Though I usually take screenshots as I go, this time I did not, but I did get a few at the end. I had a couple ways to go with this. I could try to organize what I could in a year...or I could embrace the chaos and leave the fort in just as much a crazy mess. I chose chaos, although I did what organizing, especially of the labors, I had to do for my own peace of mind.
Off to a 'Good' StartSo, first things first, I begin my time as overseer with a siege of Jotuns at the gate. And by gate I mean elaborate entrance way. Following Gimmash's very nice instructions (thank you sir) I wait until they are gathered by the artifact door and catch them in the cave in trap. It works great, although a handful are either knocked away by dust or not caught in the trap. They are stunned, and none of them are fireball throwers, so I send my newly filled melee squad to see what they could do. That was the beginning of my experience with the Hero of Silvergoose.
A few notes: up/down stairs open up a passageway through the floor, whether or not there are stairs below to meet them. So the save started out with a jotun hurling fireballs up through the up/down stairs and starting fires/killing dwarves in the main compound. A handful of dwaves died, including your miner Smurfington, before I could get them deconstructed and replaced with up stairs. We were set for food and drink for the most part, and everyone was pretty happy, so I just used the stability of the fort for my own purposes and to get a military set up and arms and armor started. Also, I will get to the full story of the Hero further down.
An Historical OverviewSo to summarize events for the rest of the turn, I got a few migrant waves which were really helpful, and both got in completely safely. I also got an elf and a human caravan in safely and spent some of our mugs to buy everything we could possibly use from them. We missed the dwarven caravan due to a siege I couldn't break in time, which sucks cause they had what we really could have used. We had 3 moods, one failed (I have no idea what he was missing...showmood on dfhack said he had everything he needed and I couldn't figure out what he was missing. The list had like 15 ingredients) plus a bucket named The Absolute Love and this.
We had a lot of sieges, but I broke all but the last one, which has one squad left hanging out on the far side of the map which would be a pain to get. Other than that, the only other thing that typified the year was constant (as in, I considered magma accidents more than once) spamming of named dwarf Waaghina over being too injured to store owned item (STOP WHINING!!!!), and spamming of 'Daral created a masterpiece'.
...more to come.