.

[NRDL]

Have I been dorfed yet?

[SanDiego]

According to this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlSo5hVNJbAqdGUxNmw5dEFqVG91Nm1Jb2xKRk02NVE#gid=0
you are still alive.