Can i get dorfed as Lord_lemonpie, preferably a Ranger/hunter/animal trainer :3. I love this fort and the art is gorgeous!
I don't know if I've ever seen the 'doesn't feel effective in life' personality trait so congrats on the hardcore hopelessness I guess.
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2nd Limestone, 158Autumn started with a mechanic running around and screaming for rocks and other assorted things after kicking everyone out of one of the mechanic's shops. We'll see.
22nd Limestone, 158It's been a slow month, so far. The mechanic stood outside our tanner's shop for about ten days screaming for leather, but we butchered a stray cat and it appeased him and now he's running around collecting gems or something. Maybe I helped streamline this place, you know? Help with the madness. Made it a more smoothly running machine.
Zaerosz caught me when I was going to my room after working on engraving the dining room today. "There's something you need to know." He said. I tried to be hopeful, I really did.
"What?"
He began raving about how we should catch and train (and breed, ew) fire imps. I just walked away. This place isn't any less nuts, it's just been quiet for a bit.
Limestone 28th, 158"The Lacy Whims", eh? I checked and yep, the mechanic who made these mechanisms is a widow with a long-dead husband. Um... ew.
Oh well. Got another legendary mechanic. The rest isn't any of *my* business.
Sandstone 5th, 158I saw it coming from a mile away, today. I was standing at the end of one of the hallways when I saw Zaerosz powerwalk towards me like a man on a mission. I steeled my resolve and told myself that today it ended. So when he got closer to me, I cut him off.
"Zaerosz. I'm trying to find the damn cave wheat seeds that you farmers have lost. I'm doing important overseer things, and I really don't have time for your inane reports about creatures in cages forgetting how to do backflips or whatever it is you're training the trolls to do. I guess you don't remember this, but running the fortress requires time, energy, and I'm tired of you treating me like a soundboard for your silly dreams of taming weaselmen or whatever it is you'd wish we do!"
He looked at me kind of stunned. I felt kind of stunned. Since when do I go on monologues about what people are doing wrong? Being overseer has changed me.
"Uh, I think you really want to know about this." I sighed. "What is it?"
I blinked. I
did want to know about that.
"Show me to the pasture, please."
I had never been to the pasture before. Apparently, someone used an iron drawbridge as a barrier when they set up, pulled the lever up, and it's been sealed off since before my year started. Zaerosz tried to show me which lever controlled the bridge but I have a strict no-lever policy so I had the miners carve out a little tunnel through the soil for direct access.
We didn't really have all that much of interest in there, other then a giant flying squirrel, a lynx missing a leg, and the cave crawler and her two newborns. I thought about asked how Zaerosz knew about her giving birth, but I decided I didn't want to know.
"You know, Zaerosz. Both those babies are female. If we keep breeding them with the goblin crawlers in the cages, we could a full-fledged voracious cave crawler army. And meat industry." He nodded.
"Which, I believe, exotic animal meats were the intended export of this fort from the beginning." He also nodded.
Well damn.
He cleared his throat while I was pondering that. "Do...you really not want to know when the trolls losing their training?"
I sighed.
Sandstone 8th, 158Apparently, not just one, but a total of four freaking kobold thieves got past our guard dogs watching the entrance to our fortress. Dhoor killed one. The rest of them ran away.
Sandstone 18th, 158Someone ran up to me and told me there was a ghost kid standing near the trade depot.
Surprisingly enough, there was.
I had a memorial carved out and before too long the child was put to rest.
Timber 15th, 158Caravan showed up.
So did goblins. They kill one of our planters that was going to chain up a dog. We kill...all of them.
Or, I thought we killed all of them. Apparently the path leading into our tower is wide open - and a bowman found his way inside.
He shoots a rabbit...
...and the predictable happens to him.
Then something weird happens.
Apparently, one of our hunters got pissed off for such amazing reasons like having flies around her and having to go outside, and decides to suckerpunch one of our macelords hard enough to kill him. My husband is now the only dwarf left in his squad.
And proceeds to go and report her crime to the mayor. Well, at least she's honest...
In other news, I trade for a bunch of clothes, wood, a few steel boots for our military, and a bunch of leather and cloth from our military.
A snatcher tries to sneak in while all of this is going on...and Beirus discovers him.
Yep.
Timber 28th, 158One of our cooks decided to beat the stuffing out of the suckerpunching hunter. He's still alive, last I checked, but not too many tears were shed over this incident.
Moonstone 1st, 158---
I'd like to say I was super busy and had a bunch of stuff going on, but honestly I just kept forgetting about this. uh, oops.
Caravan's still here if you wanna buy more stuff. I didn't buy all the cloth they had, and I don't think I got to the pants or the food. 's up to you I guess. Most of the job orders are still cleared out - should just be two or three nearly completed orders, so ball's in your court. We still need a bunch of clothes.
Other then that, we ran out of flex stones about halfway through Timber and I didn't get around to seeing if we had any more to mine out before the caravan came.
Still have plenty of legendary military dwarves, but it might not be a bad idea to train some more. A couple of the squads have only one dwarf remaining.
Other then that, the fort keeps ticking. I'd keep breeding VCC's, and maybe before too long we can start using them as warbeasts, as well as butchering them for their super valuable meat n' stuff.
I tried to label/document the few levers I put up. I didn't touch any out of principal the entire year...and then realized they were all very neatly labeled and they just weren't in a place I was looking. Uh. Oops. Again.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=9307 is the save. I'd like to finish, but it would probably not be until the end of the week and honestly I've made you guys wait long enough.
I'll keep my challenge singular -
Make it so every military dwarf has at least one VCC warbeast to his/her own. May our giant blue-haired earthworms bathe in the blood of humans and goblins alike.