Doc looks around the crouded dining room, though everyone is clearly happy she shakes her head. They really need more space.
"10 years since seven of us set up home here! As I am sure many of you knew when you set out, we were not expected to succeed, but simply to vanish like the first expedition, proving yet again for the commons back home that change and expansion is to risky to work. We have proven them wrong!"
"It seems that news of our wealth has spread beyond the goblins, 3 fell beasts roam the second cavern layer and 1 is on the top layer."
"I would ask we all raise our drinks to Solon, our Broker of many years and the victor in many a trade deal, who was killed by the Dragon Berayi Ofisatha. Also to Rakust, a novice Blacksmith, killed by a goblin ambush just a few weeks ago. Finally, to the ghostly recruit Song Moboturar. None of us are entirely sure who she was, but her ghostly remains can are resting easy in the crypt."
All dwarfs raise a drink silently to the fallen.
"There is some fortress news to share."
"The old fort is now closed off. All operations have now moved to the caverns."
"Garbage is now being disposed of efficiently and cleanly directly into the magma sea."
"Sadly our cave crocodile eggs have not yet hatched. We will give them a bit longer, but Zay informs me we may need a captive, tamed male cave crocodile. We will have to see what turns up."
"Finally, the new magma glass forges are in operation and are turning out high quality glass goods by the wheelbarrow load."
"Fellow Dwarfs, I am proud to present my plans for the future! With so many windows is it not time we had something to look at? Picture if you will, the North of the fortress, beyond the new glass works. The caverns are fine, but they are small and they lack the excitement of magma. We will cut deep into the earth, creating a single cavern to the north from the top of the fortress down near to the magma see. At the bottom of this cavern we will build a great magma lake which, together with the lakes of water on the middle and lower caverns will provide us with all we require for dwarfen industry! We will build a new great hall at the edge of this new cavern, with new drinking area, dining hall and statue gardens that will astonish all who visit here. Rising from the lake will be new magma forges! Magma and Water falls will decorate this great cavern to provide inspiration to our artisans and smiths! Finally, we will continue to support and train a standing militia capable of defending all of this, for rest assured, as news of our achievements gets out, our enemies will not sit back quietly! Finally I will build a hospital to put all others to utter shame!!"
Doc stops, panting slightly and stares out at her audience and the mix of expressions. Awe, fear, shock, delight (and a lot of drunken confusion). Duke Eturcog stands to speak:
"Many of you, like myself, left the Mountainhome and other fortresses to get away from the stultifying influence of some highly placed nobles:
It cannot be done - so they said,
Expansion is to Risky - so they sent us here to die,
we mustn't antagonise the Goblins - they whined...
Hah! The council of timidity and fear! It can be done, it will be done and we damn well will antagonize the Goblins doing it!" - he hefts his crossbow, "Let them come and try to take what we have built!"
"Doc, myself and Meng are in agreement with these plans, representing the Commons, the Nobility and the Military. If any wish to bring forward there own ideas, do so. We will try to incorporate them."
Doc speaks again. "Thank you all for everything we have done here. The fortress plans will be [[http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-12506-rhymedmansion posted]] as usual. Let us achieve as much in the next decade as we have in the last!
OOCWork on the new dining room can begin once the upper cavern is clear, I can also start on dealing with the 2nd cavern layer forgotten beasts. With them out of the way, walling off the North section of the top cavern can begin.
The dining room structure is planned to be about 20x40 and span ~30 levels (though the dining room will only be a part of this). It will be carved out of a block of obsidian, so the first task is to dig out and wall in a suitable casting space and build the magma and water pump stacks for the casting. To power these pump stacks will require 12 water wheels, these will be fed from the lower cavern lake. The blockhouses containing the wheels will form part of the Dam which will allow us to drain the centre of the lower cavern lake and dig it out ready to form the magma lake. Creating the blockhouses will require a controlled cave in to drop stone from above the third cavern. this year I plan to create the water pump stack powerhouse, possibly the Magma stack powerhouse and get started on digging out the cast. We should also get the top cavern layer North and east walled off and make a start on the second cavern layer. Going along with this will be the minecart system to shift valuable rock from the work sites to the forges and possibly moving the forges to a new location.
The North of the 3rd cavern layer. The plan is to drop large blocks to form the power houses, which take water from the lakes near the cavern edge, pass it under water wheels and dump it back off the edge (via. fortifications). The water powerhouse also contains the water pump stack inlet. Power houses 2 and 3 provide the power for a double magma pumpstack, the pumpstack base being between the 2 powerhouses. White lines show where retaining walls will be places to block off the cavern lake for draining. The area of the lake will be dug out and turned into a Magma lake instead.
The light blue outline shows the approximate base of the new Great hall structure.
Bit of a wall of text there.
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