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[DarkArtemisFowl]

Time to see what havoc I must create.

Any developments? Doesn't have to be in character or anything just let us know if your turn is going.

Yes, I'm just a bit busy but I should have a good portion of my turn up by tomorrow 

[exodius1]

Bump, anyone here? It would be a shame if this fort would die before I had a chance to ruin it.

[Matoro]

Artemis, how is your turn?

Really, if it takes much longer, I'd suggest just skipping to exodiuses turn. Well, as a founder OctoberFox should decide what to do, but it would be nice to actually see this fort advance.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Sorry for my hiatus. My sister broke my computer so I had to wait for it to be fixed.
I'll try to get as much as I can down tomorrow. If I can't get all of it done in the immediate next few days, I'll notify you to skip my turn.

[exodius1]

Sorry to hear about your PC. I hope it won't be much of a problem now.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

No, I don't wanna waste any more of your guys' time. Whoever's supposed to go now, just use the previous file. I feel like I used up too much time for too little of the Fortress. I'll go on my next rotation 

[exodius1]

If I remember correctly it means me. I'm downloading the save now, if it is OK with Fox that is.

[exodius1]

Terribly sorry for a double-post but I cannot see any named dwarfs  , they may have had their names erased during one of the transfers, it sometimes happens when you use Dwarf Therapist to name them. Could everybody tell me which dwarf they have claimed if they remember? And if not could they tell the type of dwarf they wanted so i can put them back into the game?


Edit
Never mind, found them, I'm just blind

Edit 2
Can someone post anything? I do not want to triple post and i have a first month of my turn done and just need a write down. If you wonder why only one it is because fps is criminally low, i get fps tops with graphical fps cap set at 15. If Fox decides it's too low to continue let me know, I just want to finish what I've started before I give save back to you guys just for fort to make some progress.

[Matoro]

How low is your FPS (not graphical, but calculational)?

[exodius1]

Sorry it was supposed to say in last post but apparently i forgot to type it in. 20-24fps tops, it is rather low, i blame number of animals, dwarfs and overall size of the fortress. I may try to fiddle burrows and path finding to increase it, as well as murder/lock in cages all the pets except for work animals. I could also try to turn temperature of but I’m not quite sure how it will affect that ice trap we have above the entrance:-\.

Also this is a guy I claimed:

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Exodius’ journal:
1st of Granite 132

I have been appointed overseer for our fair mountain home for next two years and even though I do not know how long I’ll actually last as the person who was supposed to be an overseer instead of me, I think he was called Artemis or something (sound very elfish if you ask me), had disappeared in mysterious circumstances shouting something about his sister. Nevertheless I’ll do my best to make sure our home is even better after my lead than it was before. As a member of the guard I never took much of an interest in economy of our fort so I had to conduct a meeting with our manager, bookkeeper and broker to learn what we have and what we need. I have also replaced old captain of the guard with myself as I do not want anybody but the queen breathing down my neck when I’m trying to do my job.
These are the notes I took during the meeting:
We have over 13,000 food units of both food and drink;
We have generated, as of 1st of granite 132, 2,485,691 copper coins worth of wealth;
Our population counts 224 dwarves, 82 of which are not old enough to do any actual work;

It also turns up we do not have any jail cells and we need at least 22 of them. I have already chosen unpopulated area to be prepared for renovation and adaptation to role of our criminal holding facility. It may have been planned as a living area by one of the previous overseers but I do not wish to dabble with unnecessary expansion when we have very good cells-to-be available. I have also took liberty in moving fortress guards barracks closer to jail to ensure quick response if any of the prisoners would be uncooperative;


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Speaking of things that need to be built Her Majesty is complaining about her quarters being unsuitable for someone of her position, I will have to do something about that as well, but this is not a priority for me at the moment;
Another problem are animals, there are relatively not that many but they seem to get under everybody's feet and slow down work so I’ll need to either butcher them or cage the ones I cannot slaughter due to owners making a fuss.

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Exodius’ journal:
6th of granite 132

I was thinking what to do with our youth, they have nothing important to do at the moment and have no job skills, I have also noticed that guards are the only soldiers with acctuall crossbows and we definitely could use more of them in the future. I may start training a new batch of marks dwarves, no more than ten, but I need a more proficient way of doing so. We also have couple of caged goblins lying around; I think I may be able to incorporate moving targets to our training somehow. Hmmm…. I think I have an idea, I’ll send a draft to our miners immediately to check if it is possible for them to create. I'll also have them sworn to secrecy, I need some time to polish the details and I do not need anyone to harass me with their ideas at the time. They are free to contribute once I'm done with it.
Miners have approved my little project saying it should not be too much of the problem as they had nothing better to do anyway and started working on it immediately, they also have discovered fire-clay while doing so, it may be invaluable resource to boost our economy due to its value.

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Exodius’ journal:
18th-ish of granite 132
Please forgive me for scattered notes and horrible hand writing, today is a first major bad day of my career as overseer.
There seems to be a problem with our magma forging area. A magma crab managed to sneak in to the lowest levels of our fort and murder a child; I have dispatched militia immediately to deal with the intruder. Meanwhile that bloody animal managed to kill another child and attack a peasant and another one of our workers, my memory eludes me as to who exactly it was, and then fled back to its natural habitat before our brave soldiers managed to get even close. Peasant did not survive and the other causality went to hospital for treatment. After a closer inspection it turns out the problem was a stairway leading directly to Magma Sea. Usually the procedure is to blame whoever was a leader at the time of mining but I feel that I should have inspected the whole fort much closer before taking responsibility for it so I blame none but myself. Masons were immediately sent to fix the problem. I’ve also ordered some alteration to forging area itself managing to squeeze in a kiln at the cost of one of the unused smelters.
Here is a drawing of guilty stairs
 

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This was a long day; I need a drink.

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Exodius’ journal:
28th granite 132
Black Fox had been freed from any non-administrative functions in the fort to improve the efficiency of managerial system, no more digging or hauling for you Sir.

On unrelated note it seems that one of our engravers, Kol Udosaban, had started working on some personal project. People say he is possessed and I agree because he took two raw adamantine pieces without asking anyone like an idiot. If this artifact of his will be useless I have no idea what I’ll do to him; something horrible most likely.


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So yeah tell me what you think of my writing style, I hope it is not that bad.

PS sorry for lateness of this, it seems this fortress is cursed or something, first Artemis' PC than my Internet doesn't want to cooperate. Also pictures are coming and i have some more of my turn to write up, i just need confirmation to continue from Fox, i do not want to put too much into it if my turn is going to be canceled.

Edit
Pictures are here, and next part is in a write up, I'll finish it tomorrow. We do have some guests so be sure to read it

[Matoro]

Nice to see this continue. A good update.
Disablin temperature may be a good idea. It's not a freezing trap, I actually designed it to be a drowning trap (enemies are locked between the gates, then filled with water). After I noticed that it freezes it kind of stopped working.

[exodius1]

I could try to cover it up so it would not freeze (every tile with "inside" has set temperature above freezing.), and if Fps really starts getting to me i'll disable temperature. Also this is a place holder, expect update later today.

PS how is the picture quality? Also who made those drawings in one of the previous posts? Becouse we may need some

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 forgotten beast

art.

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Exodius’ Journal:
4th of Slate 132
Kol has finished his artifact, it is an adamantine crown, I’m now walking around the fortress asking people what to do with this idiot.

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Exodius’ Journal
14th of Felsite 132
Nothing much happened since my last journal entry, we pretty much had been moving on with our lives. My special project is almost done.
We have a visitor, a Minotaur called Godum Mozirotung Kekimrinul Midul, later called Godum for convenience.  I have also noticed that previous overseers did not create an alert to send civilians to safety of our fortresses inside. I fix that immediately and tell everyone to go and stay in the hall with possible exception of kitchen.
I think a Minotaur would make a fine addition to my special project so we will attempt to catch it, but to make sure I’ve also told military to hide behind the corner to ambush him if he gets too far.
I’ve also received a message from below that there is a forgotten beast roaming around in the caverns. I hope there are no flawed staircases for him to get into fortress. It shall be left alone for now.

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 Exodius’ Journal
15th of Felsite 132
A snatcher had been caught in a cage, rather pathetic if you ask me, at least kobold thieves look where they put their feet.
Minotaur has also been caught, initially I thought It will not work as he chased after some poultry but he still walked into a trap.
Menagerie of targets for my special project is growing.

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Exodius’ Journal
17th of Felsite 132
More snatchers had been caught.
Elven caravan has arrived, they did not bring anything worth writing home about so we did not trade.

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Exodius’ Journal
22nd of felsite 132
More snatchers

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Exodius’ Journal
24th of Felsite 132
We have been ambushed! A squad of goblin bowman had followed the elves to our fortress!
I screamed for alarm but not everybody managed to get inside, one of our butchers had been killed.

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 Exodius’ Journal
25th of Felsite
We have captured 4 of ambushers and killed the rest, we have some wounded, now in hands of our doctors.
I’ve ordered lockdown for a week or until we figure out if elves had been part of this plot, Fortress Guard shall interrogate them, with me as a main inquisitor.
[ooc] It’ is up to you guys, slaughter the pointy eared bastards or let them go free? I could also simply confiscate their goods as a punishment for not checking if they were followed or not. Next update will be delayed until I get answer [/ooc]

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 Exodius’ Journal
1st of Hematite 132
Summer has arrived

Pictures are on the way.
I would also appreciate if Fox would update front post with the achievements of our post, mostly the food one.

[ShadowHammer]

Inform the elves that because of their incompetence, you needed to make more armor/weapons, thus cutting down more trees, and give them a log as proof.

[exodius1]

Inform the elves that because of their incompetence, you needed to make more armor/weapons, thus cutting down more trees, and give them a log as proof.

And after they get upset slaughter them because they have insulted our culture by refusing a gift? I like the way you think. I do want to wait for more people to have their say before proceeding but do not worry your involvement is noted.

PS I will upload Pictures tomorrow, I forgot to actually do it today, had to do some things.

[BlackOctoberFox]

Sorry I've been gone for a while now. I've been preoccupied. Don't worry though I'll update the front page when I can, I'm going to have to read through the updates first mind you.

Where have I been? Well I've been getting a job, sorting out stuff for university and I am down right determined to finish Dark Souls at least once before the sequel is released, so yeah.

Oh and forgetting the password to my account, that was fun too.

Edit: Okay guys we are writing WAY too much, so much so that both my and Mataro's turn have been removed from the front page to shrink the message down below forum restrictions. This isn't a bad thing, frankly the more you write the better. To remedy this issue I have cut/paste the first two turns to a word processor, so the information is saved, and I will keep documenting what happens in the fortress. Once the first rotation is over I will (probably) upload a completed file complete with pictures to download, alongside the fortress, and update it for each subsequent rotation. Oh and Exodius you're turn is fine, it's sad hearing about Fowl's computer but these things happen.