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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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[Arcvasti]

Spoiler: Journal of Arcvasti, Researcher (click to show/hide)

5th Moonstone: Kigok and the Baron argued today. Perhaps I will NOT include the latter of the two in my purge. He seems a good dwarf, all things considered.

7th Moonstone: Research on the Mountainheart goes slowly. The voices still have not returned. Also, there is something near the altar that makes me burn when it looks at me. I am tempted to destroy it, but decide to merely avoid it in future.

11th Moonstone: One of the “sorcerers” working under me had a breakthrough yesterday and figured out how to make the Mountain Heart Altar. I order an area dug out for it according to one of the more esoteric things the voices said. None of the sorcerers will tell me which one it is. He might also hear the voices. He might know how to bring them back. It’s so empty without them now. I’m not sure I can hang on much longer.

20th Moonstone: The Mountain Heart Chamber is hollowed out now. I get the sorcerers to work building the Mountain Heart Altar.

23rd Moonstone: The voices are BACK!!!!! They whisper to me anew, the susurrations of the manifold layers of sound like wine to my ears. They urge me to find Kibok and kill him. This time, I do not object. I find him haranguing a carpenter who made a wonderful table. To my eyes, the table is COVERED in writhing worms and centipedes. My own artifact looks the same, but with MUCH less. I follow Kibok back to his quarters.

24th Moonstone: The door is locked. I try to pick it with my knife, but the shoddy material breaks off in the lock. Struck by inspiration, I wedge the rest of the knife into the lock, jamming it. Kibok will die as he tried to kill me. The voices are impressed at the irony.

25th Moonstone: The replacement mayor is one of the Voidmasters. The voices are pleased with this development.

1st Opal: The Mountain Heart Altar is finished. The voices like it. They urge me to continue my magical researches and try to enlighten me as to what must be done next. They tell me to carve out a room for the Oceanguide Altar in a particular shape. One of the sorcerers is visibly unnerved by the appearance of the Mountain Heart Chamber. The voices tell me he is dangerous and urge me to kill him. No. I have HAD my vengeance. I have HAD my vengeance. I have HAD my vengeance. He will remain alive until he shows me he IS dangerous.

3rd Opal: I have to conscript some random dwarves to properly assemble the Oceanguide Altar. This is intolerable.

6th Opal: The Oceanguide Altar is complete. The voices have given me an interesting piece of information about the resurrection of the dead. I have written it on both sides of my socks and my shirt. I work now lacking both and many mock me. The sorcerer who the voices want dead just ran.

16th Opal: While I toil on necromantic endeavours, I decide to have the sorcerers erect a Flame Altar, for Tenderoast. I write down the relevant passages the voices dictated to me on some rare paper and give it to them.

27th Opal: Kigok is dead. But his child still lives. The voices urge me to kill him too. I decide that magical research is more important than additional death.

28th Opal: When I checked on the sorcerers working on the Flame Altar, they said they needed quarry bush oil and thus had not done any work at all. I went over and got some farmers to plant some. My authority appears to mostly be absolute. It is possible that this may aid me in my endeavours.

EDIT: This is apparently my 1000th post. This has caused me to feel an alarming sense of satisfaction.

[Tirion]

Did I get reassigned to anything, or am I still a carpenter?

[Splint]

Did I get reassigned to anything, or am I still a carpenter?

Still a carpenter with a side of corpse removal from the area.

[Nidor]

Nice, the fort is progressing fast. Never tried out the black magic school, but once had a top tier white mage migrate in. Those are rather good, speed buffs and resurrection. I can't recall if the herbalist workshop has a reaction to get the woods, but it does give some powerful brewing options.

[Splint]

Nice, the fort is progressing fast. Never tried out the black magic school, but once had a top tier white mage migrate in. Those are rather good, speed buffs and resurrection. I can't recall if the herbalist workshop has a reaction to get the woods, but it does give some powerful brewing options.

I think it does, but as it stands I'm pretty lazy with alot of this stuff. Never used either of the white or black mages and most of my experience was with air with a sprinkling of the other elemental mages.

EDIT: Speaking of mages, any opinions on what ones to primarily field  (DreamerGhost gets to pick for his dorf and Tenderroast is already gunning for pyromancer)

[Arcvasti]

Nice, the fort is progressing fast. Never tried out the black magic school, but once had a top tier white mage migrate in. Those are rather good, speed buffs and resurrection. I can't recall if the herbalist workshop has a reaction to get the woods, but it does give some powerful brewing options.

I think it does, but as it stands I'm pretty lazy with alot of this stuff. Never used either of the white or black mages and most of my experience was with air with a sprinkling of the other elemental mages.

EDIT: Speaking of mages, any opinions on what ones to primarily field  (DreamerGhost gets to pick for his dorf and Tenderroast is already gunning for pyromancer)

From my arena testing, I know that rockmages make really good melee soldiers. You could try turning some of the swordlords into them. No idea what watermages do. And I think it would be really cool thematically if we had at least ONE Lich from the black altar in this fort. I'd volunteer my dwarf for that job if it comes up. I think you can buy glumprong somewhere in one of the shops.

[Tenderroast]

Teduk's fine goods, you can get both Feather and Glump. Also sliver barbs, and sunberries

[Splint]

Teduk's fine goods, you can get both Feather and Glump. Also sliver barbs, and sunberries

Figured as much, but we gotta wait another year or two unless you guys don't care if I fuck with a reaction to produce a trade licence. Didn't think to request one/some this time around because the wagons kept bypassing us (which meant no licences last year.)

On the rockmage swordlords: We already have a squad in full mithril plate and enough skill that given the time three of them could probably destroy a small country, or at least a small country's army, by themselves. They don't need more advantages!

Oh, and come next update you'll be a fire mage Tenderroast.

[CaptainMcClellan]

PTW and may play a turn later.

[Splint]

PTW and may play a turn later.

Not a Succession.

And scratch the pyromancer next update. We need some obsidian for that.

[CaptainMcClellan]

PTW and may play a turn later.

Not a Succession.

And scratch the pyromancer next update. We need some obsidian for that.

Wait... so I just suggest things? Ah! I can't brain enough for that! Playing a fort and thinking about which way to guide someone else are two totally different things!

[Splint]

Pff. RIght now I've been trying to get dwarves to do the shit I need done and waiting for a general consensus about what mages to field. I also really need to get started on that waterfall project... But besides that, can always just call dibs ona dwarf and write up your take on events, scribble shit up, or just point and laugh when they end up habitually dead every time you claim one.

[Karkov]

Pff. RIght now I've been trying to get dwarves to do the shit I need done and waiting for a general consensus about what mages to field. I also really need to get started on that waterfall project... But besides that, can always just call dibs ona dwarf and write up your take on events, scribble shit up, or just point and laugh when they end up habitually dead every time you claim one.

It's odd that this happens more often than it doesn't.  I think there's only been one or two forts I've ever seen where one dwarf outlives everything out of sheer tenacity.

Also, you should totally get a Beer-o-mancer up in here.

[Tenderroast]

that is why i usually choose the black smith. They tend to have long, protected, lives. That and its fun to RP as a pyro.

[DreamerGhost]

I'm thinking earth mage. I think their combat style involvess geting up close and personal. Even if that's not true, still earth mage. Should be fun to rp since we are surounded by earth.