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[tonnot98]

I'd love for the first jeweler to be named after me.

And for him to make the best schist cabochons ever.

[ptb_ptb]

I'd love for the first jeweler to be named after me.

And for him to make the best schist cabochons ever.

Kikrost Slingrooms(M) has been summarily renamed Tonnot! As we have basically nothing but green tourmalines your schisty ambitions will have to wait.

[ptb_ptb]

1007 Early Winter, 6th Moonstone.

Lysenko is alive and well and living in Dwarf Fortress. Apparently if your dogs build up huge muscles fighting then their puppies will be born with huge muscles?

1008 Early Spring, 2nd Granite

Basic defences are in place, although they largely depend on people not being outside!  Work on "The Blood Road" has begun. Made entirely from Bauxite* its blood red appearance should deter superstitious goblins from approaching it.

* while stocks last

1008 Early Spring, 17th Granite

Elves arrive! I'm not quite sure from where, but I guess that doesn't matter much. We quickly fake up a few enormous iron corkscrew trap components and sell them for a couple of giant animals (unfortunately not a breeding pair) and a few fruit. I have a feeling we traded at a massive loss, but it isn't as if we are running low on iron.

1008 Mid-Spring, 21st Slate

A solitary migrant arrives. One Rimtar Silverybreach, Fish Dissector. Born in 927 her goal is to Create a Great Work of Art.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1008 Early Summer, 9th Hematite

Work on The Blood Road is proceeding well, it is a major undertaking, though, and I estimate it may take as much as four years to finish.

[Timeless Bob]

Please dorf me as "Mr Kadol".  When he ever marries he should change his profession to "Patriarch", his new wife should change her name to "Mrs Kadol" and any resulting children should be immediately renamed "Kadol" as well.  (Like in Asia, the surname comes first, with the personal name coming second.)  Any Kadols lasting to adulthood should be renamed "Mr Kadol" or "Miss Kadol" upon reaching that milestone, until one of the girl-children gets married herself, upon which time she'll lose the Kadol surname.

Long live clan Kadol!   

[ptb_ptb]

1008 Mid-Summer, 6th Malachite
Kadol Scalyposts is now 'Mr Kadol'. He doesn't have a special someone in his life right now, but who knows what the future may bring - if he is ever given enough time off to breathe!

We are mining out as much bauxite as possible for future use here and elsewhere and a second mason has been put to work on making blocks full time.

1008 Late Summer, 3rd Galena
The last migrant arrives, Kadol Laborbands, spinner (not to be confused with Mr Kadol). Born 941 his goal is to raise a family. This is probably the last migrant we will see here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1008 Mid-Winter 21st Opal
Vucar Muthkatoshur(F), Planter, begins a mysterious construction!

1008 Mid-Winter 26st Opal
She finished her work!

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This completes one of the criteria for a successful fortress. We still need to finish The Blood Road and somebody needs to get married!

[ptb_ptb]

1008 Late Winter, 20th Obsidian
Apparently for the last few months we have been moving logs around in a circle. Whoops?

1009 Early Spring, 2nd Granite
A vile force of darkness arrives! I don't like to admit it, but we are hopelessly ill-prepared. The first goblins to arrive expend most of their bolts and arrows on the dogs, fortunately for us - if not for the dogs.  The Giant Jaguar is killed, but one goblin is defeated by the efforts of the civilian dwarves and two are captured in cages.

One goblin bowman remains, while the rest seem to have fled when they met some opposition.

So far no dwarf has taken worse wounds than a few bruises.

1009 Early Spring, 15th Granite
Mr Kadol created a masterpiece armor stand! It is placed in his bedroom for him to admire.

1009 Early Spring, 16th Granite
The last free goblin fought to the death with one of our dogs, which shortly afterwards perished of its wounds. The invasion has been defeated!

1009 Early Spring, 24th Granite
Mr Kadol created another masterpiece bauxite armor stand. It's intimidating blood-red form will be placed in the expedition leader's room.

[Timeless Bob]

Mr Kadol the Armorist!  Huzzah!

[ptb_ptb]

Mr Kadol the Armorist!  Huzzah!

It might be better for your plans if he was an 'amor'ist


1009 Mid-Spring, 26th Slate
Dodok Toolequaled, expedition leader, begins a mysterious construction!

1009 Late Spring, 2nd Felsite
She has finished her work!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Why, everybody will be queueing up to have their arms broken with a splint like that!

1009 Late Spring, 25th Felsite
The first section of The Blood Road is finished! Its arches* stride majestically across the landscape. From above it seems like a river of blood flowing across the ... wait. It's white? Why is it white!

"Snow. Sorry."

* Artists conception. Actual road is flat.

1009 Early Summer, 18th Hematite
Accidentally tapped into the side of an aquifer while preparing some muddy rock for farming. Our current plan is to call this a 'water feature'.

[ptb_ptb]

1009 Mid-Autumn, 17th Sandstone
Urvan Seizedinks has finished a mysterious construction!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Somebody is going to get spoiled.

1009 Late Autumn, 14th Timber
The 'water feature' is under control, and pig tails are growing in the fields. Not before time.

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Fig 1: The 'water feature'.

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Fig 2: 'I meant to do that'.

The only tricky bit is that the 'fortification at the edge of the map' trick doesn't work in adventurer mode.

1009 Early Winter, 2nd Moonstone
Marble! Time to make steel, everybody!

1009 Early Spring, 20th Granite
The elven trading caravan arrives. This time somebody here actually knows how much stuff is worth.

1009 Mid-Spring, 12th Slate
Nish Swordsplatter, Weaver has claimed a clothier's shop. This is bad. We have very little cloth, and all of it is plant cloth. If he wants silk or yarn cloth we are in trouble. Well, the only thing we can do is dig fast for a cavern. If he wants wool, there's nothing we can do.

[Detros]

1009 Late Autumn, 14th Timber
The 'water feature' is under control, and pig tails are growing in the fields. Not before time.

Nice public baths.

1009 Early Spring, 20th Granite
The elven trading caravan arrives. This time somebody here actually knows how much stuff is worth.

1009 Mid-Spring, 12th Slate
Nish Swordsplatter, Weaver has claimed a clothier's shop. This is bad. We have very little cloth, and all of it is plant cloth. If he wants silk or yarn cloth we are in trouble. Well, the only thing we can do is dig fast for a cavern. If he wants wool, there's nothing we can do.

Didn't elves bring much cloth this time?

[ptb_ptb]

Didn't elves bring much cloth this time?

The elves have never brought cloth _or_ thread in this world. I'm not sure I remember them doing so ever, in fact.

[ptb_ptb]

1010 Mid-Spring, 28th Slate
We have found a large cavern, full of underground trees and fungi. But no webs in sight.

1010 Late Spring, 10th Felsite
Another cavern, still no cave spiders. I think we have to give up on Nish now. We start preparing his location for 'retirement'.

1010 Late Spring, 13th Felsite
We have broken through into the great magma sea - Adamanite!

1010 Late Spring, 24th Felsite
Alas, poor Nish has gone insane with melancholy.

1010 Early Summer, 8th Hematite
Forgotten beast! Luckily it doesn't seem to be great at tracking. I can only hope it stays away a while longer.

1010 Early Summer, 11th Hematite
The forgotten beast, Anan Veshavuz, is creeping slowly closer to the stairwell...

1010 Early Summer, 15th Hematite
Whelp, we're doomed.   I really should have disabled every labor except construction... now it has reached the stairwell and it still isn't walled off.

Urvan Seizedinks is the first to meet Armok, then Morul Flickerpaper....

1010 Early Summer, 28th Hematite
The only dwarf left alive is Nish - totally insane, slowly dying of thirst, and walled up inside his workshop.

Good game!

I'll think about what to do next, tomorrow.

[Detros]

Didn't elves bring much cloth this time?

The elves have never brought cloth _or_ thread in this world. I'm not sure I remember them doing so ever, in fact.

Well, I haven't got elven caravan in 40.24 yet so I am bit unsure there.

The forgotten beast, Anan Veshavuz, is creeping slowly closer to the stairwell...

What type of FB it was?

[ptb_ptb]

Poisonous gas emitter. It didn't say what it was made of, but nothing fragile.

[ptb_ptb]

Dwarves In Exile, Situation Report

Obviously a situation like this calls for a hero. The hero is going to need to:

1. Clear Syrupgrasping of all invaders.
2. Kill the Forgotten Beast in Rocksavage (if still present).
3. Deliver a message to The Auburn Dungeons that the goblins won't soon forget.

In fact just any hero won't be enough. (OOC: Especially under my inept guidance)

It's a pity, then, that there aren't any heroes available. At least not for Gubellor. Because that civilization sort of, technically, doesn't exist (much) at the moment.

Desperate times call for desperate measures - a message is sent to the last known location of Tofi Brainmoons, a wandering human of unhuman power. His strength is reportedly only surpassed by his smell - which is said to knock out alley rats and send goats fleeing. Although uncivilized in manner and of savage birth he is said to have great cunning. To get his assitance we offer him his own weight in gold and a palatial suite - to be installed in the first fortress reclaimed. Hopefully that will be enough to get his help.