So after I ordered the Flames down to the gold office area, I had a message from some influential dwarves that stated, in no uncertain terms, what might happen were anything to happen to our Prime Minister
Prime Minister? We have a goblin for Prime Minister!? What do you expect giving the overseer position to someone who has tried to avoid work! I suppose I've hidden from the chain of command for a while. I suppose they wanted to drum some sense of responsibility into me. Does beg the question though - if the queen isn't quite running this place, and the Prime Minister isn't quite running this place, and I as Overseer am not quite running this place.. Who the hell is? Is it to do with those temples around the place that mostly seem walled off..?
10 Granite: Heard Frankensteen's the oldest dwarf here so I dropped by for some advice. Now, I don't know about the longest resident, but..
...she's probably in the running for most wounded.
Right, well if murdering goblins is off the table, how about those beasts that stain our halls instead! How about Ayanu - a half crippled...
...pterosaur?
This took a lot longer than I thought, digging through the maps of that forgotten region of the fortress to find the damn entrance. Cutting down the correct wall opens us to more of the water caverns than I'd like, but we can wall that up too if needed.
Whilst I am waiting to hear the military reports, a caravan arrives. I curse my lack of foresight - I could have fed the pointy ears to the beast Ayanu instead. No matter, let's see what junk we can sell them.
12 Granite: Ayanu has been slain! Spearmaster Vabok claims the killing blow. These noble rooms can be reclaimed and decorated with carvings and blood of the famous battle. Oh, who am I kidding, the beast was half dead and didn't land a blow on our elite.
Oh right, elves... do we even WANT anything? I ended up exchanging some rotting clothing for some fermentables.
17 Granite: Don Pedro is throwing a tantrum again, this time punching out the mayor. I've heard he's a trouble case. I check the records..
Every criminal report for the last 3 months have been regarding his behaviour. I throw him in jail without a second thought.
No wait, there's a second thought. The jail is not yet finished and is strewn with rubble. Your punishment will have to wait while we build you a prison.
20 Granite: A child goes fey and claims a craftsdwarf workshop. A marble earring is completed and immediately wins an award for the most plain artifact in existence.
I do not know this place as well as I thought! I found a vast cavernous area that had been hollowed out with stockpiles and additional smelteries and workshops. After some thought, these will be shut down. Dwarves, smelt it with magma like Armok intended.
3 Felsite: Discovered a garbage dump designated over the lava. Might have thrown a few things away when clearing out the cavernous room.
5 Felsite: Drokles is so distracted by the fantastic food on offer in this fortress, he loses where he put one of his masterworks.
15 Felsite: I do wonder about the long ramp from the surface to our living quarters area.
It appears to be fit to take a trade wagon down underground, but there's a huge hole in the middle of it. As if it was dropped. I wonder if some trap was sprung on traders in previous years - and perhaps we can replicate this marvel...
Also, a new beastie arrived!
...and survives for about five seconds. Simo Usnowusu, an existing forgotten beast just bites its head off clean in one go. Remind me not to send any dwarves after that one. Not any that I like, anyway.
18 Felsite: Some Drunians turned up and stole some things. After a search, it turns out they are stealing from a deep, walled-off section over a deep lava pit and covered in dwarven blood and bodies. As I'm assuming this is part of a failed expedition there. They are welcome to any trash they find, they're not getting in.
19 Felsite: Rovod Romotkletmos, some dwarf I'd never heard of, has fallen into depression. Since he's a soldier, I guess training day in, day out in the vomit pits got to him.
20 Felsite: Some small projects completed. Quantum stockpiles for stone, and adding some lighting in above our corpse pile to reduce some of the miasma clouds that were getting to some of our dwarves.
21 Felsite: More tantrum from Don Pedro, and this time he gets confinement as the jail is finished. Enjoy those literal golden handcuffs now.
...and Spring is over. I sink back into a throne in the drinking hall, tankard nestled between my hands half-forgotten, deep in thought. I have power here, power I never wanted. Yet it still seems that I am merely 'doing time' in the Overseer's chair. There are other cadres at work here - perhaps those shadowy rumours about Doomforests cults were true. The temples both locked away and half finished do speak to much. The question is - should I care? Or am I being tested for something here as Overseer..
Sorry if it's all boring and practical stuff. If all I can do around here is make it a bit faster for the next player, I'll call it a win.
I also don't know what part of the huge Doomforests RP to really stick my foot in first, so I'll sit and observe at first and see what grabs me.
Got some tools on the build in the background in case I can eke the game to run at 20+ fps and might do something more exciting with them. It's still fun discovering random holes or projects around the place and wondering what project got started/forgotten about there. For the most part though, this fortress
works. Slowly.
I've never had such a huge military, or such an adeptly trained one. I do hope for a siege to see how we take care of things.
I get the sneaking feeling that the Chalice of Armok will never get built..... Anyway, I've begun work on the archive again, expect Year 4 to be up sometime this week.
Which part is the Chalice? I suspect it is the area deep down that I described being covered in blood - a multi-level circular structure over lava?
I'm sure there's plenty of the fortress I simply haven't found yet!
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