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To arms! Death to all friends of nature!

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Let peace return, we've humiliated them enough.

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[Splint]

As a fun fact, nearly everyone save a few worship primarily Rulush the Asp river god or the long dead Plague Wraiths. And no, Nobgost isn't dead yet but I'm sure he'll eventually go to the hospital to complain about his liver.

[Tirion]

As a fun fact, nearly everyone save a few worship primarily Rulush the Asp river god or the long dead Plague Wraiths. And no, Nobgost isn't dead yet but I'm sure he'll eventually go to the hospital to complain about his liver.

Of course he will, it's a dwarf's most important organ after all.

[Tenderroast]

Splint, I think there IS a naming script, for the named sword request last page. I am at work on my lunch break, or I would look it up for you. Putnam might know off the top of his head. That guy is a genius with dfhack.

[Meph]

Yes, there is a script for that. Not sure if items can be done, but civ members, pets, invaders and buildings can be renamed.

# gui/rename script - rename units and buildings
keybinding add Ctrl-Shift-N gui/rename
keybinding add Ctrl-Shift-T "gui/rename unit-profession"

[Splint]

From what I attempted, items cannot be renamed. Shame. Oh well, can always set up another squad and outfit the leader with some kind of bloodsteel thing. I think we have enough bars for a longsword. Community contributions are now up to date. Gonna play Warband for a little bit and then do the tour of the fort as it currently exists.

[Nidor]

Ventured a little bit outside of the writing in the journal aspect on this one. Hope I got the first impression of Splintdwarf down ok. I think the bodies in the river from the update was close enough to the sandstone 141 migrants to be still be relevant.

Spoiler: Confessions of a 'Clergyman': Expectation (click to show/hide)

This page of the journal is of simple pressed plants, judging from the color, of plump helmet.

It didn't take much to tell what type of fortress this was, bodies of several races strewn outside, a trench peppered with the occasional hints of a dwarven trap lying in wait. A military fort, I almost didn't recognize the military, what with their piecemeal armor of various materials, ranging from rusty iron to gemstone to mithril, however instantly familiar was the grim faces scanning the crowd of migrants I was a part of. It was a look I did my best to avoid back home, a critical look whose purpose was to judge a dwarf's merit. They looked for skill, and lacking that, physical stature, I was lacking both.

I put away my journal shortly after passing over one of the bridges, a curious flattened piece of what looked like plump helmet next to the bridge drew my attention, and was hastily pocketed when a voice startled me. "You there!" barked a particularly large guard with a curiously blue sword. "You look like you have never worked a day in your life, what is your profession?" Short and to the point, a typical military response, judging from that, and the quality of the weapon in comparison to the others, he had all the makings of the one in charge. I figured it would be best to respond without any verbal decoration. "I am a man of the cloth, so I suppose your assessment is correct." The militia raised a collective eyebrow at this, slightly taken aback by the 'holy' man before them being blunt, and respectful at that. Back home they had an air of smugness even nobles tended to avoid for fear of 'accidents' occurring, on account of the assumption they were buddy buddy with the gods. "Oh?" laughed the leader of the group, "Priests aren't typically covered in shit." I looked down at my robe and sure enough were signs that I wasn't so lucky dodging the animal's projectiles earlier. I put on a embarrassed smile "Just an acolyte I am afraid, and one not experienced in avoiding the local langur tribe's choice of weapon it seems." Several of the squad laughed at this, and the leader shook his head "I still haven't gotten used to that" he said, "fair enough, get cleaned up, you will find the shrine inside." He pointed, then lowered his voice and said "the last acolyte we encountered went nuts and had to be put down, hopefully you have better luck, metal is scarce around here and my boys could use a little "divine" protection if you get my drift.". "Hard metals it is then, perhaps Lurit would be of help, Acolyte Nidor at your service, commander?" "Splint" he said, nodding slightly, "And we tend to favor Rulush around here" he added.

"Considering all of the goblin corpses in and around the river, it looks like that has served you well, I had better start right away then" I said as I made my way towards the fortress. Splint made no further motions at questioning, and just grunted in agreement as he looked over the rest of the migrants, I could faintly hear him say "That is an odd shade of yellow for a dwarf" in the background as I entered the gates. I let out a sigh of relief once I was out of earshot, and made my way towards where Splint had pointed, that was too close, and even now I feel like I am being angrily watched. I could have sworn I saw something purple move as I sat down at the shrine to 'pray', but was too tired to worry, and to the outside onlooker, I would look quite dedicated to my work. In reality, it was nothing more than the inaudible mumblings of a dwarf who had fallen asleep on their knees in front of a shrine, no one would notice.

It was a shame that I would find out I was wrong the next morning.

Edit: fixed Rulush typo, thanks Splint for catching that.

[Splint]

It's Rulush, not Ralush And actually the corpses/bone (and some armor and weaponry) have been pretty much clogging the river crossing for the better part of a full year or so now, so it's perfectly relevant.

[greycat]

And no, Nobgost isn't dead yet but I'm sure he'll eventually go to the hospital to complain about his liver.

Of course he will, it's a dwarf's most important organ after all.

Second most important, after the Beard.  For males, anyway.  Females, being beardless, may rate it #1.  I wouldn't know.

[Tenderroast]

Nidor, that is awesome.

Spoiler: Journal of Tenderroast, (wannabe) pyromancer (click to show/hide)

1st Sandstone, 141
More migrants!! I wonder if any of them can talk to my friends, the Flames.

2nd Sandstone, 141
One of the new guys, Nobgost, i think he calls himself, doesn't look too good. Maybe I should bring him a bottle of Rum...

3rd Sandstone, 141
I don't think I will ever get the look Nobgost gave me out of my head. It was one of elation, terror, and sadness all at once. And his skin looked even more yellowish than before. We got to talking, and I found out that he suffers from something the doctors called "liver cancer." I don't know what it means, but Nob told me that alcohol is poisonous to him  poor guy. A sober death... I wouldn't wish that upon any dwarf.
This evening, after talking with Nobgost, I happened upon another of the new arrivals. Calls himself Nidor, and says he is of the clergy. I recognized him as the dwarf covered in poo from the damned monkeys. I guess being a priest doesnt lend one to becoming skilled at dodging. At least he was finally able to take a bath.

5th of Sandstone, 141
Nidor hasn't left the shrine in 2 days! I brought him a barrel of wine. All of that praying must be thirsty work. However, when I arrived with the drink, I found him snoring! Such dedication, and determination, to continue praying while asleep. A bar of bronze appeared in front of him as I watched. I replaced the bar with the barrel, and took the metal to the forge. I wonder if it will leave Nidor confused when he wakes up with alcohol in front of him, when he had been praying for steel and bronze?

[Splint]

Hello children, today we have a wonderful treat for you today! A TOUR OF RIVERRUN! Today I'll show you around our beloved pile of sandstone and scrap metal with a liberal sprinkling of dead goblins, elves, and other things. It'll be a very brief tour, but it'll give you the run around of how the fort looks right now. And  we have a lovely parting gift for the losers who didn't get to take the tour: Being ground up on weapon traps stuffed with green glass saw blades, rusty sharp crap, and candy-colored gem spikes

Spoiler: Spoilered for size. (click to show/hide)

First up is 'Outer Riverrun.' Here, we have our trading facilities. May or may not have Urist's Steel Emporium moved further inside. Feels weird looking at this place every time I see the intro screenshot. I also seem to have missed some numbers, but then again I did just down a bottle of ale and one of lager so I'll chalk it up to being mildly boozed.



Next comes the main entry! We do need to eventually relocate the prickleberry and tree farms though, so the entirety above and below ground can be bricked over with sandstone.



And now for the farms! or what counts as them around here. The farms are, Top Left: Plump Helmets, which we just started planting a month ago in game. Bottom Left: Sweet Pods that we get half of our booze from. Bottom Right: Cave Wheat, where we get the other half from. Prickle Berries usually end up being eaten raw, due in part to a stockpile that only takes cave wheat and sweet pods being right next to the main still further down.



The next area is the land of the dead. All but six of those coffins are occupied.



And now we come to the industrial and clandestine heartland in the fortress!





And now we come to the central area of Riverrun, far enough below that no amount of bloodshed and chaos topside will bother the residents. The left area in the image is mainly admin crap, justice, and such. The right side is all the apartments (of which we need more.)



And finally we have food processing and booze making, which is undergoing a minor expansion thanks to both a large pool of overly enthusiastic farmhands and the local wildlife being wagon-sized instead of 'only gives skull' size.

And I agree wholeheartedly with Tenderroast. Good stuff with the journals Nidor! 

[Nidor]

Thank you. Surprisingly I was leaning towards the bar of bronze while sleeping bit as well, implying that one of the gods, most likely Tath has noticed my shenanigans. The booze is a bonus though, and would deliver the same message, so cheers!

I will try and catch up to the current events sometime tomorrow, journal wise.

Out of curiosity, is there any plans for magic in the fort? I have never really gone into that aspect of masterwork myself, apart from such things as animating weapons.

[Tenderroast]

I am hoping that magic does happen, specifically for my bearded pyromaniac. Splint will have to mod the raws to not need the research for magic school, if he plans on using it. I am 90% sure he is using one of the versions of 5.0.x that didnt have a researchable option for the main wizard school (meph removed it during his spring cleaning, and a later version made the wizard school buildable without the research.)

[Splint]

Thank you. Surprisingly I was leaning towards the bar of bronze while sleeping bit as well, implying that one of the gods, most likely Tath has noticed my shenanigans. The booze is a bonus though, and would deliver the same message, so cheers!

I will try and catch up to the current events sometime tomorrow, journal wise.

Out of curiosity, is there any plans for magic in the fort? I have never really gone into that aspect of masterwork myself, apart from such things as animating weapons.

I've only dabbled in the past but mages have the potential to be fort/life saving warriors against things like those fucking black barghests. But in all I do plan on magic.

I am hoping that magic does happen, specifically for my bearded pyromaniac. Splint will have to mod the raws to not need the research for magic school, if he plans on using it. I am 90% sure he is using one of the versions of 5.0.x that didnt have a researchable option for the main wizard school (meph removed it during his spring cleaning, and a later version made the wizard school buildable without the research.)

I looked through and far as I know 5.0.7 still requires it to be researched and didn't remove it. if necessary I'll just hijack another reaction to produce the needed science discovery as a workaround (I can do that much at least, if I can find the relevant stuff; the raws seem to be a hellaciously jumbled mess in places.) And don't you worry. once a pyro squad is readied, they'll be first responders to Frosty the Snowman and his killer monster snow goons.

[Tenderroast]

Splint, when you are looking at the raws, are you using regular ole notepad?

If you are, try giving Notepad++ a shot. Alot of the raws i have noticed, with notepad are a brain splitting migraine waiting to happen, while np++ it is nice, neat, and easily readable.

[Splint]

Splint, when you are looking at the raws, are you using regular ole notepad?

If you are, try giving Notepad++ a shot. Alot of the raws i have noticed, with notepad are a brain splitting migraine waiting to happen, while np++ it is nice, neat, and easily readable.

I would just like it on record I'm uncomfortable with my name being used in this manner. It makes me feel like I'm being called stupid even though I know I'm not being called so. :I

Don't have notepad++ and keep forgetting to look into it.